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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Jurassic Park (1993) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Jurassic Park (1993) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993).
About the movie:
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
Gabrielle Anwar
was pregnant during filming and had to have her costumes let out.
b.
Michael Imperioli
was originally meant to play Richie, but he had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with
The Sopranos
. He appears only briefly in the film as "Midnight".
c.
A baby triceratops was built for a scene where one of the kids rides it. Special effects technicians worked on this effect for a year but the scene was cut at the last minute as
Steven Spielberg
thought it would ruin the pacing of the film.
d.
To achieve the smoothness of the opening shots, cameraman
Greg MacGillivray
secured a wide angle Arriflex camera to the front of a helicopter, then balanced the blades to remove any vibrations. Even the shot where the camera comes down behind the car, passes it out, and goes over the edge is done via the helicopter.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
When the soldiers search the log for cab MN 44s frequency we see that the driver of cab MN 43 is named Len Wiseman.
Len Wiseman
is the property assistant on several
Roland Emmerich
films and has since gone on to direct feature films of his own. Another drivers name is Scott Collins.
Scott Edward Collins
was another property assistant on the movie.
b.
In
Michael Crichton
s novel, John Hammond proudly says that the narrator on the prerecorded park tour is
Richard Kiley
. Later, Kiley was hired to play himself in that role for the movie; possibly the first instance of a celebrity appearing in a book, and then later cast as him or herself in the film version. This feat was not repeated until 2009, when boxer
Paolo Roberto
played himself in the film version of
Flickan som lekte med elden
. He too was already previously featured as a character in the book.
c.
When
Tony Curtis
and
Jack Lemmon
first put on the female make-up and costumes, they walked around the Goldwyn Studios lot to see if they could "pass" as women. Then they tried using mirrors in public ladies rooms to fix their makeup, and when none of the women using it complained, they knew they could be convincing as women. There is a scene on the train recreating this moment.
d.
Before filming the scene with the car buried in the snow,
Brittany Murphy
and
Ashton Kutcher
had an argument which helped them get through the scene without breaking out into laughter.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
Sebastian Stan
was considered to play Aron.
b.
Generally speaking, any shot of a full dinosaur was computer-generated, but shots of parts of dinosaurs were of animatronics.
c.
The train sequences were shot first and they took about a week. This was done to get the most complicated element of the production, working with a moving train, out of the way first.
d.
David Mattey
is 610", making him the tallest actor so far to play Toxie.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
The young boy Kimble treats at Cook County Hospital is played by
Joel Robinson
. His real name is used in the film, as Kimble refers to him as "Joel," and his full name can briefly be seen when Kimble inspects his chart.
b.
Based upon the comedy "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With" which opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York City on March 30, 1958 staring
Peter Lind Hayes
and
Mary Healy
and ran for 208 performances.
c.
Robert Picardo
improvised the line I want to give you a piece of my mind before pulling out a chunk of his brain.
d.
The full-sized animatron of the tyrannosaurus rex weighed about 13,000 to 15,000 pounds. During the shooting of the initial T-rex attack scene that took place in a downpour and was shot on a soundstage, the latex that covered the T-rex puppet absorbed great amounts of water, making it much heavier and harder to control. Technicians worked throughout the night with blow driers trying to dry the latex out. Eventually, they suspended a platform above the T-rex, out of camera range, to keep the water off it during filming.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
Harrison Ford
turned down the role of Dr. Alan Grant.
b.
Josh Brolin
hosted
Saturday Night Live
the weekend the film opened, with
Oliver Stone
also making an appearance to promote the film. By ironic coincidence
Josh Brolin/Adele
was the debut on the show of then Republican Vice-Presidential candidate
Sarah Palin
, 17 days before the 2008 election.
c.
For the moment where Eowyn comforts the dying king Theoden,
Miranda Otto
had to play most of the scene without her co-star as
Bernard Hill
had already completed filming all his scenes and had been given a farewell party. Fortunately, when the film-makers realized they wanted to do a little more with the scene, they were able to call on Hill - who was holidaying on New Zealands South Island - to come back for one more day of filming.
d.
The building used for the Cairo Museum was an actual government building in Marrakesh.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
Richard Attenborough
s first acting role in 15 years.
b.
Jack Benny
was signed for the role eventually taken by
George Burns
. Ill health forced Benny to back out of the project and he recommended Burns to replace him.
c.
In a scene between Danny (
Frank Sinatra
) and Adele (
Patrice Wymore
), Adele throws a dish of candy at Danny. The throwing of the dish was ad-libbed, which accounts for the genuine look of surprise on Sinatras face and the faces of his co-stars.
d.
Topher Grace
revealed that the heavy drug use in the film caused the delayed release. Grace and director
Michael Dowse
wanted to "do something that felt like it was literally made in the 80s" and not a parody of that generation. Grace believed it wouldnt be the 80s without heavy cocaine use, so there was "real hesitation" on part of the studios. The film ended up sitting on the shelf until
Ron Howard
and
Brian Grazer
of Imagine Entertainment came to the rescue. According to Grace, they even ended up "putting stuff back" in the film, rather than having to cut.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
Masters gives "shout outs" to some of his favorite actions heroes and film directors naming various characters after them.
b.
Roman Polanski
had been hired as director but Columbia dropped him when the scandal broke about his statutory rape charges.
c.
Warner Brothers loaned
Bette Davis
to RKO for the role of Regina Giddens.
d.
Michael Crichton
s agents circulated the book to six studios and directors. Warner Brothers wanted it for
Tim Burton
to direct while Columbia was planning it for
Richard Donner
. Fox was also interested and was intending the project for
Joe Dante
, while Universal wanted Steven Spielberg to direct. Crichton was reluctant to submit to a bidding war, He instructed his agents to put a set price on the film rights and he could decide who was more likely to actually get the film made. After interviewing all the prospective directors, he agreed to sell the rights to Universal and
Steven Spielberg
, who was already his first choice.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
In joke: While talking to an ambulance-chasing lawyer, Fishbine mentions a woman who got her hand stuck in a garbage disposal named Natasha Gurdin - which is real name of
Natalie Wood
.
b.
Betsy Palmer
, who played Jasons mother in previous Friday The 13th movies, was asked to reprise her role of Mrs. Pamela Voorhees, but turned it down because she felt the role was too small of a part for her.
c.
Jamie, in her brief appearance passed out on the couch at the party, is wearing the same outfit she wore in her video #11 on jamieandteddy.com. In the video she mentions "this thing" Lily put together and that shes going to it (evidently the party).
d.
The glass of water sitting on the dash of the Ford Explorer was made to ripple using a guitar string that was attached to the underside of the dash beneath the glass.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
The first Woody Allen film since
Love and Death
to be shot outside of New York.
b.
Director
Steven Spielberg
was worried that computer graphics meant Nintendo type cartoon quality. He originally only wanted the herd of gallimimus dinosaurs to be computer-generated, but upon seeing ILMs demo animation of a T-rex chasing a herd of galamides across his ranch, he decided to shoot nearly all the dinosaur scenes using this method. The animation was first plotted on an Amiga Toaster, and rendered for the film by Silicon Graphics Indigo workstations.
c.
The character of Dr. Arroway was modeled after two of the pioneering radio astronomers of the 1930s and 1940s, Grote Reber and John Kraus; both men were ham radio operators at an early age. Another model for the characters work was real-life SETI researcher Jill Cornell Tarter.
d.
The original design for the Witch-King featured a helmet that resembled a bucket with a crown of spikes on top. However, after watching test footage, the producers thought it looked to similar to Saurons helmet and that audiences would confuse the two. The redesign was made to pay homage to the Ringwraith designs. In addition, they also redesigned the Witch-Kings mace.
Peter Jackson
said the original mace was OK but he wanted it bigger. Weta workshop enlarged it, but
Peter Jackson
wanted it bigger, so they made it bigger. In the end, it was so large and heavy, it had lost practical use for the fight scenes, in which it was replaced by a digital version.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Jurassic Park (1993)?
a.
William Hurt
was offered the role of Dr. Grant, but turned it down without reading the book or the script.
b.
Sherlock Jr.s assistant, Gillette, is named after
William Gillette
, the first actor to play Sherlock Holmes on stage.
c.
Shot over a period of 53 days.
d.
First film to use "Go ahead... make my day". Swanson says it to Hauser early in the film. This film was made before
Sudden Impact
, the movie that popularized the expression.
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