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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cruising (1980) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cruising (1980) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cruising (1980)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980).

About the movie: A police detective goes undercover in the sleazy and underground gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is murdering numerous gay men with S&M tactics.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		The film was completed on August 4, 2010, exactly 2 years to the day from the start of principal photography.
b.		This film is one of three pictures that actors Jim Nabors and Burt Reynolds made together, all of them being early 1980s movies. They are: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stroker Ace and Cannonball Run II.
c.		Rumor has it that William Friedkins original cut ran 140 minutes. There is an increasing demand for a home video release of this version, if the deleted footage still exists and was not, as commonly believed, destroyed by United Artists. Apparently, Friedkin delivered this cut to the studio and this cut was condemned by the MPAA for ultra-provocative content. Mr. Friedkin has alternately said that all of the footage he was ultimately forced to cut (over a series of 40 different edits, at a cost of $50,000, before the MPAA finally granted the film an R rating) involved graphic sexuality and wasnt connected to the murder investigation plot, and that the footage did provide some "twists and turns in the story" that were not present in the films final cut.
d.		Because of the productions lack of film stock much of the footage was shot without the option of re-takes.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		Jake Gyllenhaal and Chris Cooper first worked together on October Sky, although they only share one scene in this film.
b.		In 1972, director William Friedkin - huge after The French Connection - is shooting his spiritual/psych-horror The Exorcist in downtown New York. For a scene requiring mock brain-scans of the possessed lead character, Friedkin films a real-life radiologist and his assistant, Paul Bateson. Flash ahead to 1979. Friedkin is planning an adap of Gerald Walkers novel Cruising, inspired by a real-life serial killer carving up leather boys in the citys underground gay-bars and dumping their body parts in the Hudson River, wrapped in black plastic bags. When he learns that his Exorcist radiologist assistant Bateson is currently awaiting trial for the post-coital slaying of gay film critic Addison Verrill, Friedkin decides to pay him a visit to do a little research into the psyche of his cruising killer. Bateson is later imprisoned for life - for the Verrill murder - but not before dropping hints while in custody that he was also the body bag killer. The latter cases remain unsolved, but theres every chance that Friedkin had not only inadvertently consulted the actual killer at the heart of Cruising while planning the film, but had also cast him in a film he made years before it.
c.		The exact same font is found on all the posters and signs seen throughout the movie except the posters for Valeries movies.
d.		In one take, Michael Beck (Swan) swings a bat into Deborahs face (in the scene where he throws it at the cop). She was rushed to hospital at 3am for stitches and still has a scar.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		William Holden agreed to do the film on the sole condition that the producers keep the original ending of the novel, in which Lt. Harry Brubaker dies, and not turn it into a happy ending.
b.		The LA punk band The Germs recorded five or so songs expressly for the soundtrack to this movie, although in the actual event, only "Lions Share" was actually used. During the recording sessions, director William Friedkin was so energized by the Germs playing that he took to doing the "pogo" dance around the engineers booth.
c.		In Stephen Kings original story, Red was written as a white Irishman. In the movie, they left the line, "Maybe its cause Im Irish", in as a joke, even after they had cast Morgan Freeman as Red.
d.		The official name of the Quaker religion is Society of Friends. Members of the faith are called Friends and nicknamed Quakers. The book is called "The Friendly Persuasion", meaning the faith. The film is simply called "Friendly Persuasion," which more specifically refers to the Quakers way of communicating.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		This movie held a private screening at Sundance Film Festival under its original name "Conscious Behavior".
b.		Every member of the movie band had a song in the film from their real band(s) except Kris Kjornes, the only real actor.
c.		In his DVD commentary, Joss Whedon said Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau and Sean Maher performed many of their own stunts. Glau, a trained dancer, used her dancing skills in Rivers two fights. For the second fight, the cameraman, who was also a dancer, moved through a gap around the combatants to achieve the movies dynamic camera angles.
d.		During murder scene in a room at the St. James Hotel where a man is stabbed to death on a bed, director William Friedkin edited in several near-subliminal frames from a gay hardcore movie that can clearly be seen in slow motion on DVD.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
b.		James A. Contners first job as a director of photographer. William Friedkin gave him the opportunity after having been impressed with his work as a camera operator.
c.		The movies poster was as #12 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.
d.		A Jewel Production. Universal, not owning its own theater network, devised a 3-tiered brand system that helped market its features to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige productions). Jewel productions were often promoted as special engagements in hopes of attracting higher roadshow ticket prices. This branding system would cease in late 1929.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		John Badham: Hes in the video room, the furthest of the three from camera.
b.		The majority of the film was shot inside the Panavision building in Tarzana, California, weeks before it was completely gutted and remodeled for a new company (Panavision was located in this spot for decades before it moved to Woodland Hills). The movie documented every room in this cinematically historical building before it was destroyed.
c.		Karen Allen was never shown a complete script before she worked on this film. Director William Friedkin deliberately kept the actress in the dark about the events of the film since her character Nancy wasnt supposed to be aware of what was happening to Al Pacinos cop as he explored the gay underworld.
d.		If you watch closely, a small statue of a monkey appears in the background of a variety of scenes.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		In the first shot of the Leonovs interior, the camera opens on a closeup of a computer monitor in sickbay. Below the monitor is a decal with several lines of English text, which were part of the zero-gravity toilet instructions from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
b.		One of the 50 films in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives. This film is preserved by the Library of Congress, has a running time of 74 minutes and an added piano music score.
c.		The plot of the film, about murders in gay nightclubs, caused many to protest the release of the film. In fact, organized protests by gay groups were planned for the date of the release of the film. The public largely ignored the protests.
d.		On Phoenixs mirror after the concert in which she becomes a star is a magazine ad with the headline "Im a Harpers Freak". Phoenix was played by Jessica Harper (I).

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		Author Richard Llewellyn was strongly opposed to the casting of Cary Grant, demanding to know how the 40-year-old actor could play a 19-year-old character.
b.		In an effort to make the scenes of gay "leather bars" as real as possible, actual gay bars for men were used in the film that existed in New York City at that time. These locations are in the lower west neighborhoods in the meat packing district of Manhattan, most of which remain open to this day. Movie extras in full black leather and chaps, including other provocative sexual attire, were actual gay patrons of the bar recruited for the scenes a few days before filming began. The extras were instructed to act as they would normally act in gay bars, but to tone down sexually-oriented activities because of the likelihood these acts would give the film an "X" rating.
c.		Rose McGowan discovered that she could actually fit through a pet flap.
d.		Harmony Korine originally took on the role of Chris. Later, the role was given to Evan Neumann.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		James A. Contner originally wanted to shoot the film in black and white, as he felt it would fit the look of the S/M world.
b.		After the credit for the weapons handler, theres a credit for the "concealed weapons handler", a Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz was the man who assassinated US President William McKinley in 1901 by shooting him with a pistol he had concealed in an arm bandage.
c.		One of the stunt pilots, Frank Tallman, who flew the red stearman plane, claimed this film was the most dangerous film hed ever flown for. He was killed in a crash soon after filming finished.
d.		Sembagare (John Omirah Miluwi), is based on Rosamund Carrs former house boy Sembagare Munyamboneza who set up the Imbabazi orphanage with her in 1994 after the Rwandan Genocide.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cruising (1980)?
a.		Tommy Tiny Listers feature film debut.
b.		Brian De Palma really wanted to direct this film but his producers could not obtain the rights to the material, so he made Dressed to Kill instead.
c.		In the first movie, they decided not to let Danny Glover bare his chest because they felt it look too good for a 50 year old. Now in this one he not only bared it, he strips down twice.
d.		Both Olga Kurylenko and Xavier Gens (director) said the train platform sequence was one of their favorite scenes - a scene that would later be replaced shortly before the movie was released.

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