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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Edward Scissorhands (1990) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Edward Scissorhands (1990) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990).
About the movie:
An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
Bill Pullman
acted alongside a jaguar, a viper and a tarantula during the course of film. However all the animals were raised in captivity and were relatively tame.
b.
Feature-film debut of commercial director
Michael Karbelnikoff
, who replaced
Luis Mandoki
after Mandoki dropped out of the project.
c.
Gregory Peck
, an activist liberal Democrat who strongly opposed blacklisting, later said that turning down this film was the biggest regret of his career, although he modestly added that he didnt think he could have played the lead character as well as
Gary Cooper
did.
d.
This was
Vincent Price
s last screen appearance and his last moment ever on screen is a death scene.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
When Mata Bond swings into action, the background music is "Bond Street" also scored by this films composer,
Burt Bacharach
. The real Bond Street can be seen in the later James Bond movie,
Octopussy
.
b.
Johnny Depp
said only 169 words in this film.
c.
This was the second time in two years that the films distributor Lions Gate found itself in trouble with the MPAA over one of their films. In 1999, they had run afoul of the censors with
Dogma
which was deemed to be blasphemous.
d.
Alice Walker
(author of the novel) may have had doubts about
Steven Spielberg
directing, but was at least partially convinced when she saw
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
. After seeing the film, she felt that E.T. was treated like "a person of color".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
The working title of the film was The Living Dead.
b.
Thomas Bo Larsen
:
Thomas Vinterberg
s mascot appears as a customer in Mr. Salomons shop.
c.
Some of the topiary that Edward makes in the movie can be seen permanently at the New York City restaurant Tavern On the Green.
d.
Is inspired by events in the life of
Elisabeth Shue
while growing up (in the same town where the movie was filmed), who played soccer with the boys for as long as she could before turning her focus to gymnastics.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
The first draft of the film was written as a musical.
b.
Concerned about the publics reaction, the disturbing subplot about Father Barretts incestuous designs on his daughter was toned down by the studio. However,
Charles Laughton
famously remarked that they couldnt censor the "gleam" in his eye.
c.
Marina Zudina
did not speak English at the time, but as her character was mute anyway, she could still pose for an American.
d.
The character of Brother Stogumber is given some lines that were originally spoken by the Chaplain in the play.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
Having trained in a diving center to prepare for his role,
Richard Roxburgh
claimed that the hardest thing to master was the rebreather, which he described as "fantastic in theory, but a torture in real life".
b.
Willem Dafoe
attended a criminal trial to prepare for his role. The trial was interrupted when several people in the courtroom, including the judge and many jurors, recognized him and wanted to talk to him.
c.
The girl in the vampire gift shop is wearing a tank top featuring
Phil Campbell
of Motorhead, the band that recorded
Paul Levesque
s (aka "Triple H", who plays Jarko Grimwood) theme music for the WWE.
d.
The houses used in the film were a real community in Florida, completely unchanged except for their garish exterior paint.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
The idea for the movie was inspired by a drawing
Tim Burton
had done when he was a teenager.
b.
Filmed in three weeks.
c.
Other actors considered for the role of FBI Agent Jake Kelly were Ethan Hawke, Matt Dillon, Ioan Gruffund, Scott Speedman, Jeremy Renner, and Ethan Embry.
d.
The producers wanted
Elizabeth Taylor
to reprise her role as Velvet Brown.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
After the movie was finished,
Laurence Olivier
went to New York for a short time, and had dinner in a restaurant with friends. During the dinner, he recalled to his friends something he said about the movie while Furie was still directing: "This piss is shit." Olivier later said a reporter must have been at the table next to his, because the next day the New York Daily News reported what he said (though with both vulgar words changed to cleaner derogatory words.) This news soon spread completely across the country, and with threats of lawsuits in the air, Olivier quickly made a statement to the press claiming that in the end the movie had been made well and that he totally supported it. Olivier also wrote a handwritten ten-page letter to
Richard Fleischer
, not only apologizing for the restaurant incident, but also indirectly giving an explanation as to why he was making so many movies strictly for the money.
b.
Johnny Depp
had to lose a reported 25 pounds for the role of Edward Scissorhands.
c.
"Tilly the Toiler" was originally a comic strip, created by
Russ Westover
.
d.
Tony Shalhoub
played Jack Jeebs in this film, a few episodes of
Men in Black: The Series
and in
Men in Black II
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
When Edward goes to have his hands sharpened, the storefront was that of an actual hardware store called Crowder Brothers in Southgate Shopping Center. At the time of the filming, they did offer a sharpening service, and they did have a giant motorized Victorinox in the window.
b.
The movies original poster was deemed too explicit by the MPAA and was banned in the US, because it suggested the characters on the posters are engaging in oral sex. It featured two separate images of
Seth Rogen
and
Elizabeth Banks
, who are fully clothed, and the back of the actors heads close to each others crotch.
c.
When Brians BMW stopped in front of the house, Director/Cinematographer Christopher OBrien placed a rock on the street. If the car passed that rock, he would jump with out of the way with the camera. It didnt and he got the shot.
d.
Warren Beatty
was described by writing partner
Jeremy Pikser
and biographer
Peter Biskind
as so insecure about his script that he went to former collaborator
Elaine May
with the script. She told him it wasnt any good but Beatty suspected that because May was writing the script to a rival political satire,
Primary Colors
that she was looking out for her own interests.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
In the second draft of
Ted Tally
s screenplay, the names of three characters had to be changed from
Thomas Harris
s novel for legal reasons. "Jack Crawford" became "Ray Campbell"; "Frederick Chilton" became "Herbert Prentiss"; and, finally, "Hannibal Lecter" became "Gideon Quinn".
b.
The Southgate Shopping Center is located in Lakeland, FL while the neighborhood was filmed at the Carpenters Run subdivision in Lutz, FL.
c.
The sequence where the PBR gets attacked with spears exactly mirrors the attack on the jungle boat in the novel "Heart of Darkness". Both captains are killed with a spear.
d.
The original idea was to have the film set on Eternia throughout and be much more faithful to the cartoon, but since the first draft the script was written to have it set on earth and reduce the amount of sets, and strange characters they would need to create.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
a.
For her role as the religious zealot Esmeralda,
O-Lan Jones
also arranged and actually played the organ music her character performs on-screen.
b.
The ending and the final scene in Muffys room were filmed three or four months after principal filming ended which explains the different hairstyles for
Deborah Foreman
and
Leah Pinsent
whom appear in the scene.
c.
Dr. Venkman teases Dr. Spengler about his lab assistant and Dr. Spengler responds "I think shes more interested in my epididymis". The Epididymis are the small tubes that connect the vas deferens to the testes.
d.
The mayor who presents the award at the end of the film is played by the real mayor of Atlantic City, James Whelan.
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