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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Still of the Night (1982) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Still of the Night (1982) - 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: Still of the Night (1982).
About the movie:
A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
Drew Richards (The Manager) was a last minute replacement. The original role was written for a Cockney actor.
b.
The word Kraken (sea monster) is Norwegian/Swedish, not Greek. Early script drafts considered changing it to its Hebrew counterpart Leviathan (famous from the Bible story of Job 41). It was changed back to Kraken as a tribute to the original
Clash of the Titans
tagline "Release the Kraken!" Surprisingly, the creatures Greek name, Cetus, was never considered.
c.
Josef Sommer
as George Bynum is only ever seen in this movie in flashback.
d.
The line: "Stoli, straight up", referring to Stolichnaya brand vodka, is a hint both to the films subplot and to its ending.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
The projectionists records have revealed that over the years this has become one of the most frequently shown films in the screening room of The White House.
b.
The first Disney animated film to openly deal with warfare.
c.
This Hitchcockian pastiche has a psychiatrist lead character (played by
Roy Scheider
) and was made and released only a couple of years after
Brian De Palma
s
Dressed to Kill
which also was a neo-Hitchcock piece with a psychiatrist main character (played by
Michael Caine
).
d.
In the scene where
Teller
is being held down with ropes by audience members, the one closest to
Penn Jillette
is
James Randi
, aka "The Amazing Randi". A close friend and mentor, Randi wrote the book "The Faith Healers" and exposed psychic doctors to the public, a driving plot point in the film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
Philip Kaufman
started to direct the film but was replaced by
Clint Eastwood
, a controversial move which prompted the DGA to institute a ban on any current cast or crew member replacing the director on a film - a rule which has ever since been titled the "Eastwood rule." According to Eastwood biographer Marc Eliot part of the acrimony between the two married men was a result of both asking female lead Sondra Locke out to dinner on the same night.
b.
Jan Waters
interviewed for Guenevere.
c.
Wesley Snipes
has less than a hundred sentences in this movie, including one-word sentences (which make up a majority of Blades lines) and even onomatopoeic sentences, like Blades "goochie goo" to the baby he saves.
d.
This was the last film that
Meryl Streep
made before her Best Actress Academy Award winning role as Sophie in
Sophies Choice
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
Peter Lawford
gave
Elizabeth Taylor
her first on-screen kiss in this movie.
b.
The
Saw
&
Saw II
sets are so exact that they look as if theyre the same ones used in the original films. The Saw producers asked if they could use the bathroom set from this film for
Saw III
.
c.
Tom Cruise
was considered for a role, but in the end,
Idris Elba
was cast.
d.
This movies main poster has a tagline that reads "If looks could kill..." This phrase has actually been a movie title itself, see
If Looks Could Kill
(aka Teen Agent) as well as
If Looks Could Kill
;
If Looks Could Kill
and
If Looks Could Kill
. All these movies were made after
Still of the Night
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 19, 1947 with
Victor Moore
,
Don DeFore
, Charles Ruggles and
Gale Storm
reprising their film roles.
b.
Instead of a card reading The End the film ends with "Its Over" displayed on-screen.
c.
When director
Robert Benton
and
David Newman
co-wrote this films original story, the project had to be then shelved for a considerably long time when Benton went to work on the filmed adaptation of
Avery Corman
s
Kramer vs. Kramer
novel.
d.
EASTER EGG: To see some hidden special features on the R2 DVD navigate to the logbook in the upper right corner of the main menu and press select to enter, then enter the code 405 and select the master code for a list of all the special features available (some are otherwise only available in several hidden menus that must be found through mini-games on each menu).
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
Herman B. Wells
, the 11th president of Indiana University, Bloomington, University patriarch and longtime chancellor can be seen clearly in the crowd shots during the Little 500.
b.
Appearing in this neo-Hitchcock film,
Jessica Tandy
actually once starred in an
Alfred Hitchcock
film,
The Birds
.
c.
This movie was originally going to be filmed in England but it ended up being filmed in California, USA, on location there and at the Fox Studio back-lot.
d.
Although the film is legendary for having been shot in only two days,
Jonathan Haze
recalled in "The Little Shop of Horrors Book" that he was called back several weeks later for re-shoots.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
This film was based on an episode of
The United States Steel Hour
called "Fearful Decision" that first aired live on June 22, 1954. It was so well received it was restaged on May 10, 1955. A film was made from the drama called
Ransom!
that was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
b.
The music that plays when Kate talks to Zoe at her mothers grave is from the soundtrack to
Ladder 49
.
c.
Except for a single day on a soundstage, the film was shot exclusively at practical locations.
d.
This was the first movie that
Robert Benton
made after his multi Academy Award winning
Kramer vs. Kramer
where he won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
Writer
Jim Thompson
was originally hired to adapt his own novel for the movie. Thompson worked on the screenplay for four months and produced a prose treatment, a first draft, and alternate scenes and episodes. Thompsons script included the original borderline-surrealistic ending of the novel featuring the kingdom of El Rey.
Steve McQueen
objected to the depressing ending and had Thompson replaced with rising screenwriter
Walter Hill
.
b.
The events in the film take place AFTER the events of
Fast & Furious
and
Fast Five
.
Sung Kang
plays Han in this film ,
Vin Diesel
later shows up in a cameo in the final scene claiming to have "rolled with" Han. The opening scene of
Fast & Furious
shows the two working side by side until Han has to go his own way and go to Tokyo. All three films are directed by
Justin Lin
.
c.
The script for this movie was written by
Robert Benton
with
Meryl Streep
specifically in mind for the central part of Brooke Reynolds.
d.
Was supposed to be released in late 2001, but was postponed following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 because of terrorist plotlines in the film.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
Luke Benward
s favorite worm to eat was The Greasy Brown Toad Bloater Special.
b.
In the Madison Garden Sequence, only 650 of the spectators on camera were real extras, the other 1500 were inflatable dummies.
c.
In order to get extras for the wedding scene, Mitchell sent out real wedding invitations. Most of the people there thought they were going to a real wedding. He sold the wedding presents brought by the guest in order to have more funding for the film.
d.
Writer-Director
Robert Benton
once described this movie as "What happens to a man when he finds himself falling in love with a woman he fears." This question, the premise of the movie, resulted from Bentons own personal experiences.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Still of the Night (1982)?
a.
This movie represented the re-teaming of director
Robert Benton
with actress
Meryl Streep
. This was their second movie together, their first was
Kramer vs. Kramer
where they both won Oscars.
b.
Producer
Samuel Goldwyn
bought the rights for the property in the mid-1940s for his remake
The Kid from Brooklyn
, as well as the original negative and almost all existing prints, and destroyed them.
c.
In Brazil, dubber
Márcio Seixas
is the official voice of both
Rutger Hauer
and
Michael Caine
, and the regular voice of
Liam Neeson
and
Morgan Freeman
. Plus, he provides the voice of the character Bruce Wayne/Batman in many cartoons. For this movie, he voiced only Caine.
d.
The photo in the closing credits of the film was taken in 1886 by Camillus Fly, the famous Tombstone (AZ) photographer. The white boy in the photo is Jimmy (Santiago) McKinn, captured by the Apaches in 1885. Like the
Paul Newman
character in the film, McKinn was totally assimilated in the tribe and was rescued against his will when Geronimo surrendered in 1886.
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