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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
About the movie:
A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
The college football team the Bulldogs was named in tribute to writer/director
Fred Dekker
s high school football team.
b.
Felicity Kendal
receives an "introducing" credit.
c.
One of the patients who
Tom Cruise
cancels is called Kaminsky, the name of one of the hibernating crew that HAL kills in
2001: A Space Odyssey
.
d.
One of
Martin Scorsese
s top ten favorite films of the 90s.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
In the film,
Todd Field
plays a character who dropped out of medical school ten years earlier and now plays the piano. Ten years before this film was released, Field played a pianist who dropped out of medical school in
Gross Anatomy
which starred
Matthew Modine
who played "Joker" in Kubricks
Full Metal Jacket
.
b.
Courtney Love
plays stripper Althea Flynt in this film. Before she was famous, Love was a stripper in real life too.
c.
The first of the four collaborations between
Woody Allen
and
Ingmar Bergman
s preferred cinematographer,
Sven Nykvist
.
d.
The knife used by Hallam (
Benicio Del Toro
) throughout most of the movie is a Beck Wilderness Survival Knife, designed by
Tom Brown Jr.
(a tracker/survival expert who was a technical advisor on this feature) and constructed by
David Beck
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
In order for the film to be given an R rating in America, some scenes contain computer-generated people in the foreground obscuring some of the more explicit sexual action. Although some claimed this to be a perversion of Stanley Kubricks work, Kubrick had already proposed the use of computer-generated imagery prior to his death, should the MPAA deny the movie its desired R-rating.
b.
One of the characters is watching a video by Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. The song is called "Mother North". The group agreed to
Jonas Åkerlund
using the video upon condition that he direct their next video clip "Fuel for Hatred". He shot the video in 2003.
c.
Keith Carradine
was also considered for the role of Cabren.
d.
Otto Brower
and
Osa Johnson
followed Stanleys path through Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda with their crew and returned with 100,000 feet of film for use in the safari sequences.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
Harvey Keitel
and
Jennifer Jason Leigh
originally played Victor Ziegler and Marion Nathanson. After Keitel and Leigh had shot some scenes, Keitel left the production due to his obligations to another project. His scenes needed to be re-shot, but Leigh was not available to re-shoot them (due to a scheduling conflict with
eXistenZ
). Consequently,
Sydney Pollack
and
Marie Richardson
were brought in to play the respective roles.
b.
Thanks to a few lines of dialog being added to the music/special effects track (similar to Warners
The Jazz Singer
), this was Paramounts first feature with spoken words. The studios first all-talking feature,
Interference
would be released at the end of 1928.
c.
The majority of the film was shot in Canada for budget and locale.
d.
Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945) is the one Columbia serial which was thought to perhaps be lost to the ravages of time. Over the years, there have been a number of rumors of the existence of 16mm or 35mm film prints. This serial does indeed exist, though it remains unavailable commercially. A number of recent (May 2005) IMDB updates are based on actual on screen credits.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
When Noah first controls a spider at the beach house (at 19:30), director
Robert Shaye
mentions in the commentary that Visual Effects Supervisor
Eric Durst
"got hold of the special effects house in Australia that did all of the visual effects for
Charlottes Web
- they happened to have the computer program for making spiders crawling on webs."
b.
The mask that Bill Harford wears with his costume is modeled from the face of
Ryan ONeal
, a reference to
Barry Lyndon
.
c.
In order to film the massive pileup sequence, several miles of highway had to be closed down for several days.
d.
Denis Sanders
directed the film while his brother
Terry Sanders
produced it.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
The fights that take place during the fictitious martial arts tournament that open the film, were in fact actually real and not staged.
Fred Williamson
had organized it so that the fights would look authentic and the winner of each fight got paid five hundred dollars and with the loser getting one hundred dollars.
b.
A real estate agents sign that appears briefly in shot at the end of a street carries the name Vitali. The newspaper article that Bill reads announcing the death of Mandy mentions that she was a model and that she had been involved with a designer named Leon Vitali.
Leon Vitali
is one of Kubricks longest-serving colleagues and also plays Red Cloak.
c.
During the scene featuring
Rock Hudson
and
Robert Forster
in the resorts bar, music can be heard playing in the background. The song is the theme from
Grand Theft Auto
, another New World production released the previous year.
d.
The brief snippet of "New York, New York" performed by
Queen
during the movie has never been released officially on an album or single by the group. It wasnt included on the official soundtrack either. The soundtrack was released and then deleted, and re-released in 2003 as a numbered limited edition.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
According to writer
Frederic Raphael
, the final form of Bills family name (Harford, as opposed to Scheuer in the original story) was inspired by a debate about Bills character. Raphael felt Bill should be Jewish as in the original, but
Stanley Kubrick
insisted Bill and Alice be "vanilla" Americans, without any details that would arouse any presumptions. Kubrick said that Bill should be a bit like
Harrison Ford
- hence the name Harford. Ironically, Ford himself is Jewish on his mothers side.
b.
Billie Frechette (real name Mary Evelyn Frechette) was actually married to one Welton Spark at the time of her relationship with
John Dillinger
. She married Spark in July 1932. He was convicted shortly thereafter for mail theft and received a 15-year term in Leavenworth, with a transfer to Alcatraz in September 1934. Her divorce from Spark wasnt finalized until the early 40s. She later married a man named Wally Wilson, the name she took to the grave. Wilson died unexpectedly, cause unknown, date unknown. Billie married Art Tic in 1965, a state game warden and barber from Shawano, Wisconsin. She died January 13, 1969, of mouth cancer. Mysteriously, her grave marker lists her name as Evelyn Tic (apparently against her wishes) and has the incorrect date of death as 1970.
c.
According to
Francis Ford Coppola
in his "Cigar Aficionado" magazine interview, he had a meeting at his home in 1969 with producers
Albert S. Ruddy
and
Gray Frederickson
to discuss
The Conversation
. He had sent the script to
Marlon Brando
who called him during the meeting to politely turn it down. Right before the meeting, Coppola took note of a newspaper advertisement for an upcoming novel titled "The Godfather" by
Mario Puzo
. Just a few months later, all five people would meet to discuss a film version of the novel.
d.
Rumors that
Andy Williams
dubbed
Lauren Bacall
s singing voice are untrue. Both director
Howard Hawks
and Bacall confirm that she did her own singing.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
This film contains in-joke references to almost all of
Stanley Kubrick
s films, including his first feature
Fear and Desire
. At one point we see a scene from
Blume in Love
on a TV set. "Blume" was directed by
Paul Mazursky
, who made his acting debut in
Fear and Desire
.
b.
Quite a number of actors who appeared in the original
Get Smart
TV series did not appear in this movie even though many were still alive. Some of them appeared in later Get Smart movies such as Agent 99
Barbara Feldon
in
Get Smart, Again!
and Siegfried
Bernie Kopell
in
Get Smart
.
c.
The censored version of "Asses Of Fire" is only 1 minute long.
d.
At the end of the film, when Freddy and Gary are bringing in Murray Babitch to the NYC authorities, there is one shot of Moe Tilden coming out of a building. In this one shot, his mustache is noticeably longer. Director
James Mangold
wanted to get a shot of
Robert De Niro
s character walking out of the building. De Niro had already completed his scenes and was already working on another film,
Jackie Brown
. De Niro agreed to return and appear in the shot, but could not trim his longer mustache as it was required for his character, Louis Gara, in
Jackie Brown
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
An unusual bonus on the DVD is an optional audio track that features *only* the sound effects (no dialogue or music), in 5.1 surround.
b.
Lon Chaney
was originally cast in the role of Butch Schmidt. But due to his untimely illness, the role was given to
Wallace Beery
.
c.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)_ is a spoof of horror movies. This film is a spoof of television shows.
d.
Melissa Joan Hart
auditioned for a role in this movie.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?
a.
The password "fidelio" (from the Latin root "fidelis" meaning "faithful") refers to
Ludwig van Beethoven
s only opera, "Fidelio". In the opera, Fidelio is a woman who disguises herself as a man to save her lover.
b.
Johnny Depp
agreed to be in the film on the condition that
Marlon Brando
was cast in the psychiatrists role.
c.
During production of the chase scene, the fuel cell (a small gas canister for stunt driving to reduce chance of explosion) for the Taxi didnt arrive on time. The stunt proceeded despite this, and the gas tank caught fire from sparks generated by the wheel rims scraping the pavement. The stunt driver fled from the flaming car, the fire was doused, and the film was briefly halted from production.
d.
Wade Williams
had acquired the rights to
Invaders from Mars
. For the remake rights, Williams received over 50 times the amount he had paid. Williams had already made a very handsome profit from the original film from television, cable and video releases.
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