Primal Fear
Sooner or later, a man who wears two faces forgets which one is real.
Country
Production
Budget
$30 000 000
Box office
$102 616 183
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Gary Lucchesi, Hawk Koch
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Jeannine Oppewall
Audition
Deborah Aquila, Jane Shannon-Smith
Editing
David Rosenbloom
Whole Team (56)
Whole Team (56)
Short description
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.
What's left behind the scenes
- A total of 2,100 actors auditioned for the role of Aaron, which went to Edward Norton.
- Initially, the role of Edward Norton was intended for Leonardo DiCaprio.
- The character played by Alfre Woodard was originally written as a 60-year-old white man.
- Many aspiring actors actively sought the role of Aaron, as it was believed that a role of this nature would greatly benefit their careers. Matt Damon recounted that he didn't get cast in Peter Weir's "Dead Poets Society" (1989) and really wanted to be in "Primal Fear." Another actor was cast, and Damon and Ben Affleck decided not to wait for another opportunity, thinking they needed to do something about it. As a result, the screenplay for the drama "Good Will Hunting" (Gus Van Sant, 1997) was born, and filming it significantly helped both actors' careers.
- The idea that Aaron would stutter belonged to Edward Norton (this was not written in either the literary source material or the script). Richard Gere's reaction when Norton throws him against the wall in prison was completely genuine – and at Norton's suggestion, it was also left in the film. Finally, Norton's last improvisation in the film was the slow clapping at the end, just before the explosion.
- The film is based on William Diehl's novel "Primal Fear" (1993).
- The film's slogan is a slightly altered quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." The full quote reads: "No man can long be a hypocrite: to have one face for himself, and another for the crowd; at last he will lose himself, and which is his true face he knows not."
- Leonardo DiCaprio turned down the role of Aaron because he was exhausted from filming the drama "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" (Lasse Hallström, 1993).
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