In Sin City(2005), the swords that Miho(portrayed by Devon Aoki) used were actually the same ones used by some of the Crazy 88 in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1(2003). Tarantino had been keeping them at the back of his garage.
To set up the domino scene in James McTeigue's V for Vendetta(2005), it took 4 professional domino assemblers 200 hours to set up the 22,000 dominoes for the 30-second scene.
In the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski(1998), the reason why Donny(portrayed by Steve Buscemi) is constantly being told to "shut the fuck up" by Walter(portrayed by John Goodman) is because his character in the Coen Brothers' previous film Fargo(1996) would not shut the fuck up.
In Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth(2006), it was said that during the fairy-eating scene, Doug Jones(who played the Pale Man) had to bite condoms filled with fake blood.
The set of the Alien nest in James Cameron's Aliens(1986) was kept intact after filming and was later used as the Axis Chemicals Factory set in Tim Burton's Batman(1989).
During the filming of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining(1980), the director was very protective over the young Danny Lloyd(who starred as Danny Torrance) since it was his first acting job. Kubrick even gave Danny the impression that the film they were shooting was a drama and not a horror film. In fact, when Wendy carries Danny away while shouting at Jack in the Colorado Lounge, she is actually carrying a life-size dummy so Lloyd would not have to be in the scene. The young actor only realised the truth several years later, when he was shown a heavily-edited version of the film. He did not see the uncut version of the film until he was 17 - eleven years after he had made it.
During the filming of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained(2012), in the scene where Leonardo DiCaprio's character Calvin Candie smashes the palm of his hand on the dinner table, the actor actually did cut his hand, causing it to bleed. The actor chose to ignore it, stay in character, and continue the scene, which was ultimately used in the film.
On the posters of Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs(1991), the pattern on the back of the Death-Head Hawk moth is not the natural pattern of said moth. It is in fact Salvador Dali's "In Voluptas Mors", a picture of seven naked women made to look like a human skull.
For all of the films in Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy, his main villains(Ras Al Guhl, The Joker and Bane) spend the early part of each film disguised as one of their henchmen with a conversation about each of those villains in those scenes.
In Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight(2008), Bruce Wayne(portrayed by Christian Bale) drives a Lamborghini Murcielago. The Spanish word for "bat" is "murcie
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