Trivia
For months, Viggo Mortensen was in talks to star as the Huntsman, but negotiations fell through and Mortensen dropped out.
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Dakota Fanning, Saoirse Ronan, Riley Keough, Alicia Vikander, Bella Heathcote, Selena Gomez, Emily Browning, Lily Collins and Felicity Jones were considered for the role of Snow White.
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During filming Kristen Stewart accidentally punched co-star Chris Hemsworth in the face giving him a black eye.
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Production of the film was temporarily shut down in October 2011 after Kristen Stewart tore a ligament in her thumb during an attack scene with the dwarves. Stewart also suffered from a foot injury sustained on set.
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Lily Collins auditioned for the lead role but lost to Kristen Stewart. She was later cast in the other Snow White movie, Mirror Mirror.
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Kristen Stewart admitted while filming the fight scenes that she had to overcome a fear of horses dating back to a mishap at nine-years-old in which she sustained a fractured elbow.
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WILHELM SCREAM: When William shoots down one of the castle soldiers off of a bridge during the final castle battle, the soldier screams a Wilhelm scream as he falls.
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Rather than using a wig, actor Sam Spruell's real strawberry blonde hair was cut & styled into Finn's distinctively unpleasant pageboy haircut for the duration of filming. It was bleached, cut, and his hairline was shaved back under the fringe. He describes it as "fine for the film, but horrible for civilian life."
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Is one of very few film version of the fairytale where the dwarfs aren't played by actual dwarfs, but rather uses technical tricks to make the actors appear smaller in size. This caused some heavy criticism from little people in the trade, like actor Warwick Davis, who publicly compared this to if someone attempted to "black up" a white actor for a role as a black character.
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Several of the Dwarves are named for the trees of the Celtic Tree Calender commonly used by those who follow Celtic Pagan traditions. Beith- Birch Coll- Hazel Duir- Oak Gort- Ivy Muir- Vine Nion- Ash
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Charlize Theron said that the hardest thing for her was walking in the dress she wore when she married King Magnus. The corset was incredibly uncomfortable and she was almost hunched over by the time she made it to the altar.
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Evan Daugherty cited Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke as the main reference and inspiration for the film. The white stag that Snow White encounters in Sanctuary is a direct nod to Miyazaki.
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Director Rupert Sanders' insistence on realism in scale meant minimal miniature model work. The huge castle in the enchanted forest, for example, took 6 months to construct. The gigantic trebuchet, consisting of a metal skeleton interior and wooden exterior, weighed 6.5 tons.
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Ravenna is also the name of an italian city south of Venice, rich of precious architectural byzantine art: to an italian audience this name may not sound as dark as it was meant to.
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Charlize Theron tore a stomach muscle while shooting a scene which required her to scream very loud.
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