Line #21 Trivia/TheLighthouse


1	* ActingInTheDark: The script didn't explain what Wake and Winslow's characters were seeing when they are staring into the light of the lighthouse. When Creator/WillemDafoe and Creator/RobertPattinson were playing these scenes, they didn't know, either. The script only explained how their characters felt while looking at the light.
2	* AwardCategoryFraud: Creator/WillemDafoe was campaigned as a supporting actor, despite the fact that most agree his role was that of a lead. While Creator/RobertPattinson does have more moments from his point of view where Dafoe isn't seen, they're comparatively few to the scenes shared between them which make up the bulk of the movie. And despite Pattinson being the main viewpoint character, Dafoe's role is more talkative, having many long speeches in comparison to his more quiet costar. In the end, though, [[AwardSnub Dafoe didn't make any of the major awards ceremonies that year]].
3	* CaliforniaDoubling: Nova Scotia, Canada was used as a stand-in for Maine.
4	* DyeingForYourArt:
5	** Creator/RobertPattinson's and Creator/WillemDafoe's facial hair was all real. However, Pattinson had to dye his mustache dark because he's naturally dark blonde.
6	** Dafoe's bad teeth were a prosthetic.
7	* EnforcedMethodActing: The film was shot in [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Nova Scotia]], and the weather conditions were just as miserable as they appear in the movie. And Eggers still went the extra mile to make it more uncomfortable for the two actors; Pattinson once complained that he felt like he was being sprayed by a fire hose, only for Eggers to reply that that was ''exactly what he was doing''.
8	* FakeAmerican: The English actor Robert Pattinson plays a character with an archaic New England accent.
9	* MethodActing:
10	** [[https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/10/8529718/robert-pattinson-the-lighthouse-really-drunk-puking-licking-mud Pattinson went to some crazy lengths]] in his role as the mentally deteriorating Winslow, including licking puddles of mud, getting drunk to the point of pissing himself, and ''actually vomiting.''
11	** According to Creator/RobertPattinson, his and Creator/WillemDafoe's radically different approaches to acting helped fuel the tension between their characters.
12	* TroubledProduction: The stars described making the film as an unpleasant experience. Beyond the fact that the conditions were so harsh that Creator/WillemDafoe and Creator/RobertPattinson hardly talked outside of filming, the latter admitted he came close to punching director Robert Eggers in the face during the filming of one grueling scene involving them being sprayed in the face with a fire hose.
13	** The crew didn't fare much better. The film equipment was constantly breaking due to the absolutely miserable weather conditions, and sometimes the lens would fog up, thus ruining the shot. One scene of Robert Pattinson walking into the ocean had to be shot a whopping 25 times before the lens didn't fog up. Seagulls also plagued the area, and began bothering the cast and film crew, once the gulls quickly realized they were a source for food.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
15	** In the original script, Thomas Wake had a glass eye, a peg leg, and three missing fingers. This was changed because Eggers felt the audience could misinterpret Wake as a pirate, and the effects necessary for his appearance would be too difficult under a tight budget.
16	** In the original script, when Winslow/Howard stares into the light at the end of the film, he burns his hand off when he reaches in to touch it.
17	** Creator/AnyaTaylorJoy apparently requested to portray the mermaid that Winslow sees in his mind, but Robert Eggers declined, telling her that portraying [[BestKnownForTheFanservice this particular mermaid]] might not be a good fit for her.
18	* WordOfGod: In multiple interviews, Robert Eggers confirmed that [[spoiler:Winslow is meant to either be or represent Prometheus and Wake is similarly a representation of Proteus,]] which had been a popular interpretation of several key scenes, [[spoiler:including the ending]].

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