Category Film
Prague plays Zurich, Glasgow plays Edinburgh and a Czech spa town plays Montenegro. Ten film cities that are really somewhere else, and the reasons film-makers swap them.
The mechanical shark in Jaws barely worked. It sank, corroded and jammed. Forced to hide it, a young Spielberg made the film scarier than any working shark could have been.
No one has heard a real dinosaur. So the sounds in Jurassic Park were built from tortoises, elephants, horses and a Jack Russell terrier. The raptors’ menacing chatter has an X-rated source.
Hitchcock’s Psycho terrified audiences in 1960 with a murder that used chocolate syrup for blood and a melon for the sound of the knife.
One short recording of a man yelling has been dropped into hundreds of films since 1951, from Star Wars to Disney cartoons. Once you know it, you cannot unhear it.
