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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Midnight Express (1978) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Midnight Express (1978) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Midnight Express (1978) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Midnight Express (1978).

About the movie: Story of a man who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Express (1978)?
a.		In the scene after Big Foot attacks Max and Goofy, Max kicks the glove box and the map falls out. Max, then, looks at it. The starting location is around the area of Columbus, Ohio. Answering a question thats been around for ages: "Where does Goofy live?"
b.		Producer David Puttnam has mixed feelings about this project. He was happy with the finished cut but when he saw the film with a paying audience at a late night showing in New York, he was deeply disturbed by the audiences reaction to some scenes. They were cheering and clapping instead of the desired effect of being repulsed by the characters actions.
c.		This is the third time Roland Emmerich has destroyed New York. He did the same in Independence Day and Godzilla.
d.		There were frequent good-natured "battle of wits" exchanges between Williams and Hoffman. In one incident, Hoffman was not happy with his performance and asked for the scene to be re-shot. Williams quipped "Try acting": a reference to the Hoffman / Laurence Olivier exchange on the set of Marathon Man.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Express (1978)?
a.		Norman Lloyd was a bit put out when he had to audition for Mr Nolan. He made the decision while playing a tennis match, because he said it heightened his receptivity. When he won the match, he agreed to audition.
b.		An Incomplete Nitrate Print of this film (reels 1,2,3 of 4 reels) survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, Reel 4 was discarded 1990 Due to Nitrate deterioration, and film was listed for Preservation after film was incomplete.
c.		Preston Sturges had originally intended to use a clip from a Charles Chaplin film for the church sequence, but Chaplin wouldnt give permission. In an earlier scene, Joel McCrea does parody the Little Tramp character. The cartoon eventually used was Walt Disneys Playful Pluto.
d.		Billy Hayes courteously declines the amorous advances of one of his fellow inmates. In actuality, the real Billy Hayes had an ongoing affair with this person, not just a brief encounter in the shower.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Express (1978)?
a.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 26, 1941 with Herbert Marshall reprising his film role.
b.		Alakina Mann and James Bentley were cast after an intensive search that encompassed 5,000 children.
c.		John Travolta suffered from insomnia during the shoot. His lack of sleep helped him create a very moody performance and is why his character seems so downtrodden throughout the movie.
d.		In an attempt to really get into character, John Hurt stopped bathing for most of the 53-day schedule and reeked so badly in time, most of his colleagues avoided being close to him.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Express (1978)?
a.		Johnny Knoxville: man in bar
b.		Myra is seen working a con at the offices of Coe, Stark, Fellowes & Associates. Tucker Coe and Richard Stark are two pseudonyms used by screenwriter and novelist Donald E. Westlake.
c.		Banned (and never released theatrically) in Turkey, until 1992 when the private TV channel HBB broadcast it.
d.		In the scene where Pere Henri is dancing, Alfred Molina was originally supposed to walk down the steps and see him. However, because he actually had a hurt toe, he just stood there instead of walking down the steps.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Express (1978)?
a.		75% of the film was shot outside in December in Boston. The average temperature was in the low teens.
b.		The day before production started on this film, 8 June 1994, Pierce Brosnan was being introduced to the press as the new James Bond at the Regent Hotel in London. He was already sporting his Robinson Crusoe beard.
c.		The large group of Turkish police and soldiers at the Istambul airport, which are on hand to search each passenger before they board the jet, was another attempt by the film makers to portray Turkey as an authoritarian police state. But in reality, this real-life event that Billy Hayes encountered of a thorough search of each passenger was a reaction to the PLO hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of four passenger jets in Europe just four weeks prior to the event portrayed at the beginning of the film (October 6, 1970). There are two somewhat oblique references to this event early in the film: a headline on the paper that Susan is reading on the bus that takes them to the plane ("Nixon Outraged at Palestinian Hijackers"), and again in the car after his arrest when Tex says "You decided to fly at a bad time... guerrillas all over the place, blowing up planes... 4 planes in 4 days".
d.		The phone number listed on the wall at the auto mechanics shop is 867-5309, from the Tommy Tutone song "Jenny (867-5309)." This number is also referenced in the other Halestorm films "The R.M." and "Church Ball."

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midnight Express (1978)?
a.		At the end of the movie, Billy Hayes killed the head guard, Hamidou, by pushing him into a clothes rack and impaling him. In real life, it wasnt Billy Hayes that killed the head guard but a recently paroled prisoner, where he spotted Hamidou drinking tea at a café outside and shot him eight times, killing him.
b.		Believing Rick Rosenthals version of the film to be too tame, John Carpenter shot a few gory scenes that were added into the film despite Rosenthals objections.
c.		Shooting started in late May 1947 and took 3 months. The film opened in November of that year to overwhelming critical favor.
d.		According to production manager Doeri Welch Greiner, the original script was a quasi-sequel to Enchanted, and had Rapunzel turned into a squirrel and her place taken by a girl in the real world. Glen Keane eschewed in favour of a more fun and fantastical fairytale that Disney is famous for: "I think thats what Disney needs to do right now. No one else can do it. We should not be embarrassed or make excuses for doing a fairytale."

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