25 curiosities about romantic comedies that we love to this day

Who doesn't like to surrender to the grace of a good romantic comedy every now and then? Light and fun, sugar water movies don't tell good stories just on the screen. It is behind the scenes, behind the camera, that some of the most curious and funny facts of cinema unfold. We have listed 25 of them for you to test your knowledge and have fun while planning what to review in the next popcorn session.

1. The 10 Things I Hate About You Title came from a journal entry

The inspiration came from screenwriter Karen McCullah, who as a teenager had a half-bagged boyfriend who deserved a special shortlist: "Things I Hate About Anthony." Today, the two are friends, and Anthony laughs at the reference made by the ex.

2. Originally, A Beautiful Woman would not be a romantic comedy, but a sad story.

In the first version of the script, JF Lawton had envisioned the story of two emotionally devastated people who would spend a week together and end without the slightest hope of a happy ending. What's more, the name of the movie would be 3000 .

3. Julia Roberts turned down the lead role in While You Sleeped

The actress already had a solid career and ended up choosing not to repeat the dose, after all while You Sleeped had similarities to A Beautiful Woman . In the place of Julia Roberts was Sandra Bullock, who did well playing the role.

4. Love Tuning was another movie Julia Roberts preferred to refuse

This time, however, she claimed that she could not assume the role. Anyway, in 2014 Roberts said he was happy with the direction of the film when it was replaced by Meg Ryan. "She and Tom Hanks were perfect performing together in Love Tuning !"

5. Marilyn Monroe was the protagonist idealized by Truman Capote for Luxury Doll

But, on the advice of an aide, Monroe did not accept the role for fear that it would negatively influence her career. The refusal infuriated Paramount Pictures executives, but Audrey Hepburn proved to be a more than perfect solution.

6. Titanic's best-known speech was… improvised

Jack's phrase (Leonardo Di Caprio) on the stern of the Titanic, “I am the king of the world!” Was spontaneous. Although not in the script, the director, James Cameron, liked the initiative so much that decided to keep the speech, now famous, in the final version of the film.

7. Cameron Diaz was afraid to ruin his career with a Who's Going With Mary scene ?

The scene is one where Mary takes the hair gel out of Ted's (Ben Stiller) ear and takes the opportunity to improvise a comic hairstyle. The fear was that the joke would not be well accepted and had negative repercussions, affecting Diaz's image. To solve the problem, the team recorded different versions - one with and one without the product and the bizarre hairstyle - and presented both to a select audience. The original version was so well accepted that the actress accepted it to air.

8. Some people left the theater at the first screening of Four Weddings and a Funeral

It was in Salt Lake City, a very religious city of the United States, and all because Charles, character of Hugh Grant, swears in the first scene. Detail: The actor was there as a spectator and was startled by the rejection of the film. How bad!

9. And speaking of Hugh Grant…

The blue door to Will Thacker's house, his character in A Place Called Notting Hill, was originally from the home of screenwriter Richard Curtis. After the movie was released, the new owners of the property painted the door black, such was the inconvenience with visits to the site. Then it was sold, and the door turned blue again.

10. Cher was inspired by her ex-husband's family to do the Moon Spell scenes.

With Armenian and indigenous roots, Cher, the pop diva, had difficulty interpreting Loretta Castorini in Moon Charm . The character, of Italian origin, demanded an extra effort from the actress, who only managed to get in the mood with the help of memories of the former Italian family, Sonny Bono. "Everybody eats and talks and screams at the same time, but lives very good times, too."

11. Love Tuning referred to “Soup Nazi” 2 years before Seinfeld

Seinfeld is known to have joked about the "Soup Nazi", an Iranian who sold a very famous soup in New York but was famous for being stingy. The first reference to him, in fact, happened in Love Tuning, in a scene in the office of Meg Ryan's character. In it, the poor guy is described as "the meanest guy in America." And yes, it does exist.

12. Ghost made Demi Moore the highest paid actress in Hollywood at the time

She was already famous when the movie was released, but Ghost was so successful that her career and salary simply exploded. Proof of this is that in 1995 she received $ 12.5 million for her acting in Striptease .

13. Some excerpts from Simply Love were made with hidden cameras.

This is the case of scenes at London's Heathrow airport, where passengers are greeted by friends and family. The recordings stretched for a week, and whenever a beautiful scene was filmed, a member of the production crew would rush to people, explain that they had been filmed, and asked to consent to use in a movie being shot there. It worked!

14. Steve Carell Lose 13 Pounds To Record The 40 Year Old Virgin

At first, director Judd Apatow didn't like the idea much; after all, for him, beauty-conscious comedians may lose focus, but in the end until he accepted the idea. "Andy (Carell's character) eventually convinced himself that she was a virgin because she was shy and anxious, not because of her looks, " he said.

15. Cameron Crowe Almost Confused With Friends Release

The bullshit is right: Crowe had been consulted by Warner about turning his feature film, Singles, into a TV series about "a group of six 20-something bachelors sharing an apartment." He turned down the offer, and when Friends was launched, he even called on his lawyers to see if Singles's idea had been stolen. Result: no.

16. Amélie Poulain's Fabulous Destiny spawned a boom of girls by the name of ... Amélie

Although the name and the film are French, England and the United States recorded an explosion of baptism records under the name "Amélie" after the film's release in 2001. The growth reached 1000%. Nice tribute, by the way.

17. Jack Black didn't want to be part of the HiFi cast

Worse, John Cusack had written the paper thinking of Black. It was director Stephen Frears who saved the day and managed to convince the actor, who eventually agreed to play Barry Judd, a hyperactive and insensitive salesman.

18. Gregory Peck noticed Audrey Hepburn's talent in The Princess and the Commoner

The actor, who was already established in American cinema, demanded that the credits of the film put the name of Audrey Hepburn, then a little known actress, on par with his. "This girl is going to get an Oscar soon, soon!" He said.

19. The epic fight scene between Hugh Grant and Colin Firth in Bridget Jones's Diary was totally improvised.

Yes, it was run without choreography - and perhaps that's precisely why it came to such a funny result, with both actors exchanging punches and slaps in the most ludicrous and fun way possible.

20. Beverly Hills Patricinhas is part of an unofficial trilogy

Few people know, but in addition to The Patriots of Beverly Hills, director and screenwriter Amy Heckerling shot two films that relate to the story played by Alicia Silverstone in 1995. These are: Picardias Estudantis, 1982, and The Sucker, 1982. 2000

Stepping Into a Cold inspired a product to train cats to poop on toilets.

Yes, believe me. In the movie, Jack, Robert De Niro's character, has such a smart and well-trained cat who poops… in the toilet! After watching the movie, an Australian couple created a product to train common cats to do the same.

22. Woody Allen had thought something very different for Neurotic Groom, Nervous Bride

The idea was not to bring a romantic comedy to life, but to a darker story involving the characters' lives and psyche that would be explored in romantic, mysterious and fantastic subplots within the main storyline.

23. Eternal Brightness of a Mind Without Memories Can Stop Being Fiction

That's because, in 2014, researchers were able to manipulate the memories of lab mice - or at least the emotions associated with them. In fact, this is exactly what scientists are looking for: the ability to control how we react to certain events. According to them, erasing memories from memory is not the best way out. Makes sense.

24. Until you record For you Meg Ryan didn't have a computer

She revealed curiosity during an interview with Vanity Fair . According to the actress, her first computer, believe me, was a gift from a company involved in filming the film starring her and Tom Hanks.

25. End of Legally Blonde changed after hearing test

Originally, the feature ended with a kiss between Elle (Reese Witherspoon) and Emmett (Luke Wilson) on the court steps, then cut to Elle and Vivian (Selma Blair) forming the “Blonde Legal Defense Club”, but the audience didn't. liked what you saw, and the end was changed to what we know today.

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