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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : King Kong (1933) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : King Kong (1933) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933).
About the movie:
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
After
Joan Crawford
joined the cast her role was meant to be a cameo, although she was given top billing.
b.
Main feature classified 12 but certification category raised to 15 due to bonus material contained in the DVD.
c.
The two-legged lizard that attacks Jack Driscoll was actually meant to be an aetosaur, a reptile from the Triassic Period. However, because of the high price of armatures (the metal skeletons for the puppets), RKO cut costs by not having hind legs made for it. As a result, the aetosaur has two forearms, no hind legs and a snakelike appearance.
d.
Christopher Walken
was originally cast and set to co-star as Chief Albert Grusinsky, but had to pull out due to scheduling difficulties.
Robert Duvall
was brought in at the last minute to play the role.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
Sensing a huge hit from industry buzz, MGM offered to buy the film outright from RKO for $1.072m (some $400,000 over its negative cost), figuring the little studio was reeling from losing $10+m in 1932. RKO was smart to decline the offer. The film smashed attendance records nationwide and ended up grossing $1.761m during its initial release. RKO would periodically, and extremely profitably, re-release the movie through the 1950s.
b.
Final film of
Grant Mitchell
.
c.
The movie is based on the life of
Brandon Teena
.
d.
The hangar in which the real-life
Howard Hughes
partially built his famous "Spruce Goose" airplane was also used for the construction of many of the full-scale models used in
Titanic
, in which
Leonardo DiCaprio
also starred.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
Art drawn for the press book associated for the original release of the film was contributed to by actor
Keye Luke
, who was a highly regarded illustrator before he became an actor and whose works have appeared in films themselves, such as
The Shanghai Gesture
.
b.
Marlon Brando
s first cut of the film was allegedly five hours long. He was reportedly unhappy with the final product, despite its box-office success. "Now, its a good picture for them Paramount," he said upon its release, "but its not the picture I made . . . now the characters in the film are black-and-white, not gray-and-human as I planned them."
c.
Crispin Glover
came up with many of his characters eccentric trades, such as ripping off womens hair, sniffing it and then screaming.
d.
Director
Don Siegel
did not want to shoot the scene where
Bob Newhart
s character has a fake telephone conversation with "headquarters" to fool the Germans listening through a microphone planted in the US bunker, believing that it had no place in the story. He was overruled by the studio, however. Newhart at the time was a hugely popular stand-up comic, and a major part of his act was having one-sided phone conversations. The studio ordered that the scene be shot in order to capitalize on Newharts popularity. Newhart wrote his own lines for this scene.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
According to the book "
David O. Selznick
s Hollywood" by
Ron Haver
, costume designer
Walter Plunkett
(later noteworthy for
Gone with the Wind
) worked uncredited on this film. Specifically, he designed the "Beauty and the Beast" costume that Ann Darrow wears while Carl Denham is filming her screen test.
b.
Stockard Channing
replaced
Bette Midler
who was passed over for the role after asking
Mike Nichols
"What other movies have you done?"
Cher
also met Nichols to discuss the role but she, too, was not cast.
c.
This film was one of the most pirated films of 1999 because of limited release due to its independent status. The pirated version was an unfinished leaked work-print with several plot holes and most of the initial interviews missing leading to audience confusion at final scene of the film.
d.
During the scene in which
Lou Costello
is "interrogating" the radio show cast, he blurts out the question, "Where were you on the night of January 16th?". This is reference to the famous Broadway play of the same name by
Ayn Rand
, the Russian-born novelist and philosopher who wrote "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged". "The Night of January 16th" was also made into a movie in 1941.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
Over 800 rounds of blank ammunition were expended on the final shootout scene alone.
b.
Fay Wray
claimed that she personally insisted that her character be a blond, and personally chose her wig at the
Max Factor
shop in Los Angeles.
c.
The film was inspired by a dream in which
Woody Allen
discovers that his soul looks just like a chickpea.
d.
The twelfth of sixteen Andy Hardy films starring
Mickey Rooney
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
As a child,
Merian C. Cooper
lived close to an elevated train which kept him awake at night when it clattered across the tracks. This was the inspiration for the scene where Kong destroys an elevated train.
b.
The harp playing for
Cary Grant
was done by Mr. Gail Laughton, Laughtons hands are seen in the film during close-ups of Grants character playing the harp.
c.
The Norwegian underground receives a message in Morse code telling them that "M Day" has been moved up to 0630 hours. It is actually sent in good Morse code, but the entire text of the message reads only "MX" and there is no sign-off.
d.
Also on the day of the premiere, New Zealands 2 major TV networks both suspended regular broadcasts to give over to live coverage of the event.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
The 2005 DVD restoration further details the risqué liberties of a 1933 pre-code film release in two scenes. The first is when Ann is on the ships deck while Charlie is peeling potatoes, and the second is where Denham is shooting some test footage of Ann ("Scream for your life, Ann, Scream!"). The thin material used for Anns dress and gown in both scenes makes it obvious that
Fay Wray
is not wearing a bra; a wardrobe decision that may not have made it past the Breen Code the following year.
b.
While
Isaac Hayes
and
Jim Brown
were on their way to the garage for their meeting, "Grazing In The Grass" by
Friends of Distinction
was playing on the car radio. In real life, Brown managed the group in the late 1960s.
c.
Guy Ritchie
reportedly paid US $1 million for the use of
Madonna
s song, "Lucky Star".
d.
The Night Foxs mansion is on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. The name of the city overlooking Lake Como is Bellagio. The city and the lake were the inspiration for the design of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, site of the heist in
Oceans Eleven
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
In order to cover the necessary camera tricks, and to add "magic" to the Little Mermaid ballet, it was decided that, rather than presenting it as an actual ballet, they would have Hans imagine how it would look. This allowed them to do things on the screen which would be impossible on the stage.
b.
The name of Glenn Whitmann was taken from a friend of the writers. The real
Glen Whitman
is a Professor of Economics at California State University in Northridge, though he has also written episodes of
Fringe
, which was created by writers
Roberto Orci
and
Alex Kurtzman
.
c.
To capture the excitement of the typhoon scene, the filmmakers originally intended to steer the ship (a replica of the USS Caine) into an actual gale for the bad-weather footage. It was eventually decided that the typhoon would be artificially created in a studio by special effects technician
Lawrence W. Butler
.
d.
Merian C. Cooper
was partially inspired by
W. Douglas Burden
, who brought the worlds first captive Komodo dragons to the Bronx Zoo in 1926. Cooper was intrigued how the once mythic, massive predators quickly perished once caged and displayed for the public.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
The character Clarence Beeks shares his name with a jazz musician who recorded under the name "King Pleasure."
b.
Composer
Alan Menken
reported that he based the films musical score on 1960s rock.
c.
Jungle scenes were filmed on the same set as the jungle scenes in
The Most Dangerous Game
, which also happened to star
Fay Wray
and
Robert Armstrong
.
d.
This film was thought to be lost until it resurfaced in the early-1990s, in the Filmoteca Espanol in Madrid, Spain.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Kong (1933)?
a.
Executive Producer
David O. Selznick
left RKO midway through production of this film. But Selznicks last act of business at RKO - and probably his biggest contribution to the film - was to write a memo changing the name of the production from Kong to
King Kong
.
b.
The cast and crew totaled more than 10,000 people.
c.
In the bladder sequence, you can see one of the characters carrying Pikachu as a pet.
d.
The studio wanted Michael Mann to re-team with
Don Johnson
, the star of Manns show
Miami Vice
, but Mann wanted William Petersen who he had worked with on
Thief
.
Jeff Bridges
was also discussed.
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