Line #4 Trivia/Magnolia


1	* ActingForTwo: Pat Healy plays two characters in the movie: Sir Edmund William Godfrey, who is murdered by the three thieves in the first scene, and the young pharmacist Julianne Moore yells at.
2	* BillingDisplacement: Where's Creator/AlfredMolina? Oh, there he is. In one scene early on in the film. Despite this, he is even credited above Melora Walters.
3	* CastTheRunnerUp: According to Creator/ThomasJane, he was supposed to play two different characters in the film. But the scheduling overlapped with ''Film/UnderSuspicion'' so he was only available for the brief cameo as the young Jimmy Gator.
4	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/PaulThomasAnderson admitted that he finds the film far too long now, and would have cut some of the story lines from the finished product. He never specified what stories he would have cut. In an interview with Marc Maron in January of 2015, he was asked if he had the opportunity to re-cut the film. He replied, "I'd slice that thing down. It's way too fucking long. It's unmerciful how long it is." He added that "maybe a few" trajectories in the film's plot lines could've been eliminated.
5	* TheDanza: Creator/LuisGuzman has a role as a contestant on "What Do Kids Know?" named Luis Guzman.
6	* DeletedRole: Creator/OrlandoJones' role, as "The Worm"--the father of the rapping boy and also the murderer of the man in the closet--was left on the cutting room floor. This makes Dead Guy in Closet's Murder an Unreveal and makes the boy's presence in the film more or less random. In the final cut Jones appears only as the [[InTheHood mysterious hooded]] pedestrian that Officer Jim chases before losing his gun.
7	* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: This was originally supposed to be a short and intimate film. But the more Creator/PaulThomasAnderson worked on the characters the more intricate it became. So the plot expanded from there.
8	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JohnCReilly was tiring of always playing heavies so he asked Creator/PaulThomasAnderson to write him a part in which he falls in love with a girl.
9	** Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman, who had mostly played creeps, jerks and losers up until then, plays NiceGuy Phil Parma.
10	* ProductionPosse: Many of the film's major and minor actors return from Creator/PaulThomasAnderson's previous film, ''Film/BoogieNights''; the only exceptions among the former are Creator/TomCruise, Creator/JasonRobards, and Jeremy Blackman.
11	* RealLifeRelative: The WWDK Show Director's Assistant is played by Creator/WilliamMapother, Creator/TomCruise's real-life cousin.
12	* ThrowItIn: According to Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman, during the deathbed scene, everything after Frank's 'I'm not going to cry for you' was improvised by Creator/TomCruise. Cruise didn't feel the scripted lines worked, and Creator/PaulThomasAnderson told Cruise to think of when his own father died and to let it move him. During the next take Cruise broke down sobbing, resulting in the scene seen in the film. Hoffman stated Phil's reaction to Frank sobbing was his own, since he didn't know Cruise would enter such a zone and he felt the purity of Cruise's emotion.
13	* UncreditedRole: According to her official site, Creator/MiriamMargolyes asked not to be credited in this film due to the size of her role.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
15	** Creator/GeorgeCScott was offered the role of Earl Partridge, but turned it down because the script was, in his words, "..the worst fucking thing I've ever read. [[HypocriticalHumor The language is terrible]]." Creator/MarlonBrando was also considered for the role.
16	** Creator/PaulThomasAnderson wanted to cast Creator/BurtReynolds for an unspecified role. But Reynolds had become angry with Anderson during the promotional tour for ''Film/BoogieNights'' and turned the role down.
17	** Creator/DebraWinger was considered for the role of Linda Partridge.
18	** Along with the scenes further explaining The Worm, there were many other scenes and dialogue exchanges included in the script but not used for the final film, including:
19	*** A scene in which Jimmy talks with Paula, the dancer he is having sex with in the opening sequence.
20	*** Extended dialogue between Gwenovier and Frank, about "Subjective human experience and terrible things", which was referenced in the final cut but not shown.
21	*** A brief dialogue between Jim and Claudia after he asks her on a date, in which they both find they have the same favorite restaurant.
22	*** We see what happens to Stanley between the events of that day's game show, and him talking to his sleeping father.
23	*** Further explanation during Earl's monologue concerning the reasons he mistreated his first wife.
24	*** The tone of Frank's confrontation with his father is considerably different, with him showing less hostility, more genuine sympathy and concern, and attempting to wake him up.
25	*** It is made clear in the script that Jimmy doesn't survive the fire in his house caused by the destroyed television.
26	*** We see Marcie's confession for what happened to the "guy in the closet".
27	* WriteWhatYouKnow: According to Philip Baker Hall, the scene where Frank T.J. Mackey visits Earl Partridge on his deathbed is loosely based on Creator/PaulThomasAnderson's experiences of watching his father, the late WABC-TV announcer Ernie Anderson, die of cancer.

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