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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Madison Hall (2009) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Madison Hall (2009) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009).
About the movie:
Two fights, a kidnapping, a break-in in the tunnel system, and a bomb threat send the campus police...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
The song played on the front porch by Reggie and Jody, Sittin Here At Midnight, was actually composed by
Bill Thornbury
himself.
b.
Candice Bergen
s first film.
c.
Madison Hall is the first feature film made by students enrolled in the new school of Theater and Film at ASU.
d.
The final film made by Pixar before it was bought by Disney.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
Madison Hall was shot on Panasonic DVXs. These were the only cameras the film school had available. The school had the HD versions of the camera, the HVX. But they would not check them out to students for the first year of the program.
b.
Shelley Winters
gained 35 pounds for the part of Belle Rosen.
c.
Vitaphone production reels #3692-3701, 3744 (reel 11/exit march), and 3745 (overture).
d.
In the film, Edison and his wife communicate with each other by tapping out Morse code. In the movie this is presented as a charming endearment, but in fact Edison was so deaf the only way he and his wife could talk was by tapping Morse code on each others hands.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
In 1955, screenwriter
Budd Schulberg
- who won an Oscar for his screenplay - published his novel "Waterfront", which focuses on the causes of waterfront corruption and elucidates the involvement of the shipping companies, the mayors office, police, and the church.
b.
This was originally a
Cole Porter
musical, but the songs were omitted from the film because box-office receipts for musical films at that time were down.
c.
Actor Vic Martinez was pulled over by a police officer in a police car while he was dressed as a police officer and driving a police car.
d.
When Chon Wang and Roy are entering the Jubilee party, the string quartet plays a uncredited baroque version of the Rolling Stones "Paint it Black" (just before the piece by Boccherini).
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
Though shot in Technicolor, the film incorporates actual black-and-white footage of Seabiscuit in races.
b.
The "philanthropy" scene took 4 tries to shoot. Finally, in the spring of 2007,
Jared Scott Mercier
was able to convince every film faculty member of ASU to offer extra credit to students who attended the shoot to be an extra in the audience. He even got a professor to walk her entire lecture class half a mile to the shoot to be extras.
c.
Indiana Jones kangaroo-hide bull whip was sold in December, 1999 at Christies auction house in London for $43,000. His jacket and hat are on display at the Smithsonian.
d.
Director Abel Ferrara often gave advice to Vincent Shkreli and the crew on shooting with a low budget with a short period of time.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
This was
Woody Allen
s first movie for the fledgling Orion Pictures, whose executives had run United Artists and produced Allens movies for that company. Allens first Orion film was to have been
Zelig
which was held up because of technical problems. When Orion insisted upon a sooner movie, Allen obliged by quickly writing the screenplay for "Sex Comedy".
b.
The extended scenes with the aliens were cut from the theatrical release because it would have made the film almost three hours long. And back in 1989, a running time that long was considered a big commercial risk. Especially for a film with lots of action scenes and special effects. It increases the likelihood the film wont turn a profit. The scenes were eventually restored in 1993 for the Special Edition.
c.
The scene in which Billy puts on a Santa Claus suit upon leaving the mental institute is a reference to the character Billy Chapman in the movie
Silent Night, Deadly Night
.
d.
The line "I have it memorized" spoken by character Jason was an add-lib by actor Jonathan Baranick.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
The character of Mr. Snoops is a retouched "Mandrake" from "Miss Bianca".
b.
Sammy Davis Jr.
lost an eye in an automobile accident en-route to the recording studio to record vocals for this film.
c.
Almost 70% of Madison Hall is ADR. (dialog recorded in post production)
d.
Originally, director
Irvin Kershner
wanted to turn the play into a film in 1985, and he persuaded his friend, producer
Jerry Tokofsky
, to read it. Tokofsky loved it, and contacted his associate
Stanley R. Zupnik
with a view to making a movie of the play with Kershner directing and Tokofsky and Zupnik producing. Kershner ultimately left the project in 1989 after becoming disillusioned with the lack of progress, but Tokofsky and Zupnik remained on-board.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
Madison Hall is based on real events that took place at Arizona State University from the Fall of 2002 to the Spring of 2003. The actual dorm, Sahuaro, was demolished in 2007.
b.
The dialogue between Mary and Ted about how there arent enough meats on cones was originally written for an episode of
Seinfeld
that never aired. The Farrelly Brothers liked it and bought it for use in the movie.
c.
ABC in 1998 was planning a pilot based on the film.
d.
Michael Papajohn
who plays Guard Papajohn, was
Adam Sandler
s stuntman in
The Waterboy
, making the hard hits as Bobby Boucher. In The Longest Yard, things came full circle as Michael has his own stuntman.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
Bob Mason, the director of cinematography and composer also makes an appearance as the executioner. Bob Mason is the songwriter of the project Putois and a band partner of Lisa Menzel for Quiet Pills.
b.
Director
Jared Scott Mercier
and actor Colin Chan Redemer where actually arrested for going in the tunnels underneath ASU along with one of their friends on April 24th, 2003. Their friend wore the same model air filter seen in the film.
c.
Alan Ruck
was 29 years-old when he played the role of Cameron.
d.
Vitaphone production reels #3262-3270.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
In his classic autobiography The Moons A Balloon, David Niven recalls how nervous he was when he made this movie and his first take was filled with error -- so he was amazed when the cast and extras applauded him. The director told Niven he was perfect and then asked him to do it again "for safety" and Niven --now absent of nerves -- did the scene without a hitch. Later he learned the director had secretly told the cast and crew that Niven was new, probably nervous, and to applaud for him no matter how poorly he did. Only on the second take did he have film in the camera and recorded the scene. For that kindness, Niven put Santell in his Hall of Fame.
b.
Jared Scott Mercier
started writing the script in 2004. Pre-production started in November of 2005. Shooting started in September of 2006 and wrapped in December of 2006. There were 8 days of re-shoots in April and May of 2007 and the edit was finally locked in February of 2008. It then took 14 months to complete all the sound work, with the project being completed on April 9th, 2009.
c.
Shot entirely on Steadicam with the exception for the opening scene.
d.
Set in Cuba, the film was made entirely in Mexico, with Mexico City doubling as Havana. Julian Schnabel said the crew was so pleasant to work with that, if he was making a film in the arctic, he would use a Mexican crew.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Madison Hall (2009)?
a.
Another plague was filmed but was not used. According to the commentary on the 50th Anniversary DVD, in 2006. This was the plague of frogs leaving the muddied Nile, coming up onto land, frightening and chasing Nefretiri and other Egyptians through their chambers of the palace.
Cecil B. DeMille
felt that the scene was not frightening enough, and could even be considered too humorous; thus, he omitted it from its final filming and completion, just before he and all other directors and production staff completed it and it would start being seen, in theaters, in 1956.
b.
Fran Drescher
confessed later she was not wearing underwear when she did her scene with Tony just before his big solo dance.
c.
Jared Scott Mercier
thought he could shoot Madison Hall in 17 days. By day 3 he realized how wrong he was and had to completely reinvent the schedule, which ended up clocking in at 38 days.
d.
This is the first Best Picture Oscar winner to specifically refer to a previous winner, in this case two of them. First
Grand Hotel
, which Baxter attempts to watch on television but is too long delayed because of commercials. Buds boss also refers to Bud and Fran having "a lost weekend" together in Buds apartment, a reference to
Billy Wilder
s earlier Oscar winner,
The Lost Weekend
.
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