5 Iconic Movie Moments That Happened By Accident

Movies takes a lot of work to make, often needing multiple takes every scene. It can be a very tiring process that happens in every film. That is why everything must be in order during a shoot. But there are some moments that happen completely by accident that become as iconic as the whole movie itself. Here are 5 of these moments.

1. The Dark Knight

The hospital scene was a big turning point in the Dark Knight film. The Joker (Heath Ledger) planted bombs in the hospital and decides to blow it up as he walks away. The filming location was rigged with explosives but it was only a one time thing so everything must go exactly as planned. During the shoot however, one of the explosions didn't set off as it was supposed to. Heath Ledger noticed this but didn't break character, instead he tried to give it a shake, hit it a couple of times and boom. He takes off with a laugh and it became a  cinematic history.

2. Casino Royale

Daniel Craig swims in the beach, then as Solange got off her horse, he stands up from the water and watches her as he walks slowly to the shore. This scene in particular completely changed critics' mind about having a blonde James Bond. He pretty much sealed his role as the the new secret agent 007. However, the scene wasn't actually on the script. He was supposed to float off the water while he ogles Solange, but as outdoor filming locations can be unpredictable sometimes, he hits a sandbank while swimming. So instead of swimming, he decides to stand up.

3. Zoolander

"Why male models?" Zoolander asks former hand model JP Dewitt after he already explained the whole plot to him. This is one of the funniest scenes from the movie that cracked up the whole audience when it premiered. The truth however, is that this movie moment happened when Ben Stiller (Zoolander) forgot his next line. David Duchovny (JP) went on with it and ad-libbed the line "Are you kidding? I just told you like a minute ago!".

4. Django Unchained

Everything was going well during the shoot of Tarantino's Django Unchained. Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) asks Django about his relationship with Broomhilda, his slave. He was very menacing throughout, and at one point smashes a table to make his point. What was unexpected though was DiCaprio accidentally cuts his hand on the glass of the table. He was bleeding heavily, but decides to continue his speech. He even went so far as to smear his blood over the face of Kerry Washington, much to her disgust.

5. Midnight Cowboy

Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight's characters were supposed to cross the road. Everything was timed perfectly for the said scene to go off without a hitch. But a taxi driver ignored the light and almost hit the two actors. Dustin Hoffman ad-libbed the line "I'm walking here", which has become a part of pop-culture ever since.

Why Sam Mendes Thought Casting Daniel Craig As Bond Was A Bad Idea

You might have read our recent article about Skyfall director Sam Mendes stating that the upcoming 007 film 'Spectre' will be his final Bond movie, now the Oscar winning director has shared his initial reaction when he first heard about the news that Daniel Craig had been cast as the famed James Bond for the 2006 reboot of the franchise 'Casino Royale'.

For almost 10 years we have seen Craig play the famous secret agent, already cementing his legacy in his portrayal as one of the best Bonds ever in cinema. This wasn't always the case however, since his casting back in the day was met with criticism from fans of the franchise. As it turns out, Spectre director Sam Mendes was apparently one of those who thought Craig was not the right fit for the said role.

He recently told in an interview with BBC while on the filming location of Spectre about his first opinion during the time when Daniel Craig's name was floating around as being the new James Bond. Just as the fans who thought that a 'blonde' James Bond was not appropriate for the role, Mendes also had his thoughts about the proposal, considering that he has worked with Daniel Craig before in a previous film.

He explained that: " I had cast Daniel Craig in this film I made in Chicago called Road To Perdition about 15 years ago, and it was his first big American film. The role of Bond came up four or five years later and I was called by Entertainment Weekly, a showbiz publication, and they said 'your old friend and collaborator Daniel Craig has been suggested as Bond, what do you think?' and I said 'terrible idea – he shouldn't do it'. For me at the time I thought Bond had become the opposite of what Daniel is – a slightly disengaged, urbane jokey eyebrow-raising, you know, a pastiche in a way, and I felt Daniel's reality and his passion and honesty as an actor would not work. But of course the franchise adapted to work with Daniel and when I saw Casino Royale, I thought it was a fantastic piece of casting. And it was that that got me re-interested in Bond as a movie.”

It turns out that he thought it was a terrible idea because of his respect for Daniel Craig as an actor, and that the character of James Bond has been turned into a pastiche, a caricature of what the secret agent once was. The over the top plots and the ridiculous technology introduced during Brosnan's era was not something that the director wanted Craig to star in. Simply put, he thought Daniel Craig's talents would be wasted in the film.

Fortunately, Daniel Craig's outing as 007 in the adaptation of Ian Fleming's 'Quantum of Solace' was a big success. The movie brought the franchise back to its roots and made Bond into a gritty, action packed movie. And for the following years, the Bond franchise has gotten bigger and better, with Spectre boasting an international filming location that is promised to be the biggest Bond movie yet.