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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Blow Out (1981) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Blow Out (1981) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Blow Out (1981).
About the movie:
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blow Out (1981)?
a.
Dean Profits old Dodge pickup was later used as the pickup that tailgated
Chevy Chase
and his family in the opening scenes of
Christmas Vacation
.
b.
The punch line to the unfinished joke the loudmouth at the bar was telling (Its the mailmans last day on the job, he goes to a womans house and she invites him in, makes loves to him, makes him a wonderful breakfast and then gives him 5 dollars) is: Mailman: What was that for? Woman: Well I asked my husband what to do for you on your last day and he said, "Screw him, give him 5 dollars." The breakfast was my idea!
c.
The two main characters were much older and more cynical in an earlier draft of the script.
d.
Jean-Paul Sartre
wanted
Marilyn Monroe
to play the role of Cecily Koertner.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blow Out (1981)?
a.
Nancy Allen
envisioned the character of Sally as a little rag doll.
b.
Crocketts car in the film is a Ferrari F430 Spider. In the TV series he drove a 1985 Ferrari Testarossa. The Ferrari Daytona Spyder that Crockett drove in the series early days was really a fake Ferrari body on a Corvette chassis.
c.
Wes Craven
first came up with the basic idea for the movie from several newspaper articles printed in the LA Times over a three year period about a group of Cambodian refugees from the Hmong tribe, several of whom died in the throes of horrific nightmares. The group had come to America to escape the reign of
Pol Pot
, and within a year of arriving, three men had died, with the situation the same in each cases; the young, otherwise healthy, man would have a nightmare, then refuse to sleep for as long as possible. Upon finally falling asleep from exhaustion, the man awoke screaming, then died. Autopsy results revealed that they had not died because of heart failure, they had simply died. It was this lack of cause which intrigued Craven so much. Medical authorities have since called the phenomenon Asian Death Syndrome, a variant of Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome (SUDS) and Brugada Syndrome.
d.
Producer
Sol C. Siegel
won permission from the New York Police Department to rope off a large section of downtown New York as one extensive set.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blow Out (1981)?
a.
The original idea was to reteam
Olivia de Havilland
with her frequent co-star
Errol Flynn
, but this was dropped in favor of the more subtle acting that
Montgomery Clift
could bring to the role.
b.
Brian De Palma
got the idea for the story while doing the sound mix on his previous movie, _Dressed To Kill (1980)_.
c.
Prunella Scales
filmed her part in four days.
d.
In order to raise money, Mitchell was constantly giving donors bit parts in the film and writing new scenes to include them. He also used his connections from being a crooner to secure locations in Las Vegas and California.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blow Out (1981)?
a.
The underwater components of the car crash on the bridge set piece were shot in a huge tank in California.
Nancy Allen
suffers from claustrophobia and hence had a hard time with being trapped in the car in the underwater scenes.
b.
Film debut of
Karen Sharpe
.
c.
Supposedly
Natalie Wood
was an early contender for the role of Daisy but she allegedly became furious when the producers insisted on a screen test since the actress hadnt been in a movie for over 5 years. She balked and negotiations ended.
d.
Clare Boothe Luce
, then US Ambassador to Italy, prevented the film from being shown at the Venice Film Festival. A Senate committee had decided that the film would not have beneficial effects on the youth of the day.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blow Out (1981)?
a.
When Rosemary receives the book "All of Them Witches," she is told that the name is an anagram. At first she tries to rearrange the letters of the books title, but then realizes that the clue referred to a name within the book. However, the title actually is an anagram for Hell a Cometh Swift.
b.
The Chinese straw hat that
Katharine Houghton
wears in one scene was worn as a homage to Houghtons aunt, the great Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn wore a similar hat in the film
Dragon Seed
.
c.
When
John Travolta
was cast in the male lead,
Nancy Allen
was immediately considered for the female lead.
d.
David Lean
spent several years developing this film in the late 1970s, working with his longtime collaborator, screenwriter
Robert Bolt
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Blow Out (1981)?
a.
The first film
Brian De Palma
used a Steadicam in.
b.
Love em and Leave em opened at the Sam H. Harris Theater on February 3, 1926 and ran for 152 performances.
c.
Two interesting camera techniques are used in the film. In the scene where Benjamin is running, he is shown at some distance running straight at the camera, an effect which makes him look as if he getting nowhere as hes running. (This technique is accomplished with a very long telephoto lens, which foreshortens distances in relation to the camera.) In another scene, Benjamin is walking from the right side of the screen to the left, while everyone else in the scene is moving from left to right. In western culture, things that move left to right seem natural (think of the direction you read words on a page), those that move right to left seem to be going the wrong way. These two visual techniques echo the themes of the film, Benjamin is going the wrong way, and getting nowhere in life.
d.
Local legend has it that John Wilkes Booth evaded capture in Virginia after his assassination of Abraham Lincoln and was the caretaker on the ranch property. He told the property owners his true identity as he was dying. They buried him in an unmarked grave next to the oak tree which Mandy Lane walks by to see Garth.
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