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In Bruges (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• In order to create the feeling of the holiday season, Christmas decorations were kept in some streets of Bruges until the end of March. The town council made an official communication to the people of Bruges explaining the reason why.
  
  
• The word 'fuck' and its derivatives are said 126 times in this 107-minute film, an average of 1.18 'fucks' per minute.
  
  
• The painting that occasions comment even from Ray is "The Last Judgment" by Hieronymous Bosch. Bosch-like symbolism recurs throughout the movie (the dwarf is one example), suggesting that Ray and Ken may indeed encounter their own Last Judgment -- or that the waiting period in Bruges is akin to purgatory.
  
  
• When Ray refers to the dwarf in Time Bandits (1981), he is thinking of actor David Rappaport, who committed suicide in 1990.
  
  
• The film Ken is watching in his hotel room while waiting for Harry's second call is Touch of Evil (1958), directed by Orson Welles. The scene is the opening shot in which a car bomb is planted in the trunk of a car that is then followed in a 3 1/2 minute tracking shot.
  
  
• The scene in which Ray and Ken visit the Basilica of the Holy Blood is in fact filmed in the Jerusalem Church, Bruges, although the veneration of the relic discussed is accurate.
  
  
• The film has a total of 3 actors who also appeared together in the Harry Potter series: Ralph Fiennes, who plays Lord Voldemort; Brendan Gleeson, who plays Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody; and Clémence Poésy, who plays Fleur Delacour. In fact, they all appeared in the same film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).
  
  
• In one scene, Ray (Colin Farrell) fires a blank into a thug's eye, blinding it. In Tigerland (2000), Farrell's character fires a blank into a man's eye, but doesn't blind him.
  
  
• Both Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson were nominated for Golden Globes. Farrell won the award.
  
  

• SPOILER: Body count: 5 (The Priest, the boy who was in the church with the priest, Ken, Jimmy and Harry). Ray's fate at the end of the film is unknown but had he died, the body would be raised to 6. (The American tourist's death is by reported speech and thus does not qualify). (Although it it is not definitely shown or stated, it is assumable that Harry kills the night guard at the tower, which could make the count 6.)
  
  
• SPOILER: Ken is never seen killing anyone on-screen (except himself) despite his profession as a hitman. Although given a gun to kill Ray on the orders of Harry over a botched hit, Ken fails to complete this task after preventing Ray's suicide attempt.
  
  
• SPOILERS In a deleted scene, Ray and Ken are lying in their beds discussing Ray's murder of the priest and the little boy. Ray ponders over why he was sent to kill the priest, guessing it was likely pedophilia. Ken counters that Harry was behind a land-buying deal that the priest opposed. These two explanations are coincidentally two different motives that are suggested for the archbishop's murder in Primal Fear (1996).
  
  
• SPOILER: In one of the deleted scenes, Ray is discussing his date with Ken, and when Ken finds out that it will take place at a restaurant, he warns Ray that such dates always end badly. His prediction is correct, as it turns out in the film.
  
  

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