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• Sustained serious injuries making the Rambo films, particularly First Blood. In that film, he attempts to jump from a cliff into a tree. The look of pain he shows in the film is in fact real as the branches were lodged in his chest, breaking ribs and puncturing a lung.
• Does most of his own stunts including much of the dangerous stuntwork in the Rambo films and Cliffhanger. He overcame serious agoraphobia to make Cliffhanger. His willingness to go to extreme lengths to make the stuntwork in his films as authentic as possible is matched only by another action movie legend, Jackie Chan.

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• Fatal Attraction: The original ending had Alex committing suicide, and Michael Douglas' character being arrested for her murder, but was changed when preview audiences felt that justice was not served onto Alex. This ending still appears in the Japanese release.
• Zulu: Descendants of the original Zulu's who attacked Rorke's drift appear as extras. The tribesmen playing Zulu warriors were shown a Gene Autry western to demonstrate what they were meant to be doing

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• American entertainer Fred Astaire surely was the greatest dancer ever seen on film. Astaire was beckoned to Hollywood, where legend has it his first screen test was dismissed with "Can't act; slightly bald; can dance a little." He danced more than a little in his first film, Dancing Lady (1933), though he didn't actually play a role and was confined to the production numbers. Later that year, Astaire was cast as comic/dancing relief in the RKO musical Flying Down to Rio, which top-billed Dolores Del Rio and Gene Raymond. Astaire was billed fifth, just below the film's female comedy relief Ginger Rogers.

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• AThe late actor James Cagney never said "You dirty rat" in any movie he made. Cagney's first job as an entertainer was as a female dancer in a chorus line.
• Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest and came in third.
• Apparently, Tom Cruise has dyslexia, which is a reading disorder. Whenever he studies his lines for a movie he has them recorded onto an audio cassette so that he can play them back aloud instead of reading them. This may account for the fact that he has never appeared on Saturday Night Live, a show that relies heavily on the ability of its actors to read cue cards on live television

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• Annette Bening was supposed to play Catwoman in Batman Returns, but she couldn't do it because she was pregnant.
• Michelle Pfeiffer was chosen for the part of Catwoman when director, Tim Burton saw her climb up the ladder during the song, Cool Rider, in Grease 2 as her movements were so feline-like.
• During filming of the chariot race scene in Ben Hur, one of the extremely expensive cameras ($100,000 in 1958) was completely destroyed when a chariot ran right over it. The footage right up to the camera's destruction was used in the final film.

"The Rock" gaffes

• When the air strike is called in, there are five fighters. As they fly under the Golden Gate Bridge, there are six. As Goodspeed holds up the flares, there are five again.
• The plane which roles out of the hanger is a two seater F/A 18 Hornet, yet all aircraft in the flight squadron are single seaters.
• How can Mason be imprisoned in Alcatraz in 1962 for stealing files about the Kennedy Assassination (November 1963)?
• At the start of the movie when Goodspeed and Marvin Isherwood are in the FBI lab trying to diffuse the serien gas bomb, when Goodspeed first walked into the chamber he stated his name, etc. he said that the time was 9:00am. However in the background you can see a clock that says the time is around 4:15

Isn't it funny when movie makers put millions of dollars in making a movie and then they forget all kinds of little (or huge) things, which can and will make the movie look funny, pathetic, weird or unrealistic.

For example, in Windtalkers, as you hear the future windtalkers pledging their oath, the screen is first filled with a waving American flag with staggered stars meaning it's a 50-star flag. All other flags in the movie had the correct 48, though.

In the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood, in the scene where Will Scarlett rides up on a horse, and sees the wounded Mutch the miller's son lying on the ground, when Will dismounts his horse to go help Mutch, you can see a car drive by in the background of Sherwood Forest.