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TIL for the movie Rango they had all the actors, including Johnny Depp, get together and act out each scene like a stage play in order to get a more organic animation reference.

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KRME TIL the iconic promotional image of Willem Dafoe with his hands raised in anguish from movie “Platoon” was inspired by a real photo from the Vietnam War by Art Greenspon who traveled to Vietnam in his 20s to document the war
D1PVj TIL the last time Mtv's schedule was only music videos with no other programming was the weeks after 9/11/2001 when they played a tight playlist of light and mournful songs.
0wYJN Today I Learned that Veggietales wasn't originally going to have vegetables as the characters. Phill Vischer simply needed character models that were easy to animate in the early days of computer animation. Vegetables didn’t require animating arms, legs, or hair like humans or animals would.
wLgOP TIL A concerned person walked by a house and heard a man shouting "why won't you die?" with a child screaming inside. The police were called. This triggered a full police response. It turned out he was trying to kill a spider.
9Y9kB TIL that "Shaun of the Dead" was considering the title "From Dusk Till Shaun." And that "Into the Spider-Verse" has a "From Dusk Till Shaun" movie poster in the background- suggesting it exists in a parallel universe.