Think you know movie trivia? Think again! We're busting myths and exposing the truth behind some of the most popular movie legends that everyone gets wrong. From "Pulp Fiction" to "The Wizard of Oz", prepare to have your mind blown by these surprising facts!
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00:00I thought you said she was dead.
00:02That was her sister, the Wicked Witch of the East.
00:04This is the Wicked Witch of the West.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're answering movie trivia questions.
00:10Let the stormy clouds chase everyone from the place.
00:18Number 10. In Pulp Fiction, all the clocks are set to 420.
00:22Quentin Tarantino sure knows a lot about cinematic history,
00:25and his films are a treasure trove of Easter eggs and cool references.
00:29However, for all those who like telling people that all the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 420,
00:34cut it out!
00:35Where's my watch?
00:36Yes, there are some 420 clocks in the film,
00:39a couple of which can be seen in the pawn shop when Butch goes to save Marcellus,
00:43but a few isn't all.
00:45And there are a whole bunch of shots of clocks and watches in the movie that aren't set to 420,
00:50including the watch Captain Coon's hands to a kid Butch.
00:53You know, the one he wore where the sun don't shine.
00:55This watch was on your daddy's wrist when he was shot down on Hanoi.
01:00Number 9. Braveheart was not filmed in three weeks.
01:03We're not sure where this one came from,
01:05but one rumor claims Mel Gibson only took three weeks to film Braveheart.
01:09Were this true, we would be truly amazed.
01:12You alright? You look a wee bit shaky.
01:15Having seen the film many times,
01:17we would be more likely to believe that it took three weeks to film one of those amazing battle sequences.
01:26In actuality, Gibson and the crew spent June to October of 1994
01:31filming the movie in Ireland and Scotland.
01:33Nothing good has ever rushed,
01:35so we're glad to see Gibson took the time he needed to capture his vision.
01:38They may take our lives,
01:41but they'll never take our freedom!
01:46Number 8. David Ayer only had two weeks to write the script for Suicide Squad.
01:51While it might seem, to anyone who saw the 2016 film,
01:54that the script was written quickly,
01:56the much-bollied-around two-week rumor is just not true.
01:59It's taken some work,
02:01but I finally have done the worst of the worst.
02:04This is according to the one person who would know better than anyone else,
02:07writer-director David Ayer himself.
02:09When someone on Twitter repeated the false claim,
02:11Ayer actually responded, saying, quote,
02:13Script in two weeks is meme garbage.
02:16Seriously, what the hell's wrong with you people?
02:20We're bad guys, it's what we do.
02:23That might also be a word people would use to describe the script and the film itself,
02:27but we digress.
02:33Number 7. The beer can that hits John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich was unscripted.
02:38We gotta give it to the guy who created the fake director's commentary.
02:41If we didn't know any better,
02:42we would totally believe it was Spike Jonze talking about how an extra got drunk on set,
02:46threw the beer can at Malkovich,
02:48and they kept it in the movie because Jonze loved it.
02:50Hey Malkovich, think fast!
02:54But the truth is, the scene was very much scripted,
02:56a fact that John Malkovich himself has confirmed in multiple interviews,
02:59in an attempt to refute the rumor.
03:01No!
03:03One thing that is true, though,
03:04is that the guy who threw the can hit Malkovich square on the back of the head
03:08on the first take.
03:09There's some actual movie trivia for ya.
03:11It's my head, Schwartz!
03:14It's my head!
03:16Number 6. The rain in Singing in the Rain was milk.
03:19There's a lot of false trivia surrounding this iconic film,
03:22particularly the titular scene in which Gene Kelly dances and sings in the rain.
03:26I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain.
03:33What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again.
03:40While there are those who like to tell you that Kelly filmed the entire sequence in one take,
03:44the truth is, it took two to three days to get it all done.
03:47Then, there's the even weirder bit of trivia,
03:49which posits that the rain in the scene was mixed with milk
03:52in order for it to show up better on camera.
03:54Come on with the rain, I have a smile on my face.
04:00The truth is that, yes, they did have to take certain steps
04:03in order for the rain to pop on screen,
04:05but it wasn't done with milk.
04:06It was done with backlighting.
04:09Dancing and singing in the rain.
04:17Number 5. Snow White is the first ever animated film.
04:21To answer this one correctly, one must listen very carefully to the question being asked.
04:26You see, while it might sound like a bit of a technicality,
04:29Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
04:31is the first full-length cell animated movie ever made.
04:35And I've been tricked.
04:37But it isn't the first animated movie ever.
04:39That honor goes to a 1926 German film called The Adventures of Prince Achmed,
04:44which was produced using a silhouette animation technique.
04:50Well, actually, Prince Achmed is the oldest surviving animated feature film.
04:54There were two movies made in Argentina prior to Prince Achmed,
04:57but they have been lost.
04:58See what we mean about listening to the question?
05:00I'm surprised.
05:04Number 4. Jenny died of AIDS in Forrest Gump.
05:07There's no denying how heartbreaking it is when Jenny passes away at the end of Forrest Gump.
05:11What can be denied is that her passing was definitively as a result of the AIDS virus.
05:16You died on a Saturday morning.
05:18Winston Groom, the man who wrote the novel on which the film is based,
05:22has said that in his mind, the virus that took Jenny's life was Hepatitis C.
05:26It is worth noting, however, that screenwriter Eric Roth admitted that in the film,
05:30they intended for it to be AIDS.
05:33I'm sick.
05:35The fact still remains that the virus is never mentioned in the movie,
05:38and when director Robert Zemeckis was asked if it was AIDS,
05:41he said, it could have been, but it didn't matter.
05:44And the doctors don't, they don't know what it is, and there isn't anything they can do about it.
05:49Number 3. Heath Ledger improvised the explosion scene in The Dark Knight.
05:58Possibly the most famous scene in The Dark Knight
06:00is the one where the Joker walks off after blowing up the hospital in the background.
06:04The timing of the explosion doesn't go as planned,
06:06and he smacks the remote detonator a few times to get it to work.
06:13The popular behind-the-scenes account of this scene
06:15is that the explosion not going off right away was a mishap on set
06:19that Heath Ledger managed to improvise with.
06:21While it's a great story, it's utterly false.
06:23As Christopher Nolan has confirmed himself,
06:25every second of that scene was rehearsed endlessly,
06:28and it went exactly as it was supposed to go.
06:34Number 2. A munchkin died during The Wizard of Oz.
06:43When The Wizard of Oz movie comes up in conversation,
06:45there are usually two things you're almost guaranteed to hear someone say.
06:48There are the people who will ask if you've ever watched the film
06:51synced to The Dark Side of the Moon,
06:53and at least one person who has to tell you about the hanging munchkin in the background.
06:58Because, because, because, because,
07:01because of the wonderful things he does.
07:03While it's pretty cool to watch the film synced to the Pink Floyd album,
07:06you can rest assured that you won't glimpse any sort of remains on screen.
07:09What you're actually looking at is the silhouette of a bird on set,
07:12something that can be more obviously seen in the 1980 TV broadcast.
07:16We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.
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07:38Number 1. Hitchcock directed the famous MGM logo.
07:44There are many parts to this myth, so bear with us.
07:47The story goes that Alfred Hitchcock was directing the lion in the iconic MGM Roar logo
07:52when two robbers snuck onto the lot.
07:54One killed one of them, and the other was hit by a car while trying to get away.
07:57The next day, the lion, all shaken up by the events, killed his trainer.
08:01It might come as no surprise that the entire tale is a fabrication,
08:04including Hitchcock directing the logo sequence.
08:07You can also take comfort in there being no record of any of the MGM lions ever mauling anyone.
08:12As for that famous photo of him and the lion, that was promo for North by Northwest.
08:17What's your favorite piece of true movie trivia? Let us know in the comments.
08:21You can't check smartphones during trivia, it's against the rules.
08:24Okay, I'm turning it off.
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