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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).
About the movie:
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
Loosely based on the
H.G. Wells
story "The Food of the Gods", about a substance that causes giant mutations in growing organisms. Children fed the substance become giants (capable of producing giant offspring), who choose to fight when their existence is threatened by adult authorities.
b.
When shooting the musical numbers,
Larry Parks
didnt merely mouth the words to Al Jolsons pre-recorded vocals, as was customary. Instead, he sang along to Jolsons records in full voice so it would look like he was actually singing.
c.
According to
Henry Selick
,
Wes Anderson
would act out scenes while in Paris and send them to the animators via his iPhone.
d.
In Joseph Pistones report, he lists Lefty, Lefty Guns, Lefty Two Guns, Half Cocked, and Horse Cock as false names for Benjamin Ruggiero (Pacino)
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
The "missiles" were actually model rockets manufactured by a company in Raytown, Missouri. The filmmakers were so impressed with their accuracy over distance that they restaged some of the battle scenes to take advantage of this.
b.
The original title of the film was "Babys in Black" named after The Beatles song. But the producers found it too expensive to obtain the rights to use the song. So the film was renamed "Moonlight Mile" after a lesser-known tune by The Rolling Stones.
c.
According the the 2007 DVD Directors Commentary, Templetons feasting at the fair sequence was expanded after a test audience missed the Sherman brothers (
Robert B. Sherman
and
Richard M. Sherman
) song, "A Veritable Smorgasbord," they remembered from
Charlottes Web
.
d.
Mr. Foxs implanting of sleeping powder into blueberries for unsuspecting guard dogs to consume was taken from another
Roald Dahl
book, Danny the Champion of the World, in which raisins were used similarly on unsuspecting pheasants. When the Dahl attorneys learned of this, they wanted it removed. But because it had already been filmed,
Wes Anderson
pleaded with them and was able to keep it in the film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
Because the script didnt have much of a plot (as the interviewed actors and film makers have stated), many of the actors were allowed to ad-lib scenes.
Timothy Busfield
recalls that he ad-libbed Poindexters painful yell when watching the video of the girls dorm.
Robert Carradine
remembered that in the scene where he "serviced" Betty in the fun house, his line was originally "All jocks think about is sports. Ever since were ten, all we nerds ever think about is sex." He didnt like the line and dropped the "Ever since were ten" part.
Curtis Armstrong
recalls that it was by pure chance that Booger and Tachi ended up bunked next to each other in the gym and they improvised the running gag of them playing cards and Armstrongs line "What the fruck is a frush?"
b.
The first animated film distributed by Regency Pictures, the first stop-motion animated film for 20th Century Fox, and the first animated film for Fox Searchlight Pictures since
Waking Life
.
c.
Willem Dafoe is given fourth billing, yet his first on-screen appearance isnt until fifty-five minutes into the film.
d.
The films budget was estimated at $17 million.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
The scenes in the past when Dean and Cindy are falling in love were shot first, in three weeks. After this
Ryan Gosling
and
Michelle Williams
spent a month together in a rented house to age themselves in preparation for the present scenes. They spent a lot of their time grocery shopping, cooking dinner and learning to pick fights with each other.
b.
Although Scorsese and Pileggi collaborated on the screenplay (and received Oscar nominations for doing so), much of the films eventual dialog was improvised by the actors.
c.
Shot digitally using a Nikon D3, which offers a significantly higher resolution than even that of full High Definition. It was also shot at a frame rate of 12 frames per second, rather than the more fluid 24, so that viewers would notice the medium of stop-motion itself.
d.
Paul Giamatti
was inspired by
W.C. Fields
for his performance.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
The American Cathedral in Pariss choir were hired to sing the "Boggis, Bunce and Bean" limerick. They were recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, England, in Studio Two, which is most famous for having been where
The Beatles
recorded almost all of their music.
b.
In the opening titles you see the characters behind different color backgrounds. Those colors are the characters Karma/Chakra colors.
c.
Before
Tom Hanks
accepted the role of Allen Bauer, it had already been turned down by
John Travolta
and
Michael Keaton
.
d.
The 14 November 2003 draft of the screenplay credits
Brian Helgeland
for a rewrite. He is not credited in the final film.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
Bakshis car is a Morgan Sports Model, built from 1932-1939. Note that is has right-hand drive like all UK vehicles.
b.
The company could only get
Eddie Murphy
for a brief, six week window, to shoot his role in the movie. He was in between shooting
Life
and
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
and had just a brief time in his busy schedule to work on this project.
c.
Development began in 2004 at Revolution Studios between
Wes Anderson
and animation director
Henry Selick
, who had worked with Anderson on
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
(and who had directed another stop-motion animated film based on a
Roald Dahl
work,
James and the Giant Peach
.) When Revolution folded, Selick left the project to direct
Coraline
, and was replaced by
Mark Gustafson
.
d.
Harrison Ford
watched this film while he was deciding whether to take on the lead role in
The Fugitive
, which had
Andrew Davis
already set to direct. Ford was greatly impressed by Davis work here and immediately accepted that role.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
Marlon Brando
praised
Runaway Train
in his autobiography, and said that he in some ways identified himself with
Jon Voight
s character.
b.
The basement where Deever,
William Hurt
, works and which plays a vital part in the film, was shot on a set built by production designer
Philip Rosenberg
at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York City.
c.
Filming took 20 days.
d.
At one time, it was rumored that
Brad Pitt
would make a voice cameo appearance. During the making of the film,
Wes Anderson
directed Pitt in a 30-second TV advertisement for Japanese cellphone company Softbank Mobile.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
Wes Anderson
chose to have the actors record their dialogue outside of a studio and on location to increase the naturalness: "We went out in a forest, went in an attic, went in a stable... we went underground for some things. There was a great spontaneity in the recordings because of that."
b.
Federico De Laurentiis
, son of
Dino De Laurentiis
and executive producer for the film, extensively photographed a gorilla named Bum at a local zoo, and the photos were used for the basis of Kong.
c.
Both
Julia Stiles
and
Andrew Keegan
appeared in a previous high-school adaptation of a Shakespeare play -
10 Things I Hate About You
.
d.
As an homage to
J.K. Rowling
,
Stephen King
, a fan of hers, included a reference to the series in his novel Wolves of Calla, featuring Snitches as flying grenades. Wolves was published one year before the Half-Blood Prince novel. Rowling, in turn, returned the favor: the Gaunts (Voldemorts maternal family though Dumbledore did not mention in the film) is alluded to Leland Gaunt - the lead antagonist in Kings novel Needful Things (played by Max von Sydow in
Needful Things
).
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
Richard (in picture) and Connie are played by Macauleys real life brother and sister.
b.
It was rumored that
Cate Blanchett
was originally the voice of Mrs. Fox, but was replaced by
Meryl Streep
. According to
Wes Anderson
, however, he had only spoken to Blanchett about the part around the time of filming
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
, but never got further than that: "I think that was on the internet before it was really meant to be. For a long time there were versions of the cast out there that were not very accurate."
c.
Some shots were filmed in the Nairobi National Park. The film crew were met at the game park entrance and were told they could not bring in their own trees, hay and lucerne. The park warden said that thorn trees were a permanent feature and that the crew could get close enough to the animals to film them without having to feed them first.
d.
The real-life Zodiac survivor,
Bryan C. Hartnell
, makes a cameo with his wife in the police station.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)?
a.
The "Spear of Destiny" prop is the same one as used in
Hellboy
.
b.
When Obi popped out of the furnace he hit
Glenn Plummer
s (Jonass) eye. They had to stop filming for half an hour to make sure he was okay. He can be seen turned around in one shot, and holding his eye in another.
c.
The look of the film was inspired by Great Missenden, a village in Buckinghamshire, England, where
Roald Dahl
lived and worked. The tree where the Fox family lives is based on a prominent beech tree on Dahls property, and Mr Foxs study recreates in minute detail the interior of the famous garden hut in which Dahl did most of his writing.
d.
Margaret Mitchell
s first choice to play Rhett Butler was
Basil Rathbone
.
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