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1	* 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]].
2	* CaliforniaDoubling: Colombia doubled for the colonial province of La Plata in some parts of the film.
3	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: This was Music/EnnioMorricone's favorite among his own movie scores.
4	* FakeNationality: The Guarani featured in the movie are Waunana people from Colombia.
5	* 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 being gestated at the same time.
6	* TroubledProduction:
7	** Moving the equipment around the unsteady terrain of the Iguazú Falls was no easy feat.
8	** Most of the crew contracted dysentery from not eating well.
9	** They were at the mercy of the elements, so they often had to contend with floods, heavy rain and high temperatures.
10	** The places they filmed in in Colombia happened to be drug cartel territory, which led to frequent confrontation with drug dealers.
11	* UncreditedRole: [[https://tv.avclub.com/fred-melamed-on-casual-the-coens-and-making-larry-dav-1798243399 According to a 2016 interview]] with [=AV=] Club, 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".]]
12	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
13	** Creator/DirkBogarde was offered the role of Gabriel.
14	** 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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