I try not to think about it. I also try not to think about the fact that the next time gas is cheap and steak is affordable they'll be more than happy to tell me I'm overreacting to legislation targeting black/brown/queer minorities. And it's always those with the least (none) to lose...

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Claude Rains supposedly based his Prince John performance in The Adventures of Robin Hood on Bette Davis, and that's one of those "once you see it, you never unsee it" things.

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Conrad Veidt (like MUCH of the cast) fled Europe to escape the Nazis before appearing in CASABLANCA. Knowing he would be typecast as a Nazi in Hollywood, he pledged to use his career for good, and put in his contract that he would only appear in movies that unambiguously portrayed Nazis as villains.

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In The Last Jedi, despite multiple takes Laura Dern couldn’t stop herself from mouthing “pew pew” when her character fired a blaster, so they just left it in.

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In Star Wars: A New Hope, the firing panel for the Death Star was a TV switcher used in broadcast news to transition between image feeds (e.g. to dissolve from one pic to another).

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