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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Heads or Tails (2005) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Heads or Tails (2005) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Heads or Tails (2005)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005).

About the movie: Four interlinking stories about a benign native american legend that has been distorted throughout the years into something much darker.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		According to Bob Gale, in one of the early drafts of the script, Martys original last name was McDermott, but it was thought to have too many syllables. It was Robert Zemeckis who then came up with naming him McFly.
b.		Renée Zellweger was the first choice for Carla. After several auditions, Penélope Cruz took the role.
c.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 5, 1942 with Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne and Gene Raymond reprising their film roles.
d.		One scene set to be filmed outside in a gothic graveyard was cancelled over 13 times due to rain. Superstitious, the directors found a new location and the weather finally cooperated. But when the cast/crew arrived on the set, within five minutes the camera mysteriously fell and broke delaying shooting until it could be fixed. This scene is not in the final film.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		In order to keep her look a secret, Rebecca Romijn had to sit in an isolated, windowless room when not required for shooting: "I had almost no contact with the rest of the cast, it was like I was making a different movie from everyone else. It was hell."
b.		Although the character had lines in the script and those scenes were shot, Kari (Amber Davila) speaks no lines in the final film.
c.		According to some history accounts, when Marie Antoinette met the rioters on the balcony of the palace, she had her eldest daughter with her. This was supposedly in order to augment a sense of sympathy for the doomed queen.
d.		The car barrel-roll stunt by the Aston Martin DBS broke the world record for the most barrel rolls assisted by a cannon. Originally, the racing specifications of the DBS meant that a standard ramp would not be sufficient to get the car to roll, so the special effects team were called in to install a air-powered cannon behind the drivers seat. This allowed the car to complete seven full rolls. The stunt was officially entered into the Guinness Book of World Records on 5th November 2006.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		Wallace Beery also turned down his part, only to take it again when promised that he would be the only actor to act in the film with a German accent.
b.		Bill Plymptons distant cousin and friend Martha Plimpton came on board as a producer on the film and enlisted the talents of some of her fellow thespians.
c.		Originally scheduled to be shot in four sections of four days each, the first two sections went off relatively without a hitch. But when it came time to film "John", a major prop, the Dodge Coronet John drives throughout the film had to go into the shop for repair. Once the car was repaired. an early snowfall covered the locations, pushing back production on the last two stories until the locations regained continuity.
d.		In 1997 Renny Harlin was going to direct the film with Sylvester Stallone playing the lead, but Stallone asked too big paycheck and eventually neither Stallone or Harlin was involved in making the picture.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		The name on the Missing Persons report for Brittany Murphys prostitute character reads "Krista Kutcher." Murphy dated actor Ashton Kutcher after they starred together in the movie Just Married.
b.		While the original assembly cut pushed upwards of 3 hours delving equally into the 4 main story arcs, the final cut is less than 80 minutes with focus on only 2 of them.
c.		Lady Chablis, the transsexual from Savannah featured in John Berendts book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", plays herself in the movie adaptation of the book.
d.		Written specifically for Kim Basinger.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		In the book, the teacher is a black man named Reuben St.Clair. The role of Reuben was originally offered to Denzel Washington but was turned down due to other commitments. When Kevin Spacey agreed to the movie the character was changed to a white man named Eugene Simonet.
b.		The last foreign language film to date to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture (Japanese).
c.		Devon Sawa was 15 during filming and much taller than his 10 year old castmates so he can be seen wearing only socks in some scenes.
d.		The directors approached Will Saxton to do the score before filming began. Saxton then created tracks to be played for the filmmakers to use while filming. Throughout the 18 months of production, Saxton delivered over three and half hours of music before finding the final flavor of the score. The 30 track, 60 minute soundtrack, named after the five stages of grief plays as one continuous piece of music.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		When Sarah comes into the hobby shop alone to speak with Billy, one of Billys friends is missing. He was supposed to be in the scene, but missed his train from Chicago that day.
b.		This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
c.		The sixth of nine movies made together by Warner Brothers romantic couple Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.
d.		Due to budgetary constraints, over fifty percent of the screenplay was scheduled to be filmed on top of a secluded cliff in West Virginia in only four days. The first day it rained, leaving only three days and two nights to film over 45 pages of script.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		70 percent of the movie was shot outdoors and when an early snowfall covered the locations, it pushed back production almost a full year in order for the locations to regain continuity.
b.		Kris Kristofferson was set to star, but dropped out and the role was recast with William Devane.
c.		Many of the crew make cameo appearances including producer Byrd McDonald, boom op Morgan Hobart and 2nd AD Yona Prost
d.		In the hostage scene, as RoboCop is walking toward the room where the former councilman is holding the mayor hostage, the infrared heat vision mode was actually executed using fluorescent body paint on the (nude) actors and a black light. Paul Verhoeven says that he thought this technique would be cheaper than getting an actual infrared spectrometer camera.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		In Ralph Bakshis original script, Holli Would was named Debbie Dallas, after the porn film Debbie Does Dallas.
b.		The film is loaded with multiple bible references. For example, one of the main characters is Jason Castle who is loosely based on Jesus. He is ultimately brought down by a battle with Ponch - a reference to Pontius Pilate. When Jason is hit by a motorist, it is a reference to Jesus falling with the cross. Also noteworthy in that scene, he is helped by a homeless man named Simon. At the end of the scene, another homeless woman named Veronica wipes Jasons face. Later in the film, Jason meets an athletic man named Sam. This is a reference to Samson, a man that could not resist the temptations of the Devil.
c.		While preparing for the role Amber Davila (Kari) wrote a poem to help define her character. The poem is the only lines she speaks in the final film.
d.		There are four 100% CG shots in the film: the shot of the bomb falling toward the USS Arizona, the two shots of the explosion of the Arizona as it jumps upwards in the water, and the two Japanese Zeroes pitching down towards Battleship Row.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		WILHELM SCREAM: When Howard knocks the duck hunter out of his boat and shouts "Banzai!"
b.		Patrick ONeill originally wrote a serious action thriller, starring Gene Hackman and Justin Long (I), with the title "All New Enemies." When that fell through, Joe Roths Revolution Studios retooled it as "Trouble Man," a romantic action comedy starring Chris Tucker and Eva Mendes. After that fell apart, the script was revised and given a new title, "Wichita." That script caught the attention of Adam Sandler, who later passed. Gerard Butler considered it, but passed to do The Bounty Hunter instead. Cameron Diaz became attached after reading a rewrite by Scott Frank. Diaz told her friend and Vanilla Sky co-star Tom Cruise that he should co-star with her. Cruise took the role. After 7 other writers doctored up the script (Dana Fox, Laeta Kalogridis, Ted Griffin Nicholas Griffin, Timothy Dowling; Simon Kinberg, and director James Mangold), and Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman gave it a new title early in production, the project finally became the action comedy "Knight and Day."
c.		After its theatrical run, the film was sold directly to local television stations instead of to the "big three" networks. Even now, the film has still not been shown by NBC, ABC, or CBS - only by local affiliates of the three networks and on cable television.
d.		The screenplay was locked down through production. Actors were only given access to their parts of the script and were never told how their story tied into the whole. Some actors were only given their lines and the preceding four lines in the script. Some were not even given their scenes until the day of shoot.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Heads or Tails (2005)?
a.		Christopher Walkens character, Jack Menken, mentions having worked with elephants in the circus when he was a kid. The summer he was 16 years old, Christopher Walken had a job as part of the lion-taming act of a traveling circus.
b.		Near the end of the film, Bonnie (Jean Arthur) says to Geoff (Cary Grant), "Im hard to get, Geoff, all you have to do is ask me." This line would, of course, be more famously re-utilized by director Howard Hawks and screenwriter Jules Furthman in their later film, To Have and Have Not, spoken this time by Slim (Lauren Bacall) to Steve (Humphrey Bogart).
c.		The final scene was guarded to the point of the actors involved not even getting the pages until the day of the shoot. Like other scenes where the same technique was used, the directors did this to intentionally confuse the actors and create a sense of subtle uneasiness that would translate on screen.
d.		Drea de Matteo filmed all her scenes in one day.

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