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* Brandon Lee's [[FatalMethodActing fatal shooting with a prop gun]] during the filming of ''Film/TheCrow'' made his portrayal of a musician who was shot to death and came back from the dead for revenge very poignant. The scene in the movie where Eric Draven was killed was heavily edited to change it from an explicit view of Draven being shot to a fast cut of Funboy firing a gun at him, but it couldn't be removed completely because it was the basis of the movie's plot. (Part of this was pragmatic, of course, to hide the double's face.)
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* In the ''Film/MissMarple'' film ''Murder Most Foul'', the villain appears to have some hereditary violent insanity. Creator/MargaretRutherford herself was terrified that this would happen to her, as her father spent a great deal of time in asylums after murdering his own father and her mother ended up committing suicide while pregnant.
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** Bond has considerably less sex in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' and ''Film/LicenceToKill'' than the rest of the series, and he has stronger romantic relationships with the [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girls]] of those films. This is because they came out in the late 80s at the height of the AIDS crisis, and the producers didn't want to glorify promiscuity in that atmosphere. This is also mildly invoked in ''Film/GoldenEye''. Even though Bond was back to [[ReallyGetsAround his old self]] by 1995, he makes a quip with Xenia about safe sex, implying that yes, even James Bond wraps it up.
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** Bond has considerably less casual sex in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' and ''Film/LicenceToKill'' than the rest of the series, and he has stronger romantic relationships with the [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girls]] of those films. This is because they the films came out in the late 80s at the height of the AIDS crisis, pandemic and the producers didn't want thought it would be in poor taste to glorify promiscuity in that atmosphere. This is also mildly invoked in ''Film/GoldenEye''. Even though Bond was back to [[ReallyGetsAround his old self]] by 1995, he makes a quip with Xenia about safe sex, implying that yes, even James Bond wraps it up.does know what a condom is.
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** This trope was further emphasized with the spin-off film ''Film/{{Creed}}'', which focuses on Adonis, the son of Apollo Creed, trying to become a boxer in his own right with the aid of Rocky's training. The film was the first in the series that Stallone neither wrote nor directed, and it essentially allowed him to pass the torch to Ryan Coogler and Creator/MichaelBJordan in the same way that Rocky does with Adonis.
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** This trope was further emphasized with the spin-off film ''Film/{{Creed}}'', ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'', which focuses on Adonis, the son of Apollo Creed, trying to become a boxer in his own right with the aid of Rocky's training. The film was the first in the series that Stallone neither wrote nor directed, and it essentially allowed him to pass the torch to Ryan Coogler and Creator/MichaelBJordan in the same way that Rocky does with Adonis.
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* At some point during or before production of ''Bobby'', Creator/LindsayLohan received word that one of her closest friends had passed away. Lohan used her grief over that event to fuel her during the more emotional scenes in the film.
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* In the ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' movies, a frequent source of humor involves the X-Men attempting to convince Deadpool to join the team and act like a traditional superhero, both of which Deadpool adamantly refuses to do. Prior to the first film's release, Creator/RyanReynolds' initial appearance as Deadpool in the relatively family-friendly ''Film/XMen'' {{prequel}} ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' was trashed by fans and critics for stripping the character of everything that made him such a fan-favorite in the comics, and it took the creative team ''years'' to convince Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox to let them bring a [[TruerToTheText more faithful]] portrayal to the screen. The studio wanted to tone down the violence and profane humor of the comics in favor of making a traditional superhero film for general audiences, while the creative team wanted an R-rated movie more in line with the comics. The X-Men's continual attempts to get Deadpool to tone down his antics are reflective of the studio's attempts to do the same.
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* In the ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' movies, a frequent source of humor involves the X-Men attempting to convince Deadpool to join the team and act like a traditional superhero, both of which Deadpool adamantly refuses to do. Prior to the first film's release, Creator/RyanReynolds' initial appearance as Deadpool in the relatively family-friendly ''Film/XMen'' ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' {{prequel}} ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' was trashed by fans and critics for stripping the character of everything that made him such a fan-favorite in the comics, and it took the creative team ''years'' to convince Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox to let them bring a [[TruerToTheText more faithful]] portrayal to the screen. The studio wanted to tone down the violence and profane humor of the comics in favor of making a traditional superhero film for general audiences, while the creative team wanted an R-rated movie more in line with the comics. The X-Men's continual attempts to get Deadpool to tone down his antics are reflective of the studio's attempts to do the same.
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* Conan the Cimmerian was noted to be surprisingly cultured and a CunningLinguist due to his many travels and adventures around the world, and the same happened to Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger while shooting ''ConanTheBarbarian1982'' in Spain, as he had to learn some [[UsefulNotes/SpanishLanguage Spanish]] to move around and could do lot of tourism through the country. Ahnold loved his time there (even if he was amusingly weirded out by some Spanish customs, like having diner very late into the night) and has returned several times since, even stating he would wish to shoot again in Spain if the long-promised ''Conan'' sequel ever gets made. The film also saw the child version of Conan being played by Jorge Sanz, who was a MilitaryBrat in real life and would have later joined the military had he not thrived as an actor.
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* In ''Film/ClerksII'', Jason Mewes returned to the iconic role of [[TheStoner Jay]] for the first time in five years, with the biggest change to his character being that he had sworn off drugs (''doing'' them, not selling them) and turned to Jesus since the events of the original ''Film/{{Clerks}}''. In reality, Mewes had been battling a heroin addiction since the mid-'90s, which greatly damaged his long-time friendship with Creator/KevinSmith, and had got him sent to court-mandated rehab in 2004. When Smith agreed to let Mewes reprise his role in ''Clerks II'' in 2006, he did it on the condition that Mewes stay clean. Considering Smith had actually forced Mewes into rehab himself at least once before, and he had earlier refused to cast him in ''Film/JerseyGirl'' because of his drug problems, he understood the significance of making Jay an ex-drug user all too well.
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** The main plot of ''Film/ClerksII'' revolves around Dante Hicks attempting to escape his dead-end food service job by moving to Florida with his wealthy fiancée and taking over a car wash business from her father; most critics recognized this as a not-so-subtle commentary on Creator/KevinSmith's attempts to escape the legacy of the original ''Film/{{Clerks}}'', which had long defined his career. Notably, the film ends with Dante [[spoiler:choosing to re-open the Quick Stop (which burns down in the opening scene)]] after coming to realize that [[spoiler:his time working there was the last time he was truly happy]], which most people also recognized as a commentary on Smith's decision to ''embrace'' the legacy of the first movie.
** ''Film/ClerksII'' also features Jason Mewesreturned returning to the iconic role of [[TheStoner Jay]] for the first time in five years, with the biggest change to his character being that he had sworn off drugs (''doing'' them, not selling them) and turned to Jesus since the events of the original ''Film/{{Clerks}}''. In reality, Mewes had been battling a heroin addiction since the mid-'90s, which greatly damaged his long-time friendship with Creator/KevinSmith, and had got him sent to court-mandated rehab in 2004. When Smith agreed to let Mewes reprise his role in ''Clerks II'' in 2006, he did it on the condition that Mewes stay clean. Considering Smith had actually forced Mewes into rehab himself at least once before, and he had earlier refused to cast him in ''Film/JerseyGirl'' because of his drug problems, he understood the significance of making Jay an ex-drug user all too well.
** The main plot of ''Film/ClerksII'' revolves around Dante Hicks attempting to escape his dead-end food service job by moving to Florida with his wealthy fiancée and taking over a car wash business from her father; most critics recognized this as a not-so-subtle commentary on Creator/KevinSmith's attempts to escape the legacy of the original ''Film/{{Clerks}}'', which had long defined his career. Notably, the film ends with Dante [[spoiler:choosing to re-open the Quick Stop (which burns down in the opening scene)]] after coming to realize that [[spoiler:his time working there was the last time he was truly happy]], which most people also recognized as a commentary on Smith's decision to ''embrace'' the legacy of the first movie.
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* ''Film/AfterEarth'': Several reviewers have noted the (possibly unintentional) parallel between Cypher pushing his son Kitai to perform in a situation he is ill-prepared for, and Creator/WillSmith having his son Jaden in his pet project.
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' and [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 its sequel]] involved a notable RomanceOnTheSet, as Creator/AndrewGarfield and Creator/EmmaStone began dating at almost exactly the same time that they began playing the famous couple Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy. Fittingly, their onscreen chemistry was one of the most praised aspects of the movies; unlike Creator/TobeyMaguire and Creator/KirstenDunst before them, Garfield and Stone didn't need acting to convince the audience that they were in love.
** Same could be said for Creator/TomHolland and Creator/{{Zendaya}} in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''.
* In ''Film/AndGodCreatedWoman'', Juliette (Creator/BrigitteBardot) marries Michel (Creator/JeanLouisTrintignant) but struggles with, and eventually gives in to her attraction to Michel's brother, Antoine. In real life, Bardot was married to the film's director Roger Vadim, but fell in love with Trintignant during filming, and ended up leaving Vadim for him.
* An unusual case of deliberate [[InvokedTrope invocation]] by the screenwriters of ''Film/TheApartment'': they would keep track of the actors' real-life experiences and try to integrate them into the plot. That's how the whole gin rummy subplot found its way to the screen (Creator/ShirleyMacLaine was learning the game at the time). And some offscreen lines of actors discussing their own private lives were also featured in the film, making it a case of ''offscreen'' ThrowItIn. [[http://nitratediva.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/shirley-maclaine-the-apartment-tcmff/ Here is more.]]
* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'':
** One of the innumerable executive nightmares surrounding the film's production was Creator/MartinSheen having a heart attack due to the stress from filming, suspending filming of all his prominent scenes and making his brother double for him.
** Then there were the helicopters that the Philippine military lent to Coppola for the famous "air cavalry" scene against a village held by communist Viet Cong insurgents. Those were frequently taken back, interrupting filming, to do actual air cavalry work for the Philippine military units engaged in combat with real communist insurgents.
* ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance'' is a clear analogy for Creator/MichaelKeaton[='s=] struggles with escaping his IAmNotSpock status as the man who played Franchise/{{Batman}} in the [[Film/Batman1989 first]] [[Film/BatmanReturns two]] entries in the 1989 film series. The premise itself, in which an actor attempts to escape his typecasting as the titular ShowWithinAShow superhero by taking the lead in a play, is an almost note-for-note calling card for Keaton's attempts at escaping the mantle of the Caped Crusader. What's more, the in-universe play is initially a bit of a failure until a big crazy gimmick sparks the attention of the audience--''Birdman'' is itself a film with a pretty major gimmick, that being its extensive use of TheOner.
* At some point during or before production of ''Bobby'', Creator/LindsayLohan received word that one of her closest friends had passed away. Lohan used her grief over that event to fuel her during the more emotional scenes in the film.
* ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'':
** Since it was shot on location in South Central L.A., the cast and film crew had to deal with many of the same problems with gangs and crime that the movie's characters had to deal with. The dialogue had to be dubbed over in many parts due to gunshots and helicopters in the distance. There were threats of fights between the extras, and in one instance a filming location had to be changed because of threats from a member of the Bloods. The scene in question contained Doughboy, who is heavily implied to be a Crip, shooting someone who is heavily implied to be a Blood. The real-life gang member claimed that he was not responsible if someone actually shot Music/IceCube for portraying their gang negatively.
** The actor who played the blood gang member with the shotgun who murdered [[spoiler:Ricky]] is named Lloyd Avery Jr. In real life, he got mixed up with the gang and criminal lifestyle, despite being a promising actor and eventually kills two people, ending up in prison for it, before he was killed in prison after getting into an argument with another prisoner about religious beliefs. [[note]]He was a born again Christian, while the other prisoner was a Satanist.[[/note]]
* ''Film/CannibalTheMusical'' features a subplot about Alferd Packer and his horse, Liane, who runs away and, he later learns, has been ridden by every man in town. The movie was made by Creator/{{Trey Parker|AndMattStone}} shortly after he found out his fiancee Liane had cheated on him.
* The famous Marseillaise scene in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' features a close up of a woman crying while singing. The film was produced during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Many of the actors, including that woman, were forced to flee Europe due to the German invasion. The emotion in that scene was not faked.
* In ''Film/Catwoman2004'', [[BigBad Laurel Hedare]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who was a famous supermodel in her youth until she committed the worst crime in the fashion world: she turned 40. Hedare is played by Creator/SharonStone, who knows a thing or two about ''that'' subject.
* ''Film/AChristmasCarolGoesWrong'' has an in-universe example. Once the footage of Dennis' birthday party is aired and the entire cast is angry at one another, especially Chris, he uses Scrooge's redemption scene to apologize and make amends with his friends in real life as well as the characters.
* ''Film/Cinderella1965'', starring Creator/LesleyAnnWarren in the title role, gained this when her onscreen WickedStepmother, Creator/JoVanFleet, developed a real-life jealousy of Warren's beauty.
* In ''Film/ClerksII'', Jason Mewes returned to the iconic role of [[TheStoner Jay]] for the first time in five years, with the biggest change to his character being that he had sworn off drugs (''doing'' them, not selling them) and turned to Jesus since the events of the original ''Film/{{Clerks}}''. In reality, Mewes had been battling a heroin addiction since the mid-'90s, which greatly damaged his long-time friendship with Creator/KevinSmith, and had got him sent to court-mandated rehab in 2004. When Smith agreed to let Mewes reprise his role in ''Clerks II'' in 2006, he did it on the condition that Mewes stay clean. Considering Smith had actually forced Mewes into rehab himself at least once before, and he had earlier refused to cast him in ''Film/JerseyGirl'' because of his drug problems, he understood the significance of making Jay an ex-drug user all too well.
** In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobReboot'', a flight attendant tells Jay and Bob she can't sell them airline tickets because of a "wait problem", as in the two are on a no fly list: [[FunWithHomophones Jay mishears this as "weight problem"]] and goes on an extended riff about how Bob went vegan after the events of the previous film and lost a significant amount of weight, enough so that Jay's fat jokes about him no longer apply. Kevin Smith, who was also Silent Bob's actor, was once kicked off a flight because he was deemed too overweight to fit in a single seat, and after a health scare, he later slimmed down after adopting a vegan diet.
* Creator/ElizabethTaylor attempted suicide during the production of ''Film/{{Cleopatra}},'' which makes the film’s ending a little hard to watch.
* The original ''Film/ComingToAmerica'' was inspired by Creator/EddieMurphy's personal life. He was frustrated dating women who cared more about being with a celebrity than getting to know him as a person, hence Prince Akeem's desire to find a woman who "loves me for ''who'' I am, not ''what'' I am."
* Brandon Lee's [[FatalMethodActing fatal shooting with a prop gun]] during the filming of ''Film/TheCrow'' made his portrayal of a musician who was shot to death and came back from the dead for revenge very poignant. The scene in the movie where Eric Draven was killed was heavily edited to change it from an explicit view of Draven being shot to a fast cut of Funboy firing a gun at him, but it couldn't be removed completely because it was the basis of the movie's plot. (Part of this was pragmatic, of course, to hide the double's face.)
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'':
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Creator/HeathLedger's take on the Joker is constantly [[CharacterTics twitching his tongue and licking around his lips]]. Most people thought this was simply one of the Clown Prince's character traits, but according to [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/29/25-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-dark-knight-saga this article]], it wasn't an idle addition:
--->"One of several reasons Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker was so mesmerizing was the unnerving way the actor kept sucking at his cheeks and licking his lips. This facial tic was a result of Ledger's initial discomfort with the prosthetic scar make-up, but was eventually adopted as a character idiosyncrasy after Chris Nolan was suitably freaked out."
** Speaking of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Creator/ChristopherNolan seriously considered using actual footage of the Occupy Wall Street movement, due to the fairly explicit parallels to the movie's plot. He ultimately decided not to, averting the trope.
* In the ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' movies, a frequent source of humor involves the X-Men attempting to convince Deadpool to join the team and act like a traditional superhero, both of which Deadpool adamantly refuses to do. Prior to the first film's release, Creator/RyanReynolds' initial appearance as Deadpool in the relatively family-friendly ''Film/XMen'' {{prequel}} ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' was trashed by fans and critics for stripping the character of everything that made him such a fan-favorite in the comics, and it took the creative team ''years'' to convince Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox to let them bring a [[TruerToTheText more faithful]] portrayal to the screen. The studio wanted to tone down the violence and profane humor of the comics in favor of making a traditional superhero film for general audiences, while the creative team wanted an R-rated movie more in line with the comics. The X-Men's continual attempts to get Deadpool to tone down his antics are reflective of the studio's attempts to do the same.
* Creator/JenniferGrey and Creator/PatrickSwayze's [[HostilityOnTheSet tense working relationship]] going back to ''Film/RedDawn1984'' compounded the on-screen tension during Baby's TrainingMontage in ''Film/DirtyDancing''. Baby's giggling when Johnny Castle brushes his hand down her side, touching her breast, was just Jennifer Grey's nerves getting the better of her. Swayze seems mildly annoyed on most of the takes that ended up in the film.
* In ''[[Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes Dr. Phibes Rises Again]]'', Creator/VincentPrice and Robert Quarry play antagonists. According to insiders, the enmity onscreen was not fake: this was Price's last film for API, as he was being pushed aside for a younger actor. His replacement? Robert Quarry.
* ''Literature/ExitToEden'': Both Creator/DanaDelany and her character, Mistress Lisa, have a butt fetish. In an interview, Dana Delany was asked what's her favorite male body part and her answer was "I love butts. There's nothing better than a good butt." During [[KinkySpanking Citizen Elliot's bondage scene]] Mistress Lisa says:
-->'''Mistress Lisa:''' I like butts. Men's beautiful behinds. You know what I like to do to gorgeous butts? I like to squeeze them, pinch them and caress them.
* Jason Miller, at the time the still-struggling writer of a hit play who'd never acted in movies, asked Creator/WilliamFriedkin for the chance to test for the role of Father Karras in ''Film/TheExorcist'' due to the way the part resonated with his own experience: he'd spent three years himself studying to be a priest until a CrisisOfFaith similar to the one Karras was experiencing in the film led him to drop out.
* ''Film/{{Fatso}}'' stars Creator/DomDeLuise as [[TheDanza Dominick DiNapoli]] a man who is struggling with his weight. The story is a not-at-all disguised take on [=DeLuise=]'s own struggle with obesity.
* ''Film/FeverPitch'':
** The Farrelly Brothers had to completely rewrite the ending after the Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years. They were able to actually film at the last game of the series because both Farrelly Brothers and star Creator/JimmyFallon are actual Sox fans and had personal tickets to the games. Their filming was actually caught ''live on Fox's broadcast of the actual game!''
*** Then again, Fox also produced the film. People unaware of the production probably thought Jimmy Fallon and Creator/DrewBarrymore had a thing for each other.
** This turned out to mirror the true events of Nick Hornby's book from which a directly adapted film was made; the film -- made years after the events -- ends with Arsenal winning a First Division title on the last game of the season, the first in 12 years.
* When Tyler Durden, in his rant about ''Film/FightClub'', says "We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars," he glances at Creator/JaredLeto's character. Jared Leto had just formed his own rock band, Music/ThirtySecondsToMars, and Tyler's actor, Creator/BradPitt, is a "movie god" in his own right.
* Most of the cast and crew of ''Film/TheFront'' had been blacklisted -- their dates of blacklisting are listed under their names during the end credits, including Zero Mostel and director Martin Ritt.
* Because Creator/PaulWalker, who played Brian O'Conner, died during production of ''Film/Furious7'', the film had to be rewritten to accommodate it. The film's tagline is "One Last Ride", there's a scene at [[spoiler:Han's]] funeral where the normally lighthearted Roman grimly tells Brian he can't take any more funerals, and there's also the recurring subplot about how Brian can't afford to go haring off around the world and risking his life when he has a family to take care of.
* The classic 1947 film ''Film/GentlemansAgreement'' has a scene of a meeting where the merits of having the hero pose as a Jewish man to learn first-hand about antisemitism is discussed with senior staff of the magazine. Much of the dialog came directly from meetings of senior executives of Fox Studios discussing the merits of adapting the novel into a film. (It was both a commercial and critical hit and likely was partly the inspiration for John Howard Griffin to pose as a black man in real life in 1959 to learn about racism again blacks, which was the basis of the book and film ''BlackLikeMe''.)
* In ''Film/Ghost1990'', Creator/WhoopiGoldberg plays a PhonyPsychic who soon discovers she's actually a NotSoPhonyPsychic that actually can talk to the dead. But despite working closely with a recently-slain man, she still doubts her abilities throughout much of the movie. According to Goldberg, she was originally unsure whether she should take the part until Creator/PatrickSwayze convinced her and the producers that she'd be perfect. She ended up winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
* The flashback at the end of ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII'' where the family is together for Vito Corleone's birthday was supposed to have him enter at the end, but Creator/MarlonBrando couldn't be gotten back, and instead the scene ends with an announcement that he's there and everybody but Michael rushing out to greet him offscreen. Creator/FrancisFordCoppola decided he actually liked it better with Vito remaining unseen since it created a ghostly feeling that the family as it was then, under Vito, is gone forever.
* At the end of ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'', Creator/SpencerTracy's character says, "...there is nothing, absolutely nothing, you feel for each other that I didn't feel for Christina...the memories are still there, and they'll be there if I live to be a hundred and ten...and if it's half of what we felt, it's everything." The tears in Creator/KatharineHepburn's eyes are real -- Spencer Tracy was dying, and she and Tracy had been together for twenty-five years. He died soon after, and she never saw the finished film, saying that the memories of Tracy were too painful.
* ''Film/{{Help}}'': When Music/TheBeatles try to convince [[Music/RingoStarr Ringo]] [[ComedicSociopathy to let them cut off his finger]] in order to get [[ClingyMacGuffin the cult ring]] off, [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul]] says to Ringo "Well, you didn't miss your tonsils, did you?", referencing the fact that Ringo had gotten a tonsillectomy earlier that year.
* In ''Film/HocusPocus'', Creator/SarahJessicaParker plays one of the three Sanderson Sisters, a trio of evil witches who magically resurrect themselves on [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween night]] 300 years after being [[SalemIsWitchCountry executed for witchcraft in 17th century Salem]]. Many years after starring in the film, Parker discovered that she's actually a direct descendant of Esther Dutch Elwell, one of the last women formally charged with witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials.
* The 1939 adaptation of ''[[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' had a decidedly [[AdaptationalSympathy more sympathetic portrayal towards the Romani]], adding in new themes of humanism and social justice not present in vastly darker, more cynical [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame original Victor Hugo novel]]. This isn't a coincidence; director William Dieterle was a German who fled his home country as [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Nazi war machine]] was -- [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII among other things]] -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide committing systematic genocide of the Romani]], and writer Sonya Levien explicitly wished to parallel the plight of the fictional people of Roma to that of German Jews. The very day the scene where Quasimodo [[ForDoomTheBellTolls was ringing the bells for Esmerelda]] was filmed, the war was properly declared, and everyone on set was so overwhelmed with emotion that Dieterle forgot to yell cut, leaving Creator/CharlesLaughton ringing until he collapsed from exhaustion.
* ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' was to have starred Creator/HeathLedger, but he died before filming was completed. In a show of support, Creator/JohnnyDepp, Creator/JudeLaw, and Creator/ColinFarrell finished the film in his place with the help of a magic mirror (according to an IMDB poster, Ledger has 45 mins of screen-time (out of ~120 total), Law and Farrell 15 each, and Depp 10). The three actors then donated their profits from the movie to Heath Ledger's daughter.
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'':
** The scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' where Indy [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shot the bad guy]] would never have happened had Creator/HarrisonFord not been suffering from a nasty case of dysentery. The exact sequence of real-life events is disputed, but the scene as finally filmed replaced an elaborate "whip vs. sword" duel that Ford wasn't up to filming.
** According to the ''Making of Indiana Jones'' book, they did actually finish shooting the fight, but a test screening where the audience loved the shooting the swordsman bit convinced Creator/GeorgeLucas to use it.
** ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom The Temple of Doom]]''[='s=] [[DarkerAndEdgier darker tone]] was due to Lucas' and [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Spielberg's]] real-life breakups with their wives. Which explains [[LiteralMetaphor having a bad guy who rips out people's hearts]].
* In ''Film/InsideLlewynDavis'', Creator/OscarIsaac and Creator/AdamDriver play a pair of struggling folk singers who finally get their shot at fame when they're invited to sing backup on a song that ends up becoming a huge radio hit. The movie was released in 2013, when Isaac and Driver were both struggling, mostly-obscure character actors with only a few major credits to their names--but just a few months after it was released in the United States, they actually ''did'' get their shot at fame when they were cast as Poe Dameron and Kylo Ren in ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheForceAwakens'', the long-awaited seventh ''Star Wars'' movie. In an amusing coincidence, the song that gives them their shot at the big-time is "Please, Mr. Kennedy", [[HilariousInHindsight a ballad about a man being launched into outer space]].
* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1956'' is often cited as a portrait of Red Scare America. Trust no one; for your neighbors, your friends, even your wife could become one of ''them'': a godless Commie -- er, pod person! By the same token, it's also a view of [=McCarthyism=], with a suspicious Hoover and the FBI keeping Americans under watch. Regardless of any of this, the movie actually averts the trope. WordOfGod stated repeatedly that they were just making a movie and not going for any social/political commentary.
* ''Franchise/JamesBond'':
** In ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Pedro Armendáriz, who played Bond's Turkish sidekick Ali Kerim Bey, was dying of cancer during the production and eventually committed suicide to stop the pain. This makes it particularly poignant when his character makes a HeroicSacrifice and disappears from the film.
** Bond has considerably less sex in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' and ''Film/LicenceToKill'' than the rest of the series, and he has stronger romantic relationships with the [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girls]] of those films. This is because they came out in the late 80s at the height of the AIDS crisis, and the producers didn't want to glorify promiscuity in that atmosphere. This is also mildly invoked in ''Film/GoldenEye''. Even though Bond was back to [[ReallyGetsAround his old self]] by 1995, he makes a quip with Xenia about safe sex, implying that yes, even James Bond wraps it up.
** Speaking of ''Film/GoldenEye'', the film was the first in the series to involve the Internet, and the Bond Girl Natalya is a programmer. This aptly reflected the mid-90s when computers and the Internet started becoming a part of everyday life. Since the movie was a soft reboot of the franchise, this was a deliberate attempt at modernizing Bond, along with more overt plot choices like featuring a post-Soviet Russia and a new female M.
* In the film ''John Doe: Vigilante'', the titular character is a SerialKiller spending his nights [[PayEvilUntoEvil killing child molesters/abusers, rapists, and abusive husbands/boyfriends]]. His final victim is revealed to be the man who murdered his wife and daughter. In an interview, John Doe's portrayer Creator/JamieBamber admitted that it was very easy to imagine the grief and rage that this man was feeling, as he himself is the HappilyMarried father of three girls and simultaneously very hard to play the scenes for that very same reason.
* In ''Film/TheKidsAreAllRight'', Creator/MarkRuffalo incorporated many of his younger brother's personality traits into his performance. His brother had been shot to death in an unsolved homicide a few years prior, and Ruffalo has stated he regarded the character as a way to pay tribute to his brother.
* Both Creator/DustinHoffman and Creator/MerylStreep were dealing with personal losses during the filming of ''Film/KramerVsKramer'' -- Streep with the death of her fiancé John Cazale, Hoffman with a divorce -- infusing the scenes of their crumbling marriage and subsequent custody battle with a dash of painful realism.
* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'': Not only were Lara and Richard Croft [[RealLifeRelative played by a real-life daughter and father]] (Creator/AngelinaJolie and Creator/JonVoight), but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJArvSVqEo their brief scene]] even replicates aspects of their strained real life relationship, with her CallingTheOldManOut for being a DisappearedDad, then telling him she misses him and wishes she could change the past.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** [[HeartwarmingInHindsight Coincidentally]] (it is the exact citation from the book, but in the original, it may be connected with WWI) this exchange in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', which came out in November 2001:
---> '''Frodo:''' I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.\\
'''Gandalf:''' So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.
** Aragorn is first introduced in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' as "Strider", a mysterious veteran Ranger who unexpectedly joins Frodo and his friends after they've begun their journey to Rivendell, and remains rather aloof from the rest of the Fellowship while guiding and protecting them. This actually parallels how Aragorn's actor, Creator/ViggoMortensen, joined the cast of the movie: he was an unexpected replacement for Stuart Townsend, and joined the cast [[TheOtherMarty after a few of Townsend's scenes had already been filmed]]; while most of the Fellowship's actors had time to get to know each other before filming began, Mortensen was a latecomer, and was somewhat aloof from his castmates during the early part of filming.
* The violent murder of Macduff's wife and children in Creator/RomanPolanski's 1971 film adaptation of ''Film/{{Macbeth|1971}}'' is somewhat difficult to watch due to this trope, as Polanski's pregnant wife Sharon Tate was violently murdered along with four others by followers of the UsefulNotes/MansonFamily.
* ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'' has enough of this that a whole other movie was made to explore it! Creator/JimCarrey in [[https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/ep-32-jim-carrey-on-characters-comedy-and-existence/id1209259768?i=1000392564726 this podcast interview]] and the documentary ''Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond'' discusses at length how his choice to take a more-than-MethodActing approach to playing Creator/AndyKaufman, a TrollingCreator, in the film was partially rooted in his being tired of maintaining a sunshiny public face as "Jim Carrey" for the sake of his career prospects and longing to '''be''' someone who could act exactly as they wanted without justification or apology to anyone confused and/or upset. As well, there is a parallel in Kaufman's distaste for being tied down to the sitcom ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' and his preference for potentially audience-alienating performance art to Carrey choosing not to be tied down to his mid-'90s blockbusters (''Film/AceVentura'', ''Film/TheMask'', ''Film/DumbAndDumber'') in favor of more complex fare (in particular ''Film/TheCableGuy'' and ''Film/TheTrumanShow'').
* For ''Film/TheManWhoInventedChristmas'', 87-year-old Creator/ChristopherPlummer is the oldest actor to ever play Scrooge onscreen, making Scrooge begging to do something good before he dies hit even harder.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** ''Film/IronManFilms'':
*** [[Film/IronMan1 The original film]] is now largely famous for leading to Creator/RobertDowneyJr's [[CareerResurrection comeback]] after his widely publicized problems with substance abuse derailed his career. Appropriately, Tony Stark's struggles with alcoholism have long been a major element of the comic book's mythos, and the first movie is ultimately about Stark resolving to turn his life around after getting a second chance at life.
*** ''Film/IronMan3'' was supposed to be an adaptation of [[ComicBook/IronMan the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline]] but was changed at Downey's behest. He didn't want to get in the headspace to put his own recovery from alcoholism at risk.
*** The Mandarin is often considered a controversial character in a modern context, as he was a YellowPeril villain created back when East Asians were easy to mock because of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. ''Film/IronMan3'' acknowledged this and subverted it by revealing that [[spoiler:the Mandarin is actually a DecoyLeader created by the real villain, who is a white American. It turns out he literally crafted the Mandarin as an over-the-top character to act as a scapegoat for his crimes]]. Unfortunately, this means that [[spoiler:with [[Film/AvengersEndgame his final film]], and barring any Multiverse shenanigans, the Sacred Timeline's Iron Man died without ever encountering his ArchEnemy from the comics]].
** ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'': Towards the end of the first phase of the final battle between the Hulk and Abomination, Hulk wrecks a police car and wields the torn halves as massive boxing gloves, a move lifted straight from the video game ''VideoGame/TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction'', itself considered one of, if not the best depictions of the Hulk since then.
** For ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', Creator/MarkRuffalo has stated he was extremely hesitant about taking the role of Bruce Banner. He called Creator/RobertDowneyJr for advice, who convinced him to take the part. Ruffalo ended up kicking ass as Banner/Hulk. This is amusingly similar to their characters' relationship in the movie.
** At the beginning of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', Korath has no idea who Peter Quill aka "Star-Lord" is. This lack of recognition reflects the obscurity of the comic series compared to other properties from the MCU. His getting it right at the end reflects the hope that the film could raise its profile among fans. Judging by the reviews and box office totals, this wish likely came true.
** ''Film/AntMan1'':
*** The trailers and marketing contained nods to the fact that the character is often considered a complete joke by many people, with one MissingTrailerScene in particular showing Scott asking if it's too late to change the name. In the film itself, ComicBook/TheFalcon looks like he's about to burst out laughing when Ant-Man first tells him his name.
*** When Hope is given the [[ComicBook/TheWasp Wasp]] armor by Hank in TheStinger, she simply grins and says "It's about damn time." This references the fact that despite being one of the founding Avengers in the comics, the Wasp was AdaptedOut of the first two ''Avengers'' films and the MCU as a whole before that point. It also references the fact that starting with Phase 3, Marvel began more seriously addressing the complaints about the lack of [[TheSmurfettePrinciple female]] and [[MonochromeCasting and minority]] superheroes in Phases 1 and 2.
** ''Film/CaptainAmerica'':
*** When making ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier The Winter Soldier]]'', Chris Evans had become so impressed with the combat gameplay for [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger the first film]]'s tie-in video game ''VideoGame/CaptainAmericaSuperSoldier'', he and the Russo brothers discussed adapting a similar, more acrobatic fighting style for Cap in the movies. The film ended up receiving praise from both critics and fans for its fight sequences and choreography.
*** ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Civil War]]''
*** Tony Stark tells Peter Parker that he's here to give him a much-needed revamp and upgrade could be seen as a nod to Marvel Studios trying to fix Sony's ''Spider-Man'' franchise after the failure of ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''.
*** Some have viewed the film's premise of the Avengers splitting into two factions going against each other as being accidentally reflective of the massive friction and tension generated by the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. The USA at the time was said to have engaged in a kind of "social civil war" having been deeply polarized by its two candidates, particularly the surprising popularity and support of its [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump most controversial candidate and eventual winner]]. The film's tagline "United We Stand. Divided We Fall." somewhat highlighted this.
* The Oracle in ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' had to be [[TheOtherDarrin played by a different actor]] during ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'', as the previous actor died from complications of diabetes. Hence that strange scene right before she sends the main characters to the Merovingian, explained in-universe as a case of TheNthDoctor.
* ''Film/MediumCool'', a {{Mockumentary}} shot and filmed during the Chicago 1968 riots outside the Democratic National Convention. [[WordOfGod It was supposed to be]] a film about poverty and [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing media manipulation]], and it was contemplated that the finale would be MLK's planned March on Poverty, but the director had it on word from friends in Chicago that a massive demonstration was about to take place, and then MLK and RFK got assassinated during filming, which were incorporated into the plot. Oh, and the film is shot [[EnforcedMethodActing entirely on-location while events took place]].
* ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'', a family movie made by recycling bits of footage from a horror anthology rejected by the studio, features Creator/ErnestBorgnine as a grandfather who tells his grandson stories from a horror anthology he wrote that the studio rejected.
* In Creator/FritzLang's ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', the [[MadScientist depraved inventor]] Rotwang is said to have been previously in love with his boss [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Joh Fredersen]]'s wife Hel, who left him to marry Fredersen. In real life, Rotwang's actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge was previously married to Fritz Lang's wife Thea Von Harbou (who [[CreatorCouple wrote the film's screenplay]], as well as the original novel that it was based on), who left Klein-Rogge to marry Lang after having an extramarital affair with him. That said, Lang and Klein-Rogge reportedly [[AmicableExes remained good friends for years after the incident]], and Lang repeatedly denied that his films reflected his personal life.
* When Al Michaels reprised his RealLife role as the broadcaster of the US-Soviet Union hockey game in ''Film/{{Miracle}}'', most of his lines were scripted. However, the last seconds of the game featured the RealLife call from 1980 in the belief that Michaels could never duplicate that same emotion.
* In-universe example in ''Film/MoulinRouge''; the plot of the ShowWithinAShow mirrors the romance of Christian and Satine with the looming threat of the Duke. The Duke does not take it well when this is pointed out to him.
* In the 1996 version of ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1996}}'', Klump says, "Buddy's who I thought the whole world wanted me to be." This is almost certainly a reference to Creator/EddieMurphy's own movie career. Series/SiskelAndEbert even noted this in their review.
* ''Film/Pathfinder1987'' is about the Sámi people of northern Scandinavia being pushed out of their ancestral lands by invaders. The film aired amidst a Sámi civil rights movement following centuries of efforts at cultural erasure.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDvymblSdh4#t=51m09s this scene]] in ''Picasso Trigger'', Taryn's shown flying a Cessna 172P Skyhawk. Her actress, Hope Marie Carlton is a licensed pilot in RealLife.
* Creator/CharltonHeston appears in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' as Thade's father. Heston's character, an ape on his deathbed, gives a gun to his son Thade, saying that it has "the power of a thousand swords." His last words, a nod to Heston's original role as the protagonist in the original 1968 film, were [[ActorAllusion "Damn them all to hell"]] regarding the humans[[note]]Heston's character in the original film, a human himself, said the same line in the context of cursing humans for destroying themselves and allowing the apes to replace them[[/note]]. In real life, Charlton Heston was also president of the National Rifle Association.
* ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'':
** The family's eldest daughter is entirely missing from ''Film/PoltergeistIITheOtherSide'' and ''Film/PoltergeistIII'', as Dominique Dunne, the actress who played her, had been murdered in 1982. The role was not re-cast and the absence of the character was not mentioned, almost a [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Brother Chuck]]. Ms. Dunne also appeared in an episode of ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' playing an abuse victim, but many of the bruises on her face were genuine, inflicted by her boyfriend (her eventual killer).
** The actor who played the evil preacher, Julian Beck, was actually that gaunt: he was dying of cancer and didn't need that much makeup to look like a skeleton.
** Creator/HeatherORourke, who played Carol Anne, was noticeably chubby in the third movie due to the medication for her Crohn's disease. She would later die from surgical complications after filming completed in 1988 at [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth 12 years old]].
* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'':
** The reason Creator/MandyPatinkin's HeroicResolve was so convincing is a bit of very dedicated method acting: he thought of Rugen in that scene as being the cancer that killed Patinkin's own RealLife father.
---> "''I want my '''father''' back, you son of a bitch.''"
** Another bit is the fear in Christopher Guest's performance when he faces down Inigo. Patinkin actually had accidentally injured Guest in a training exercise some time beforehand.
* ''Film/ThePurge'':
** ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'' was released during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and certain elements of the story were pretty on the nose about it. The blonde, female Presidential candidate was a less-than-subtle NoCelebritiesWereHarmed take on UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton (though her policies and behavior have been said to make her closer to a DistaffCounterpart to UsefulNotes/BernieSanders) while her politically inexperienced Pro-Purge opponent obviously represented UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. Even the film's marketing took jabs at Trump's campaign, with {{tagline}}s like "Keep America Great"[[note]]His well-known campaign slogan being "Make America Great Again". Ironically enough, [[LifeImitatesArt Trump would actually use "Keep America Great" for his 2020 campaign]].[[/note]] or reviews stating "This Purge ''trumps'' them all."
** ''Film/TheFirstPurge'' also looks to have this as it showcases the stark polarization of the public's opinion of implementing the Purge which more or less parallels the current RealLife division among political affiliations in regards to the Trump presidency.
* In the movie ''Film/{{Push}}'', Creator/DakotaFanning plays a girl with psychic precognitive powers. What makes this particularly funny is Ms. Fanning's apparent extreme intelligence which has led to some jokes about her having actual "powers."
* Creator/RobertDeNiro alerted his friend and director Creator/MartinScorsese to boxing biopic ''Film/RagingBull'' in the hope that engaging with the project would help Scorsese address his own self-destructive impulses.
* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'':
** Both the first and last films mirror Creator/SylvesterStallone's story of making them quite movingly. He had over 30 failed screenplays to his name before United Artists took a chance on ''Film/{{Rocky}}'', and he was instantly catapulted to fame and fortune. Then when Stallone tried to make ''Film/RockyBalboa'', it was at a time when he was a laughingstock after several poor career moves, and no one thought the film could be anything but a disaster. Yet when the film was released, the fans all trumpeted it as a worthy conclusion to the story.
** ''Film/RockyII'' is about Rocky’s new found fame quickly running out, along with the accompanying financial resources. As a result he reluctantly accepts a challenge from Apollo for a rematch. There was never intended to be a sequel to the original film. They even have a LeaningOnTheFourthWall moment at the end when Apollo tells Rocky there won’t be a rematch and his response that he doesn’t want one. Unfortunately both of Stallone’s follow up starring roles, F.I.S.T. and Paradise Alley, were both critical and commercial flops leading many to suspect that he was destined to become a OneHitWonder. Rather than have that be his fate Stallone then wrote and directed the sequel which solidified his place as a star.
** This trope was further emphasized with the spin-off film ''Film/{{Creed}}'', which focuses on Adonis, the son of Apollo Creed, trying to become a boxer in his own right with the aid of Rocky's training. The film was the first in the series that Stallone neither wrote nor directed, and it essentially allowed him to pass the torch to Ryan Coogler and Creator/MichaelBJordan in the same way that Rocky does with Adonis.
** ''Film/RockyIV'', which pits Rocky against the brutish Soviet boxer Ivan Drago, was famously released near the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and was made as a blatantly patriotic celebration of America's triumph over Russia. ''Film/CreedII'' is an intergenerational story that pits Adonis Creed against Drago's son Viktor, who turns out to be just as much of a brute as his father. Notably, it was made in 2018, during a period of [[HistoryRepeats renewed tension]] between the United States and UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's Russia.
* The titular rumor of ''Film/RumorHasIt'', about how Sarah's parents were the inspiration for the movie ''Film/TheGraduate'', stems from a real-life rumor that the original novel was inspired by an actual family.
* Branko Lustig helped to direct ''Film/SchindlersList'', a story about a German man who saved more than a thousand Jewish lives during [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust the Holocaust]]. Lustig was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp (where up to 1 million Jews were murdered) so the film had very significant meaning to him. This is reflected in the speech he gave at the 1994 Oscars upon the film winning the Academy Award for Best Picture:
-->"[[http://youtu.be/1HKTYYX50hQ?t=3m13s My number was 83317. I am a Holocaust survivor. It's a long way from Auschwitz to this stage.]]"
* In ''Film/ASimpleWish'', Annabel and her father have a close relationship following the death of Annabel's mother. This deeply ridiculous movie suddenly becomes a TearJerker with the reality subtext: Creator/MaraWilson, who played Annabel, was still recovering from the death of her own mother halfway through the filming of ''Film/{{Matilda}}''. She really does adore her father, who single-handedly raised Wilson and her brothers while managing his daughter's film career, thus doing a much better job than [[WaitingForABreak Annabel's father]].
* Similar to the ''Planet of the Apes'' example above, the tears that Thorn sheds for Sol near the climax of ''Film/SoylentGreen'' are real, as Creator/CharltonHeston is crying for Creator/EdwardGRobinson who was dying of cancer at the time (this was Robinson's last film).
* ''Film/SpaceJam'':
** The subplot with UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan playing baseball is based very loosely on his real life semi-retirement. It's essential to the plot because it means the aliens don't think to steal his basketball skills and this incident, in turn, leads to him returning to basketball which he also did in real life, making this a sort-of fictional autobiographical account. They even go so far as to acknowledge in-film that Jordan is a subpar baseball player and is only being indulged because of his celebrity.
** And for those wondering why the hell Creator/BillMurray is in the film trying to play basketball? That's actually a reference to the series of promo ads Murray did for the league circa 1995 claiming he was going to play NBA ball.
* ''Film/SpiderMan1'':
** It is believed that following 9/11, an entire scene was cut from the first film where Spidey strings a huge web in between the World Trade towers. There was a trailer composed of this scene (which was, obviously, pulled after the attacks), but whether this scene was from the movie or created specifically for the trailer is less certain.
** Likewise the scene where the New Yorkers help out Spidey against Green Goblin as he tries to save a tram of school kids and Mary Jane i.e. the citizens of the city banding together.
* In ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'', Creator/RicardoMontalban's character confronts the EvilFormerFriend who left him wheelchair-bound... then delivers a quietly passionate speech about everything his disability has cost him and everything he's learned from it, culminating in offering his forgiveness, which said friend emotionally accepts. It's also a case of DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: Montalbán was paralyzed by a botched spinal surgery and was speaking from personal experience.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'':
*** The movie entails the forging of peace between long-standing enemies, {{the Federation}} and the Klingon Empire, as the Klingons face extinction following the destruction of their moon, Praxis. The film, released in 1991, bluntly parallels the ending of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar as tensions between the United States (the Federation) and the Soviet Union (Klingons) had subsided partially due to the potential damage done to Russia, one of the world's greatest superpowers, after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 (the destruction of Praxis).
*** Additionally, ''Star Trek VI'' marked the official GrandFinale for the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]]'' era of the Franchise/TrekVerse and was the final bow for the original cast, hence their signatures at the end credits. It was also the last ''Star Trek'' production that franchise creator Creator/GeneRoddenberry was involved in as he passed away days after watching the finished film.
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
*** The central plot of the movie, which involves a villain's plan to turn Starfleet into a more militaristic version of itself, is largely reflective of the fandom's concerns about the once-optimistic franchise taking a DarkerAndEdgier turn and overemphasizing action and conflict at the expense of creative storytelling. Fittingly, the movie ends with [[spoiler:Kirk and company beginning their five-year exploration mission]], with Kirk giving a speech about the importance of Starfleet [[RevisitingTheRoots staying true to its founding principles of peacekeeping and discovery]].
*** The film can also be seen as an example of a once-good government taking increasingly dark and amoral actions in the name of protecting its citizens from a perceived outside threat, a subject that is very relevant to the post-9/11 western world.
** ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'':
*** In this film, Spock learns about the death of his Prime Timeline version and - Vulcan stoicism aside - is devastated, later speaking of how he wants to "live as he did". A sentiment that Creator/ZacharyQuinto likely feels just as his character does, given his friendship with the late Creator/LeonardNimoy.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** The first major action sequence in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', where Luke is attacked by a Wampa, was created solely to explain the scars on Creator/MarkHamill's face from a bad car accident that Hamill was in towards the end of filming ''Film/ANewHope''.
** One of Creator/HarrisonFord's more memorable ad-libs in ''Film/ANewHope'' is generally agreed to be the scene where Han attempts to bluff his way through a radio conversation with an Imperial officer on the Death Star after the heroes accidentally get into a firefight with a few Stormtroopers. Han's flustered efforts to bluff his way through the exchange ("Uh... Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you... How are you?") are all the more believable because Ford neglected to memorize his lines for that scene, and actually ''was'' [[IndyPloy improvising as he went along]]. Han's wincing expression at the end of that monologue (as if to say "They couldn't ''possibly'' have bought that...") was actually Ford's expression, as he was absolutely sure that he'd screwed up that take.
** General Hux, one of the CoDragons in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', was born during the last days of the Galactic Empire. [[Creator/DomhnallGleeson His actor]] was born on May 12, 1983. ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' was released on May 25 of the same year.
* In ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'', Norma Desmond, a forgotten silent film star is played by Creator/GloriaSwanson, a forgotten silent film star herself. Her butler, Max, who was a leading director in the silent film era, is played by Creator/ErichVonStroheim, who was a leading director in the silent film era. For bonus points, the StockFootage of a younger Swanson chosen to represent Norma Desmond as she was as a silent film star was from the obscure feature ''Queen Kelly'', which was directed by von Stroheim. Norma also used to work with Creator/CecilBDeMille, who appears in the film playing himself; in real life, he did work with Swanson several times.
* In ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', several Hollywood actors and creators are mocked for their liberal politics, with Creator/MichaelMoore being one of the prime targets. The reason for this was that Moore had used ManipulativeEditing and a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-style cartoon in ''Film/BowlingForColumbine'' to make it appear that Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone worked on the film with him and were in favor of his ideology. They didn't and they weren't, so this was their way of getting revenge.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'': Besides [[MythologyGag the franchise's classic catchphrases]], one of the T-800's new {{Catch Phrase}}s was "Old, but not obsolete", referring to critics who felt that Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger had become too old to play the Terminator anymore.
** More broadly, the stories and themes of the ''Terminator'' films have more-or-less ''always'' evolved to fit the political and social climate of their moment in time, in some ways more subtle than others. To elaborate:
*** The original film (released in 1984, during a period of resurgent tensions in the UsefulNotes/ColdWar) features Sarah Connor preparing to face a [[YouCantFightFate seemingly inevitable]] nuclear holocaust--reflecting American culture's then-contemporary fears about the possibility of nuclear war between the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates and the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion. Appropriately enough: it also introduces [[GreaterScopeVillain Skynet]] as a global network of [[KillSat armed satellites]], which bears a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything noticeable resemblance]] to the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] administration's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative Strategic Defense Initiative]], which was announced the year before the film was released.
*** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' (released in 1991, the year that the UsefulNotes/ColdWar ended) features John and Sarah Connor successfully preventing the nuclear holocaust that Sarah had previously feared, proving that [[ScrewDestiny it's not so inevitable after all]]--reflecting American culture's then-contemporary sense of relief after the long-prophesied nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union never came to pass.
*** ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' (released in 2003, shortly after the 9/11 attacks) features John Connor and Kate Brewster facing an uncertain future after discovering that the nuclear holocaust of "Judgment Day" really ''is'' inevitable, and Skynet's defeat was never going to last forever--reflecting American culture's reckoning with the onset of the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror, which ended a decade of relative peace and stability following the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. It also reimagines Skynet as a global network of computers, reflecting the then-recent rise of the internet.
*** ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' (released in 2009, when the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror had been raging for nearly a decade) is an epic war film focused on the ForeverWar between Skynet and the Resistance--reflecting American culture's growing weariness with the seemingly endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The plot also introduces a new breed of Terminator [[TomatoInTheMirror programmed to believe that it's human]], reflecting American culture's fears about terrorists HidingInPlainSight among the American populace.
*** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' (released in 2015, just as digital technology was becoming more ubiquitous than ever) reimagines Skynet as a high-tech digital operating system that rises to power by exploiting humanity's reliance on portable computers in everyday life--reflecting American culture's growing anxieties about cyber warfare and the potential dangers of information manipulation.
*** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' (released in 2019, during a resurgent period of social consciousness in the United States) features a young Mexican woman stepping up to fill the role of [[MessianicArchetype humanity's savior]] following the death of John Connor--reflecting contemporary discourse on diversity and feminism in the wake of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March one of the largest women's rights demonstrations in American history]]. It also briefly portrays the US Border Patrol in an antagonistic context, which many critics [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical viewed]] as a reflection of the [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] administration's controversial [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy policy]] on undocumented immigration from UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}.
* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' wrote in a bit where Creator/ShiaLaBeouf's character Sam gets his hand injured, due to Shia actually injuring his hand when in a car accident during filming. Considering the nature of the movie, it didn't affect filming much at all.
* In ''Film/TheTrain'', it was necessary to add a scene where Creator/BurtLancaster's character was shot and injured while crossing a bridge because the actor had injured his knee playing golf and could only walk with a limp.
* Creator/TylerPerry has discussed in several interviews that his movies are based on his RagsToRiches life story. Some examples include the prevalence of RapeAsBackstory in his movies, relating to his childhood when he was molested several times.
* [[Creator/TheWachowskis The Wachowski Sisters]]:
** The interest in masked characters (i.e. Film/{{V|ForVendetta}}, [[Film/SpeedRacer Racer X]]) in their films might have something to do with their {{reclusive|Artist}}ness as well as Lana and Lilly having to live most of their lives as men.
** When they returned to the public with ''Film/CloudAtlas'', with its actors and actresses playing different genders and races, you can see it as a parallel to Lana's life.
* The Music/JohnnyCash biopic ''Film/WalkTheLine'' starts out with the tragic death of Johnny's older brother when he was a kid. Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, who played the adult Cash, said it was very hard to film scenes that dealt with this, because of [[Creator/RiverPhoenix his own brother's]] death years earlier.
* Creator/MichaelDouglas began shooting ''Film/WallStreetMoneyNeverSleeps'' shortly after his son Cameron was sent to prison on drug-dealing charges, the latest installment in his long battle with addiction. Six years earlier his half-brother Eric had also died of an overdose. Gekko's emotions as he recalls his own ultimately futile efforts to prevent his son's overdose are thus very real for Douglas.
* In the [[{{Recut}} director's cut]] of the ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' film, an FBI agent offers Laurie a smoke and Laurie responds by glaring at him. In real life, Creator/WarnerBros barred her character from smoking for fear of promoting the habit, much to the chagrin of fans and Creator/MalinAkerman.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'':
** A key part of the ComicBook/WonderWoman mythos is that Princess Diana is an Amazon, a member of a legendary race of all-female warriors who defy traditional gender roles to become one of the most elite groups of soldiers on Earth. When she finally got her own big-budget Hollywood movie [[DevelopmentHell after years of failed attempts]], Israeli actress Creator/GalGadot was chosen to play her. Israel is, rather famously, one of the only countries in the world that not only ''allows'' women to serve in the military (up to and including in combat), but actually ''requires'' it. Gadot is no exception: she served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years, making her the first Wonder Woman actress who's actually a veteran herself.
** The film was the first resounding success for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, which had long lingered behind the long-running Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse in both critical reception and box-office returns. It also seems to have been made (in part) as a SpiritualAntithesis to Marvel's film ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', another war-themed period piece about the origin of a superhero with a patriotic costume. Fittingly, much of the movie involves Diana trying to escape the shadow of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a handsome American soldier named "Steve", played by an actor named "Chris"]]. The movie even ends with [[spoiler:"Steve" pulling a HeroicSacrifice to stop a loaded plane from destroying the world's major cities]].
* A major theme in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' is the concept of a second chance in the face of the mutant race's impending extinction. This could be seen as a nod to the fact that the movie was seen by some as a last-ditch effort to revitalize the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', which had been in a critical and box office tailspin since the release of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' and ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''.
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* ''Film/AfterEarth'': Several reviewers have noted the (possibly unintentional) parallel between Cypher pushing his son Kitai to perform in a situation he is ill-prepared for, and Creator/WillSmith having his son Jaden in his pet project.
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' and [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 its sequel]] involved a notable RomanceOnTheSet, as Creator/AndrewGarfield and Creator/EmmaStone began dating at almost exactly the same time that they began playing the famous couple Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy. Fittingly, their onscreen chemistry was one of the most praised aspects of the movies; unlike Creator/TobeyMaguire and Creator/KirstenDunst before them, Garfield and Stone didn't need acting to convince the audience that they were in love.
** Same could be said for Creator/TomHolland and Creator/{{Zendaya}} in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''.
* In ''Film/AndGodCreatedWoman'', Juliette (Creator/BrigitteBardot) marries Michel (Creator/JeanLouisTrintignant) but struggles with, and eventually gives in to her attraction to Michel's brother, Antoine. In real life, Bardot was married to the film's director Roger Vadim, but fell in love with Trintignant during filming, and ended up leaving Vadim for him.
* An unusual case of deliberate [[InvokedTrope invocation]] by the screenwriters of ''Film/TheApartment'': they would keep track of the actors' real-life experiences and try to integrate them into the plot. That's how the whole gin rummy subplot found its way to the screen (Creator/ShirleyMacLaine was learning the game at the time). And some offscreen lines of actors discussing their own private lives were also featured in the film, making it a case of ''offscreen'' ThrowItIn. [[http://nitratediva.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/shirley-maclaine-the-apartment-tcmff/ Here is more.]]
* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'':
** One of the innumerable executive nightmares surrounding the film's production was Creator/MartinSheen having a heart attack due to the stress from filming, suspending filming of all his prominent scenes and making his brother double for him.
** Then there were the helicopters that the Philippine military lent to Coppola for the famous "air cavalry" scene against a village held by communist Viet Cong insurgents. Those were frequently taken back, interrupting filming, to do actual air cavalry work for the Philippine military units engaged in combat with real communist insurgents.
* ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance'' is a clear analogy for Creator/MichaelKeaton[='s=] struggles with escaping his IAmNotSpock status as the man who played Franchise/{{Batman}} in the [[Film/Batman1989 first]] [[Film/BatmanReturns two]] entries in the 1989 film series. The premise itself, in which an actor attempts to escape his typecasting as the titular ShowWithinAShow superhero by taking the lead in a play, is an almost note-for-note calling card for Keaton's attempts at escaping the mantle of the Caped Crusader. What's more, the in-universe play is initially a bit of a failure until a big crazy gimmick sparks the attention of the audience--''Birdman'' is itself a film with a pretty major gimmick, that being its extensive use of TheOner.
* At some point during or before production of ''Bobby'', Creator/LindsayLohan received word that one of her closest friends had passed away. Lohan used her grief over that event to fuel her during the more emotional scenes in the film.
* ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'':
** Since it was shot on location in South Central L.A., the cast and film crew had to deal with many of the same problems with gangs and crime that the movie's characters had to deal with. The dialogue had to be dubbed over in many parts due to gunshots and helicopters in the distance. There were threats of fights between the extras, and in one instance a filming location had to be changed because of threats from a member of the Bloods. The scene in question contained Doughboy, who is heavily implied to be a Crip, shooting someone who is heavily implied to be a Blood. The real-life gang member claimed that he was not responsible if someone actually shot Music/IceCube for portraying their gang negatively.
** The actor who played the blood gang member with the shotgun who murdered [[spoiler:Ricky]] is named Lloyd Avery Jr. In real life, he got mixed up with the gang and criminal lifestyle, despite being a promising actor and eventually kills two people, ending up in prison for it, before he was killed in prison after getting into an argument with another prisoner about religious beliefs. [[note]]He was a born again Christian, while the other prisoner was a Satanist.[[/note]]
* ''Film/CannibalTheMusical'' features a subplot about Alferd Packer and his horse, Liane, who runs away and, he later learns, has been ridden by every man in town. The movie was made by Creator/{{Trey Parker|AndMattStone}} shortly after he found out his fiancee Liane had cheated on him.
* The famous Marseillaise scene in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' features a close up of a woman crying while singing. The film was produced during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Many of the actors, including that woman, were forced to flee Europe due to the German invasion. The emotion in that scene was not faked.
* In ''Film/Catwoman2004'', [[BigBad Laurel Hedare]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who was a famous supermodel in her youth until she committed the worst crime in the fashion world: she turned 40. Hedare is played by Creator/SharonStone, who knows a thing or two about ''that'' subject.
* ''Film/AChristmasCarolGoesWrong'' has an in-universe example. Once the footage of Dennis' birthday party is aired and the entire cast is angry at one another, especially Chris, he uses Scrooge's redemption scene to apologize and make amends with his friends in real life as well as the characters.
* ''Film/Cinderella1965'', starring Creator/LesleyAnnWarren in the title role, gained this when her onscreen WickedStepmother, Creator/JoVanFleet, developed a real-life jealousy of Warren's beauty.
* In ''Film/ClerksII'', Jason Mewes returned to the iconic role of [[TheStoner Jay]] for the first time in five years, with the biggest change to his character being that he had sworn off drugs (''doing'' them, not selling them) and turned to Jesus since the events of the original ''Film/{{Clerks}}''. In reality, Mewes had been battling a heroin addiction since the mid-'90s, which greatly damaged his long-time friendship with Creator/KevinSmith, and had got him sent to court-mandated rehab in 2004. When Smith agreed to let Mewes reprise his role in ''Clerks II'' in 2006, he did it on the condition that Mewes stay clean. Considering Smith had actually forced Mewes into rehab himself at least once before, and he had earlier refused to cast him in ''Film/JerseyGirl'' because of his drug problems, he understood the significance of making Jay an ex-drug user all too well.
** In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobReboot'', a flight attendant tells Jay and Bob she can't sell them airline tickets because of a "wait problem", as in the two are on a no fly list: [[FunWithHomophones Jay mishears this as "weight problem"]] and goes on an extended riff about how Bob went vegan after the events of the previous film and lost a significant amount of weight, enough so that Jay's fat jokes about him no longer apply. Kevin Smith, who was also Silent Bob's actor, was once kicked off a flight because he was deemed too overweight to fit in a single seat, and after a health scare, he later slimmed down after adopting a vegan diet.
* Creator/ElizabethTaylor attempted suicide during the production of ''Film/{{Cleopatra}},'' which makes the film’s ending a little hard to watch.
* The original ''Film/ComingToAmerica'' was inspired by Creator/EddieMurphy's personal life. He was frustrated dating women who cared more about being with a celebrity than getting to know him as a person, hence Prince Akeem's desire to find a woman who "loves me for ''who'' I am, not ''what'' I am."
* Brandon Lee's [[FatalMethodActing fatal shooting with a prop gun]] during the filming of ''Film/TheCrow'' made his portrayal of a musician who was shot to death and came back from the dead for revenge very poignant. The scene in the movie where Eric Draven was killed was heavily edited to change it from an explicit view of Draven being shot to a fast cut of Funboy firing a gun at him, but it couldn't be removed completely because it was the basis of the movie's plot. (Part of this was pragmatic, of course, to hide the double's face.)
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'':
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Creator/HeathLedger's take on the Joker is constantly [[CharacterTics twitching his tongue and licking around his lips]]. Most people thought this was simply one of the Clown Prince's character traits, but according to [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/29/25-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-dark-knight-saga this article]], it wasn't an idle addition:
--->"One of several reasons Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker was so mesmerizing was the unnerving way the actor kept sucking at his cheeks and licking his lips. This facial tic was a result of Ledger's initial discomfort with the prosthetic scar make-up, but was eventually adopted as a character idiosyncrasy after Chris Nolan was suitably freaked out."
** Speaking of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Creator/ChristopherNolan seriously considered using actual footage of the Occupy Wall Street movement, due to the fairly explicit parallels to the movie's plot. He ultimately decided not to, averting the trope.
* In the ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' movies, a frequent source of humor involves the X-Men attempting to convince Deadpool to join the team and act like a traditional superhero, both of which Deadpool adamantly refuses to do. Prior to the first film's release, Creator/RyanReynolds' initial appearance as Deadpool in the relatively family-friendly ''Film/XMen'' {{prequel}} ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' was trashed by fans and critics for stripping the character of everything that made him such a fan-favorite in the comics, and it took the creative team ''years'' to convince Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox to let them bring a [[TruerToTheText more faithful]] portrayal to the screen. The studio wanted to tone down the violence and profane humor of the comics in favor of making a traditional superhero film for general audiences, while the creative team wanted an R-rated movie more in line with the comics. The X-Men's continual attempts to get Deadpool to tone down his antics are reflective of the studio's attempts to do the same.
* Creator/JenniferGrey and Creator/PatrickSwayze's [[HostilityOnTheSet tense working relationship]] going back to ''Film/RedDawn1984'' compounded the on-screen tension during Baby's TrainingMontage in ''Film/DirtyDancing''. Baby's giggling when Johnny Castle brushes his hand down her side, touching her breast, was just Jennifer Grey's nerves getting the better of her. Swayze seems mildly annoyed on most of the takes that ended up in the film.
* In ''[[Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes Dr. Phibes Rises Again]]'', Creator/VincentPrice and Robert Quarry play antagonists. According to insiders, the enmity onscreen was not fake: this was Price's last film for API, as he was being pushed aside for a younger actor. His replacement? Robert Quarry.
* ''Literature/ExitToEden'': Both Creator/DanaDelany and her character, Mistress Lisa, have a butt fetish. In an interview, Dana Delany was asked what's her favorite male body part and her answer was "I love butts. There's nothing better than a good butt." During [[KinkySpanking Citizen Elliot's bondage scene]] Mistress Lisa says:
-->'''Mistress Lisa:''' I like butts. Men's beautiful behinds. You know what I like to do to gorgeous butts? I like to squeeze them, pinch them and caress them.
* Jason Miller, at the time the still-struggling writer of a hit play who'd never acted in movies, asked Creator/WilliamFriedkin for the chance to test for the role of Father Karras in ''Film/TheExorcist'' due to the way the part resonated with his own experience: he'd spent three years himself studying to be a priest until a CrisisOfFaith similar to the one Karras was experiencing in the film led him to drop out.
* ''Film/{{Fatso}}'' stars Creator/DomDeLuise as [[TheDanza Dominick DiNapoli]] a man who is struggling with his weight. The story is a not-at-all disguised take on [=DeLuise=]'s own struggle with obesity.
* ''Film/FeverPitch'':
** The Farrelly Brothers had to completely rewrite the ending after the Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years. They were able to actually film at the last game of the series because both Farrelly Brothers and star Creator/JimmyFallon are actual Sox fans and had personal tickets to the games. Their filming was actually caught ''live on Fox's broadcast of the actual game!''
*** Then again, Fox also produced the film. People unaware of the production probably thought Jimmy Fallon and Creator/DrewBarrymore had a thing for each other.
** This turned out to mirror the true events of Nick Hornby's book from which a directly adapted film was made; the film -- made years after the events -- ends with Arsenal winning a First Division title on the last game of the season, the first in 12 years.
* When Tyler Durden, in his rant about ''Film/FightClub'', says "We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars," he glances at Creator/JaredLeto's character. Jared Leto had just formed his own rock band, Music/ThirtySecondsToMars, and Tyler's actor, Creator/BradPitt, is a "movie god" in his own right.
* Most of the cast and crew of ''Film/TheFront'' had been blacklisted -- their dates of blacklisting are listed under their names during the end credits, including Zero Mostel and director Martin Ritt.
* Because Creator/PaulWalker, who played Brian O'Conner, died during production of ''Film/Furious7'', the film had to be rewritten to accommodate it. The film's tagline is "One Last Ride", there's a scene at [[spoiler:Han's]] funeral where the normally lighthearted Roman grimly tells Brian he can't take any more funerals, and there's also the recurring subplot about how Brian can't afford to go haring off around the world and risking his life when he has a family to take care of.
* The classic 1947 film ''Film/GentlemansAgreement'' has a scene of a meeting where the merits of having the hero pose as a Jewish man to learn first-hand about antisemitism is discussed with senior staff of the magazine. Much of the dialog came directly from meetings of senior executives of Fox Studios discussing the merits of adapting the novel into a film. (It was both a commercial and critical hit and likely was partly the inspiration for John Howard Griffin to pose as a black man in real life in 1959 to learn about racism again blacks, which was the basis of the book and film ''BlackLikeMe''.)
* In ''Film/Ghost1990'', Creator/WhoopiGoldberg plays a PhonyPsychic who soon discovers she's actually a NotSoPhonyPsychic that actually can talk to the dead. But despite working closely with a recently-slain man, she still doubts her abilities throughout much of the movie. According to Goldberg, she was originally unsure whether she should take the part until Creator/PatrickSwayze convinced her and the producers that she'd be perfect. She ended up winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
* The flashback at the end of ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII'' where the family is together for Vito Corleone's birthday was supposed to have him enter at the end, but Creator/MarlonBrando couldn't be gotten back, and instead the scene ends with an announcement that he's there and everybody but Michael rushing out to greet him offscreen. Creator/FrancisFordCoppola decided he actually liked it better with Vito remaining unseen since it created a ghostly feeling that the family as it was then, under Vito, is gone forever.
* At the end of ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'', Creator/SpencerTracy's character says, "...there is nothing, absolutely nothing, you feel for each other that I didn't feel for Christina...the memories are still there, and they'll be there if I live to be a hundred and ten...and if it's half of what we felt, it's everything." The tears in Creator/KatharineHepburn's eyes are real -- Spencer Tracy was dying, and she and Tracy had been together for twenty-five years. He died soon after, and she never saw the finished film, saying that the memories of Tracy were too painful.
* ''Film/{{Help}}'': When Music/TheBeatles try to convince [[Music/RingoStarr Ringo]] [[ComedicSociopathy to let them cut off his finger]] in order to get [[ClingyMacGuffin the cult ring]] off, [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul]] says to Ringo "Well, you didn't miss your tonsils, did you?", referencing the fact that Ringo had gotten a tonsillectomy earlier that year.
* In ''Film/HocusPocus'', Creator/SarahJessicaParker plays one of the three Sanderson Sisters, a trio of evil witches who magically resurrect themselves on [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween night]] 300 years after being [[SalemIsWitchCountry executed for witchcraft in 17th century Salem]]. Many years after starring in the film, Parker discovered that she's actually a direct descendant of Esther Dutch Elwell, one of the last women formally charged with witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials.
* The 1939 adaptation of ''[[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' had a decidedly [[AdaptationalSympathy more sympathetic portrayal towards the Romani]], adding in new themes of humanism and social justice not present in vastly darker, more cynical [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame original Victor Hugo novel]]. This isn't a coincidence; director William Dieterle was a German who fled his home country as [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Nazi war machine]] was -- [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII among other things]] -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide committing systematic genocide of the Romani]], and writer Sonya Levien explicitly wished to parallel the plight of the fictional people of Roma to that of German Jews. The very day the scene where Quasimodo [[ForDoomTheBellTolls was ringing the bells for Esmerelda]] was filmed, the war was properly declared, and everyone on set was so overwhelmed with emotion that Dieterle forgot to yell cut, leaving Creator/CharlesLaughton ringing until he collapsed from exhaustion.
* ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' was to have starred Creator/HeathLedger, but he died before filming was completed. In a show of support, Creator/JohnnyDepp, Creator/JudeLaw, and Creator/ColinFarrell finished the film in his place with the help of a magic mirror (according to an IMDB poster, Ledger has 45 mins of screen-time (out of ~120 total), Law and Farrell 15 each, and Depp 10). The three actors then donated their profits from the movie to Heath Ledger's daughter.
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'':
** The scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' where Indy [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shot the bad guy]] would never have happened had Creator/HarrisonFord not been suffering from a nasty case of dysentery. The exact sequence of real-life events is disputed, but the scene as finally filmed replaced an elaborate "whip vs. sword" duel that Ford wasn't up to filming.
** According to the ''Making of Indiana Jones'' book, they did actually finish shooting the fight, but a test screening where the audience loved the shooting the swordsman bit convinced Creator/GeorgeLucas to use it.
** ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom The Temple of Doom]]''[='s=] [[DarkerAndEdgier darker tone]] was due to Lucas' and [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Spielberg's]] real-life breakups with their wives. Which explains [[LiteralMetaphor having a bad guy who rips out people's hearts]].
* In ''Film/InsideLlewynDavis'', Creator/OscarIsaac and Creator/AdamDriver play a pair of struggling folk singers who finally get their shot at fame when they're invited to sing backup on a song that ends up becoming a huge radio hit. The movie was released in 2013, when Isaac and Driver were both struggling, mostly-obscure character actors with only a few major credits to their names--but just a few months after it was released in the United States, they actually ''did'' get their shot at fame when they were cast as Poe Dameron and Kylo Ren in ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheForceAwakens'', the long-awaited seventh ''Star Wars'' movie. In an amusing coincidence, the song that gives them their shot at the big-time is "Please, Mr. Kennedy", [[HilariousInHindsight a ballad about a man being launched into outer space]].
* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1956'' is often cited as a portrait of Red Scare America. Trust no one; for your neighbors, your friends, even your wife could become one of ''them'': a godless Commie -- er, pod person! By the same token, it's also a view of [=McCarthyism=], with a suspicious Hoover and the FBI keeping Americans under watch. Regardless of any of this, the movie actually averts the trope. WordOfGod stated repeatedly that they were just making a movie and not going for any social/political commentary.
* ''Franchise/JamesBond'':
** In ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Pedro Armendáriz, who played Bond's Turkish sidekick Ali Kerim Bey, was dying of cancer during the production and eventually committed suicide to stop the pain. This makes it particularly poignant when his character makes a HeroicSacrifice and disappears from the film.
** Bond has considerably less sex in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' and ''Film/LicenceToKill'' than the rest of the series, and he has stronger romantic relationships with the [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girls]] of those films. This is because they came out in the late 80s at the height of the AIDS crisis, and the producers didn't want to glorify promiscuity in that atmosphere. This is also mildly invoked in ''Film/GoldenEye''. Even though Bond was back to [[ReallyGetsAround his old self]] by 1995, he makes a quip with Xenia about safe sex, implying that yes, even James Bond wraps it up.
** Speaking of ''Film/GoldenEye'', the film was the first in the series to involve the Internet, and the Bond Girl Natalya is a programmer. This aptly reflected the mid-90s when computers and the Internet started becoming a part of everyday life. Since the movie was a soft reboot of the franchise, this was a deliberate attempt at modernizing Bond, along with more overt plot choices like featuring a post-Soviet Russia and a new female M.
* In the film ''John Doe: Vigilante'', the titular character is a SerialKiller spending his nights [[PayEvilUntoEvil killing child molesters/abusers, rapists, and abusive husbands/boyfriends]]. His final victim is revealed to be the man who murdered his wife and daughter. In an interview, John Doe's portrayer Creator/JamieBamber admitted that it was very easy to imagine the grief and rage that this man was feeling, as he himself is the HappilyMarried father of three girls and simultaneously very hard to play the scenes for that very same reason.
* In ''Film/TheKidsAreAllRight'', Creator/MarkRuffalo incorporated many of his younger brother's personality traits into his performance. His brother had been shot to death in an unsolved homicide a few years prior, and Ruffalo has stated he regarded the character as a way to pay tribute to his brother.
* Both Creator/DustinHoffman and Creator/MerylStreep were dealing with personal losses during the filming of ''Film/KramerVsKramer'' -- Streep with the death of her fiancé John Cazale, Hoffman with a divorce -- infusing the scenes of their crumbling marriage and subsequent custody battle with a dash of painful realism.
* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'': Not only were Lara and Richard Croft [[RealLifeRelative played by a real-life daughter and father]] (Creator/AngelinaJolie and Creator/JonVoight), but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJArvSVqEo their brief scene]] even replicates aspects of their strained real life relationship, with her CallingTheOldManOut for being a DisappearedDad, then telling him she misses him and wishes she could change the past.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** [[HeartwarmingInHindsight Coincidentally]] (it is the exact citation from the book, but in the original, it may be connected with WWI) this exchange in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', which came out in November 2001:
---> '''Frodo:''' I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.\\
'''Gandalf:''' So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.
** Aragorn is first introduced in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' as "Strider", a mysterious veteran Ranger who unexpectedly joins Frodo and his friends after they've begun their journey to Rivendell, and remains rather aloof from the rest of the Fellowship while guiding and protecting them. This actually parallels how Aragorn's actor, Creator/ViggoMortensen, joined the cast of the movie: he was an unexpected replacement for Stuart Townsend, and joined the cast [[TheOtherMarty after a few of Townsend's scenes had already been filmed]]; while most of the Fellowship's actors had time to get to know each other before filming began, Mortensen was a latecomer, and was somewhat aloof from his castmates during the early part of filming.
* The violent murder of Macduff's wife and children in Creator/RomanPolanski's 1971 film adaptation of ''Film/{{Macbeth|1971}}'' is somewhat difficult to watch due to this trope, as Polanski's pregnant wife Sharon Tate was violently murdered along with four others by followers of the UsefulNotes/MansonFamily.
* ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'' has enough of this that a whole other movie was made to explore it! Creator/JimCarrey in [[https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/ep-32-jim-carrey-on-characters-comedy-and-existence/id1209259768?i=1000392564726 this podcast interview]] and the documentary ''Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond'' discusses at length how his choice to take a more-than-MethodActing approach to playing Creator/AndyKaufman, a TrollingCreator, in the film was partially rooted in his being tired of maintaining a sunshiny public face as "Jim Carrey" for the sake of his career prospects and longing to '''be''' someone who could act exactly as they wanted without justification or apology to anyone confused and/or upset. As well, there is a parallel in Kaufman's distaste for being tied down to the sitcom ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' and his preference for potentially audience-alienating performance art to Carrey choosing not to be tied down to his mid-'90s blockbusters (''Film/AceVentura'', ''Film/TheMask'', ''Film/DumbAndDumber'') in favor of more complex fare (in particular ''Film/TheCableGuy'' and ''Film/TheTrumanShow'').
* For ''Film/TheManWhoInventedChristmas'', 87-year-old Creator/ChristopherPlummer is the oldest actor to ever play Scrooge onscreen, making Scrooge begging to do something good before he dies hit even harder.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** ''Film/IronManFilms'':
*** [[Film/IronMan1 The original film]] is now largely famous for leading to Creator/RobertDowneyJr's [[CareerResurrection comeback]] after his widely publicized problems with substance abuse derailed his career. Appropriately, Tony Stark's struggles with alcoholism have long been a major element of the comic book's mythos, and the first movie is ultimately about Stark resolving to turn his life around after getting a second chance at life.
*** ''Film/IronMan3'' was supposed to be an adaptation of [[ComicBook/IronMan the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline]] but was changed at Downey's behest. He didn't want to get in the headspace to put his own recovery from alcoholism at risk.
*** The Mandarin is often considered a controversial character in a modern context, as he was a YellowPeril villain created back when East Asians were easy to mock because of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. ''Film/IronMan3'' acknowledged this and subverted it by revealing that [[spoiler:the Mandarin is actually a DecoyLeader created by the real villain, who is a white American. It turns out he literally crafted the Mandarin as an over-the-top character to act as a scapegoat for his crimes]]. Unfortunately, this means that [[spoiler:with [[Film/AvengersEndgame his final film]], and barring any Multiverse shenanigans, the Sacred Timeline's Iron Man died without ever encountering his ArchEnemy from the comics]].
** ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'': Towards the end of the first phase of the final battle between the Hulk and Abomination, Hulk wrecks a police car and wields the torn halves as massive boxing gloves, a move lifted straight from the video game ''VideoGame/TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction'', itself considered one of, if not the best depictions of the Hulk since then.
** For ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', Creator/MarkRuffalo has stated he was extremely hesitant about taking the role of Bruce Banner. He called Creator/RobertDowneyJr for advice, who convinced him to take the part. Ruffalo ended up kicking ass as Banner/Hulk. This is amusingly similar to their characters' relationship in the movie.
** At the beginning of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', Korath has no idea who Peter Quill aka "Star-Lord" is. This lack of recognition reflects the obscurity of the comic series compared to other properties from the MCU. His getting it right at the end reflects the hope that the film could raise its profile among fans. Judging by the reviews and box office totals, this wish likely came true.
** ''Film/AntMan1'':
*** The trailers and marketing contained nods to the fact that the character is often considered a complete joke by many people, with one MissingTrailerScene in particular showing Scott asking if it's too late to change the name. In the film itself, ComicBook/TheFalcon looks like he's about to burst out laughing when Ant-Man first tells him his name.
*** When Hope is given the [[ComicBook/TheWasp Wasp]] armor by Hank in TheStinger, she simply grins and says "It's about damn time." This references the fact that despite being one of the founding Avengers in the comics, the Wasp was AdaptedOut of the first two ''Avengers'' films and the MCU as a whole before that point. It also references the fact that starting with Phase 3, Marvel began more seriously addressing the complaints about the lack of [[TheSmurfettePrinciple female]] and [[MonochromeCasting and minority]] superheroes in Phases 1 and 2.
** ''Film/CaptainAmerica'':
*** When making ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier The Winter Soldier]]'', Chris Evans had become so impressed with the combat gameplay for [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger the first film]]'s tie-in video game ''VideoGame/CaptainAmericaSuperSoldier'', he and the Russo brothers discussed adapting a similar, more acrobatic fighting style for Cap in the movies. The film ended up receiving praise from both critics and fans for its fight sequences and choreography.
*** ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Civil War]]''
*** Tony Stark tells Peter Parker that he's here to give him a much-needed revamp and upgrade could be seen as a nod to Marvel Studios trying to fix Sony's ''Spider-Man'' franchise after the failure of ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''.
*** Some have viewed the film's premise of the Avengers splitting into two factions going against each other as being accidentally reflective of the massive friction and tension generated by the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. The USA at the time was said to have engaged in a kind of "social civil war" having been deeply polarized by its two candidates, particularly the surprising popularity and support of its [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump most controversial candidate and eventual winner]]. The film's tagline "United We Stand. Divided We Fall." somewhat highlighted this.
* The Oracle in ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' had to be [[TheOtherDarrin played by a different actor]] during ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'', as the previous actor died from complications of diabetes. Hence that strange scene right before she sends the main characters to the Merovingian, explained in-universe as a case of TheNthDoctor.
* ''Film/MediumCool'', a {{Mockumentary}} shot and filmed during the Chicago 1968 riots outside the Democratic National Convention. [[WordOfGod It was supposed to be]] a film about poverty and [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing media manipulation]], and it was contemplated that the finale would be MLK's planned March on Poverty, but the director had it on word from friends in Chicago that a massive demonstration was about to take place, and then MLK and RFK got assassinated during filming, which were incorporated into the plot. Oh, and the film is shot [[EnforcedMethodActing entirely on-location while events took place]].
* ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'', a family movie made by recycling bits of footage from a horror anthology rejected by the studio, features Creator/ErnestBorgnine as a grandfather who tells his grandson stories from a horror anthology he wrote that the studio rejected.
* In Creator/FritzLang's ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', the [[MadScientist depraved inventor]] Rotwang is said to have been previously in love with his boss [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Joh Fredersen]]'s wife Hel, who left him to marry Fredersen. In real life, Rotwang's actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge was previously married to Fritz Lang's wife Thea Von Harbou (who [[CreatorCouple wrote the film's screenplay]], as well as the original novel that it was based on), who left Klein-Rogge to marry Lang after having an extramarital affair with him. That said, Lang and Klein-Rogge reportedly [[AmicableExes remained good friends for years after the incident]], and Lang repeatedly denied that his films reflected his personal life.
* When Al Michaels reprised his RealLife role as the broadcaster of the US-Soviet Union hockey game in ''Film/{{Miracle}}'', most of his lines were scripted. However, the last seconds of the game featured the RealLife call from 1980 in the belief that Michaels could never duplicate that same emotion.
* In-universe example in ''Film/MoulinRouge''; the plot of the ShowWithinAShow mirrors the romance of Christian and Satine with the looming threat of the Duke. The Duke does not take it well when this is pointed out to him.
* In the 1996 version of ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1996}}'', Klump says, "Buddy's who I thought the whole world wanted me to be." This is almost certainly a reference to Creator/EddieMurphy's own movie career. Series/SiskelAndEbert even noted this in their review.
* ''Film/Pathfinder1987'' is about the Sámi people of northern Scandinavia being pushed out of their ancestral lands by invaders. The film aired amidst a Sámi civil rights movement following centuries of efforts at cultural erasure.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDvymblSdh4#t=51m09s this scene]] in ''Picasso Trigger'', Taryn's shown flying a Cessna 172P Skyhawk. Her actress, Hope Marie Carlton is a licensed pilot in RealLife.
* Creator/CharltonHeston appears in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' as Thade's father. Heston's character, an ape on his deathbed, gives a gun to his son Thade, saying that it has "the power of a thousand swords." His last words, a nod to Heston's original role as the protagonist in the original 1968 film, were [[ActorAllusion "Damn them all to hell"]] regarding the humans[[note]]Heston's character in the original film, a human himself, said the same line in the context of cursing humans for destroying themselves and allowing the apes to replace them[[/note]]. In real life, Charlton Heston was also president of the National Rifle Association.
* ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'':
** The family's eldest daughter is entirely missing from ''Film/PoltergeistIITheOtherSide'' and ''Film/PoltergeistIII'', as Dominique Dunne, the actress who played her, had been murdered in 1982. The role was not re-cast and the absence of the character was not mentioned, almost a [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Brother Chuck]]. Ms. Dunne also appeared in an episode of ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' playing an abuse victim, but many of the bruises on her face were genuine, inflicted by her boyfriend (her eventual killer).
** The actor who played the evil preacher, Julian Beck, was actually that gaunt: he was dying of cancer and didn't need that much makeup to look like a skeleton.
** Creator/HeatherORourke, who played Carol Anne, was noticeably chubby in the third movie due to the medication for her Crohn's disease. She would later die from surgical complications after filming completed in 1988 at [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth 12 years old]].
* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'':
** The reason Creator/MandyPatinkin's HeroicResolve was so convincing is a bit of very dedicated method acting: he thought of Rugen in that scene as being the cancer that killed Patinkin's own RealLife father.
---> "''I want my '''father''' back, you son of a bitch.''"
** Another bit is the fear in Christopher Guest's performance when he faces down Inigo. Patinkin actually had accidentally injured Guest in a training exercise some time beforehand.
* ''Film/ThePurge'':
** ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'' was released during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and certain elements of the story were pretty on the nose about it. The blonde, female Presidential candidate was a less-than-subtle NoCelebritiesWereHarmed take on UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton (though her policies and behavior have been said to make her closer to a DistaffCounterpart to UsefulNotes/BernieSanders) while her politically inexperienced Pro-Purge opponent obviously represented UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. Even the film's marketing took jabs at Trump's campaign, with {{tagline}}s like "Keep America Great"[[note]]His well-known campaign slogan being "Make America Great Again". Ironically enough, [[LifeImitatesArt Trump would actually use "Keep America Great" for his 2020 campaign]].[[/note]] or reviews stating "This Purge ''trumps'' them all."
** ''Film/TheFirstPurge'' also looks to have this as it showcases the stark polarization of the public's opinion of implementing the Purge which more or less parallels the current RealLife division among political affiliations in regards to the Trump presidency.
* In the movie ''Film/{{Push}}'', Creator/DakotaFanning plays a girl with psychic precognitive powers. What makes this particularly funny is Ms. Fanning's apparent extreme intelligence which has led to some jokes about her having actual "powers."
* Creator/RobertDeNiro alerted his friend and director Creator/MartinScorsese to boxing biopic ''Film/RagingBull'' in the hope that engaging with the project would help Scorsese address his own self-destructive impulses.
* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'':
** Both the first and last films mirror Creator/SylvesterStallone's story of making them quite movingly. He had over 30 failed screenplays to his name before United Artists took a chance on ''Film/{{Rocky}}'', and he was instantly catapulted to fame and fortune. Then when Stallone tried to make ''Film/RockyBalboa'', it was at a time when he was a laughingstock after several poor career moves, and no one thought the film could be anything but a disaster. Yet when the film was released, the fans all trumpeted it as a worthy conclusion to the story.
** ''Film/RockyII'' is about Rocky’s new found fame quickly running out, along with the accompanying financial resources. As a result he reluctantly accepts a challenge from Apollo for a rematch. There was never intended to be a sequel to the original film. They even have a LeaningOnTheFourthWall moment at the end when Apollo tells Rocky there won’t be a rematch and his response that he doesn’t want one. Unfortunately both of Stallone’s follow up starring roles, F.I.S.T. and Paradise Alley, were both critical and commercial flops leading many to suspect that he was destined to become a OneHitWonder. Rather than have that be his fate Stallone then wrote and directed the sequel which solidified his place as a star.
** This trope was further emphasized with the spin-off film ''Film/{{Creed}}'', which focuses on Adonis, the son of Apollo Creed, trying to become a boxer in his own right with the aid of Rocky's training. The film was the first in the series that Stallone neither wrote nor directed, and it essentially allowed him to pass the torch to Ryan Coogler and Creator/MichaelBJordan in the same way that Rocky does with Adonis.
** ''Film/RockyIV'', which pits Rocky against the brutish Soviet boxer Ivan Drago, was famously released near the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and was made as a blatantly patriotic celebration of America's triumph over Russia. ''Film/CreedII'' is an intergenerational story that pits Adonis Creed against Drago's son Viktor, who turns out to be just as much of a brute as his father. Notably, it was made in 2018, during a period of [[HistoryRepeats renewed tension]] between the United States and UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's Russia.
* The titular rumor of ''Film/RumorHasIt'', about how Sarah's parents were the inspiration for the movie ''Film/TheGraduate'', stems from a real-life rumor that the original novel was inspired by an actual family.
* Branko Lustig helped to direct ''Film/SchindlersList'', a story about a German man who saved more than a thousand Jewish lives during [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust the Holocaust]]. Lustig was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp (where up to 1 million Jews were murdered) so the film had very significant meaning to him. This is reflected in the speech he gave at the 1994 Oscars upon the film winning the Academy Award for Best Picture:
-->"[[http://youtu.be/1HKTYYX50hQ?t=3m13s My number was 83317. I am a Holocaust survivor. It's a long way from Auschwitz to this stage.]]"
* In ''Film/ASimpleWish'', Annabel and her father have a close relationship following the death of Annabel's mother. This deeply ridiculous movie suddenly becomes a TearJerker with the reality subtext: Creator/MaraWilson, who played Annabel, was still recovering from the death of her own mother halfway through the filming of ''Film/{{Matilda}}''. She really does adore her father, who single-handedly raised Wilson and her brothers while managing his daughter's film career, thus doing a much better job than [[WaitingForABreak Annabel's father]].
* Similar to the ''Planet of the Apes'' example above, the tears that Thorn sheds for Sol near the climax of ''Film/SoylentGreen'' are real, as Creator/CharltonHeston is crying for Creator/EdwardGRobinson who was dying of cancer at the time (this was Robinson's last film).
* ''Film/SpaceJam'':
** The subplot with UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan playing baseball is based very loosely on his real life semi-retirement. It's essential to the plot because it means the aliens don't think to steal his basketball skills and this incident, in turn, leads to him returning to basketball which he also did in real life, making this a sort-of fictional autobiographical account. They even go so far as to acknowledge in-film that Jordan is a subpar baseball player and is only being indulged because of his celebrity.
** And for those wondering why the hell Creator/BillMurray is in the film trying to play basketball? That's actually a reference to the series of promo ads Murray did for the league circa 1995 claiming he was going to play NBA ball.
* ''Film/SpiderMan1'':
** It is believed that following 9/11, an entire scene was cut from the first film where Spidey strings a huge web in between the World Trade towers. There was a trailer composed of this scene (which was, obviously, pulled after the attacks), but whether this scene was from the movie or created specifically for the trailer is less certain.
** Likewise the scene where the New Yorkers help out Spidey against Green Goblin as he tries to save a tram of school kids and Mary Jane i.e. the citizens of the city banding together.
* In ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'', Creator/RicardoMontalban's character confronts the EvilFormerFriend who left him wheelchair-bound... then delivers a quietly passionate speech about everything his disability has cost him and everything he's learned from it, culminating in offering his forgiveness, which said friend emotionally accepts. It's also a case of DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: Montalbán was paralyzed by a botched spinal surgery and was speaking from personal experience.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'':
*** The movie entails the forging of peace between long-standing enemies, {{the Federation}} and the Klingon Empire, as the Klingons face extinction following the destruction of their moon, Praxis. The film, released in 1991, bluntly parallels the ending of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar as tensions between the United States (the Federation) and the Soviet Union (Klingons) had subsided partially due to the potential damage done to Russia, one of the world's greatest superpowers, after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 (the destruction of Praxis).
*** Additionally, ''Star Trek VI'' marked the official GrandFinale for the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]]'' era of the Franchise/TrekVerse and was the final bow for the original cast, hence their signatures at the end credits. It was also the last ''Star Trek'' production that franchise creator Creator/GeneRoddenberry was involved in as he passed away days after watching the finished film.
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
*** The central plot of the movie, which involves a villain's plan to turn Starfleet into a more militaristic version of itself, is largely reflective of the fandom's concerns about the once-optimistic franchise taking a DarkerAndEdgier turn and overemphasizing action and conflict at the expense of creative storytelling. Fittingly, the movie ends with [[spoiler:Kirk and company beginning their five-year exploration mission]], with Kirk giving a speech about the importance of Starfleet [[RevisitingTheRoots staying true to its founding principles of peacekeeping and discovery]].
*** The film can also be seen as an example of a once-good government taking increasingly dark and amoral actions in the name of protecting its citizens from a perceived outside threat, a subject that is very relevant to the post-9/11 western world.
** ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'':
*** In this film, Spock learns about the death of his Prime Timeline version and - Vulcan stoicism aside - is devastated, later speaking of how he wants to "live as he did". A sentiment that Creator/ZacharyQuinto likely feels just as his character does, given his friendship with the late Creator/LeonardNimoy.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** The first major action sequence in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', where Luke is attacked by a Wampa, was created solely to explain the scars on Creator/MarkHamill's face from a bad car accident that Hamill was in towards the end of filming ''Film/ANewHope''.
** One of Creator/HarrisonFord's more memorable ad-libs in ''Film/ANewHope'' is generally agreed to be the scene where Han attempts to bluff his way through a radio conversation with an Imperial officer on the Death Star after the heroes accidentally get into a firefight with a few Stormtroopers. Han's flustered efforts to bluff his way through the exchange ("Uh... Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you... How are you?") are all the more believable because Ford neglected to memorize his lines for that scene, and actually ''was'' [[IndyPloy improvising as he went along]]. Han's wincing expression at the end of that monologue (as if to say "They couldn't ''possibly'' have bought that...") was actually Ford's expression, as he was absolutely sure that he'd screwed up that take.
** General Hux, one of the CoDragons in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', was born during the last days of the Galactic Empire. [[Creator/DomhnallGleeson His actor]] was born on May 12, 1983. ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' was released on May 25 of the same year.
* In ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'', Norma Desmond, a forgotten silent film star is played by Creator/GloriaSwanson, a forgotten silent film star herself. Her butler, Max, who was a leading director in the silent film era, is played by Creator/ErichVonStroheim, who was a leading director in the silent film era. For bonus points, the StockFootage of a younger Swanson chosen to represent Norma Desmond as she was as a silent film star was from the obscure feature ''Queen Kelly'', which was directed by von Stroheim. Norma also used to work with Creator/CecilBDeMille, who appears in the film playing himself; in real life, he did work with Swanson several times.
* In ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', several Hollywood actors and creators are mocked for their liberal politics, with Creator/MichaelMoore being one of the prime targets. The reason for this was that Moore had used ManipulativeEditing and a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-style cartoon in ''Film/BowlingForColumbine'' to make it appear that Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone worked on the film with him and were in favor of his ideology. They didn't and they weren't, so this was their way of getting revenge.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'': Besides [[MythologyGag the franchise's classic catchphrases]], one of the T-800's new {{Catch Phrase}}s was "Old, but not obsolete", referring to critics who felt that Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger had become too old to play the Terminator anymore.
** More broadly, the stories and themes of the ''Terminator'' films have more-or-less ''always'' evolved to fit the political and social climate of their moment in time, in some ways more subtle than others. To elaborate:
*** The original film (released in 1984, during a period of resurgent tensions in the UsefulNotes/ColdWar) features Sarah Connor preparing to face a [[YouCantFightFate seemingly inevitable]] nuclear holocaust--reflecting American culture's then-contemporary fears about the possibility of nuclear war between the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates and the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion. Appropriately enough: it also introduces [[GreaterScopeVillain Skynet]] as a global network of [[KillSat armed satellites]], which bears a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything noticeable resemblance]] to the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] administration's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative Strategic Defense Initiative]], which was announced the year before the film was released.
*** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' (released in 1991, the year that the UsefulNotes/ColdWar ended) features John and Sarah Connor successfully preventing the nuclear holocaust that Sarah had previously feared, proving that [[ScrewDestiny it's not so inevitable after all]]--reflecting American culture's then-contemporary sense of relief after the long-prophesied nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union never came to pass.
*** ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' (released in 2003, shortly after the 9/11 attacks) features John Connor and Kate Brewster facing an uncertain future after discovering that the nuclear holocaust of "Judgment Day" really ''is'' inevitable, and Skynet's defeat was never going to last forever--reflecting American culture's reckoning with the onset of the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror, which ended a decade of relative peace and stability following the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. It also reimagines Skynet as a global network of computers, reflecting the then-recent rise of the internet.
*** ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' (released in 2009, when the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror had been raging for nearly a decade) is an epic war film focused on the ForeverWar between Skynet and the Resistance--reflecting American culture's growing weariness with the seemingly endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The plot also introduces a new breed of Terminator [[TomatoInTheMirror programmed to believe that it's human]], reflecting American culture's fears about terrorists HidingInPlainSight among the American populace.
*** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' (released in 2015, just as digital technology was becoming more ubiquitous than ever) reimagines Skynet as a high-tech digital operating system that rises to power by exploiting humanity's reliance on portable computers in everyday life--reflecting American culture's growing anxieties about cyber warfare and the potential dangers of information manipulation.
*** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' (released in 2019, during a resurgent period of social consciousness in the United States) features a young Mexican woman stepping up to fill the role of [[MessianicArchetype humanity's savior]] following the death of John Connor--reflecting contemporary discourse on diversity and feminism in the wake of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March one of the largest women's rights demonstrations in American history]]. It also briefly portrays the US Border Patrol in an antagonistic context, which many critics [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical viewed]] as a reflection of the [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] administration's controversial [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy policy]] on undocumented immigration from UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}.
* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' wrote in a bit where Creator/ShiaLaBeouf's character Sam gets his hand injured, due to Shia actually injuring his hand when in a car accident during filming. Considering the nature of the movie, it didn't affect filming much at all.
* In ''Film/TheTrain'', it was necessary to add a scene where Creator/BurtLancaster's character was shot and injured while crossing a bridge because the actor had injured his knee playing golf and could only walk with a limp.
* Creator/TylerPerry has discussed in several interviews that his movies are based on his RagsToRiches life story. Some examples include the prevalence of RapeAsBackstory in his movies, relating to his childhood when he was molested several times.
* [[Creator/TheWachowskis The Wachowski Sisters]]:
** The interest in masked characters (i.e. Film/{{V|ForVendetta}}, [[Film/SpeedRacer Racer X]]) in their films might have something to do with their {{reclusive|Artist}}ness as well as Lana and Lilly having to live most of their lives as men.
** When they returned to the public with ''Film/CloudAtlas'', with its actors and actresses playing different genders and races, you can see it as a parallel to Lana's life.
* The Music/JohnnyCash biopic ''Film/WalkTheLine'' starts out with the tragic death of Johnny's older brother when he was a kid. Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, who played the adult Cash, said it was very hard to film scenes that dealt with this, because of [[Creator/RiverPhoenix his own brother's]] death years earlier.
* Creator/MichaelDouglas began shooting ''Film/WallStreetMoneyNeverSleeps'' shortly after his son Cameron was sent to prison on drug-dealing charges, the latest installment in his long battle with addiction. Six years earlier his half-brother Eric had also died of an overdose. Gekko's emotions as he recalls his own ultimately futile efforts to prevent his son's overdose are thus very real for Douglas.
* In the [[{{Recut}} director's cut]] of the ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' film, an FBI agent offers Laurie a smoke and Laurie responds by glaring at him. In real life, Creator/WarnerBros barred her character from smoking for fear of promoting the habit, much to the chagrin of fans and Creator/MalinAkerman.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'':
** A key part of the ComicBook/WonderWoman mythos is that Princess Diana is an Amazon, a member of a legendary race of all-female warriors who defy traditional gender roles to become one of the most elite groups of soldiers on Earth. When she finally got her own big-budget Hollywood movie [[DevelopmentHell after years of failed attempts]], Israeli actress Creator/GalGadot was chosen to play her. Israel is, rather famously, one of the only countries in the world that not only ''allows'' women to serve in the military (up to and including in combat), but actually ''requires'' it. Gadot is no exception: she served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years, making her the first Wonder Woman actress who's actually a veteran herself.
** The film was the first resounding success for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, which had long lingered behind the long-running Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse in both critical reception and box-office returns. It also seems to have been made (in part) as a SpiritualAntithesis to Marvel's film ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', another war-themed period piece about the origin of a superhero with a patriotic costume. Fittingly, much of the movie involves Diana trying to escape the shadow of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a handsome American soldier named "Steve", played by an actor named "Chris"]]. The movie even ends with [[spoiler:"Steve" pulling a HeroicSacrifice to stop a loaded plane from destroying the world's major cities]].
* A major theme in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' is the concept of a second chance in the face of the mutant race's impending extinction. This could be seen as a nod to the fact that the movie was seen by some as a last-ditch effort to revitalize the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', which had been in a critical and box office tailspin since the release of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' and ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''.
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