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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Far and Away (1992) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Far and Away (1992) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Far and Away (1992).
About the movie:
A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman) after some trouble with her father...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Far and Away (1992)?
a.
The blackboard that Carl Hanratty is writing on toward the end of the movie contains a small note at the bottom that says, "Steven and Toms 4th project".
Steven Spielberg
and
Tom Hanks
, had previously collaborated on
Band of Brothers
,
Saving Private Ryan
and
Joe Versus the Volcano
.
b.
Director
Ron Howard
wasnt happy with
Nicole Kidman
s facial reaction during the shooting of the scene where her character lifts the bowl covering Josephs (her husband
Tom Cruise
s) crotch. Without telling Kidman, he asked Cruise to remove his underwear. Howard got the reaction he wanted, and it appears in the film.
c.
Before he was cast as Count Dracula,
Bela Lugosi
acted as an unpaid intermediary for Universal Pictures in negotiating with the widow of author
Bram Stoker
in an attempt to persuade her to lower her asking price for the filming rights to the Dracula property. After two months of negotiations, Mrs. Stoker reportedly lowered her price from $200,000 to $60,000. This, however, further demonstrated to Universal how desperate Lugosi was to repeat his stage success as Count Dracula and secure the film role for himself.
d.
The Weasleys car is a Ford Anglia. This is actually the same color and model car that author
J.K. Rowling
and her best friend from school used to ride around in when they were younger. She used the car for the book, and later the movie, out of her fond memories driving in it.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Far and Away (1992)?
a.
The recreation of the Great Land Rush involved 800 extras, 400 horses and 200 wagons. The extras were all recruited from a re-enactment society called The Re-enactors.
b.
The boots that
Clint Eastwood
wore in this film are the same boots that he wore in the TV series
Rawhide
. These boots are now a part of Eastwoods private collection and were on loan to the 2005
Sergio Leone
exhibit at the
Gene Autry
Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California. In essence these boots have book-ended Eastwoods career in the western genre.
c.
The film was shot on color film on a grayscale set, then color-corrected in post.
d.
The suits worn by the actors proved to be problematic on set. Every single one of them was fitted with a small lithium battery that powered the circuitry for the embedded light strips, but each battery only lasted 12 minutes. In order to maximize the output, the light strips had to be switched on right before each take and turned off immediately afterwards. The circuitries inside the suits were also very fragile, so the actors could not simply sit between takes but had to recline against upright boards.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Far and Away (1992)?
a.
The address of the church on the transcript of Booths confession to Padre (4900 Old Manor Rd, Austin, TX) is actually the address to Troublemaker Studios, the film production company founded and owned by director
Robert Rodriguez
.
b.
Three of Ron Howards great-grandparents actually rode in the Great Land Rush of 1893, as depicted in the film.
c.
When this project was in early development,
Sacha Baron Cohen
was set to play the lead.
d.
Product placements and promotional tie-ins seen in the movie included Bentley Cars, Absolut Vodka, Smirnoff, and video parlor games
Centipede
and
Robotron: 2084
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Far and Away (1992)?
a.
The film-within-a-film is titled "War Devils".
b.
Contrary to movie, real-life Evelyn and her son did get to take trip to New York City, where they stayed at Waldorf-Astoria, saw Broadway musical The Music Man, dined at Sardis and appeared on a TV show hosted by Merv Griffin as part of the "Name The Sandwich" contest prize.
c.
Producer
Quentin Tarantino
was originally slated to play Comanche.
d.
The dress that Shannon admires in the shop window in Boston is the same dress worn by Clara Clayton (
Mary Steenburgen
) in the last scene of
Back to the Future Part III
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Far and Away (1992)?
a.
The most profitable film in the "Dead" series.
b.
Director
John Bud Cardos
replaced
Tobe Hooper
during production.
c.
Sigourney Weaver
and
Bill Murray
played the two main characters in the original stage version.
d.
Although he had over 17 years of experience in the business in 1992, this film marked the first time that dialect coach
Tim Monich
had to teach his cast to speak in an Irish accent. Technically,
Nicole Kidman
s accent is incorrect. As a well-to-do landowners daughter in Ireland at the time, she would have spoken with a largely English accent, but, as this probably would have confused international audiences, she was taught to speak in an educated Dublin accent.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Far and Away (1992)?
a.
Michele Soavi
and
Avi Nesher
were attached to direct.
b.
Nicolas Cage
s screen test didnt impress the studio, and they wanted to get someone else to play Ronny. But
Cher
insisted that Cage was the one to play that role, and threatened to quit unless he was hired. After a few days, the studio relented.
c.
Luke Greenfield
: the director of the porn film being shot towards the end of the movie
d.
The first and last feature since
Ryans Daughter
to use the Super 65mm format. After the movie was completed, all remaining six Panavision Super 65mm were retired and kept away.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Far and Away (1992)?
a.
Coincidentally,
Tom Cruise
and
Thomas Gibson
were born on July 3, 1962.
b.
The sets used as the vampires high-rise lair are still in use in the sci-fi TV show
Stargate: Atlantis
.
c.
MGM didnt want to extensively use
Elmore Leonard
-inspired dialogue in the film, and pushed
Barry Sonnenfeld
and
Scott Frank
to make many passages more generic than the books, but once
John Travolta
signed on to the film he successfully pressured the studio to leave Franks original draft (which had a lot of colorful dialogue) intact for filming. A specific example of this end result came during the sequence where Chili Palmer goes to retrieve his coat from Bones.
d.
During the filming of the scene in which
Buster Keaton
is being swept downstream towards the waterfall, he was attached to a holdback cable, concealed in the river. During the filming of the scene, the cable broke, and he was hurled down the rapids, battered by rocks and limbs, and was only barely able to grab an overhanging branch, which held him just long enough for the crew to reach and rescue him. This scene remains in the final print, and is fairly easy to spot. Just look for the point at which Keaton is being pulled downriver and 1) he suddenly looks back towards the camera, and 2) his speed in the water doubles, almost causing him to fly out of frame.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Far and Away (1992)?
a.
The boxing scenes were filmed in the partially renovated train station in Billings, MT. An abandoned Price Club in Billings served as both a factory to produce rubber chickens used in the movie and a soundstage for the brothel. The brothel was built inside, and fire pumps were used to create rain.
b.
The title refers to the only way that newspapers at the time would allow a gay mans lover to be listed in an obituary.
c.
The role of Victor (played by Mike Haboush) was originally Victoria. Victoria was supposed to be the mother of Arthur.
d.
The first shot for the film was shot in October 2006, before any actors or crew had joined the film.
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