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-In the film, Laura Bishop shouts at various family members through a bullhorn. The idea came from co-writer Roman Coppola's childhood, as his mother Eleanor  Coppola used a bullhorn in a similar fashion.
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-During filming, Bill Murray taught Jared Gilman how to tie a necktie for the first time.
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-When Suzy is reading "Disappearance of the Sixth Grade" at the Mile 3.25 Tidal Inlet campground and continues onto "Part Two" after Sam says to read on, it is  just about the exact midway point of the film: the spoken words occur at 46:59, with 46:56 left in the movie. This moment also marks the transition of the film's plot,  of course, so Suzy's "reading" also informs the audience of the shift in the movie's tone and direction.
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-According to Jared Gilman, the scene that required the most takes was the one where he held up the beetle earrings to Suzy. Each time he did it, either the earrings weren't entirely in the frame, or he wasn't holding them correctly.
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-After filming was completed, Kara Hayward got to keep the kitten owned in the film by her character Suzy, and Jared Gilman got to keep the backpack used by his character Sam.
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-During filming, Wes Anderson rented an old mansion in Newport, Rhode Island for himself, editor Andrew Weisblum, and director of cinematography Robert D.  Yeoman, in which they had a room set up for editing the film. It had been arranged for the cast to stay in a nearby hotel, but eventually some of the actors also decided to stay at the mansion, including Edward Norton, Bill Murray, and Jason Schwartzman. Murray later joked that the theory was to have everyone close by  so that they could all work "ungodly art-movie hours."
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-This is the first Wes Anderson film without any involvement of Owen Wilson.(et c'est une bonne chose !!il m'a gâché tous les films) 
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-According to Wes Anderson, Suzy's discovery of the "Coping with a Troubled Child" pamphlet was based on a similar experience from his own childhood: "It wasn't anything terrible. It's just something that at the time, when I found it, I was like, 'What is this!' I immediately knew who that troubled child was even though hypothetically it could have been someone else."
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-Wes Anderson's sixth collaboration with Bill Murray.
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-The film opened in only four theaters, two in New York and two in Los Angeles, but earned $167,250 per screen, the all-time record for highest per-theater box  office average of a non-animated film.
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-When Sam is surrounded by the scouts in Lightning Field, he says, "On this spot, I will fight no more, forever!", which is from the Surrender Speech by Chief  Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe. In 1877, Chief Joseph attempted to lead his people on an 1100-mile journey to Canada to escape the U.S. Army. They made it  within 40 miles before they were surrounded, and Chief Joseph made his speech.
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-While Suzy's books in the movie are fake, "Noye's Fludde", is in fact a real 1957 opera by Benjamin Britten. The text is based on an edition by Alfred W. Pollard of an early 15th-century mystery play from the Chester Mystery Cycle. The opera is written to be performed by a cast primarily of amateurs, and Britten requested it be performed in a church or a large hall but not in a theatre. Hence why it is being done by children in a church.
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-Before filming, neither Kara Hayward nor Jared Gilman had ever seen a typewriter in person. Hayward later said, "Fran (Frances McDormand) had a lot of fun  with that. She couldn't believe it. She showed me that the keys are in the same place as now (on computers)."
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-Though it was filmed in part on Prudence Island, Rhode Island, the map of the island of New Penzance is based on Fisher's Island, New York.
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-At Camp Ivanhoe, there is a sign visible that says Fort Lebanon. Wes Anderson's girlfriend Juman Malouf is originally from Lebanon.
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-Opening film at the 65th Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
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-The fish hook earrings Sam gives to Suzy are made of iridescent greenish-blue beetles called Fiery Searchers. They are common all over North America, and are found in moist forest floor areas.
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-Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons were considered and offered the role of Social Services.
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-Most of Wes Anderson's classmates who were Scouts were in Troop 55.
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-During the closing credits, the voice of a young person introduces various instruments as they join in playing a song-an obvious reference to the records played in the Hayward home.This method of spoken introduction has however also been used outside of education recordings, such as in the obscure 1967 song "Intro and Outro" by the Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band where atypical and strange instruments are introduced as played by unusual and unlikely musicians (such as John Wayne and Adolf Hitler), and in Mike Oldfield's seminal 1973 work "Tubular Bells" where Part One is concluded by Vivian Stanshall as "Master of Ceremonies" crediting one by one the instruments used earlier in the piece. Co-incidentally, tubular bells are listed as part of the deconstruction of the Desplat piece.
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-An abandoned Linens 'n Things retail store outside of Newport, Rhode Island was used as a sound stage for the film.
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This is the first Wes Anderson film to be shot in the 1.85:1 ratio since Tête brûlée (1996), and also the first to be shot on 16mm film.
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Wes Anderson:  [dead or endangered dogs]  "Snoopy" dies in the battle in the woods, just as "Buckley" dies after being run over by Eli Cash in La famille Tenenbaum (2001), and the three-legged dog in La vie aquatique (2004) is abandoned by its pirate owners and mistreated by Hennessey.
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-Wes Anderson:  ["Peanuts"]  The dog is named "Snoopy"; Rushmore (1998) and La famille Tenenbaum (2001) also contain numerous "Peanuts" and Charlie Brown references.
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Wes Anderson:  [divorce]  Suzy's parents are on the verge of divorce; the parents in À bord du Darjeeling Limited (2007) and La famille Tenenbaum (2001) are also divorced.(moui...des millions de couples sont divorcés...euh...?)