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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hercules (1997) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hercules (1997) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997).
About the movie:
The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
M. D. Chapmans hotel room in N-Y was on the 27th floor.
b.
Although its still unclear exactly what it means,
Mamie Van Doren
s baffling sign-off line ("It sure dont taste like tomato juice!") is a take-off on a popular TV commercial (for V-8 tomato juice) of the era.
c.
The crew in Tamworth grew their own corn. It took twelve weeks for them to get the corn just right.
d.
Hades was scripted as a slow, menacing character until
James Woods
auditioned for the role and impressed the casting directors with his rapid-fire style. The script was rewritten, but Woods ad-libbed many lines.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
Demme decided to record the opera scene live so Hanks could get a better performance with the music playing. This proved extremely tricky in the editing suite (music is usually added in post-production).
b.
Official Selection: Indie Distribution Festival (2008). WINNER: Award of Excellence.
c.
William Monahan
has stated that Sgt. Dignams first name is Sean.
d.
When Phil and Hercules first enter Phils hut, Hercules bangs his head on what Phil tells him is the mast of the Argo. In Greek mythology, Jason, the captain of the Argo, was killed when the mast hit his head.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
The reason prices end in $.95, $.99, set under a round figure was so that cashiers would always have to open the register to give change, thus recording a sale and preventing them from pocketing the bills.
b.
Madeleine Stowe
visited doctors at UCLA to study blindness.
Aidan Quinn
and
James Remar
spent time with members of the Chicago Police Department, and the line "We will solve no crime before theres overtime" was provided by some of the officers.
c.
In the scene where Hercules rushes into the town with a carriage containing Amphitryon, Penelope, and a tall bale of hay, the bale hits the top of the entrance to the town, and two men carrying a stone block fall off the top. These two men are caricatures of the directors
John Musker
and
Ron Clements
.
d.
During the final sequence with the remote control and the exploding coconuts, the timers on the remote and the computer sync up with the time in the film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
Twentieth Century-Fox had wanted to borrow
Lucille Ball
from RKO, but Miss Ball had no interest in playing the secondary part of Flo La Verne.
b.
The original theatrical version was forced to cut the pre-credits quote "...when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you" by
Friedrich Nietzsche
because
Criminal Law
used it, and they didnt want to seem like imitators. The quote was restored in the directors cut.
c.
By the end of production, it only took half an hour to apply
Tom Berenger
s facial scarring. Berenger would only wear it when necessary as it ended up hurting his face.
d.
Hermes, the Messeneger, is shown during the ending of the film playing the keyboard.
Paul Shaffer
, who provides the voice for Hermes, plays the keyboard as his primary instrument on the
Late Show with David Letterman
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
Eddie Murphy
was to have originally played Winston but did
Beverly Hills Cop
instead. That movie ended up beating this one as the years highest grossing film.
b.
Mr. White is only the second Villain in the series to be played by the same actor (
Jesper Christensen
) in two movies. The first one was Jaws (
Richard Kiel
) from
The Spy Who Loved Me
and
Moonraker
. Ernest Stavro Blofield was also played by the same actor in
From Russia with Love
and
Thunderball
, although we never see his face in either.
Anthony Dawson
had the privilege of being the only person to portrait Blofield twice (he also appeared in
Dr. No
as the villainous R. J. Dent).
c.
In the step tournament there was 2000 extras used as the crowd, but they didnt know that this was a movie so they were really cheering and booing the steppers
d.
In Greek mythology, there were nine Muses. The five shown here are: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Melpomene (tragedy), Terpsichore (dance), and Thalia (comedy).
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
Director James Archer tacked a sign up at every location for the actors and crew saying "This is NOT a comedy!" Most of the cast goofed on this by doing silly takes for nearly every shot in the film.
b.
Shown at some engagements with Warner Bros. new Vitasound audio process. Often incorrectly called a stereophonic process, Vitasound actually combined a standard, variable width monophonic soundtrack with a second, variable width control track, located between the soundtrack and the sprocket holes, that increased loudness for certain scenes by switching on additional amplifiers and speakers.
c.
The scenes of miners performing slave-labor for Peter Lorre were filmed in L.A.s Griffith Park inside an area known as Bronson Canyon.
d.
Raoul Bova
voiced Hercules in the Italian language version.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
Phils line "Dont let your guard down because of a pair of big goo-goo eyes" was originally "Dont let your guard down because of a pair of big, blue eyes". Unfortunately, by the time the scene was in color, Megs eyes were purple.
b.
The original script was about ten pages longer than the one used in the final version of the film. Those additional scenes were actually all shot (although almost none were edited). The excised scenes were not interspersed throughout the film; rather, they all appeared after the action that closes the final scene in the final iteration of the film. The director edited the film sequentially and decided an open ending will be more suggestive for the surreal atmosphere he intended than the more conventional resolution he had scripted.
c.
The character of Mattie was supposed to be 14.
Kim Darby
was going on 22 when the film was made.
d.
One of the skyscrapers built by Buddy in Gimbels is the Liberty One building in Philadelphia. In real life, Gimbels was a Philadelphia-based department store.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
To record the
Henry Mancini
- and
John Barry
-inspired jazz-orchestra score, composer
Michael Giacchino
eschewed modern digital multi-track recording and returned to the analog recording methods used for jazz-orchestra recordings in the 1960s. "We were just like, Forget that, lets throw everyone in the room, lets pretend we only have three microphones, and lets get it right. Lets just do it."
b.
Leaving aside the Pastoral segment of Fantasia, this was the first Disney animated feature to be completely inspired by mythology rather than a fairy tale.
c.
In 1969, Captain Nemos pipe organ, which had been on display in Disneyland, was redressed and now resides in the ballroom of Disneylands Haunted Mansion. A duplicate was constructed for the ballroom of
Walt Disney
Worlds Magic Kingdom Haunted Mansion, which opened in 1971, and over a decade later another duplicate was built for Tokyo Disneyland.
d.
After Nicky is barred from Vegas casinos, Ace and Nicky meet sixty miles outside Vegas at a bar called the Idle Spurs. The telephone number seen on the front sign of the Idle Spurs was the correct telephone number for the Idle Spurs Tavern in Las Vegas (at 1113 South Rainbow Boulevard, near the intersection of Charleston Boulevard). The telephone number remained in service years after the movie was made. The number is now disconnected.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
Phil cleans himself up using a lions skin. The skin once belonged to Scar from
The Lion King
.
b.
They had to shine a red light at
Vin Diesel
s ear to get the duck to bite it.
c.
The "Fanboys" theatrical release poster (the unidentified male in a knit shirt looking toward his right shoulder in a Darth Vader helmet, against an orange sunburst background) is a spoof of the theatrical release poster for
The 40 Year Old Virgin
(with Steve Carrell appearing in similar clothing and posing against a similar background), the idea being conveyed that fan boys are the quintessential "40-year-old virgins".
d.
The movie contains footage of actual wild horses on a refuge in New Mexico that have been linked through DNA testing to the horses left in the Americas by Spanish conquistadors.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hercules (1997)?
a.
Film debut of
Judith Allen
. She withheld from director
Cecil B. DeMille
the fact that she was married, information that was later used in an embarrassing manner by newspaper reporters. DeMille was reportedly so furious with Allen that he used his influence to damage her later career.
b.
The photo of The Grinch in the Whoville newspaper has The Grinch in the same pose as an infamous alleged photo taken of the "Yeti" or "Sasquatch."
c.
Hermes delivers a bouquet of flowers to Hera. Hermes (Mercury to the Romans) is a registered trademark of FTD Florists.
d.
The title of the screenplay and original working title for the film was simply "Darkness". It was not changed to "The Darkness Within" until midway through production.
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