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Creator Chosen Casting is when the casting of an adaptation is influenced by the creator of the work being adapted; this isn't an adaptation
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/DonCheadle was Creator/DominicSena's first and only choice for Agent J.T. Roberts. He said:
-->Let's not even talk to anyone else. If we can get Don Cheadle, done deal!
-->Let's not even talk to anyone else. If we can get Don Cheadle, done deal!
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $80 million. Box office, $69,772,969 (domestic), $147,080,413 (worldwide). The film was critically pulverized for its far-fetched plot, excessive flashiness and its dearth of sympathetic characters.
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* FatalMethodActing: {{Averted}}. Creator/VinnieJones was going to do a stunt, but Creator/JohnTravolta stopped him, and a stuntman did it instead. The wire broke, and the stuntman fell sixty to seventy feet onto a concrete floor, breaking his spine.
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* OnSetInjury: Creator/VinnieJones was going to do a stunt, but Creator/JohnTravolta stopped him, and a stuntman did it instead. The wire broke, and the stuntman fell sixty to seventy feet onto a concrete floor, breaking his spine.
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/DonCheadle was Creator/DominicSena's first and only choice for Agent J.T. Roberts. He said:
-->Let's not even talk to anyone else. If we can get Don Cheadle, done deal!
-->Let's not even talk to anyone else. If we can get Don Cheadle, done deal!
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/HughJackman is actually a very competent golfer so he had to pretend that he wasn't for the scene where Ginger finds him teeing balls off the roof of his trailer. Creator/HalleBerry, on the other hand, had never held a golf club before and had to have some quick professional training before the scene was shot.
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** Creator/BridgetMoynahan turned down the role of Ginger because of the nudity.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The film was released in the very last months before the War on Terror began. After which, it became very clear that fighting terrorism is a ''lot'' more complicated than Gabriel's "just kill the bad guys and make sure everybody else gets terrorized into thinking things twice" plan.
** Gabriel's soul patch was a brief fad of the early 2000s.
** The film's heavy use of HollywoodHacking comes from a time before mainstream audiences understood that plugging seven monitors into a computer doesn't make it a supercomputer.
*** It's not that plugging in a bunch of monitors makes it a supercomputer. It's that being able to link seven monitors simultaneously like that could only be done by a very powerful computer of the time.
** The film was released in the very last months before the War on Terror began. After which, it became very clear that fighting terrorism is a ''lot'' more complicated than Gabriel's "just kill the bad guys and make sure everybody else gets terrorized into thinking things twice" plan.
** Gabriel's soul patch was a brief fad of the early 2000s.
** The film's heavy use of HollywoodHacking comes from a time before mainstream audiences understood that plugging seven monitors into a computer doesn't make it a supercomputer.
*** It's not that plugging in a bunch of monitors makes it a supercomputer. It's that being able to link seven monitors simultaneously like that could only be done by a very powerful computer of the time.
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* FatalMethodActing: {{Averted}}. Creator/VinnieJones was going to do a stunt, but Creator/JohnTravolta stopped him, and a stuntman did it instead. The wire broke, and the stuntman fell sixty to seventy feet onto a concrete floor, breaking his spine.
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** The film was released in the very last months before the War on Terror began. After which, it became very clear that fighting terrorism is a ''lot'' more complicated than Gabriel's "just kill the bad guys" plan.
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** The film was released in the very last months before the War on Terror began. After which, it became very clear that fighting terrorism is a ''lot'' more complicated than Gabriel's "just kill the bad guys" guys and make sure everybody else gets terrorized into thinking things twice" plan.
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** The deleted ending had a funny moment when [[spoiler: Ginger discovers that Stan stole back the money ''again'' and donated it to a bunch of charities]].
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** The deleted ending had a funny moment when [[spoiler: Ginger [[spoiler:Ginger discovers that Stan stole back the money ''again'' and donated it to a bunch of charities]].
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*** It's not that plugging in a bunch of monitors makes it a supercomputer. It's that being able to link seven monitors simultaneously like that could only be done by a very powerful computer of the time.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The film was released in the very last months before the War on Terror began. After which, it became very clear that fighting terrorism is a ''lot'' more complicated than Gabriel's "just kill the bad guys" plan.
** Gabriel's soul patch was a brief fad of the early 2000s.
** The film's heavy use of HollywoodHacking comes from a time before mainstream audiences understood that plugging seven monitors into a computer doesn't make it a supercomputer.
** The film was released in the very last months before the War on Terror began. After which, it became very clear that fighting terrorism is a ''lot'' more complicated than Gabriel's "just kill the bad guys" plan.
** Gabriel's soul patch was a brief fad of the early 2000s.
** The film's heavy use of HollywoodHacking comes from a time before mainstream audiences understood that plugging seven monitors into a computer doesn't make it a supercomputer.
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* FakeAmerican: Creator/HughJackman as Stanley.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The deleted ending had a funny moment when [[spoiler: Ginger discovers that Stan stole back the money ''again'' and donated it to a bunch of charities]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ThrowItIn: Creator/DonCheadle came up with the bit where he hits a guy with the door.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The original screenplay draft had a very different take on the Gabriel Shear character. He was first written as a mercenary whose plan for the stolen DEA funds had him joining forces with military and intelligence figures and planning to destroy corrupt politicians, and had several lengthy monologues in which U.S. Agents listened to him and then joined his crusade on the spot. While the funding and covert war angle was maintained, Skip Woods later remade Gabriel Shear into a patriotic agent who seeks to destroy world terrorists and who kills the Senator, and his aide, for trying to kill him, and stop his plans.
** The climax was originally intended to be an airport shootout.
** The deleted ending had a funny moment when [[spoiler: Ginger discovers that Stan stole back the money ''again'' and donated it to a bunch ofcharities]].charities]].
** Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/ValKilmer were considered for Stanley.
** Creator/NickNolte was originally considered for the role of Senator Reisman.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The original screenplay draft had a very different take on the Gabriel Shear character. He was first written as a mercenary whose plan for the stolen DEA funds had him joining forces with military and intelligence figures and planning to destroy corrupt politicians, and had several lengthy monologues in which U.S. Agents listened to him and then joined his crusade on the spot. While the funding and covert war angle was maintained, Skip Woods later remade Gabriel Shear into a patriotic agent who seeks to destroy world terrorists and who kills the Senator, and his aide, for trying to kill him, and stop his plans.
** The climax was originally intended to be an airport shootout.
** The deleted ending had a funny moment when [[spoiler: Ginger discovers that Stan stole back the money ''again'' and donated it to a bunch of
** Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/ValKilmer were considered for Stanley.
** Creator/NickNolte was originally considered for the role of Senator Reisman.
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* ActorAllusion: It's not the first movie where Creator/JohnTravolta [[Film/FaceOff used surgery as a means of disguise.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** The first hacker Gabriel hires ought to be familiar to ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' fans as Ari.
** [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent Vega]] and [[Film/XMen Storm]] hire [[Film/XMen Wolverine]] to hack into a bank so they can steal several billions dollars, with FBI Agent [[Film/IronMan James Rhodes]] in hot pursuit. One of the henchmen is [[Film/XMenTheLastStand the Juggernaut]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
** The first hacker Gabriel hires ought to be familiar to ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' fans as Ari.
** [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent Vega]] and [[Film/XMen Storm]] hire [[Film/XMen Wolverine]] to hack into a bank so they can steal several billions dollars, with FBI Agent [[Film/IronMan James Rhodes]] in hot pursuit. One of the henchmen is [[Film/XMenTheLastStand the Juggernaut]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The first hacker Gabriel hires ought to be familiar to ''{{NCIS}}'' fans as Ari.
** [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent Vega]] and [[Film/{{X-Men}} Storm]] hire [[Film/{{X-Men}} Wolverine]] to hack into a bank so they can steal several billions dollars, with FBI Agent [[Film/IronMan James Rhodes]] in hot pursuit. One of the henchmen is [[Film/{{X-Men}} the Juggernaut]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
** [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent Vega]] and [[Film/{{X-Men}} Storm]] hire [[Film/{{X-Men}} Wolverine]] to hack into a bank so they can steal several billions dollars, with FBI Agent [[Film/IronMan James Rhodes]] in hot pursuit. One of the henchmen is [[Film/{{X-Men}} the Juggernaut]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
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* HeyItsThatGuy: ActorAllusion: It's not the first movie where Creator/JohnTravolta [[Film/FaceOff used surgery as a means of disguise.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy:
** The first hacker Gabriel hires ought to be familiar to''{{NCIS}}'' ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' fans as Ari.
** [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent Vega]] and[[Film/{{X-Men}} [[Film/XMen Storm]] hire [[Film/{{X-Men}} [[Film/XMen Wolverine]] to hack into a bank so they can steal several billions dollars, with FBI Agent [[Film/IronMan James Rhodes]] in hot pursuit. One of the henchmen is [[Film/{{X-Men}} [[Film/XMenTheLastStand the Juggernaut]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
* HeyItsThatGuy:
** The first hacker Gabriel hires ought to be familiar to
** [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent Vega]] and
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The deleted ending had a CrowningMomentOfFunny when [[spoiler: Ginger discovers that Stan stole back the money ''again'' and donated it to a bunch of charities]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The deleted ending had a CrowningMomentOfFunny funny moment when [[spoiler: Ginger discovers that Stan stole back the money ''again'' and donated it to a bunch of charities]].
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* MoneyDearBoy: HalleBerry was given a $500,000 bonus to expose her breasts.
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* MoneyDearBoy: HalleBerry Creator/HalleBerry was given a $500,000 bonus to expose her breasts.
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** [[PulpFiction Vincent Vega]] and [[Film/{{X-Men}} Storm]] hire [[Film/{{X-Men}} Wolverine]] to hack into a bank so they can steal several billions dollars, with FBI Agent [[IronMan James Rhodes]] in hot pursuit. One of the henchmen is [[Film/{{X-Men}} the Juggernaut]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
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** [[PulpFiction [[Film/PulpFiction Vincent Vega]] and [[Film/{{X-Men}} Storm]] hire [[Film/{{X-Men}} Wolverine]] to hack into a bank so they can steal several billions dollars, with FBI Agent [[IronMan [[Film/IronMan James Rhodes]] in hot pursuit. One of the henchmen is [[Film/{{X-Men}} the Juggernaut]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
