What false movie facts, trivia, or behind-the-scenes stories are you sick of hearing about?

All too often I'll be reading a film article, or a comment, or a reddit post, only to see people touting a completely false 'fact' as 100% true. It grinds my gears that people are reading these and believing these myths as facts. Are there any incorrect pieces of movie trivia that you would like to complain about? For example, I have two that I'm sick of reading about:

#1 is "Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight improvised the little scene when the hospital stopped exploding." I can get why people might think this, Heath was a great actor and totally sold the confused body language, but a whole lot of behind-the-scenes footage, testimony, etc clearly show Ledger practicing the scene. It was pretty much a "we've only got one take of this, so you have to get it right," situation. They wouldn't leave a multi million dollar pyrotechnic extravaganza like that up to chance.

#2 is "In Pulp Fiction all the clocks are set to 4:20." This one is utterly baffling, as there are a lot of shots of clocks and watches throughout the movie and the only scene where they actually read 4:20 is when Butch is in the backroom of the pawn shop and a wall full of clocks are behind him. I think what makes this worse is people who tell this trivia keep saying "Check it!" in a really smug way. Well yes, I did check it, actually, thank you for asking.

Submitted June 29, 2021 at 05:01AM by evilengine https://ift.tt/3jrsaUW