Saturday, 11 January 2014

Facts about the Hollywood- Professionalism in the History

1. The shooting of ‘Cast Away’ (An American film starring Tom Hanks stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crash) was halted for a year because of the commitment of Tom Hanks.  He was suppose to portray a man stranded on an island and had to lose fifty pounds so that he could look like one.




2. Brad Pitt is banned from entering China because of a role that he played in a movie ‘Seven years In Tibet’. The movie is a 1997 French film based on the 1952 book seven years in Tibet written on the experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during World War 11 and the Chinese PLA’s invasion of Tibet in 1950.




3. James Cameron, a Canadian film director (Films like TITANIC and AVATAR) was a truck driver before he made his way to the film industry. In fact the sketch of Kate Winslet in the film ‘Titanic’ that Leonardo DiCaprio appears to be drawing was drawn by James Cameron himself owning to his professionalism to connect with the reality.




4. The Planet Vulcan shown in the Film ‘Star Trek: the motion Picture’ released by Paramount Pictures in 1979, is actually Yellowstone National Park.  Just to connect it on more real terms, it was chosen with lot of hurdles on it. It is a National Park located in the U.S. state of Wyoming.







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