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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Eastern Promises (2007) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Eastern Promises (2007) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007).
About the movie:
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
The high majority of the nude scenes feature only men. This avoided the problem of covering-up a lot of topless female nudity in this PG-rated movie. Ironically, this movie features one female see-through wet t-shirt shot.
b.
The final sequence (Marys murder) was inspired by a real-life murder by stray shot of sound designer
Richard Beggs
daughter.
c.
The tattoos around Nickolais (Viggo Mortenson) ankles read "Where are you going?" and "What the fuck do you care?" in Russian. Mortenson thought that they were hilarious, that one foot doesnt respect the other.
d.
Final film of
Richard Egan
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
This production was so large that Disney had to use facilities at other studios. This included Universal International (exterior sets redressed for the opening scenes) and 20th Century Fox (large exterior tank for the larger models).
b.
This low budget 1954 release is believed to be the first film about the Yeti.
c.
The scene where Semyon demonstrates his musical skills to the little girls was not dubbed.
Armin Mueller-Stahl
does play the violin in real life, and was a noted concert violinist in his youth.
d.
On the second day of shooting, the cast and crew had to contend with the presence of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, who were practicing for an air show.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
The full name of
Viggo Mortensen
s character is Nikolai Luzhin. This is a reference to
Vladimir Nabokov
s novel "The Luzhin Defense".
b.
The rebels anthem is the same one used in
Sleeper
.
c.
Harold Russell
was first discovered by
William Wyler
when he saw an army training film called "Diary of a Sergeant" that Russell had appeared in about the rehabilitation of wounded servicemen.
d.
Monte Hellman
was originally tapped to direct the film as
Quentin Tarantino
was a complete unknown. However, when Tarantino sold the screenplay for
True Romance
for $50,000, he lobbied hard to direct the film himself. Hellman took on an executive producer role instead.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
Phil Meheux
: The films director of photography appears as a bureaucrat from H.M. Treasury in Ms office.
b.
The films dedication states: "This motion picture is dedicated to those Americans, both living and dead, whose gallant effort made possible daylight precision bombing. They were the only Americans fighting in Europe in the fall of 1942. They stood alone, against the enemy and against doubts from home and abroad. This is their story."
c.
Lon Chaney finished "The Wolf Man" on November 27, 1941, then started this film on December 15, finishing on January 15, 1942. Release took place on April 3.
d.
Nabokov is also the name of a character who is mentioned in a conversation.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
When the camera is positioned above the waterfall, you can see the Titanic in the water below.
b.
Although the film was shown at the Venice Film Festival and had an official release in the UK in 2006, the movie was not released in the US for years. This was mainly due to the fact that MGM was bought by a consortium headed by Sony in 2005, which led to a legal mess of whom, either MGM or Sony has the rights to the movie. In August 2007 director
John Turturro
decided to distribute the movie with his own money.
c.
One day after shooting,
Viggo Mortensen
went to a pub without washing off his tattoos or even changing out of his costume. He claims that some of the patrons became very frightened of him, assuming he was a real member of Vory v Zakone.
d.
In 2001,
Mark Wahlberg
and
Hugh Jackman
were in talks to star. Production was scheduled to begin in February 2002. But after the September 11, 2001 attack on New York City and the celebrated heroics of the citys police, it was deemed inappropriate to make a film featuring corrupt NYPD officers at the time.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
Holly calls her baby girl Mary Todd, which makes her full name: Mary Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincolns wife).
b.
Naomi Watts
discovered she was pregnant with her son Alexander two weeks into shooting this movie. She initially tried to hide it, but costume designer
Denise Cronenberg
found out about it.
c.
Martin Scorsese
: Man in van - as Jerry Langford is walking across the street and is greeted by a woman at a phone booth where she wants him to talk to her nephew Morris, Scorsese can be seen in the drivers side of a green van.
d.
This was the first depiction of a comic book super hero on film.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
The initials "I.R.T." in the films title stand for "Interborough Rapid Transit", which refers to a number of New York Citys subway systems. Despite the title, however, there is only one scene where Chantel Mitchell is seen in the subway.
b.
Naomi Watts
spent time at the Whittington Hospital for the role as a midwife.
c.
Shots of mining-car roller-coaster ride were done with models and a 35mm camera modified to hold extra film.
d.
A "Napoleon Dynamite" festival was held every year from 2004-08 in Preston, Idaho, the city where the movie was filmed. The festival had events that included a tater-tot eating contest, a football throwing contest, look-a-like contests and other type of festival events based on scenes from the movie.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
The film was originally released in 3-D.
b.
To prepare for his role,
Viggo Mortensen
traveled alone to Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Ural Mountain region of Siberia, where he spent five days driving around without a translator. He read books on the gangs of the vory v zakone (thieves in law), Russian prison culture and the importance of prison tattoos as criminal résumés, and perfected his characters Siberian accent and learned lines in Russian, Ukrainian and English. During filming, he used worry beads made in prison from melted-down plastic cigarette lighters and decorated his trailer with copies of Russian icons.
c.
On the DVD commentary,
Jeff Cohen
(Chunk) claims that the confession of puking off the theater balcony is not based on anything in real life. This is incorrect. The basis for the theater story was a real-life prank pulled by Executive Producer
Steven Spielberg
while growing up in Phoenix, AZ.
d.
Chapter 1: A Race With Disaster (#7607), Chapter 2: Flaming Havoc (#7608), Chapter 3: The Menacing Hero (#7609), Chapter 4: The Bridge Of Disaster (#7610), Chapter 5: Hurling To The Depths (#7611), Chapter 6: Death At The Stake (#7612), Chapter 7: The Path Of Peril (#7613), Chapter 8: Imprisoned In Flames (#7614), Chapter 9: HIdden Danger (#7615), Chapter 10: Blazing Wagons (#7616), Chapter 11: The Trail Of Terror (#7617), Chapter 12: In The Claws Of The Cougar (#7618), Chapter 13: The Frenzied Mob (#7619), The Toll Of Treachery (#7620), Chapter 15: The Mail Goes Through (#7621)
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
Final film for actor
Chris Alcaide
. Alcaide came out of retirement to appear in this movie playing the Chief Justice. His last film had been
Hammett
, about five years earlier.
b.
Desiree Cousteau
was the Hustler centerfold for the September 1978 edition of the magazine.
c.
The film, shot in England, marked the first time director
David Cronenberg
shot a movie entirely outside of Canada.
d.
Glacier Bay Park in Montana doubled for the Swiss Alps in the films mountain climbing scene.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eastern Promises (2007)?
a.
Other actresses considered for the role of
Bonnie Parker
included
Tuesday Weld
,
Ann-Margret
,
Carol Lynley
and
Sue Lyon
.
b.
The vignettes with
Gary DellAbate
were improvised.
c.
The Telephone Number of the US Secert Service is 2115512956.
d.
For the bathhouse fight scene, the scene was choreographed with the actors (not stuntmen), the actors had to train in specific fighting styles chosen for their characters and it took two days to shoot on location in London. According to the DVD commentary, both Mortensen and Cronenberg agreed that Nikolai had to fight his would-be killers completely nude.
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