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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Leatherheads (2008) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Leatherheads (2008) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008).
About the movie:
In 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America's too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
The idea for
Samuel L. Jackson
s character to wear black leather, including driving gloves, so hed even sound ominous before he opened his mouth, came from costume designer
Mark Bridges
.
b.
Carter Rutherford is loosely based on the real life football star
Harold Red Grange
. His agent in the movie, C.C. Frazier, is based on his real life agent C.C. Pyle.
c.
At the hotel dinner for the kids, after their trip to the Holocaust museum, all of the Holocaust survivor characters are played by actual Holocaust survivors.
d.
Final film of
Jay Novello
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
The resort scenes were filmed entirely at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, California. One reason why
Billy Wilder
chose this location was
Marilyn Monroe
s ongoing personal problems. He wanted a location where she could live on site and not have to be transported.
b.
Director
Mike Nichols
had originally wanted lead actress
Michelle Pfeiffer
to wear a red-hooded sweatshirt for the films final act. She refused as she thought it would harm the films credibility.
c.
Lana Turner
was originally fired from the role after marrying
Artie Shaw
against the wishes of studio head
Louis B. Mayer
.
Esther Williams
successfully screen-tested with
Clark Gable
and was to be Turners replacement. However, Turner and Mayer "made up" and Turner was given back the part.
d.
The building that Dodge arrives at on his motorcycle just before meeting Lexi for the first time is the Poinsett Hotel located in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. The Poinsett Hotel was built in 1924, but it didnt actually open until June of 1925.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
The character "Bobo Weller" is based on real-life Playboy Playmate
Terri Welles
. When Paul Snider tries to impress her by listing her favorite books and musicians, theyre the same as those on Welles data sheet.
b.
The name "Jar Jar" was created by
George Lucas
s son.
c.
Tim (
Jim Parsons
), the knight armor-donning nerd, speaks the fictional language Klingon, from the Star Trek series. Parsons would later play the intellectual, yet socially-confused and Star Trek-obsessed nerd Sheldon in the sitcom, "The Big Bang Theory".
d.
George Clooney
watched many old Screwball-comedies in preparation for this movie.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
John Huston
was inspired to write the story after he bought an odd statue in London.
b.
More than 400 local extras were hired. They were paid around $9 per hour.
c.
Belgian director
Erik Van Looy
dropped out of this film after only a couple of weeks.
d.
Bill Clark is based on
Henry Paulson
who was Treasury Secretary under the Bush Administration when the financial crisis occurred. Similarly, the New York Federal Reserve Head played by
Jason Clarke
is clearly modeled on
Timothy Geithner
who held that position in real life in 2008 before succeeding Paulson as Treasury Secretary.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
Frank Capra
: [Jimmy the Raven] this bird appeared in all of
Frank Capra
s movies.
b.
The script was written back in 1993. The writers brought it to the attention of
Steven Soderbergh
who then took it to the then president of production at Universal Pictures,
Casey Silver
. It went into script limbo after Silver left the studio to become an independent producer. Soderbergh then came back and brought
George Clooney
along to make the film.
c.
The exchange between the prosecutor and automotive expert about the equipment used to analyze the tires was taken almost verbatim from an actual court transcript. The witness, asked how he analyzed the evidence, answered "I have a dual-column gas chromatograph, Hewlett-Packard model 5710a with flame analyzing detectors." The D.A. quipped, "Does that thing come turbo-charged?" and the witness answered, "Only on the floor models." This appears in lots of "funny things said in court" collections.
d.
The films prints are coming from a digital intermediate. This digital master has been digitally grain reduced from start to finish. As a result many moving textures (especially human skin) look smeared and very unnatural, like bad quality video watched on a slow LCD monitor.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
George Clooney
claimed that he had rewritten all but two scenes and had asked the WGA for credit. When they denied his request, he removed himself as a voting member and changed his status to "Financial Core Member."
b.
Director
Spencer T. Folmar
wrote, directed and edited this film before his 21st Birthday.
c.
Although it is said that the tournament winning arrow shoots the other arrow in two, in fact when the arrow shot by
Howard Hill
strikes the arrow embedded in the target, it splits the arrow into three pieces. It sounds better to split something in half or in two, but the details in the movie are real and not just a saying.
d.
Wes Anderson
said that part of his inspiration for
The Darjeeling Limited
was
The River
, and more specifically that he owes a debt of gratitude to
Martin Scorsese
for screening the film personally for him.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
For this role,
John Krasinski
had to change his usual hair style. This hair change was worked into a story on his television show,
The Office
.
b.
In the wake of the Oklahoma bombing, 20th Century Fox took out trade press ads defending their decision to continue with the imminent release of a film about a terrorist planting bombs in public places.
c.
Filmed in Whitehall, NY. The town is home to not only the Champlian Canal Lock 12, the final lock of the Champlain Canal before entering the southern terminus of Lake Champlain, but also the birthplace of the U.S. Navy.
d.
Considered in the Philippines as the very first feature-length film to extensively show the Filipino-American experience.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
There were two trucks used in the film. The first one used in the beginning of the film would not start for the trek-to-the-gas-pump scenes and had to be replaced. Unfortunately, they forgot to break the headlights.
b.
In an interview with CGSociety, Visual Effects Art Director
Aaron McBride
revealed that when he was given the task of doing photo-real illustrations of Davy Jones, there was talk that
Christopher Walken
would play the role.
c.
The motorcycle that
George Clooney
rides is not a vintage motorcycle, but rather a custom-built electric-powered replica of a 1918 Indian motorcycle.
d.
Louis XIV did have a brother named Philippe, but he was not a twin. He was several years younger.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
All scenes in the subway car were filmed in a studio mockup of IRT Worlds Fair Lo-V #5674. The producers contacted St. Louis Car Co. for original blueprints of the car and painstakingly reproduced it. Lights were mounted along the car exterior and illuminated sequentially to simulate a speed of 30 mph. The NYC Transit Authority refused to grant permission for filming on its property. Subway footage was filmed by concealing the cameras inside bags. Police became suspicious when they heard whirring sounds inside the bags.
b.
On the DVD cover and in commercials, the dogs appear to be flying Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk airship-launched fighters. US Navy airships such as the Macon and the Akron based at Moffet Naval Airstation between the first and second World Wars were actually designed to carry and launch these fighters.
c.
Star-director
George Clooney
and his co-star
Renée Zellweger
premiered this film in Clooneys hometown of Maysville, KY on March 24th, 2008. In 1953, his aunt
Rosemary Clooney
had premiered a film of her own,
The Stars Are Singing
, in the same town, though not at the same theatre. Roughly 3,000 fans attended the red carpet event while 200 VIPs were hand-selected to watch the film. An additional screening was held afterward with 100 lucky winners winning 2 tickets apiece from a raffle drawing. Clooney and Zellweger hosted the second screening as well before departing the theatre. Among the guests in attendance were former Lt. Governor of Kentucky Steve Henry and his wife, Miss America 2000,
Heather French
Henry.
d.
The bartender in the scene with the cops and Fogell is played by
Ted Haigh
, the graphic artist.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Leatherheads (2008)?
a.
Gunther von Hagens
: The creator of the Body Worlds exhibit can be heard and his trademark black hat seen - but not his face - during the sequence where Bond stabs a man in the museum in front of one of von Hagens displays.
b.
The fictitious actor playing Captain Avenger in the movie in the movie was Ryan McGraw.
c.
The telephone and fax numbers on the labwork are the actual numbers for Med-Health Services in Monroeville, PA, a real medical lab facility.
d.
The Dodge Connelly character was loosely based off of 1920s football star Johnny "Blood" McNally, who was known for his great football skills, but even more for his off-the-field incidents.
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