Best movie trivia of 2006

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Trivia: At the time of the filming, the St. Charles Streetcars were not running 100%. When they show the Canal St Car, one sense that shows the car running on the right side tracks toward the camera, it's actually on the wrong side. Later when he's going to her apartment, one shot shows the streetcar running on the right side tracks (as the norm), and the trolley poles are up. Later when he gets off the car, it's on the opposite side, wrong direction, rear pole is down, and he gets out through the rear door as if it was main door.

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Trivia: Included in the film's soundtrack are the songs from performers/composers who have themselves committed suicide, such as Joe Meek and Rozz Williams.

Super Grover

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Trivia: When one of the men is pulled down by a sheep whilst trying to get into a car during the sheep attack on Angus' speech, he yells the Wilhelm scream.

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Trivia: When Edward is being fired from the hospital, there's a photo on the wall. It's H.P. Lovecraft, who wrote the original short story.

Brian Katcher

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Trivia: Although Adrian Brody was officially the star of "Hollywoodland," his character (private detective Louis Simo) was a completely fictional role in the movie. Virtually all of the other characters in the film are based on real people, but there never was a Louis Simo, and he's not based on any actual person (s). George Reeves' mother did hire an attorney and a detective agency in real life; however, "Hollywoodland" director Allen Coulter said that the character of Louis Simo wasn't even partially based on anyone in real life.

Charles Austin Miller

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Trivia: This low budget movie was marketed in some territories as "Van Helsing II." The DVD box was also designed to emulate the cover-art for the 2004 film "Van Helsing" starring Hugh Jackman, in an attempt to fool people into believing this film was related.

TedStixon

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Trivia: Shyamalan based the film on a story he told his children. This aspect of the production was questioned frequently, with one critic saying that if Shyamalan based his films on kid stories, he should go make films for Nickelodeon. Ironically enough, 4 years later he released "The Last Airbender" for Nickelodeon, which was considered to be one of the worst films ever released.

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Trivia: There are many places to see references to the show The Dukes of Hazzard in this movie. For one, when Danny is playing Hold 'Em with her friends, her hat is a General Lee hat and the box they put their money in is a Dukes of Hazzard lunch box. Another is that when Danny is talking her mom into money, on the fridge there is the famous picture taken of the very first jump made by the General Lee.

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Trivia: Kane Hodder, famous for playing Jason Voorhees in the majority of the Friday the 13th series makes a cameo near the beginning of the film as a man outside his house refusing to answer questions from the interviewer.

oddy knocky

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Trivia: A total of 500 boys auditioned for the lead role of Alex Rider.

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Trivia: The movie is based on a true story. Dieter Dengler was born in Germany just before WWII, and eventually left for the US. He told this story in the book "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" and a 1997 film (Werner Herzog) with the same same.

Airborne60

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Trivia: Penelope Cruz received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as Raimunda, making her the first Spanish woman ever to be nominated in that category.

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Trivia: Blaine is given a small bear which he carries as a good luck charm. This is a reference to the 1927 movie Wings, the first ever film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, in which a pilot also carries a small bear as a good luck charm.

Jedd Jong

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Trivia: The plot of the movie is based on a 1934 play Thunderstorm by Yu Cao, a Chinese playwright, set in the 10th-century imperial China court. The Mandarin Chinese movie title is taken from the last line of a poem by a 9th-century rebel leader who was at war against the Tang Dynasty.

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