The Quick and the Dead - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[jessica]

Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio would later co-star in Body of Lies (2008).

[edgar]

There is a scene where Gene Hackman lightly slaps Sharon Stone. It wasn't scripted and Stone's reaction is real.

[jessie]

The title "The Quick and the Dead" comes from the King James translation of the Bible, I Peter 4:5, which admonishes the believer from behaving like pagans, "who shall give account to him [Christ] that is ready to judge the quick and the dead." The phrase became better known in English as part of the Apostle's Creed, a Christian doctrine which appears to date back (at least in partial form) to the second century. The Creed, as translated in the Book of Common Prayer for the Church of England, states that Christ "...ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead." In both cases, the word "quick" is a more archaic use meaning "living" (in modern parlance, the "quick of the fingernails" is a rare instance of the older meaning); however, the movie title clearly plays off the double-meaning, in that there are two kinds of gunslingers: quick (meaning both fast and alive) and dead.

[tammy]

Bruce Campbell had a cameo appearance during a wedding scene, but the scene was cut. Campbell says Sam Raimi created that scene for the specific reason of giving Pat Hingle something more substantial to do and was never intended to be in the movie in the first place. Campbell was also visiting the set on his day off when Raimi drafted him to play a skid-row character in several background shots. Although all of Campbell's appearances ended up on the cutting room floor, he is still listed high up in the credits.

[michele]

According to the "Evil Dead Companion", Sharon Stone was given a lengthy list of directors that had been approved to direct this film, so that she could choose the directors she thought would work. She sent back a list with a single name... Sam Raimi. When asked why she chose Raimi, she said it was because she liked Army of Darkness (1992), among Raimi's other works.

[russell]

One of the last films of Roberts Blossom, the Doc. He also appeared as the old man in "Home Alone", released in1990.

[kylie]

The cast started training with their guns three months before production started. They would take their guns back to their hotel rooms each night to keep practicing.

[alyssa]

Sharon Stone bought the horse Magic after the movie was over. Stone: "I've been riding all my life but never on such a fine horse as this."

[oscar]

Sharon Stone's leather pants were so tight, she was unable to sit down in a chair. Also she fired her stand-in because she was getting more attention from the crew than she was.

[jessica]

During the scene where the gunfighters are signing up for the Quick Draw Competition in the saloon, The Lady is sitting under a wanted poster listing "Rape" and "Murder." A few moments later when the camera angle shifts you can see the drawing on the poster and the name of the wanted man: It's Virgil Sparks, one of the shooters who has just joined the competition.

[duane]

The bullet-holes that appear after a person was shot during the contest or after were Director Sam Raimi's idea. He wanted to do something different and unique with the film and felt that this idea had never been done before and followed through with it.

[gerald]

Sam Raimi: [stooges] Scars is a tribute to Curly Howard of The Three Stooges.

[bessie]

Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio only have one scene together.

[jessica]

Sharon Stone named Russell Crowe as her favourite onscreen kisser. She didn't feel the same about Leonardo DiCaprio, saying, "It was about as sexy as kissing my arm."

[tamara]

Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio would work together again in the film Body of Lies, 13 years after they co-starred in this film and after Crowe had won his Oscar for Gladiator and secured a Oscar Nomination for A Beautiful Mind and DiCaprio would be Nominated for The Aviator, and Blood Diamond.

[addison]

The movie features an 1866 Remington derringer. "Derringer" is the name for the smallest gun of a caliber. It's a misspelling of Henry Deringer, an 1800s gun-maker famous for his pocket pistols.

[ken]

One of the few rare films that Sam Raimi's composer and friend Joseph LoDuca didn't score for him personally as the studio wanted an A-list composer on the film who had experience scoring a Western.

[chris]

As The Lady is riding into town, the undertaker says "5'8? Am I right? I'm never wrong." In reality, Sharon Stone is 5'8".

[jeffrey]

One of the henchman is Sharon Stone's brother Michael.