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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Conversation (1974) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Conversation (1974) - 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 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.
The interpolated murder sequence at the end of the film was shot in the New York production studio of adult film director
Carter Stevens
.
b.
A possible reason why
Leonardo DiCaprio
did not receive an Oscar nomination for his performance in this movie was because the Warner Bros. Studios initially did not want to favor DiCaprio over his co-stars and place him in the leading actor category. The studio favored DiCaprios leading performance in
Blood Diamond
(which eventually got him a nomination). DiCaprio himself refused to campaign against his male co-stars in the supporting actor category, so Warner bought no supporting actor ads for DiCaprio, and he did not receive a nomination.
c.
This movies opening prologue is a quote from
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
. It reads: "Today in the face of this newest and greatest challenge of them all, we of the United Nations have cleared our decks and taken our battle stations. It is the will of the people that America shall deliver the goods. It can never be doubted that the goods will be delivered by this nation, which believes in the tradition of DAMN THE TORPEDOES; FULL SPEED AHEAD" Franklin D. Roosevelt
d.
Extra scenes needed to complete the movie, including the one where Hackman discovers that the tape is gone, were filmed on the set of
Chinatown
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
Robert Duvall
: the director who hires Harry Caul.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 9, 1950 with
Paul Douglas
and
Jean Peters
reprising their film roles.
c.
Filming went on from 14 June 1982 to 22 April 1983.
d.
In the trailer, Broderick Crawford is credited as "Brod Crawford".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
Originally bought as a film property by Columbia Pictures in 1942 to star an all-white cast in blackface:
Al Jolson
as Porgy,
Rita Hayworth
as Bess, and
Fred Astaire
as Sportin Life. When that proved unrealistic, the property was sold to 20th Century Fox, where it was hoped to have been a follow-up to
Stormy Weather
.
Rouben Mamoulian
(who directed the original Broadway play) was announced as director and the following cast was announced:
Paul Robeson
as Porgy,
Lena Horne
as Bess,
Hattie McDaniel
as Maria,
Canada Lee
as Crown,
Cab Calloway
as Sportin Life and
Fredi Washington
as Clara. When Horne proved to be unavailable after Stormy Weather and Robeson clashed with Daryl Zanuck due to his political beliefs, the film was shelved until 1957 when it was bought by
Samuel Goldwyn
.
b.
Christopher Lee
has said in interviews that a chunk of his role was removed in editing.
c.
In the last shot of the movie, the camera pans from right to left and pulls back, just like a surveillance camera would do.
d.
Stanley Kubrick
had envisioned
Shelley Duvall
as his more timid, dependent version of Wendy Torrance from the very beginning. However
Jack Nicholson
after reading the novel, wanted
Jessica Lange
for the part of Wendy, and even recommended her to Kubrick, as he felt she fit
Stephen King
s version of the character. After explaining the changes he had made, Kubrick convinced him that Duvall was the correct choice, as she best suited the emotionally fragile Wendy he had in mind. Many years later, Nicholson told EMPIRE magazine he thought Duvall was fantastic and called her work in the film, "the toughest job that any actor that Ive seen had."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
A soundtrack LP for the film was issued featuring
Val Kilmer
singing and in-jokes such as a very brief total playing time, and it has since become a collectors item.
b.
Shortly before the opening assassination attempt on the US president, a number of portraits of past assassinated presidents are featured in the background:
Abraham Lincoln
,
John F. Kennedy
and
William McKinley
.
c.
When Harry Caul turns on the TV in the Jack Tar Hotel to blot out the sound of the murder in the neighboring room, the broadcaster is talking about Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal - itself triggered by a notorious piece of bugging.
d.
The photo seen by the Devils of Johnny Wadd sitting on a beach was a still taken of
John Holmes
during the filming of
Eruption
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Conversation (1974)?
a.
The Alex and Jacob rooftop scene was filmed on the roof of actor
Jim Henderson
s apartment building. Due to the extreme wind so high up, all of the audio needed to be re-recorded after the fact.
b.
Film debut of
Robert Morley
.
c.
Over a half hour of the film was cut before release, due to movie executives fearing it to be too long and a chance of upsetting fans of the book, making the movie a mere 91 minutes. In 2005, a "directors cut" DVD of this film was released that restores much of this footage.
d.
In the last scene where Harry tears apart his apartment,
Francis Ford Coppola
stated on the commentary that he has no idea where the bug is. Two ideas he mentioned were the saxophone strap, or that there was no bug and Harry was delusional.
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