Movie Trivias

Tom Hanks had to gain 30 pounds for his role as the drunken coach of the Peaches. The ending scene which took place in the Baseball Hall of Fame had original players of the league in them. all the scratches and bruises you see are real and not makeup. The actual stadium the Peaches played in couldn’t be used for the movie for it was in a state of disrepair and was condemned. The only reminder of its existence is the original archway and the sign about the Peaches. All the stars that auditioned had to show they could actually play baseball, with the exception of Geena who used a double for stunts. Madonna’s stand in was an actual performer who had worked in Vegas for many years as Madonna. The disheartening scene when Betty Spaghetti’s husband died was so emotional it took three days to film. Renee Coleman’s Bruise remained with her for a year before actually healing.

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The movie is a very enticing one due to the utter complexity of the needed special effects, with Benjamin growing younger as opposed to older as with the rest of the cast. Some trivia’s that may have not been known, the film was initially considered for Tom Cruise as the lead instead of Brad. The producers of the film also kept in close communication with Levi’s for authentic clothes that were period authentic for the character played by Brad. The film was also the second to film in the flood-ravaged lands of New Orleans which was also for one very obvious reason, tax discounts from the state. The movie had been planned and prepared for as early as 1994. The aging process took four hours for Pitt for the early scenes and four hours for Cate Blanchett for her aging scenes as the film was ending.
The story also had a very colorful past for it was initially bought by Ray Stark in the late 70’s, and then by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall for Amblin. The later two eventually detached from Spielberg taking the rights with them as they formed their own production firms, with the film’s rights finally being brought by Erick Roth who vowed to commit to the film upon his father’s death in 2002.

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• Star Rob Brown auditioned as an extra for this movie. Citing he needed the money to pay for his $300 mobile phone bill. Gus Van Sant got to look at him and invited him to play the role of Jamal and eventually handed the role to him having seen his natural ability in acting.
• The character of Robert Crawford is actually based on a real life Robert Crawford. He teaches history at a private school outside Boston.
• The movie that Forrester was watching when Jamal came to the apartment was The Big Heat, a film in 1953, starring Glenn Ford.
• While Jamal was checking out Forrester’s data at a school’s computer, the data he was actually reading was Sean Connery’s real life data.
• Cameo: Matt Damon appears as a lawyer. He starred Gus Van Sant’s hit film, Good Will Hunting in 1997.

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Anime fanatics gone “banzai!” as a new piece of Shojo anime masterpiece just reached Philippine T.V.’s shores and is currently a hit among otakus. It is a crazy mix of romance, comedy, friendship and pure hardcore silliness that will surely tickle the anime-lover kid in you.

The story revolves around Sunako Nakahara, a not-so-typical female protagonist that is actually a fan of the dark and creepy things instead of the usual sweet and fair stuff you see in most stories. That’s twist enough but there’s more: she actually has to live in a big mansion with four super handsome guys until she becomes a “real” lady.

Yes it sounds as if it’ll be super romantic and all, but believe me, it’s more of light, innocent fun than whatever you’re probably thinking of. Actually, it’s stress-relieving to watch, take me for my word.

It’s now airing at TV5 every Mondays to Thursdays at 6:30 pm and every Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00-6:00 pm. Try and watch it!

Based on the life of a real geisha, Memoirs of a Geisha depicts the lives of the geishas back in he 1960s to the 1970s. The film was based on the novel by Arthur Golden whose main character in the book was based on the retired geisha Mineko Iwasaki. Contrary to popular belief that geishas are some kind of prostitutes or sexual companions, they are in fact artistic performers and entertainers. Iwasaki explains that the geisha never offered their virginity as a part of their job as geisha. Although the movie features a Japanese culture, it has become quite controversial for having Chinese actors portray the roles of the Japanese characters. Aside from this issue in casting, the political relationship between Japan and China has been affected.

This film starring Adam Sandler as Michael Newman features a new kind of universal remote control which could literally control anything with the same buttons found on a regular remote control. This gadget is given to Michael by a character named Morty (Christopher Walken) who later on in the film is revealed as the Angel of Death. His name Morty seems normal in the beginning, but it actually is the perfect name for him. In Italian and Portuguese, the word “death” translates to “Morte,” “Moarte” and “Mort” in French. Coincidentally, Christopher Walken has also portrayed the role of the Angel of Death in two films before Click.

Third installment of the series The Fast and the Furious, Tokyo Drift is set in Tokyo, Japan where drifting originated, with a new set of cast and also a new set featured cars. The type of racing in this movie is different from the previous two, as it focuses on drifting. In the movie, Sean (Lucas Black) is sent to Tokyo by his mother because he kept on getting into trouble as he stayed back home. There, he meets new friends along with a few enemies, namely Takashi (Brian Tee) who was called DK for short, which meant Drift King. Little do the viewers know that there exists a real Drift King in the real world who happens to appear in the film. Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya who is the pioneer of drift-driving appears as the old man who watched Sean as he learned how to drift. This character gave comments on Sean’s drifting, which appeared to him as below average to poor.

The movie is known by all who have been around in the 80’s when interest in UFO’s and other space phenomenon were experiencing a revival. There are a couple of facts that are quite intriguing in the film like the fact Director Spielberg wrote the script during breaks from shooting Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford was also in the film as the school principal but was cut out during editing due to his “distracting” trait maybe because he is one of the hottest male stars with Star Wars and Indiana Jones. ET’s communicator device was an actual scientifically based gadget made by a communications scientist. Yoda, the last Jedi of the Old order in Star Wars made an appearance in the Halloween scene, music from Star Wars Episode V was also heard which was released in 1980.

The movie involved the main character build an actual baseball field which still stands to this day. The owners of the land subsequently put up a hut where they offered memorabilia and allowed people to play baseball as they please. During the time of filming, Iowa was experiencing a drought which had the fields watered with a lot of water just to allow filming in a seemingly green field. The green grass’s color is paint for the real grass that was bought didn’t have enough time to grow properly and died. The film also included some formerly unknown superstars of today such as Ben Affleck and Matt Damon! “Shoeless” Joe Jackson actually batted left handed and threw right and Doc Graham actually batted left. The scene where Ray visits 1972 Chisholm Minnesota to search for Moonlight Graham, The local movie theater was showing another 1972 film, The Godfather.