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Ebrahimi (young Amir) and Mahmoodzada were initially paid $ 17,500 (£9,000) each, and Ali Danish $ 13,700 (£7,000). Arguments were later made that the boys were underpaid. Additionally, Ebrahimi has said, "We want to study in the United States. It's a modern
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will watch it and I won't be able to go outside any more. They will think I was raped." The scene was depicted in a less harrowing manner than originally planned; it contained no nudity, and the sexual aspect of the attack was suggested only very briefly at the end of the scene (also, a
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Hosseini's prose has been replaced by the sentimentality of director Marc Forster's approach, and the result is a film that's longer and lusher and gushier than it should have been."
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