Sometimes a good mistake is exactly what you need to make a movie scene work. These bloopers and errors technically shouldn't have happened - but once you watch the finished scenes, you'll be glad they did.
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00:00Sometimes a good mistake is exactly what you need to make a movie scene work.
00:04These bloopers and errors technically shouldn't have happened,
00:07but once you watch the finished scenes, you'll be glad they did.
00:12There are countless stories of mistakes and spontaneous moments that happen on movie shoots.
00:17Sometimes, these surprises give a scene a feeling of authenticity or a dose of inspiration.
00:21And if they're in the final cut, they definitely made the movie better.
00:25Here are some of our favorite unplanned essentials.
00:28More than four decades since hitting theaters, the 1976 boxing drama Rocky is a household name
00:34that's grown into a massive billion-dollar franchise. Like its protagonist, though,
00:38the film was a bit of an underdog when it was released. The budget for the first installment
00:42was slim relative to the surrounding industry, at just above $1 million. It recouped those expenses
00:47225 times over, but the low-budget production of the first film is still apparent in various places.
00:53Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay in only three and a half days,
00:56and the film was shot in just four weeks. He thought that if nothing else,
01:00the movie would show that, in his own words,
01:02"...an unknown quantity can produce a diamond in the rough,
01:05no matter how the circumstances of someone's life are stacked against them."
01:08The humble Italian Stallion and his creator aren't the only unknown quantities that made
01:13Rocky a huge hit. Because of the low budget, there wasn't always enough funding to get extras,
01:18additional cameramen, or even permits. So when they shot the popular scene of Rocky
01:22running through the Italian market, they did it guerrilla-style from the back of a van.
01:26Because of this setup, the Stall owners didn't even know there was a movie being filmed. One
01:30of them just happened to toss Stallone an orange, and he managed to catch it — a wholesome,
01:34unplanned moment that set the tone and left us rooting for the hero even harder.
01:39Leonardo DiCaprio has subjected himself to all kinds of physical torment for the sake of various
01:44roles, most notably The Revenant in 2015, finally earning his long-overdue Oscar. The masterful
01:50performer really proved his mettle, though, when he powered through an injury where no reasonable
01:55person would have expected him to. As Calvin Candy in 2012's Django Unchained, DiCaprio played
02:00a posh and pampered plantation owner, the total opposite of the rugged trapper he portrayed in
02:05The Revenant. But during an outburst at the dinner table, DiCaprio's character slammed his hand down,
02:09and he actually cut himself on a piece of glass. Considering that the wound later required medical
02:14attention, no one would have blamed the actor for breaking character, rendering the scene unusable.
02:19But DiCaprio kept acting, at one point sadistically smearing his own blood across
02:23co-star Kerry Washington's face. This act represented the perverse, unhinged character
02:28so well that it was left in the final cut of the movie, making for an iconic scene in which
02:33DiCaprio not only stayed in character, but arguably elevated the moment.
02:37One transgression that often begs forgiveness on a movie set is forgetfulness. The job of
02:42an actor includes a lot of memorization, and every so often, someone forgets their lines.
02:46But occasionally, forgetting one's dialogue is the most true-to-character thing an actor can do.
02:51Of course, this is only the case if you're lucky enough to play a character who's, well,
02:55a bit of an airhead. Derek Zoolander in 2001's Zoolander is probably the poster child for this
03:00kind of role. In one famous scene, Ben Stiller forgets one of his lines, so he simply repeats
03:04something he said a minute earlier. At the beginning of the scene, he asks,
03:08"'So why male models?'
03:09Zoolander is wondering why male models are chosen to become assassins. David Duchovny's
03:14character offers him an extensive explanation involving male models' advantageous physical
03:18condition and their ability to penetrate exclusive circles, not to mention their most
03:22important quality — they don't think for themselves. Stiller forgot what his response
03:26was supposed to be, so he improvised the now-classic line.
03:30"'But why male models?'
03:34"'You serious? I just — I just told you that.'"
03:38The image of an intimidating character casually stroking a cat with unnerving tenderness has
03:43become a bit of a trope, but it was completely unplanned when it occurred in 1972's The
03:48Godfather. Not only was it unscripted, it almost ruined the scene in which Marlon Brando,
03:53as Don Vito Corleone, nonchalantly discusses matters of life and death while caressing the
03:58feline in his lap. The key word, though, is almost. The feline actually ended up lending
04:03some extra life to the scene in a way that movie buffs love. The cat had been running
04:07around the studio earlier in the day, and when it ended up on Marlon Brando's lap during the scene,
04:11the animal lover just went with it, even though the sound crew worried that the cat's purring
04:15would ruin the Don's now-iconic lines. Fortunately, the feline and the Oscar-winning actor were a
04:21perfect duo and totally stole the show.
04:24In The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers, the second installment of Peter Jackson's trilogy,
04:28Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn find the slaughtered band of Uruk-hai who captured Merriam-Pippen,
04:34and they assume that the young hobbits have also been killed. In his grief,
04:37Aragorn takes out his anger on a nearby helmet.
04:42More than rage and defeat, though, Aragorn's outburst is one of pain.
04:48Actor Viggo Mortensen actually broke his toe on the take that made it into the final movie.
04:53An upset stomach on the set of 1981's Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark led to a script
04:59change that ended up becoming one of the film's most memorable moments. Harrison Ford revealed
05:03in a Reddit AMA that the script called for him to fight an expert swordsman, but he was suffering
05:08from dysentery and found it tough to be out of his trailer for more than a few minutes without
05:12having to run back to it. Reviewing the script had made it clear that it could take days to
05:16finish shooting the scene, which did not sound appetizing at all to Ford in his condition.
05:20So how did Ford get out of three days of shooting? By bringing a gun to a knife fight.
05:33The poor stuntman had practiced his swordsmanship for days,
05:36only for his character to be coolly dispatched by Indy without any of the
05:39hand-to-hand, sword-to-whip combat he had been training for.
05:43A few movies throughout the decades stand out as examples of the quintessential and
05:47quotable New York City. One of the most famous of these films is Midnight Cowboy,
05:51and one line in particular has become a permanent part of pop culture.
05:56Hey! I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
06:00As for the origins of that famous line, it was improvised out of necessity because,
06:04as star Dustin Hoffman tells it, a cab driver ran a red light and drove right through the set,
06:08an occurrence that's itself quite a characteristic New York event. However,
06:12higher-ups on the film have questioned whether the moment truly was organic,
06:16or whether there was an extra in the cab, and the truth is that it was a little of both.
06:20Allegedly, the team was inspired by the initial,
06:22truly unplanned scene and then used an extra to recreate more takes like it.
06:27We don't know if the mistake was the original unscripted scene or if it was one of the
06:30recreations, but we do know that regardless of which version is true,
06:34the mistake, directly or indirectly, helped make the movie unforgettable.
06:38Daniel Craig emerging from the ocean in Casino Royale. It's an iconic scene that was never
06:43meant to happen. It certainly wasn't the plan to, with one lingering shot, reinvent the classic
06:48Bond character as a beefcake for a new generation of audiences, but that's exactly what it did.
06:52A moment from the scene was featured in the trailer, and a still photo was used as
06:56promotional material. Fans even assumed the shot was a nod to Ursula Andress emerging from the sea
07:01in the original Bond movie, Dr. No from 1962. If only all mistakes turned out this well.
07:06So how does something this great happen by accident? The original story Craig gave was
07:10that he was supposed to be swimming, but the water there was unexpectedly shallow due to
07:14the presence of a sand shelf in the area, so he stood up and walked off. In a later interview,
07:19he added that it was because he thought that he looked stupid, quote,
07:22pretending to be cool by swimming. Instead, he just stood up and walked off.
07:26So one of the most memorable shots of Craig's James Bond ended up not only being an accident,
07:30but a result of him throwing in the beach towel on a particular acting choice.
07:35Amelia Rinaldi, also known as Mia, initially has a great deal of trouble believing she's
07:40a princess. It just doesn't add up. At school, the protagonist of 2001's The Princess Diaries
07:45is clumsy, awkward, and unpopular, admiring It Boys from afar but never really talking to anyone
07:50other than her best friend, who is also on the relative fringes of high school society.
07:54Even after she receives the royal treatment following the revelation of her identity and
07:58her crush begins to give her attention, their kiss is marred by the fact that her foot gets
08:02stuck in a fishing net. No amount of makeovers or royal shoe fittings can change the fact that
08:08Mia has two left feet. So when she and her friend Lily are walking on the bleachers in one scene
08:12and Mia slips and takes a dive, audiences are no more likely to bat an eye than Mia herself.
08:17This just seems like something that the often graceless heiress would do. Anne Hathaway,
08:21however, later said that she slipped and fell completely by accident, but despite bursting
08:25out laughing, she kept on acting. She never expected to see that moment again, much less
08:30that millions of people around the world would witness it. However, director Gary Marshall
08:34decided to use the take of Hathaway slipping above all the others.
08:37He kept it. He kept it because it was a charming moment.
08:42A good soldier fights through peril and injury, and apparently, so does a good actor. You've
08:46probably heard of a number of performers who do their own stunts, but George McKay never expected
08:51one particular scene from the 2019 war film, 1917, to put him on that list. While his character,
08:57Schofield's grueling sprint at the end of the film was undoubtedly an intense climax to his
09:02mission, the actor wasn't meant to take any hits as he ran across the battlefield. He had come out
09:06of rehearsal for the scene unscathed, but there are no guarantees of timing in such a complex scene.
09:11On the actual day of shooting, he found himself taking multiple blows from a slew of oncoming
09:15soldiers. But an actor keeps going until the director calls for a cut, and for such an important
09:20moment in the film, he knew he couldn't throw in the towel himself. So he kept moving, and director
09:24Sam Mendes never halted the take. He must have realized that, despite deviating from rehearsal,
09:29something even more intense was happening. McKay spoke to Jimmy Fallon about the take.
09:33And again, we'd rehearsed it for weeks, and we'd rehearse that you didn't get knocked into,
09:36and then on the day, you know, you take some hits, but the rule is you don't stop unless they say
09:40stop." The shot that was never meant to happen ended up being one of the greatest triumphs of
09:45McKay's performance. There are some moments that have widely been regarded as accidents,
09:50even by those who directed them, only for the actors involved to later allege the bungles were
09:54actually intentional moments of improvisation. One such moment featuring Gandalf from the
09:58beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring immediately comes to mind.
10:04Peter Jackson's commentary on the DVD states that this moment was an accident,
10:08that Ian McKellen truly did bonk his head, and that his acting remained so superb that
10:12Jackson decided to use the take anyway. It works to humanize the Great Wizard,
10:16and it cements the genuineness of the friendship between the mystical being and the Hobbit. On his
10:21website, however, McKellen states that the clumsy move was his idea, and Jackson simply didn't know.
10:27Gotham's law-breaking taxi drivers, the Overlook's reality-bending layout,
10:32and Alicia Silverstone's hilariously genuine mispronunciation.
10:36Keep watching for some of the best movie mistakes that made it into the final cut.
10:41While filming The Princess Bride, Cary Elwes convinced Christopher Guest to hit him on the
10:45head with the pommel of his sword in a scene.
10:48I swear it will be done.
10:50This action was scripted, but the issue arose because they apparently didn't have a rubber
10:55prop sword to do the deed harmlessly. Elwes thought it would turn out fine if they just
10:59used a real one. Of course, he expected his co-star to give him a gentle tap — certainly
11:04not the level of bludgeoning you'd rather have a stuntman step in for. But Guest apparently
11:09didn't know his own strength. It's part of the story for Elwes' character, Wesley,
11:13to get KO'd, so you might never have known the actor had really been knocked unconscious if
11:19not for an interview Elwes gave to Sundance TV describing the incident. He said that the next
11:24thing he knew, he was waking up in the hospital. The blow actually ended up creating a literal
11:29slapstick comedy moment that made it into the film and served its trademark zaniness incredibly well.
11:36Every job has its hazards. If you work in a kitchen,
11:39you run the risk of slipping on spills or burning yourself with hot cooking oil.
11:43If you work in an office, you might get carpal tunnel syndrome. And if you're Channing Tatum,
11:48portraying Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz in Bennett Miller's 2014 film Foxcatcher,
11:52you might break your hand, pop your eardrum, and cut your head open.
11:57All of these injuries actually befell Channing Tatum during the shooting of Foxcatcher.
12:02He broke his hand while training for the role, but you can see the other two mishaps during the
12:06film. When Mark Ruffalo's character roughs up Tatum's and clips him on the ear, you see Tatum
12:11wince. His eardrum actually popped in this moment. And when Tatum slams his head into a mirror,
12:16the cut you see on his head in the film is real. The actor went a little too hard in the moment
12:22and actually broke through the wall behind the prop glass. So when you see the intensity of
12:27Channing Tatum's physical reactions in Foxcatcher, you're often seeing something all too real.
12:33Perhaps his most telling line from a Variety interview on the subject?
12:37Eardrums heal, so I'm fine.
12:40Sometimes you do the spit take, and sometimes the spit takes you. Or something like that.
12:46This mistake in The Martian is another case in which part of the action was scripted,
12:50but a mishap actually elevated it to the next level. The Martian is directed by Ridley Scott,
12:55a sci-fi legend who's apparently known for getting scenes done in just a few takes. This
13:00is opposed to the dozens of attempts that other directors might often employ to get things
13:05just right. His films are said to be full of banana peels, because if someone accidentally
13:11slips and messes up — or eats it, as Donald Glover puts it — the clumsiness just makes it all the
13:16more real. Scott prefers this humanizing element, so he doesn't bother doing the scene over just
13:22because someone tripped, and you'll often see such unscripted stumbles in his films.
13:27In this particular instance, a nervous Glover slips and falls on some spilled coffee that he
13:32himself had spit out earlier into a wastebasket. He gets up, saying he's fine, and stays in
13:37character to complete the scene. The spitting out was scripted, but the slipping was not,
13:42so Glover was quite surprised when, after the scene, all Ridley Scott had to say was,
13:47That was great.
13:48Actors like Channing Tatum and Donald Glover didn't have to go to the hospital for their
13:52injuries and slip-ups, but some performers weren't as lucky. Brad Pitt's character in
13:57David Fincher's Seven actually had to be changed to accommodate his arm injury, which he sustained
14:01during a chase scene. He accidentally put his arm through a windshield after a scripted fall
14:06from a fire escape. The star even required surgery for this wound. From that point on in the film,
14:12Pitt's character is always wearing a cast, which required Fincher to alter many other sequences
14:16in the movie to accommodate the injury. These scenes weren't just the ones that, in the film's
14:21chronology, came after the chase scene. After all, movies don't always shoot their scenes in the same
14:26order as they appear in the story, so there were a lot of scenes from before the chase that hadn't
14:31been shot yet, and Fincher had to hide Pitt's arm in these moments to disguise the injury,
14:35as it hadn't happened yet in the world of the story.
14:39In film, just because something is unscripted, that doesn't mean that it's a mistake.
14:44Some directors are pretty strict about improvisation, while others encourage it.
14:48On the actor's end, some improvised moments work much better than others,
14:52but even the ones that don't go over well are typically conscious acting choices, not
14:57accidents. In the case of this sequence from Captain America the First Avenger,
15:01you could say it was an improvisation, and that'd be partly true. But it still definitely qualifies
15:07as a mistake when you hear Hayley Atwell tell it. In what Vanity Fair describes as
15:12your favorite scene in Captain America, Atwell's Peggy Carter sees Chris Evans'
15:16super-soldier serum-saturated Steve Rogers with his shirt off for the first time. She
15:22reaches out in awe and seemingly involuntarily touches his chest. But this wasn't only Peggy's
15:27first time seeing Steve shirtless, it was also Atwell's first time seeing Evans shirtless.
15:34The actress said that she was compelled to impulsively touch Chris Evans' chest,
15:38and the director apparently thought it was so organic that you can see it in the film.
15:42By her account, it was less of a choice in character and more a compulsion in the moment
15:47as herself — practically an accident. But what a happy accident it was. Atwell, for her part,
15:53claimed that it was the highlight of her life.
15:56If you think that being in the background of the film means you're missing out on all the action,
16:00that's not necessarily the case. Sometimes you get even more action than you bargained for,
16:05and it's not always a pleasant or star-making experience. But you can rely on the eagle-eyed
16:12film enthusiasts of Reddit to eventually get you the recognition you deserve for taking a
16:17background blow like a champ. Blink and you'll miss it, but when Tom Cruise dismounts his horse
16:22in one scene in The Last Samurai, the steed kicks an extra in the crotch. You can tell from his
16:28reaction that it wasn't some sort of stunt, but once you see it, it's all the more impressive
16:33that the extra remains standing and, though he stumbles a bit, takes it like a true warrior.
16:40What's most alarming is that no one around him appears to flinch when it happens or
16:44check to make sure that he's okay. If you want to believe the best, you could read the lack
16:49of response as evidence of the stoicism of the soldiers. Either way, the injured soldier is a
16:54true champ. Imagine your first chest waxing and your first leading role in a film occurring at
17:02the very same time. It sounds like it'd be a lot of pressure and that things could potentially go
17:07really badly. That's exactly what happened to Steve Carell. His character in The 40-Year-Old
17:12Virgin, Andy, is trying to get into the dating world for the first time and, as the title of
17:17the film suggests, lose his virginity. He gets a lot of advice from some pretty questionable but
17:23well-meaning sources, which ultimately leads to him booking a waxing appointment.
17:27Oh, that sounds like it would be nice.
17:30Normally, a scene like this would be done with makeup and special effects, but Carell thought
17:34it would be better if the waxing was real. He assumed it wouldn't hurt that badly, but you can
17:39tell in the scene itself how shocked he is at his miscalculation. The pain is real. To make matters
17:47worse, the actor who played his waxer lied about being experienced in the procedure and apparently
17:52skipped an important protective step — that is, applying Vaseline to his nipples. Poor Steve.
17:59The master of physical comedy really went to his limits this time, and, thankfully,
18:04it's not completely embarrassing. Rather, it's a hilarious and memorable scene,
18:09and the film wouldn't be the same without it.
18:12Have you ever noticed that in many scenes in the MCU movies, Tony Stark is munching on some sort
18:18of snack? It's easy to believe that it's just part of his character. He's quirky in many other
18:23ways and always does whatever he wants. So why should the end of the world keep him from snacking?
18:29Well, apparently, this habit was never part of Stark's character in the beginning.
18:32Robert Downey Jr. would just hide snacks all over the set and randomly start munching out
18:37during takes without telling anyone he was going to. There was nothing anyone could do about it,
18:42since they never knew when it was going to happen, so the production just made constantly eating and
18:47drinking a comedic part of Iron Man's cavalier character. And honestly, it fits just fine.
18:53Is it a mistake? It would have been for a lesser actor, as it likely would have gotten them fired
18:58or at least heavily reprimanded, but RDJ took his snacking and made a meal out of it.
19:04A series of mistakes in Titanic turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Believe it or not,
19:10Jack's now-famous exclamation at the tip of the ship wasn't originally in the script. In fact,
19:15he and director James Cameron had tried a bunch of different lines in its place,
19:19and they all fell flat. Time was running out, and the production was losing light. But finally,
19:24after a bunch of mistake lines, an exasperated Cameron told DiCaprio to just say,
19:29"'I'm king of the world!' And apparently, DiCaprio really didn't want to at the time,
19:34responding to Cameron's direction with an unconvinced,
19:37"'What?' and repeating the question when Cameron reiterated his instructions.
19:41To the second objection, Cameron simply replied with,
19:44quote, "'Just f-----g sell it.'"
19:47"'I'm the king of the world! Woo-hoo!'
19:52We're eternally grateful that the previous scripted attempts turned out to be mistakes — mistakes
19:57that, in their wake, made room for one of the most recognizable lines in one of cinema's most
20:03revered films. We'd love to know what some of those failed lines were, though.
20:08When the futuristic Bat Vehicles dominate the screen in the Dark Knight trilogy,
20:12most people really aren't paying attention to much else. But if you check the traffic
20:17in the background, there are quite a few scenes in which Gotham citizens don't appear to be
20:22obeying traffic rules. These sequences usually occur in high speed, quickly cut chase scenes,
20:27so they're easy to miss and, if we're being honest, a little nitpicky to point out even
20:31if you do catch them. Still, the other drivers on the road as the Caped Crusader rides his
20:36Batpod after the Joker are blatantly ignoring streetlights. Of course, the taxi drivers who
20:41nearly crash into the Batpod and honk as he whizzes through them are most likely stunt drivers,
20:46given how close they come to colliding with him. Not to mention that these near-encounters were
20:51great to emphasize the peril of the chase. But if you look closely, the lights facing left and right
20:57where the vehicles come from are red. These collisions should have never happened.
21:01You could nitpick and say it ruins the realism, but we disagree. The whole premise of Nolan's
21:07trilogy is that Gotham is a city of debauchery, mayhem, and moral bankruptcy. There's often
21:12explicit debate as to whether it can be saved. We naturally conceive of that in epic cinematic
21:18terms — grand-scale sociopaths like the Joker, corrupt officials at the highest levels,
21:24and sky-high crime rates. But if Gotham truly is a lawless city, wouldn't that extend to
21:30every area of life? If people aren't going to follow the law when it comes to fraud,
21:34murder, and greed, why would they when it comes to traffic?
21:38Many injuries are the result of talented, invested actors taking their scripted scenes
21:43a little too far. It's a testament to their acting that they're willing to risk a bodily
21:47injury in order to fully inhabit a scene, but we hope they don't make a tradition out of
21:52needing stitches. In Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a freelance photojournalist named Lou who
21:57enters the competitive business of covering violent incidents, like crashes and crimes,
22:01and selling the footage to news stations. Naturally, he develops an unsettling obsession
22:06with his work and uses increasingly questionable means to obtain the most compelling footage
22:11before any of his competitors. This means going so far as to tamper with crime scenes and manipulate
22:17police, journalists, and criminals. It goes without saying that the guy is intense.
22:24At one point, he punches a mirror, which was part of the script. Jake Gyllenhaal needing
22:28stitches in his hand afterward, though, that was not part of the plan. Even still,
22:33it all fits incredibly well with a seedy character who'll go to any lengths to get what he wants.
22:39You might have been told as a kid that sugar can make your teeth fall out, but for one young extra
22:44in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, this threat became all too real in an unexpected way.
22:49When confectionery magnate Willy Wonka announces his golden ticket sweepstakes,
22:54it inspires a frenzy as people everywhere flock to candy stores in hopes of finding a ticket.
23:00In one scene, a crowd of children clamor at the counter of a sweet shop. The proprietor,
23:04while singing the now-famous The Candyman tune, graciously invites the children behind the counter
23:10to select their treats. But if you watch closely, he almost knocks one little girl's teeth out.
23:15This moment hasn't been spoken about in interviews, likely in part because the film vastly
23:20predated internet discourse on such subjects. But it's a very small chance the sequence was
23:26scripted or directed this way. You can see from the clip that the little girl actually gets
23:30clocked by the fold-up counter. It's pretty safe to assume that they didn't plan for this and then
23:34bring a six-year-old stunt girl on set to get nailed in the face. What makes this goof so
23:40perfect, though, is how the little girl doesn't seem phased at all. She still rushes past the
23:45counter to get at the candy. It makes her seem so hilariously invested in the treats that she
23:49doesn't notice getting hit on the chin. And she won't be the last child in the film whose
23:54dogged pursuit of sweets gets her into trouble. While it's also full of all the sweetest things
24:00in life, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory has more than one mistake hidden under the wrapper.
24:05And one continuity error in this film accidentally makes a pretty powerful statement.
24:10When the malnourished Charlie eats what's probably his first-ever Wonka bar, we see him take a bite
24:15in one shot while his mouth is already stuffed. But in the next shot, just a couple of seconds
24:21later, his mouth is totally empty. You can't swallow almost an entire chocolate bar in a
24:26matter of seconds. It definitely can't be done without making a mess or at least needing to
24:31catch one's breath afterwards. At first glance, this is an extremely minor continuity error.
24:37And again, since this is a viewer-caught slip-up in an old film, it hasn't been addressed as a
24:42mistake by anyone connected with the feature. We're just deferring to the laws of physics here.
24:47But on that note, this mistake can totally be spun as the whimsical film's magical,
24:53realist take on just how ravenous Charlie is for the first-ever taste of Wonka chocolate
24:59in his impoverished life.
25:01The layout of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Stephen
25:06King's disquieting horror novel, is spatially impossible. If you try to match what you see
25:12inside the hotel with what you see on the exterior, there's simply no way to make it work.
25:17But when you think about the story itself, everything about the sinister, seemingly
25:21sentient hotel defies logic and is meant to confuse the viewer and occupants and drive
25:27them slowly mad. So why not the architecture itself? Some people staunchly argue that The
25:33Shining's set features many impossibilities, from windows that shouldn't exist, doors that
25:38lead nowhere, to entire rooms that couldn't possibly fit inside the hotel. Others, however,
25:43say it's all part of Kubrick's genius, and that the hotel itself is clearly a supernatural
25:48disorienting force, an illusion, in and of itself in many ways. It would certainly lend
25:54new and unsettling meaning to the now-famous sequences of Danny riding his tricycle through
25:59the Byzantine twists and turns of the hotel's hallways. He may be wheeling in and out of reality.
26:06Self-absorbed Cher, living up to the title of the film Clueless, mispronounces words throughout
26:12the movie. But what you might not know is that actress Alicia Silverstone herself is making
26:16these errors. Whenever you hear her articulate a word slightly wrong, there's a good chance
26:22that the mistake is genuine. Apparently, after Silverstone had made a few mistakes in the debate
26:27scene, members of the Clueless cast and crew attempted to help her out by correcting her.
26:31However, director Amy Heckerling called for everyone to stand down. She felt that mispronouncing
26:36Haitians as Haitians is something Cher's ditzy and self-absorbed character would totally do.
26:43So, if the government could just get to the kitchen,
26:46rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians.
26:49And she was absolutely right. Cher's mispronunciations serve as foreshadowing
26:55for the growth she will experience over the course of the movie. That is, from the selfish,
26:59ignorant girl she once was to the conscientious, caring person she always had the potential to be.
27:05And these competing elements wouldn't have been expressed as well without those delightful
27:10mispronunciations.
27:12Hey, accidents happen. But if you're in a movie, sometimes accidents can turn out to be amazing.
27:18In fact, some of the most memorable moments in cinema were actually the result of mistakes that
27:23the filmmakers decided were too good to leave out of the finished movie. Here's a look at some
27:28movie bloopers that were too good to cut.
27:31Alfred Hitchcock coined the term MacGuffin to describe important objects upon which the plot
27:37of a movie revolves, like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction or the Infinity Stones in the Marvel
27:43Cinematic Universe. As any comic fan will tell you, the Infinity Stones are incredibly important
27:49and powerful, which is why it's so funny when Chris Pratt, as Star-Lord, just straight-up drops one.
27:54"...let us see what you brought."
28:03It looks totally scripted, but according to the DVD commentary, that was an actual moment of
28:08clumsiness from Pratt. But the moment works, so director James Gunn left it in.
28:14As war looms and the loss of Rohan seems imminent, Eowyn stares off into the distance as the camera
28:20reveals a wide, scenic shot. As she does, a flagpole whips in the wind, and then, perfectly
28:26expressing the mood of uncertainty and destruction to come, the flag rips off the pole and flies
28:32away. The metaphor was not only beautifully apt, but it was also totally accidental. Director Peter
28:39Jackson didn't plan for this. It was just really windy on that day of shooting.
28:44Indiana Jones wasn't the only raider of the Lost Ark in, uh, Raiders of the Lost Ark. There was
28:49also evil French archaeologist René Belloc, who suffers a doubly horrible fate. Not only does his
28:56head explode, but he also eats a fly. Well, okay, not exactly. During a close-up of actor Paul
29:07Freeman, a fly appears to crawl right down Belloc's throat. Freeman later revealed that
29:13the insect actually flew away after crawling around his lip for a moment, but some judicious
29:18editing after the fact made it look like the cold-blooded Belloc just ate the fly instead.
29:24The police lineup seen early in the movie is crucial to the plot of The Usual Suspects.
29:29It's where all the criminal main characters meet to arrange a big heist. As each character
29:34steps forward to read the line police told them to read, none of them can contain their laughter,
29:40perfectly setting up the dynamic between the characters as well as their collective
29:44disregard for the cops.
29:50But the laughing wasn't in the script, and it wasn't a directorial note.
29:55No, the cast of The Usual Suspects couldn't stop laughing because
29:59actor Benicio Del Toro couldn't stop farting. Co-star Kevin Pollak says he farted on, like,
30:0612 takes in a row. But director Bryan Singer got so mad with the cast's inability to focus
30:12that he yelled at them, which probably only made them laugh harder.
30:16Speaking of farts, Rain Man is that rare film that won the Oscar for Best Picture
30:22and also included one of the most memorable fart scenes in movie history. Brothers Raymond
30:27and Charlie are in a phone booth together, and Raymond passes gas.
30:32Uh-oh, fart.
30:33Yeah, Charlie Babbit, I'll hold.
30:34Uh-oh, fart.
30:36Did you fart, Ray?
30:37Fart.
30:38How can you stand that?
30:39I don't mind.
30:40That was real — and accidental. Stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise both managed
30:46to stay completely in character, setting up a classic moment in cinematic fart history.