- Sergio Leone was the first director to use the term “Cinema Cinema” aka “Movie Movie”, which was later used by QT top describe the post modern movie universe.
- Brian DePalma was originally going to shoot Taxi Driver, but gave the script to his pal Martin Scorsese instead.
- When Stephen King went to see a private screening of Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me (based on his short story, The Body whose main character Gordy LaChance is based on King as a kid) he was so emotional from the similarities to his own life (his childhood friends), he sat alone in the theater for 30 minutes after the film was over.
- Takashi Miike worked as an asst on the Japanese set of Ridley Scott’s yakuza film Black Rain.
- In Scorsese’s 1983 film King of Comedy you can spot Morrie from GoodFellas in a booth in a Chinese Restaraunt making fun of Rupert Pupkin (DeNiro).
- In King of Comedy, the girl Rita (Dianne Abbott) Rupert is dating was the girl who threatens to call the cops on him when he hits on her in the porno theater in Taxi Driver. DeNiro was also married to her in real life.
- During the making of Apocalypse Now, actors Sam Bottoms and Lawrence Fishburne actually did do drugs (pot/LSD).
- In Days of Thunder, one of the actresses actually calls Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) Tom!
- In the action film Commando, Sully’s car flips over and the side is crushed. After Matrix (Arnold) kills Sully and flips the car back over he drives off and the side of the car is not dented and shiny.
- In Scarface you can see Director Brian DePalma’s reflection in one of the mirrors in the Babylon Club right before two hitmen try to kill Tony.
- In the film Duel, you can see Director Steven Spielberg in a reflection of the phone booth at a gas station and you can see him sitting in the backseat of Dennis Weaver’s car if you look in the rear view mirror near the end of the film.
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