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The genesis for this thread comes from a fact I just read on wikipedia.

Walt Disney, in his lifetime, won 22 Academy Awards. The most Academy awards won by anyone ever.

And here I didn't know he even won once.

For some reason this blew my mind.

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Terence Young's western, RED SUN (1972), was the first time a member of the original Seven Samurai (Toshiro Mifune) and the original Magnificent Seven (Charles Bronson) teamed up in a film together. (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN was the 1960 Hollywood remake of THE SEVEN SAMURAI, 1954.) Later films, like MIDWAY (1976), had cast members from each but they didn't share the screen like they do in RED SUN.

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Frank Sinatra (73 at the time) was originally offered the role of John McClane

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That's because the book DIE HARD was based on, "Nothing Lasts Forever," was a sequel to "The Detective" by the same author (Roderick Thorp) which had been made into an earlier movie, THE DETECTIVE (1968), which starred Sinatra, although the character name was different in the movie (Joe Leland).

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Robin Williams' voice is the only thing in AI that was actually directed by Stanley Kubrick. It was done way before Steven Spielberg was attached to the movie.

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Really?

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Bruce Lee was originally going to play Kane in Kung-Fu but it went to David Carradine, because the studios did not thing an Asian would be popular with American audiences.

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Interesting. After reading the synopsis for this and the follow up novel it's basically a Die Hard prequel. I wouldn't mind seeing this as a remake to put it in line with the rest of the series.

I think the studios got it right....if I was putting up the money for a series back then I wouldn't even consider Lee...and I'm Asian. Lee understood this.

He wasn't even credited in the series. I believe the original concept was more in line with the movie he was trying to make with Stirling Siliphant titled "The Silent Flute"...a sort of East meets West journey to find enlightement with a shitload of violence. This was later made into "Circle of Iron" starring Carradine. It had almost nothing to do with Lee's original concept.

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- Adam West turned down the role of James Bond in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.

- The score for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY was Kubrick's temp track for the movie. He actually had an original score written by composer Alex North, but when it came time to premiere the movie, North was surprised that Kubrick left the temp track in (Kubrick hadn't told him he was keeping it). The two men barely spoke to each other again.

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I don't think that is little known. It's widely known, no?

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Considering it was shown in "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story," I would say yes.

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Yeah, well we all know how you feel about Bruce Lee, Mr. Han

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I said it before and I'll say it again:

It's Caine, not Kane!

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/5/4...4795577_tp.jpg
http://www.veggiedude.com/kungfu/images/kwaichang.jpg


Bruce Lee was never in line to play Kane:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ATx6PC7ss0...son-welles.jpg

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I don't remember who first mentioned this here, but I found it fascinating: Tarkovsky's lavish original version of Stalker was destroyed in a fire, so the gloriously minimalist, cerebral sci-fi film we ended up with was a fluke (Thank Fire).

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Japan made a King Kong movie in the 1930s
http://cdn.denofgeek.us/sites/denofg...-king-kong.jpgi

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It's a little more complicated than that.

I only have my phone right now. So I can't type whole story. Maybe someone else will chime in.

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Wow. It's called.... King Kong Appears in Edo. Came out in 1938, and it either disappeared via carelessness or.... it was destroyed during the bombings in Japan during WWII. Wow. That's crazy shit. Guy who made that suit later helped make the Godzilla suit from 1954. Crazy.

Made w/o the permission of RKO.

Damn. never heard of this thing. Fascinating.

I'm a longtime monster movie and Kong fan and is never heard of it. Fascinating indeed.

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Marlon Brando won the Best Actor Oscar for ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) while three of his male co-stars were nominated for Best Supporting Actor but didn’t win. (Steiger, Malden, Cobb)

Marlon Brando won the Best Actor Oscar for THE GODFATHER (1972) while three of his male co-stars were nominated for Best Supporting Actor but didn’t win. (Duvall, Pacino, Caan)

Both films won Best Picture.

Interesting coincidences: in both years, a black actress was up for Best Actress: Dorothy Dandridge for CARMEN JONES in 1954 and Diana Ross for LADY SINGS THE BLUES in 1972. Neither won and no black actress was nominated in the years in between.
Judy Garland was also up for Best Actress in 1954 (for A STAR IS BORN), but didn't win. Her daughter, Liza Minnelli won for Best Actress in 1972 (for CABARET). Garland had starred in THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) and Diana Ross starred in its remake, THE WIZ (1978).

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[citation needed]

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It happens. Boorman commissioned a score for Excalibur, but ended up keeping the library tracks of Wagner and Orff.

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Yeah. I never heard that about A.I.

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:lol:

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Ooh, the claws are coming out.

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An awesome move. It is the best "soundtrack" of any movie in my opinion. I looked for the Excalibur soundtrack for years before someone informed me it was Wagner and Orff. Arguably the greatest symphonic piece and greatest choral piece ever written in one movie.