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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 15 Minutes (2001) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 15 Minutes (2001) - 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: 15 Minutes (2001).
About the movie:
A homicide detective and a fire marshall must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 15 Minutes (2001)?
a.
Frank Whaley
, who plays one of the Oswald impostors, plays
Lee Harvey Oswald
in
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
.
b.
The films sound was recorded after filming because a boom mike was unavailable, and then synced up in post-production.
c.
Natalie Portman
was originally cast as Sonmi-451, but left the project after becoming pregnant.
d.
The film was originally slated to be released in the Spring of 2000 by New Line with theatrical trailers appearing in the fall/winter 1999. For reasons unknown, the film was pulled from the Spring 2000 schedule and then delayed. The film was finally released in March of 2001. A similar situation would happen with Knockaround Guys which was slated to be released that Spring only to be yanked and delayed. That film would finally be released in late 2002.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 15 Minutes (2001)?
a.
The topic of the movie was considered politically so highly sensitive it was censored and prohibited just before its theatrical release in many of the former Iron Curtain countries, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria - and even in neutral countries such as Finland and Sweden. The theatrical premiere for most of those countries was held after the collapse of Soviet Union in 1993.
b.
A fourth segment called "Dance Me a Song," comprised of popular tunes, was deleted.
c.
A Jewel Production. Unlike most of its peers, Universal never owned a theater chain (ultimately, a wise decision given the 1949 Supreme Court anti-trust decision that would threaten the livelihood of many of its competitors). As a result, in 1916,
Carl Laemmle
devised a 3-tiered branding system to market its features to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low-budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (costly prestige productions). The studio would abandon branding altogether by the end of 1929.
d.
There are a lot of location inconsistencies throughout the film. Like the scene involving the apprehension of the Jamaican killer that
Robert De Niro
and
Avery Brooks
are going after early in the film was clearly Los Angeles and most of the scenes in Times Square that were shot in New York for example. Most of the interiors were shot on sound stages and actual New York and Los Angeles locations.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 15 Minutes (2001)?
a.
Was the first in-flight movie, having been shown on an Imperial Airways flight in a converted Handley-Page bomber from London, UK, to Paris, France, in April 1925.
b.
While the film was delayed,
J. Peter Robinson
was brought on to provide a new beefed up original score for the film as the studio was not happy with what Anthony Marinelli had done musically for the film at that point. Marinelli had written about seventy minutes of music for the film. Robinson composed approximately thirty minutes of new material and retained about half of Marinellis contribution which is why they share composing credit in the final credits for the film.
c.
For the scene where Jimmy wails and thrashes in anguish at the discovery of Katies body,
Sean Penn
requested that a tank of oxygen be standing by after he finished the take.
d.
The two motor cops were actually off duty LAPD officers who had their own bikes and did funerals and VIP escorts, etc.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 15 Minutes (2001)?
a.
Ben Stiller
and
Robert Downey Jr.
were approached for the role of Megamind, but both turned it down due to scheduling conflicts. Stiller however appears in a minor role as Bernard the curator.
b.
Graham Knuttel
, the Dublin-born artist, was paid £50,000 for a canvas which was destroyed in the film. The producers wanted the movie to be as realistic as possible, and so ordered the artwork to be destroyed in one scene.
c.
This was the first live-action musical that Disney Studios produced. It was as heavily promoted as the studios other big films, but was a failure at the box office. It was one of the few Disney films never given a second run in the neighborhood theaters, or even re-released, as so many other Disney films were (it first appeared on television - in two one-hour segments telecast a week apart - only eight years after its original release. Eight years was usually the amount of time the Disney studios used to wait to re-release their films theatrically). Disney did not make another musical on this elaborate a scale until
Mary Poppins
, which became its most successful film during
Walt Disney
s lifetime.
d.
The role of Ephraim was intended for
Ben Kingsley
but he backed out due to a change to the ending of
Steven Spielberg
s earlier film
The Terminal
. It caused the start of the production to be pushed back a few weeks later, thus conflicting with Kingsleys work schedule on
Roman Polanski
s
Oliver Twist
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 15 Minutes (2001)?
a.
The song during the roll of end credits, is sung by the directors father,
David Lynch
(Speed Roaster).
b.
Los Angeles - April 5, 1939: Samuel Goldwyn has withdrawn "Wuthering Heights" from the entire province of Quebec. Quebec censors demanded deletions because certain sequences dealt with divorce and infidelity, situations long frowned upon by the Quebeck board. Goldwyn refused to make the cuts. Whether the picture will play in other provinces is not known.
c.
The opening shots of NYC were done by an independent cameraman allowed to fly around NYC in a helicopter using a time lapse camera.
d.
The scene in the bathroom bar where
Robert De Niro
dunks his head in a sink full of ice, is in fact a real trick that real like police detectives use to get over hangovers. De Niro discovered the trick during his research for the role and was eventually written in.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 15 Minutes (2001)?
a.
Hanging on the wall in Driscolls office is a certificate bearing the symbol of the U.S. Armys First Infantry Division - the unit that
Samuel Fuller
served in during World War II and depicted in his 1980 film,
The Big Red One
. The same typestyle for the infantrys numeral "1" is also featured in a reading-campaign poster in front of National Accounts, the gangster headquarters building.
b.
Mindy Marin
whos the films casting director was featured in the part of
Kim Cattrall
s assistant because she looked the part and they werent able to find an actress who was capable of playing the role prior to shooting according to director
John Herzfeld
.
c.
At one point Ming the Merciless says when he destroys a planet, he calls upon "the great god Daizan". Daizan is Japanese for "great cruelty".
d.
This sequel has been said to have applied retroactive continuity changes to the original film of
The Sting
.
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