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Suicide | Satanism
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Best Score | 2001 | Wojciech
Best Home Video Release | 2001
Best Supporting Actress | 2001 | Barbara
Best Sound Editing Foreign Feature | 2001 | Katia
Best Fire Work | 2001
Film Score of the Year | 1999 | Wojciech
Budget 38,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 58,401,898 USD
All of the engravings appearing in "The Nine Gates" were commissioned for the novel (and not the movie) by author Arturo Pérez-Reverte himself. The only exception is the one showing the Girl riding a dragon, which was altered to make it similar to the actress' face.
The Don Quixote that Corso buys at the beginning of the film is the very famous Joaquin Ibarra edition, published in 1780, which is generally considered as the best, and most beautiful one. He also mentions the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice, 1499) printed by Francesco Colonna, dubbed "the most beautiful book ever printed". These amazing illustrations can be viewed on the internet.
The bag that Dean Corso carries throughout the film is a small bag carried by French soldiers around 1935. It was used to carry ammunition and other small items. It is called a Musette MLE 35.
Dean Corso (Lucas Corso, in the novel), is far more likable in the film. In the book, Corso's activities are downright illegal, often using the Ceniza brothers to erase or forge library seals and other marks and even changing illustrated pages. Apart from the first scene, film's Corso is not particularly dishonest, yet everyone treats him as such. This leads to a dropped plot in the film, in which is revealed that Baroness Kessler is actually a former Nazi criminal, and Corso blackmails her with pictures of her with high rank Nazi officials to force his way into the Kessler collection. Without this scene, the movie portrays Kessler giving access to her library to a notorious shady character who, on top of it, is working for her rival.
Johnny Depp didn't take his usual $10 million fee for the opportunity to work with Roman Polanski.
"Boris Balkan: There's nothing more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash."
"Liana Telfer: Don't fuck with me! Dean Corso: I thought I already did."
