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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Meet the Parents (2000) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Meet the Parents (2000) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000).
About the movie:
Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
Shelly Morrison (I)s film debut.
b.
Mr. Jinks the cat was played by Mishka.
c.
Two houses were used for the filming of Napoleons house: one for outdoor shots, and one for indoor shots.
d.
Walter Mirisch
recalls that
John Huston
insisted on filming aboard an actual ship at sea. Stormy conditions caused the cast and crew to become sick, delaying production and running over budget at 4.5 million dollars. The film to this day has not repaid what it cost to produce.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
At one time
Jim Carrey
was slated to star as the lead and even contributed jokes to the screenplay, such as the main character being named Focker.
b.
Debut of
Warren Oates
.
c.
The films appropriately bizarre title for its Germany release was Daddy ist ein Kannibale, or Daddy is a Cannibal!
d.
Film debut of
Ruby Keeler
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
Although it has been long believed that
Lorraine Bridges
dubbed
Billie Burke
s singing voice in the film, she actually did not. Ms. Burke did her own singing as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.
b.
The cameo in this film was the last movie appearance for
Harry Ritz
, whom
Mel Brooks
described as "the funniest man on Earth" and one of his strongest comedic influences.
c.
Christopher Walken
was the second choice for Jack Byrnes.
d.
Several of the scenes with the President campaigning were actually taken from the 1992 campaign of President
Bill Clinton
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
Westchester County Regional Airport in New York State was used to portray OHare and LaGuardia.
b.
Filmed under the threat of an impending actors strike.
c.
Special permission had to be granted from the Hays Office in order to retain the famous "miscegenation" sequence in the film. Miscegenation was banned as a film subject and the scene had been excluded from the 1929 film version.
d.
When a fifth "Batman" film was planned,
Joel Schumacher
was going to return as director and he wanted to use the Dr. Jonathan Crane/the Scarecrow as the main villain, Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn as the supporting villain, and have
Jack Nicholson
reprise his role as the Joker for hallucination sequences.
Jeff Goldblum
and
Robert Englund
were considered for Scarecrow, and
Madonna
was considered for Harley Quinn, who was initially written as The Jokers Wife and not called Harley Quinn. It was rumored that Schumacher had cast
Steve Buscemi
as the Scarecrow and
Jenny McCarthy
as Harley Quinn. When Dr. Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat was included in a version of the script, Schumacher and Warner Bros. both reportedly loved the characterization of Man-Bat so much that Schumacher wanted
Mark Linn-Baker
for the role.
Martin Short
was also considered by Warner Bros. to cameo as Dr. Jervis Tetch, though it is unknown if he would have become the Mad Hatter.
Chris ODonnell
was contracted to return as Dick Grayson, who would have become Nightwing, but
George Clooney
declined to reprise his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman, saying he thought that "Batman & Robin" had "killed the (Batman film) franchise." It is also rumored that
Alicia Silverstone
had passed on reprising her role as Barbara Wilson/Batgirl, despite being contracted to appear in another film. However, Warner Bros. dropped Schumacher as director and decided to scrap any plans for a fifth "Batman" movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
Soumitra Chatterjee
has done 14 movies as lead with Academy Award winning director
Satyajit Ray
.
b.
Reportedly,
William Hurt
and
Raul Julia
worked for nothing but the payment for their air tickets and hotel bills in Brazil, where the film was shot.
c.
According to
Teri Polo
, in the scene where she and
Ben Stiller
are making out on her bed and he fondles her breast, she stuffed cookies into her bra as a gag.
d.
The title "House of..." could refer to the ruins/house owned by Ludwig Frankenstein, the second son of Henry Frankenstein (portrayed by
Cedric Hardwicke
) in
The Ghost of Frankenstein
. Its also the same "house" where Lawrence Talbot discovers the Monster in ice in
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
; and, of course, where Neiman discovers the Wolfman and the Monster in this film. (The castle is entirely washed away in the flood at the climax of " - Meets the Wolf Man," but is inexplicably semi-intact here.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
Writer
Jerry Stahl
, whom
Ben Stiller
portrayed in
Permanent Midnight
, co-wrote the "cat milking" scene.
b.
Reginald Hudlin
based Marcus obsession with womens feet on a friend of his who would not date a woman if he did not like their back teeth.
c.
In interviews, both Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan commended Alan Tudyk for his brilliant work as Sonny.
d.
The sixty-third of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
Sam (
Natalie Portman
) says she works at a law office, but in Andrews 4-day visit you never see or hear about her going to work.
b.
The Victor Talbots tuxedo store in the film is located in Greenvale, New York.
c.
Just about every scene of the movie was shot with multiple cameras.
d.
Al Oerter, the only athlete to win four consecutive gold medals in an individual Olympic event (discus, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968), loaned the producers his 1968 gold medal for use in the filming. It was "ruined" Oerter said later in an interview.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
The silver badge on General Garzas right breast is actually a United States Army Combat Action Badge. It is awarded to non-infantry soldiers who have actually engaged an enemy force in combat, and worn on the left breast. Since it would be nearly impossible for a foreign general to earn a CAB legitimately, the costume department most likely simply picked out a random military badge.
b.
The home video footage of
Teri Polo
during the opening credits was filmed by her ex-husband
Anthony Moore
.
c.
Two dream sequences for this film were made in the 2-color Technicolor process. This was the first commercially released color footage to be lit with artificial light.
d.
Richard Gere
replaced
Al Pacino
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
The scenes at the "Surf and Turf" restaurant were filmed at a Port Washington, NY restaurant called "Louies". The car racing scenes between
Ben Stiller
and
Robert De Niro
were also filmed in downtown Port Washington. Also, the scene where Stiller and De Niro go shopping is in Port Washington at Salem Drugs.
b.
This movies title has sometimes erroneously been called "From Ten to Midnight".
Charles Bronson
once starred in a movie called
From Noon Till Three
.
c.
The extras in the film are all speaking Cantonese, a Chinese dialect focused mainly in southern China. If the film were to be more true to life, the extras would be speaking Mandarin, a more spoken dialect. However, most Chinese residents in the Los Angeles area spoke Cantonese, making von Sternberg use Cantonese.
d.
The Princess and the Frog
contains several references to the plays of
Tennessee Williams
, who despite having been born in Mississippi, growing up in Missouri, being nicknamed "Tennessee," and eventually dying in New York, was strongly associated with New Orleans, the setting for this movie (Williams lived for many years in New Orleans, wrote and set several of his plays there, and met his longtime boyfriend, Frank Merlo, there, and New Orleans hosts an annual literary festival named for Williams). References include: Charlotte calls her father "Big Daddy" (the name of the wealthy patriarch character in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof") and during the party, La Bouff calls for his dog, Stella, using the distinctive cry from "A Streetcar Named Desire."
John Goodman
, the voice of La Bouff, lives in New Orleans and has starred in several productions of Williams plays, including
A Streetcar Named Desire
and a 2005 Geffen Playhouse production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (as the original "Big Daddy").
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Parents (2000)?
a.
2006: Ranked #9 on the American Film Institutes 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time.
b.
Joan Crawford
was irked by
Greta Garbo
s insistence on top billing and decided to take her revenge. Knowing that Garbo loathed tardiness and
Marlene Dietrich
in equal measures, Crawford played Dietrich records between shots and made sure to arrive late on set.
c.
According to the DVD commentary, the car chase scene was originally meant to be a spoof of
Ronin
. When the filmmakers go to the location, they saw how quickly the lights changed, realized it would be a funnier joke, and rewrote the scene (the lights really do change from green to red as fast as they are shown in the movie).
d.
A prop campaign button from this film is on display at the Smithsonians Museum of American History in Washington. It is on display with several authentic campaign buttons.
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