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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) - 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: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994).
About the movie:
A goofy detective specializing in animals goes in search of a missing dolphin mascot of a football team.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
Manuel Ojeda
was cast as Zolo based on a previous role in the film
Green Ice
.
b.
The Super Bowl as shown at the end of the film is between the Miami Dolphins and Philadelphia Eagles.
c.
This was the most financially profitable film of 1993, earning $23.6 million from a budget of $1 million. This gave it a cost-to-return ratio of 23.6, considerably higher than 1993s biggest money-maker "Jurassic Park" whose ratio was 13.8.
d.
Justin Long
(the voice of Alvin) went hoarse frequently during the recording sessions due to the fact they had to pitch up each sentence of dialog so that the voice altering methods would sound more natural.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
The autobiographical script took five years to get produced.
b.
John Capodice
s character, Sgt. Aguado, named after producer
Ken Aguado
.
c.
The movies title is based on the theoretical but implausible notion that if a nuclear meltdown were to occur in the United States, the nuclear core would melt all the way through the Earths core and emerge on the other side of the world. However, China is simply a metaphor for the other side of the world. If such an event could occur it would emerge in the Indian Ocean.
d.
70mm blow-up version released in Spain under the title "El Gran Jack".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
This movie won the Golden Turkey Award for "The Worst Musical Extravaganza in Hollywood History" as awarded by the book The Golden Turkey Awards.
b.
Cameraman
Karl Brown
remembered a scene with the various members of the Babylonian harem that featured full frontal nudity. He was barred from the set that day, apparently because he was so young. While there are several shots of slaves and harem girls throughout the film, the scene that Brown describes is not in any surviving versions.
c.
The director wanted
Catherine Zeta-Jones
to wear her natural long hair in the movie, but she insisted on the short bob. She explained to People magazine that she didnt want her hair to fall over her face and give people a reason to doubt that she did all the dancing herself.
d.
Jim Carrey has starred in five films that have had sequels or prequels:
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
,
The Mask
,
Dumb & Dumber
,
Batman Forever
and
Bruce Almighty
, but this is the only film that had a sequel in which he himself appears and reprises his role.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
The FIELDS Department Store shown in the movie is actually a British Columbia chain, at that time owned by Zellers, which was part of HBC (Hudsons Bay Company).
b.
Brian Greene
: the films physics consultant appears early in the movie as himself, being interviewed by
Dick Cavett
. There are two scenes; one with old footage of
Dick Cavett
interviewing
Brian Greene
in 1969, then a scene with an interview in 1999 with contemporary footage of
Dick Cavett
and an "aged"
Brian Greene
.
c.
Lauren Holly
turned down the role played here by
Courteney Cox
but co-starred with
Jim Carrey
in
Dumb & Dumber
later in the year.
d.
Jodie Foster
s first film as director shot in 2.35.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
The voice of Ace Venutura and the manner in which he speaks, was added by
Jim Carrey
only after several read throughs of the script. The voice was something Carrey used in his stand up routine. The "All righty then" was the catch phrase of one of his stand up characters and after the lines from the script werent feeling right, he added it to the script and read through it again using that voice for all the lines. It was such an improvement that it became the main Ace Ventura personality trait.
b.
Andrew Robinson (Det. Monte) and Reni Santori (Sgt. Gonzales) had worked together 15 years before in another cop film, Dirty Harry. In that one, Robinson was credited as Andy Robinson, who played the psychopathic Scorpio.
c.
Shannon Tweed was originally considered for the lead role.
d.
As production dragged on,
Humphrey Bogart
, who was an avid yachtsman, was starting to get increasingly anxious about missing the Honolulu Classic, the Catalina-to-Hawaii race in which he usually took part. Despite assurances from the studio that he would be wrapped on the picture by then, he started to constantly dog
John Huston
about whether he would be done in time. Eventually Huston had enough and grabbed Bogart by the nose and twisted hard. Bogart never asked him how long before the shooting was over again.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
The film was shot in 60 days.
b.
First sound picture for
Buck Jones
.
c.
Jim Carrey
came up with the idea of ripping off
Sean Young
s clothes to reveal her in her bra and underwear in the end.
d.
The original Broadway production of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" opened at Winter Garden Theater on November 3, 1960 and ran for 532 performances.
Harve Presnell
recreated his stage role in the movie version.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
While working on the script, writers
William Faulkner
and
Leigh Brackett
couldnt figure out from the novel who murdered a particular character. So they phoned
Raymond Chandler
, who angrily told them the answer was right there in the book. They shrugged and returned to their work. Chandler soon phoned to say that he looked at the book himself and couldnt figure out who killed the character, so he left it up to them to decide. In the original cut, shown to the armed services, this question is resolved; in the film as released, it isnt.
b.
50 Cent
watched all of
Jim Sheridan
s films to prepare for his role. His personal favorite was
The Boxer
.
c.
Salma Hayek
was cast as Cicero, but dropped out a week before filming began due to a scheduling conflict.
d.
When Ace is first informing Lt. Einhorn about his Ray Finkle theory, on the desk there are two apples and a banana positioned in a suggestive manner. This foreshadows the fact that Lt. Einhorn is actually the male Finkle.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
Jim Carrey uses the same voice and mannerisms for his "In Living Color" sketch character, Overly Confident Gay Man, as he did for Ace Ventura. In one of the sketches, he even uses the "Alrighty Then" phrase.
b.
Both
Robert De Niro
and
Dustin Hoffman
did the film for no upfront salary. Hoffman and
Barry Levinson
did this movie while on a break from doing
Sphere
.
c.
Abbie Cornish
was rumored for a role.
d.
Director Hoffman, in his commentary, compares Nickys journey with that of
Joseph Conrad
s Heart of Darkness: a movement toward Nickys crisis and into the past.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
Big Daddys line, "Now go to Robins revenge!" is a reference to a Robin comic where Robin was fighting a blind master martial artist. Even though he was blind, his skill was such that Robin could not lay a finger on him. Robin was able to set up a whistle to blow automatically. This overloaded the blind mans primary sense and allowed Robin to sneak up behind him.
b.
No less than nine writers worked on the script. Besides the credited writers Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio and David S. Goyer, work with also done by James Bonny, Richard Finney, Michael Engelberg, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and the films director, Stuart Orme. The final version mainly uses ideas from the Goyer and Orme rewrites.
c.
Woodstocks nickname for Ace Ventura is "St. Francis". This is in reference to St. Francis of Assisi, the Catholic patron saint of animals.
d.
This film was shot in 1978 according to the Virgin Film Guide. The book Off Hollywood reports that production on this film began in September 1978. Some film books report this films year of release as 1979 instead of 1980. This is likely because Sayles, during editing, showed this film to reps from Filmex who subsequently screened it at the 1979 Los Angeles Festival Filmex.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)?
a.
Casting for Foot Clan roles were held when the Ninja Turtles 25th Anniversary Shell-Ebration stopped at Los Angeles. The people being casted were ordinary people on the street.
b.
Director
Chris Columbus
considered casting
American Idol: The Search for a Superstar
contestant and "Rent" (1996) Broadway replacement cast member
Frenchie Davis
as Joanne Jefferson, but decided upon
Tracie Thoms
for the role.
c.
The members of the Crickets had already sold their portrayal rights to the producer of a different Buddy Holly movie, so fictitious names had to be used for the Crickets here. Also, for story simplifcation, the three Crickets were reduced to two.
d.
Carrie-Anne Moss
and
Téa Leoni
were considered for the role of Melissa Robinson.
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