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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Men in Black II (2002) - Part (3) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Men in Black II (2002) - Part (3) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Men in Black II (2002) - Part (3)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002).

About the movie: Agent J needs help so he is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		Director, Michael Marks and Director of Photography, Christopher C. Odom attended Georgia State University film school together.
b.		Tony Shalhoub plays Jack Jeebs in this film, as well as in few episodes of Men in Black: The Series and in Men in Black.
c.		Production chief Robert Evans has admitted that he simply used an offer to direct Downhill Racer to lure Roman Polanski from Europe. It was his intention to have Polanski direct this film all along.
d.		In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #93 Greatest Movie of All Time.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 11, 1948 with Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster reprising their film roles.
b.		Stuntman Terry Leonard, was badly injured while duplicating the famous horse to stagecoach transfer, that was originated and perfected by Yakima Canutt. Seen first in John Fords Stagecoach and the Republic serial Zorros Fighting Legion, the stunt went bad when Leonards leg was caught under one of the wheels of the stagecoach.
c.		Sydney Pollack: Making a pass at Jane Fonda during a Las Vegas convention.
d.		This is the first film/sequel Steven Spielberg produced that has a testicle-related joke. The second was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which had the Decepticon/Constructicon Devastator featuring a set of suggestively-placed wrecking balls.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		The Balchinian is an alien with balls on his chin.
b.		The play, "The Kangaroos" by Victor Mapes, opened in New York City in 1926.
c.		George Clooney held Mae Whitman in front of his face to hide that his eye was bruised during a basketball game in the scene when Jack shows up at Melanies apartment.
d.		The Soviet sailors who survived the events depicted in this movie heartily approved of the directors take on it, but were amused by the "Hollywoodized" elements.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		Herbert Ellis, who appears uncredited as The Booking Sergeant, was one of several actors who played Officer Frank Smith during the first year of the Dragnet TV series before Ben Alexander got the role full time.
b.		In the Hungarian-dubbed version Elizabeth (the Young Girl at the Post Office) lines were redubbed from "Twenty Rugrats stamps please" to "South Park stamps please" because South Park was better known than Rugrats in Hungary that time.
c.		Feature film debut of Amara Karan, who plays Rita. While she was still being considered for the role, Karan received the script and discovered that Rita smokes cigarettes. Not being a smoker, she enlisted some friends to help her practice smoking. During a meeting with Wes Anderson, Karan casually tossed a cigarette into her mouth and started smoking: "I am sure it must have looked really spontaneous." Anderson did not waste any time before asking her if she would come aboard.
d.		For the "Make Em Laugh" number, Gene Kelly asked Donald OConnor to revive a trick he had done as a young dancer, running up a wall and completing a somersault. The number was so physically taxing that OConnor, who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day at the time, went to bed (or may have been hospitalized, depending on the source) for a week after its completion, suffering from exhaustion and painful carpet burns. Unfortunately, an accident ruined all of the initial footage, so after a brief rest, OConnor, ever the professional, agreed to do the difficult number all over again.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		In an interview with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, Smith said: "It was great working with Frank the Pug in the first film, but since we came back hes been acting like an a-hole." Jones then said, "Yeah, Franks had a bit of an identity crisis since the neutering."
b.		From 1980-82 Sergio Leone divided his time between interviewing more than 3000 actors for over 110 speaking roles (of those, 500 auditions were videotaped), scouting locations and supervising the pruning/reshaping of the script.
c.		The filmmakers did six rewrites in order to convince Tom Cruise to play the part of Mike. Cruise opted for Cocktail instead.
d.		The script was written without dialogue. The actors developed all the dialogue with the directors during rehearsals.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		French visa # 121 685.
b.		In the German-dubbed version Elizabeth (the Young Girl at the Post Office) lines were re-dubbed from "Twenty Rugrats stamps please" to "Pokémon stamps please" because Pokémon was more familiar with the German audience than Rugrats that time.
c.		The film was shot in 2000 and 2001 over a 10 month period. After sitting dormant for several years, the film was finally completed and premiered at the 2008 Atlanta Film Festival.
d.		According to Colleen Atwood, the costume designer, 250 hand-tailored kimonos were made for the film. She also said that their prints, patterns and colors are bigger and bolder than traditional kimonos.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		Joe Connelly, the NYC paramedic who wrote the book and served as technical advisor, has a cameo. In the ER waiting room scene where the security guard controls the chaos aided by his black sunglasses, Joe is a catatonic patient walked past the scene by a nurse. He is wearing a brown suede coat and faces forward before being led away.
b.		Patrick Warburton is basically portraying a live-action version of his trademark voice acting roles: a tough macho jock who often screws up his assignments.
c.		This film was shot in Argentina in order to give it more of a European feel.
d.		Mos Defs film debut.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		Barry Sonnenfeld took issue with the producers wanting to focus on the love story between Agent J and Laura: "I learned on Wild Wild West that audiences didnt want to see Will Smith as the straight man. And until Tommy Lee Jones comes back into the movie, by definition Wills the straight man."
b.		William Friedkin has said the chase scene was shot entirely out of sequence, and over a period of five weeks. It did not involve solid day-to-day shooting, and all of the shooting was confined between the hours of 10am- 3pm. One reason was that they were given permission to use only one particular Brooklyn line, the Stillwell Avenue, running from Coney Island into Manhattan (the West End line). The entire chase was shot with an Arriflex camera, as was most of the picture. One brief shot, where Doyles car slams into the fence, was filmed in Ridgewood under the Myrtle Ave., or M, line.
c.		This story takes place over the course of a few days. In the novel that the film is based on, the story takes place over the course of around two years. Also, in the book, Alex Cross is 38 years old with two kids, where as in the film he is in his mid to late fifties.
d.		Co-writer Tony Urban began writing the movie when he was 19 years old. He met director Michael Addis via email and the duo completed the script sending script pages back and forth through email, Urban in Pennsylvania and Addis in California. Their story is profiled in the book "Screenwriting on the Internet".

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		The train locker is a tribute to the gangster mystery Once Upon a Time in America, where a main character (Agent K, Noodles) returns after a span of time and tries to solve a long-ago mystery; notably, the train locker contains a vital clue to solving the mystery.
b.		The Hebrew prayer that David (Brendan Fraser) recites in the chapel is the "Avenu Malkenu" (literally, "Our Father, Our King), which is a series of petitions to God to grant atonement. The prayer is repeated throughout the High Holy Days (the ten days starting with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur). The holiday for which David misses services because of the football game was Rosh Hashanah (the New Year in the Jewish calendar).
c.		Committed to a fully developed back story, director Tony Gilroy spent a good deal of time establishing the details of "Realm and Conquest" with production designer Kevin Thompson. The director explains that right from the beginning, when he first read the script, he could tell that "Realm and Conquest" was going to be a key prop. In the movie its a metaphor for truth and justice. In creating the details of the fictional novel, Thompson generated original visuals inspired by German Expressionistic images cut from wood blocks, and Gilroy wrote the first two pages for three chapters of the book. They even went as far as designing a "Realm and Conquest" card game for a scene between Henry and Michael. Thompson offers, "This detail was important to Tony because, in his own life, novels and games similar to Realm and Conquest allow him to connect with his son in a meaningful way."
d.		Toward the end of the movie when Mrs. Doubtfire is filming her television show, the mailman who comes to the door can be heard saying he has a letter from Katie in Youngstown, Ohio. Director Chris Columbus is from Youngstown, Ohio.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Men in Black II (2002)?
a.		A publicity photo and a Dole Pineapple advertisement indicate that the title of this film while in production was "Girl of the Islands."
b.		Newton, the Video Store owner, is also the Morgue attendant in the first Men in Black.
c.		When Tony Rome walks into the room in the massage parlor where Bronski is, Bronski (Dan Blocker) is watching the TV show Bonanza where he starred as Hoss Cartwright.
d.		The police negotiator in the film, played by Kane, Carol, mentions that she herself was a hostage long ago in Brooklyn, New York. Carol Kane played a hostage in a bank robbery in Dog Day Afternoon.

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