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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Psycho (1998) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Psycho (1998) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998).
About the movie:
A young female embezzeler arrives at the Bates Motel which has terrible secrets of its own.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
Bernard Herrmann
s score for
Psycho
was adapted by
Danny Elfman
and
Steve Bartek
for this remake. Elfman and Bartek used vintage microphones for the recording.
b.
Mickey Rourke
s voice characterization is an approximation of
Charles Bukowski
s own voice.
c.
Ralph, the
Jonathan Winters
character, tells a long story concerning an English pirate who founded the country of Parador, to explain why Alphonse Simms has an Anglo-Saxon surname. The real reason is that the film was shot in Brazil, and director
Paul Mazursky
needed a shot of a crowd of Brazilian extras chanting the dictators name. When the crowd is calling out "Simms! Simms!", they are actually chanting "Sim! Sim!". "Sim" is "yes" in Portuguese, the language of Brazil.
d.
Although there are numerous references to famous Memphis-based musicians in the film,
Craig Brewer
deliberately avoided any direct references to
Elvis Presley
. In an interview, Brewer said: "That was a rule. No Elvis."
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
Clint Eastwood
s extremely organized methods of directing led to filming being completed over three weeks ahead of schedule and $2-4 million under budget.
b.
The movies release was delayed due to the prominence of the Atlanta child murder spree in the news at that time. The movie, set in Atlanta and dealing with the relationship between an adult and a child, was deemed too sensitive.
c.
Cinematographer
Christopher Doyle
had not seen the original
Psycho
when he shot this remake.
d.
Director Camilo Vila proclaimed that this was not a horror film during its initial release despite the fact that the film was about literal demons from hell.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
The buttons on Marions dress are the same pattern as on the shower curtain.
b.
The Finnish title of the film is "Kourallinen dynamiittia", which translates into English as "Fistful of Dynamite". This is actually the alternative English title of dollar-trilogy director
Sergio Leone
s film
Giù la testa
.
c.
As a promotion for this movie, "16" magazine ran a contest and the winner received a trip to Hollywood and bit part in the film. Her name was Caryn and she was the girl who catches the bouquet at Paula and Sams wedding.
d.
The F.B.I officer who was chasing Frank was really Joe Shea.
Frank Abagnale Jr.
used the pseudonym "Sean OReilly" in his book because Joe Shea was still in the F.B.I. He has since retired.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
A sign for the Bates Motel reads "Newly Renovated."
b.
The glass encased roll of honor that Clayton looks at in his first day as a CIA career trainee includes the names of
Deryck Blake
,
Andrew McAlpine
and
Dennis Davenport
: respectively the Property Master, Production Designer and Art Director on this film.
c.
After filming this movie,
Liam Neeson
and
Ralph Fiennes
became very good friends.
d.
One of the beauty parlor ladies preparing Mulan for the matchmaker was drawn in the likeness of
Rita Hsiao
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
This movies Italian Gli uomini falco title translates literally into English as The Falcon Men.
b.
The new house and motel sets were constructed directly in front of the original sets.
c.
This was
Billie Burke
s favorite movie.
d.
When
Ray Wise
was banging the hammer on an anvil, one of the sparks landed in his pocket and it caught fire. He performed the scene regardless.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
A deleted scene involves Severence and Rudy going to Woody Engstroms ranch to question him about Santee. Rudy almost kills the guard dog for barking at him and Severence is about to kill Woody when other patrol cars arrive, forcing them back down.
b.
Premiered on the floor of Meteor Crater in Arizona. This is also the site where the astronauts practiced their moonwalk and where the mother ship picked up
Jeff Bridges
in the movie,
Starman
.
c.
The arcade machine in Christies apartment is a prototype of the game "Bouncer" by Entertainment Sciences. Due to financial difficulties the game was never widely released.
d.
In the original
Psycho
,
Alfred Hitchcock
wanted his opening shot to be a long, complete pan/zoom over the city into Marions hotel room. Sadly, the technology was not yet perfected, and he achieved his effect through a series of pans and dissolves. The new
Gus Van Sant
remake does a complete travelling shot, as Hitchcock had intended.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
Kellye Nakahara
s movie debut.
b.
Nicole Kidman
and
Drew Barrymore
were considered for the role of Marion. Kidman could not fit it in due to a scheduling conflict and Barrymore was turned down for being too young to star opposite
Vince Vaughn
.
c.
Based on the life of MGM producer and executive
Irving Thalberg
.
d.
The cave that imprisons Tony Stark was a 150-200 yard-long set, which had built-in movable forks to allow greater freedom for the films crew. It also had an air conditioning system installed, as production designer
J. Michael Riva
had learnt that remote caves are actually very cold.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
This was the first movie
Gene Autry
made in which his character name was not Gene.
b.
When leading lady
Jean Harlow
was entombed in Glendales Forest Lawn Cemetery in 1937, she was dressed in the gown she wore in this film.
c.
The twenty-third of twenty-eight Blondie movies starring
Penny Singleton
as Blondie Bumstead and
Arthur Lake
as Dagwood Bumstead.
d.
During filming,
Gus Van Sant
brought along a DVD player and played the original
Psycho
, and they used it for reference. When he spotted a mistake (a door opening without a key), van Sant decided to put the same mistake into his film.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
The real-life mother of
Madeleine Daly
(Katya) was
Madeleine Potter
, who played the Countess sister-in-law Greshenka.
b.
Last cinema film of
Pat Roach
.
c.
The exterior motel set was the same one used in the original
Psycho
. However, the house was a new set constructed directly in front of the old house on the backlot at Universal Studios. On completion of filming, they moved this second house alongside the first for the backlot tour.
d.
The cabin featured in the first act was specifically built for the movie.
Peter Hyams
decided to build it on top of a mountain in that particular spot while it was still covered in winter snow. When the snow melted it turned out that the spot was actually a dump and it took a short while to clear it out.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Psycho (1998)?
a.
Private eye Bill Harlow was inspired by Raymond Chandlers Phillip Marlow. This was the first appearance in a Markman script of Harlow, who would often return, either played by Rick Savage or, later, Randy Spears.
b.
The building that was turned into the Hardbodies gym in the film was found in Paramus, New Jersey. The crew did such a good job with it that locals came in to inquire about membership.
c.
Oren Aviv
said Disney had chosen to scale this movie down from the former in the series; "Its important to get the story right and its important to me to scale it down, because we cant get bigger. The movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters." He agreed that there is a lot of Captain Jack Sparrows back story that we havent seen yet without confirming or denying that we might see some of that in the fourth movie
d.
The opening shot zooms into the Westward Ho Hotel just north of downtown Phoenix. The corresponding shot in the original
Psycho
shows the Heard Building, which at that time had a radio broadcast antenna atop it; but by the time of the remake, the tower had been removed, so
Gus Van Sant
used the Westward Ho, which still has one.
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