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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Just Before Dawn (1981) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Just Before Dawn (1981) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Just Before Dawn (1981) - Part (2)

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1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Just Before Dawn (1981)?
a.		According to director Jeff Lieberman, in the scene where Ralph Seymour is stabbed the camera hanging from Ralphs neck flew upward and smacked the actor in the face as he fell backwards onto the ground. So the expression of pain on the actors face is very real.
b.		Amon Goeths name is pronounced "Aimen Gert". Ralph Fiennes ("Rayf Fines") said in an interview that one of the reasons he was interested in playing Amon was because both their names are spelled differently then they are pronounced.
c.		The Johnny Boz Club was a set built inside Warner Bros Studios.
d.		Heavily influenced by the French New Wave directors, mainly through its rapid shifts of tone and its choppy editing.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Just Before Dawn (1981)?
a.		According to the National Film Preservation Foundation, this Vitagraph film was originally released in five parts but later was shown in a single screening, thus making it the first surviving American feature.
b.		During the filming of the car crash scene, drivers who were passing by stopped their cars and rushed to the scene of the "accident", carrying first aid kits and blankets.
c.		According to composer Brad Fiedel many of the ominous sounds in the music score were actually electronically-altered audio clips of himself vocalizing droning noises.
d.		Shane West loved the car that he had in the movie so much, that he bought the car for only $5,000.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Just Before Dawn (1981)?
a.		The scene where McClane climbs the ladder from the service tunnels up onto the runway and then nearly gets run over by Esperanzas plane was filmed from eight different locations: Granada Hills, California (McClain in the tunnel and climbing up the ladder), Los Angeles (Close-ups of Esperanza inside the planes cockpit), Mojave Desert, California (Head-on view of plane in the sky on approach), Alpena, Michigan (Exterior shot of the grating door on the runway), San Francisco (Rear shot of plane on approach with runway lights in the background), Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (Plane after just landed rushing towards the screen), Lake Tahoe, California (Plane rushing towards McClane in the foreground), and Denver, Colorado (Plane rushing towards McClane as seen from behind the front landing gear).
b.		The "Mr. Fusion Home Energy Converter", which is sitting on the DeLorean when Doc returns from the future, is made from (among other things) a Krups coffee grinder.
c.		Sidney Howard agreed to write the screenplay, but from his home in Massachusetts, 3000 miles away from studio interference. His first draft would have made a 5 1/2 hour movie. Howard reluctantly agreed to leave his Massachusetts farm and come to Hollywood to work on another draft with Selznick and then-attached director George Cukor. As Selznick was preoccupied with problems on the set of The Prisoner of Zenda, Howard had to wait 5 weeks before he was able to start working on another draft (in the meantime contributing some rewrites for "Zenda"). The second draft turned out to be 15 pages longer than the first.
d.		The eerie whistling motif heard in Brad Fiedels music score is a reference to the rescue whistle that Warren carries in the film.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Just Before Dawn (1981)?
a.		"Biography," the play by S.N. Behrman, opened in New York on 12 December 1932.
b.		Even though this film is about a bank robbery, and has several firearms throughout the whole film, only two shots are fired. The first is when Sonny (Al Pacino) shoots his rifle at a window to scare off the police that are trying to go around the back of the bank. The second and final one is at the end when Murphy (Lance Henriksen) shoots Sal (John Cazale) in the head, resulting to his death.
c.		Unsure if he could play a man with a heart condition, Charles Laughton (Sir Wilfrid) staged a heart attack in the pool one day at home. His wife, Elsa Lanchester (Miss Plimsoll), and a houseguest panicked and pulled him from the water, at which point he explained his trick. Elsas reaction has not been recorded.
d.		An early draft of the script had Jonathan attempting to seduce Merry Kat, instead of Merry Cat flirting with him after putting on Megans makeup.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Just Before Dawn (1981)?
a.		"The New York Times" in May 1947 reported details of the deal between source novelist William Wister Haines and MGM. The studio paid Haines US $100,000 upfront for the filming rights to the novel. However, if this novel was produced as a play by the end of October 1947, Haines would be paid 15% of the plays weekly gross on the stage. This would amount to US $300,000. Indeed, a play of the novel did open on Broadway on 1 October 1947.
b.		J.J. Abrams: The director can be seen in the hospital when Ethan is looking for his wife.
c.		The quote that Papa shares with Avner when telling him that he is being hunted is loosely taken from Ecclesiastes 9:11: "I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all."
d.		Jeff Liebermans idea for the fist-choke finale of the film came about as he was trying to think of a way to kill someone that had never been done in film. The closeup shot of this quirky killing was done with a prosthetic over-sized mouth placed on John Hunsaker and Liebermans wife used as a stand-in for Deborah Benson. Its her fist thats used in the shot.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Just Before Dawn (1981)?
a.		This film contains the longest sexually explicit scenes passed by the British Board of Film Classification for exhibition in British cinemas.
b.		In the scene when Caleb is first reading the "love dare" book, there are books on the coffee table. One of those books is "Facing the Giants", which is the novelization of the Kendrick brothers earlier movie of the same title.
c.		Despite its authentic, weathered appearance the old church house used in the film was actually built for the production.
d.		It was Howard Hughes, Preston Sturges partner in California Pictures Corporation, who re-cut the film and retitled it "Mad Wednesday" - not Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn, as has long been believed.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Just Before Dawn (1981)?
a.		Tom Savini considers this to be his best work.
b.		We can assume that the film is set in 1983 as one of the songs featured is "One Thing Leads to Another" by The Fixx.
c.		Originally the revelation of the films twin killers occurred when Jonathan is attacked on the rope bridge. Jonathan was to be attacked by one twin at one end of the bridge then he turned and struggle to the other side - only to be greeted by the same massive in-bred on that side too! It was then that he would turn to see that there were two huge ill-intentioned men at each end of the bridge.
d.		Dr. Jenkins gives Annie regular doses of laudanum to help her maintain a less adversarial demeanor. Laudanum contains alcohol and opium.

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