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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Missing (1982) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Missing (1982) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Missing (1982)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Missing (1982).

About the movie: When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and American businessman father try to find him.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Missing (1982)?
a.		All three lead actresses are given both a sex scene and a dance scene to represent the three stages of womens sexuality: virgin, mother, crone.
b.		Part of the SON OF SHOCK package of 21 titles released to television in 1958, which followed the original SHOCK THEATER release of 52 features one year earlier.
c.		"A Double Life" is about an actor playing Othello. In December of 1947, the year that "A Double Life was released, Arturo Toscanini, at that time considered the greatest conductor in the world, led a two-part radio broadcast performance of Giuseppe Verdis "Otello", an operatic version of the play, with Ramón Vinay singing the title role.
d.		Years after the films release, with the advent of advanced DNA testing, it was determined that the body shipped back to the United States (as seen in the films final image) was NOT that of Charles Horman. Joyce Horman actively continues to search for the truth behind her husbands capture and murder.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Missing (1982)?
a.		David O. Russell grew up in an atheist household which gave him a spiritual curiosity that traveled with him through his adult life. When he went to Columbia University, he studied religion under metaphysical philosopher Robert Thurman, father of Uma Thurman. His theories of the essential and indissoluble oneness of everything in the universe can be read into the exchanges between Jaffe and Jaffe, the existential detectives in the film, played by Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin.
b.		Bill Murray filmed a cameo that was deleted. On the 15 December 1979 broadcast of Saturday Night Live, Murray jokingly reviewed The Jerk, saying: "I was in the movie but cut out of it. That doesnt influence my opinion. The movie is a dog. Theres something missing. I dont know who it is, I cant say."
c.		Ed Horman and Joyce Horman ("Beth" in the film) worked very closely with Costa-Gavras, Lemmon, and Spacek throughout the films production. Costa-Gavras said that after Pinochet died (in December 2006), both he and Joyce Horman felt regret that the former Chilean dictator was not brought to justice.
d.		The Roman taxi driver (Roberto Benigni) has an 8-ball as a gearstick knob. In Down by Law, Benigni played a character who killed a man using an 8-ball.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Missing (1982)?
a.		The film was shot in Mexico under great secrecy by Hollywoods standards, as its subject matter was considered so controversial.
b.		Anne Shirley originally had the role of Enid, but left to star in All That Money Can Buy.
c.		Writer John Milius made a major contribution to the film (as well as Dirty Harrys mystique). He wrote the lines Harry quotes to punks about "Did he fire six shots or five?" and the immortal "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
d.		Reinhold Schünzel, who plays Professor Walhter in the film, was the director of the original 1933 German stage comedy Viktor und Viktoria, which Blake Edwards later adapted as Victor/Victoria, a vehicle for his wife Julie Andrews (I). Reinhold also appeared in the original Georg Wilhelm Pabst film of Lopéra de quatsous with Lotte Lenya.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Missing (1982)?
a.		Nathaniel Davis, Americas Ambassador to Chile at the time of the coup, and the basis of the character played by Richard Venture, sued Thomas Hauser, Costa-Gavras, and Universal Pictures for implying in the film that he and his team were complicit in the disappearance and death of Charles Horman. The suit was dismissed. In a January 2007 Q & A, Costa-Gavras said that Lew Wasserman, then head of Universal, so strongly supported the film, he insisted the studio refuse to negotiate any financial settlement.
b.		David Mamet based his original play on his own time working in a real estate office in the 1970s.
c.		Patterson recorded almost every song live on set.
d.		Most of the cast appeared on the dance floor during the bar scene, albeit in disguise.

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