20 Things You Somehow Missed In Jackie Brown
7. The $550,000 Was Real Money
The overwhelming majority of the time that you see money in a movie, it's fake, because of course, who wants to volunteer their own cash to be left sitting around on a film set all day, especially if large quantities are involved?
Movie money also often ends up being a little larger than real money or slightly altered so that it can't easily pass for legal tender, but in the case of the $550,000 that Jackie smuggles into the U.S. for Ordell, it was 100% real.
Tarantino, ever a stickler for details, insisted that prop master Steve Joyner find a way to conjure that amount of money the hard way, and though the source of the moolah has never been revealed, the money is indeed totally legit.
One can assume that whoever the money belonged to didn't let it leave their sightline for the entire time it was on set.