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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Lolita (1962) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Lolita (1962) - 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: Lolita (1962).
About the movie:
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
The scene in which the horse is cut into segments suspended in glass cases is inspired by the work of British artist
Damien Hirst
(e.g., the installation "Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything").
b.
In one of the last scenes, when the house is shaking and the bed rolling, Linda Blair fell off of the bed into a crack in the floor. Viewing dailies showed this to be a superior way of dealing with Blairs character, but a stage hand jumped into the scene to rescue Blair from injury and the shot was unusable.
c.
One ending that was considered was to have Humbert and Lolita get married in a state that allowed young people to wed; this ending was considered in order to appease the censors.
d.
Darren Aronofsky
was previously attached to direct but left the production to work on
Black Swan
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
The sixth of six "Thin Man" movies starring
William Powell
and
Myrna Loy
, filmed early January-mid March 1947.
b.
Sue Lyons outstanding performance as "Lolita" earned her the "Most Promising Female Newcomer" award at the 1963 Golden Globes.
c.
Prior to the release of the movie, the cover art for the novel "Firefox" showed an aircraft similar to a MiG-25 Foxbat. After the release of the movie, the cover art was updated to reflect the design of the movie version of the aircraft. There really is a MiG-31, and its a modified version of the MiG-25.
d.
Another way to tone down Godzillas darkness from the previous two movies, the monsters roar has a much higher pitch to it. For the remainder of the Showa series, this remained Godzillas roar.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
Pundits nicknamed the film "Z-Day".
b.
Stanley Kubrick
: [three-way] Humbert vs. Quilty vs. Lolita
c.
David Jackson is based on real life scientist David Johnston. He died in the exact same way and uttering the same final words into his radio before the blast of Mt. St. Helens hit him, "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!"
d.
In the novel, Amy is the youngest sister, but in order to use Margaret OBrien as Beth, Beth was made the youngest.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
The Scottish Fusiliers were originally meant to have an on-screen role.
b.
In the novel, Lolita is a brunette. In the film, she is a blonde.
c.
The song heard playing while "Buffalo Bill" does his little dance is "Goodbye Horses" by
Q. Lazzarus
. A more commonly known version of this song is performed by
Psyche
.
d.
Ads for New York release claim film was in "Cosmovision 3-D".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
Having trained in a diving center to prepare for his role,
Richard Roxburgh
claimed that the hardest thing to master was the rebreather, which he described as "fantastic in theory, but a torture in real life".
b.
According to Elstree Studios records, Lolita was filmed from Nov 1960 to Feb 1961. The studio charged £34,000 for the sound stage rentals. Sadly, the sound stages used for the film were demolished to make way for a Tesco store.
c.
All the actors performed their own stunts. The most intense of these was when Marc Bossley (the Detective) scaled a three-story section of the building clinging to a barely secured pipe that was a mere three inches in diameter.
d.
The dog in the movie is a Sealyham Terrier named "Johnnie" and
Alfred Hitchcock
s own dog. The main male character is also named "Johnnie" and this name was Hitchs original idea for the movie title.
Alfred Hitchcock
kept Sealyhams for many years. In his movie
The Birds
, Hitch walks out of the pet store with Sealyhams on a lead.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
Charles Durning
was going to act in this film but dropped out.
b.
M. Night Shyamalan
called
Dev Patel
on the phone to personally inform him he had gotten the part of Zuko.
c.
The Edgar Allen Poe poem Humbert reads to Lolita is "Ulalume." According to an ear-witness at a Poe recitation of the poem, the author pronounced the title as "You-la-loom."
d.
Many of the cast members had also appeared in the Broadway stage revue "Shuffle Along" in 1921. Director
Oscar Micheaux
had seen the production and wanted to incorporate parts of the material into his film.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
The Dude was based on independent film promoter
Jeff Dowd
(aka Jeff "The Dude" Dowd), who helped the Coen brothers secure distribution for their first feature,
Blood Simple.
. Like his fictional counterpart, Dowd was a member of the Seattle Seven and takes a casual approach to grooming and dress.
b.
Martin Landau
originally auditioned for the role of Count Oga.
c.
Teen actress
Jenny Maxwell
tested for title role.
d.
Gerard Butler
(Archie) became hypothermic after filming the scene in which he and
Billy Connolly
(John Brown) run naked into the ocean.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
Thomas Handley
, (who played Terry Molloys teenage friend Tommy, was hired by the production to feed the pigeons on set. His father, a longshoreman, had been blackballed for anti-union activities, and disappeared when Hanley was 4 months old.
Elia Kazan
and
Budd Schulberg
had him audition for the role, and coaxed an angry response out of him by calling his father a rat. He was paid $500 for his role, but never really acted again. He went on to become a longshoreman, and in 2002 was elected recording secretary of his union after yet another corrupt leadership was ousted.
b.
The movie is known as "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone" everywhere except the USA and so every scene in which the Philosophers Stone was mentioned was filmed twice, once with the actors saying "Philosophers" and once with the actors saying "Sorcerers".
c.
The scenes of Michael and Kay at the wedding at the beginning were actually shot at night. Due to the rushed schedule,
Francis Ford Coppola
had to get their scenes in the bag. Cinematographer
Gordon Willis
was furious at having to rig up so many lights.
d.
Stanley Kubrick
: [faces] Quilty, when he is impersonating a policeman at the hotel.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
Director
John Moore
was nearly killed in the scene where the tank busts through the wall. He was pulled away by a stuntman just in time.
b.
Many at Disney had high hopes for the movie upon initial release. Then studio head
Jeffrey Katzenberg
regarded it as a more prestigious project than
The Lion King
, and even believed that it had a chance of earning an Academy Award nomination for "Best Picture", following in the steps of
Beauty and the Beast
. However, the movie was less successful commercially than was hoped. Because the film dealt with more adult themes and tones, it did not appeal to younger children as much as earlier Disney hits had.
c.
In the scene where the flies are in the lunchbox, and being placed in the car, the license plate reads "FMTT - Moon" or "Fly Me To The Moon", the movies name.
d.
Stanley Kubrick
: [bathroom/toilet] The first Kubrick film in which showing a shot of a bathroom/toilet became his trademark. He would repeat this in every film since until his death in 1999.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Lolita (1962)?
a.
According to
Hedda Hopper
s column of August 28, 1955, director
William A. Wellman
was planning to cast
Vivian Vance
and
William Frawley
(the Mertzes in
I Love Lucy
) to play a married couple in a single scene for this film.
b.
Many of the extras in the film were students from Auburn University, eight miles from Opelika, Alabama.
c.
At one point Lolita mentions hanging out with friends named Rex and Roy. Both of these names mean "king" (Rex in Latin and Roy in French).
d.
Vivien Leigh
was passed over for the role of Elizabeth Bennett in favor of
Greer Garson
.
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