A Dangerous Method movie trivia
Memorable Movie Quotes
Carl Jung: [to Sabina] My love for you was the most important thing in my life. For better or worse, it made me understand who I am.
Carl Jung: Angels always speak German. It’s tradition.
Sabina Spielrein: I’m saying perhaps true sexuality demands the destruction of the ego.
Trivia
The age difference between Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender is 19 years, just as it was between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
In preparation for his role as Sigmund Freud, Viggo Mortensen read everything he could find on Freud and even visited his actual home (now a museum) in Vienna. In an attempt to capture aspects of Freud’s personality, Mortensen smoked his own Danish grandfather’s cigars that he kept in his grandfather’s personal cigar case over the course of the shoot.
The film is based on the true doctor / patient relationship of Jung with Spielrein: with what / how he – supposedly- ‘really’ did attempt to cure (‘relieve’) her of her guilt at pleasure derived from her Father’s punishment beatings – although David Cronenberg admits (in the audio commentary track) that the “film is based on true events but certain scenes, especially those in private sphere, are of a speculative nature.”
Goofs
The sailboat that Jung’s wife gives him is clearly very modern with Dacron sails, nylon rigging and stainless steel cleats, none of which existed at the time.
When Jung and Freud sail to America, the Statue of Liberty they pass by has a golden torch. But the statue’s original torch, in place till 1984, had portholes in it which were illuminated from within. Not until 1986 was the current gold-leaf covered torch installed.
When Jung enters Gross’s bedroom there is a desiccated frog pinned to the bulletin board. In the closeup, there are papers behind the frog; in the long shots, the frog is pinned directly to the bulletin board, not on top of any papers.
Sabina Spielrein’s closing history is incorrect. Her death, along with her 2 daughters, actually occurred in August 1942, not 1941. Their deaths were only 3 among 27,000 in the massacre that occurred in Zmievskaya Balka, Rostov-on-Don, Russia by German forces.
Box Office Info In USA
Gross $5,704,709
Filming Locations
Schloss Belvedere – Rennweg 6, Vienna, Austria (Freud strolling in the garden)
Constance, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (lakeside and Spielrein’s house)
Café Sperl, Vienna, Austria
Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Bodensee, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (aka Lake Constance) (as Lake Zürich)
Mölkerbastei, Vienna, Austria
Sigmund-Freud-Museum, Vienna, Austria
Berggasse, Vienna, Austria
MMC Studios, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Sound Stages)