Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Green Lantern (2011) - Part (6) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Green Lantern (2011) - 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: Green Lantern (2011).

About the movie: A test pilot is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Green Lantern (2011)?
a.		The twelve ghosts which make up the fictional "Black Zodiac" all have their own unique back story. Although these stories were not described in the film, on the DVD the production and make-up teams explain their guidelines. All the ghosts were contained in glass prisons. Dennis psychic abilities and Cyrus resources are used to catch them. Cyrus narrates each ghosts back story. 1. The First Born Son - The First Born Son is the ghost of Billy Michaels, a boy who was a fan of cowboy films. One day, a neighbor found a real steel arrow in his parents closet. He challenged Billy to a duel, with Billy using a toy gun. However, his plaything was no match for the arrow, and he died when the neighbor shot it through the back of his head. In death, Billy is in his cowboy suit and holding a tomahawk, with the arrow still protruding from his head. His ghost whispers "I want to play". 2. The Torso - The Torso is the ghost of a gambler called Jimmy "The Gambler" Gambino. He spent most of his days on the track, making bets and brainwashed into winning. One day, he made a deal with a rich business man, and so sealed his fate. When he bet heavily on a boxing match and lost, he tried to welsh on his bet and slip out of town. The mob and the winning boxer, to whom he owed money, caught up with Gambino and cut him into several pieces, wrapping them in cellophane and dumping the corpse into the ocean. His ghost is just his torso, trying to walk around on its hands, while his head lies nearby screaming within the cellophane. 3. The Bound Woman - The Bound Woman was a cheerleader named Susan LeGrow, who was born privileged and had a penchant for seducing men and tossing them away. This left a long trail of broken hearts. When her boyfriend found her cheating he strangled her an killed the other boy. He buried her body at the 50-yard line of the local football field. The boyfriend was convicted and sentenced to death; before his execution, he was quoted as saying, "The bitch broke my heart, so I broke her neck." Her ghost is in her prom dress, hanging suspended by the strangling implements with her arms tied behind her back. 4. The Withered Lover - The Withered Lover is Jean Kriticos, Arthurs wife. She was burned severely saving her family from a devastating house fire and later died of her wounds in the hospital. Her ghost initially appears in a hospital gown, hooked up to an IV pole and showing severe burns on her face. Unlike the other ghosts, she is not a vengeful spirit, electing to help her family rather than show malevolence. At the end of the movie, she appears fully healed and in her normal clothing. 5. The Torn Prince - The Torn Prince is the ghost of Royce Clayton, born in 1940 who was a gifted baseball star in high school, albeit with attitude issues and a superiority complex. In 1957 he challenged a greaser named Johnny to a drag race, but was killed as his car spun out of control and flipped over; the cause of the accident was a cut brake line. He was buried in a plot of earth that overlooked the baseball diamond. His ghost carries a baseball bat, and in the background in his cube his wrecked car can be seen. Half of his body is torn to shreds from when he was dragged under the car. 6. The Angry Princess - The Angry Princess is Dana Newman, who did not believe in her own natural beauty. Abusive boyfriends fueled her low self-esteem, which led to much unneeded plastic surgery for imagined defects. Eventually she got a job working for a plastic surgeon, getting paid in treatments rather than cash. Alone at the clinic one night, she tried to perform surgery on herself, but wound up blinding herself in one eye and permanently mutilating herself beyond saving. She committed suicide in the bathtub by slashing her body repeatedly with a butcher knife. When she was found, people noted that she was as beautiful in death as she had been in life. Her ghost is naked, still carrying the knife she killed herself with and showing all the wounds, and the inside walls of her cube are splattered with her blood. In her bathroom scene, the phrase "Im sorry" is visible on the floor in blood; subtitles also reveal that the blurred, hissing speech that announces her arrival is her whispering "Im sorry." This was written on her suicide note. When her cube opens, she advances toward Ben Moss, who backs up into an open doorway to get away from her and is killed when it snaps shut on him. 7. The Pilgrimess - The Pilgrimess is the ghost of Isabella Smith, an Englishwoman who traveled across the Atlantic and settled in New England during colonial times. She was an outsider to the town she moved into, and this isolated her from the other townsfolk. She was found guilty of witchcraft after livestock began to die mysteriously; when she emerged from a burning barn completely unharmed, she was sentenced to the stocks (pillory) with no food or drink until she died. As a ghost, she is still locked into her stocks. 8. & 9. The Great Child and The Dire Mother - The Dire Mother is the ghost of Margaret Shelburne, who was an attraction in a carnival due to her being only three feet tall. She was raped by the "Tall Man," another carnival freak. Her son Harold (the Great Child) was born as a result of that rape; he eventually weighed over 300 pounds (136 kg). Harold, spoiled, was raised as his mothers protector and kept a child-like mindset, to the point that he wore diapers his entire life. One day some of the carnival employees decided to play a little practical joke on Harold, and kidnapped his mother. Enraged, he set out to look for her, but when he caught up with the culprits, he found that his mother had accidentally suffocated to death in the bag that she was kept in. Harold killed the kidnappers with an ax, keeping their remains and displaying them for paying customers. Later, when the owner of the carnival found out what Harold had done, he ordered a mob of people to tear Harold apart. Their ghosts are always together, and Harold still wields the ax and wears a bib stained with food that his mother has spoon-fed to him. An alternate version of the story is told in the DVD commentary. It was said that their deaths were caused by the Great Child rolling over on the Dire Mother while asleep, thus suffocating her, then him starving to death. 10. The Hammer - The Hammer is the ghost of an African-American blacksmith, George Markley, who lived in a small town in the 1890s. He was wrongfully accused of stealing by a white man from his town, and when threatened with exile, refused to leave town. A gang led by his accuser hung his wife and children and burned their bodies; in revenge, George used his sledgehammer to beat the culprits to death. He was then subjected to a cruel form of frontier justice by the townsfolk, being chained to a tree and executed by having railroad spikes driven into his body with his own sledgehammer. As a final touch,they cut off his hand and attached the sledgehammer - handle and all - to the hand that was cut off. His ghost is seen with the railroad spikes protruding from his body and a sledgehammer for a left hand. 11. The Jackal - The Jackal is the ghost of Ryan Kuhn, who was born in 1887 to a prostitute. Ryan had an insatiable lust for women, rape, and murdering prostitutes. Wanting to be cured, he committed himself to Borehamwood Asylum, but after attacking a nurse, he was put in a straitjacket and thrown in a padded room. After years of this imprisonment he went completely insane, scratching at the walls so violently that his fingernails were torn completely off. The doctors kept him permanently bound in his straitjacket, tying it tighter when he acted out, causing his limbs to contort horribly. Still fighting to free himself, Ryan gnawed through the jacket until the doctors finally locked his head in a metal cage and sealed him away in the dark basement cell. There, he grew to hate any kind of human contact, screaming madly and cowering whenever approached. When a fire broke out in the asylum, everyone but Ryan escaped. He chose to stay behind and face the fire. As a ghost, his arms are free from his jacket, and the bars of his cage are ripped outwards, showing that he may have escaped his bindings again sometime before the fire started and that his cage may have heated up enough to where he could have ripped it open before the fire consumed him. 12. The Juggernaut - The Juggernaut is the ghost of a serial killer named Horace "Breaker" Mahoney. Standing seven feet tall, he was of such grotesque height and appearance that everyone ostracized him as a child. His mother abandoned him at birth, so his father raised him - putting him to work in the junkyard crushing old cars. After his father died, Horace was left on his own, and soon went mad. He would pick up female hitchhikers and drive them back to his junkyard, then tear them apart with his bare hands and feed them to his dogs. One day he picked up an undercover female police officer, who called for backup, for a SWAT team to surround the junkyard. Since close combat was impossible, the police instead struck the yard, and arrested the giant. However, Horace broke free from the cuffs, and three officers lost their lives. Quickly, five SWAT officers, took out their guns and brought Horace down in a hail of bullets. When he finally went down, they shot an extra round into him, just to be safe. His ghost still shows bullet holes all over his clothing, and the wound that finished him.
b.		In the comics, Hal Jordan was possessed by the fear entity Parallax and went on a rampage throughout Earth. In the film this happens to Hector Hammond.
c.		The drinking song that Hagrid and Slughorn are singing is titled "Odo the Hero". It was written by Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling, but only the last four verses are known.
d.		The Hans Zimmer score was done completely with synthesizers, all of which he played. No orchestras were used.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Green Lantern (2011)?
a.		The Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society is an actual organization. Jack Nicholson filmed his scenes at the companys offices and was given a plaque making him an honorary Woodmen member.
b.		Ben Affleck originally turned down the role of Rafe McCawley.
c.		In the comics, Hector Hammond acquires his telepathic powers when he is exposed to a radioactive rock from Abin Surs spacecraft, used as a motor for the ship. In the movie, Hammond gets his powers when he is infected by Parallax during Abin Surs autopsy.
d.		The set interior of the sinking house in Venice measured 45 ft by 40 ft and was 45 ft high. It was built around the existing indoor tank at Pinewood Studios which was increased to 20 ft so the whole set could sink 16 ft.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Green Lantern (2011)?
a.		This movie contains the only dying scene Judy Garland ever did onscreen.
b.		In the Italian version Virna Lisis character is Greek.
c.		Paul Rudds film debut; it was filmed before Clueless, his first big-screen appearance.
d.		In the comics, the Checkmate organization (of which Amanda Waller and Alan Scott are agents) is specializes in covert operations. In the film, it is seen as a supervising agency (similar to S.H.I.E.L.D. or Sector Seven).

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Green Lantern (2011)?
a.		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.
b.		Linda Darnells last film.
c.		In the comics Parallax is the living incarnation of fear, born at the beginning of the universe together with the other emotional entities: The Butcher; Ophidian; Ion; Adara; Proselyte; The Predator; and The Life Entity. In the movie Parallax is a Guardian of the Universe who failed to rule the yellow power of fear, in his attempt to have an alternative source of power in addition to the green power of will.
d.		Kevin Smith: [hockey] Randall is wearing a replica Russian hockey jersey. In every View Askewniverse film, there is at least one hockey reference, or someone is wearing a hockey jersey.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Green Lantern (2011)?
a.		Originally Sonny Boy was written to be a disfigured monster, but director Robert Martin Carroll felt the story would be more tragic if the character were an attractive young man.
b.		Four out of six reels of this film survive. The last two reels are missing in their entirety, but some fragments of reel six survive. All of this material exists in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
c.		Bad Girls was begun with Tamra Davis directing, but after a few days of shooting, she was replaced by Jonathan Kaplan. The script and all footage shot were scrapped, and a completely new script was written, with new characters and a new plot. Nothing remained of the original project but some (not all) of the leading actresses. Two weeks later, filming resumed.
d.		The comics differ over what caused Abin Surs mortal crash-landing on Earth. The original story says his ship was rendered inoperative by yellow radiation that surrounded the Earth; later comics mention his ship was damaged from a battle with a Red Lantern. The film combines both versions (battle with a being of yellow radiation), thus enabling the possibility of the Red Lantern Corps appearing in future films.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Green Lantern (2011)?
a.		In one of her apparitions, the News Reporter (played by Melanie Hebert) explains that Martin Jordan died in 1993 during a flight crash. According to this version, Jordan was 8-years-old when the accident took place, and Hal Jordan is 26 years old in the movie. His actor, Ryan Reynolds, is 9 years older than his character.
b.		Janes absence was explained in a letter saying that shes visiting relatives in England. Maureen OSullivan was sick of playing Jane, but her absence probably had more to do with the fact that the franchise had switched from MGM to RKO, and OSullivan was a Metro contract player.
c.		The films working title was "Trash Planet".
d.		The Mexico location shooting took six months to complete because cinematographer David Watkin would only film between 2pm to 3pm to get the same lighting.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Green Lantern (2011)?
a.		Phillip Lambro was originally hired to write the films music score but it was rejected at the last minute by producer Robert Evans, leaving Jerry Goldsmith only ten days to write and record the new score. Extracts from Lambros score can be heard on the trailer.
b.		The films release was deliberately held back until September 1945 in the hopes that it would find a more sympathetic audience in a post-war atmosphere.
c.		Senator Hammond (played by Tim Robbins) is a character created specially for the movie (Hammonds parents are never mentioned in the comics). At the same time, in the comic "Secret Origin", Carl Ferris (played by Jay O. Sanders) is bed-bound due to a long-time sickness, caused by the guilt he felt following Martin Jordans death (Hals father) when Hal was 8 years old. This was omitted for the movie and Ferris, safe and sound, is Ferris Aircrafts director.
d.		Lucille Ward is in studio records for the role of Mrs. Walsh, but she did not appear in the film. Modern sources add Hattie McDaniel, Bill Robinson, Bessie Lyle and Nora Cecil (as Head of Home Finding Society), but none of these actors were in the film either.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Green Lantern (2011)?
a.		According to the deleted scenes on disk two of the two-disk Special Edition DVD, the obelisk that serves as the lock by which Hellboy would release the Ogdru Jahad fell to Earth during the "Tunguska event," an enormously powerful explosion, believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet, that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia on June 30, 1908.
b.		Sydney Greenstreets final film.
c.		There is a hidden easter egg on the Special Edition version UK. On page three of the special features, go to main menu then hit left, and you can highlight the knife that Jennifer holds. The easter egg reveals a selection of stills from the movie.
d.		The films primary antagonist, the fear entity Parallax, was chosen as part of a long-term strategy for successive films: Sinestro would be corrupted by Parallax and form his own Corps with Parallax as their power source, while other entities of emotional power (Ion, The Butcher, Ophidian, Adara, Proselyte, The Predator, Nekron and The Entity) and their Corps are planned to make an appearance.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Green Lantern (2011)?
a.		Marlene Dietrichs dance was so erotic that it was cut from the movie when it aired on television and was only restored very recently.
b.		This film was originally titled Revolver, but it was later changed when another film titled Revolver came out beforehand.
c.		Eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes backed the film financially. He later paid an extra $12 million (estimated) for every existing copy because of guilt; he paid to ship 60 tons of contaminated soil to Hollywood for retakes. He kept a tight hold on the film, not even allowing it to be shown on television, for 17 years. Paramount finally obtained reissue rights in 1974.
d.		The climactic battle, where Hal Jordan sends Parallax into the sun, is a homage to the DC comic Final Night, where the sun was dying and a Parallax-possessed Jordan sacrificed his powers to reignite it.

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