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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Meteor (1979) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Meteor (1979) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979).
About the movie:
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
Director and star
Sylvester Stallone
sustained 14 injuries making this movie including breaking a tooth, rupturing his ankle and getting a hairline fracture in his neck that required the surgical insertion of a metal plate. He also had bronchitis and shingles during the shoot.
b.
Brian Cox
(Ward Abbott) appears in two other movies as the employer of an assassin who has amnesia after a traumatic event,
The Long Kiss Goodnight
and
X2
.
c.
For the scene where young Noodles spies on a nude young Deborah, actress
Margherita Pace
was credited as young Connellys body double despite Connelly having done the scene herself. That scene was trimmed on the behalf of filmmakers.
d.
Brian Keith
was an 11th hour casting choice replacing
Donald Pleasence
who dropped out
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
The poster for the film was inspired by
Michael Jackson
s Off The Wall album cover.
b.
According to producer
Jon Avnet
, the dinosaur-like creatures that Joe and Polly encounter on Totenkopfs island were designed by
Stan Winston
.
c.
Many people believe the song Largos Little Helpers is the song with Luigi and his gophers but in reality it is a GeneCo advertisement featuring Orphans talking about Rotti Largo. The song with Luigi and his gophers is really a continuation of the song Genterns.
d.
Some of the background radio chatter in the Hercules control room is taken from recordings of Apollo missions.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
Trevor Howard
filmed his key cameo in 3 days.
b.
The stunt guitarist supplying Angels music is Michael Angelo Batio.
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 5, 1954 with
Thelma Ritter
reprising her film role.
d.
John Landis
: [filmmakers] Appearances by directors
Frank Oz
and
Steven Spielberg
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
Steve Martin
suggested using footage of
William Hartnell
,
Red Skelton
,
Jerry Lewis
,
Jack Benny
,
Stan Laurel
and
Oliver Hardy
. But
Carl Reiner
refused, because he felt it would be funnier if they used footage of actors who spent their careers mostly away from comedies.
b.
When
Meg Ryan
s character is looking up the information on what
William H. Macy
s character had done recently, she uses IMDb.
c.
Mary Pickford
s Elizabethan gown is the most expensive costume ever made for a silent film. Designed by
Mitchell Leisen
and embroidered with real seed pearls, it cost $32,000 to produce.
d.
Director
Ronald Neame
has a cameo as a diplomat.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
Hanna Schygulla
played
Derek Jacobi
s mother, even though she was five years younger than him in real life.
b.
The
Lawrence Taylor
hit on
Joe Theismann
happened November 18, 1985, during a Monday Night Football game between the Giants and Redskins. It was the most gruesome injury even seen on a nationally-televised regular season NFL game. Taylor, who frantically motions for help after the hit, claims that he has never seen replays of it, and never wants to.
c.
An early draft of the script had the young Sil calmly killing a friendly cab driver. In an effort to keep the audiences sympathy for her character (and to make the murder of the porter more shocking) the scene was changed to Sil killing a tramp in self defense after he attempts to attack her.
d.
Stanley Mann
who wrote the script has cameo as a diplomat.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
To help promote the film, a "Tom Thumb" float was made for the 1958 NY Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade.
b.
The "spaceship" the astronauts were in was actually a model of NASAs first manned space station "Skylab".
c.
This was a big gamble for Warner Brothers in 1935, as it was an expensive production, costing $1 million without any household names (both
Errol Flynn
and
Olivia de Havilland
became stars after the films release).
d.
The scene where Data walks into the lake was shot at Convict Lake in Mammouth Lakes Park (very close to Mammouth, CA).
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
Premiered on the floor of Meteor Crater in Arizona. This is also the site where the astronauts practiced their moonwalk and where the mother ship picked up
Jeff Bridges
in the movie,
Starman
.
b.
Norm MacDonald
can be seen in some of the Globo Gym scenes. One is in the Globo Gym commercial. He is in the background working out. At one point he is talking to some girl who is working out and it looks like hes hitting on her.
c.
The gangster movie featuring
George Raft
that Number 5 is watching, and later imitating (using Rafts famous "coin flipping") is
Scarface
.
d.
The Temple of the Great Power set was the largest set constructed for the movie. The set, which included a functional waterfall, pool and the huge door that reveals the Great Power pyramid, took up an entire sound stage at the Warner Roadshow Movie World Studios on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
When we look into Valeries flashback, there is a brief scene when she talks about meeting her lover while filming her movie. When we see the scene of her washing clothes in the bucket, the film crew behind her was composed nearly entirely of the real crew for "V for Vendetta".
b.
The bars in Amelias cell room were really black tape.
c.
Production designer
J. Michael Riva
researched on objects found in prison which could be improvised and used for other purposes (for instance a sock used to make tea), to provide more verisimilitude to the film.
d.
Re-rated "PG" on appeal after originally being rated "R" by the MPAA.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
Laurence Rosenthal
replaced
John Williams
as the music composer.
b.
Tony Fish
would actually choke himself by tying a rubber band around his neck for the hanging scene. The idea was to make himself look as realistically dead as possible, so the pale color of his face was authentic.
Joe Giannone
worried at times that Tony would make himself pass out during takes.
c.
Fred Zinnemann
was initially reluctant to make the film, as he had an inherent distrust of Columbia head
Harry Cohn
. He also felt that in the then climate of McCarthyism, to voice anything that cast any doubt over such institutions as the Army, the Navy or the FBI was just asking for trouble.
d.
Peter Lawford
and
Janet Leigh
narrated the trailer.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Meteor (1979)?
a.
This is a lost film.
b.
Victor McLaglen
, could not be loaned out from Fox to reprise his role of Hercules from the original silent version of this film, so the part was eventually shortened in the final cut.
c.
The shots containing the buildings collapsing in the New York destruction scene were take from footage of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis Missouri. These buildings were desingned by Minoru Yamasaki the same designer as the World Trade Center which also got destroyed in the movie.
d.
MeatLocker, the fetish club featured in the movie, is in reality a church. When filming ran late on Saturday night, the crew had to race to remove all the hanging rubber corpses before Sunday service.
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