The Edge - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[victoria]

Stephen comments "Brothers don't last long in situations like this!" foreshadowing when he gets killed by the bear.

[jim]

The survival concepts (especially navigation) are all valid but finding cardinal directions in daytime is very easy by noting where the sun rises and sets. It wouldn't be necessary to use constellations to find directions at night to discover which direction is south during daylight hours.

[elmer]

Throughout the course of this movie, Alec Baldwin says the word "Charles", which was the first name of Sir Anthony Hopkins' character, at least eighty-seven times.

[miriam]

While jesting, Alec Baldwin's character does a stereotypical effeminate-male voice over five times throughout the movie.

[steve]

Underwater plane scenes were shot at the Edmonton Kinsman Sports Center's dive tank.

[jim]

Ray Liotta, Richard Gere, and John Travolta were considered for the role of Robert Green.

[marc]

Sir Michael Caine turned down the role of Charles Morse. Curiously, Harold Perrineau worked with Caine in Blood and Wine (1996).

[aaron]

After reaching Jack Hawk's (Gordon Tootoosis') empty cabin, and after convincing Morse (Sir Anthony Hopkins) to fly further to Big Bass Lake in search of Hawk, Green (Alec Baldwin) exclaims elatedly, "There's the spirit that beat the Japanese!" Alec Baldwin played Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, who planned and led the counter-strike against the Japanese in Pearl Harbor (2001).

[stephanie]

Italian censorship visa # 92538 delivered on 17 April 1998.

[kim]

The watch Mickey (Elle Macpherson) gives Robert (Alec Baldwin) is an Omega Seamaster Chronograph Ref# 2296, the chronograph version of the James Bond watch.

[charlie]

At the end, the last spoken words of the film, is from a watery eyes Charles, who answers to a reporter question: "They died... saving my life." On a superficial analysis of the movie, one would think that what happened was the exact opposite. Charles constantly is the one saving the others lives, and motivating to keep going, so why would he say that? He says it because, right there, he realizes that if it wasn't for them, "companions/friends", he wouldn't have pushed as hard to return alive and would've perished, as he says during the film "of shame."

[jeffrey]

A significant one is Bob leaving behind a trapped Stephen to drown after the crash and Charles staying behind to save Stephen foreshadowing the ending in which he does the same thing for Bob.

[javier]

The red float plane in which they crash is a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver.

[stephanie]

Sir Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin appeared in Shortcut to Happiness (2003).

[ava]

"Bookworm" was considered as a title for this movie. Other titles considered were "Wild", "Wilder", "The Wild", "Into the Wild", "Wilderness Now", "Deadhunt", "Deadfall", "Edge", "On the Edge", "Bloody Betrayal", and "The Bear Roared".

[kristina]

Sir Anthony Hopkins was suffering from a slipped disc throughout filming, and incorporated the pain he felt from this into his performance.

[addison]

One of Bart the Bear's final acting roles before his death on May 10, 2000 at the age of twenty-three.

[wesley]

This was the second movie in which Sir Anthony Hopkins worked that also featured Bart the Bear. The other is Legends of the Fall (1994).