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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Highlander (1986) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Highlander (1986) - 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: Highlander (1986).
About the movie:
An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponent, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
The opening credits, with red text on a black background, were only intended to be temporary, place-holding credits, but the producers liked the look of them so much that they were kept for the final cut of the film.
b.
Ben Stiller
,
John Lithgow
,
Lucy Liu
,
Ben Affleck
,
Sally Field
,
Julia Sweeney
,
Marisa Tomei
, and
Quentin Tarantino
were all rumored for roles at one point.
c.
The picture was a financial disappointment. Some film historians cite this failure as prime evidence that the original Hollywood musical had begun to lose its box-office clout around 1955.
d.
The "answering machine" opening came together from discarded shots of a depressed Hennessy. As scripted, the answering machine played a key role in the original, unused, ending, but was re-arranged with dialogue from another scene to start the movie.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
Nicoles car is a Autobianchi Bianchina Special Cabriolet (basically an upmarket Fiat Sport 500). Dermotts car is an E-type Jaguar.
b.
The film has been described as a western version of King Lear.
c.
Kurgans pseudonym, Victor Krueger, is actually an inside joke. Victor, of course, means winner. Krueger might falsely been seen as a variation on the German word, Krieger, which means warrior. So, Victor Krueger would mean, Winning Warrior. The actual meaning of Krueger is "someone who produces jugs/jars/pitchers/mugs"
d.
The film opened the Venice Film Festival in 2000.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
This movie held the box office record for the highest opening weekend with $135,634,554 earned. The former record holder was
Spider-Man 2
. The record was then broken by
Spider-Man 3
.
b.
In Norway "This is Spinal Tap" opened directly to video over two years later. The title was changed to "Help! We are in the Pop Business!" (="Hjelp! Vi er i popbransjen!") This is a spin on the Norwegian title for "Airplane!" (1980), which was "Help! We are Flying!" (="Hjelp! Vi flyr!"). The poster didnt show any images of the band. Instead it displaying a guitar with a knot on it, similar just like the airplane on the "Airplane!" poster. Throughout the film there is a disclaimer on screen informing us that this was not a real band, this was all fake.
c.
The wrestling match in the beginning scene was between the disbanded AWA (American Wrestling Association) tag teams of "The Fabulous Freebirds" of Badstreet, Atlanta, GA and the "High Flyers" - Greg Gange (son of AWA owner Vern Gange) and Jim Brunzel of Minneapolis, MN (the AWA home office).
d.
According to the TLC network program "Hunt for Amazing Treasures", a unique six-sheet poster for the original 1931 release, showing Karloff as The Monster menacing
Mae Clarke
, is worth at least $600,000 US and is possibly the most valuable movie poster in the world. The only known (original) copy is owned by a private collector.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
The Russian title for "Die Hard" in all of the three movies is, "A Hard Nut to Crack".
b.
Javier Bardem
and
Penélope Cruz
married for real two years later.
c.
Official Selection: Indie Distribution Festival (2008). WINNER: Award of Excellence.
d.
The producers tested dozens of actors for the role of Garfield, the cop who berates MacLeod in the police station. The actors were Americans living in England, and the producers decided not to cast any of them because they had developed English accents after living in England for several years.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
The lyric "Well always be dear companions, My crony, My mate. Well always be harmonizing, Orphan Annie and Sandy, like Amos and Andy!" was cut from the "Bosom Buddies" number, though it is left intact on the original soundtrack album.
b.
Mickey Rooney
broke his leg during filming, and was wheeled around behind bushes on a bicycle during filming.
c.
In order for the filmmakers to make the main hallway of the underground facility connect to all the adjacent sets, they had a 10 foot by 8 foot false wall created. The wall was then transported to every set and placed outside the entrance to give the impression that every room connected with the main hallway.
d.
The swords sparking while clashing was accomplished by attaching a wire to each sword that led down the arms of the actors to a car battery. One was connected to the positive terminal and the other to the negative terminal, so when the swords touched there was an arc.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
The opening voice over by
Sean Connery
has an echo effect because it was recorded in a bathroom. It was played for the producers over the phone, and they approved of it because they could not discern the quality of the recording that way.
b.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 10, 1945 with
Claudette Colbert
again reprising her film role.
c.
Publicity stills from the movie are shown in the magazine article "Bare Babes And Beatniks" in "Spree" number 27, 1962, published by New Publishing Co. in Los Angeles, CA.
d.
Footage was used from _Shao Lin hu ho chen tien hsia (1977)_ (a different translation of the title is given in the opening credits). Most of the archive footage appears to be from
Hu hao shuang xing
. Actors were digitally inserted into scenes from the original film.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
Tony Curtis
turned down the lead role.
b.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
c.
Catherine Kellner
was cast after she answered an ad for an open casting call for what she thought was a movie directed by the Coen Brothers.
d.
The opening scene was intended to take place during an NHL hockey match, but the NHL refused to allow the crew to film there because, by the crews own admission, they were intending to emphasize the violence of the hockey match.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
The fourteenth of twenty-eight Blondie movies starring
Penny Singleton
as Blondie Bumstead and
Arthur Lake
as Dagwood Bumstead.
b.
Jenny Wright
did only the close-ups in the VR strobe scene because the strobe light made her sick. Her wide-angle shots were done using a double, and the close-ups to her face were done with a blue screen so that she didnt have to move.
c.
The sword fight between MacLeod and Fasil was filmed in a London fruit market made to look like a parking garage. The producers had scheduled to film in England but couldnt film in a parking garage there because they had lower ceilings than American parking garages and could not convincingly be made to look like Madison Square Gardens garage.
d.
Despite receiving top billing on the DVD releases of this film, cult hero
Bruce Campbell
only makes a brief appearance in the film as a policeman at the end.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
Harry Arras
died of a heart attack on set while shooting a scene for this film.
b.
The six minutes formerly missing from the film have been restored on some prints and can be seen in the version shown on cable channel AMC. They include the song "Go To Sleep," a beautifully photographed sequence in the underground caves.
c.
Two of the main characters of the film have played the Mortal Kombat character Rayden.
Clancy Brown
provided Raydens voice in
Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm
, and
Christopher Lambert
played Lord Rayden in
Mortal Kombat
in the same year.
d.
Jason Colvins death scene was scaled back due to the PG-13 rating. Originally, there was a wide shot of him being shot in the chest with an enormous amount of blood spray from the wound, along with an impact squib underneath the bloody squib (to create a more brutal effect). In the PG-13 version of the scene, it is only a close shot of Jason Colvin (
Chris ODonnell
) with a bit of the impact squib seen going off. The original scene is included on the Unrated Directors Cut DVD.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Highlander (1986)?
a.
The drawings that
Paul W.S. Anderson
used for his original presentation to 20th Century Fox were done by
Patrick Tatopoulos
.
b.
The directors kept in touch with Heather, Mike and Josh with walkie-talkies to ensure the three would not become lost during their trek. Reportedly, they got lost at least three times.
c.
The opening shot sweeping through the stadium was accomplished using a computerized system that held the camera on four wires. The system was invented by the inventor of the Steadicam stabilizing camera system,
Garrett Brown
.
d.
A copy of this film survives at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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