12 Interesting Facts About Proof of Life

1. #002

   Terry (Russell Crowe) mentions that he was in the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and then left to join the British SAS because of a lack of action. In Australia after Vietnam, operational deployments were quite limited, and many soldiers completed entire careers without being assigned to operations. The British armed forces had greater international involvement. This changed for Australia from the late 1990s onward.

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2. #003

   Initially all the extras were to be paid the normal rate used for American extras. However, the Ecuadorian government, which could not pay its actors such good wages, demanded that the production pay Ecuadorian wages.

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3. #004

   The actor playing "Downtown 2," a member of Terry's rescue team, was actually a member of the Ecuadorian Special Forces. Similarly, the actor playing "Downtown 3" was one of the production's security consultants, so he handled the FN Minimi LMG perfectly during the rescue operation.

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4. #006

   Meg Ryan's character is shown holding a cigarette in many scenes, but unlike Pamela Reed and Russell Crowe, she never smokes.

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5. #007

   In the scene at 1:40 where he says "these guys are my Panama crew," you can see a piece of cardboard on the wall behind him with "JUST CAUSE" written on it. Operation Just Cause was the US invasion of Panama to capture military leader and drug criminal Manuel Noriega, a story very similar to the film's plot.

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6. #008

   Castle Rock wanted Taylor Hackford to shoot the film in Mexico instead of Ecuador at 14,000 feet above sea level. When Hackford pointed out that Mexico had more murders per capita than Ecuador, they changed their minds.

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7. #009

   Kessler's Bible is used for two maps of the region. The main map is drawn over Luke 21-22, which speaks of the return of the Son of Man (Thorne will come and rescue Peter Bowman). On the second map, a passage is marked, Matthew 5, which discusses revenge and the wrongness of loving your neighbor.

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8. #010

   The school bus full of children shown in the kidnapping scene belongs to students of Colegio Aleman (the German School), a private school located outside Quito and rented by the German government.

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9. #011

   Meg Ryan was paid 15 million dollars for her work in the film.

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10. #013

    The hat Peter is wearing when he is kidnapped is from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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11. #014

    The helicopter shown in the opening title sequence is a Polish PZL W-3 Sokol (W-3 Hawk).

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12. #015

    The Italian censorship visa # 95211 was issued on March 2, 2001.

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