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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Half Past Dead (2002) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Half Past Dead (2002) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Half Past Dead (2002).
About the movie:
This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Half Past Dead (2002)?
a.
The New York set was only four blocks across and one story high; the rest was added digitally.
b.
Kevin Troy
s character, Lux Lucre, is named after the screen name of devoted Browncoat Kerry Pearson, who died of complications from diabetes shortly before the release of
Serenity
. (During the Fishers Pub scene, the bartender mentions to Lux his fight with "Kerry Nice Guy Pearson" some years prior.)
c.
Some aerial shots was taken from
Michael Bay
s film
The Rock
that got cut from that film.
d.
The computer game sequences in this part of the film were generated on an ACS1200 and cost so much that it nearly bankrupted production.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Half Past Dead (2002)?
a.
Lou Costello
was Dolores Del Rios stunt double in the window scene.
b.
Nia Peeples
performed all of her own stunts for the martial arts sequences
c.
When filming the scene where Indiana drives a truck through a wall, things did not go as planned: timed explosives were used, but one explosive did not go off and landed in the seat next to
Harrison Ford
.
d.
Original Title: "Black Off A Crow". The title was changed the week before the films premiere at the Santa Fe Film Festival.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Half Past Dead (2002)?
a.
The script to this film was written ten years prior to filming as "The Rock" but there was another script with the same title that was filmed so this one had to wait ten years later to be done
b.
The song
Rodney Dangerfield
plays on the radio attached to his golf bag is "Any Way You Want It" by
Journey
.
c.
The song Chuck sings after successfully creating the fire is "Light My Fire" by
The Doors
.
d.
It was while supervising post-production on this film that
George Lucas
decided that technology was good enough to begin work on the Star Wars prequels. Appropriately,
Samuel L. Jackson
was able to appear in those films as well.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Half Past Dead (2002)?
a.
In late 2005,
Anna Friel
lobbied for the role of Tonks so that she can work with her real-life partner
David Thewlis
. She was turned down by the producers.
b.
Warner Brothers had, at one point, the opportunity to make both "Rain Man" and
Forrest Gump
but ended up with neither because of concerns they were too similar.
Peter Guber
and
Jon Peters
production company, which had picked up the script for "Rain Man", had a first look deal with the studio. However,
Roger Birnbaum
, an executive with the production company, felt that because Warner Brothers was also developing "Forrest Gump", they would likely let "Rain Man" die if they were to pick it up, because of the scripts perceived similarity. So, reportedly, he purposely gave a weak pitch to the studio in the hopes that they would reject it and allow it to be pitched to another studio. This did in fact occur and United Artists ended up making the film. After the movies enormous success, Warner Brothers decided to pass on "Forrest Gump" because they felt that audiences would be unlikely to go to a movie with such a similar theme as "Rain Man". "Forrest Gump," which most people would consider to be an entirely different type of film than "Rain Man", ended up being made by Paramount and became one of the most successful movies of all time, grossing almost $330,000,000 in U.S. theaters.
c.
This was
Steven Seagal
s last film to be given a theatrical release until the upcoming
Machete
. All of his other films in between were released directly to video.
d.
Several references to the Disney theme-park ride include: - the singing busts - the breathing door (even the doorknob is the same) - Madame Leota (and the spectral instruments) - the busts that follow Jim - the ghostly carriage (a prop outside the ride) - the old man and the dog in the cemetery - Master Gracys hanging - the ghostly ballroom dancers. - the Raven seen throughout the movie - the hitchhiking ghosts - the hangman - the eyes in some of the walls - morphing pictures in the hallway. - several lines throughout the movie that are also used in the rides narration, such as: "Welcome, foolish mortals", "Final arrangements have been made", "Theres always my way" - the floating candelabra in the credits - the brides dress in the attic - the screeching cat sound effect in graveyard scene - the skeletons hands that start to open coffin in the mausoleum - the knights in the hallway attacking Jim - the door knockers heard rapping in the bedroom hallway - the pipe-organ in the ballroom - the clock strikes 13 during the prologue
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Half Past Dead (2002)?
a.
In one scene, the Gingerbread Mans life essentially passes before his eyes. Not only does this scene make reference to
The Six Million Dollar Man
, but according to the sequence, the Gingerbread Man is or was married.
b.
When the Skulls members are heading out to the island, the castle in the background is Singer Castle on Dark Island. The island that the Skull and Bone Society owns is called Deer Island. Both islands are in the Thousand Island of the St. Lawrence River.
c.
Bob Hope
, who plays the Master of Ceremonies in this films Oscar sequences, hosted more Academy Awards shows than anyone else in Hollywood history.
d.
As of 2009, this is the only
Steven Seagal
film that is rated PG-13.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Half Past Dead (2002)?
a.
Shot in 1932, not released until 1933.
b.
All indoor prison scenes were shot in an old STASI prison in Berlin/Germany.
c.
The snow in this movie was actually cornflakes.
d.
Patrick Stewart
auditioned for this picture.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Half Past Dead (2002)?
a.
Dan Aykroyd
s original title for the film was "Ghost Smashers".
b.
The shot of the skydivers jumping out of the airplane is footage from
Navy Seals
.
c.
This film is considered lost.
d.
Burgess Meredith
replaced
Rod Steiger
.
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