10 interesting facts about the film “Requiem for a Dream”

The film “Requiem for a Dream” should be seen by everyone. The film tells the viewer what dreams sometimes lead to if you choose the wrong path for their implementation.

The film shocks and does not let go until the last minute – you will truly survive for the heroes, sympathize with their unfulfilled dreams …

“Requiem for a Dream” is not one of those films that you forget in the morning, on the contrary, you scroll through what you saw in your head and begin to seriously think about your life.

If you have already watched the movie, then you may be interested in facts about it.

10 Jennifer Connelly’s father does what her father does in the movie

Jennifer Connelly played in the film “Requiem for a Dream” a girl named Marion, suffering from drug addiction.

According to the film, her parents are engaged in fashion business, in life, the actress’s parents also occupied a high position in society – her mother Alyn had her own antiques salon, and her father Gerard Connelly was developing his textile production. Now the father of the actress is busy with the fashion business.

9. Filming of communication by phone took place in one pavilion

There is a scene in the film where Marion and Garry, her boyfriend, are talking on the phone. Garry ends up in the hospital because his arm was amputated because of the drugs he injected into a vein, and decides to call Marion – to say that he loves her and they will be together soon.

This scene was filmed simultaneously and in the same pavilion – it was only to the advantage of the actors, as they could calibrate the reactions of their partner in the role. The episode was very organic.

8. Over 2000 fragments

The most common film consists of about six hundred continuous frames, in the film “Requiem for a Dream” there are more than 2000 fragments.

Filming fragments of the television show that Sarah Goldfarb watches, in the dream of getting on TV, lasted only one day.

The host of the program, Christopher McDanald, improvised very well, which the director of the film, Darren Aronofsky, was delighted with.

7. The drug is never named in the film.

The heroes of the film: Harry, Marion, Tyrone, who use the drug all the time, call it “rubbish” or something else, but do not pronounce the name. It is obvious that by 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 every time after taking heroin, the pupils of the characters dilate.

In fact, the name of the drug is not so important, because this film is not about them.

6. Tears on set

During filming, actress Ellen Burstyn was scripted to talk about how old she felt. Matthew Libatik, 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 oversight occurred due to the fact that Matthew was so impressed by 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 take, but Darren included this particular frame in the final version.

5. Hallucination Harry

In the film Requiem for a Dream, Garry hallucinates after taking drugs – as he falls down from a great height. This scene was filmed with a camera that was suspended from a so-called bungee.

The film crew doubted the decision to hang the camera, because they could 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 equipment was not damaged.

4. Screaming scene of Jennifer Connelly

The scene in the film where Marion is sitting in the bathtub and screaming underwater with her mouth open in the water was completely copied from the 1998 Satoshi Kona anime Perfect Sadness.

Darren Aronofsky bought the rights to his work in full, and only so that the bathtub scene in the movie Requiem for a Dream could be used.

The scene in the movie really came in very handy, directors often use scenes from anime for their films, but not everyone buys the rights.

3. Jared Leto had to lose those extra pounds

People who use drugs have an unhealthy, sickly appearance and lose a lot of weight. This is not due to the fact that they stop eating or they do not have money for food. The reason is that drugs have a depressing effect on the work of the digestive tract and on the whole organism.

Appetite also disappears due to poor digestion of food, drug addicts experience frequent constipation, as a result, the body is poisoned by its own decomposition products in the gastrointestinal tract.

Jared Leto in the film “Requiem for a Dream” played a drug addicted dreamer, and in order to fully enter the role, he had to lose 13 kg.

2. Strict prohibitions

Director Darren Aronofsky demanded that Jared Leto, who plays drug addict Gary, and Marlon Wayans, who plays his friend Tyrone, refrain from sex and sugar consumption. This was required so that the actors could feel what a person who has a huge desire is experiencing.

As a rule, people are used to drinking tea and coffee with added sugar, and they cannot imagine morning coffee without it, but what will happen to them if they lose this component? Breaking. The actors had to feel it in order to understand what drug addicts feel.

1. Oranges are harbingers of something terrible

There is a scene in the film where the characters go for a new batch of drugs, and a person who is in the frame peeling oranges, and in general a truck filled with these citrus fruits, in addition to indicating their route – the state of Florida, but also extra-plot element of the picture.

The scene is a side note to The Godfather, where the presence of oranges certainly does not bode well.

In ancient Greece, oranges were considered a symbol of death, the same they mean in the Godfather trilogy. Some time after they appear in the frame, one of the heroes dies.