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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Conversation (1974) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Conversation (1974) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974).
About the movie:
A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
James Kyson-Lee
auditioned for the role for Yamcha.
b.
The character of Verheiden was named after comic book writer
Mark Verheiden
, creator of the first Aliens vs Predator comic series and first story ever involving both species. It was released prior to the infamous alien "skull" in
Predator 2
, contrary to popular belief.
c.
Gene Hackman
s character was to have been named Harry Call, but a typing error led to his being name Harry Caul and the name stuck.
d.
Vincent Price
signed on after reading the first draft of the script. However, the studio demanded re-writes in order to reduce production costs. The re-writes reportedly removed much of what Price liked about the first draft.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
Jude Law
hated his appearance for the film and insisted on wearing a cap every time he wasnt on camera. Director
Sam Mendes
insisted that Law also remain paler than all of his co-stars.
b.
Eddie Quillan
said that
Cecil B. DeMille
had allowed him a lot of room for improvisation and even took suggestions for script changes, rare for any actor working for the notoriously controlling DeMille.
c.
The blue Mercedes limousine that
Cindy Williams
is sitting in near the end of the film was won by
Francis Ford Coppola
on a bet with Paramount Pictures. Coppola had complained about the station wagon he shared with five other passengers during the filming of
The Godfather
and studio execs told him if Godfather grossed a certain amount they would spring for a new car. After Godfather was a huge hit, Coppola and
George Lucas
went to a dealer and picked out the Mercedes, telling the salesman to bill Paramount.
d.
The monster-masked men paintings in Elis apartment are attributed to Mexican artist
Miguel Calderón
and were part of his 1998 exhibit "Aggressively Mediocre/Mentally Challenged/Fantasy Island (circle one)", though they were not actually painted by him. Calderón took photographs of his friends posed on motorcycles and, after deciding the photographs were not realistic, hired a portrait painter to reproduce them on canvas.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
Reportedly
Gene Hackman
s favorite movie in which he has acted.
b.
Ramonas cat "Gideon" from the comic book series is not in the film, but an image of the same cat is seen on the mug Scott is drinking out of in the beginning of the movie.
c.
Joseph Cotten
,
Alan Ladd
and
William Powell
were all considered for the
Edmond OBrien
role, but they all passed.
d.
John Travolta
suggested
Sylvester Stallone
to producer
Robert Stigwood
after Travolta saw
Rocky III
while on vacation in Hawaii. Stallone loved the film, and told Stigwood that if he could pull off sequels that well, he would be the ideal choice for directing Staying Alive.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
Nicholas Roget-King
originally auditioned for the part of Ethan.
Slade Pearce
also first auditioned for a part different to the one he ended up getting.
b.
Gene Hackman
later plays a former NSA agent who is a surveillance expert in
Enemy of the State
, and the images of his character in his younger days are taken directly from this film.
c.
The climatic train crash at the end of the film was shot in an airplane hanger.
d.
This was the only Halloween movie never released in Italy.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
In 2008, a Californian man who found a little black dress in his closet was stunned when appraisers for U.S. TV series
Antiques Roadshow
determined it once belonged to
Marilyn Monroe
. The frock - which Monroe was sewn into for
Some Like It Hot
- was estimated to be worth $250,000
b.
Robert Shields
, who plays the mime in the Union Square sequences, actually was a street mime in Union Square at the time.
c.
Based on the events of May, 1969, when fugitives Robert and Ila Fae Dent kidnapped Department of Public Safety trooper Kenneth Crone, commandeered his car, and led police law enforcement officials on a chase from outside Port Arthur, through Houston, up to Navasota, and on to Wheelock, where Ila Fae Dents mother lived. At one point, a motorcade of more than 150 police cars and reporters joined the pursuit. FBI agent Bob Wiatt (who retired in 2004) confronted them at the mothers home and was forced to shoot Robert Dent, who was armed, in the neck, killing him. Wiatt wrestled Ila Fae to the ground and handcuffed her.
d.
Harrison Ford
,
Michael Douglas
, and
Richard Gere
all turned down the male lead, expressing reservations about the subject matter.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
The film was one of the first to be voted onto the National Film Registry (1989).
b.
The Jack Tarr Hotel, site of the grisly murder scene in room 773, is today (2000) the Cathedral Hill Hotel located on Van Ness Avenue at Geary.
c.
Although this movie was a sequel to "Going My Way", it was released by a different studio. "Going My Way" had been released by Paramount, to whom Bing Crosby was under contract. "The Bells of St. Marys" was released by RKO, a studio for which Crosby had never worked.
d.
Greer Garson
married
Richard Ney
who played her son in the movie!
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
In the films trailer, dance director
Jack Baker
and director
Gordon Douglas
appear on the set of the film along with the stars.
b.
"Rhapsody in Blue," originally planned by director
Eric Goldberg
as a stand-alone independent film, was an eleventh-hour addition to the lineup. "The Nutcracker Suite" from the original
Fantasia
was originally planned for this spot, until a production hiatus allowed Goldberg an opportunity to allow the Disney animators to work on "Rhapsody in Blue." See the trivia for
The Emperors New Groove
c.
Both Eldon Hensons and Seth Greens character names (Mick & Pnub) are based on the SNL skit where Eddie Murphy played an illiterate character named Buckwheat, who sang popular (at the time) songs in a way that he wasnt understood half the time. In one skit, he sings the song "Lookin for Love" and sings "Wookin pa nub in a da wong paces..." It can be heard on the commentary that both Micks and Pnubs names are based on this skit. (If you say "Mick & Pnub" quickly it almost sounds exactly alike.)
d.
Timothy Carey
was originally cast as Bernie Moran. Production was shut down until he was replaced with
Allen Garfield
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
Sylvester Stallone
himself wrote the paperback novelization for this movie. The novel is mostly in first person, from Rockys point of view, written in the same choppy English in which Rocky speaks. Scenes in which Rocky is not present (such as Apollo Creed consulting his associates, or Paulie alone with Adrian) are in standard third-person, in proper English.
b.
Coppola had written the outline in 1966 but couldnt get financing until
The Godfather
became a success.
c.
When the film opened in Baltimore, Maryland, the theater was picketed by religious groups, the Catholic Legion of Decency gave it a "C" (Condemned) rating and the Maryland Board of Censors threatened to have it banned in the state. All of that publicity resulted in the picture doing $32,000 worth of business in the first week at a time when theater admission prices were 25 cents.
d.
Although the lensing of this movie was done in the summer of 1995, the movie was not finished for another decade. A copyright year of 1997 is displayed in the end credits.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
Some theater chains threatened not to screen the movie at all when distributor 20th Century Fox announced plans to rush it to VHS and DVD a mere six weeks after its opening weekend, but Fox ultimately relented and pushed the release date back a number of months. After the opening-weekend flop, Fox reinstated the original release schedule.
b.
By the time the ending of the film was changed, allowing Henry Frankenstein to live,
Colin Clive
was no longer available for additional scenes. For the shot of Henry in long shot in the bedroom behind his father, he was played by another actor; tradition has long held that it was future cowboy star
Robert Livingston
filling in for him.
c.
Due to creative differences on this shoot, veteran cinematographer
Haskell Wexler
was replaced by DP
Bill Butler
d.
A comic book mini-series prequel to the film was written by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman with art by Bruno Redondo. It is published by WildStorm, an imprint of DC Comics.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
Opening aerial shot taken from atop what was then the City of Paris department store. Today (2000) its a Neiman-Marcus.
b.
Josh Brolin
played President George W. Bush in
Oliver Stone
s previous film
W.
and
Frank Langella
played President Nixon in an Oscar nominated performance in
Frost/Nixon
released the same year. Stone directed another film on President Nixon,
Nixon
, in which
Anthony Hopkins
was the first actor to be nominated for an academy award for Best Actor playing Nixon. Furthermore, the real President
George W. Bush
was in office when the financial crisis depicted in the film occurred, and the film
W.
was released near the same time in 2008. A poster of
W.
is visible in Brettons office, and it is the only acknowledgment that President Bush is President in the films alternate reality of 2008.
c.
Inspector Todd of the Detroit Police was played by then Detroit Police Department Homocide Dectective
Gilbert R. Hill
. Det Hill later ran and won a seat on and served as President of the Detroit City Council.
d.
Marcia Mae Jones
received fan mail from disabled children all over the world after playing Klara in this movie.
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