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The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) More at IMDbPro »

• Banned by former dictator Suharto for its graphic depiction of his tumultuous and bloody rise to power in the 1960s, the film was finally screened in Indonesia on 6 November 2000, two years after he was forced from office after 32 years of autocratic rule.
  
  
• Much of the non-English dialogue in the film is in Filipino, not Javanese. For example, when Billy visits the home of a dead child in a slum area, the prayer spoken by the old man is in fact "Our Father" in Tagalog.
  
  
• Linda Hunt is the only actress ever to win an academy award playing a man, no cross dressing or gender confusion involved. Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry (1999)) received the award for playing a biological female who identifies as a man. Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)) received one for playing a woman who was pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.
  
  
• Average Shot Length = ~5.2 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~4.9 seconds.
  
  
• Peter Weir cast Linda Hunt in the role of Billy Kwan after failing to find a male actor who could play the part in the way he wanted.
  
  

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