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The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

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• Cardinal Giovanni de Medici succeeded to the papacy after the death of Julius II in 1513, becoming Pope Leo X.
  
  
• Charlton Heston put a steel rod in his nose to make it resemble Michelangelo's broken one, but Rex Harrison steadfastly refused to grow a beard, even though the real-life Julius II had one.
  
  
• Average Shot Length = ~7.5 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~6.8 seconds.
  
  

• The material used as the wet plaster that drips into the mouth of Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) was chocolate pudding.
  
  
• In the film, the quarries that Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) sourced for the marble for his sculptures were the actual quarries attended by the real Michelangelo at Carrara, Massa-Carrara, Tuscany, Italy.
  
  
• The Sistine Chapel could not be used for filming the painting of its ceiling so it was recreated on a sound stage at Cinecittà Studios, Rome, Italy.
  
  
• Heston was asked in an interview, which of all the characters he'd portrayed would he like to have as a dinner guest. He said Michaelangelo, but acknowledged that, as the painter did in the film, Michaelangelo would certainly not show up.
  
  
• The movie was originally supposed to have been filmed in 1961, starring Burt Lancaster, but production was delayed for three years.
  
  
• The film lost $8 million worldwide.
  
  

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