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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : High Plains Drifter (1973) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : High Plains Drifter (1973) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973).
About the movie:
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
In a UK interview with
Edith Bowman
on BBC Radio 1,
Matt Damon
mentioned that he called
J.J. Abrams
when he heard rumors that he was being considered for the role of Captain Kirk. The response from Abrams was a very polite "no". He explained that Damon was "too old" for the role.
b.
The working title was Shadow Creatures. The original ending was changed at the suggestion of Leslie Dunk.
c.
This film is produced by a variety of Los Angeles-based community artists, including a team of scholars from comic book production companies Chamber Six and Dark Horse. It is being best compared to the surprising, award-winning graphic-novelization-turned-movie History of Violence (2005) for its bold sincerity in this industry.
d.
One of the headstones in the graveyard bears the name
Sergio Leone
as a tribute.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
This movie is set in Havana during the period of the approaching end of the Batista regime in 1959.
b.
During the planning stage of
2010
, an email connection was provided for
Peter Hyams
(in Hollywood) and
Arthur C. Clarke
(in Colombo, Sri Lanka) so that Hyams could regularly consult with Clarke about how to adapt the novel to the movie screen. In 1983/4, such an email correspondence was practically unheard of outside the academic community, and it was certainly the first for the film world. Edited highlights of the emails were published as a book, "The Odyssey File", in 1984.
c.
During an interview on
Inside the Actors Studio
,
Clint Eastwood
commented that earlier versions of the script made The Stranger the dead marshals brother. He favoured a less explicit and more supernatural interpretation and excised the reference. Although the Italian, Spanish, French and German dubbings retain it.
d.
Featured in David Sedaris story "Repeat After Me" in his 2004 book "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim."
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
During post production some of the original footage was lost and destroyed, causing the filmmakers to do some re-shoots and even shoot new scenes that were different from what was originally filmed and shot.
b.
The Battle of Helms Deep features hundreds of spears made of cardboard tubes so that none of the charging horses would be injured.
c.
Filmed in six weeks.
d.
There was active discussions about changing the title to "Come and See". Particularly when some poster artwork came back from China with
Dennis Quaid
and
Ziyi Zhang
sitting on a horse - a literal interpretation of the title
Horsemen
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
Sylvester Stallone
sports a beard throughout the whole of this picture.
Rutger Hauer
also has one but during the first act only.
b.
Shortly after the films release,
Clint Eastwood
wrote to
John Wayne
, suggesting that they make a western together. Wayne sent back an angry letter in reply, in which he denounced this film for its violence and revisionist portrayal of the Old West. Eastwood did not bother to answer his criticisms, and consequently they did not work together.
c.
Celia Weston
, the actress who plays the mother of
Tom Cruise
s character is only 10 years older than him.
d.
The all-female rock band in the movie, Diaper Rash, was played by the band Vixen, who had a hit in the 80s "The Edge of a Broken Heart".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
In a rarity for Hollywood releases, re-entered the #1 spot at the box office for the weekend of Good Friday, 2004.
b.
The most interesting item in the film is the appearance of the real "Los Angeles Dodgers" who made an appearance in the film playing an exhibition baseball game in Japan. This film appearance was directly after the Dodgers abruptly moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn which probably enraged New York filmgoers at the time.
c.
Editing of the film was done in a log cabin on the shores of Mono Lake.
d.
20th Century Fox were taking a real gamble making this film. At $10 million, it was a hugely daring venture, but even more risky was
Cleopatra
which was being filmed concurrently. This was to set Fox back the then unprecedented sum of $40 million. Although
Cleopatra
did well at the box office, it was simply too expensive to recoup its costs and nearly bankrupted the studio. Fortunately
The Longest Day
turned out to be one of their biggest hits to offset the damage caused by the Egyptian epic.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
Anthony Hopkins
and
Bob Hoskins
previously acted together in
Othello
with Hopkins in the lead and Hoskins as Iago.
b.
There is no spoken dialogue until six minutes into the film.
c.
Bud and Lindseys rocky relationship may have been an unconscious mirror of the divorce
James Cameron
was going through at the time with producer
Gale Anne Hurd
.
d.
The National Stuttering Project targeted Boomer the stammering woodpecker when protesting the films release on video.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
The Bible verse on the wall of the church is Isaiah 53:3-4 which reads, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted"
b.
The scene where Jack Ryan was lowered onto the USS Dallas was filmed in the parking lot of the Mole Pier at Long Beach Naval Station on a beautiful sunny day. Editing made it look like it was the ocean.
c.
Christopher Knight
s part was severely shortened, originally running four minutes.
d.
The first of
Kevin Smith
s films to be rated PG-13 in the US, although it was initially rated R until appeal.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
Other headstones bear the names of
Don Siegel
(
Clint Eastwood
s director on five films, four of which preceded this one) and
Brian G. Hutton
(director of
Where Eagles Dare
and
Kellys Heroes
).
Patrick McGilligan
s 2002 Eastwood biography quotes the star as saying, "I buried my directors."
b.
Despite her youthful appearance,
Greer Garson
was twelve years older than her leading man,
Gregory Peck
.
c.
John Frankenheimer
had been in the Air Force and was very familiar with the Pentagon.
d.
Mickey Rourke
s voice characterization is an approximation of
Charles Bukowski
s own voice.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
Most of the solo shots of
Rod Steiger
during the famous taxicab scene were done after
Marlon Brando
had left for the day. Steiger was deeply hurt and annoyed at Brandos apparent rudeness, but used these emotions to add to his performance.
b.
Universal Pictures wanted the film to be shot on the studio lot. Instead,
Clint Eastwood
had a whole town built in the desert near Mono Lake in the California Sierras. Many of the buildings were complete and three-dimensional, so that interiors could be shot on location.
c.
Viggo Mortensen
and
Justin Timberlake
were considered for the roles of Wayne Colson and Richie Nix, respectively.
d.
According to designer
Ryan Church
, the design of the Enterprise ship in this film pays homage to the designs from
Star Trek
and
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
. Church also applied the Aztec motif from
Star Trek: The Next Generation
. The overall external design resembles a hot-rod, with more moving parts (the disc expands and the fins on the engines split).
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)?
a.
The character of Marshal Duncan was played by stuntman
Buddy Van Horn
, a long-time stunt coordinator for
Clint Eastwood
, in order to create some ambiguity over whether he and The Stranger are one and the same.
b.
The novel is a spin-off of The Godfather (set during Michaels exile in Sicily), however all references to the Corleones are omitted from the film.
c.
This film was heavily advertised as a living dinosaur/giant monster movie. However, dinosaurs appear only for 2-3 minutes in the final reel. The dinosaurs are actually only stock footage taken from
One Million B.C.
; no original dinosaur effects were shot.
d.
The party scene near the end of the film runs 42 minutes long. It was shot over the course of 21 days from the time the sun set to the time it raised. After it wrapped, the crew had t-shirts made that read " I SURVIVED SCENE 118" (which was the name of the scene during shooting).
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