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| The lead actor reportedly looked so much like the title character he was playing, that many people in India believed him to be the ghost of that man. | |
| For in-flight viewings, several airlines deleted the sequence in which Raymond reels off statistics on airline accidents. | |
| The director of the film is arachnophobic, and based Shelob's design on the types of spiders he feared most. | |
| All music played on camera during the scenes coincides with the keys being struck on the instruments, so as to increase the authenticity of the film. | |
| The film's tagline 'Whoever saves one life saves the world entire' is a quotation from the Talmud. | |
| The title's meaning comes from a preexisting slang term used by soldiers for a situation involving trouble or pain, and can be traced back to the Vietnam War. | |
| Blue body paint for battles had stopped being used around the end of the Roman era -- roughly 800 years before the events of this film. | |
| Extras in the infamous beach scene were paid three times as much as other extras due to issues with sunburns. | |
| The hair-washing scene made the crew very nervous, as it was shot very close to some very territorial hippopatami. | |
| This is the movie with the most uses of the F-bomb and its derivatives (with 237 uses) to win the Best Picture Oscar. | |
| Tom Berenger's lifelike scar required three hours of makeup work every day of shooting. | |
| The Kearney State College scenes were shot at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, due to major construction at the former. | |
| Juliette Binoche knew she wanted to be in the film as soon as she read the scene where Kip shows Hana the fresco paintings on the walls of the church. | |
| Though Sandra Bullock is well renowned for her role, she has less than 6 minutes of actual screen time throughout the whole film. | |
| All of the musical numbers in the film except Roxie, Mister Cellophane, and Razzle Dazzle are introduced by the bandleader. | |
| Alan Ball claimed that inspiration for the film came when he saw a paper bag floating in the wind while sitting in the World Trade Center plaza. | |
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| The moth cocoons found in victim's throats were made of a combination of Tootsie Rolls and gummy bears, so if it was accidentally swallowed, it would be edible. | |
| One of only three films to win the Oscar for Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director, the other two being 'Wings' and 'Grand Hotel'. | |
| The title of the film comes fron the first line of William Butler Yeats' poem 'Sailing to Byzantium'. | |
| The lead actress underwent a serious boxing training schedule for the role, where she gained 20 pounds of muscle. | |
| To maintain an authentic atmosphere, no motor vehicles were allowed on the Big Whiskey set. | |
| Most of the ocean which extras were jumping into was 3 feet deep. | |
| Security was so tight around the shoot that when Peter O'Toole once forgot his pass, he was denied entrance to the set. | |
| During the ping-pong matches, there was no ball; it was entirely CGI, animated to meet the actors' paddles. | |
| Guy Pearce plays George VI's older brother, Edward VIII. In actuality, Pearce is 7 years younger than Colin Firth. | |
| The liver that Wind In His Hair proffers to Dunbar after the buffalo hunt is made of cranberry Jell-o. | |
| The original script called for a battle scene between Maximus and a rhinoceros, but had to be cut due to CGI limitations. | |
| The priest in the street near the beginning yells 'a plague on both your houses,' which is a famous quote from Romeo and Juliet. | |
| The pile of excreta that Jamal jumps into was made from a combination of chocolate and peanut butter. | |
| Mary Tyler Moore, who received a Best Actress nomination for the film, has less time onscreen than Timothy Hutton, the Best Supporting Actor nominee for the very same film. | |
| Nash's mutterings after he loses the board game are in reference to 'Game Theory', the economic theory that John Nash is probably most famous for. | |
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