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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Duck Soup (1933) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Duck Soup (1933) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933).
About the movie:
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
This film marks the last appearance of
Zeppo Marx
in
The Marx Brothers
films.
b.
David C. Hayes
was not present for any of the shoot. For his scenes, the other actors spoke to a stand-in. Hayes was then filmed separately delivering all of his lines and edited into the final film later as cut-aways.
c.
The entire airplane crash, starting from when we see the plane till the end of the scene is one continuous shot.
d.
The original title was "20th Century Foxes" but was shortened to "Foxes" to avoid a lawsuit from film studio 20th Century Fox.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
In response to the overwhelmingly negative reviews, the estates of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein have declared that there are to be no more animated features based on their musicals.
b.
Acclaimed country music chanteuse
Caitlin Rose
can be heard performing backing vocals on the soundtrack as well as providing ADR voices for several bit parts in the film (e.g. parking lot girl and the girls at the tennis court).
c.
The famous phrase "Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" is often referred to as a
Groucho Marx
quote, but its really delivered by Chicolini (
Chico Marx
) while impersonating Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho).
d.
Zack Snyder
s directorial debut.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
The entire film was shot in two days - with Rich Tola teaching five hours of yoga on the first day.
b.
The producers fired the original screenwriter because of an "unhappy" ending, where the parents do not get back together. After several re-writes, with a different, "happy" ending, they realized that the original ending was, in fact, better. They re-hired the original writer and went back to the original ending.
c.
Thora Birch
gained 20 pounds for the role of Enid.
d.
In the original script, Chicolini and Pinky were cousins and Bob was Fireflys son.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
Groucho Marx
offered the following explanation for the movies title: "Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, youll duck soup the rest of your life."
b.
The train in the film is a modified 2200 Chicago elevated car.
c.
Film debuts of
Vic Morrow
and
Jamie Farr
.
d.
The first "Fast and Furious" film to be released in IMAX.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
This movies closing credits feature an advertisement for the World War II USA war effort at the end of the credits roll. It states: "For Victory - U.S. War Bonds and Stamps - Buy yours in this theatre."
b.
To publicize the movie, AIP had Vincent Price appear on the televised
The Dating Game
to choose a date for Miss X (
Janit Baldwin
).
c.
An early draft of the script introduces Freedonias new dictator Rufus T. Firefly as an agent for an ammunition company, which led to lots of ammunition-salesman jokes and intertwined with the movies war theme.
d.
Lefty ODoul
worked with
Gary Cooper
to improve his batting style.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
The idea of an airplane being carried by an airship was actually taken from the U.S. Navy airships U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon. Each airship, slightly smaller than the Zeppelin shown in the movie, actually had a trapeze (also known as a "sky hook") under the belly of the airship, and hangar space inside for up to four small planes. The planes were intended to act as scouts that used the airship as a flying aircraft carrier. The builders of the Hindenburg also attempted, with help from the Navy, to install a similar trapeze on the Hindenburg shortly before her disastrous last flight in 1937. The idea was for the small plane to act as a mail courier. However, the pilot was unable to "hook on" to the trapeze consistently, the experiment was abandoned, and the trapeze was removed from the Hindenburg before she departed for her final flight. In
The Great Waldo Pepper
, the character of Kessler was based on that pilot, WW1 German ace Gen.
Ernst Udet
.
b.
The role of Edna Turnblad was originally written for famed transsexual
Christine Jorgensen
. However, when the role of Tracy had to be rewritten,
John Waters
also rewrote the role of Edna in order to keep his friend and muse
Divine
in the production.
c.
The street that was used for the O Malleys neighborhood would later be the same street used for
A Nightmare on Elm Street
.
d.
According to
The Marx Brothers
biographer
Joe Adamson
, the elaborate "All Gods Chillun Got Guns" musical number was mostly improvised on the set, as there is no reference to it in the movies final script. Its likely Groucho was referring to the old Negro spiritual "I got Shoes", which repeats the line "All of Gods children got..." filling "a song", "a robe", "a harp", etc. Groucho just added "Guns".
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
The interior of the house that Doyle Gipson is seen in during the main title sequence was not a set. Its in fact the interior of a real house in Queens, New York which
Roger Michell
had found while scouting locations.
b.
Ken Watanabe
read actual letters sent by Imperial Japanese Army Gen.
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
to his family from Iwo Jima while preparing for his role.
c.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
d.
Christian Bale
stated in an interview that during the interrogation scene,
Heath Ledger
wanted him to beat him as hard as he could to get the real feeling of what was required from the scene.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
Early drafts of the script included scenes in an opera house and aboard a zeppelin.
b.
When shooting a scene involving a green plastic gun (sprayed with black paint) on an upstate New York highway, two police cars arrived. They had received calls from drivers passing by saying. "There is a maniac in a orange suit pointing with a gun at a girl." The fact that it was a one man crew with such a small digital camera, generated the wrong idea. The policemen stormed out of the cars and handcuffed everybody. Later one of the officers realized that it was a movie when he discovered the small MiniDV camera. The scene was never used in the final cut.
c.
The following were in the original version of the film, but cut from the theatrical version by Miramax in order to make The Crow: City of Angels more like The Crow: - Before Ashe runs from Sarahs apartment, he does not believe he is alive so Sarah stabs him with a kitchen knife. - When Ashe is going after Spidermonkey at the Trinity Drug Plant. Ashe takes Spidermonkeys gun and says, "Dont try this at home, kids!" and shoots himself. Then as Spidermonkey approaches, Ashe gets up, scaring Spidermonkey. - After Nemo is killed, Ashe confronts Holly Daze, the stripper he was with and tells her not to come here while tugging on her at the same time. - When Ashe builds Dannys grave, he does not burn his painting. - Kali and Curves deaths are the other way around. - When Kali is thrown out of the window, there is a shadow of a giant crow morphing into Ashe showing that the Crow and Ashe are one - Kali is still alive, though crippled and unable to move, after being thrown out of the window. Ashe then comes out of nowhere and Kali commands him to kill her quickly because she is in pain. Ashe refuses and leaves her to die slowly as the crow symbol appears in blood around her. Judah tells the captured Sarah about himself nearly drowning as a child and visiting hell before he was revived, which he enjoyed, leading to him becoming the way that he is. - When the specter of Danny is at the Day of the Dead festival, he says to Ashe that it is time to go. Ashe says that he must protect Sarah and Danny disappears. Ashe looks for him in the crowd and turns a drunk guy around, believing it was Danny. - During the Judah fight scene, Dannys painting falls from Ashes coat. Judah rips it up. - In this version, Sarah and Ashe talk to each other just before Sarah dies. In which Ashe says he stayed on earth for her. - The ending is different. Because Ashe chose to go after Sarah which led to her (an innocent person) being killed, he must remain on Earth forever as part of the undead without her or Danny. - Ashe puts on Sarahs ring to remind him of her. - When Ashe brings Sarah to the church, the priest asks Ashe, "What will you do now, my son?" Ashe replies that he cant let another shadow take over Los Angeles...
d.
Typically,
David O. Russell
would let the cameras continue rolling after the end of each scene, urging the actors to goof around and improvise. He felt this was the best way for them to lose any sense of self-consciousness.
Jude Law
and
Dustin Hoffman
later told him that they found it a very liberating way to work.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
At one point Abel jokingly asks Chris if hes a superhero. Patrick Wilson will go on and play one in
Watchmen
.
b.
Vera was Trentinos niece in early drafts.
c.
A poster for the film
Malcolm
can be seen hanging on the wall in Steves room.
d.
Crockett plays the "Mockingbird Quick Step" on his fiddle. The song is a version of "Listen to the Mockingbird". It was composed in 1855 and later used by
The Three Stooges
as a theme song.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Duck Soup (1933)?
a.
The fictitious country of Sylvania was called "Amnesia" in early drafts.
b.
Debut of
Dub Taylor
.
c.
During the movie, Eleanor (
Naomi Watts
) trades SMS text messages with a contact. The number which identifies the sender on her Blackberry is +352 22 28 09: the real phone number for the Luxembourg City Tourist Office.
d.
Director
Andrew Fleming
wanted the feel of a 1970s movie and tried to frame scenes as he thought they might have been framed in a comedy from that era. He also used analog tape editing tools, rather than digital, to maintain this feel.
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