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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Burn After Reading (2008) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Burn After Reading (2008) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Burn After Reading (2008).
About the movie:
A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Burn After Reading (2008)?
a.
Based on a 1939 Broadway play featuring
Desi Arnaz
and
Eddie Bracken
.
b.
The dummy Otto was a hand carved basswood Frank Marshall figure. The same man who designed Edgar Bergens famous characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
c.
Both
Bill Murray
,
John Travolta
and
Adam Sandler
were considered for the role of Azrael.
Adam Sandler
turn down the role to work on
Big Daddy
.
d.
When Harry goes to stay at Katie Coxs house after she broke up with Osbourne, he brings along a purple "ramp", a sex tool from the Liberator line. After they collide he leaves the house only taking the "ramp" away.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Burn After Reading (2008)?
a.
John Malkovich
kills
Richard Jenkins
with an axe in the same way
Peter Stormare
killed
Steve Buscemi
in
Fargo
.
b.
Novelist Rod Whitaker (Trevanian) scorned the film as "vapid" and blamed the production for "the death of a promising young climber" (see above).
c.
Jeffrey Kurland
: the costume designer appears as one of the tailors fitting Saul Blooms suit.
d.
The "Step in Time" sequence had to be filmed twice because of a scratch on the film from the first take. The entire sequence took a week to film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Burn After Reading (2008)?
a.
Harvey Keitel
was then cast as Willard. Two weeks into shooting, director
Francis Ford Coppola
replaced him with
Martin Sheen
.
b.
Sage Bonnie Humphrey
:
Anthony Robbins
wife gets his autograph when he is coming out of the building and
Jason Alexander
comes to talk to him.
c.
J.K. Simmons
(CIA Superior) never stands up throughout the film.
d.
Kim Rossi Stuart
s role in the film ended up on the cutting room floor.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Burn After Reading (2008)?
a.
For the "Baby, Take a Bow" number with
James Dunn
, the studio felt it would be easier for
Shirley Temple
to do the dance she had done at her audition rather than learn a new one, so Temple spent her first day on the set giving Dunn dancing lessons.
b.
Joel Coen
: [The Films of
Stanley Kubrick
] The sound emitted by the homing scanner from Bowmans space pod in
2001: A Space Odyssey
is heard in the opening titles. Harry Pfarrers house number is 114, a nod to
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
. Linda Litzke refers to her "Mickey Mouse H.M.O." provided by Hardbodies, a nod to
Full Metal Jacket
.
c.
The first Harry Potter film to be rated PG by the MPAA since
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
.
d.
A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Burn After Reading (2008)?
a.
Kees name is a homophone for "chi" (also can be pronounced CHEE) which means the energy or force of life itself.
b.
After learning about the remake,
Andrew Bryniarski
(Leatherface) went up to producer
Michael Bay
at a Christmas party and personally asked him for the role.
c.
A lot of similarities to The Water Engine; a made for TV movie also written by David Mamet in which an inventor creates something special which he is paranoid (rightfully so) about maintaining the rights to (unsuccessfully, in both cases.)
d.
In the movie,
Brad Pitt
s character Chad Feldheimer was shot in the head, just like his character, Jesse James in
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
. Both the characters were killed by Brads fellow crew members in
Oceans Eleven
-
George Clooney
and
Casey Affleck
respectively.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Burn After Reading (2008)?
a.
The early pre-release screenings of the movie were disastrous. The percentage of the audience who liked the movie fell into the mid-30s, and executive producer
Mario Kassar
realized the main problem was that the plot made zero sense. His solution: have the Ra characters dialogue subtitled and made into information that presented a clear storyline. When these changes were made, the subsequent test screenings produced an overwhelming majority of positive reviews, and this carried the movie into becoming one of the surprise hits of fall 1994.
b.
One story claims that the decision to film in black and white was made because no one could decide how
Bela Lugosi
should look filmed in color.
c.
The fraternity featured throughout the film is Kappa Kappa Psi, the national honorary band fraternity. The actual Kappa Kappa Psi flag, colors, and symbols, and customary shouts and chants are used in the film. Symbols and letters for their sister organization, Tau Beta Sigma, the national honorary band sorority, can also be seen throughout the film.
d.
Tilda Swinton
and
John Malkovich
who stars as a married couple in this, have both previously starred as a villain in a recent fantasy film. She in
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
and he in
Eragon
.
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