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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Smithereens (1982) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Smithereens (1982) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Smithereens (1982).
About the movie:
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Smithereens (1982)?
a.
Filming started for this film in 1980. Co-writer and director Susan Seidelman had raised $20,000 for a feature length film and was quite competently managing the finances of the project. However, one night, lead actress Susan Berman was doing an improvisation with one of her fellow actors in the film which involved her character being tossed and trapped on a fire escape, and responding quite frantically to the situation. In the midst of acting and struggling with the other actor in the scene to let her back inside, Berman fell off the fire escape and broke her leg. Production shut down for six months and the crew picked up shooting again in early 1981.
b.
Slipknot
s "Wait and Bleed" is on the soundtrack.
Slipknot
is known for wearing masks.
c.
The character Sherrif Bannerman also appears in
The Dead Zone
, played by
Tom Skerritt
. The original novel functions as an indirect sequel, as the serial killer Frank Dodd is mentioned several times, and may have possessed Cujo.
d.
Writer-producer-director
Paul DeNigris
began writing the movie in 1995, while living on West Ferry Street in Buffalo.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Smithereens (1982)?
a.
LL Cool J
s line, "Comb your hair!" was ad-libbed, inspired by
Josh Hartnett
s messy haircut.
b.
Director Susan Seidelman told her actress Susan Berman to see the Federico Fellini film Nights of Cabiria (1957) before beginning to research her role.
c.
Two weeks after the end of shooting many of the locations were submerged by Hurricane Ivan.
d.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Smithereens (1982)?
a.
Chris Noth
s film debut.
b.
Several people are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names):
Edgar Buchanan
(Doorman),
Walter Sande
(Charlies Photographer),
Frank Darien
(Greenwich Editor),
William Austin
(Hotel Manager),
Nell Roy
(Telegraph Operator) and
Mary Gordon
(Scrub Woman).
c.
The cinematographer invented a "tire-cam" which is a camera cushioned inside a tire and behind Plexiglas. This allowed the professional boxers to hit the tire to create realistic reactions from a first-person point-of-view.
d.
The production had planned to recreate the Tower of London in Caernarfon, North Wales but later decided on doing the tower digitally.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Smithereens (1982)?
a.
In an oft-seen publicity picture of the three female leads posing on a bed, Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers and Marcia McBroom wear same outfits worn (respectively) by original Valley Of The Dolls stars Sharon Tate, Patty Duke and Barbara Parkins in similar bed publicity shot used in ads and soundtrack album cover of first film.
b.
Tom Berenger
auditioned for the part of "Jack Barlowe" that went to
William Katt
.
c.
One of the first American independent films to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
d.
This film is based on a true case in Philadelphia of a boy found dead in 1957. The boys body, bruised and naked, was found in a cardboard box in a patch of woods off a dirt road on the citys outskirts in February 1957. He was a symbol of child abuse at its worst. To this day, he has no name.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Smithereens (1982)?
a.
Shooting lasted from April 11-May 1, 1944, released September 22.
b.
Kenny Baker
(of R2-D2 fame) played a Nelwyn musician, as did his long time comedy partner
Jack Purvis
.
c.
Lead actress Susan Berman had no prior experience acting in a film. She was picked out of a theater crowd of an off-off-off-off Broadway play by director Susan Seidelman to be in this film. In the words of Berman, "The only ones in the crowd were friends of the actors, or someone who knew someone who was involved. After the performance, these two people walked up to me and offered me a role in a feature length movie."
d.
This film was shot in 12 days in 15 locations around metro-Atlanta.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Smithereens (1982)?
a.
Thunderlips (
Hulk Hogan
) is billed at a height of 7 feet despite Hogan only being 66. This was because in the first two films, Rocky was billed as 61, whereas
Sylvester Stallone
is only 510. Because Hogan is genuinely 8 inches taller than Stallone, to maintain the illusion that Rocky was over 6 foot tall, Thunderlips had to be billed as being taller than the actor portraying him.
b.
Susan Seidelmans crew consisted of friends and people with whom she had worked at New York University film school when she was a student there.
c.
The only shooting done in Brooklyn (primarily the film is set at two locations, inside the apartment and outside when Michael does animal exercises by the East River in Manhattan) was for the opening fight scene. Director
Zack Abramowitz
chose the location during a scout led by friend and sound mixer
Jason Friedman-Mendez
, who originally used the location for his first short film. The scene was shot several times, with the longest take running eight minutes; one unbroken shot of pure improvisation, which was ultimately used in the finished film (if you look closely you can see the crew standing by and laughing while Zack is continuing the scene - when he tells them to "shut up.").
d.
14 dummies fall off the bridge when it is cut. Batteries inside them operate their leg and arm movements to make it look like theyre really kicking and flailing.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Smithereens (1982)?
a.
In one scene as Gidgets father and mother are waiting for her to return, her mother says to her dad "Who did you expect, Kim Novak?" Her dad had played Howard Bevins in
Picnic
starring Kim Novak.
b.
The original seed of this film was a string of ideas for a feature on which Susan Seidelman had made extensive notes in 1979. She called Columbia Universitys screenwriting program to find someone to help her turn these loose ideas into a screenplay. Ron Nyswaner, an up-and-comer in the Columbia screenwriting program, met with Seidelman. Ultimately, Nyswaner helped Seidelman write the screenplay for the film.
c.
The Fire Engine 17 used in the movie was purchased by a Volunteer EMS/Fire company in North Eastern PA and is currently under renovations to restore it back to active duty as a first due unit after several years of storage.
d.
When Phil and Hercules first enter Phils hut, Hercules bangs his head on what Phil tells him is the mast of the Argo. In Greek mythology, Jason, the captain of the Argo, was killed when the mast hit his head.
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