These machines are self-replicating and, as is found out through the course of the movie, they are quite intelligent and have managed to " evolve " into newer, more dangerous forms, most notably human forms which the real humans in the movie cannot tell apart from other real humans except by trial and error.

In a CNN interview, John Landis said the movie was " based on Chris Miller's real fraternity at Dartmouth ", Alpha Delta Phi.

Carpenter suggested shooting on a movie back lot but Alves nixed that idea " because the texture of a real street is not like a back lot.

For quite some time, he had been planning to direct an epic movie named Megalopolis, a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster, but after the city was hit by the real life disaster of September 11, the project was suddenly seen as being too sensitive.

The film is presented as a BBC television documentary which includes fake television ads for racist products which at the end of the movie are revealed to have been real at some point in the 20th century.

At the BBC, in the 1940s, " everybody would pull his leg ," and Spender described him as having real entertainment value " like, as I say, watching a Charlie Chaplin movie.

In this Hollywood back-story movie, Bogart again is the broken-down man, this time the cynical director-narrator who saves his career by making a star of a flamenco dancer Ava Gardner, modeled on the real life of Rita Hayworth.

In this movie, Marrow is a drug dealer who gets really frustrated when someone calls him by his real name, " Chauncey ," rather than his street name, " Nighttrain.

Earth in the Marvel Universe has all the features of the real one: same countries, same personalities ( politicians, movie stars, etc.

* Octavian, the real name of Gus, the mouse in the 1950 Disney movie Cinderella

First, “ while the Terran Federation in Starship Troopers is specifically stated to be a representative democracy, Ed Neumeier decided to make the government into a fascist state ..... Second, the book was multiracial, but not so the movie: all the non-Anglo characters from the book have been replaced by characters who look like they stepped out of the Aryan edition of GQ ..... Third, there is real element of sadism present in the movie which simply isn't present in the book .”

The argument that the textures achieved with CGI cannot match the way real textures are captured by stop motion also makes it valuable for a handful of movie makers, notably Tim Burton, whose puppet-animated film Corpse Bride was released in 2005.

Following rumors of a Zippy movie project, Griffith devoted dozens of strips to his real and imagined dealings with Hollywood.

As a reference to this episode, during the episode featuring the Itchy & Scratchy movie, Lisa claims that Dustin Hoffman had a cameo in that movie but didn't use his real name.

Carpenter has said that he considers Assault on Precinct 13 to have been his first real film because it was the first movie that he shot on a schedule.

The last couple of minutes of the movie contain animation, as most of the cartoon characters show up in a live-action world to meet the live-action characters ( a combination of live-action and animation ) as they all sing " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah ", and in the last seconds of the movie, the real world is slowly merged into an animated variation as the main protagonists walk off into the sunset.

In the 2010 Disney movie Secretariat, Ron Turcotte ’ s role as Secretariat's jockey is played by Otto Torwarth, a real life jockey himself.

Dark Helmet frequently breaks the fourth wall with Colonel Sandurz, in one scene referring to the actual VHS tape of Spaceballs to find the location of Lone Starr ( note that during the scene, the case design for VHS tape of the movie does not resemble that of the later real video release at all, and the rental shelves are filled with Mel Brooks films, like Blazing Saddles and Silent Movie ).

Brooks, in the role of Yogurt, later says in the film that ' merchandising is where the real money from the movie is made '.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

Her response was, " Wait until I'm dead before you make a movie about my life !".

BRP games in Japanese are Houkago Kaiki Club ( 1997, school life and horror, Hobby Japan ), Genom Seed ( 2004, mutant action, Shinkigensha ) and Taitei no Ken RPG ( 2007, SciFi-jidaigeki, based on movie of the same title, Shinkigensha ).

TNT announced in 2009 that it too would be making a TV movie based on Bixby's life.

The movie was a sympathetic portrayal of Earnhardt's life, but the producers were sued for using the No. 3 logo.

The movie, Bandit Queen, released in 1994, was based on her life.

* Michael Collins is a 1996 movie by Neil Jordan starring Liam Neeson on the life and career of Michael Collins.

In 2004, there was talk of a movie about Chapman's life, to be called Gin and Tonic, by Hippofilms in cooperation with Jim Yoakum.

In 2007 the film Wild Romance premiered in the Netherlands, a movie about Brood's life.

Later, in Woody Allen's comic tribute to Bogart Play It Again, Sam ( 1972 ), Bogart's ghost comes to the aid of Allen's bumbling character, a movie critic with woman troubles and whose " sex life has turned into the ' Petrified Forest '".

In 1984, Helen Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called The Miracle Continues.

His former co-star and movie son, Johnny Sheffield, wrote of him, " I can only say that working with Big John was one of the highlights of my life.

To the end of her life, despite overwhelming evidence that concentration camp occupants had been forced to work on the movie unpaid, Riefenstahl continued to maintain all the film extras survived and that she had met them after the war.

As a boy, he had asthma and couldn't play sports or do any activities with other kids and so his parents and his older brother would often take him to movie theaters ; it was at this stage in his life that he developed passion for cinema.

In Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman, he describes his experience of mania as " the most perfect prescription glasses with which to see the world ... life appears in front of you like an oversized movie screen ".

Behrman indicates early in his memoir that he sees himself not as a person suffering from an uncontrollable disabling illness, but as a director of the movie that is his vivid and emotionally alive life.

In addition to his movie, an independent, feature-length documentary was made about Kurzweil, his life, and his ideas called Transcendent Man.

In South Africa, a movie titled District 9 came out in 2009, an apartheid allegory featuring extraterrestrial life forms, produced by Peter Jackson.

After the emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip of reality and begins to see the recollection of his life in Hollywood from a perspective of a coma-as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion.

Terry Gilliam has dubbed his films Time Bandits, Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as " The Imagination Trilogy ", in that each movie has to do with the imagination of humans in the three stages of life: child, man, older man.

When he sheds his immortal existence, he experiences life for the first time: he bleeds, sees colors for the first time ( the movie up to this point is filmed in a sepia-toned monochrome, except for brief moments when the angels are not present or looking ), tastes food and drinks coffee.