This morning, around 7AM, I went for my stroll around the marina.
I noticed a man with a long blade knife running down the dock towards me, dressed in Islamic clothing who shouted, “Allah be praised!” and “Death to America and all Infidels!” when suddenly he tripped and fell into the water.
He was struggling to stay afloat because of the weight of all the explosives he was carrying, and I knew that if he didn’t get help, he would surely drown!
Being a responsible, ethical citizen, and abiding by the moral code that requires a person to get help to those in distress, I contacted the police, the Coast Guard, Homeland Security and even the fire department.
It is now 11AM, the terrorist has drowned, and none of the authorities have responded.
Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar in 1992 for his role as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs – despite his character appearing on screen for just 16 minutes. He is still not the shortest Oscar-worthy performance in movie history. In 1977, Beatrice Straight won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, despite appearing on screen in the movie Network for just five minutes.
The sound of the T-rex’s growl in Jurassic Park is partly made by slowing down the growl of a koala bear.
Before Kate Winslet was offered the role, Gwyneth Paltrow, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, and Reese Witherspoon were all considered to play Rose in Titanic. Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Chris O’Donnell, and Stephen Dorff were all considered for the role of Jack that eventually went to Leonardo di Caprio.
The movie Toy Story 2 was almost deleted from Pixar’s servers before it was completed when a glitch began automatically undoing the computer-generated movie’s code.
When Parasite was named Best Picture at the 2020 Oscars, it became the first non-English-language film to win the award in history.
In the summer of 2023, it was announced that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has so far grossed $30 billion.
Explanation: Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years away, south of bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Wound up spiral arms are pulled out into sweeping tidal tails as NGC 3169 (left) and neighboring NGC 3166 interact gravitationally. Eventually the galaxies will merge into one, a common fate even for bright galaxies in the local universe. Drawn out stellar arcs and plumes are clear indications of the ongoing gravitational interactions across the deep and colorful galaxy group photo. The telescopic frame spans about 20 arc minutes or about 400,000 light-years at the group’s estimated distance, and includes smaller, bluish NGC 3165 to the right. NGC 3169 is also known to shine across the spectrum from radio to X-rays, harboring an active galactic nucleus that is the site of a supermassive black hole.
The climactic chariot race scene in the 1959 adaptation of Ben Hur required 15,000 extras.
The opening scene of The Sound of Music – in which Maria is seen singing in a grassy field high in the Alps – had to be re-shot several times because the downdraft from the helicopter used to film it kept blowing Julie Andrews off her feet.
The “blood” seen being washed down the bathtub plughole in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was actually chocolate sauce.
Psycho was also the first movie in Hollywood history to show a toilet being flushed.
The cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather movies was almost very different: the studio wanted Laurence Olivier to play Vito Corleone (not Marlon Brando) and suggested Robert Redford instead of Al Pacino to play his son Michael.
When his movie career failed to take off as he had hoped, Harrison Ford retrained as a carpenter and was working as such when he was cast in Star Wars.
The Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now was originally planned to take six weeks to shoot. In the end, it took a year and a half.
The puppet shark used in the movie Jaws was nicknamed “Bruce” by the crew.
Inside the model of E.T. in the Steven Spielberg movie was a two feet ten inch stuntman.
