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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Gattaca (1997) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Gattaca (1997) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997).
About the movie:
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
Doolitte Lynns real name is Oliver. He picked up the nicknames Doolittle as a boy and Mooney as a young man working for moonshiners in Kentucky before entering the army in WW II.
b.
The telephone Jude Law uses when answering Ethan Hawkes warning call is a B&O Beocom 5000 wireless.
c.
This time, the footage from Stab includes the credit "A
Robert Rodriguez
Film." Rodriguez really did direct the footage, and also made
Grindhouse
co-starring Screams
Rose McGowan
and Scream 4s
Marley Shelton
.
d.
This Italian-language drama was shot in northern New Jersey with members of a Sicilian-American theater company. It was made for the large Italian-speaking population of the northeastern US.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
During filming, the two leads
Michelle Pfeiffer
and
Maxwell Caulfield
did not get along. A few years after the film was released, Maxwell said in an interview that he and Michelle "got along infamously". Michelle has also stated in an interview that Maxwell was "self-adoring".
b.
The drum set that band Uptown Girl uses at the party is the same drum set that belongs to Dale.
c.
The space station above earth is called Gateway, a possible reference to
Frederik Pohl
s "Gateway" novel, a sci-fi classic.
d.
The FBI agents are called "Hoovers," a reference to legendary top-G-man
J. Edgar Hoover
, but also a clever reference to a vacuum cleaner brand. There are numerous shots of vacuums being used to gather DNA evidence.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
Andrew Davis
: [cast] Ron Dean (I) and
Joseph F. Kosala
, whose play Detective Lukich and Lieutenant Strozah, also appeared in
Code of Silence
and
The Fugitive
.
b.
A small sign to the left of the door of Professor Marvels wagon lists "Exhibition Balloonist" as one of his talents.
c.
The Swedish Bookstore scene has no cuts and lasts for 88 seconds. Amusingly, like the scene, 88 makes sense forwards AND backwards.
d.
Uma Thurman
and
Ethan Hawke
became a couple during the filming of this movie. They eventually married.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
The first draft of the screenplay had no title.
b.
The original title of the movie was supposed to be "Cherry Pink", based on the song of the same name. However, when the producers wanted to buy the right to incorporate the song into the movie, they found that the price was too high. Thus the name and the song were dropped.
c.
Ranked #3 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Western" in June 2008.
d.
Stephen Geoffreys
was offered a role to reprise his Evil Ed character from
Fright Night
but turned it down to appear in _9-7-6-EVIL (1988)_.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
The character Gov. McGinty is Dan McGinty, from the earlier film by
Preston Sturges
,
The Great McGinty
.
Brian Donlevy
played the character in both films.
Akim Tamiroff
also appears as "The Boss," reprising his role from the earlier film.
b.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 4, 1950 with
Olivia de Havilland
and
Charles Boyer
reprising their film roles.
c.
In the film, to fully assume Jeromes identity, Vincent (at 5 11") undergoes extension surgery in his legs to match Jeromes recorded height of 6 1". In reality, Jude Law and Ethan Hawke are both 5 11".
d.
Scenes from the movie were filmed at New York Universitys freshman dorm, Hayden Hall.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
When the phone slips out of Billys hand and hits Stus head, it was completely unintentional.
Wes Craven
kept it in because of Stus realistic reaction.
b.
When
Tina Andrews
wrote the original script, the part of Frankie Lymon was first offered to
Michael Jackson
.
c.
The final scene was filmed at Mare Island Naval Base in Vallejo, California, one year after the base closed down.
d.
While it has been identified that "GATTACA" uses the 4 DNA nucleotide abbreviations of G,A,T,C, more specifically, when identifying genetic markers, the tests measure "short tandem repeats" at specific DNA marker locations. These are known as "GATA or CA" repeats - hence GATTACA.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
Steven Spielberg
: [The music of John Williams] This filmed marked the beginning of Spielbergs friendship with
John Williams
.
b.
Other actresses considered for the part of Elaine were
Natalie Wood
(who turned it down) and
Candice Bergen
(who auditioned but did not get the part).
c.
Some interiors and exteriors of the Gattaca building belong, in reality, to the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, CA. It was designed by American star architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1957. The largest Wright design ever constructed, it was largely built after his death in 1959. The central dome (prominent in the roof-cleaning scene) contains the county library.
d.
The Hillview Apartments (the pink building where Laurel and Hardy lived) was built in 1916 as a residence for actors.
Charles Chaplin
once owned the building.
Mae West
stayed here when she was on tour with "Diamond Lil" in the 20s. The building was damaged in the 1994 earthquake and was rebuilt.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
Scheduling conflicts with
Star Trek: The Next Generation
forced
Patrick Stewart
to turn down the role of Jafar. He has said in interviews that this is his biggest regret.
b.
The only Death Wish film in which no bare breasts appear on screen.
c.
The exterior shots of
Ethan Hawke
and
Jude Law
s apartment is actually the CLA (Classrooms, Laboratories, and Administration) Building of Cal Poly Pomona by architect Antoine Predock.
d.
Stacey Dash
played an 18 year old, despite actually being almost twice as old as that - 35 years old - at the time.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
Nicolas Cages computer generated skull was made from a three dimensional x-ray taken of his actual skull.
b.
Based on the short film "Conspiracy", written and directed by Marc Clebanoff.
c.
The scene at the junkyard was shot on the hottest day of the summer, while actor Kevin Brunelle dove and buried himself in hot fiber glass scraps.
d.
Many of the "futuristic" buildings in the film are actually quite old. Many of these represent a type of postmodern architecture called "brutalism", which was popular in the 1950s. The two massive arches seen behind Jerome and Irene during their talk are actually the spillway of the Sepulveda Dam in Los Angeles, which was built in the 1930s.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Gattaca (1997)?
a.
En route to location, the Canadian Pacific trains engine was wrecked by a rock slide that killed the engineer. The actors were in the car behind the engine and were battered by falling rocks but escaped disaster. Just a few days later, a snow slide at Lake Minnewanka threw several actors and cameras off an icy ledge of a glacier. Meantime, actress Viola Dana was traveling to meet the company when an earthquake erupted. Actor Tom London dislocated three vertebrae in a fall. A carpenter broke his leg when he was thrown from a barge into rapids and another actor nearly drowned in the rapids.
b.
Xavier Gens
had shot a completely different train station platform sequence. It takes place outside the train station, rather than underground, and involves 47 questioning one assassin, rather than engaging 4 in a sword fight.
c.
The film was shot under the title "The Eighth Day". This was a reference to the Biblical creation story, which states that the earth was created in six days and on the seventh day, God rested. The original title implies the tampering of man with what God has already made, and "The Eighth Day" is still the name of the center in the movie where the children are engineered, as noted on the DVD deleted scenes. By the time the much-delayed release of the film came around, a Belgian film,
Le huitième jour
, had already been released in the US under the title "The Eighth Day". Because of this, writer-director
Andrew Niccol
was forced to choose a new title for his film.
d.
Some of the Production Assistants and Actors doubling as Production Assistants,
Jessica Beisler
,
Karadyn Cauffield
,
Haley Mancini
,
Brandon Alexander
, and
Jordan Raabe
, all lived together in a house they dubbed The House of PA while filming the movie. The house was also used for the home of Bobby Roberts,
Brandon Alexander
s character in the film.
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