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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Apollo 13 (1995) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Apollo 13 (1995) - 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: Apollo 13 (1995).
About the movie:
True story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe trouble and the men that rescued it with skill and dedication.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
Warren Beatty
was considered for the title role.
b.
In the opening scene of the movie, as the camera pans across the clocks, one clock in the foreground has a small figure of
Harold Lloyd
hanging from the minute hand (see
Safety Last!
) - a foreshadowing of the storys climax, where Doc Brown (
Christopher Lloyd
) clings to the face of the clock tower while trying to reconnect the cable.
c.
Philip Gayley is called "Robin Hood" by his daughter. Robin Hood was one of
Errol Flynn
most famous roles although he was never nominated for an Oscar for it.
d.
Though not noted on screen,
Marilyn Lovell
s "premonition" of an accident on her husbands flight was triggered by her seeing the movie
Marooned
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
The 6 August 1994 draft of the screenplay credits a rewrite to
John Sayles
. He is not credited in the final film.
b.
When the Ghost Of Christmas Present (
Carol Kane
) grabbed
Bill Murray
s lip she tore his lip so badly that filming was halted for several days.
c.
Neil Innes
s part was taped in 15 minutes in his hotel room while he was playing a show in L.A.
d.
The bourbon Castle drinks throughout the film is "Wild Turkey". In the Jimmy Weeks subplot, we see Jimmy drinking the same brand.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
Ewan McGregor
studied many of
Alec Guinness
films, including
Star Wars
, to ensure accuracy in everything from his accent to pacing of his words.
b.
In the wake of the Oklahoma bombing, 20th Century Fox took out trade press ads defending their decision to continue with the imminent release of a film about a terrorist planting bombs in public places.
c.
Uncredited screenwriter
John Milius
wrote his draft of the film inspired by
Akira Kurosawa
s studies in lone-gun detectives, while director
Don Siegel
tackled the material from the viewpoint of bigotry.
d.
The model used to represent the Saturn rocket on its launch pad was built around huge cardboard tubes, normally used as molds in the pouring of concrete on building sites.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
Apparently, this was the first movie ever to feature a B-52 bomber airplane. Other pictures that the B-52 bomber plane appeared in after included
A Gathering of Eagles
,
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
, and
By Dawns Early Light
.
b.
Richard Pryor
and
Gene Wilder
improvised many of their scenes together.
c.
Julia Montgomery
refused to reprise her role as Betty because in the original script Betty is caught cheating on Lewis. Montgomery felt it betrayed the change in her character from the first film.
Joe Roth
offered to have the scene re-written but Montgomery still refused. She eventually returned for the following sequels. Lewis is shown packing a picture of Betty in the beginning of the film implying they are still together. Ironically, this means that Lewis cheated on Betty with Sunnie.
d.
Marilyn Lovell
really did lose her ring down the drain but eventually found it again.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
Jane Wyatt
s final cinematic appearance.
b.
This was
Doris Day
s first ever acting role, and she was extremely naive about how films were made. She wrote in her autobiography that the first scenes to be filmed would be aboard the cruise ship, and the first day she walked onto the sound stage and asked when they would be leaving for the boat? The crew broke up laughing.
c.
Several actors from the movie including:
Tom Hanks
,
Bill Paxton
,
Kevin Bacon
, and
Gary Sinise
visited US Space and Rocket Center Space Camp program and worked on their simulators before production of the movie began to help them get a feel for what it would be like to work in zero gravity.
d.
This film was based on the true story of Emerich Juettner, an elderly junk dealer in New York who, like the character in the movie, only used counterfeit dollar bills to make ends meet. He was arrested in 1948 and sentenced to nine months in jail and a $1 fine.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
In some scenes where the Earth can be seen from the windows of Apollo 13, it is one of the photos taken by
Jim Lovell
and
Bill Anders
on the Apollo 8 mission.
b.
The first animated film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
c.
The "Vesper" that James Bond orders at Casino Royale is taken from the novel. It consists of three parts gin (Gordons was Bonds choice), one part vodka (Bond preferred a grain vodka be used; e.g. Absolut) and half part of Kina Lillet. The ingredients are shaken over ice until cold, served in a cocktail glass with a slice of lemon peel for garnish. Kina Lillet has not been made since 1985 and the modern substitute would be Lillet Blanc, made by the same company, Lillet, based in Podensac, France. This also creates somewhat of an anachronism as the film adaptation of "Casino Royale" is clearly set in the present, where Kina Lillet would no longer be available.
d.
The storm drain car chase scene was shot in a large air duct tunnel below the four main bores of the Fort McHenry Road Tunnel in Baltimore, MD. Fort McHenry permits Interstate 95 to pass under Baltimores harbor. The air duct is only accessible from the Tunnels Admin Building by stairs and a small elevator, so the cars in the scene were chopped into several sections, taken three levels below, reassembled and painted. Once filming was complete they were disassembled once again and removed from the duct. The water was hosed in from a nearby sprinkler main.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
At one point,
David Fincher
was denied permission by the films producers to shoot a crucial scene in the prison understructure between Ripley and the alien. Against orders, Fincher grabbed
Sigourney Weaver
, a camera and shot the scene anyway. This scene appears in the final cut.
b.
Following
Frameup
,
Jon Jost
moved to Europe, where he stayed for the next 10 years, abandoning film in favor of digital video. He returned to the United States 11 years later to make
Homecoming
, the beginning of his so-called "Bush Trilogy."
c.
The films release was delayed for two years by bankruptcy problems with the films distribution company.
d.
Jim Lovell
is actually left-handed, but
Tom Hanks
refused to write with his left hand for the movie.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
The image of Bill falling face-first into water was filmed in a large aquarium in
Sissy Spacek
s living room.
b.
On August 19, 1939, Paramount issued a check to contract writer
Preston Sturges
to buy the story and screenplay of this movie, in the amount of $10. Sturges promised to sell the script for that amount if he could direct. The studio took him up on it and the film was a hit and won an Academy Award for the screenplay, probably making it the cheapest Oscar-winning script in history.
c.
According to Paul LaVines book In a Glamorous Fashion: The Fabulous Years of Hollywood Costume Design (Scribner, 1980), this was
Travis Banton
s first film assignment as a costume designer.
d.
Brad Pitt
turned down an offer to star in this film and chose, instead, to star in
Se7en
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
This film is listed among The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilsons book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
b.
Chapter Titles: 1. The Red Peril 2. Flaming Hate 3. The Fire Trap 4. Deaths Chariot 5. The Avalanche 6. The Jaws of Death 7. Forest of Fire 8. Blank Cartridges 9. The House of Terror (catalog of Copyright Entries) 9. The House of Horror (press book listing) 10.The Depths of Doom 11.A Flaming Death 12.The Last Alarm
c.
The recovery ship in the film was the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2), played by the USS New Orleans (LPH-11). The Iwo Jima was decommissioned before the making of this film.
d.
All exterior shots of Ft. Bragg were actually filmed at The New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Apollo 13 (1995)?
a.
Another way to tone down Godzillas darkness from the previous two movies, the monsters roar has a much higher pitch to it. For the remainder of the Showa series, this remained Godzillas roar.
b.
The name Needy Lesnicky comes from writer
Diablo Cody
s initial intention to have the character be of a needy disposition. She later decided against this as she felt she had seen enough nerdy stereotypes in high school set movies.
c.
One of the few remaining scenes directed by
George Cukor
to survive into the final cut of the film is the birth of Melanies baby.
d.
St. Johns Military Academy, the school that
Jim Lovell
s son attends during the mission, is a real military school located in Delafield, Wisconsin. The scenes in the movie showing the school were not, however, filmed on location.
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