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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Shadow (1994) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Shadow (1994) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Shadow (1994).
About the movie:
In 30's New York City, the Shadow battles his nemesis, Shiwan Khan, who is building an atomic bomb.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shadow (1994)?
a.
The Caserta Palace, Italy doubled up for the Vaticans interiors.
b.
The scenes towards the end with the multiple mirror may homage the cover to the Shadow novel Room of Doom.
c.
Donald Gibb
shaved his beard to get the part of Ogre. The casting directors thought it made him look too old to be a college student.
d.
Around 10,000 extras were used to shoot the Gotham Rogues scene in Heinz Field. Some of the Pittsburgh Steelers played football players, including
Hines Ward
, who played himself.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shadow (1994)?
a.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
b.
Another clip from the Monkeys lecture film shows Kurt Cobain in concert spinning his guitar over his head and throwing it into an amplifier. This was taken from the documentary he conceived in 1993 called "Live, Tonight, Sold Out".
c.
Most of the scenes filmed in a ballpark were filmed at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Rickwood Field is designed from the old Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
d.
The finale in which Cranston chases Shiwan Khan through a hall of mirrors was intended to be longer, with Khan taunting Cranston by displaying images from his violent past on the mirrors. An earthquake (Northridge, 17 January 1994 - 6.7 magnitude) destroyed the set and the filmmakers, out of time and money, were unable to complete the scene as originally envisioned.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shadow (1994)?
a.
What attracted
Tim Curry
to this project more then anything else, was the chance to work with
Ian McKellen
, an actor who before, he would have given his right arm to work with.
b.
Ned Glass
, who plays the wardrobe man in the cat costume scene, was an active member of the Living Newspaper unit of the Federal Theater project on Broadway during the Depression, an organization accused of being "leftist" and "pro-communist" by many on the political right. When Glass was blacklisted during the McCarthy "Red scare" era, he became a carpenter.
c.
The Purgatory Cove scene was shot in late September. To keep warm in the cold water both
Doug McKeon
and
Henry Fonda
had to wear wetsuits under their clothes. However, the water level was so low that they could have easily stood up and been only knee-deep in the lake.
Katharine Hepburn
was supposed to have a stunt double perform her "dive-in" scene for her, but instead she insisted on doing it herself. She dove into the frigid water without a wetsuit.
d.
Shortly after the films release,
Loretta Young
threatened to sue the studio if a clip from one of her old movies (
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
) was not excised because she objected to its use in a new sexual context. The clip was promptly removed from all prints in circulation.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shadow (1994)?
a.
Barbara Stanwyck
was the first choice to play Phyllis, but she was unnerved when seeing the role was of a ruthless killer. When she expressed her concern to
Billy Wilder
, he asked her, "Are you a mouse or an actress?"
b.
At the beginning of filming,
Natalie Portman
gave Julia Roberts a necklace that said "cunt" in honor of their characters foul mouths. At the end of filming, Julia Roberts gave Natalie Portman a necklace that said "lil cunt".
c.
A rejected version of the credits had the same scratchy handwriting and Coil-remixed "Closer", but used static images instead of the jumpy, blurred footage used currently. (This credit sequence is in the Criterion laserdisc supplement section.)
d.
The billboard of the Smoking man is a parody of a real one that actually blew smoke rings...the original was for Camel cigarettes, whose motto was "Id walk a mile for a Camel!"; the Llama cigarette motto parodies this with "Id climb a mountain for a Llama!"
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shadow (1994)?
a.
In the promotional film
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story
, this film is referred to only under its working title, "People in Love".
b.
Actress
Erin Kelly
was approached by director
Katherine Brooks
randomly in a theatre audience and began working on the script/movie with her for three years before the movie began production. Actress
Diane Gaidry
was hired three days before the movie began production.
c.
The red gown with brocade bodice and capped sleeves
Sophie Thompson
(Mary Musgrove) wears to dinner at Uppercross is the same gown
Sylvestra Le Touzel
(Mrs. Allen) wears in Bath in
Northanger Abbey
.
d.
In Philip José Farmers books "Tarzan Alive" and "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" the Shadows girlfriend, Margot Lane, was rumored to be the sister of Supermans girlfriend, Lois Lane.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shadow (1994)?
a.
The first of forty-seven Charlie Chan movies starring
Warner Oland
.
b.
The final credit is a reference to a strip club and the dancers across the river from St Louis.
c.
Uncredited screenwriter
John Milius
wrote his draft of the film inspired by
Akira Kurosawa
s studies in lone-gun detectives, while director
Don Siegel
tackled the material from the viewpoint of bigotry.
d.
When Cranston appears in the window of the water tank, his lips read, "Open the door!"
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shadow (1994)?
a.
During a discussion about the power source of the atomic bomb, or implosion/explosion device, beryllium spheres are mentioned as a trigger power source. Beryllium spheres are also the power source for the NSEA protector in the movie,
Galaxy Quest
.
b.
The film debut of
Lauren Bacall
. The DVD sleeve notes state that she was nineteen years of age at the time whilst her dialogue in the film indicates that she was playing a character (Marie Slim Browning) which was aged twenty-two years of age.
c.
This was the second of
Roger Corman
s "Poe" films. He had intended to do "The Masque of the Red Death" but felt that it was too close to the content of
Ingmar Bergman
s recent
Det sjunde inseglet
(US title: "The Seventh Seal"). Several years later Corman would go to England to make
The Masque of the Red Death
.
d.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and was not televised until several years afterward.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shadow (1994)?
a.
Originally, the peddler who introduces the movie would be revealed to be the Genie at the end - hence the fact that
Robin Williams
voiced him, too. Notice the similarities in the design of the two, especially the eyebrows, the beard and the four-fingered hands. (All the other human characters have five fingers.)
b.
James Luceno
wrote a novelization of this film. He references other adventures of the Shadow from the pulps. He also references the Shadows true identity of Kent Allard from the pulps (in the pulps, the Shadow only impersonated Lamont Cranston). He also has scene where Shiwan Khan taunts the Shadow by pointing out that his apparatus for fighting crime came from his opium and heroin wealth.
c.
The character played by
Cameron Thor
is named Lewis Dodgson. Author of "Alices Adventures in Wonderland,"
Lewis Carroll
was born with the name Charles Dodgson. Since both the first and last names of the character are written with the less common spellings which Carroll used, this is a fairly obvious nod to him, although the reason for the joke is unclear.
d.
First feature film to be shot on the island of Guam.
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