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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mother Night (1996) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mother Night (1996) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mother Night (1996)

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About the movie: An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mother Night (1996)?
a.		John Goodmans characters name Wirtanen is the most common surname in Finland (usually written with single V).
b.		On the golf cart Van owns, also has VW on it.
c.		Due to the cold, the blood in a syringe aimed at Kimberlys head missed. The offending stream of blood flew past the camera and hit the sound operator in the chest.
d.		Rex Harrison had a clause in his contract stipulating that whenever a picture of Richard Burton appeared in an ad, so would his. A large sign was put up on Broadway showing only Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. After Harrisons lawyers complained, the studio fulfilled the contract by placing a picture of Harrison on one corner of the billboard.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mother Night (1996)?
a.		This was the first film that Stanley Kubrick produced independently in England.
b.		Stanley Kubrick considered this to be his greatest film.
c.		While they are hiding out, Campbell (Nick Nolte) says to Resi and George, "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart," a direct quote from "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank.
d.		The finished film was primarily centered around Dennis Hoppers character, but due to Wesley Snipess popularity at the time, Warner Bros. who bought the film in the US, decided to shorten most of his scenes, to strengthen Snipess role. Other cuts were made to beef up the pacing. The cuts included the loss of several scenes between Mortensen and his girlfriend. In an interview director James B. Harris stated that he did not have final cut and that Warner Bros. removed ten minutes from the pic in attempt to make it more commercial. He noted that they also changed the title from Money Men, to Boiling Point, in a bid to sell it as an action picture, similar to Passenger 57. Dennis Hopper, who felt he delivered his best performance, did not like the version that was ultimately released.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mother Night (1996)?
a.		The scene where Nick Nolte points a Luger pistol towards his mouth thinking about suicide, the toggle on top of the pistol was up and not flat. The pistol would not have fired this way. The toggle would have to be down or flat.
b.		Participating theaters would distribute issues of "Pocket Power" a pocket-sized version of "Nintendo Power" magazine.
c.		Robert Wagner writes in his memoirs that he was miscast in this film.
d.		Quentin Tarantino: [Long take] From Shosanna walking into the premiere to Landa approaching von Hammersmark.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mother Night (1996)?
a.		Many of the action sequences were shot with a 20mm Panavision anamorphic lens, of which there were only two in existence.
b.		Although fans of both Kong and Godzilla argue to this day, Toho has declared that King Kong was meant to win. Kong was much more popular than Godzilla at this time, and was the obvious choice to win audiences over.
c.		The character Howard W. Campbell Jr. is used by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in the novel Slaughterhouse Five, and makes an appearance in the movie of the same name, although in reference to a part of Campbells life not included in the film version of Mother Night.
d.		Kurtwood Smiths wife, Joan Pirkle, has a small role as Dick Jones secretary, Barbara.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mother Night (1996)?
a.		Members of Merrills Marauders, who were on location as technical advisers, critiqued the fact that Nelsons men killed all the Japanese at the radar station so quickly with none wounded or escaped. That was likely by design because any of the defenders left alive would have to be executed by the special ops troops, something that 1945 audiences would have found objectionable for American troops to do.
b.		Hollywood agent Ed Limato read the script, fell in love with it and gave it to Antonio Banderas, who loved it at first sight and signed on.
c.		"Frank Wirtanen" is the name of the man who used to sell Christmas trees to the Vonnegut family.
d.		Rumors that Andy Williams dubbed Lauren Bacalls singing voice are untrue. Both director Howard Hawks and Bacall confirm that she did her own singing.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mother Night (1996)?
a.		Many of the actors who came to be known as the "Sam Peckinpah Stock Company" appeared in this film and four years later in Sam Peckinpahs The Wild Bunch: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, L.Q. Jones, Dub Taylor, Aurora Clavel, Enrique Lucero.
b.		Among the many famous actress considered for the part of Scarlett were Jean Arthur, Lucille Ball, Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Paulette Goddard, Katharine Hepburn, Olivia de Havilland, Carole Lombard, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyck, and Margaret Sullavan. Bankhead (an authentic "Southern Belle" from Alabama) was the clear front-runner, but her unsavory personal life made producers reluctant to hire her.
c.		Most of the model shots were reused Space Raiders.
d.		Lieutenant Bernard OHare, when he captures Campbell, is not wearing the regulation M1 helmet of WW2 vintage, nor are the two U.S. soldiers who drive Campbell away from the concentration camp. Rather, they appear to be wearing the British paratrooper type-3 helmet, which, interestingly, was adopted by the Israeli Defense Forces in the late 1940s and 50s.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mother Night (1996)?
a.		Animal trainer, wrangler & coordinator Hubert Wells once said of this movie: "We flew over an elephant, a rhino, five lions, four leopards, four chimpanzees, five horses and sixteen birds. It was the largest shipment of animals back to Africa and just getting all the necessary permits to bring them in and out of the country was a superhuman task."
b.		Director Keith Gordon took a small role in I Love Trouble so he could get this script to Nick Nolte, whose agents thought the project was "too small."
c.		The film was rushed for release while Babe Ruth himself was still alive, which is why the movie ended the way it did. George Herman Ruth lived just 21 days after seeing the premiere, that he attended, on Monday, July 26th, 1948. He lost his life on Monday, August 16th, 1948.
d.		In one shot, in which Beau Bridges character is preparing to shoot the hairspray commercial scene in the final sequence, the clapboard clearly reads "Title: The Christian Licorice Store; Director: J. Frawley".

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mother Night (1996)?
a.		The title of the novel appears in two sentences. It is first used in Chapter XXX, after the narrator has just had his first sexual experience. He sits up to "look down in the valley." He then reflects: "How green was my Valley that day, too, green and bright in the sun." Needless to say, this sexual experience was cut out of the film. The phrase is used again in the novels last sentence: "How green was my Valley then, and the Valley of them that have gone."
b.		When Tyler sings to Sydney in the Library, he sings the same song that played while they danced at the Pledge Coronation.
c.		Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Towards the end of the film when Campbell (Nick Nolte) stands frozen in the street one of the people who pass by him in slow motion is the author of the book the film is based on (the man with a mustache in a beige suit and a blue shirt with a tie.)
d.		When Michael Cimino was discussing the film with Jeff Bridges, he told Bridges it was his job to make Clint Eastwood laugh both on and off camera, and he did.

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