[Fok Movie Trivia]-Oktober 2013-Deel 1

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Original composer John Barry left the film because he found it impossible to understand what wanted from the score, citing a meeting where the director described his ideal score as "sounding like you're walking in the desert and you see a cactus, and you put your foot on it, but it just starts growing up through your foot."

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Some were concerned that when this film was released it would help propel , then a popular political figure, into the presidency. "Newsweek" magazine had a cover story about it. In fact, 's presidential aspirations went nowhere.

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"Beeman's" is the lucky gum of pilots. See also The Rocketeer.

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The gum, Beeman's, is a pepsin flavored gum (the same flavor as candy cigarettes) and is still available for purchase online.

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Op donderdag 3 oktober 2013 13:38 schreef voodoo113 het volgende:
Die smilie lijkt een sigaar in zn knakker te hebben en dan kom ik niet verder dan The A Team! Alleen dat semen sample he

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The film eschewed the use of visual effects done in the lab. The decision was made to use methods pioneered by Republic Pictures special effects team Howard & Theodore Lydecker, and used in such Republic theatrical serials as "Radar Men of the Moon" and "Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe.". The shots of the Bell X-1 were accomplished using a model 'flown' on a long wire rapidly passing by the camera utilizing a natural sky background enhanced by clouds created using special chemicals. The use of the model can be seen when the plane banks and turns as the flaps never move.

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Parachute stuntman Joseph Leonard Svec was killed in an accident while filming the scene where loses control of an experimental aircraft and bails out. Svec's helmet filled with smoke and he lost consciousness. He never pulled his ripcord and died on impact. During the real-life bailout this scene represented, collided with his ejection seat, breaking open the face-shield of his helmet. Molten explosive materials struck in the face, burning him severely and likewise filling his helmet with smoke.

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Op donderdag 3 oktober 2013 14:17 schreef Asap het volgende:
Firefox?

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In the cookout scene at Edwards AFB, is seen playing catch with his son. 's real life nephew, Steve, played Major League baseball as a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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To create the space uniforms for the Mercury astronauts, the costume designers used silver fabrics and other materials left over from costumes for singer/actress Cher.

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The mysterious "fireflies" observed by on his first orbital flight were actually tiny flakes of frost illuminated by sunlight. As the spacecraft orbited into darkness behind the Earth, the sub-zero temperatures caused condensation on its skin to freeze. When warmed by the sun on the other side of the orbit, the temperature change caused some of this frost layer to break free and to be illuminated by the sun. This was confirmed by on the next Mercury flight when he banged on the craft's side, causing more of the flakes to break free and become visible.

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In the film, Alan Shepard says "Louise, I'm going to the moon, I swear to God. I'm on my way". Of the Mercury Seven, Shepard was the only one that did go there, on Apollo 14, becoming the fifth person to walk on the moon.

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The B-29 mother ship for the Chuck Yeager/X-1 scenes was played by the Commemorative Air Force's "FIFI," the only B-29 in flyable condition. She was painted up to match the actual mother ship used in the late 40's, complete with a dark under-belly so she would be more visible to ground personnel tracking her in the Mojave sky, and "stork delivering a baby" nose art. She appeared again, in the same paint job and nose art, in the Disney movie The Last Flight of Noah's Ark. In the early 90's she went back to Boeing in Everett, WA, where she received a complete overhaul, new windows, doors and seals, and a fresh new paint job better matched to her role as a WWII bomber. FIFI is still flying today.

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While filming the lung-capacity sequence - in which the seven original Mercury astronauts need to blow into individual tubes to keep toy balls suspended in a beaker and end up in a competition of physical stamina - the seven actors portraying the astronauts actually competed with each other for the same reason. Gordon Cooper was third, John Glenn was second and Scott Carpenter won (in the movie). In reality, Gordon Cooper - the astronaut portrayed by Quaid - was the only non-smoker among the seven original astronauts, and therefore possessed a far-greater lung capacity than any of the others.

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Op donderdag 3 oktober 2013 17:53 schreef Burnett het volgende:
The Right Stuff

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Op donderdag 3 oktober 2013 21:03 schreef dyonvbaal het volgende:
omdat je em aan het kijken bent zeg ik maar I am number four. Maar ik kan me daar geen motoren in herinneren (al heb ik al een lange tijd geleden gekeken)

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Op donderdag 3 oktober 2013 21:28 schreef blimmel het volgende:
Volgens mij is dat Ewan McGregor...
En ik zie een strand...

The Impossible?

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Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission.

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Op donderdag 3 oktober 2013 23:13 schreef Michelangelo2 het volgende:
Bolbliksem