The crew made a small cannon to shoot chocolate goo at David Morse. The goo hit Morse so hard it went up his nose, in his eyes, and into his mouth. Morse wasn’t amused, as he’s allergic to chocolate.
The pie fight scene lasts four minutes and was shot in five days. It is the longest pie fight sequence in movie history. At first, the cast had fun filming the pie fight scene, but eventually the process grew wearisome and dangerous. Natalie Wood choked briefly on a pie which hit her open mouth. Jack Lemmon got knocked out a few times: “a pie hitting you in the face feels like a ton of cement”. At the end of shooting the fight, when Blake Edwards called “Cut!” he was barraged with several hundred pies that members of the cast had hidden, waiting for the moment
Robert De Niro worked fifteen hour days for a month driving cabs as preparation for this role. He also studied mental illness, and – during his off-time when filming 1900 – visited a US Army base in Northern Italy and tape-recorded conversations with Midwestern soldiers so that he could pick up their accent.
Bryan Singer filmed Quicksilver’s scenes in a special format of 3,600 frames per second. This means that Quicksilver moved 150 times faster than normal. The camera was used to record close-ups and movements of Evan Peters, as well as the guards he beat.
When Borat is trying to kidnap Pamela Anderson, none of her bodyguards knew about the premise of the film, which is why they tackled Borat, with such force and authority. However, Pamela Anderson was in on the gag, and really hammed it up.
MythBusters dedicated a special episode to testing whether or not certain things from this film are plausible. It concluded that: Piano wire does not have the tensile strength needed to be used as an adequate shark-catching line; scuba tanks will not explode when shot; a great white shark can ram a dive cage with enough force to damage or destroy it; a great white shark has enough power to punch a hole in the side of a wooden boat under the right circumstances, but an example of this happening has never been documented; a shark’s maximum striking force is great enough to pull the barrels under, but the force a shark can generate in a continuous pull is insufficient to keep the barrels under water for a significant amount of time; a shark cannot generate enough force to pull a boat backwards with great enough speed that waves break over the stern; and punching a shark in the nose, eyes, or gills will cause it to flee or at least back off briefly.
Originally, the producers planned on having the crashed Hindenburg appear as a ghostly airship. They dumped this in favor of the apparitions coming off the Titanic.
Sacha Baron Cohen and his crew reportedly illegally accessed a fashion show in Milan, Italy using fake IDs. After Brüno (Sacha Baron Cohen) entered the stage, the lights were dimmed, and Sacha Baron Cohen was escorted out of the fashion show by security personnel.
