Shooting bloopers
For the filming of a good movie is always involved numerous consultants, and in the crew there are people responsible for ensuring that the frame does not get anything unnecessary – especially in historic films. But to keep track of everything is sometimes very difficult, and even in the big blockbusters appear wild bloopers. In “Braveheart” by Mel Gibson, there is an awful lot of it. First of all, in the film, you can easily discern dozens of warriors with rubber axes and sword blades, swaying in the wind. There are many shots where someone from the crew happens to be in the frame. But the strangest thing is the insistent appearance of a white Ford car in the background of the film.
The fictional becomes real
Sometimes entire neighborhoods are blocked off for the sake of filming, but even so it’s not easy to distinguish between numerous extras and real people. Sometimes it causes a lot of inconvenience, but sometimes it only goes to the benefit of all. For example, on the set of the film “Leon” by Luc Besson, the extras managed to detain a real criminal.
It was because after the robbery he decided to run away quietly, but ran into a group of police officers, to whom he immediately rushed to surrender. What was his surprise when it turned out to be actors dressed as policemen, who immediately called the real law enforcement officers.
Titanic
If Gibson in “Braveheart” screwed up numerous representatives of the crew, then in the legendary “Titanic” enough bloopers from James Cameron himself, who acted here and the author of the script. For example, at one point the main character Jack Dawson talks about his fishing trip on Lake Wissota. This man-made lake did not appear until 1917, while the film takes place in 1912. A little later, Jack promises to take Rose on a roller coaster ride on the pier in Santa Monica. The pier itself, of course, appeared in 1909, but the slides weren’t built there until 1916. To this we can also add Jack’s hair and his out-of-time fancy clothes and backpack.
Jurassic Park
Sometimes filmmakers get so caught up in something big that they just don’t pay attention to the little things. In “Jurassic Park” you can find a lot of bloopers. Here and changing colors, characters disappearing from the frame, the wildest inscriptions on tubes, and the like. But the funniest moment in the film comes in the episode when programmer Danny Nedry sort of communicates with his assistant via video link. On the one hand, Spielberg anticipates Skype here; on the other hand, it’s not hard to see a window with a running timing slider at the bottom as well. In other words, the actor just runs a video file in the media player and pretends to talk to it.
Mom on the set
Mishaps in the movies are very different, and not only on the set, but also outside of them. And some also happen because of the many rules that everyone in Hollywood needs to follow. Here the story of actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s appearance in the movies is illustrative.
He came to the audition for the company of a couple of buddies, but he was noticed and called to the comedy “SuperPerts” for the role of a very colorful character with a telling nickname McLovin. One trouble, Mintz-Plasse was still quite young, and by law on the set he had to be accompanied by his mother, including during erotic scenes. The latter was awkward for both mother and son – because Christopher had to be almost naked to portray sex. The actor still calls those days some of the most embarrassing in his life.