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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sex and the City (2008) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sex and the City (2008) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008).
About the movie:
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
Was shot digitally instead of on film.
b.
Director
Robert Rodriguez
edited the movie in his garage. His garage is actually a state of the art editing studio that is in his home, but he calls it his garage.
c.
The original Broadway production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" by
Frances Goodrich
and
Albert Hackett
opened at the Cort Theater on October 5, 1955, ran for 717 performances and won the 1956 Tony Award for the Best Play.
Joseph Schildkraut
,
Gusti Huber
and
Lou Jacobi
recreated their stage roles in the movie version for which Goodrich and Hackett also wrote the screenplay.
d.
The movie was released ten years after
Sex and the City
first aired and four years after the series ended.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
Julio C. Chávez
, a frequent collaborator with producer / director
William Grefe
as both an editor and director of photography, can be seen in a key photograph.
b.
Several of the shots of Atreyu on horseback chasing Smurg are recycled from the prequel, though
Noah Hathaway
, who preceded Kenny Morrison in the role, was uncredited.
c.
The film originally was slated for production shortly after the end of the
Sex and the City
TV series in 2004. But production was halted when
Kim Cattrall
pulled out of the film after being unable to reach a salary agreement with HBO. An agreement was finally reached in 2007 which included a series deal for Cattrall.
d.
Sergio Leone
was contracted to deliver a film that would run for 2 hours and 45 minutes. His final cut was nearly 4 hours long. The American distributors reacted by excising an hour from the running time (though Leones intended cut was seen in its entirety in Europe).
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
According to star
Robert Houston
the audition process for the film depended a lot on whether or not an actor could cry on cue.
b.
Famous for his use of innovative camera angles, director
John Frankenheimer
was widely acclaimed for a shot that is slightly out of focus.
John Frankenheimer
said that rather than the shot being evidence of inspiration, it was an accident and merely the best take for actor
Frank Sinatra
.
c.
The song played during Ashley and Ashlyns funeral is the same song as the one played during the memorial service of Flight 180 in
Final Destination
.
d.
Victoria Beckham
was offered a cameo role but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts with
Spice Girls
tour rehearsals.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
The tutu outfit that Carrie models for the girls is the same outfit she wears on the
Sex and the City
opening credits.
b.
The railroad passenger cars were built especially for the movie by the now-defunct Colorado Railcar Company and are still in existence today.
c.
The nineteenth of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.
d.
In early drafts of the script, the bus was supposed to circle around the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium as opposed to LAX. However, the studio couldnt get the rights to film there.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
The Fitzgerald Theatre is in downtown St. Paul and is the real home of the radio show "A Prairie Home Companion".
b.
The film was originally given an R rating, but was re-rated to PG-13 after cuts were made.
c.
Filmed in Silvercup Studios in Queens - the same studio space as in the original HBO series
Sex and the City
.
d.
The Finnish film Guitar refers to is
La vie de bohème
by director
Aki Kaurismäki
, a friend of
Jim Jarmusch
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
Robert Altman
filmed extensively during the real Parisian fashion catwalks, capturing the real spring collections of that year and a host of real-life celebrities. Altman and his writer
Barbara Shulgasser
then integrated several different storylines into the footage that they had acquired.
b.
Shirley MacLaine, in the documentary
The Celluloid Closet
, said that nobody on the set of
The Childrens Hour
discussed the ramifications of the issues regarding homosexuality that are implied, but never spoken about outright, in the film. She said, "none of us were really aware. We might have been forerunners, but we werent really, because we didnt do the picture right. We were in the mindset of not understanding what we were basically doing. These days, there would be a tremendous outcry, as well there should be. Why would Martha break down and say, Oh my god, whats wrong with me, Im so polluted, Ive ruined you. She would fight! She would fight for her budding preference. And when you look at it, to have Martha play that scene - and no one questioned it - what that meant, or what the alternatives could have been underneath the dialog, its mind boggling. The profundity of this subject was not in the lexicon of our rehearsal period. Audrey and I never talked about this. Isnt that amazing. Truly amazing."
c.
The time-line of the film spans a year.
d.
Other titles contemplated by Universal Pictures were "Pussy-footing Down at the Old Plantation" and "On One I Walked".
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
The drug dealer wearing a white suit called Lupo that Rostavili (
Ed ORoss
) meets outside the bus station is the same Lupo that appears in
Extreme Prejudice
(also played there by
Luis Contreras
). He appears at the end after
Nick Nolte
has shot
Powers Boothe
, and tells him "now you get to wear the white suit".
b.
Carries famous desk is now a part of the Smithsonian permanent collection.
Michael Patrick King
, the director, wrote to the directors of the institution, pleading to have the desk back to recreate Carries apartment.
c.
Before the film was finished, Director
Paul Thomas Anderson
sent a rough copy to New Line Cinema for them to do the trailer for the film. The movie was pirated and distributed before it was released. The pirated work print includes many scenes not in the movie or DVD deleted scenes and were possibly deleted to avoid the NC-17 rating- as some are very explicit.
d.
Ernö Verebes last film before retirement.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
Shot in 69 days.
b.
When asked by friends how Kanes last words would be known when he died alone,
Orson Welles
reportedly stared for a long time before saying, "Dont you ever tell anyone of this." See also the Goofs entry.
c.
The majority of the movie was filmed at Biograph Studios built in 1912 by American Mutoscope & Biograph us. The studio was sold several times throughout the years until it burned down in 1980.
d.
The Strawberry Alarm Clock
did the soundtrack for this film, and the bands only real big hit "Incense and Peppermints" can be heard in the first party scene.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
H Stern loaned more than 300 pieces of jewelry to the film.
b.
In the hospital scene the blood was sprayed on the actors with a garden sprayer.
c.
Deborah Kampmeier
wrote the script in 1996.
d.
The backless red dress that Lisa wears to the hotel (and on the films poster) was sewn from scratch, using design elements the actress playing her liked from different dresses considered for that sequence. The rest of the garments used in the film were store-bought.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sex and the City (2008)?
a.
Michael Patrick King
admitted in an interview to filming major scenes outside that never actually take place in the film, and were never meant to, in order to throw the paparazzi off. Also due to the presence of the paparazzi and media, several exterior scenes had to be filmed indoors.
b.
The high-heeled shoes that
Marisa Tomei
wears in her nude scene with
Ethan Hawke
are her own shoes.
c.
Producers originally wanted to set the film at The University of Chicago. School administrators declined, however, because of a scene toward the end of the movie where a professor places his hand on Elles leg. Filmmakers subsequently decided to have the story take place at Harvard University.
d.
One of several projects green lit into production by Paramount Pictures before the impending Directors Strike in early 1981.
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