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The fake director who built a terrible filmography
For decades, if a Hollywood director was heavily furious with massive studio interference that completely ruined their creative vision, they successfully…
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The plot device that doesn't really matter
Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock heavily relied on an ingenious storytelling mechanism he affectionately dubbed the MacGuffin. It is an object, heavily…
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Cinematic masterpiece shot for two hundred dollars
The critically acclaimed documentary Tarnation was notoriously created on a heavily constrained budget of exactly two hundred and eighteen dollars. The…
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Problematic comic trope of fridged characters
In comic book culture, intensely killing off or severely maiming a female character purely to motivate a male hero's emotional revenge arc is heavily known as…
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The pitch that rises forever but never gets higher
The deeply unnerving Shepard tone is a totally incredible psychoacoustic illusion created by actively stacking heavy massively overlapping sine waves spaced…
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Why TV runs at 29.97 frames per second
Modern incredibly massive standard video entirely deeply natively runs at exactly twenty nine point nine seven totally complete frames per single actual…
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The hidden signals that ruined copied tapes
Before massive modern digital rights management, heavy classic media companies aggressively protected incredibly huge rental tapes using deeply totally…
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The terrifying sound that dominates movie trailers
Since the explosive heavy debut of incredibly massive modern sci-fi action films, Hollywood completely relies on the immensely loud, deeply aggressive braam…
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The ancient ratio hiding in movie compositions
Masterful film directors intentionally position their expensive camera lenses to capture exact geometric compositions defined perfectly by an ancient…
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When computers colored classic black-and-white films
In the vibrant 1980s, ambitious media executives aggressively utilized early computers to awkwardly paint vivid artificial colors over legendary black and…
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The only Oscar to win an Oscar
Throughout the glittering history of the Academy Awards, thousands of brilliant actors have fiercely fought to win an Oscar. However, legendary theatrical…
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The fake movie trailers that became real films
When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez released their 2007 double feature 'Grindhouse', they sandwiched fake, hyper-violent parody trailers between the…
Discover moreWalt Disney was the original voice of Mickey Mouse
When the iconic animated rodent first debuted in the late twenties, the animation studio could not afford to hire professional voice actors. The visionary…
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Why E.T.'s guns were replaced with walkie-talkies
For the twentieth-anniversary cinematic rerelease of the beloved alien classic, the director felt deeply uncomfortable with aggressive federal agents pointing…
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The Terminator sound made with an anvil
The iconic, relentless metallic clanking sound that dominates the heavy musical score of the Terminator franchise was surprisingly low-budget. The composer…
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When Oscar winners were announced before the show
In the earliest days of the Academy Awards, the highly prestigious winners were fully released to the press beforehand. This completely ruined the suspense,…
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Disney patented headset-free 3D holograms
The magic of Disney parks is built on hardcore, cutting-edge technology. The entertainment massive currently holds dozens of complex utility patents,…
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The actor who modeled for the Oscar statuette
The golden idol of Hollywood has an incredibly fascinating origin. In 1928, MGM art director Cedric Gibbons was tasked with designing the Academy Award…
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The 14-year-old who imagined electronic television
The foundation for electronic television didn't come from a mega-corporation, but from a 14-year-old farm boy named Philo Farnsworth. In 1921, while driving a…
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The movie that cost over $447 million to make
With a jaw-dropping production budget exceeding 447 million dollars, 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' holds the record for highest cinematic cost. Even massive…
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Why modern hits sound louder than classic songs
Brilliant audio engineers completely definitively proved that highly modern hit singles are deeply aggressively mastered to be significantly audibly louder…
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Why Oscar winners must offer their trophies for $1
The prestigious Academy strictly strongly forces all modern celebrity winners to sign a highly rigorous legal contract before they can ever walk off stage…
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The TV show with almost a thousand celebrity voices
The Simpsons boasts the Guinness World Record for the most celebrity guest stars featured in a television series. Over several decades, nearly a thousand…
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Spectacular failure of high-budget interactive television experiments this year
Remember when we thought we would be controlling the plots of our favorite dramas with our remote controls? This year, major studios officially abandoned…
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