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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Harlem Nights (1989) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Harlem Nights (1989) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Harlem Nights (1989).
About the movie:
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Harlem Nights (1989)?
a.
Billy Crystals first live-action movie role in 8 years, since
Analyze That
.
b.
Denholm Elliott
was cut out of the final print.
c.
On the opening date of this film, at the "Americana 8", a theater in Southfield, Michigan (on the border of Detroit), a patron shot and wounded two people inside the theater, before being killed by police officers in the parking lot. This led to the first ever movie theater in the world to install permanent metal detectors, which passing through were required for entry.
d.
Unlike the bulk of the cast,
Craig Sheffer
and
Tom Nolan
were hired for their acting abilities and had to lip-sync to prerecorded songs.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Harlem Nights (1989)?
a.
Steve Reeves
was also considered and DeMille lobbied long and hard to get the studio to pick up Reeves, but both DeMille and the studio wanted Reeves to tone down his physique, which Reeves, still young and new to the industry, ultimately refused to do.
b.
Famous as a child star, this movie is one of the four theatrically released films starring
Rick Schroeder
that are synonymous with his era as a child star when Schroeder came to prominence around 1979-1980. The other movies were
The Champ
,
The Last Flight of Noahs Ark
and
Little Lord Fauntleroy
.
c.
This film was made because
Eddie Murphy
always wanted to direct and act in a period piece.
d.
The entire film was shot in about 3 hours with no scripted dialogue. Adding additional challenges, the actors were not aware of all of the plot points, compelling them to remain in character in surprise situations.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Harlem Nights (1989)?
a.
In a June 2008 interview with The Guardian,
Abel Ferrara
, who directed and co-wrote the original
Bad Lieutenant
, said that finding out his movie was being remade was "a horrible feeling", "like when you get robbed", and that those involved in this remake "should all die in hell". He also wondered how
Nicolas Cage
"can even have the nerve to play
Harvey Keitel
", and called screenwriter
William M. Finkelstein
an idiot.
b.
"Harlem Nights" was also the working title for
Ralph Bakshi
s film,
Coonskin
. Both films feature the crime racket in Harlem as a plot point. Star
Richard Pryor
was also believed to be a fan of "Coonskin."
c.
Only an abbreviated four reel version, released to the 16mm home movie market in the 1960s, seems to have survived.
d.
Feature film debut of
Christopher Reeve
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Harlem Nights (1989)?
a.
John Sayles
wrote a semi-sequel to
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
called Night Skies, about a group of hostile aliens that come to Earth and lay siege to an isolated farmhouse where a terrified family has barricaded itself inside. Spielberg decided not to go ahead with the rather dark project, but a subplot about the relationship between the lone good alien and an autistic boy inspired him to redevelop the concept as E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial".
b.
Stephen Sinclair
s screenplay credit stems from when the film was being proposed to Miramax as a two-parter.
c.
Some of the camera crew would wear plastic sheeting during the filming of some of the more gorier scenes, due to the amount of fake blood flying around.
d.
By his own admission,
Eddie Murphy
felt that he didnt dedicate enough thought or care to the directing of his debut. He was more concerned at the time with figuring out where the next party was going to be.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Harlem Nights (1989)?
a.
An unnamed actress in the film sued
Eddie Murphy
for $75 million for alleged sexual harassment. The suit was unsuccessful.
b.
Whenever RJ is searching through his bag, he occasionally tosses out (among other things) an audio CD. Looking close in multiple shots, you can see its a
John Tesh
CD which apparently sold for 10 cents.
c.
When Chon Wang and Roy are entering the Jubilee party, the string quartet plays a uncredited baroque version of the Rolling Stones "Paint it Black" (just before the piece by Boccherini).
d.
All the lead characters in this movie are played by actors with a different nationality to that of their character. The British soldier Corporal John Bramble is played by American
Franchot Tone
; German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is played by Austrian-born
Erich von Stroheim
; the Egyptian hotel owner was played by Georgian Russian actor
Akim Tamiroff
; whilst the French chambermaid Mouche is played by American
Anne Baxter
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Harlem Nights (1989)?
a.
When it came time to film inside the boat, it was discovered that the large 65mm cameras wouldnt fit. The boat had to be taken out of the pond, cut in half lengthwise, and placed in an Italian sound stage. The oars wouldnt fit in the sound stage, so they had to cut them off just beyond the hull. This resulted in an extremely light oars which, when rowed by the actors, didnt look believable, since you could move them with one hand. To solve the problem,
Mauro Zambuto
sent an army of production assistants to all of the hardware stores in Rome to buy the kind of spring-and-hydraulic piston mechanisms that are normally attached to doors to force them closed but to keep them from slamming. Placing these devices on the oars and the hull gave enough resistance to make the rowing scenes look realistic.
b.
Rachel McAdams
turned down
Michelle Monaghan
s role.
c.
First starring role in a theatrical feature for
Wings Hauser
.
d.
The word "fuck" and its derivatives are said 133 times.
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