After preview screenings the ending was slightly altered so the relationship between the Michael Gallagher character played by Paul Newman and the Megan Carter character played by Sally Field was left open-ended and not close-ended. This is an old Hollywood movie chestnut where if love interests do not end up together, so as to have a happy ending, there needs to be a suggestion that the pair might see each other or get together romantically after the picture's end, and as such, the guy kinda gets the girl, or might get the girl, in the end. This was the clear intention of producer and director Sydney Pollack. This production scenario was reported in the 23rd November 1981 edition of 'New York' magazine. Moreover, the same ending suggestion happens at the end of Pollack's Tootsie (1982), where are Jessica Lange and Dustin Hoffman's characters have fallen out, they walk down the boulevard at film's end, with Hoffman putting his arm around Lange at the end of the closing shot.
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Julian Glover appeared as Grand Maester Pycelle on Game of Thrones (2011), which was based on George R.R. Martin's fantasy book series "A Song of Fire and Ice". Peter Dinklage and Sophie Turner, who also appeared in the series, appeared opposite James McAvoy in the X-Men franchise.
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This was the first movie where James McAvoy voiced the lead character. Several years later, he was cast as the voice of Gnomeo in Gnomeo & Juliet (2011).
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The film's main antagonist is called Nezo. Although it was never confirmed or acknowledged by writer and director Anders Rønnow Klarlund, it's speculated Nezo may had been named in-part after the Roman Emperor Nero.
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A sequel never came to fruition. It would have followed Hal and Zita as they rule Abagos (formerly Hebalom) and Hal struggles to overcome the loss of Jhinna.
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This is not a movie for small children, and is a movie that is made more for adults.
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Hugo Myatt, well known for playing Treguarde in the popular CITV fantasy adventure gameshow Knightmare (1987) provided the voice of one of the Hebalonians.
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Anders Rønnow Klarlund wanted to make a movie about terrorism and how the United States responded to 9/11. He decided to tell it as a fairy tale, and so "Strings" was born.
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Erito was modelled after Sir Laurence Olivier.
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When the final scene was filmed, Bernd Ogrodnik and his crew manipulated the Ola puppet in puppeteer fashion from a bridge over a huge tank of water and the strings were then removed by computer animation due to lack of time, and they were unable to make the bird fly properly.
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The smallest miniature set measured one hundred square meters.
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Puppeteer Bern Ogodnik claims that it takes up to ten years just to perfect the movement of the hands of a marionette puppet, and that perfectly moving all the strings of the entire body can maybe be learned in twenty-five years.
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This movie "foreshadows" James McAvoy starring in Wanted (2008). In that movie, Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) joins The Fraternity so he can avenge his father. But he soon discovers that his father's death was untrue, and that his father's killer Cross Thomas Kretschmann is his father.
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Ghinna was modelled after Brigitte Bardot.
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Strings - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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