Recognized today as iconic, “you’re gonna need a bigger boat” numbers itself among some of the most quoted movie lines of all time. The thing is, it wasn’t originally scripted for that scene. “[Richard] Zanuck and [David] Brown were very stingy producers,” recounts story editor Carl Gottlieb, “so everyone kept telling them, ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat.’ It became a catchphrase for anytime anything went wrong — if lunch was late or the swells were rocking the camera, someone would say, ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat.’”
In turn, the line was randomly improvised into the film in various scenes by Roy Scheider, until it was finally uttered in the perfect moment, when our heroes first laid eyes upon the great white shark terrorizing their beaches.
As the master of suspense, you can bet that Alfred Hitchcock wasn’t in the business of allowing any of his films to have their endings spoiled. He took things to a whole different level with Psycho though, buying up every copy of Robert Bloch’s novel in an effort to conceal the ending from his audience.
To this day, Sean Connery remains the quintessential James Bond. Unfortunately for him, he also lacked the full head of hair sported by every other iteration of the character. He got around this by sporting a hair piece, but it’s interesting to think of a bald Bond nonetheless.
If it seems odd that Samuel L. Jackson is the only Jedi in the entire Star Wars universe with a purple lightsaber … well, that’s because it is.
After discovering that his character would be in a large-scale battle with dozens of other Jedi, Jackson requested his own weapon be purple, so that it would be easier to see in a field of blue and green blades. The real kicker: He had “Bad Motherf**ker” inscribed on the handle after the film, in a nod to the wallet his character in Pulp Fiction carried.
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