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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Commitments (1991) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Commitments (1991) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Commitments (1991).
About the movie:
The travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the "World's Hardest Working Band," The Commitments, and bring soul music to the people of Dublin, Ireland.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commitments (1991)?
a.
Christie Hayes
was originally chosen by the director and producer to play Miranda, but the studio wanted
Kaylee DeFer
.
b.
Jimmy is waiting out front Galehers club (waiting for Wilson Pickett). Spray painted graffiti on the wall behind him is "killing joke". Although this may be familiar to UK viewers, its not so well known in the US -
Killing Joke
is a UK-based punk band, who were popular in the LA punk scene in the mid-1980s.
c.
The cover of the issue of "Playboy" that Papshmir is reading in his Learjet features
Anna Nicole Smith
, who plays Tanya Peters.
d.
The filmmakers used two different shopping malls for the scene where the doctor injects Tuck into Jacks rear. The opening scenes where the doctor runs in and heads for the elevator were shot in the Northridge Mall in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles (also the epicenter of the 94 quake). The scene where he reaches the top and rams the syringe into Jack was filmed on the top floor of the Sherman Oaks Galleria, another mall several miles away.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commitments (1991)?
a.
The filmmakers used real blood and gore donated from a local slaughter house.
b.
In the epilogue to the film you can see Bernie singing in a band called The Brassers (this name is on the drums). In the books closing chapters this is the band that Jimmy forms with Derek and Outspan after The Commitments have split up.
c.
The rooftop scene with
Dennis Franz
and
Nicolas Cage
sitting on scaffolding high above the city was shot for real. Both actors were afraid of heights.
d.
Panavision Inc. listed this feature as the second official feature to use the Genesis Digital Camera System after
Superman Returns
.
Dean Semler
would use this system in his subsequent features
Apocalypto
and
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commitments (1991)?
a.
Studio filming took place at sound stages at the Paramount Studios lot, which for the previous 18 years had been used solely for episodes of Star Trek. Director
J.J. Abrams
would later direct
Star Trek
.
b.
Catherine Oxenberg is the Granddaughter of Prince Paul and Princess Olga. She is playing her Grandmother.
c.
Gus full name is Octavius, presumably after the Roman Emperor.
d.
Glen Hansard had a difficult time during filming. A clash early on with director Alan Parker made it very difficult for him to enjoy the experience. It took him almost 20 years before he watched the full film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commitments (1991)?
a.
Harmonicas unfortunate brother is played by the production manager
Claudio Mancini
.
b.
When Neil opens the poetry volume, you can see the lines 304 to 310 of Alexander Popes "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot": But all such babbling blockheads in his stead Let Sporus tremble - A. "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asss milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings, On top of the page there is merely a title "Satires", because the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot is also known as Prologue to the Satires. Notice that in the final scene, Abby seems to continue Popes rhyme by saying: Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? I do, Neil ...
c.
Winner 2007 "Best B-Movie of the Year" B-Movie Film Festival, Syracuse, N.Y.
d.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
was a member of the band "The Black Velvet Band" before the movie was made. She was the only member of the cast with a notable career before the movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commitments (1991)?
a.
When the boys are discussing a possible name for their band, one suggestion put forward - "The Likely Lads" - was an in-joke nod to the films screenwriters
Dick Clement
and
Ian La Frenais
who had co-written the earlier British TV sitcom
The Likely Lads
.
b.
This is the second of two feature version of the serial "The Lost City (1935), with both versions bearing the serials title and released to theaters in 1935 along with the serial. Two additional feature versions were also made from the serial later on. This version encompasses material from the first four and last four chapters of the serial, omitting all material involving Arab slaver Ben Ali, the Spider People, and Queen Rama, but with the same beginning and ending as the serial. The serial and this feature version were among the first films sold to television in the late 1940s.
c.
Donnie Yen
, a martial arts star who plays a member of the Bloodpack (Snowman,) was also the films fight choreographer.
d.
Other endings shot in post-production that were scrapped included Mike being hanged, another had him bound to the wall with twigs in the manner of a stick figure. Stick figures themselves were experimented with as decorations in the final scene.
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