Trivia / Enter the Void

• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $15-16 million. Returns: $1.5 million.
• Doing It for the Art: This film is highly visual and was Noé's dream project. The screenplay was in development off and on for fifteen years and finally got funding once Irréversible became a success.
• Pre-Ending Credits: Before the first scene, all the credits - everything from the technical positions to the musical selections, usually reserved for the very end of the film - are shown in a creatively rapid-fire display.
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  • The music video for A$AP Rocky's "L$D" takes great influence from the film's hallucinogenic visual style, namely its depictions of Tokyo nightlife.
  • The music video for Kanye West's "All of the Lights" was also widely considered to have taken influence from the film, with commonly cited examples being the video's use of flashing lights and a sequence of strobing typography set to the song's chorus that mirrors the film's famous opening credits. Noé didn't take kindly to this, however, with him publicly calling the video a ripoff, and director Tom Kan — whom he had collaborated with for the opening credits — expressing amusement with the seeming homage but disappointment that neither him nor Noé were contacted beforehand.
• What Could Have Been: Thomas Bangalter, one half of Daft Punk, was asked by Noé to compose the soundtrack for the film as he had for Noé's previous film Irreversible. Bangalter had to decline this offer, as Daft Punk was already busy scoring TRON: Legacy, but he did compromise by giving Noé an library of ambient sounds and excerpts of industrial/electroacoustic/musique concrète compositions, from which Noé created "a maelstrom of sounds." Bangalter was subsequently credited as the film's sound effects director and music supervisor.
• Word of God: According to Noé, the entire movie is really just a Dying Dream on the part of a hallucinating Oscar, who was high on DMT when he died.
  • Shrug of God: On the other hand, though, the director largely keeps the ending open for one's interpretation, including the possibility that Oscar's life reboots and starts over again.

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