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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Meet the Robinsons (2007) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Meet the Robinsons (2007) 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 Robinsons (2007).
About the movie:
Lewis is a brilliant inventor who meets mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson, whisking Lewis away in a time machine and together they team up to track down Bowler Hat Guy in a showdown that ends with an unexpected twist of fate.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
Rick Reilly
: Sports writer holding a camera behind Jerry after Rod gets up after being "hurt".
b.
Jim Carrey
had a choice of voicing the Bowler Hat Guy or play Walter Sparrow in the film
The Number 23
, he chose the latter.
c.
The house used for this film was loaned to the filmmakers by the owner, who planned to demolish it anyway, thereby ensuring that they could do whatever they wanted to the house.
d.
Jim Carrey
was initially offered
Tim Allen
s role, but declined to do
The Majestic
instead.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
Characters from the film (Frankie the frog and his band playing "I Heard it Through the Grapevine") were used in an anti-cell-phone commercial to encourage movie audiences to turn their cell phones off and behave appropriately.
b.
James Cameron
wanted to make Spider-Man starring
Michael Biehn
. However, he thought that the film would be technically challenging at that point, and made this movie instead.
c.
Final film of director
H. Bruce Humberstone
.
d.
Helen Mirren
and
Kim Basinger
were considered for the role of Miranda Priestly.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
Richard Pryor
doesnt show up until 63 minutes into the film.
b.
A original version of
Kyle Newman
s version of the movie, without any reshoots, was screened at Star Wars Celebration Europe in 2007.
c.
The Brain Scanner on the "Brain Scanners from Mars" poster on the building next to the orphanage looks almost exactly like Doris the Hat.
d.
In the Bank robbery scene, Trey Moore actually received a hairline fracture in his left elbow from falling onto a marble floor in the bank.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
Ballard Berkeley
is credited by several sources as having been in the movie, but does not actually appear.
b.
Brian H. Dierker
was originally hired as the technical consultant for the white-water rafting scenes.
Sean Penn
cast him as Rainey after
Emile Hirsch
suggested him for the role.
c.
The Prey was shot in 1978, but didnt see a release until 1984 when New World Pictures finally picked it up.
d.
In a scene, we find the camera cutting to zoomed-up images of the Robinson family portraits, which appear to be hand-painted. In many of those shots the signature Ruppel 2005 can be found, referring to
Robh Ruppel
, who was the Art Director of the film and was part of the Art Department in past Disney films.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
After a test screening for
John Lasseter
, chief creative officer of animation at Disney, he suggested a lot of changes to director
Stephen J. Anderson
. In the next 10 months prior to the release, nearly 60 percent of the movie was re-shot (or re-rendered), adding new story elements and action scenes as well as a diabolic sidekick.
b.
The innovative use of the hand-held camera was largely down to the fact that the films meager budget didnt stretch to laying down lots of tracks for all the tracking shots.
c.
Producer
Irving Thalberg
would often call people in for meetings, and then keep them waiting in his office for hours while he attended other meetings on the MGM lot. One day, during pre-production for
A Night at the Opera
, Thalberg kept
The Marx Brothers
waiting for several hours in his secretarys office, while he was in his own office making phone calls. When Thalbergs secretary went home for the day, the brothers decided theyd had enough. They pushed the office file cabinets against Thalbergs door, trapping the producer in his office. Afterwards, Thalberg kept his appointments with the Marx Brothers, but would often interrupt his meetings with them and step out to attend other meetings - again keeping the brothers waiting for hours. One day, Thalberg came back from another meeting to find
Groucho Marx
,
Chico Marx
, and
Harpo Marx
sitting in his office completely naked, and roasting potatoes on sticks in his office fireplace. Thalberg sat down with them, had a potato, and never missed or interrupted another meeting with the Marx Brothers.
d.
Several of the humorous lines spoken by G.I.s in the film are taken, uncredited, from WWII cartoonist
Bill Mauldin
s "Willie and Joe" characters.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
Doris name is taken from DOR-15, which is the number of the chamber that she is placed into in the rejected inventions room at Robinson Industries.
b.
Green blood was used for the vampires to get the movie past the censors.
c.
Actress
Helen Twelvetrees
sued, claiming that the film was based on her life story. She won her case.
d.
The "Earthbuster" tractor is a 1949 Ford 8N model.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
When Wilbur is revealing his family, he says his dad (who is not pictured) looks like
Tom Selleck
. Tom Selleck indeed provides the voice for Wilburs Dad.
b.
Shot in 39 days.
c.
In the original script, the movie ended happily: Nancy kills Krueger by ceasing to believe in him, then awakes to discover that everything that happened in the movie was an elongated nightmare. She then says goodbye to her mother and drives to school with her friends. However, producer
Robert Shaye
wanted a twist ending which would leave the way open for sequels. He suggested fooling the audience into thinking Krueger has been defeated, only to reveal that the final scene itself is actually a nightmare, and then end the film with Freddy driving the car away from the house and the kids screaming.
Wes Craven
hated this ending, and ultimately four endings were filmed; Cravens happy ending, Shayes Freddy ending, and two versions of a compromise ending Craven and Shaye had reached in which Nancys mother is pulled back into the house, but it is left slightly ambiguous as to what is going on. Craven has always maintained that the film should have had the happy ending he originally wrote.
d.
The title translates to Night Train to the End of the World.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
Many of the extras in the movie were students at the American School of Lima, Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The large building figuring prominently is the present site of the Museo de la Nacion, on Avenida Javier Prado, in Lima.
b.
The screenplay says that Zed and Maynard are brothers.
c.
Eric Stoltz
auditioned for the role of Jeff.
d.
In the science fair scene near the beginning of the movie, there is a presentation on 3-D in movies, "Fad or Favorite". The movie itself was shown in 3-D in select theaters.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
Jack Dempsey
plays himself in the improbable capacity of a referee in the climactic fight. While giving the fighters instructions, he places unusual emphasis on the rule that requires the standing fighter to go to a neutral corner in the event of a knockdown. This undoubtedly is an allusion to the famed Long Count. In a 1927 title match, Dempsey knocked
Gene Tunney
down in the seventh round, but failed to go to a neutral corner immediately, which caused the referee to delay the count. Tunney recovered and won the fight.
b.
The film played theatrically on over 600 REAL D digital 3D screens.
c.
Walt Disney
said that if he had known the success that Davy Crockett was going to have he wouldnt have killed him off in the third TV episode.
d.
This movies beginning starts with General
Douglas MacArthur
at age sixty-two commanding forces in the Phillipines.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007)?
a.
During the chase scene, when the Joker takes over driving the semi after his driver is killed, the bullet holes on the windshield form a smiley face.
b.
Denholm Elliott
had been diagnosed with AIDS shortly before filming began, and was seriously ill on some days.
c.
Beryl Reid
won the 1967 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actress in a Drama for "The Killing of Sister George".
d.
Walt Disney Feature Animation wanted to assert themselves as being separate from Pixar, renaming themselves "Walt Disney Animation Studios." This is the first film to show the new Walt Disney Animation Studios animated logo, which incorporates several seconds from
Steamboat Willie
, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to feature sound.
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