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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Collateral (2004) - Part (5) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Collateral (2004) - Part (5) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004).
About the movie:
A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in LA. He must find a way to save both himself and one last victim.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
The dialog makes repeated references to Emily, Warren and Helga being in Denmark. At the time this film was produced, the early 1960s, Denmark was the only place where competent transsexual operations were being routinely performed.
b.
Directorial debut of a theatrical feature for
Carl Gottlieb
.
c.
Brian De Palma
liked the script so much that he dropped out of directing
Flashdance
to direct this film.
d.
There were 17 different versions of Maxs taxicab.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
TV Executive Rex Brooks was originally written as a male. Director
Pete Travis
changed it to a woman because he felt the movie lacked a strong female character.
b.
By the middle of 2002, the famous "Bullet Time" sequence had been spoofed in over 20 different movies.
c.
When it was decided that Vincent should be a slightly older character,
Tom Cruise
was obliged to dye his hair gray.
d.
Won best picture in the 2000 Smoky Mountain Film Festival. It was the only festival that they submitted it to before the movie was picked up for representation by United Talent Agency.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
These stories were originally written and filmed for the anthology series
Darkroom
. They were deemed too intense by Universal and thus culled into an anthology film for theatrical release.
b.
Austin Pendleton
s first film.
c.
The first major motion picture to be shot in Viper FilmStream HD.
d.
As revealed in an interview with Mix Magazine Online the hit song Ghostbusters was created 4:30 in the morning when after almost 2 long days of trying to create a song
Ray Parker Jr.
saw a commercial for a drain company that reminded him of a scene from the film. That commercial helped him coin the popular line "Who you gonna call?"
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
The original play "Goodbye Again" by
Allan Scott
and
George Haight
opened in New York at the Theatre Masque on 28 December 1928 and ran for 216 performances.
b.
On-set,
Jamie Foxx
accidentally drove his car into
Tom Cruise
s. Foxx was bemused to see that the crew immediately rushed to Cruises aid first, he being the bigger star.
c.
The poem recited by the schoolteacher at the dedication is "Invictus" written in 1875 by William Ernest Henley.
d.
In a Street Scene,
Don The Dragon Wilson
s own car is used. It is a Grey 5 series BMW.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
b.
Shot for his friend
Edward D. Wood Jr.
, this was the last feature film for Director of Photography
William C. Thompson
. The 70 year old Thompson was blind in one eye. His career had started in silent films.
c.
"Collateral" sat on DreamWorks development books for three years.
Mimi Leder
was initially attached to direct, it then passed on to
Janusz Kaminski
. It wasnt until
Russell Crowe
became interested in playing Vincent, the hitman, that the project started generating any heat. Crowe brought
Michael Mann
on board, but the constant delays meant that Crowe left the project. Mann immediately went to
Tom Cruise
with the idea of him playing the hitman and
Adam Sandler
as the cabbie.
d.
The first film released by Fox Searchlight Pictures to gross the $100 million mark at the box office.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
Producers approached military officials for cooperation in the design of the vehicles used in the battle scenes; the officials refused. When the film was released, those same officials were so impressed with the vehicles, they asked the producers for the plans. The producers cooperated.
b.
The original Broadway production of "Sticks and Bones" by
David Rabe
opened at the John Golden Theater in New York on March 1, 1972, ran for 246 performances and won the 1972 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Play.
Tom Aldredge
,
Cliff De Young
and
Asa Gim
recreated their stage roles in the movie version.
c.
After the decimated Citroen was fished out of the water, producer
Albert S. Ruddy
sold it for $7000 on the strength of it being the car from the movie.
d.
Australian
Stuart Beattie
was only 17 when he took a cab home from Sydney airport. It was on that cab ride that he had the idea of a homicidal maniac sitting in the back of a cab with the driver nonchalantly entering into conversation with him, trusting his passenger implicitly. Beattie drafted his idea into a two-page treatment. Later, when he was enrolled at Oregon State University, he fleshed it out into his first screenplay. Entitled "The Last Domino", he put the script away, taking it out occasionally for revisions and rewrites over the following years.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
Stuart Beattie
was waiting tables when he ran into a friend called
Julie Richardson
, who hed met on a UCLA Screenwriting Extension course. Richardson had become a producer on the lookout for good thriller scripts in particular. Beattie pitched her his screenplay "The Last Domino" and she liked it. Her boss
Frank Darabont
also liked it and set up a meeting with HBO. They passed on the project after Beattie submitted another draft. He then begged his agent to set up a meeting at DreamWorks where an executive called Marc Haines read the script over a weekend. The studio bought the screenplay the following week.
b.
In the video games, E. Honda is Japanese, but in this film he is depicted as being Hawaiian.
c.
While the three stories in the film are based on "The Hard Goodbye," "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard" as well as the short "The Customer is Always Right" there is a very brief scene taken from the story "A Dame to Kill For," in which Dwight (
Clive Owen
) thinks in a voice over in Kadies Bar how Marv "would have been okay if hed been born a couple of thousand years ago."
d.
There was considerable pressure from the Hays Office to remove the examination scene from the movie, but MGM held firm, claiming they paid $100,000 for the rights to the play just for that particular scene. Eventually some aspects of that scene was removed when some exhibitors rejected the film. The TCM print contains the scene, but it may be the abbreviated version.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
Jimmy ODea
and the other actors who played leprechauns were not given any screen credit, nor did
Walt Disney
allow any other material to be published about them in the marketing for the film. Disneys intention was to give the illusion he was using real leprechauns for the filming. Disney even went so far as to film the
Disneyland
episode, "I Captured the King of the Leprechauns" (#5.26), in which he and "Darby" (
Albert Sharpe
) manage to corner King Brian and convince him to participate in the film along with his people.
b.
During filming,
James Caan
and
Gianni Russo
did not get along and were frequently at loggerheads. During filming Sonnys beating on Carlo, Caan nearly hit Russo with the stick he threw at him, and actually broke two of Russos ribs and chipped his elbow.
c.
The film has particular resonance for director
Michael Mann
- he used to drive a cab, as did his father, and his grandfather owned a cab company.
d.
The reporter in the closing credits speaking to chest-holding Ted is from Providences WJAR NBC-10.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
Final theatrically released Hollywood movie for director
Richard T. Heffron
.
b.
A print of this film Survives in the Library of Congress Film Archives.
c.
Jamie Foxx
prepared for the car chase sequences by racing old cars in the desert.
Michael Mann
often joined him.
d.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
was considered for the role of Sarah Tobias, but was later discarded because she was "too nice" for the part.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Collateral (2004)?
a.
The seating of the two leads was crucial to certain scenes. For their more intimate exchanges, Cruise would sit directly behind Foxx, out of his peripheral vision and therefore making him more vulnerable and uncertain of his opponent.
b.
Macaulay Culkin
was considered for the role of The Kid, but turned it down as he preferred to do
Home Alone
over this film.
c.
Comic artist
Frank Miller
saw this movie as a boy and said: "it changed the course of my creative life". His graphic novel "300", about the Battle of Thermopylae, was the basis for for the 2007 film.
d.
All exterior shots of Ft. Bragg were actually filmed at The New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico.
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