Improvisations can have a great impact on other characters, as they don’t know what’s coming. When Kurtwood Smith’s character, Clarence Boddicker, is taken into custody, to other actors’ surprise, he says the line “Give me my f***in’ phone call!” The actors were shocked, which is exactly the effect that Smith and director Paul Verhoeven aspired for.
The movie takes place in crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future. Police officer Alex Murphy, played by Peter Weller, is murdered by a gang of criminals and later revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer known as RoboCop.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
In the scene where Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones was chasing Marion Ravenwood and runs into a bad guy, he was supposed to take him down in a long drawn-out fight. However, Ford had a cold and didn’t want a long fight scene. So, he pulled out his gun and took him down in one shot, becoming a very memorable scene in the film.
The film was the first film in the Indiana Jones film franchise. Harrison Ford plays archaeologist Indiana Jones, who fights a group of Nazis searching for the Ark of the Covenant. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1982.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Gene Wilder added a lot to this classic, there were many lines that weren’t originally in the script. He agreed to star in the film under the condition that he could decide how he made his grand entrance. He chose to enter limping with a cane and then drop the cane and somersault. His reasoning?
“From that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth,” Wilder received a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
A Clockwork Orange
In a futuristic Britain, Alex DeLarge is the leader of a gang. One night, after getting inebriated on drug-laden "milk-plus", they participate in an evening of "ultra-violence", which includes a fight with a competing gang led by Billyboy. After not being happy with a number of takes, Stanley Kubrick told Malcolm McDowell, who played the character, Alex, to do whatever he wants.
This welcomed the stunning improvisation of McDowell who started to sing “Singing in the Rain” during a terrifying scene, making him seem all the more crazy.
Saving Private Ryan
In this classic Steven Spielberg war movie, during a scene in which Tom Hanks as Captain Miller and Matt Damon as Private Ryan talk about their lives at home, Matt Damon completely makes up the story about catching his brother kissing a girl. The film received critical acclaim and praise was given to Spielberg for his directing while the actors, particularly Tom Hanks were recognized for their performances.
The film was the second-highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide. The film’s success once again was confirmed by the 71st Academy Awards, in which it received 11 nominations and won five of them including Spielberg's second win for Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing.