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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : James Polk (2009) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : James Polk (2009)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: James Polk (2009).

About the movie: Depending on whom you ask, James K. Polk was A) A great President, B) A scoundrel or C) Who's that? This documentary is a humorous look at one filmmaker's cross country attempt to sort it all out.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: James Polk (2009)?
a.		This was reported to have been the first time a film crew was allowed to film on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles.
b.		In July 2008, afterellen.com reported that Mary-Louise Parker said that she, her costar Mary Stuart Masterson, and screenwriter (and original novel author) Fannie Flagg were all strong advocates for depicting in the film the lesbian relationship between Ruth and Idgie that had appeared in the book, but the director, Jon Avnet, and the producers of the film chose instead to excise the romance and just make the two characters into friends. In the DVD extras, Avnet does say that he considered Idgie and Ruths food fight scene in the movie as an analogy for a love scene between the two that he chose not to include.
c.		While the interviewees only appear on screen for a few seconds at a time, the original interviews lasted from forty minutes to nearly three hours.
d.		Whereas this film was shot in Texas (mostly Austin), the original Friday the 13th was filmed in New Jersey (mostly Blairstown and Hope).

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: James Polk (2009)?
a.		Kristy McNichol was originally offered the role of Amanda; after successfully auditioning, the producers told her when they would begin filming and to start preparing, but McNichol says over one weekend they changed their minds and she got the disappointing call they were giving the role to Tatum ONeal.
b.		First Baseman Mark Grace and Pitcher Bert Blyleven, who make cameos in the film actually played in the Major Leagues for the Chicago Cubs and California, now Anaheim Angels.
c.		The final sound mix was completed at midnight on the day of the premiere. The final DVD was burned with only an hour to spare.
d.		The initial advertising campaign for Captivity featured a multi-paneled poster. The first panel was labeled "Abduction," featuring actress Elisha Cuthbert appearing petrified, her mouth covered by a black gloved hand. The second panel was labeled "Confinement" and showed Cuthbert behind a chain-link fence with a bloody thumb poking through. The third was labeled "Torture" and featured Cuthbert on her back, her face hidden within a white cast and red tubes going up her nose. The fourth panel was labeled "Termination" and featured what appeared to be a limp body hanging over a table. The poster was placed on several billboards across Los Angeles, causing a significant uproar and resulting in many complaints. Distributor Lionsgate - who were not involved in the films advertising campaign and claimed to know nothing of the poster in question before the posters were distributed - and producer After Dark Films ultimately decided to remove the controversial poster from the advertising campaign and took the billboards down.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: James Polk (2009)?
a.		First feature of Nestor Paiva.
b.		The opening tracking shot of the flashlight lit archive was shot backwards, and then reversed in post.
c.		Writer John Doolan and Cinematographer Matthew Wauhkonen make a cameo together in the pizza restaurant.
d.		In the scene where Hana is being pulled up to see the paintings in the church, the electric power and smoke for her "torch" was being piped through the seemingly real rope on which she was sitting.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: James Polk (2009)?
a.		Premiered at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
b.		The tapes shown during the brief travel montage were not props, but the real raw footage, totaling some sixty to seventy hours of material
c.		The cast & crew are made up of local volunteers excluding 3 young men from out of state who came to help for about a third of production, and a young theater actor from Houghton (Eric Stevenson).
d.		The scene in the Cloud City apartment where Han Solo enters to tell Princess Leia that the repairs on the Millennium Falcon are almost complete played out differently in the finished film than it did in the original script. There, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) is lounging around in the apartment when Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) enters, having changed from the white combat clothes she wore on Hoth to the brown dress and having her hair done up differently. In surprised reaction to how shes dressed, Solo attempts to flatter her ("You look beautiful. You should wear girls clothes all the time.") and Leia teases him by mentioning Luke; the scene ended with them sharing a kiss. The film was originally shot this way, but director Irvin Kershner felt it wasnt coming out right, so he re-shot it to appear as it does in the finished film. Excerpts of how the scene was originally filmed can now be seen on the special edition DVD.