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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : December (2010) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : December (2010) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: December (2010).
About the movie:
Two men, father and son, so much alike, so very different, rushing to fulfill their own destinies, on a collision course that will irreparably damage the foundation of a life long relationship.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
Eddie Bunker helped co-write the screenplay with Alvin Sargent when the latter came to visit him at San Quentin prison. The film was in pre-production when Bunker was released.
b.
The date on the camcorder time index (when Styles arrested Blake) reveals the year to be 1983. Which means by the end of the film (1991) - the incarceration, escape, and Styles children growing older; 7 and a half years roughly passed.
c.
Clark Gable
also starred in the 1953 remake
Mogambo
.
d.
Actor
Jeff MacKay
s final role. He passed away within a few months of the film wrapping.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
During its run on television during the early 1960s, it was retitled "Desperate Siege" in order to distinguish it from the
Eric Fleming
/
Clint Eastwood
TV series.
b.
The filmmakers secured the Plant City Stadium in Plant City, Florida, which is about an hour-plus drive east of Tampa. for the baseball stadium scenes. This is the former spring training home of the Cincinnati Reds. Though it was shot in mid-May 2008, the weather was pleasant and not too hot, which is unusual for that time of year in Florida. Unfortunately, it was rainy and overcast for the beach scenes which were shot two weeks later. Producer Heath McKnight said that they got lucky once with the baseball stadium shoot.
c.
Barbra Streisand
wanted the part of John Norman Howard to be played by either
Elvis Presley
or
Marlon Brando
.
d.
In
Lonesome Dove
Tommy Lee Jones
also goes on a long horseback journey taking his dead friend home to bury him.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
Filmmaker Jeremiah Hall did an early re-write of the script.
b.
At one point in the story (set in New York), Oscar says "Getting a clear picture on Channel 2" is not his idea of a fun evening. For years through the mid- to late 70s and early 80s, this movie was a staple of WCBS Channel 2s "Late Show" movie in New York City.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
d.
In his speech heard at the beginning, President
John F. Kennedy
uses the word "delay" twice. "Delay" is the characters Byron De La Beckwiths nickname, used by his friends and acquaintances throughout the film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
Though Vger turns out to be the sixth probe of the Voyager series, in reality only two were created. Voyagers I & II launched in 1977 and are now the two most distant human-made objects from Earth.
b.
There was a short scene cut during preproduction that had Bobby (Jeremy King) picking up Reagan (Millie Anne Shipe) at the airport, due to budget and logistics. For a short, 5-second shot that was going to take place at the smaller Clearwater, Florida airport, the filmmakers felt it would be easier to just show them arriving at Bobbys parents house.
c.
The insurance did not cover the actors jumping out of the helicopter early in the film. As most of the crew were ex-army they jumped out of it instead. The crew also doubled up as Sgt Wells soldiers for some of the tabbing shots.
d.
The short scene in which Anna is taken through the streets of Bangkok to the Kings palace by the royal entourage required 25 sets on a three-acre area on the Fox backlot, not counting the stables for the elephants used in the sequence.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
Shot in 1969, not released until 1971.
b.
The movie that Kevin watches on video tape is not a real film, but footage especially created. It was called "Angels With Filthy Souls." Along with other similar era references in the movie, this is a play upon the movie
Angels with Dirty Faces
starring
James Cagney
.
c.
Nauls death was originally filmed with him being attacked by a "Box Blair" creature. Director
John Carpenter
was unsatisfied with the effect and left Naulss death ambiguous.
d.
Producers Heath McKnight and Marina Pronesti had less than five weeks for preproduction, to put the whole movie together with crew, logistics, additional locations, cast, and more, starting the day after Easter 2008 (late March). Production began in late April.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
Not only were the Georgetown Law library scenes filmed on location in the main reading room and one of the study rooms on the third floor of the schools library, the scenes at the Registrars Office and the Career Services Office, and of
Denzel Washington
and
Julia Roberts
talking in an open area outside of those offices, are all shot in the main building of the Law Center (McDonough Hall). You can see actual Georgetown Law security officers as extras in the background of the McDonough scenes.
b.
Much of the early work done on the movie was work on the script, which began summer 2007. By January 2008, Dr. Gary Dresden and Heath McKnight had worked out the script, though things needed to be revised during pre-production in late March/April 2008.
c.
The start of photography was postponed by two months due to
Anna Walton
s pregnancy. She was eight months pregnant when auditioning for her role.
d.
In a previous film, Cam Gigandet played a bully who constantly referred to a fellow character as "Iowa". In Burlesque, that is his characters nickname for Ali.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
The title "Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah" is also used to describe the feudal warlord Humungus in
Mad Max 2
b.
Producers Heath McKnight and Marina Pronesti worked closely with both the Pinellas County and Tampa Bay Film Commissions to secure locations in Clearwater, St. Pete and Tampa Bay, Florida.
c.
This film features approximately 254 shots over 88 minutes of action. Thus on average each shot lasts about 21 seconds. This is quite high, even for 1953.
d.
Body count 5.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
When Buddy goes to Gimbels to ask Jovie out on a date the song we hear playing over the loudspeaker is "Christmas Island" sung by
Leon Redbone
. Redbone also provided the voice of Leon the snowman at the North Pole.
b.
Originally written by Dr. Gary Dresden in 1997, but shelved. By 2007, he made his first film, the short The Victim (which premiered in 2008), with Heath McKnight producing, and hired McKnight to produce December.
c.
The gun smuggled on board the airliner by Mr. Contingency is the same non-metallic weapon used by Booth, the would-be presidential assassin in the
Clint Eastwood
movie,
In the Line of Fire
.
d.
The reason that the teenagers listen only to reggae music is that this film was actually shot in Jamaica.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
Kevin Costner
turned down the role of Col.
James Doolittle
.
b.
This film represents one of four movies made by Hollywood during the 1940s which were about or related to the USA militarys Dolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan during World War II. The four movies (the first three considered "fictionalized") are
Destination Tokyo
;
The Purple Heart
;
Bombardier
and
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
, the latter being the most accurate and least fictionalized of the four.
c.
Many of the locations, including the hospital, doctors office, Carter home, etc., were Dr. Dresdens home and businesses.
d.
Maurice Jarre
s score doesnt kick in until almost a half-hour into the film.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: December (2010)?
a.
Composer
James Newton Howard
composed an elegant and beautiful score for Harvey Dent, which would serve as a jarring contrast to Two-Faces persona.
b.
Director Dr. Gary Dresden is a huge baseball fan, but is also a businessman who has been involved with the business side of sports. This was a big inspiration for part of the plot involving Larry Carter (Jeff MacKay) trying to bring a Major League Baseball team to his hometown in Florida. In reality, the Tampa Bay Rays are the MLB team for the west coast of Florida.
c.
Phil Silvers
had a small role in this film, but his scenes were deleted in the final release print.
d.
John Wayne
greatly admired director
Don Siegel
and had said he would like to have played
Clint Eastwood
s role in
Dirty Harry
. Wayne was never actually offered the part however because of his age, although he later made two cop movies of his own.
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