Bloopers No One Got To See

Plenty of Star Wars B-roll and bloopers have leaked out over the years, but for some reason, outtakes of the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi remain unseen—probably to preserve the dignity of actor Sir Alec Guinness or his co-star Mark Hamill. 

The very first Star Wars lightsaber fight occurs in the first movie in the franchise, 1977's A New Hope. As our heroes flee Imperial captivity with Princess Leia in tow, Darth Vader defeats Luke Skywalker's mentor Obi-Wan before his eyes. It's a scene that's both exhilarating and heartbreaking, but on the set, Hamill couldn't keep his cool. The actor told a crowd at the 2017 Star Wars Celebration that the scene took more than a few takes—because he just couldn't stop himself from laughing.

Les Miserables is a very serious movie that combines all the non-hilarity of 19th century French political revolution with the equally unfunny subjects of starvation and prostitution. (But hey, the songs are good.) Anne Hathaway won an Academy Award for playing the orphaned, abandoned, and emaciated Fantine. The character dies, but returns later in the film as a ghost during the death scene of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman). This isn't a movie or scene where a blooper reel would be very tasteful, so Hathaway had to describe her big goof on The Daily Show. As co-stars Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne were singing, crying, and hugging over the fading Valjean, Hathaway tried to move underneath the camera to quickly zip around...only she tripped on her ghost costume, and was so startled she couldn't sing her next few lines.

Designed by the people who brought us the Muppets and voiced by Frank Oz, the tiny green Jedi Yoda is so realistic that it's easy to forget he's a puppet. And as tends to be the case with most cutting-edge technology, that meant problems could and would occur while filming the character's scenes in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back. 

Mark Hamill talked about the myriad on-set Yoda issues at Star Wars Celebration in 2017, recalling that whenever the puppet "would start going haywire and the ears would move and the eyes wouldn't open," they'd rush it to the repair crew. Filming then shifted to securing reaction shots from Hamill. "So every time you see me talking and you can't see Yoda, it's a stick with a piece of tape on it."

Filming a sex scene is incredibly awkward. Actors have to lie there virtually naked and pretend to engage in very intimate acts under hot lights with crew members watching. One way the body and mind inadvertently reacts to such a weird situation: hysterical laughter. Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Guzman starred in the 2015 drama The Boy Next Door, about an ill-advised fling between a teacher and her much younger neighbor. There are of course some steamy, sexy, serious moments in the movie—of which Lopez admitted to Us Weekly that neither she nor Guzman could handle. "We couldn't stop laughing at one point," she told the magazine. "You feel so awkward."

It isn't just a clever title: there are a lot of fantastic and memorable songs in The Sound of Music. One highlight is "Something Good," in which baroness Maria (Julie Andrews) and single father of seven Captain Georg Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) pretty much admit that they love each other. 

Charmian Carr, who played eldest Von Trapp sibling Liesl in the 1965 movie, recounted the day the "Something Good" sequence was shot in her memoir, Forever Liesl. Carr reported that Andrews and Plummer were "both exhausted," as they'd been filming the movie for more than six months, and came down with "a bad case of the giggles." It apparently started when a set light "started making funny noises, not unlike someone making a raspberry off camera." Andrews began to laugh, and then so did Plummer. Director Robert Wise got so frustrated with so many ruined takes that he gave his stars an extra-long lunch break to "walk it off."