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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hancock (2008) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hancock (2008) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Hancock (2008).
About the movie:
A hard-living superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife of the public relations professional who's trying to repair his image.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hancock (2008)?
a.
Dragonball Evolution was one of the films that Fox Studios owned the rights to for years but hadnt green-lit production for, but due to the Writers Strike of 2007-2008 was finally pushed into production (this was also the case for
The X Files: I Want to Believe
).
b.
The Last film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without a Best Film Editing nomination.
c.
Bryan Batt
was in the Broadway musical "Cats", which is an in-joke during the movie (his character is also in the musical as well.)
d.
Peter Berg
: The films director is one of the doctors who works to revive Mary in the hospital.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hancock (2008)?
a.
Marvin Kaplan
said that he and
Arnold Stang
were given the job of "entertaining"
Jonathan Winters
during the periods in between his scenes.
b.
The robberies in the white SUV at the beginning of the film speaks Vietnamese. The flag in their car further indicates this.
c.
The Original Title for the movie was "Thorn 2022".
d.
"The Hedda Hopper Show - This Is Hollywood" broadcast a 30-minute CBS Radio adaptation of the movie on January 18, 1947 with
Ginger Rogers
reprising her film role.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hancock (2008)?
a.
Brad Leland
: "Executive #3"
b.
Contrary to popular belief,
Hans Zimmer
did not compose the music that appears in the third trailer for this film. The track, titled "Mind Heist", was actually composed by
Zack Hemsey
.
c.
One script (later rejected) called for a second moon to appear in the sky, intimating that the cataclysm which created Waterworld was gravity-related, rather than warming.
d.
This film was financed through selling stock certificates. Most of the cast and crew were volunteers.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hancock (2008)?
a.
During the scene in which Hancock is describing what he can remember of his back-story, he says, "...Im not the most charming guy in the world, so Ive been told..." One of
Will Smith
s nicknames in high school was, in fact, "Prince Charming," because charm was considered one of his most prominent qualities.
b.
When Bobby vomits on the side of the road, the action is real. On a dare by the cast and crew actor
Brandon Cater
attempted to drink what was to be the prop vomit, a lukewarm mixture of stale orange juice and chunky salsa, and the result was captured on film and edited into the final sequence.
c.
Released after the death of star
Carole Lombard
, killed in an airplane crash after returning from a tour selling war bonds.
d.
Natalie Wood
had trouble performing the drunken bar scene, so she got drunk for real.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hancock (2008)?
a.
Judi Dench
was offered the role of Ursula.
b.
The films eight months of shooting began in October 1956. A scouting expedition of the real river Kwai had shown that it was an unsuitable location for filming, as it appeared to be nothing more than a trickling stream. The production finally settled on a tiny village called Kitulgula in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The site was remote, so a compound of bungalows had to be built for the film crew.
c.
Hancock is called an "asshole" 18 times. He is called "asshole" four times (almost five) by Michel, and twice (almost three times) by Red during the bank robbery.
d.
The film was originally named Platform 5, and featured a completely different cast.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hancock (2008)?
a.
Although this was the first feature film with a Vitaphone soundtrack (therefore being the first film with a completely synchronized soundtrack), it is by no means the first sound film. The first sound film can be dated back to 1895; the process was re-discovered and improved by a French company (using a gramophone) in 1910. In 1913
Thomas A. Edison
announced that all the problems of sound films were solved, and showed what he called "the first sound film." As in the earlier efforts,
Nursery Favorites
had a gramophone that appeared to synchronize with the film. There was one problem: the film was projected at the wrong speed, and the soundtrack was slowed down inadvertently. This problem happened all too often, and a frustrated Edison abandoned his process. In 1921
D.W. Griffith
employed various experts to film a sound introduction for his film
Dream Street
, which still exists, and the performance went off without a hitch. Griffith soon stopped using sound because he thought it was financial suicide, stating "Only 5% of the world speaks English, so why should I lose 95% of my audience?" However, by 1925 sound had arrived in the form of radio, and it was inevitable that film would follow. Movie studios tried various innovations to keep audiences coming (Technicolor, wide screen, etc.) Warner Brothers, then a lesser film company, bought the old Brooklyn-based Vitagraph Studios and its all-important network of 34 film exchanges (the film distribution network vital to each studio) in 1925 and laid out plans to become a dominant force in the film industry. Sam Warner, one of the four Warner brothers, felt the future was in sound and convinced his skeptical older brother
Harry M. Warner
(the money man) to throw their lot in with Western Electrics 16" disc-based recording system, forming the Vitaphone Corp. on April 20, 1926, as 70% stockholders. Oddly, Sam never envisioned the system for voice synchronization; rather, he saw it as an economical way to add the added dimension of musical accompaniment. The Vitaphone process solved the synchronization problem electro-mechanically, corresponding the projection speed with the recorded disc by utilizing the same motor for both devices. While cumbersome in both recording (editing was impossible) and play back (discs were fragile), Vitaphone represented the peak of technological innovation, albeit briefly. This film, the first Warner Bros. feature to utilize the Vitaphone process, debuted in a gala premiere on August 6th 1926 and while it was a hit, it signaled an industry format war unrivaled until the 1980s Beta vs. VHS battle. Warners
The Jazz Singer
would become a monster hit 13 months later, solidly proving the publics interest in sound. But there were several sound systems then in development and none were interchangeable and the major studios like MGM and Paramount adopted a wait-and-see attitude that persisted well into 1929. The most practical, Foxs Movietone (sound on film) system, eventually won out and Warners abandoned recorded discs in 1930 but kept the Vitaphone trademark before the public into the 1940s.
b.
Babs becomes a tour guide at Universal Studios. The credits for this and other
John Landis
films contain an advertisement for a tour at Universal Studios. The ad says, "Ask for Babs." As of 1989, Universal Studios no longer honors the "Ask for Babs" promotion, which was either a discount or a free entry.
c.
The symbol of the eagle would appear to identify Hancock as the Greek god Zeus. This would make the character of Mary Embrey Zeus wife Hera. According to Greek mythology, Zeus and Hera were not only husband and wife, but also brother and sister; something alluded to, briefly, in the movie. The symbol was also chosen because
Will Smith
is from Philadelphia, home of the NFL team, the Philadelphia Eagles. One problem with the theory that Hancock is Zeus, however, is that Mary claims that she is stronger than he is. According to the Iliad, Zeus is stronger than all the other gods of Olympus combined. He tells them that he could dangle them all from the heights of Olympus on a rope held in one of his hands, but none of them could do the same to just him.
d.
During the race in England there is a sign on track wall that says "Lassetyre." This is a reference to the films director/writer
John Lasseter
.
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