The Monuments Men behind the scenes gags

The Monuments Men

The old age of the role of George Clooney in the film is played by Nick Clooney, who is exactly George's father in reality at the age of 79.
The role of Matt Damon in the film was originally played by Daniel Craig, but he temporarily decided to quit due to "schedule conflict".
The film was originally scheduled to be released during the awards season in December 2013. However, Clooney asked Fox to give him more time to complete post-production. In addition, the film did not have too many opportunities to compete for Oscar awards, and was eventually postponed to the next time. Released in February of the year.
In November 2013, a batch of more than 1,400 artworks acquired at low prices during the Nazi era were discovered in a dilapidated apartment in Munich. Among them were works by masters such as Picasso, Matisse and Chagall, valued at 1 billion euros. The progress of the "Nazi stealing artworks" incident has also attracted people's attention.
The film premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival. An accident occurred during the process. A reporter fell to the ground with a heart attack. The screening was forced to stop. The reporter was immediately taken to a local hospital for treatment.
In the passage where Sam Epstein discovered a famous Rembrandt painting (self-portrait in 1645), the film uses a typical Rembrandt-style "triangular lighting method" (primary light, secondary light, contour light). The light points are connected to form a triangle) to show his face.
It is mentioned in the film that the Nazis hid the looted artworks in the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume (Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume) next to the Place de la Concorde. In reality, the Nazi Marshal Goering did pick 700 works from here as a private collection.
The Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany's most famous attraction (built by Ludwig II in 1869) appeared in the film. The Nazis used it to store looted art and jewelry. More than 6,000 cultural relics gathered here, most of which were stolen from the Jews by the Nazist theorist Rosenberg.
The prototype of Blanchett's role is named Rose Varan, and she is also a protagonist in the 2006 documentary "The Rape of Europe". Varun made a detailed list of the artworks looted by the Nazis and recorded the names of their original legal owners (usually Jews).