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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Greed (1924) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Greed (1924) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924).
About the movie:
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
The porn magazine that Dean hides under his mattress features
Chris Steele
on the cover.
b.
Real locations in San Francisco and Oakland were used, even for interiors. The house depicted in the film, however, is not actually located on Polk street, as it is in the story. Much of Polk street had been remodeled around the time Stroheim took his company to San Francisco, and he decided that it looked too modern for the film. The company selected a building on the corner of Hayes and Laguna and completely took it over. The building still stands.
c.
The song "Hand Me Down That Can of Beans" was performed by the
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
, who were also extras in the movie. The band is most famous for singing "Mr. Bojangles".
d.
Released theatrically in South Korea.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
Included among the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
b.
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. Television prints were entirely in black and white.
c.
Marjorie Graham, a former roommate of
Elizabeth Short
(see above), was originally a character in the screenplay. She was written into one scene, occurring right after the Sherryl Saddons scene, in which she insinuates that Elizabeth Short and Lorna Mertz were consorting with a lesbian. This scene was written out, and Sherryl performs this function in the final film.
d.
The first Sherlock Holmes film to reach U.S. movie theaters in over twenty years, since the 1988 comedy
Without a Clue
with
Michael Caine
as Reginald Kincaid/"Sherlock Holmes".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
Raul Julia
was cast as Bucho, but pulled out due to declining health.
b.
With the light starting to fail and a public holiday looming,
Ridley Scott
had roughly 45 minutes to get the final scene just right.
c.
Code names for the "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad": Black Mamba (
Uma Thurman
s characters code name) is the only snake that is not indigenous to North America compared to the Sidewinder, Cottonmouth, Copperhead, and California Mountain Kingsnake. Also the California Mountain Kingsnake is the only one out of the code names that is non poisonous as there are only four types of snakes in North America that are poisonous: These types are Rattlesnake 10 species including the Sidewinder, Cottonmouth Moccasin, Copperhead and Coral Snake (2 species).
d.
This film features one of the earliest uses of a hidden camera in film-making. In the scene where
Zasu Pitts
leaves the junk shop after discovering the dead body she rushes into a real street and into real passers-by who were unaware they were being filmed. A crowd gathered, police turned up to the scene and it is said that a reporter called in the murder to his editor. This coincides with
Dziga Vertov
s _Kino-Eye (1924)_ which also used hidden camera techniques for the first time.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
The story was inspired by the article "Resurrecting the Champ" by
J.R. Moehringer
which appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine in 1997; although the article indeed purportedly focused on Bob Satterfield, there are various other differences with the true story. Moehringer had no children, and his father was not well-known though he did abandon his family when the writer was an infant.
b.
The poems quoted during Willis Grinnels two poker parties are
William Blake
s "Auguries of Innocence" and
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
s "My Lost Youth", respectively.
c.
The book on which the film is based originally ran as a weekly feature in the New Yorker Magazine in 1942. For the film many of the actions attributed to Tootie were actually done in real life by
Sally Benson
s sister Agnes. Also in reality, Bensons father moved the family to NYC and they never did come back for the Worlds Fair.
d.
Took two years to shoot.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
Renny Harlin
is in the movie as a crew member for two different teams. He is first seen as a PacWest/Motorola crew member who gets out of the Motorola car so that Jimmy Bly can demonstrate that he can get out of the car in 5 seconds. Harlin is then seen in a Bettenhausen/Herdez uniform taking his real life son Lukas to a playground.
b.
The original script called for the Penguins to play the L.A. Kings.
c.
Lyles girlfriend at the end of the movie is played by
Kelly Brook
,
Jason Statham
s actual girlfriend at the time of the movie.
d.
While doing research for the Eric von Stroheim documentary
The Man You Loved to Hate
, filmmaker
Kim Eveleth
discovered a previously unknown cache of stills from the cut scenes of the directors aborted masterpiece "Greed", thus paving the way for the eventual restoration of the silent screen classic.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
Harmony Korine
s directorial debut.
b.
Melissa Leo
told
David O. Russell
that she was too young to play the mother of
Christian Bale
and
Mark Wahlberg
s characters. Leo is 11 years Wahlbergs senior and 14 years Bales senior.
c.
According to a newsreel produced by the CV (Cornelius Vanderbilt) News Service, the production utilized a crew of thirty-nine men and one woman while filming in Death Valley.
d.
Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names):
Charles Lane
(Stage manager),
Billy Watson
(Newsboy) and
Fuzzy Knight
(Pianist).
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
The cast of the English language version can be glimpsed in uncredited cameo appearances in the German version, and vice versa.
b.
The song that Gallagher hums (that he learned from his grandfather) is "19th Nervous Breakdown" by
The Rolling Stones
, released in February, 1966.
c.
The only US Nuclear submarine with the hull number 623 was the SSBN Nathan Hale, a ballistic missile submarine.
d.
Due to the heat in Death Valley the cameras had to be wrapped in iced towels.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
When Jake Sully is ready to choose a woman, Neytiri tells him about the women in the tribe, starting with "Ninat is a great singer". One of Israels leading pop singers (
Ninette Tayeb
) is called Ninet.
b.
Irving Thalberg
envisioned casting only Chinese actors for the movie, but gave up the idea because there were not enough suitable Chinese actors.
c.
The original working title for the film was "Teenage Mutant Horror Comet Zombies".
d.
The first film to be shot in its entirety on location.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
Pelléas and Mélisande are the title characters in a Symbolist play (by Maurice Maeterlinck and was first performed in 1893.
b.
The filming of Cleopatras entrance into Rome was delayed for months due to lighting problems resulting in the recasting of the American child actor who was playing her four-year-old son with an Italian child (complete with accent) as the original boy had grown taller during the long delay.
c.
The paintings of
Salvador Dalí
were a significant influence upon the creature designs of
Screaming Mad George
.
d.
Erich von Stroheim
: as a balloon vendor (although only in a deleted sequence). McTeague and Trina buy balloons from the vendor on the street.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Greed (1924)?
a.
In the scene where King (
George Segal
) and his inner circle of fellow prisoners are cooking the dog, the actors (other than Segal) were not told what they were supposed to be eating in the scene. Their reactions are authentic and ad libbed.
b.
While filming the final confrontation in the desert,
Erich von Stroheim
allegedly shouted several times at actors
Gibson Gowland
and
Jean Hersholt
"Hate each other! Hate each other as much as you hate me!"
c.
The car Jim drives is an Oldsmobile 442.
d.
In the scene where Jesus healed the Gerasene demoniac by casting the demon into the pigs, the only way the crew could get the pigs to act crazed was to light firecrackers and frighten them. However, this is one of the few scenes which is not entirely accurate to St. Lukes Gospel, which states that the pigs did not just run away but also threw themselves into a lake, and drowned.
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