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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cimarron (1931) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cimarron (1931) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cimarron (1931)

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About the movie: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		The films British title, "Green Street", comes from the street in London where the Boleyn Ground (formerly Upton Park) is located.
b.		One of the extras was Nino Cochise, the actual grandson of the great Chiricahua chief Cochise. He and his good friend Apache Bill Russell were in this movie as well as several others.
c.		Even though the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles was in restoration - until spring 2007 - Sofia Coppola was allowed to film there a ball scene for the wedding of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI.
d.		Kevin Costner is shown at times drinking Shiner Bock Beer. This beer is brewed in Shiner, Texas, and not well-known nationwide. Where has this beer been in movies before? In Fandango, in the hands of Kevin Costner.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		The "golden BB" that Jack Neely talks about is a slang term referring to a single rifle shot that is so well-placed it can bring down a plane or other aircraft. Such shot is demonstrated in the opening of the film.
b.		According to Anthony Holdens book "Behind the Oscar" (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), R.K.O. lost $5.5 million (approximately $58 million in 2003 dollars, when factoring in inflation) on the movie despite its winning a Best Picture Academy Award.
c.		The red contacts worn by Laurent, Victoria, and James were hand-painted by the director, Catherine Hardwicke.
d.		While set in a "real" New York City, the history is obviously changed. The Wizard of Oz and Wuthering Heights references put the year at 1939. Despite being 1939, there is no sign of Germany preparing for war. There is also no sign that America is in the grips of an economic depression. All-in-all, not only is the technology "fantasized", but the entire history is idealized as well.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		The man whose parachute fails to open is wearing pixel-gray Army Combat Uniform fatigues, meaning he was most likely a soldier in the United States Army.
b.		Arguably the only winner of the Best Picture Oscar to lose money during its initial release. The film received excellent critical reviews, but its initial financial failure was blamed on its being released during one of the darkest periods of the Great Depression.
c.		Filmed along the Grand Teton Range in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The lake is Lake Jackson.
d.		Matrix goes into battle with an Valmet M78 light machine gun, an Uzi submachine gun, a Remington Model 870 combat shotgun and a Desert Eagle automatic pistol. He also commandeers an M60E3 belt-fed machine gun and an M16A1 assault rifle.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		The MTV Council of Elrond spoof easter egg does not appear on the UK version of the 4-disc set. This is because the BBFC would have required a "12" certificate for the set had it been included, instead of a "PG" certificate. For the same reason one of the documentaries has had some swearing cut out.
b.		To maintain accuracy in the film, Swamy Kandan recruited high school robotics teams and their mentors as technical advisors.
c.		One of the original directors set up to do this was B-movie veteran William Lustig. But Tarantino turned him down because he did not believe he could do like Jonathan Demme (who went from B-movies to "regular" feature movies).
d.		The movie lost $565,000 on a budget of $1.433 million. It was re-released in 1935 and the red ink mostly disappeared off RKOs books.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		A then-record $125,000 was paid for the film rights to the novel.
b.		Bea Arthur has confessed that she had reservations about making this film, but agreed to do so in order to work with her husband, director Gene Saks. In a 2008 interview, she called the film "a disaster."
c.		The theme song, "Dont You (Forget About Me)", was written for the film by Keith Forsey. It was a number one hit for Simple Minds, and both Billy Idol and Bryan Ferry turned down offers to record it first (although in 2001, Billy Idol recorded Dont You (Forget About Me) as a bonus track for his Greatest Hits album). The song was also turned down by Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders who then suggested they offer it to the band fronted by her husband at the time, Simple Minds.
d.		The film was heavily criticized by Asian critics for having Chinese actresses portraying the geishas. In reality, according to producer Lucy Fisher, the producers held an open day for audition for Japanese actresses to audition for those roles. None turned up and they had to turn to other Asian actresses for casting.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		Michael Angarano auditioned for the role of young Anakin, and was one of the three finalists along with Jake Lloyd, who won the role.
b.		First speaking role of 16-year-old Lana Turner.
c.		Has the lowest IMDb rating of all Best Picture Oscar winners so far (mid-February 2009).
d.		In the scene in which the entire crew, including Spike, is losing their lunch after traveling at top speeds you can hear a man say, "Hey, where did he get the carrot?" According to the filmmakers, that line was a joke someone said during story production that made everyone groan so much that they decided to put it in the movie.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		Yancey Cravat, the character played by Richard Dix, was based on real-life lawyer and gunfighter Temple Houston - the son of Sam Houston, whom Dix played in Man of Conquest and upon whom the 1960s western TV series Temple Houston was based.
b.		The final of four Alien movies starring Sigourney Weaver.
c.		First big starring role in a theatrical movie for Michelle Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer was still relatively unknown when this movie was first released and publicity for the movie described her as a "newcomer".
d.		The obituary that Bobby reads for John Sullivan says that he was killed in a traffic pile-up. This is also how he dies in the book, and the circumstances of his death are given in the short story, "Why Were in Vietnam."

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		The land rush scene took a week to film, using 5,000 extras, 28 cameramen, 6 still photographers and 27 camera assistants.
b.		One critic stated that lead character Hergott was "not believable as a Canadian". Hergott is in fact a Canadian.
c.		The budget (including Jean-Claude Van Damme salary) was $500,000, but $2 million had already spent on production design, costumes and misc prep work on the aborted projects "Masters of the Universe 2" and "Spider-Man" (which cancellations were at the origin of "Cyborg").
d.		It is widely believed that Ted Turner had plans to colorize the film, but that wide public outcry led to his decision not to. The rumor came from a tongue-in-cheek comment from Turner that he would colorize the film in order to bait critics of the process. In actuality, Orson Welles had the rights to the film, and Turner couldnt have colorized the film even if he had wanted to. Nonetheless, the controversy over the potential alteration of this film was one of the catalysts that eventually led to the film industry requirement that all future video and TV releases of films that have been altered in any way - including the standard conversion from widescreen to "pan and scan" - must carry a disclaimer indicating the film has been "modified from its original version." It is also widely believed that when he heard about it, Welles supposedly roared, "Tell Ted Turner to keep his crayons away from my movie!" However, being that he owned the rights to the film, it is highly unlikely that he ever made any such statement.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		The lead redneck in the western gunfight scene is wearing a Johnny Cash t-shirt and a Deftones White Pony cap.
b.		The only internally-produced RKO film to ever win the Best Picture Oscar. The Best Years of Our Lives (AA: Best Picture, 1946) was a Samuel Goldwyn production distributed by RKO.
c.		The UniSols basic sidearm seen in throughout the film is a Magnum Research Inc. .357 Magnum Desert Eagle.
d.		In September 2003, much of the cast did a brief tour. They appeared in character, recreating the "reunion concert" as seen at the end of the film.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cimarron (1931)?
a.		According to John Carpenter in the DVD Commentary, Carter Wong, who plays Thunder, actually worked as a martial arts instructor with the Hong Kong Police.
b.		The first Western to win an Oscar and the first Western to win a Best Picture Oscar.
c.		The film contains 272 uses of the word "fuck".
d.		Orion originally planned to release both this film and The Silence of the Lambs in late 1990, and to promote both films as Oscar contenders. Their financial problems, however, forced them to choose one film over the other, and this one was released first, with Lambs being released in early 1991 instead. Executives could then wait until later in the year to begin their Oscar campaign. This resulted in Orion being able to release only one other major picture in 1991, instead of two. Since Jodie Foster appeared in Lambs, and she was being promoted as a Best Actress nominee, Orion decided to help her chances by releasing her other film Little Man Tate, shelving Blue Sky. Foster won Best Actress, and Blue Sky was not released for three more years, which resulted in Jessica Lange also winning Best Actress.

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