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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Death Wish II (1982) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Death Wish II (1982) - 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: Death Wish II (1982).
About the movie:
Architect Paul Kersey once again becomes a vigilante when he tries to find the five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper, this time on the dark streets of Los Angeles.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
The negatives for the matted wide-screen version of the movie were either destroyed or lost, and for a time only the VHS full-screen version of the movie remained. The North Carolina School of the Filmmaking in Winston-Salem North Carolina carries a print of the movie assembled from different reels of other prints of the movie found in their archives. The pieced-together print is in good condition. It should be noted that this wide-screen version of the movie was achieved by "matting down" the original full-screen animation, essentially chopping off the top and bottom.
b.
First of three Death Wish movies that were made during the 1980s. The others were
Death Wish 3
and
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
.
c.
In an interview with Starlog magazine in 1990,
Henry Silva
said "no one was doubled" in the fight scene between him and
Frank Sinatra
.
d.
Two characters in the movie, Tom McLaren and Frank Williams, are named after successful Formula One (auto-racing) teams. The latter even has the same name as the team manager.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
Second appearance by Rick Savage as P.I. Bill Harlow, inspired by Raymond Chandlers Phillip Marlow.
b.
Episode titles: 1. The Little Monte Carlo 2. The Corsican Sisters 3. The Parasite 4. A War of Wits 5. The Millionaire Plunger 6. The Master Swindlers 7. The Rogues Nemesis 8. Sauce for the Gander 9. The Missing Millionaire 10. Unmasking a Rascal 11. The Fangs of a Tattler 12. The Disappearance of Helen Mintern 13. In the Service of the State 14. The Music Swindlers 15. Black Magic
c.
This picture was
Charles Bronson
s sixty-seventh movie.
d.
Reportedly, a number of alternate endings were written and filmed before settling on the one in the released version. One of the unused endings was to leave the viewer not entirely sure that what theyd seen was reality or yet another fantasy sequence.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
Mr. Stricklands office placard identifies him as "S.S. Strickland." While these could be his initials, it has also been speculated that it stands for "School Superintendent."
b.
Charles Bronson
worked with wife
Jill Ireland
sixteen times in filmed productions but of the five "Death Wish" movies this was the only one "Death Wish" picture that they made together.
c.
The films lead track "Shell Shock" by
Gym Class Heroes
originated as a freestyle rap performed at a concert they performed at.
d.
When Ian sits in the tent with Gina, the German poem that he recites is called "Gefunden", which means "Found". It tells of finding a little flower in the woods, which he replants in his garden and now continues to branch out and bloom. Written in 1813 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a widely recognized German writer and mathematician.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
Charles Bronson
was about sixty-one years of age when he appeared in this movie.
b.
Actress Emma Bell was the very first person to audition for Frozen. After sitting through weeks of other auditions,
Adam Green
hired her for the role as she had set the bar too high for anyone else to compete with.
c.
Doris Day
wrote in her autobiography that she hesitated before accepting the lead in this film.
Ruth Etting
was a kept woman who clawed her way up from seamy Chicago nightclubs to the Ziegfeld Follies. It would require her to drink, wear scant, sexy costumes and to string along a man she didnt love in order to further her career. There was also a certain vulgarity about
Ruth Etting
that she didnt want to play. Producer
Joe Pasternak
convinced Day to accept the role because she would give the part some dignity that would play away from the vulgarity.
d.
To keep the feel of the movie interesting, Director
John Singleton
often encouraged the actors to improvise during filming. Many of the humorous moments on screen are ad libbed.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
Prof. Len Adleman is one of the three mathematicians who invented the RSA (hes the "A") cryptosystem, currently the preeminent method of encrypting any form of data in the world. Adleman served as a mathematical consultant on the film, and spent several days constructing the slides Janek displays at the college symposium on "unbreakable codes" (which took Adleman a considerable amount of time to create using primitive early-90s computer graphics technology). In the end, director
Phil Alden Robinson
had the slides transposed as oil crayon scribbles, on account of the notion that "thats what a regular mathematician would have done". Adleman later remarked that this was indeed true and what he would have done, and would have saved him days if only hed known.
b.
Many cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names, if any):
Leyland Hodgson
(Henchman),
Beatrice Blinn
(Telephone Operator),
Lew Hicks
(Policeman),
Harry Bernard
&
Robert Dudley
(Program Men),
Helen Dickson
(Dowager),
Georgie Cooper
,
Larry Steers
and
Charles C. Wilson
.
c.
The scenes for the Eugene, Oregon, Western Regional Championships (49:10) were actually shot in Cove Creek Park, a complex of four baseball diamonds writer
John Grisham
constructed near Charlottesville, Virginia, while his son was playing in Little League there.
d.
This movie upon theatrical release was marketed with Roman Numerals to signify the number 2 i.e. Death Wish II. In time, its modern DVD releases tend to show the number two of the title as a numerical digit instead. This is then consistent with the titles
Death Wish 3
and
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
. According to the book Bronsons Loose by Paul Talbot, the original working title of the next film Death Wish III was changed to Death Wish 3 because the Cannon Group conducted a survey and found that nearly half of the U.S. population could not read Roman numerals. Interestingly, the fifth film,
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
, reverted to the use of Roman Numerals to signify the film number
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
Bob Clark
: Swede, the dim-witted neighbor, who marvels at the Leg Lamp from outside.
b.
During the cemetery shootout Banderas hides behind a fake tombstone labeled RHODES, a gag reference to
Morgan Rhodes
, a production assistant on the film.
c.
Alan Young
had performed a near-perfect Scottish accent as the voice Scrooge McDuck for the 1977 Disneyland Records adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" (which he also developed and wrote). He repeated the role of McDuck in the 1983 film adaptation, and was a natural for the Scots brogue of Hiram Flaversham. He continued as the official voice of the tightwad McDuck in a series of Disney film and television projects.
d.
This would be actress
Jill Ireland
s final film for about five years until she worked again with her husband
Charles Bronson
on
Assassination
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
Samantha Morton
was originally cast as Diane Arbus.
b.
The production shoot on this movie went for forty-four days.
c.
In the opening scene when Dana is leaving her job, the exterior is actually that of R.T.s bar and Grill- the inside of which served as Bills.
d.
Near the end of the movies theatrical run the director of a science fiction film festival contacted the distributor for a copy of the movie. According to the festivals director, there was a long pause on the other end and the person at the distributor said, "Hmm. Science fiction. Maybe if we had sold it that way..."
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
Humphrey Bogart
plays
Ann Sheridan
s kid brother in this film, even though in real life he was actually older than her by eleven years.
b.
This movie was made with a directors / production strike looming in the works and shooting was completed about two weeks before it occurred.
c.
In this movie Jack Campbells life is changed after he makes a "business deal" with Cash over a lottery ticket. In "It Could Happen To You"
Nicolas Cage
s characters life changes after a deal with a waitress involving a lottery ticket.
d.
Nicole Kidman
signed on without having read any script.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
Burt Reynolds
s Phil Potter character walks into a shower in this movie wearing his clothes, a scene evocative of the earlier movie,
Charade
. That movie was directed by
Stanley Donen
, who Reynolds worked with a few years prior to this picture, when he starred in
Lucky Lady
.
b.
In-between takes, the production crew would stage mock-fights with various prop weapons.
c.
In the last scene where Harry tears apart his apartment,
Francis Ford Coppola
stated on the commentary that he has no idea where the bug is. Two ideas he mentioned were the saxophone strap, or that there was no bug and Harry was delusional.
d.
This movie was
Charles Bronson
s second consecutive picture to feature the word Death in the title. Bronsons previous movie was
Death Hunt
. Bronson made seven movies with this word in the title, five of them being in the Death Wish franchise.
Messenger of Death
was another example. The final time would be in
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
, where the word appeared twice.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Death Wish II (1982)?
a.
This
Charles Bronson
movie was theatrically released between between his pictures
Death Hunt
and
10 to Midnight
.
b.
In reference to a scene in the movie,
Jamie Lee Curtis
and
Sigourney Weaver
actually wore the same dress to the movies premiere.
c.
Of Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, MacLaine was the accomplished dancer. All of the dance scenes featuring Bancroft consist of her striking dancer-like poses while those around her actually danced.
d.
The real
Erin Brockovich-Ellis
sold the rights to her story to Universal Studios for a reported $100,000.
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