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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Part (6) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Part (6) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
About the movie:
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 5, 1949 with
William Holden
and
Joan Caulfield
reprising their film roles.
b.
When Scarlett receives the letter that her husband Charles has died, the letter is signed Wade Hampton. He was Charles commander in the war.
c.
While Gary Johnston is talking to the guards outside the blue door to the tavern in Cairo, a Coca Cola sign in Arabic, Lucky Strike, Camel Cigarettes and Pale Ale Sahara can be seen on the taverns walls directly behind the guards.
d.
Film screenings were attended by gay rights protesters complaining that making the serial killer Buffalo Bill a transsexual was highly clichéd and a reflection of and/or pandering to public hostilities around the issue of sexual orientation diversity.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
2007: The movies line "Youre tearing me apart" was voted as the #97 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere magazine.
b.
When
Anthony Hopkins
found out that he cast as Hannibal Lecter based on his performance as Dr. Frederick Treves in
The Elephant Man
he questioned
Jonathan Demme
and said "But Dr. Treves was a good man." To which Demme replied "So is Lecter, he is a good man too. Just trapped in an insane mind."
c.
The transfer of the alien from DeVries into Jonathan Miller was accomplished by stop-motion photography. During the stops, stage hands would work at stuffing the creature model into the mock head. Actor William Boyett, upon seeing the alien going into "his" mouth, was so disgusted he refused to watch and actually left the room.
d.
Audrey Hepburn
had to be carried on a stretcher by crew members when shooting her scenes in the burned-out forest so that the dirt and ashes wouldnt smudge her white costume. The sweater and slacks Hepburn wears were from her own, personal wardrobe.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
Film debut of world champion female bodybuilder Denise Masino.
b.
According to
Billy Crystal
in the "making of" documentary, when he first came up with the story and came up with the character of Curly, he immediately wrote down
Jack Palance
s name as the ideal choice for the role. No other actor was considered for the role.
c.
Although the film was shot sporadically over the course of the summer of 2008, only 11 full days were used for shooting.
d.
Before this movie, only two other horror films were ever so much as nominated for a Best Picture (
The Exorcist
and
Jaws
). As of 2010,
The Silence of the Lambs
remains the only horror film to win an Oscar for Best Picture.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
Directors Cut was completed on June 6, 2009.
b.
Hannibal mentions the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius to Clarice in the asylum. Marcus Aurelius, played by
Richard Harris
, was a character in
Ridley Scott
s
Gladiator
. Jonathan Demme won the Best Director Oscar for
The Silence of the Lambs
, beating out
Ridley Scott
who was nominated in the same category for
Thelma & Louise
).
Ridley Scott
went on to direct
Hannibal
, the sequel to
The Silence of the Lambs
.
c.
Storyboarded but not animated was a scene in Las Vegas, where Bolt (who was just passing through the city with Mittens and Rhino, and foraging for food) is confronted in a dark alley by two Doberman Pinschers, who proceed to brutally bum-rush him, and rip off his collar (complete with ironic quick cuts of clips from the "Bolt" TV show playing on a big TV display, which Rhino was watching, in the city nearby). Left for dead by the two dogs, Bolt, disillusioned, realizes that his "super powers" are not real (which was further emphasized when Bolt then sees the program for himself). The producers decided to nix this scene, as they not only felt that it was way too dark, but it didnt fit into the story structurally.
d.
Bette Davis
said in an interview with
Barbara Walters
that "Id like to kiss you but I just washed my hair" was her all-time favorite movie line.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
Though Nanette is portrayed as being a young girl/woman in dress, manner, and other characters references to her (example: her uncle refers to her as his "little niece" on the phone),
Anna Neagle
, who plays Nanette, was somewhere around 36 years old during the making of this film.
b.
The Dons wife, Carmella Corleone, is seen singing at the wedding.
Morgana King
, who plays Carmella, is a gifted opera singer.
c.
The idea to use glass in Lecters Baltimore cell as opposed to traditional bars came from production designer
Kristi Zea
. The idea came about because director
Jonathan Demme
was unhappy shooting the Lecter scenes through bars, as he felt they negated the sense of intimacy between Lecter and Starling which he was trying to achieve.
d.
The interior shots of the main hall were filmed in the "Great Hall" at the Appearel Mart in Dallas Texas.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
Sean Connery
was director
Jonathan Demme
s first choice to play Hannibal Lecter, but he turned the part down. Connery later did a similar serial-killer thriller called
Just Cause
, where
Ed Harris
plays a sort of bible-bashing, redneck rip-off of Hannibal Lecter. The film was neither a critical or commercial smash like
The Silence of the Lambs
was.
b.
Steve Martin
is seen dressed up as
Charles Chaplin
in this movie as Charlies "Tramp" character.
c.
Director
Buzz Kulik
began the picture, but was replaced by
Roger Spottiswoode
.
d.
It was originally scripted by Hughes and Columbus that Kevin was going to reign down more paint cans down the stairs.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
According to
Jonathan Demme
, there were 300 applicants for the role of Clarice Starling.
b.
Technical advisor for the film was Sgt.
Marty Wynn
of the Los Angeles Police Dept. During the course of shooting he fell into conversation with
Jack Webb
, then the star of radios "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator", who had a small part in the film. Wynn suggested that Webb do a radio series based on actual police files. Thus was born the idea for "Dragnet," which debuted on NBC radio about four months after this film was released.
c.
During the scenes that show Anderton manipulating the PreCogs visions of future crimes, the music in the background is
Franz Schubert
s Symphony #8 in B Minor - more commonly known as the "Unfinished" symphony.
d.
Roger Murtaughs (Danny Glover) line of "Im gettin too old for this shit!" has made its way into every Lethal Weapon movie. Only this time, Riggs amends it to "Were not gettin too old for this shit!" as a sign of defying their ages.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
The genesis of the story came to
Don Coscarelli
in a dream. One night, being in his late teens, he dreamed of fleeing down endlessly long marble corridors, pursued by a chrome sphere intent on penetrating his skull with a wicked needle. There was also a quite futuristic "sphere dispenser" out of which the orbs would emerge and begin chase.
b.
This movie along with
RoboCop
,
Basic Instinct
and
Hollow Man
is one of four separate movie franchises in which the first movie of their respected series (directed by
Paul Verhoeven
) were successful, but their respected sequels (not directed by Verhoeven) all either bombed at the box office or were released Direct-to-DVD.
c.
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.
d.
Dedicated to
Trey Wilson
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
was considered to play Princess of Lilliputia.
b.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR PSYCHO (1960): Has several things in common with
Alfred Hitchcock
s
Psycho
. Both Norman Bates and Jame Buffalo Bill Gumb, the killers in both movies, are based on real-life Wisconsin serial killer
Ed Gein
. Norman Bates enjoyed taxidermy as a hobby and had many stuffed birds around the Bates Motel. When Clarice Starling enters the "Your Self Storage" facility in
The Silence of the Lambs
, there is a self-conscious nod to this with a shot of a large stuffed bird very similar to the one on Normans wall.
Jonathan Demme
uses the same tracking shot that Hitchcock used when
Vera Miles
is approaching the Bates house on the hill at the end of
Psycho
(Demme uses it twice in
The Silence of the Lambs
; when Clarice is approaching her car outside the asylum after her first meeting with Hannibal Lecter and when she goes up to the coffin in the funeral home). The heroines in both movies share their surnames with types of birds; Marion Crane (
Janet Leigh
)/Lila Crane (
Vera Miles
) and Clarice Starling (
Jodie Foster
).
Julianne Moore
went on to play both Lila Crane in
Gus Van Sant
s remake of
Psycho
and Clarice Starling in
Hannibal
.
c.
Actress
Helen Slater
tested successfully for a role in the film, but bowed out due to contractual details.
d.
A box-office flop, making just over half its production cost worldwide.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
a.
Leigh Whannell
has been involved in everyone of
James Wan
s films. This movie he plays Spink, one of the members of Billy Darleys gang. Leigh had also co-wrote and starred in
Saw
and co-wrote
Dead Silence
.
b.
After
Jodie Foster
first read the
Thomas Harris
novel, she tried to buy the rights herself, only to find
Gene Hackman
had beaten her to it.
c.
Billy Wilder
came up with the idea for this film when he saw a player run into a cameraman on the sidelines while watching a football game.
d.
Many of the films spoofed in this film had not been released when the script was written.
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