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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dark City (1998) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dark City (1998) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998).
About the movie:
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
The main character, John Murdoch, shares the name, and the quest, of a Scottish liberal in the 1870s and 1880s. The Scottish Murdoch led a major campaign for Scottish farmers to own their own land.
b.
Cast member
Robert Harron
s entire family was cast in this film.
c.
Shot over a period of 17 days.
d.
After completing the initial filming, the rocket/"Johnson" scenes did so well with test audiences that they went back and filmed more of such scenes.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
Only one reel of five survives at the Library of Congress.
b.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
thought the script was one of the best hed ever read. He especially liked all of the elements of comedy, action, drama and satire in it.
c.
Alex Proyas
got the idea for the buildings changing and growing while the crew was moving pieces of the set around during filming of
The Crow
.
d.
Rosaura Revueltas
, who played Esperanza Quintero, was a noted screen actress in her native Mexico. After this film was distributed, she was accused of being a Communist and deported. While she continued to appear in Mexican cinema, she never made another film in the US.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
Neal Slavin
claimed to have wanted to make this film since college.
b.
Jamie Chung
wanted to play Bulma and auditioned for the role, but she admitted that
Emmy Rossum
was the perfect choice for Bulma.
c.
Music inspector Bumstead is playing on his accordion in his very first scene in the movie is a Soviet WWII era song "Siniy Platochek" ("Blue scarf").
d.
Both this film and
Blood for Dracula
shared many of the same sets and the same principal cast (
Joe Dallesandro
,
Udo Kier
, and
Arno Juerging
).
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
An alternate ending with a second twist, in which
Lionel Barrymore
s character receives a telegram from the vaudeville actors apologizing for not being able to make their train for the castle assignment, was proposed, but Browning rejected it.
b.
An earlier draft of the script had Dr. Schreber (
Kiefer Sutherland
) being skinned alive during the finale.
c.
The French Resistance woman shown at the start of the film is played by
Irina Demick
, who was
Darryl F. Zanuck
s girlfriend at the time.
d.
The film begins and ends with shots of animals swimming in water. Not only that, but
Nick Gomez
is the first person seen on-screen as well as one of the two people at the end of the film.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
Alex Proyas
wrote the part of Mr. Hand especially for
Richard OBrien
.
b.
All songs were the last complete works for a movie by Academy Award winner
Howard Ashman
. Ashman died eight months prior to the release of the film.
c.
Susan Sarandon
also played
Andy Samberg
s mother in the SNL Digital Shorts "Motherlover" and "3-Way (The Golden Rule)" (skits recorded for
Saturday Night Live
by
The Lonely Island
(which Samberg is a member of) and
Justin Timberlake
).
d.
Sam Raimi
named
David Paymer
s character after his long time friend producer
James Jacks
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
This is a different
Doris Day
. Much confusion (and, one imagines, many movie-goer complaints) followed purposely misleading re-release of this B musical in early Fifties to cash in on name of totally different same-named musical comedy star who accomplished far greater acclaim nearly ten years later.
b.
The enforcer leader of the Aryan Brotherhood during the killing spree in Compton is played by legendary biker-movie star William Smith.
c.
Has one of the shortest Average shot lengths (ASL) of any modern narrative production at 1.8 seconds. This means there is a cut almost every 2 seconds.
d.
Written, directed, and produced by 16-year-old director.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
New Line Cinema forced
Alex Proyas
to include the opening narration by
Kiefer Sutherland
, which Proyas objected to, saying it was unnecessary. The narration gives away several key plot twists and consequently many fans of the film prefer to watch it with the sound turned off during the narration until Sutherland looks at his pocket watch. Unsurprisingly, the directors cut omits this opening narration.
b.
Director
Terry Gilliam
first met
Bruce Willis
while casting his film
The Fisher King
. He was impressed by the sensitivity shown by Willis in the scene from
Die Hard
where McClane (Willis) talks about his wife while pulling glass from his feet. Talking to Willis, Gilliam discovered that this part was ad-libbed by Willis. Gilliam remembered this, and was convinced to cast him in this film.
c.
The movie was originally intended to be shot in the St. Louis area rather than John Hughess traditional Chicago. Filming was about to begin when the decision was made to move the shoot to Chicago (the reason being that the film was set in winter and the winter of 1988 was unseasonably warm in St. Louis, leading to the change).
d.
Cheapskate producer
Nat Levine
scored a windfall by being able to cast
Harry Carey
and
Edwina Booth
, who just came off starring in the major MGM hit
Trader Horn
. Booth was still recovering from a serious bout with a tropical disease contracted in Africa while filming this serial.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
Sylvester Stallone
s original script was 220 pages long.
b.
The man whose parachute fails to open is wearing pixel-gray Army Combat Uniform fatigues, meaning he was most likely a soldier in the United States Army.
c.
The name of
Kiefer Sutherland
s character, Daniel Schreber, is the same as that of a man who wrote a book titled "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness" during the heights of a period in which he was institutionalized for schizophrenia. The book has become a standard reading for many psychiatrists and psychologists, and many of the theories of both
Sigmund Freud
and
Carl Gustav Jung
were based on it (Freud never actually met Schreber, though). "Dark City" borrows heavily from the concept of "fleetingly-improvised men" which are found within Schrebers "Memoirs".
d.
Steven Moffat
finished a draft of the script, but could not polish it because of the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, and afterwards becoming executive producer of
Doctor Who
.
Steven Spielberg
and
Peter Jackson
amiably allowed him to leave and fulfill his duty to the series (Jackson being a fan of the Doctor), and brought in
Edgar Wright
and
Joe Cornish
to rewrite Moffats draft.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
When the con-men
Walter Connolly
and
William Frawley
advertise "Romeo & Juliet" as the play they were to present, they say it stars "
David Garrick
" and "Mrs. Sarah Kemble Siddons", two of the most famous British actors of the 18th century. David Garrick and Sarah Kemble Siddons were both long dead by the year in which "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is supposed to take place.
b.
Roger Ebert
called this movie the Best Film of 1998. He recorded a special audio commentary track for the dvd release of the movie.
c.
The film was made into a haunted house at Universals "Halloween Horror Nights".
d.
Due to the film being light on violence it received frequent airings on late night television, where it gained a large cult following.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dark City (1998)?
a.
There were many deliberate anachronisms to give the viewer a feeling of confusion of the time of the film.
b.
The official title of this movie is "Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood."
c.
When Edward and Bella are standing in the doorway of the Cullens kitchen, there is a chess set on the dining room table behind them with red and white pieces, like the cover of Breaking Dawn, the final novel in
Stephenie Meyer
s Twilight saga.
d.
The title role was written for
Tom Hanks
.
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