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Closer (2004/I)

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• Cate Blanchett was originally signed to play the role of Anna, but due to her second pregnancy she had to drop out of the film.
  
  
• Clive Owen played the role of Dan in the original stage production.
  
  
• At the beginning of filming, Natalie Portman gave 'Julia Roberts' a necklace that said "cunt" in honor of their characters' foul mouths. At the end of filming, Julia Roberts gave Natalie Portman a necklace that said "lil' cunt".
  
  

• The opera that Dan and Anna are late for and you can hear in the background is "Cosi Fan Tutte" - this also deals with themes of two couples who swap partners.
  
  
• The park Dan and Alice walk through is Postman's Park in London, near St Paul's Cathedral.
  
  
• The trailer includes several things that are not in the film.
  • different lighting when Anna and Dan kiss
  • shots of the driver of the car that hits Alice
  • a shot of Larry and Anna getting dressed
  • Larry telling Alice, "You women don't understand the territory, because you are the territory"
  • Anna asking Dan, "Why did you swear eternal love when all you wanted was excitement? Love bores you." Dan responds, "No, it disappoints me."
  
  
  
• Anna's exhibition is the only time all four characters are in the same room.
  
  
• 'Julia Roberts' ' character, Anna, was originally played on stage by Natasha Richardson.
  
  
• The original Broadway cast was: Anna Friel as Alice, Rupert Graves as Dan, Ciarán Hinds as Larry, and Natasha Richardson as Anna.
  
  
• When we last see her in bed, 'Julia Roberts' 's character, Anna, is reading Private Eye.
  
  
• Damien Rice, who sings the song "Blower's Daughter" on the film's soundtrack, Recorded a song for the movie also called "Closer" - but the song wasn't finished in time for the movies release.
  
  
• A segment of dialog from the movie was used for the titles of two Panic! at the Disco songs: "Lying is the Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" and "But It's Better If You Do."
  
  
• The photograph of an elderly couple which appears before Alice is photographed by Anna, and which appears also in Anna's exhibition, is a photograph of British philosophers Peter Geach and G. E. M. Anscombe.
  
  

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