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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sin City (2005) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sin City (2005) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005).
About the movie:
A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
Actors were told to remain in character the whole time they were on set. Microphones where placed around the house that were not functioning just so the actors would always remain in character.
b.
Theodore Joadson (
Morgan Freeman
s character) is a fictional creation. In real life, it was Josiah Willard Gibbs (played by
Austin Pendleton
), a Yale professor of linguistics, who discovered James Covey, the Mende sailor who served as a translator for the Amistad captives. As depicted in the film, Gibbs learned to count to ten in Mende, and wandered around the docks of New York repeating the numbers, until Covey heard and recognized his own language and spoke to the professor.
c.
According to
Robert Rodriguez
s commentary, the scourging sequence between Yellow Bastard and Nancy Callahan was originally shot faithful to the comic book: considerably longer and more graphic than what appears in the final cut or the extended edition. Rodriguez stated that the torture segment was crossing the bounds of bad taste, even for Sin City.
d.
The enhanced effects used for the Death Star explosions in the 1997 re-releases of this movie and
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
feature the "Praxis Wave," so named for its first use by Industrial Light and Magic in
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
for the explosion of the Klingon moon, Praxis.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
The shape of
Elijah Wood
s chin was changed subtly in post-production to give him a more unsettling appearance.
b.
Preview audiences are alleged to have found the film too gory so 25 minutes of footage was removed to it less bloody.
c.
The troubled Italian set was eventually torn down and a new one built in Culver City, California. The famed chariot race was shot with 42 cameras were and 50,000 feet of film consumed. Second-unit director
B. Reeves Eason
offered a bonus to the winning driver. The final pile-up was filmed later. No humans were seriously injured during the US production, but several horses were killed.
d.
Many crew members, including director
Robert Kurtzman
(man killed by piano) had small roles in the film, some times appearing in different scenes as different characters.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
This film is an extra on San Francisco Grindhouse Triple Feature (2008) DVD box set from After Hours Cinema.
b.
Clara Bows final film.
c.
Robert Rodriguez
originally asked
Hans Zimmer
to score the music, but Zimmer couldnt accept it, cause at the time he was in England preparing
Batman Begins
. Zimmer recommended two of his friends, John Debney (I) and
Graeme Revell
.
d.
The original script was 165 pages, scaled way down due to budgetary constraints.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
The posters on some of the prison cells, are from movies made by Irwin Yablans, Charles Band, and in one case - Linda Blair, that poster is really autographed by her, as she was on set from time to time visiting a friend who worked on the crew.
b.
The Blue Rajas car is a Messerschmit KR200 Kabinenroller, a three-wheeled bubble car designed by the aircraft engineer Fritz Fend and produced in the factory of the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt in the 1950s and early 1960s.
c.
Jessica Simpson
auditioned for the role of Nancy Callahan.
d.
Blake Dennis
and
Lark Geib
were filmed as children, then the film was shelved for ten years to film the rest with the same actors playing the young adult counterparts.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
As
Steven Spielberg
refused to cut the violent scenes, the film was banned in Malaysia.
b.
The cadets at the military academy were real students at the Lake Geneva, Wisconsin military academy the film was shooting at.
c.
Although the grand majority of the movie was shot against green-screen, there were three practical (i.e. hand-built) sets created: Kadies bar Shellies apartment the hospital in the epilogue.
d.
King Moody
s final film.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
Although the film was written by writer
Ben Best
and actor
Danny McBride
, the dialogue is heavily improvised. Director
David Gordon Green
said there was never a script used on-set. Only the plot outline and written notes were used.
b.
The hat
Brad Pitt
wears in the kitchen sequence he found abandoned on the boardwalk in Venice, California. He took it, washed it, and wore it for the film.
c.
In the graphic novel, the Yellow Bastards (
Nick Stahl
) car is an Atlantic 57C Bugatti. However, it was changed to a 1936 Cadillac Limo for the film because it wouldve cost over $230,000 to use the Bugatti for four shooting days. Also, the Yellow Bastards license plate is "TYB 069." The first half is TYB, the initials for the story "That Yellow Bastard."
d.
This was Kevin Fosters very first film. He wrote, produced and played the lead role of Harvey Radford.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
The sacking of original director
David M. Evans
, replacing him with
Richard Donner
, and later re-shoots following test screenings meant that this modest little films budget jumped from $15 million to $30 million.
b.
Despite appearing in all three of the major stories,
Brittany Murphy
filmed all of her scenes in one day.
c.
The film was named after the projects in Nashville, Tennessee, that are known as "Dodge City" because of all the gunplay that goes on there.
d.
Composer
Bruce Broughton
scored the film as a favor for
Barry Sonnenfeld
, who was also his neighbor and best friend.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
It was
Benicio Del Toro
s idea to have Jackie Boy pry the gun out of his cut off hand using his teeth.
b.
Writer
Tom Gries
wouldnt sell this movies film-script to the Paramount Pictures studio unless he got to direct this movie.
c.
Recipient of the Toronto Film Festivals International Critics Award.
d.
Oliver Stone
initially wanted
Jon Voight
to play the lead role, but was turned down by him.
Christopher Walken
and
Dustin Hoffman
also declined the role.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
The text of the newspaper shown during "The Hard Goodbye" has a written transcript of the opening scene and "The Hard Goodbye". The author of the article is F. Miller. Accoring to the paper, the story either takes place in 1993 or 1999.
b.
The character of Static remarks about radars use of a two-way radio and that "Dick Tracy used it before it was invented." Static is played by
Ralph Byrd
, who was the first to portray Dick Tracy on screen in 1937.
c.
The Hollywood Reporter of 3 December 1943 announced that this movies World Premiere in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was a Charity Benefit to aid crippled children.
d.
When J. Worthington Foulfellow attempts to coax Pinocchio to go to Pleasure Island, he gives the little puppet a card with an Ace of Spades on it, calling it his "ticket". In popular myth and folklore, the Ace of Spades is referred to as "The Death Card".
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sin City (2005)?
a.
Body Count: 41 (Extended Edition Included) This *does not* include deaths which occurred "offscreen", but resulted in on screen corpses.
b.
Rick Boyle
was living in his car when
Oliver Stone
first read his stories about Salvador.
c.
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.
d.
The bed-clothing on the bed Karen falls ill on is mostly white and covered with fir tree stencils. White is a color associated with medical treatment and fir trees are culturally know for the antiseptic properties of their oil. The bed-clothing on the bed Marcy has sex with two different men on has a red, floral design. The color red is often representative of passion and flowers are symbols for sex/sexuality.
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