What's a "fun-fact" about a movie that you know is completely false?

My favorite movie is Jurassic Park. There are a few fun-facts that I see or hear sometimes about the movie that I can't really remember right now, but the most common one I see repeated is:Fun Fact: The child actors' reactions when the T. Rex breaks through the Jeep's glass roof in the breakout scene is genuine! The T. Rex was never supposed to break through the glass, so they were actually terrified during that scene!T. Rex breakout.(You can actually find this fun-fact repeated in the YouTube comments too.)(Here's a r/MovieDetails post with 19k upvotes that repeat this fake fun-fact.)However, this actually is not true. It's not really that close to being true either. I think it also takes a little bit away from the performance of Lex and Tim's actors in the film too, since they did a great job of showing fear throughout that scene, but it's chalked up to being an accident. I believe that this "fun-fact" comes from misinterpretation of a quote from actor Joseph Mazzello who plays Tim, when interviewed by Entertainment Weekly around the time of Jurassic Park's 20 year anniversary in 2013.When asked about memorable moments from his experience in working on the movie, Mazzello mentioned a moment during the T. Rex breakout scene:We were in that car, and I think the T. rex was only supposed to go down so far, and the Plexiglas was the only thing between the dinosaur and us. It came down too far one time, and it chipped the Plexiglas and broke a tooth. And if you pause on it, you can actually see in the movie that there’s a shot during that scene where the T. rex was missing a tooth.Even though the beginning of the quote, in my opinion at least, makes it clear that it was still supposed to come down through the glass and simply went down too far,(I think what Mazzello actually meant specifically by "too far" is that the T. Rex broke the glass in half which caused the tooth to break). I think the end of the quote makes it clear that the moment wasn't memorable for Mazzello because it broke through the glass. It was memorable because it caused the animatronic T. Rex to lose one of its teeth.From that quote, it seems like the child actors playing Tim and Lex were expecting the T. Rex to crash through the Jeep's glass ceiling, but it went too far and broke a tooth, which was interesting/funny/memorable to them.Now, even though I think that the quote itself disproves this "fun-fact" by itself, I think the two biggest factors are from the final product of the film, and the pre-production of the film itself.In the movie, the moments just before the glass ceiling crash and just after the crash make it pretty clear that the T. Rex was fully intended to break through the ceiling and try to eat the kids.@ 3:04 - The framing of the T. Rex in position above the Jeep looking at the kids.@ 3:07 - The children pause in the middle of their panic to turn the light off and look up to see the T. Rex about to attack them.@ 3:08 - The main shot of the T. Rex breaking through. What could this shot have possibly accomplished if the T. Rex wasn't supposed to break the glass? It's framed in the way where the kids are the primary focus and the T. Rex isn't even in frame until its snout breaks through the glass.@ 3:09 - The shot from beneath is set up from the kid's POV and again, there's no other reason for this shot to exist unless the T. Rex was expected to break through.@ 3:10 - 3:15 - Bonus shots of the T. Rex attacking the kids.There's about a dozen different shots that show the T. Rex attacking the kids from angles that would only make sense...if it was supposed to break through the glass.If you compare this to another popular fun-fact from Django Unchained where Leonardo DiCaprio apparently cut his hand on glass and acted through the scene, it's night and day. The scene that DiCaprio cut his hand in is only in one take. Presumably, after the take was done, DiCaprio's hand was cleaned up and then filming resumed.Another similar fun-fact is Viggo Mortenson breaking his toe during a scene where he kicks a Uruk-Hai helmet in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. He kicks the helmet, breaks his toe, and the shot ends.These are comparable because these were all apparently accidents that occurred during a larger sequence. If you don't think these are similar, that's fine, because I can't think of many other examples similar to the T. Rex scene I'm talking about at the moment.Finally, the biggest reason that this cannot possibly be a true "fun-fact" is that the storyboards explicitly include the T. Rex breaking through the glass.Full Storyboards of the Breakout Scene HereTwo Specific frames in the storyboards regarding the glass ceiling scene.And I think this is the most clear evidence that this scene was fully supposed to happen. Why would the scene be in the storyboards, then be framed the same exact way in the actual film, if the ceiling was never supposed to break?TL;DR: The T. Rex was always supposed to break through the glass ceiling. Mazzello thought the scene was interesting because it accidentally broke a tooth because its head went down too far. But people think that the scene happened on accident and that the kids were genuinely afraid, and not acting. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/31l4Oo4