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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Razor's Edge (1984) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Razor's Edge (1984) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Razor's Edge (1984).
About the movie:
He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Razor's Edge (1984)?
a.
Larrys eulogy for Piedmont was inspired by the death of Murrays good friend,
John Belushi
.
b.
Actor Paul Freeman is gray eyes, but in the movie he wears brown lens who portrayed by Ivan Ooze.
c.
A talented amateur magician,
Tony Curtis
performed most of his own tricks in this film.
d.
The weapon used by
Billy Zane
in this movie is not an H&K PSG-1, an expensive precision semi-automatic rifle commonly used by special forces snipers. It is an H&K SR-9 TC , a similar but cheaper version of the PSG-1 that was designed for civilian sales.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Razor's Edge (1984)?
a.
Bill Murray
made a deal with Columbia Pictures that he would appear in
Ghost Busters
only if they financed this movie. Originally, no studio was interested in making the film until
Dan Aykroyd
suggested the deal to Murray. On the final day of shooting, Murray flew to New York City to start filming Ghost Busters.
b.
There is no official script to the movie, only a list of story beats that Alex Cassun organized after discussing the roles with the actors.
c.
Universal Pictures held an option on the film rights for five years but finally put it in turnaround when they failed to come up with a workable idea on how to adapt it.
d.
The building number for the gun store is 14329 this is also the house number of Sarah Anne Connor, the first victim.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Razor's Edge (1984)?
a.
All of the scatting in the film was improvised by Phil Harris and
Louis Prima
.
b.
When hosting
The 78th Annual Academy Awards
,
Jon Stewart
mentioned this movie as one of his few acting jobs. He said "Welcome to the Seventy-Eighth Annual Academy Awards... hosted by me... the fourth male lead in "Death To Smoochy". Rent it."
c.
While filming in India, the entire crew became sick with food poisoning from eating chicken. John Byrum lost 25 pounds and directed much of the film with an IV in his arm.
d.
In a co-ordinated release schedule, the film of Mortal Kombat was released in August, a digital TV special came out at the end of the month, a tour arrived at Radio City Music Hall in September, a CD-ROM came out in October and
Mortal Kombat 3
also came out that month.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Razor's Edge (1984)?
a.
The primary antagonist in the film was originally going to be the Legion, an alien robot possessing the collective minds of an alien insectoid race. This would have been in keeping with the original comics, where Abin Sur was mortally wounded in a battle with the Legion. However, the Legion was rejected in favour of the fear entity Parallax.
b.
John Gielgud
was considered for the role of Elliott Templeton.
c.
Scotty mentions being at the execution of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray. This is a real case. The couple were tried for and convicted of the murder of Snyders husband in 1927 and were executed in New York by the electric chair.
d.
Pat Boone reportedly rejected the lead on moral grounds.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Razor's Edge (1984)?
a.
The movies line "Michael... were bigger than U.S. Steel." was voted as the #54 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
b.
Scenes that were deleted from the final cut include: Larry and a Red Cross nurse in an ambulance, drinking beer from a stolen barrel. Larry reads a book in a seedy Paris café and sees a lesbian couple having a fistfight. Larry and Gray go out drinking in Paris and talk about Isabel on the night before they are sent to the battlefield. Larry tells Isabel about his quest as they stroll through a cathedral. An alternative ending in which Larry is working in a factory and leads his fellow workers in a rendition of "Frère Jacques".
c.
Although
Harry Carey Jr.
was listed in the credits on-screen, he does not appear in the picture. Carey had a drinking problem at the time. He called director
Howard Hawks
"Howard" instead of "Mr. Hawks" on one of his first days on the set, infuriating Hawks. His contract, including his pay and his screen credit, was honored, but his part (a townsman) was cut.
d.
The ads for the original release in 1975 parodied the film
Jaws
" They showed the red "lips" logo against a black backdrop and said, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show - a different set of jaws."
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Razor's Edge (1984)?
a.
In one scene,
Dan Hedaya
and friends are listening to Emily play the piano. She is playing the song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," the
Cheers
theme song. Hedaya played Nick Tortelli on Cheers from 1984 to 1987.
b.
While he was thinking of making a film adaptation of The Razors Edge,
John Byrum
gave a copy of the novel to his friend,
Bill Murray
. Byrum got a phone call the next morning at 4AM from Murray saying, "This is Larry. Larry Darrell."
c.
Giacomo DiNorscio died 14 November 2004, during the films production.
d.
Although the crew originally shot an ending similar to the books (an anticlimax in which Jekyll dies and Mary lies beside him), there were no fewer than 25 rewrites. In winter 1995, months after Mary Reillys production team had disbanded, the producers called back the stars to shoot three alternative endings. For one of them,
Glenn Close
was flown back to London on the Concorde for one day of work.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Razor's Edge (1984)?
a.
Byrum and Murray wrote the screenplay over the course of 18 months while driving around the United States.
b.
This was the most financially profitable film of 1993, earning $23.6 million from a budget of $1 million. This gave it a cost-to-return ratio of 23.6, considerably higher than 1993s biggest money-maker "Jurassic Park" whose ratio was 13.8.
c.
In March 1979, this became the Disney Studios first - and only complete - feature film to be released on MCAs DiscoVision format. It received its Laserdisc reissue on February 6, 1992.
d.
The song that plays when Marcus Wright starts the truck in LA is Rooster by
Alice in Chains
. The song was written by guitarist
Jerry Cantrell
about his fathers experiences in Vietnam (Rooster was Jerry Cantrell, Sr.s nickname), and the opening line, "Aint found a way to kill me yet" parallels the movie from John Connors perspective, with the machines as yet unsuccessful in their numerous attempts to kill him.
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