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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Be Kind Rewind (2008) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Be Kind Rewind (2008) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008).
About the movie:
Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008)?
a.
John C. Reilly
was originally supposed to play one of the men who come from Utah to collect the money. But Reilly thought that it was a strange role for him, considering how everyone would recognize him and would wonder why he was not doing more. So he dropped out.
b.
This is the final theatrical film directed by
Robert Wise
.
c.
In keeping with the spirit of the film, director
Michel Gondry
"sweded" a version of this movies trailer featuring only himself on screen.
d.
The sound discs for this film survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008)?
a.
The term "Sweded" was created due to the Swedish governments stance on file-sharing. While many media corporations have succeeded in having files of their copyrighted works removed from Internet web sites, Sweden has treated such file sharing as a form of free speech, and a right of consumers. There is even a Swedish pro-piracy political party.
b.
Marlon Brando
wanted to make Don Corleone "look "like a bulldog," so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition. For actual filming, he wore a mouthpiece made by a dentist; this appliance is on display in the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.
c.
The crew referred to the film as "Dirt World".
d.
When Hamlet stops the limo after deciding not to kill his uncle, Claudius, he exits at a theater billing the Best Musical of 1998 - the live-action stage version of "The Lion King". "The Lion King" is reportedly inspired by "Hamlet".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008)?
a.
A banner in the cafeteria says SAVE FERRIS.
b.
Michel Gondry
was inspired to make this film after making
Block Party
which took place on one city block.
Dave Chappelle
was interested in playing Mike and came up with ideas of remaking
Driving Miss Daisy
,
Rush Hour 2
and
Boyz n the Hood
.
c.
Tarzans distinctive call was created by sound recordist
Douglas Shearer
. It was a normal call, manipulated and played backwards.
d.
The transformation sound from
Transformers
is heard on five occasions in the movie: Blackout transforms at the SOCCENT base Bumblebee transforms to catch a falling Sam and Mikaela The Nokia phone becomes a Transformer after exposure to the All Spark Ironhide and Blackout transform in the Battle of Mission City and Starscream flies into space at the end.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008)?
a.
The story was originally optioned by Frank Capras Liberty Films in 1945, and announced as the companys first production. Later that year, producer-director Roy Del Ruth acquired the story.
b.
In the scene where Ashley (
Amy Adams
) does her sit up exercises, director
Phil Morrison
used a split screen, combining the performance of a real pregnant woman with Adamss head.
c.
During the first scene within the "Be Kind Rewind" video store, a music video can be seen playing on the television behind the check-out counter. Its the music video for "Ma Maison" by French rock group Oui Oui, which
Michel Gondry
directed. Gondry was also the drummer for Oui Oui when they were still together between 1983 and 1992.
d.
Christopher Walken
was originally chosen for the role of Samuel Ramoss lawyer, Jordan Kaufus, but Walken wanted to play the role of Rayburn to break away from playing the role of bad guys.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008)?
a.
According to Dr. Seuss, the films creator and co-writer, one of the 150 boys vomited on the piano while filming. This caused a chain reaction and they were left with 150 vomiting boys. Dr. Seuss said that the films reviews were similar.
b.
As the film progresses, the walls of the ships corridors become darker and more ominous.
c.
The supercar driven by Bruce Nolan later in the film is a Saleen S7, this car is often confused with the Mclaren F1.
d.
In the scene where Alma puts the movie selections of several store patrons into a black trash bag and picks two at random (settling a dispute about which titles to "swede"), Jerry says "Without civilization, life is nasty, brutish... and short!" This is an almost verbatim quote from Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, one of the most important works in political philosophy.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008)?
a.
Kirsten Dunst
was in talks to play the role that became Alma but she dropped out for unknown reasons.
b.
Although this movie was banned in all occupied countries by the Nazis, it was screened once to a German audience. In the occupied Balkans, members of a resistance group switched the reels in a military cinema and replaced a comedic opera with a copy of this film, which they had smuggled in from Greece. So a group of German soldiers enjoyed a screening of this film until they realized what it was. Some left the cinema and some were reported to have fired shots at the screen.
c.
The interior of Aunt Mays house is the same sets built for the first
Spider-Man
movie.
d.
Mel Gibson
and
Harrison Ford
were both considered for the role of Captain John Miller, before
Steven Spielberg
decided on casting
Tom Hanks
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008)?
a.
Philip K. Dick
s ideal choice for Rachel was
Victoria Principal
. Although almost one hundred actresses auditioned for the role, only three were seriously considered:
Sean Young
,
Nina Axelrod
and
Barbara Hershey
. For the auditions, the role of Deckard was played by
Morgan Paull
, who ultimately went on to play Holden in the film.
b.
It took director
James Gray
two years to get the financing in place to make the film.
c.
The reason for
Jack Black
s version of the
Ghost Busters
theme song was simply because the legal department didnt have the rights to
Ray Parker Jr.
s song yet.
d.
The character "Reverend Lennox Thomas" is named after Richard Pryor, using two of his middle names.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008)?
a.
As
Jim Jarmusch
, together with
Tom Waits
and
John Lurie
, is a member of the
Lee Marvin
look-alike club "Sons of Lee Marvin", a portrait is hanging over
The White Stripes
during the "Tesla" section.
b.
Elizabeth Berkley
: During the scene in the library where Jerry and Mike are "sweding"
Ghost Busters
, she is one of the girls standing in the library watching in confusion.
c.
Dorothy Dickson
s baby is played by her real-life daughter
Dorothy Hyson
d.
Ingrid Bergman
considered her left side as her better side, and to the extent possible that was the side photographed throughout the film, so she is almost always on the right side of the screen looking towards the left regardless of who is in the shot with her. However, there are several shots where she is to the left and
Humphrey Bogart
is on the right, including the flashbacks to the street scene in Paris (0:41:50) and the scene at the window (0:43:40). There are also several scenes where Bergman is centered between
Paul Henreid
and Bogart, suggesting the triangle nature of their relationship; in these shots Henreid is usually to the left and Bogart is usually on the right, including the scene where she and Henreid enter the café at just before the famous "Battle of the Anthems" (1:07:40); the scene where Captain Renault arrests Victor Laszlo (1:34:00); and at the end of the final airport scene (1:39:00).
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Be Kind Rewind (2008)?
a.
John Woo
: [reflections] When Jennings meets with the Rachel-Double in the Cafe, he sees her in the silver top of a sugar pot.
b.
The quote carved on the vaults door, "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die", is from
H.P. Lovecraft
s short story "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Nameless City". It is supposedly a couplet by Abdul Alhazarred, fictional author of the Necronomicon.
c.
Director
Michel Gondry
insisted on using the inhabitants of Passaic, New Jersey, where the film was shot and is set, as extras and some as prominent actors throughout the film. The scene where the inhabitants get to see "
Fats Waller
was Born in Passaic" (the biopic and only non-Sweded production) playing on the video store window actually featured the inhabitants watching the movie they had worked long and hard on for the very first time.
d.
After the movie premiered Adam Sandler bought each of his fellow cast members (
Chris Rock
,
Kevin James
, Rob Schneider and
David Spade
) a brand new Maserati. Rock appreciated the gift but said it made him feel like "Adam Sandlers bitch".
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