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Harsh Times (2005)

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• The license plate 2GAT123 which appears in this film has also featured in many other films which include Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Traffic (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Mulholland Dr. (2001), Crazy/Beautiful (2001), L.A. Story (1991), "Two and a Half Men" (2003)_ and S.W.A.T. (2003).
  
  
• Both Harsh Times (2005) and Batman Begins (2005) open up with a nightmare sequence going on in the head of the main character, both played by Christian Bale.
  
  
• According to David Ayer, the script for _Harsh Times (2005)_ was written in 1996. He wrote this script shortly after he wrote the script for Training Day (2001), which was completed a year earlier. The script is semi-autobiographical and is based on his own experiences.
  
  

• Noel Gugliemi, who plays Flaco, wears a jacket with a name tag that says 'Hector'. In _The Fast and the Furious (2001)_, Noel Gugliemi played a character called Hector.
  
  
• The word 'fuck' and its derivatives are used a total of 296 times in this film, an average of 2.47 times a minute.
  
  
• David Ayer developed the script at the Sundance Institute's Screenwriter's Lab and the Sundance Institute's Director's Lab.
  
  
• Emilio Rivera, who plays the ill-fated Eddy who the main characters try to sell their gun to, also acted behind the scenes as a dialect and culture coach for the Welsh Christian Bale and the Chicago-born, Puerto Rican Freddy Rodríguez.
  
  

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