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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Basketball Diaries (1995) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Basketball Diaries (1995) Quiz
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About the movie:
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Basketball Diaries (1995)?
a.
The original script, "The Rogues Gallery," was a 2004 Scriptapalooza finalist and tied for "Best Comedy" at the Screenwriting Expo 3 Screenwriting Contest.
b.
Jim Carroll
:
c.
Official selection, 2011 Carolina Film & Video Festival.
d.
All of the dialogue for actor
Mike Henry
("Sgt. Kulozik") was dubbed. The actors slight Southern drawl did not fit in with the New York cop character he was playing.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Basketball Diaries (1995)?
a.
The Chicago Daily Times merged with the Chicago Sun in 1948, the year this movie was released, and became known as the Chicago Sun-Times which is still in business as of 2011.
b.
After being nominated for an Oscar for
Running on Empty
, MTV asked
River Phoenix
what he wanted to do next. He responded by pulling out a beat up paperback of "The Basketball Diaries" and stated "I wanted to play Jim Carroll." Later, the Los Angeles Times declared, "River Phoenix may have wanted it too much."
Leonardo DiCaprio
was a fan of Phoenixs.
c.
CW Feed & Seed the fictitious veterinary feed supply company is name after Charles W. Nelson the Executive Producer of the film.
d.
The film was banned in Malaya and Singapore.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Basketball Diaries (1995)?
a.
Based on
Robert E. Sherwood
s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
b.
This film was shot in three weeks.
c.
This is the fifth EON Productions James Bond movie not to mention the films name in a song during the opening title sequence. The others were (in order)
Dr. No
,
From Russia with Love
,
On Her Majestys Secret Service
and
Octopussy
("All Time High"). Note that the lyrics "From Russia With Love" are not heard during the opening titles of that movie as the instrumental not vocal version of the song is heard.
d.
Stephen Lang was offered the role of Jims Basketball Coach named Swifty in the script. Lang declined citing the misrepresentation of the book in the script. The part was subsequently toned down as a result.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Basketball Diaries (1995)?
a.
Many links to The Sopranos -
Lorraine Bracco
(Dr Melfi) plays Jims mom.
Michael Imperioli
(Christopher Moltisanti) plays the friend who dies of Leukemia.
Vincent Pastore
(Big Pussy) is the guy that gets spat on whilst on the ferry.
b.
Alan Alda
said what inspired the film was an actual incident where he judged a friend too harshly. He realized that not only was he wrong, that friendship goes through "seasons"; so he wrote the script based on that notion.
c.
When Obi popped out of the furnace he hit
Glenn Plummer
s (Jonass) eye. They had to stop filming for half an hour to make sure he was okay. He can be seen turned around in one shot, and holding his eye in another.
d.
Goku is seen in a poster wearing a sweatshirt with Japanese characters on them. These characters (actually the same one repeated over and over) are the Japanese character "kame", which means "turtle". This was the symbol any student of Master Roshi (who is also known as the Turtle Hermit) would wear.
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