Best movie trivia of 2007

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Trivia: The Erzebet character is based very loosely on a real figure from history, Countess Elizabeth Bathory. Bathory was tried in the 1600's for killing numerous women (some claim as many as 600). Eventually, her horrifying crimes led to the creation of the false legend that she would bathe in the blood of those she killed to retain her youth.

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Trivia: A quarter of the way into the credits there is another scene where it is revealed that the Silver Surfer lived.

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Trivia: The magazine read by the guys at the end of the film annoucing the Cock awards, is actually Nuts magazine, a UK mens weekly magazine with a fake cover on it, in some shots you can see the "Pub Ammo" feature that appears at the back of every issue.

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Trivia: Banks and Reuben mention being the few alive on the strip that actually shook Frank Sinatra's hand. Frank Sinatra played Danny Ocean in the original Ocean's 11.

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Trivia: The director and writer of this movie, Quentin Tarantino, also directed both Kill Bill movies. In the scene, where Abby is shopping, we can hear her cell phone ring, the ringtone is famous "Twisted Nerve" from Kill Bill.

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Trivia: After Queen Lilly is dazed after banging the rocks with head to get them out of prison, she hums the first few bars of "A spoon full of Sugar." After Fiona asks if she's alright, she hums a few lines from "My favorite things," both songs made famous by Lilly's voice, Julie Andrews.

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Trivia: Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, who played Emma, was also the voice of Mimzy; her voice was digitally altered and added in post-production.

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Trivia: The fact that the character of Charlie is shown playing the video game "Shadow of the Colossus" was an intentional choice by the filmmakers, who had to get permission from the game's director to include it into the film. It was decided Charlie would play this game based on the symbolism of the gameplay (which involves the destruction of giant "colossi", whose deaths are somewhat similar to the collapse of the twin towers during 9/11, and the fact that the main character is trying to bring someone back from the dead), and how it related to his character .

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Trivia: Using estimated punctuation, contractions, and whether or not numbers are spelled out, the sky banner would have cost the brothers around $103,500. Stripping the criteria down to letters only, it still cost a whopping $79,000.

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Trivia: The actress who plays Debbie is Leslie Mann, and she is the real-life wife of writer/director Judd Apatow. And the two girls who play Debbie's daughters are their daughters in real life. This was done on Apatow's part to make the on-screen family seem more like a real family.

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Trivia: In something of a weird tradition, every main villain in the "Rush Hour" movies dies by falling. Griffin in the original falls to his death from the ceiling of the exhibition. Ricky Tan is kicked out of a casino window to his death in "Rush Hour 2." And Kenji allows himself to fall to his death from the Eiffel Tower in this movie.

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Trivia: The sound effect used when General Stevens looks on the radar screen to show the aircraft moving to bomb Garrison is the same effect used for the scanners in Aliens.

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Trivia: In this film, Hannibal is left-handed, but in "Silence of the Lambs" and the other films with Hannibal in them, he is right-handed.

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Trivia: Ruby Dee was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Mama Lucas, even though she's only on screen for less than 10 minutes.

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Trivia: After Doomsday breaks out, he jumps at the laser drill rig and punches through the driver compartment and rips out the guy inside. When he throws him, this guy cries out in the iconic Wilhelm scream. (00:10:20)

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Trivia: In the DVD commentary, Director Joe Wright reveals a lucky fluke that got caught on camera during the scene just before Robbie (James McAvoy) discovers the school girls massacre. At the point where he removes his helmet, the weather was cloudy. As he looks up the sky, the sun started shining, and then got cloudy again the moment he put his head down.

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Trivia: In the scene where Samuel L. Jackson is speaking to his daughter in her room after the soccer game, there is a photo on the bed of the mother. The photo is of Samuel L. Jackson's real wife, LaTanya Richardson-Jackson. (00:45:30)

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Trivia: Siblings Anonymous features three real brothers of celebrities: Frank Stallone, Roger Clinton, and Stephen Baldwin.

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