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The original plan was to cut to a trick shot by a professional pool player. But MTM ended up making the shot for reals. I love the genuine expression of shock on her face, and that both actors managed to stay in character, professionals that they were. | ||
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Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained smashing a glass with his bare hand and bleeding all over the table while still finishing the scene. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Martin Sheen as Capt. Willard in his Saigon hotel room in Apocalypse Now. He was extremely drunk and Coppola filmed him in this state, no script. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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Now and Zen |
“Here’s looking at you, kid.” Humphrey Bogart in ‘Casablanca’. Rutger Hauer’s soliloquy in ‘Blade Runner’. Both are said to be ad-libbed. ___________________________________________________________________________ "....imitate the action of the Tiger." | |||
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This was not in the script but they liked it so much it was kept in the movie: | |||
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Two scenes from John Ford's "Wagon Master" film; 1. the scene where a dog appears and bites Ward Bond's pant leg while he's trying to separate two young fellows who are fighting, and Bond calls out for the sister to blow her horn. 2. The horse fall while Bond is riding along a river bed of sand. I believe he actually hurt his leg with that fall. I suspect there was alot of unscripted stuff that made it into Ford's films. | |||
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The famous cat fight scene in Destry Rides Again was supposedly unscripted. Or unchoreographed. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Not sure if this qualifies but I always thought that was pretty interesting: During the scene where Principal Vernon fakes a punch at John Bender, actor Judd Nelson genuinely believed that actor Paul Gleason was actually going to hit him, which made Nelson's surprised flinching genuine. The punch move was scripted but the reaction was not: at around 1:24 | |||
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The Usual Suspects. The police line-up scene. The actors were laughing and joking around so much, the director was getting upset. The director landed up using it. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
What I liked about that scene was she had the presence to let the moment soak in the audience's applause / laughter before continuing. Very professional. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Val Kilmer ad-libbed this in response to Maverick's "I was inverted".  Harshest Dream, Reality | |||
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Dick Van Dyke was pretty savy too.  Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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James Caan smashing the photographer's camera and the throwing a couple of bills on the ground to pay for it, in the wedding scene in The Godfather | |||
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"My, that's a big one," said by Scorpio to Harry Callahan, regarding Harry's ... revolver. An ad-lib that was left in. "The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke | |||
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Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Fallout breaking his ankle jumping from one rooftop to another and completing the scene. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Would this include Harrison Ford using his gun instead of the sword in Raiders of the lost Ark? __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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R Lee Ermy as Drill Sgt Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, the famous scene where he dresses down the troops wasn't scripted, they filmed him and it was so good they used it and most of his scenes were not scripted and were based on his Marine experinces. | |||
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Oh, totally. I didn't mention it since it's such a well-known trope, but that could be the thumbnail for this thread. Oh, what the heck. We can watch it one more time...  | |||
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By definition, that scene in Raiders does not count. Harrison was not feeling well and suggested shooting the guy to Spielberg and he agreed to try it. Ford didn't just decided on the fly to change it up. Otherwise, the guy wielding the sword would not expect to be shot and act accordingly. | |||
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