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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Forbidden Planet (1956) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Forbidden Planet (1956) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956).
About the movie:
A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
Gambits portrayal in this film is inspired by his "Ultimate X-Men" version, where he was a retired thief and carries a Southern/Cajun accent.
b.
Michèle Morgan
was tested for the role of Lina and
Constance Worth
replaced
Phyllis Barry
as "Mrs. Fitzpatrick."
c.
Cyrano, Carls pet, was originally scripted as being a frog.
d.
Film debut of
Robby the Robot
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
Some were concerned that when this film was released it would help propel
John Glenn
, then a popular political figure, into the presidency. "Newsweek" magazine had a cover story about it. In fact, Glenns presidential aspirations went nowhere.
b.
The party scene near the end of the film runs 42 minutes long. It was shot over the course of 21 days from the time the sun set to the time it raised. After it wrapped, the crew had t-shirts made that read " I SURVIVED SCENE 118" (which was the name of the scene during shooting).
c.
Coleman Francis
: [vigilante shooting] Hank Radcliffe, the boys father, is mistaken for the killer, shot from an airplane by police, and wounded.
d.
The model of the "flying saucer" style Earth space cruiser was retained by the MGM prop department and subsequently used in a number of productions on the MGM lot, including the "To Serve Man" of the
The Twilight Zone
.
Robby the Robot
, his ground transporter, and crew uniforms would be used on that show as well.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
Louis Barron
and
Bebe Barron
worked on the electronic soundtrack music "tonalities" for only three months, the length of time given them by
Dore Schary
, head of MGM. He authorized the studio to send them a complete workprint at Christmas 1955. They received the complete 35mm Eastmancolor workprint at New Years 1956, a week later, still with many visual effects sequences missing and timed in with blank leader by editor
Ferris Webster
. From January 1, 1956 to April 1, 1956, they worked on the soundtrack score in their Greenwich Village studio in New York City while the film was in post-production in Culver City. The score was completed and delivered to MGM on April 1, 1956, and the film was released for a studio sneak preview soon afterward. The musicians union, however, objected to the soundtrack, and blocked the Barrons from being credited as "composers", hence the term "electronic tonalities".
b.
The sequel to this movie
A Matter of Wife... and Death
does not feature
Burt Reynolds
as Shamus McCoy. It was once reported in the media that Reynolds intended to appear in the sequel to this movie, but this did not happen.
c.
The film was workshopped over a four year period through improvisations.
d.
Due to film schedule constraints, the sequences at "Chicago Summer CES" (Consumer Electronic Show) were actually filmed at the November Comdex (Computer Dealer Expo) in Las Vegas. The film crew carried press credentials and pretended to be a news show filming about the products in the booth.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
Cut scenes included Kirk being pursued by rock monsters on the God planet. The rock monsters were men in rubber suits, and also included a smoking effect. According to
William Shatner
, in order to achieve this, cigarette smoke was blown in the suits before cameras rolled. The rock monsters were scrapped due to lack of believability and time constraints.
b.
Aaron Gillespie
is in fact a real person. The real life Gillespie serves as the drummer and clean vocals singer in Christian metal-core band Underoath.
c.
It was while filming this movie that
Claudette Colbert
sustained the back injury that forced her to give up the part of Margo Channing in
All About Eve
to
Bette Davis
.
d.
MGM insisted on changes to
Cyril Hume
s script by adding comic relief scenes with the ships cook (played in the final film by
Earl Holliman
). Among these scenes was one in which
Robby the Robot
responds to the cooks complaint about the lack of female companionship by bringing him a female chimp. The scene was reportedly not filmed.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
Loosely based on "The Tempest" by
William Shakespeare
.
b.
This film had more pre-ticket sales than any other film in history.
c.
The movie contains over 225 visual effects shots, including digital makeup, set extensions, sky replacement, and digital gunshot effects.
d.
Chapter Titles: 1. Jungle Pirates 2. Dead Mans Pass 3. Into the Lions Den 4. The Ivory Trail 5. Trapped in the Quicksand 6. The Jaws of the Jungle 7. The King of the Gorillas 8. The Spider Caught 9. The Gates of Doom 10.A Race For the Fortune 11.No Mans Land 12.The Kimberly Diamonds
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
In preparing this film for production, MGM borrowed a print of
This Island Earth
from Universal-International.
b.
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.
c.
Vitaphone production reels #3789-3797.
d.
Patron Tequila product placement in several scenes. The brand also featured in classic
Dirty Love
, starring
Jenny McCarthy
and
Carmen Electra
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
Features nearly every member of the DC ComedySportz troupe at that time.
b.
The house used as Crowns Caribbean get-away is owned by one of the 30 original families who settled in Martinique in the 1600s.
c.
First mainstream film to have the music performed entirely by electronic instruments.
d.
Steven Spielberg
: [music]
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
There had been plans for
Roy Orbison
to star in five movies, but after this film proved to be a critical and commercial flop no more were made.
b.
Apart from the electronic tonalities composed by
Louis Barron
and
Bebe Barron
, the music score known to many as "Forbidden Planet Fanfare - Parts 1 & 2" on the original 1956 theatrical trailer was composed by
André Previn
, and pieced together seamlessly by an MGM music editor. The music was originally written by Previn for the MGM films
Scene of the Crime
and
Bad Day at Black Rock
.
c.
Shawnee Smith
came in to audition for a role. According to director
Kevin Smith
, she was very rude and mocked the screenplay. After Shawnee Smith left, casting director
Don Phillips
apologized for her behavior.
d.
Corazons body, which crashes past Capa during the airlock breach, was actually a dummy. The crew found the replica of
Michelle Yeoh
incredibly creepy due to its realism.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
This movie was filmed on the same sound-stage on which the movie
The Wizard of Oz
had been filmed seventeen years earlier; the set of Altairas garden is a reuse of the Munchkin Village set from The Wizard of Oz.
b.
Emilio Estevez
was originally going to play Bender, but Hughes couldnt find someone to play Andrew Clark so Emilio agreed to play Clark.
c.
The final helicopter/rooftop sequence consists almost entirely of footage from
The Peacekeeper
.
d.
Director
Richard Lester
once described this movie as "A political film within which no one speaks about politics and a love story in which no one speaks about love."
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Forbidden Planet (1956)?
a.
There is a coded message hidden in the end credits that has not yet been decoded.
b.
The only professional light had its bulb blown during the last leg of production. Unable to find a replacement bulb, the last scenes of the film were filmed with generic shop lights.
c.
Syndromes facial features are based on those of the films director,
Brad Bird
.
d.
David Rose
, composer of light orchestral music such as "Holiday For Strings", was originally hired to write the score. He was relieved of his contract by producer
Dore Schary
in December 1955 when Schary discovered avant-garde electronic music creators Louis and Bebe Barron in a nightclub in Greenwich Village, New York, and hired them on the spot. The only confirmed piece of music which still remains from Roses discarded original score is his Main Title Theme, which he released as a single on MGM Records in 1956.
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