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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
About the movie:
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
Herbie got his name when the crew of the film was watching one of
Buddy Hackett
s skits about a ski instructor with a funny accent. Then Hackett said, "If you aint got a herbie pronounced hoy-bie, I aint goin." The name stuck.
b.
Renny Harlin
: [Finland] small Finnish flag visible on top of a cabin next in Sarahs medical room.
c.
The squiggly lines on the central monitor in Lewis design drawings of the Brain Scanner spell out the word Mom.
d.
The beginning of the film features a false-start opening sequence called "The Littlest Elf". The sequence was created in CGI, but designed to resemble the stop-motion animated childrens specials common in the 1960s and 70s, most famously by Rankin-Bass.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
The silhouettes of the Baudelaire parents are actually the silhouettes of production designer
Rick Heinrichs
and director
Brad Silberling
s wife, actress
Amy Brenneman
.
b.
After seeing the first 6 minutes of the original short upon which this movie is based,
Gwyneth Paltrow
agreed to sign on at an indie wage without a script.
c.
NYIIFVF Awards 2005 (New York Independent Film Festival) Grand Jury Prize Best Feature/
d.
Over a third of the entire movie was shot on the new Arriflex 235 system. In July 2004, director
Michael Bay
bought one directly from the Arri camera company before it shipped. After filming he called it the smallest and the lightest camera ever used since it allowed fast pans. The camera weighs at 7.7 lbs, exactly half the weight of the 435 series camera.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
United States Colonial Marines personnel service numbers: SFC Apone, A A19/TQ4.0.32751E8 Pt Crowe, T A46/TQ1.0.98712E6 Cpl Dietrich, C A41/TQ8.0.81120E2 Pt Drake, M A23/TQ2.0.47619E7 Cpl Ferro, C A71/TQ9.0.09428E1 Pt Frost, R A17/TQ4.0.61247E5 Lt Gorman, S A09/TQ4.0.56124E3 Cpl Hicks, D A27/TQ4.0.48215E9 Pt Hudson, W A08/TQ1.0.41776E3 Pt Spunkmeyer, D A23/TQ6.0.92810E7 Pt Vasquez, J A03/TQ7.0.15618E4 Pt Wierzbowski, T A14/TQ8.0.20034E7
b.
The character mannerisms and wardrobe for Elliot Goulds newspaper editor character are based on Tim Fitzpatrick, a deputy editor at The Salt Lake Tribune. Fitzpatricks father is a former publisher of the newspaper. When the crew arrived to film scenes in the Tribune newsroom, they loved Fitzpatricks look so much they copied it down to the last detail.
c.
Director
Charles Shyer
was inspired by the skinny suits that the Beatles wore in
A Hard Days Night
for Alfies wardrobe and the brown sweater that Alfie wears in several scenes was
Jude Law
s own.
d.
The Tatras reel-to-reel tape machine is a miniature Nagra Kudelski, a brand very familiar to sound recordists.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
Ron Shelton
successfully sued 20th Century Fox for $10 million in profits. He has never worked for the film studio again.
b.
Twenty years later, Welles was still planning an epilogue starring the older
Joseph Cotten
,
Anne Baxter
,
Agnes Moorehead
and
Tim Holt
.
c.
Richard Attenborough
was an RAF pilot during World War II, just like his character.
d.
Tim Burton
was attached to direct at some point, with
Johnny Depp
playing Count Olaf and
Glenn Close
playing Aunt Josephine. When Tim Burton left the project, Johnny Depp left as well.
Brad Silberling
replaced Glenn Close, feeling that
Meryl Streep
would be better for the role. Streep accepted the role of Aunt Josephine upon the request of her daughter, a huge fan of the books.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
Pain calls the potion that turns Hercules mortal Grecian Formula. Grecian Formula is an actual product used to color graying hair.
b.
According to
Albert S. Ruddy
s assistant,
Bettye McCartt
, Ruddy was warned by police that the Mafia was following his car. Ruddy would switch cars with McCartt in an effort to lose them. One night, McCartt found her car with the windows shot out and a note that read "Shut down the movie or else."
c.
The melody "Charmaine" (Rapee/Pollock) was specially written for the pit musicians to play during the film. When the film was remade in 1952, "Charmaine" was incorporated in the soundtrack music.
d.
The strange, menacing-looking engine in the railroad crossing scene very strongly resembles Pennsylvania T-1 4-4-4-4, an experimental engine built in 1942 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and used exclusively by the Pennsylvania Railroad. All of the real T-1s were sold for scrap by the early 1950s.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
SFX man
Douglas Trumbull
created the cloud effects by injecting white paint into tanks of salt and fresh water.
b.
At one point, both
Robert Redford
and
Jack Nicholson
were vying to topline the project.
c.
The white knife Una uses to chop vegetables in her kitchen is made by Kyocera electronics; the blade is made of a patented ceramic material instead of steel.
d.
Originally,
Brad Silberling
wanted Sunny to be pure CGI. While he eventually used real babies for the part, at least four of Sunnys scenes have a CG baby because they would be impossible or dangerous for a real child to do. Among these are shots of Sunny hanging on to a table by her teeth, and catching a spindle with her mouth, and the scene where she is entangled with the Incredibly Deadly Viper.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
One time while
Bernard Hill
was in England, a woman came up to him and told him about how one of her children had died shortly before then, and that parents shouldnt have to bury their child. His confrontation with this woman affected him so much that he asked to have a line put in about it.
b.
Industrial Light and Magic did over 505 visual effects-shots for this movie.
c.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
d.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 4, 1951 with
Bob Hope
and
Jane Russell
again reprising their film roles.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
Abbie Cornish
auditioned for a role.
b.
Many scenes of Sunny talking were actually partly virtual. The lower part of the face was replaced and tracked onto the real face.
c.
When producer
David Geffen
originally tried to get the film made,
Steven Spielberg
was attached to produce and
Martin Scorsese
to direct.
John Landis
was also attached to direct for a while.
d.
The movies closing epilogue says: "Over a quarter of a million aircraft battled for supremacy in the skies over Western Europe, and nearly 200,000 air-crew lost their lives."
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
The painting that the Joker spares during his vandalism spree is
Francis Bacon
s 1954 "Figure with Meat." The real painting is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
b.
The movie was entirely filmed on soundstages, even the "exterior" scenes, which involved 360 degree sets and lots of blue screens.
c.
The dojo set was constructed in a space formerly occupied by a nightclub. In the managers office, converted into the on-site production office, Polaroids of beaten bar patrons were tacked on the wall next to the mounted chains used to hold them.
d.
When Taka starts to undress for Capt. Algren there is a shot with her clothes slightly below her shoulders looking backwards over her shoulder. This is a homage to the Hishikawa Moronobus ukiyo-e painting "backwards beauty"
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)?
a.
Because the train scene was filmed on a forced-perspective set, Industrial Light & Magic did something called "lattice deformations "to squeeze the computer-generated train (including the smoke) onto the forced-perspective tracks.
b.
Kevin Smith
has said that the giant spider was producer Jon Peterss idea for the later-abandoned "Superman Reborn" project with
Nicolas Cage
and
Tim Burton
.
c.
The introduction that
Tony Wilson
gives the band as theyre about to perform on Granada television is almost word for word taken from the actual broadcast. The song they play in the film is "Transmission", when in actuality they performed "Shadowplay" on Granada. They did perform "Transmission" live on TV but it was on the BBC without an introduction by Wilson, but instead a toned-down version of the poem used to introduce them at a gig in the film.
d.
The hospital where Benji is taken was an abandoned hospital and the crew had to clean it before they could film.
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