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* BoxOfficeBomb: The movie had a $75 million, but only made $86.5 million worldwide.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: The movie had a $75 million, million budget, but only made $86.5 million worldwide.
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** The deleted scenes flesh out the baddies more, explaining their motivations and views, giving them more depth than the somewhat flat version in the finished film.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/NickChinlund plays a character who both isn’t a villain.
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* FakeAmerican: The Italian Creator/MonicaBellucci.
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* FollowTheLeader: Followed up on trends started by both ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' and ''Film/BlackHawkDown'' before it. The former for garnering general interest in realistically violent but respectful war films and the latter for inspiring other modern warfare/African themed films in the genre.
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* FakeAmerican: The Italian Creator/MonicaBellucci.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: An inadvertent example. Many of the extras were real refugees fleeing genocide. During the village assault scene, they were told to act as if they were really watching a village being pillaged, something that they had actually experienced. Some had flashbacks and the tears and sadness on their faces are real.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: An inadvertent unintentional example. Many of the extras were real refugees fleeing genocide. During the village assault scene, they were told to act as if they were really watching a village being pillaged, pillaged... something that they had ''had'' actually experienced. Some had flashbacks flashbacks, and the tears and sadness on their faces are real.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The village clearing scene was originally much more graphically violent. Several atrocities were cut and many set elements were matted out via CGI because everyone felt that it was just too much for audiences to bear.
* WorkingTitle: The film was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one liked it because it sounded too generic. Creator/BruceWillis was presented the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for this film.
* WorkingTitle: The film was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one liked it because it sounded too generic. Creator/BruceWillis was presented the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for this film.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The village clearing scene was originally much more graphically violent. Several atrocities were cut and many set elements were matted out via CGI because everyone felt that it was just too much for audiences to bear.
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** The film was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one in production liked it because it sounded too generic. Creator/BruceWillis was presented the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for thisfilm.film.
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** The film was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one in production liked it because it sounded too generic. Creator/BruceWillis was presented the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for this
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* BoxOfficeBomb: The movie had a $75 million, but only made $86.5 million worldwide.
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** Was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one liked it because it sounded too generic. Bruce Willis was presented the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for this film.
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** WasWhatCouldHaveBeen: The village clearing scene was originally much more graphically violent. Several atrocities were cut and many set elements were matted out via CGI because everyone felt that it was just too much for audiences to bear.
* WorkingTitle: The film was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one liked it because it sounded too generic.Bruce Willis Creator/BruceWillis was presented the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for this film.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The entire movie takes place in Africa, but was shot in Hawaii.
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* FollowTheLeader: Followed up on trends started by both ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' and ''Film/BlackHawkDown'' after before it. The former for garnering general interest in realistically violent but respectful war films and the latter for inspiring other modern warfare/African themed films in the genre.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one liked it because it sounded too generic. Bruce Willis was presented the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for this film.
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** Was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one liked it because it sounded too generic. Bruce Willis was presented the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for thisfilm.film.
** The village clearing scene was originally much more graphically violent. Several atrocities were cut and many set elements were matted out via CGI because everyone felt that it was just too much for audiences to bear.
** Was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one liked it because it sounded too generic. Bruce Willis was presented the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for this
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Wait, was [[Film/DieHard John McClain]] just [[spoiler: betrayed by]] [[Series/{{Heroes}} the Haitian]]?
** [[TopGun Viper]] is still in the Navy.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally titled ''Rules of Engagement'' but no one liked it because it sounded to too generic. Bruce Willis was presented he the script for a fourth ''Die Hard'' film and saw that it was subtitled ''Tears of the Sun''. He agreed to appear in what became ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' in exchange for getting to use ''Tears of the Sun'' for this film.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: An inadvertent example. Many of the extras were real Nigerian refugees. During the village assault scene, they were told to act as if they were really watching a village being pillaged, something that they had actually experienced. Some had flashbacks and the tears and sadness on their faces are real.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: An inadvertent example. Many of the extras were real Nigerian refugees.refugees fleeing genocide. During the village assault scene, they were told to act as if they were really watching a village being pillaged, something that they had actually experienced. Some had flashbacks and the tears and sadness on their faces are real.
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* DyeingForYourArt: The actors portraying [=SEALs=] attended an intensive bootcamp in preparation. Bruce Willis says that each man lost at least 15 pounds in less than a week.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: An inadvertent example. Many of the extras were real Nigerian refugees. During the village assault scene, they were told to act as if they were really watching a village being pillaged, something that they had actually experienced. Some had flashbacks and the tears and sadness on their faces are real.
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** [[TopGun Viper]] is still in the Navy.
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* DivorcedInstallment / WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Tears of the Sun'' started life as ''Die Hard 4'', but was changed to a stand-alone work because of how different it was from the rest of the series.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Also DivorcedInstallment, ''Tears of the Sun'' started life as ''Die Hard 4'', but was changed to a stand-alone work because of how different it was from the rest of the series.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Wait, was [[Film/DieHard John McClain]] just [[spoiler: betrayed by]] [[Series/{{Heroes}} the Haitian]]?
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Also DivorcedInstallment, ''Tears of the Sun'' started life as ''Die Hard 4'', but was changed to a stand-alone work because of how different it was from the rest of the series.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Also DivorcedInstallment, ''Tears of the Sun'' started life as ''Die Hard 4'', but was changed to a stand-alone work because of how different it was from the rest of the series.
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