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

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

Filmmakers have numerous options for creating "movie magic," making it almost impossible to distinguish between CGI and practical effects, as well as what is intentional and what is accidental. Thankfully, we also have the internet to explain the parts of our favorite movies that weren't exactly scripted as they ended up.

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

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

He is Buddhist, and the poor guy had to pray for forgiveness after each take.

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

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

Variety

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

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

Cosmopolitan

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

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

People

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

And he didn't even get stung!

Indie Wire

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

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

IGN

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

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

NME

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

But because Leo is #foreverbeastmode, he powered through the scene as if it was meant to happen, even as his hand bled all over the table.

Hollywood Reporter

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

Man-o-lantern forever!

YouTube

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

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

Reverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yahoo

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

They got the reactions they were looking for, I guess.

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

Fun fact: Orlando Bloom also cracked some ribs during filming.