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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Death Wish (1974) - Part (4) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Death Wish (1974) - Part (4) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Death Wish (1974) - Part (4)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Death Wish (1974).

About the movie: A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish (1974)?
a.		"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 16, 1950 with Fredric March reprising his film role.
b.		In the scene where Johnnie brings a glass of milk up to Lina, Alfred Hitchcock had a light hidden in the glass to make it appear more sinister.
c.		This picture went into turnaround at the United Artists studio due to financing problems relating to the budget and consequently the producers Bobby Roberts and Hal Landers were forced to sell their film rights and liquidate them.
d.		Laserbeaks alternate mode in Transformers was a tape cassette, but that was considered old-fashioned. He instead has two modern forms; a desktop computer & a laser printer.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish (1974)?
a.		The home of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is revealed as being 33 Riverside Drive, New York City. The real actual house was located on West 75th Street on Manhattans Upper West Side. Numerous scenes were filmed around this location.
b.		To create such sharp visuals, director of photography Freddie Francis used lots of huge bright lamps. Deborah Kerr sometimes had to resort to wearing sunglasses between takes.
c.		Carol Lipton, played by Diane Keaton, claims to hate wearing a tie with a skirt. She made that look famous playing Annie Hall in Annie Hall.
d.		The French version ("Lhomme des Folies Bergère") was shot simultaneously with the English version. Ensemble scenes were probably shared by both versions, but because of the major cast and crew changes, it is considered a separate film.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish (1974)?
a.		With this controversial movie, Louis Malle debuted in American cinema, but its just another feature of his own work.
b.		Jeff Goldblum: As Freak #1. Goldblum would play a similar role, as Hood #3, in Charles Bronsons later film St. Ives.
c.		Although the film lasts 80 minutes and is supposed to be in "real time", the time frame it covers is actually longer - a little more than 100 minutes. This is accomplished by speeding up the action: the formal dinner lasts only 20 minutes, the sun sets too quickly and so on. The September 2002 issue of Scientific American contains a complete analysis of this technique (and the effect it has on the viewers, who actually feel as if they watched a 100-minutes movie).
d.		While Errol Flynn was recovering from a broken ankle while filming Against All Flags, Universal took advantage of the standing sets by putting together this modest epic during the hiatus.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish (1974)?
a.		Although Julie Kavner is credited for providing the voices of Marge, Patty and Selma, only Marge has a speaking role in the final film. In addition, Marcia Wallace is credited as Mrs. Krabappel, but she has no dialogue. A scene with Patty, Selma and Mrs. Krabappel speaking can be seen as a deleted scene on the DVD.
b.		As revealed in "Ramblin Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie" by Ed Cray, singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie had a small acting role in this movie, thanks to his friend Will Geer, whos also in it.
c.		Reportedly, director Michael Winner lost over a stone in weight during production filming on this movie. This was attributed to (at least in part) to moving from the extremely hot conditions of filming in Hawaii to the extremely freezing weather whilst filming in New York City.
d.		This film was one of two released in Summer 1998 where the top of the Chrysler Building is destroyed and plummets to the street below. The other was Armageddon.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish (1974)?
a.		After viewing the film, Brian Garfield was dissatisfied with the result of his novel turned film due to its advocacy towards vigilantism, resulted him to write up a sequel novel called Death Sentence, which dealt of the consequence of vigilantism. The book was adapted in 2007 starring Kevin Bacon, but with a complete different story, which kept only certain elements from the book.
b.		RZAs acting debut.
c.		Alex "popping" his mouth open for food was entirely improvised, as Stanley Kubrick got incredibly bored during the scene and Malcolm McDowell started acting silly just to keep everyones attention focused.
d.		Gordon Willis insisted that every shot represent a point of view, usually setting his camera about four feet off the ground, keeping the angle flat and even. Francis Ford Coppola managed to get him to do one aerial shot in the scene when Don Vito Corleone is gunned down, telling Willis that the overhead shot represented Gods point of view.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish (1974)?
a.		Billie Birds second appearance in a Police Academy film. Here she plays a small role as Mrs. Stanwyck. In Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, she had a larger role as Mrs. Feldman.
b.		Robins origin in the movie has elements of all three comic Robins origins. The first Robin Dick Graysons parents are acrobats and are murdered (though not by Two-Face). The second Robin, Jason Todd, is caught stealing the wheels off the Batmobile, much like in the movie when Robin takes the Batmobile for a joyride, and Jason Todds father is killed by Two-Face. Timothy Drake, the Third Robin, discovers Bruce Waynes secret identity as does the movie Robin, but Tim Drake does it using his skills as a detective, unlike movie Robin.
c.		The only copy of this film that is known to survive is an incomplete, edited five reel 16mm Kodascope version, which runs approximately 54 minutes.
d.		Development of this film was turned-down by other Hollywood movie studios due to its contentious, controversial and sensitive subject matter involving vigilantism, pack-rape, and crime.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish (1974)?
a.		Just to settle a few arguments: In the board game Trivial Pursuit, the bridge that Bobby C (Barry Miller) falls from is incorrectly identified as the Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge was of course the Verrazano Narrows which connects Brooklyn with Staten Island.
b.		Served as the basis for the apocryphal movie "Siren of Babylon" starring Maria Montez, Bruce Cabot and Louis Calhern that that is being shot on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot in 1948 in Gore Vidals 1974 novel "Myron," his sequel to Myra Breckinridge.
c.		Judith Crist once described this movie as an "urban version of Walking Tall."
d.		All of the photos in the house of Willards father, Martin Stiles, are of actor Bruce Davison, who played the part of Willard in the original movie (Willard).

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish (1974)?
a.		This film is listed among The 100 Worst Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilsons book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
b.		In 1992, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
c.		Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adam Hann-Byrd, and Heather Matarazzo also filmed scenes that were cut from the film.
d.		This movie was launched in the USA in July 1974, the same month as another Charles Bronson picture, Mr. Majestyk. This movie premiered on the 24th whilst that movie was first released just a week earlier on the 17th.

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