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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Commando (1985) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Commando (1985) - 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: Commando (1985).
About the movie:
A retired elite commando has only a few hours to find and rescue his daughter from an exiled dictator.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
During the scene in the shed, after Matrix cuts the soldiers arm off, he was originally supposed to hit the victim with it and say "Need a hand?" This scene was never shot however, as it was considered too macabre.
b.
According to screenwriter
Max Allan Collins
, the original script for The Expert was more akin to The Dirty Dozen, with a group of ex-Green Berets breaking into death row to fulfill the executions after the courts repeal the death penalty. When
Jeff Speakman
was cast, the producers had the script re-written as a vehicle for him.
c.
Sharon Stone
auditioned for the role of Alex Forrest, but was passed over.
d.
Director
Tobe Hooper
claims to have got the idea for the film while standing in the hardware section of a crowded store. While thinking of a way to get out through the crowd, he spotted the chainsaws.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
Honeysuckle Weeks
was offered a major role but declined because of the nudity involved.
b.
Jim Varneys final appearance as Ernest P. Worrell.
c.
Director
Mark L. Lester
initially wanted
Raul Julia
for the role of Arius, but producer
Joel Silver
insisted on casting
Dan Hedaya
.
d.
Elpidia Carrillo
, who played Anna in the first Predator film, has her name listed in the sequels credits yet doesnt seem to appear in the actual film. Look carefully during the scene inside Peter Keyes mobile headquarters and you will spot her. When Keyes (
Gary Busey
) describes how the creature activated a self-destruct device in
Predator
, you can briefly spot Anna on one of the video screens. Carrillo filmed a debriefing scene in which she talks to the camera and describes the events of the first film, but it was cut from the sequel.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
The film took 45 days to shoot.
b.
Robert Zemeckis
considers this one of his favorite - and strangest - films.
c.
John Cho
and
Jennifer Morrison
had previously worked together on
Love Hurts
. They have also both worked with
Kal Penn
, whose character in
Dont Ever Change
said he was a Dahar Master of the Klingon Empire, a title first mentioned in
Blood Oath
. On the DVD commentary,
J.J. Abrams
mentions that there is an extra playing a crewman on the Enterprise bridge who many viewers mistake for Kal Penn (assuming that Penn had a cameo because John Cho was in the movie), but Abrams says that man is not Penn.
d.
Assi Dayan
was cast in the part of Perchik but couldnt handle the English dialogue and was replaced by
Paul Michael Glaser
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
The scene in which shoes laced together are hanging from telephone and electric wires was shot on East Capitol Street a few blocks behind the U.S. Capitol. The production crew left several pairs of shoes behind and they remained hanging on the wires for years.
b.
All the scenes shot in Oxford were filmed at night using artificial light, because the local council did not permit the director to shoot during the daytime.
c.
The onscreen credit source is "from the book Karl Heinrich," but no author is listed. The writer,
Wilhelm Meyer-Förster
, is therefore considered uncredited.
d.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
and
Vernon Wells
have remained close friends ever since the making of the movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
The shot of Matrix standing on the landing gear of the plane as it races down the runway was shot by constructing the wheel section of a plane and attaching it by hydraulics to the side of a camera truck.
b.
During filming, three, four or more hand-held super 16mm cameras were used to film scenes in documentary style. Nearly two hundred hours of footage was shot at an eye-popping 100:1 shooting ratio (a higher ratio of expended film than the notorious
Francis Ford Coppola
epic,
Apocalypse Now
).
c.
Barbra Streisand
turned down the role of
Lillian Hellman
.
d.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 1, 1945 with
Laraine Day
reprising her film role.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
For security reasons, the Pentagon forbids camera crews near the entrances to the complex.
John Frankenheimer
wanted a shot of
Kirk Douglas
entering the building. So they rigged up a station wagon with a camera to film Douglas, in a full Marine colonels uniform, walking up the steps of the Pentagon. The salutes Douglas received in that scene were real, as the guards had no reason to believe it was for a movie!
b.
After a test screening for
John Lasseter
, chief creative officer of animation at Disney, he suggested a lot of changes to director
Stephen J. Anderson
. In the next 10 months prior to the release, nearly 60 percent of the movie was re-shot (or re-rendered), adding new story elements and action scenes as well as a diabolic sidekick.
c.
When Deuce first meets Antoine and sees his weapon collection, Deuce says "I collect Canadian quarters...I got about six of them". After his first "job" when he goes to the bar, his bill totals to $11.50. He gives the bartender "Ten, and six quarters", presumably his Canadian quarter collection and total take from his first "job".
d.
Director
Mark L. Lester
never met original writers
Jeph Loeb
and
Matthew Weisman
as they had already been replaced by
Steven E. de Souza
when Lester was hired.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
Melissa Sagemiller and Desmond Harrington performed most of their own stunts.
b.
Noting that fledgling producer J. Cornelius Crean had made his money as a mobile home manufacturer, Variety panned the picture and cracked that Crean should stick to trailers, not features.
c.
Martial arts expert and fight choreographer
Michael M. Vendrell
worked with
Arnold Schwarzenegger
on the film and by the end of production, Vendrell estimated that Schwarzenegger had become a second degree black belt.
d.
Two characters are named "Dan" and "Jinks", after producer
Dan Jinks
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
James Cameron
once owned a dog named "Wolfie", short for Beowulf.
b.
James Caviezel
was given a prosthetic nose and a raised hairline. His blue eyes were digitally changed to brown on film.
c.
This is the first Star Wars film to show a lightsaber combat something other than another lightsaber. Luke on the Sail Barge fights guards with staffs and blasters. In
Star Wars
and
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
, a lightsaber is seen only fighting another lightsaber. It should be noted that Obi-Wans removal of Ponda Babas arm does not count as a fight - but could be considered a combat between a lightsaber and another weapon.
d.
This is director
Mark L. Lester
s favorite movie of his own.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
The combat vest that Matrix wears is a real combat vest used by the Air Forces Parachute Unit. The vest was designed by Group 5, a combat clothing manufacturer from Texas who do not sell to the public.
b.
Although the cast of characters mostly reflects the 1937-39 incarnation of the gang, notable exceptions include: Stymie (1930-35), Froggie (1940-44, who actually replaced Alfalfa as Spankys sidekick), Uh-huh (1933), and Miss Crabtree (1930-32).
c.
Martin Scorsese
got interested in the project in the early 1970s after he read the book while house-sitting on Long Island one New Years Eve.
d.
Re-released as a double feature with
American Graffiti
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Commando (1985)?
a.
Several pieces of dialogue in the movie are taken from the original 1933 _King King (1933): * When Ann Darrow and Bruce Baxter are filming a movie scene on the deck of the S.S. Venture (with Carl Denham operating the camera), their "movie dialogue" (about "women on ships") is taken verbatim from an on-deck conversation between Ann Darrow and Jack Driscoll in the original film. *In a deleted scene, while filming Ann on the island, Denham instructs her, "Scream Ann! Scream for your life!" *Denhams "Were millionaires, boys" speech, after the capture of Kong. *Denhams "He was a king in the world he knew" speech, just before Kong is revealed in the Broadway theater. *And of course, the final line, "It was beauty killed the beast."
b.
The introduction to Matrix as he comes out of the forest, with close ups on his boots, chest, biceps etc was shot and edited in a similar fashion as
Leni Riefenstahl
s Nazi propaganda movies. According to director
Mark L. Lester
this was done to represent the notion of the invincible man of the earth emerging from the forest.
c.
In July 1951, Hollywood Reporter reported that Universal had set
Budd Boetticher
as director of
Son of Ali Baba
, but replaced him with
Kurt Neumann
when Boetticher moved over to
Bronco Buster
.
d.
The 1970s version of the Columbia Pictures was shown at the beginning of the film, instead of the present version of the Columbia Pictures logo.
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