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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Great Expectations (1998) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Great Expectations (1998) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Great Expectations (1998)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Great Expectations (1998).

About the movie: Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Great Expectations (1998)?
a.		Six episodes are announced in the film with title frames: Episode 0, "The Blinkers" (00:07-01:56); Episode 1, "The Wishing Rock" (30:33-41:22); Episode 2, "Alien8ed" (08:57-30:29); Episode 3, "The Miscommunicators!" (54:31-69:36); Episode 4, "Big Bad Booger" (41:37-54:27 but which is announced at 43:37 when Stacey exits the decontaminator); and Episode 5, "The End" (69:50-83:03).
b.		Real life painter Francesco Clemente created Finnegan Bells artwork for the movie.
c.		Archie speaks in Italian: "Ma ho sposato una donna che preferisce lavorare in giardino a fare lamore appassionato. Uno sbaglio grande!", what translates as: "But I married a woman who prefers working in the garden to making passionate love. A big mistake!". It can actually refer to Archies marriage.
d.		One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Great Expectations (1998)?
a.		At a time when most African-Americans were stereotyped, both Nina Mae McKinney and Clarence Muse were the two most reputable characters in the movie. Although their parts in the script are written in dialect, both spoke normally.
b.		The idea for Danny Lloyd to move his finger when he was talking as Tony was his own; he did it spontaneously during his very first audition.
c.		This was David Spades first film role.
d.		While sharing the title with the 1861 Charles Dickens novel, it is only loosely based on it.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Great Expectations (1998)?
a.		When William Holden first arrived on the set, he was greeted with crew complaints regarding David Leans attitude. Holden immediately responded like a sports coach corralling his team and gave a rousing speech about how they all knew the quality of the script and director.
b.		Dino De Laurentiis originally hoped that Federico Fellini would direct this film. The director had actually contributed to the original Flash strip cartoon during WWII.
c.		The title song, "Rosie", was composer Harry Warrens final song contribution to a produced movie. The melody is actually a rework of a song, "Me And My Baby," with original lyrics by Sammy Cahn, that was written for, but not used in, the Jerry Lewis film Rock-a-Bye Baby.
d.		In addition to co-writing, performing and producing the song "Siren" especially for this film, Tori Amos provided the vocalizations (wistling, breaths, etc.) that can be heard in the films score.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Great Expectations (1998)?
a.		Just before Anakin goes to search for his mother on Tatooine, he has a conversation with Senator Amidala. The camera pans to their shadows as they talk, and Anakins resembles that of Darth Vader. According to the DVD commentary, the Vader-like shadow that Anakin casts was not a special effect but a coincidence.
b.		It had been reported that Fred Astaire was intimidated by Eleanor Powell because she was one of the few female tap dancers capable of out-performing him.
c.		Due to malfunctioning editing/computer equipment, the entire film was edited on a 2 inch video camera screen. The feed from the computer was rerouted out of the computer and the monitor being used happened to be the VCD screen. Needless to say, it took over 5 months to edit the film.
d.		In his book, "What Just Happened?", producer Art Linson reveals that the narration in the movie was written by David Mamet. It was done for free, on the condition that nobody ever find out he did it.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Great Expectations (1998)?
a.		Alfonso Cuarón always use the green (he even auditioned green eyed girls for A Little Princess) as the main color of its movies. He uses red and orange (complimentary and opposite colors) to make some remarks.
b.		The "head in a vise" scene is taken from an anecdote in the book "Casino" unrelated to the main story, describing mob enforcer Tony Spilotros interrogation of a low-level gangster named Billy McCarthy, who had committed the unauthorized murder on the Scalvo Brothers, a pair of high-ranking mobsters within Spilotros crime organization. Trying to get McCarthy to give up the identity of the man who helped him kill the Scalvos, Spilotro first beat McCarthy, then stabbed him in the testicles with an icepick, before finally shoving his head in a vise and crunching it to five inches wide; McCarthy didnt give up the name of his partner, Jimmy Miraglia, until Spilotro tightened the vise in such a way that one of Billys eyes popped out. Amazingly, McCarthy survived the head-crushing long enough for Spilotro to kill him by dousing him in lighter fluid and setting him ablaze. Spilotro would remark later in life, "Billy McCarthy was the toughest guy I ever met." (Jimmy Miraglia was subsequently shot dead and put in the trunk of his own car along with Billys corpse).
c.		The Charm of Making spoken by Merlin & Morgana is an attempt at Old Irish that translates to: "Serpents breath, charm of death and life, thy omen of making." The phonetic rendering, as spoken in the movie, is: /ana:l nathrakh, u:rth va:s bethud, dokhje:l djenve:/. In Irish, the phrase is: An?il nathrach, ortha bh?is bheatha, do thuar dhéanamh, which is pronounced similarly but not exactly as in the movie.
d.		Robert Duvall was originally offered the role of Haven Hamilton and agreed to play it on the condition that he would be allowed to write his own songs. Robert Altman refused his request, and Duvall backed out, to be replaced by Henry Gibson. Duvall later went on to perform his own compositions in Tender Mercies as part of his Oscar-winning turn as country music singer Mac Sledge.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Great Expectations (1998)?
a.		When Claire first visits Eric, Eric tells Claire hes a VP at Kahane-Drake, a brokerage firm. Kahane and Drake are the executive producers of the film.
b.		A huge chunk of Royal Danos role was removed from the final print.
c.		In the meat freezer scene there is a large side of meat labeled "Crosby Grade A Stables." Bing Crosby owned a stable of race horses that famously performed poorly.
d.		Ca d Zan, a mansion in Sarasota, Fl, stood for Ms. Dismoor mansion. It once belonged to circus magnate John Ringling and his wife Mable.

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