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'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.'

You ever have one of those days where you wish you could just rip your feet off at the ankles because they’re just a-howling? Sure, you’d be left with bloody stumps and that would probably suck, but maybe the pain would be less? Ok then. If removable feet are your thing, then you might have been a Hobbit in a previous fictional life. It would seem that the Hobbit feet the actors wore during filming could not be removed at the end of the day without damaging them. Hence, a special oven was running almost 24 hours a day ‘cooking’ Hobbit feet so the actors would have a new pair for every day of filming. A new pair of feet each day? Sounds like a little piece of Heaven. Even if they are bumpy, fat Hobbit feet. Did you know that Christopher Lee was the first person cast in the trilogy due in large part to his extensive knowledge of the books. He is also the only cast member to have met J.R.R Tolkien (the author) and was considered to be the resident expert of the material on the set.

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'Tell me about it, stud.'

Considered the last great musical, Grease, in its original theatrical run, made more than 100 million dollars in the U.S alone, grossing over 300 million worldwide. A grand success considering the film only cost a mere 6 million to make. Consider the movie that almost was. Instead of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John playing the lead roles, we could have had Marie Osmond as Sandy, and…..in a giant acting stretch, Mr. Henry Winkler aka ‘The Fonz’ as Danny Zuko. Worrying that he would inevitably be typecast as a street thug, Henry Winkler turned the role down. Remember that scene in the soda shop? Where Danny and Sandy argue at the juke box machine? Sandy could have saved her quarter had the Fonz been there. It’s a Hollywood tradition to hire older actors to play younger parts. If you watched any of the television shows about high school kids in the 90’s then you know that half of those actors were well in their 20’s and 30’s. For the cast of Grease, this was true as well. Travolta was 24, Newton-John was pushing it at 29 and the grandmother of them all, Stockard Channing was 34.

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'Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn'

In 1939, the Hollywood Production Code (a list of things that could or couldn't be shown/said on screen), and the people that enforced it, had flagged Clark Gable's now infamous last line in Gone with the Wind as potentially volatile. Apparently, they thought damn was too street, too racy, perhaps too uncivilized. Some suggested alternatives were 'Frankly my dear, I just don't care'; 'Frankly my dear, my indifference is boundless', and then there's my personal favourite, 'Frankly my dear, I don't give a hoot'. It's to producer David O. Selznick's credit and will power that he stuck to his 'damn' guns and kept the original line. Of course, he also had to pay a 5000 fine, but I'm sure in the end, he didn't give a damn. Everyone knows that Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. If you didn't know that, well, crack a book once in awhile Beavis. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy, and ended up taking home the award. To put that into some kind of perspective, as to its importance, Hattie was the first African American to be invited to the awards as a guest and not as a servant. A bittersweet victory for a woman who wasn't even allowed to attend the Georgian premiere of the film due to the state's segregation laws. As a matter of record, it would be another 51 years before another African American woman would win the award. (Whoopie Goldberg for 1990's Ghost)

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'Just be the ball'

Remember the scene when Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) drives a golf ball right into Carl Spackler's (Bill Murray) home? Apparently this scene did not exist in the final script and only made it to film because Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis (the director) realized that Murray and Chase did not have a scene together in the final draft. If you've seen the film (and if you haven't, what rock are you living under?) you will know that the scene is perhaps the funniest in the entire film. Oddly, this is the only scene put on film between Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

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'There is no spoon'

Take a good look at the style A Matrix poster. Nifty isn't it? Now imagine that in place of Keanu Reeves, you would see a leather clad Ewan McGregor, and in place of Laurence Fishburne, you would see (gasp) Val Kilmer. That was the movie that almost was. Perhaps it's just me, but I can't imagine anyone else playing the doe-eyed computer hacker Neo with the same ingenuity as Mr. Ted 'Theodore' Logan himself, Keanu Reeves. Face it, Ladies and Gentlemen, no one can utter the word 'Woah' (with the possible exception of Joey 'Blossom' Lawrence) with as much mono-syllabic brilliance as Mr. Reeves. Decades after its release, The Matrix is still being discussed in hot button issue debates. Is the film too violent? Does it glamourize violence? Are we all just test tube babies drowning in goo while big metallic bees suck us dry? Should Keanu Reeves and Carrie Moss wear tight leather in every film they make? Yes. These are all very important topics for discussion, and I plead with all of you, to go home (if you are home, go to where there are actual people you can actually speak with) and talk about these things. I am especially concerned with the metallic bees. I was stung by a bee once, it was a very unpleasant experience. I'd hate to think I was merely brunch to one of them. Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves and Carrie Moss all signed contracts to appear in all three films before shooting for the first one even began. Can you imagine the wheeling and dealing their agents and managers would have had to do had the first film been a complete bomb? As my favourite Keanu Reeves alter ego is wont to say with frequency, 'Bogus Dudes!'

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