Trivia
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-Despite playing the lead character, Emily Browning does not have a line of dialogue until about 18 minutes into the film.
-Emily Browning sings three of the songs featured in the film: "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" at the beginning of the movie; "Asleep" which plays while Babydoll is crying in the bathroom; and she is featured on the track "Where is My Mind?" by Yoav.
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-Each of the lead girls had to undergo a strict physical training which involves doing dead-lifts up to 96kgs months before shooting. Vanessa Hudgens called that period "tormenting" that she broke down several times. In scenes where she's seen crying, she actually brought out moments from those sessions.
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-Zack Snyder's first live action film to not receive an R rating in the U.S.
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-Co stars Emily Browning and Jena Malone have each acted in one movie with Liam Aiken, where they both played his characters' older sister: Browning as Violet Baudelaire in Les désastreuses aventures des orphelins Baudelaire (2004), and Malone as Anna Harrison in Ma meilleure ennemie (1998).
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-Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Thirlby, and Mia Wasikowska were in turn going to be cast as Babydoll, and dropped out before Emily Browning was chosen.
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-Evan Rachel Wood was the first choice for Rocket but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and Jena Malone replaced her.
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-The two banners beside Scott Glenn's character as shown in the trailer are a famous couplet from 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu: "Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain." This was later made into a famous battle standard by the Japanese warlord Takeda Shingen.
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-Angelina Jolie was considered for the role of Dr. Vera Gorski.
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-Emma Stone and Freida Pinto were considered for the role of Amber which went to Jamie Chung.
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-Vanessa Hudgens says she's looking forward to being seen by a whole new audience that might not necessarily be familiar with her work in the High School Musical: Premiers pas sur scène (2006) films.
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-During the dragon castle raid, the girls' plane is a WWII U.S. B24 Liberator bomber.
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-Rufus Sewell was one of the actors who was rumored to play Blue Jones.
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-First film directed by Zack Snyder that is not an adaptation. However, the movie features motifs from Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice in Wonderland".
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-The asylum is named Lennox House. The song playing during the opening scene is a cover of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", written and originally recorded by British pop music duo Eurythmics, comprising David A. Stewart and Annie Lennox.
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-Eric Dane and Tim McGraw were choices to play High Roller.
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-WILHELM SCREAM: during the castle raid as the dragon smashes through a bridge.
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-Hans Matheson was considered for the role of Blue Jones.
-Zack Snyder told Vanessa Hudgens that this feature would be his first action movie, despite the fact that 300 (2006) is considered an action movie.
Spoilers
The trivia items below may give away important plot points.
-There are a striking number of coincidences between events in the movie and musical cues (and lyrics) on the 1973 Pink Floyd album, "Dark Side of the Moon". A fan discovered the synchronicity and has revealed all details including the compilation itself through the internet. In a phenomena known as 'synchronicity' the album is played as an alternate soundtrack for the entire film that not only works as a metaphorical piece to the themes shared between the film and music, but also sound cues that act as a sound effect or inner monologues spoken out loud for the characters through the album. A few of the too-numerous-to-name coincidences include (but are not limited to): •Climactic screams to the reveal of the dead mother and the gunshot that kills Amber
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•Heartbeats as the girls are at high risk of getting caught or dying as they enact their plan.
•"Run, rabbit, run" is heard as the door is kicked down at the beginning and end of the film, mirroring the stepfather kicking the closet door open to reveal the little sister (the beginning) and Babydoll kicking Blue down as the door opens to reveal Sweet Pea in the closet (the end). Babydoll is also running another time this is spoken.
•"Don't be afraid to care" as BabyDoll looks through the peephole worried about her little sister.
"Look around..." as BabyDoll turns her head to "choose your own ground." As BabyDoll realizes what she's done after firing the gun, the music shifts mirroring her descent into madness. •The song "Money" plays as Madame Gorski and her counterpart, The Wise Man, gives BabyDoll advice much as the song does
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•The three samurai appear to speak as drunken men on the album.When the main samurai takes a step forward, a loud sound of a footstep is heard as the screen shakes right in tune. •Bells are heard when the cafeteria/theatre is revealed to BabyDoll and later as the bell rings for dismissal of class.
•The increasing cries for 'The Great Gig In The Sky' are heard as BabyDoll is crying at night in the asylum and as the baby dragon's throat is slit. The woman's voice seems to mirror the fury of the mother dragon after discovering the dead child.
•"I never said I was afraid of dying" Rocket defying the cook and the baby dragon's lifeless body is lifted by its mother
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•"Eh" Babydoll appears to say this right in tune with the album.
•'Us and Them' as Babydoll takes on the three samurai and the girls take on the train of robots.
•As BabyDoll takes center floor to "dance" and the plan is initiated, a heart beats as Babydoll imagines herself in a different place - "The lunatic is on the grass.... remembering games and daisy chains and laughs, got to keep the loonies on the path."
•"The lunatic is in my head" as a pilot flies into the head of a blimp with a face.
•Many allusions to Rocket's death. There are a couple of instances where Rocket seems as if she is saying things like "I never said I was afraid of dying" and "Why should I be afraid of dying..."
When Rocket is on the train that explodes in the city, drum beats are to the tune of a succession of glass breaking from the blast. BabyDoll looks in in disbelief as the city goes dark (an allusion to the death of her sister) as "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" is said. Said again as Sweet Pea watches Rocket die in her arms. •"You raise the blade, you make the change..." as the cook raises his knife out of Rocket.
"You rearrange me 'till I'm sane." happens as all the girls walk side by side (all representing different aspects of the "star of the show") and later as their group is torn apart. •"Home, home again" Babydoll closes her eyes and imagines herself (Sweet Pea) going home to her own "paradise."
This phenomenon is known as "Dark Side Of The Sucker Punch". Similar to Le magicien d'Oz (1939) in "Dark Side Of The Rainbow".
-Body Count: 421 (including the creatures from the girl's dreams).
