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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Legally Blonde (2001) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Legally Blonde (2001) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001).
About the movie:
When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
Sean Penn
s directorial debut.
b.
During its first weekend of release (playing in only five US theaters), this set a record for the highest per-screen gross of any non-animated movie in history.
c.
The film was produced by students at Ball State University in the summer of 2010.
d.
As agreed in her contract,
Reese Witherspoon
kept all of her costumes after filming.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
We see Elle Woods brushing her hair behind the opening credits. This is not
Reese Witherspoon
, as she was in England finishing
The Importance of Being Earnest
.
b.
This was the eighth and final film pairing of
Errol Flynn
with
Olivia de Havilland
. The last scene they filmed together was Custers parting with his wife before his final campaign.
c.
Some theatergoers experienced nausea from the handheld camera movements and actually had to leave to vomit. In some Toronto theatres, ushers asked patrons who where prone to motion sickness to sit in the aisle seat and to try not to "throw up on other people."
d.
Laura Dern
mother
Diane Ladd
- who also appears in this film - appeared with
Crispin Glover
s father
Bruce Glover
in
Chinatown
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
The curious teenager who lives next door to the Hudson sisters is none other than
Barbara Merrill
,
Bette Davis
s real-life daughter.
b.
The opening scene where the vets in the hospital are talking was totally unscripted. They were real Vietnam vets discussing their own views about the war.
Jon Voight
was supposed to have added to the dialog, but out of respect stayed silent and listened.
c.
To prepare for her role as Elle,
Reese Witherspoon
spent two weeks studying the behavior of sorority girls, as she did not wish to portray a stereotypical airhead sorority image. She states on the DVD commentary that they were all very kind and polite, and she enjoyed her time with them. She also observed women shopping from the café at Neiman Marcus, and attended law school for a day.
d.
To prepare for her role,
Hilary Swank
lived life as a man for at least a month, including wrapping her chest in tension bandages and putting socks down the front of her pants much the same way that Brandon Teena did.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
Based partly on
Zach Braff
s own childhood in New Jersey, as well as his days as a struggling actor in Los Angeles before the success of
Scrubs
.
b.
While shooting the dream scene, the chemical used for the fog effect caused severe allergic reaction to two crew members who needed hospitalization.
c.
The Broadway musical based on the movie opened at the Palace Theater on April 29, 2007 and has ran for 595 performances closing on October 19, 2008. The musical was written by Laurence OKeefe, with
Laura Bell Bundy
starring as Elle Woods.
Laura Bell Bundy
was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Actress in a Musical.
d.
The original play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 14 August 1922, but closed after only 12 performances.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
Batso is one of several iron communities that thrived during our Revolutionary War but became ghost towns when the iron industry moved to Bethlehem, Pa. Popular place for school outings, as is Allaire. Batso tried to make glass after the iron industry but didnt make it. Glassboro made the switch from iron to glass and still thrives.
b.
In 2005,
Mark Hamill
, who portrays PFC Griff, lent his voice talents to the video game "Call Of Duty 2: The Big Red One". Like the film, the game follows the exploits of a squad from "The Big Red One" from North Africa to East Europe.
c.
In the novel, Elle is a member of Delta Gamma, an international sorority which is part of the Panhellenic Conference. It was changed to Delta Nu to avoid problems with the real organization.
d.
The United States Navy ordered submarine crews docked at San Pedro, California, USA to cooperate and participate in the filming of this movie. Three divisions of the Navy worked with the production, which also employed thousands of extras.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
Fred Myrow
, composer of the emblematic main theme as well as the music for all the movies in the Phantasm series, died shortly after the films release.
b.
In an interview in Fangoria magazine, screenwriter
Anthony Harris
stated that a good portion of the filmed material was improvised on the set and that the script was ignored.
c.
Universal passed on making the film. MGM later bought it.
d.
The cheer that Missy hears from out of the hotel window is a cheer from
Kirsten Dunst
s high school alma mater.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
The song "Me Ol Bamboo", repeatedly heard in the pageant rehearsals, was originally heard in movie
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
.
b.
Portions of the sound effects for the Millennium Falcons engines were recorded at an air show at the Experimental Aircraft Associations annual convention in Oshkosh, WI. In a gesture of thanks, Lucasfilm donated a model of the Falcon to the EAA Air Museum.
c.
The trial by combat set in the woods was originally to be the set for the Rivendel counsel chamber in
John Boorman
s version of "Lord of the Rings", which failed to get made.
d.
Reese Witherspoon
s character wears 40 different hairstyles throughout the film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
In the ending credits, Freddy Krueger is credited as himself, even though
Robert Englund
reprises the role.
b.
There is a quick shot of a TV truck from WAJB, Channel 3 in Boston. This fictional channel is a reference to the author of the novel on which the script is based,
Amanda Brown
.
c.
Producer
Hal B. Wallis
nearly made the character Sam a female.
Hazel Scott
,
Lena Horne
, and
Ella Fitzgerald
were considered for the role.
d.
Acclaimed as the #1 film of the 1990s by Entertainment Weekly.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
The movie took five years to complete, but was in development for over ten years before it entered active production.
b.
The first part of a planned trilogy written by
Robert Towne
about J.J. Gittes and L.A. The second part,
The Two Jakes
, was directed by
Jack Nicholson
in 1990.
c.
George Lucas
Industrial Light and Magic constructed the the puppet of the chest-burster for the film. The main effects unit for the film was Apogee, Inc. This was the company headed by
John Dykstra
that split off from ILM in 1978 when Lucasfilm moved to Marin County. Thus, Spaceballs marked the first time since
Star Wars
that the two units shared work on a single project.
d.
During the opening credits, a group of (mostly) guys is seen wrestling on a lawn in front of a fraternity house. These folks are actual Caltech students, and were a last-second addition to this scene: they showed up on the set (the row of fraternity and sorority houses featured are administrative buildings on the edge of Caltechs campus) unannounced and were invited to join in the filming.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Legally Blonde (2001)?
a.
A test animation of baby Bambi stuck on a fallen tree-trunk was sufficiently charming to convince
Walt Disney
to make the film.
b.
Producers originally wanted to set the film at The University of Chicago. School administrators declined, however, because of a scene toward the end of the movie where a professor places his hand on Elles leg. Filmmakers subsequently decided to have the story take place at Harvard University.
c.
A typhoon destroyed sets, causing a delay of several months.
d.
The scene where John Rooney (
Paul Newman
) and Michael Sullivan (
Tom Hanks
) are playing the piano together, was originally supposed to be an Irish dance sequence shared between the two of them.
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