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20 Behind-The-Scenes Trivia About 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind'

By:: Zanandi Botes

February 07, 2021

20 Behind-The-Scenes Trivia About 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind'

Continuing with our behind-the-scenes look at some popular romantic films, here’s a classic take on what would happen if we could erase each other from our memories. It evidently involves giant bathtubs and actors like Mark Ruffalo and Kirsten Dunst jumping half naked on a bed. We’d say that checks out.

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Mind Spotless the O Kanye West was SO impressed with the film's music score that he contacted the composer, Jon Brion, SUNS and that's how we got Gold Digger. Etey - Brion, who had never done any rap work before, met up with WEST, KANYE SCE West and in a — Mic

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Mind Spotless ofthe Director Michel Gondry knew he had to cast Jim Carrey as Sunshine Joel when he sAW him on set filming Bruce Aimighty. Eternal I It was seeing Carrey in between takes that did it for Gondry. It's the exact feeling when you walk SCEI into a party — Vanity Fair

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Mind Spotless of the Tracy Morgan featured in the movie, but his character got cut. EternalSunshine I The comedian originally played Joel's neighbor, but the director SCENES said he had to drop the character e because Morgan's presence was too distracting in the film. BEH CRACKED COM — Vanity Fair

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Mind Spotless of the Gondry knew Kate Winslet SUNS was right for the part of Clementine when she was Ete the only person who gave notes on the script. I SCENES was really surprised by her honesty. Then I believed her when she said it was a great project. — Vanity Fair

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Mind Spotless of the Director Michel Gondry wanted to use as much available and natural SUNS light as possible, which proved Eter challenging. Cinematographer Ellen Kuras said that, during on set flming, they had SCEI to hide different types of lightbulbs in furniture to add enough light to S the — American Cinematographer

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Mind Spotless of the Sunshine The director chose practical effects over CGI. Eter There were trick doors on set for Clementine to magically pop out SCENES from, and scaled set pieces to incorporate forced perspective. BEH CRACKED COM — Vanity Fair

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Mind Spotless of the The actors had to get used to Gondry not using commands like SUNS action or cut. Eten Instead, he would just start filming without warning. You say 'action,' and everybody SCE becomes a piece of wood. And when you saY 'cut,' everything becomes fluid and — Vanity Fair

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Mind Spotless of the Ellen Pompeo originally featured SUID in the movie before Eternal her D part was cut. SCENES She played Joel's THE ex-girlfriend, Naomi. BEHIND CRACKED COM — Vanity Fair

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Mind Spotless of the The entire film was shot SUNS with handheld cameras. Eter The camera movement in the film - was inspired by the French New Wave. SCEI Instead of using traditional dollies, e the camera crew used wheelchairs, sled dollies, and chariot dollies to get their shots. BEH CRACKED COM — American Cinematographer

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Mind Spotless of the Jim Carrey had words with the SUNS director after Kate Winslet nearly fainted while filming. Eter - After sitting in a giant bath tub for hours on end, Winslet started feeling sick, but Gondry just kept telling the SCE crew to film it. Carrey got really mad — Vanity Fair

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Mind Spotless the of Tom Wilkinson didn't know what was going on during SUNS filming. Eten Ruffalo said the actor became frustrated during flming, and once - turned to him and said, I don't know what the hell we're doing! SCENES Gondry said he was afraid of Wilkinson, and that — The Daily Beast

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