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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Big Business (1988) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Big Business (1988) Quiz
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About the movie:
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Business (1988)?
a.
Negatives from the defunct Tiffany Pictures collection, were most likely used for the burning of Atlanta in
Gone with the Wind
, as nitrate ignites easily and there was a lot of it lying around. According to historian Jonas Nordin, the original negative for this film was probably among them, which would account for its loss.
b.
The structure of the film was based loosely on "The Comedy of Errors" by
William Shakespeare
.
c.
Henry Fonda
later admitted he had known from the beginning that he was too old for his character, and had only made the film for the money.
d.
This movies first two segments are The Dawn of Man and The Stone Age. This picture was released around the same time as the serious prehistoric drama
La guerre du feu
(Quest for Fire (1981)) as well as the prehistoric comedy
Caveman
. These three movies were all first-released in 1981.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Business (1988)?
a.
The production company couldnt get the rights to film at the actual Plaza hotel in New York, so it had it recreated on sound stages. To recoup construction costs, Disney built a sitcom around it,
The Nutt House
. It was an expensive flop.
b.
Damien Colletti
who plays Kevin, the male lead in the film, is also the only male actor in the film.
c.
The movie is based on the Milton Bradley game "Battleship" that they have manufactured since 1931 though the manual paper and pencil version of the same game predates 1900.
d.
In a show of solidarity, as many of his actors lost weight for their roles, the director lost almost 30 pounds.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Business (1988)?
a.
Soldiers who served under the real
George S. Patton
said that the generals voice was surprisingly high-pitched. This can be heard in actual films and recordings of him. Patton himself said that he used profanity so liberally in order to compensate for this.
b.
The tires of Lightning McQueen are Buzzard models manufactured by Lightyear, a reference both to the real Goodyear "Eagle" tires used in NASCAR and character Buzz Lightyear from
John Lasseter
s
Toy Story
and
Toy Story 2
. A Lightyear Blimp, spoofing the real-life Goodyear Blimp, even appears at the race events.
c.
Jim Abrahams
said he staged one of the boardroom scenes based on an experience he had when a large agency used many employees to get him to sign with them.
d.
Although it has been reported that Hughes re-shot all the silent material, that seems unlikely looking at the footage shot in the dirigible. The voices are out-of-sync and some of the action seems hurried, suggesting it was shot at a silent speed of 18 frames per second, rather than 24 fps sound speed and dubbed later.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Business (1988)?
a.
The draw bridge used is the Henry Ford Bridge on Terminal Island (Long Beach, CA).
b.
Jane Lew, the town where the doctor provides direction to the closest hospital, is an actual town in West Virginia. Jupiter Hollow is a commune, less than eight miles from Jane Lew, in the town of Weston, WV.
c.
Immediately after
Spider-Man 2
released,
Ivan Raimi
wrote a plot for the third film in two months. According to
Sam Raimi
, the film initially dealt with the concept of heroes with a dark side, and villains with a sympathetic side. As well as dealing with the "triangle" between Peter, Mary Jane and Harry, the Sandman was made the films official "villain"; the screenwriters made his character, merely a petty criminal in the comics, the real killer of Ben Parker to further Peters guilt over his uncles death. Raimi wanted another villain in the film, and eventually settled on the popular villain Venom to please the fans. There was also the addition of a rival love interest, Gwen Stacy, to complicate personal matters. However, with all these additions, the story became so complex that
Alvin Sargent
considered cutting it into two films, before realizing he could not create a successful intermediate climax for the third film to lead into the fourth.
d.
Ennio Coltorti
, who in this movie plays Commissioner Ricci, later dubbed
Harvey Keitel
(Jack Crawford) for the Italian version of
Red Dragon
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Business (1988)?
a.
This movie was written for
Barbra Streisand
(
Bette Midler
s role) and
Goldie Hawn
(
Lily Tomlin
s role).
b.
After the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001, this was the first feature film to be shot in San Francisco International Airport.
c.
Completed in the summer of 1919, the film was never released theatrically due to a legal dispute with the author,
J. Hartley Manners
.
d.
Two weeks before the end of shooting, DP
Emmanuel Lubezki
had to leave due to work commitments for the upcoming movie
The New World
. Robert Yeoman was brought in for a shot in the last half of the third act (The Wide Window). Yeoman was given a special thanks in the credits.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Business (1988)?
a.
During the scene where the Dwarfs wash before eating Dopey swallows a bar of soap. A sequence showing how they got the soap back out of him was filmed as a pencil test but was not included in the film. It was later shown on the "Disneyland" TV show along with pencil test segment for the song "The Music In Your Soup".
b.
The code name "Edmund" that is used in the paper to notify Micheal that he needed to contact Shakes is the name of the main character, Edmund Dantes, from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
c.
Although Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin play twins, Tomlin is actually six years older than Midler.
d.
Bill Murray
agreed to omit his name from the opening credits to prevent audiences expecting a "Bill Murray" movie along the lines of
Meatballs
or
Caddyshack
.
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