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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Clay Pigeons (1998) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Clay Pigeons (1998) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998).
About the movie:
Clay (as in the title) is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
Janeane Garofalo
said in an interview that her biggest reason for taking the role of Agent Dale Shelby was her feeling that the film needed a strong leading female character to "take the edge off" the occasional violence against women on screen.
b.
This film was originally set for release in 2003.
c.
The film is dedicated to
Mike Katzin
.
d.
Danny Kaye
was a last-minute replacement for the originally cast
Donald OConnor
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
The title is derived from saying "Mayfair Lady" in a cockney accent.
b.
The film was released in Germany under the title "Lebende Ziele", which translates to "Living Purposes." It can also be translated as "Living Targets". Purposes is not often translated as "Ziele". That use of "Ziel" would be more a goal, not a purpose, and that makes not much sense for this movie. Then again German translations often miss any kind of double meanings in original movie names.
c.
The Arizona motel sequence, from Lillys approach through her dialogue with the clerk, mirrors that in
Psycho
d.
One of the factors that led to the green-lighting of this project was the huge success of a film with a similar story,
Swiss Family Robinson
, that was made by
Walt Disney
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
This film was originally intended to be released in late 1973 so that it would be close to the Oscar nomination season. However, when Warner Bros. executives screened the final results they admitted that its Oscar prospects were highly unlikely, and pushed the release back to the spring of 1974.
b.
William Hopper
is on studio records in the role of Larraby, but he was not seen in the movie.
Sam McDaniel
is listed in some modern sources as a porter, but he also was not seen in the movie.
c.
The opening scenes on the train were, of course, shot in train cars that werent moving. Grips would have to wave lights past the train windows to give the impression that it was in motion. Romero said that the crew would sometimes forget to tell the grips when the scene was cut and they would be left swinging lights obliviously for several minutes.
d.
Agent Dale Shelby spends the night in a hotel room with three films taken from the crime scene she visited that day. The films are
Alien
,
True Romance
and
Swingers
. "Alien" was directed by this films producer
Ridley Scott
, "True Romance" was directed by
Tony Scott
, also a producer on this film and Ridley Scotts brother, and "Swingers" starred this films lead actor,
Vince Vaughn
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
Reporters tried to interview
Jim Carrey
as the unplanned scene with Joel and Clementine at the street parade was being filmed. If you listen closely, you can hear somebody shout "Speak to me!" at Jim Carrey.
b.
The room where Ward Abbott stays in The Westin Grand hotel in Berlin is the Goethe Suite, one of several historical-themed and decorated suites in this hotel.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
was the playwright of the two-act tragedy Faust, which is a subtle irony that Abbott would stay in this suite, since in a way, he himself, "made a deal with the devil."
c.
Though never spoken in the film the name of the town where its set is Mercer, Montana according to the script. The local population of the fictional town is 1,536 - though it drops over the course of the film.
d.
Tim Burton
: [music] music by
Danny Elfman
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
Tori Amos
was considered for the role of Sarah, but refused because she did not like the character.
b.
The word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seems to pre-date the movie, but language experts have yet to pin down by how much, or what, exactly, it originally meant. An urban myth is growing that it had something to do with Irish (or Scottish) prostitutes. Its use in the movie may have been inspired by a nonsense word the Sherman Brothers (
Robert B. Sherman
and
Richard M. Sherman
) learned at summer camp. They remembered having a word that the adults didnt know, and thought the Banks children should have one too.
c.
River City was based on
Meredith Willson
s home town of Mason City, Iowa. The movie had its world premiere there.
d.
The film never saw a theatrical release in the United Kingdom, instead it went straight to video for UK release.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
Secretariats time in the Kentucky Derby is still the record for that race (1:59 2/5). Only one other horse has won it in under two minutes (2001, Monarchos, 1:59.97). Sham, second to Secretariat, may have run it in under two minutes, but there is no official time for him.
b.
A medicine vial is labeled "Boltons Pharmacy".
Michael S. Bolton
was the production designer.
c.
Director Simon G. Mueller began preproduction of FATALIS in June of 2006. A total of four years and four months before the film was in its final format for film festival submission.
d.
The film was titled "Il Sapore del sangue" for its release in Italy. The title translates to "The Taste of Blood", referring to the scene where Lester licks his finger after cutting it on a kitchen knife.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
Star
Joaquin Phoenix
was at first apprehensive about taking the role of Clay because he feared that the scripts combination of humor and violence wouldnt translate well to screen. However, Phoenix changed his mind after meeting an enthusiastic
David Dobkin
and took the role.
b.
Richard Jay Silverthorn
, who plays Lucifer in the film, also did the makeup work on the film. Later Silverthorn would also write a published novelization of Fear No Evil.
c.
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.
d.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld was named after Tom Blofeld with whom James Bond creator
Ian Fleming
went to school at Eton. His son is cricket commentator
Henry Blofeld
. Blofelds birthdate as given in the literature is the same date as
Ian Fleming
s birthday which is 28 May 1908.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
The cast features five Oscar winners,
Diane Keaton
,
Goldie Hawn
,
Maggie Smith
,
Marcia Gay Harden
, and
Eileen Heckart
; three Oscar nominees,
Bette Midler
,
Stockard Channing
, and
Rob Reiner
; Emmy winner
Sarah Jessica Parker
; six Emmy nominees,
Bronson Pinchot
,
Debra Monk
,
Dan Hedaya
,
Kate Burton
,
Stephen Collins
, and
Victor Garber
; and Golden Globe nominee
Heather Locklear
.
b.
Pope Urban III was said to have died from shock when he heard about the Battle of Hattin, depicted in the film.
c.
This was the feature debut for director
David Dobkin
and writer
Matthew L. Healy
.
d.
The twenty-fifth of twenty-eight Blondie movies starring
Penny Singleton
as Blondie Bumstead and
Arthur Lake
as Dagwood Bumstead.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
Kal Penn
quit his job working in the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs to make this movie.
b.
The Bible passage that Rogers quotes "The voice of him who crieth in the wilderness... " is from Isaiah 40:3.
c.
FBI Agent Dale Shelby and her partner, Agent Renard, have names that may be loosely derived from
The X Files
characters Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. "Renard" is French for "fox."
d.
Based on the story, "The Electric Man" which Universal had purchased for $3,300 in 1935 as a potential
Boris Karloff
/
Bela Lugosi
vehicle to be titled "The Man in the Cab." The studio, in the midst of a financial debacle at the time, shelved the project for over five years, assigning the re-write to
George Waggner
(working as "Joseph West") who re-tooled it as "The Human Robot."
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clay Pigeons (1998)?
a.
While the film is set in Montana the production was forced to be shot in Utah and Lancaster, California for budgetary matters.
b.
The role played by
Frances Dee
was originally filled by
Anna Lee
.
c.
Barbra Streisand
was considered for the part of Dwan.
d.
All the films TV ads were immediately pulled off the networks because of the trailer showing Santa Claus carrying an ax, which practically depicted him as a mass murderer. This lead parents to protest the film and instantly got yanked out of theaters after making a profit with its limited release.
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