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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976).
About the movie:
The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)?
a.
Originally, Kenai was supposed to have an older bear named Grizz guide him through the woods and become like a brother to him. He didnt work out, and was replaced by Koda.
b.
The original Broadway production of the play the screen play was based on, "The Admirable Crichton", was written by
J.M. Barrie
(author of "Peter Pan"), opened at the Lyceum Theater on November 17, 1903 and ran for 144 performances. The play starred
William Gillette
, noted play author and first actor to portray the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
c.
One of the few films to graphically portray a child being shot.
d.
The gang of goons in the beginning of the movie is played by the Vancouver based industrial group, Skinny Puppy. cEvin Key, who falls off the car, broke his arm during the shooting of this scene.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)?
a.
When Isabel is setting up chairs at the poetry reading and is confronted by Tellman, there are copies of "Le Divorce" by
Diane Johnson
on the bookshelf behind them.
b.
The Porsche Boxster that is in the same garage Twinkies car is in has 987 on its number plate. 987 is the internal designation Porsche uses for the second generation Boxster.
c.
John Carpenter
: as one of the gang members shot trying to climb in through a window
d.
The title is a reference to
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" but the movie was premiered and initially released as "Driven To Guilt" after a majority vote of the producers decided that
Neal J. Gauger
s original title was too obscure a reference. Subsequent releases have the title of "The Albatross," as per
Neal J. Gauger
s idea.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)?
a.
Number of fatalities: 59
b.
For the television version, scenes of the fire engines pulling up to a building on fire after the foreshocks, are stock shots borrowed from the television series
Hawaii Five-O
.
c.
The character of Lance Dowds was based on a character named Hal that
Kevin Smith
created for a sitcom pilot titled "Hating Hal".
d.
Stuart Beattie
was waiting tables when he ran into a friend called
Julie Richardson
, who hed met on a UCLA Screenwriting Extension course. Richardson had become a producer on the lookout for good thriller scripts in particular. Beattie pitched her his screenplay "The Last Domino" and she liked it. Her boss
Frank Darabont
also liked it and set up a meeting with HBO. They passed on the project after Beattie submitted another draft. He then begged his agent to set up a meeting at DreamWorks where an executive called Marc Haines read the script over a weekend. The studio bought the screenplay the following week.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)?
a.
The pond where Davidge and Sheegan meet for the first time is the same artificial pond custom-built for the model submarine scenes of
Das Boot
, also directed by
Wolfgang Petersen
, as well as one or two scenes from
Die unendliche Geschichte
, also a Petersen film.
b.
When Charlie talks to his dead wife in a hallucination, she is wearing a red dress. When Jack dies and sees his grandson again at the beach, they are flying a red kite.
c.
The movie was edited in editor Daniel R. Padgetts living room.
d.
Gilman Rankin
s final film.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)?
a.
John Carpenter
wrote the score in three days. He made three to five separate pieces of music and edited them in accordingly. It didnt become available to buy until 2003, through the French label Record Makers.
b.
Despite its status as a small independent film, and despite never holding the number one spot at the American box office, the movie went on to earn almost US$369 million, a return of over sixty-one times (6150%) its US$6 million (inflation-adjusted) budget. For that reason, it is the second most profitable film of all time after
Paranormal Activity
. That film returned 12890 times the money invested (1289038.67%) with a budget of $15000. The Worlwide Box Office stopped ringing in $193m.
c.
In the theatrical version of the film,
Robert Duvall
and
Dennis Hopper
leave the exact same way: by standing up from a squatting position and walking out of the frame to the right. However, this changes in the "Redux" version of the film which features a few extra minutes with Duvalls character.
d.
Malcolm McDowell
didnt read the whole script when he accepted the role. When he arrived for filming, he was shocked when another actor asked him how he planned to play the conversation with his penis.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)?
a.
In the shooting script an extended scene in the sheriffs office at the end of the movie reveals Mary survives the gunshot and "shell pull through okay" but goes mad.
b.
The MPAA threatened an "X" rating if the shocking "ice cream scene" wasnt cut. The distributor advised
John Carpenter
to give the MPAA a version with the scene excised to get an "R" rating, and then simply distribute the original version complete with the scene. The ruse worked.
c.
Alec Trevelyans dark coloured locomotive in the movie was nicknamed on the set as "Darth Train".
d.
The "grizzly bear" that
Leslie Nielsen
fights is actually a docile honey bear.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)?
a.
As a result of this film,
Donald Pleasence
would appear in Carpenter films like
Halloween
and
Escape from New York
, because his daughters were big fans of the movie.
b.
The film was profitable because the studio decided to release the film in the largest number of theaters possible during the end of the year holiday season before the reviews and word of mouth spread to damage the film.
c.
The character played by
Walter Matthau
is based on real-life Justice Douglas.
d.
The world premiere of the film was held at two packed theaters (the Astor and Capitol) in New York on 15 October 1940. It was a much anticipated gala affair attended by many luminaries, including
Alfred E. Smith
,
James A. Farley
,
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
,
Fannie Hurst
,
Charles Laughton
and
Elsa Lanchester
.
Charles Chaplin
and his wife and co-star
Paulette Goddard
made an appearance at both theaters. They watched the movie in a loge at the Capitol with
H.G. Wells
,
Constance Collier
and
Tim Durant
, among others.
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