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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Carrie (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Carrie (1976) - 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: Carrie (1976).
About the movie:
A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on one special night.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on August 30, 1943 with
Cedric Hardwicke
reprising his film role.
b.
Richard Bennett
was originally to play the role of Baron von Merzbach, but he was forced to leave the production because of illness, and was replaced by
Lionel Atwill
.
c.
This movie was conceived over a decade before it was made when
Tippi Hedren
worked in Africa on films during the 1960s / 1970s such as
Satans Harvest
. She once said of its conception in Africa: "Exploring a game reserve, we came across a pride of lions that was living in an abandoned game wardens house. We thought it was wonderful, and my husband
Noel Marshall
wrote a script around the idea." The ROAR official site states that the idea for this movie "grew from a father and mothers passion for cats."
d.
Betty Buckley
provides the voice over ("Creepy Carrie! Creepy Carrie!") for the little boy on the bike that chastises Carrie on her way home.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
Amy Irving
, who played Sue Snell, originally read for the part of Princess Leia, and
William Katt
, who played Tommy Ross, originally read for the part of Luke Skywalker in
Star Wars
.
b.
Cross is seen training boxers at the start of the movie. Morgan Freeman would train boxers on film again years later in
Million Dollar Baby
, the role that netted him an Oscar.
c.
Bob Mason, the director of cinematography and composer also makes an appearance as the executioner. Bob Mason is the songwriter of the project Putois and a band partner of Lisa Menzel for Quiet Pills.
d.
Much of the singing was not re-recorded.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
Nancy Allen
claims that she never realized that her character was going to be so evil until she saw the finished film, she thought that she and
John Travolta
were playing such self-centered, bickering morons that they were there for comic relief.
Piper Laurie
also thought that the character of Margaret White was so over the top that the film had to be a comedy.
b.
David O. Selznick
originally rejected the story, as films about Hollywood had generally failed, but was persuaded to do the film by his wife
Irene Mayer Selznick
. Writer-director
William A. Wellman
had alternately suggested a sequel to
The Public Enemy
, titled "Another Public Enemy".
c.
The airplane that the character Roger Bond flies is a Monocoupe 90, designed in 1930 by Don Luscombe. It was capable of speeds of up to 100 knots (115 MPH - a very high-performance airplane for its day) but in no way could it reach Haiti from Miami without many fuel stops along the way. (If at all.)
d.
Cate Blanchett
never rehearsed with the crew and hadnt even met most of them before filming the nighttime electric jellyfish scene in which she first appears in the movie to add spontaneity to the scene.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
The events in the film take place in real-time.
b.
Due to the massive cost overruns on the film
Cleopatra
(which was filming contemporaneously),
Darryl F. Zanuck
had to agree to a fixed filming budget. After he had spent the budgeted amount he started using his own money to pay for the production.
c.
Sissy Spacek
asked
Brian De Palma
how he wanted her to react when Carrie first realizes that she is bleeding in the showers at the start and De Palma told her "Its like youve been hit by a truck." Spacek talked to her husband
Jack Fisk
(art director), who as a child had been run over by a car when he was standing in the streets looking at Christmas lights a neighbor had put up, and used his description of the experience as a basis for the scene.
d.
Some of the music is actually the "electronic tonalities" created by
Louis Barron
and
Bebe Barron
for
Forbidden Planet
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
All members of the Caldwell (Linus) family that we know of have impersonated some kind of law-enforcing agent in the three Ocean movies. Linus impersonated an officer of the NGC (Nevada Gaming Commission) in 11, his mother acted as a US Marshal in 12, and his father, Bobby, impersonated an FBI agent in 13.
b.
The fake blood dropped on
Sissy Spacek
kept drying and adhering to her skin because of the hot lights. The only solution was to hose her down when the substance got gluey.
c.
Originally filmed as Smokey IS the Bandit, with
Jackie Gleason
playing both the Smokey, Sheriff Buford T. Justice and the Bandit. The film was re-shot with
Jerry Reed
taking on the dual role of The Bandit and Cletus Snow.
d.
The dialog was pre-recorded, leaving the actors to mime their lines.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
Raquel Welch
was offered the role of Honey Bruce. She turned the part down, because she thought she could not play it.
b.
Enjoyed a successful run at the Cinema Lyric Cafe in Fort Collins, Colorado in 2008, where it sold out to audiences.
c.
Robyn Lively
and
Paige Sorenson
are the only cast members listed in the beginning credits, but not the end credits.
d.
For her screen test,
Sissy Spacek
rubbed Vaseline into her hair and didnt bother to wash her face. She also wore a sailor dress (which her mother had made for her when she was in the seventh grade) with the hem cut off.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
When Carrie flips Billys car, the interior shot shows them spinning along with it. This effect was not achieved by actually rotating the actors in a car but by simply spinning the film frame in post production.
b.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by
Harry Medved
and
Randy Lowell
.
c.
According to a story in the Hollywood Reporter, this was to be the first in a series of movies based on the Ding Dong character, but no other movie was ever made.
d.
When a younger Charles Muntz speaks to a large audience that he will return with the beast alive, everyone is wearing a hat. What the viewer cant see, however, is that he is speaking to a literal "Sea of Hats". There are no people under those hats (DVD directors commentary).
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
George Lucas
and
Brian De Palma
held a joint audition for Carrie and
Star Wars
. There is a long-standing rumor that originally,
Sissy Spacek
was cast as Princess Leia, and
Carrie Fisher
as Carrie, but when Fisher refused to appear in nude scenes and Spacek was willing to do them, they switched parts. However, Fisher refuted this story in a Premiere magazine article called "The Force Wasnt With Them," about actors who auditioned unsuccessfully for
Star Wars
. That article quoted Fisher as saying, "Not only do I love being nude, I wouldve been nude then... But anyway, its total bullshit that Fisher refused to play Carrie."
b.
The voiceover in the films trailer refers to Jacques Clouseau erroneously as "Andre Clouseau" several times.
c.
Bill Paxton
was originally cast as Stiflers dad but had to leave the project due to his schedule.
d.
Film debut of
Sessue Hayakawa
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
When this film was being made, American public opinion was strongly isolationist and Warner Brothers initially worried that it would be condemned for being seen as too pro-war in attitude.
Jesse Lasky
went to great lengths to avoid marketing the film as a war picture. By the films release, however,
Adolf Hitler
had conquered much of Europe and the public attitude towards war changed greatly, helping the film become one of the studios biggest moneymakers of all time.
b.
John Travolta
drives a 1967 Chevelle SS 396 hardtop in this film, and in
Pulp Fiction
, he drove a 1964 Chevelle Malibu convertible.
c.
Clark Gable
was considered for the role of Tarzan, but was deemed too much of an unknown to play the ape man.
d.
The star Ray calls "Evangeline" is in fact the planet Venus. Venus is known as the Roman goddess of love.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Carrie (1976)?
a.
Many of the girls present in the locker room were originally hesitant to appear nude in the film, but after
Brian De Palma
showed them the nude shots of
Sissy Spacek
, they became more confident.
b.
Reportedly, director
John G. Avildsen
distanced himself from the picture after it was completed. Apparently, Avildsen wanted to have his name removed from the credits as both editor and director. This request was unsuccessful and Avildsens credits remained. Avildsen complained that after his final edit, writer-producer
Steve Shagan
allegedly re-edited the picture differently to Avildsens final cut.
c.
According to
Steve Kroft
during an interview with
Russell Crowe
on an episode of
60 Minutes
, the role of
Jimmy Braddock
is Crowes personal favorite.
d.
Since the 1993 tie-in novel Best Destiny by
Diane Carey
, Kirks mothers first name has been established as "Winona". In this film, Spocks mother is played by a
Winona Ryder
.
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