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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Moulin Rouge! (2001) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Moulin Rouge! (2001) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001).
About the movie:
A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
"The Trolley Song" was inspired by a caption in a book about the history of St. Louis. The book had a page with a picture of a turn-of-the-century trolley car, captioned "Clang! Clang! Clang! went the jolly little trolley."
b.
Naomi Watts
accepted the role without reading the script first.
c.
The movie was shot largely at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia, with no location filming at all.
d.
The film was initially to star either
Dolph Lundgren
or
Christopher Reeve
, but it never got started.
Patrick Swayze
had also been considered.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
Both
Nicole Kidman
and
Ewan McGregor
wore harnesses for the scenes on the elephant as they were standing 60ft off the ground.
b.
The motorcycle that Kip rides throughout the film, sometimes with Hana, is a Triumph 350cc 3HW. Triumph was the make of motorcycle actually specified in the original novel upon which the film is based.
c.
The forty-fifth of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.
d.
The movies poster was as #23 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
This picture was not given a wide release in the USA until Spring 1981.
b.
Billy Zane
was considered for the lead role, but he didnt dance well.
c.
The wardrobe department created three hundred costumes and, at one point, eighty people were employed for this task.
d.
Cecil Cunningham
is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of "Miss Perkins," but she was not seen in the movie and her character name was never mentioned.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
One of the six "lost" RKO films (another is the first version of the story,
Rafter Romance
) unseen for many years and not released to television. In 2006, Turner Classic Movies acquired the rights and showed all six in April 2007.
b.
Ranked #1 movie in Entertainment Weeklys "The New Classics: Movies" (issue #1000, July 4, 2008).
c.
Filming was halted for two weeks in November 1999 after
Nicole Kidman
fractured two ribs and injured her knee while rehearsing a dance routine for the film. Many of the scenes where she is seen only from the chest up, including "A real actress!", were shot while she was in a wheelchair.
d.
Despite the existence of
Saturday Night Fever
,
Roller Boogie
and
Thank God Its Friday
, producer
Allan Carr
claimed that this picture was the "first disco musical".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
Right at the end of the opening credits musical number, small dolphins can be seen diving into the water from both sides. Look again, and it is obvious these are just basic props being rotated by the girls on either side.
b.
Justine Bateman
s movie debut.
c.
The Paris landscape was digitally produced and the two longest visual effects shots to date that appear in this film.
d.
Apart from some establishing shots of New York at the beginning, the film was mostly shot in London, England with the old Lambeth Hospital being used as the police station and jail.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
Paulies Robot was created by the International Robotics Inc. in New York City. The robots voice was the companys CEO Robert Doornick. Roger Ebert surmises the robot is an android of some type, complete with artificial intelligence. The robot is identified by robotic engineers as "SICO" and is/was a member of the Screen Actors Guild and toured with James Brown in the 1980s.
b.
"Come What May" was written by
David Baerwald
for
Romeo + Juliet
but not used. In Moulin Rouge, it is newly written for the stage show by Christian. It is the only completely original song in the entire film. However, because it was written for another film, it was disqualified for the Oscars Best Song award.
c.
Universal didnt think the film would become a hit. In fact, the studio had thought about not releasing it on the East Coast so that the film would die quickly at the box office.
d.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
The necklace worn by
Nicole Kidman
was made of real diamonds and platinum and was the most expensive piece of jewelery ever specifically made for a film. The Stefano Canturi necklace was made with 1,308 diamonds, weighing a total of 134 carats and was worth an estimated US$1 million.
b.
The meaning and relevance of this movies title
Gator
is that it is the first name of the movies main character Gator McKlusky played by
Burt Reynolds
.
c.
In all European advertising for the film,
Colin Farrell
got top billing, but in all American advertising,
Jamie Foxx
got top billing.
d.
Australias first ever time-travel movie (at least of the modern Australian cinema). This film beat
Playing Beatie Bow
into theaters by a few months.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
and
Heath Ledger
were contenders to play Satine and Christian. Other possible Christians included
Hugh Jackman
,
Jake Gyllenhaal
and
Ronan Keating
. Other possible Satines included
Renée Zellweger
,
Natalie Jackson Mendoza
,
Sharleen Spiteri
, and
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
.
Tim Wheeler
, of the rock band
Ash
, auditioned for the lead role of Christian, which led him to write the track "Orpheus".
Courtney Love
auditioned for Satine, and allowed
Baz Luhrmann
to use
Nirvana
s "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in the opening sequence, a rare case of allowing her late husband
Kurt Cobain
s work to be used in film or TV.
b.
The scratches on the tails side of Two-Faces coin form the letters HD, the initials of Harvey Dent, Two-Faces former identity.
c.
Director
Jan de Bont
came up with the idea for the opening elevator sequence while working as a cinematographer on
Die Hard
. While riding in an elevator in the building used as the skyscraper in that film, the elevator got stuck on the 40th floor, and de Bont had to climb out the escape hatch and jump onto another elevator to get out.
d.
Jean Peters
got the role of Polly Cutler after
Anne Baxter
withdrew. After her withdrawal, the film was reworked to highlight
Marilyn Monroe
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
Various tricks were used to make
John Leguizamo
s (Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa) legs appear shorter. Some shots are of his stand-in who was of the correct height, while in others he walked on his knees in special leg braces and wearing blue socks so that his lower legs could be digitally removed. Leguizamo did the entire climactic scene from a squatting position to give him greater mobility in his role. Consequently he had to endure several weeks of physical therapy afterwards.
b.
Film was shot on location at Mount Spokane High School in Mead, Washington. The majority of the cast attended there including writer/director
Brian McCauley Johnson
and director of cinematography
Timothy A. Burton
.
c.
For the part where the T-Rex catches a Galliminus and shakes it in his mouth, the sound was taken from a dog shaking a toy in its mouth.
d.
Although the MPAA initially gave the film an X-Rating, this movie, along with
Peter Greenaway
s
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
and
Pedro Almodóvar
s
Átame!
, were the main reasons for the creation of the NC-17 rating (an adults-only film which is non-pornographic).
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
a.
The set design of the windmill sequence was inspired by a building in Los Angeles that housed a local bakery, Van de Kamp, which displayed a large windmill as its corporate logo.
b.
Director Trademark: Wes Craven The blurring of dreams and reality.
c.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
d.
The stage for "Spectacular Spectacular" was especially reinforced to hold the weight of a galloping horse for a scene where the evil Maharaja rides across the stage. The scene was abandoned but the white horse still appears fleetingly in one shot.
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