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* SelfAdaptation: The screenplay is based on a novel by Bolt which was first published in 1986, shortly before the movie came out. Or vice versa, the novel may be a much expanded version of the screenplay, if they were gestating at the same time.

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* SelfAdaptation: The screenplay is based on a novel by Bolt which was first published in 1986, shortly before the movie came out. Or vice versa, the novel may be a much expanded version of the screenplay, if they were gestating being gestated at the same time.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Colombia doubled for the colonial province of La Plata for part of the film.

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* CaliforniaDoubling: Colombia doubled for the colonial province of La Plata for part in some parts of the film.
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** They were at the mercy of the elements, so they often had to contebd with floods, heavy rain anf high temperatures.
** The places they filmed in Colombia happened to be drug cartel territory, which led to frequent confrontation with drug dealers.

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** They were at the mercy of the elements, so they often had to contebd contend with floods, heavy rain anf and high temperatures.
** The places they filmed in in Colombia happened to be drug cartel territory, which led to frequent confrontation with drug dealers.dealers.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Colombia doubled for the colonial province of La Plata for part of the film.



* FakeNationality: The Guarani featured in the movie are actually Colombian people.

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* FakeNationality: The Guarani featured in the movie are actually Colombian people.Waunana people from Colombia.



* TroubledProduction:
** Moving the equipment around the unsteady terrain of the Iguazú Falls was no easy feat.
** Most of the crew contracted dysentery from not eating well.
** They were at the mercy of the elements, so they often had to contebd with floods, heavy rain anf high temperatures.
** The places they filmed in Colombia happened to be drug cartel territory, which led to frequent confrontation with drug dealers.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DirkBogarde was offered the role of Gabriel.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
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Creator/DirkBogarde was offered the role of Gabriel.Gabriel.
** Roland Joffe wanted to cast real Guarani people as the Guarani community in the movie, but they lived in such poor conditions there was really no way to employ them in a movie. That's why he instead opted for the Waunana, a community in Colombia of around 300 people.
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* FakeNationality: The Guarani featured in the movie are actually Colombian people.
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* BreakawayPopHit: While describing it as "pop" feels almost sacrilegious, Music/EnnioMorricone's score for this film has become so iconic that it has rung in people's ears decades after the film has been largely forgotten.

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* BreakawayPopHit: While describing it as "pop" feels almost sacrilegious, Music/EnnioMorricone's score for this film has become so iconic that it has rung in people's ears decades after the film has been [[AcclaimedFlop largely forgotten.forgotten]].
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* BreakawayPopHit: While describing it as "pop" feels almost sacriligious, Music/EnnioMorricone's score for this film has become so iconic that it has rung in people's ears decades after the film has been largely forgotten.

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* BreakawayPopHit: While describing it as "pop" feels almost sacriligious, sacrilegious, Music/EnnioMorricone's score for this film has become so iconic that it has rung in people's ears decades after the film has been largely forgotten.
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* UncreditedRole: [[https://tv.avclub.com/fred-melamed-on-casual-the-coens-and-making-larry-dav-1798243399 According to a 2016 interview]] with [=AV=] Club, Fred Melamed dubbed the voice of Cabeza -- originally portrayed by Chuck Low --. Melamed states that he was going to be the villain in the film but they didn't specify that it was going to be recorded as a voice over until the last minute. When he sees the film every time, he thinks that his voice work [[OldShame "hurts the film" and that he wishes he could "redo it".]]

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* UncreditedRole: [[https://tv.avclub.com/fred-melamed-on-casual-the-coens-and-making-larry-dav-1798243399 According to a 2016 interview]] with [=AV=] Club, Fred Melamed Creator/FredMelamed dubbed the voice of Cabeza -- originally portrayed by Chuck Low --. Melamed states that he was going to be the villain in the film but they didn't specify that it was going to be recorded as a voice over until the last minute. When he sees the film every time, he thinks that his voice work [[OldShame "hurts the film" and that he wishes he could "redo it".]]
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* SelfAdaptation: The screenplay is based on a novel by Bolt which was first published in 1986, shortly before the movie came out. Or vice versa, the novel may be a much expanded version of the screenplay, if they were gestating at the same time.

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* UncreditedRole: [[https://tv.avclub.com/fred-melamed-on-casual-the-coens-and-making-larry-dav-1798243399 According to a 2016 interview]] with [=AV=] Club, Fred Melamed dubbed the voice of Cabeza -- originally portrayed by Chuck Low --. Melamed states that he was going to be the villain in the film but they didn't specify that it was going to be recorded as a voice over until the last minute. When he sees the film every time, he thinks that his voice work [[OldShame "hurts the film" and that he wishes he could "redo it".]]

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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: This was Music/EnnioMorricone's favorite among his own movie scores.
* UncreditedRole: [[https://tv.avclub.com/fred-melamed-on-casual-the-coens-and-making-larry-dav-1798243399 According to a 2016 interview]] with [=AV=] Club, Fred Melamed dubbed the voice of Cabeza -- originally portrayed by Chuck Low --. Melamed states that he was going to be the villain in the film but they didn't specify that it was going to be recorded as a voice over until the last minute. When he sees the film every time, he thinks that his voice work [[OldShame "hurts the film" and that he wishes he could "redo it".]]]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DirkBogarde was offered the role of Gabriel.
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* BreakawayPopHit: While describing it as "pop" feels almost sacriligious, Creator/EnnioMorricone's score for this film has become so iconic that it has rung in people's ears decades after the film has been largely forgotten.

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* BreakawayPopHit: While describing it as "pop" feels almost sacriligious, Creator/EnnioMorricone's Music/EnnioMorricone's score for this film has become so iconic that it has rung in people's ears decades after the film has been largely forgotten.
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* BreakawayPopHit: While describing it as "pop" feels almost sacriligious, Creator/EnnioMorricone's score for this film has become so iconic that it has rung in people's ears decades after the film has been largely forgotten.
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* UncreditedRole: [[https://tv.avclub.com/fred-melamed-on-casual-the-coens-and-making-larry-dav-1798243399 According to a 2016 interview]] with [=AV=] Club, Fred Melamed dubbed the voice of Cabeza -- originally portrayed by Chuck Low --. Melamed states that he was going to be the villain in the film but they didn't specify that it was going to be recorded as a voice over until the last minute. When he sees the film every time, he thinks that his voice work [[OldShame "hurts the film" and that he wishes he could "redo it".]]

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