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Most Overused Piece of Movie Trivia

Posted by on Jan 8, 2008 in In General | 0 comments

You made it just under the line, Neatorama. The next person or entity who informs me that Alfred Hitchcock used chocolate syrup as fake blood in the shower scene of Psycho is getting punched in the neck. Is the chocolate syrup trick really the most astounding bit of trivia in film history? IMDB tells us that at least 700k movies have been made. If we estimate each movie at about 1.5 hours in length, that’s 1,050,000 hours, or 63 million minutes, of on screen entertainment. Let us also assume each scene lasts about 2 minutes. That’s 31.5 million scenes. Out of the 31.5 million...

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