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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Part (6) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Part (6) 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.
The clock on the wall in Troys interrogation room starts at 11:11, a tribute to the production company, Eleven Eleven Pictures.
b.
The type of aircraft used in the hijacking is an L1011-500 "Tristar".
c.
During its initial 2010 run at the Laemmle Sunset 5, in Los Angeles, the film screened with the title card reading STOLEN LIVES as well as its official release title STOLEN.
d.
According to a 1988 interview in Playboy magazine,
Bruce Willis
was offered a lead role but was forced to turn it down because filming was about to start on the first 6 episodes of
Moonlighting
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
The trailer for this film includes a specially shot scene of Margaret OBrien visiting with
Spencer Tracy
. Tracy tells the child star he never wants to make a movie with her because shes too good for him!
b.
This became the final film for producer
Joseph E. Levine
.
c.
The Oktoberfest scene at the beginning of the film was not staged. The filmmakers hid cameras to prevent people from knowing they were being filmed.
d.
Gunnery Sgt. Hartmans line during his introduction to the platoon: "Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy! You dont look like a steer, so that narrows it down!" mimics that used five years earlier by
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley in
An Officer and a Gentleman
: "Only two things come out of Oklahoma. Steers and queers. Which one are you, boy? I dont see no horns. You must be a queer."
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
The image of a skull can be seen on one of the fishing lures as it turns. This can be seen in the beginning of the movie as
Ewan McGregor
, as narrator, talks about how some fish cannot be caught.
b.
Val Kilmer
was originally involved but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
c.
The photograph of Florences father appears to be that of
Paul Weigel
.
d.
Lines from the scene in which Private Joker (
Matthew Modine
) and Private Rafterman (
Kevyn Major Howard
) are approached by the Da Nang Hooker (
Papillon Soo
) were sampled in 2 Live Crews 1989 hit "Me So Horny" on the album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. The exchange between Joker and the hooker - "What do we get for ten dollars? / Every ting you want. / Everything? / Every ting." - is used at the very beginning of the song. While the "Me so horny. Me love you long time" sample is used in the chorus of the song, as well as throughout. If you listen carefully to the samples at the very beginning and end of the song, you can hear Nancy Sinatras "These Boots Are Made for Walkin", which plays under the original scene in the movie. The song also contains a sample from
Which Way Is Up?
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Natanya (played by
Gal Gadot
) is a name of a pretty mundane Israeli city. It is not a common Israeli female name.
b.
Val Kilmer
auditioned for the part of Pvt. Joker. According to
Matthew Modine
, Kilmer confronted Modine in a restaurant and challenged Modine to a fight because he believed that Modine had stolen the part from him. But Modine was not even aware of the film at the time. Modine later sent Kubrick footage from
Vision Quest
and won the part.
c.
The view of the "city lights" is a model which includes a suburb that looks suspiciously like a circuit diagram, complete with logic gates and an integrated circuit.
d.
An Egyptologist was brought in to phonetically render what Ancient Egyptian might have sounded like for the dialogue.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Included among the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
b.
When the film swept The 16th Annual RAZZIE Awards,
Paul Verhoeven
turned up in person to accept Worst Director and Worst Picture. He was the first director to ever turn up to collect the Award.
c.
The Vietnam sequences of the film were shot first, the Parris Island scenes second. The graduation of the recruits was the last scene shot.
d.
Though unspoken in the film, the novel and script provide several characters names and/or full names: Hermie is
Herman Raucher
, Oscy is Oscar Seltzer, and Dorothys husband is named Pete.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Wes Anderson
,
Roman Coppola
and
Jason Schwartzman
organically wrote the screenplay as they traveled around India together.
b.
Stanley Kubrick
had extensive phone conversations with writer
Gustav Hasford
over the screenplay, to discuss the adaptation of his novel into a movie. He eventually wanted to meet with Hasford in person, even though co-screenwriter
Michael Herr
tried to talk Kubrick out of this, as he thought Hasford was a scary man. The meeting took place at Kubricks house, but it went so bad that Hasford was kept out of the writing process for the remainder of production. Hasford later considered legal action to obtain a full writing credit on the screenplay.
c.
Bo Hopkins
character is named John Scarne. John Scarne was also a famous sleight of hand artist during the mid-20th Century. He was best known for exposing crooked gambling to the public. In
The Sting
he doubles for
Paul Newman
s hands.
d.
Co-writers
Joel Coen
and
Ethan Coen
appear as newspaper photographers during the prison scenes.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Rita Hayworth
s brother,
Vernon Cansino
, played one of the Dragoon soldiers that helps Don Jose escort her to prison.
b.
Seth Rogen
s feature film debut.
c.
During filming, a family of rabbits were accidentally killed. Kubrick, an animal lover, was so upset that he canceled the rest of the days work.
d.
The gazebo changes size (becomes larger) when we go inside it. This is intentional. There was a real gazebo on the property where they filmed the scenes at the back of the house, but it was too small for the dance numbers, so they built an interior for the gazebo in Hollywood that was significantly larger.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
This took 12 years to reach the screen.
Roald Dahl
himself was convinced that the property would never make a viable film.
b.
James Stewart
was nervous about the phone scene kiss because it was his first screen kiss since his return to Hollywood after the war. Under
Frank Capra
s watchful eye, Stewart filmed the scene in only one unrehearsed take, and it worked so well that part of the embrace was cut because it was too passionate to pass the censors.
c.
Reese Witherspoon
studied with a Matabele tribe in Africa to perfect the Bushman language her character uses in the film.
d.
According to an interview with
Vincent DOnofrio
, the production schedule for the film was so drawn-out that lead actor
Matthew Modine
got married, conceived a child with his wife, the child was born, and then turned 1 year old...all during the course of filming.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
Tim Burton
and the crew of the movie built the small town Sleepy Hollow complete with rooms, floors, and stairs. The town was dismantled after filming was completed.
b.
For the final battle of Hue, 200 pine trees were imported from Spain and a few thousand tropical plastic plants were imported from Hong Kong. Plastic trees had previously been flown in from California, but upon seeing them, Stanley Kubrick reportedly said: "I dont like it. Get rid of it."
c.
The song about Otto Titsling, the inventor of the brassiere, was first introduced by
Bette Midler
on a 1986 album called "Mud Will Be Flung Tonight." The story of Otto Titsling (i.e. "a two-tit sling") and Phillip de Brassiere (i.e. "fill up the brassiere") is an urban legend, created by British humorist Wallace Reyburn in his 1971 book, Bust Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling. In fact, the brassiere was developed by various French fashion designers from ladies corsets of the 19th century. The term "brassiere" is derived from the French "braciere," a name for an armored military breastplate.
d.
Shot in 1987, the film took a couple of years to find a distributor.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987)?
a.
This film was the first shown in the Museum of Modern Arts festival tribute to film comedy in 1976.
b.
All the out door scenes during basic training were filmed at Bassingbourne barracks in Cambridgeshire. In WWII this was an 8th Airforce bomber base, home to the 91st Bomber Group. This was the Bomb Group that the Memphis Belle belonged to and the base is where all 25 of her missions were flown from. (
Matthew Modine
starred in the movie
Memphis Belle
as the pilot of the plane on its final mission.)
c.
The aircraft used in the film is a Fairchild C-119, a direct descendent of the WWII era C-82 used in the original film
d.
Eddie Murphy
s film debut.
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