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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Garden State (2004) - Part (5) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Garden State (2004) - Part (5) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Garden State (2004).
About the movie:
A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Garden State (2004)?
a.
Richard Donner
and
Harvey Bernhard
asked
Alan Ladd Jr.
then the head of Twentieth Century Fox for extra money during the films post-production period to hire composer
Jerry Goldsmith
, whose music they strongly felt was right for the movie after seeing him perform a live concert at the Hollywood Bowl earlier that year. Ladd was finally talked into giving Donner and Bernhard around $25,000 to hire Goldsmith, who would deliver his first and only Academy Award win for his score in 1977. Donner credits the success of the film to Goldsmiths score which made the film scarier than it would have been without him.
b.
For inspiration prior to filming, director
Jonathan Frakes
says he viewed the films
Alien
,
Aliens
,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
,
Blade Runner
, and
Jaws
.
c.
According to Daan Sandee (Thinking Machines Corp), the CM-5 super computer used in the control room was one of only two ever built to that size (1024 nodes). The other machine was at Los Alamos. The machine used in the movie was sold as smaller segments after the scenes were complete. Mirrors were used to make it seem like more CM-5s were present.
d.
In order to get the automatic sinks in the airport bathroom to go off when
Zach Braff
walked by them production had PAs underneath the counter pressing the sensors when he hit his marks.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Garden State (2004)?
a.
The script called for several Japanese-speaking officers and a company of Japanese troops to be on the island. There were no Japanese men on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, where the film was shot. A half-dozen who spoke the language were finally found in a Japanese emigrant community in Brazil and flown to the location to play the officers. For the non-speaking roles of Japanese troops, the company hired 50 Chinese who worked in the islands restaurants and laundries. This caused friction with the local islanders, who found it difficult if not impossible to get their clothes cleaned or to get a meal in a restaurant because most of the employees were working on the film.
b.
The chainsaw in the film was designed by
Robert Shaye
, CEO of New Line Cinema.
c.
The house used as Jesses mansion was a real mansion in Mahwah, New Jersey that had been abandoned since the 1920s.
d.
Producers
Richard D. Zanuck
and
David Brown
optioned the film rights to the novel for $175,000 in a deal which also included a first-draft screenplay from author
Peter Benchley
. This draft, extremely faithful to the novel, would later be rejected by
Steven Spielberg
. The subsequent two drafts from Benchley would also be rejected.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Garden State (2004)?
a.
This is the first film to use the Panavision Genesis HD camera. Developed jointly by Panavision and Sony, it was the latest of the specific 24p HD used by the likes of
George Lucas
and
Robert Rodriguez
, among others.
b.
Zach Braff
had to give a testimonial to JFK International Airport in order to film there. His testimonial was about how much he liked Terminal 4, the terminal used to film the final scenes of the movie.
c.
Film screenings were attended by gay rights protesters complaining that making the serial killer Buffalo Bill a transsexual was highly clichéd and a reflection of and/or pandering to public hostilities around the issue of sexual orientation diversity.
d.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 23, 1950 with
William Bendix
reprising his film role.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Garden State (2004)?
a.
This was
Kevin Kline
s second film.
The Pirates of Penzance
was filmed first, making it his film debut, however, due to delays in post production, it was released after
Sophies Choice
.
b.
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):
Dudley Dickerson
(Black Man) and
Eddie Acuff
(Stagehand).
c.
Darleen Carr
who played the voice of The Girl (Shanti) is the younger sister of
The Sound of Music
actress
Charmian Carr
(Liesl von Trapp). She stopped working with Disney Studios after this film.
d.
The depiction of Zach Braffs character working in a Vietnamese restaurant was from his own experience. Braff worked as a waiter in a French-Vietnamese restaurant when he auditioned for the leading part in the series "_Scrubs (2001)_".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Garden State (2004)?
a.
Bruno Ganz
- who played Dr. Bruckner - actually played
Adolf Hitler
himself several years later in
Der Untergang
.
b.
The huge mineshaft was a circular construction around the largest soundstage. To make it look different, they just altered the lighting every time the carts completed a loop.
c.
Debut of
Jessie Royce Landis
.
d.
The fog in the pool scene was real fog.
Zach Braff
and
Natalie Portman
described it as filming in a cloud.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Garden State (2004)?
a.
The film was shot at The Arthur Noble public school in downtown Chicago during the school year. Many of the kids who appear in the background in school shots were actual school kids, most of them unaware they were being shot.
b.
It was raining in every scene shot outdoors.
Zach Braff
described the weather as unusual in the DVD commentary saying in all of his years living in New Jersey he had never seen it rain so much in the month of May.
c.
"Aslan" means "lion" in Turkish.
d.
The filming of the helicopter scene nearly caused the film to be shutdown because they flew the helicopter through restricted Sydney airspace. Laws in the state of New South Wales in Australia were changed to allow the film
The Matrix
to proceed.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Garden State (2004)?
a.
The early scene in which Scud is watching
The Powerpuff Girls
was originally written with him watching an episode of
Mahha GoGoGo
("Mahha GoGoGo"). However, the owners of the domestic rights wouldnt allow it.
b.
The project went through numerous title changes during production, including "The Beast" (original title of draft by
Edgar Wallace
in RKO files), "The Eighth Wonder", "The Ape", "King Ape" and "Kong".
c.
It took two days for set design to piece together the hamster habitat in Sams house.
d.
Darren Aronofsky
considered
Sylvester Stallone
for the lead but decided against it, feeling it was too thematically similar to his recent
Rocky Balboa
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Garden State (2004)?
a.
While filming the funeral scenes most of the extras were Orthodox Jews and prevented the crew from shooting on Shabbat and craft service was forbidden from serving any non-Kosher food on the property lines.
b.
A scene in which
Dennis Hopper
hits
Isabella Rossellini
was edited so that his hand connects with her face off-screen, to satisfy MPAA concerns about violence towards women. Director
David Lynch
opined that that change only made the scene more disturbing.
c.
Bob Hastings
movie debut.
d.
Meryl Streep
allegedly put on 15-20 pounds of weight for her role in this film as a middle-aged housewife.
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