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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Midnight Cowboy (1969) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Midnight Cowboy (1969) - 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: Midnight Cowboy (1969).
About the movie:
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
An extra on the DVD release for this film, "We interrupt this program", a fake newscast depicting the start and spread of the zombie infection, contains some characters whose dialog consists of lines from the original
Dawn of the Dead
and
Night of the Living Dead
.
b.
Final film of Mack, Hughie. He died in 1927, before the picture was released.
c.
Charles Durning
was going to act in this film but dropped out.
d.
Audrey Hepburn
was originally offered the role of Joan. Rumor had it she turned it down because her husband,
Mel Ferrer
, wasnt offered the role of the Dauphin, but Ferrer denied this.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
Stuart Cooper
was considered for the
Jon Voight
part.
b.
Joe Spinell
, who played Willi Cicci in Parts I and II, was to have reprised his role but died before production was to begin. An earlier version of the script had Cicci working for new characters, the Russo Brothers. The three characters were eventually combined into Joey Zasa.
c.
Ralph Morgan
s brother
Frank Morgan
starred in the original version, _Kiss Before The Mirror, The (1933)_, albeit in a different role.
d.
A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
Film debut of versatile character actor
William Schallert
.
b.
Miramax was so concerned about protecting the movies plot secrets that no journalists were allowed to see the finished film until two days before it opened.
c.
One of this movies main posters shows the left and right red sleeve arms of
Michael Caine
and
Sylvester Stallone
respectively pushed-upwards stretching from their red soccer guernseys and symbolic of a goal victory, forming a V-shape signifying the V of the word Victory, this being the movies title.
d.
Harry Nilsson
wrote the song "I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City" specifically for this film, but
John Schlesinger
preferred a
Fred Neil
song, "Everybodys Talkin", which Nilsson had previously recorded. Other songs considered for the movie were
Randy Newman
s "Cowboy", and
Bob Dylan
s "Lay Lady Lay".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
Charles Schramm, who created Liza Minnellis grotesque "scarred woman" make-up for the film, worked on her mother Judy Garlands make-up in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and also prepared Garlands face for the funeral viewing.
b.
Note in the opening conversation about
Madonna
(ex-wife of
Sean Penn
) that
Chris Penn
doesnt really take part, mainly out of deference to his former sister-in-law.
c.
Production began on March 29, 1971, but
Marlon Brando
worked on the film for 35 days between April 12 and May 28 so he could honor his commitment to the film
Ultimo tango a Parigi
.
d.
Warren Beatty
was very interested in playing Joe Buck but
John Schlesinger
thought he was too famous to be believable as a naive street hustler.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
Darren McGavin
s final film.
b.
The opening of the film was actually shot after principal photography had already wrapped. The producers felt the film needed a better introduction into the psychic subplot. The original opening was the shot of the coroner wagons driving up to the crime scene.
c.
Teenage girl fans of
The Graduate
would scream when they saw
Dustin Hoffman
filming in the streets of New York, even though he was in his filthy costume as Rizzo.
d.
Based on the life of
General Lodijensky
, a former general in the Russian army of Czar Nicholas, who fled Russia after the 1917 Communist revolution and wound up in Hollywood, where he worked for a while as a movie extra.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
Michael Biehn
turned down the role of McManus because of his previous commitment to filming
Jade
.
b.
Dustin Hoffman
put in so much effort portraying one of Ratsos coughing fits that one time he actually ended up vomiting.
c.
The word "fuck" and its derivatives are said 133 times.
d.
Batmans journey to Tibet, and his ninja training, were both elements introduced into the comic book by writer
James Owsley
in Batman #431 (March, 1989). The series editor,
Denny ONeil
, made the issue part of the Batman Writers Bible that he would hand out to each new writer on the series, thus confirming the storys place in canon.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
In
Diablo Cody
s previous film,
Juno
, fitness personality
Tony Little
is mentioned. In this film, a clip of Littles show is featured.
b.
Director
Frank Marshall
originally intended to use the computer work pioneered on
Jurassic Park
for the gorillas, but opted for models as the computers werent capable of reproducing hair.
c.
Vivien Leigh was subject to bouts of depression and alcoholism and was abrasive to fellow actors. After a rocky start with her relationship with Lee Marvin with her complaints about his stale alcohol breath, the two eventually became highly unlikely good friends.
d.
John Schlesinger
once said that the inspiration for this film came from a little-known Yugoslav movie,
Kad budem mrtav i beo
. An
Andy Warhol
film,
My Hustler
, also influenced the visual style.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
The original title of the film was "Babys in Black" named after The Beatles song. But the producers found it too expensive to obtain the rights to use the song. So the film was renamed "Moonlight Mile" after a lesser-known tune by The Rolling Stones.
b.
James Murphy
: During the party scene which Ivan drags Greenberg to, for a brief few seconds
James Murphy
of LCD Soundsystem walks across the screen staring at his phone.
c.
John McGiver
played the religious fanatic, Mr. ODaniel, with
Jon Voight
as Joe Buck, whod been led to believe that ODaniel is a bigtime pimp. McGiver had also played "Sen. Thomas Jordan" in
The Manchurian Candidate
. In the remake of that film 42 years later (
The Manchurian Candidate
), Voight played "Sen. Thomas Jordan".
d.
These deleted musical numbers appear on the 2008 DVD from Warner Home Video: an outtake of "Girlies of the Cabaret" (lyrics by
Harold Atteridge
), performed by
Esther Williams
and
George Murphy
(in what would have been his last feature in a 20-year screen career); an outtake of "Dance, My Darlings" (from the 1935 Broadway show, "May Wine," lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II
), sung by
Helen Traubel
; plus an audio medley by
Tony Martin
and
Joan Weldon
of two songs from the 1928 Broadway score of "The New Moon" (lyrics by Hammerstein): "One Kiss" (cut from the movie) and "Lover, Come Back to Me" (used in the film).
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
Jon Voight
replaced
Kiel Martin
.
b.
2011 Winner of The Famous Monsters of Filmland screenplay competition.
c.
All of Goros scenes were filmed in Los Angeles.
d.
A visual connection to the Odyssey appears during the evening following George Nelsons third bank robbery, when Ulysses is seen sitting on a destroyed Greek column, the bottom of which is still upright besides Ulysses.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)?
a.
Abel Ferraras young adopted daughter plays Wesley Snipes daughter in the wedding sequence.
b.
Leading man
James Garner
was originally only supposed to have a supporting role here with
Charlton Heston
being top-billed. When Heston quit, Garner stepped into his shoes
c.
This film contains the first recorded use of the word "scuzzy", as a description of Ratso Rizzo. At its root, "scuzzy" is apparently a combination of "scummy" and "fuzzy".
d.
Cher, Black, Karen, and Dennis, Sandy reprise their roles from the stage play that played the Martin Beck Theatre.
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