Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Jacob's Ladder (1990) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Jacob's Ladder (1990) - 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: Jacob's Ladder (1990).

About the movie: A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		First full length feature film of John Hodiak.
b.		The family name Schermerhorn, which is the subject of gossip at the ball at Dragonwyck is actually the name of writer Mankiewiczs ex-in-laws.
c.		Was originally meant to be called "Final Friday", but the producers thought it too similar to Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, and didnt want to rule out a fourth film.
d.		The closing legend of the film mentions the testing of a drug named BZ in Vietnam. BZ is NATO code for a hallucinogen called 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, which was rumored to have been administered to US troops during the Vietnam War in an attempt to increase their combat abilities.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		For all of the chiropractor scenes, director Adrian Lyne ensured there was a real chiropractor on-set, who would work with actor Danny Aiello so as to ensure authenticity. According to Lyne, chiropractors often approach him and thank him for going to the trouble of getting what they do exactly right.
b.		Andrew Hardaway met his biological father, Alvin Hardaway, in 2007. He plays the principal part of Calvin in Weeping Mary. His Great Grandmothers name is Josephine, and his Grandmothers name is Mary. Tying it all together: the train trestle scene in which Hardaway teases the character Josephine about Weeping Marys namesake is less than half a mile from the cemetery the actors ancestors are buried in Gonzales County, Texas. The film was shot in late 2006 before Hardaway was aware of the eerie similarities.
c.		Moose mentions that Blake Collins left MSA to dance with the Royal Ballet. Will Kemp (who plays Collins) was actually turned down by the Royal Ballet.
d.		The first cut of the film was completed on December 11, 2009.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		Marlon Brando was offered the role of Sykes by the head of the Walt Disney Company Michael Eisner himself. Brando, however, turned it down, fearing the movie would bomb.
b.		In the original screenplay, writer Bruce Joel Rubin had created a typical Biblical hell, complete with winged demons, cloven hoofed devils with horns, people with beaks and strange objects lying randomly around (director Adrian Lyne likens Rubins vision to the work of Hieronymus Bosch). As with Rubins general depiction of demons however, Lyne felt that such scenes could very easily make an audience laugh. As such, he decided to rewrite the scene of Jacobs descent into hell; ultimately coming up with the hospital sequence where Jacob is wheeled on a gurney into a metaphorical hell which becomes more and more grotesque as he moves.
c.		The floating pig from the cover of the Pink Floyd album "Animals" can be seen when Theos car enters the "Arc of the Arts" (above the Battersea Power Station), and later when Theo speaks to his cousin. The album was released in 1977. The film is set in 2027, which will be the LPs 50th anniversary. The designers flew an inflatable pig above the building to create the original cover photo.
d.		Once the filmmakers bought the rights to the Louis Begley novel, they kept the title and the main character but changed just about everything else. In the book, the main character lived in the Hamptons and his daughter was about to marry a lawyer.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		Henry Winkler auditioned for the role of Danny Lidz. He arrived in character and in full costume.
b.		The character portrayed by Philip McGough is shown in the credits to be named Dr. Hofzinser, after a prominent sleight-of-hand artist.
c.		In Bruce Joel Rubins original screenplay, all of the demons who appear throughout the film were typical biblical demons with horns, wings, cloven hooves etc. Director Adrian Lyne felt that this kind of imagery could very easily come across as comic, which would destroy the film. He felt that the fact that the imagery was so far from human lessened its impact, and as such, he decided he wanted the demons to be humanesque, but not quite human. During his research into this (which was when he discovered the photography of Joel-Peter Witkin), Lyne came across the Thalidomide scandal. Thalidomide was a drug made available for purchase from 1957 to 1961. Ostensibly, it was designed to treat pregnant women; primarily as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness, and secondarily as a sleeping aid. However, prior to its release, inadequate clinical tests were carried out, leading to roughly 10,000 children in Africa and Europe being born with severe physical deformities because their mothers had taken thalidomide during their pregnancy. The most common defects were phocomelia, dysmelia, amelia and polymelia; all conditions which affect the appearance of the limbs. During his research, Lyne studied the Thalidomide case, and came to feel that the birth defects caused by the drug represented the perfect starting place for his redesign of Rubins demons. The Thalidomide scandal was also the inspiration for David Cronenbergs Scanners.
d.		Paul McCartney enjoyed a private screening together with director Julie Taymor, and expressed how much he liked the film.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		The events that happened after Alexanders death are accurately described. Cassander did indeed wipe out Alexanders surviving family, including his teenage son (also named Alexander).
b.		Director Adrian Lyne used the art of painters William Blake, H.R. Giger, and Francis Bacon and photographers Diane Arbus and Joel-Peter Witkin as his primary influences for the visual style of the film.
c.		Vitaphone production reels #4061-4170.
d.		Originally titled iThe Big Cage/i, an early version of the script was intended as a Bette Davis/Joan Crawford vehicle.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		This movie was originally a series of musical productions done first in 16mm, then expanded and re-shot in 35mm.
b.		Prior to the commencement of filming, former US marine Dale Dye took actors Tim Robbins, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Eriq La Salle, Ving Rhames, Brian Tarantina, Brent Hinkley and Anthony Alessandro to a 5-day military boot camp.
c.		To this day, the film is still banned in Belarus.
d.		Originally the film was to be made in black and white.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		According to director Adrian Lyne, the drug aspect of the story was inspired by the Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain book, "Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and Sixties Rebellion".
b.		Stickers on Truckers Cause-Mobile: Red-White-and-Blue "Peace" Fingers. Keep California Green, Grow Grass. No Nukes. Red-White-and-Blue "Flower Power" Symbol. Parental Advisory, Kiss My Ass. Grow Your Own Dope, Plant a Politician. Lick Dick in 72. Purple "Flower Power" Symbol. Legalize Freedom (with Stars and Stripes over a Peace Symbol). PEACE in rainbow letters. Save Water, Shower with a Friend. American Made Surfboards, Championship Quality. Blessed Are the Peacemakers. American Flag "Peace" Symbol. Forget Vietnam, Save America. Bill Clinton for President. Arms are for Hugging. Recycle. Id Better be Hallucinating (with rainbow hot-air balloons). Who Will Arrest Man for Disturbing the Peace?
c.		The climactic waterfall rescue scenes were filmed on a set built over the swimming pool on the Keaton lot. Production stills kept secret until decades after the film was released show the entire set, including the miniature valley constructed below the pool for the long overlooking shots.
d.		Joan Fontaine liked the character of Lina in Suspicion so much that she sent Alfred Hitchcock a note after she read the novel ("Before the Fact", by Anthony Berkeley) offering to play the part for free, if necessary.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		According to director Adrian Lyne, most of the dialogue in the opening scene between the soldiers was improvised on set by the actors themselves, especially the conversation between George (Ving Rhames) and Jacob (Tim Robbins) about masturbation.
b.		When this film was first released in 1978, the original title was "Day of the Woman" and was poorly received at the box office. In 1981 distributor Jerry Gross renamed it "I Spit on Your Grave" - after a 1959 French drama - for re-release. Under the new title the film received greater publicity and became a key target of Roger Ebert and Gene Siskels campaign against films featuring women in danger.
c.		This movie is not based on a David Gregory novel.
d.		Gene Simmons character Joe Adler is a nod to Dallas-based ambulance chaser attorney Jim Adler and his "Have you been injured?!?!" local TV commercials.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		Most of the "night shots" in the film were shot at either dusk or dawn for the best lighting.
b.		After initial test audiences reported that the film was overwhelming, director Adrian Lyne cut out twenty minutes of material, almost all of which came from the last third of the film. Four major sequences were removed after Jacob (Tim Robbins) first meets Michael (Matt Craven); a scene where Michael gives him an antidote for the Ladder, a scene where Jacob thinks he is cured but turns out not to be; a scene where he goes to Michaels apartment and finds Michael decapitated; and a scene just prior to his final meeting with Gabe (Macaulay Culkin), where he meets Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña), who shows her true form.
c.		In a 2001 "making of" special, it was revealed that the effects used in the three antagonists rather gruesome deaths (Dietrich, Toht, and Belloq) were a vacuum machine, heat gun with time-lapse photography, and shotgun, respectively. When the movie was submitted for an MPAA rating, it was given a rating of "R" because of the exploding head. In order to lower the rating, flames were superimposed over this image. The result was the appearance of a head exploding behind a dense curtain of flames. The rating was lowered to "PG" (at the time, the PG-13 rating did not exist).
d.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 24, 1945 with Joseph Cotten reprising his film role.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jacob's Ladder (1990)?
a.		Adrian Lyne also heavily rewrote the scene involving the biblical Jacobs ladder at the end of the film. Writer Bruce Joel Rubin had written the scene to involve a massive staircase ascending into the clouds, with crowds of people lining it, towering columns, and huge gates at the summit. Again however, Lyne felt that such an image could come across as preposterous (he refers to Rubins original conception as the Liberace scene on the DVD commentary track). As such, Lyne rewrote the scene to involve simply the staircase in Jacobs house, basing this on the principal that heaven is wherever you were happiest.
b.		The scenes shot all around New York City were in fact real locations such as the Drug House, The Hospital (where Dalton works), The Brooklyn Bridge (where McBain first meets Santos sister) and the Hudson River (the fishing scene). Everything involving Colombia was shot entirely in the Phillippines.
c.		Max Julien found the scene where the cop is shown to be sleeping with a big, black woman offensive. The director shot it behind his back. When he asked why he shot the scene, Michael Campus said he wanted the character to be shown as decadent. Julien found this even more offensive because of the girls race and weight making it decadent. To this day, Julien finds this one scene to be his only regret about the film. The actress in the scene (Norma McClure) is said to not have been acting and did not enjoy doing the scene.
d.		The locomotive that conveys the film crew to Czechoslovakia is named "Charon". In Greek myth, Charon was the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the dead across the river Styx.

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