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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Hard Way (1991) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Hard Way (1991) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Hard Way (1991).
About the movie:
An action film star researching a role is allowed to tag along with a hardboiled New York cop, who finds him superficial and irritating.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hard Way (1991)?
a.
Writer and Producer
Doug Kenney
passed away after the film was released. He had accidentally fallen off a cliff while on vacation in Hawaii. He had been in a deep depression after the film was in post-production as much of the original story had been butchered in the editing room and he was adamantly against the final addition of the gopher to the film.
b.
The male supermodel
Fabio
is briefly seen helping people out of the night club the first time the Party Crasher hits a club at the beginning of the movie.
c.
The most famous scene of this film originated by an accident. In the filming of a chase scene down a steep slope,
Buster Keaton
inadvertantly dislodged some rocks which tumbled down after him as if in pursuit and he had to scramble to dodge them. At a preview showing, Buster saw that that accident got the biggest laughs in the film. Thus inspired, Buster decided to reshoot the scene with over a hundred papier-maiche "rocks" with sizes ranging from pebbles to six foot boulders so his character would have to deal with a massive avalanche in the scene.
d.
The cameo by
Leo Gorcey
marked his first appearance on film since he left the Bowery Boys series in 1956.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hard Way (1991)?
a.
On one of Fred Allens "Texaco Star Theater" radio broadcasts circa 1941, Allen joked that Don Ameche was playing so many real-life characters in movies, if he wasnt careful Don Ameche would play Don Ameche in a movie one of these days. In this picture, Don Ameche indeed played Don Ameche - in a scene opposite Fred Allen.
b.
Loosely inspired by a true event that took place in the early 80s where a drifter (like Sean Penns character) passed through a remote Southwestern road-stop only to never be heard from again.
c.
Robert De Niro
and
Illeana Douglas
s scenes were improvised.
d.
The film was originally slated to shoot for 16 weeks, but was reduced to 13 because producer/second unit director
Rob Cohen
was shooting at the same time as
John Badham
in different locations to save more time and money.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hard Way (1991)?
a.
During the club scene where The Party Crasher makes his first on screen kill, the song "Momma Said Knock You Out" is playing in the background. This was
LL Cool J
s hit single at the time, and he also features as one of
James Woods
NYPD partners in the film.
b.
Originally rated R by the MPAA, but changed to PG-13 after a topless scene was cut.
c.
Most of the scenes were done in one take. The NBC lobby scene, and
The Dating Game
montage are done completely in one take; the actors ran around to get into position.
d.
The role of Payton was the most heavily auditioned, with around 20 girls reading for the part, including
Olivia Kinter
who ended up being cast as Natalia. The role ultimately was given to
Olivia Sutton-Smith
immediately after her audition.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hard Way (1991)?
a.
Director
Tobe Hooper
was once attached to direct this and
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
early in pre-production.
b.
Ellen Burstyn
reprises her role from the Broadway production.
Alan Alda
replaces
Charles Grodin
from the original company.
c.
After gaining popularity through his success in the serum run, Balto was casted as the main character in a few of Alaskas silent films. This made him one of the first animal actors in film history.
d.
According to the baseball cap that Captain Brix puts on (just before the end credits roll), the movie that Nick Lang has been working so hard to nail the audition for is called "The Good, The Badge, and The Ugly".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hard Way (1991)?
a.
During his audition,
Thomas Haden Church
stripped naked because that was what the scene called for. He later learned that he was the only actor to do that.
b.
Greg Kinnear
s Juice Shop was originally a tea shop, but was changed because juice is funnier.
c.
American film debut of
Jeremy Northam
.
d.
The billboard used for the climatic sequence in Times Square was originally a flat 2D billboard, but was later changed to the final version seen on screen because it could not be recreated on a sound stage.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hard Way (1991)?
a.
All the Baku buildings were created using a foam-like material cut by computer.
b.
Spencer Tracy
s 11 minute closing speech was filmed in one take.
c.
Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt were interviewed for roles in this project
d.
Mos Def
s film debut.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hard Way (1991)?
a.
The climatic sequence on top of the Smoking Gunn II billboard in Times Square took ten days to shoot with New York traffic put to a stand still and crowds of onlookers from all over the city including tourists, gathered at night to watch the filming. All local TV news stations, along with those from Europe and South America covered the nightly shooting. The billboard itself was compared to that of the Camel cigarettes sign of the 1950s with smoke puffing from it as a main attraction on Broadway.
b.
Sir Lancelot
wrote the song Shame and Scandal in the Family for this movie. In the early 60s, Lord Melody used the melody and the chorus and an old humorous story to create a new song, initially called Wau Wau, though it became more familiarly known under its original title. The song was recorded by a variety of international artists (e.g. the Kingston Trio, Odetta, Peter Tosh and the Wailers), even becoming a number 1 hit in Australia. In the course of its life, the original writers have been ignored at times with the authorship being attributed to a duo of Donaldson and Brown, instead of Sir Lancelot and Ardel Wray (the writer of I Walked with a Zombie).
c.
Chapter Titles: 1. The Raiders Strikes (PCA #6781) 2. Flaming Torture (PCA #6782) 3. The Tragic Crash (PCA #6783) 4. The Raiders Strikes Again (PCA #6784) 5. Flames of Fury (PCA #6785) 6. Blasted From the Air(PCA #6786) 7. Victims of the Storm(PCA #6787) 8. Dragged To Their Doom(PCA #6788) 9. Battling the Sea Beast(PCA #6789) 10.Periled By a Panther(PCA #6790) 11.Entombed in the Tunnel(PCA #6791) 12. Paying the Penalty(PCA #6791)
d.
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann refers to FOX News host Glenn Beck as "Lonesome Rhodes" Beck after Andy Griffiths character in this movie.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hard Way (1991)?
a.
Development of a live-action adaptation of the "Lord Of The Rings" books had been in process as far back as 1957, when Hugo award-winning science fiction magazine editor
Forrest J Ackerman
had successfully convinced
J.R.R. Tolkien
himself to grant him permission to attempt one. In the 40+ years before
Peter Jackson
finally managed to film the trilogy,
John Boorman
,
Stanley Kubrick
, and even
The Beatles
had all either attempted or expressed interest in filming their own adaptation.
b.
The character of Rev. Jones is most likely based on Reverend James Warren "Jim" Jones. Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple. This was a well known cult in the late 1970s and is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of more than 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana. As the Congressman, news and television reporters, and temple defectors boarded the plane, several armed guards from the temple arrived and fired at the group. One of the fatalities was Congressman Ryan. The murder of Congressman Ryan was the only murder of a Congressman in the line of duty in the history of the United States. Simultaneously, temple members committed mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored Flavor Aid along with a sedative. Jones was found dead in a deck chair with a gunshot wound to his head. Because of Jones, the tragedy at Guyana ranks among the largest mass suicides in history. It also the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001.
c.
One of
James Woods
perks was to have his own personal hairdresser, at a cost to the studio of $6000 a week. The average on-set hairdresser usually costs about a third of that.
d.
The flashback of the babysitter throwing a party is based on the sort of prank
John Waters
would pull when he babysat in high school.
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