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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

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About the movie: Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		In earlier drafts of the script, the song Esther sings and hums throughout is "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" by Doris Day.
b.		In Frances Marions original script, the characters played by Leila Hyams and Robert Montgomery were husband and wife. After the film flopped in a preview screening, MGM studio executive Irving Thalberg decided that the problem was that audiences, especially women, didnt want to see the Chester Morris character have an affair with a married woman. So the script was rewritten to make Montgomery and Hyams brother and sister. Scenes were reshot and the film, in its modified form, became a major hit.
c.		Joe Spinell also worked as a dialogue director on the set. He dubbed his own voice using a different accent to hide his distinctive New York accent.
d.		Norman Jewison managed only two takes of "The Temple". Thanks to Ted Neeleys more thorough than expected ransacking of the set, they ran out of unbroken props after only those two takes.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		"Deep Canvas": The brand-new technique created by Disney for use in Tarzan, which allows 2D hand-drawn characters to exist seamlessly in a fully 3D environment.
b.		Fellini had to re-shoot parts of this movie, including the elaborate Venice carnival scene, when several reels of film were stolen at the Technicolor labs of Tiburtino, Rome, in August 17, 1975. The thieves were apparently interested at Pier Paolo Pasolinis Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, and some reels of this film were also stolen, along with half of Damiano Damianis spaghetti western Un genio, due compari, un pollo (1975)_. Apart from the re-shoots, this theft also forced Fellini to abandon a sequence featuring Barbara Steele. The negatives were never found.
c.		Director Norman Jewison can be heard as the voice of the third man at Peters Denial ("But I saw you too / He looked just like you").
d.		A gold-painted statue of Buddha, which was part of a set for this film, is now in the Italianate village of Portmeirion, North Wales.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		4-Track Magnetic Stereo was prominently advertised in the initial release.
b.		In an interview with Moviefone, Christian Bale said that he became interested in playing Batman after a friend of his loaned him the graphic novel "Arkham Asylum" (by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean) in 2000. After he read it, he told his agent that if anyone was making another Batman movie, he wanted in.
c.		Eugène Lourié encountered a problem when shooting the miniatures with the large-format cameras. At the higher frame rates, the mechanisms of the Super Panavision camera would overheat. According to Lourié, each night one or two of the cameras would have to be repaired. Because of this problem, he was limited to a maximum frame rate of only 72 frames per second.
d.		Near the movies beginning, its amusing to see character actor James Westerfield, playing Big Mac, calling out names of men selected to work, and paying tribute to himself by yelling, "Westerfield."

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		The Marine Corps had planned to use this film to promote its "Toys for Tots" campaign, but, upon viewing, decided not to because of the language.
b.		Actors were required to "hydrate" every twenty minutes while on location in the desert. Huge, "multicolored" blocks of ice were brought in from Tel Aviv for this process.
c.		Composer Lalo Schifrin was recommended by Sam Peckinpahs long time friend and mentor, Don Siegel.
d.		Though promotional photos of Aristocratic Cenobites wearing white powdered wigs were released in various sci-fi magazines to promote this film, the Cenobites were cut from the finished film, along with Demon Clowns and an entire ballroom fancy dress party as the studio wanted to get to Pinheads story sooner.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		The poem that the doctor is reading when he finally discovers the body is Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare.
b.		Among the cast members were screenwriters William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, who later co-authored the novel of Logans Run.
c.		The Rapier fighters are built out of English Electric Lightning fuselages, not out of MiG-21 fuselages as sometimes stated.
d.		According to Ted Neeley and Norman Jewison on the DVD commentary, the shepherd walking across the frame in the final shot of the film was never intended to be there, and just happened across the shot as they were filming. Because of the significance of a shepherd in the teachings of Christ, Jewison and the crew were struck profoundly by the timing of this shepherd crossing the field, and kept the shot. They got a perfect sunset, as well as a subtle depiction of the resurrection.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		Episode 1: Jungle Trails
b.		Norman Jewisons previous project had been the film version of the Broadway hit Fiddler on the Roof in which he had cast Israeli actor Topol in the role of Tevye, to the bitter disappointment of Broadways Tevye, Zero Mostel. When Jewison wanted to cast Mostels son Joshua as Herod in this movie Mostel snapped, "Tell him to get Topols son!"
c.		Set in 1925; the Phibes tombstones say 1921, and the characters say Anton and Victoria died 4 years earlier.
d.		Former "Playboy" Playmate Kimberly McArthur had it stipulated in her contract that she wouldnt do any nudity.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		Marlon Brando refused to memorize most of his lines in advance. In the scene where he puts infant Kal-El into the escape pod, he was actually reading his lines from the diaper of the baby.
b.		Final film of veteran heavy Ted Adams.
c.		Norman Jewison claims in the DVD commentary that this is the last movie to be shot in Todd-AO.
d.		Although all advertisements, as well as the soundtrack album and the movies closing credits, claimed that the film was released in Cinerama, it was not shot in the Cinerama process (three synchronized films that would be shown by three synchronized projectors on a huge, curved screen). All Cinerama films from 1963 on were shot by one camera on 70-millimeter film with a special anamorphic lens that would then project a blown-up image onto the curved screen. This film initially did such poor box office that MGM actually considered pulling it from Cinerama release after completion of a 30-day run. The exhibitors began reporting that audiences were not only increasing, but it was noted that some audience members had come to see the film multiple times. It eventually became one of MGMs biggest hits, yet was the only film to be pulled from Cinerama venues while it was still making a good profit. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was anxious to release its completed production Ice Station Zebra.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		The opera being performed in Paris, "The Duchess of Ferrara", is not a real opera; the poster outside identifies the composer as Aldo Franchetti, who plays the conductor in the opera scene.
b.		The name of the pirates boat is "Albondiga", which means "meatball" in Spanish.
c.		despite being third billed and having costarring billing Ben Johnson only has a handful of scenes.
d.		Ted Neeley met his wife on the set. She is one of the dancers in the Simon Zealot scene.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		Norman Jewison based the "Last Supper" tableau on the famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, which is located on a wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. In doing so, he managed to give the dancers playing the Apostles specific character names. The only flaw is, the singer who plays "Peter", Paul Thomas, is seated in the wrong place. He is on the end, in the position Da Vinci painted "Bartholomew". In the painting, "Peter" is believed to be the apostle whispering to "John", the apostle seated immediately to Jesus right, our left.
b.		According to separate interviews with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve, they had hesitations regarding the filming of the infamous "kissing" scene. Once they decided to go through with it they both consumed large amounts of alcohol in order to keep themselves calm and drunk enough that theyd do anything anyone asked them to do. Caine reportedly later regretted the scene and vowed to never film another homosexual sequence. To this day he never has.
c.		Hepburn and Fairbanks performed the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet" in costume, but it was not used in the picture.
d.		Paul Henreids cello-playing was dubbed by Eleanor Aller (Mrs Felix Slatkin) while she was pregnant with Frederic Zlotkin. Her father, Gregory Aller, coached Henreid in plausible bow movements.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)?
a.		Despite being released in Australia under the title The Forest 2, this film has no connection with The Forest at all. In fact it was made a year prior to that film.
b.		In "The Crate," if you watch closely, just before the Tasmanian devil eats Wilma, he says, "I got it."
c.		"King Herods Song" is actually a number from "King Richard", a failed Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Tim Rice had to write new lyrics for this number so that it could be added to "Jesus Christ Superstar"; originally, the number was called "Those Saladin Days".
d.		The musical score by Bernard Herrmann was what inspired Danny Elfman to be a composer.

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