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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Singing Detective (2003) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Singing Detective (2003) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Singing Detective (2003).
About the movie:
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Singing Detective (2003)?
a.
Monique Dupree
was supposed to play the role of Rokkoko in Avantgarde but couldnt because baby Kyoshi was born right before Moniques first scenes as Rokkoko were to be shot. So
Manoush
and
Marcel Walz
decided not to re-cast the role for the Rokkoko character but to dedicate the movie to Monique and her newborn baby Kyoshi instead.
b.
At one point,
David Cronenberg
was in line to direct the film, with
Al Pacino
in the lead.
c.
Frank Sinatra
plays Detective Joe Leland from the novel (The Detective) by
Roderick Thorp
. Thorp wrote a sequel (Nothing Lasts Forever) where Leland is trapped in a Claxxon Oil Corporation skyscraper after its taken by German terrorists and must rescue his daughter and grandchildren. Twenty years later the novel was filmed with some changes: the daughter became his wife, Claxxon became the Nakatomi Corporation and Joe Lelands name was changed to John McClane. The film was released under the title
Die Hard
.
d.
To play Ripley 7,
Sigourney Weaver
stuck her head up through a hole in the floor so it could be seamlessly grafted onto the grotesque body that the make-up department had created for her.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Singing Detective (2003)?
a.
The original conception of the film ending was that after the segments had been completed, that each character would intersect with one another. This idea was scrapped, but it briefly appears as
Dan Aykroyd
s character does appear at the very end of the "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" segment and comforts
John Lithgow
s character from the segment by playing "The Midnight Special" by
Creedence Clearwater Revival
, which was also used in the prologue of the film.
b.
Rizzos hickeys were real.
Stockard Channing
said in an interview that
Jeff Conaway
insisted on applying them himself.
c.
The opening song was chosen by director
Keith Gordon
because he liked it so much in
John Carpenter
s
Christine
, which he also starred in.
d.
The voice of the character "Mark Steele", played by
Bill Bradley
in an uncredited role, is actually that of the films director
José Ferrer
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Singing Detective (2003)?
a.
The score by
Elmer Bernstein
is not only an arrangement of Bernard Herrmanns original "Cape Fear" score, but also includes parts of Herrmanns unused score for
Torn Curtain
.
b.
This was Nancy Davis (I)s final film.
c.
During the course of filming the 170-ft waterfall for the scene in which Jaguar Paw (
Rudy Youngblood
) jumps to escape the headhunters, a real cow that was attempting to cross upstream went over the waterfall. Remarkably, it emerged from the fall alive and the dazed and confused animal banged with the current along rocks near the bank.
Mel Gibson
and crew were certain the cow was done for, but after a local man swam into the river and calmed it, the cow climbed up on bank and began eating grass as if nothing had happened.
d.
Keith Gordon
and
Robert Downey Jr.
previously worked together in the 1986 movie
Back to School
. At the time,
Keith Gordon
was acting not directing.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Singing Detective (2003)?
a.
Emilio Estevez
originally approached
Jon Bon Jovi
to ask him for permission to include the song "Wanted Dead Or Alive" on the soundtrack. Bon Jovi didnt feel the songs lyrics were appropriate; however, he was inspired by the project and resolved to write a new song for the film that would be more in keeping with the period and setting. He quickly wrote the song "Blaze of Glory", and performed it on acoustic guitar in the New Mexico desert for Estevez and
John Fusco
.
b.
While Dan Dark is in Binneys office, he picks up a statue of a Maltese Falcon.
c.
While filming the scene in which Mr. Rainbow is attacked by vultures, Christopher Walken insisted on being tied down so he could not move, and even refused to be untied during lunch break.
d.
The meteor crater at the end of the film has a slight bunny resemblance.
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