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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The French Connection (1971) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The French Connection (1971) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971).
About the movie:
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
The satellites repeatedly send "CQ" in Morse code every time theyre seen. "CQ" is ham radio shorthand for "Anybody out there want to chat?" ("Seek you.")
b.
The film had an extremely limited release and quietly died at the box office, then about five years later it was purchased from
Michael Findlay
by producer/distributor
Allan Shackleton
who hired director
Simon Nuchtern
to add a fake "snuff" segment at the end of the film. Shackelton then retitled the film
Snuff
, took off the credits and promoted it as a genuine snuff film.
c.
Many viewers reviewed the motion picture in comparison to the cartoon, when it really was an adaptation of the toys only (which initially depicted He-Man as a barbarian in the first mini-comics (not Prince Adam or Orko). Ed Pressman was interested in the property before the cartoon was even aired and purchased the movie rights of the Mattel characters, not Filmations who had no involvement whatsoever in the film. Also it was logistically too complicated and expensive to include creatures such as Battle Cat.
d.
Robert Mitchum
claimed to have turned down the role of Popeye Doyle because he hated the story.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
The scene when Catherine Deane is chasing Carl through a stone hallway, right before she enters the room with the horse, is based on a painting by Swiss surrealist
H.R. Giger
called "Schacht".
b.
Both
James Caan
and
Peter Boyle
turned down the role of Popeye Doyle
c.
Gustavo Rojo
is dubbed by
Robert Rietty
d.
Portions of the film taking place in the Midwest were filmed outside Churchill Apartments in downtown Minneapolis.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
When Heather screams "What the **** is that?!" she is seeing one of the movie crew standing on a hill dressed in white with a ski-mask on. Mike was holding the camera as ran behind her and didnt manage to catch the image on film.
b.
Ed Flanders
was originally supposed to appear as the asylum warden, Dr. Temple, but assumed the role of Father Dyer as
William OMalley
(who played the part in
The Exorcist
) was too busy to reprise the role.
c.
Christopher Paolini
, author of the original novel, expressed his wishes to make a cameo appearance in the film, specifically a warrior who is beheaded in the battle of Farthen Dur. However, he was unable to due to the constraints of his European Book Tour.
d.
The chase sequence takes place beneath the West End subway line, whose proper letter marking in 1971 was a B (as of 2004, D). When equipment for the movie was chosen, the producers insisted on clean cars, and the only available clean cars were normally assigned to the N line and did not have B signs. Consequently, they operated during the movie with an N displayed in the front slot.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
The snake scale seen under the electron microscope was actually a marijuana bud.
b.
The appearance of the aliens was inspired in an old trading card collection that
Tim Burton
had collected.
c.
Bruno the Bear was only alert for about ten minutes a day, with which the production crew had to carefully schedule with the childrens two-hour work schedule.
d.
The car crash during the chase sequence, at the intersection of Stillwell Ave. and 86th St., was unplanned and was included because of its realism. The man whose car was hit had just left his house a few blocks from the intersection to go to work and was unaware that a car chase was being filmed. The producers later paid the bill for the repairs to his car.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
Robert Downey Jr.
read many Sherlock Holmes stories and watched
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Granada Television (starring
Jeremy Brett
) in order to learn more about the character.
b.
The whole of this movie was shot on the Warner Brothers backlot and sound stages.
c.
Even though there isnt a note of music during the spectacular car chase,
William Friedkin
cut that sequence to the tempo of
Carlos Santana
s "Black Magic Woman"
d.
The book Arnolds holding while betting on the football game is "Childhoods End" by
Arthur C. Clarke
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
Henry Rollins wrote the poem read at the poetry reading.
b.
When director
Wim Wenders
completed his work, the studio backing him was so dissatisfied with his work, he was ordered to re-shoot over 80% of the movie.
c.
The sequence on the Times Square-Grand Central shuttle took two full days to shoot (without permission from the Transit Authority), even though it lasts for only a few minutes on screen. Car 6609, an R-17, is preserved at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn. A different trainset was apparently substituted between the time filming of that scene began and ended because the car numbers are not the same when Fernando Rey finally outwits Gene Hackman and leaves him behind at the station.
d.
Juliets secretaries really do exist. They are called the Juliet Club and they volunteer to reply to letters left in Verona, as well as organize events in honor of Romeo and Juliet.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
Joey Brenners social security number reads: 567-34-5787. 567 is a prefix for California, which means the card was issued there. His passport id shows H1032642.
b.
Upon seeing the set for Hermiones bedroom,
Emma Watson
told the set decorators that there should be more books, which they happily accommodated.
c.
The conductor on the subway train was the actual conductor, whose name was Bob Morrone. The actor who was supposed to play the conductor didnt show up on the day that scene was to be filmed. In addition, the motorman was the actual motorman. The Transit Authority refused to allow an actor to operate a subway train.
d.
Nicol Williamson
has not acted in any other movie or TV projects since completing this film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
There is a noticeable comparison between
Humphrey Bogart
and
Charles Bronson
s acting careers, the two actors who starred in
Casablanca
and
Caboblanco
respectively. Both worked regularly with their respective spouses
Lauren Bacall
and
Jill Ireland
. Bogart worked with Bacall four times and Bronson worked with Ireland sixteen times. However, for
Casablanca
and
Caboblanco
, neither Bronson nor Bogart worked with their wife.
b.
The "Mil-24 Hind" in reality is a Sikorsky S-62, but modified to look like a gunship. The same helicopter was also used in the movie _Red Scorpion (1988)_.
c.
Originally the film was a more special-effects oriented, blockbuster-type movie and was turned down by
Al Pacino
five times. But when
Taylor Hackford
went through a few script re-writes he offered it to Pacino again. Pacino liked it, but didnt think he could portray Milton properly, and suggested
Sean Connery
or
Robert Redford
instead.
d.
Fernando Rey
was cast by mistake;
William Friedkin
wanted an actor he remembered seeing in
Belle de jour
, and the casting director thought it was Fernando Rey - who was hired. Only upon arriving at the airport to meet Rey did Friedkin see that it was not the actor he had been thinking of; he also learned that Rey spoke no French. Once at Reys hotel (the same one he stays at in the film), Friedkin called the casting director, who realized he had confused Reys name with that of the correct actor,
Francisco Rabal
. Friedkin considered firing Rey, but changed his mind once it was learned that Rabal wasnt available and didnt speak any English, either.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
Almost none of the Spanish spoken by Enrique Claudio actually makes sense.
b.
First ever villain in a James Bond movie to be played by two actors.
Toby Stephens
and
Will Yun Lee
played Gustave Graves and Colonel Moon (aka Colonel Moon-Sun) respectively. They are technically one character with two manifestations due to the genetic operation. The reverse occurred in
Live and Let Die
where
Yaphet Kotto
played both Mr. Big and Dr. Kananga.
c.
Roy Scheider
and
Gene Hackman
patrolled with
Eddie Egan
and
Sonny Grosso
for a month to get the feel of the characters. Hackman became disgusted at the sights he saw during this patrol. In one incident he had to help restrain a suspect in the squad car and later worried that he would be sued for impersonating a policeman.
d.
Dan McCormick (
Lon Chaney Jr.
) kills Dr. Paul Rigas (
Lionel Atwill
) with a jolt of electricity. In
The Ghost of Frankenstein
The Monster (
Lon Chaney Jr.
) kills Dr. Bohmer (
Lionel Atwill
) by pushing him into a control box electrocuting him.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
This was the eighth and final film pairing of
Errol Flynn
with
Olivia de Havilland
. The last scene they filmed together was Custers parting with his wife before his final campaign.
b.
According to director
William Friedkin
,
Peter Boyle
was originally offered the role of "Popeye" Doyle but turned it down due to his preference for more romantic roles. Legendary New York City newspaper columnist
Jimmy Breslin
was then hired to play "Popeye" Doyle, and completed three weeks of rehearsals with co-star
Roy Scheider
before Friedkin decided to recast the role. Breslins inability to drive was one of the main reasons for his dismissal.
c.
Alan Silvestri
wrote 24 minutes of score (including over seven minutes for the final credits) for a 143-minute film. Aside from the Russian chorus and the Elvis song from the beginning, there is not one single note of written musical score in the film until Noland leaves the island (1 hour and 43 minutes into the movie). Only then does the musical score come in: an oboe, piano and strings are all that Silvestri uses. Every musical cue is a variation on the same melody, which is heard in full at the end.
d.
Thomas Jane
did the film because his mother, a big
Stephen King
fan, told him to.
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