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Despite Nate's ability to not feel pain, Dan Berk and Robert Olsen were meticulous in working to make sure the internal logic of the film stayed grounded, no matter how heightened the situations became. "He's not a superhero, and we were going to take liberties with how far the human body can be pushed," Berk says. "Every action movie does, but we wanted to stay within a semi-believable realm within the rule system of our movie. So what we did with our stunt team was we went through and audited every single hit in the movie, and we transferred a lot of those head hits down into body hits. We didn't want his face to be mashed potatoes by the midpoint of the movie."

Simon (Ray Nicholson) threatens to shoot the bank manager with a 1911 pistol that has the hammer down. A 1911 is a single-action pistol that must be cocked before it is capable of firing.

References La vie est belle (1946)