Body of Lies

Category: 13
All Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 128
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, Arabic
Director: Ridley Scott
Sound: DTS, SDDS, Dolby Digital
Taglines:

  • Trust no one. Deceive everyone.
  • Trust no one.

  • Writing by: William Monahan – (screenplay)
    David Ignatius – (novel "Body of Lies")

    Produced by: Zakaria Alaoui – line producer: Morocco
    Michael Costigan – executive producer
    Donald De Line – producer
    Charles J.D. Schlissel – executive producer
    Ridley Scott – producer

    Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio – Roger Ferris
    Russell Crowe – Ed Hoffman
    Mark Strong – Hani
    Golshifteh Farahani – Aisha
    Oscar Isaac – Bassam
    Ali Suliman – Omar Sadiki
    Alon Abutbul – Al-Saleem (as Alon Aboutboul)
    Vince Colosimo – Skip
    Simon McBurney – Garland
    Mehdi Nebbou – Nizar
    Michael Gaston – Holiday

    Music: Marc Streitenfeld
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    Plot Outline: This two hour program gives viewers a window into the intense human dramas that rage inside people who…
    Plot: Roger Ferris uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan.

    Movie Quotes:
    Ed Hoffman: Our world as we know it is much simpler… to put to an end than you might think.


    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Special Thanks to King Phillip & members of the Royal Spanish Court

    Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Revealing mistakes: When Hoffman is at the soccer game, he takes a picture by looking at the screen on the camera, but the camera's screen is off.

    Trivia: There are 12 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • For Manchester scenes (filmed on actual streets in the USA), any overly “American” curbside items (like certain fire hydrants) were hidden by dropping bottom-less slatted metal trash cans over them and then adding prop “English” rubbish; however, extras and crew unaware of this subtle artful touch continuously filled the apparently-normal-looking receptacles with their own trash. Between filming sessions, rueful set dressers would have to remove a foot-high layer of discarded plastic water bottles (and then reset and fluff the “official” rubbish).
    • While the derelict-but-surviving US neighborhood where the Manchester Scenes were filmed had plenty of its own street litter and urban debris, the Hollywood crew (in the effort to make the area look like an English slum) had left certain piles of prop rubbish in precise places. For scene continuity, such rubbish needed to remain present –even when scenes took multiple days to film. To protect against unwitting community litter cleanup, “essential” debris was flagged overnight and on weekends with “hot set” tape (a specialized version of other American yellow hazard tapes which say things like “caution caution caution”, “wet paint”, or “police line do not cross”).
    • During one Munich scene (actually filmed on a busy urban US street corner), civilian vehicle traffic was stopped only during actual filming. Just before and after filming, the prop streetsigns (written in German) were in place while the street was still open to thru traffic. Thus, some unknowing motorists went from seeing typical streetsigns (which said things like “Central Avenue” or “Washington Street”) to reading differently-colored German signs for, say, “CharlottenStra

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