{"id":4748,"date":"2015-08-19T08:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T08:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:19:53","slug":"8-things-you-didnt-know-about-your-favourite-90s-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/8-things-you-didnt-know-about-your-favourite-90s-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"8 things you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about your favourite 90s movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 90s gave us some of the greatest films of all time, but some of them hide some pretty surprising secrets. Here&#8217;s 8 things you didn&#8217;t know about some classic 90s films!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7EdQ4FqbhY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Pulp Fiction<\/strong>: <strong>Samuel L Jackson\u2019s Bible speech isn\u2019t actually in the Bible<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>One of the coolest moments in the impossibly cool <em>Pulp Fiction <\/em>is when Samuel L Jackson quotes a passage from the Bible, Ezekiel 25:17, before laying waste to a group of burger-munching lowlifes.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t bother trawling the Bible for the passage, though, because it doesn\u2019t actually exist.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, Quentin Tarantino almost completely made it up. The sections about the righteous man and the shepherd are Tarantino\u2019s own work, although the \u201d\u02dcAnd I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger\u2019 part is nearly right; the Bible actually says \u201d\u02dcAnd I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Jackson delivers the passage with such conviction that a lot of people genuinely believe it is part of the holy book, rather than the work of a screenwriter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bLvqoHBptjg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Forrest Gump: Tom Hanks almost didn\u2019t play Forrest Gump<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine anyone but Tom Hanks playing <em>Forrest Gump <\/em>(he won an Oscar for his performance, after all), but it very nearly didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous actors were considered before Hanks, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/news\/bill-murray-talks-turning-down-forrest-gump-philadelphia-roles-20141010\">Bill Murray<\/a>, John Travolta and Chevy Chase. They all turned it down (a move Travolta now regrets), and the role fell to Hanks. However, Hanks only took the role on the condition the film was historically accurate. Well, as historically accurate about one man changing the course of history can be&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vKQi3bBA1y8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Matrix: So many questions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In the first 45 minutes of <em>The Matrix<\/em>, Keanu Reeves asks 44 questions \u201d\u201c about a question a minute. It is pretty confusing, to be fair.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus fact: Nicolas Cage turned down the role of Neo because of family commitments. How different that film would have been.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wj0I8xVTV18\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Braveheart: William Wallace wasn\u2019t the real Braveheart<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Braveheart <\/em>is widely considered one of the best historical epics of all time, despite the fact most of it is entirely fictional.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, William Wallace\u2019s nickname wasn\u2019t \u201d\u02dcBraveheart\u2019. That honour actually belonged to another Scottish hero, Robert the Bruce.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also suggested that Wallace has an affair with Isabella, Princess of Wales. However, she was only 9 when Wallace was executed. By the time her son Edward III (whom the film suggests Wallace could have fathered) was born, Wallace had been dead for nearly 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The movie goes beyond historical inaccuracy too. One of the Wallace\u2019s most famous quotes, \u201d\u02dcevery man dies \u201d\u201c not every man lives\u2019, was actually something William Wallace said &#8211; except it was William Wallace the 19th century American poet, rather than the Scottish freedom fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Gibson has admitted the film was mostly fictitious, and we\u2019re sure it doesn\u2019t bother him greatly when he looks at the Best Film Oscar on his mantelpiece!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4sj1MT05lAA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Lion King: The Wildebeest stampede took three years to make<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Wildebeest stampede scene in <em>The Lion King <\/em>lasts just over 2 minutes but took 3 years to make. Among other things, a new computer program had to be written just to make sure the animals could run without colliding into each other. Presumably, the animators were fighting back the tears like the rest of us too.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K4qLXp2kX3k\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Home Alone: Joe Pesci was really, really mean to Macaulay Culkin<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Joe Pesci isn\u2019t a renowned method actor like his <em>Goodfellas<\/em> co-star Robert De Niro, but even Bob would admire Pesci\u2019s sterling efforts at being really nasty to <em>Home Alone\u00a0<\/em>co-star Macaulay Culkin.<\/p>\n<p>In order to build distance between the two and make himself scarier, Pesci deliberately avoided Culkin on set. When they eventually did meet, Pesci bit Culkin\u2019s finger so hard that he left a scar (fortunately, that was an accident!).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Pesci kept saying the \u201d\u02dcF\u2019 word too, presumably forgetting he was making a family film instead of <em>Goodfellas. <\/em>Director Chris Columbus encouraged him to use the word \u201d\u02dcfridge\u2019 instead.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mlfn5n-E2WE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Clerks: Kevin Smith actually worked in the store the movie was filmed in <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Clerks <\/em>is the low budget tale of a shop worker slowly driven to frustration by his job. It was Kevin Smith\u2019s breakthrough film, and presumably a nice bit of therapy for him too considering he actually worked in the shop the film was shot in<\/p>\n<p>Yep, Smith balanced filming <em>Clerks<\/em> with his day job in the store. He worked from 6am to 11pm, and then immediately started shooting until around 4am. He\u2019d then get a couple of hours of sleep before going to work again. Oh, and he had to act as Silent Bob too. Luckily, it all paid off and we imagine he never had to work in a grocery store again.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_Hw4bAUj8A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Blair Witch Project: the actors were genuinely put through hell<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>The Blair Witch Project<\/em> may be fictional, but its main actors went through hell to make it look as realistic as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re fairly some employment laws were broken in the making of the film: for one, the poor actors didn\u2019t know what was going to happen at any point. Their reactions during the \u201d\u02dctent shaking\u2019 scene are real, because they genuinely didn\u2019t know the director was going to shake the tent at that point.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, the directors decided to increase tension between the group by giving the actors less and less food. The gang were also pretty much left to their own devices in the woods, leading them to get lost at least 3 times; there\u2019s even a scene in the film where the characters moan about having walked south all day only to end up in the same place.<\/p>\n<p>It paid off, though: filmgoers across the globe were duped, with some people even sending Heather Donahue\u2019s mother condolences for the loss of her daughter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Share your favourite 90s movie facts with us in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Planning to clear out your DVDs? 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