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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bugsy (1991) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bugsy (1991) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991).
About the movie:
The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
The movies line "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." was voted as the #58 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
b.
Due to The Yari Film Group (the films distributor) filing a Chapter 11 protection (Bankruptcy Code), the film was never given a theatrical release outside of Los Angeles and New York.
c.
Shot in less than 5 weeks.
d.
After working on this film,
Warren Beatty
and
Annette Bening
were married. Theyd met several years before when she auditioned for another Beatty production. They met again when she was seriously considered for the role of Tess Trueheart in
Dick Tracy
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
James Toback
wrote the screenplay with the intention of directing it himself.
b.
The buildings where the foggy final showdown takes place are actually part of Bokor Hill Station, a colonial hill resort town built by the French in the 1920s. This site, on a mountain above Kampot in Southern Cambodia, included a church and Grand Bokor Palace, a hotel-casino. They were taken over by the Cambodian monarchs after the French left, and were a Khmer Rouge stronghold against the Vietnamese (the shelling is still visible, there are no windows left intact). Today the buildings are abandoned, crumbling and covered in red moss, but can still be visited.
c.
Professor Xaviers wheelchair from the first movie was bought by a lawyer (who also works for the same law firm as
Patrick Stewart
s attorney). When production began, the studio realized they had no chair anymore, so the lawyer rented it back to the studio - as Stewart said in an interview - "for a significant sum".
d.
Janeane Garofalo
said in an interview that her biggest reason for taking the role of Agent Dale Shelby was her feeling that the film needed a strong leading female character to "take the edge off" the occasional violence against women on screen.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
This was one of several films around the world to be shot on a completely "digital backlot" (i.e. with all the acting shot in front of a green screen and the backgrounds added during post-production). While the other movies (
Immortel (ad vitam)
,
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
, and
Casshern
- two of which were shot on film) were shot first, this movies use of High-Definition digital cameras (like "Sky Captain") in addition to the "backlot" method makes Sin City one of the worlds first "fully-digital" live action motion pictures.
b.
In response to criticism from fans over
Lynn Collins
being cast as the Native American, Silverfox, Collins reassured fans by claiming to have distant Native American ancestry.
c.
The movie is based on
Brian Goodman
s own life up to the mid 1990s.
d.
The movie that
George Raft
(
Joe Mantegna
) is making while Siegel visits him on the set is
Manpower
which co-starred
Edward G. Robinson
. The scene being filmed where Raft gets into a bar fight and hands a broken chair to an actress (
Virginia Hill
(
Annette Bening
in
Bugsy
) really does appear in the actual film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
Isabelle Adjani
was offered the role of Alex which she declined.
b.
The Columbia Pictures logo at the start of the film is not the modern one, but the one in use in 1949, which is when the film is set.
c.
Harvey Keitel
, who plays Mickey Cohen in this film, portrayed Siegel in the 1974 TV movie
The Virginia Hill Story
.
d.
No transportation company wanted to appear inept or deficient in any way, so crews had to rent twenty miles of train track and refurbish old railroad cars, construct a set that looked like an airline terminal, design a rent-a-car company logo and uniforms, and rent 250 cars for the infamous Rent-a-Car sequence.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
For the human sacrifice scene, an animatronic dummy of the sacrificial victim was made so that the "victim" would realistically writhe in agony upon catching fire. However,
Steven Spielberg
deemed the writhing "too gruesome" and added a sheet of flame in post-production to obscure the dummys movements the moment it caught fire.
b.
While the film suggests that
Bugsy Siegel
and Virginia Hill first meet on the movie set, they had actually met several years earlier in real life. At the time, Hill was dating Joe Adonis (portrayed as Joey A. by
Lewis Van Bergen
in this film) when she and Bugsy had an affair, thus explaining the animosity Bugsy and Joey have for one another throughout the film.
c.
At one point in the movie Scott (
Michael Cera
) proclaims "Double negative" (while hes with Wallace and his lover in bed). Double Negative was the lead visual effects house on this movie.
d.
The Polaroid photo of Jack Foley that Adele shows to Karen was taken outside a Star Waggon, an on-set cast trailer, by
Steven Soderbergh
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
The film used over 1,000,000 props.
b.
James Toback
was 6 years late delivering the screenplay to
Warren Beatty
.
c.
Diane Baker
was not allowed to read the script of the film before choosing whether or not to do it. She was only told that it was an
Alfred Hitchcock
movie named Marnie starring
Tippi Hedren
.
d.
Porn legend
Ron Jeremy
appears as a sleazy bar drunk.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
Dick Martin
s final acting performance.
b.
The film shows Siegel watching a screen test of himself. In real life,
Bugsy Siegel
made many friends amongst the Hollywood elite, asked for and had a screen test. The footage no longer exists, like so many other screen tests, yet the legend of Siegels attempt to break into showbiz lives on.
c.
The movies poster was as #4 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.
d.
Both of the leading players began work on the film miserable at having to leave their loved ones back in England. Olivier was missing his fiancée
Vivien Leigh
and Oberon had only recently fallen in love with film producer
Alexander Korda
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
The idea that Bugsy Seagel dreamed up the Las Vegas Strip on his own is only partly true. The Flamingo was the third major property on the Las Vegas Strip (behind the El Rancho and Last Frontier), and it wasnt even originally Bugsys idea. The idea for the Flamingo came from degenerate gambler Billy Wilkerson, who intended to model it after his Los Angeles nightclubs. Bugsy Seagel became Wilkersons partner and eventually took over the project. He later injected a lot of his own ideas into the project, but the original idea was not his.
b.
Even though
Anne Meara
portrayed
Cloris Leachman
s daughter in the film, there is only a six year age difference between the actresses.
c.
The Nissen Hut where the movie "My Reputation" had its world premiere was located in the base cinema on the 467th Bomb Group airbase in Rackheath, England.
d.
Based on
Oliver Stone
s personal experience during the war in Vietnam based on a screenplay he finished around 1976. Numerous studios passed on it until he finally got approval and starting filming in early 1986.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
Carlo Rambaldi
s life-size mechanical Kong was constructed after establishing the size of the hands in comparison to
Jessica Lange
, then scaling the body to the hands. A 40-foot Kong model was then constructed to create the rubber and horsehair skin for the mechanical Kong.
b.
On the special edition DVD of this film, Andrew Fleming states in the commentary that the production was geared toward earning a PG-13 rating from the MPAA. They followed all of the guidelines to earn that rating, but in the final outcome the film was rated R because the film dealt with teenage girls using witchcraft.
c.
In the late 1970s
Jean-Luc Godard
became obsessed with the story of Siegel and planned to make a movie about him. He wrote a screenplay called, simply, "The Story", and planned to cast
Robert De Niro
and
Diane Keaton
in the Siegel and Hill roles. He dropped this plan when Keaton lost interest and then turned his attention to
Sauve qui peut (la vie)
as his return to commercial filmmaking. An excerpt from his draft of the script can be found in the 1985 edition of the book "Godard on Godard."
d.
In the extended cut of the film, the word fuck is used 148 times.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bugsy (1991)?
a.
Steve Carell
,
Andy Dick
,
Jessica Simpson
,
Eva Mendes
,
Ryan Seacrest
,
James Franco
,
Jessica Alba
: As themselves in the phony news broadcasts seen throughout the movie.
b.
Most of the Las Vegas scenes of the Flamingo construction were filmed near Palm Desert and La Quinta, California, where a full-sized replica of the Flamingo was built.
c.
Victor Salva
originally wrote the role of the Creeper for
Lance Henriksen
.
d.
Final feature film for
Smiley Burnette
.
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