When Mary is paid for her first surgery at the strip club, the bill on the top of the stack looks like a standard U.S. $100, except for the face. It doesn't look like Benjamin Franklyn from what I can see. Granted I don't use $100s very often, but I wasn't aware of any change in the portrait.
Is this an inside joke or am I missing something obvious?
They were $50 bills. That was Ulysses S. Grant's face.
shareNo, it was clearly a $100 bill. I noticed the different face too. Might have something to do with not being able to use real money in movies.
shareThere are no rules about using real money in films. But this being an indie film with a low budget, made in Canada, perhaps they used fake money due to them not being able to afford the fee that is payed to a bank for the use of actual money and the requisite security person needed in order to use it on film. When using a large amount of real cash on a film, the bank will send over the bills with a security person who keeps it until it's used in the scene then takes possession of it again once the scene has been shot. So it can be very costly. So it's probably just very bad looking fake money. When Beatress the 2 $100 bills at her in the beginning of the movie, it looked like old paper to me and not like money at all.
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