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The best part or i would say the most blissful part about making movies is that whether it’s a feature film or a feauturette,some nostalgic moments always come along with them.Every creative process is studded with such great moments.As a cinephile and as an aspiring director here are some facts related with some movies,their actors,directors & writers that i found quite fascinating while i was studying world cinema.1.Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese’s ambigious and artistic venture Taxi Driver became a cult and is considered one of the greatest achievements of world cinema.But do you know what depths Robert De Niro went into just to fit in the role of Travis Bickle?De Niro being a great method actor drove a Taxi for 3 months to know the where abouts & depths of the character he was going to potray.He even has a certified class taxi driver license.Can you imagine? Someone can go to such depths while inacting a role?Well,this shear perfection and brilliance made De Niro what he is today.Robert De Niro,the man who’s now regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time drove a taxi for 3 months just to fit into a character.Even though he already won the best supporting actor Oscar for Godfather 2,before Taxi Driver.He wasn’t at all hesitant about driving a taxi for 3 months.He wasn’t skecptical about his image what normally actors are,and shattered all conventional boundaries to fit into his character.Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in just few days,while he was in the penning process he used to put a loaded gun on his writing desk . In one of his interviews he confessed that the gun almost inspired him to write more swiftly and fluently.In one of his interviews Schrader said-"At the time I wrote it [Taxi Driver], I was in a rather low and bad place," Schrader says. "I had broken with Pauline [Kael], I had broken with my wife, I had broken with the woman I left my wife for, I had broken with the American Film Institute and I was in debt." For several weeks, he drifted around LA, living and sleeping in his car, eating junk food, watching porn. Eventually, when his stomach began to hurt badly, he went to the hospital and discovered he had an ulcer.When I was talking to the nurse, I realised I hadn't spoken to anyone in weeks ... that was when the metaphor of the taxi cab occurred to me. That is what I was: this person in an iron box, a coffin, floating round the city, but seemingly alone." He claims he wrote the script, which he dashed off in under a fortnight, as self-therapy, to "exorcise the evil I felt within me".2.RockyRocky,a flick that’s regarded as one the best sports films of all time and Slyvester Stallone’s best film wasn’t all sunshine and rainbow for Stallone.Stallone almost went bankrupt for pitching the script of Rocky to various production houses.He sold his wife’s jewellery that eventually led to his DIVORCE.Stallone was all alone,and no production house was ready to bag a deal with him because Stallone wanted to play THE LEAD CHARACTER.Production houses wanted his script but not him as an actor.Finally a production house agreed to accept his script and cast him as the lead actor but they didn’t pay him at the initials.The deal was that if the film will earn then only he’ll get paid.One of the most tormenting facts about Rocky is that Stallone had to sell his dog while he was struggling as an actor.But when the shoot began,in the film Rocky’s character had a dog.For that the studio had to hire a trained dog but they didn’t had such huge budget.Stallone then got his dog back from the people he sold it to.The rest is histroy.Yoo Butkus ! ^_^Here’s what Stallone said about Butkus in one of his interviews-“Butkus and I had some lean years together,” said Stallone, recalling the dog whose airfare cost a small fortune. “I kept promising him that if we made the big time, he’d always go first class. “In the original Rocky script,” Stallone he says, “Rocky owned a scruffy ‘fleabag.’“I was surprised that a scruffy animal ‘fleabag,’ trained and for rent to movie companies, did not come cheaply. Since our budget didn’t allow even for a feeble hamster, much less a trained dog, the producers asked if I happened to have a beast of my own. I responded that I had a thing called Butkus, a throwback to the Stone Age. I talked the proposition over with Butkus, who promised to give it his best shot. Unfortunately, a few days before his acting debut he took a nap on a wet carpet and one side of him turned red. We couldn’t use a two-toned beige and red dog, but fortunately he finally came clean.The little puppy joined the Stallone family in 1969. “We got him when he was about six weeks old,” the filmmaker continues. “He was a ferocious-looking little devil and when he ate his security blanket we decided to name him after Dick Butkus, possibly the fiercest football player in history. We became very well acquainted, because in addition to me, there was my wife Sasha and another giant dog, all living in the third tiniest apartment in New York.3.A Clockwork OrangeStanley Kubrick,someone who’s regarded as one of the greatest director of all time.His flick a clockwork orange was banned for about 20 Years.Here are some of the unknown facts about Kubrick’s cinematic brilliance “A Clockwork Orange”KUBRICK ORIGINALLY DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE THE MOVIE.The director first encountered Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange when his Dr. Strangelove co-screenwriter Terry Southern gave him a copy on the set of that film. Southern enjoyed the biting black humor of the book, and thought Kubrick should consider adapting it into a movie. Kubrick allegedly didn't like the book upon first reading because of the Nadsat language Burgess created for the novel. The language, literally translated as the Russian word for "teen" and comprised of Russian and Cockney rhyming slang, confused the eventual director until he revisited the source material after his efforts to make a biopic about Napoleon fell through. Kubrick reportedly began to change his mind when he considered Alex as a Richard III-type character.MALCOLM MCDOWELL WAS KUBRICK'S ONE AND ONLY CHOICE FOR ALEX.Prior to Kubrick taking over the adaptation of A Clockwork Orange (Ken Russell and John Schlesinger were among the directors being considered), Mick Jagger was rumored to be up for the role of Alex, with other members of the Rolling Stones potentially playing Alex's droogs. But when Kubrick joined the project, he only wanted one man to play Alex: Malcolm McDowell. Kubrick had seen the actor in his debut film role in If...., which features similar anti-authoritarian themes and McDowell playing a rebellious and violent teen. McDowell never even had to audition—and if the actor had declined the role, Kubrick allegedly would have dropped the project altogether.MCDOWELL HAD NO IDEA WHO KUBRICK WAS.When offered the part, McDowell mistakenly thought the director was Stanley Kramer, the filmmaker behind movies like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Judgment at Nuremberg. It wasn't until McDowell's friend and If.... director Lindsay Anderson showed him Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey that the actor realized who the director was.KUBRICK'S SCREENPLAY CLOSELY MIRRORED THE BOOK.Kubrick eventually warmed up to the book so much that his screenplay was mostly just dialogue and stage directions grafted from the book itself. A few early drafts of the screenplay actually changed the film's title to "The Ludovico Technique," named after the brainwashing experiment that Alex endures, but Kubrick later changed it back to the book's name. The director and actors hewed so closely to the book that sometimes they wouldn't even use the formal screenplay on set. Instead, they simply carried the novel as a reference for dialogue in the scenes.The screenplay (and the movie) famously do not include a happy ending written and included in British versions of the book at the request of Burgess' publishers. That ending features Alex renouncing his violent past and promising to try to be a good man. Kubrick based his screenplay on the book's American version, which had the happy ending excised altogether.THE MOVIE WAS PRIMARILY SHOT IN EXISTING LOCATIONSKubrick wanted to prove that he could make a low-budget movie after the expensive 2001, so he sought out existing locations. The only stipulation was that they had to be within driving distance from his house outside London. The most famous location was Alex's apartment block, which was shot at the Thamesmead Housing Estate in Southeast London, a housing project built in the late 1960s. The writer's "HOME" was three different locations: the road leading there was outside Munden House in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire; the exterior was shot at a place called The Japanese Garden in Shipton-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire; and the interior wasThe Skybreak House in Radlett, Hertfordshire (the art on the interior walls was all painted by Kubrick's wife, Christiane).The record shop scene was actually shot in the Chelsea Drugstore, a hip London bar frequented by the Rolling Stones and other celebrities in the late '60s and '70s (eagle-eyed viewers might spot the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey on the front of the desk).BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME SETS.There are only three specific scenes that were built as sets: The Korovo Milk Bar, the prison's check-in area, and the bathroom where Alex takes a bath in the writer's HOME were built in an old factory in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Kubrick loved shooting there because it was the closest location to his house.MCDOWELL'S LOVE OF CRICKET HELPED CREATE ALEX'S DROOG COSTUME.Designer Milena Canonero sought to create a skewed near-future society with the costumes for A Clockwork Orange. But Kubrick and Canonero, who would go on to win an Academy Award for costume design on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (plus additional Oscars for Chariots of Fire, Marie Antoinette, and The Grand Budapest Hotel) had trouble pinning down the look of Alex's costume. When McDowell, a cricket fan, came in for a costume fitting with his gear—including protective cup—Kubrick told him to keep them out and incorporate his white shirt and cup into the costume. When McDowell started to dress by putting the jockstrap under his pants, Kubrick told him it'd look better over his pants instead, and the look made it into the final movie.ALEX'S "SINGIN' IN THE RAIN" WAS IMPROVISED.McDowell came up with the idea for his character to sing the Gene Kelly classic. Kubrick thought the film's famously brutal scene, in which Alex and his droogs attack the writer and his wife, was playing flat during rehearsal. To adequately convey the violent nature of the scene and the sinister nature of the character, he asked McDowell to do something outrageous—like dance around. The actor began humming while dancing, then broke out into "Singin' In The Rain." McDowell would go on to say, "And why did I do that? Because [that song is] Hollywood's gift to the world of euphoria. And that's what the character is feeling at the time."A REAL DOCTOR APPEARS IN THE LUDOVICO TECHNIQUE SCENE.For the scene in which Alex is forced to watch horrific footage as aversion therapy, McDowell's eyes were kept open with antique lid locks used for delicate eye surgeries. The doctor administering eye drops was an actual doctor from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. He was supposed to remain offscreen, but Kubrick eventually put him in the scene because McDowell would have been incapable of keeping his eyes open without the drops.MCDOWELL WAS INJURED ANYWAY.Though his eyes were anesthetized, McDowell was forced to endure excruciating pain. The eye clamps were only supposed to be used for patients lying down, but Kubrick insisted that the character be sitting up watching footage for his rehabilitation. McDowell actually sliced his cornea during the scene, forcing the legendary perfectionist Kubrick to cut it short.THE FAST-MOTION SEX SCENE TOOK 28 MINUTES TO SHOOT.Kubrick chose to use fast-motion blur to film the sex scene between Alex and the two women from the record shop in order to ensure that it wouldn't be specifically cited by censors for sexually explicit content. The scene ended up contributing to the film's eventual X rating, not for explicit content, but because the censors feared the technique would be co-opted by actual pornographers who could speed up their films as a loophole to get their films passed by the ratings board.DARTH VADER HAS A SMALL PART IN THE MOVIE.The disabled writer's muscular aide in the film's third act is none other than David Prowse, the former bodybuilder and Mr. Universe contestant who would go on to occupy the Darth Vader suit in the original Star Wars trilogy.The brawny Prowse initially protested the scene where he would have to carry the writer and his wheelchair around a corner and down to a dinner table in a single take. Kubrick had a tendency to do dozens of takes, and Prowse approached him, saying, "Your name is not one-take Kubrick is it, you see?" The crew fell silent and thought Prowse would immediately be fired, but Kubrick simply laughed the comment off and told him he'd be fine. They were able to get the shot in six takes.PING PONG HELPED TRIM THE BUDGET.McDowell recorded the film's voiceovers over two weeks of post-production sessions with Kubrick. To break up sessions that stretched on for hours, the pair would retreat to a ping pong table outside the recording studio to play a few games before heading back to work. Following the two weeks of sessions, McDowell's agent learned the actor was only paid for one week of work. Kubrick's explanation was that the one-week amount was for the work they did. The unpaid week had been spent playing ping pong.KUBRICK PULLED THE MOVIE FROM UK THEATERS BECAUSE OF DEATH THREATS.The press blamed the violent film for a series of alleged copycat break-ins and killings in the UK in the early 1970s, prompting calls for it to be banned. The film remained in theaters and available for distribution until an incident caused Kubrick to request that Warner Brothers pull the movie from UK cinemas.While on the Ireland set of his next film, Barry Lyndon, Kubrick received death threats against him and his family. The perpetrators promised to break into their secluded house outside of London to carry out attacks just like Alex and his droogs do in the film. Distraught, Kubrick kept the studio from publicly showing the movie in the British Isles and Ireland until after his death in 1999.IT GOT A BEST PICTURE NOD DESPITE ITS X RATING.Despite all the controversy, A Clockwork Orange was never pulled from American theaters and was nominated for Best Picture and three other Oscars, including Best Director for Kubrick and Best Adapted Screenplay for his script. The film whiffed on all four categories at the ceremony, but it still earned a place in history. Along with Midnight Cowboy, which won Best Picture in 1970, it's one of only two X-rated films to be nominated for the Oscars' top prize.4.GodfatherGodfather,a film that’s regarded as the greatest achievment of world cinema all around the globe.This is the film that’s most immaculate and so close to perfection.Turned Francis into a legend.A trilogy which got an Oscar nod with it’s every installment that came up.FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA WAS AT RISK OF BEING FIRED DURING PRODUCTION.Francis Ford Coppola (who got the job because of his previous movie, The Rain People) wasn’t the first director Paramount Pictures had in mind for The Godfather. Elia Kazan, Arthur Penn, Richard Brooks, and Costa-Gavras all turned the job down. And after filming began, executives didn’t like the brooding, talky drama that Coppola was shooting.The studio wanted a more salacious gangster movie, so it constantly threatened to fire Coppola (even going so far as to have stand-in directors waiting on set). Coppola was reportedly getting the ax until he shot the scene where Michael kills Sollozzo and McCluskey, which the executives saw and loved.COPPOLA FOUGHT TO KEEP THE FAMOUS LOGO.The studio originally wanted to scrap the now-iconic “puppet strings” logo (which was first created by graphic designer S. Neil Fujita for the novel’s release) with Puzo’s name above the title for the movie release, but Coppola insisted on keeping it because Puzo co-wrote the script with him.HE ALSO FOUGHT TO KEEP THE STORY AS A PERIOD DRAMA.As a cost-cutting measure, Paramount asked Coppola to modernize the script so the action took place in 1972 and to shoot the movie in Kansas Cityas a stand-in for the more expensive New York City. Coppola convinced them to keep the story in a post-World War II New York setting to maintain the integrity of the film.FAMILY DINNERS HELPED EVERYONE GET IN CHARACTER.Coppola held improvisational rehearsal sessions that simply consisted of the main cast sitting down in character for a family meal. The actors couldn’t break character, which Coppola saw as a way for the cast to organically establish the family roles seen in the final film.PARAMOUNT DIDN’T WANT MARLON BRANDO FOR THE ROLE.When Coppola initially mentioned Brando as a possibility for Vito Corleone, the head of Paramount, Charles Bluhdorn, told Coppola the actor would “never appear in a Paramount picture.”The studio pushed the director to cast Laurence Olivier as Vito, before eventually agreeing to pursue Brando under three stringent conditions: 1) Brando had to do a screen test; 2) if cast, Brando would have to do the movie for free; and 3) Brando would have to personally put up a bond to make up for potential losses caused by his infamously bad on-set behavior.Coppola surreptitiously lured the famously cagey Brando into what he called a “makeup test,” which in reality was the screen test the studio demanded. When Coppola showed the studio the test they liked it so much they dropped the second and third stipulations and agreed to let Brando be in the movie.PACINO WASN’T THE FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY MICHAEL, EITHER.The studio wanted Robert Redford or Ryan O’Neal to play Michael Corleone, but Coppola always wanted Al Pacino. Other actors, like Martin Sheen and James Caan (who would go on to play Sonny), screen tested for Michael.ROBERT DE NIRO AUDITIONED FOR SONNY.Robert De Niro auditioned for the role of Sonny, but Coppola thought his personality was too violent for the role. De Niro would later appear as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II, and win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work.COPPOLA LET THE WEDDING PLAY OUT AND SHOT IT GUERILLA-STYLE.To add a sense of reality to the wedding scene (and because he only had two days to shoot it), Coppola had the cast freely act out and improvise in the background. He then shot specific vignettes amongst the action.COPPOLA TOOK ADVANTAGE OF MISTAKES.Lenny Montana, who played Luca Brasi, was a professional wrestler before becoming an actor. He was so nervous delivering his lines to a legend like Brando during the scene in the Godfather’s study that he didn’t give one good take during an entire day’s shoot. Because he didn’t have time to reshoot the scene, Coppola added a new scene of Luca Brasi rehearsing his lines before seeing the Godfather to make Montana’s bad takes seem like Brasi was simply nervous to talk to the Godfather.THE CORLEONE COMPOUND WAS A REAL LOCATION ON STATEN ISLAND.The residence was put up for sale in 2014 for just under $3 million. That’s a price we can probably refuse.THE GODFATHER’S CAT WAS A STRAY.During his daily walks to the set, Coppola would often see a stray cat, and on the day of shooting the scenes in Vito’s study, Coppola took the cat and told Brando to improvise with it. The cat loved Brando so much that it sat in his lap during takes for the whole day.PACINO WAS THE ARCHETYPICAL METHOD ACTOR.He really had his jaw wired shut for the first part of the shoot after his character is punched in the face.THE INFAMOUS HORSE’S HEAD WAS REAL.The horse head in the movie producer’s bed wasn’t a prop. The production got a real horse’s head from a local dog food company.THE “TAKE THE CANNOLI” LINE WAS IMPROVISED.The line in the script only had actor Richard Castellano as Clemenza say “Leave the gun” after the hit on the mobster who ratted on the Corleones. He was inspired to make the addition after Coppola inserted a line in which the character’s wife asks him to buy cannoli for dessert.THERE WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO BE AN INTERMISSION.The 175-minute movie is long by Hollywood standards, and an intermission was going to be included just after the Solozzo/McCluskey shooting scene—but the idea was scrapped because the filmmakers thought it would ruin the momentum and take the audience out of the movie.5.One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s NestNurse Ratched was Louise Fletcher's first major film roleThe actress was selected for the role of the ice-cold nurse ahead of a number of higher profile competitors, including Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury and Geraldine Page. It was her first major role and she won an Oscar for it but... she was last seen as a guest star in Shameless.Psychiatrists have never forgiven the film for what it did to the reputation of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT)Contrary to popular belief, Jack Nicholson didnot undergo ECT during filming but the depiction of the procedure was overly dramatic, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. "Films such as One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest did for ECT what Jaws did for sharks – the depiction of the treatment in that film is completely over the top, with the patient being held down, writhing in pain, as he is electrocuted," a spokesperson for the organisation has said. "This is not what happens. For a start, during ECT the patient is anaesthetised and given a muscle relaxant – which has been the case since the Fifties – to ensure they feel no pain at all. No one is ever forced to have ECT, and when antidepressant medication isn’t working, it can be life-saving." Nicholson over-acting? Surely not!The music accompanying the opening and closing credits was performed on a musical sawJack Nitzsche was nominated for both an Oscar and a Grammy for his work on the soundtrack to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston appears as an extra in the filmThis is not the role for which Anjelica Huston will be remembered – after all, she won an Oscar for her performance for Prizzi's Honor (1986) – but if you look closely when the boat returns to the pier following the fishing trip, there she is in the crowd. For many years, Huston was rumoured to be in a relationship with Jack Nicholson.The title of the novel is derived from a nursery rhymeI confess to having no idea what it all means and nor, I suspect, did Ken Kesey. What I do know is that Chief Bromden quotes these lines from Oliver Goldsmith's tongue-twisting nursery rhyme in the novel after receiving electroshock therapy. They do not, however, make an appearance in the film. Nevertheless, here they are in their entirety:"Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn,Apple seed and apple thorn;Wire, briar, limber lock,Three geese in a flock.One flew east,And one flew west,And one flew over the cuckoo's nest."Indeed.The Swedes love the film more than any other nationNot content with the usual run of, say, a couple of months, the Swedes continued to show One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in cinemas for an astonishing 11 years, from 1976 to 1987. Director Miloš Forman said exactly what any director should say on hearing the news: "I'm absolutely thrilled by that . . . it's wonderful."Many of the extras were real mental health patientsThe film was shot on location at Oregon State Mental Hospital and dozens of the patients at the hospital were drafted in as extras. Somewhat predictably, this didn't always run smoothly and on one infamous occasion a patient jumped out of a third-floor window which had been left open by the film crew. The following day, a waggish newspaper ran the headline: "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest".One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of only three films to win all five major Academy Awards.The author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest never saw the filmAlthough Ken Kesay was initially involved in the film adaptation of his 1962 novel, he left the production after just two weeks and took a law suit out against the film's producers. Kesey's grievances were numerous but most notably he wanted Gene Hackman, not Jack Nicholson, to play Randle McMurphy. The author was also incensed that Chief Bromden (played by Will Sampson) was not the narrator in the film, as he is in the novel. One lovely story goes that Kesey mistakenly stumbled across the film on television many years later, and was enjoying what he saw, but hurriedly switched channels when he realised what he was watching.6.Fight ClubTyler Durden flashes up on screen four times before he is formally introduced to the audience – at the photocopier at the narrator’s work, in the corridor outside the doctor’s office, at the testicular cancer meeting, and as Marla leaves the meeting.Marla Singer’s (Helena Bonham Carter) infamous pillow talk line "I haven’t been f--ked like that since grade school" was originally supposed to be "I want to have your abortion." However Laura Ziskin, president of 20th Century Fox deemed it far too controversial and ordered Fincher to rewrite it. He agreed, but only if he wouldn’t be made to change it again. Ziskin went along with the deal and so, despite finding the new line even more shocking than the first, couldn’t pull it from the film.Contrary to popular belief, Edward Norton’s character is not called Jack. The name comes from a magazine he and Tyler read early on in the film and make references to throughout. Edward Norton’s character doesn’t have a name at all, but is commonly referred to as the narrator.There are several hints throughout the film about the twist at the end. For example, when Tyler and the narrator ride the bus together, only one fare is charged. When Tyler and the narrator get drunk and hit golf balls off the side of cars, although Tyler hits first, the alarm isn’t triggered until the narrator hits. Another, earlier hint occurs when the narrator makes a call to Tyler from a phone box after his apartment is blown up. When the phone rings back, the camera zooms into the handset and a sticker reading ‘No Incoming Calls Allowed’ is visible.In order to look as realistic as possible, Bob’s (Meat Loaf) fat suit was filled with birdseed to replicate sagging flesh. It weighed over 100lbs.Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk was inspired to write Fight Club after he was beaten up on a camping trip for complaining to his neighbours about the noise. When he returned to work the next day with a bruised face, nobody asked him what had happened and instead pretended not to notice. Palahniuk believed the reason behind this was that nobody he worked with was willing to engage with him on a personal level because they simply didn’t care enough.In the scene where the narrator first punches Tyler, Edward Norton was supposed to fake hit Brad Pitt. However, the director took Norton aside and secretly instructed him to deliver a real punch – prompting an equally real reaction from Pitt.In an eary scene, Brad Pitt appears in an advert for Bridgeworth Suites on the narrator's television.After beefing up for his role as a neo-Nazi in American History X, Edward Norton then had to lose almost 20lbs for his role as the narrator, as he believed his character was "wasting away, falling apart."The breath in the cave scene is actually Leonardo DiCaprio’s breath from ‘Titanic’ composited into the shot.7.Good Will Hunting. Sean was based on a combination of Matt Damon’s mum and Ben Affleck’s dad.Apparently, when Robin was handed the scripts, he said: “This is really extraordinary.” He had such an interest in the character that he asked where the inspiration had come from.Matt Damon was fully asleep during a scene when he was in bed with Minnie Driver.Matt poured his entire soul into Good Will Hunting, producing, writing and starring, meaning that he was super-exhausted all the time.Minnie stated: “And it was so quiet and it was so sleepy and we did that scene based around him, like, really being asleep. … I loved that everything worked around that. It’s such a beautiful scene, it’s one of my very favourites.”Matt and Ben won a Oscar for ‘Best Original Screenplay’ for the film but they used a clever tactic to win around voterDue to the amount of improvisation in the film, the script differed from the original product. So, Matt and Ben gave the full, original script to every Oscar voter so they could compare notes whilst watching the film.The iconic bench in the film is now a memorial to Robin WilliamsAfter hearing of Robin Williams’ death on the 11th August 2014, 29-year-old Boston resident Nick Rabchenuk decided to head over to Boston Public Garden to visit the bench and lay flowers in respect of the iconic actor.They both cried on the first day of filming.The reason? Robin Williams and all the other legendary actors involved.Damon stated: “When Gus called ‘action’ and we watched these guys — I mean accomplished actors — do our scene verbatim, we had waited so long for this to happen. I remember just sitting next to Ben and I had tears rolling down my cheeks because I was just so happy and relieved that it was really happening.”One actor was responsible for all the maths.Patrick O’Donnell, who says “Bull****, you didn’t say that” in a bar scene, was actually the man behind the maths equations used in the film. He, alongside John Mighton, created the equations and graphic theorems seen on-screen. Our minds are blownAfter Williams’ death in 2014, the movie was ranked at number 53 in The Hollywood Reporter‍ ’​s 100 Favorite Films list.

The best part or i would say the most blissful part about making movies is that whether it’s a feature film or a feauturette,some nostalgic moments always come along with them.Every creative process is studded with such great moments.As a cinephile and as an aspiring director here are some facts related with some movies,their actors,directors & writers that i found quite fascinating while i was studying world cinema.1.Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese’s ambigious and artistic venture Taxi Driver became a cult and is considered one of the greatest achievements of world cinema.But do you know what depths Robert De Niro went into just to fit in the role of Travis Bickle?De Niro being a great method actor drove a Taxi for 3 months to know the where abouts & depths of the character he was going to potray.He even has a certified class taxi driver license.Can you imagine? Someone can go to such depths while inacting a role?Well,this shear perfection and brilliance made De Niro what he is today.Robert De Niro,the man who’s now regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time drove a taxi for 3 months just to fit into a character.Even though he already won the best supporting actor Oscar for Godfather 2,before Taxi Driver.He wasn’t at all hesitant about driving a taxi for 3 months.He wasn’t skecptical about his image what normally actors are,and shattered all conventional boundaries to fit into his character.Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in just few days,while he was in the penning process he used to put a loaded gun on his writing desk . In one of his interviews he confessed that the gun almost inspired him to write more swiftly and fluently.In one of his interviews Schrader said-"At the time I wrote it [Taxi Driver], I was in a rather low and bad place," Schrader says. "I had broken with Pauline [Kael], I had broken with my wife, I had broken with the woman I left my wife for, I had broken with the American Film Institute and I was in debt." For several weeks, he drifted around LA, living and sleeping in his car, eating junk food, watching porn. Eventually, when his stomach began to hurt badly, he went to the hospital and discovered he had an ulcer.When I was talking to the nurse, I realised I hadn't spoken to anyone in weeks ... that was when the metaphor of the taxi cab occurred to me. That is what I was: this person in an iron box, a coffin, floating round the city, but seemingly alone." He claims he wrote the script, which he dashed off in under a fortnight, as self-therapy, to "exorcise the evil I felt within me".2.RockyRocky,a flick that’s regarded as one the best sports films of all time and Slyvester Stallone’s best film wasn’t all sunshine and rainbow for Stallone.Stallone almost went bankrupt for pitching the script of Rocky to various production houses.He sold his wife’s jewellery that eventually led to his DIVORCE.Stallone was all alone,and no production house was ready to bag a deal with him because Stallone wanted to play THE LEAD CHARACTER.Production houses wanted his script but not him as an actor.Finally a production house agreed to accept his script and cast him as the lead actor but they didn’t pay him at the initials.The deal was that if the film will earn then only he’ll get paid.One of the most tormenting facts about Rocky is that Stallone had to sell his dog while he was struggling as an actor.But when the shoot began,in the film Rocky’s character had a dog.For that the studio had to hire a trained dog but they didn’t had such huge budget.Stallone then got his dog back from the people he sold it to.The rest is histroy.Yoo Butkus ! ^_^Here’s what Stallone said about Butkus in one of his interviews-“Butkus and I had some lean years together,” said Stallone, recalling the dog whose airfare cost a small fortune. “I kept promising him that if we made the big time, he’d always go first class. “In the original Rocky script,” Stallone he says, “Rocky owned a scruffy ‘fleabag.’“I was surprised that a scruffy animal ‘fleabag,’ trained and for rent to movie companies, did not come cheaply. Since our budget didn’t allow even for a feeble hamster, much less a trained dog, the producers asked if I happened to have a beast of my own. I responded that I had a thing called Butkus, a throwback to the Stone Age. I talked the proposition over with Butkus, who promised to give it his best shot. Unfortunately, a few days before his acting debut he took a nap on a wet carpet and one side of him turned red. We couldn’t use a two-toned beige and red dog, but fortunately he finally came clean.The little puppy joined the Stallone family in 1969. “We got him when he was about six weeks old,” the filmmaker continues. “He was a ferocious-looking little devil and when he ate his security blanket we decided to name him after Dick Butkus, possibly the fiercest football player in history. We became very well acquainted, because in addition to me, there was my wife Sasha and another giant dog, all living in the third tiniest apartment in New York.3.A Clockwork OrangeStanley Kubrick,someone who’s regarded as one of the greatest director of all time.His flick a clockwork orange was banned for about 20 Years.Here are some of the unknown facts about Kubrick’s cinematic brilliance “A Clockwork Orange”KUBRICK ORIGINALLY DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE THE MOVIE.The director first encountered Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange when his Dr. Strangelove co-screenwriter Terry Southern gave him a copy on the set of that film. Southern enjoyed the biting black humor of the book, and thought Kubrick should consider adapting it into a movie. Kubrick allegedly didn't like the book upon first reading because of the Nadsat language Burgess created for the novel. The language, literally translated as the Russian word for "teen" and comprised of Russian and Cockney rhyming slang, confused the eventual director until he revisited the source material after his efforts to make a biopic about Napoleon fell through. Kubrick reportedly began to change his mind when he considered Alex as a Richard III-type character.MALCOLM MCDOWELL WAS KUBRICK'S ONE AND ONLY CHOICE FOR ALEX.Prior to Kubrick taking over the adaptation of A Clockwork Orange (Ken Russell and John Schlesinger were among the directors being considered), Mick Jagger was rumored to be up for the role of Alex, with other members of the Rolling Stones potentially playing Alex's droogs. But when Kubrick joined the project, he only wanted one man to play Alex: Malcolm McDowell. Kubrick had seen the actor in his debut film role in If...., which features similar anti-authoritarian themes and McDowell playing a rebellious and violent teen. McDowell never even had to audition—and if the actor had declined the role, Kubrick allegedly would have dropped the project altogether.MCDOWELL HAD NO IDEA WHO KUBRICK WAS.When offered the part, McDowell mistakenly thought the director was Stanley Kramer, the filmmaker behind movies like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Judgment at Nuremberg. It wasn't until McDowell's friend and If.... director Lindsay Anderson showed him Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey that the actor realized who the director was.KUBRICK'S SCREENPLAY CLOSELY MIRRORED THE BOOK.Kubrick eventually warmed up to the book so much that his screenplay was mostly just dialogue and stage directions grafted from the book itself. A few early drafts of the screenplay actually changed the film's title to "The Ludovico Technique," named after the brainwashing experiment that Alex endures, but Kubrick later changed it back to the book's name. The director and actors hewed so closely to the book that sometimes they wouldn't even use the formal screenplay on set. Instead, they simply carried the novel as a reference for dialogue in the scenes.The screenplay (and the movie) famously do not include a happy ending written and included in British versions of the book at the request of Burgess' publishers. That ending features Alex renouncing his violent past and promising to try to be a good man. Kubrick based his screenplay on the book's American version, which had the happy ending excised altogether.THE MOVIE WAS PRIMARILY SHOT IN EXISTING LOCATIONSKubrick wanted to prove that he could make a low-budget movie after the expensive 2001, so he sought out existing locations. The only stipulation was that they had to be within driving distance from his house outside London. The most famous location was Alex's apartment block, which was shot at the Thamesmead Housing Estate in Southeast London, a housing project built in the late 1960s. The writer's "HOME" was three different locations: the road leading there was outside Munden House in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire; the exterior was shot at a place called The Japanese Garden in Shipton-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire; and the interior wasThe Skybreak House in Radlett, Hertfordshire (the art on the interior walls was all painted by Kubrick's wife, Christiane).The record shop scene was actually shot in the Chelsea Drugstore, a hip London bar frequented by the Rolling Stones and other celebrities in the late '60s and '70s (eagle-eyed viewers might spot the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey on the front of the desk).BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME SETS.There are only three specific scenes that were built as sets: The Korovo Milk Bar, the prison's check-in area, and the bathroom where Alex takes a bath in the writer's HOME were built in an old factory in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Kubrick loved shooting there because it was the closest location to his house.MCDOWELL'S LOVE OF CRICKET HELPED CREATE ALEX'S DROOG COSTUME.Designer Milena Canonero sought to create a skewed near-future society with the costumes for A Clockwork Orange. But Kubrick and Canonero, who would go on to win an Academy Award for costume design on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (plus additional Oscars for Chariots of Fire, Marie Antoinette, and The Grand Budapest Hotel) had trouble pinning down the look of Alex's costume. When McDowell, a cricket fan, came in for a costume fitting with his gear—including protective cup—Kubrick told him to keep them out and incorporate his white shirt and cup into the costume. When McDowell started to dress by putting the jockstrap under his pants, Kubrick told him it'd look better over his pants instead, and the look made it into the final movie.ALEX'S "SINGIN' IN THE RAIN" WAS IMPROVISED.McDowell came up with the idea for his character to sing the Gene Kelly classic. Kubrick thought the film's famously brutal scene, in which Alex and his droogs attack the writer and his wife, was playing flat during rehearsal. To adequately convey the violent nature of the scene and the sinister nature of the character, he asked McDowell to do something outrageous—like dance around. The actor began humming while dancing, then broke out into "Singin' In The Rain." McDowell would go on to say, "And why did I do that? Because [that song is] Hollywood's gift to the world of euphoria. And that's what the character is feeling at the time."A REAL DOCTOR APPEARS IN THE LUDOVICO TECHNIQUE SCENE.For the scene in which Alex is forced to watch horrific footage as aversion therapy, McDowell's eyes were kept open with antique lid locks used for delicate eye surgeries. The doctor administering eye drops was an actual doctor from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. He was supposed to remain offscreen, but Kubrick eventually put him in the scene because McDowell would have been incapable of keeping his eyes open without the drops.MCDOWELL WAS INJURED ANYWAY.Though his eyes were anesthetized, McDowell was forced to endure excruciating pain. The eye clamps were only supposed to be used for patients lying down, but Kubrick insisted that the character be sitting up watching footage for his rehabilitation. McDowell actually sliced his cornea during the scene, forcing the legendary perfectionist Kubrick to cut it short.THE FAST-MOTION SEX SCENE TOOK 28 MINUTES TO SHOOT.Kubrick chose to use fast-motion blur to film the sex scene between Alex and the two women from the record shop in order to ensure that it wouldn't be specifically cited by censors for sexually explicit content. The scene ended up contributing to the film's eventual X rating, not for explicit content, but because the censors feared the technique would be co-opted by actual pornographers who could speed up their films as a loophole to get their films passed by the ratings board.DARTH VADER HAS A SMALL PART IN THE MOVIE.The disabled writer's muscular aide in the film's third act is none other than David Prowse, the former bodybuilder and Mr. Universe contestant who would go on to occupy the Darth Vader suit in the original Star Wars trilogy.The brawny Prowse initially protested the scene where he would have to carry the writer and his wheelchair around a corner and down to a dinner table in a single take. Kubrick had a tendency to do dozens of takes, and Prowse approached him, saying, "Your name is not one-take Kubrick is it, you see?" The crew fell silent and thought Prowse would immediately be fired, but Kubrick simply laughed the comment off and told him he'd be fine. They were able to get the shot in six takes.PING PONG HELPED TRIM THE BUDGET.McDowell recorded the film's voiceovers over two weeks of post-production sessions with Kubrick. To break up sessions that stretched on for hours, the pair would retreat to a ping pong table outside the recording studio to play a few games before heading back to work. Following the two weeks of sessions, McDowell's agent learned the actor was only paid for one week of work. Kubrick's explanation was that the one-week amount was for the work they did. The unpaid week had been spent playing ping pong.KUBRICK PULLED THE MOVIE FROM UK THEATERS BECAUSE OF DEATH THREATS.The press blamed the violent film for a series of alleged copycat break-ins and killings in the UK in the early 1970s, prompting calls for it to be banned. The film remained in theaters and available for distribution until an incident caused Kubrick to request that Warner Brothers pull the movie from UK cinemas.While on the Ireland set of his next film, Barry Lyndon, Kubrick received death threats against him and his family. The perpetrators promised to break into their secluded house outside of London to carry out attacks just like Alex and his droogs do in the film. Distraught, Kubrick kept the studio from publicly showing the movie in the British Isles and Ireland until after his death in 1999.IT GOT A BEST PICTURE NOD DESPITE ITS X RATING.Despite all the controversy, A Clockwork Orange was never pulled from American theaters and was nominated for Best Picture and three other Oscars, including Best Director for Kubrick and Best Adapted Screenplay for his script. The film whiffed on all four categories at the ceremony, but it still earned a place in history. Along with Midnight Cowboy, which won Best Picture in 1970, it's one of only two X-rated films to be nominated for the Oscars' top prize.4.GodfatherGodfather,a film that’s regarded as the greatest achievment of world cinema all around the globe.This is the film that’s most immaculate and so close to perfection.Turned Francis into a legend.A trilogy which got an Oscar nod with it’s every installment that came up.FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA WAS AT RISK OF BEING FIRED DURING PRODUCTION.Francis Ford Coppola (who got the job because of his previous movie, The Rain People) wasn’t the first director Paramount Pictures had in mind for The Godfather. Elia Kazan, Arthur Penn, Richard Brooks, and Costa-Gavras all turned the job down. And after filming began, executives didn’t like the brooding, talky drama that Coppola was shooting.The studio wanted a more salacious gangster movie, so it constantly threatened to fire Coppola (even going so far as to have stand-in directors waiting on set). Coppola was reportedly getting the ax until he shot the scene where Michael kills Sollozzo and McCluskey, which the executives saw and loved.COPPOLA FOUGHT TO KEEP THE FAMOUS LOGO.The studio originally wanted to scrap the now-iconic “puppet strings” logo (which was first created by graphic designer S. Neil Fujita for the novel’s release) with Puzo’s name above the title for the movie release, but Coppola insisted on keeping it because Puzo co-wrote the script with him.HE ALSO FOUGHT TO KEEP THE STORY AS A PERIOD DRAMA.As a cost-cutting measure, Paramount asked Coppola to modernize the script so the action took place in 1972 and to shoot the movie in Kansas Cityas a stand-in for the more expensive New York City. Coppola convinced them to keep the story in a post-World War II New York setting to maintain the integrity of the film.FAMILY DINNERS HELPED EVERYONE GET IN CHARACTER.Coppola held improvisational rehearsal sessions that simply consisted of the main cast sitting down in character for a family meal. The actors couldn’t break character, which Coppola saw as a way for the cast to organically establish the family roles seen in the final film.PARAMOUNT DIDN’T WANT MARLON BRANDO FOR THE ROLE.When Coppola initially mentioned Brando as a possibility for Vito Corleone, the head of Paramount, Charles Bluhdorn, told Coppola the actor would “never appear in a Paramount picture.”The studio pushed the director to cast Laurence Olivier as Vito, before eventually agreeing to pursue Brando under three stringent conditions: 1) Brando had to do a screen test; 2) if cast, Brando would have to do the movie for free; and 3) Brando would have to personally put up a bond to make up for potential losses caused by his infamously bad on-set behavior.Coppola surreptitiously lured the famously cagey Brando into what he called a “makeup test,” which in reality was the screen test the studio demanded. When Coppola showed the studio the test they liked it so much they dropped the second and third stipulations and agreed to let Brando be in the movie.PACINO WASN’T THE FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY MICHAEL, EITHER.The studio wanted Robert Redford or Ryan O’Neal to play Michael Corleone, but Coppola always wanted Al Pacino. Other actors, like Martin Sheen and James Caan (who would go on to play Sonny), screen tested for Michael.ROBERT DE NIRO AUDITIONED FOR SONNY.Robert De Niro auditioned for the role of Sonny, but Coppola thought his personality was too violent for the role. De Niro would later appear as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II, and win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work.COPPOLA LET THE WEDDING PLAY OUT AND SHOT IT GUERILLA-STYLE.To add a sense of reality to the wedding scene (and because he only had two days to shoot it), Coppola had the cast freely act out and improvise in the background. He then shot specific vignettes amongst the action.COPPOLA TOOK ADVANTAGE OF MISTAKES.Lenny Montana, who played Luca Brasi, was a professional wrestler before becoming an actor. He was so nervous delivering his lines to a legend like Brando during the scene in the Godfather’s study that he didn’t give one good take during an entire day’s shoot. Because he didn’t have time to reshoot the scene, Coppola added a new scene of Luca Brasi rehearsing his lines before seeing the Godfather to make Montana’s bad takes seem like Brasi was simply nervous to talk to the Godfather.THE CORLEONE COMPOUND WAS A REAL LOCATION ON STATEN ISLAND.The residence was put up for sale in 2014 for just under $3 million. That’s a price we can probably refuse.THE GODFATHER’S CAT WAS A STRAY.During his daily walks to the set, Coppola would often see a stray cat, and on the day of shooting the scenes in Vito’s study, Coppola took the cat and told Brando to improvise with it. The cat loved Brando so much that it sat in his lap during takes for the whole day.PACINO WAS THE ARCHETYPICAL METHOD ACTOR.He really had his jaw wired shut for the first part of the shoot after his character is punched in the face.THE INFAMOUS HORSE’S HEAD WAS REAL.The horse head in the movie producer’s bed wasn’t a prop. The production got a real horse’s head from a local dog food company.THE “TAKE THE CANNOLI” LINE WAS IMPROVISED.The line in the script only had actor Richard Castellano as Clemenza say “Leave the gun” after the hit on the mobster who ratted on the Corleones. He was inspired to make the addition after Coppola inserted a line in which the character’s wife asks him to buy cannoli for dessert.THERE WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO BE AN INTERMISSION.The 175-minute movie is long by Hollywood standards, and an intermission was going to be included just after the Solozzo/McCluskey shooting scene—but the idea was scrapped because the filmmakers thought it would ruin the momentum and take the audience out of the movie.5.One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s NestNurse Ratched was Louise Fletcher's first major film roleThe actress was selected for the role of the ice-cold nurse ahead of a number of higher profile competitors, including Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury and Geraldine Page. It was her first major role and she won an Oscar for it but... she was last seen as a guest star in Shameless.Psychiatrists have never forgiven the film for what it did to the reputation of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT)Contrary to popular belief, Jack Nicholson didnot undergo ECT during filming but the depiction of the procedure was overly dramatic, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. "Films such as One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest did for ECT what Jaws did for sharks – the depiction of the treatment in that film is completely over the top, with the patient being held down, writhing in pain, as he is electrocuted," a spokesperson for the organisation has said. "This is not what happens. For a start, during ECT the patient is anaesthetised and given a muscle relaxant – which has been the case since the Fifties – to ensure they feel no pain at all. No one is ever forced to have ECT, and when antidepressant medication isn’t working, it can be life-saving." Nicholson over-acting? Surely not!The music accompanying the opening and closing credits was performed on a musical sawJack Nitzsche was nominated for both an Oscar and a Grammy for his work on the soundtrack to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston appears as an extra in the filmThis is not the role for which Anjelica Huston will be remembered – after all, she won an Oscar for her performance for Prizzi's Honor (1986) – but if you look closely when the boat returns to the pier following the fishing trip, there she is in the crowd. For many years, Huston was rumoured to be in a relationship with Jack Nicholson.The title of the novel is derived from a nursery rhymeI confess to having no idea what it all means and nor, I suspect, did Ken Kesey. What I do know is that Chief Bromden quotes these lines from Oliver Goldsmith's tongue-twisting nursery rhyme in the novel after receiving electroshock therapy. They do not, however, make an appearance in the film. Nevertheless, here they are in their entirety:"Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn,Apple seed and apple thorn;Wire, briar, limber lock,Three geese in a flock.One flew east,And one flew west,And one flew over the cuckoo's nest."Indeed.The Swedes love the film more than any other nationNot content with the usual run of, say, a couple of months, the Swedes continued to show One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in cinemas for an astonishing 11 years, from 1976 to 1987. Director Miloš Forman said exactly what any director should say on hearing the news: "I'm absolutely thrilled by that . . . it's wonderful."Many of the extras were real mental health patientsThe film was shot on location at Oregon State Mental Hospital and dozens of the patients at the hospital were drafted in as extras. Somewhat predictably, this didn't always run smoothly and on one infamous occasion a patient jumped out of a third-floor window which had been left open by the film crew. The following day, a waggish newspaper ran the headline: "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest".One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of only three films to win all five major Academy Awards.The author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest never saw the filmAlthough Ken Kesay was initially involved in the film adaptation of his 1962 novel, he left the production after just two weeks and took a law suit out against the film's producers. Kesey's grievances were numerous but most notably he wanted Gene Hackman, not Jack Nicholson, to play Randle McMurphy. The author was also incensed that Chief Bromden (played by Will Sampson) was not the narrator in the film, as he is in the novel. One lovely story goes that Kesey mistakenly stumbled across the film on television many years later, and was enjoying what he saw, but hurriedly switched channels when he realised what he was watching.6.Fight ClubTyler Durden flashes up on screen four times before he is formally introduced to the audience – at the photocopier at the narrator’s work, in the corridor outside the doctor’s office, at the testicular cancer meeting, and as Marla leaves the meeting.Marla Singer’s (Helena Bonham Carter) infamous pillow talk line "I haven’t been f--ked like that since grade school" was originally supposed to be "I want to have your abortion." However Laura Ziskin, president of 20th Century Fox deemed it far too controversial and ordered Fincher to rewrite it. He agreed, but only if he wouldn’t be made to change it again. Ziskin went along with the deal and so, despite finding the new line even more shocking than the first, couldn’t pull it from the film.Contrary to popular belief, Edward Norton’s character is not called Jack. The name comes from a magazine he and Tyler read early on in the film and make references to throughout. Edward Norton’s character doesn’t have a name at all, but is commonly referred to as the narrator.There are several hints throughout the film about the twist at the end. For example, when Tyler and the narrator ride the bus together, only one fare is charged. When Tyler and the narrator get drunk and hit golf balls off the side of cars, although Tyler hits first, the alarm isn’t triggered until the narrator hits. Another, earlier hint occurs when the narrator makes a call to Tyler from a phone box after his apartment is blown up. When the phone rings back, the camera zooms into the handset and a sticker reading ‘No Incoming Calls Allowed’ is visible.In order to look as realistic as possible, Bob’s (Meat Loaf) fat suit was filled with birdseed to replicate sagging flesh. It weighed over 100lbs.Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk was inspired to write Fight Club after he was beaten up on a camping trip for complaining to his neighbours about the noise. When he returned to work the next day with a bruised face, nobody asked him what had happened and instead pretended not to notice. Palahniuk believed the reason behind this was that nobody he worked with was willing to engage with him on a personal level because they simply didn’t care enough.In the scene where the narrator first punches Tyler, Edward Norton was supposed to fake hit Brad Pitt. However, the director took Norton aside and secretly instructed him to deliver a real punch – prompting an equally real reaction from Pitt.In an eary scene, Brad Pitt appears in an advert for Bridgeworth Suites on the narrator's television.After beefing up for his role as a neo-Nazi in American History X, Edward Norton then had to lose almost 20lbs for his role as the narrator, as he believed his character was "wasting away, falling apart."The breath in the cave scene is actually Leonardo DiCaprio’s breath from ‘Titanic’ composited into the shot.7.Good Will Hunting. Sean was based on a combination of Matt Damon’s mum and Ben Affleck’s dad.Apparently, when Robin was handed the scripts, he said: “This is really extraordinary.” He had such an interest in the character that he asked where the inspiration had come from.Matt Damon was fully asleep during a scene when he was in bed with Minnie Driver.Matt poured his entire soul into Good Will Hunting, producing, writing and starring, meaning that he was super-exhausted all the time.Minnie stated: “And it was so quiet and it was so sleepy and we did that scene based around him, like, really being asleep. … I loved that everything worked around that. It’s such a beautiful scene, it’s one of my very favourites.”Matt and Ben won a Oscar for ‘Best Original Screenplay’ for the film but they used a clever tactic to win around voterDue to the amount of improvisation in the film, the script differed from the original product. So, Matt and Ben gave the full, original script to every Oscar voter so they could compare notes whilst watching the film.The iconic bench in the film is now a memorial to Robin WilliamsAfter hearing of Robin Williams’ death on the 11th August 2014, 29-year-old Boston resident Nick Rabchenuk decided to head over to Boston Public Garden to visit the bench and lay flowers in respect of the iconic actor.They both cried on the first day of filming.The reason? Robin Williams and all the other legendary actors involved.Damon stated: “When Gus called ‘action’ and we watched these guys — I mean accomplished actors — do our scene verbatim, we had waited so long for this to happen. I remember just sitting next to Ben and I had tears rolling down my cheeks because I was just so happy and relieved that it was really happening.”One actor was responsible for all the maths.Patrick O’Donnell, who says “Bull****, you didn’t say that” in a bar scene, was actually the man behind the maths equations used in the film. He, alongside John Mighton, created the equations and graphic theorems seen on-screen. Our minds are blownAfter Williams’ death in 2014, the movie was ranked at number 53 in The Hollywood Reporter‍ ’​s 100 Favorite Films list.