Fun movie factoids

Here are some interesting facts about the films we all know and love....

The horse head is real in the bed in The Godfather. They got it from a glue factory.

From Russia with Love was chosen as the second James Bond novel to be adapted as a film after Kennedy listed it as one of his ten favorite books of all time.

The computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey was called HAL as a tongue-in-cheek reference to IBM. H-A-L precede the letters I-B-M.

To make things easier while mixing the American Graffiti sound track, Lucas and sound designer Walter Murch labeled all of the reels of film R and all of the dialogue tracks D, and then numbered them. When Murch asked Lucas for Reel 2, Dialogue 2 - or more precisely, R2 D2, Lucas liked the way it sounded.

The sight of Clark Gable peeling a raw carrot and then munching on it in It Happened One Night served as inspiration for Warner Brothers animator Bob Clampett to give Bugs Bunny his signature carrot chomp.

The parts of Benjamin Braddock and Mrs. Robinson were originally offered to Robert Redford and Doris Day.

Burt Reynolds was originally casted as Hans Solo, but dropped out before filming.

In Pulp Fiction, the f-bomb is dropped 257 times.

Annie Hall was originally shot as a murder mystery, but during postproduction, Woody Allen realized that the strongest footage was of the relationship between the main characters, so the film was pared down and reedited as a romantic comedy.