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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Full Metal Jacket (1987) - 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: Full Metal Jacket (1987).
About the movie:
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Thanks to a brief color segment, first time audiences had seen
Joan Crawford
in anything but black and white.
b.
Jeffrey Wiseman
who plays the inquisitive neighbor, Mitch Murphy, auditioned for the role of Kevin McCallister.
c.
David Saire
was thought suitable for both Dr. Kuhn and Brouhandier.
d.
The term "full metal jacket" refers to the type of small arms ammunition used in warfare, as heard in Private Pyles famous line spoken on the toilet, "7.62 millimeter, full... metal... jacket." Full metal jacket ammunition has a copper coating covering the lead core of its projectile.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Pre-production work for this film began before
Casino Royale
started filming.
b.
Ben Foster
was going to play the role of Hutch ONeill, but gave the role to his brother
Jon Foster
instead because he thought it was better suited for him.
c.
To keep studio execs off his back,
Orson Welles
claimed the cast and crew were "in rehearsal" during the first few days of shooting, when in fact they were actually shooting the film. It took a number of days before the studio caught on.
d.
Another cut scene involved a sex scene between Pvt. Joker and the Vietnamese prostitute. According to the actress,
Stanley Kubrick
cut the scene because it detracted from the cold mood of the film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
The story for this film first appeared in the British comic based 2000 a.d annual of 1981.
b.
The older and younger Benny are played by real-life brothers, Pablo Vitar and
Mike Vitar
.
c.
Despite being released before
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
, this film was actually shot at a later time.
d.
Tony Spiradikis (Captain January) was deleted from the final print. In the screenplay, Captain January has the longest dialog scene - which was the first scene of the movie to be shot. Rehearsal was done in one week and filming of the scene was shot in 4 weeks. However, during post-production, Stanley Kubrick realized that the off-screen actor performing the scene with Spiradikis was completely out of timing and decided to scrap the scene. All of his scenes were subsequently cut out.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
In 1959 this was announced as a
Debbie Reynolds
vehicle.
b.
According to his shirt on Parris Island, Pvt. Jokers real name is J.T. Davis.
c.
Alberta Gary
,
Joan Leslie
,
Juanita Stark
and
Vera Lewis
are in studio records/casting call lists for this movie, but they did not appear or were not identifiable.
d.
A lot of scenes shown in trailers were cut at the last minute due to objection from producer
Sherwood Schwartz
. These included a grunge band scene in the garage with Greg and Eric, and a seduction scene between Mrs. Dittmeyer and Peter.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Mary-Kate and Ashleys characters attend Syoddet High School.
b.
Masao Maki
, who plays the Indian chief, is actually the owner of Sushi Zanmai in downtown Boulder, where UCB is located and where
Trey Parker
and
Matt Stone
attended college while this movie was being made.
c.
It is highly unlikely that Smiths version of his relationship with Pocahontas is true. When he first retold the events of 1608 in 1616, the Indian princess was, by his account, ten years old. On later retelling of those same events, she grew to twelve or thirteen. It was later discovered that Smith had told another, extremely similar story of being rescued by a young Turkish girl in 1602. Smiths stories about his relationship did not begin until 1616, when Pocahontas traveled to London with husband John Rolfe and was celebrated as Indian royalty.
d.
To make Gunnery Sgt. Hartmanns performance and the recruits reactions as convincing as possible,
Matthew Modine
, Vincent DOnofrio (I), and the other actors playing recruits never met
R. Lee Ermey
prior to filming.
Stanley Kubrick
also saw to it that Ermey didnt fraternize with the actors between takes.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
The film came out on VHS for the first time in 1980.
b.
Carey Mulligan
had to learn how to drive for this movie and did a two-week intensive course but failed the driving test. The production team had to shoot the scene on a private road, where she was allowed to get behind the wheel.
c.
In the first part of the movie, in the sequences inside the barracks during the drill, a special lens was designed to keep every single soldier in focus.
Stanley Kubrick
intended that no one was special and they all had the same treatment.
d.
Peter Falk
improvised much of his dialog in the cab scene.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
The only time Donny doesnt get a strike is before they fight the Nihilists at the end of the movie.
b.
Sources point to this film as the first romantic comedy to gross 100 million dollars.
c.
Putting the
Alien
skull on the trophy case on the Predator ship was the idea of
Stephen Hopkins
as a way of showing off all the different species and creatures that the Predators have hunted and killed. It was also a nod to the Dark Horse Aliens vs Predator comics which were quite popular at the time. Since Fox had owned the Alien franchise, it was easy to obtain the rights to use the Alien head in the film. This excelled popularity of the Aliens vs. Predator franchise crossover throughout the 1990s, and was promptly followed by more comic books, novels, video games, toys, and eventually movies.
d.
The gasworks town of Beckton (used for the climatic battle in Hue) was also used in the film
Nineteen Eighty-Four
. Incidentally, some of the buildings seen were designed by a French architect who also worked in Hue.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Uncredited actor
Eddie Quillan
is seen watching a clip from
Hollywood Party
, in which he himself had a featured role 21 years earlier.
b.
The "Abigail Mead" who did the music was actually
Vivian Kubrick
. According to her, the name was based on Abbotts Mead, the mansion where the Kubricks lived from 1965 to 1979. It was located near to MGMs Borehamwood studio.
c.
"Official Selection" 2006 Hudson Valley Film & Video Festival
d.
The actual Battle of Islandlhwana took place on 22nd January 1879 at 11.30 am.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
This was originally intended as a project for
Peter OToole
. He left the movie to make
The Lion in Winter
instead and the film was temporarily abandoned.
b.
One of the very first World War II films made by an American studio in which the members of each country spoke nearly all their dialog in the language of that country: the Germans spoke German, the French spoke French, and the Americans and the British spoke English. There were subtitles on the bottom of the screen to translate the various languages. There were two versions of this movie, one where all the actors spoke English and the other(the better known one) where the French and German actors spoke their respective languages.
c.
Frank McGlynn Jr.
,
Ethel Wales
and
Thomas Pogue
are in in studio records/casting call lists for unspecified roles but were not seen in the movie.
d.
One of the scenes cut from the movie was a scene that showed a group of soldiers playing soccer. The scene was cut because a shot revealed they were not using a soccer ball, but a human head.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Snake Eyes pursuit in Paris described him as a man who "never gives up," words from the theme to the animated
G.I. Joe
.
b.
"Professional Sweetheart" was Ginger Rogers first film for RKO and - ironically, since so much of the plot revolves around getting Rogers character to sign a radio contract - she had not yet signed a long-term contract with RKO when she made this film.
c.
Kubrick shot a scene in the Norfolk Broads where a Westland "Wessex" helicopter (flown by a stunt pilot) was required to fly low down along a canal (the area doubling for paddy fields) while someone fired a heavy machine gun out of the doors. The scene was shot at dawn and the local police were supposed to have warned fishermen but there was a communications problem. The many fishermen were awoken by a US helicopter apparently machine gunning their "positions". The Wessex itself was subsequently damaged during filming when the tail rotor got pushed into an obstacle while the copter was parked.
d.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
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