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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Goodfellas (1990) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Goodfellas (1990) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990).
About the movie:
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
Many extras in the movie are Freehold residents.
b.
Anne Boleyn was hardly the quickly discarded failure that she is portrayed as. She had over 250 personal servants, and a reputation as a lavish spender. Several important people were executed because they didnt like her.
c.
Al Pacino
was offered the role of Jimmy Conway but he turned it down due to fears of typecasting. Ironically, that same year Pacino ended up playing a gangster - Big Boy Caprice in
Warren Beatty
s
Dick Tracy
. He admits he regrets this decision.
d.
Years before work on this film began,
Christopher Guest
wrote down the words "catalog people" on a piece of paper. That simple idea eventually became
Parker Posey
and
Michael Hitchcock
s characters in this film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
The movies line "Heres looking at you, kid" was voted as the #5 movie quote by the American Film Institute
b.
Shortly after this film released, a young woman named
Elizabeth Short
was murdered in Los Angeles. The local newspapers dubbed the case the "Black Dahlia" as a morbid twist on this films title. Unlike the movie, the Short murder case is still unsolved.
c.
The movies line "How am I funny?" was voted as the #87 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
d.
The shot where the camera quickly zooms in on the couple was actually done in reverse. A camera was attached to a truck and driven in reverse, starting from the couple until they cant be seen anymore.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
Joe Pesci
s Oscar acceptance speech is the third shortest in the Academys history. All Pesci said was "This is an honor and a privilege, thank you", later admitting that he didnt say very much because he genuinely felt that he didnt have a chance of winning. (The shortest acceptance speeches are "Thank you", made by
William Holden
in 1954 when he won Best Actor for
Stalag 17
and "Thanks", which was all that
Alfred Hitchcock
said when he won an Honorary Oscar in 1968.)
b.
Jim Keith retired in 1986 after 35 years as a coach and social studies teacher, but still coaches part time.
c.
Two weeks after the end of shooting many of the locations were submerged by Hurricane Ivan.
d.
This marks Caitlyn Capriettes first speaking role.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
The opening credits were created by a collaboration between title design company The Picture Mill and special effects company ComputerCafe. It took them one year to complete.
b.
Orson Welles
least favourite film of his own.
c.
Originally Scorsese planned to make this before
The Last Temptation of Christ
. When funding for the religious film finally materialized, he decided to postpone "Wiseguy", the films working title.
d.
In the scene where Severen and Jesse torch the motor home, Severen asks Jesse if he had remembered about a "fire that they had started in Chicago". It refers to the great fire in the Midwest/Chicago in 1871 that left more than 100,000 people homeless and destroyed businesses. The fire still remains a mystery to this day.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
The complete names of the characters in motel are: Edward Ed Dakota Samuel Rhodes Paris Nevada George York Alice York Timmy York Larry Washington Caroline Suzanne Virginia "Ginny" Isiana Lou Isiana Robert Maine
b.
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #92 Greatest Movie of All Time.
c.
This movie was
Charles Chaplin
s biggest-ever box-office hit, grossing about $US 5 million at the time.
d.
Chapter Titles: 1. Desert Intrigue, 2. Deaths Chariot, 3. Devils Crucible, 4. Ascending Doom, 5. Fatal Second, 6. Human Sacrifice, 7. Monsters Clutch, 8. Tuareg Vengeance, 9. Burned Alive, 10. Treacherous Trail, 11. Unknown Peril, 12. Underground Tornado, 13. Thundering Death, 14. Blazing Barrier, 15. Satans Fury
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
WINNER - Best Lead Actor (Roger Gutierrez) - SENE Film, Music and Arts Festival
b.
Gary Cole
s line is dubbed over with another actors voice.
c.
On a fellow actors advice,
Kate Winslet
drank 3 vodka-and-tonics for a scene involving her being drunk.
d.
Ranked #2 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Gangster" in June 2008
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
Loosely based on the case of American serial killer Joseph Kallinger who murdered three people and tortured four families. He committed these crimes with his 13-year-old son Michael between 1974-1975 in New Jersey. Kallinger pleaded insanity, claiming God had told him to kill.
b.
Mary Astor
wrote in her memoirs that Edith Cortright was her favorite role, also reflecting that she channeled her struggle of her public divorce into her role: "When I went into court and faced the bedlam...that would have broken me up completely, I kept the little pot boiling that was Edith Cortright."
c.
The now-legendary Steadicam trip through the nightclub kitchen was a happy accident. Scorsese had been denied permission to go through the front, and had to improvise an alternative.
d.
Janet Leigh
s singing voice was dubbed by
Jackie Ward
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
Although Scorsese and Pileggi collaborated on the screenplay (and received Oscar nominations for doing so), much of the films eventual dialog was improvised by the actors.
b.
The innovative use of the hand-held camera was largely down to the fact that the films meager budget didnt stretch to laying down lots of tracks for all the tracking shots.
c.
In Selinas apartment, her neon sign read "Hello There". But after she trashed her apartment, she knocked out the "O" in "Hello" and the "T" in "There", which caused the sign to read "Hell Here".
d.
This film was shot in fifteen days.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
The studio was initially very nervous about the film due to its extreme violence and language. The film reportedly received the worst preview response in the studios history. Scorsese said that "the numbers were so low it was funny". Nevertheless the film was released without alteration to overwhelming critical acclaim, cementing Scorseses reputation as Americas foremost film-maker.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 22, 1947 with
Maureen OHara
,
Edmund Gwenn
,
John Payne
and
Natalie Wood
reprising their film roles.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
d.
Shortly before the opening assassination attempt on the US president, a number of portraits of past assassinated presidents are featured in the background:
Abraham Lincoln
,
John F. Kennedy
and
William McKinley
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Goodfellas (1990)?
a.
The fifty-seventh of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.
b.
The motorcycle that Leo rides at the end of the movie is a 1997 Yamaha XT225.
c.
Ray Liotta
turned down the part of Harvey Dent in
Batman
in order to make
Goodfellas
.
d.
Due to a conflict in schedule the original Night Crawler was made into a minor character and the gas-mask version of Night Crawler was then written into the script.
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