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Sean Hutchinson<\/strong> and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong> present 15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About American History X<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong> Here are three are my favorites…<\/p>\n Kaye was unsatisfied with the final cut of the movie, so he tried to use Alan Smithee\u2014the official pseudonym (coined in 1969 and discontinued in 2000) for directors looking to disown their projects\u2014in the credits. The Directors Guild of America blocked the effort, however, because DGA guidelines stipulated that directors could only use the Smithee pseudonym if they agreed not to publicly disparage the film, something the overly vocal Kaye had already done.<\/p>\n Norton stepped in when Phoenix passed on the project\u2014reportedly against Tony Kaye\u2019s wishes. Kaye wanted to find another actor, but let Norton keep the part because Kaye simply couldn\u2019t find anyone better prior to the start of shooting.<\/p>\n He would have played Private Ryan (Matt Damon got the part instead).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sean Hutchinson and Mental_Floss present 15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About American History X. Here are three are my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12582,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions\/12582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
2. TONY KAYE [Director] TRIED TO DISOWN THE FILM.<\/h4>\n
5. EDWARD NORTON WAS ALLEGEDLY CAST WITHOUT KAYE\u2019S APPROVAL.<\/h4>\n
9. NORTON TURNED DOWN A ROLE IN SAVING PRIVATE RYAN<\/em> FOR AMERICAN HISTORY X<\/em>.<\/h4>\n