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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Alligator (1980) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Alligator (1980) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980).
About the movie:
A giant alligator is on the loose in Chicago. Chicago? Yup, don't go down the sewers!
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
John Woo
: [back to back banter] Sean vs. Castor with an obstacle between them throwing around a few comments before the "showdown."
b.
Graffiti on a wall in a sewer at the end of the film reads "Harry Lime Lives," a reference to the character from
The Third Man
who is chased through the sewer system of Vienna in that film.
c.
Ben Stiller
was involved with this film because he is a friend of novelist / screenwriter
Scott B. Smith
.
d.
The shot of the cup scooping ice from a urinal was directed by
Jason Mewes
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
As of April 2005, only one complete dual-projector stereoscopic 3-D print is known to exist anywhere in the world. The Left and Right prints do not match: the color is severely faded on one side, but the film is still viewable in 3-D.
b.
John Sayles
read
Frank Ray Perilli
s script for the film once and then totally scrapped it. Sayles said it was set in Milkwaukee and explained that the alligator grew gigantic because of beer from a beer factory going into the sewers.
c.
In a 2011 interview with "The A. V. Club,"
David Hyde Pierce
said that it cost him more to join the film actors union (so that he could appear in this movie) than he was paid for his role, so he had to borrow the dues money from his agent. His characters name was "Bartender at Fashion Show," and his one line was, "Sorry, the bar is closed."
d.
When the project was in development in 2000,
Leonardo DiCaprio
was once slated to play Logan.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
Roman Polanski
was contracted by Dino De Laurentiis to direct this film, but when Polanski fled to country to avoid prosecution on a sex-with-a-minor charge
Jan Troell
was hired to replace him at the last minute.
b.
The two rival gangs on the El Train challenge each other to a fight when the train crosses "Devereux" street, an in-joke towards director
Chris Columbus
wife
Monica Devereux
and father in law
Clarke Devereux
who both appear in the movie.
c.
Oscar-nominated actor
Mako
was announced as the voice of Splinter at San Diego Comic Con the day before he died. Fortunately, he had finished the majority of his acting.
d.
The final cinema film of
Dean Jagger
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
Many of the explosions of the final ground battle were real ones rather than digital fireballs. They were shot in the backlot at ILM. Explosions were such in demand that the compositors dipped into the library of explosions built for the Naboo plains battle from
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
to fill out the shots.
b.
The proceeds that
John Sayles
earned from his screenwriting duties were used to finance
Return of the Secaucus Seven
.
c.
In the St. Petersburg Florida Evening Independent newspaper on August 10, 1944, the following was noted: "There will be no more shattered eardrums for movie sound men. Movie ammunition has at last gone on the subdued side. After exhausting its pre-war supply of blank cartridges, Columbia Studio laid in a supply of the new wartime restricted type for scenes in which gunplay is needed. First person to fire the new ammunition was Rose Hobart in a scene for The Soul of a Monster, in which she is supposed to empty six chambers of a revolver into George Macready. The smaller explosive charge in the shells proved easier on the actors and crew, who used to get mild shock occasionally from the heavier calibre weapons. But it is the sound men -- the guys with the amplifiers and earphones -- who have offered up the biggest prayer of thanks."
d.
The aircraft shown that transported the team to Hamburg (a Boeing 707-430 reg. D-AFHG Ex Lufthansa D-ABOD) is a static display at the Hamburg airport.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
The first victims name is Edward Norton.
The Honeymooners
features a sewer worker of that name.
b.
Famous musicians that are spoofed by Dewey Cox are:
Johnny Cash
,
Bob Dylan
,
Ray Charles
,
David Bowie
,
Queen
,
Meat Loaf
,
David Crosby
,
Jim Morrison
,
Harry Chapin
,
Don McLean
,
Elvis Presley
,
The Cars
,
Christopher Ward
of the Ramones,
Nelly
,
Tim McGraw
,
Brian Wilson
of
The Beach Boys
during his "SMILE" album period,
Stevie Wonder
s loss of smell after his 1973 car crash, and
Michael Jackson
with the monkey and the giraffe as house pets.
c.
The role of the "Jaded Piano Player," the ballet rehearsal pianist who, most memorably, tells Nina that she has been working too hard and she should take a break, is played by
John Epperson
, a performer who is perhaps better known for his drag persona, Lypsinka. Epperson really did work as a rehearsal pianist for the American Ballet Theatre during the late 1970s and early 1980s, accompanying the rehearsals of such ballet luminaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, Rudolph Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, and Gelsey Kirkland.
d.
The disco for the films climax was actually a country-western bar in L.A. that was converted to look like a disco tech. At the time of shooting the disco craze hadnt yet reached the west coast.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
Robert Forster
was recovering from a case of spinal meningitis when principal filming began.
b.
The Telephone Number of the US Secert Service is 2115512956.
c.
In 1973 it was announced that a remake would be made. According to Young the setting would be updated and Dorothy McGuire and he would be playing the parts of the housekeeper and blind pianist originally played by Mildred Natwick and Herbert Marshall. The idea fell through after McGuire watched a screening of the original at Youngs invitation at the actors home. She said that the film belonged to another period and that she did not want to go backward.
d.
The inside of Jabba the Hutts palace is deliberately styled to resemble the Mos Eisley cantina in the first film.
George Lucas
wanted to redo the scene but with a bigger budget and without having to rely on stock masks.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
The "Club Kids" were a real group of people in the 1980s, young people (usually twenty five was considered too old) who would go to clubs and make themselves into celebrities with bizarre antics and self-styled images. The Club Kids made their entire livings based on the fact that they were Club Kids - party organizers, club owners, and talk show hosts paid them obscene amounts of money simply to show up and party.
b.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
c.
Renée Zellweger
, upon receiving her Oscar for
Cold Mountain
, thanked
Vincent DOnofrio
for teaching her how to act, referring to her experiences in this movie.
d.
As in the shooting of this films main inspiration,
Jaws
, the mechanical, giant alligator was often malfunctioning. In a few scenes,
Lewis Teague
either shot around the alligator to build suspense or shot a regular alligator in miniature sets (which is plainly obvious in some shots).
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
Director
Roy Del Ruth
was replaced by
W.S. Van Dyke
on 4 November 1941, after several weeks of production.
b.
The shot of the swat team emerging from the sewers looked so real that people actually thought they were terrorists and some even called the police.
c.
The word "fuck" and its variants are spoken 247 times.
d.
Elia Kazan
originally resisted the idea of directing the film adaptation as he felt that he had achieved everything he wanted with the stage version. It was only after
Tennessee Williams
implored him to take on the assignment that Kazan signed on.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
The oft-malfunctioning animatronic alligator used in the film was later donated to the Florida Gators as a team mascot.
b.
Gerard Butler
s Dracula says, "I never drink... coffee," in one scene. This is a spoof of
Bela Lugosi
s Dracula, who spouts his famous "I never drink... wine" in Universals
Dracula
.
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 25, 1946 with
Roddy McDowall
,
Preston Foster
and
Rita Johnson
reprising their film roles.
d.
Jeff Bridges
declined the role that went to Eric Roberts.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Alligator (1980)?
a.
All the pipes representing Elektras pipeline are made of cardboard.
b.
Robert Forster
improvised the jokes in regard to his receding hairline, which a delighted
John Sayles
wrote into the script during shooting for the other characters.
c.
When Sheridan (
Wesley Snipes
) rents his apartment across from the UN, he tells the landlord "Its perfect." This is the exact same line used by Richard Kimble (
Harrison Ford
) when he rents an apartment in
The Fugitive
.
d.
This is
Stan Laurel
and
Oliver Hardy
s only non-
Hal Roach
-produced film in which Stan had a hand in the writing and editing (as he had in the Roach films).
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