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The names of Dewey and Truman come from the candidates Thomas Edmund Dewey and Harry S. Truman who participated in the US presidential election in 1948 .
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The scary seal is fake. The team of Stan Winston , winner of the Academy Award for Stunt Art , was invited to produce tenacious animated model seals for sled dogs and seal battle scenes. Frank Wilton Marshall once co-wrote " Jurassic Park " with Winston . After the animated model seal is completed, it needs to be coated with a thin layer of peanut butter in order to lure the sled dogs to attack it.
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The Japanese version of the movie " Nankyoku monogatari " has a much cruel ending compared to the film. In the real incident, there were fifteen dogs, and only two survived.
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Although most of the dogs in the movie play during the day, the dogs in the real event have to endure the long nights of winter in the Antarctic Circle .
Eight Below behind the scenes gags
2022-01-01 08:02
Extended Reading
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Charlie Cooper: Payback's a dish better served cold
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Jerry Shepard: Hey, Coop. You'd better get up here and say goodbye to Buck.
Charlie Cooper: Oh, yeah? All right, uh, see you, Buck! Safe... Safe trip, Buck.
Jerry Shepard: No. Come over and say goodbye. You're gonna give him a complex.
Charlie Cooper: What about my complex?
Jerry Shepard: Come on... Coop... -Buck barks...
Charlie Cooper: All right... Buck... you uh... you take good care of the doctor and...
[Buck licks Coop on his face]
Charlie Cooper: Oh! That's disgusting! I got dog spit all in my mouth and my nose and my face... ugh!