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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Medium Cool (1969) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Medium Cool (1969) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Medium Cool (1969).
About the movie:
TV news camera find himself becoming personally involved in the Violence which erupts around the 1968 Democratic Convention.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Medium Cool (1969)?
a.
Frances Fisher was originally to read for the part of Monique, a role which went to Mary McCormack. Instead she opted to play Candy, the publicist.
b.
"Frank Wirtanen" is the name of the man who used to sell Christmas trees to the Vonnegut family.
c.
Most of this was shot at weekends at
Edward Burns
s mothers house.
d.
When the film was released on video, Paramount was sued by the copyright holders of the song "Merry-Go-Round". Under their 1969 agreement, Paramount had rights to the song for showing the film in theatres and on television. Paramount argued that video release was the same as television broadcast. The courts ruled that the copyright holder in 1969 could not have considered videocassettes to be like television broadcast, as home videocassettes were not invented.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Medium Cool (1969)?
a.
In the psychedelic nightclub sequence, the band seen performing on the stage is The Litter, a Minneapolis-based group. However, in the original release version, their music is not heard; instead, we hear a piece by
Frank Zappa
s Mothers of Invention.
b.
Concerned about the publics reaction, the disturbing subplot about Father Barretts incestuous designs on his daughter was toned down by the studio. However,
Charles Laughton
famously remarked that they couldnt censor the "gleam" in his eye.
c.
Charles Paraventi
originally auditioned for the role of Raul Chavez.
Tony Scott
did not think he was right for the part and instead cast him as Howie Stein.
d.
For the scene where Natalie is distracting the surfer at the beach and Alex and Dylan are underneath his GTO collecting clues, the car had to be put on jacks because the actresses couldnt fit underneath it.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Medium Cool (1969)?
a.
The main character was originally called "John Cassavetes" and was in fact going to be played by actor-director
John Cassavetes
. When he withdrew from the film due to a scheduling conflict, the characters name was changed to "John Cassellis" and
Robert Forster
was cast in the role.
b.
When Samantha is in her room talking on the phone with her friend a promotional poster can be seen on the wall for the rock group Squeeze and their album entitled "Singles" which was released in 1982.
c.
Charlotte Greenwood
was signed as a cast member, but she was not seen in the movie. News items mentioned several performers during production, but some did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These include
Florence Lake
,
Virginia Sale
and
Francis Ford
.
d.
Robert DeMayo, a Deaf actor and teacher, worked with the writer, director, Ann Calamia, for over a year transliterating the written English script into the visual American Sign Language. He took into account the background of all of the signing characters when choosing the type of sign language that each actor would perform. He also taught sign language to all of the non-signing actors.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Medium Cool (1969)?
a.
John JT Tully who plays "Senator Deakins" did an impersonation of Bill OReilly during his audition. Eric liked it so much that he wrote it into the "Daybreak New York" news sequence when Deakins tells Meredith to "shut up."
b.
The line "Watch out, Haskell, its real!" was actually dubbed in after the shooting. It was supposedly what
Haskell Wexler
was thinking to himself and he wanted to include it.
Verna Bloom
literally stands out in the film because of her yellow outfit. Bloom said she picked the outfit because she thought her character, a woman of modest means, would wear something like that. It just happened to contrast with what everyone else was wearing, so you notice her.
c.
Quotations from the book Ridgeway reads are attributed to poet Arthur Rimbaud.
d.
Although it is claimed by knowledgeable film people that so-called Super-Cinerama was already in use as early as 1962, this was the first film that was actually advertised in the trailers as being shown in that format. The resulting image did not turn out to be larger than ordinary Cinerama, since the film was actually shot in Ultra Panavision, shown with one projector instead of three electronically synchronized ones, and merely blown up in size to fit the giant curved screen.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Medium Cool (1969)?
a.
Catherine Keener
was cast in the role of Investigator Hal Slocumbs wife. Her one and only scene was cut from the final film. This deleted scene can be found on the special edition DVD of the film released in 2003 from MGM Home Entertainment.
b.
The scene where Spider-Man throws an exploding pumpkin back at Harry, and it explodes in his face, recalls a similar scene in
Spider-Man
. Green Goblin throws a pumpkin at Spider-Man, whose reactions are the same, blowing off half of his Spider-Man mask.
c.
Some of the background intercom chatter playing during the first scenes shown of the television station that John Cassellis works at is the same intercom chatter used in
George Lucas
student film
Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB
.
Paul Golding
, who served as an editorial consultant for this film, had also been a collaborator on some of Lucas other student films.
d.
Due to their work in this film,
Joe Dante
and
Michael Finnell
received the opportunity to make the movie
Gremlins
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Medium Cool (1969)?
a.
The city of Goldfield, Nevada had more snow during the four weeks of production than it had in the preceding thirty years.
b.
All nine stories take place in real-time.
c.
Film was originally rated "X", but re-rated "R" after an appeal.
d.
In a publicity press book for the 20th Century Fox new CinemaScope projects for 1954, the cast of The Egyptian was headed by Marlon Brando, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Brando dropped out at the last minute.
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