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Filming took 22 weeks and the weather conditions during the location in Romania were unpredictable and the set was at one point flooded. Director Anthony Minghella was forced to cut some scenes and make changes to screenplay because of the conditions.
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There is a real Cold Mountain in North Carolina, located within the Pisgah National Forest southwest of Asheville. However, never has there been a town named for the mountain.
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Edited using Apple's "Final Cut Pro 3.0.2" software.
Cold Mountain - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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For her performance in this film, Renée Zellweger became the first actress to win Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Critics' Choice Awards.
Cold Mountain - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The love scene between Nicole Kidman and Jude Law took two days to film.
Cold Mountain - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Rachel Weisz was considered for the Ruby Thewes role.
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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.
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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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In the original script, Inman stays with Sara to help clean up after the encounter with the Union soldiers. 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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Renée Zellweger admittedly got through the long shoot through daily consumption of Starbucks coffee. She brought in pounds of coffee beans from abroad, and every morning she would make lattes for her driver, her assistant and herself in her own cabin kitchen.
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The only film that year nominated for Best Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes, and not Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
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One of countless movies to more or less follow Homer's epic tale "The Odyssey", about a man being far removed but on a journey back to home against seemingly impossible odds. In recent years "O Brother, Where Art Thou" (2000) is another example.
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Nicole Kidman was asked to lose as much weight as possible. She went on the hard-boiled egg diet, which entailed having one egg for breakfast and two to three for dinner. This type of diet is not advisable in the long run as it is unbalanced, unhealthy and does not provide one with enough calories. In the end Kidman ended up losing more weight than she originally desired.
Cold Mountain - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Anthony Minghella spent five years on the film. Almost one year was used for editing.
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Nicole Kidman used an old converted bus once owned by executed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu as her on-location dressing room.
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Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Jena Malone would later appear in The Hunger Games franchise.
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The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and one Oscar nominee: Jude Law.
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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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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.
Cold Mountain - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts