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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fly Away Home (1996) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fly Away Home (1996) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996).
About the movie:
A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996)?
a.
Michael Caine
(Andrew Wyke) played the role of Milo Tindle in the original version:
Sleuth
.
b.
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c.
"Boeuf" means "Beef" in French.
d.
Richard Donner
originally wanted to cast
Rutger Hauer
as the evil captain of the guard while casting a younger actor,
Kurt Russell
, as Navarre. Hauer wasnt interested in that role, but expressed interest in playing Navarre. When Russell dropped out a few days before principal photography began, the part was handed to Hauer.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996)?
a.
The song "10,000 Miles" is originally an 18th Century folk ballad. It was recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter specifically for this movie, and was subsequently released on her CD "Party Doll and Other Favorites" (1999)
b.
A number of actual military personnel portrayed themselves. These included retired Lt. Gen.
Holland M. Smith
, who was the 5th Amphibious Corps commander and who also acted as a technical advisor; Col.
David M. Shoup
, USMC, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor; Capt.
Harold G. Schrier
, USMC, who commanded the Marines on the Suribachi slopes; Lt. Col.
H.P. Crowe
, USMC, who was a battalion commander on Tarawa; Pfc.
Rene A. Gagnon
; Pfc.
Ira H. Hayes
; and PM 3/c
John H. Bradley
.
c.
In 1955, the year most of the movie is set, abortion was illegal throughout the US. It remained illegal in most states until Roe v. Wade in 1973 (see also the trivia for
Dirty Dancing
). In Connecticut, it was also illegal to buy or use any form of contraception, until Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965. One of Franks work friends jokes that Aprils pregnancy was the result of a faulty prophylactic, but it would have been illegal for the Wheelers to use any form of birth control. However, in the book April comments that she felt her diaphragm was loose the night they conceived, and that she had to go out the next day to buy a replacement. Plus, since Frank worked in New York, he could have brought birth control there.
d.
Filmed in 1999.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996)?
a.
Guy Ritchie
s first film to be rated 12 in his native country (UK), and his first film where he has not been part of the writing process.
b.
Nine years after they played father and daughter in
Fly Away Home
, Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin filmed a sex scene together for
The Squid and the Whale
. Daniels said in interview at the time that the way they coped with filming the sex scene was by trying "not to think about...you know, geese."
c.
Ray Dennis Steckler
s face is used for the bizarre transformation sequence in the opening credits.
d.
Jim Jacobs
and
Warren Casey
, who wrote the original stage play, were originally supposed to serve as executive producers of the film but got kicked off the set by
Allen Carr
.
Patricia Birch
who was choreographer on the Broadway stage continued her role in the movie version and the film original song "Sandy" was co-written by
Louis St. Louis
who wrote some songs used in the film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996)?
a.
Lillete Dubey
(Pimmi Verma) and
Neha Dubey
(playing Ayesha Verma) are mother and daughter in real life.
b.
The plot underwent a few changes in its earliest stages.
Gary Busey
s character, Keyes, was actually intended to be Dutch,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
s character from the first film. Schwarzenegger was very outspoken against the sequels concept, feeling that taking it into the city was a bad idea, and declined the role.
c.
The original title of the film was "Father Goose".
d.
Walt Disney
said that if he had known the success that Davy Crockett was going to have he wouldnt have killed him off in the third TV episode.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996)?
a.
The first sound-on-film feature. The dialogue sequence lasted 15 minutes.
b.
One earlier title was "Flying Wild," which was released in several trailers.
c.
Janet Jackson
first learned of her pop-star brother, Michaels death on June 25th, 2009, while filming this movie.
d.
The scene near the end of the movie, where
Ryan Gosling
licks
Sandra Bullock
s face, was not scripted. After a few takes, Gosling asked Bullock if it would be okay if he added it in to prove his characters sick nature.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996)?
a.
Contains 1,400 VFX shots
b.
Based on the true story of William Lishmans and Joseph Duffs experiments on migrating birds. Lishman and Duff provided actual "imprinted" birds for the making of the film, as well as the actual aircraft used.
c.
According to actor
Richard Kiel
in his autobiography "Making it Big in the Movies", he only turned down four roles in his whole life and the part that
Peter Fonda
plays in this movie is one of them.
d.
If you look carefully at the very opening scene (the American glove and the Russian glove colliding), you can see that a split second after the gloves collide and a split second before theyre covered by the explosion, the Russian glove breaks in half and falls to the ground.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996)?
a.
Release of the film was delayed after a seven-year old girl, Jessica Dubroff, was killed at the controls of a small plane that crashed amidst a much-publicized transcontinental flight attempt, along with her father and flight instructor.
b.
M. Night Shyamalan
: [self] Acting in his movies. His character, "Vick Ran", is a reference to
Vikram Seth
, an Indian author.
c.
While this movie was filming on one side of Cape Florida State Park on Key Biscayne,
Bad Boys II
was filming scenes on the other side of the park.
d.
Seann William Scott
said on Kevin Pollaks Chat Show that a lot of his scenes were improvised, like the scene where he finishes
Tracy Morgan
s lines and the jail scene.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996)?
a.
Rachel Crothers
s play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 6 October 1932 and closed 4 March 1933 after 173 performances. The opening night cast included
Walter Abel
as Jimmie,
Spring Byington
as Bridget,
Frieda Inescort
as Mary,
Herbert Rawlinson
as Rogers and
Selena Royle
as Clare.
b.
According to the credits, the military aircraft were from New York. The F-16s belonged to the 174th Fighter Wing of the New York Air National Guard, and the C-130Hs belonged to the 914th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve. They were not, however, located on the same base. The F-16s come from Syracuse, NY, and the transports were located at the time at Niagara Falls, NY.
c.
After conceding to
Darryl F. Zanuck
s insistence that
Cleopatra
be one film not two,
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
s first cut ran to 5 hours and 20 minutes. Zanucks first reaction to the film was that Mark Antony was ineffectual, many of the scenes were simply too long and the battle scenes were amateurish in execution.
d.
WALL-E is the first Pixar film to be nominated for 6 Academy Awards. This ties it with the only other animated film to garner this many nominations:
Beauty and the Beast
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fly Away Home (1996)?
a.
When the production could not get permission to film on board a commercial airplane, Mann booked his actors and crew onto a twilight flight from Chicago to Florida where the production was relocating anyway. A stripped-down camera, lighting and sound equipment were taken on board as carry-on luggage. Pilots and flight attendants were appeased with gifts of film crew jackets.
b.
Although a radar (like the ASR-7 shown at the Air Force Base) can hypothetically detect a flock of birds and an ultralight, its unlikely. Their low reflectivity and slow ground speed (the support boat said they were going 21 knots, about 25 mph), the radar would "reject" the returns as clutter.
c.
The name of Jeffs son is only said once throughout the entire film, even though the characters death is important in the movie. Its Dylan.
d.
Alex North
used parts of his rejected score for
2001: A Space Odyssey
for this film. For example, the main title music was originally composed for the space station phone call sequence of 2001, but here rearranged with a female vocalist added.
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