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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hoffa (1992) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hoffa (1992) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hoffa (1992)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992).

About the movie: A film based on the story of legendary union figure Jimmy Hoffa.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		At the time, this was one of the lowest grossing live action movies in Walt Disney studio history.
b.		The mansion in the movie, "Hill House", was named after the producer of the movie, Debra Hill.
c.		Originally, the film had two Nuclear Men. The first, dubbed Nuclear Man 1, wore a black costume. His scenes were filmed, but eventually cut, allegedly because previews revealed a number of serious special effects errors. The deleted footage was considered for a fifth Superman film.
d.		Film was originally meant for director Oliver Stone, and then Barry Levinson.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		7 cats were used to play the part of "Church."
b.		When Meg Ryan is looking in the mirror and Nicolas Cage is not reflected, this was shot twice with motion control: once with Ryan and Cage, once without the actors, and mixed together. also, if you look closely enough, you can see a few strands of Ryans hair morphing in and out where Cages face was erased.
c.		The film features the Davy Crockett, a portable missile-launched nuclear weapon developed by the United States. At the time, this weapon was still classified.
d.		In the film, Robert Kennedy declares during the hearing "If Mister Hoffa is acquitted... Ill jump from the capitol dome!" In a scene that followed, but was cut, Hoffa and the others celebrate his acquittal by eating a cake shaped like the US Capitol Building and featuring a figurine Robert Kennedy jumping from the dome with a parachute.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		The score was recorded in a day.
b.		The word "fuck" and all various permutations of it are uttered 153 times.
c.		Sex and death are associated with each other numerous times in this film. The first sex scene between Jeff and Marcy is inter-spliced with shots of Bert shooting squirrels. The second sex scene between Marcy and Paul is inter-spliced with a shot of seriously ill Karen decomposing. And the scenes where Paul lays dieing of the disease in a hospital bed are inter-spliced with scenes of him kissing his bikini-clad girlfriend. Also, Marcy gives a notorious speech about how the only thing a dieing person would want to do is have one last screw. It is implied that by not using a condom while they had sex, Marcy passed the deadly illness to Paul. Also, of the four main cast members who got the disease, Karen was revealed to be ill when Paul was touching her in a sexual manner, Marcys first telltale wounds came from marks Paul made when he squeezed her back hard while they had sex, and Bert and Paul first discovered lesions near their groins.
d.		The movie theater marquee reading "Terry Rooney in Any Old Love", is a standing set from the picture Something to Sing About.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		The movie Dreamland, also directed by Lisanne Skyler, appears on a cinema marquee.
b.		According to some researchers Zygmunt Sulistrowski and Louis Soulanes (directors of the movie) are one and the same man.
c.		The scene where Edna Mode recounts the fate of various other superheroes proved to be problematic in that most of the names chosen for the superheroes in question had already been used or optioned.
d.		With the exception of the exchange between Jimmy Hoffa and Robert Kennedy when Hoffa first enters and delays the start of the proceedings, virtually every word between Jimmy Hoffa and Robert Kennedy is taken verbatim from the transcripts of the hearing. A portion of that hearing is included in the Special Edition DVD.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		In a 1972 interview with Dick Cavett, Alfred Hitchcock revealed that the plane crash scene was filmed by using footage shot from a stunt plane diving on the ocean, rear projected on rice paper in front of a cockpit set. Also behind the rice paper were two chutes aimed at the cockpits windshield connected to large tanks of water. With the press of a button at the right moment, water came crashing through the rice paper, into the plane simulating the plane crashing into the sea from the cockpit view.
b.		While he continued to appear in television productions, this was Danny Kayes last motion picture film role.
c.		Original screenplay was written by Robin Moore.
d.		Bob Clarks success with the teen-sex comedy Porkys allowed him the ability to make a movie he wanted to make. Without Porkys there would have been no Christmas Story.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		Finalist in Cinemalaya 2010 New Breed Section
b.		Jack Nicholsons daughter plays the young nun in the hospital scene where Billy Flynn is dying from his burns. According to Danny DeVito in the DVD Commentary, Nicholson had asked him to give his daughter a small part. At first, Danny DeVito suggested she play the hooker in his hotel room in a later scene, drawing the trademark raised eyebrow from Nicholson. Since DeVito was joking he, of course, relented and cast her as a nun.
c.		Jonathan Jackson, playing a 17-year-old character, is actually one year younger than Alexis Bledel, who plays a 15-year-old character. Bledel was 21 at the time of the films release, and Jackson was 20.
d.		When Jodie Foster declined to reprise the role of Clarice Starling, Julianne Moore beat Gillian Anderson, Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Heather Locklear, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Drew Barrymore, Winona Ryder, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brooke Shields, Kristin Davis, Bridget Fonda, Calista Flockhart, Helen Hunt, Sandra Bullock, Christina Applegate, Jennifer Connelly, Meg Ryan, Shannen Doherty, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Eggert and Teri Hatcher for the role. Anderson fell out of the running early on when it was discovered her contract to The X Files prohibited her from playing another FBI agent. Davis and Parker both turned down the part due to their contract to HBOs Sex and the City. Flockhart declined due to her contract to Ally McBeal.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		The world premiere was held in Dean Hesss hometown of Marietta, Ohio on 14 February 1957. Variety reviewed the film in its 19 December 1956 edition.
b.		In the part of the film where Hoffa (Jack Nicholson), Bobby (Danny DeVito), and Delasandro (Armand Assante)have their meeting out in the woods. The scene begins with Bobby sitting in a woody wagon and placing an empty beer bottle on a post before driving down to meet Hoffa. In a scene that followed, but was cut, Bobby gave Delasandro a hunting rifle. Delasandro then tried and failed to shoot the beer bottle off of the post. Hoffa then shoots the bottle off in one shot, upstaging Delasandro.
c.		Allen Miner was originally announced as director, but producer Howard W. Koch replaced him with Reginald LeBorg.
d.		Originally, Nick Fury was going to be in this film, but he was written out of the script and replaced with General Hager. Fury would eventually appear in Iron Man.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		According to Danny DeVito in the DVD Commentary, his young son was present on the set the day the scene was shot in which Hoffa rants to Delasandro about getting control of the union back from Fitsimmons. The tirade included the line "Im gonna do what I gotta do!" According to DeVito, for months afterward whenever he asked his son do to something (i.e. clean his room, take out the trash, do his homework, etc.) his son would mimic Jack Nicholson and say "Dad...Im gonna do what I gotta do!"
b.		Lucie Arnaz replaced Deborah Raffin as Molly Bell around the time Richard Fleischer came on as the director.
c.		Keith Kjornes wrote the script if four days. When the actor who was chosen to play the part of Dr. Oliver failed to show for the first day of shooting, Kjornes stepped in to play the part. The whole film was shot in 5 days on 35mm film at the Remington York Studio in Irving, Texas.
d.		Served as the thesis film for director Reginald Hudlin for his Harvard University degree.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		The actual Art Deco apartment building used in the film (located at 1360 Montgomery St in San Francisco) is still standing as of December, 2008. The actual apartment is marked by a cardboard cut-out of Humphrey Bogart, which can be seen from the street. The site is visited frequently by fans of vintage film noir.
b.		The lead character was offered to Patty Duke in the late 60s. But she turned it down because she wanted to be married and not work at the time.
c.		In the scene after "Red" Bennett is appointed chairman in the union after the success of the Kreger strike, Jimmy Hoffa picks up a paper from the news stand and reads the headline about the strike. If you pay close attention to the moment when he slaps the paper and says "Aint that something?" the story his hand touches on the page reads: "Ma and Freddie Barker killed in gun battle". It is a true headline and it places the date in the scene somewhere around January 1935 (when Ma Barker was killed).
d.		Otto (Steve Burns) is most always wearing something blue or something with blue in it, possibly an homage to Blues Clues.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hoffa (1992)?
a.		Mike Myers said that the Cats personality is a composite of director/producer Bruce Paltrow, his "Saturday Night Live" character "Linda Richman", and actor Charles Nelson Reilly.
b.		Romeros original script for the film had the character of Martin as an older person who was actually established as a vampire struggling to live in a modern world. However, when Romero saw John Amplas performance on stage he re-wrote the character with Amplas in mind, making Martin a younger and more innocent character.
c.		Both the sister and the grandmother of the author of the original book (Jennifer Weiner) appear in the movie.
d.		The Courtroom scenes were filmed in the Wayne County Commission (Detroit) meeting room and most of the extras were Commissioners, their staffs, and County workers.

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