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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Can't Stop the Music (1980) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Can't Stop the Music (1980) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Can't Stop the Music (1980).
About the movie:
This is a Pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Can't Stop the Music (1980)?
a.
Dan Futterman
was originally cast as Olaf, but by the time the movie was ready to shoot, Futterman was committed to
Capote
so he recommended
Tim Guinee
for the role.
b.
The first
John Moore
directed feature film that will not be distributed by 20th Century Fox.
c.
The legendary
Berry Gordy
, who turned out to be one of the films financiers, was allowed to direct one sequence. This would be one of the sequences where Dr. Death is trying to convince a spirit to enter the wifes body.
d.
Despite the existence of
Saturday Night Fever
,
Roller Boogie
and
Thank God Its Friday
, producer
Allan Carr
claimed that this picture was the "first disco musical".
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Can't Stop the Music (1980)?
a.
The "air pills" were stock M&Ms, while the "poi sausages" harvested from the Martian plants were pepperonis.
b.
The Milkshake song-and-dance sequence took two weeks of rehearsal and then five shooting days to film.
c.
Of the films US$19 million budget, US$9 million went toward visual effects.
d.
The script was pitched to Paramount Studios, which placed the movie on turnaround and suggested to writer
Graham Yost
that his script, which called for the movie to end after everyone gets off the bus, had "too much bus" in it, implying audiences would not go for a movie in which a bus is driving around for two hours. Yost then added the subway scenes, and the modified script was presented to Fox Studios, which agreed to film the movie.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Can't Stop the Music (1980)?
a.
Blanket title for all the films in McClure Publishings "Seven Deadly Sins" series.
b.
The men who played "the Saints" in the previous film return to their vigilante roles in this film. Few actors have reprized the role of vigilantes in R-rated adventure films. The few other prominent examples include
Charles Bronson
in the four Death Wish films,
Robert Ginty
as the Exterminator in
Exterminator 2
, and
Arnold Vosloo
in
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
.
c.
According to the book The Casablanca Man: The Cinema of Michael Curtiz by James C. Robertson, this movie was one of the Warner Brothers studios biggest box-office hits of 1941 and the film made a profit of more than $(US) 1 million.
d.
The 2003 Australian comedy movie
You Cant Stop the Murders
parodied this films title and also had a Village People story element in its plot.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Can't Stop the Music (1980)?
a.
Except for
Kathy Dunn
(Candy Hull the American),
Lynne Sue Moon
(Mai Ling the Chinese), and
Gina Trikonis
(Natasha the Russian), all of the "Teenage Diplomats" use their own names as the character names.
b.
The crew had foggy mornings just on the days they needed them, and the fog lingered only so long as it was needed to complete the scenes. Snow was written in the script for one sequence, never really thinking that it would actually happen. It normally snows hard enough to actually be visible on film 4 or 5 times a year. When they needed it, the snow came down in huge flakes just until the director said "Cut" on the last take, and then it stopped.
c.
Choreographer
Arlene Phillips
was seven months pregnant at the start of production. Phillips had a production baby during filming. The baby was name Allana Roxana, the first name being named after this films producer
Allan Carr
.
d.
The title is a pun on the French expression, "Oh, quel cul tas!", meaning, "Oh, what a (cute) bum you have!" It is taken, pun and all, from a painting by the artist Clovis Trouille (1889-1975) "Oh! Calcutta! Calcutta!". The title is written on the original painting at the right on the lower edge. The image of the painting is used as the background seen in the opening of the program.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Can't Stop the Music (1980)?
a.
Producer
Allan Carr
once boasted that
Steve Guttenberg
and
Bruce Jenner
would be "the
Dustin Hoffman
and
Robert Redford
of the eighties" whilst Carr also said the former would also be the "
John Travolta
of the 80s".
b.
There were a total of 16 different cabs used to create the entire cab sequence.
c.
Robert Taylor
s last film.
d.
This was one of the first seven films to be foreclosed by the Screen Actors Guild for non-payment of wages and residuals to SAG members. On 13 July 2004, rights to the film were sold at auction.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Can't Stop the Music (1980)?
a.
The YMCA dance sequence was filmed at the Glendale YMCA in California.
b.
Although the title was obviously inspired by the song "Whos Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" (sung in the Disney cartoon The Three Little Pigs), Warner Bros. was unable to negotiate use of tune, so when characters sing the title phrase it is illogically set to melody of the public domain folk song "Here We Go round the Mulberry Bush."
c.
The only scene that does not feature
John Travolta
s feet is the one where hes comparing his shoe to the shoe in the store window.
d.
The green carnation that Arthur selects for his buttonhole is a subtle homage to
Oscar Wilde
. Wilde and his "inner circle" of gay friends used to wear green carnations as a way of discreetly displaying their sexuality.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Can't Stop the Music (1980)?
a.
Laurence Olivier
wanted to follow up
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
with a film version of "Macbeth", but decided against it because
Orson Welles
version would reach theaters first. Olivier opted to make his film of
Hamlet
instead, which went on to win him Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor.
b.
Greta Garbo
turned down the role not because she refused to share the spotlight, but because she believed that at 27 she was too old to play a prima ballerina.
c.
Camera was entirely hand-held. Only source lighting was used, there is no artificial lighting in the film.
d.
This picture was co-world sneak-previewed in Australia (along with the USA) due to producer
Allan Carr
s positive experience with the launch of
Grease
down under.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Can't Stop the Music (1980)?
a.
Before the first race there is a deep-focus shot of three of the drivers in their cars turning one by one to look at Brian. The slightly unnatural motion of the head and eye movements of the actors reveals that this shot is running in reverse. As actually filmed, the action begins with Brian and then moves down the line of actors, finishing with Suki.
b.
This movie is unique in Academy Awards history, in that its the only time an African-American,
Denzel Washington
, won the Best Actor Oscar as directed by a fellow African-American,
Antoine Fuqua
.
c.
"Season of the Witch" was the original working title of
Martin Scorsese
s
Mean Streets
. "Season Of The Witch" is also the name of a song by
Donovan
and an alternative name for the
George A. Romero
film
Hungry Wives
. Also the name of an upcoming
Nicolas Cage
movie:
Season of the Witch
.
d.
With a budget of around (US) $20 million, this movie was considered at the time it was made to be one of the most expensive musicals ever made.
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