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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Lean on Me (1989) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Lean on Me (1989) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989).
About the movie:
The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school that he is determined to improve.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.
The score was composed in a different city while the film was being shot.
b.
The real-life Joe Clark resigned as principal of Eastside High School the year after this film was released. He became an author and motivational speaker. In August 1995, he was hired to run a juvenile detention center in Newark, New Jersey.
c.
The cougar used in the film now lives in Hollywild Animal Park in South Carolina.
d.
The indelible guitar "wah-wah" riff on
Isaac Hayes
Oscar-winning song - "Theme from Shaft" - was played by
Charles Skip Pitts
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.
The title of the film is a play on a song (The Exploding Boy) which was on the b-side of the single "In Between Days" by
The Cure
. "In Between Days" had been used by the director and his wife as a title to a previous movie and so they decided to adapt "The Exploding Boy" to The Exploding Girl for the purpose of this film (as explained by the director himself on 14th Nov 2009 at the 50th International Film Festival of Thessaloníki, Greece).
b.
At the time this movie was filmed, major league baseball had been integrated for two seasons. However, there are no African American ballplayers in the cast or even in the stock footage.
c.
The MIB headquarters are located in the ventilation tower of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, which connects Manhattan with Brooklyn.
d.
In real life, there was never any threat of a state takeover of Eastside High.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.
In the auditorium scene where
Morgan Freeman
s character expels the students on stage, a young
Michael Imperioli
of
The Sopranos
can be seen behind him.
b.
To cause problems for Otto Piffl (
Horst Buchholz
),
James Cagney
gives him a cuckoo clock that plays the old English song,"Yankee Doodle," causing Buchholz to get arrested by the East Germany police. Jimmy Cagney played the lead role in
Yankee Doodle Dandy
, the story of George M. Cohan, the composer of "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
c.
Shot in Technicolor, it was necessary to use brighter lights than usual. This also required spending five months in the lab, painting up colors that werent rich enough.
d.
Director
Amy Holden Jones
made a shot a promo film of the original scripts prologue for a $1,000 dollars so she could get a directing job from
Roger Corman
. Corman was so impressed by the promo that he asked Jones to make a feature length movie from the script.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.
Morgan Freeman
spent time with the real-life Joe Clark to capture his mannerisms and sayings.
b.
First went into production in early 1936 as a vehicle for
Luise Rainer
.
c.
Members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 890, who were part of the original strike upon which this story is based, appear in this film as either extras or supporting cast.
Juan Chacón
, who played Ramon Quintero, was the Union Local president.
d.
This was the last completed film for both
Clark Gable
and
Marilyn Monroe
. Gable died of a heart attack and Monroe died of an alleged drug overdose a year later. (Note: While
Somethings Got to Give
is listed as her last film, it was never completed because she was fired.)
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.
Real-life students and teachers from Eastside High appeared as extras in this film.
b.
Robert Edwards
has cast
Kiefer Sutherland
in the film. He had previously worked with Kiefers renowned father
Donald Sutherland
on the political film
Land of the Blind
.
c.
The ShenaniganZ restaurant was actually a converted Bennigans restaurant (hence the extreme similarities). It has since been completely renovated and is now a Verizon Wireless retail store. (2009)
d.
Throughout the film,
Jerry Lewis
gives a Scout salute, rather than a military salute.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.
Henry Hathaway
was first considered to direct.
Micheline Presle
and
Alida Valli
were approached for the role of Countess Staviska.
b.
The subplot of the Proficiency Requirement that 75% of the students had to pass the Minimum Basic Skills Test to prevent a state take-over, was never any part of the real Joe Clark story. It was added to the film to create a sense of purpose and accomplishment for the movie. In reality, Joe Clarks story was more about how he instilled discipline and authoritative values to East Side High School, more so than anything that he did to improve scholastic achievement. East Side High School always was a state run public school.
c.
Stephen King
was reportedly disappointed in this film. In an interview in the June 1986 issue of American Film he said "Its like a great big beautiful Cadillac with no motor inside, you can sit in it and you can enjoy the smell of the leather upholstery - the only thing you cant do is drive it anywhere. So I would do everything different. The real problem is that Kubrick set out to make a horror picture with no apparent understanding of the genre. Everything about it screams that from beginning to end, from plot decisions to the final scene". In particular, King disliked the casting of
Jack Nicholson
as Jack Torrance. This was because he felt that in the novel, it was pivotal that Jack is initially a good man who is slowly overcome by the forces of evil and who is fighting a losing battle against alcoholism. King was of the opinion that due to the casting of Nicholson, who was well known for playing unstable characters, Jack in the film is very much on the edge when the story begins, and the character does not possess the inner goodness so vital to Jack of the novel. King wanted to cast someone who could play the character as more genial in the early stages; apparently he was very keen on
Jon Voight
. He was also hugely disappointed that the themes of the evils of alcoholism and the disintegration of the family unit were relatively unimportant in the film due to his own battle with alcoholism and because of this personal investment in that aspect of the novel he was largely disheartened by the film.
d.
The film was shot on a Canon XL2, which was donated to the school upon completion of principal photography.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lean on Me (1989)?
a.
Dragonball Evolution was one of the films that Fox Studios owned the rights to for years but hadnt green-lit production for, but due to the Writers Strike of 2007-2008 was finally pushed into production (this was also the case for
The X Files: I Want to Believe
).
b.
Apparently, director
Paul Schrader
regretted using the Cat People title after negative reaction to this movie occurred comparing it with the original
Cat People
.
c.
Bob Hoskins
actually cut
Jet Li
s hair at the start of the movie, as his character would have done it in the movie.
d.
The young woman who ends up with her blouse ripped was based on a scene in the film Savage Streets (1984) where a gang threatens a drug dealer and molest his girlfriend by pulling down her tube top.
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