Movie Mishaps That Happened On Camera And They Included It In The Film Anyways

Just roll with it.

Angie

• Published in Film & TV
• April 18, 2018

Movies these days are full of so many crazy realistic scenes, that would not have been possible 20 years ago.

Movie makers have so many options to choose from for making "movie magic" that it's almost impossible to tell what is CGI and what is not, and what is on purpose and what is accidental. Thankfully we also have the internet to explain to us the parts of our favorites movies that weren't exactly written how they ended up. 

The movies below contain scenes that were mishaps but kept in the movie anyway. Sometimes a mistake or a fall or being drunk when you step onto set can work out in the favor of the movie after all. 

In Oldboy, the star Choi Min-sik had to suffer through eating four live octopi while filming one particular scene before they got it right.

In Foxcatcher, Channing Tatum found out just how strong he was. He was supposed to smash his head into a prop mirror, but accidentally broke the wall behind it too.

He got blood everywhere, but soldiered on and finished the scene. 

Anne Hathaway slipped on the rain-covered bleachers in this scene of The Princess Diaries, but it wasn't on purpose.

Heather Matarazzo told Cosmopolitan, "That's Annie in a nutshell: You fall, you laugh, and you keep going. And that's what ended up in the film."

During the filming of the classic Hitchcock flick "The Birds" the planned mechanical birds didn't work...so for five days they threw ravens, pigeons, and doves at poor Tippi Hedren.

Fun fact: On the final day of shooting they legitimately tied some of the birds to her costume...

You know that scene in Candyman where the bees pour out of his mouth? Yeah...those were real bees.

And he didn't even get stung!

When Tyrese told The Rock to "hide your baby oil," in Fast & Furious 6, The Rock went off-script and shot back, "You better hide that big-ass forehead."

Luda was not ready for that line and immediately spit out his drink. They kept it in. 

During the filming of Blade Runner, Pris accidentally slipped on wet pavement, and jacked her arm into a real glass car window. She finished her scene.

This resulted in a lifelong scar and her elbow chipped in eight different places. 

Leo got really into this scene in Django Unchained, and it resulted in him accidentally smashing a glass and slicing up his hand.

But because Leo is #foreverbeastmode he hauled through the scene like it was meant to happen, even as his hand was pouring blood all over the table. 

During 40-Year-Old Virgin, Steve Carell thought that the waxing scene wasn't going to hurt. His painful cries and lines are all genuine.

Man-o-lantern forever!

Kurt Russel was not informed he didn't have the stand-in instrument when he accidentally smashed an antique guitar from the 1870s.

His Hateful Eight co-star Jennifer Lawrence is legitimately shocked in response. 

Joe Pesci has bad luck with a particular rib after he broke it during two different Martin Scorsese movies. In the Casino scene shown here, he broke it after a couple people fell on him.

Scorsese yelled at him to "be in the moment" and this is what resulted. 

Eight-year old Jackie Cooper couldn't make himself cry during a scene in Skippy, so the directors made a rational decision of pretending to take his dog out back and shoot it.

He subsequently hysterically sobbed and won an Oscar for it. Yikes.

During the filming of the opening scene of Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen was "so hopelessly drunk," that he punched a mirror, cut his hand, and bled on various things on the set.

He also sustained a heart attack during filming, and after a month of recuperating finished it out.

The Alien chestbuster scene was a secret from the cast. They had no idea it was going to happen and it even caused one of them to pass out.

During the second Lord of The Rings, Viggo Mortensen is shown kicking a helmet and then howling out in pain. This was not written in, but after he subsequently broke two toes doing it they kept it because it worked well with the scene.

Angie