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Eat Pray Love Movie Facts
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Geeky Fun Facts You Didn't Know About Eat Pray Love

Confession: I have not read Eat Pray Love.
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Confession: I have not read Eat Pray Love. And although I won't get through a single page before it opens today in theaters, I did learn a few fun and geeky facts about the making of the film. Sure, geekery isn't the first thing you think of when you picture this movie (I'm thinking of pasta and hunky eye candy, myself), but I'm sure movie and tech geeks of all kinds will get a kick out of these fun facts. Check them out below!

  • It was filmed entirely on location, and in chronological order
  • It was shot on film, transferred to a digital format for editing, and then delivered on film again
  • It was edited using Final Cut Pro, along with a series of Mac Pro and MacBook Pro computers
  • It produced 422,000 feet of film, roughly 70 hours of footage
  • It took nine months of pre-production and 40 crew members to bring the movie together

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David Fincher Uses Apple's MacPro and Final Cut Pro To Make Movies
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Oscar Worthy Gadgets: Benjamin Button's Behind the Scenes Tech

The main themes of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button involve love, life, and death, but behind the scenes, it was all about the technology.
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The main themes of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button involve love, life, and death, but behind the scenes, it was all about the technology. From the first scene, Benjamin Button was shot digitally, going from camera's hard drive, to director David Fincher's Mac Pro, and uploaded straight to Final Cut Pro for editing.

Using a Thompson Viper Digital camera, nearly all of Button was captured digitally, with only a few scenes filmed with traditional film. Fincher found that using digital technology was the way to go for getting lifelike effects, but still maintaining realism:

It’s not a special effects movie, but spanning that kind of time, there were a lot of difficulties. First, aesthetically, will you believe it’s Brad? Because he has to start out old, the audience has to see him as wizened and grizzled as we could make him and still be able to recognize him and see his performance in it.

How great is it that you have access to the same tools that an Oscar-nominated director does? This is exactly why I love being a geek!