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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Elektra (2005) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Elektra (2005) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005).
About the movie:
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
Rowland Brown
was the original director, but he was replaced after one week by
W.S. Van Dyke
, who reshot most of Browns footage. This was the 4th time another director completed a film which Brown started.
b.
Gregory Peck
had the good fortune of actually naturally bearing a striking resemblance to General
Douglas MacArthur
. He had some of his shaved off since the real MacArthur was quite bald.
c.
The first scene with Bauer and DeMarco was nearly completely taken from Elektra #23 (Vol. 2), written by Robert Rodi.
d.
During filming, the cast and crew had to be evacuated to Los Angeles because of Hurricane Wilma.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
Jon Favreau
s grandmother,
Joan Favreau
, is the lucky gambler at the $5 minimum blackjack table.
b.
Jennifer Garner
filmed this movie while on summer hiatus of her television series
Alias
.
c.
This was MGMs last release in CinemaScope.
d.
The screenplay was originally based on the James Patterson novel CROSS. For marketing purposes, the film title was changed to that of another Patterson novel, "I, Alex Cross". The screenplay, however, is a very loose adaptation, based on CROSS; similarities between book and screenplay are few.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
Michelle Pfeiffer
s character is forty years old in this movie, while the actress was actually forty-seven at the time of shooting. Her co-star
Paul Rudd
was thirty-six in real life, although his character was twenty-nine and played the role of a teenager in the TV show inside the movie. But perhaps most unbelievable was
Stacey Dash
, who plays a teenager in the show within the movie, but was forty years old at the time of production.
b.
A short clip used in the trailers and TV commercials shows a ring of energy emanating from what appears to be the hedge maze that is featured during the final action sequences. This footage does not appear in the US theatrical release.
c.
During a showing of this film on 28 January 1922, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, DC, collapsed under the weight of 30 inches of snow. The collapse killed 98 people and injured 133.
d.
This film is a feature-length compilation of several episodes of the short-lived television series "Blue Light".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
One of the characters had her dialog replaced entirely by actress Teddi Siddall during post production.
b.
Due to the low level response from the previous film
Daredevil
, promotion for this movie claimed ties to the movie
X-Men
instead, which had a much higher popularity response. The first promotional mention of ties to the Daredevil movie only took place one week before the Elektra movie was to be released.
c.
In order to lose weight for the concentration camp scenes,
Jerry Lewis
ate nothing but grapefruit for six weeks.
d.
Natalie Wood
was the first choice to play the female lead of Prudence Bell. She had a writer friend of hers read the script and once he confirmed her fear that it wasnt up to snuff she decided it was a good time to go ahead with a tonsillectomy that shed been putting off; the part was then given to
Suzanne Pleshette
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
Ethan mistakenly lends his mother an adult film entitled "Dawsons Crack." This is obviously a spoof on the hit WB series, "Dawsons Creek." David Monahan played the recurring character of Tobey Barret, Jack McPhees boyfriend, on "Dawsons Creek."
b.
20 veterans of the 101st Airborne who fought in the Bastogne area were hired to train the actors and were also used as extras.
c.
Ben Affleck
filmed a cameo reprising his Daredevil role as Matt Murdock but was cut from the final film.
d.
Ryan Gosling
operated the camera when he turns to look at the people staring at him in the scene where his head starts to bleed while he is in front of the jewelry store.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
Besides being a straightforward pun, Col. Kilgores name is also the name of the hometown of a gung-ho helicopter door gunner described by writer
Michael Herr
in his book "Dispatches".
b.
This film is featured on second disc of the
Slacker
DVD released in 2004 by the Criterion Collection.
c.
The shot of the aircraft carrier coming into San Francisco Bay at the beginning of the movie was completely unplanned. The entire crew were at the time on the Presidios parade field, along with hundreds of off duty soldier, filming a staged parade. When director Hyams saw the fleet coming in, he stopped filming of the parade to get a shot of the ships going past. In the final cut of the movie only a few seconds of the parade are shown at the beginning, and the rest of the days shoot was left on the proverbial cutting room floor.
d.
The character of Stick was originally introduced in the Frank Miller era of the Daredevil comic book as the man who taught Matt Murdock martial arts and how to control his heightened senses other than serving as Elektras instructor. All details relating to Sticks connection to the aforementioned character were omitted.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
Allied Artists Pictures released this film on a double bill with
Attack of the Crab Monsters
with the tag line "Terrorama! Double Horror Sensation!"
b.
The scene where George Simmons asks to see Iras penis is based on real life.
Adam Sandler
and director
Judd Apatow
used to be room mates in college. According to Apatow, Sandler actually asked Apatow: "Let me see your penis". (Apatow actually told this story to
David Letterman
on The
Late Show with David Letterman
in 2007.)
c.
The N in the gates of Elektras mansion stands for "Natchios", which is Elektras last name in the comic books and in
Daredevil
.
d.
The New York sequences were shot in Paris as Roman Polanski could not set foot into America because he was still wanted for his 1977 sex crime charges. The exterior locations were redressed with American-related details and the skyscraper seen in the opening and in Balkans office were Translite material taken from Manhattan.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
According to director
Richard Elfman
, the film was originally intended to be shipped out to China, where each frame of the black and white print was to be individually colored by hand, but this plan was found to be inefficient. In 2008, the film was digitally colorized under Elfmans authorization.
b.
A Nitrate Print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, and is not listed for Preservation
c.
The character, Colonel Oliver Southern, is an obvious nod to Lt Col.
Oliver North
who was tried, and ultimately pardoned, for selling arms to Iran to raise money to support the Contra movement in Nicaragua.
d.
Scenes from one promo, depicting Mark Miller (
Goran Visnjic
) effectively fighting off ninjas at his waterfront cabin, were deleted from the theatrical release.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
Tom Berenger
formed his own production company, First Corps Endeavors, with producer William MacDonald (it operated from 1995 to 1997). It was named as a tribute to Gen. Longstreets command, a role Berenger often cites as closest to his heart.
b.
Rhona Mitra
s film debut.
c.
During the making of this movie,
Jamie Foxx
had cut his hair for
Ray
. So in the final scene, Foxx is wearing a wig, which is why his hair looks so much longer.
d.
In an interview with UKs Empire Online, director
Rob Bowman
stated that the original directors cut was a R-rated film and he had to tone the film down (due to contractual obligations).
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Elektra (2005)?
a.
Merle Oberon
and
Laurence Olivier
apparently detested each other. Legend has it that when
William Wyler
yelled "Cut!" after a particularly romantic scene, Oberon shouted back to her director about her co-star "Tell him to stop spitting at me!"
b.
Ten years after the films release, the New York Giants introduced a red alternate jersey.
c.
Goran Visnjic
filmed this movie while on summer hiatus of his television series,
ER
.
d.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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