The film "Requiem for a Dream" should be watched by everyone. The film tells the viewer what dreams sometimes lead to, if you choose the wrong path for their implementation.
The film is shocking and does not let go until the last minute - for the heroes you will truly survive, sympathize with their unfulfilled dreams ...
“Requiem for a Dream” is not one of those films that you forget the next morning, on the contrary, you scroll through what you see and start to seriously think about your life.
If you have already watched a movie, then you may be interested in facts about it.
10. Jennifer Connelly's father does the same thing as her father in the film
Jennifer Connelly played in a film “Requiem for a Dream” a girl named Marion, suffering from drug addiction.
In the film, her parents are engaged in fashion business, in life, the parents of the actress also held a high position in society - her mother Alin had her own antique shop, and her father Gerard Connelly was engaged in the development of his textile production. Now the father of the actress is engaged in fashion business.
9. The shooting of telephone communication took place in one pavilion
There is a scene in the film where Marion and Harry, her young man, are talking on the phone. Harry goes to the hospital because of the drugs he injected into his vein, his arm is amputated and decides to call Marion to say that he loves her and they will be together soon.
This scene was filmed at the same time in one pavilion - for the actors it was only at hand, since they could calibrate the reactions of their partner in the role. The episode turned out to be very organic.
8. Over 2000 fragments
The most ordinary film consists of about six hundred continuous frames; in the film “Requiem for a Dream” there are more than 2000 fragments.
Filming fragments of a television show that Sarah Goldfarb watches, dreaming of getting on TV, lasted only one day.
The host of the program, Christopher MacDanald, improvised very well, which made the director of the film, Darren Aronofsky, delighted.
7. The drug in the film is never called
The heroes of the film: Garry, Marion, Tyrone, who use the drug all the time, call it “rubbish” or something else, but do not pronounce the name. Obviously, according to their actions and the consequences of the drug, the guys take heroin.
The only mistake in the film is that from a real drug, the pupils do not expand, but narrow. In the movie, we see how each time after taking heroin, the pupils dilate in the characters.
In fact, the name of the drug is not so important, because this film is not about them.
6. Tears on the set
During the filming, actress Ellen Burstine was supposed to talk about how old she felt. Matthew Libatic - an American cameraman, accidentally took the camera away from the actress. Darren Aronofsky was very unhappy with this, but he soon found out the reason for what was happening.
The mistake was due to the fact that Matthew was so impressed with Ellen's words that he burst into tears. Tears fell on the camera lens, so the operator removed it. Matthew decided to just screw up the double, but Darren included this shot in the final version.
5. Hallucination of Harry
In the movie Requiem for a Dream, Garry sees hallucinations after drugs - as he falls down from a great height. This scene was shot using a camera that was suspended from the so-called "bungee".
The film crew doubted the decision to hang the camera, because it might not stop just a couple of meters from the ground, but get it. But during the filming, all the cameras remained alive - safe and sound. The technique has not been affected.
4. Screaming Jennifer Connelly Scene
The scene in the film, where Marion sits in the bathtub and screams underwater, mouth open in the water, was completely copied from the anime "Satoshi Kona" Perfect Sadness "in 1998.
Darren Aronofsky completely redeemed the rights to his work, and only so that you could use the bath scene in the film “Requiem for a Dream”.
The scene in the movie really came in handy, directors often use anime scenes for their films, but not everyone buys the rights.
3. Jared Leto had to lose weight
People who use drugs have an unhealthy, sickly appearance and lose weight very much. This is not due to the fact that they stop eating or they do not have money for food. The reason is that drugs inhibit the work of the gastrointestinal tract and the whole organism.
The appetite also disappears due to poor digestion of food, drug addicts have frequent constipation, as a result - the body is poisoned by its own decomposition products in the digestive tract.
Jared Leto in the movie "Requiem for a Dream" played a drug addict dreamer, and in order to fully enter the role, he had to lose 13 kg.
2. Strict prohibitions
Director Daren Aronofsky demanded that Jared Leto, who plays drug addict Garry, and Marlon Wayans, who plays his friend Tyrone, refrain from sex and sugar consumption, so that the actors could feel what a person has a great desire for.
As a rule, people are used to drinking tea and coffee with the addition of sugar, and do not imagine morning coffee without it, but what will happen to them if they lose this component? Breaking. Actors had to feel it in order to understand how addicts feel.
1. Oranges are the harbingers of something terrible
There is a scene in the film where the characters are following a new batch of drugs, and the person in the frame cleaning oranges, and in general - a truck filled with these citrus fruits, in addition to indicating their route - the state of Florida, but also non-plot element of the picture.
The scene is a remark to the film "The Godfather", where the presence of oranges certainly does not portend anything good.
In ancient Greece, oranges were considered a symbol of death, and they mean the same thing in the Godfather trilogy. Some time after they appear in the frame, one of the heroes dies.