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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - 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: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005).
About the movie:
Broadcast journalist
Edward R. Murrow
looks to bring down Senator
Joseph McCarthy
.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)?
a.
Two of the films working titles were "Affairs of the Heart", and "Lethal Attraction".
b.
Charlotte Zucker
: Director
Jerry Zucker
s mother (who has appeared in many of the Zucker brothers movies) plays the bank officer.
c.
Leaves had to be imported and squash was painted to look like pumpkins.
d.
Editing on the film was completed at
George Clooney
s palatial Italian villa on the shore of Lake Como.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)?
a.
Initially, the famous concluding catch phrase "Good Night and Good Luck" that became the title of the film, was a habit
Edward R. Murrow
kept from his London years as a war reporter for the radio, when British people under constant night German bombing systematically ended their conversations with the very same words, uncertain to meet again.
b.
While still working on this film,
Shrek 2
was already being made.
c.
The Mortville extras are mostly homeless people who were bussed in for the day. The crew had to work fast to get shots of them before they wandered off.
d.
Broke
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
s record for all time lowest grossing U.S. release movie until
Delgo
broke its record.
Ben Kingsley
, who did the narration for this movie, was also the voice of Freddie in "Freddie as F.R.O.7."
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)?
a.
At 66 minutes, this is the shortest movie to ever receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
b.
The band playing throughout the movie is actually
Matt Catingub
s band and Matt Catingub did all the arrangements. Matt Catingub produced
Rosemary Clooney
s last album and
George Clooney
was so impressed, he personally asked Matt to do the music for this film.
c.
The original New York production of The Prisoner of Zenda opened at the Lyceum Theater on September 4, 1895.
d.
During filming in Washington, DC, the 2011 Chevrolet Camaro that plays Bumblebee was struck by an metro police K-9 SUV responding to a bomb alert. The police officer involved sustained minor injuries, and Bumblebee sustained considerable damage. Filming was able to continue, as there were copies of each automobile for shooting purposes.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)?
a.
Despite the films title, none of the stories showcased appeared in the EC comic "The Vault of Horror." The story "The Neat Job" originally appeared in "Shock SuspenStories," and each other story originally appeared in "Tales from the Crypt."
b.
Leslie Phillips
s cameo role in this film won him the part of Mr. Maxted in
Empire of the Sun
.
c.
In 1969, Captain Nemos pipe organ, which had been on display in Disneyland, was redressed and now resides in the ballroom of Disneylands Haunted Mansion. A duplicate was constructed for the ballroom of
Walt Disney
Worlds Magic Kingdom Haunted Mansion, which opened in 1971, and over a decade later another duplicate was built for Tokyo Disneyland.
d.
Second in the poll for FIPRESCI GRAND PRIX OF THE YEAR 2006.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)?
a.
The real
William Paley
had a collection of microphones in his office. The crew put microphones that
George Clooney
used in
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
in the Paley office set as a surprise for Clooney.
b.
Joseph Kahn
: passenger on the train as the bike drives through the car.
c.
Steven Spielberg
was offered the chance to direct this film, but he turned it down to go make
Schindlers List
instead.
d.
This film was the subject of inquiry by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in October 1947. Testimony as to the distortions of Soviet life presented in the film was provided by
Ayn Rand
, screenwriter and author of "The Fountainhead" and Atlas Shrugged". Rand was born in Russia, but left in 1926.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)?
a.
During the DVD commentary for this film,
George Clooney
says that about 20% of the test audiences had never heard of
Joseph McCarthy
before and wanted to know the identity of the "actor" playing him. McCarthy, of course, was played by actual footage of the real McCarthy: Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957), who was the Republican Junior Senator from Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957, when he died in office.
b.
There were multiple trials (not just the one depicted in the movie). In the first trial Jenson and two other women petitioned to have the lawsuit designated a class action, on behalf of all women working in the mines. The judge certified a class action including only the hourly women workers at the mine, not the officer workers who were on salary, and were also sexually harassed. The second trial established that sexual harassment actually did occur and that the firm was liable for it. The third trial was about the amount of monetary damages each woman suffered and the was a disaster because the findings were ridiculously low and the women were abused by defense attorneys representing the firm. The fourth trial was in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals which reversed on the award of damages. Finally, just prior to the start of the 5th trial to determine damages anew, the company settled, paying average damages of about $233,000 to each of the women plaintiffs.
c.
John Ford
had been highly impressed by
F.W. Murnau
s
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
and wanted to bring an element of German Expressionism to this film.
d.
The name Carl Metushka comes from the brother-in-law of
Shirley MacLaine
s character in
The Apartment
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)?
a.
Anna Wintour
, the powerful Vogue editor on whom Streeps character was widely believed to be based in the novel (Weisberger once worked as her assistant), reportedly warned major fashion designers who had been invited to make cameo appearances as themselves in the film that they would be banished from the magazines pages if they did so. Wintours spokespeople deny this claim; however, it is notable that Vogue and other major womens and fashion magazines have avoided reviewing or even mentioning the book in their pages.
b.
David Strathairn
, a non-smoker, smoked pipe tobacco in his prop cigarettes to portray
Edward R. Murrow
.
c.
This film addresses the apparent continuity error in earlier installments - McClane is afraid of flying in the first two films, but not the third. Here, he explains that he took flying lessons in order to "face his fears."
d.
"Ego fum papa" roughly translates as "I am the Pope".
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)?
a.
Originally,
Steven Spielberg
wanted to cut the scene when a boy crosses the "Police Line" banner outside Clamp Tower. He changed his mind when
Joe Dante
revealed to him that this boy was his nephew.
b.
The eighth of sixteen movies for the suave detective nicknamed "The Falcon" starring
Tom Conway
.
c.
Precisely every 23 minutes (the standard running time of TV shows from the 1950s), the film is punctuated by a jazz song performed by
Dianne Reeves
.
d.
Ridley Scott
was persuaded to do the film when DreamWorks head
Walter F. Parkes
and producer
Douglas Wick
presented him with a reproduction of the 1872 painting "Pollice Verso" ("Thumbs Down") by
Jean-Léon Gérôme
, in which a gladiator stands over the opponent he has beaten.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)?
a.
This film has been unavailable since a Federal court ruled on 17 January 1936 that the script used by MGM too closely followed the play "Dishonored Lady" by Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes without acquiring the rights to this play or giving credit. The U.S. copyright of the play will expire in 2025.
b.
Lauren Bridges, the journalist played by
Juliette Binoche
, was originally written as a male character, Larry Bridges. Binoche took the role on condition that none of the "male" dialogue was changed.
c.
The last black-and-white film to date to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
d.
Jon Carnoy
: as a man in the Bagelicious and later as a man outside of Bobbys Boy.
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