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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : A Beautiful Mind (2001) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : A Beautiful Mind (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: A Beautiful Mind (2001).
About the movie:
After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
The script for this movie started out as a documentary on the battle over the estate of artist Mark Rothko.
b.
Tarzan has been adapted from its book many times over the years and is second only to Dracula in the adaptation chart.
c.
Jane Randolph (I) replaced
Dorothy Comingore
.
d.
The film was shot in sequence in order to help
Russell Crowe
develop a consistently progressing manner of behavior.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
Director
Fritz Lang
and the three of the stars (
Edward G. Robinson
Joan Bennett
and
Dan Duryea
) also made the similarly themed The Woman in the Window (1944)
b.
Al Pacino
turned down the role of Barney Thompson.
c.
This was the first film to be shown using the Magnascope system.
d.
According to a 2001 Entertainment Weekly article on this film, the filmmakers originally wanted to mention
John Nash
s homosexuality, but they feared the film would make the wrong connection between homosexuality and schizophrenia, so they abandoned it. This connection, according to the article, was based on several now-discredited psychological studies that first appeared in the late 1950s.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
M. Night Shyamalan
pitched the film as a cross between
The Exorcist
and
Ordinary People
.
b.
Betty Buckley
provides the voice over ("Creepy Carrie! Creepy Carrie!") for the little boy on the bike that chastises Carrie on her way home.
c.
After coming up with the idea for his revolutionary paper,
John Nash
goes and shows a manuscript of it to Helinger (
Judd Hirsch
). The manuscript is an actual copy of the original article, published in the specialized journal "Econometrica", under the title "The Bargaining Problem". (Figure 1 of the original paper, appears in the manuscript shown in the movie).
d.
While
Paul Thomas Anderson
always intended that
Melora Walters
should play Jessie St. Vincent, the studio wanted a bigger name for the part. He offered the role to
Patricia Arquette
, knowing she would decline, and the role ultimately went to Walters.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
A love scene with
Russell Crowe
and
Jennifer Connelly
was cut from the film.
b.
The film is based on speculation about the real-life murder of gold prospector and philanthropist Sir Harry Oakes, found decapitated in his mansion in the Bahamas in 1943. The case is still unsolved, with theories ranging from his son-in-law, his business partner, and organized crime figures interested in building casinos on Oakes private island.
c.
Bruce Willis
was originally offered the role of Bernie (before the character was changed to a woman in the screenplay).
d.
This was based on a book by
Roderick Thorp
entitled "Nothing Lasts Forever" - a sequel to another book entitled "The Detective", which in 1968 was made into a film starring
Frank Sinatra
. Because of a clause in Sinatras contract for "The Detective" which gave him the right to reprise his role in a sequel, he was actually the first person offered the McClane role, even though he was 73 years old at the time. Also, Coincidentally,
Bruce Willis
made his movie debut in
The First Deadly Sin
walking out of a bar as Sinatra walks into it.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
Producer
Brian Grazer
won the rights to the project after
John Nash
and
Alicia Nash
chose him over competitor
Scott Rudin
; the Nashes had long resisted having a film made of their story.
b.
Carroll Baker
was concerned about being typecast after her provocative role in the controversial
Baby Doll
, and began refusing parts. The studio offered her a choice of roles and she chose this one because it was as different as possible.
c.
Right after Terry gets hit by a bus, everyone is sprayed in blood. When Alex turns, there is a 7 on his cheek, in blood, in reference to the seven people who got off of Flight 180.
d.
Film debut of
Nancy Walker
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
Jean Shepherd
: writer/narrator, is the irate man waiting in the Santa line at the department store. The woman standing behind Shepherd is his wife,
Leigh Brown
.
b.
One of the more famous songs "Only With You" was cut. It is featured in most collections of music for low voices.
c.
During production, details of the films plot were kept secret.
Christopher Nolan
, who wrote the script, cryptically described it as a contemporary sci-fi action thriller "set within the architecture of the mind."
d.
To create the "golden" look of the campus scenes early in the film, the filmmakers took a low-contrast stock (Fuji F-400 8582) and exposed it to an orange light before loading it into the camera for shooting.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
While this film is inspired by the life of
John Nash
, there were elements from his life that were deliberately omitted: 1) he was married twice, both to the same woman (
Alicia Nash
); 2) in the past, he had several affairs with both men and women; 3) he was arrested by the police by scandal; 4) He fathered a child out-of-wedlock in his twenties; 5) he believed that through his mental illness the extra-terrestrials spoke him, giving his advanced knowledge by means of cosmic connection with them; 6) he tried to renounce to his American nationality some times, in the belief that the USA government pursued him; and 7) he made numerous anti-Semitic comments during his period of extreme mental illness, most of which equated Jews with world Communism.
b.
Ridley Scott
s 2003 directors cut largely came about when over 100 boxes of footage of his 1979 original were discovered in a London vault.
c.
No copy of this film is known to exist. Please check your attic.
d.
When this movie was released,
Ashton Dearholt
claimed he had to take the place of an actor named Don Costello, who had been hired to play the evil Raglan, after he had come down with a tropical illness. Not true - Don Costello did not exist, he was just a name Dearholt invented.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
Screenwriter
Akiva Goldsman
had plenty of personal experience to draw on in developing the story; he had previously worked as a child care counselor and had developed a method for training mental health workers, and had also grown up in a house where his parents had established a group home for emotionally disturbed children.
b.
The twenty-sixth of forty-seven Charlie Chan movies.
c.
Dana Strum
from the hair metal group Slaughter is often falsely credited as the guitar store clerk in the "No Stairway" scene.
d.
Real SFPD cruisers were rented.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
The problem that
John Nash
writes on the blackboard in his lecture is a real one (unlike in other movies, where math on boards is usually either too simple or fake). There is an important theorem in mathematical physics that directly says the answer to this is 1. Later, when he discusses the problem with
Alicia Nash
, he makes additional restrictions for the solution, without which the problem is much harder, so he is pretty confident she didnt solve it.
b.
The eyepieces of the Borg flash the Morse code of the names of people associated with the production.
c.
Bette Davis
saw "The Man Who Came to Dinner" on Broadway and immediately wanted to play the role of Maggie, the antithesis of her usual roles. She wanted the role desperately because she wanted to act opposite
John Barrymore
who was to play Sheridan Whiteside. At her insistence, Warner Bros. tested Barrymore for the role but his failing health and inability to remember his lines cost him the job.
d.
Reese Witherspoon
was offered a role but turned it down.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Beautiful Mind (2001)?
a.
Barnard College professor
Dave Bayer
served as the math advisor on the film, and also was
Russell Crowe
s hand double for the scenes where he is writing equations on windows, etc.
b.
John Grogan
: The original books author appears as the Cocker Spaniel owner in the dog training class.
c.
The aliens were originally scripted as having feminine builds and movements, thus the movements of tall, thin, female actors were used as models for CGI tests and some shots ("Brazilian Video"). However, it was decided that female bodies did not convey a threatening enough posture for the creatures, and a male CGI stand-in ended up being used in the final scene with Morgan as well as on the rooftop.
d.
Peter Cellier
was deleted from the final print.
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