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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Blood Simple. (1984) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Blood Simple. (1984) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984).
About the movie:
A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
The uniforms and equipment the U.S. paratroopers wear in the film are fairly realistic for the D-Day period, including the white "card suit" markings the 101st Airborne Division used on the sides of their helmets to identify sub-units in the Division. The paratroopers helmets in the film carry the heart suit of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment.
b.
Filming of the two minute scene in front of Mackenzie House in Fort MacLeod took more than five days to shoot because of delays caused by the strange winds that caused the camera batteries to die after only one or two takes were shot.
c.
Mark Steven Johnson
did uncredited revisions on the script.
d.
The finished film was brought to L.A. and shown to the major studios, and all passed on the movie. Later that year it was accepted into the 1984 New York Film Festival, and then shown at the Toronto Film Festival, where a deal was made with Circle Films to distribute the movie domestically.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
Average Shot Length = ~4.3 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~3.9 seconds.
b.
The M3A3 Stuart Tank used in the film was provided by Ian Algie, and actually saw action in WWII.
c.
On the advice of
Sam Raimi
, the Coens went door-to-door showing potential investors a two minute trailer of the film they planned to make. They ultimately raised $750,000 in a little over a year, enough to begin production of the movie.
d.
This film contains about 20 minutes of footage from a film by
Edgar G. Ulmer
called "The Warning Shadow" (aka "Loves Interlude"), which was started in 1932 but never completed.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
The ages of everyone in the principle cast at the time of filming are:
Judd Nelson
(26),
Molly Ringwald
(17),
Emilio Estevez
(23),
Anthony Michael Hall
(17) and
Ally Sheedy
(23).
b.
First film for
Claudette Colbert
.
c.
The scenes in and around Sharons parents home were filmed at the Playter Farmhouse, a historic building near the Danforth in Toronto, Ontario.
d.
The title is based on a phrase from the
Dashiell Hammett
novel Red Harvest, in which "blood simple" is a term coined to describe the addled, fearful mindset people are in after a prolonged immersion in violent situations.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
Jim Piddock
provided the voice of fictional film historian "Kenneth Loring" on the DVD audio commentary track, which was scripted by
Joel Coen
and
Ethan Coen
.
b.
Marlon Brando
insisted that he be paid for this movie on a daily basis. As such, for his eleven days work, his US $ 2.75 million dollars total had to be broken down into parts and a check drawn for US $250,000 each day.
c.
Most of the chocolate bars were actually made of wood.
d.
Lucille Ball
s involvement in this film began in an interesting way. She felt that
Rosalind Russell
had clearly gotten some of her "inspiration" for her performance in the non-musical
Auntie Mame
from Miss Balls character on the TV series,
I Love Lucy
. She then put up $5,000,000 on the agreement that she would be considered for the lead.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
The model for
Dennis Quaid
s character was
Charles Bukowski
, the hard-drinking, hard-living author. Indeed Quaid showed up on the first day of shooting with a full beard. The decision was then taken that Bukowski was a little too extreme a characterization for the lead role so it was toned down a little.
b.
George Ives
portrayed the fictional "Mortimer Young" (head of fictional film restoration company "Forever Young Films") in the introduction of the theatrical re-release and DVD release.
c.
In actuality (not the film), Peter Llewelyn Davies was not
J.M. Barrie
s inspiration for the Peter Pan character. His younger brother, Michael, was. Michael is also said to be Barries favorite of the children, not Peter. It is not certain why Barrie then chose to name the main character Peter. One idea why is because of his brothers, Peter behaved the most like an adult at a young age. Barrie wished he had had more of a childhood, so he immortalized him as the symbol of youth.
d.
As of 2009, this is the highest grossing film based on a live-action TV series.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
While
M. Emmet Walsh
s character is named "Loren Visser" in the screenplay, his character is never actually named in the film (his cigarette lighter has "Loren" written on it), and he is listed as "Private Investigator" in the credits.
b.
As of April 2005, only one complete dual-projector stereoscopic 3-D print is known to exist anywhere in the world. The Left and Right prints do not match: the color is severely faded on one side, but the film is still viewable in 3-D.
c.
Despite opening in theaters on April 3, "Lost in Space" was the first new film of 1998 to open at #1 at the box office. This was due to the incredible 15-week reign of
Titanic
at the top spot, which began in late December. Since it finally knocked "Titanic" out of the #1 spot on the box office charts, for a short time after its release the movie was given the nickname "The Iceberg".
d.
The release date changed several times because the film has undergone a series of re-shoots after its original completion date in January 2006.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
Jean-Luc and Sabrina, the two six-foot steel sculptures adorning the Verses stage, were created by production designer and Los Angeles sculptor Cynthia Minet.
b.
When Boris father visits him in his prison cell, near the end of the movie, he tells him about Raskolnikov killing two women and about getting told by the brothers Karamazov. Rodion Raskolnikov is the protagonist in
Fyodor Dostoevsky
s classic "Crime and Punishment", in which he murders two women and does not know how to deal with the moral consequences afterwards. "The Brothers Karamazow" is another epic book by the same Russian writer. The dialogue also evokes "The Possessed", "Raw Youth", "The Idiot", "The Insulted and Injured" (usually "The Insulted and Humiliated"), "The Gambler", "The Double", "Bobok", all of them novels by Dostoyevsky.
c.
Officially, the title is spelled with a period at the end - it appears this way on screen. Most television listings and video releases leave the period off.
d.
This movie featured the first appearance of the Emperor whom appeared as a hologram to Darth Vader. The Emperor was actually portrayed by an elderly female stand-in with a hood and heavy makeup. The yellow, Dark-Force eyes were in fact chimpanzee eyes superimposed over the stand-ins eyes to give the Emperor a less-human, more unworldly look. The Emperors voice was provided by
Clive Revill
who provided the voice only and not the appearance.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
The third Disney score from
Jerry Goldsmith
after
One Little Indian
and
Night Crossing
. It was also his last Academy Award nomination.
b.
Woodstocks nickname for Ace Ventura is "St. Francis". This is in reference to St. Francis of Assisi, the Catholic patron saint of animals.
c.
A teaser trailer for the film was shot long before the movie was in production. It featured
Bruce Campbell
(filling in for the role later played by
Dan Hedaya
) bloody and crawling down the road, just like the movie.
d.
David and Elizabeths Apartment building is really about 6 stories tall but the view from the roof (done with CGI) is one from a much taller building. We look down upon other buildings that are of a similar height.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
Originally cast as the old man who hits on Stella during her initial stay in Jamaica, all of Danny Glovers scenes were deleted from the final cut of the film. Hes seen briefly in the film during the scene where Stella, submerged in a pool, is talking to Winston (whos standing poolside), and points out an older man whos been hitting on her during her stay. In a quick long shot, Glover can be seen in old age make-up holding a flower he intends to give to Stella.
b.
Holly Hunter
s voice is on Meurices answering machine.
c.
Reportedly,
Gene Hackman
and
Lisa Eichhorn
did not get along during the first week of filming on this picture and this lead to Eichorn being replaced.
d.
Because the only widescreen process that Paramount used at the time was VistaVision, the screen used for the original release of
The Ten Commandments
was not as wide as those used for processes such as Cinemascope and Todd-AO, although the movie was a 1956 Technicolor epic.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blood Simple. (1984)?
a.
The director lived on a working ranch in a farm workers quarters for six months while making this film.
b.
Holly Hunter
had auditioned for the role of Abby, but turned it down because she was performing a play in New York at the same time. So she encouraged her roommate
Frances McDormand
to go and audition for the role.
c.
Kevin Smith financed this movie by maxing out credit cards, selling a majority of his comic book collection and borrowing money from family and friends.
d.
There was an alternate/extended version of the seduction scene between Captain Prescott and Nurse Helms. In this scene, Helms escorts Prescott to an empty room. She strips for him. They are then caught and Prescott is abducted. The scene ran 5 minutes.
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