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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cutter's Way (1981) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cutter's Way (1981) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Cutter's Way (1981).
About the movie:
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cutter's Way (1981)?
a.
Ron Holgate
did all of his own riding - except for the trick mount at the end - in The Lees of Old Virginia, despite his never having been on a horse before.
b.
Based on the true events of the Scopes Monkey Trial which took place in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925.
c.
The films growing amount of positive reviews prompted United Artists to give the film to their "art" division, United Artists Classics, where they changed the films title from "Cutter and Bone" to "Cutters Way" (thinking that the original title would be mistaken by audiences for a comedy about surgeons). It was given the prestigious closing feature slot at the Seattle Film Festival. With a new ad campaign in place, Cutters Way re-opened in the summer of 1981 in Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, and New York City. Word of mouth helped the film turn a profit.
d.
Grace Smith
who plays the "Milk Maid" in the movie, is
Kevin Smith
s mother.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cutter's Way (1981)?
a.
Barry Levinson
: [Tabakin]
Ralph Tabakin
(Policeman in Shop Window) has appeared in every Levinson picture from
Diner
to
Liberty Heights
.
b.
Both
Nick Nolte
and
Tommy Lee Jones
were considered for Cutter.
Tom Berenger
tried to get the part, but was repeatedly turned down.
c.
The USB flash drive containing Vincents prep is a PNY Attaché.
d.
Conan OBrien
used clips of the film which he had redubbed as part of his opening monologues. The characters would discuss sub-prime mortgages and house foreclosures.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cutter's Way (1981)?
a.
Mister Scoutmaster Director
Henry Levin
and and young cast member
Jimmy Hawkins
were re-united in 1980 when Mr. Hawkins turned to Producing. Jimmy hired Mr. Levin to direct the NBC MOW Scouts Honor starring
Gary Coleman
. It was loosely based on Mister Scoutmaster. Mr. Levin died on the set while directing the final scene of Scouts Honor. Mr. Hawkins gathered the cast and crew together the next morning to finish directing the production. Mr. Coleman dedicated the movie in honor of Mr. Levin.
b.
Producer Paul Gurian gave script-writer Jeffrey Alan Fiskin a list of directors, and asked him who he thought should direct the film. Ivan Passers name was the only one the screenwriter didnt recognize. To investigate the director, Fiskin and a couple of United Artists executives screened Passers 1965 Czech film Intimate Lightning and agreed that he was the man to direct the film. Interestingly enough, in 1971, Passer delivered the film Born to Win to United Artists.
c.
Besides Ethan Hunt, Luther Stickel (
Ving Rhames
) is the only character to appear in all three films.
d.
Kevin Flynn sets down a metallic tetrahedron on the fireplace mantle. Later, when CLU comes in his house, he picks up this same metallic tetrahedron. This is a direct homage to
TRON
since this is a Bit which assisted both the original CLU and Flynn.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cutter's Way (1981)?
a.
Producer Paul Gurian had bought the rights to Newton Thornburgs novel and asked screenwriter Jeffrey Alan Fiskin if he could adapt it into screenplay form. Gurian got the studio, EMI, interested in financially backing the film with Robert Mulligan to direct and Dustin Hoffman to play Alex Cutter. However, a scheduling conflict forced Hoffman to leave the project. This prompted Mulligan to leave as well. To make matters worse, EMI pulled their money once Mulligan and Hoffman left the project. Gurian then took the film to United Artists where the studios vice president, David Field, became interested in backing it.
b.
Glenn Plummer
s directorial debut.
c.
The real
Skip Engblom
wanted
Heath Ledger
to play him.
d.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cutter's Way (1981)?
a.
The philosophical "babble" between the characters (e.g. "subjectivity is objective") actually comes from the writing of Russian philosophers
G.I. Gurdjieff
and
P.D. Ouspensky
, as does the title "Love and Death".
b.
The initial budget was supposed to be $3.3 million but then United Artists executive David Field found out that U.A. would only make the movie if the filmmakers were able to reduce the price tag to under three million dollars. Passer and company played along. Then, United Artists said that the film needed a big name star for it to succeed at the box office. The studio liked Jeff Bridges work in the dailies for Michael Ciminos opus Heavens Gate and said that they would only further support the film if the filmmakers got the actor to be in their movie.
c.
Bob Hope
: Ice cream vendor who sells cones to Fozzie.
d.
Not only is this
Danny Elfman
s first film as composer, it also marks the first appearance of his band
Oingo Boingo
, here billed as the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cutter's Way (1981)?
a.
Tim Alexander
described Dumbledores ring of fire as "someone sprayed propane and then lit it." Then, to enhance the effect, the visual effects team spent a lot of research on molten volcanoes (which have a lot of heat but no actual flames), and other references, including flares that burn underwater. The whole fire scene was very time consuming, with computer graphics artist
Christopher Horvath
spending eight months on it.
b.
The shots of the airplane landing and taking off were taken at the Gulfstream manufacturing plant in Savannah, GA.
c.
When United Artists executives David Field and Claire Townsend, the films biggest supporters, left for 20th Century Fox, the film became a victim of internal politics. United Artists senior domestic sales and marketing vice president Jerry Esbin saw the film and decided that it did not have any commercial possibilities. Passer did not see his film with a paying audience until the Houston Film Festival many weeks later, where the film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (John Heard).
d.
The movie in large part was made because
Alfred Hitchcock
was fed up with the big-budget, star-studded movies he had recently been making and wanted to experiment with the more efficient, sparser style of television filmmaking. Indeed, he ultimately used a crew consisting mostly of TV veterans and hired actors less well known than those he usually used.
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