Second consecutive horror movie for Writer and Director Oliver Stone. The first one being Seizure (1974).
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Jennifer Jason Leigh was cast as Agnes after director Paul Verhoeven had seen her in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), where she was also able to pass as being much younger than she was in reality (playing a fifteen-year-old at age nineteen). Although Agnes' age is not stated, Medieval girls were considered eligible for marriage from age twelve.
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Rutger Hauer and Brion James appeared in Blade Runner (1982). Hauer and James were good friends until James' death on August 7, 1999.
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This is the only movie featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh that was directed by Paul Verhoeven (as of March 2020).
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The final collaboration between Rutger Hauer and director Paul Verhoeven, following Floris (1969), Turkish Delight (1973), Katie Tippel (1975), Soldier of Orange (1977), and Spetters (1980).
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Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh appeared in The Hitcher (1986). Interestingly, its director, Robert Harmon, like Paul Verhoeven, have something in common: screenwriter Joe Eszterhas. Harmon also directed Nowhere to Run (1993), which Eszterhas co-wrote with Leslie Bohem and Randy Feldman, from a story by Eszterhas and Richard Marquand. Verhoeven directed Basic Instinct (1992) and Showgirls (1995), both written by Eszterhas.
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Nastassja Kinski and Rebecca De Mornay were considered for the part of Agnes. De Mornay was rejected because she demanded that her then boyfriend, Tom Cruise, be cast as Steven. Jennifer Jason Leigh was ultimately handpicked by director Paul Verhoeven.
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There was so much competition for screen presence amongst the actors that some of them started to call the movie "Flesh+Blood+Elbows", in the sense that some cast members would literally use their elbows to push others out of frame.
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Nancy Cartwright, better known as the voice of Bart Simpson, appeared in this movie with Jennifer Jason Leigh. She was also in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), the movie where Leigh's father, Vic Morrow, was killed.
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The time and place that this movie takes place is 1501 in Western Europe.
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Paul Verhoeven wanted to explore the idea of a confrontation between two former allies who had become enemies, stating that he had always been a bit disappointed that the two enemies in The Wild Bunch (1969) never really met face to face. One of the scenes he had in mind for this movie would have shown Martin and Hawkwood having a calm conversation in a bathtub, while both concealed a knife. The characters would have a final showdown at the end of the movie. However, the studio wanted a bigger part for the character of Agnes and more focus on the love story, so the audience could better identify with the main characters. The bathtub scene therefore became a love scene, and the feud between Martin and Hawkwood was pushed to the background, much to Verhoeven's regret.
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The movie was director Paul Verhoeven's reaction to the many movies that, in his view, overly romanticized the Middle Ages. He wanted to show it as a period where brutality, disease, poverty, and hardship were common, and a natural death was a rare thing.
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Tom Burlinson was cast as Steven after director Paul Verhoeven had seen him in Phar Lap (1983).
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The movie's script was originally a screenplay that developed at The Ladd Company.
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Paul Verhoeven decided for the first time not to storyboard the entire movie and adopt a more improvisational style of directing, a decision that he quickly regretted, given the enormously complex nature of the production.
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This is the last of five theatrical movie collaborations of Rutger Hauer and Paul Verhoeven. The others being Turkish Delight (1973), Katie Tippel (1975), Soldier of Orange (1977), and Spetters (1980).
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Director Paul Verhoeven and Rutger Hauer had so many arguments on the set that the crew insisted that they quarrelled in English so they could understand what all of the discussions were about.
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The castle that is featured in this movie, the Belmonte Castle in Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, was the one that had been used in El Cid (1961).
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This was Paul Verhoeven's last project in The Netherlands for two decades. He attended the Dutch Film Festival at which this movie premiered, and took a plane to the U.S. the next morning in order to start his American debut, RoboCop (1987).
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Director Paul Verhoeven wanted composer Basil Poledouris to create the score for this movie after hearing his music for Conan the Destroyer (1984). They cooperated again on RoboCop (1987) and Starship Troopers (1997).
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Flesh + Blood - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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