Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Amistad (1997) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Amistad (1997) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997).

About the movie: About a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the northeastern coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the free man who led the revolt.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		Tim Burton was the original choice to direct.
b.		The producers were unsuccessful in getting product sponsorship for the film. The only company that was interested were the makers of Drakes Cakes, which would send the cast and crew a box of snacks every week. By the end of the three-month shoot, everyone had eaten enough of the snacks that when it came time to make the scene where the fat bum explodes, the fake stomach was filled with boxes and boxes of Drakes Cakes.
c.		Producer Debbie Allen wanted Steven Spielberg to direct, but it wasnt until Steven Zaillian (Schindlers List) submitted a rewrite that he agreed to direct.
d.		Two of Lucilles children are played by Melanie Griffiths real-life children: Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		Margot Kidder went on record with her friends that she hated the film.
b.		The film was originally to be called "The Woods" but another film from MGM was already using that name, so the title had to be changed to "The Village".
c.		Keeping with the films ideas on religious faith and belief, there is symbolism in the scene Redridge executes the guard who didnt stop Elis escape; the guard is shot in the head right next to the corner of two walls, and when the blood spray goes across the walls and down the border of them, it forms the shape of a cross.
d.		Beginning during Cinques lifetime, rumors circulated that he himself became a slave trader after his return to Africa. (Oxford History of the American People, 1965 states: "The court with a majority of Southerners, was so impressed by the old statesmans eloquence that it ordered Cinque and the other Negroes set free, and they were returned to Africa. The ironic epilogue is that Cinque, once home, set himself up as a slave trader.") However, recent research disproves these rumors (Joseph Yannielli, Cinque the Slave Trader: Some New Evidence on an Old Controversy, Common-Place, Vol. 10, October 2009). It is believed that Cinque and the other freed prisoners from the Amistad returned to Africa in 1842, at which time Cinques home country of Sierra Leone was being torn apart by civil war. Cinque and his companions from the Amistad kept in contact with members from the local Christian mission, and this contact provides todays researchers with pieces of information regarding his later life. After a while, Cinque left the area to trade along the coast of West Africa. Most stories of his later life are simply rumor. George Thompsons Thompson in Africa: or, An account of the missionary labors, sufferings... (1852) puts forward the idea that Cinque had moved to Jamaica. Others held that he had become a merchant or a chief, perhaps trading in slaves himself. However, this rumor of Cinque himself engaging in the slave trade has been seriously disputed. The origin of these claims appears to be statements made by early 20th-century author William A. Owens who claimed to have seen letters from AMA missionaries suggesting Cinque was a slave trader. While it is likely that some of the freed Amistad prisoners probably did engage in the slave trade upon their return to Africa, today most historians agree that Cinque was not among them, and these claims are false.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		Coincidentally, during the films pre-production, the replica of Captain James Cooks ship, HMS Endeavour, was circumnavigating the globe. The production was able to fly 2 cameramen to the ship as it was about to sail round the bottom of South America, a route the HMS Surprise takes in the film. Thus, the footage of the stormy seas from that part of the voyage is genuine.
b.		Kasaan staggered into Nome at 5:30 A.M. on February 2, 1925. His dogs were cold and exhausted, their feet torn and bloody. But the serum was delivered. Kasaan handed it to the only physician in Nome, Dr. Curtis Welch of the Public Health Service. And then he began to pull the ice splinters out of his dogs feet.
c.		Originally shot in 1976. Was not finished until 2009.
d.		Harry A. Blackmun, who plays US Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, served as a US Supreme Court Justice from 1970 to 1994.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		In Spanish, the word "Amistad" means friendship.
b.		The play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1955.
c.		For a dose of authenticity in the final twist at the end of the film, the actors were not told, prior to filming, that Geoffrey Rush would be appearing in the movie. They were told, before the scene was shot, that the person coming down the stairs would be Anamaria (Zoe Saldana) from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; the looks of surprise on their faces as Rush descends are genuine.
d.		Veteran actor Akira Takarada makes his sixth appearance in a Godzilla film, playing UN Secretary General Naotaro Daigo. His first was in the original Gojira, in which he played Hideto Ogata when he was 19. This is a fitting tribute to the first film from 50 years earlier. He was previously in _Gojira VS Mosura (1992)_ as Jôji Minamino.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		Jessica Lange, whose part was so emotionally taxing, urged that the film be shot in sequence, but - due to its low budget of $8 to $10 million - the movie was shot out of sequence.
b.		Elvis Presley and Tom Jones met for the first time on the set of the film.
c.		The film prompted a lawsuit by writer Barbara Chase-Riboud, who alleged the screenplay for the film plagiarized her book Echo of Lions, a fictionalized account of the Amistad incident. The book had been pitched to Steven Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Amblin executives met with the writer, but turned down the project, then made the movie anyway. The screenplay for what became the film was authored by the same writer who, earlier, had been hired (by a different production company) to write a screenplay based explicitly on Echo of Lions, and it replicated fictional elements, characters, and situations invented by Chase-Riboud. When Chase-Riboud sued, the screenwriter astonishingly claimed hed never even read her book, Spielbergs lawyer publicly called her suit "utter rot," her book "wordy, dull, confusing, and phony," and said "there is absolutely nothing in this film that comes from her book." But when the smoke cleared, Spielbergs lawyers, facing trial, were forced to settle for an undisclosed amount - enough to make the author drop her suit and (as a condition of the settlement) even say some nice things about the film in public.
d.		With the exception of Darris Love, all of the lead actors in this movie were former gang members from Watts and South-Central Los Angeles.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		Sirs Anthony Hopkins and Nigel Hawthorne both play former U.S. Presidents in this film. They are also both British in real life, Welsh and English respectively. They have both played rulers of England. Hawthorne played King George III in The Madness of King George. Hopkins played King Richard I (The Lionheart) in The Lion in Winter. He also played Prime Minister David Lloyd George in Young Winston. This is also Hopkinss second film as U.S. President. He previously played the title role in Nixon.
b.		Completed in 1930, and reviewed in Photoplay Magazine in August 1930 as _Toast of the Legion_, the film did not open in New York City until 7 January 1931.
c.		The real Herb Stempel makes an unbilled appearance as one of the former contestants interviewed by Richard Goodwin.
d.		Robert Altmans personal favorite of the films he directed.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		Djimon Hounsou learned Mende for his role as Cinque.
b.		In the scene at the airport, where the President is answering questions about his friend (using Jack Ryans advice to say that he and his friend were very close), you see a pack of media approaching the President. The lead newswoman, and the one who asks him the question, is actually Barbara Harrison, a prominent news anchor in Washington, D.C. on the local NBC affiliate station.
c.		Liza Minnelli was about 41 years of age when she played a high class rent-a-girl in this movie.
d.		John Leguizamo was originally cast as The Husband and did some work on the script but eventually pulled out of the film.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		When Kenneth McEldowney, a successful florist and real estate agent in Los Angeles, complained to his wife, an MGM publicist, about one of her studios films, she dared him to do better. So he sold their home and floral shops, and from 1947 to 1951 worked to produce this film. It opened in New York to a record 34-week run at reserved-seat prices and was on several ten-best movie lists in 1951. McEldowney then returned to real estate and never made another movie.
b.		It was felt that an experienced editor was needed to direct this American version in order to maintain the continuity and make it appear that Raymond Burr was part of the original production, which was actually shot two years earlier. Terry O. Morse was selected because he had almost 30 years experience as an editor, as well as experience as a director of low-budget films.
c.		Ranked #6 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Gangster". The remake Scarface, starring Al Pacino, is ranked #10 in June 2008.
d.		Sean Connery was approached for the role of John Quincy Adams but passed.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		The character of "Bud" was named after Michael Madsens Character "Bud" in Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill, one Bart Mastronardis and actor/editor Stolis Hadjicharalambous favorite movies.
b.		To create the animation, over 85,000 hand-inked and painted cells were created and composited with the live-action backdrops, live-action characters, and hand-animated tone mattes (shading) and cast shadows using optical film printers. NO computer animation was used in creating the animations. Some scenes involved up to 100 individual film elements. Any live-action that had to be later composited was shot in VistaVision to take advantage of the double-area frame of the horizontal 35mm format. The finished film thus does not suffer from the increased grain that plagued previous live-action/animation combos such as Mary Poppins.
c.		Denzel Washington and Cuba Gooding Jr. turned down the role of Cinque.
d.		Film was reportedly shot in three days.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Amistad (1997)?
a.		All the scenes were filmed at Pinewood Studios in England, making use of every sound stage there. These include what was then, the largest studio set in the world, the 007 stage. They did not want to shoot on location, because it would ruin the fantastical mood of the film. Part of the giant 007 stage was used to film the Suddenly Seymour number. But because of its size, the stage was impractical to heat properly and thus caused breath condensation to appear from the actors lips. This was countered by having Ellen Greene and Rick Moranis put ice cubes in their mouths.
b.		John Quincy Adams addresses the Supreme Court and states that when faced with trouble the Mende people invoke the help of their ancestors. As he mentions this we see a portrait of his father John Adams just over his left shoulder.
c.		Alanis Morissette was originally meant to play the leading role of Bethany Sloan, but was unable to because of her 1998-99 world tour. By the time she was able to work on the film, the role had been cast so she was offered the chance to play God as compensation.
d.		In his scene confronting Count Dracula, J. Carrol Naish looks noticeably older than he does elsewhere in the film. This is due to the time that had elapsed between the bulk of his scenes, when it was intended as a different film entirely, and the Dracula/Frankenstein scenes that were grafted on later.

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