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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fade to Black (1980) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fade to Black (1980) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980).
About the movie:
A shy, lonely, film geek goes on a killing spree against those who bully and browbeat him, while at the same time, he stalks his idol; a Marilyn Monroe look-alike.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
Linda Kerridge
s Marilyn OConnor character in this movie is meant to resemble
Marilyn Monroe
and even shares her first name.
b.
Willards mother tells him she should have given him a better name. The meaning of Willard is "Will Brave", the opposite of Willards skittish demeanor. The name she tries to give him, Clark (i.e. Clerk) is Willards occupation at Martin-Stiles.
c.
Sondra Locke
s character introduces herself as Lynn Halsey-Taylor from Warren, Ohio, a reference to the famous distributor of drinking fountains.
d.
Originally, the script was to center around Tom and Michael. Tom was going to be an informant. When
Robert Duvall
got the script he realized his character was the second lead, yet the studio was offering the same amount of money as he received for the last film (around 1/9th the money all the other principals received). Duvall counteroffered through
Francis Ford Coppola
to Paramount. Paramount denied offering more money and told Coppola to re-write the script without Tom. This version was the only one to feature Michael dying in a car accident at the end of the film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
Was the #1 movie in the country the week it was released.
b.
Chris Stein
of Blondie was the original choice to compose the soundtrack but his deal was canceled.
c.
The name of the Senator, "Francis Mohan," is an anagram for Executive Producer Aron Schifman.
d.
The word Schmendrick (the name of the inept magician voiced by
Alan Arkin
) is based on the Yiddish slang word "schlemiel", which means "unlucky bungler".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
Vanessa Lengies
turned down the role in
The Grudge 2
to do this film. Teresa Palmer replaced her.
b.
Pivotal scenes that take place in the woods are tinted blue, same as the woods scenes in
Heathers
. In one scene Wichita says, "If you ever find yourself turning into one of those, eat some Drano." In
Heathers
, Heather Chandler died from drinking Drano.
c.
Ben Tramer, who gets killed, is a reference to
John Carpenter
s friend
Bennett Tramer
. They went to USC (University of Southern California) as Tramer wrote episodes for "Saved By the Bell" (1989).
d.
Characters from film history that Eric Binford (
Dennis Christopher
) in this movie impersonates or dresses-up as include Dracula (
Bela Lugosi
), Hopalong Cassidy (
William Boyd
), The Mummy (
Boris Karloff
), Norman Bates (
Anthony Perkins
) from
Psycho
,
Arthur Cody Jarrett
(
James Cagney
) from
White Heat
and Tommy Udo (
Richard Widmark
) from
Kiss of Death
).
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
Charles Hutchison
came up with the story while recuperating from a dislocated elbow he sustained during filming for a version of The Fortieth Door which was never completed.
b.
The Joker make-up was composed of three pieces of stamped silicone, which took less than an hour to apply to
Heath Ledger
on each day of shooting. Ledger described it as "new technology which is much quicker to apply than regular prosthetics"; he felt he was not wearing any make-up at all.
c.
Second theatrical feature for
Mickey Rourke
.
d.
The films budget was raised from pawn shops and crew members pockets (around $50,000).
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
The scream that was used after
Chris Rock
says, "Security," was actually done by
Adam Sandler
.
b.
Captain Barbossa can be seen wearing an Eagle Scout ring in several sequences. This ring signifies that some one in Boy Scouts has earned the highest rank known as Eagle.
c.
Final feature film to date for director
Vernon Zimmerman
.
d.
Producer/director/co-writer
F.W. Murnau
died in a car accident a few days after starting work on the music for this film. The film had its New York premiere a week later.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
This movie ended up being director
Vernon Zimmerman
s final film for fifteen years until he directed the short
Chuck and Wally on the Road
.
b.
Released on a double bill with
The Mummys Curse
.
c.
The picture of the boy in the spinning newspaper that has the headline, "Boy Trapped In Refrigerator Eats Own Foot", is Billy Koch, the grandson of producer
Howard W. Koch
. His grandfather called him up one day and asked him for a photo of himself, so Billy grabbed his second grade school photo. It was only after the film came out that he found out why his grandfather wanted the photo.
d.
With the exception of
Darris Love
, all of the lead actors in this movie were former gang members from Watts and South-Central Los Angeles.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
Robert Duvall
s first movie.
b.
The meaning and relevance of this movies Fade to Black title is that as the films central character is an obsessed psycho fanatical movie buff, the title references a film industry term that relates to a fade-out editing transition but plays on the meaning of the word "black" here by inferring instead darkness and the dark side and evil and horror.
c.
The music that plays when the Alien Queen appears as Ripley and Newt wait for the elevator is a reused piece from
Jerry Goldsmith
s score for the original
Alien
. Thematically, the music appears in both movies at the same time: near the end, as Ripley tries to escape from an alien while the environment around her counts down to self-destruction (the Nostromo in
Alien
, and the atmosphere processor in
Aliens
).
d.
When Chiron (
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
) and Demetrius (
Matthew Rhys
) dress as Rape and Murder, Titus grabs Rape and begins to grind up against him. Actor Jonathan Rhys Myers had no idea that Hopkins was going to do this, and his reaction in the film is completely genuine.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
Method Man
was nervous about saying "titties" in front of
Natalie Portman
.
b.
This film about a psycho movie buff has lots of references to characters from film history and the movies themselves. Of the latter, the following are referred to in this movie:
Creature from the Black Lagoon
;
Mark of the Vampire
;
White Heat
;
The Public Enemy
,
Dracula
,
Night of the Living Dead
; Kiss of Death (1947)_ and
Halloween
.
c.
Final film of
Sylvia Breamer
.
d.
The song that plays over Mr. Gray and Lee at the end of the movie is "Chariots Rise" by Lizzie West. The original lyric is "What a fool am I, to fall so in love," but the director did not want to imply that Lee was being foolish, and asked if it could be altered. Because she wanted the song to be in the movie, Lizzie West re-recorded the line as "What grace have I, to fall so in love."
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
Greta Garbo
originally wanted
Gary Cooper
as her leading man in "Romance". In the end, however, MGM could not borrow Cooper from Paramount, so Garbo settled for the unknown
Gavin Gordon
. Cooper would come to MGM two years later for the Joan Crawford vehicle
Today We Live
.
b.
This was
Dennis Christopher
s first movie role after the Academy Award (Oscar) winning film
Breaking Away
.
c.
Trevor Maskell
was favored for the role of Wilke.
d.
Mr. Incredibles civilian name was originally to be Bob Smith.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fade to Black (1980)?
a.
Time Out called this movie a "darker cousin of
Billy Liar
".
b.
The bar scene was filmed during regular hours and patrons were used as extras. This of course made things harder on the crew as unexpected noise from entering customers often brought the shooting to an abrupt halt.
c.
The opening title exactly duplicates the original
Howard Hawks
film. To create the effect of the title, an animation cell with "The Thing" written on it was placed behind a fish tank filled with smoke that was covered with a plastic garbage bag. The garbage bag was ignited, creating the effect of the title burning onto the screen.
d.
The cocaine in the film is either powdered milk or L-Glutamine, an amino acid generally used for muscle recovery. All of which the actors actually snorted.
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