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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mermaids (1990) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mermaids (1990) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Mermaids (1990).
About the movie:
An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mermaids (1990)?
a.
Stanley Kubrick
s first cut (before hiring several assistant editors) ran almost four hours.
b.
Ronald Hoekstra
served as a hand-double for
Eion Bailey
.
c.
The Darth Vader mask for this film was rebuilt from scratch, using a new digital design to computer-lathe the base master, from which molds were made to cast the on-screen costume masks. The resulting masks are, for the first time in Star Wars history, truly symmetrical.
d.
Emily Lloyd
had actually started shooting when
Winona Ryder
became available and Lloyd was unceremoniously dumped. (She later won a sizeable cash settlement from the production company for being booted off the film). Original director
Frank Oz
was also replaced, reputedly at
Cher
s insistence.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mermaids (1990)?
a.
A freeze-frame just as the car enters the driveway in the prologue reveals the secret of who was driving the car the night Blanche was paralyzed.
b.
John Wayne
had initially promised the role of Mattie Ross to his daughter
Aissa Wayne
, but director
Henry Hathaway
refused to cast her.
c.
The role of Charlotte initially went to
Emily Lloyd
, who went to receive $435,000 and 2.5% of the net profits from the film. When
Cher
complained that the fair-haired Lloyd could not look like her daughter, she was cast out of the film and replaced by
Winona Ryder
. Lloyd then sued Orion Pictures Corporation and Mermaid Productions, reaching a settlement on the second day of the trial, 30 July 1991.
d.
This was the third filmed adaptation of
Lajos Biró
s play "Hotel Imperial", made previously only four years earlier with
Hotel Imperial
and sixteen years prior with
Hotel Imperial
. An earlier film production of this play to be filmed as
I Loved a Soldier
was canceled.
Hotel Sahara
was not an adaption of this play.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mermaids (1990)?
a.
Screened at the 2006 Black Independent Film Festival in Atlanta, GA (March 2006).
b.
Christina Ricci
s debut.
c.
Lou Barletta is the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvanias 11th congressional district elected 2010. He is the former Mayor of Hazleton.
d.
In reality, Aurelius died of the plague and Commodus ascended to the throne. He was a much loved emperor by the army and the lower classes.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mermaids (1990)?
a.
Working title was "Gangsters".
b.
Walt fires a weapon only once in the movie, accidentally.
c.
In the scene where Charlotte and her mother fight about Kates accident, Charlotte gets angry and breaks a plate. The scene ends with her mother slapping her in the face after a rude comment. The exact same things happened in
Cher
s film
Mask
.
d.
The "music video" ending - of the film of the Stains performing together in an MTV-type montage - was actually shot some 2 years after primary photography wrapped (when
Diane Lane
was 17, which explains why she had matured so noticeably). At the time, MTV was only a few months old, and (as noted by she and
Laura Dern
in their commentary on the film) the actresses couldnt help but feel some excitement over seeing that their film had in some ways predicted the rise of the sort of female performers, such as the Go-Gos, Madonna, and Deborah Harry, that theyd been seeing on MTV.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mermaids (1990)?
a.
Early in 2008, several directors, including Steven Speilberg voted on an attraction room for Universal Hollywood that would contain rare and old costumes and props. Two of the items pulled out from storage vaults were the miniatures of Docs time travel train and the railroad version of the DeLorean. The full sized version of the time train can be seen over in the Orlando park.
b.
The initial cut of this film featured men in DaVinci-inspired flying rigs. This sequence was cut due to the poor quality of the special effects and negative responses from preview audiences.
c.
The movie was inspired by
Walter White Jr.
s radio program, "Nobodys Children," which broadcast from orphanages in an attempt to locate homes for orphans.
d.
This was to be the American film debut for director
Lasse Hallström
, until he repeatedly clashed with lead actress
Cher
and was replaced first by
Frank Oz
and then by Richard Benjamin.
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