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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Being John Malkovich (1999) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Being John Malkovich (1999) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999).
About the movie:
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
Filming was done on the roof, 51 stories up.
b.
Doyles memorable cry of "Mickey Mantle sucks!" during the cold turkey sequence was the source of much trouble for the film makers and their legal department. Producer
Robert L. Rosen
had to track down
Mickey Mantle
to obtain his permission for the reference. After a long phone call, Rosen flew out to Mantles home in Dallas with a print of the film, which was screened for him and his lawyer. When
Gene Hackman
uttered the line, Mantle surprised Rosen not only by roaring with laughter but also insisting that they watched the rest of the film because both he and his lawyer were enjoying it so much. Mantle later happily signed a release waiver and the line stayed in the film.
c.
According to the script, the song intended to be played over the closing credits was "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppethead" by
They Might Be Giants
.
d.
In addition to having a camera mounted to her for certain sequences,
Ellen Burstyn
, spent four hours every morning being fitted with prosthetics, wearing four different necks (both fat and emaciated), two different fat suits (a 40-pound and 20-pound suit), and nine different wigs.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
Matt Dillon
and
Mickey Rourke
, who played brothers in
Francis Ford Coppola
s cult film
Rumble Fish
, have both played the role of Henry Chinaski (Rourke played in
Barfly
).
b.
At the beginning of the film when Craig is trying to guess Maxines name, one of the names he mumbles is Emily, the name of the child that Maxine gives birth to at the end of the film. The names Craig mumbles is an allusion to Dr. Lester and his group of friends that can exist within other souls.
c.
According to
A. Scott Berg
s memoir "Kate Remembered",
Katharine Hepburn
was already chosen for Mary but they had trouble casting Elizabeth. At one point Hepburn, who had by then been nicknamed "Katharine of Arrogance", suggested that she play both roles. Supporting player
John Carradine
asked, "But if you played both queens, how would you know which one to upstage?" She was not amused at the time but roared with laughter when retelling the story years later.
d.
Director
Stephen Chiodo
had hoped the shower scene would rival
Alfred Hitchcock
s masterpiece
Psycho
, substituting a toilet bowl swirl for the shower drain.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
Filmed in 1977.
b.
The play that Malkovich is rehearsing on stage is
William Shakespeare
s "Richard III". The lines "Was ever a woman in this humour wood? / Was ever a woman in this humour won?" are I.ii.239-240, where Richard is gloating over his use of power, lies and crime to obtain the woman he desires, Lady Anne. This rehearsal scene is immediately followed by the first time that Craig has sex with Maxine via Malkovich.
c.
The characters of Muriel Carew and her father do not appear in
Robert Louis Stevenson
s original story. They are based on similar characters created by playwright T.R. Sullivan for his 1887 stage adaptation of the story.
d.
While visiting his friend
Ray Harryhausen
on the set,
Ray Bradbury
was given a copy of the script (which was going under the working title "Monster From the Sea") and was asked if he could possibly do some rewriting on it. After reading the script, Bradbury remarked about a scene in the story (which featured the monster destroying a lighthouse) that seemed very similar to a short story that he had published in "The Saturday Evening Post" several years earlier called "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms". Bradburys story was about a dinosaur that destroys a lighthouse. The next day Bradbury received a telegram offering to buy the film rights to the story. After the sale, the films title was changed to "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms". Years later when Bradbury had his story reprinted he changed the title to "The Fog Horn".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
A 750,000 gallon tank was created to shoot underwater photography.
b.
For this film,
Harpo Marx
switched to a lighter red wig which actually photographed as blonde. In the film, he is referred to as a redhead. He would use the lighter wig in all future Marx Brothers movies. He went back to the darker red wig for
The Story of Mankind
which was filmed in color.
c.
Charlie Kaufman
sent the screenplay to
Francis Ford Coppola
after he wrote it. Coppola liked it very much and showed it to his daughters husband,
Spike Jonze
. Jonze liked the screenplay so much that he approached Kaufman about directing the movie.
d.
Split is the first film to be shot three times using three different lead actors for the main character.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
The character John Slade is a reference to Cactus Jack Slade in
The Villain
, played by
Kirk Douglas
.
b.
"Be Italian" is usually the epilogue to Saraghinas song "Ti Voglio Bene". The song was cut, but the melody can still be heard in the new orchestration for the movie.
c.
Several characters in the movie remember
John Malkovich
as having played a jewel thief, even though, as he correctly points out, he never did. However, Malkovich did eventually play a jewel thief in
Johnny English
.
d.
The photographic crew devised a scheme to photograph targets through a periscope, with a series of lenses and prisms.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
The play that Malkovich is reading into a tape recorder is
Anton Chekhov
s "The Cherry Orchard". The line beginning "Im as hungry as the winter..." is at the end of Act Two, where Trofimov is speaking to Anya, pontificating on his rejection of materialism.
b.
When you see Mark hold up the porn DVD cover, it reads: "Don Jurso in Im Hard, Youre Easy: A Night of Pure Ecstasy". The man pictured on the front is good friends with director Patrick Sayre and producer Cole Taylor. When doing a photo shoot in pre-production, they called him up and he arrived on-set immediately. His faces, poses, and overall attitude had the crew howling with laughter. They only wish they could fit every image they had of him onto that one DVD cover.
c.
This film was shot in Waco, Ga. at a camp ground formerly known to locals as Camp Waco. It is now private property. While very difficult to get to for even local people it is a beautiful place and is still in existence. Most of the buildings from he film are still there. The only thing not on the property now is the swimming pool used in the film.
d.
The coin trick that Larry performs for Attila the Hun is the French Drop.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
The Japanese garbage collectors union demanded that the film be banned from video shelves as it disparaged trash collectors, portraying them in a poor light.
b.
John Malkovich
s real middle name is Gavin - in the movie, his characters middle name is Horatio.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
d.
Jane Fonda
joined the film after the filming of
Elizabethtown
was pushed back a few months.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
The photo that Jenine (
Meryl Streep
) observes on Senator Irvings (
Tom Cruise
) office wall of him dressed as a young cadet is a still photo from Cruises role in the 1981 film
Taps
.
b.
The car that Michael Jackson turns into during the Smooth Criminal segment is a Bertone Stratos.
c.
The interior of Radio City Music Hall is actually not computer generated; rather, the background is comprised of digital photographs taken by
Darin Hollings
and
Eric Adkins
, merged together to create a panorama backdrop. The same was done for the lobby of The Chronicle building, which was actually a combination of multiple different building interiors edited together.
d.
Craig discovers that LesterCorp is on the 7 1/2 floor of the Mertin Flemmer building by seeing a "7 1/2" on a building directory in the lobby - at the 7 1/2-minute point of the film.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
Willie Garson
(Guy in Restaurant) improvised the scene where he encounters
John Malkovich
and says, "You were really great in that movie where you play that retard." According to Garson, director
Spike Jonze
had instructed Garson to use the word "retard" as many times as he could.
b.
After his vision of
Bruce Springsteen
, Rob says the words "Good luck, goodbye" which is the last line of the Springsteen song "Bobby Jean".
c.
Anna Paquin
was the first choice to play Enola.
d.
The fourth Moto to be produced (Jan-Feb 1938), and the third to be released (Mar 25 1938).
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)?
a.
Helen Barclay
was originally cast as "Eleanor Stafford" but was replaced by
Martha Sleeper
.
George Brent
and
Joel McCrea
were to be the male leads and even accompanied a crew on location in Hemet, California, but they were not in the film.
b.
In Liverpool, England, the films poster was removed from bus shelters because it was considered too sexually suggestive, especially in light of the fact that Liverpool County Council had just run an ad campaign promoting the safety of their buses to women traveling alone at night.
c.
When Sonny is drawing the picture of the bridge for Spooner, there is a piece of paper to the left with computer code on it. The code is that of a Renderman shader; a procedural description of a surface used to describe the robots appearance during rendering.
d.
The 1990 Steppenwolf Theatre building in Chicago (
John Malkovich
was one of the first members of Steppenwolf, and remains one today) includes a half-floor used for storage.
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