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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Horton Hears a Who! (2008) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Horton Hears a Who! (2008) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008).
About the movie:
Horton the Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
According to the audio commentary,
Andrew Bergman
said this was originally going to be a sequel to
Freebie and the Bean
which had starred
Alan Arkin
.
b.
The Horton quote "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant: An elephants faithful one hundred percent," is actually from "Horton Hatches the Egg," another Dr. Seuss story featuring the enduringly faithful elephant.
c.
To boost ticket sales for this film in the theater, its US release was timed with the start of the new college school year in late August 1998.
d.
When Hooper is asked to do the final gag while he is on the weight bench, he wears a Florida State University T-shirt. Burt Reynolds attended Florida State University.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
Filmed in 1960, not released until 1962.
b.
Jim Carrey
s second movie based on a
Dr. Seuss
story. The first was (
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
). Both stories have Whos in them.
c.
Rough cut was shelved due to a quarrel between
Louis B. Mayer
and
William Randolph Hearst
.
d.
Olympia Dukakis
is only 15 years older than her on-screen daughter
Cher
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
Some of the trees seen in the movie resemble Trufula Trees from another Seuss story, "The Lorax."
b.
One shot shows the name of the corporation as "Ayjax", not "Ajax". This shot was added after production to prevent additional suing from Ajax.
c.
A Jewel Production. Universal, lacking a theater chain of its own, devised a 3-tiered branding system for its product: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige productions designed to draw higher roadshow ticket prices). This system would fade away in late 1929.
d.
Based on a joke from acting class.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
Green eggs (from "Green Eggs and Ham") are briefly seen during The Mayor and his 97 kids breakfast.
b.
The sound effects of the flying saucers that were being driven on the island is actually the sound of a muffled Indy car.
c.
The original Broadway production of "Finians Rainbow" opened at the 46th Street Theater on January 10, 1947, ran for 725 performances and won the 1947 Tony Awards for the Best Actor (
David Wayne
), Music Director and Choreography.
d.
Originally
Stanley Kubrick
had planned to shoot the film in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1. After consultant
Robert Gaffney
convinced the director that Super Panavision (aspect ratio 2.20:1) was a more visceral experience, Kubrick agreed and got MGM to pay for the photographic process. Since shooting a 70mm space film with monaural sound was frowned upon, Kubrick decided to mix the soundtrack in stereo sound.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
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.
b.
Shipped to some theaters under the codename "88 Keys"
c.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
d.
Bruno Kirby
did not return from the original so
Jon Lovitz
is filling in. Lovitzs character constantly quotes
The Godfather: Part II
which Kirby was in.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
Calling ESPN 8 "The Ocho" is a reference to the fact that when ESPN 2 was still a relatively young network, at least one of the announcers referred to it as "The Deuce".
b.
A Who holding a plate of Green Eggs and Ham is visible during the crowd scene at the end of the film.
c.
The ninth of forty-eight Bowery Boys movies.
d.
In 1980 a writer sued
Clint Eastwood
for plagiarism, accusing him of taking the title of the film from one of his works. Eastwood maintained that he was inspired by the
Humphrey Bogart
film
The Enforcer
(which was also owned by Warner Bros). The case was dismissed.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
The R1 DVD release commentary reveals that the movie was inspired by the original
Ian Fleming
novel "Moonraker", as the previous adaptation of
Moonraker
left out many elements from the book. The only element of the novel to survive to the end, after a fashion, was the duel between Bond and Graves in a club called Blades. In the original novel, Bond and villain Drax have a different sort of duel in Blades - a game of cards. This is the first Bond film since
Licence to Kill
to take inspiration from a Fleming novel. The character of Miranda Frost was originally named Gala Brand. This was the name of the Bond girl in Flemings novel "Moonraker". Other than the duel between Drax and Bond surviving into "Die Another Day" from Moonraker are: the theme of the villain having plastic surgery to conceal his real identity (in the novel, a grenade exploded in Draxs face) and the villain posing as a patriot by creating a space device claiming to help the government when it is actually a weapon.
b.
Body count: 1 (the bird in the cage).
c.
After the snow falls in Whoville the children can be seen building a Grinch snowman.
d.
Some of the last names of the Quad City Swing players in the film were those of actual players on the team. However, they were not portrayed by the real Swing players. During filming, the real players were still in their regular season and then post-season.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
When
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
upstages
Antonio Salieri
by modifying the march Salieri wrote for the emperor, the modified piece is Mozarts "Non Piu Andrai, Farfallone Amoroso" from The Marriage of Figaro.
b.
Rudy, Kangaroos son, mentions in one scene an imaginary friend of his named "Thidwick". Another Dr. Seuss story is "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose".
c.
Under the supervision of
Danilo Donati
, 3592 costumes were designed. The cast wore 5000 handcrafted boots and sandals. The wigs were made from more than 1000 pounds of human hair, which was painstakingly sorted and matched.
d.
The ending was re-shot, reportedly because of unfavorable reactions at preview screenings. This also happened with the two previous films in the series.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
Shane Black
spent his free time on the set writing the screenplay for
The Last Boy Scout
.
b.
James first published The Aspern Papers in the March-May editions of The Atlantic Monthly. In the original story the heroines name was Tita. In later editions of the story James changed the name to Tina.
c.
Dan Rowan
s last feature film performance.
d.
The fantasy sequence in which Horton imagines himself to be a great hero to the Whos is animated and spoken in a faux-Japanese anime style.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)?
a.
Johnny Unitas
: (At 25:00) He can be seen as an extra on the bench outside the bakery.
b.
The scene where Judge Nelson explains that everyones vehicles have been impounded took over twenty takes to complete.
Sally Kellerman
had difficulty with her lines on the day of filming.
c.
Morton the mouse, who isnt in the original book, is actually named after the baby elephant/bird creature, Morton, from "Horton Hatches the Egg."
d.
Director
J.T. Seaton
was almost arrested for murder when he discarded a mattress, covered in fake blood, by the dumpster behind his apartment. A neighbor spotted the bloody mattress and called the police, fearing that someone might have been killed. When eight police officers arrived at JTs door, he had to prove to the officers that the mattress was just a prop from a horror movie and not evidence of a crime.
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