Che: Part One

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1. #001

   Benicio Del Toro spent seven years researching Guevara's life for the role.

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2. #002

   The scene in which Che takes the bazooka from his friend (who keeps losing it) and blows up the barracks on his first shot was intended to show Che missing once and then hitting the target on his second attempt, but the crew was losing light, so they had him hit it on a single shot.

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3. #003

   It was the second feature film shot with the Red One Camera; the first was Che: Part Two (2008), which was shot to help Benicio Del Toro lose weight for the second film.

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4. #004

   Benicio Del Toro chose Ryan Gosling to play Benigno 'Beni' Ramírez. Gosling met the real Ramírez and learned some Spanish to prepare for the role. However, delays during pre-production caused Gosling to drop out of the project.

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5. #005

   Che's scenes at the UN were actually shot two years before the rest of the film officially entered production. Producer Laura Bickford learned that the UN, which had looked the same for decades, was about to be remodeled, and she took advantage of this by having the production shoot the scenes recreating Guevara's speech. These were therefore the only scenes shot on film in either movie; they were shot in Super 16 mm, while the rest was shot digitally on the first models of the RED camera.

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6. #006

   With its division into two halves — two tempos, two color schemes, two aspect ratios and two approaches to chronology — the film is a tribute to the Marxist concept of progress through two conflicting ideas, known as dialectics. Each half focuses on a different revolution; both are essentially the same in theory, but largely different in outcome.

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7. #007

   This film and Che: Part Two (2008) were shown together under the title "Che" at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

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8. #008

   Terrence Malick initially worked on a script limited to Guevara's attempts to start a revolution in Bolivia. When financing could not be secured, Malick left the project, and Steven Soderbergh then agreed to direct the film.

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9. #009

   Although Benicio Del Toro was always seen as the first choice for the film's lead role, Val Kilmer was considered as a secondary option to play the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara if Del Toro were unavailable.

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10. #010

    Jsu Garcia, who plays Jorge Sotus in this film, himself portrayed Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in Kayıp Şehir (2005).

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11. #011

    This film is part of spine number 496 of the Criterion Collection.

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