Almost Famous - videos, teasers and stills from filming
All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Almost Famous"
Almost Famous (2000)
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2:4 (124 min)
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What's left behind the scenes
- The roles of Russell and Penny were originally intended for Brad Pitt and Sarah Polley. Polley left the film, becoming involved in a low-budget Canadian project, and Pitt once told the director that “I’m no longer going to appear in this.” As a result, Russell was played by Billy Crudup, and Penny by Kate Hudson, whom Crowe had initially planned to cast as Willy’s sister; the role of the sister thus went to Zooey Deschanel.
- Billy Crudup was taught to play the guitar by rock musician Peter Frampton. Frampton also worked on the film as a musical consultant and even made a cameo appearance on screen. He has a long-standing friendship with the director – when he was 18, Crowe wrote an article about his album “Frampton Comes Alive!”
- Crowe wrote all the songs for the band Stillwater himself, in collaboration with his wife Nancy Wilson.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman was only able to spend four days on set, as he was ill with the flu for the rest of the time.
- The hand writing in a notebook during the opening credits belongs to Cameron Crowe himself.
- In one scene, Penny Lane asks Willie if he's ready to leave with her for Morocco, and Willie replies, “Yes… ask me again.” Crowe revealed that the additional phrase “ask me again” wasn’t in the script. Actor Patrick Fugit simply asked Kate Hudson to repeat her line. However, the phrase worked well – Crowe left it in the final version of the film.
- Willie Miller flips through old records in the film; all of them belonged to the director – he collected them in his youth.
- At the moment when the characters think they are about to crash in a plane, Russell begins to sing Peggy Sue. This is a nod to Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash during his musical tour. But in addition, the near-miss plane crash is a biographical fact from Crowe’s own life, as he was involved in a similar incident while traveling with The Who.
- Jason Lee, who played Jeff Bebe, said he based his character on Paul Rodgers, the frontman of Free and Bad Company, while trying not to turn the character into a parody.
- The original screenplay by Cameron Crowe was 172 pages long.
- The entire filming process took 92 days.
- The full version of the film has a runtime of 162 minutes.
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