Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Best Friends (1982) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Best Friends (1982) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982).

About the movie: When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		When they were shooting in Tangiers, it was in the middle of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, where no Muslim can eat or drink during the daylight hours. Interviews in the bonus material reveal that several of the crew members were Muslims, and found it exhausting to do the movie while being unable to eat or drink. Matt Damon comments on how he would see them look loningly at a cup of coffee or a sandwich. To accommodate these crew members, the remaining members of the crew tried to discreetly eat and drink.
b.		The movie posters seen in the film studio are all of earlier Warner Brothers pictures.
c.		Actor Robert Walden sings the title theme (Maxie).
d.		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.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		Burt Reynolds once said of his co-star Goldie Hawn in this movie: "Goldie Hawn and I had been talking for five years about doing a movie together. Shes someone who makes me laugh. Really laugh. I knew her when she was a dumb blonde and even then she was one of the smartest people I knew."
b.		This film was the beginning of a collaboration between Randolph Scott and the director, Budd Boetticher, that revived Scotts career. They made six more films together over the next few years.
c.		All three lead actresses are given both a sex scene and a dance scene to represent the three stages of womens sexuality: virgin, mother, crone.
d.		One of Stephen Kings favorite horror films.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		Stars Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn had talked about doing a movie together for about five years before this project came along.
b.		Wes Anderson: barely visible as a passenger on the bus near the beginning of the film, sitting right behind Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson.
c.		The train station scenes in Metcalf were filmed at the former New Haven Railroad station, Danbury, Connecticut, which is today the home of the Danbury Railroad Museum.
d.		Ron talks about how George Washington grew marijuana on his plantation at Mount Vernon which is true but it was not grown for people to smoke. He had large fields of cannabis on his plantation, which were used for fiber production. The tough fiber of the plant, cultivated as hemp, has numerous textile uses.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		The wolfs byline on his column is Walt W. Wolf, a satirical jab at Walt Disney.
b.		This movies theme song "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song and has been covered by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett.
c.		In the late 1980s, Carolco Pictures bought the film rights of X-Men from Marvel. James Cameron was set to produce, along with his production company Lightstorm Entertainment, which was in line to distribute. Well-known X-Men Comic book writer Chris Claremont was involved in meetings with X-Men creator Stan Lee, James Cameron, and executives at Carolco about the project. After James Cameron moved on to the Spider-Man project and Carolco went bankrupt, the rights became available and were purchased by 20th Century Fox.
d.		For many of the shots with the car, the assistant directors, under the supervision of Terence A. Donnelly, cleared traffic for approximately five blocks in each direction. Members of the NYPDs tactical force helped control traffic. But most of the control was achieved by the assistant directors with the help of off-duty NYPD officers, many of whom had been involved in the actual case. Permission was given to literally control the traffic signals on those streets where they ran the chase car.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		The films writers Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin based the script on their very own marriage.
b.		This film integrates two popular "conspiracy theories" of gangster folklore: that John Dillinger didnt really die at the Biograph (for years, no one bought the idea that the FBI had killed him because the face was different and the man weighed more but this was easily explained by Dillinger having plastic surgery and just natural weight gain) and that Al Capone had hidden away a fortune somewhere in Chicago. (Geraldo Rivera did an expose in which he did in fact find the vault...but it was empty)
c.		Lou Ferrigno voices the Hulk in this film. He has played the Hulk in almost every live-action version since 1978: he played the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk and its forthcoming TV specials, and he voiced the Hulk in the prequel The Incredible Hulk (he was seen in Hulk but it was a cameo role as a security guard).
d.		The humans communicate with the aliens by making music with their computers. Writer-director Steven Spielbergs mother was a musician and his father was a computer scientist. Spielberg himself had not thought of this until it was pointed out by James Lipton in an interview on Inside the Actors Studio.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		In the scene when Lugosi appears on the TV show playing Dracula, the comic in the skit (played by Bobby Slayton) was clearly based on Charlie Callas.
b.		Actresses considered for the role eventually played by Melanie Griffith include Lena Olin, Lolita Davidovich, and Uma Thurman, (who tested for the part and actually came close to getting it.)
c.		This movies title "Best Friends" is a bit of a fallacy. Even though they may be "best friends", from the start of the film, Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawns characters are living together as partners and are "more than friends".
d.		Keep watching after the credits. Theres a song sung by Carmen (Alexa Vega), followed by bloopers and theres one last scene involving the Theme Park Owner (Bill Paxton) and Romero (Steve Buscemi).

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 31, 1952 with Susan Hayward and Dan Dailey reprising their film roles.
b.		During 1982, two comedy movies with similar titles were released examining the notion of whether male and female friends can become partners. One was Best Friends, a big Hollywood studio movie with lots of star power in Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn. The other was The Best of Friends, a smaller Australian film but featuring two big names from their film industry, Graeme Blundell and Angela Punch McGregor. The Best of Friends came out first on 25 February 1982 whilst Best Friends was premiered on 17 December 1982. The Australian films tagline summed up both movies themes: "They were the best of friends . . . until they fell in love!"
c.		The Wild Gunman video game in Cafe 80s was specially made for the film. Wild Gunman was an actual light gun game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, but was never a dedicated arcade cabinet. It was, however, included in many of Nintendos Play Choice 10 machines, hence why a lightgun was on the cabinet. The sound effects heard in the movie are from the game, but, the on screen graphics are entirely new, drawn to resemble what appeared. Ironically, the actual game itself had far better animation.
d.		Because many of the techniques and tools that were required to give the film the quality Keane demanded of it didnt exist when the project was started, the WDFA had to make them on their own.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		Upon reading Karl Tunbergs original script, William Wyler had written in the margins "awful...horrible". Consequently, he brought in Gore Vidal - who was on contract with MGM at the time and hated being so - to rewrite the screenplay. Vidal also thought that Tunbergs script was dreadful and initially didnt even want to take on the project. He changed his mind when Wyler promised to get him out of the remaining two years of his contract. Christopher Fry then polished up Vidals work on the screenplay and wrote a new ending. Neither Fry or Vidal received screen credit for their work on the film, something which infuriated Wyler so much that he leaked the story to the press.
b.		Matthew Perrys movie debut.
c.		The movie ends with Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn walking into a painted sunset studio backdrop. Earlier in the movie, it is mentioned how a film is going to end with two lovers walking into an artificial sunset.
d.		Deborah Kara Unger, William Devane, Gregg Henry and David Paymer are the only main characters that die in both the theatrical and directors cut of the film. While John Glover and James Coburn are the only ones who die in the theatrical version and survive in the directors cut.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		Throughout his career Burt Reynolds has made a number of movies that examine movie-making and this film is one of them. The pictures include Fade-In (location filming & westerns); Silent Movie and Nickelodeon (silent films); Best Friends (scriptwriting & Hollywood); Hooper (stuntwork and Hollywood); The Player (Hollywood); Boogie Nights (adult films); The Last Producer (producers and Hollywood); The Hollywood Sign and A Bunch of Amateurs (actors and Hollywood).
b.		The studio cut $2 million out of the films budget just days before shooting began. Director Mark Pellington was furious, having vowed not to make the same concessions that plagued his previous film Arlington Road.
c.		In the final scene where Greg confronts Jennifer about her true motivations, the reason Jennifer is kept entirely off screen is because Chelsea Collins was out of town and would not be back for some time. Rather than wait to complete it with inserts of her, Zebrun instead decided to keep the focus entirely on Greg and make Jennifer an unseen force driving him crazy.
d.		Linda Darnell was originally cast in the female lead, and never hid her disappointment when finding out that she had been replaced by Anne Baxter.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Best Friends (1982)?
a.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 6, 1943 with Diana Lynn reprising her film role.
b.		This movies screen-writers Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin separated around the time that this picture was first released. This movie that they wrote was semi-autobiographical.
c.		In the scene where Chris (Vin Diesel) and Seth (Giovanni Ribisi) are waiting outside Gregs (Nicky Katt) house, we never see the car move or get turned on. Before they shot the scene Ben Affleck was sitting in the car, listening to music. He accidentally took the car keys home with him. They absolutely had to shoot the scene that night and couldnt find Ben. They shot the scene with the car where it is and lit up the house so there wouldnt be a reflection of the camera and crew.
d.		Arch Hall Jr. based his performace as psycho killer Charlie Tibbs on "Tommy Udo," Richard Widmarks character in Kiss of Death, right down to the giggle.

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