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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : High Fidelity (2000) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : High Fidelity (2000) - 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: High Fidelity (2000).
About the movie:
Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
A lot of similarities to The Water Engine; a made for TV movie also written by David Mamet in which an inventor creates something special which he is paranoid (rightfully so) about maintaining the rights to (unsuccessfully, in both cases.)
b.
In 2006, High Fidelity was made into a Broadway musical starring Will Chase, Jenn Colella, Jeb Brown and Rachel Stern. However it only ran from November 20th to December 17th. 13 performances and 19 previews.
c.
Pompey, the boy, is playing conkers, a childs game with chestnuts on strings, in the waiting room.
d.
No information about the publication of
Rowland Brown
s story, "A Handful of Clouds," has been found; it may not have been published.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
DUrville Martin
not only plays the credited role of the Bus Driver, but also participant in the Yacht Club "riot" scene.
b.
The name Gosford Park is never once said in the film.
c.
Several shots that appear throughout the movie are shots that were matted together from scenes shots on location in Egypt and scenes shots at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Most notable scenes featuring this multi-location matte-shooting are the scenes which Moses and Sethi watch the Obelisk being raised; the slaves in the background were shot in Egypt, the foreground with Moses and Sethi shot in Hollywood, and the background pylons being matte paintings.
d.
In Rob Gordons store, there are posters and sticker featuring several US Hardcore Punk bands (Warzone, Integrity,
Bad Brains
,
Blood for Blood
, and etc.) who had all released material on Chicago-based label Victory Records.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
The song "Dry the Rain" by
The Beta Band
can actually be heard twice in the film. Once while trying to sell 5 copies of the 3 EPs, and once while Rob proposed to Laura.
b.
Charles Bronson
plays a Denver Tribune crime reporter in this J Lee Thompson film evoking the crime writer character he played in
St. Ives
, the first movie he made with Thompson.
c.
Katie Leung
hadnt intended to audition for the role of Cho Chang. Her father had told her where the audition was being held and she decided to go before her shopping trip.
d.
A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television archives, and is not listed for Preservation.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
This was the first project Debra Winger did after
An Officer and a Gentleman
. After a poor reception from preview audiences, the ad campaign was changed, the soundtrack music was replaced and the film was re-edited. It was eventually released in 1984 after Winger had a hit with
Terms of Endearment
.
b.
The concept of Daze originated when the writer/director
Jeff Dean
and a few friends dressed up as Elvis with for Halloween. He noticed that everyone treats you differently when your dressed as Elvis, which intrigued him.
c.
The closing track "I believe" was originally performed by
Stevie Wonder
and was later covered by
Art Garfunkel
and
Peter Frampton
. All three are artists that Rob, Dick, and Barry make fun of in the movie.
d.
At the height of the films popularity, Time Magazine printed the Disney Special Effects Departments recipe for Flubber, as used in the movie. It read as follows: "To one pound of salt water taffy add one heaping tablespoon polyurethane foam, one cake crumbled yeast. Mix till smooth, allow to rise. Then pour into saucepan over one cup cracked rice with one cup water. Add topping of molasses. Boil till lid lifts and says Qurlp." It is not recorded whether this also carried the standard warning "do not try this at home".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
The rare record that Barry refuses to sell the nerdy collector is stated to be a French LP pressing of Captain Beefheart/
Don Van Vliet
s Safe as Milk. This Buddha-label edition is considered rare for its high quality mix and is easily identified by a promotional cover featuring the band playing live on a beach. However, the cover shown is clearly the original, more familiar sleeve with the fisheye portrait.
b.
Originally the Dragon from the first film was to have a major role, and turn into a Pegasus when Donkey drank the potion.
c.
Tim Burton
and the crew of the movie built the small town Sleepy Hollow complete with rooms, floors, and stairs. The town was dismantled after filming was completed.
d.
The film was shot in an abandoned Catholic school in downtown Detroit. Minimal set dressing was used to give the film its apocalyptic look.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
The "release date" for the movie keeps changing: "We now return to our feature film, the 195? classic, Amazon Women on the Moon...".
b.
Touchstone acquired the rights to
Nick Hornby
s book for $500,000 with
Mike Newell
attached to direct.
c.
The Fentons Ice Creamery featured in the movie actually exists and has two locations. One is in Oakland, CA on Piedmont Avenue and the other is in Vacaville, CA, and that is on East Monte Vista Avenue. Both locations are close to Pixars headquarters in Emeryville, CA. There is also an express version of the creamery in Oakland International Airport to eat while you wait to catch a plane or if you just flew in. Fentons did not have to pay to have it in there; Disney and Pixar put it in the film for free.
d.
Voted #2 on AFIs 100 Greatest Movies 10th Anniversary Edition.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
In the scene where Barrys wanted add for Any "hip young gunslingers", There are four bands listed that the interested party should "be into". The last listed band is Pailhead. Pailhead is a little known collaboration between Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi) and Al Jourgenson (Ministry, Revolting cocks, Lard), a Chicago based musician.
b.
One of the first people to see the movie was veteran B-movie character actor
Jimmy Clem
of
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
and
The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II
at a private screening in a Texarkana, Texas, Baptist church.
c.
There is no gas balloon in the original novel. Nevertheless this mode of transportation has endured as an iconic image of the film.
d.
Final feature film to date for director
Vernon Zimmerman
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
The Los Angeles Times reported that
Charles Bronson
s salary for this picture was US $1.5 million.
b.
The Bilgewaters chain of restaurants that Hedwig and The Angry Inch perform at are decorated with graphics of the sinking of the Titanic. The original off-Broadway production of HEDWIG started in the ballroom of a hotel that gave shelter to the surviving crew of the Titanic in 1912.
c.
Artie Lange
auditioned for the role of Barry.
d.
Peter Stormare
originally auditioned for the role of Balthazar.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
Tony Hendra
(who plays manager Ian Faith) writes in his memoir "Father Joe" that he attempted suicide the night before the first day of filming. He credits the joy he experienced in making the film with bringing him back from his depression.
b.
at the beginning of the entry. When Laura responds to Robs marriage proposal with the line, "I do, I will," she is actually quoting a famous line from Act 2, Scene 4 of
William Shakespeare
s play Henry IV, part 1.
c.
All clothing was provided by the actors.
d.
The word "fuck" and its derivatives are said more than 165 times.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Fidelity (2000)?
a.
In the movie, security for the illegal medical experiments is provided by two supposed police officers named Hare and Burke. In reality, William Hare and William Burke were two men in the business of supplying human cadavers to medical schools in 1820s Edinburgh - until it was learned that the ones they hadnt stolen from graveyards, they had murdered themselves.
b.
In the Hungarian dubbed version, Barry and Rob are discussing
Reservoir Dogs
instead of
Evil Dead II
, because that film was almost unknown in Hungary that time. "Reservoir Dogs" was also the film discussed in a similar scene in the novel.
c.
Produced at a then-staggering cost of $13 million, the film went on to become Paramounts biggest-grossing movie to that time. For years it ranked second only to
Gone with the Wind
as the most successful film in Hollywood history.
d.
James Gandolfini
was offered the role of Detective Trupo, but turned it down.
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