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* AwardCategoryFraud: Creator/DjimonHounsou was nominated for Best Supporting Actor while Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was nominated as Lead, despite the fact that the entire story revolves around the former's quest to rescue his son.
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* AwardCategoryFraud: Creator/DjimonHounsou was nominated for Best Supporting Actor while Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was nominated as Lead, despite the fact that the entire story revolves around the former's quest to rescue his son.son (and Hounsou has much more screen time).
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* ActorInspiredElement: During Maddy and Archer's talk about his past, he rebuffs briefly by saying, "you Americans sure like to talk about your feelings, huh?" According to the director commentary, Leo added that line, but took it word-for-word from what a South African man said to him while he was doing research for the role.
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* OneTakeWonder: The scene in the prison where Solomon strips off and screams "where is the diamond!" was done perfectly on the first take. Doubly impressive, as Djimon Honsou recalls not being sure how the scene would be done and they ended up just feeling it out.
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* OneTakeWonder: The scene in the prison where Solomon strips off and screams "where "Where is the diamond!" diamond?!" was done perfectly on the first take. Doubly impressive, as Djimon Honsou recalls not being sure how the scene would be done and they ended up just feeling it out.
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* ThrowItIn:
** One of Danny's lines in the script - "you Americans come here with your laptop computer and your bug spray and your little bottles of hand sanitizer" - was actually said to the director while he was talking to an African man. It made such an impression that he put it in the film.
** During Maddy and Archer's talk about his past, he rebuffs briefly by saying, "you Americans sure like to talk about your feelings, huh?" According to the director commentary, Leo added that line, but took it word-for-word from what a South African man said to him while he was doing research for the role.
** The scene in the finale where Archer yells at Vandy to tell them where the stone is was improvised by Dicaprio, trying to get a rise out of Djimon Hounsou. It worked well and was kept in.
** One of Danny's lines in the script - "you Americans come here with your laptop computer and your bug spray and your little bottles of hand sanitizer" - was actually said to the director while he was talking to an African man. It made such an impression that he put it in the film.
** During Maddy and Archer's talk about his past, he rebuffs briefly by saying, "you Americans sure like to talk about your feelings, huh?" According to the director commentary, Leo added that line, but took it word-for-word from what a South African man said to him while he was doing research for the role.
** The scene in the finale where Archer yells at Vandy to tell them where the stone is was improvised by Dicaprio, trying to get a rise out of Djimon Hounsou. It worked well and was kept in.
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* ThrowItIn:
** One of Danny's lines in the script - "you Americans come here with your laptop computer and your bug spray and your little bottles of hand sanitizer" - was actually said to the director while he was talking to an African man. It made such an impression that he put it in the film.
** During Maddy and Archer's talk about his past, he rebuffs briefly by saying, "you Americans sure like to talk about your feelings, huh?" According to the director commentary, Leo added that line, but took it word-for-word from what a South African man said to him while he was doing research for the role.
**ThrowItIn: The scene in the finale where Archer yells at Vandy to tell them where the stone is was improvised by Dicaprio, [=DiCaprio=], trying to get a rise out of Djimon Hounsou. It worked well and was kept in.
** One of Danny's lines in the script - "you Americans come here with your laptop computer and your bug spray and your little bottles of hand sanitizer" - was actually said to the director while he was talking to an African man. It made such an impression that he put it in the film.
** During Maddy and Archer's talk about his past, he rebuffs briefly by saying, "you Americans sure like to talk about your feelings, huh?" According to the director commentary, Leo added that line, but took it word-for-word from what a South African man said to him while he was doing research for the role.
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** If Leonardo Di Caprio hadn't been able to play the part of Danny Archer, Russell Crowe was the next choice.
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** If Leonardo Di Caprio [=DiCaprio=] hadn't been able to play the part of Danny Archer, Russell Crowe was the next choice.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: One of Danny's lines in the script - "you Americans come here with your laptop computer and your bug spray and your little bottles of hand sanitizer" - was actually said to the director while he was talking to an African man. It made such an impression that he put it in the film.
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* PlayingAgainstType: At least back when it was made, the big novelty factor of the film was how Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio isn't playing a PrettyBoy romantic lead, but instead a gruff mercenary.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Most of the film was shot in South Africa and Mozambique.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Most of the film was shot in South Africa and Mozambique. This can be seen by the fact that most of the vehicles in the movie are right-hand drive; Sierra Leone drives on the right.
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* DoingItForTheArt:
** Edward Zwick wasn't sure about doing the movie at first, but was told that a lot of people in the war-torn countries couldn't forgive deprogrammed child soldiers for what they did, because they didn't know what their [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] involved. He said that doing the movie would be worth it if they could show what the process was like.
** Leonardo Dicaprio spent months living in South Africa and hanging out with the natives, including many mercenaries, for the role. He also took gun training courses so he could have a reasonable level of confidence with the weapons he'd handle. ''And'' he worked tirelessly to get the accent right.
** As a whole, the production team spent months living in various parts of Africa (Mozambique, South Africa, Sierra Leone) and did exhaustive research to make the film as real-seeming as possible while still staying on track.
** A number of things were added in production and post to make the setting look more like Sierra Leone, including adding authentic trees and digitally painting in mountains in the background, including in many shots where people wouldn't think to look.
** Edward Zwick wasn't sure about doing the movie at first, but was told that a lot of people in the war-torn countries couldn't forgive deprogrammed child soldiers for what they did, because they didn't know what their [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] involved. He said that doing the movie would be worth it if they could show what the process was like.
** Leonardo Dicaprio spent months living in South Africa and hanging out with the natives, including many mercenaries, for the role. He also took gun training courses so he could have a reasonable level of confidence with the weapons he'd handle. ''And'' he worked tirelessly to get the accent right.
** As a whole, the production team spent months living in various parts of Africa (Mozambique, South Africa, Sierra Leone) and did exhaustive research to make the film as real-seeming as possible while still staying on track.
** A number of things were added in production and post to make the setting look more like Sierra Leone, including adding authentic trees and digitally painting in mountains in the background, including in many shots where people wouldn't think to look.
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* DoingItForTheArt:
**DoingItForTheArt: Edward Zwick wasn't sure about doing the movie at first, but was told that a lot of people in the war-torn countries couldn't forgive deprogrammed child soldiers for what they did, because they didn't know what their [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] brainwashing involved. He said that doing the movie would be worth it if they could show what the process was like.
** Leonardo Dicaprio spent months living in South Africa and hanging out with the natives, including many mercenaries, for the role. He also took gun training courses so he could have a reasonable level of confidence with the weapons he'd handle. ''And'' he worked tirelessly to get the accent right.
** As a whole, the production team spent months living in various parts of Africa (Mozambique, South Africa, Sierra Leone) and did exhaustive research to make the film as real-seeming as possible while still staying on track.
** A number of things were added in production and post to make the setting look more like Sierra Leone, including adding authentic trees and digitally painting in mountains in the background, including in many shots where people wouldn't think to look.like.
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** Leonardo Dicaprio spent months living in South Africa and hanging out with the natives, including many mercenaries, for the role. He also took gun training courses so he could have a reasonable level of confidence with the weapons he'd handle. ''And'' he worked tirelessly to get the accent right.
** As a whole, the production team spent months living in various parts of Africa (Mozambique, South Africa, Sierra Leone) and did exhaustive research to make the film as real-seeming as possible while still staying on track.
** A number of things were added in production and post to make the setting look more like Sierra Leone, including adding authentic trees and digitally painting in mountains in the background, including in many shots where people wouldn't think to look.
