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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Batman (1989) - Part (6) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Batman (1989) - Part (6) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989).
About the movie:
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
A British production, filmed in Hollywood, set in Alberta, Canada.
b.
The IND Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in Brooklyn was used in the scene where Garber enters the tunnel to deliver the ransom money.
c.
According to "Run Baby Run", the autobiography of
Nicky Cruz
, the Mau Mau gang actually wore black leather jackets with crimson double Ms on the back instead of red jackets with white double Ms, as depicted in the film.
d.
A scene was cut from the parade sequence (but made it in the comic book version of the script) where the crowd discovered that all the money that the Joker was handing out was counterfeit. In a follow-up to the Jokers earlier line that he wanted "My face on the one-dollar bill," all the dollar bills that were thrown to the crowd had the Jokers picture in place of George Washingtons.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
David Mamet
performed rewrites during production using nothing more than a typewriter on a cardboard box between takes.
b.
While Actress Kim Bassinger has blond hair, Vicki Vale was red headed in the comics. According to Batman creator
Bob Kane
, Vale was supposed to be blond in the comics, and her hair came out red due to a coloring error in her first appearance.
c.
Three extras drowned during the filming of the flood scene.
d.
The New York Times critic noted in his review of this film on May 27, 1967, that "? of all the witty demonstrations, one of the most amusing..." in the film was when
Jayne Mansfield
loses her bra in the home of
Terry-Thomas
. The sex symbols two-minute cameo was shot under great personal distress, however. Filmed in mid-December, 1966, at the time, Zoltan Hargitay - Mansfields youngest son with
Mickey Hargitay
- was recovering from spinal meningitis at Conjeo Valley Community Hospital, after undergoing brain surgery resulting from his being mauled by a lion in a freak accident at the Jungleland Park in Thousand Oaks, CA, on November 26, 1966. Zoltan spent exactly one month in the hospital, returning home to Jaynes "Pink Palace" on that years Christmas morning. And though several Mansfield films would be released after her untimely death six months later, the scenes in this one were, as an actress, Jayne Mansfields final moments before the professional movie cameras.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
The name of the high school in the film is Lamab High, a reference to the real shooting location of Lamar High School in Houston Texas.
b.
Crazy Hakim, the "discount fertilizer" salesman in the opening chase, is a caricature of animator
Tom Sito
.
c.
At the beginning of the film, Knox enters the press room and is handed a cartoon sketch of a "batman", which is a bat in pin stripe suit. It is signed by
Bob Kane
, who is the original creator of the Batman comic book.
d.
The first movie to be given the Oscar for Best Picture.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
Actor Jay Hewlett withstood below-freezing temperatures for a scene behind a bar wearing nothing but a suit.
b.
Count Olafs car is a 1960 Chrysler Imperial Limo.
c.
During the directors audio commentary,
Peter OFallon
and
Wayne Allan Rice
recall the creation of the song for the flashback scene in Maxs mustang with Elise, which was "? written for the movie, due to budget constraints". They refer to the band as "? a guy named Frankie Blue, and no you cant buy the record because they decided not to do a record deal". The song is actually "Shattered" by Remy Zero, who have been together for 14 years and have released multiple albums.
d.
The name of the Jokers Alter-Ego, Jack Napier was created by the filmmakers. In the comics, The Joker was never given a real name, and whatever real name he has is yet to be definitively revealed.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
On the back of the movie tie-in paperback of the play, it reads: "A Warner Bros. Technicolor film - even though the film was shot in black & white".
b.
The character of Alexander Knox (
Robert Wuhl
) was a character created for the movie. In the script the character was killed during the parade scene. In an interview with Starlog Magazine done at the time, Wuhl joked that his character should become Robin in the sequel.
c.
John Hughes
wrote this film in two days.
d.
The incantation heard in the opening sequence sounds like "Cthulhu fhtagn Rlyeh," a bastardized version of an incantation in the
H.P. Lovecraft
story The Call of Cthulhu. "Phnglui mglwnafh Cthulhu Rlyeh wgahnagl fhtagn", which translates as "In his house at Rlyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
Throughout the film, Dr. Igor Markoff and Steve make several references to Frankenstein. Later that same year,
Glenn Strange
(Steve) would go on to play Frankensteins Monster for the first time in
House of Frankenstein
.
b.
The flat image of the Earth surface used during the presentation is available to the public and can be downloaded from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
c.
The Joker says the line "What a day!"
Jack Nicholson
said the same line in
The Witches of Eastwick
. Maybe because both films share the same producers.
d.
Both
John Carpenter
and
Kurt Russell
explain on the audio commentary that the test screening was so overwhelming positive that both of them expected it to be a big hit. However, 20th Century Fox put little into promoting the movie and it ended up being a box office bomb. However, it went on to be a huge cult hit through home video. Carpenter and Russell explained that the reason the studio did little to promote the film was because they didnt know how to.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
This film was apparently a guilty pleasure of Alfred Hitchcock.
b.
Shot in 20 days.
c.
On-screen body count: 56
d.
The knife Micah is wielding when talking to Katie during the making dinner scene at the beginning of the movie is the same knife he is killed with in the alternate ending.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
On the same day as the funeral scene was filmed, President
John F. Kennedy
(a personal friend of
Frank Sinatra
s) was assassinated.
b.
The person responsible for the matte paintings,
Albert Whitlock
, was drafted to appear in front of the camera. He is the gentleman with the prominent English accent selling used chariots.
c.
In the film Jack Napier, The Joker, is the murderer of Batmans parents. One of the facts not addressed in the film that has its roots in the comic is that Batman would dream whichever villain he was chasing at the time was the one who murdered his parents.
d.
In preparation for some aspects of the title role, actor
Tom Hulce
studied footage of
John McEnroe
s on-court tennis tantrums
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
The exteriors and many interiors at Daley Center were shot on location, including the shot of the Bluesmobile plowing through the courthouse lobby. In a 1998 interview for Universal,
John Landis
credited mob help for getting permission from the Cook County Board of Commissioners for this (alluding to the Board being mob-controlled at that time).
b.
After the success of
Repo Man
,
Alex Cox
was offered a chance to direct but declined.
c.
Whenever the cast broke for a meal,
Spike Lee
would tell them not to throw away the aluminum soda cans because would turn them in for recycling money.
d.
After seeing
Ewen Bremner
in
Mike Leigh
s
Naked
,
Harmony Korine
wanted the actor to play the role of Juliens brother, Chris.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Batman (1989)?
a.
In the book Marlon Brando: The Biography by Peter Marso, it states that
Marlon Brando
was "faced as he was with his still unfulfilled obligation" to "his ten-year old debt to studio 20th Century Fox, which would force him to begin shooting Morituri in April 1964." Brando plays a Nazi soldier in this film as he had done so in the earlier
The Young Lions
for 20th Century Fox, both movies being filmed in black-and-white and both being for made for the same studio.
b.
Robert Duvall
is really singing in the nightclub scene.
c.
Michael Keaton
was unable to hear while wearing the Batsuit. He said that his claustrophobia helped get him in the proper mood to play Batman. "It made me go inward and thats how I wanted the character to be anyway, to be withdrawn," he said.
d.
The black pickup truck driven by Darryl (
Jamie Foxx
) is a Dodge Warlock, produced only from 1976 to 1979.
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