20. Harrison Ford Was Forced Into Doing The Iconic Gun Scene Due To Illness (Raiders Of The Lost Ark)
Perhaps one of the best known sequences in the Indiana Jones franchise came about as Harrison Ford was suffering from dysentery. Originally Indy was supposed to be involved in an intricately choreographed battle with the Arab swordsman in Raiders Of The Lost Ark but when he was too ill to do it, Spielberg told him to just pull out his gun and shoot him. Harrison has always had luck on his side many of you will know of the story about how his acting career started. Ford (who was a carpenter at the time) had to fill in for a no-show Han Solo and was ultimately offered the role.
19. Qui-Gon Jinn Speaks Through A Gillette Razor (Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace)
One of the reasons Star Wars enjoys such a devoted fan base is because of the incredible levels of details they go into with each and every frame. Whether they're using painstakingly crafted scale models or CGI, everything in the galaxy far, far away has always looked engrossingly authentic. It seems typical of The Phantom Menace as a whole film that one of its props Qui-Gon Jinn's communications device should turn out to be a Gillette Sensor Excel razor. Much like with the aforementioned Myer's mask, still looks good...
18. The Silence Of The Lamb's Poster Contains Nude Women
Silence of the Lambs probably boasts one of the most iconic posters in film history. However, we know much less about the image which appears to have Jodie Foster's character with a Death's-Head Hawk Moth over her lips than we thought. The skull which normally appears on the menacing moth has actually been replaced with Dali's photograph of seven nude women. Another interesting factoid is that most memorable character of the 1991 thriller, Hannibal Lector, only gets 16-minutes on-screen.
17. Clint Eastwood Didn't Wash His Poncho In The Dollars Trilogy
It's no Secret that Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films were shot on a shoe-string budget but surely they could have pushed the boat out and paid for some dry-cleaning? Clint Eastwood is shown wearing the same poncho every time he played the man with no name without ever washing it. A limited wardrobe seems to be a running theme in Eastwood's career as he wore the same boots in Unforgiven (1992) as he did in the series Rawhide (1959). Essentially this footwear book-ended his entire Western career.
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