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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983).
About the movie:
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.
Unit director
James Cameron
got maggots to wriggle on a severed arm by passing an electric current through it, impressing a couple of producers and earning him his next job. And so a career was born.
b.
J.J. Bigas Luna was first slated to direct the film
c.
During the scene in the playground where Heather is talking about what happened at the funeral, right as she says, "Seeing Freddy in that grave seemed pretty real," a boy rides by on a bicycle wearing a sweater that is nearly identical to the one Freddy himself wears.
d.
The music for the film was originally composed by
Georges Delerue
, but it was rejected by Disney for a less somber score, and was replaced by
James Horner
s more upbeat score. Portions of Delerues score can be heard in the films theatrical trailer.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.
Filmed in and around Bowling Green, Kentucky. Many of the actors were students at Western Kentucky University at the time.
b.
Except for a few exteriors on the RKO backlot, the entire movie was shot on a soundstage
c.
Film debut of
Michael Constantine
.
d.
After a poorly received test screening, Disney held back the release of the movie for a year to re-edit it, film additional and replacement scenes (including special effects sequences), add an opening narration, and hire
James Horner
to rewrite a completely new score, all of which added millions to the budget. Its quite obvious when watching the film which scenes, such as the spider attack and the mirror maze climax, were filmed a year after production had initially wrapped. Reportedly Bradbury and the film makers were not pleased with the studios intervention nor the effects it had on the picture, which ended up being a flop when it was finally released in 1983 despite Disneys attempts to make it more audience friendly.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.
In the movie, Theo and Julians son Dylan died from a disease epidemic, while in the book Julians character was the one that is pregnant and the one Theo is protecting. In the book, Theo is married and divorced Helen and had a daughter named Natalie who was killed when Theo backed out of the driveway and accidentally ran her over. Both the film and book show this death as the reason for either relationships not working. The movie changed and combined two characters: Julian and Helena while creating Kee.
b.
Every day during filming
Errol Flynn
would drive on the Warner Bros. lot wearing a windbreaker with no shirt, slacks with no underwear and shoes with no socks. The wardrobe people would provide him with a shirt, underwear and socks, and at the end of the days filming he would wear them home. The next day he would arrive on the lot, again with no shirt, underwear or socks, and again he would be supplied those items by wardrobe. Co-star Paul Picerni (I) noticed it after several days, and asked Flynn what he did with all the shirts, socks and underwear hed accumulated after several weeks of filming. Flynn replied that he threw them in a closet when he got home. Picerni asked, "But what do you do with them?" Flynn replied, "Nothing. It just gives me pleasure to steal from Jack Warner."
c.
The A&E Biography episode on
Frances Farmer
(_Frances Farmer: Paradise Lost (2001) (TV)_) claims that she was cast in this film, but did not show up for rehearsal and was fired.
d.
Ray Bradbury
first wrote Something Wicked This Way Comes as a screenplay in 1952, after watching
Gene Kelly
in
Singin in the Rain
, which Bradbury thought the greatest musical ever made. Bradbury showed Kelly the screenplay, and Kelly was so impressed that he wanted to make it his next picture. When Kelly shopped the story around to potential backers, however, he was unable to raise any money for the project. It was only after this failure that Bradbury rewrote the story as a novel, which was published in 1962. Bradbury dedicated the novel to Kelly.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.
Scenes from the movie were filmed at the "Bird" house in Delray Beach, Florida. The mansion stood nearly completed and vacant for years before it was purchased. The new owner advertised in Variety for a movie company to use the mansion in a movie and blow it up. By the end of filming, only the swimming pool was left.
b.
Sam Peckinpah
briefly flirted with the idea of filming Ray Bradburys story but was unable to raise the necessary finance.
c.
The poem Richard finds and reads at the cottage is "Lalla-Rookh" (or Lala Rukh) written by Thomas Moore and published in 1817. In this poem, Lalla Rukh is the daughter of Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor. She is promised in marriage to the King of Bactria but falls in love with a poet she meets on the way to the kings palace. When she arrives, she collapses but comes to when she hears a familiar voice. The poet with whom she fell in love turns out to have been the king is disguise.
d.
Frank Coraci
: as the angry man that Fogg confronts in San Francisco while asking for money.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.
Pre-80s Disney regulars
Darren McGavin
, Dick van Dyke,
Dean Jones
were considered to play Charles Halloway.
Walter Matthau
,
Jack Lemmon
,
James Garner
,
Hal Holbrook
were also considered to play Charles Halloway as well.
b.
Sergio Leone
based the films visual style on the paintings of artists Reginald Marsh, Edward Hopper, and Norman Rockwell and Edgar Degas (for Deborahs dancing scenes) and the photographs of Jacob Riis (for the 1922 sequences).
c.
In the final performance, the routine used by the Toros actually do incorporate every dance style Torrance names while coming up with a new show.
d.
Fredric March
s character Ralph Hopkins is introduced with the exact same visual and plot premise as his character Jordan Lyman would be eight years later in
Seven Days in May
: pulling down his sleeve after his doctor takes his blood pressure and advises him to take things easy for a while for the sake of his health.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.
The movie was screened at The Guild Cinema in Albuquerque - the same theater where scenes from the movie were filmed.
b.
This was the last Disney movie to be released under the "
Walt Disney
Productions" banner. Later in 1983, the banner was replaced by "Walt Disney Pictures."
c.
Emerson knives were used in this film. These knives are handcrafted and extremely popular in law enforcement and military communities.
d.
Victoria Principal
was considered for the role of Ellen Brody.
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