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The Shower Scene That Took a Week
Forty-five seconds of film, seven days of shooting, 78 camera setups — and no shot of a knife touching skin.
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The Film That Almost Destroyed Its Studio
Metropolis took 17 months, 30,000 extras and millions of marks. It was a technical miracle and a commercial catastrophe.
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The Shark That Didn't Work
Jaws has one of the most famous monsters in cinema history. It almost never appears on screen — because the monster was broken.
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Nobody Knew How Casablanca Ended
The cast of one of the most quoted films ever made did not know how it would finish. The ending was written while they were shooting it.
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Star Wars Was Built From Junk
The lightsaber is a film projector. The blaster is a radio tower. Chewbacca is a walrus. The sounds of Star Wars came from a junkyard.
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