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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fear City (1984) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fear City (1984) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Fear City (1984).
About the movie:
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fear City (1984)?
a.
The film was originally made by 20th Century-Fox, but they decided that it had too much nudity, sex, violence and drug references for them, so they sold it to the independent Aquarius Releasing.
b.
The closeup shots of Backwaters (Jeff Davis) hands during the guitar solo in "Rock & Roll All Nite" are actually the hands of the composer, Timothy Andrew Edwards, playing the solo.
c.
When Danielle is swimming in the lake, she is using the inverted breaststroke. It was popular in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and is still commonly taught as a survival stroke. In Australia, it is called the "Survival Backstroke."
d.
The dam the white lava spills over took four months to build.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fear City (1984)?
a.
The name of the killer featured in the film was never revealed, nor is the actor who played him during the end credits of the film.
b.
The idea for the film began with an expose series written for The New York Sun by reporter
Malcolm Johnson
. The 24 articles won him a Pulitzer Prize and were reinforced by the 1948 murder of a New York dock hiring boss which woke America to the killings, graft and extortion that were endemic on the New York waterfront.
Budd Schulberg
was captivated by the subject matter, devoting years of his life to absorbing everything he could about the milieu. He became a regular fixture on the waterfront, hanging out in West Side Manhattan and Long Island bars, interviewing longshore-union leaders and getting to know the outspoken priests from St Xaviers in Hells Kitchen.
c.
Star
Reginald Denny
took over direction of the picture after having original director
Fred C. Newmeyer
removed because of "creative differences".
d.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on August 27, 1951 with
Irene Dunne
reprising her film role.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fear City (1984)?
a.
His cameo appearance became the first genre film appearance for
Forrest J Ackerman
. This led to another facet of his career in which he would make numerous cameo appearances, and even do bit parts, in films for more than 40 years.
b.
Much of the movies plot is inspired by Phantom Manor, the version of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland Resort Paris. Unlike the Haunted Mansions in the other parks, Phantom Manor has a clear storyline of a bride, her lost lover, and her haunting the mansion.
c.
The film was drastically reedited before its release because of the MPAAs ratings board strict guidelines on graphic violence, language and nudity at that point in time. Which are noticeable due to the films many jump cuts in handful of scenes specifically most of the attacks on the strippers by the unnamed killer for example. Ultimately it caused Twentieth Century-Fox to sell of the film to an independent distributor for a theatrical release.
d.
Bill Murray
,
Robert Downey Jr.
and
Johnny Depp
(a huge
Douglas Adams
fan) were also considered for the part of Zaphod Beeblebrox, along with
Will Ferrell
. But after
Sam Rockwell
s audition, director
Garth Jennings
immediately chose him.
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