Best movie trivia of 2001

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Ali (2001)

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Trivia: James Toney, Michael Bentt, Alfred Cole, Charles Shufford and Damien 'Bolo' Wills who all play opponents of Ali are - or were - real life boxers.

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Trivia: The drummer of Steel Dragon was played by Jason Bonham, son of John Bonham, the late drummer of Led Zeppelin.

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Trivia: Although filmed in New York, director Wes Anderson didn't want to include any of the city's landmarks, particularly its famous skyline. In the scene when Royal and Pagoda meet in the park on the waterfront (Battery Park), Anderson went so far as to place Pagoda so he blocked any view of the Statue of Liberty in the harbor.

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Trivia: In the movie Sand Pirates the villain holds up a gold statue head. It's the same gold statue head that Indy retrieves from the Incan temple in Raiders of the Lost Ark and rumoured to be enshrined in Lucas's living room. The Majestic writer/director Frank Darabont is a close friend of Lucas, writer of Young Indiana Jones, and also rumoured to be writing Indy 4.

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Trivia: One of the footballers for England is called Harpsey. The person who plays him, Terry Kiely, normally plays a footballer, Karl Fletcher, in Sky One's 'Dream Team'.

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Trivia: Mr. Tuttle is also the name of the housekeeper from another haunted-house movie, "The Changeling" (1960).

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Trivia: In the very beginning of the movie, the two brothers are gambling together. They pull the lever on one of the slot machines and two cows come up. Significant because they have an encounter with cows later in the movie.

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Trivia: There is a scene in the movie where Elle is laying in bed watching an episode of General Hospital, depressed that Warner dumped her. In the same scene, Amy, one of the sorority girls, knocks on the door to make sure she is ok. Kimberly McCullough, who plays Amy in the movie, played Robin on General Hospital.

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Trivia: Another indicator that the people weren't real: The little girl runs among some pigeons on the ground and none of the pigeons fly off.

William Bergquist

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Trivia: The scenes with the flying dinosaurs were supposed to be in the original movie, as it was part of the book Jurassic Park, but Spielberg decided not to include this in the first movie due to budget restraints.

Mark English

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Trivia: For personal reasons, Ryan Gosling drank heated Coca-Cola instead of coffee during the interview scene.

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Trivia: The Last Castle was filmed in Nashville Tennessee from March through June of 2001 at an old abandoned prison facility in the northern portion of Nashville.

Larry Koehn

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Trivia: Back when the movie was in the pre-planning stages, the story was supposedly going to revolve around the GS Ball, which Ash and company carried all throughout the Orange Islands and 1/3 of the way through Johto. Evidentally, the GS Ball was going to be finally opened to reveal that Celebi was hidden inside. This may have been the movie's plot had Pokémon Crystal not come out for the GameBoy Color.

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Trivia: The real Leopold, Duke of Albany, died of hemophilia in 1884 at age 31.

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Trivia: When SS is kidnapped in the black van, one of the thugs is thrown out the side door and is shown smashing into a parked car while hanging onto the door. It's an obvious stuntman of-course, but incredibly, its NOT a dummy.

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Trivia: In the scene where Rob Schnider takes the drugs from that guy's bum you hear in the background someone say "That's a huge bitch" just like in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo when he is walking around with the tall woman.

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Trivia: During the sequence with the explorers' huge submarine submerging, one of the computerized "extras" can be seen waving at the camera. (He is seen through the lower window for only a second or two; use frame advance to view it or listen to the Visual Commentary on the DVD for specifics). (00:16:39)

Phil C.

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Trivia: In the final shot, the Creeper's eye looking through one of the holes of dead Darry is Justin Long's eye. (Confirmed on the DVD commentary).

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