Divergent - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Divergent or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Divergent

[claude]

After the first Dauntless test, the initiates get their rankings on the board behind Eric. "Tris", however, is misspelt, as "Triss".

[ray]

Tris is aged 16 and is played by Shailene Woodley who is 23. Four is 18 in the book, but played by Theo James who is 28

[gabriel]

Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller had trouble filming their fight scene due to their close friendship. Woodley, in particular had difficulties and at one point referred to Teller as "Sutter" which is his character's name in The Spectacular Now (2013) in which the two played a couple. Teller had to take Woodley aside and have a discussion in order to get her to be aggressive towards him.

[ken]

In the beginning when the factions were introduced, each sign for each faction appears: the Erudite eye looking up from the microscope, the Amity tree in the middle of the field, the Candor scales during a court hearing, the Dauntless flames on the side of the building, and Abnegation joined hands while helping the factionless.

[victoria]

Kate Winslet has said she accepted the role of Jeannine because she wanted to do something drastically different from her usual parts, and also because she wanted to do a film that her children could watch. According to her, they became quite popular at school when word got out that their mother was Jeannine.

[riley]

The elevated train maps used on the train cars were from 1913.

[nicholas]

An acrostic of the first letters of the faction names, Factionless/Abnegation/Candor/Amity/Dauntless/Erudite, spells FACADE. Insisting that people fall into just 6 rigid categories certainly is a facade that misled everyone.

[lynn]

One of the main things that attracted Woodley to the project was the relationship between Tris and Four: "It's very different than the Bella/Edward relationship; they're completely on the opposite sides of the spectrum."

[phyllis]

The initiate named Edward is present throughout stage 1 of the training (helps pull Christina up from the chasm's edge, first picked by Eric for Capture The Flag, spoken line "You're the only one who's ever stood up to him", ranked #1 and celebrates when stage 1 rankings are announced etc.) However, he is nowhere to be seen after the first stage of training. In the book, but not shown in the movie, Edward was eliminated by the weaker Peter by stabbing him in the eye with a table knife while sleeping. Al also feels threatened by Tris and he tries to eliminate her by throwing her into the Chasm, which is in the movie.

[jessica]

In the book, Christina is the first to take possession of the flag saying to Tris "You're already the hero of the day." In the movie, Tris grabs the flag first but Christina quickly joins her in holding it, and then Christina carries the flag as they walk back.

[chad]

Miles Teller originally auditioned for the role of Four, but was told that he wasn't going to be getting the role. Months later, the producers watched The Spectacular Now (2013), and were so impressed that they called Teller and offered him the role of Eric, who is supposed to be at odds and intimidating towards the character Four. Teller turned it down because he felt that he wouldn't be able to pull off being intimidating towards Theo James. He was then offered the role of Peter, which he accepted after his friend and former co-star Shailene Woodley sent him a text asking him to accept the role so they could work together again.

[nina]

The film was shot on location in Chicago, the setting in the book, and Burger wanted to use as much of the city as possible. He decided to shoot the film like street photography but where the streets are 150 years in the future.

[toni]

While The Hunger Games series is in very similar vein, it also starred Lenny Kravitz who is Zoë Kravitz's father.

[veronica]

Summit/Lionsgate sat down with some of the actors and prepared them for the experiences ahead regarding the eager fanbase.

[clayton]

In the capture the flag scene, Peter and Eric are shot in the same place with neuro stim darts: leg and chest

[kyle]

This is the first film where Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort star together. The first could have been Carrie (2013) if Woodley hadn't turned down the part of Carrie White. Elgort played the Tommy Ross, the potential love interest, in the film. A year later, they were both cast in The Fault in Our Stars (2014).

[janice]

The fence around Chicago is modeled after the Duga-2 antenna array. A Soviet era over-the-horizon radar transmitter located in Ukraine, within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The transmissions from the antenna caused interference with commercial and amateur radio. NATO codenamed Steel Yard, also known as the Russian Woodpecker due to the 10hz repetitive signal.

[phyllis]

The scene from the book in which Edward is stabbed with a butter knife in the eye by Peter was filmed, but later cut due to it being determined as too violent for a PG-13 film. It would've received an R-rating with the scene included.

[mathew]

Lucas Till, Jack Reynor, Jeremy Irvine, Alex Pettyfer, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Ludwig and Luke Bracey were considered for the lead roles.