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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Surviving Picasso (1996) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Surviving Picasso (1996) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Surviving Picasso (1996).
About the movie:
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Surviving Picasso (1996)?
a.
Sandra Bullock
co-wrote and performed the song "Heaven Knocking On My Door" in this film.
b.
Cliff is also wearing a shirt with
Edie Sedgwick
s face on it when he is delivering flowers.
c.
Some reviews credited
Charles Middleton
with the role of "Johnson," but that part was played by
Guy Usher
.
d.
Joss Ackland
played author
C.S. Lewis
in a television production of
Shadowlands
.
Anthony Hopkins
played Lewis in the film
Shadowlands
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Surviving Picasso (1996)?
a.
Despite the high security at the U.N. and terror alerts, crew members were allowed to bring in knives for their work.
b.
"The Dionne Quintuplets" appears before the title frame, and the individual quintuplet photographs with their first names appear in the frame after the title. Since they do not appear in the comprehensive cast list at the end, they are listed first in the IMDb cast list, according the IMDb policy.
c.
Marlon Brando
was once interested in playing Pablo Picasso and was trying to reduce weight on a banana diet.
d.
The director and two of the actors in this film were actually anchors/reporters at KTVO television in Kirksville, Missouri (The station about which the film is loosely based). All cast and crew members were employed at KTVO at the time of filming.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Surviving Picasso (1996)?
a.
The fifth-highest grossing film of 1969.
b.
Shot in 1985 not released until 1987, after extensive re-shooting and re-editing, resulting in director
Lee Madden
demanding that his name be removed from the credits. It was, replaced by the fictional "Alan Smithee".
c.
Hopkins ate the same diet as Pablo Picasso during filming.
d.
Stan Laurel
turned down an invitation to appear in this film. When his partner
Oliver Hardy
died in 1957, Laurel pledged never to perform again. He never did.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Surviving Picasso (1996)?
a.
David Fincher
had originally planned to direct and intended to make a three hour version shot entirely in black and white. Fincher subsequently left the project apparently because he doubted that he would be able to make the film exactly the way he envisaged.
b.
Told from the perspective of the character Dave Robichaux, who appears in every scene.
c.
Doris Day
wrote that she was unhappy making this film, which brought back stressful memories of her early career as a band singer, and also because
Kirk Douglas
and
Lauren Bacall
(having dated at one time in real life) seemed to intentionally shut her out, making her feel unwelcome.
d.
Merchant Ivory Productions faced strong objections from Francoise Gilot and her son, Claude, when making this film. Claude Picasso met once with the Merchant-Ivory team but then strongly objected to the making of the film, petitioning the studio to stop production. Gilot had written her story in the book "Life with Picasso" in 1964, which Picasso had tried to stop from being published; the filmmakers were unable to acquire the rights. Instead they used
Arianna Huffington
s "Picasso: Creator and Destroyer" as the basis for
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
s script.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Surviving Picasso (1996)?
a.
One of the production-used dolls was auctioned off on eBay.
b.
The third and final film in which
Ramon Novarro
and
Lewis Stone
both appeared, though they have no scenes together.
c.
A few years after this film,
Anthony Hopkins
had already signed on to play Hannibal Lecter again in
Hannibal
, but
Jodie Foster
had declined. When director
Ridley Scott
let Hopkins know what actresses were being considered to play Clarice, Hopkins remembered how much he enjoyed working with
Julianne Moore
on this film, and recommended her.
d.
When producer Samuel Goldwyn bought the rights to the property in the mid-1940s for his remake, The Kid from Brooklyn (with Danny Kaye in the lead role), he also bought the original negative and almost all existing prints, and destroyed them. Harold Lloyd, however, had preserved his own original nitrate release print, which became the source for the new digital video transfer used by TCM and subsequent DVD releases.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Surviving Picasso (1996)?
a.
Harry Dean Stanton
- playing the veteran Chief Engineer, Howard - actually served in the navy during WWII.
b.
Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro were considered for the leads.
c.
Lindsey Buckingham
was approached to write the theme song to after the successful collaboration for
Vacation
("Holiday Road"). He declined because he didnt want to get into the rut of being asked to write movie themes.
d.
The film was known as "King Of The Mountain" and "Dirty Rotten Criminals" during its early stages.
John Cleese
,
Richard Dreyfuss
and
Michael Palin
were considered for the role of Lawrence before
Michael Caine
was eventually cast.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Surviving Picasso (1996)?
a.
The film begins in the then standard square frame format before expanding into the much wider Todd AO format. This was done solely to showcase the size of the screen.
b.
The character played by
David Cronenberg
is named Dr. Philip K. Decker, a reference to sci-fi author
Philip K. Dick
. Deckard was the last name of the protagonist in Dicks "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", which was later adapted as
Blade Runner
.
c.
Reproductions of Picassos art work were not allowed to be used in the film; however, the estates of Henri Matisse and Georges Braque allowed their work to be represented.
d.
The interpolated murder sequence at the end of the film was shot in the New York production studio of adult film director
Carter Stevens
.
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