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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 8MM (1999) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 8MM (1999) Quiz
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About the movie:
A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
Producer
David Puttnam
has mixed feelings about this project. He was happy with the finished cut but when he saw the film with a paying audience at a late night showing in New York, he was deeply disturbed by the audiences reaction to some scenes. They were cheering and clapping instead of the desired effect of being repulsed by the characters actions.
b.
The U-Boat seen in this movie is far roomier and spacious, clean and tidy than the real German U-boats of World War II (which were more realistically depicted in the later movie,
Das Boot
). During the Second World War, these u-boats did not have passageways and private rooms and were dirty and cramped.
c.
Spike Lee
decided to cast
Amir Ali Said
after watching him perform in a
Chappelles Show
skit.
d.
Don Creech
("Mr. Anderson") is the keeper of the Muppets for the Jim Henson company. He takes care of and repairs the thousands of Muppets created over the years.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
Mark Wahlberg
turned down the role of Max California.
b.
In the scene where Maj. Penderton gives a lecture on leadership, a subject for which he is ill-suited,
Marlon Brando
asked director
John Huston
for another take after delivering what Huston considered a superb performance. In the second take, Brando delivered a different line reading that was equally brilliant. When it came time to cut the film, Huston was baffled over which of the takes to use, as each was superb and relevant to the character.
c.
William Hopper
s first film.
d.
The film was originally to have been entitled None Came Back, but writer-producer-director
Kurt Neumann
changed it to Rocketship X-M because the initial title gave away the films ending.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
The Chinese straw hat that
Katharine Houghton
wears in one scene was worn as a homage to Houghtons aunt, the great Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn wore a similar hat in the film
Dragon Seed
.
b.
January 2001 Silver Pictures approached
Todd Alcott
to write a Wonder Woman script. He was replaced in August 2003 with
Laeta Kalogridis
. Later in March 2005
Joss Whedon
was hired to not only write but also direct the film, but in February 2007 he left due to creative differences.
c.
Ang Lee
was interviewed for a November 2010 New York Times article about writer/producer
James Schamus
. Lee remembered that after watching one of the first cuts of
Brokeback Mountain
, Schamus ran into Lee in the theater bathroom; Schamus told Lee that the movie was running too long, and said, "that was great, but it was three hankies and two bladders. My goal is four hankies and one bladder."
d.
The graffiti-covered buildings shown in the film are all that is left of some radar buildings built by Howard Hughes.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
The plot is extremely similar to that of
Hardcore
in which a man (
George C. Scott
) hires a private detective to track down his daughter after she runs away and he sees her in a 8MM porno movie. The plot is also very similar to a book called "The Cutting Room" by Louise Welsh in which an estate auctioneer finds disturbing photos among a clients porno collection and endeavors to find out if the girl in the pictures was actually killed.
b.
While writing "Part of Your World",
Alan Menken
and
Howard Ashman
discovered that the song shared contextual and rhythmic similarities between "Somewhere Thats Green"; a song from their earlier musical,
Little Shop of Horrors
. Hence, leading the duo to humorously nickname "Part of Your World" as "Somewhere Thats Dry".
c.
Zach Braff
wrote the majority of the script while he was in college, and originally titled it "Larges Ark". He tested the name on various messengers coming to his house during production, but none like the name. When he suggested "Large" no one liked it either. "Garden State" was well received. The original title still appears vestigially in the company credits, "Larges Ark Productions".
d.
The making of feature on the DVD contains footage of
Sean Connery
performing the fall from the bridge stunt. He fell some hundred feet to the bottom of the ravine floor before his fall was broken by a big pile of cardboard boxes. In his 2010 book, The Elephant to Hollywood,
Michael Caine
reports on page 150, "The real hero then took his
Sean Connery
place.
Joe Powell
was an experienced stuntman ... Joe fell so skillfully, twisting and turning on the way down ... and at the very last minute straightening himself out so that he hit the mattresses dead center...
John Huston
turned to me and said, That was the darnedest stunt Ive ever seen."
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
Kevin McCarthy
, according to Weird Al, thoroughly enjoyed himself during the film and would often break out in laughter after finishing a take where his character was being especially nasty.
b.
The character
Dick Powell
in the movie is portrayed by his son
Dick Powell Jr.
c.
The
Aphex Twin
song, "Come to Daddy", is played twice in 8MM. The first time it is played as the theme song to a hardcore porn flick, and the second time it is actually played as the background music to 8MM, upon
Nicolas Cage
s entering of the "bad guys" house. Also, the music video for "Come to Daddy" is being played on a small TV in Dino Velvets office.
d.
Sets and costumes for the operatic productions were based on sketches of the original costumes and sets used when the operas premiered.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
Paul Thomas Anderson
used
Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story
, a documentary about
John Holmes
, as a reference for some of the scenes in this film. Many interview scenes, including one where a strung-out Dirk tells the interviewer about how Jack allows him to block and edit his own sex scenes, are exactly identical to the interviews in "Exhausted", especially one where the strung-out John Holmes, for no clear reason, lies about how Bob Chinn allows him to block his own sex scenes.
b.
The films production encountered concerns regarding the dark subject matter, and the studio asked
Andrew Kevin Walker
to lighten the films tone. With
Joel Schumacher
as director, Walker felt a rewrite would no longer be needed. But as it turned out, Schumacher supported the studio and made changes of his own, leading to a much-publicized fallout between the two, with Walker virtually disowning the film and walking away from the set. He refused to even watch the film.
c.
A copy of this film survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
d.
George Tillman Jr.
made this film as an homage to action films from the 1970s.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
The opening quote, "So fleet the works of men/ Back to their earth again/ Ancient and holy things/ Fade like a dream, is from Old and New: A Parable by
Charles Kingsley
(1848).
b.
The original ending had Rhoda surviving, and her mother dying. The Motion Picture Production Code in effect at the time, however, required that "Crime shall never be presented in such a way as to throw sympathy with the crime as against law and order." The usual interpretation of this was that criminals werent allowed to "get away with it." Because of this, the ending was changed: Rhodas mother survived being shot in the head, and Rhoda herself was killed by a bolt of lighting by a lake.
c.
The actress (
Jenny Powell
) playing the character of Mary Ann Mathews was originally a stripper hired in to act as a stand-in.
Joel Schumacher
gave her the part of the victim on the 8mm film as she had a suitably "haunted" look about her.
d.
Emma Stone
was considered for the lead female role but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with her other movie,
The Amazing Spider-Man
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
The film underwent re-shoots as a result of poor test screenings. These included a new escape for Micheal from the hospital as well as an alternate ending.
b.
During production, producer
Sue Bea Montgomery
showed little kids some concepts for the movie and watched the expressions on their faces. Since they especially liked the character of Japeth the Goat, they decided not to delete him, as they had initially planned.
c.
Vince Vaughn
was originally set to play Hutch.
d.
David Fincher
was the first choice to direct this film.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
The actual script by
Andrew Kevin Walker
was reworked by
Joel Schumacher
and
Nicholas Kazan
after Walker left the project in disagreement with the director.
b.
Peter Mayhew
had a stunt double for the part of the Sarlacc fight in which the skiff jolted, causing Han Solo to hang upside down.
c.
John Lasseter
conceived the story for the sequel while he was in Europe promoting the first "Cars".
d.
Sallys picky and crazy eating habits were put into the movie after
Rob Reiner
saw
Nora Ephron
ordering her food in the same way Sally did in the movie. When Rob brought this up, Nora said, "I just like it the way I like it," a line which was put into the movie.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 8MM (1999)?
a.
Alan Smithee exclaims that the film is "worse than
Showgirls
", also written by
Joe Eszterhas
.
b.
Scott McGehee
,
David Siegel
: as the EMTs from the ambulance that arrive to pick up Jack.
c.
The enema porno film seen at the porn swap meet is a genuine S&M film that was heavily edited for inclusion in the main movie.
d.
Although
Miriam Hopkins
got top billing, shes got the least money of the three stars: $1,750/week.
Kay Francis
got $4,000/week with 6 weeks guarantee and
Herbert Marshall
got $3,500/week.
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