You Probably Missed These Glaring Mistakes in Your Favorite Films

The Aviator

"I want ten chocolate chip cookies!" says Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator. "Medium chips. None too close to the outside." An interesting request, not only due to its specificity. The chocolate chip cookie wasn't introduced until 1930—two years after the film was set to take place.

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The More You Know

  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
  • The skeletons in "Poltergeist" are not props. They are real human skeletons.
  • Orson Welles directed much of Citizen Kane from a wheelchair, after injuring himself on set.
  • John Travolta would have played Maverick in Top Gun if his asking price wasn't too high.
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