Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock asked if chase scenes could be filmed from a helicopter, which required some ingenuity, as camera mounts did not exist for this purpose at the time. Using a Sikorsky S-51, UK registered G-AJOV, a former BEA airframe, the side door was removed, and the camera jerry-rigged with ropes, wires, and cables. These shots were done in July 1954, according to a "Making of" short documentary included in the DVD release.
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The initials "S.J." are seen on the pistol grip of the gun Frank (Bruce Willis) gives to Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker). They can't stand for Sarah, because her last name is Ross, and even if she married Frank, his last name is Moses. They likely belong to Prop Master Sylvain Joyal.
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Goof, not a point of trivia. When they are on the plane at the end of the movie, Sir Anthony Hopkins says "take nighttrain with you" to Bruce Willis, when he should be saying "nightshade".
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After the success of RED (2010), Ernest Borgnine always held out hope he'd be around to reprise his role as Henry the records keeper in this movie. When interviewed in April 2012, he mentioned there was talk about it over the years, and made one request to the producers. "I told them if they do it, I want to carry a gun this time." He kept in touch with Screenwriters Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, and in the end would have had a major role in a sequence at the start of the movie. When Borgnine passed away in July 2012, three months prior to the start of production, his scenes were reconfigured and featured an uncredited Titus Welliver.
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The main poster for this movie, with the cast walking towards the camera from out of the shadows, may have been inspired by the poster for The Wild Bunch (1969).
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Although he is listed in the opening credits, Steven Berkoff's total screentime is less than one minute.
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Frank (Bruce Willis) and Katja (Catherine Zeta-Jones) have dinner at the same restaurant as Hudson Hawk (Willis) in Hudson Hawk (1991).
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The diplomatic number plates are true to real-life. The first three numbers on a U.K. diplomatic plate tell you which country to which it belongs. 182 is assigned to Iran.
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When Frank's fake passport is being looked at by Han's assistant on the plane, it shows Bruce Willis' month and day of birth in 1950, which is five years older than he is.
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After infiltrating the insane asylum, Victoria (Dame Helen Mirren) tells Frank (Bruce Willis) that she felt like she was channelling Bette Davis. Bette Davis played Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen (1955).
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When Frank (Bruce Willis), Marvin (John Malkovich), and Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) are checking the classified Wikileaks document in the diner, a coffee stain can be seen on the document. This is a Photoshop brush, freely available on the Internet, which can also be found in several other movies.
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In the scene where Frank (Bruce Willis) and Katja (Catherine Zeta-Jones) go out to dinner in Paris, the scene opens with a shot of the Pantheon dome at night, and then follows Frank and Katja as they walk by a set of steps on the side of a church (Saint-Étienne-du-Mont). The is the same set of steps used in Midnight in Paris (2011). This is where Gil (Owen Wilson) meets the taxi that transports him back in time.
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Dame Helen Mirren (Victoria) says she's The Queen of England. Mirren played different Queens of England in The Queen (2006), Elizabeth I (2005), The Madness of King George (1994), and The Audience (2013).
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This marks the second time that Mary-Louise Parker's character has been put in danger, either directly or indirectly by Sir Anthony Hopkins' character. The first was in Red Dragon (2002), where Dr. Hannibal Lecter reveals her address to the "Tooth Fairy" serial killer.
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Due to strict U.K. gun laws, producers couldn't import the higher caliber guns they desired.
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Bruce Willis and Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Lay the Favorite (2012).
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During the Paris car chase, Sarah (Mary Louise-Parker) says "Happy Trails Bozo!" This is similar to John McClane's (Bruce Willis') words when he shoots Hans Gruber at the end of Die Hard (1988) when he says "Happy Trails Hans".
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Sir Anthony Hopkins and Brian Cox have played Hannibal Lecter (Lecktor). Cox originated the part in Manhunter (1986), and Hopkins played the part in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001), and Red Dragon (2002), also featuring Mary-Louise Parker.
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After Han Cho Bai (Lee Byung-hun) uses the mini gun to pepper the vehicle behind which Frank (Bruce Willis) and Marvin (John Malkovich) are hiding, Han approaches their hiding place. As he does, an unexplained bullet appears to strike the white van. This is likely a squib that exploded at the wrong time.
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This is the second movie released in 2013 to feature Bruce Willis and Lee Byung-hun. The first was G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013).
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RED 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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