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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Amadeus (1984) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Amadeus (1984) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984).
About the movie:
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
The famous piece for harp that Miss Minchin plays during story hour and again in her study is the Andantino expressivo (or 2nd) movement of the Sonata in c minor by Giovanni Batissta Pescetti.
b.
Satans boat is called the S.S. Manhandler.
c.
It has been claimed that the concept for
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
s annoying laugh was taken from "references in letters written about him", including a description of him having "an infectious giddy" laugh, and sounding "like metal scraping glass". No citations have been provided for these letters, however. There is no indication as to who wrote them, to whom or when. And in the absence of further citations, these claims of historical evidence for Mozarts laugh should be regarded as dubious at best. Robert L. Marshall, writing in "Film as Musicology: Amadeus" (The Musical Quarterly, Vol.18/2, 1997, p.177) says that there is "absolutely no historical evidence for this idiosyncrasy Mozarts infuriating laugh. We simply have no contemporary testimony at all as to how Mozart sounded when he laughed." Marshall goes on to explain that the laugh is a dramatic device, representing the mocking laughter of the gods, as in fact
Antonio Salieri
recognizes in the script.
d.
Roberto Orci
and
Alex Kurtzman
originally passed on this film due to scheduling conflicts with other films, but the studios returned to them after looking through the other writers scripts and finding them unsatisfactory. However, they had only three weeks to write the script due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike.
Michael Bay
and
Shia LaBeouf
expressed disappointment with the film due to the scripts rushed treatment.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
This film was named one of the most profitable 100 films of 1995 by The Hollywood Reporter.
b.
Brad Bird
drove his teams hard to be as creative as possible, insisting on greater attention to details and characters than any other previous Pixar production. The teams responded by pumping the film full of references and in-jokes, one of the most noticeable being the villain Syndrome being modeled on Bird himself.
c.
The song playing when Finch is running to the bathroom is "Walk, Dont Run", by
The Ventures
.
d.
Jeffrey Jones
replaced
Ian Richardson
in the role of Emperor Jozef II.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
Harris (
Steve Martin
) quotes poems that Martin previously quoted in
The Man with Two Brains
.
b.
The films storyline of a G.I.s romance with a Canteen girl named Irene was inspired by the song, "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen", written by
Irving Berlin
, and recorded in 1942 by singer
Kenny Baker
(who appears in this film). The opening lyrics of the song are, "I left my heart at the Stage Door Canteen / I left it there with a girl named Irene."
c.
Sets and costumes for the operatic productions were based on sketches of the original costumes and sets used when the operas premiered.
d.
Patrick Stewart
was paid nearly as much for this movie as he made in the entire run of
Star Trek: The Next Generation
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
John Wayne
was disappointed that the movie was released at the same time as his next movie,
The War Wagon
. However, despite this film receiving generally poor reviews and being seen as old-fashioned and out of tune with the times, both movies proved to be hugely successful at the box office.
b.
Although the production went to Cuba to source locations, they were unable to shoot there due to US legislations so Cuba was recreated in a combination of Pinewood Studios outside London and Cadiz in Spain.
c.
Cast member
Simon Callow
originally portrayed the part of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
in the 1979 stage production.
d.
Susan Sarandon
and
Barry Bostwick
were the only Americans in lead roles in the movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
Mel Gibson
,
Mick Jagger
,
Sam Waterston
, and
Tim Curry
all auditioned for the role of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
.
b.
Adapted from a 1921 Broadway play by
Eugene ONeill
.
George F. Marion
appeared as Chris Christopherson in the original production. The original play opened on Nov. 2, 1921 at the Vanderbilt Theatre in New York and ran for 177 performances.
c.
The hall scenes in which you see Jeanie walking down the hall and kid collecting money to save Ferris are the halls from
The Breakfast Club
.
d.
The jewelry store owner who gets robbed by Nickys boys is an actual Las Vegas jeweler. His line "I just got a shipment of diamonds from Israel" was not in the script.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
Several real (or at least apocryphal) events from
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
s life were incorporated into the screenplay, including the interlude between the child Mozart and Marie Antionette, and the Emperors comment that "Abduction from the Seraglio" had "too many notes".
b.
Justin wears a t-shirt during the scene when Phil is fixing Justins car. On the t-shirt is a comic book characters head named Ambush, created by co-writer/director Heath McKnight in 1994 while he was in high school. An "ash can" edition was published that summer (a small prequel comic book) but a regular series never materialized. To keep things "alive," McKnight will occasionally put the heros llustrated head, the comic, a poster, etc., as an "Easter Egg" in many of his films. In 9:04 AM, its on Justins t-shirt and is also on the wall of his apartments room. In Skye Falling (2001), the character Kianna is reading the comic. McKnight is now working on creating a comic book mini-series and is planning on adapting it into a film with is co-writer Jeremiah Hall (Push/Pull). He hopes to have the comic out in 2011 and the film out by 2013.
c.
Walt Disney
read
Ward Greene
s story, "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog" in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1943 and eventually hired Greene to include the Dan character in the film during the pre-production stage. But Greene wrote and published an entirely new story "Lady and the Tramp; the Story of Two Dogs," which became the source of the film.
d.
Writers
Will Finn
and
John Sanford
originally pitched the film as an animated feature film based on the myth of the Pied Piper. Maggie the Cow was originally written as a deaf girl.
Michael Eisner
immediately hated the idea, because he thought no parent would take their children to see a movie where children are murdered. So Will and John wrote this movie, which contains elements from the Pied Piper myth.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
The license plate on the BOTA van reads 666 XES which is commonly known as the Mark of the Beast both numerically, and in Greek characters.
b.
Entire film was shot with natural light. In order to get the proper diffusion of light for some scenes, the DPs covered windows from the outside with tracing paper.
c.
This was the first feature made at the Studio City Complex in Miami, Florida.
d.
Baby Arthur grabbing a hold of Igraynes hair was a coincidence.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
Raoul Walsh
appeared in one scene with
Miriam Cooper
as good luck. A photo of this is in her autobiography.
b.
Milos Forman
and
Peter Shaffer
spent four months adapting the very stylized play into a workable script. They added characters such as the priest, maid, archbishop, and mother-in-law; Mozarts character was enlarged beyond Salieris perceptions; and Salieris monologues were reworked visually.
c.
WILHELM SCREAM: When Dan slips and falls in the kitchen, you can hear a Wilhelm scream after his initial panic.
d.
The statue of the Maltese Falcon is clearly displayed as an ornament on the top of the wooden filing cabinet in Det. Lt. Egans office when Richard visits. A few years earlier, Bogart and Greenstreet has appear in the movie about this statue, by the same name. No reference to it in the dialogue is made.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
Filmed in 1937, not released until 1938.
b.
The performance of "Don Giovanni" in the movie was filmed on the same stage where the opera first appeared.
c.
The voices of the characters played by
Mike Mazurki
and
Leo Gordon
were dubbed by other actors for a more classical - and less American-street - quality.
d.
In an interesting twist of fate,
Brad Pitt
lost out on the role of Brian McCaffrey in
Backdraft
to
William Baldwin
, who then had to be released from his contract to play the small part of J. D. in
Thelma & Louise
that was re-cast with Brad Pitt.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amadeus (1984)?
a.
It was
David Lean
s suggestion to have the British soldiers march into the POW camp singing "Colonel Bogey" at the start of the film. Producer
Sam Spiegel
was opposed to including the song and felt it would have not meaning to most audiences. The song was in fact a British military march. At first, Spiegel tried to convince Lean that the song would cost too much money to license, but eventually Lean got his way.
b.
Bob Sarlatte
: The waiter in the restaurant.
c.
When
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
upstages
Antonio Salieri
by modifying the march Salieri wrote for the emperor, the modified piece is Mozarts "Non Piu Andrai, Farfallone Amoroso" from The Marriage of Figaro.
d.
This film was a collaboration by four award-winning gay filmmakers based in Chicago.
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