Vote up the jolliest details from unusual Christmas classics.
'Tis the season for holiday movies. It's A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation...all are cinema classics that are a joy to watch each year. But we shouldn't forget the new "holiday classics" that might not be about the season of giving, but have become holiday traditions nonetheless. Here is a look at a few interesting and somewhat hidden details about unconventional movies that people now watch each holiday season.Â
In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark references the film A Christmas Story. Peter Billingsley, who plays the main character in A Christmas Story, is also the guy Obadiah Stane yelled at in the first Iron Man.
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Luna wears a bracelet with a hare on it to Slughorn's Christmas Party. This is a reference to her patronus. Also, the bracelet was made by Evanna Lynch, the actress who plays Luna.
In Die Hard (1988), Alan Rickman’s petrified expression while falling was completely genuine. the stunt team instructed him that they would drop him on the count of "3," but instead dropped him at "1."
In Trading Places (1983), Louis Winthorpe’s (Dan Aykroyd) prison number is the same as Jake Blues’ (John Belushi) prison number in The Blues Brothers (also starring Aykroyd, both movies were directed by John Landis) as an homage to Belushi, who had died the year before.
In Batman Returns (1992), Max Schreck betrays the Mayor. Later on at Schreck’s Christmas masquerade ball, the Mayor is wearing a costume of a knife in his back.
