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Trivia: Anthony Hopkins once reportedly tried to get David Lynch fired, as he felt Lynch didn't understand how to work on a film with the scale and budget of "The Elephant Man," and wasn't professional enough on set, due to his only prior experience being on indie films. Producer Mel Brooks stood up for Lynch and kept him on the project. Regardless of tensions on-set, the film ended up becoming a massive hit and was nominated for numerous awards, including receiving 8 Academy Award nominations.

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Trivia: Roughly 75% of the movie has no spoken dialogue whatsoever due to the main character being a deaf-mute, with the only occasional spoken dialogue coming from other characters.

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Trivia: The Netflix series "Midnight Mass" is based on the book Maddie wrote in this film, making it an odd sort-of spin-off.

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Trivia: The movie was filmed in secret and revealed in 2015, when it was shopped around to distributors. Netflix acquired the movie and released it as a Netflix-exclusive title in 2016. However, it was removed from the service in 2023 once the initial licensing deal expired. Director Mike Flanagan has stated his intention to try and shop the film around for a physical media release on DVD/Blu-Ray in the near future.

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Trivia: With their cameo appearances, Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, and Leigh Whannell are the only actors to appear in all five "Insidious" movies. (Whannell also wrote or co-wrote all five films, including receiving a "story by" credit for this entry.)

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Trivia: The original title was "A Couple of Dicks." (As "dick" was not only an old-time nickname for detectives, but is also obviously a reference to the male reproductive organ and is a common insult.) However, the studio got cold feet and worried the title would get them in trouble, so they decided to change the name to "A Couple of Cops." Director Kevin Smith told them that the new title was a "total cop out." The comment inspired Smith and the studio, who realised "Cop Out" would be a good title.

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Revealing mistake: During "A Man's Gotta Do", when Captain Hammer kneels down and crushes the gizmo on top of the van, you can briefly catch a glimpse of a black safety cable next to his knee.

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Go Fish - S2-E20

Continuity mistake: When Willow is interrogating Jonathan, she makes a comment about how he resented being pushed around. In the first shot, she's facing him. It then cuts to the opposite angle, and she's facing sideways. Then, in the very next shot, she suddenly turns 180 degrees between cuts after walking by him.

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Trivia: During filming, Sarah Michelle Gellar became very close with Michael Gershman, the lead cinematographer of the first five seasons, who became a father figure to her (she was estranged from her real father). They became so close that when Gellar got married in 2002, she asked Gershman to dance with her during the father-daughter dance. When Gershman passed away in 2018, Gellar posted a heartfelt tribute to him on her social media.

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Act I - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Moist asks Dr. Horrible if he needs anything "dampened or made soggy?", the expression on his face changes instantly between cuts.

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Act I - S1-E1

Other mistake: During "My Freeze Ray", there's a shot where Billy, Penny, and several other people open doors to the laundry machines in sequence. When Billy opens the door to his machine, you can see the reflection of everyone else just standing there, waiting for their cue to walk forward.

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Act I - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the very beginning of "My Freeze Ray", as Dr. Horrible is about to set down his basket of laundry, the bottle of detergent sitting on top of his clothing rotates 90 degrees after the scene briefly cuts to Penny.

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Trivia: A sequel went into production after this film came out, with stars Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega returning, and Christopher Landon as director. However, in late 2023, all three left the project. Barrera was fired for pro-Palestine social media posts, which the studio claimed were antisemitic despite her stating they were not intended to be. Ortega then left over a pay dispute. Finally, Landon dropped out, calling the situation a "nightmare." (Presumably due to how actresses were treated.)

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Trivia: Zack Snyder originally intended for the movie to be an R-rated spin-off "Star Wars", but Lucasfilm wasn't interested in his ideas. It was eventually retooled into a stand-alone work.

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Trivia: Director Mark Steven Johnson admitted in a 2023 interview celebrating the film's 20th anniversary that his one big regret was not telling a smaller story. In retrospect, he feels that putting a Daredevil origin story, an Elektra story, court/law-themed story (in the Director's Cut) and a Kingpin story was a little too much for one movie, and some of the material should have been saved for a potential sequel. But as a Daredevil fan, he wanted to put in everything he loved about the comic.

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Trivia: While the logo was introduced a year prior in 2002's "Spider-Man", this is the first film in which the Marvel "flipping pages" logo actually had the flipping pages sound effect added. To this day, 20 years later, that logo and sound effect are still sometimes used in non-MCU Marvel films.

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Trivia: Despite already being very tall at 6'5", Michael Clarke Duncan was often standing on boxes or wearing lift shoes in many of his scenes to add several more inches and make him look almost inhumanly massive. Specific camera angles were also used to make him look larger.

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Trivia: Michael Clarke Duncan was so well-liked in the role of Kingpin that he was asked to reprise the role (in voice-over form) in the 2003 "Spider-Man" animated series on MTV.

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Trivia: Filmmaker and actor Harold Ramis wanted to direct the film as he was a big video game fan and especially a big "Super Mario" fan (even putting a reference to Mario in "Ghostbusters 2"). He took a meeting with the producers but ended up passing on the project, as he had a bad feeling about it.

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Revealing mistake: When Richter's arms get cut off and he falls down the elevator shaft to his death, you can very obviously see the outlines of his real arms inside his shirt when his leather jacket flies up as he falls.

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