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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mean Streets (1973) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mean Streets (1973) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973).
About the movie:
A small-time hood struggles to succeed on the "mean streets" of Little Italy.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
Two dream sequences for this film were made in the 2-color Technicolor process. This was the first commercially released color footage to be lit with artificial light.
b.
The director conceived and wrote the screenplay based on a real-life stalker. In this case it was a woman and she dedicated her life buying expensive gifts for her "one true love" and showing up conveniently at every job and social event he attended. After several restraining orders she ultimately gave up by committing suicide.
c.
The crew encountered no major setbacks, although on five days they worked from nine a.m. until after midnight - one night shooting until 4:50 am (no doubt shooting the night exteriors).
d.
Marks the first film collaboration between director
Martin Scorsese
and star
Robert De Niro
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
Based on a script which
Martin Scorsese
co-wrote with
Mardik Martin
in the 1960s, entitled "Season of the Witch".
b.
During the character design process, the sculptor created nine handmade clay sculpts of the films protagonist, Remy. Six of those sculpts were different design explorations. The last three were different poses of the final design.
c.
This picture marked the American debut of European producer
Seymour Nebenzal
.
d.
The original title for this movie was, "Hot Shots, Part Deux! The Exploitation. Takin it to the Bank".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
After the release of his previous film,
Boxcar Bertha
, both
John Cassavetes
and
John Milius
advised
Martin Scorsese
to do a more "personal" project next. That encouragement led Scorsese to finish this script and get it produced.
b.
Glen Morgan
didnt specifically have any male actors considered for the role of Kyle in the movie. Instead, during auditions, his 14-year-old daughter (stepdaughter of Glens actress wife
Kristen Cloke
, who also has a role in the movie), picked out
Oliver Hudson
shouting out "That one!"
c.
The soundtrack album for the film was the first
Richard Rodgers
and
Oscar Hammerstein II
film soundtrack to be issued in stereo the same year that the mono version was issued. (Because stereo LPs were not possible until 1958, the movie soundtrack albums of
Oklahoma!
,
Carousel
and
The King and I
were issued in mono between 1955 and 1956, the stereo versions in 1958.)
d.
Mary Woronov
, who plays Calamity Jane, did not know how to drive a car, so a stunt driver did all the actual driving for her in the movie. For close-ups, Woronov sat in a car towed behind a truck with a camera crew riding in it.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
This film was completed shot in the city of Paris, capital of France. Apparently, there were 180 filming locations used within the Paris city and its environs for the shooting of this film.
b.
The leader of the super-8 home movie which runs under the opening credits reads: "DATE: 12/8/69 TITLE:illegible w/ baptism Processed by KODAK"
c.
Loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, "Beowulf", whose author is unknown.
d.
The film is based on a letter written by Cassady to Jack Kerouac in 1950.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
Original the financial backers wanted
Jon Voight
to play Charlie but he turned them down.
b.
The Desert Song and the Cold War: The original refrain for The Riff Song includes the lines: "Ho!/Thats the sound that comes to warn you/So!/In the night or early morn, you know/If youre The Red Shadows foe/The Riffs will strike with a blow/That brings you woe!" In this remake, filmed in the early Fifties at the height of the Cold War and McCarthyism, the "Red Shadow" sounded uncomfortably like the Soviet and Chinese communists, so the lyrics were changed to "If youre El Khobars foe". When
Gordon MacRae
re-recorded the songs for the record album featuring Dorothy Kirsten as Margot, the original lyrics were restored.
c.
Although the "bad guys" use guns in the film, the Angels do not.
Drew Barrymore
, who was also one of the producers, insisted that the Angels be able to do all their fighting without firearms.
d.
A portrait visible in Manzinis shop is the painting from
Troll
. It can be seen in the scene after the Garbage Pail Kids have had their weenie roast and are back at the shop recovering.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
Wil Wheaton
once said that the only good thing about the movie was that his sister got a job on it.
b.
Near the U.S. Embassy, there is a quick shot of a poster advertising an opera based on "Les misérables". According to documents, its author,
Victor Hugo
, is the twenty-fourth Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, serving from 1844 to 1885.
c.
In the early 1980s, 20th Century Fox produced, but did not release, a video game with the name of this movie. Made for the Atari 2600, it even very loosely followed the plot of the film, unlike some other 20th Century Fox games which just used the title of a film. A "prototype" copy of the unreleased game has since surfaced.
d.
While many consider this to be the quintessential New York film, very little of it was actually shot there. Many scenes, including the famous pool hall sequence, were shot in Los Angeles.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
The predators blood - a goopy substance with the color of Mountain Dew - was made on-set using a mixture of the liquid from inside glow sticks, and KY jelly.
b.
When raising money for the film,
Martin Scorsese
was offered a healthy sum by his mentor
Roger Corman
on the condition that he shoot the movie with an all-black cast. Scorsese had to turn Corman down.
c.
Fabio
was considered for the role of Vega.
d.
Cinematographer
Lee Garmes
left during production and
Charles G. Clarke
took over, but did not receive screen credit.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
This picture marked the American debut of European producer
Seymour Nebenzal
.
b.
The film, a social, religious drama, presented by The Protestant Film Commission and The Antidefamation League, had a non-theatrical release, opening in 100 churches in the USA and Canada on 18. Oct. 1949.
c.
The production was pretty much made on-the-run from the Teamsters, as it would have been financially impossible to make the film had it been a union shoot.
d.
The house Georges brother lives is actually one of
Donald Trump
s homes. Trump lent his Westchester home to the production and filmed a cameo for the film.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
The boxcar scene where Jack Walsh (
Robert De Niro
) and John Mardukas (
Charles Grodin
) discuss whether or not they could ever be friends, was almost entirely improvised on set. As regards Grodins famous "Have you ever had sex with a chicken?" line, he was told by director
Martin Brest
to come up with something that was guaranteed to make even
Robert De Niro
laugh.
b.
For the soundtrack music
Martin Scorsese
sourced much of his own personal record collection
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 22, 1941 with
Fred MacMurray
and
Beulah Bondi
reprising their film roles.
d.
In April 2006, screenwriter and "Thor" fan
Mark Protosevich
wrote a script for the film, which he described as "an Old Testament God who becomes a New Testament God." However, the script was so laden with VFX-worthy sequences that it would require $300 million to film, so when
Matthew Vaughn
signed on, he rewrote and trimmed the script to bring the budget down to a more agreeable $150 million.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mean Streets (1973)?
a.
Warner Bros. had to constantly submit new Catwoman posters for various cities as many of the bus stop ads were being stolen. It soon got so bad that police officers had to patrol bus stops in order to catch perpetrators before they could break the Plexiglas containers. Today the large scale Catwoman bus ads are worth a great deal of money.
b.
When frustrated by the situation on the subway train, the Mayor blurts out, "Shit, piss, fuck!" These are, in order, the first three of the seven words you cant say on television for which
George Carlin
is famous.
c.
In the telephone scene between George and Angela on the back wall we see the painting "Ophelia" by John Everett Millais. This may be intended as a hint to Alices death by drowning later in the film.
d.
The voice over narration in the opening of the movie ("You dont make up for your sins in Church; you do it on the street; everything else is bullshit and you know it...") is actually not said by
Harvey Keitel
(the character we are intended to believe is thinking these thoughts), but director
Martin Scorsese
. Scorsese felt that using a separate voice to make the distinction between Keitels thoughts and actions was necessary. Scorsese borrowed this technique from
Federico Fellini
, who used it in
I vitelloni
.
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