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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Drillbit Taylor (2008) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Drillbit Taylor (2008) Quiz
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About the movie:
Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drillbit Taylor (2008)?
a.
Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow needed to get the cast in place in order to take advantage of benign weather conditions or risk delaying production for several months.
b.
Dennis Quaid
broke his nose during the making of this film as he had did three years later on
Tough Enough
.
c.
The character of Rev. Jones is most likely based on Reverend James Warren "Jim" Jones. Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple. This was a well known cult in the late 1970s and is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of more than 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana. As the Congressman, news and television reporters, and temple defectors boarded the plane, several armed guards from the temple arrived and fired at the group. One of the fatalities was Congressman Ryan. The murder of Congressman Ryan was the only murder of a Congressman in the line of duty in the history of the United States. Simultaneously, temple members committed mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored Flavor Aid along with a sedative. Jones was found dead in a deck chair with a gunshot wound to his head. Because of Jones, the tragedy at Guyana ranks among the largest mass suicides in history. It also the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001.
d.
The first (and only) time
Seth Rogen
has collaborated with someone other than
Evan Goldberg
, his regular writing partner, on a screenplay.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drillbit Taylor (2008)?
a.
A friend of
Judd Apatow
at Paramount told him he had a treatment that
John Hughes
was never able to finish a script on. He asked
Seth Rogen
to take a look at it. They made the movie in the tradition of a
John Hughes
movie.
b.
This film marked the second biopic of a World War II General that
Jerry Goldsmith
would score. The first was
Patton
.
c.
Steven Seagal
s film debut. He also co-wrote and co-produced.
d.
The play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 27 November 1933 and had 248 performances. The title role was played by
Helen Hayes
and the cast also included
Moroni Olsen
, who repeated his role as John Knox in the 1936 film version,
Edgar Barrier
(Lord Douglas),
Ernest Cossart
(Lord Throgmorton) and
George Coulouris
(Lord Burghley). The play was written in blank verse.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drillbit Taylor (2008)?
a.
Rene Russo
,
Andie MacDowell
, and
Laura Dern
all expressed interest in playing the role of Aimee.
b.
Some of the closeup shots of the racing horses were achieved by attaching lightweight digital cameras to sticks and positioning them close to the horses as they galloped around the track. The horses got used to it, but the jockeys were sometimes startled by them.
c.
The guy in the cell next to Drillbits in the end of the movie asking for some of his cereal was the same guy as one of the people who were being interviewed by the three kids for the bodyguard job.
d.
Some scenes in the film are extremely lengthy. Some of the conversations between Sister Aloysius, Father Flynn, Sister James and Mrs Miller run to 10-15 minutes.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drillbit Taylor (2008)?
a.
Filmed in September 1930, but not released until April 1931, two months after the death of
Louis Wolheim
, its star and director.
b.
Mothra and Gigan begin their battle in front of a fallen Tokyo Tower. In
Mosura
, Mothra (in her Larva form) destroys this famous landmark to turn herself into her adult form.
c.
Adam Baldwin
has a cameo as a bodyguard being interviewed. During the interview, he comments on how stupid it is for a bodyguard to protect kids from bullies, while wearing an identical costume to the one he wore in the movie
My Bodyguard
where he played a bodyguard to protect a fellow student from a bully. Baldwin still owns the jacket he wore in My Bodyguard and convinced
Steven Brill
to let him wear it.
d.
This was
Rin Tin Tin
s first film. He was replacing a wolf who would not behave as intended by the writer and director.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drillbit Taylor (2008)?
a.
Hosteen Tso, a local shaman, promised
John Ford
the exact kind of cloud formations he wanted. They duly appeared.
b.
John Hughes
final film as a writer before his death in 2009.
c.
At the Los Angeles Premiere (Red Carpet) on October 29th 2009 at the AMC theater Century City so many people showed up it was so crowed that the Fire Marshal Office of Los Angeles County came to shut the event down. That was a big problem for the producers so they had to turn away over 300 people in order to go on with the event.
d.
Jet Li
stated in multiple interviews that he was not happy with this film nor its production. He went as far to say that this movie "sucked" and he had no confidence in director
Philip G. Atwell
. Even halfway into filming, he knew that it would receive mediocre ratings and not make profit.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drillbit Taylor (2008)?
a.
Both Wade and Ryan say "What have I just done?" at different points in the film.
b.
Dudley Moore
was said to have based his performance partly on
Peter Cook
, whose excessive drinking had soured his and Moores comedic partnership in the 70s.
c.
One of Disneys four "Package Films". During World War II the studio lost a lot of manpower and resources, which left it with countless unfinished ideas too long for shorts and too short for features. So, inventive as Disney was, it stuck short ideas together into feature-length movies. See also
Make Mine Music
,
Melody Time
and
Fun & Fancy Free
.
d.
During the film, the character played by
Fred Gwynne
mentions that he a had a pet named "Spot". "Spot" was also the name of the family pet on the TV show
The Munsters
, also starring Gwynne.
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