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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Krakatoa: East of Java (1969) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Krakatoa: East of Java (1969) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969).
About the movie:
The Dutch East Indies, in the late 19th century. Capt. Hanson of the "Batavia Queen" is preparing to embark on a salvage expedition...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)?
a.
Paramount originally wanted to shoot this movie in Hollywood.
William Wyler
refused, insisting it must be shot on location. They finally agreed, but with a much lower budget. This meant the movie would now be in Black-n-White, not the expected Technicolor, and he would need to cast an unknown actress as the Princess -
Audrey Hepburn
.
b.
John Carpenter
and
Kurt Russell
both admit that after all of these years they still do not know who has been replaced by the creature and when.
c.
The sequence where Bruno enrolled at the Alabama National Guard, filmed at the Alabama Military Academy in Fort McClellan, Anniston, went undetected until a young cadet who recognized him from
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
, notified elder officers who were unfamiliar with the actor.
d.
Eugène Lourié
encountered a problem when shooting the miniatures with the large-format cameras. At the higher frame rates, the mechanisms of the Super Panavision camera would overheat. According to Lourié, each night one or two of the cameras would have to be repaired. Because of this problem, he was limited to a maximum frame rate of only 72 frames per second.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)?
a.
Wes Anderson
chose to have the actors record their dialogue outside of a studio and on location to increase the naturalness: "We went out in a forest, went in an attic, went in a stable... we went underground for some things. There was a great spontaneity in the recordings because of that."
b.
The prison camp guard dogs were actually military dogs and hence very dangerous.
c.
During filming, the Cinerama cameras made so much noise that they drowned out the dialogue. All of the dialogue spoken in the film was re-recorded in post-production.
d.
Bill Murray
was bitten by the groundhog twice during shooting.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)?
a.
The movies line "Its alive! Its alive!" was voted as the #49 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
b.
Jacqui Chan
was dubbed by
Nikki Van der Zyl
c.
Originally, Buford Tannen was supposed to shoot Marshall Strickland in the back, killing him. His son was present at the time. This was edited out of the final cut as it was deemed too depressing. This is why Stricklands deputy arrests Buford at the end of the movie rather than Strickland himself. This scene can be seen on the DVD.
d.
Lou Costello
was Dolores Del Rios stunt double in the window scene.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)?
a.
The producers learned of the geographic error (Krakatoa was west of Java in the Sundra Strait) only after all of the advertising and publicity materials had been prepared. It was deemed too costly to re-do these materials, and possibly delay the release, for the sake of simple geographic accuracy.
b.
Live-action reference of fountains, willow trees, hedges, bottles shattering and umbrellas were used in designing the looks for the movie.
c.
Hunter S. Thompson
wrote several alternate openings and endings for this movie, none of which were used.
d.
Rammstein
: the rock band at the beginning of the film
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)?
a.
One of the stunt drivers lost a leg when his car crashed while filming a stunt. The driver,
David Piper
, received a special thanks "for his sacrifice" at the end credits.
b.
After the success of
Earthquake
and its Sensurround process, this film was re-released in Europe in the mid 1970s (under the new title "Volcano") with the addition of Sensurround. In some areas this process was advertised as "Feelarama."
c.
This movie is based on
Ron Howard
,
Brian Grazer
,
Lowell Ganz
and
Babaloo Mandel
s experiences as parents.
d.
Roberto Orci
and
Alex Kurtzman
approached
Leonard Nimoy
to voice the Fallen while the three of them worked on
Star Trek
. Nimoy voiced Galvatron, Megatrons successor, in
The Transformers: The Movie
.
Michael Bay
was nervous about approaching a relative (Nimoy is married to Bays cousin), particularly a famous one: "I just feel kind of bad about asking him. I cant pay you that much, but would you do this voice?" Nimoy eventually got the role of Optimus Primes predecessor Sentinel Prime in
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)?
a.
Team America first meets Gary performing in a play called "Lease", an obvious parody of the popular broadway musical Rent in which several of the characters are struggling with AIDS.
b.
Burt Lancaster
took a day off during shooting to play golf when the shooting was about half completed. On the links he stepped in a hole and re-aggravated an old knee injury. In order to compensate for the injury,
John Frankenheimer
had Lancasters character shot in the leg, thus enabling him to limp through the rest of the shooting.
c.
In the early phases of production there was no script, but they knew what special effects sequences were needed and special effects creator
Eugène Lourié
shot many of the miniature sequences before the writing was complete.
d.
When Rupert is talking to Rita in a restaurant, a man in the background is imitating Ruperts hand gestures. The man is played by the actor
Chuck Low
, who also appeared in De Niro and Scorseses next collaboration
Goodfellas
as Morrie Kessler.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)?
a.
At the time this was in production, Rome was building an extension of its subway system. Some of the excavated dirt was piled on the back lot at Cinecitta.
Eugène Lourié
made arrangements to use the 70-foot mound of dirt as one of the miniatures of Krakatoa.
b.
Sam Mendes
and then
David Fincher
were attached to direct. Once Fincher left the project, writer
Scott Frank
decided to direct himself.
c.
Director
William A. Wellman
used real hoboes for the fight scene and real laundry workers for the laundry scenes.
d.
Footage was originally shot in October 2001 for a brief 5-minute sequence within
The Rules of Attraction
. Shot as a three-person cast and crew (
Kip Pardue
,
Roger Avary
, and
Greg Shapiro
), using two miniDV cameras, the shoot quickly blew up to 70 tapes worth of footage. Avary subsequently decided (during the trip) to buy the rights to "Glamorama" and attach Pardue to the project to reprise his role as Victor Ward. The 70 tapes of footage therefore are being re-edited into a feature-length piece, entitled "Glitterati", which will act as a sort of bridge between "Rules of Attraction" and "Glamorama".
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)?
a.
All the orchestral sounds are samples from Media Ventures private collection, no symphonic orchestra was recorded. "Real" instruments include electric guitars and some percussion.
b.
Krakatoa was actually located west of Java.
c.
Mercedes McCambridge
was cast after she got angry with the producers. She and other actresses were kept waiting in an office in New York City during open auditions. McCambridge told the producers off and stormed out of the office. They called her back and eventually cast her because she fit the part of Sadie.
d.
VARIETYs review of this film referred to
Olivia Newton-John
s character as "a rollerskating lightbulb."
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Krakatoa: East of Java (1969)?
a.
This became one of the last features to use Todd-AO for principle photography.
b.
Rated 12A in the UK, but raised to 15 on DVD due to added material (
Ellen Page
swearing in the outtakes), sharing the same rating as Ireland.
c.
According to
Samuel Fuller
, the film was shot in 10 days, on one set, with no exteriors.
d.
The fight scenes are mainly staged without having to have recourse to wirework or digital finetuning.
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