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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : A Bug's Life (1998) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : A Bug's Life (1998) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : A Bug's Life (1998) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998).

About the movie: A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998)?
a.		Donald OConnor admitted that he did not enjoy working with Gene Kelly, since Kelly was somewhat of a tyrant. OConnor said that for the first several weeks he was terrified of making a mistake and being yelled at by Kelly.
b.		P.T. Fleas name was based off of P.T. Barnum, who owned a traveling circus in New York City during the 1840s.
c.		Ridley Scott has always maintained that the film is a piece of entertainment, nothing more. In fact, when he met Philip K. Dick during the post production process, he specifically told Dick that he was uninterested in "making an esoteric film."
d.		The original shooting script included Bulk (Paul Schrier) and Skull (Jason Narvy) respond to a Help Wanted flier and they end up working for assistants of Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman). Ivan comments that he wanted some brilliant, good-looking assistants, to which Skull responded that he was brilliant and Bulk comments that he was good-looking. When Bulk and Skull realize that Ivan is actually a monster, they try to back out, but Goldar intervenes and prevents the two teens from leaving. Ivan reluctantly agrees to hire Bulk and Skull and he has them set up a booth at Angel Grove Park to hand out free jars of ooze to children. They are later mind-controlled by Ivan and Bulk even gets ooze splattered on his face after a children throws ooze at him when hes at the booth, but Bulk and Skull are freed from his control when Fred sprays them with a fire hose at Ernies Waterside Cafe. The scenes with Bulk and Skull meeting and working for Ivan, as well as being freed from Ivans mind control by Fred, were cut out of the film. However, a photo of Bulk with ooze on his face was shown in book stores for kids in an official behind-the-scenes scrapbook for the movie.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998)?
a.		Coleman Francis: [coffee as calming influence] The characters repeatedly offer each other coffee as a welcoming gesture, then later relax drinking coffee.
b.		According to Meryl Streep, Julie Walters injured herself whilst filming the "Dancing Queen" musical sequence, by tripping over some rocks on a cobbled street, but "soldiered on".
c.		Hank Worden, who has a substantial role as the Indian Crazy Bear, also does a cameo appearance as the jailer at the cavalry fort guardhouse; likewise, Harry Landers plays both Grey Wolf and also one of Captain Trasks attachés.
d.		CASTLE THUNDER: Heard twice in the rain storm.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998)?
a.		Originally, all surviving cast members of the TV show were meant to have cameo appearances. Mark Goddard, the original Major Don West, plays the General. June Lockhart, the original Maureen Robinson, plays Will Robinsons principal. Marta Kristen and Angela Cartwright, the original Robinson girls, play reporters. Ironically, Bill Mumy and Jonathan Harris, the two actors most supportive of the idea of a new movie (as well as the two most popular characters on the show), did not appear in it. Mumy wanted to play the older Will Robinson but the director thought it would be too distracting from the plot to have the original Will play the older Will. Harris was to have played the man who hired, then betrayed, Dr. Smith. In an interview for "TV Guide" prior to the films release, it was mentioned that Jonathan Harris bluntly stated, "I will have you know I have never done a walk-on or bit part in my life! And I do not intend to start." He announced that if he could not play his own role in the movie, he wanted nothing to do with it. He did return as Dr. Smith in a one-hour TV special Lost in Space Forever.
b.		The wine that Richard Dreyfuss orders, Romanee-Conti, is the same wine that William Holden gave Robert Vaughn in The Towering Inferno.
c.		The hand gestures made by Hopper were modeled after gestures made by Steve Jobs.
d.		The bracelet Leon South wears in engraved with the word "KillerWolf".

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998)?
a.		Most of the shots in the movie are very long and Steadicam-based. The shot of the three girls walking through the cafeteria is 5 minutes and 19 seconds long.
b.		WILHELM SCREAM: A worker ant screams the "third scream" when the grasshoppers invade the colony.
c.		The sets, costumes, etc. were all prepared for a color film. At the last minute, RKO pulled Merian C. Coopers budget, and so, he was forced to shoot the film in black and white. Friend Ray Harryhausen and Legend Films later colorized the film as a tribute to Cooper.
d.		Over 16 different nationalities worked on the film, which was filmed in Morocco.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998)?
a.		Sanchez is from Isthmus City, a reference to the country of Panama which lies on an isthmus and the corrupt dictator Manuel Noriega, whom the CIA were working very hard to oust, at the time. He was eventually deposed by U.S. troops in the same year this film was released.
b.		The original "teaser" trailer for this film was made up of animation made specially for the trailer and not appearing in the final film. This became a Pixar trademark.
c.		The films opening prologue states: "This story is inspired by the exploits of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Mosquito air crews during World War II."
d.		The headquarters are based beneath a movie studios. In the original series this was to remove the need to build outside sets, but was also useful for hiding new technologies.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998)?
a.		At the beginning of the film, the cameras are all positioned above eye level and mounted with wide-angle lenses to give the appearance of greater distance between the subjects. As the film progresses the cameras slip down to eye level. By the end of the film, nearly all of it is shot below eye level, in close-up and with telephoto lenses to increase the encroaching sense of claustrophobia.
b.		In the home video release there were 5 covers to pick from (Hopper, Flick, Dot, Francis, and Heimlich.)
c.		In 1965, a year before Buster Keaton died, author Rudi Blesh interviewed him for a biography and asked, "How did you come to make a surrealistic film like Sherlock, Jr.?" Keaton replied, "I did NOT mean it to be surrealistic. I just wanted it to look like a dream."
d.		Bearing in mind the films interest in Marilyn Monroe, the character of Miss Antonia Sloviak - a tuba-playing transvestite - may be a nod to Monroes film Some Like It Hot, in which two men disguise themselves as women and pose as members of an all-female band. (One of the men was played by Tony Curtis, which may have been the inspiration for Antonias real name Tony.)

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998)?
a.		The movies line "Rosebud." was voted as the #3 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
b.		The second of nine movies made together by Warner Brothers romantic couple Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.
c.		The two mosquitoes trapped in the light of the bugzapper ("Frank, dont go towards the light!" "I cant help it - its so beautiful!") are the voices of the co-directors, John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton.
d.		In the early part of the film, inside the hospital ward, a paraplegic solider is reading Superman comic book, #62. #62: Black Magic on Mars (January/February 1950) involves a plot line with Orson Welles and his famous radio broadcast, "War of the Worlds" about Martian invasion of America. Welles may have been promoting his new film, Black Magic. Harry W. Gerstad, Gustaf Norin, Jean Speak, and Clem Beauchamp, production staff for many of Kramers films, would later work for the 1950s television series, Adventures of Superman.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998)?
a.		Actress Frances Chan didnt have to stretch too far in this role. She played a character named . . . Frances Chan!
b.		Krista Grotte replaced Darla Delgado as Agent Lori Harris.
c.		The Pixar short film Geris Game was shown before this film in theaters, at least in the United States.
d.		There is a secret message typed in the bottom of the bathroom murder scene as Martin Williams devours Dr. Cynthia Ganz ears.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Bug's Life (1998)?
a.		In the original script, the title reads "Austin Powers 2: The Wrath of Khan.". The narrator then talks about this title and eventually says that due to a lawsuit, the movie will be renamed to "Austinpussy". The narrator then says that the title needs to be changed again in order to obtain a PG-13. The title "The Spy Who Shagged Me" is then displayed.
b.		Final film of actor Reginald Gardiner.
c.		Ashley Tisdale tried out for the part of "Dot".
d.		Nearly all the basketball scenes begin with a three or four note fanfare that seems intended to be jarring. These notes are actually the beginning of a fight song shared by both the University of California and UCLA.

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