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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Becket (1964) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Becket (1964) - 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: Becket (1964).
About the movie:
An English king comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
As a practical joke,
Peter OToole
had
Richard Burton
s then wife
Elizabeth Taylor
take the place of a nude actress lying under a blanket in order to surprise her husband. Burton was not amused.
b.
At one point when
Deborah Kerr
s character wanders around the house at night with only a candelabra for illumination, you might think you see something in the corner of your eye. You do. Its the clapperboard which had briefly wandered into shot.
Jack Clayton
decided to keep it in because he liked the idea of something almost subliminal being present to add to the air of unease.
c.
The movie was originally being developed by
Curtis Hanson
.
d.
This film would land
Fred Walton
the directors chair for the similarly-themed TV thriller I Saw What You Did (1988). Both films are about young women menaced by a killer on the phone.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
Most of the film was shot in sequence.
b.
Charles Bukowski
wanted
Sean Penn
to star as protagonist Henry Chinaski, but Penn insisted that
Dennis Hopper
direct the film. Bukowski had written the screenplay for
Barbet Schroeder
, who had filmed him for French TV years before, and would not surrender it to Hopper, whom he despised as gold-chain-wearing Hollywood phony. Bukowski and Penn became friends for the rest of his life.
c.
A friends pit bull jumped up and bit the sound boom at the "Andes House" location. This brought shooting to a temporary halt.
d.
The tune that Verdoux plays on the piano as Lydia sits by after she withdrew the 70,000 francs is the opening and closing theme to Chaplins film
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
, which he used in 1976 when he re-scored the picture.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
Harrison Ford
turned down the role of Josh Baskin.
b.
The location for the Nazi prisoner-of-war camp was an old abandoned sanitarium in Long Island.
c.
Both
Peter OToole
and
Richard Burton
were on their best behavior during filming as they were in company of
Donald Wolfit
and
John Gielgud
, respectively OToole and Burtons acting mentors.
d.
Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2000s (#10).
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
His reprise of the role of Sergeant Collins from
Buck Privates
became the final film role for
Nat Pendleton
.
b.
Originally the film was intended to be shot completely in live-action, but it was decided that actors playing toys would appear a bit too hokey.
c.
Ray Harryhausen
stated in his biography that this is his least favorite of his films.
d.
When the film premiered, director
Peter Glenville
was aghast to discover that producer
Hal B. Wallis
had inserted an interval halfway through the film.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
Hal B. Wallis
was not at all happy with
Peter Glenville
s choice of composer for the film as hed never heard of
Laurence Rosenthal
. However, Glenville was adamant, having worked with Rosenthal on the stage version of the play.
b.
The scene in which shoes laced together are hanging from telephone and electric wires was shot on East Capitol Street a few blocks behind the U.S. Capitol. The production crew left several pairs of shoes behind and they remained hanging on the wires for years.
c.
Michael B. Jordan
: Appears as himself as a patron in the strip club in the scene where Erin Grant (
Demi Moore
) meets Lt. Al Garcia (
Armand Assante
) after one of the dancers says "Michael Jordan is at table 8" in original theatrical. The name in this line was changed and Michael Jordans name is uncredited.
d.
When Danielle is swimming in the lake, she is using the inverted breaststroke. It was popular in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and is still commonly taught as a survival stroke. In Australia, it is called the "Survival Backstroke."
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
This film met with the approbation of
Jean Anouilh
who - up till that point - hadnt been very impressed with adaptations of his work.
b.
Also in the Room of Requirement are the Cornish Pixies set loose by Gilderoy Lockhart in
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
.
c.
A shot where Courtney stabs the killer during the chase through the cafeteria kitchen was left out of the scene because it didnt edit together well. In one shot however you can still glimpse the handle of a fake knife sticking out from the killers chest.
d.
In one of the clips of
Morgan Freeman
as God, he is wearing a New Orlean Saints hat. The Saints obviously in relation to God.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
The French title for this movie Le Cercle Noir translates literally into the English language as The Black Circle. French director crime films auteur
Jean-Pierre Melville
once made a French gangster movie called
Le cercle rouge
(The Red Circle) which was made and released just a few years prior to this picture.
b.
Shot over a period of 12 weeks.
c.
Originally the film ended with Bigfoot fleeing from Darcys horrible poetry and leaping to his death from the edge of Ape Canyon. Devastated, Darcy jumped over the edge after Bigfoot. Director Jon Olsen and producer Trevor Guthrie traveled back up to Humboldt County from the Bay Area to shoot the new, improved ending. On the way their ride broke down, and they were forced to hitch-hike most of the 200 mile journey. The finished film, with the new ending, was completed less than a week later - just hours before its premiere at the Parkway Theater in Oakland, CA.
d.
Additional scenes were filmed on July 24, 1956.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
Victor Erices segment was originally filmed in color. At the eleventh hour the director decided to print it in black & white.
b.
Peter OToole
s crown was made of cardboard.
c.
ADV Films announced that they would like to give the Japanese and the English vocal casts a cameo.
d.
According to Jules Faith in "The Bronfmans", the only person who ever dared mock
Lew Wasserman
s "Music Corporation of America" was
Billy Wilder
in this movie. The musicians played by
Tony Curtis
and
Jack Lemmon
, looking for work, charge into an office labeled "Music Corporation of America". The only occupants are two frowzy women drinking gin.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
The story of Lt. Ito strapping mines to himself and lying among corpses to attack a tank is based on the real-life story of Satoru Omagiri, as told in "The Rising Sun" by
John Toland
.
b.
Many of the superimpositions throughout the film were created "in the camera". The camera would shoot one image at the side of the frame, blacking out the rest of the shot, then expose the film. They would put the exposed film back into the camera and shoot again, blocking out the area that already had an image on it.
c.
The closeness between King Henry and Becket is depicted as being a purely platonic one. Homosexuality was illegal at the time in Britain and any suggestion of that would have fallen foul of the censor.
d.
At several points,
Tim Roth
had lain in the pool of fake blood for so long that the blood dried out and he had to be peeled off the floor, which took several minutes.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Becket (1964)?
a.
Brian Cox
and
Helen Mirren
play a Russian and British spy, respectively. In real life, their ancestry is reversed: Brian Cox is British and Mirren, though born in England, has Russian ancestry.
b.
Ridley Scott
admits that comments made by some pot-smoking attendees at a screening got the director second-guessing himself, and influenced him to cut the film from 150 minutes to 98.
c.
The play - and indeed the film - are riddled with factual inaccuracies as
Jean Anouilh
did practically no research once he learned the gist of the real story.
d.
After attending the premiere of the film,
Cole Porter
supposedly remarked to his wife, Linda, "if I could survive that, I can survive anything."
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