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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Event Horizon (1997) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Event Horizon (1997) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997).
About the movie:
A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
Because the budget was so low,
Ray Harryhausen
saved money by building his octopus model with six rather than the correct eight tentacles. He tried to pose the creature so this lack of the right number of arms wasnt apparent.
b.
The scene in which Bansley pulls the spear from her leg was shot in just over 20 minutes and almost completely improvised. Atcress Iris Mcquillan-Grace found the simulated blood so disgusting that she actually threw up.
c.
The music that opens the teaser trailer of this movie is the main theme to
A Bugs Life
.
d.
Paul W.S. Anderson
s initial cut of the film ran to 130 minutes and was quite graphically violent, so much so that both test audiences and the studio baulked at the finished product. Paramount ordered him to cut the film by 30 minutes and tone down some of the violence, a decision he now regrets.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
The original script was to have Linda save Jim, but that seemed too "Hollywood", so they ended up making it more dark to surprise audiences.
b.
The animated short
Trail Mix-Up
was released theatrically with this movie.
c.
For his final scenes,
Sam Neill
could come to the studio at 3am so that he could spend 7-8 hours in make-up, having a full prosthetic suit fitted.
d.
Roger Ebert
called this movie the Best Film of 1998. He recorded a special audio commentary track for the dvd release of the movie.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
Prunella Scales
filmed her part in four days.
b.
The working title was "The Stars My Destination".
c.
Featured here is
Dick Clark
in his film debut as a Philadelphia DJ hosting early Rock acts, just months before "Bandstand" went network.
d.
The first Rated R Christian-faith based film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street opened at the Empire Theater (New York) on February 9, 1931 and ran for 370 performances. The opening night cast included
Katharine Cornell
as Elizabeth Barrett,
Brian Aherne
as Robert Browning and
Charles Waldron
as Edward Moulton-Barrett. There were 2 Broadway revivals, in 1935 and 1945, also starring Cornell and Aherne in both. Flush, a Dog, was in all 3 productions, as well as in this movie and the 1957 remake, but they were probably at least two different dogs.
b.
The Hustler
while nominated for many awards, lost all the major ones and the main competition at the Oscars were the films
Judgment at Nuremberg
and
West Side Story
. In the scene when Eddie takes Sara out to a restaurant just before the Louisville trip, Sara has a line "I feel pretty" which, of course was the title to a major song in West Side Story.
c.
For the story "The Black Cat",
Vincent Price
based his character of Fortunado on
Ernie Kovacs
s television character Percy Dovetonsils.
d.
Paul W.S. Anderson
was offered the movie on the strength of the box office success of his previous film,
Mortal Kombat
. It meant he had to turn down the opportunity to direct
X-Men
and
Alien: Resurrection
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
Steve Zahn
s film debut.
b.
Composer Kevin Konyha hated Christmas music so much that Director Christopher OBrien could hardly wait to hear his version of Silent Night for the movie. To this day he is still freaked out by it.
c.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
d.
When Doctor Weir opens the blinds in his room during the opening sequence of the film, a whooshing sound effect can be heard. This sound effect is taken from the video game Doom, heard when the player opens a door.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
The elf Ming Ming, who appears briefly in the beginning of the film, is played by
Peter Billingsley
, who starred as Ralphie Parker in the classic holiday film
A Christmas Story
.
b.
Some of the lost footage includes a great deal more of the Bosch-influenced Hell sequences and of the orgiastic video log that was found in the Event Horizon. This was shot by both director
Paul W.S. Anderson
and
Vadim Jean
, mainly on weekends.
c.
When Prince Caspian is walking through the forest and meets Reepicheep, the forest floor is covered with ferns. The filmmakers found a forest exactly like it in Poland, but discovered that it was cheaper to bring fake trees and 5,000 potted ferns into a studio than to bring all of the equipment to Poland and get permission to shoot there. They also later found out that the forest floor in Poland was filled with brambles.
d.
According to
Megan Fox
, she was attending a Linkin Park concert and when it was over the band met her personally and stated that they heard about the live-action Transformers film and requested whether they could have a song of theirs in the film. And thus the Linkin Park song "What Ive Done" appears in the closing credits.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
The films script was constantly changing throughout filming, leading to an entirely different ending at one point. Originally Grandpa Hugo was going to be revealed as the mad doctor (who in the rough cut was not even called Dr. Satan).
b.
In keeping with the naturalistic science fiction tone of the film, the costumes were based on present day flight suits.
c.
Farewell to the Master by
Harry Bates
is the short story upon which this film is based.
d.
According to an interview with bit-part actor
Jeff Pang
(who plays himself), many of the party scenes in the film were completely unscripted. The cameras would roll and the "kids" would just get drunk, get high, and play around. There is debate however, as to whether the blunt-rolling tutorial scene in Washington Square Park used real marijuana or not.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
Paramount eschewed the overused special effects houses ILM and DreamWorks in favor of smaller studios to keep costs down. Instead they opted for Mass Illusion Cinesite (Europe) and the Computer Film Company in London.
b.
According to director
Mike Nichols
, actress
Marlene Dietrich
visited the set and completely ignored
Elizabeth Taylor
, only speaking with
Richard Burton
and Nichols. Elizabeth later commented "Its a very strange thing to be ignored on your own movie set."
c.
The carry-on bags belonging to Russian space scientists with whom Dr. Floyd shares a drink are marked Aeroflot (in Cyrillic), still today the Russian national airline.
d.
Sex and death are associated with each other numerous times in this film. The first sex scene between Jeff and Marcy is inter-spliced with shots of Bert shooting squirrels. The second sex scene between Marcy and Paul is inter-spliced with a shot of seriously ill Karen decomposing. And the scenes where Paul lays dieing of the disease in a hospital bed are inter-spliced with scenes of him kissing his bikini-clad girlfriend. Also, Marcy gives a notorious speech about how the only thing a dieing person would want to do is have one last screw. It is implied that by not using a condom while they had sex, Marcy passed the deadly illness to Paul. Also, of the four main cast members who got the disease, Karen was revealed to be ill when Paul was touching her in a sexual manner, Marcys first telltale wounds came from marks Paul made when he squeezed her back hard while they had sex, and Bert and Paul first discovered lesions near their groins.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
The first person signed to the film was director of photography
Adrian Biddle
.
b.
Pete Postlethwaite
s final speech was not rehearsed in front of the rest of the cast. This was because the director wanted genuine reactions from everyone on hearing it.
c.
During pre-production,
Francis Ford Coppola
shot his own unofficial screen tests with
Al Pacino
,
James Caan
,
Robert Duvall
, and
Diane Keaton
at his home in San Francisco.
Robert Evans
was unimpressed by them and insisted that official screen tests be held. The studio spent $420,000 on the screen tests but in the end, the actors Coppola originally wanted were hired.
d.
The parade featured at the conclusion was done with the full cooperation of the town of Paso Robles, California.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
The FBFX created costumes of
John Mollo
s original space suit designs included many practical features such as an integrated filter blower system in the bottom of the portable life support system (backpack) into the helmet to keep the visor clear and the actor cool, thousands of LEDs that pulsated rhythmically to indicate life support functionality (with a secret panic mode switch to quicken the pace when the plot required it!) and industrial magnets embedded in the soles of the boots to add to the realism of scenes featuring active magnetic boots.
b.
It was the idea of screenplay writer
Philip Yordan
to depict scenes showing the doctors family inside their home.
c.
The operation of the submarine as shown in this movie was so accurate that the Navy used it as a training film during World War II.
d.
Jar Jar Binks, standing in for Senator Amidala, puts forth the motion that gives Palpatine supreme powers. This means that Jar Jar, the most hated character in the Star Wars canon, is indirectly responsible for the fall of the Old Republic and the near-annihilation of the Jedi order.
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