Whether it's “Lord of the Rings,” “The Dark Knight,” or “Home Alone”—missteps have been made in all of these movies.Image: Watson
Sometimes it's the unplanned scenes that make a scene, or even a movie. Whether it’s an unexpected tear, an animation software bug, or a stuntman’s mishap.
Here you'll find 14 outtakes that appeared in the finished film.
Calvin's cut on his hand in “Django Unchained” was an accident. Leonardo DiCaprio actually cut it open and continued to play the scene even though his hands were bleeding.
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The real reason Heath Ledger kept licking his lips in The Dark Knight was to keep his Joker prosthetics from slipping off. This eventually became a trait of his character.
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Julia Stiles shouldn't have cried when she read this poem from “10 Things I Hate About You.” “The tears weren't intentional. In a way, I knew I was supposed to be a little emotional,” she told Vogue. “but [bei den Dreharbeiten] I didn't expect that I would start crying. I don't know why I did it, if it had anything to do with what was going on at the time, or if I was just blown away by the whole experience of making my first big movie. “
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In How to Train Your Dragon , Toothless' slight hesitation is actually a glitch in the animation software. The animators decided to leave the scene as it was because it fit perfectly.
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While filming the scene in Die Hard where McClane falls down an elevator shaft, the stuntman lost his footing and actually fell. This results in the fall in the movie being much longer and scarier than intended.
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The cat owned by Don Corleone in “The Godfather” did not appear in the script. Director Francis Ford Coppola discovered the stray dog on the set and gave it to Marlon Brando to film. But she nearly ruined a few recordings because she snored so loudly.
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Ben Burtt, the sound designer for the original “Star Wars” films, said he took the microphone from room to room and recorded the iconic lightsaber sound at random. He recorded the sound from an old television. He realized, after some editing, that it fit his vision perfectly.
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In “Titanic,” Jack prepares to paint Rose by laying her down “on the bed…on the sofa.” Originally, this line was just “lay on the couch,” but director Cameron Diaz felt that this slip of the tongue made Jack appear more nervous, so he decided to keep this slip of the tongue in the movie.
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Viggo Mortensen broke two toes when he kicked his helmet while filming The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Because of the pain, he screamed and fell to the ground. However, the scream fit perfectly with Aragorn's emotional pain in the scene and ended up in the movie.
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In fact, Kevin shouldn't have put his hands on his face during his iconic scream in “Home Alone.” Macaulay Culkin did it anyway, and the director thought it was funny, so he decided to keep the move in the movie.
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Rocky had a tiny budget, so most of the people you see in the background aren't extras, just regular people who don't know they're being filmed. The scene where Loki runs through the market and someone offers him an orange was not in the script.
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The scene in Dirty Dancing where Johnny and Baby crawl on each other on the floor was not the original intention of the movie. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray were just warming up before filming, but the director liked the dance so much that he included it in the movie.
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One of the most iconic scenes in The Silence of the Lambs is that of the Doctor. Hannibal Lecter talks to FBI agents about his crimes and starts hissing. Sir Anthony Hopkins happened to make a noise on set and decided to include it in the recording.
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In the scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers where Éowyn stares into the distance, we see a flag being torn from its pole and flying away. While the scene seemed intentional and metaphorical, since it was filmed in a New Zealand valley where there were strong winds, the flag accidentally flew away.
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