FILM 2048: THE OTHERS
FILM 2048: THE OTHERS
TRIVIA: The disease the children have is an actual disease known as Xeroderma Pigmentosum which is basically an extreme sensitivity to sunlight. It is very rare with roughly a thousand people in the world that have it.
The movie opens with Nicole Kidman, in voiceover, reading a story. She begins with the words, "Now children, are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin." The BBC radio programme "Listen With Mother", broadcast in the UK between 1950 and 1982, always began, "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin."
In a pivotal scene, Grace finds a photograph album containing pictures of people she believed to be sleeping. Mrs. Mills informs her they're all deceased, and that people photographed the deceased in the previous (19th) century. In reality, people did photograph their deceased loved ones during the late 19th century. Most were photographed lying down, as if in a deep sleep; others would be propped up in chairs, posed with favorite objects such as children with favorite playthings; adults with books or newspapers. The reason many families did so was because that would be the only photograph they would have of the family member(s) if they didn't, as photography was a rarity in the 19th Century.
To get the kids worked up, Alejandro Amenábar would play scary music when they weren't expecting it.
This was the first film ever to receive the Best Film Award at the Goyas (Spain's national film awards) with not a single word of Spanish spoken in it.
The house - supposedly on the island of Jersey - is actually located in the north of Spain (Santander).
This was Renée Asherson's final acting role before her death on October 30, 2014 at the age of 99.
Alejandro Amenábar wanted to play with shadows, and sometimes scenes were actually lit by candles.
Executive produced by Tom Cruise, this marked the last collaboration between him and Nicole Kidman prior to their divorce.
The film opened in the US at number 4 in the box office charts and stayed around that figure for its initial run. Seven weeks into release it actually climbed up to the number 2 spot.
The script was written by Alejandro Amenábar in Spanish and then translated into English.
The film earned over $200 million, making it one of the highest grossing horror movies of all time.
Alejandro Amenábar's first English language film.
Alejandro Amenábar based the look of the movie on drawings from books of the '30s and '40s he read as a child.
The Others (2001) was released a few months prior to Vanilla Sky (2001), the American remake of 'Alejandro Amenabár''s Open Your Eyes (1997). Coincidentally, it stars Nicole Kidman's then estranged husband Tom Cruise.
DIRECTOR CAMEO: Alejandro Amenábar: Appears in one of the photographs of dead people - he's the one on the right with a moustache, of the group of three men.
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