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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Die Hard 2 (1990) - Part (4) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Die Hard 2 (1990) - Part (4) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Die Hard 2 (1990) - Part (4)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Die Hard 2 (1990).

About the movie: John McClane is forced to battle mercenaries who seize control of an airport's communications and threaten to cause plane crashes if their demands are not met.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Die Hard 2 (1990)?
a.		No Hollywood studio would back this movie with an all-black cast, so actor/writer/director Melvin Van Peebles financed it himself, aided by a $50,000 loan from Bill Cosby. It became a hit, earning $15 million.
b.		In his biography of Elia Kazan, Richard Schickel describes how Kazan used a ploy to entice Marlon Brando to do the movie. He had Karl Malden direct a scene from the film with an up-and-coming fellow actor from the Actors Studio playing the Terry Malloy lead role. They figured the competitive Brando would not be eager to see such a major role handed to some new screen heartthrob. The ploy worked, especially since the competition had come in the form of a guy named Paul Newman.
c.		In the "Making of" Featurette for Die Hard: With a Vengeance, actor William Sadler (Col. Stuart) said that for this movie, his favorite part pertaining to his character was when Col. Stuart crashes the Windsor Air plane by pretending to be someone from the tower.
d.		The shopping mall (Sherman Oaks Galleria) used is the same one that was used in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since both films wrapped, the mall has been remodeled.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Die Hard 2 (1990)?
a.		Several scenes were filmed but cut from the final release of the film: 1. An extended version of the scene when McClane enters the terminal, featuring shots of a childrens choir singing Christmas carols (the audio of the choir singing still remains in the final cut, but only heard in the background), A scene of two of the terrorists killing off two painters and stealing their truck as well as their uniforms (to pose as painters later in the Skywalk SWAT team ambush scene). An extended version of the scene where McClane first meets up with Marvin the janitor, and finally an extended scene of Marvin showing McClane the best way to access the tunnels to get to the runways, which includes a scene where McClane has to walk carefully across a narrow beam over a hot boiler. All of these cut scenes can be viewed in the Deleted Scenes section of the Special Features disc.
b.		Doug Joness (Abe Sapien) voice was dubbed by David Hyde Pierce, but Pierce refused a credit, because he felt that Abe was entirely Dougs creation and did not wish to detract from his performance.
c.		Producer Berry Gordy fired original director Tony Richardson and then took over direction of the picture himself.
d.		A body double was used for Kevin Costners nude scene under the waterfall.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Die Hard 2 (1990)?
a.		Sam Mendess first film without cinematographer Conrad L. Hall who had died in 2002.
b.		The 747 plane that General Esperanza, Colonel Stuart, and the other terrorists use to try to escape in, bears the livery colors of Evergreen International Air Cargo Lines, but with the company name whited out.
c.		When Rico, Carmen and Carl meets with the recruiting officer after pledging, and the officer shakes hand with Rico, it is revealed that he has lost both his legs. This is not done with any means of special effect or other trickery, as Robert David Hall - the actor - amputated both legs after an accident in 1978.
d.		This was the first movie musical since the early 1930s to have its musical numbers recorded directly while being sung rather than having the cast lip-synch to a previously recorded score, the innovation of Douglas Shearer that revolutionized the production of musicals in the era of the early talkies. There was no technical reason for the music to be recorded directly, and it is one of the reasons that the picture is considered to have failed. Critics attacked director Peter Bogdanovich for his hubris for what they considered an extremely ill-advised stunt, seeing how his leads (with the exception of trained singer Madeline Kahn) were little known for their musical abilities.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Die Hard 2 (1990)?
a.		The man driving the jeep that Marty hangs on to at the beginning of the movie is stunt coordinator Walter Scott.
b.		Jason Lee (Buddy/Syndrome) recorded his vocals in four days, while Craig T. Nelson (Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible) recorded his vocals over the span of two years.
c.		Lewis Arquettes final movie performance (he died nine months before the films release).
d.		Major Grants commando team is referred to as Blue Light. This was the name of a real life US military anti-terrorist team formed within the US Special Forces in the 1970s. It was eventually replaced by the Delta Force who recruited personnel from the entire army rather than just Green Berets.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Die Hard 2 (1990)?
a.		Cameron Crowe said in an interview, "Few people know this, but Stone Gossard is actually in Say Anything... He plays a cab driver, and Ione Skye looks at him and kind of flirts with him a little bit as theyre stuck in traffic on her way to graduation."
b.		The two books that Bud (David) narrates to the teenagers of Pleasantville, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Catcher in the Rye," are the two most widely banned books in the United States.
c.		When Flynns workstation is first shown, the system uptime (or screen saver runtime) is 20 years, 11 months, 20 days, 16 hours, 22 minutes, 16 seconds (and two other digits that update 15 times per second).
d.		Local transmission of The Simpsons shown on the plane to "calm the passengers" is the episode Theres No Disgrace Like Home where Dr. Monroe allows each family member to use shock therapy on other family members. Later, Holly McClane shocks Richard Thornburg in the lavatory.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Die Hard 2 (1990)?
a.		During filming of some of Khans scenes, the prop guys decided to have a little fun at Ricardo Montalbans expense. They created a small robot and attached to its head a cardboard cutout of the head of Hervé Villechaize - Montalbans pint-sized co-star from the TV series Fantasy Island. Montalban was quite amused when he saw the prop on the set.
b.		Average Shot Length = ~5.4 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~4.7 seconds.
c.		The scene where McClane climbs the ladder from the service tunnels up onto the runway and then nearly gets run over by Esperanzas plane was filmed from eight different locations: Granada Hills, California (McClain in the tunnel and climbing up the ladder), Los Angeles (Close-ups of Esperanza inside the planes cockpit), Mojave Desert, California (Head-on view of plane in the sky on approach), Alpena, Michigan (Exterior shot of the grating door on the runway), San Francisco (Rear shot of plane on approach with runway lights in the background), Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (Plane after just landed rushing towards the screen), Lake Tahoe, California (Plane rushing towards McClane in the foreground), and Denver, Colorado (Plane rushing towards McClane as seen from behind the front landing gear).
d.		The character names Ooq-Mi-Fay and Ooq-Yu-Fay, loosely translated from Pig Latin, are "fk me" and "fk you".

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Die Hard 2 (1990)?
a.		In a magazine interview, James Spader said that he found the original screenplay "awful" but also that it was so bad it actually intrigued him. He then met with Roland Emmerich, was inspired by the directors passion for the project, and decided to make the movie because he felt the energy and craziness of making such a film would translate into an exciting final film.
b.		The interiors of the Valenaris restaurant was actually a set designed and built by Richard Sylbert on a soundstage.
c.		In the "Making of" featurette for Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Reginald VelJohnson said that after his appearances in the first two "Die Hard" films, he would be frequently teased and joked at by friends and people on the street for his characters obsession with Twinkies, with some people even going so far as to buy Twinkies and throw them into his car while he was inside, and saying things like, "Oh we knew you wanted some of those".
d.		The estimated production costs were $3.9 million. At the time, only Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and Hells Angels had cost more.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Die Hard 2 (1990)?
a.		Written over a period of 3 months; shot over a period of 3 weeks and edited over a period of 13 months.
b.		Renny Harlin: [Finland] "Finlandia" by Jean Sibelius is used in some scenes.
c.		Early in the film, Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraws characters go to a cinema which is playing the film The Odd Couple. Their costar in the film, Jack Klugman, went on to star in the TV series based on that film.
d.		James Francos hair was dyed brown to give him some resemblance to Willem Dafoe, his screen father. This decision was only made after filming had begun. Indeed, in the scene where Harry visits Aunt May in hospital, you can see that Francos hair is his usual black.

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