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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : District 9 (2009) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : District 9 (2009) - 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: District 9 (2009).
About the movie:
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
Based on the short film
The Night Shift
.
b.
Many real tribal languages of Southern Africa employ clicking sounds (much like the ones the filmmakers included in the alien language) in their vocabularies, including Zulu (the most widely spoken indigenous language of South Africa) and Xhosa, another frequently spoken South African language (even the name "Xhosa" has a click in it).
c.
Due to severe flooding in Los Angeles in 1938, the presentation of the Best Picture Oscar for this movie was postponed from Thursday March 3rd to Thursday March 10, 1938. (see also -
In the Heat of the Night
and
Raging Bull
).
d.
In the police station scene when Mr Deltoid (
Aubrey Morris
) spits in Alexs face, it is actually
Steven Berkoff
doing the spitting. After several takes, Morris complained to
Stanley Kubrick
that he had run out of saliva, and Berkoff volunteered his services until Kubricks cameras captured the perfect spit-shot.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
This is a lost film.
b.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
c.
First film to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award Oscar that is (at least partially) a mockumentary.
d.
The Spider Pig Song has been remixed as a techno Version on YouTube.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
This is one of two movies to be released in 2009 to have been based on a short film released in 2005. The other film was
Shane Acker
s
9
. Both films were adapted for a full-length feature film by their original directors.
b.
The license plate number that Charan Prabhakar provides during the car chase (345 MMM) was, at the time, Prabhakars own real-life license plate number.
c.
A line said by Rorschach, referring to a pagliacci visiting a doctor, is a line taken by a poem from Mexican writer Juan de Dios Peza Reir Llorando, based on famous English comedian David Garrick.
d.
Dedicated to the memory of writer Bill Finger, the uncredited half of the team that created Batman in 1939 (along with artist Bob Kane, who is given sole credit for the character).
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
Kirk Cameron
was nearly cast as Lloyd instead of
John Cusack
.
b.
Although director
Louis Leterrier
liked
Hulk
, he concurred with Marvel Studios that to continue the franchise it would be better to deviate from
Ang Lee
s cerebral style from the first film and focus on a more action-filled tone. He also believed that in keeping with
Hulk
s poetic feel, the VFX were mostly "a fluorescent-green guy who was simply flying around; he had no weight and was too smooth-looking," so he wished to make the films VFX grittier and darker "and perhaps even a little scarier!"
c.
The film was shot in chronological order to give the actors the experience of what Sylvia really went through.
d.
The MNU headquarter buildings shown in numerous scenes throughout the film are in reality the Carlton Centre complex belonging to South African state transport company Transnet. The shorter of the two buildings (shaped as an upside down Y) is actually the former Carlton Hotel which was mothballed in 1997 due to low occupancy. The taller structure with the CGI helicopter landing pads and MNU logo on the roof is the primary 50-storey building of the Carlton Centre complex and is known as Carlton Centre which is the tallest building in Africa.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
Each celebrity who did a cameo was paid $10,000 for two days work (including
The Turtles
who sang the title song). If anyone was required to work for more than two days, they were to receive an extra $10,000. No one went overtime.
b.
Tony Scott
first thought of
Keira Knightley
for the role of Domino after seeing her in
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
.
c.
Originally, Cronenberg turned down the film because of a scheduling conflict with the shooting of
Total Recall
for
Dino De Laurentiis
. So the producer hired
Robert Bierman
, and just when they were about to go into production Bierman experienced a terrible family tragedy and decided he couldnt make such a dark film. At about the same time, Cronenberg realized that he and De Laurentis were not seeing eye to eye and backed out, leaving him free to direct this film.
d.
Around six different endings were created during filming.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
In 1989, when this film was shown in the theaters in Denmark, a Danish man named Ole Bentzen, a Danish audiologist, literally laughed himself to death during the scene where Ken gets the chips up his nose. Bentzens heart rate went between 250-500 beats per minute and he eventually succumbed to cardiac arrest. The story behind this is that the man had made a joke a few years earlier with his family during dinner, where he put a piece of cauliflower up his and every family members nose as a joke and made a bet with them on who could eat up their carrots without the cauliflower falling out. When the scene with Ken and the chips came up, he started thinking about this dinner-incident and laughed so hard that his heart stopped. This story is well known in Scandinavia and spread around as almost an "urban legend" shortly after it happened. It was confirmed by his son, who also told the dinner-story as an explanation to why his father laughed so hard during the chips-scene that he died.
b.
The last cinema feature of Niall MacGinnis.
c.
The language used by the aliens (clicking sounds) was created by rubbing a pumpkin.
d.
This movie has the distinction of being the first to have a gala premiere. Theater owner
Sid Grauman
conceived the idea. The premiere was held at Graumans brand-new Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
The role of Marie was initially offered to actress
Adrienne Wilkinson
who unfortunately could not fit the film into her schedule and had to pass.
b.
The title is a nod to a real place and a real incident. District 6 was a mixed race neighborhood of Cape Town which the apartheid government demolished in 1966 to make room for whites.
c.
At the box office, the film took roughly $40,000,000 (around $367,000,000 in todays money), making it one of the most successful family films ever made.
d.
An old Apple keyboard is shown when the mice in the Hawaiian Islands receive the message about the kidnapping.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
The second Vitaphone feature, with music and sound effects, after
Don Juan
.
b.
During filming
Clark Gable
gave an interview in which he announced that he had realized that he had become too old to play romantic leading roles, and would be looking for different parts from then on. Ironically, his next film was
It Started in Naples
, a romantic comedy opposite the much younger
Sophia Loren
.
c.
During the production, the actors referred to this film as "Death of a Fuckin Salesman".
d.
A large number of actual South African weapons were used in the film. Quite a few of them were designed by Tony Neophytou and are marketed by Denel. This includes the NTW-20 20mm anti-materiel rifle, white painted CR-21 bullpup assault rifles and a Neopup PAW-20 hand-held grenade launcher. Kobus uses this when he shoots the battle suit in the back.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
In South Africa, the last name "van der Merwe" really is a fairly common surname (it, like many Afrikaans names, comes from the Dutch), but it would also be recognizable to most South Africans as the common name in a whole genre of jokes about stupid, bumbling, oblivious, or incompetent Afrikaaners. The fact that the Wikus van der Merwe character is (at least at the beginning of the film) an ineffectual, catastrophically clueless bureaucrat is immediately communicated by the screenwriters decision to give him that particular name.
b.
Sam Peckinpah
wanted to direct with
Kris Kristofferson
as the male lead.
Walter Hill
was also interested, and he too approached Kristofferson. Peckinpah and Kristofferson instead made
Convoy
with
Ali MacGraw
, whom Peckinpah considered as the female lead in The Gauntlet.
c.
Part of the original SHOCK THEATER package of 52 Universal titles released to television in 1957,followed a year later with SON OF SHOCK,which added 21 more features.
d.
The gold medallion
Steve McQueen
wears throughout the film was a present from his wife.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: District 9 (2009)?
a.
Ivan F. Simpson
(Butler) and
Paul Porcasi
(The patron) are in studio records/casting call lists with those roles, but they are not in the print shown on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel.
b.
Sharlto Copley
ad-libbed all his lines during the "documentary" sequences.
c.
Sam Rockwell
, who was one of the original choices for the role of Tony Stark/Iron Man in
Iron Man
, plays Starks antagonist Justin Hammer in the film.
d.
Andrew Stevens
accidentally broke
Rex Steven Sikes
nose when he accidentally elbowed him in the face during the scene where the students find Craigs body in the empty swimming pool. Sikes ended up having to complete the rest of the film with the injury to his nose clearly visible.
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