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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : New York Stories (1989) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : New York Stories (1989) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: New York Stories (1989).
About the movie:
A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12 year old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three stories.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: New York Stories (1989)?
a.
First cinema film of
Roger Rees
.
b.
The performance piece that
Steve Buscemi
delivers in the
Martin Scorsese
segment was conceived and written by the actor himself.
c.
The play, "Kongo", opened in New York on 30 March 1926.
d.
The monastery location seen in the film is located at Meteora, Greece. Its the same famed region that featured in the later James Bond movie
For Your Eyes Only
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: New York Stories (1989)?
a.
Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title Sweet Revenge.
b.
Jessie Keosian
, who plays Aunt Ceil in the
Woody Allen
segment, "Oedipus Wrecks," was Allens high school biology teacher. They had not met since high school until the audition for this film.
c.
Much of the creature work in the scene inside the dog cage was done by
Stan Winston
and his crew as
Rob Bottin
was suffering from exhaustion at the time due to his immensely heavy workload.
d.
The original version of the flying chase scene at the end of the film involved Stitch and Jumba hijacking an airplane and chasing Gantus spaceship through Honolulu, crashing into buildings. The sequence was already animated and completed, but the whole chase was cut following the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001. The chase had to be re-written and drawn again (this time with spaceships flying through mountains and less populated vegetation), and the second version of the chase was is what is seen in the theatrical version.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: New York Stories (1989)?
a.
Cameron Crowe
: [
To Kill a Mockingbird
] one of Crowes all time favorite films is prominently featured in
Vanilla Sky
.
b.
J.K. Robertsons office is actually the foyer of a local opera house.
c.
When the director
William Tannen
hired Tangerine Dream to score "Flashpoint" he told them not to do the end title song because he had one he was using - "Sympathy For The Devil" by
The Rolling Stones
. Tangerine Dream said it was the perfect song to end the film with. They scored the entire film but this piece. The studio felt the song was too expensive and instead gave the assignment to an assistant who worked for one of the vice presidents. It was voted "worst" end title song for 1984 by Leonard Matlin, the film critic.
d.
At 33 minutes,
Francis Ford Coppola
s segment is the shortest.
Woody Allen
s clocks in at 40 minutes, while
Martin Scorsese
s runs to 45 minutes.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: New York Stories (1989)?
a.
Cloud Ten Pictures released a short 30-second teaser in late 2002.
b.
According to a story related in the documentary "The Art of Failure", on artist
Chuck Connelly
,
Martin Scorsese
was very impressed with Connellys work and was planning on taking some of it back to Los Angeles to try to line up buyers for his work. However, just before that, Connelly gave an interview to the New York Post ripping both the movie and Scorsese personally. Scorsese withdrew the offer, and Connelly soon fell into obscurity.
c.
Renny Harlin
: [Finland] Finnish coat of arms and flag is seen on the mirror behind Tom when hes having conversation with Eddie in the hotel room.
d.
Began shooting June 4, 1990, Craig Baxley replaced Bruce Malmuth as director late June 1990. Production was halted due to an IATSE dispute, resulting in the departure of director of photography John Leonetti and other IATSE members of the crew. Completed shooting September 26, 1990.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: New York Stories (1989)?
a.
The $30,000 that Leonard Smalls talks about as "1954 dollars" would be equal to just over $120,000 in 1987.
b.
According to
Francis Ford Coppola
in his "Cigar Aficionado" magazine interview, he had a meeting at his home in 1969 with producers
Albert S. Ruddy
and
Gray Frederickson
to discuss
The Conversation
. He had sent the script to
Marlon Brando
who called him during the meeting to politely turn it down. Right before the meeting, Coppola took note of a newspaper advertisement for an upcoming novel titled "The Godfather" by
Mario Puzo
. Just a few months later, all five people would meet to discuss a film version of the novel.
c.
Feature film debuts of
Kirsten Dunst
and
Adrien Brody
.
d.
Gary Cooper
s acceptance speech typified so many of the actors performances when he said "It was Sergeant Alvin York who won this award; Shucks, Ive been in this business sixteen years and sometimes dreamed I might get one of these things. Thats all I can say! Funny, when I was dreaming, I always made a good speech." As he left the stage, he forgot the Oscar on the podium.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: New York Stories (1989)?
a.
Michael Powell
helped with a major story problem in
Woody Allen
s segment.
b.
With the thousands of extras battling on the ground, dozens of airplanes flying around in the sky and hundreds of explosions going off everywhere, the only two injuries on the entire picture were incurred. One was by veteran stunt pilot
Dick Grace
. A plane he was crashing was supposed to completely turn over, but it only turned partly over. Instead of being thrown clear of the plane as was the plan, Grace was hurled against part of the fuselage and broke his neck. He returned to the company after six weeks in the hospital. The other was by one of the army pilots helping out on the shoot. His crash was fatal and director
William A. Wellman
feared it would shut down production, but the army held the pilot, not the director, responsible.
c.
The Delta House actors were brought to the set five days before the Omega House actors to get into character, in an intentional effort to cause cliques to form.
Barry Levinson
would use this tactic years later with the principal cast of
Diner
.
d.
The movie
The Last House on Dead End Street
made just a few years earlier had The Fun House as an alternate title.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: New York Stories (1989)?
a.
All of the "natural" effects in the film were scripted, but occurred naturally. The micro-budget did not allow the filmmakers to rent/use wind, fog or rain machines, so the shooting schedule was juggled so that scenes featuring those effects were scheduled for days when the weather forecast predicted they might happen.
b.
Nick Nolte
s paintings are actually the work of artist
Chuck Connelly
.
c.
During the fight scene at the party,
Elvis Presley
goes outside to tell the band to play something slow. He and his friend
Charlie Hodge
, who has a bit role in the film as a guitar player in the band, start cracking up during Elvis line. Charlie later said the reason for the laughter was that it was cold outside and Elvis nose was running.
d.
Guy Pearce
was originally offered the lead role of Edmond Dantes.
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