The Artist/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion: Jean Dujardin is best known for his spy parodies, which fits the theme of George Valentin's schlock. ("SPEAK!!!")
 * Fake American: Berenice Bejo as Peppy Miller. Averted by George Valentin, however, as revealed by the very last line.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: George's valet is Farmer Hoggett.
 * Playing Against Type: Dujardin, a comic by trade, portrays George as happy-go-lucky in the beginning. But it get progressively darker.
 * Production Posse: Dujardin and Hazanavicius previously teamed up to make the spy satires OSS 117 Cairo Nest of Spies and OSS 117 Lost in Rio, and Bejo also starred in Nest of Spies.
 * What Could Have Been: The original script was much darker, being an homage to Metropolis, Fritz Lang, and German Expressionism. The advent of talkies would have paralleled the rise of Nazism, culminating with.