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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Friday the 13th (1980) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Friday the 13th (1980) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980).
About the movie:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to re-open a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
On the "Welcome to Ochopee" sign, the killers name is written in small letters.
b.
Estelle Parsons
was originally signed on to play Mrs. Voorhees.
c.
The Cowardly Lions speech about courage contains the line "What makes the dawn come up like thunder?" This is a reference to a line in the poem "Mandalay" by
Rudyard Kipling
: "An the dawn comes up like thunder outer China crost the Bay!"
d.
A good amount of the musical score is based around the song "Sgt. McKensie", which plays during the closing credits of the film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
This is the second film where
Joe Pesci
was considered for a role that eventually went to
Bruno Kirby
. The first was
The Godfather: Part II
, the role in question being that of the young Clemenza.
b.
Most of the location and set was already there, they only had to build the bathroom set.
c.
The shooting script was literally pasted together from the half dozen or so scripts written for this project over the years. When they were stuck,
Eddie Murphy
would improvise dialog or create a scene.
d.
One major change originally made for the film (and apparently the only one not originating from
Douglas Adams
) was that Trillian was to have been revealed as being only half-human. This plot point is referenced in pre-release publicity including the film-tie-in reissue of the original novel, cast and director interviews and the official "making of" book. Before release, however, this plot point was deleted from the film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
Until the late 1960s, many of the sets representing the interior of the Nautilus were used as an attraction at Disneyland. This included the chart room, the salon, with organ, and one of the observation windows. The squid from the movie was fastened over the observation window and was animated so that the beak would emerge, snap several times, and then retract. When the building housing the "20,000 Leagues" display was needed for a newer attraction, the sets were removed and many were destroyed.
b.
Van Ling
: The DVD producer and FX Coordinator appears as Dysons assistant in the lab.
c.
Sally Field
auditioned for the role of Alice Hardy.
d.
Daniel Davis
first film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
One critic was so angry at
Betsy Palmer
s role in the movie (which had angered many of her fans), that he published her address in his magazine, and encouraged people to write her and protest her. He published the wrong address.
b.
The cast was claimed to number over 125,000.
c.
Directorial debut of
Arthur Penn
.
d.
Carpenter wrote the part of Lynda for
P.J. Soles
after seeing her performance in
Brian De Palma
s
Carrie
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
Betsy Palmer
said that if it were not for the fact that she was in desperate need of a new car, she would never have taken the part of Pamela Voorhees. In fact, after she read the script she called the film "a piece of shit".
b.
John Wayne
and
Andy Devine
were swimmers in the temple collapse sequence, but they are not recognizable among the hundreds of other swimmers.
c.
Fred Amugi was the third actor cast in the role of Oscar Darko.
d.
Originally earned an NC-17 rating for violence. It was resubmitted to the MPAA seven times before it finally earned an R rating.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
Adrienne King
at first did not want to be in the film because of the graphic violence in it, but she changed her mind.
b.
Some of the gang members were played by USC students. They apparently had lots of fun finding ways of dying while spilling blood over themselves.
c.
Producer
Walter Wanger
and director Alfred Hitchcock clashed repeatedly during shooting. Wanger kept wanting to have the script rewritten with every news story reporting changes in the European situation. Hitchcock, who hated making a movie without the script in absolutely final form before shooting began, pointed out that even if the film were up-to-date at the time of shooting it would be out of date by the time he finished post-production and it was ready for release.
d.
Through the entire filming of the scenes at the Very Large Array, the array was actually collecting data.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
The first Bowery Boys movie not to feature Bobby Jordan.
b.
Salma Hayek
was cast as Cicero, but dropped out a week before filming began due to a scheduling conflict.
c.
Originally a pilot for a TV series to be called "The Black Cloak". The series was not picked up and this pilot was released as a theatrical feature.
d.
Steve Christy is named after
Steve Miner
, Associate Producer for the film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
Two cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names):
Charles C. Wilson
(Guard) and
Frank Hagney
(Miner). In addition
Abner Biberman
was listed as a cast member in copyright records, but he wasnt seen in the movie either.
b.
Woody Allen
wrote the parts of Cristina and Juan Antonio with
Scarlett Johansson
and
Javier Bardem
in mind. Apparently, Bardem was his first and only choice for the male lead.
c.
Body count: 10.
d.
The Hogwarts motto, "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" means "never tickle a sleeping dragon".
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
The film has been spoofed a number of times, most notably in
Saturday the 14th
b.
The real Barry Storm, whose 1945 book had renewed interest in the Lost Dutchman Mine, did claim to have been shot at in the Superstition Mountains by a mysterious gunman known as Mr. X.
c.
Eve Mauro
originally auditioned for the role of Amelia.
d.
The character of Joe Gillis was very much in tune with
William Holden
s standing at the time. When he appeared in the 1939 film
Golden Boy
, he was hailed as exactly that, but had seen his stock fall, largely through his problems with alcohol and a string of unmemorable films in the 1940s. On the basis of this film and largely out of his continuing association with director
Billy Wilder
, Holden would reach the zenith of his career from 1950-57.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Friday the 13th (1980)?
a.
The film was originally banned in Denmark due to the scene where corpses play cards.
b.
In preparation for his role,
Ralph Fiennes
observed a blind mans average day with help from the Royal Society for the Blind. During the shoot he would wear special glasses to simulate blindness before each take.
c.
Because
Martin Scorsese
was so pleased with technical advisor
Thomas B. Duffy
, he let him appear on-screen as the Governor of Massachusetts swearing in the new Police Academy graduates.
d.
Sean S. Cunningham
has been quoted as saying that the type of actors that he sought for the film were "good-looking kids who you might see in a Pepsi commercial."
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