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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Part (4) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Part (4)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982).

About the movie: A meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial. He has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		A Turkish movie which was given an American bootleg title of Turkish Mr. Majestyk (aka Karpuzcu (1979)) was made and released about five years after this film.
b.		Solanges Knowles (Beyoncé Knowles sister) makes an ad lib reference to her sister during a cell phone conversation in her first scene of the movie. Her characters little sister in the movie is named "Destiny" an obvious reference to her sisters former group Destinys Child.
c.		The working title for the film was "A Boys Life". It was changed during production.
d.		An early draft of the script had Dr. Janet Wallace (Sarah Marshall) from the original series episode "The Deadly Years" as Kirks long-lost lover in the role that eventually became Dr. Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch).

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		An Unfinished version of the film was shown at the Washington Independent Film Festival as work in progress and it went on to win the Audience award for best picture.
b.		World-renowned Indian director Satyajit Ray claimed that this film plagiarized a script he wrote in 1967 entitled "The Alien." After Ray wrote the script, he sought the help of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke in having the script produce in the United States. Clarke introduced Ray to his friend Mike Wilson, who helped promote the film to Columbia Pictures. Columbia signed on to the project and sought to cast Marlon Brando and Peter Sellers in the lead roles. However, a series of events led to the project being canceled. First, when Ray went to copyright his script, he was surprised to find that the script had already been copyrighted by Wilson as a co-written work, the authors being officially credited as "Mike Wilson and Satyajit Ray," in that order. According to Ray, Wilsons only contribution to the script was his suggestion of the word "broad" instead of "chick" at one place in the script. Later, Brando dropped out of the project and, although an attempt was made to bring James Coburn in his place, Ray said he was disillusioned with Hollywood machinations and returned to Calcutta. The project was abandoned at that time and, although Columbia was interested in reviving the project in the 1970s and 1980s, nothing came of it. When "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" was released in 1982, many, including Arthur C. Clarke, saw striking similarities in the film to Rays earlier script. Ray said that Steven Spielbergs movie "would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies." Spielberg denied this by saying, "I was a kid in high school when this script was circulating in Hollywood." (Spielberg actually graduated high school in 1965 and released his first film in 1968.)
c.		Timothy Busfield ad-libbed Poindexters painful yelp during the Pi-watching sequence. It was inspired by the sound of a former neighbor having sex. Many crew members had to run away to keep from breaking out in laughter and ruining the take, but the director can be heard snickering just before the camera cuts away to the next scene.
d.		Sound effects from previous films in both franchises were used in this film.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		WILHELM SCREAM: When the bridge is crushed as the soldiers attempt to cross the river.
b.		Based on the second book in the series, "Like A Fire is Burning"
c.		ETs plants included some made from inflated condoms with polyester blooms.
d.		The stock footage shot of New Yorks Times Square is actually from the mid-20s. A marquee for Ernest B. Schoedsacks and Merian C. Coopers "Grass, the Epic of a Lost Tribe", aka Grass: A Nations Battle for Life can be seen in the lower right corner.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		The film contains over 25 cameos by real-life employees of Fox television affiliates.
b.		The end of the film was one of the most significant musical experiences for composer John Williams (I). After several attempts were made to match the score to the film, Steven Spielberg took the film off the screen and encouraged Williams to conduct the orchestra the way he would at a concert. He did, and Spielberg slightly re-edited the film to match the music, which is unusual since normally the music would be edited to match the film. The result was Williams winning the 1982 Academy Award for Best Original Score.
c.		When Scott Calvin is giving alternative names for Santa Claus to the police officer in the interrogation scene, Scott imitates Ed Sullivan when he says the last name, "Topo Gigio", which is not a name for Santa, but actually the name of a small Italian mouse puppet that appeared many times on Toast of the Town.
d.		Rock n roll exploitation film directed by sexploitation auteur Joe Sarno. Film was never released and is currently considered "lost".

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		According to Robert Mitchums autobiography, Mitchum himself was openly contemptuous of Shelley Winters throughout the shooting of the film, and later claimed to have wished Charles Laughton had actually used Winters in the scene when her characters body is seen dead underwater.
b.		This film is ranked as #6 on AFIs 100 Years...100 Cheers, and as #3 on the AFIs top 10 science fiction films.
c.		Jean-Claude Van Damme turned down the role of Johnny Cage to do Street Fighter.
d.		Marcel Marceaus final film appearance.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		James Bryan doubled as the Maniac in many shots.
b.		In the All Spark chamber, Epps asks if "Nightmare on Elm Street" anti-hero Freddy Krueger had been around. Michael Bay went on to produce A Nightmare on Elm Street.
c.		When Forrest gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, the microphone plug is pulled and you cannot hear him. According to Tom Hanks, he says, "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they dont go home at all. Thats a bad thing. Thats all I have to say about that."
d.		E.T.s voice was provided by Pat Welsh, an elderly woman who lived in Marin County, California. Welsh smoked two packets of cigarettes a day, which gave her voice a quality that sound effects creator Ben Burtt liked. She spent nine-and-a-half hours recording her part, and was paid $380 by Burtt for her services. Burtt also recorded 16 other people and various animals to create E.T.s "voice". These included Spielberg; Debra Winger; Burtts sleeping wife, who had a cold; a burp from his USC film professor; as well as raccoons, sea otters and horses.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		A third Rescuers movie was planned for 1996, but after the death of Eva Gabor, this and all future Rescuers movies were scrapped.
b.		The role of "Mary Dark" was originally to have been played by Gloria Vanderbilt, but she was replaced by Phyllis Kirk.
c.		This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
d.		The origin of E.T. lies within Steven Spielbergs abandoned science-fiction horror thriller "Night Skies", which was to be directed by cartoonist Ron Cobb (I) and written by John Sayles, with special effects by Rick Baker. Spielberg eventually dropped the evil aliens and had only a good alien in the final film.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		One of this movies main posters was designed in painted artwork with Sean Connery holding a black pistol with his arm around a woman, featured a number of girls in bikinis and displayed a number of action/adventure scenes from the movie, all typical of the James Bond movie franchise which he had been a big part of. Interestingly, the studio that made this movie was United Artists, the same studio behind the Bond movies.
b.		Edgar Wright obtained permission to use the famous theme song from the SNES game, Zeruda no densetsu: Kamigami no toraifôsu, by writing a letter to Nintendo, saying that it is considered to be "the nursery rhyme of this generation". He was also allowed to use the Seinfeld theme song for a sitcom-style sequence.
c.		John Sayles wrote a semi-sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind called Night Skies, about a group of hostile aliens that come to Earth and lay siege to an isolated farmhouse where a terrified family has barricaded itself inside. Spielberg decided not to go ahead with the rather dark project, but a subplot about the relationship between the lone good alien and an autistic boy inspired him to redevelop the concept as E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial".
d.		The ending contains several homages to Martin Scorseses Taxi Driver, including Billy getting his fingers shot off, Nick being shot in the neck, and Nick shaving his head before the final shootout.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		Ned Beatty played Judge Roy Bean in Streets of Laredo
b.		Paramount tried to go ahead with the film for many years without Francis Ford Coppola who had refused to make another sequel. About twelve scripts were written. Most of the scripts included the Corleone family being led by Michaels son Anthony, battling the CIA, Castros Cuban government, or South American drug cartels. A 1978 draft by Mario Puzo dealt with Anthony Corleone being recruited by the CIA to assassinate a Latin American dictator. Dean Riesner also wrote a draft based on Puzos ideas. Drafts were also written by Paramount producers Michael Eisner and Don Simpson. The film was scheduled for a Christmas 1980 release date. These scripts were discarded when Coppola decided to work on the script with Puzo. But Coppola eventually abandoned the project. Puzo wrote another script in 1986 with producer Nicholas Gage that featured Sonny Corleones illegitimate son Vincent Mancini while showing the early life of the young Sonny Corleone. Paramount considered directors Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Costa-Gavras, Alan J. Pakula, Robert Benton, Michael Cimino and Michael Mann. At one point they were even close to signing Sylvester Stallone to direct and star in the film.
c.		The film was originally released to theaters in 1976 under the title "Obsessed". It did so poorly at the box office that the producers re-cut the ending and re-released it in 1977 as "Anna Obsessed".
d.		The young actors (Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, and Robert MacNaughton) found the ET puppets eyes too far apart to comfortably look ET in the eye when they had to act with it. The actors solved the problem themselves by selecting a single eye to look at for every scene.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
a.		The original choice to play Fredrick Egerman died before filming.
b.		Most of the full-body puppetry was performed by a 2 10 tall stuntman, but the scenes in the kitchen were done using a 10-year old boy who was born without legs but was an expert on walking on his hands.
c.		Robert De Niro auditioned for and was almost cast in The Godfather in a minor role. When Francis Ford Coppola was casting this film, he saw Mean Streets and knew he wanted De Niro for a major role in this sequel.
d.		The scene of Hallorann approaching the hotel in the snow-cat was shot in real snow approaching the real Timberline hotel in Oregon.