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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Blind Date (1987) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Blind Date (1987) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Blind Date (1987)

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About the movie: Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blind Date (1987)?
a.		Joan (played by Joan Leslie) refers to polyps as "little fish" when they are actually a structural form of cnidarians. Common polyps include Coral, Sea Anemones, Hydras, and Jellyfish.
b.		Bruce Willis characters first name in this movie is Walter. Walter is also Bruce Willis actual first name, Bruce being his middle name.
c.		Djimon Hounsou turned down the role of Attar because he was filming The Four Feathers.
d.		The title song "Id Like to be You for a Day" is sung by Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blind Date (1987)?
a.		Patrick McGoohan turned down the role of Gandalf due to poor health.
b.		Although the credits specify all in the credited cast were making their screen debuts, Maria Palmer, Hugo Haas and Tamara Toumanova appeared in movies in earlier years.
c.		This was Bruce Williss first credited film.
d.		The Tyrone Power characters last name is Vole. Aside from what has already been mentioned, the word "voleur" in French translates in English to burglar, embezzler, housebreaker, intruder, peculator, robber, and thief. Many of which could apply to Powers character.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blind Date (1987)?
a.		Nearly every military uniform has WW2 German military and SS paramilitary uniform references.
b.		David Bedfords office window looks out onto the unfinished Fox building, which was soon to star as "Nakatomi Plaza" in Die Hard. The structure still lacks windows and stone facade on the upper stories and at ground level.
c.		Each of the 15 chapters was 2 reels.
d.		Original Title: "Black Off A Crow". The title was changed the week before the films premiere at the Santa Fe Film Festival.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blind Date (1987)?
a.		Although Peter Weller is solely credited as playing Robocop, he did in fact have a stunt double for certain scenes. During the making of the crack house scene, Peter Weller, Paul Verhoeven, and the stunt double can be seen discussing Robocops movements.
b.		A scene in which Marty meets his brother, Dave (played by Marc McClure), in the alternate 1985 was eventually cut because Wendie Jo Sperber (who played Linda, Martys sister) could not reprise her role because at the time, she was pregnant.
c.		There were several dance numbers cut before the movie was released. The football game at the beginning was cut from several newsreels. Over 100 original West Point students appeared in that movie, and there are rumours that each of them who took part in one dance number, received a kiss by Eleanor Powell.
d.		If the pool at the end of the movie looks familiar, its the same one from The Cars video for the song "Magic".

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blind Date (1987)?
a.		According to Loretta Lynn, her husband Doolittle wanted nothing to do with Tommy Lee Jones, who was playing him, until shortly before shooting began in Butcher Holler. Jones rented a Jeep, got drunk on moonshine and went tearing through the town in the vehicle, only to get arrested for drunk driving, beat up for resisting arrest and jailed. Doolittle liked him immediately after that.
b.		Al Pacino was helped by a school for the blind in his preparation for this role. He said that he made himself appear blind by not allowing his eyes to focus on anything.
c.		Blake Edwards, Leslie Dixon, Tom Ropelewski, and Michael Alan Eddy all did uncredited rewrites on the script.
d.		Joe Pesci reprised his character for his 1998 album "Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You".

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blind Date (1987)?
a.		All of the off-screen voices, from the news report on the TV, the PA system in the high school, and the screaming during the "hell" sequences were done by writer/director/editors Nick Groff and Michael A. Martinez.
b.		In the final battle sequence, Neytiri has a white hand print on her chest as part of her warpaint. It has five fingers, indicating that it is Jakes hand (avatars have five fingers while Navi only have four).
c.		Madonna and Sean Penn were approached to star together in this movie, but Blake Edwards wanted to cast Bruce Willis in the male lead and Melanie Griffith or Kim Basinger in the female lead, so Madonna backed out. Eventually Basinger would be chosen for the female lead.
d.		The true storys ending was quite different. Navy SEAL LT Tom Norris and Vietnamese SEAL Petty Officer Nguyen Van Kiet took a sampan in to pick up Col. Hambleton after repeated attempts failed with major losses of helicopters and men. LT Norris was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blind Date (1987)?
a.		Halfway through filming, MGM sent a sound crew to Africa because of the publics desire for all-talking sound pictures. However, the sound quality was so poor almost all the dialogue sequences were reshot at MGMs Culver City Studio. African natives Mutia Omoolu and Riano Tindama were brought back to Hollywood for some additional filming. When this activity caused rumors to circulate that the entire production was filmed on the back lot, MGM scrapped much of the new footage, including scenes with Marjorie Rambeau, who had replaced Olive Carey as Edith Trent.
b.		Contains no dialogue.
c.		The script was rewritten so much that writer Dale Launer, who wrote the original script, pretty much disowned the finished film.
d.		Tom Cruise has said that his character was based in part on Sydney Falco from Sweet Smell of Success (played by Tony Curtis).

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