Famously Improvised Lines or other bits in films

[Mr. Tea]

Old story, but apparently in the scene with the lighter fluid they replaced the coloured water that they used in rehearsals with vinegar for the final shot without telling Grant, so his reaction to drinking it is actually genuine...

I like that.

I also think it's pretty hard to convincingly act drunk when you're not, and R. E. G. does a really good job of it in that film, especially given that he's teetotal (although apparently the director did insist he go on a single epic drinking binge before filming started, to help him get into the role).

 

[version]

I've never seen it confirmed, but people maintain Little's laugh in this scene is genuine and Brooks kept it in.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I've never seen it confirmed, but people maintain Little's laugh in this scene is genuine and Brooks kept it in.

I've heard the same about the corpsing centurion during the Biggus Dickus scene in Monty Python's Life Of Brian, although I've also heard that that's been debunked.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Most of Fantasia

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The flickering flourescent light in the scene where Laura Palmer's body is being autopsied in the second episode of Twin Peaks wasn't supposed to do that. It just happened to be faulty, but Lynch loved the effect it gave so he kept it in, and used the motif of electrical things malfunctioning in the presence of spooky goings-on in later episodes.

In the same show, Frank Silva ('Bob') wasn't originally in the cast at all, but was a member of the filming crew. In the pilot episode he was trying to keep out of shot but was accidentally caught on camera in a reflection, and Lynch thought he looked very sinister as he was sort of skulking around, and cast him as Bob as a result.

Lynch broke the fourth wall with the DVD remaster boxset, which he had purposefully skip during Laura Palmer's resurrection scene.

 

[Murphy]

Didn’t know i’

Inspired by @WashYourHands mentioning the famous bit in Midnight Cowboy when Dustin Hoffman shouted "I'm walking here" at a car that almost hit him during the filming of a scene and they left it in the film.

What else though? Off the top of my head I think of Marlon Brando putting on a glove during a conversation in On The Waterfront really naturalistically like someone might do I guess. There's the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy shoots that sword fighter guy, maybe not impro'd on the spot but apparently Ford suggested he simply do that instead of fight him and the change was made.

didn’t know it was an improvised bit

 

[0bleak]

but we do all talk like that here
you should hear me when i'm sleepwalking

 

[Murphy]

I’m sleepwalkin‘ heere!

 

[luka]

i have an unwavering respect for the immaculate stupifity of americans. karate pose lol. wrestle wth some demons hahahahh

 

[luka]

ride the snake to the lake

 

[IdleRich]

Didn’t know i’


didn’t know it was an improvised bit

Just checked and....

Summary. The famous "I'm walkin' here" scene in Midnight Cowboy, where Dustin Hoffman nearly gets hit by a cab, has become one of the most quotable lines in movie history. Hoffman claimed that the scene was improvised, but the film's producer and director suggest that it was filmed with an extra in the cab.

 

[DLaurent]

Not sure which scenes or lines in particular but I read today that much of Wings of Desire was improvised.