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All of the cast members playing vampires wore wigs that were a mix of human, yak, and goat hair, in order to make them look wilder.
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This movie shares its title with a 1964 Dave Wallis science fiction novel, which was considered as a movie project for The Rolling Stones, and would have been directed by Nicholas Ray, who mentored Jim Jarmusch in the 1970s, when he was a graduate student at New York University.
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Although Jim Jarmusch wanted to shoot this movie on film, and has a general distaste for digital cinematography, he had to use the Arri Alexa for budgetary reasons. He managed to work with low lighting and specific lenses in order to come up with a look he found acceptable enough to work for him.
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Byron and Percy Shelley are mentioned as former companions of the vampire Adam. In Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (1990), Sir John Hurt played a scientist who goes back in time and meets both poets, as well as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, and his Creature.
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Eve (Tilda Swinton) books a flight for Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and her under the names "Daisy Buchanan" and "Stephen Dedalus", main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", respectively. Stephen Dedalus also appeared as the sidekick in Joyce's "Ulysses". In Joyce's final novel "Finnegans Wake", there is a famous recurring poem with the line "riverrun past Eve and Adam".
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The band White Hills seen live in this movie has a song called "Let the Right One In" on their self-titled 2010 album. Let the Right One In (2008) was another vampire movie.
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Michael Fassbender was in talks to play a role.
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The white dwarf Eve (Tilda Swinton) mentions to Adam (Tom Hiddleston) while driving across the city is the star called BPM 37093, also known as Lucy (named after The Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds). Its nucleus is cooling down, which makes its core pulsate like a giant gong.
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Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love" at the beginning of this movie was played considerably slower than normal. Besides giving the song an eerie sound, it perhaps suggests the characters are living slower lives. It is a cover by Jarmusch's band sqürl.
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Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (Sir John Hurt) mentions writing Hamlet, and ghostwriting for William Shakespeare to have an outlet for his work. The real Marlowe died under mysterious circumstances at the age of twenty-nine, a few weeks before the publication of Shakespeare's first known play. The Marloweian theory, which is considered fringe by a vast majority of scholars, suggests that he faked his death, and adopted the nom de plume "William Shakespeare".
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Although the two main characters, and two supporting characters, are clearly vampires, the word "vampire" is never used throughout this movie.
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Subjects discussed by the characters include Jack White and Nikola Tesla. In Writer and Director Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), one of the skits had Jack White playing an expert on Nikola Tesla.
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During the credits, Writer and Director Jim Jarmusch thanked his longtime partner with a message that reads "Inspiration and instigation: Sara Driver".
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Some of the many pictures on Adam's wall include portraits of Richard Wagner, Jean Michel Basquiat, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, Marcel Duchamp, Nikola Tesla, Sir Isaac Newton, Christopher Marlowe (who is also represented by Sir John Hurt's character in this movie), William Blake, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William S. Burroughs, Oscar Wilde, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (referred to as "Mary Wollstonecraft" in dialogue), Naomi Klein, Susan Sontag, Samuel Beckett, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Rimbaud, John Keats, Charles Baudelaire, Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, Sitting Bull, Black Elk, Geronimo, Joe Strummer, Bo Diddley, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde, Hank Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler, Henry Purcell, Nicholas Ray, Claire Denis, Aki Kaurismäki, Luis Buñuel, Robby Müller, Fritz Lang, Bruce Lee, Buster Keaton, Rodney Dangerfield, Harpo Marx, and Hedy Lamarr, as well as numerous musicians with whom Writer and Director Jim Jarmusch has worked on various movies, including Tom Waits, Neil Young, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Iggy Pop, and RZA.
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Tom Hiddleston (Adam) and Mia Wasikowska (Ava) appeared in Crimson Peak (2015).
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When Adam (Tom Hiddleston) leaves Dr. Watson's (Jeffrey Wright's) office, Watson says Adam must be from Cleveland. Writer and Director Jim Jarmusch was born in Akron, forty miles (sixty-four kilometers) from Cleveland.
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For a vampire movie that never uses the term "vampire", it does use the term "zombie" frequently, as that is how the vampires refer to normal people.
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According to the script, Eve (Tilda Swinton) is two thousand years old, and was the Druid matriarch of a Celtic tribe. Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is five hundred to six hundred years old. Writer and Director Jim Jarmusch decided that Adam and Eve would be aware of each other's true age, so he argued they have no reason to state it in this movie, but simply informed the cast members of the age of the characters. In an extended version of the nude scene, shown in the DVD special features, Adam and Eve do talk about her Druidic connections.
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There is a banknote on the table in Adam's house shown a few times in this movie. It is a Slovakian 20 Korun from 1993.
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