Bilbo finds a handkerchief back at his Bag End home. In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), he had forgotten his handkerchief as he hurried out of his home to catch up with the Dwarves, at the beginning of the adventure.
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RE: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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RE: The Old Man & the Gun - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The title of the movie is obviously a play on Ernest Hemingway's book, "The Old Man and the Sea".
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RE: The Young Lions - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The first full movie Montgomery Clift made following his car accident. As with subsequent films, the actor was usually photographed from his best side.
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RE: La La Land - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Chazelle says that some of the challenges of filming the opening sequence included, the choreography which brought the dancers very close to the edge of the freeway ramp, the curved nature of the freeway was different from their opening sequence rehearsals in a flat parking lot and camera cranes almost colliding with dancers.
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RE: Mad Max - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
In the opening scene, if you look closely at the Highway 9 Sector 26 sign. There is a date written on the sign: December 6th 1984 and the MFP sign at the Halls of Justice also has a date on it: MFP Established in 1983. Even though these signs were canon to the film. George Miller said during an earlier interview in the exact same year of 1984. Mad Max and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior were meant to be set in the late '90s.
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RE: Aliens vs Predator: Requiem - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Antti Jokinen was offered a chance to direct.
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RE: Atonement - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
It took about 3 weeks to prepare the beach and sea front area, having all street furniture removed, tons of sand brought in to cover the promenade, road and pavement, boarding up of all sea facing windows and installation of ferris wheel, band stand and army vehicles etc. After nearly a week of rehearsals for the extras, actors and crew then the actual filming it took a over two weeks to put everything back to normal all for 5 minutes of screen time.
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RE: The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The tranquilizer gun Roland uses to tranqulize the male Tyrannosaurus is a modified LAR Grizzly Big Boar.
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RE: Brokeback Mountain - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
According to reports, Heath Ledger nearly broke co-star Jake Gyllenhaal's nose while filming a kissing scene.
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RE: Julius Caesar - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Director John Huston remarked on Brando's intense Method acting in this movie as "like a hot furnace opening in a dark room."
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RE: Clerks - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Clerks is loosely based on "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri hence the name of the protagonist, Dante Hicks. Also, there are nine breaks in the movie to represent the nine rings of hell.
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RE: Fast & Furious - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
With 72.5 million dollars, it had the highest-grossing opening weekend for a car-themed movie (beating Cars (2006)' 60.1 million dollars).
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RE: Coal Miner's Daughter - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The film places strong emphasis on the story that Loretta Lynn was married at the age of thirteen, which is actually false. In May 2012, the Associated Press unearthed Lynn's Kentucky birth certificate, which revealed the singer has been lying about her age for decades. She was actually sixteen at the time of her marriage.
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RE: Room at the Top - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The film was noted for the excessive amount of cigarette smoking. Both Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret died from smoking-related cancers.
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RE: Ant-Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Filmed in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio, rather than the usual 2.39:1 for most Marvel films, to resemble the short stature of the title character. It's sequel was filmed in 2.39, but it featured over an hour of footage that was opened up at 1.90:1, which closely matches this film's 1.85:1 aspect ratio, when the movie played in IMAX theaters.
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RE: Out of Africa - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Actual descendants of the Kikuyu tribe who were described in the book appeared in the film. The man who played chief Kinyanjui was his grandson. Much of it was filmed near the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi, Kenya.
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RE: Cold Pursuit - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Filmed in March 2017, but not released until February 2019.
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RE: The Fly - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Stathis's melting hand effect was created by sculpting the mutilated hand, then building up an intact hand on top of it out of gelatin. The gelatin was then melted using stage lights and a hair dryer, and filmed at low speed. Chris Walas essentially recreated the same effect he had used earlier for Toht's melting face in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
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RE: A Star Is Born - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The song "La Vie En Rose" provides a deeper meta-level commentary on the lives of famous musicians. The song translates to seeing the world through a magical lens where everything appears pink, rosy and blissful. The song foreshadowed the inner turmoil Jackson Maine was experiencing despite people's perceptions of celebrities having ideal lives.
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RE: Red Eye - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Presidents or (in this case) Homeland Security can be moved to another location if the secret service are not satisfied with hotel security arrangements or if there's an incident. One of them even recommends the Miami Hilton in the film just because the room was changed. They have up to 200 secret service agents and metal detectors. Agents can be disguised to root out anyone who looks suspicious, not on a list, wearing legitimate ID, who may be a terrorist and concealing weapons. They're trained in the martial arts, equipped with handguns and Uzis (handheld machine guns), sign to each other if they need to be quiet, speak in code indicating levels of danger, frisk anyone who comes in, wear bulletproof vests, have radios or pins on their lapels and always ready to make an arrest. But they are trained to be polite and discreet. Reporter have to have an appointment to see the president. They can even cancel an event if need be.