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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Color of Money (1986) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Color of Money (1986) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Color of Money (1986)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986).

About the movie: Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		Sid Phillips is said to be inspired by a former Pixar employee of the same last name who was known to disassemble toys and use the parts to build bizarre creations.
b.		Helen Gahagan, a Broadway actress and sometime opera singer, was cast in the title role after an extensive talent search. Although the film made her famous, her screen presence was so negligible that it proved to be her only starring role.
c.		Originally shown as a 45-minute film at a number of film festivals. It was then extended to feature length when Pacific Film Fund joined the project as executive producers.
d.		When Vincent comes to Eddies room near the end of the movie to tell him that he let Eddie beat him, the music playing in Eddies room is jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker performing "Ill Remember April." Two years after TCOM was made, Forest Whitaker, who also hustled Eddie in this movie, portrayed Parker in Clint Eastwoods film Bird.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		Max Baer, whos paternal grandfather was Jewish, boxed with a Star of David embroidered on his trunks. The star is visible on Baers red trunks throughout his fight with Braddock in the final fight scene.
b.		Throughout the film Joel Miller opens a number of scenes with Jason Barry posed to reference famous pieces of art. Jacques-Louis Davids "Death of Marat," Michelangelos distorted, disconsolate self portrait that is within "the flayed skin" Bartholomew holds in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelos "Pieta," and Roudins "The Thinker."
c.		The cue used in the film was not a genuine Balabushka, but a Joss, made to look like a Balabushka.
d.		The eighth of ten movies starring Ann Sothern as the heroine Maisie Ravier.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		Tom Cruise did his own trick shots for the film, except for one in which he had to jump two balls to sink another. Scorsese said he could have let Cruise learn the shot, but it would have taken two extra days of practice, holding up production and costing thousands of dollars. The shot was instead performed by professional player Michael Sigel.
b.		Film debut of Lynn Bari.
c.		Several crates of simulated snow as seen on the Hoth Hangar set were taken along to Finse, Norway, just in case there was not enough real snow lying about.
d.		At the end of the movie, during the big race to the finish, a black Trans Am appears. The driver of the car is seen in the foot race scene and Captain Chaoss dressing down scene. The driver is wearing the Bandits jacket worn by Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit II.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		Michael Thomas Dunn: the indie filmmaker makes an appearance as a street racer in the warehouse scene (driving a modified PT Cruiser).
b.		Mayim Bialik did not actually sing on camera. Bette Midler wanted someone who sounded like she did at that age, so they used someone elses voice.
c.		The voice explaining 9-ball is director Martin Scorseses.
d.		For the D-Day landing, director Henry Koster used only eighty soldiers and two LCVPs (Higgins Boats aka Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel landing craft).

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		In the scene where Steve (Campbell Scott (I)) is buying pregnancy tests and comes across the grocery cashier (Jeremy Piven), the cashier mentions that he knows him from "Mr. Deegans class". Mr. Deegan is a teacher mentioned in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which Cameron Crowe wrote.
b.		Paul Thomas Anderson made a visit to the set of Eyes Wide Shut, where he offered the role of Frank T.J. Mackey to Tom Cruise.
c.		Brian Hohlfeld did an uncredited re-write.
d.		Martin Scorsese: In the Atlantic City casino, the man walking a dog on a leash. The dog is Scorseses dog Zoe. Zoe is credited in the closing credits as "Dog Walkby."

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		Nearly all of the hotel scenes were shot at night to avoid disrupting hotel business.
b.		Paul Newman says the best advice director Martin Scorsese gave him, especially in humorous scenes, was: "Try NOT to be funny."
c.		The original story, "The Life of Lucy Gallant" by Margaret Cousins, appeared in the May 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping.
d.		The man imprisoned with Frank/Majczek, Tommy, whose name in real life was Theodore Marcin, was released from prison in 1950, five years after Majczek. Marcin was awarded $35,000 from the State of Illinois for his 17 years of imprisonment.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		For the role of Pris, Ridley Scott had initially wanted to cast Monique van de Ven after being impressed with her performance in Turks fruit, but she was unavailable.
b.		Film debut of Noah Beery Jr..
c.		At one point in the film, Eddie comments that it has been "25 years" since he last played. In real life, it had been 25 years (1961 - 1986) since The Hustler, where Newman had first played Fast Eddie.
d.		When one of the explorers is searching the whaling compound and walks past a door to a building, there is a shot from within the building in which the red light from the guys flare comes through the crack in the door to form a flat vertical beam thats picked up by the dust/snow from inside the room, just like the blue-green scanner from the salvage scene at the beginning of Aliens.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
b.		Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and director Martin Scorsese both share the same birthday (November 17th).
c.		Lionel Barrymore would receive injections every hour to help relieve the pain of his arthritis.
d.		The original concept for Blade was to have him in heavy alien make up, chain mail, and a black rubber body glove. However, because of the daunting action sequences, Anthony De Longis feared for his health, so the rubber was trimmed away in the areas that the chain mail would not cover to allow his skin to breathe. De Longis also didnt want to wear heavy make up, so he offered to shave his head instead.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		Bruce A. Young, who plays Moselle, the man who Challenges Vince to play when Eddie is at the motel, also plays the transvestite prostitute who arrives to Joels house in Risky Business, another Tom Cruise movie.
b.		Robert De Niros performance is an impersonation of Martin Scorsese.
c.		The quote by Simone De Beauvoir LN recites, but cannot remember which book it is from ("One is not born, but rather becomes a woman") is from "The Second Sex".
d.		Sam Raimi wanted Bill Pope to be the films cinematographer, but Pope was busy working on The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Raimis second choice was Peter Deming, but he was working on Austin Powers in Goldmember.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Color of Money (1986)?
a.		Sherri Stoner was used as the model for Belle.
b.		The chainsaw used in this film was a Poulan 245A, with a piece of black tape covering the Poulan logo in order to avoid a possible lawsuit.
c.		"Shrek" means "monster" in Yiddish, and is derived from the German word "Schreck", which means "terror" or "fright".
d.		Many top pool players of the 80s were part of the cast and/or provided assistance, such as Steve Mizerak ("The Miz") who was the hefty player Eddie beat in Atlantic City; Jimmy Mataya ("Pretty Boy Floyd"), who was accompanying Julian (John Turturro) when he saw Eddie in Atlantic City; Keith McCready, who played Grady Seasons; and others such as Michael Sigel, Ewa Mataya Laurance, (who at the time was Jimmy Matayas wife) acted as pro shot makers and advisors who set up the shots for the actors, and Howard Vickery, the bearded man who was in the montage of people who Felson hustles.

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