2. Christian Bale said that many parts of the film are improvisations. All he asked the director David O. Russell during the filming, "Do you realize that this will change the plot a lot?" The director replied, "I don't care about the plot, I care about the role, that's it."
3. Director David O. Russell said that Robert De Niro did not recognize Christian Bale at all, even after the director's introduction. De Niro once pulled Russell aside, pointed at Bale and asked who it was. His first reaction didn't realize it was Bale at all, until Russell confirmed with him. De Niro said, "He looks completely different." And nodded in praise. Russell had to reintroduce them.
4. Christian Bale gained 40 pounds in order to fit the character.
5. Christian Bale said that because he was in the movie like a Buddha statue, many colleagues would rub his belly, saying that this would bring good luck, even many colleagues who did not know him well.
6. There is a scene of Jeremy Renner kissing the hand of a baby in his arms on the streets of Camden. This baby is Renner's newborn daughter, Ava Berlin Renner, who was born during the production of the film. The woman holding Ava is Ava's mother and Renner's girlfriend Sonni Pacheco. Director David O. Russell once asked Renner's mother to appear on the camera, but she declined.
7. Christian Bale once withdrew from the crew due to schedule conflicts, and then the crew decided to replace him by Bradley Cooper, and then hired Jeremy Renner to play the role in the Cooper play. But Bale returned to the crew after resolving the schedule conflict, and Cooper also returned to his role. David O. Russell wrote the role of Carmine Polito for Renner specifically for him.
8. The movie has more than 200 special effects shots, most of which are used to remove cars and buildings that shouldn't have appeared in the period 1978-1980.
9. This film is adapted from a scandal called Abscam (Arabic Scam) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was a case of stolen goods originally investigated by the FBI, but it was finally involved in political corruption.
10.Richie DiMaso's perm styling and wearing a small curling iron in his apartment are Bradley Cooper's own ideas.
11. Together with 2002's "New York Gangs" and 2010's "Land Thunder", it became the second-highest film in the history of the 10 Oscar nominees but returned empty-handed. Above them were 11 finalists in "Turning Point" in 1977 and "Purple" in 1985 but got nothing.
12. Some colleagues and friends of Angelo Errichetti (the prototype of Carmine Polito in the play) especially praised Jeremy Renner's meticulous performance, saying that he almost "cloned" Errichetti's appearance and behavior. Especially in some dramatic scenes, Renner's performance made them feel that Errichetti had come back to life on the screen.
13. Jeremy Renner's character Carmine Polito is based on Angelo Errichetti, the former mayor of Camden, New Jersey. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison for bribery charges in the Abscam scandal. A few months before the film’s release in 2013, he passed away at the age of 84.
14. At the beginning of the film, the scene of Bale combing his hair and sticking his wig was originally not in the script. This was the idea of the film’s chief hair stylist, Kathrine Gordon. Director David O. Russell liked this idea very much, so he added it.
15. This is the fourth time Christian Bale has demonstrated his incredible body remodeling, two of which were in David O. Russell's films. The first time was "Fighter" in 2010 (30 pounds weight loss). In addition, he had this kind of self-abuse in 2004's "The Machinist" (weight loss of 63 pounds) and 2006's "Revisiting the Sky" (weight loss of 55 pounds).
16. The script was originally called "American Bullshit", and it was the eighth place in Hollywood black scripts in 2010. A black script refers to a script that has not yet been produced.
17. Director David O. Russell said he was very happy to let Jeremy Renner play the role of Carmine. He said that Renner's humor and adventurous performance in "Saturday Night Live" impressed him deeply, and he was confident that Renner could break through the stereotype of an action star.
18. The filming was postponed on April 19, 2013, when the Boston Marathon bombing occurred. Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale and Amy Adams all went to the hospital in the Greater Boston area to visit the victims of the bombing.
19. Costume designer Michael Wilkinson designed a specific clothing style for Amy Adams to show his emotional and physical vulnerability. He deliberately designed her clothes to be close-fitting, not a corset. In some occasions that need to show that Sydney is extremely confident in fraud, he uses Diane Von Furstenberg's clothing extensively. In addition, Halston's clothing in the 70s was also used extensively.
20. All five main actors are acting as superheroes in the comics. Christian Bale is Batman in the Dark Knight trilogy, Amy Adams plays Lois Lane in "Superman: Man of Steel", Jeremy Renner is the eagle eye of the reunion, Jennifer Lawrence is the devilish girl of the X-Men, Bradley Cooper Voice the Rocket Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy.
21. This is the second time in a row that David O. Russell’s film was shortlisted for all 4 Oscars for performance awards and 5 main awards (best film, best director, best male and female, and best screenplay). The first is "silver linings Playbook". And both times have Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, they nominated the best male and female lead in the last film, this time is the best male and female match.
22. David O. Russell specially expanded the role of Rosalyn for Jennifer Lawrence, whose inspiration was mainly from the 2009 reality show "The Real Life of a New Jersey Lady". Rosalyn's prototype is Cynthia Marie Weinberg, the wife of Melvin Weinberg (the prototype of Irving Rosenfeld played by Bale).
23. As early as the 1980s, the French director Louis Malle was preparing to shoot a movie about the Abscam scandal, named "Moon Over Miami". He and John Guare wrote the script together. John Belushi played a liar, Dan Aykroyd. As an FBI agent. But the death of Belushi in March 1982 shelved this plan.
24. It is not the first time that David O. Russell has collaborated with most of the leading actors. Christian Bale and Amy Adams had collaborated with him in the 2010 "Fighter". Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Paul Herman and Robert De Niro have all worked with him in the 2012 "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds".
25. Christian Bale's weight gain due to this film almost affected the shooting of his next film "The Pharaoh and the Gods", but fortunately he tried to lose weight in time.
26. The role of "Irving Rosenfeld" is only roughly based on the real life of financial fraudster Melvin Weinberg. His story is described in the book "The Sting Man" written by Bob Greene.
27. Ben Affleck was considered to direct the film, but he finally quit and went to direct a film called "The Stand". But in the last movie, he also quit.
28. This film is one of three films that have been nominated for all four Oscar performance awards but have not won any of them. The other two are "My Godfrey" in 1936 and "Sunset Boulevard" in 1950.
29. Danny, Irving's son, is based roughly on JR Weinberg, the son of Melvin Weinberg (Irving) and Cynthia Marie Weinberg (Rosalyn). Because when the Abscam scandal ended, JR Weinberg was 16 years old, not just a child in the film.
30. This film ranked 17th in the North American box office in 2013.
31. The cast of this film includes three Oscar winners: Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence; and three Oscar nominees: Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper,
32. This is the third collaboration between Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. The first two were "Never Ending" in 2011 and "The Line of Happiness Behind Dark Clouds" in 2012.
33. The plot of Jennifer Lawrence kissing Amy Adams in the toilet was Amy Adams's own idea.
34. According to Louis CK, the story about ice fishing in his character was improvised, and the ending was fictitious, and it was cut out by the movie. He told the end of this story on the "Jay Leno Late Show" show that his (character) brother was defecate on ice.
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