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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Do the Right Thing (1989) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Do the Right Thing (1989) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989).
About the movie:
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
The town in which the film is set is a fictional community "outside of Kansas City" called "Jasper", and as Dalton drives into town, the "Welcome to Jasper" sign is visible. There actually is a Jasper, Missouri, south of Kansas City, and it has numerous rivers running near it (as seen throughout the movie). The movie also alludes to "calling a friend in the FBI in Springfield". Springfield, MO, is just over an hour away from Jasper.
b.
The real
Jimmy Piersall
disowned the movie due to its distortion of the facts.
c.
The UK premiere was in the Royal Albert Hall in London in presence of Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II
.
d.
The key scene when
Danny Aiello
and
John Turturro
talk alone approximately midway through the film was partly improvised. The scripted scene ended as the character Smiley approached the window. Everything after that until the end of the scene was completely ad-libbed.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
The character of Smiley was not originally in the script.
Roger Guenveur Smith
approached
Spike Lee
requesting a role, and his scenes were added in during shooting.
b.
Howard Hawks
later said, "I didnt think it was any good." He also blamed the films poor critical and commercial performance on
John Wayne
, saying that at 63 the star was now too old to carry a movie.
c.
Thematic parallel: The tune played by the music box in Bimmels bedroom is from the
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
opera "The Magic Flute." Also from a music box, the magic tune releases the heroine from the clutches of a lecherous character who covets her throughout the opera.
d.
When King Tutankhamens tomb was found on November 4, 1922, the person in charge was George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon. Along with him was his daughter, Lady Evelyn Carnarvon.
Rachel Weisz
s character is named Evelyn Carnahan. Originally, her character was meant to be Evelyn Carnarvon. She and her brother were to be the children of the "cursed" Lord Carnarvon. The only evidence of this left in the film is in the line where Evelyn tells OConnell that her father was a "very, very famous explorer". The Mummy novelization goes into a bit more detail on her back story.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
The voice of one of the Ceniza twins (Pedro Ceniza) is dubbed by Roman Polanski himself.
b.
The film was unavailable for public viewing in the UK from 1973 until 2000, the year after
Stanley Kubrick
s death. British video stores were so inundated with requests for the movie that some took to putting up signs that read: No, we do not have
A Clockwork Orange
.
c.
The opening line is "Wake up," while the closing line in
Spike Lee
s previous film, School Daze, was also "Wake up."
d.
Jason Millers last film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
The film was started by director
Erle C. Kenton
. However, he and
Lou Costello
clashed on several occasions, and Kenton was fired and replaced by
Charles Lamont
.
b.
According to
Rosie Perez
, her face is not shown in her nude scene because she felt exploited and was crying. She later decided she didnt mind and appeared nude again in other movies.
c.
This is a lost film.
d.
This was the first of two films written by Richard Price that
Martin Scorsese
left the helm as director. The second film was Clockers in which Scorsese turned over the project to
Spike Lee
so he could instead direct Casino.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
Originally titled
Scary Movie
which was later used for a parody of the
Scream
and other pop culture horror films like it.
b.
This film was inspired by an actual incident in New York where some black youths were chased out of a pizzeria by some white youths in a section of New York known as Howard Beach.
c.
Began filming in February 1979 and the shoot lasted a total of 4 weeks.
d.
When
Christopher Walken
is delivering his speech about keeping his eye on the ball, the images that are shown of the gold mine workers are a reference to a series of photos from the 1980s by Sebastião Salgado that were taken at a famous Brazilian gold mine, called "Serra Pelada".
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
When Capones men are trying to smuggle the book keeper (Jack Kehoe) out of town, they are going to put him on board a train to Miami. In real life, Al Capone owned a luxurious mansion in Miami. Presumably, in the film, the mob was going to have the book keeper hide in Capones mansion.
b.
All of the scenes of the "Corner Men" Robin Harris, Paul Benjamin, and Frankie Faison were improvised.
c.
Colonel Quaritch mentions that being on Pandora made him feel "like a shave-tail Looie." "Shave tail" was a term originally used in the 19th century among U.S. cavalry regiments. Newly assigned cavalry troopers were given horses with a shaved tail, to let other troopers know that the rider was dangerously inexperienced, and should be given extra room to maneuver during training. "Looie" is a nickname for lieutenant, the lowest ranking, and least experienced, rank among U.S. Marine Corps officers.
d.
On the yellow piece of paper, on which Ian (
Sean Bean
) was writing out the secret message contained on the pipe found on the "Charlotte", there was drawn, at the top of the page, two crossed swords with a circle between them. This drawing is the logo for Beans hometown Football Club, Sheffield United known also as The Blades.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
Emma Atkins is played by
Marlon Brando
s sister,
Jocelyn Brando
.
b.
Spike Lee
originally wanted
Robert De Niro
for the role of Sal. But De Niro turned down the part, saying that it was too similar to many of the parts he had played in the past.
c.
Marvin Hatley
: a soldier in the battlefield scene.
d.
To date (2008), it is one of only two films in history to win three Academy awards for acting. The other is
A Streetcar Named Desire
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
Radio Raheems (Bill Nunn) description of his four finger rings (Love and Hate) is a homage to Rev. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) in to
The Night of the Hunter
b.
None of the characters who were members of the Vory v Zakone used a gun throughout the movie. The reason for this is that when doing research on Russian organized crime,
David Cronenberg
discovered that members of the Vory v Zakone typically prefer to use knives instead of guns. The rationale for this is that if Vory v Zakone members were arrested by police and questioned as to why they were in possession of such weapons, the suspects could evade suspicion by claiming that the knives were simply for linoleum cutting.
c.
The Decepticon Scalpel (described in the film as the Doctor) takes the alternate mode of a lensmeter, a device used by optometrists to check the various aspects of a prescription lens for eyeglasses (his toy gave him a different alternate mode: a microscope, in tribute to the
Transformers
Autobot Perceptor). His bug-like design and sadistic attitude were based on Tarantulas, the twisted Predacon scientist from
Beast Wars: Transformers
.
d.
This is
Jon Abrahams
first movie.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
Surprisingly, given her ascending popularity with moviegoers at the time,
Betty Grable
was billed second to
John Payne
in this movie. However, poster art for the picture emphasized Betty in full figure. Later that year, Miss Grable would receive top billing over Mr. Payne in their next musical,
Springtime in the Rockies
.
b.
Code title used during production: "Daydreamer".
c.
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #96 Greatest Movie of All Time. It was the first inclusion of this film on the list.
d.
Tim Roth
thought he was going to be fired for making Archibald Cunningham too eccentric. He asked his agent to start looking for more work for him. Despite thinking this, the director told him to be more campy and eccentric.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)?
a.
At the party, when Ethan answers the phone and gets the call about a free trip to Mexico, the voice on the other line is that of director
J.J. Abrams
.
b.
John Gielgud
s cameo was filmed in one day
c.
The original script for the movie was only 40 pages long. There was only one draft of the screenplay. As shooting progressed, new scenes were written and old ones changed accordingly. A final version of the script with the add ons inserted is twice the size of the original.
d.
Spike Lee
s first choice for the role of Pino was
Matt Dillon
.
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