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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Land of the Dead (2005) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Land of the Dead (2005) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005).
About the movie:
The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
"Fiddlers Green" is a song about the place where cavalrymen go when they die located "Halfway down the trail to hell" and, in the end, advocates suicide by pistol when death is certain and the hostiles are closing in. "Fiddlers Green" possibly originated in England at least to the 19th century and is still sung today. The song speaks of a place where fisherman go if they dont go to hell. It found its way to the U.S.A with the help of Cornish settlers. The fictional place of Fiddlers Green is also the final resting place for pirates.
b.
This was
Una OConnor
s last big screen motion picture.
c.
When
Gregory Peck
came to Italy to shoot the movie, he was privately depressed about his recent separation and imminent divorce from his first wife,
Greta Kukkonen
. However, during the shot he met and fell in love with a French woman named
Veronique Passani
. After his divorce, he married Passani and they remained together for the rest of his life.
d.
The first film
Alfred Hitchcock
made in Hollywood and the only one that won a Best Picture Oscar.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
Chapter Titles: 1. The Human Torpedo 2. Flaming Death 3. Weapons at Home 4. Towering Doom 5. Trapped in the Dungeon 6. Menaced by Man-Eaters 7. Bombed By the Enemy 8. Chamber of Doom 9. Wings of Destruction 10.Fighting Fathoms Deep 11.Caught in the Caverns 12.The Scorpion Strangled
b.
The twins who play the Mormons answered a casting call for the movie in Aberdeen, Washington. They were the only people selected.
c.
Raoul Walsh
was cast as the Cisco Kid, as well as being the director; but during a return drive to Los Angeles from Utah, a jackrabbit jumped through the windshield of Walshs car, with both the rabbit and the broken glass hitting Walsh in the face. (Safety glass was added to cars the following year.) The damage to Walshs right eye necessitated replacing him in the lead role, re-writing the script and re-shooting some scenes with a different director while Walsh recuperated; Walsh thereafter wore the eye patch for which he was known, and eventually lost the eye entirely. Some footage of Walsh, in chase scenes and long shots, remains in the film.
d.
The assault rifle Big Daddy finds is an Austrian Steyr Aug.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
WILHELM SCREAM: During the attack of the giant robots in New York City. You can hear the scream in the shot following the shot where the robot squashes a car under his foot.
b.
Margaret Sullavan
and
Melvyn Douglas
were initially announced for the roles ultimately played by
Janet Gaynor
and
Franchot Tone
.
c.
According to actor
Richard Kiel
in his autobiography "Making it Big in the Movies", he only turned down four roles in his whole life and the part that
Peter Fonda
plays in this movie is one of them.
d.
The rifle carried by Charlie is an M-1 Carbine, a weapon developed during World War II. It was noted for its superb accuracy (for a carbine) and also hated by the Marines for its puny stopping power.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
The opening scene, where Luke is cutting off the heads of parking meters, was filmed in Lodi, California. After the filming, the city did not replace the meters, and for many years afterward, you could go there and see a block long row of metal posts, sans meters.
b.
The volcanic world of Mustafar was designed to look like
George Lucas
s vision of hell.
c.
The view of the zombies rising from out of the river is an homage to the classic scene from
Herk Harvey
s
Carnival of Souls
where the dead rise out of the Great Salt Lake before the dance sequence.
d.
The sunglasses Vincent wears are Silhouette 4048 with special frames attached.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
Jack Nicholson
wanted
Janis Joplin
to have the part of Palm Apodaca, but it was never offered to her.
b.
This is
David Rakowiecki
s first feature film as a writer, producer and director.
c.
While filming the climactic ballroom scene,
Erich von Stroheim
noticed an extra whose costume was not adjusted to his liking. He stepped of the high camera platform on which he was standing, fell and broke his leg. He directed the rest of the film from a reclining chair, while his leg healed.
d.
George A. Romero
s daughter appears in the film. She is the soldier who shoots the zombie on the electrified fence.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
The name of the military vehicle mainly used in the movie is Dead Reckoning, one of the films original titles.
b.
A large photo of
J. Robert Oppenheimer
(one of the scientists who created the atomic bomb) is displayed on Dennis Nedrys workstation.
c.
The actor playing the young deposed prince was not allowed to be on the set at the same time as the tiger, so a short stunt person in a wig, photographed from behind, was used in those shots.
d.
Sage Adorno plays Shellys (Patricia Rae) friend in the café scene, sitting right next to her - she is in reality Patrica Raes daughter.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
The second of three "Oh God" movies starring
George Burns
.
b.
Qui-Gons description of Mos Espa is almost the same, if not the same word for word, as Obi-Wans description of Mos Eisley in
Star Wars
.
c.
This film was a hit in the Soviet Union at the time, as the film showed a working-class rebellion against a corrupt government.
d.
Partly based on the original, much longer script for
Day of the Dead
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
Shot in 1965, not released in the US until 1971.
b.
Jewish actors
James Caan
and
Abe Vigoda
portray Italian characters (Santino Corleone, Salvatore Tessio), while Italian Alex Rocco, portrays a Jewish character (Moe Greene).
c.
John Leguizamo
s characters name "Cholo" is a pejorative word used in South American Spanish to refer to Ecuatorians, Peruvians, and Bolivians who have strong Indian features.
d.
For a while,
Tim Burton
was considering to direct, but could not due to a conflict with another movie
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
Sofia Coppola
s characters aunt is played by her actual aunt,
Talia Shire
.
b.
Cecil Cunningham
is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of "Miss Perkins," but she was not seen in the movie and her character name was never mentioned.
c.
Movie theaters showing this film in the USA were given a replacement track for the typical music and commercials usually heard playing over still images of advertisements before a movie starts. This track consisted of sound bites of music and lines from Night of the Living Dead, the original version, and Day of the Dead. Along with an advert for then upcoming airings of Day of the Dead on a pay per view network.
d.
The name for the organization SMERSH is derived from "Smiert Spionam" which means "death to spies". This Soviet counterespionage organization existed as early as World War II, and was a branch of the NKVD (later KGB).
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Land of the Dead (2005)?
a.
At the beginning of the movie, a thug that Lundgren beats up can be seen wearing a Punisher t-shirt emblazoned with the famous skull design.
Dolph Lundgren
played the title role in
The Punisher
.
b.
Erich von Stroheim
, hired as an assistant director and also to play the leader of a troop of soldiers, was so realistic in his sadistic treatment of his men that the actors rebelled and beat him up. Director
Allan Dwan
removed Von Stroheim from the cast for his own protection.
c.
In the original novel, John Hammond is killed by a small dinosaur called a Procompsognathid, a species which does not appear in this film. However, this death scene was resurrected and reworked for the sequel,
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
.
d.
Dennis Hopper
based his performance as Kaufman on
Donald Rumsfeld
.
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