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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Drop Dead Drunk (2008) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Drop Dead Drunk (2008)

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About the movie: With his single mom away for the weekend on business Peter and his friends are planning to throw the biggest party their town has ever seen...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		The sheriff was originally to be portrayed by Robert Ryan.
b.		The New York Central 20th Century Limited railcar featured (number 10006) was built by Pullman-Standard in 1939 and was scrapped in 1968. It was named "Imperial State" and featured four double bedrooms, four single compartments and two drawing rooms. The interior of the car seen in the film is actually a set built by MGM studios. When Cary Grant shuts the door, the wall can clearly be seen to move since the whole thing was manufactured out of plywood panels and painted to simulate the look of metal (including small fake rivets).
c.		Costume designer Michael OConnor based the blue "Fox uniform" ensemble worn by Keira Knightley in the whig political rally scene on portraits and political cartoons of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, that were made in the late 18th century.
d.		The house featured in the movie was being rented at the time by a handful of the actors, all of them students at the nearby University of Hartford. The landlord never knew a movie had been filmed there.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		Kirby, the vacuum cleaner, is based on the Kirby Dual Sanitronic 80 from 1969.
b.		First cinema film of Vaughn Taylor.
c.		The crew would regularly blow a couple dozen fuses each day shooting at the house.
d.		In the original manuscript, Willies last name is Talos, not Stark. When the novel was first published, the name was Stark. In 2001, the novel was reprinted with Starks name changed back to Talos, among other changes.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		After director Blake Edwards was allegedly fired from this picture, a number of other directors were approached to direct the film until eventually Richard Benjamin was hired to direct.
b.		Topher Grace was considered for the lead role.
c.		Shot with owned and borrowed equipment on a budget of $5,000.
d.		In the prison governors office, there is a small photograph of John Ford - the one Ford sent to Anderson while he was shooting the movie. The dedication reads: "To my colleague Lindsay Anderson with best regards from his friend of many years. Jack."

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		Written over a period of 3 months; shot over a period of 3 weeks and edited over a period of 13 months.
b.		The film premiered at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, a booking which had serious repercussions. The Music Halls Christmas stage show ran so long that whatever film premiered there had to be under two hours. After much debate, Disney cut the film down to 117 minutes rather than cancel the booking. In the 1990s, Scott MacQueen, who headed Disneys restoration department, discovered that two of the cut songs, "With a Flair" and "A Step in the Right Direction" were still on the soundtrack album and quoted throughout the underscore. When he learned the extent of the films edits, he persuaded Disney to reconstruct the longer cut.
c.		It should come as little surprise that Patrick Gates would be associated with the Confederacy. In the original National Treasure, Patrick Gates displayed in his library a portrait of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
d.		Scenes of Spocks final moments and his death from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan were reused as the engine rooms flight recorder. The opening death sequence, funeral sequence, Spocks caskets landing spot, Spocks opening dialogue and opening were all reused from Star Trek II where they were all used at the end of that film.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		The first cut of the movie ran 2 hours and 5 minutes.
b.		Spencer Tracy and Gene Tierney had an affair that lasted for the duration of filming.
c.		During the Scorponok Desert Attack, Captain Lennox calls reinforcements through a telephone. This was inspired by a real-life anecdote a soldier told Michael Bay during filming: during the Grenada invasion, a unit lost its radio in an attack, but found a nearby telephone line, so one of the soldiers in the unit helped out by giving his credit card to get through to the Pentagon.
d.		Linda Ronstadt was nominated for the 1981 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Musical for "Pirates of Penzance" and recreated her role in the film based on this production.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		Benicio Del Toro gained 40 pounds for his role as Dr. Gonzo and, in the commentary during the Criterion Collection version of the DVD, says to have done so by eating multiple donuts every day.
b.		There was every intention to make Loaded Weapon 2. A deal had been set in place before this movie had gone into production and a poster had even been printed with the caption "Oh come ON, you knew it was coming!" However when the movie underperformed the deal was severed.
c.		All of the kids in the movie are played by HARTT School Of Theater students and/or alumni with the exception of Dan Whelton (Scotty).
d.		To increase the light available in interior shots, candles were cast with 4 wicks each.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		In the scene when Louis visits the club to borrow money, the actress who plays "Muffy" is Kelly Curtis, the sister of Jamie Lee Curtis.
b.		Kurt Peterson (Peter) lived in the equipment storage room the entire duration of filming.
c.		This movie was originally conceived as a comeback movie for Gene Hackman. By the time the film was made, he had already "comeback", being seen in a cameo as Lex Luthor again in Superman II. Hackman took a two year break from filming around 1978 stating that he was exhausted having made fourteen movies in a row after The French Connection.
d.		Originally recorded as an audio play, with Showerman, Zelda Rubenstein, and Chris Durand among the voice cast,

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		Midway through the first week of shooting the landlord decided to strip and repaint the house being used as the makeshift movie set.
b.		Harrison Ford convinced David Koepp to include more jokes about Indys age in the script, believing they would help reduce the "American paranoia about aging." He also refused to dye his hair for the role, arguing Indys appeal wasnt in his youth but in his imagination and resourcefulness: "My ambition in action is to have the audience look straight in my face and not the back of a stuntmans head. I hope to continue that no matter how old I get."
c.		The character of Hoffman, played by Ted Raimi, is only ever seen in Jonahs office, and he is never seen entering through a door, but always appears from off-screen.
d.		Film critic Gene Siskel said that this was the first film he walked out on in 26 years of reviewing movies.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		Shot on a Panasonic DVX-100B and edited on Final Cut Studio.
b.		Filmed between mid-July and late August 1956, the movies run in Los Angeles began on May 14, 1958.
c.		The play "Outward Bound" opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 7 January 1924 and closed in May 1924 after 144 performances. The opening night cast included Dudley Digges, Leslie Howard, J.M. Kerrigan, Alfred Lunt and Beryl Mercer. There was one Broadway revival in 1938, directed by Otto Preminger.
d.		The film is based on the story of Jerry and Mary Newport. They were profiled in 1995 in an LA Times article.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Drop Dead Drunk (2008)?
a.		Gene Hackman was cast only a week before principal photography started in Mexico.
b.		Most of the parts were written with the actors playing them in mind.
c.		The jet fighter scenes are footage from Top Gun. In one close-up of the fighter, the words "Lt. Pete Mitchell" and "Maverick" can be seen stenciled under the canopy.
d.		One of Robert Aldrichs personal favourites of his films, he particularly enjoyed the fact that it had a hero and an anti-hero.