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© - DR - RETOUR A COLD MOUNTAIN p19
03/03/2012 17:10
Trivia
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The film has a shooting ratio of 60:1, which means that for every one minute that appears on screen, there were 60 minutes of footage.
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Brendan Gleeson is an accomplished fiddle player and does all his own playing in this film.
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Many of the scenes were shot in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, e.g. around the city Brasov or in the canyon of Zarnesti.
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The rather odd-looking pistol that Inman is carrying before he is captured by Confederate soldiers is an 1860 Beauregard LeMat, which was a favored weapon of many Confederate cavalrymen, as it held nine shots as well as a lower barrel with a .28-gauge shotgun load. This was the type of pistol carried by Confederate General JEB Stuart.
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were both considering roles in this movie, yet Cruise was unaware of Kidman's involvement. Cruise backed out but Kidman immediately signed up.
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As of 2003, this was the most expensive film Miramax has financed on its own, with a budget of about $79 million.
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There is a real Cold Mountain in North Carolina, located within the Pisgah National Forest southwest of Asheville. However, there is not and has never been a town named after the mountain.
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According to Ray Winstone (interviewed on Desert Island Discs), the horse he rides in the film is the same horse Russell Crowe rides in Gladiator, and is called George.
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Edited using Apple's "Final Cut Pro 3.0.2" software.
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The names of Sally Swanger's sons, "Acton" and "Ellis", are also the names that Anne Brontë and Emily Brontë used as pseudonyms to hide their genders when marketing their novels. They used "Acton Bell" and "Ellis Bell" and their sister Charlotte Brontë used the name "Currer Bell". *
When Inman heads off to war there is a banner, "Old Rip's Awake! Watch out Yankees!" posted on the Cold Mountain General Store. This is in reference to North Carolina being known as "The Rip Van Winkle" state.
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The characters of Bardolph, Nym, and Pistol are named after characters in "Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2", "Henry V", and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare. *
At one point in his journey, Inman asks a local if he's near the Cape Fear River. Cape Fear is adjacent to the coastal city of Wilmington, and the Cape Fear River runs south through Wilmington. The region is the namesake of the movies Les nerfs à vif (1962) and Les nerfs à vif (1991). *
Singer Faith Hill auditioned for the part of Sara. *
Francis Kemp was first considered for the old mountain woman, but turned it down.
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In 'cock and bull story' an historical film advisor decries Cold Mountain's battle scenes as being very unrealistic.
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Spoilers
The trivia items below may give away important plot points.
In the original script, Inman stays with Sara to help clean up after the encounter with the Union soldiers, but Sara's baby dies and a grief-stricken Sara shoots herself. This is one of the deleted scenes on the DVD.
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One of the DVD deleted scenes shows Inman finally arriving back at Cold Mountain only to find that Georgia is the only one at the house. Georgia tells Inman that Ada and Ruby are a long ways off in the mountains, and Inman sets off to find them.
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