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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Big Stan (2007) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Big Stan (2007) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007).
About the movie:
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
The movies development was part of
Matt Damon
and
Ben Affleck
s
Project Greenlight 3
program.
b.
Richard Dreyfuss
s role is loosely based on the career of the late celebrity attorney
William Kunstler
.
c.
Rob Schneider
s real life brother-in-law, Matt Farley, plays a guard in the movie, while his mother, Pilar, also makes an appearance.
d.
When casting the film
Damn Yankees!
, the studio was initially interested in pursuing
Cyd Charisse
as Lola and
Cary Grant
as Applegate. In the end,
Gwen Verdon
won the right to recreate her stage role with
Ray Walston
, the devilish Applegate. Cyd was supposedly unavailable but later played the role on the legit stage.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
When Chiron is calling for the campers to gather around to go over the rules for Capture the Flag, he yells for Dylan and Paris to stop "lollygagging". Chiron is played by
Pierce Brosnan
, whose two younger sons are named Dylan and Paris.
b.
Obie Weeks
was an employee of the Alaska Railroad at the time of filming. He got a part in the film because he was also an aspiring actor and already a member of Actors Equity.
c.
In the scene where Dylan is going to ask the woman on the stairs out, the musician in the plaza with the saxophone is playing "Just a Friend" by
Biz Markie
.
d.
Rob Schneider
collapsed secondary to heat exhaustion and food poisoning when soaring temperatures on the set left him struggling to keep up with filming.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
Prison scenes were shot at a closed womens prison in Stockton.
b.
Jon Favreau
was on-board to direct the film until around August 2006. At this time Paramount chose not to renew the film rights, preferring to focus on
Star Trek
, while Favreau left to work on
Iron Man
. In January 2007 Disney regained the rights (they had rights to film the story previously: in the 1980s with director
John McTiernan
), and enlisted
Andrew Stanton
from Pixar to direct.
c.
It has been always been rumored that
Harrison Ford
intentionally performed the voice-over poorly, in the hope it would not be used, but in a 2002 interview with Playboy magazine, Ford clarified this mistaken assumption; "I delivered it to the best of my ability, given that I had no input. I never thought theyd use it. But I didnt try and sandbag it. It was simply bad narration."
d.
According to
Kevin Smith
in an interview in the book "My First Movie", part of the movies financing came from an insurance settlement. The settlement was from a car that he and
Jason Mewes
both drove, that was destroyed in a flood. Jason Mewes had told him there would be a flood, and asked if he could move the car uphill, but Smith didnt trust him.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
Marcia Wallace
: Cast-member of The Bob Newhart Show from 1972-1978, a frequent guest on several T.V. game shows, and the voice of Edna Krabappel of The Simpsons.
b.
The movie tied with
Ben-Hur
and
Titanic
to win the most Oscars (11) in a single year. It is also the only one of the three to win to have won a Screenplay Oscar.
c.
As of 2008, the cast includes four actors (
Alan Arkin
,
Jack Lemmon
,
Kevin Spacey
and
Al Pacino
) who have won Academy Awards and two others (
Alec Baldwin
and
Ed Harris
) who have been nominated for Academy Awards.
d.
In a 1983 interview, "A Conversation with Don Ameche",
Don Ameche
said this movie was his favorite of all the films he worked on.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
Melanie Lynskey
was originally cast as Stans ditsy "trophy" wife Mindy, but was later replaced by
Jennifer Morrison
.
b.
Ralph Morgan
s brother
Frank Morgan
starred in the original version, _Kiss Before The Mirror, The (1933)_, albeit in a different role.
c.
There is a substantial amount of male nudity in this film as with female nudity, probably most notably in the "homoerotic shaving scene" as many fans have come to call it. The reason for this that director
Adam Marcus
viewed the previous "Friday the 13th" film as somewhat sexist, showing only or primarily female nudity, and thought it more acceptable to show male and female nudity in equal amounts.
d.
The seventh of ten movies starring
Ann Sothern
as the heroine Maisie Ravier.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
The original negative mysteriously disappeared over 20 years ago. The print used for the Blue-Underground DVD is from director
Ken Wiederhorn
s personal collection.
b.
Joanna Pettet
was first offered the role of "Etta Place" but was forced to turn down the role due to her pregnancy.
c.
Orignally a different actress was cast as Blind Mag, but due to the films low budget the actress dropped out and
Sarah Brightman
was chosen.
d.
Robert Moreno, a Lieutenant for the San Joaquin County Sheriffs Office renowned for his expertise in sex crimes investigations, appears in the movie as a guard.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
Denise Richards
film debut. She plays one of
Denis Leary
s four girlfriend in the scene where hes playing the piano.
Charlie Sheen
, who had a cameo as the valet attendant as a favor to his brother
Emilio Estevez
, would later marry Richards about ten years after this film was made and would divorce soon after.
b.
Brandon Molale
, former quarterback for the Fresno Bulldogs, appears in the movie as a guard.
c.
Jean Speegle Howard
: director
Ron Howard
s mother plays Blanche Lovell.
d.
William Shatner
has stated that his line "Who am I to argue with the Captain of the Enterprise?" was the hardest line he ever had to deliver.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
The "Chinese M1 L1 triple-pulse assault rifles" used by the pirates are actually heavily modified Calico M-960 submachine guns fitted with 100-round magazines (as opposed to the "thousand-round capacity" mentioned by Hanover). Five non-functional rotating barrels were built around the actual barrel of each Calico and driven by a small electric motor connected to the trigger, so that whenever the gun was fired, it appeared to be firing out of the rotating barrels.
b.
An additional tragedy nearly occurred during filming when an 18-foot replica of the Bounty with two crewmen aboard separated from its tow and was adrift for two days before being found by a search party.
c.
Treatment was approved by Stanley Kramer before his death.
d.
Real life mixed martial arts fighters Randy Couture, Don Frye, and Bob Sapp all appear in the movie.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
The scene where Bond comforts a distraught Vesper in the shower after shes witnessed her first death was shot in one take.
b.
The airplane escape sequence at the end used 75 biplanes and 1,500 people, and was filmed at night.
c.
Henry Gibson
s final feature film.
d.
The Humvee driven by Doug is a real-life robot H1ghlander built by Carnegie Mellons Red Team for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Big Stan (2007)?
a.
The stock footage that opens the film does not actually depict Edinburgh, Scotland.
b.
In light of postwar revelations that Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel
had been complicit in the attempt to kill
Adolf Hitler
, there emerged a reassessment of him as a dashing and gallant officer, and this is how
James Mason
played him in "The Desert Fox"--in contrast to the portrayal of Rommel by
Erich von Stroheim
in Paramounts
Five Graves to Cairo
, which was
Billy Wilder
s first film as a director. After "The Desert Fox" came out, criticism came from veterans who had strong opinions about Rommel based on their experience of his actions during the war. In making "The Desert Rats" two years later, in reaction to this criticism, Fox brought back Mason in a cameo, and he plays Rommel more villainously than he has in "The Desert Fox", though not as much as von Stroheim.
c.
World boxing champion Diego Corrales appeared in the film.
d.
A few feet of this film were turned over to the George Eastman House by a private collector.
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