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* IKnewIt: Reviewers at the time noted that the plot twist is pretty easy to figure out.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Cliff Robertson reportedly pushed for Creator/JohnLithgow's casting, after two displayed good chemistry when Lithgow read for the role of Bob.
* CaliforniaDoubling:
** It features extensive location filming in New Orleans and Florence, but a few key scenes were filmed in Southern California. The upstairs bedroom scenes at the Courtland mansion were shot at a house in Pasadena, since the owners of the New Orleans mansion used for the other shots were skittish about the crew being in the house. The car chase on the bridge was done in Long Beach, and the airport scenes were shot at LAX.
** De Palma wasn't allowed to film inside the San Miniato al Monte church in Florence, because the Catholic Church in Italy banned all filming inside churches after an incident where a porno film was shot in a church after the crew lied to the clergy about their plans. Eventually De Palma found a small town that welcomed him to shoot the interior scenes inside their church.
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/BrianDePalma took out the DistantFinale in Creator/PaulSchrader's screenplay, which led Schrader to disown the film.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Music/BernardHerrmann's second-to-last film, and he thought it was his best score.
* DawsonCasting[=/=]UnderageCasting: In the present day scenes, Sandra is 25, while Creator/GenevieveBujold was 33. Michael and Lasalle are supposed to be in their 40s. Cliff Robertson was 52, but on the other end of the spectrum, Creator/JohnLithgow was just 30.
* DuelingWorks:
** In a "[[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] Homage vs Actual Hitchcock" duel with ''Film/FamilyPlot'', which was released a few months before ''Obsession'', and a "De Palma vs De Palma" duel with ''[[Film/Carrie1976 Carrie]]'', released a couple months later.
** Music/BernardHerrmann's score posthumously competed with his score for ''Film/TaxiDriver'' at the Oscars, but they had the misfortune of going up against Music/JerryGoldsmith's iconic work on ''[[Film/TheOmen1976 The Omen]]''.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/ColumbiaPictures felt that audiences wouldn't be happy with the FridgeHorror after they learned that [[spoiler:Sandra was really Michael's daughter]], and held up release [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for almost a year]] so that [[spoiler: the [[IncestSubtext subtext]]]] could be softened in the editing room, including turning [[spoiler: the wedding scene]] into a DreamSequence.
* HeAlsoDid: It was Music/BernardHerrmann's idea to have the opening credits sequence be a montage of photo slides of Michael and Elizabeth and shots of the Florence church.
* HostilityOnTheSet: De Palma and Cliff Robertson reportedly didn't get along, and De Palma later accused Robertson of sabotaging the film (via a lackluster performance) because Bujold was very obviously out-acting him.
* IKnewIt: Reviewers at the time noted that the plot twist is pretty easy to figure out.
* PosthumousCredit: Released about nine months after Music/BernardHerrmann's death.
* PromotedFanboy: Before working on the screenplay here, Creator/PaulSchrader had written a rave review of De Palma's earlier film ''[[Film/Sisters1973 Sisters]]'' when he still made a living as a film critic.
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Wanda Blackman (in [[OneBookAuthor her only film]]) looks very much like a younger Geneviève Bujold.
* SleeperHit: Columbia released it with little fanfare, but good reviews and good word-of-mouth helped it earn back its meager $1 million budget several times over.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Much of Creator/PaulSchrader's original story outline got dropped for the final shooting script. Most prominent was a DistantFinale ending: [[spoiler:rather than be reunited at the airport in 1975, Michael gets institutionalized following the killing of Lasalle, while Sandra is harbored by nuns at the church in Florence following her suicide attempt on the plane. When he's released in 1985, he flies to Florence with an actual BriefcaseFullOfMoney, and finds Sandra in the church, then it ends basically the same way the final film does]]. Another idea was to have the actor playing Michael's psychiatrist also play a kidnapper and a romantic suitor of Sandra's in Italy.
** De Palma wanted Music/BernardHerrmann to do the score from the get-go, but producer George Litto wanted Music/JohnWilliams. To convince Litto, De Palma had editor Paul Hirsch make a demo reel with music from ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' playing behind a key scene. Williams got the consolation prize of scoring [[Film/FamilyPlot Alfred Hitchcock's final film]].
* WorkingTitle: ''DejaVu''.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Cliff Robertson reportedly pushed for Creator/JohnLithgow's casting, after two displayed good chemistry when Lithgow read for the role of Bob.
* CaliforniaDoubling:
** It features extensive location filming in New Orleans and Florence, but a few key scenes were filmed in Southern California. The upstairs bedroom scenes at the Courtland mansion were shot at a house in Pasadena, since the owners of the New Orleans mansion used for the other shots were skittish about the crew being in the house. The car chase on the bridge was done in Long Beach, and the airport scenes were shot at LAX.
** De Palma wasn't allowed to film inside the San Miniato al Monte church in Florence, because the Catholic Church in Italy banned all filming inside churches after an incident where a porno film was shot in a church after the crew lied to the clergy about their plans. Eventually De Palma found a small town that welcomed him to shoot the interior scenes inside their church.
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/BrianDePalma took out the DistantFinale in Creator/PaulSchrader's screenplay, which led Schrader to disown the film.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Music/BernardHerrmann's second-to-last film, and he thought it was his best score.
* DawsonCasting[=/=]UnderageCasting: In the present day scenes, Sandra is 25, while Creator/GenevieveBujold was 33. Michael and Lasalle are supposed to be in their 40s. Cliff Robertson was 52, but on the other end of the spectrum, Creator/JohnLithgow was just 30.
* DuelingWorks:
** In a "[[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] Homage vs Actual Hitchcock" duel with ''Film/FamilyPlot'', which was released a few months before ''Obsession'', and a "De Palma vs De Palma" duel with ''[[Film/Carrie1976 Carrie]]'', released a couple months later.
** Music/BernardHerrmann's score posthumously competed with his score for ''Film/TaxiDriver'' at the Oscars, but they had the misfortune of going up against Music/JerryGoldsmith's iconic work on ''[[Film/TheOmen1976 The Omen]]''.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/ColumbiaPictures felt that audiences wouldn't be happy with the FridgeHorror after they learned that [[spoiler:Sandra was really Michael's daughter]], and held up release [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for almost a year]] so that [[spoiler: the [[IncestSubtext subtext]]]] could be softened in the editing room, including turning [[spoiler: the wedding scene]] into a DreamSequence.
* HeAlsoDid: It was Music/BernardHerrmann's idea to have the opening credits sequence be a montage of photo slides of Michael and Elizabeth and shots of the Florence church.
* HostilityOnTheSet: De Palma and Cliff Robertson reportedly didn't get along, and De Palma later accused Robertson of sabotaging the film (via a lackluster performance) because Bujold was very obviously out-acting him.
* IKnewIt: Reviewers at the time noted that the plot twist is pretty easy to figure out.
* PosthumousCredit: Released about nine months after Music/BernardHerrmann's death.
* PromotedFanboy: Before working on the screenplay here, Creator/PaulSchrader had written a rave review of De Palma's earlier film ''[[Film/Sisters1973 Sisters]]'' when he still made a living as a film critic.
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Wanda Blackman (in [[OneBookAuthor her only film]]) looks very much like a younger Geneviève Bujold.
* SleeperHit: Columbia released it with little fanfare, but good reviews and good word-of-mouth helped it earn back its meager $1 million budget several times over.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Much of Creator/PaulSchrader's original story outline got dropped for the final shooting script. Most prominent was a DistantFinale ending: [[spoiler:rather than be reunited at the airport in 1975, Michael gets institutionalized following the killing of Lasalle, while Sandra is harbored by nuns at the church in Florence following her suicide attempt on the plane. When he's released in 1985, he flies to Florence with an actual BriefcaseFullOfMoney, and finds Sandra in the church, then it ends basically the same way the final film does]]. Another idea was to have the actor playing Michael's psychiatrist also play a kidnapper and a romantic suitor of Sandra's in Italy.
** De Palma wanted Music/BernardHerrmann to do the score from the get-go, but producer George Litto wanted Music/JohnWilliams. To convince Litto, De Palma had editor Paul Hirsch make a demo reel with music from ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' playing behind a key scene. Williams got the consolation prize of scoring [[Film/FamilyPlot Alfred Hitchcock's final film]].
* WorkingTitle: ''DejaVu''.
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