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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cat's Eye (1985) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cat's Eye (1985) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Cat's Eye (1985).
About the movie:
A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cat's Eye (1985)?
a.
Another Microsoft reference: one of the characters working at NURV is called Redmond Schmeichel. Microsofts headquarters are in Redmond, Washington
b.
The chase scenes in the tunnel were filmed in New York City Water Tunnel Number 3, an unfinished aqueduct connecting the city to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.
c.
The six-foot, two-part Enterprise model from the original pilot was taken out of storage and refurbished to meet the demands of the big screen. This was because it had to stand up to the glare of motion picture lighting.
d.
The drawbridge scene in the movie is the Isabel Holmes Bridge located in Wilmington, North Carolina just off of Highway 421 North. The Isabel Holmes Bridge was also used in
Stephen King
s (1986) film,
Maximum Overdrive
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cat's Eye (1985)?
a.
The first
Stephen King
film to receive a PG-13 rating.
b.
When Josephine asks for Ed Blooms permission to take his picture she holds a cult rangefinder camera, the Leica M6.
c.
According to
Hal Needham
on a radio show in Atlanta, the scene with the football players narrowly missed being a serious accident when, unknown to the film crew, a groundskeeper watered the grass on the field, causing the car to go out of control, slide the wrong way, and almost hit the extras.
d.
The script was set in the midst of the 1960s Watts Riots.
James Ellroy
updated the original story in 1992 after the request of producer
Caldecot Chubb
for budgetary reasons but asked that his name not be used to promote the movie after he had seen it.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cat's Eye (1985)?
a.
The
Stephen King
short story "Sometimes They Come Back" (1991) was originally planned to be adapted as a segment in this movie, but
Dino De Laurentiis
felt the story was strong enough to have its own movie.
b.
An uncredited
Busby Berkeley
directed the musical sequence where
Joan Blondell
sings "Daddy"
c.
Shot entirely against a green screen.
d.
Elmore Leonard
, screenwriter and writer of the novel upon which this film is based, apparently disowned it after Universal Pictures ordered extensive re-shoots. Leonard was very critical of star/director
Burt Reynolds
for what Leonard perceived as Reynolds not fighting Universal hard enough to prevent the studio from doing it.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cat's Eye (1985)?
a.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
b.
There were two scenes which were in the original script and filmed, but were cut from the final version of the film. One scene had the Kamp Komfort manager (
Brian Doyle-Murray
) dress up in a moose costume and sneak into Clark and Ellens tent to scare them (which explains the "wildlife fun" the manager mentioned as they checked in). That scene was cut because it made the sequence run too long, so it was re-written to have Dinky sneak into the tent instead. The second scene originally written/filmed but cut was a scene featuring the two Indians (the same ones who see Clark wandering aimlessly through the desert and say "What an asshole.") as well as a camel rider, who find Ellen and the rest of the family and rescue them. That scene was cut because according to Director
Harold Ramis
, the camel had been raised in Burbank and was only used to walking on pavement, and the camel did not take to walking on hot sand very well, and all the shots of the camel were just unusable. Remnants of both cut scenes appear as photos during the ending credits photo montage.
c.
Cressner promises
Robert Hays
s character that if he wins their bet hell get, "the girl, the gold watch, and everything," a reference to
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
, which starred Hays.
d.
The original screenplay featured no dialogue at all, but
Michael Eisner
of Disney insisted they include it.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cat's Eye (1985)?
a.
Marlene Dietrich
s first film in Technicolor.
b.
Steven Culp
and
Dylan Baker
did their undergraduate study together at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
c.
Though
Al Pacino
had his own slicked-down hairstyle, the make-up artists had to add a fake chin, nose, upper lip, a mole on his cheek, and plugs behind his ears to make them stick out in order to turn Pacino into Big Boy Caprice.
d.
In "The Ledge", Cressner flips through a magazine on the coffee table. That magazine is the July 1976 issue of "Penthouse", which featured the short story the segment was based on.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cat's Eye (1985)?
a.
Against the directors wishes, the studio cut out a prologue that explained the cats motivations. They considered it "too silly". As a result, many viewers were confused by the connection between the three stories.
b.
Tommy Lee Jones
and
Cate Blanchett
have both appeared in films about
Howard Hughes
. Jones played Hughes himself in
The Amazing Howard Hughes
, and Blanchett played
Katharine Hepburn
in
The Aviator
.
c.
The celebrity cameos were not written in the script.
Robert Altman
added them all in. No scripted dialogue was given to any celebrity with a cameo.
d.
The house
Jon Stewart
s character lives in is the same house used for
Tim Allen
s character in
Galaxy Quest
and
Colin Firth
s character in
Where the Truth Lies
. It is known as Case Study House #22, aka Stahl House and is in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cat's Eye (1985)?
a.
The original casting choices were
Tobey Maguire
, to play Andrew Lamont, and
Rachael Leigh Cook
, to play Daria Larina.
b.
References to other
Stephen King
works:
James Woods
watches
The Dead Zone
and inquires, "Who writes this crap?" The cat is chased by a St. Bernard, a reference to
Cujo
. The cat is almost run over by a red Plymouth Fury with a bumper sticker saying, "I am Christine," a reference to
Christine
. Amandas mother is reading Stephen Kings book "Pet Semetary" in bed.
c.
Ingrid Bergman
also played the part of Joan of Arc on stage in 1946 (in Maxwell Andersons Joan of Lorraine) and in the film,
Giovanna dArco al rogo
.
d.
Kerry Noonan
, who played Paula in
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI
, read for the role of Tina, when she thought the title was "Birthday Bash." She quickly realized that it was a Friday the 13th film and confessed that shed starred in the last movie, so
John Carl Buechler
decided not to cast her.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cat's Eye (1985)?
a.
Jet Li
stated in multiple interviews that he was not happy with this film nor its production. He went as far to say that this movie "sucked" and he had no confidence in director
Philip G. Atwell
. Even halfway into filming, he knew that it would receive mediocre ratings and not make profit.
b.
The first theatrical feature film directed by
Steven Spielberg
.
c.
The musical play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 14 October 1930 and had 272 performances. The leads were played by
Ginger Rogers
and
Allen Kearns
, but the cast also included
Ethel Merman
in her first Broadway production. She was featured in the "I Got Rhythm" number.
d.
Stephen King
wrote this script with
Drew Barrymore
in mind because of her performance in
Firestarter
.
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