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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Flash Gordon (1980) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Flash Gordon (1980) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980).
About the movie:
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
First feature film directed by
Robert Zemeckis
, he had only directed two short films before this.
b.
Vincent DOnofrio
was the first choice for the role of Martin Brundle and was nearly cast for the part but his screen tests didnt go well.
c.
Roland Emmerich
confided that the Statue of Liberty would be turned over by the force of the massive amount of water flowing around it but said he wanted to create a symbol of American values that stood up to the forces.
d.
Kurt Russell
auditioned to play Flash Gordon. According to an interview with Russell in Starlog magazine from August 1981,
Dino De Laurentiis
really wanted Russell for the part, but he ultimately turned it down because Russell thought the character was lacking in personality.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
Dennis Hopper
was considered for the role of Dr Zarkov.
b.
Even though she had a starring role,
Marilyn Monroe
was still under contract to 20th Century-Fox as a stock actor at a fixed salary, so she actually made less money than her make-up man did.
c.
The film was originally conceived and approved by MGMs
Dore Schary
, himself no fan of science fiction, as a B-picture. The studios art department, still headed by veteran
Cedric Gibbons
pulled out all stops. The budget ballooned to $1.9 million and barely managed to break even amid a dismal year for the studio. The relative failure of the film was cited as a reason for Scharys ouster soon after.
d.
Rex Reed
was a well known film critic at the time.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
Max von Sydow
s Ming costume weighed over 70 pounds and he could only stand in it for a few minutes at a time.
b.
One of the people sitting in the circle when the teacher sings "Lesbian Seagull" is Daria Morgendorffer, who later got her own series.
c.
A number of the films details recall "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone." The first is the name of the primary antagonist, Lord Blackwood, which parallels that of "Mazarin Stone" villain Count Negretto Sylvius (Negretto is Italian for black and Sylvius is Latin for woods). (As Holmes scholar W. W. Roberts notes, this is "presumably a private joke at the expense of Blackwoods Magazine, long and unavailingly courted by Conan Doyle in the 1880s.") Another common detail is the Crown Diamond, an alternate name for the Mazarin Stone, which hangs around Irene Adlers neck in the film. "The Mazarin Stone" is also the first story to mention that the 221B Baker Street apartment had multiple exits and a waiting room. The extra exit, which was through the bedroom, is employed by Holmes to follow Irene early in the film.
d.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on July 6, 1942 with
Charles Boyer
and
Irene Dunne
reprising their film roles.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
One of the feast items in the Hawkmens Kingdom was Twinkies colored with food dye.
b.
Reviews were so bad that Danish cinemas refused to buy it.
c.
The original working title for Lynch Mob was "Fresh Meat". That was until executive producers
John J. Cornetta
and
Scott Stamper
found out that the title had already been done as an Adult Film by production company Evil Angel.
d.
Buzz Bissinger
, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, and director and co-writer
Peter Berg
are cousins.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
Jim Backus
who played
James Dean
s father and was the voice of Mr. Magoo, taught Dean how to do the Mr. Magoo voice which Dean then used to deliver the line, "Drown them like puppies."
b.
In the scene between Eddie Murphy and Charles Dutton eating crab they are eating Dungeoness crab, which is found only on the west coast. Washington DC, Baltimore is known for their blue crab - an entirely different species typically eaten exactly the same way shown in the film. Dungeoness crab are not.
c.
The psychedelic color effects throughout the Ming universe were accomplished by swirling multicolored dyes through creatively-lit tanks of water.
d.
Available in computer-colorized version.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
The title is a play on the film
Scener ur ett äktenskap
(Scenes From a Marriage), directed by
Ingmar Bergman
, a major influence on Woody Allen. Both films deal with a couple who cheat on each other.
b.
Linda Harrison
, who plays Nova, was having an affair with producer
Richard D. Zanuck
at the time of production. In the year of the films release, Zanuck divorced his first wife and married Harrison. The couple were married for 9 years and had 2 children.
c.
Dino De Laurentiis
originally hoped that
Federico Fellini
would direct this film. The director had actually contributed to the original Flash strip cartoon during WWII.
d.
Jennifer Beals
(Gina) took all of the pictures on the walls in the house, just as her photographer character would have.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
There is a rumor that the monitor behind Hans Zarkov (
Topol
) as he is having his memory dumped shows scenes from Topols previous movies.
b.
May McAvoy
: Esther from the original
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
is the only member of the original MGM film to appear in
Ben-Hur
as well. Shes an extra in a crowd scene.
c.
James Doohan
also devised the Vulcan words heard during the Kolinahr sequence. The scenes were originally shot in English, and when it was decided to change the dialogue to Vulcan, Doohan wrote lines that fit the existing lip movements. Some of the subtitles were rearranged to make this less obvious.
d.
Partially filmed in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The theater everyone is seen running from is the Colonial Theater.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
The music for the party scene was composed and recorded prior to the filming of the scene as
Julie Taymor
wanted it played on the set so the actors could dance to it and the band could play the actual music; usually all music for a film is written and recorded after principal photography wraps.
b.
The filmmakers used real blood and gore donated from a local slaughter house.
c.
Alan Cumming
had to endure 10 hours of make-up to become Nightcrawler for the scene in the church (where his skin/make-up is shown from the waist up).
d.
Nicolas Roeg
was originally going to direct, but didnt due to creative difference. One of his proposals was to excise the trademark cliffhangers and melodrama, seeing Flash as more of "a metaphysical messiah."
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
Sam J. Jones
was cast in the role after being spotted by the mother-in-law of
Dino De Laurentiis
on an episode of
The Dating Game
b.
The Marx Brothers are never seen together in this film.
c.
In a bit of truly inspired foreshadowing, in 1993, 2 years before this films release,
Christopher Walken
played an eerily similar role to that of his portrayal of the Archangel Gabriel in The Prophecy. In the
Madonna
video for the song "Bad Girl" (from her album "Erotica"), Walken plays the Angel of Death who silently follows a woman (Madonna) as she is being destroyed by her lifestyle. Though there is no speaking part, his mannerisms and look are strikingly similar to his later depiction of Gabriel - even down to his slicked back hair, pale complexion and mostly black wardrobe.
d.
As part of a new marketing gimmick to promote action and disaster movies in the 70s, theaters were asked to install a new audio system called Sensurround. Sensurround produced a low frequency sound vibration along theater seats giving an audience the feeling of being in the movie. For "Earthquake", when there was an earthquake, Sensurround would vibrated the seats like an actual earthquake. Unfortunately the speaker system was a custom job that often required removing a couple of rows of seats and it was expensive. It was used for a few more films throughout the rest of the 70s, but after theaters received structural damage, patrons got ill from the experience and nearby businesses complained of noise pollution, Sensurround was basically halted.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Flash Gordon (1980)?
a.
Katharine Hepburn
,
Bette Davis
,
Lucille Ball
, and
Angela Lansbury
all were interested in playing Miss Daisy. Studio executives also considered a
Bette Midler
/
Eddie Murphy
pairing.
b.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 24, 1949 with
Joseph Cotten
reprising his film role.
c.
At one point Ming the Merciless says when he destroys a planet, he calls upon "the great god Daizan". Daizan is Japanese for "great cruelty".
d.
In the "nuclear war" scene, Greg Stillson,
Martin Sheen
s character, threatens to "hack off" someones hand and put it on the scanning screen. An earlier version of the script actually had Stillson shooting the man and putting his dead hand on the screen.
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