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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
About the movie:
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
a.
Ray Park
s voice is dubbed by
Peter Serafinowicz
.
b.
The characters Mariya and Kayo Takeuchi were named after Japanese singer/songwriter Mariya Takeuchi, one of writer/director
Aaron Woolfolk
s favorite singers.
c.
The Monroeville mall used as the site of much of the action was once the largest mall in America. Now it is almost a inconsequential mall compared to other larger sites.
d.
Kevin McCarthy
: man asking for help. McCarthy was the star of the original film, of which this film is a remake.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
a.
Jim Halloran
was originally offered the role of Luke but turned it down. After many auditions he won the role of Alex.
b.
Gene Hackman
,
James Caan
and
Gary Oldman
all turned down the role of the Deacon.
c.
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 6 seconds, very fast for an early CinemaScope film.
d.
Don Siegel
: taxi driver. Siegel directed the original film, of which this film is a remake.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
a.
Good guys in the movie use Google and bad guys use Yahoo! search engines.
b.
This was two-time Best Actress Oscar winner
Luise Rainer
s last theatrical film until
The Gambler
.
c.
The leather half-glove that
Leonard Nimoy
s character wears was deliberately used for the sole purpose of making the character more distinctive and recognizable. Nimoy got the idea from a friend who wore it to cover a burn on his hand.
d.
Director
Carter Stevens
had originally hoped to cast
Deborah Harry
in the role of "Vanessa Garbo", but by the time the film was produced, Harrys group
Blondie
was well on its way to international success and Harry was not interested in the role. Stevens instead cast Elda Gentile, a former performance partner of Harrys in the group The Stillettos in the early 1970s.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
a.
The first film from Hollywood Pictures in five years.
b.
Crichton was fired from writing the screenplay due to the fact that his script did not follow the novel (which he had written) closely enough.
c.
Only
Philip Kaufman
,
W.D. Richter
, and
Donald Sutherland
knew how the film was going to end.
Veronica Cartwright
was not told that Sutherlands character had been captured and became an alien. When they filmed the ending in front of San Francisco City Hall and Sutherland pointed to her, imitating the pod scream, Cartwrights reaction of cold fear is authentic.
d.
The prop department asked for details of de Sades diet so that they could get the consistency of mixture of the "ink" in the final scene.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
a.
Philip Kaufman
: playing an impatient man rapping on the window of a phone booth occupied by
Donald Sutherland
.
b.
The pictures displayed in the Losers Bar include: the Titanic, the Hindenburg, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Ford Edsel, the DeLorean DMC-12, the Hubble Space Telescope (considered a failure at the time),
Neville Chamberlain
and
Michael Dukakis
.
c.
Producer
Kevin Feige
compares the film to
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
: "It set a standard for that level of ZOMG-awesomeness and scale. Were working to try to outdo that."
d.
When Bob Wallace (
Bing Crosby
) appears on the Ed Harrison TV show, he is briefly shown - as if the audience is watching him at home - on a 1950s television set. The brand of the television is DuMont, one of the first manufacturers of TVs in America and the name of TV network from the 1950s.
Jackie Gleason
,
Morey Amsterdam
and Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen
were some of the notables that began on the DuMont Network, which ceased operations in 1956.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
a.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on Januray 29, 1945 with
Ginger Rogers
and
Ray Milland
reprising their film roles.
b.
Jack Lemmon
was the only actor to be offered the role of George in
Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
before
Richard Burton
was cast. He accepted the role but quickly changed his mind the next day without offering any explanation.
c.
During the mud bath scene a man suggests that Nancy read a book titled "Worlds In Collision" by
Immanuel Velikovsky
. The book was published in 1950 and spent eleven weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. However, the book was met with overwhelming rejection of its thesis by the scientific community.
d.
Previewed at the studio on 10 May 1945
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
a.
It took writer/director
Marc Clebanoff
just 11 months from the time he wrote the film, to the time he premiered it in Los Angeles, California.
b.
Veronica Cartwright
also plays in the remake _The Invasion (2007)_.
c.
The set from the bathroom scene where Mystique incapacitates the prison guard and injects him with a foreign substance is actually an unused set from
X-Men
. The scene in question (written and storyboarded, but not shot) involved Cyclops manifesting his powers as a teenager, destroying a high school bathroom.
d.
When
Don Siegel
was hired as director, he was considering
Audie Murphy
for the role of Scorpio. Siegel thought it would be a nice irony to have a genuine war hero and heroic screen icon known for playing clean-cut characters playing a psychopathic killer. Siegel offered Murphy the role, but Murphy died in a plane crash on 28 May 1971 prior to making his final decision.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
a.
Stephen Geoffreys
auditioned for
Fright Night
while filming
Fraternity Vacation
.
b.
According to director
Mel Stuart
s book "Pure Imagination: The Making of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", the reason everything in Willys office is cut in half is because Stuart couldnt bare the thought of - after having gone through all the whimsical and creative rooms in the factory - ending the movie in an ordinary office. Everything was cut in half to make the room look more Wonka-esque.
c.
When Dewey is demonstrating his "Sing Song" method of teaching, he concludes with "Thats right, I was testing you, its nine... and thats a magic number." which is a reference to the "Schoolhouse Rock!" song Three is a Magic Number.
Schoolhouse Rock!
was a series of PSAs that aired during ABCs Saturday morning cartoons and taught American history, grammar, multiplication and science through song.
d.
Michael Chapman
: janitor at the Health Department. Appears when Elizabeth cries in Matthews arms and later when they sneak into the building.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
a.
Robert Duvall
: the priest on the swing.
b.
Tom Hanks
character, Jimmy Dugan, is loosely based on real-life baseball sluggers Jimmie Foxx and Hack Wilson.
c.
Brian De Palma
s initial cut ran at roughly three hours and was a faithful adaptation of the book, with more time dedicated to Buckys psychological breakdown during the investigation and his obsession with avenging the Dahlia.
James Ellroy
was shown a print of this version and wrote an essay praising it; entitled "The Hillikers," it was published in re-issued prints of the novel which were released before the film premiered. In the interim between Ellroys having seen the directors cut and the publication of his essay, the film was significantly edited. After seeing the theatrical cut, Ellroy refused to comment on it, except to tell the Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Look, youre not going to get me to say anything negative about the movie, so you might as well give up."
d.
The film has two lines of "secret dialog" - spoken quietly through a door. (They can be heard when amplifying the volume, and are also explicitly depicted in the closed-captioning.) The lines occur at the end of the scene set in Baileys private office with Bailey and his son George, and Potter and his goon present. After George raves to Potter that "you cant say that about my father", he is ushered out of the room by his father, then George is shown standing outside the office door. At that moment, George overhears the following two lines of dialog through the glass pane of the door behind him: POTTER: Whats the answer? BAILEY: Potter, you just humiliated me in front of my son.
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