Saturday, February 21, 2015

Random movie and game trivia

     Hello all, I'm writing my final Defense of Fairy Tales post for next week but I didn't want to skip out on this week like I normally do (sorry about that) I'm going to share with you some of my favorite bits of trivia about things so without further ado...

There are actually four "first Pokemon" contenders: Bulbasaur is the first Pokemon in the national Pokedex. Arceus was the first thing to exist (but only took physical form later on.) Mew was the first Pokemon to be defined as a "Pocket Monster." Finally Rhydon was the first Pokemon designed in this world.

Drowzee is thought to be based on a tapir but may actually be based on the Baku, a spirit in Japanese mythology that, granted looks like a giant tapir but according to mythology is actually capable of eating dreams like Drowzee does, which is some thing most tapirs can't do. 

The Physic type in Pokemon is weak to three types which are Bug, Dark, and Ghost, which are also three of the most common human fears, which makes sense since the Physic type is all about brain power and as anyone who has gone into their basement at night knows: fears destroy every bit of reason. 

Since most of the production time was spend on the special effects and not on the script the 2008 Iron Man had only an outline of a script when filming came around, so almost the entirety of the movie is in prov.

The CGI Empire State Building used in Peter Jackon's King Kong  took 18 months to make; the best part: the real Empire State Building was built in 14 months. 

Godzilla's famous (and trademarked) roar used in the original Godzilla was made in a rather awesome way: a resin covered glove was rubbed over the strings of a double bass and the resulting sound was than amplified in an echo chamber.