Ever wondered if those famous movie scene stories you've heard are actually true? Join us as we debunk the most persistent myths and misconceptions about iconic moments from films like "Star Wars," "Titanic," and "The Dark Knight"!
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00:00and I can choose to do with my property whatever I so desire."
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 10 Misconceptions
00:10About Famous Movie Scenes.
00:11-"No. No. It's not true."
00:1910. R. Lee Ermey's Creative Insults – Full Metal Jacket
00:23This is more of a series of scenes,
00:24but we're still lumping them under the larger Sergeant Hartman umbrella.
00:28It's said that R. Lee Ermey improvised most, if not all, of his creative insults for the film,
00:33having served as a real drill instructor in the 1960s.
00:36The latter fact is true, but the former? Eh, kinda.
00:40-"Did your parents have any children that lived?"
00:42-"Sir, yes sir."
00:43-"I bet they regret that. You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece."
00:47Stanley Kubrick realized how hilarious Ermey was,
00:50and he worked with him to craft memorable lines for the film.
00:52Ermey would make up funny lines, and Kubrick would transcribe the best ones into the script.
00:57So yes, most of those lines are his own.
01:00But no, he didn't make them up on the spot.
01:02-"I want that head so sanitary and squared away
01:04that the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to go in there and take a dump."
01:089. I Didn't Know You Could Read – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
01:13-"Why are you wearing glasses?"
01:15-"Uh, um, reading."
01:17-"Reading? I didn't know you could read."
01:21This fun tidbit is the Harry Potter equivalent of Viggo Mortensen breaking his toe.
01:25But unlike that one, this fact isn't true. Well, not entirely.
01:30The story goes that Tom Felton forgot his line and improvised this one.
01:34Once again, there's a mixture of truth and falsehood here.
01:37-"Mind your attitude, Malfoy."
01:40Yes, the line was technically improvised, but not by Felton.
01:44Felton admits this in his memoir, Beyond the Wand,
01:47claiming that director Chris Columbus asked him to improvise a line in response to Harry's lie.
01:51Felton did three takes before Columbus whispered in his ear and suggested
01:55what is now in the film. All the credit went to Felton,
01:57but it was nice of him to come clean and reveal the truth.
02:00-"You know, I'm surprised that the Daily Prophet hasn't done a report on all these attacks.
02:05I suppose Dumbledore's trying to hush it all up."
02:088. The Indianapolis Speech – Jaws
02:10-"Mr. Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis."
02:22-"You on the Indianapolis?"
02:23By this point, everyone knows that we're gonna need a bigger boat,
02:27is actually you're gonna need a bigger boat.
02:29But one pesky legend still persists,
02:31and that's that Robert Shaw was drunk for his famous Indianapolis speech.
02:35-"Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you, right into your eyes.
02:41You know the thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes."
02:46This legend came about thanks to some genius acting on Shaw's part,
02:49and a misinterpretation of some behind-the-scenes lore.
02:52It's true that Shaw performed the scene drunk, or at least tried to.
02:55According to Steven Spielberg, he stumbled through a few lines,
02:58but it was messy and Spielberg quickly put an end to filming.
03:02They shot it again the next day when Shaw was sober,
03:04and this is the flawless version you see in the film.
03:07-"Ah, then you hear that terrible high-pitched screaming.
03:11The ocean turns red, despite all the pounding and the hollering.
03:16They all come in, they rip you to pieces."
03:20Number 7. Jack could have fit on the raft. Titanic.
03:27It's been discussed again and again.
03:30Jack could have fit on the wood and lived into old age with Rose.
03:33Most people forget that Jack does attempt to climb on the wood,
03:37but it proves unstable and nearly capsizes Rose.
03:40And countless people, including the Mythbusters and James Cameron himself,
03:45have tested the idea of both floating on the wood,
03:47even if he did manage to get up there.
03:50-"But what if Jack and Rose had tried something different?
03:53With our modern understanding of hypothermia, could we save them both?"
03:58These tests have found that it would have sunk under their combined weight,
04:01dooming them both to freezing water and eventual death.
04:04Damn buoyancy!
04:05Yes, maybe they could have tied Rose's life jacket under the raft as the Mythbusters did,
04:09but come on, there's no way they're thinking of that in the stress of the moment.
04:12-"I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter
04:18to the white star flying about all this."
04:20Number six, the sunglasses.
04:22Risky business.
04:24Quick, think of an image from Risky Business.
04:26Chances are you saw Tom Cruise sliding into frame wearing his pink button-up,
04:30socks and sunglasses.
04:43Unfortunately, this is one of those classic Mandela effects.
04:47Tom Cruise is not wearing sunglasses in the scene,
04:50nor has he ever been wearing sunglasses in the scene.
04:52He is wearing sunglasses in the famous poster,
04:55and in countless parodies of the scene most characters are wearing them for some reason.
05:00Alas, they just keep getting it wrong.
05:02It's a classic example of pop culture taking something
05:05and warping it into something else in our collective memories.
05:08-"Who wears short shorts?"
05:12-"I wear short shorts."
05:14Number five, the beer can.
05:16-"Hey, Malkovich, think fast!"
05:19This is an example of a legend being even more famous than the movie itself.
05:23Being John Malkovich, while critically acclaimed, isn't a hugely popular movie.
05:28But there is one hugely popular rumor,
05:30and that's that a drunk extra threw an empty beer can at Malkovich
05:33as he was walking down the street.
05:35This rumor stems from an old YouTube video,
05:37supposedly taken from the director's commentary in which Spike Jonze tells the story.
05:41-"The scene coming up where the guy throws the can and says,
05:44"'Hey, Malkovich, think fast!'
05:46Uh, that was not in our script at all.
05:48We had had some extras that had snuck some beer on set,
05:51and, uh, it got pretty lit.
05:54Fortunately, it wasn't the driver, just the passenger."
05:57Only this video is fake, and there is no director's commentary on the DVD.
06:01Malkovich himself dispelled the rumor,
06:03Malkovich himself dispelled the myth on Reddit,
06:06claiming that it was performed by John Cusack's writing partner.
06:09-"With all due respect, I discovered that portal.
06:12I mean, it's my livelihood, do you understand?"
06:14Number 4.
06:15The Table Trick.
06:16How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
06:18-"Of course, if I want the loathing to nine,
06:19I could still be done in time to lay in bed,
06:21stare at the ceiling, and slip slowly into madness.
06:25But what would I wear?"
06:27There are some famous bits of trivia regarding this film,
06:30including Jim Carrey's intense hatred of the makeup process,
06:33and the famously improvised table trick.
06:36To refresh your memory,
06:37Carrey pulls the tablecloth, but everything on top remains on the table.
06:41This wasn't supposed to happen,
06:43so Carrey rushes back into the frame and scatters everything to the ground.
06:56We don't know where this rumor came from, but it's not true.
06:59If you look at the script, the joke is described in detail,
07:03including the comedic beat before the Grinch runs back into frame.
07:06Granted, it says he kicks the table over,
07:08whereas Carrey scatters everything, so there was a bit of improv.
07:12But the tablecloth trick was absolutely supposed to happen.
07:15-"It's not a dress, it's a kilt!
07:19Sicko!"
07:22Number 3.
07:23The Famous Blood Rub.
07:25Django Unchained.
07:26-"Hey! Don't lay your palm flat on that tabletop!"
07:30Leo stunned audiences by playing Calvin Candy,
07:33the unhinged plantation owner who is in possession of Django's wife, Hildy.
07:36In what is probably the movie's most famous scene,
07:39Calvin cuts his hand on a piece of glass,
07:41and proceeds to rub his blood all over Hildy's face.
07:45And herein comes a very famous bit of movie lore,
07:48with many people believing that Leo cut his hand and improvised the blood rub.
07:52-"Now! What's it gonna be, doc? Huh? What's it gonna be?"
07:57It's true that Leo cut his hand,
07:59but not that he smeared his blood on another actor's face.
08:02-"Gross."
08:03They actually cut, cleaned him up,
08:05and created some fake blood so they could proceed with the scene
08:07without breaking a million health and safety laws.
08:10-"So every moment after that moment in the movie, we shot twice.
08:13We would shoot completely bloody, with him touching my face with fake blood.
08:18And then we had to take everything off and shoot it again totally clean,
08:21because he just wanted to have the option in the edit of blood or no blood."
08:24Number 2. Luke, I Am Your Father.
08:26Star Wars Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back.
08:29-"You've only begun to discover your power.
08:33Join me, and I will complete your training."
08:36Behold! The most famous Mandela effect in movie history.
08:40For whatever reason, be it flawed memory or countless pop culture parodies
08:44that get it slightly wrong,
08:45many people are of the opinion that Darth Vader says,
08:48Or at least,
08:51Only, Darth Vader does not, and has never said Luke.
08:59The line is simply,
09:01in reference to Luke claiming that Darth Vader killed his dad.
09:04It's funny how these things happen, but happen they do.
09:07And when they get in there, it's hard to get them out.
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09:29Number 1. The Hospital Explosion, The Dark Knight.
09:32-"Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets."
09:37It's perhaps the coolest bit of movie trivia ever.
09:40You all know the story. The pyrotechnics were not working properly,
09:43so Heath Ledger improvised the bit where he raises his arms in befuddlement and smacks on
09:47the detonator. We would all love for this to be true, but as it's on this list and in the
09:52number one spot, you know we're about to break your hearts.
09:55-"You know, I don't want there to be any hard feelings between us, Harvey."
10:00Alas, every second of this sequence was meticulously planned and choreographed.
10:05The so-called failed detonation, the Joker's befuddlement, the smacking of the detonator,
10:10all of it was planned, and all of it was endlessly rehearsed. Still a great sequence, though.
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