Let’s Get Weird! Cinematic Oddities
Tom Jolliffe looks at the weird wonders of cinema…
There are pretty standard films when it comes to cinema. It could be straight horror (masked killer stalks teens) or
Die Hard formula (terrorists take over something, everyman hero stops them). Sometimes a film lowdown tells you everything you need to know about what you’re about to watch. To an extent this brings comfort to cinema goers. Look at the Top 100 highest grossing films and you’d be hard pressed to find anything hugely unconventional.
Of course you can have alien characters in strange alien worlds, but it’s still told in a conventional way.
Let s Get Weird! Cinematic Oddities
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The Greatest Movie Scenes That Almost Never Happened
The Greatest Movie Scenes That Almost Never Happened
By Sam Scott/Dec. 10, 2020 12:27 pm EDT/Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 11:31 am EDT
A lot of us like to think movies spring fully formed from the imaginations of great filmmakers. If not that, maybe you enjoy the thought that it s the results of filmmakers working their hardest to reshape reality around their visions.
But the truth is, every movie requires so many people and resources to get funded, made, edited, and released that it s almost a miracle any of them ever reach the screen at all. There are so many variables at play that many of the best moments in the best movies are the result of random chance, or they re one random event away from never happening at all. Sometimes an actor comes up with the perfect line in the middle of filming. Sometimes a producer steps in at the last minute to make a suggestion. Sometimes circumstances beyond the filmmakers control force them t