Taika Waititi said that in the scene when the Gestapo come to Jojo's house "heil Hitler" is said 31 times in one minute. He wanted a funny moment, and also wanted to illustrate how ridiculous and unnecessary Nazi protocols were.
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In a review of this film in Art of Psychiatry, psychiatrist Dr. Abby Seltzer diagnosed Sissy as suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Carey Mulligan has stated in an interview that her nude scene was liberating.
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The sex scene with Michael Fassbender and Amy Hargreaves pressed against the glass of a room window in Manhattan's The Standard hotel was actually filmed above a busy street during the day. Spectators watched while the two actors, in the nude, smiled and waved at them from the hotel room above between takes. Since the Standard Hotel opened in New York in 2009, it has become notorious for its guests engaging in public sexual activity in front of their rooms' windows, sometimes for the entertainment of audiences on the street or in the High Line park below the building. This phenomenon has been documented in articles in New York Magazine, The New York Post, and The Observer, among other publications. In June 2013 in China, a Chinese couple fell to their deaths while performing a similar act, when the window they were leaning against gave way.
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Carey Mulligan stated on The Graham Norton Show that her "dad is not allowed" to see the film.
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Steve McQueen stated that while the nature of Brandon and Sissy's relationship is open to speculation, he did not see anything sexual about their casual nudity around each other, only that they were not bashful as brother and sister about their bodies.
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During the jogging scene, Brandon is seen waiting at a stop light and in the background is an advertisement for the TV series Army Wives (2007). Lucy Walters, who plays the woman on the subway train, also appears in Army Wives as Amy Sandberg.
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Despite the movie's $6.5 million budget, Fox Searchlight Pictures only paid around $400,000 to acquire its United States distribution rights.
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The scene where Brandon hears his sister sing in the restaurant was shot in real time. James Badge Dale and Michael Fassbender had never heard Carey Mulligan sing before so their reactions were real. The scene was shot at 3 a.m with cameras focused on all 3 performers at the same time.
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The movie's Hungarian poster was banned as it showed the title written in semen.
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Shot in 25 days.
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Commenting on his full frontal nudity shots, Michael Fassbender said in a 2011 interview with Vulture: "It just baffles me: Women can parade around naked all the time, but the guy conveniently has his pants on. I remember my mom always complaining about that to me, saying, "This is such bullshit, it's always the women who are naked" ... so I did this one for you, Mom!"
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In the very last shot of the film where Brandon looks at the woman on the subway train, the subway ad of a church called The River NYC is prominently featured behind him. This is actually the church Carey Mulligan attends whenever she is in New York City.
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This is the second feature length collaboration between actor Michael Fassbender and director Steve McQueen, the first being Hunger (2008).
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During the 2012 Newsweek Magazine Oscar roundtable, Michael Fassbender said that he really urinated on camera during a scene in which his character was seen urinating (usually these sorts of bodily function scenes are simulated during the filming of a movie, if only because of the difficulty of replicating them over multiple takes). George Clooney, who was also participating in the roundtable, asked Fassbender how many takes he had to do of the urination, and Fassbender said three.
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The scene where Brandon (Michael Fassbender) and Sissy (Carey Mulligan) have an argument on the couch while watching TV is an unbroken take of 6 minutes and 15 seconds.
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Michael Fassbender was the first and only choice to play the lead.
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The first time Michael Fassbender saw the film was with his father Josef. Both were relieved that his mother Adele could not make the screening.
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