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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cop Land (1997) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cop Land (1997) - 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: Cop Land (1997).
About the movie:
The sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community populated by New York City policemen slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cop Land (1997)?
a.
Jimmy Conlin
(Ernest) and
Dick Paxton
(Messenger Boy) are in studio records/casting call lists for their roles, but they are not seen in this movie. Most of the men and women at the railroad station listed in the cast are shown in longshot and are not recognizable, but are assumed to be there.
b.
John Travolta
,
Tom Hanks
, and
Tom Cruise
where among the actors that were considered for the role of Sheriff Freddy Heflin.
c.
The shots of
King Kong
were used without permission.
d.
Selected by Quentin Tarantino for the First Quentin Tarantino Film Fest in Austin, Texas, 1996. This movie was also featured in the Satans Cheerleader Camp Film Fest in Austin in 2000, hosted by The Satans Cheerleaders, who were given special thanks at the end of Grindhouse.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cop Land (1997)?
a.
One very difficult scripted sequence required filming on Wilshire Boulevard, the largest street in Los Angeles, only it had to be devoid of any people. As closing this major thoroughfare would be impossible and massively expensive,
Don Coscarelli
and his crew came up with a novel approach. Just minutes before sunrise on Thanksgiving holiday morning, the crew was ready to film, guerrilla-style, with the key actors
A. Michael Baldwin
and
Angus Scrimm
. They took over the street, without permission, and had ten uninterrupted minutes of filming with absolutely not a soul in sight. They only had that roughly ten minutes to film, but still managed to shoot the scene as they wanted it.
b.
According to film commentator
Richard Schickel
, the scene in which the Sergeant (
Lee Marvin
) is wounded is a re-creation of how Marvin was wounded in real life as a Marine in the Pacific. As in the film, Marvin was shot through the back and collapsed down on his knees.
c.
The sandwich scene in
Robert De Niro
s office was Stallones first day shooting. The sandwiches, which were an afterthought for the actors lunch, were improvised into the scene by De Niro.
d.
Adapting "Beowulf" for his novel and then for this movie,
Michael Crichton
changed some of the original names for ones that sounded similar: Beowulf is here named Buliwyf, Hygelac becomes Hyglak, the Grendel transformed into the Wendol, etc.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cop Land (1997)?
a.
Paramount optioned the script first, in 1992, but did not proceed with it.
b.
James McManus
initial plan for the story was based on the idea of a man in a wheelchair rolling down a hill with guns blazing, akin to
John Wayne
in
True Grit
.
c.
Robert Patrick
got the part after running into actor
Peter Berg
and the films producer and music supervisor,
Meryl Poster
, who were staying in the same hotel in New York. He got the script and then read for director
James Mangold
a few days later.
d.
One of the USAs first full-length films at some 2,000 metres.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cop Land (1997)?
a.
Arthur J. Nascarella
(Frank), was an NYPD officer in real life.
b.
Michelle Pfeiffer
and
Kathleen Turner
were both offered the role of Thelma but turned it down.
Tatum ONeal
auditioned for the role but lost out to
Geena Davis
in the final audition.
c.
After getting the rights to
George Jonas
s book "Vengeance",
Steven Spielberg
commissioned three scripts: one from
David Webb Peoples
and
Janet Peoples
, one from
Charles Randolph
, and one from
Eric Roth
. Roths script was chosen and subsequently revised by
Tony Kushner
, after Kushner first declined to co-write the screenplay; he felt it was too controversial and too complicated to be his first screenplay for a feature film.
d.
The screenplay was considerably altered from the hit stage play. Director
Gregory La Cava
was particularly gifted working with actresses. For two weeks prior to filming, he had his cast improvise in the boarding house set as if they were actually rooming together, and had a script girl take down all their interchanges. Most of the dialog you hear in the boarding house is extemporaneous ad-libs by the actresses during rehearsals.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cop Land (1997)?
a.
The black helicopter used by Mac was a NoTar helicopter. NoTar means the helicopter didnt have a tail rotor.
b.
Producer
Ray Stark
was unhappy with the work of the original cinematographer and begged ailing 75-year old
James Wong Howe
to come out of retirement to shoot the picture. It was the last film he ever worked on.
c.
Originally,
Ray Liotta
wanted the role of Sheriff Freddy Heflin, while
Sylvester Stallone
wanted the role of Gary "Figgsy" Figgis.
d.
The entire film is based on the short film
The Dirk Diggler Story
, also by
Paul Thomas Anderson
. It was a
This Is Spinal Tap
-like mockumentary, which would go on to be redone for the short "Dirk Diggler Story" in this film. In the original short film,
Robert Ridgely
, who plays The Colonel here, played Jack Horner. The man with whom
Don Cheadle
is talking in the stereo store is
Michael Stein
, who played Dirk Diggler. The original script was 300 pages, cut down to 180 pages.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cop Land (1997)?
a.
The hotel/casinos shown in the Las Vegas scenes actually exist.
b.
Paul Newman
was coached in playing the trombone by
Billy Byers
while the playing for Newman on the soundtrack was done by Murray McEachern.
Sidney Poitier
s tenor sax playing was done by Paul Gonsalves. The soundtrack was recorded May 1-3, 1961 at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City.
c.
Joeys motorcycle is a 900cc Hinckley Triumph Thunderbird
d.
George Camilleri, a keen bodybuilder who won the title of Mr Malta in 1989, broke his leg while filming an action sequence at Ghajn Tuffieha, Malta on 30 May 2003. He was operated on the following day but suffered complications and died on 17 June 2003.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cop Land (1997)?
a.
There is a disclaimer in the credits which explains that Garrison, New Jersey could not be the residence of the policemen as depicted because there is a NY statute which states that it is a requirement that NYPD officers must reside within New York State.
b.
Cedric Gibbons
was replaced as director due to other duties as the head of MGMs art department. He was officially replaced by
Jack Conway
.
Maureen OSullivan
recalled that the actual direction was carried out by
James C. McKay
(uncredited as director), who was only billed as the animal director.
Betty Roth
(wife of animal supervisor
Louis Roth
) doubled for OSullivan for some close-up lion scenes at the end of filming due to OSullivans absence for an appendectomy.
c.
Screened at New Hampshire Film Expo 2003.
d.
With every new draft of the script, there was a different set of survivors and a different set of characters dying. At various points during pre-production, Hammond, Malcolm, and Dr. Wu were going to die and Gennaro and Muldoon were going to live.
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