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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Barton Fink (1991) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Barton Fink (1991) - 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: Barton Fink (1991).
About the movie:
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Barton Fink (1991)?
a.
The ending with the bird diving into the sea wasnt intentional. According to
Ethan Coen
and
Joel Coen
the bird got in the shot and they liked it so much, they decided to put it in. Birds also helped the Coens in
Millers Crossing
, and
Fargo
.
b.
This movie was shot without any sort of script. Scenes were improvised by the actors.
c.
Preview audiences screamed when the head of a shark victim appears in the hole in the bottom of the boat. Director
Steven Spielberg
re-shot the scene in editor
Verna Fields
swimming pool because he wanted them to "scream louder".
d.
The second of four films made by real life couple and later husband and wife
Humphrey Bogart
and
Lauren Bacall
. This film follows Bacalls debut in
To Have and Have Not
, during which their romance was first kindled on set. Following this film, the couple teamed up twice more, for
Dark Passage
and
Key Largo
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Barton Fink (1991)?
a.
Was shipped to some theaters under the name "The Winning Team".
b.
The title of Barton Finks play Bare Ruined Choirs is from
William Shakespeare
s Sonnet #73, the first 4 lines of which are "That time of year thou mayest in me behold, When yellow leaves or none or few do hang, Upon those boughs that shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet bird sang".
c.
The operating system Angela uses throughout the movie is Mac OS 7.
d.
There is a screen shot of the two stars - Bing Crosby and Mary Martin - working together on some music in the trailer that does not appear in the final film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Barton Fink (1991)?
a.
Frank Coraci
: as the angry man that Fogg confronts in San Francisco while asking for money.
b.
Dwight Twilley
was originally commissioned to write the title track but his song was never used.
c.
The female voice heard on stage at the beginning of the film is that of
Frances McDormand
(
Joel Coen
s wife).
d.
Shot in a mere 41 days and for only $1 million.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Barton Fink (1991)?
a.
The wallpaper in Bartons room only peels when
John Goodman
s character is in or has just left Bartons room.
b.
The U.S. State Department submitted this film to the 1967 Moscow Film Festival, in order to contradict Soviet propaganda, which implied that all American schools were racially segregated.
c.
The climatic sequence on top of the Smoking Gunn II billboard in Times Square took ten days to shoot with New York traffic put to a stand still and crowds of onlookers from all over the city including tourists, gathered at night to watch the filming. All local TV news stations, along with those from Europe and South America covered the nightly shooting. The billboard itself was compared to that of the Camel cigarettes sign of the 1950s with smoke puffing from it as a main attraction on Broadway.
d.
The young men chosen to portray the members of Team USA were chosen primarily for their hockey skills due to the intensive nature of the filming; acting ability was secondary. In fact, for most of them, this was their first major film.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Barton Fink (1991)?
a.
The film was directed by Julia Crawford Ivers (her last), one of the earliest female directors. Her son, James Van Trees, was the films cinematographer. One of the rare instances in early Hollywood of a mother-son director/cameraman team. Van Trees later became one of Hollywoods most prolific cinematographers from the 1920s to the 1960s.
b.
The first scene is based on a true story. In 1942
Peter ODonnell
was on a scouting team in what they then called Persia. Making sure the Germans wasnt going through there to capture the oilfields in the middle east. They were sitting under their camouflage tent one day and a 6 year old little girl (probably homeless) was looking at them from a small distance. They gave her a can of McConnochies and then she left. They never heard from her again.
c.
The last of MGMs 10 "Maisie" frolics released between 1939 and 1947, this film was the only installment which failed to net a contemporary New York Times review.
d.
Karl E. Mundt
(Charlie Meadows murderous alter ego) was also the name of a U.S. Representative who became vice chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Beginning in the late 1940s, HUAC crushed the livelihoods of screenwriters, actors, etc. who had alleged socialist leanings, as Barton Fink clearly did in the film. The nickname "Madman Mundt" recalls the flamboyant Los Angeles car dealer and TV pitchman "Madman"
Earl Muntz
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Barton Fink (1991)?
a.
John Milius
was offered the role of Jack Lipnick but turned it down.
b.
Christopher Daniel Barnes
, who plays Greg Brady here, was among the cast of the NBC TV series
Day by Day
, as Ross Harper. In a memorable 1989 episode, Ross Harper falls asleep and dreams he is Chuck Brady, the "lost" Brady, in a very clever "Brady Bunch" reunion, with much of the original cast appearing.
c.
When Sherlock says "Now that youre sitting comfortably, I shall begin" to begin explaining Blackwoods plot, it is reference to a BBC childrens radio program from the 1950s, Listen With Mother, which was famous for its opening line "Are you sitting comfortably? Then Ill begin."
d.
Doug Hutchison
initially passed on the project because he didnt respond to the script nor the role of Looney Bin Jim. Director
Lexi Alexander
called him to pitch the movie and her vision and, by the end of their phone conversation, Hutchison had already changed his mind and accepted the role.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Barton Fink (1991)?
a.
Jack Nicholson
s directorial debut. It was one of two post-"Easy Rider" Nicholson films that had yet to be released on video of any kind - the other being
A Safe Place
- until 2010 when the Criterion Collection released both films on DVD and Blu-Ray as part of their "America Lost And Found - The BBS Story" box set.
b.
The first voice heard in the movie, an actor on the stage performing Bartons play, is
John Turturro
s.
c.
After the opening scene, code quickly flashes and is reduced to the movie title. The scrolling code is a Linux procedure that mounts (connects to) networked data sources such as Unix, Windows and Novell file systems.
d.
The future of the film was put in jeopardy when director
Sam Peckinpah
caught pneumonia after an all-night drinking session with
Ken Hutchison
in the sea at Lands End. Having recuperated at a clinic in London, Peckinpah was only reinstated after promising that he would remain sober.
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