- In order to enhance the light when shooting the interior scenes, each candle used by the crew has 4 candlesticks.
- Before shooting, director Terrence Malick and photographer Emmanuel Lubski formulated a series of photography guidelines: no artificial light sources; no rocker arms and rail cars, only handheld cameras or camera stabilizers; subjective perspective Take shots; all use deep-focus lenses; encourage the crew to shoot unexpected scenes; choose to shoot and give up irrelevant shots.
- Actors playing indigenous people must learn to speak Algonquin, which is spoken by only 3,000 people in the world today, and some of them are hired as dialect coaches.
- The film used for shooting exceeds 1 million feet.
- Before finding the right person to play Pocahontas, the producer tried more than 2,000 actors.
- To prepare for the film, Colin Farrell read through 7 books published by John Smith after he returned to the UK.
- All actors must lose 20 pounds in a month and learn to use weapons and live like colonists.
- Although the film could not be shot entirely with 65mm film due to limited funds, this film is still the first long film without special effects shot on 65mm film in 9 years. The last film made entirely on 65mm film was "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" in 1996 .
- The original version of the film was 150 minutes long and was released in December 2005. After a few days of restricted release, director Terrence Malick decided to take back the copy and edit it again. The film length was eventually reduced to 135 minutes.
- Christian Charles Philip Bale and Irene Bedard, who starred in the film, dubbed the 1995 Disney animated film "Pocahontas" .
- In an interview, Christian Charles Philip Bale once talked about Terrence Malick's quirky director style. He had wondered how the director would react when he walked out of the camera and walked towards the crew. Unexpectedly, Malik followed him with the camera. As a result, the crew fled and the vehicles hid behind the bushes. Avoid the camera lens.
- Most of the dialogue in the film was recorded later, because the director Terrence Malick's voice will always appear in the background sound during live shooting .
The New World behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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John Smith: [pondering to himself] I let her love me. I made her love me.
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John Smith: He that will not work shall not eat! The labors of honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain the idleness of a few!