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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : City of Ember (2008) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : City of Ember (2008) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : City of Ember (2008)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008).

About the movie: For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing ... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		When Pee-wee is hitchhiking to the Alamo, the Texas-shaped sign he holds up has a big star on it indicating his destination. But the star isnt where the actual Alamo is located (San Antonio). Instead the star is over Bracketville, the location of the Alamo facade used in many western and period movies.
b.		Ember is a Hungarian word which means man and human in English.
c.		Originally, Dylan Baker was meant to mutate into the Lizard and become the main villain for this film. There is a lizard skeleton in Dr. Connors laboratory that foreshadows this metamorphosis. Another hint is the fact that his right arm is missing: in the comics he tried to restore it using reptile DNA, which led to his transformation.
d.		After seeing Kris Kristofferson perform at the Troubadour in Los Angeles and his appearance in Cisco Pike, Sam Peckinpah decided to cast him as Billy the Kid in this film.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		Jessica Tandys final role.
b.		The live action debut for director Gil Kenan. His actual film debut, Monster House was motion capture animated.
c.		The director picked the grocery store that the movie was filmed in because of its "run-down, big city" quality. When the producers paid the owner of the supermarket for permission to film there, the owners took some of that money and repainted and repaired the store, for a more "hollywood" look. The director and producers were understandably unhappy with this, since the only reason they picked the store was how it looked in the first place. The producers, after getting consent from the store, hired a crew to bring the store back to what it had looked like before. The finished product is what you see in the film.
d.		Deleted scenes: An extended "Fathoms Below" sequence in which it is revealed that Ursula is Tritons sister; alternate version of "Poor Unfortunate Souls" explaining why Ursula was banished by Triton; a scene just before the concert in which Sebastian finds out Ariel is missing; extended scene of Sebastian lost in Erics castle; Sebastian giving additional advice to Ariel at bedtime; and the fight with Ursula to the ending with no dialog.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		The word Ember also refers to the embers of a fire, a metaphor for the situation that the characters find themselves in.
b.		Lukes mechanical hand gets shot. Leia gets shot in the shoulder. Luke cuts off Darth Vaders hand. See also Star Wars and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.
c.		Sally Kellerman was offered the part of Xaviera Hollander but was committed to a night club act on tour.
d.		Russell Johnson broke his toe while splashing around in the water during one scene. Due to the low budget of the film, director Roger Corman had a stage tech tape up Johnsons toe and immediately ordered him back in the water to finish the scene.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		Debut of Gustav von Seyffertitz.
b.		The book sequel has been optioned, but considering the poor box-office reception of City of Ember, it remains to be seen if it will be made into a film too.
c.		The young Hellboy is played by an adult woman, Montse Ribé.
d.		The hairless cat in the film is a breed called a "Sphynx." The breed originates from Minnesota.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		This serials story source was a novel written by Ewart Adamson, using his "non de plume" of Dayle Douglas. The 256-page novel was published by Mystery House of New York on June 12, 1943, and purchased, for $1000, for this serial on December 6, 1943 by Republic Pictures Corporation. This was Republics last serial to be adapted from another medium. Every serial that followed was original material written by studio-assigned writers.
b.		John Waynes film featured only Anglo men fighting at the Alamo, although this is not historically accurate. The film includes the character of Juan Seguin, a real Hispanic veteran of the Texas Revolution. Sadly, after the war, Texans began to suspect him of betraying them to the Mexicans, so he was forced to return to Mexico to avoid persecution. He ended up serving in the Mexican army and having to fight against his fellow Texans in the Mexican-American war.
c.		The first time Bill Murray and Martin Landau have been in a film together since Ed Wood. And Caroline Thompson, the screenwriter on City of Ember regularly works with Tim Burton.
d.		The scientist who introduces ED-209 in the beginning has a name tag of McNamara, a nod to Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense during the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations. Production designer William Sandell based the ED-209 design on the BELL UH-1H-HUEY chopper used during the Vietnam war.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		There were so many sets built for the film that some of them wound up never being used. They do sometimes feature prominently in the background, like the hairdressers, but they play no part in the story.
b.		In October 2010, a clip from this movie was featured on several network morning shows because of speculation that it showed definitive evidence of "time travel." In the scene, an extra appears to be walking down the sidewalk, talking on, of all things, a cell phone.
c.		Robert Evans had acquired the rights to "The Detective" and was supposed to produce the movie for Twentieth Century-DFox, which had signed him to a contract. (He had earlier worked for Fox as an actor.) When Charlie Bluhdorn, the owner of Paramount, offered Evans a job as the head of European production at Paramount, Evans had to surrender the project to get out of his Fox contract.
d.		Brooke Shields was considered for the role of April, but she wasnt interested to play the part because she was attending at Princeton.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		A former paint hall in the shipyard of Harland and Wolff in Belfasts Titanic Quarter was converted into the city of Ember.
b.		Tor Johnsons final movie.
c.		Trade Paper Variety said of this movie: "J. Lee Thompsons direction, borrowing from Alfred Hitchcocks editing in Psycho, creates the full horror of blades thrusting into naked bellies without the viewer ever actually seeing it happen."
d.		Madeline Kahn was originally cast as Agnes Gooch but was replaced right after shooting began. She was later told that when she reported for work on the set, star Lucille Ball took one look at her, realized that Kahns curvaceous body could never be made to look like the frumpy, somewhat shapeless Agnes Gooch, and had her fired. Some sources claim that Kahn got herself fired on purpose so she could star in Blazing Saddles and still get paid, which by her contract wouldnt have happened if shed merely quit.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		Last cinema film of Liz Smith .
b.		The model aircraft seen on Gen. Hawkess desk in the final scene might appear to be an eight-engine variant of the six-engine B-47 featured in the film, but is actually a prototype B-52 (either XB-52 or YB-52), with a canopy cockpit design similar to the B-47; the design was changed in the production version.
c.		This silent film is based on Hans Christian Andersens tale "Red Shoes".
d.		Harmony Korine originally took on the role of Chris. Later, the role was given to Evan Neumann.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		The rat-like creature that chases the main characters is a giant version of the star nosed mole ("Condylura cristata"), native from Eastern Canada and North East United States. Given the fact these animals are blind, they use their nasal tentacles, known as Eimers organ, to detect food. Although all European moles share this feature, the star nosed mole is the only animal with such an specialized one. Without counting its size in the movie (real animals are between 15 to 20 cm long) nothing else was changed.
b.		The countdown timer blip sound effect on the computer used by Travis Dane (Eric Bogosian) is a blip sound from a Motorola-brand pager.
c.		In the course of the film, Spinal Tap has four different drummers: John "Stumpy" Pepys, Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs, Mick Shrimpton, and Joe "Mama" Besser. These names were inspired by the four different men who played the role of third Stooge in The Three Stooges films: Curly Howard, Curly Joe DeRita, Shemp Howard, and Joe Besser.
d.		James Komacks first film.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: City of Ember (2008)?
a.		A copy of this film resides at the Library of Congress.
b.		Originally this was scheduled to open in late 2007 to qualify for Academy Award consideration. After some indifferent previews however, it was given a January 2008 release, traditionally the dumping ground for bad films.
c.		Ray Parks first film role was as Raydens fight double in this movie.
d.		When Doon gets his first glimpse of the generator, the camera views it from our perspective instead. Director Gil Kenan did it this way because Doon acts as our eyes and it conveys to us the importance of the generator to his city and our story.

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