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Which famous screenwriters have used unusual tricks to finish a screenplay on time?

James Cameron was convinced he had found his Terminator when he met Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unfortunately, the latter was not available for nine months, because he was already committed to the sequel to Conan the Barbarian: Conan the Destroyer . We would have to wait… With the filming of Terminator being postponed, and not having enough time to squeeze another film in the …

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Is it true that Daniel Radcliffe wanted to give up the role of Harry Potter after the third film in the series?

Daniel Radcliffe had originally signed on for three films. After The Prisoner of Azkaban , he had the opportunity to renegotiate his contract and, therefore, possibly leave the franchise if he wished, without risking a lawsuit from the producers. And that’s precisely what he wanted to do. In an interview with the daily newspaper The Guardian , the actor confided …

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Why was Snape mean to Hermione when she was one of the best in her class? Was it because she was Harry’s friend, or because she was good, or even better, than him in his studies?

There are clearly several reasons that can explain why Severus Snape was unfriendly towards Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter saga. Let’s start with the most obvious reasons, but not the most sought-after. Above all, let’s not forget that the potions professor was a more than bitter and miserable character. The readership knows well that he had a …

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Is the Tyrannosaurus Rex from the movie Jurassic Park (1993) a good representation of the real animal?

For the time it was made, and from what was known about dinosaurs, the T-rex from Jurassic Park was a decently accurate reconstruction of the animal. And pretty scary, too. The thing is, now, nearly thirty years later, our knowledge of all dinosaurs, especially the T-rex, has changed dramatically. We have a lot of new information about Tyrannosaurus. Evidently, the animal …

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