The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

Robinson had always had top billing over Bogart in their previous films together but for this movie, Robinson's name appears to the right of Bogart's, but placed a little higher on the posters, and also in the film's opening credits, to indicate Robinson's near-equal status.

Spacey appeared in the 1995 thriller film Seven, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, making a sudden entrance late in the film as the serial killer John Doe, after going unmentioned in the film's advertisements and opening credits.

Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.

The film's graveyard prologue is a recreation of the opening scene from Ed Wood's then-unreleased 1958 film Night of the Ghouls.

The film's opening weekend drew what The Hollywood Reporter dubbed " a dispiriting $ 8. 4 million ".

With the film's opening in October 1954, Kelly was again praised.

The film's plot structure also bears similarity to Orson Welles's Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), particularly the opening scenes with Lawrence's death and the reporter inquiring notables at Lawrence's funeral.

In the film's opening act, Nero's ship emerges in the year 2233, and through its interaction with the inhabitants, inadvertently creates an " alternate, parallel ' Star Trek ' universe ".

It features the opening title song " Reach For The Sun ( Summer Holiday )" ( released as a single to coincide with the film's release ) and a memorable music-fantasy sequence, where the Team perform a cover version of The Cowsills 1967 song " The Rain, The Park & Other Things ".

This image begins the film's opening credit sequence.

As a token of respect, Howard narrated the film's opening montage, which showed various clips from Wayne's long film career.

Still unhappy with the film's length, Harry Cohn intervened ; he cancelled the February 1 opening and edited the film himself.

Philips ' book also asserts that Shaw was not nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award because he demanded that his name follow those of Newman and Redford before the film's opening title.

Following the opening credits, the epigraph states that the film's story is non-factual.

Black media outlets of the time praised the film, but the studio — fearful of a backlash from Southern and white film audiences — ended up cutting out controversial scenes, including the film's opening sequence at a slave auction ( in which a mother is torn away from her baby ).

Weissman also compared many of the film's sets with locations from Chaplin's real childhood such as the statue in the opening scene resembling St. Mark's Church on Kennington Park Road and Chaplin referring to the waterfront set as the Thames Embarkment.

He then shot the film's opening scene of the Little Tramp waking up in a newly unveiled public statue.

Coppola and the editors returned to the cutting room to change the film's narrative structure, but could not complete the work in time, leaving the final scenes poorly timed at the opening.

He abandoned most of this footage ( which included him being chased through the snow by Big Jim, instead of just around the hut as in the final cut ), retaining only the film's opening scene.

After filming the film's opening sequences of the arrival in America, he reshot parts of the restaurant scene to be consistent with the new plot ( bringing Bergman back in a new role as an artist who resolves the subplot of Charlie being unable to pay for dinner ), and added the epilogue in which the Tramp and Purviance are married.

Prolific film scorer John Williams drew inspiration from this film's soundtrack for his famous Star Wars opening theme.

The film's opening credits state that the screenplay was written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler " From the Records of The United States Marine Corps ", and includes many Marine Corps and military advisers.

The day before the film's real-life premiere in San Francisco, the movie had its fictional opening in Wistful Vista during that week's radio episode, and Bergen and McCarthy made a guest appearance (" Premiere of Look Who's Laughing " ( 11 / 11 / 41 )).

Gibson toned down the film's battle scenes to avoid an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, with the final version being rated R for " brutal medieval warfare.

First would be to film all the shots for a particular scene together, and all shots of consecutive scenes together ( if the scenes take place together, with no break between them in the film's timeline ).

The DoP makes decisions on lighting and framing of scenes in conjunction with the film's director.

Responsible for emergency re-writing, he also directed the film's first scenes.

Whale's original cut of the film was given generally positive reviews but sometime between preview screenings and the film's general release Rogers capitulated to the Germans, ordering that cuts be made and additional scenes be shot and inserted.

Dunst was offered the role of Angela in the 1999 drama film American Beauty, but turned it down because she did not want to appear in the film's suggestive sexual scenes or kiss co-star Kevin Spacey.

One of the most controversial scenes was the film's ending: Brian's crucifixion.

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By most accounts, the low-budget film shot on location in Arizona was a learning process for Peckinpah, who feuded with Fitzsimons ( brother of the film's star Maureen O ' Hara ) over the screenplay and staging of the scenes.

While some critics dismissed Romero's film because of the graphic scenes, writer R. H. W. Dillard claimed that the " open-eyed detailing " of taboo heightened the film's success.

Star Heath Ledger's death in January 2008 cast doubt on the film's future, but the production was salvaged with the addition of new actors playing his character in scenes he did not complete.

Meyer refused to remove key scenes ( such as the " lady in the bathtub " near the film's end ), but reportedly some 8½ minutes of excised footage still exist, significantly more graphic.

Take an ounce of narcissism, a pound of exhibitionism, a pint of sadism, a gallon of blood-lust and a sprinkle of other aberrations and stir well .” Lowell Thomas was also critical of the portrayal of Lawrence and most of the film's characters, believing that the train attack scenes were the only reasonably accurate aspect of the film.

However, these scenes are not on the DVD as he changed his mind after recording the commentary ; Mendes felt that to show scenes he previously chose not to use would detract from the film's integrity.

Studio executives were nervous about the film's commercial prospects when preview audiences laughed at scenes of serious intent.

Star Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio publicly expressed regret about some of the scenes selected for removal from the film's theatrical cut.

As Alan Silvestri was not available to compose new music for the restored scenes, Robert Garrett, who had composed temp music for the film's initial cutting in 1989, was chosen to create new music.

Metropolis had its premiere at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo movie theater in Berlin on 10 January 1927, where the audience reacted to several of the film's most spectacular scenes with " spontaneous applause ".

Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European, a change which she found insulting to his Chinese lineage, and she felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film ; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the colonel elsewhere even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was sixty years old.

Brent tickled Davis during many of the film's scenes, which allowed the audience, used to Davis ' strong-willed character, a rare glimpse of her succumbing to giggles and squirms.

" In one of the film's most imitated scenes, Paul Henreid lights two cigarettes as he stares into Davis's eyes and passes one to her.

Ebert in particular singled out the speech by Seagal's character that concluded the film, which he saw as extraneous, and an example of the film's " egotistical vanity scenes ", as well as its inaccuracies.