These Iconic Movie Lines Were Not Part Of The Original Script

Published on January 31, 2022
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The Third Man

One of the most well known monologues in a film appears in The Third Man. Surprisingly, the entire monologue delivered by Orson Welles was completely unplanned. The speech in question was: “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

The Third Man

The Third Man

This Is Spinal Tap

They say life imitates art, and such is the case with the  fictional band Spinal Tap from the film This Is Spinal Tap, which produced real music you can still listen to today. The mockumentary meant to satirize 80s hair bands of the time and poked fun at their rock n’ roll lifestyles. Due to its comedic nature, many of the lines of the film were completely ad libbed by Michael McKean, Harry SHearer, and Christopher Guest.

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This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap