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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Tender Mercies (1983) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Tender Mercies (1983) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Tender Mercies (1983).
About the movie:
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tender Mercies (1983)?
a.
First full length feature film of
John Hodiak
.
b.
Director
Leo McCarey
disliked working on this picture so much that he left it five days before it was supposed to wrap. His assistant,
David W. Orton
, finished shooting the picture.
c.
After this movie,
Ed Bianchi
did not direct another theatrical feature until
Off and Running
, a gap of about a decade.
d.
Allan Hubbard
, who plays Sonny, had his 10th birthday shortly after the film wrapped, and was preparing to celebrate it with his family at his home in Paris, Texas. He was pleasantly surprised when his co-star
Robert Duvall
showed up at his home and gifted him with a guitar for the occasion. Hubbard - who went on to teach guitar professionally - still owns the guitar to this day.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tender Mercies (1983)?
a.
Brian Levant
took over as director just after the start of filming, replacing
Steve Rash
.
b.
In the scene where the Hatter is making hats, there are two pictures next to the door where the Knave of Hearts enters. One picture is the Mock Turtle from "Alices Adventures in Wonderland" and the other is the Walrus from "Through the Looking-Glass".
c.
Robert Duvall
is really singing in the nightclub scene.
d.
The professional football league that Johnny Phoenix plays for, the XFL, was created in 2000 by WWE Owner
Vince McMahon
. It only lasted one season.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tender Mercies (1983)?
a.
Clint Eastwood
was the only nominee for the Best Actor Oscar in 2005 to play a fictitious character. All four of the other nominees portrayed real people in their respective films.
b.
The Troll design artist was fired seven days before production began, threatening the shoot until the morning of the first day.
c.
The film was originally released on March 4, 1983 in only three movie theaters in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. This was due perhaps in part to poor test screenings - which had caused Universal executives to lose faith in the film - but also because Universal had released the far more expensive and anticipated
Scarface
the same year, and was spending most of its advertising budget to promote that film instead. Country music star
Willie Nelson
was nonetheless one of several country performers who were impressed by the authenticity of
Robert Duvall
s performance and offered to help promote it, however, studio executives told Duvall that they did not understand how someone like Nelson could help publicize it. Duvall later reflected that this was indicative of the studios lack of understanding about both the genre and the film.
d.
Universal pictures (original production company) refused to release the film, believing it would be given an "NC-17" rating by the MPAA.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tender Mercies (1983)?
a.
Adolphe Menjoys character name, Melville Crossman, was a writing pseudonym used by Twentieth Century-Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck.
b.
This movie story takes place in 1939, six years after the first movie.
c.
"Over You" is sung by the actors in the film, but the soundtrack version is sung by
Lane Brody
(of "Yellow Rose of Texas" fame). This song was nominated for an Oscar, and the Lane Brody version was nominated for an Academy of Country Music award.
d.
An edited-out sequence near the beginning had Somerset looking over the country home hes planning on moving into. He uses his switchblade to cut loose a rose on a fragment of silk wallpaper and carries it with him throughout the movie. The rose falls out of his jacket as he is taking off his gun before eating with the Mills family. (This touch was edited out, too. Both sequences are in the supplementary section of the Criterion laserdisc.) The rose is briefly visible in the opening scene, sitting atop a handkerchief on Somersets dresser.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tender Mercies (1983)?
a.
Kathleen Turner
was originally offered the female lead role, but turned it down.
b.
This film, which is presumed lost, contains the earliest known appearance of the legendary Erich von Stroheim, who appears as an extra in a restaurant scene, proving he began his career at least two months before he appeared in "The Birth of a Nation."
c.
Wilford Brimley
was cast at the urging of
Robert Duvall
.
d.
Actress
Finty Williams
, who plays Lady Bracknell as a young dancer, is the daughter of Dame
Judi Dench
, who plays the older Lady Bracknell.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tender Mercies (1983)?
a.
According to the directors 2002 DVD commentary, most of the casting was done on the spot for this six-day shoot at the Black Sea in Romania. The hotel receptionist was played by the real hotel receptionist, the waiter by the real waiter, and so on. In their only known screen appearance, the three lead actresses are uncredited and the director claims not to even remember their names.
b.
When Mac was talking with the band about possibly joining them to record some songs, they stopped in front of a shop named "T.M. Harper Hardware".
Tess Harper
played Rosa Lee, Macs new wife.
c.
Hunter S. Thompson
s tribute to Oscar as he boards the plane was actually taken from "The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat: Fear and Loathing in the Graveyard of the Weird," and was later added to the forward of Acostas autobiography. The forward is little more than a quote, while the original article is a fascinating eulogy on the mysterious disappearance of his friend Oscar. The article is reprinted in its entirety in "The Great Shark Hunt", Hunter S. Thompson.
d.
The old Cole Porter make-up took 5 hours to complete.
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