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* ApprovalOfGod: Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine called the film a "great biography".
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* ApprovalOfGod: Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine called the film a "great biography".biography" and Brian Wilson also approved of it and Paul Dano and John Cusack's portrayal of him.
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Music/BrianWilson approved of the film's cast, as well as Creator/PaulDano and Creator/JohnCusack's portrayals.
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Music/BrianWilson approved of the film's cast, as well as Creator/PaulDano and Creator/JohnCusack's
** Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine called the film a "great biography".
* HypotheticalCasting: According to a 1999 ''Magazine/RollingStone'' [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/brians-summer-plans-19990708 interview]], Melinda Ledbetter had Creator/JeffBridges in mind to play Brian.
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** According to a 1999 ''Magazine/RollingStone'' [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/brians-summer-plans-19990708 interview]], Melinda Ledbetter had Creator/JeffBridges in mind to play Brian.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/PaulDano and John Cusack don't look a thing alike, but their performances make it fully believable that they are the same person decades apart. And while neither looks very much like Brian Wilson, they capture his personality extremely well all the same, earning approval from both his friends and Brian himself, as noted below.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Paul Dano Creator/PaulDano and John Cusack don't look a thing alike, but their performances make it fully believable that they are the same person decades apart. And while neither looks very much like Brian Wilson, they capture his personality extremely well all the same, earning approval from both his friends and Brian himself, as noted below.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Paul Dano and John Cusack don't look a thing alike, but their performances make it fully believable that they are the same person decades apart. And while neither looks very much like Brian Wilson, they capture his personality extremely well all the same, earning approval from both his friends and Brian himself.himself, as noted below.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Paul Dano and John Cusack don't look a thing alike alike, but their performances make it fully believable that they are the same person decades apart. And while neither looks very much like Brian Wilson, they capture his personality extremely well all the same, earning approval from both his friends and Brian himself.
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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: A biopic of Music/BrianWilson's life was first proposed in 1988 with Creator/WilliamHurt as Dr. Eugene Landry and Creator/RichardDreyfuss as Brian, but it wasn't until 2014 when ''Love & Mercy'' was formally announced.
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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: A biopic of Music/BrianWilson's life was first proposed in 1988 with Creator/WilliamHurt as Dr. Eugene Landry Landy and Creator/RichardDreyfuss as Brian, but it wasn't until 2014 when ''Love & Mercy'' was formally announced.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/PaulDano gained 35 pounds to play Music/BrianWilson, eating 4,500 calories a day. He claims to have torn a ligament in his knee playing basketball due to the extra weight.
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** A third era which focused on Brian's infamous bed period in TheSeventies was considered, but ultimately discarded, leaving some of his most troubled years to the viewer's imagination. When asked who would have filled the third Wilson role, Pohlad responded that he had considered Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman.
** The script was a major overhaul of a rejected screenplay written by Michael Alen Lerner. In this version entitled ''Heroes and Villlains'', the film would have focused largely on Wilson's life between 1982 and 1993 with intermittent flashbacks to TheSixties, and ending with Wilson completing ''Music/{{Smile}}'' in 2004.
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** The script was a major overhaul of a rejected screenplay written by Michael Alen Lerner. In this version entitled ''Heroes and Villlains'', the film would have focused largely on Wilson's life between 1982 and 1993 with intermittent flashbacks to TheSixties, and ending with Wilson completing ''Music/{{Smile}}'' in 2004.
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* ActorSharedBackground: Like his character Chuck Britz, Mark Linett was an audio engineer who had a longtime association with Brian Wilson.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Eugene Landy's son Evan thought felt that the former was unfairly portrayed in the film.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: A biopic of Brian Wilson's life was first proposed in 1988, but it wasn't until 2014 when ''Love & Mercy'' was formally announced.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to a 1999 ''Rolling Stone'' [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/brians-summer-plans-19990708 interview]], Melinda Ledbetter had Creator/JeffBridges in mind to play Brian.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Eugene Landy's son Evan thought felt that the former was unfairly portrayed in the film.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: A biopic of Brian Wilson's life was first proposed in 1988, but it wasn't until 2014 when ''Love & Mercy'' was formally announced.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to a 1999 ''Rolling Stone'' [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/brians-summer-plans-19990708 interview]], Melinda Ledbetter had Creator/JeffBridges in mind to play Brian.
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