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Nun | New York City
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Best Actor | 1993 | Harvey
Best Male Lead | 1993 | Harvey
Best Film | 1993 | Abel
Best Film | 1993 | Abel
Budget 1,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 2,019,469 USD
Like many indie-minded directors of low-budget films, Abel Ferrara didn't bother with permits most of the time. "We weren't permitted on any of this stuff", editor Anthony Redman admitted. "We just walked on and started shooting." For the scene in which a strung-out Lieutenant walks through a nightclub, they sent Harvey Keitel through an actual club.
Abel Ferrara said a scene that epitomized the movie for him, even though he never got around to filming it, was one where the Lieutenant robs an electronics store, leaves, then gets a call about a robbery at the electronics store. He responds in an official capacity (they don't recognize him), takes a statement, walks out, and throws the statement in the garbage. "And that to me is the Bad Lieutenant, you know?" Ferrara said.
Harvey Keitel stayed in character on set throughout the production.
Part of the plot was inspired by a real rape of two nuns in a New York City convent. Just like in the film, rumors circulated of a cash reward being put out for the rapists' capture. The detective who caught the rapists, Bo Dietl, played a detective in this film. He is now a best-selling author.
Zoë Lund is seen playing a character who uses heroin with the Lieutenant in her apartment. Though Zoë Lund was an enthusiastic heroin advocate in real life, according to husband Robert Lund - in Paul Rachman's 2004 short film ZOE XO - she died of heart failure in 1999 reportedly related to a lung infection from excessive cocaine use and delayed medical care.
"Zoe: Vampires are lucky, they can feed on others. We gotta eat away at ourselves. We gotta eat our legs to get the energy to walk. We gotta come, so we can go. We gotta suck ourselves off. We gotta eat away at ourselves til there's nothing left but appetite. We give, and give and give crazy. Cause a gift that makes sense ain't worth it. Jesus said seventy times seven. No one will ever understand why, why you did it. They'll just forget about you tomorrow, but you gotta do it."
"The Nun: [about her attackers] I have forgiven them. The Lieutenant: But do you have the right? You're not the only woman in the world. You're not even the only nun. Your forgiveness will leave blood in its wake. What if these guys do something like this again? To other women, other virgins? Old women who die from the shock? Do you have the right to forgive them? Can you bear the burden, sister?"
