Jason ... thanks for posting this, I really enjoyed it. I did very well on the test but of course, I've watched the movie countless times. :thumbup:
How Well Do You Know "The Color of Money?"
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I got 23. What did everyone else get?
My favourite line in the movie - "Hey Grady, up your ass with the spot - that ok with you?"
It was on cable last night, might be the best line in the movie.
I have no life very easy test. The one question I have had for years what does TK 6 stand for?
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You got one wrong. LOL!!! There were at least four speaking professionals in the movie:
Keith McCready (of course - Grady Seasons)
Grady Matthews (Dud)
Steve Mizerak (I didn't deserve that)
Jimmy Mataya ("I got no problem" or something like that, with Julian in the Green Room)
Freddie <~~~ got them all wrong (I got 22 correct, and was oh so close on some of them…)
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I met Keith in Vegas a few years ago at the VNEA tournament - he was actually gambling with a buddy of mine.
My favourite line in the movie - "Hey Grady, up your ass with the spot - that ok with you?"
The movie was great but the continuity on the table left something to be desired. Of course only pool players would notice that each shot was setup individually
The only movie that I've ever seen that showed a desire for pool shot continuity was The Hustler and even then, there were occasional errors. The scene that really gets me the most is the break-shot in the first game Fats and Eddie play. Eddie breaks near-perfectly (really hard to do in 14.1) and says, "Ha, didn't leave you much." Fats replies, "You left enough. Six ball, corner pocket." He smashes the rack and the 6 goes right in. Perhaps I never picked-up on the rearrangements but to me, it looked authentic.
Every other movie, including and most especially Poolroom Junkies is horrible when it comes to the actual pool continuity. The truth is, pool doesn't work very well for film. Those who are actually editing the film down are doing it far away from the pool table and their decisions have nothing to do with what happened in the game. It's just how it is.
I think what sets The Hustler apart from them is, there was clearly an effort made and back then, people saw movies in the theaters. There was no pause or rewind or slo-mo. They paid attention to detail when the audience probably wouldn't have picked-up on it anyway.
Heres a couple screen grabs of the cue from the movie. Sorry about poor quality as they are simply photos of television screen with movie paused. I was always curious about it as it seems the currently available cues that are sold as "Color of Money" cues don't look like the actual cue from the movie. The inlays are different
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That Cue Looks like It Has just A Slight Warp..LOL--I was dating a young Lady From Lexington Kentucky who was the neice of Walter Tivis, and still have the autographed Copy Of the Book that she was so kind to have given me,,back those many years ago--I thought I knew as much as anyone could about the goings on in this movie, but,--when I Looked at the questions that were submitted--I have to acertain at this time, and go with the old saying from Hogan's Hero's......
I Know Nothing
I Know Nothing
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I have said this before after a match (usually I lose though).
No one knows why Eddie had TK6 on the caddy?
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13 right... I guess I know the movie, just not much side stuff about the movie
Clearly he was the greatest pool hustler of all time!
http://youtu.be/fIJk7f85ly8
I thought checkers on this question too.
Clearly he was the greatest pool hustler of all time!
http://youtu.be/fIJk7f85ly8
I thought checkers on this question too.
That would be an interesting question to ask Keith. Since the movie came out, has someone actually used that line on him.
I met Keith in Vegas a few years ago at the VNEA tournament - he was actually gambling with a buddy of mine.
My favourite line in the movie - "Hey Grady, up your ass with the spot - that ok with you?"
The movie was great but the continuity on the table left something to be desired. Of course only pool players would notice that each shot was setup individually
Inaccuracies?? How bout where do you answer the questions before recieving the answers part?? You ask all the ??? and then reveal the answers at the bottom of the page. Kinda takes away from the guess work of it all. Why not make a multiple choice test of all the questions and reveal the answers after each one??
Two answers I might dispute. There was another excellent pool player that spent weeks preparing Tom Cruise for his role. His name is Herb Lehmann, a very good Straight Pool player out of New York. Also, 52 million is only the domestic gross on this movie. It actually did a very good foreign gross as well, possibly more than the domestic gross. It was the #1 grossing movie in Japan that year and sparked a boom for pool in that country.
One other interesting factoid. Keith actually changed some of his lines from the original script because he didn't like them. Scorsese accepted all these changes! And here's more trivia for you. Time magazine had two different covers the week it featured The Color Of Money on its cover. On the East Coast Paul Newman was prominent on the cover and on the West Coast it was Tom Cruise featured prominently. There were dual "premieres" as well, one in New York and one in Los Angeles. At the "after party" at Chasen's restaurant following the West Coast premiere of the movie, Keith, myself, Kim Davenport and Robin Dodson were hired to entertain the celebs as they came in. They had the Murray table used in the final scene of the movie set up in the lobby at Chasens. There was a silent auction held on the table that night and I won with a bid of $1,100. I later sold that table to a lavish private pool room in Tokyo for ten G's! The name of that room, The Los Angeles Club!
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