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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Music Box (1989) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Music Box (1989) Quiz
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About the movie:
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Music Box (1989)?
a.
Eli Wallach
improvised his characters whistle.
b.
Costa-Gavras
came up with the films title;
Joe Eszterhas
original screenplay was entitled "Sins of the Fathers".
c.
The film was mostly shot in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the time, several hundred male students from the International (American) School of Bangkok (ISB) were recruited as extras to perform in the multitude of shots showing American GIs throughout the film. As a courtesy, Robin Williams actually came to ISB and put on a stand up routine for all students in the 10th grade and above.
d.
Sylvester Stallone
quit smoking cigarettes while making this film because he was getting out of breath.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Music Box (1989)?
a.
Throughout the film, there is a very prominent ad that shows a womans white face, and underneath it are the words "Truth Is Beauty". The eyes of this woman belong to lead actress
Nikki Reed
. Throughout the movie, as Tracy falls deeper into trouble, the face becomes more distorted and dirty.
b.
Both
Kirk Douglas
and
Walter Matthau
wanted to play the father (Michael Laszlo) and were in contact with director
Costa-Gavras
. Costa-Gavras also considered
Marlon Brando
for the part. Instead, he picked
Armin Mueller-Stahl
, who a couple of years earlier had said he would love to work with him after seeing his movie,
Missing
, at the theater.
c.
Although it is often claimed by fans that the moves Roy plays to checkmate Tyrell are from a famous game played in 1851 between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky, known as "The Immortal Game". In the real game, Anderssen did actually sacrifice his Queen in order to force checkmate in very next move. However,
Ridley Scott
has stated that any similarities to the real game in the movie game were purely coincidental. In any case, the position of the pieces on Sebastians board do not correspond with the positions on Tyrells board.
d.
The only Indiana Jones film to not receive any Oscar nominations. The first three movies in the series had won at least one Oscar each.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Music Box (1989)?
a.
The math homework that The Devil erases from the blackboard when she is the schoolteacher is Fermats Last Theorem - Solve for n>2, x^n + y^n = z^n. It was an extremely difficult mathematical problem that was only proved conclusively in the early 1990s, after four hundred years of it stumping the most brilliant mathematical minds in the world. In fact, the theorem states that this equation does not have any solutions. Fermat originally described it in a margin too small to contain his alleged proof. Andrew Wiles did prove it using elliptic curves, a fairly modern mathematical technique.
b.
According to the 7 November 1957 issue of Jet magazine, the films producers were interested in R&B singer
Clyde McPhatter
for the role of Sportin Life
c.
Eli Roth
: the American customer in a Boston Red Sox jersey in the Amsterdam coffee shop laughing at his friend struggling to take a hit off of a bong.
d.
Joe Eszterhas
wrote the screenplay with
Jane Fonda
in mind to play the female lead. Both Eszterhas and producer
Irwin Winkler
wanted to cast Fonda but director
Costa-Gavras
thought that she was too old for the part and cast
Jessica Lange
instead. Fonda was paid $1.25m in compensation for losing the part.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Music Box (1989)?
a.
After the movie was released, screenwriter
Joe Eszterhas
s own father, Istvan Eszterhas, was accused of war crimes in Hungary for printing anti-Semitic editorials and even organizing a book burning.
b.
As of 2010, there still has been no official soundtrack album made from the film. The songs sung by
Allan Jones
have been released on another album devoted exclusively to Jones, and the films soundtrack was once issued on LP, on an obscure label called Xeno, but it did not receive the kind of remastered official CD or LP release accorded to such film soundtracks as
The Wizard of Oz
,
Gone with the Wind
or the classic Disney films.
c.
This film actually marks the second time that
Michael Gambon
has replaced
Richard Harris
. Harris had previously played Inspector Jules Maigret in
Maigret
, while Gambon took over the role in the television series
Maigret
.
d.
Jennifer Delora
was thrown against the bunk bed for real by the actress playing the prison guard during their first big fight scene.
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