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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Finding Nemo (2003) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Finding Nemo (2003) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003).
About the movie:
A father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish, stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then travel to Sydney and search Sydney Harbour to find Nemo.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
To perform Scottys accent,
Simon Pegg
was assisted by his wife Maureen, who is from Glasgow. However, later Pegg said Scotty was from Linlithgow and wanted to bring a more East Coast sound to his accent, so his resulting performance is a mix of both accents that leans towards the West sound. He was also aided by
Tommy Gormley
, the films Glaswegian first assistant director.
b.
John Lasseter
considered
Danny Elfman
to score the film. When he turned it down
Hans Zimmer
was asked, but he turned it down as well.
c.
The film was shot over a period of one year, in three different continents. All the actors worked hard to look the same, and kept their continuity by keeping the same hairstyle for more than a year.
d.
This was
June Haver
s last feature-film appearance.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
Due to the fact that
A. Michael Baldwin
had aged considerably since the previous movie, a female body double (always seen from the back) was used to complete the flashback opening from the original films ending.
b.
In Latin the word nemo means nobody or no one.
c.
The real HMS Surprise accompanied HMS Isis up the St. Lawrence river to relieve Quebec in May of 1776, in the wake of Benedict Arnolds failed attempt to capture that city. It ended the American rebels invasion of Canada during the American Revolution.
d.
The character of Lance Dowds was based on a character named Hal that
Kevin Smith
created for a sitcom pilot titled "Hating Hal".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
Gloria Foster
also died before the end of shooting the second Matrix film. She had done most of her scenes for this film but had not done any for the third film,
The Matrix Revolutions
, as well as
Enter the Matrix
.
Mary Alice
was chosen as her replacement.
b.
A Decepticon attack leaves Simmons in a wheelchair for most of the film. This is a homage to Chip Chase, a wheelchair-bound human from
Transformers
who was an ally of the Autobots.
c.
Owen Wilson and
Wes Anderson
got Dignans name from their good friend
Stephen Dignan
and repeated this trend with the name "Tenenbaum" from their other friend
Brian Tenenbaum
(for
The Royal Tenenbaums
)
d.
Animators studied dogs facial expressions, paying particular attention to the eyes, to animate the expression of the fish.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
Diana Sands
was nominated for the 1965 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "The Owl and the Pussycat" for the role of Doris opposite
Alan Alda
.
b.
Almost all shots in which you see the taxi or other cars in the street, or car stunts performed in the streets, were really filmed in Los Angeles, not New York.
c.
Director
Andrew Stanton
originally planned to reveal the fate of Marlins wife gradually through flashbacks seen periodically as the story unfolded. After a few early in-house screenings, he found that Marlin came off as too much of a worrywart, and decided to reveal the entire back-story up front, thus making Marlin more appealing by establishing the reason for his over-protectiveness.
d.
So that the crew would not have to use CGI to "fake" the magical illusions seen in the movie, Norton received intensive training in sleight of hand and other stage magic techniques from British magician
James Freedman
and American magician
Ricky Jay
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
This movie has been described as a parody of gangster films of the 1930s which starred the likes of
Humphrey Bogart
,
James Cagney
and
Edward G. Robinson
. Many of these gangster movies were produced by Warner Brothers, the studio that made this picture.
b.
According to
Luke Wilson
, producers were able to raise money from investors by claiming that he was his brother
Owen Wilson
.
c.
Dory Lane and Marlin Drive are intersecting streets in the Bay Area suburb of Redwood City, just across the bay from Pixars home.
d.
The American ship used in this movie was a Destroyer Escort by the name USS Whitehurst (DE 634). My father was in the Navy at that time, and he helped paint over the 634 so the new number could be added. FYI, the USS Whitehurst was sunk as a target for a new torpedo on 28 April 1971.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
The character Christian Copelands name is a tribute to WWE Superstars "Edge & Christian".
b.
It normally took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of Sulley because of his 2.3 million individually animated hair strands (Total number of hairs: 2,320,413).
c.
Maxs futuristic-looking wristwatch is a stock Casio model DW-400.
d.
One musical theme that
Thomas Newman
composed for the score did not end up in the final film but still appeared both in one of the trailers and on one of the DVD menus.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
When Richard Geres son Homer was being born, the actor took advantage of being in a labor ward to go see some other births, all in the name of research.
b.
The names of the two main Turtles are also the names of citrus soda brands popular in the United States (Crush and Squirt).
c.
In the backyard tent scene where the boys are looking at the Playboy magazine, they refer to 1950s actress and pinup girl
Carroll Baker
, the real-life mother of actress
Blanche Baker
, who portrays Ruth Chandler in this movie.
d.
Don Anderson (The Angry Resident) was literally out getting his mail when the director thought it would be funny if a guy stumbled onto the camera shoot and became belligerent. That resulted in Mr. Anderson threatening to kick the interviewers ass.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
Betsy Russell was in the same outfit during the hospital scene after which Jill loses Gideon, as she is in the interrogation scene. She the camera slowly pans to the mirror to transition into the interrogation scene with Strahm. The sets were right next door to each other and Betsy literally ran to the interrogation set for the transition to work properly.
b.
Although Dr. Gironda was the villain in the original novel, he was not the Clutching Hand, who was actually a separate character. The two were merged into one for the serial version.
c.
A sign by the register that says "Have a nice daze" shows the logo for
Dazed and Confused
.
Rory Cochrane
, who plays Lucas, played Slater in Dazed and Confused.
d.
Pixar developed a very realistic look of the surface water, but had to make it look more fake so people wouldnt think it was real footage of the ocean surface.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
The film stock was so expensive that all the actors were asked to know their lines and their marks as thoroughly as possible to cut down on the number of takes.
b.
Christopher Nolan
s screenplay was based on his brother
Jonathan Nolan
s story "Memento Mori". But the screenplay is still considered original (rather than adapted) because Jonathans story wasnt published until after the film was completed.
c.
Shot in 18 days.
d.
Danny Elfman
was set to score but dropped out. Some promotional posters still say, "Music by Danny Elfman".
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Finding Nemo (2003)?
a.
Contrary to popular belief, Bukowski thought that Rourkes performance was mis-done to begin with, but grew to like his depiction of Chinaski as the production continued. Verified in the booklet accompanying The Charles Bukowski Tapes on DVD.
b.
When this film was going into production
Marie Dressler
was out of work and considering taking a job as a housekeeper. According to Dresslers autobiography, the night the her friend
Francis Marion
called and offered it to her, she was considering committing suicide.
c.
Originally, the whale that swallows Marlin and Dory approaches them from the front. This version of the scene appeared in an early trailer. The final version, with the whale coming from behind, was inspired by an early animation test showing a whale emerging from the murk of the ocean behind a small fish.
d.
The casinos demolished in the closing credits are: the Aladdin, the Sands, the Landmark, and the Dunes. The Dunes was bought and demolished in a giant pyrotechnic display begun by Steve Wynn when he fired a mock cannon from Treasure Island; in part he did it to insult The Dunes former owners; the property became the Bellagio; Wynn has since sold all of his Mirage Resorts properties to MGM Grand and bought the Desert Inn, which he demolished to build Wynn Las Vegas. The Sands was where the Rat Pack held The Summit, a series of shows they did for fun while filming the original
Oceans Eleven
, an epoch that helped to define the Las Vegas that Shelly Kaplow mourns in The Cooler; The Venetian now stands on the Sands lot. The Aladdin was rebuilt, but has performed poorly due to its similarity to all the other megacasinos, overbuilding in Vegas, and the slower economy. The Landmarks demolition can be seen in
Mars Attacks!
; the property was used to expand parking for the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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