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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hitman (2007) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hitman (2007) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hitman (2007)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007).

About the movie: A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Europe.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		Director Xavier Gens was originally asked by the studio to make the movie PG-13, which he refused to do because of the source material. He was allowed to shoot the movie aiming for an R, however in the final stages, he was removed and Nicolas De Toth was brought in to re-edit the movie for commercial purposes, as he did with Live Free or Die Hard (he is thanked in the credits for this editing).
b.		Walter Huston, father of director John Huston, won the Academy Award for best supporting actor. John won for best direction. This was the first father/son win.
c.		The movie is often called "the black American Graffiti" and its easy to see why. American Graffiti was a nostalgic look back 11 years at white teenagers who had just graduated high school and were on the cusp of chasing their dreams. It ended with mugshots and "where are they now" captions. "Cooley High" was a nostalgic look back 12 years at black teenagers about to graduate high school and on the cusp of chasing their dreams to escape fun, but hard, lives. It ended with "where are they now?" comments superimposed on full screen shots of the characters.
d.		In 1962, producer-director Robert Aldrich was preparing the prologue to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? He chose a scene from Parachute Jumper and this film to document the fact that the young Jane was a flop as a movie star.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		It was shipped to theatres under the name "Sugar and Spice".
b.		The character of Nika (Olga Kurylenko) draws inspiration from a recurring female character from the games known as Lei Ling (changed to Mei Ling in Contracts). Lei/Mei Ling was a prostitute that 47 saved on two occasions, receiving vital information in return.
c.		At 306 minutes, this was the lengthiest of the sound serials.
d.		The goat seen in Blakes early nightmare sequence is a reference to Tinas nightmare involving a goat in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		At the 1932 Democratic Convention, Rogers is given a favorite son nomination for President, and his father is represented as being in the Oklahoma delegation. His father Clem Rogers died in 1911.
b.		Conrad L. Hall, the films original cinematographer, was fired five days into filming.
c.		Mel Brooks performed a number of duties on this picture. Brooks acted in five roles, was writer, producer and director, as well as composer and lyrics writer for the songs "Jews In Space" and "The Inquisition", being also the performer of the latter.
d.		When Agent 47 and Nika walk through the train station in St. Petersburg, to when Agent 47 is followed underground, the time in which the scenes were filmed switches between March 2007 and November 2007.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		The movie was delayed from its October 2007 release, to late November 2007 to facilitate for re-shoots.
b.		Each day of filming began with a word of prayer.
c.		The warehouse gun fight scene was initially much more intricate and ambitious than the end result. Internal conflict within the production and loss of time forced director Christian Viel to re-design and simplify the sequence.
d.		Agent Dale Shelby spends the night in a hotel room with three films taken from the crime scene she visited that day. The films are Alien, True Romance and Swingers. "Alien" was directed by this films producer Ridley Scott, "True Romance" was directed by Tony Scott, also a producer on this film and Ridley Scotts brother, and "Swingers" starred this films lead actor, Vince Vaughn.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		Olga Kurylenko was distraught after having to cut her hair for the role. She said she didnt feel like herself anymore, which she used to help her connect with her character.
b.		Robert Rodriguez: [Trejo] Tattooed tough guy Danny Trejo also appears in Rodriguez Desperado, Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Planet Terror, Grindhouse, and Machete. In all these movies except for "Once Upon" (where he plays "Cucuy"), his character had a "knife" name: Navajas in "Desperado" (navajas is Spanish for "folding knives", which his character used as throwing weapons), Razor Charlie, Isador "Machete" Cortez in the "Spy Kids" pictures, and another Machete in the connected films "Planet Terror," "Grindhouse" and "Machete."
c.		The movies line "All right, Mr. DeMille, Im ready for my close-up." was voted as the #6 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007. "We didnt need dialogue. We had faces." was #13. "I am big. Its the pictures that got small." was #91 .
d.		The film was originally scripted with Sam and his friends as 11-year-olds, but director/screenwriter Roland Emmerich changed them to high school students for Jake Gyllenhaal, who Emmerich had seen in October Sky. Emmerich asked "Can Jake Gyllenhaal play a 17-year-old?"

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		Timothy Olyphant underwent muscle and martial-arts training in preparation for his role.
b.		At one point, there was a scene when Lil Man asked Officer Freeman played by John Amos, "Did you know you look just like the father from Good Times?" Amos did, in fact, play the father in the 1970s sitcom Good Times.
c.		Originally in the story, Dr. Henry Jekylls counter-part was named Edward Hyde, not Jack.
d.		The amazing car-crash in the opening sequence was done by digitally compositing shots of Julia Roberts taking off with the car and a radio-controlled car being hit by a stunt driver.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		Footage of Mickey Rooney performing onstage in this film, as Ted Hackett III as a child, was later reprized in Babes in Arms to show the central character Mickey Moran (Rooney) as a child.
b.		Dr. Jenkins gives Annie regular doses of laudanum to help her maintain a less adversarial demeanor. Laudanum contains alcohol and opium.
c.		When Agent 47 jumps through the hotel window into the kids room, theyre playing Hitman: Blood Money for the PlayStation 2. (Theyre playing through "Death of a Showman", the training level.)
d.		Katharine Hepburn is the only movie star to win four Academy Awards (2009) for her leading roles in Morning Glory, Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		When the project was first announced, Vin Diesel was going to star as Agent 47. Despite Timothy Olyphant taking over, Diesel is still credited as executive producer.
b.		During the films production, news items listed Iron Eyes Cody, Silver Tip Baker, Steve Clemente, John Judd and Danny Borzage in the cast. None of these actors, however, have been confirmed.
c.		Mel Brooks had problems with Yugoslavian extras who did not speak English. Some extras playing museum guards were to walk through the museum ringing a bell and shouting, "Closing time! Closing time!" The extras misunderstood and walked through the scene shouting "Cloakie Bye! Cloakie Bye!" Brooks decided "Cloakie Bye" was funnier, so he left it in the movie.
d.		Trade Paper Variety reported that this film ". . . project apparently grew out of an interesting proposition - a major oil-producing nation breaks with the Middle Eastern oil cartel to join forces with Israel to assure technological development and peace."

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		Meryl Streep had asked her alma mater, Vassar College, if they could film the college graduation scenes on their campus. They refused even though Streep serves on their Board of Trustees and two of her children attend there.
b.		The uniforms in the movie were the normal uniforms worn by cadets. The embroidered shoulder badges of "Valley Forge" were changed during filming to "Bunker Hill". Then, the cadets of the Academy had no camouflage fatigues as a uniform. Filming continued into the summer after cadets school year was over.
c.		When Morpheus ship the Nebuchadnezzer is destroyed, the line he states "I had a dream, but now the dream is gone from me" is alluded to in the Book of Daniel, where King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream of the Golden image that Daniel interprets for him.
d.		Diana and Agent Smith, characters from the video games, make appearances in the film.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hitman (2007)?
a.		The car Agent 47 drives is an Audi S5.
b.		The key scene when Danny Aiello and John Turturro talk alone approximately midway through the film was partly improvised. The scripted scene ended as the character Smiley approached the window. Everything after that until the end of the scene was completely ad-libbed.
c.		After this film generated acclaim in film festivals around the world and in successful theatrical showings in France, a lab mistakenly destroyed the negative and all prints; it was lost never released on video. Then, after years of searching, one print was discovered in the permanent collection of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris. From that sole surviving print, this film has been digitally restored with remastered sound. It has since been re-circulated online, generating a new fan base.
d.		The fictional Santa Rosita State Park was located at Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes. It was landscaped for the movie, and is off limits to the general public today.

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