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TIL: Several actors had their roles shrunk or completely cut out of the film "The Thin Red Line" in post production. Adrian Brody went from the lead to only two lines of dialog, 3 hours of narration by Billy Bob Thornton was never used, and Mickey Rourke can only be found in the DVD extras.

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