10 Behind-The-Scenes Stories That Spoil Classic Movies
On a Muppet Show far, far away...
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain is not only good advice to Dorothy, Toto and their gang of freaks, but for film audiences too. Picking apart what goes into make a major motion picture can dispel all that hard-earned movie magic: space-age sets are revealed to be green screens in warehouses, stunts are done by people who look nothing like the actors. At least some behind-the-scenes stories have been normalised thanks to the addition of making of documentations and paparazzi set photos. We as a film-going audience have just about managed to deal with the fact that Robert Downey Jr doesn't have a working flying robot suit, or that Matt Damon doesn't actually have CIA spy training. There's a certain level of disbelief that can be suspended. It's the silent contract made when we watch movies. At this point, what would actually ruin a film was discovering that the people who made it were total jerks, or the set of a comedy was actually the most intense and stressful place in the world, or that a Muppet cameoed on the very serious Star Wars set. Which are all things that totally happened. Not only that, but famous monsters whose special effect didn't actually work, classic performances done by total imbeciles, and iconic props found in dumpsters all make up the ten behind-the-scenes stories that spoil classic movies.