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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002).
About the movie:
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
The inspiration for the story comes from two unlikely sources: "Wuthering Heights" for the period drama, and
King Kong
for the community living in fear of predatory creatures.
b.
Donny Osmond
- who sings several songs on the soundtrack - noted that his children only ever really thought that he had made it in show business when he worked on a Disney film.
c.
Owen Wilson was originally set to play Duff.
d.
Originally developed by
Nia Vardalos
as a one-woman stage show. The film had a special sneak preview at the Montreal Just For Laughss Comedy film festival in July 2001, as she was performing in the same city.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
When
Andrea Martin
s character learns that
John Corbett
s character is a vegetarian, she gets a bewildered look and replies, "Thats all right. I make lamb."
Nia Vardalos
said this reflects the confusion that many Greeks have toward vegetarianism. During World War II, food was scarce, so Greeks subsisted on anything available. To them, it makes little sense not to eat meat.
b.
The film was not actually shot in widescreen. It was converted to Cinemascope in the final print after having been shot in a standard Academy ratio, much like some films which are "matted" after having been filmed in a normal size.
c.
The "German Businessman" and his associates that
John Cusack
s character kills in the beginning of the movie speak a mixture of gibberish and Bulgarian. The kids he encounters in Fallaf also speak Bulgarian.
d.
Many of the Mars scenes were filmed in Wadi Rum, Jordan, a desert valley several miles long.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
The very famous scene where Johnny and Baby are practicing their dancing and they are crawling towards each other on the floor wasnt intended to be part of the film; they were just messing around and were warming up to do the real scene, but the director liked it so much he kept in the film.
b.
Nia Vardalos
s real-life husband,
Ian Gomez
, plays Ians best friend, Mike.
c.
The film was originally slated to be released in October 2007 for a Halloween release. Warner Bros., without explanation or reason, pulled the film from the schedule and no reschedule date was announced. One reason might have been that
Saw IV
was slated for release around the same time and Warner Bros. did not want to compete against it in fears of a big opening against them. Another possible reason the film was buried by the studio was that it was possible fallout from the box office disappointment of
Superman Returns
, which was co-written by Trick r Treat writer/director
Michael Dougherty
and both produced and directed by
Bryan Singer
, whose production company produced this film. There was brief talk that the film would finally be released around Halloween 2008 and possibly early 2009 but neither release ever materialized. The film was finally released straight to DVD in October 2009.
d.
This is a remake of the Filipino horror movie entitled "Sigaw".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
The scene where
Andrea Martin
playfully grabs
John Corbett
s hair was ad-libbed; Martin had forgotten her lines, played with Corbetts hair (to which Corbett stayed in character and played along), remembered her lines and continued.
Nia Vardalos
said that it worked out so well they decided to print the take and use it.
b.
The co-directors, Andrew and J.D., met in 2001 whilst working on the Michael Mann movie "Ali".
c.
Reportedly, a number of alternate endings were written and filmed before settling on the one in the released version. One of the unused endings was to leave the viewer not entirely sure that what theyd seen was reality or yet another fantasy sequence.
d.
The script originally called for
Kyle Eastwood
s character to get high from smoking marijuana, but
Clint Eastwood
, who is very anti-drug, refused, even with Kyle even using a prop cigarette. Eastwood finally relented to his sons character getting high from a contact buzz.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
In the fall of 2002 the film surpassed
Dances with Wolves
as the highest grossing movie never to have hit number one at the weekend box office. By the weekend of October 4-6, it surpassed
The Blair Witch Project
as the highest-grossing independent film of all time, until March 2004, when it was surpassed by
The Passion of the Christ
. Theatres continued to run the film after its initial video release.
b.
Dimension gave this film a token one week release on one screen before being released on DVD.
c.
Sean Connery
and
Richard Burton
were considered for the part of Captain von Trapp.
d.
Since the films release, the town of Punxatawney has now become a major tourist attraction.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
To familiarize himself with Baubys sheltered existence, director
Julian Schnabel
made the movie in the same hospital where Bauby was treated, meeting many of the orderlies who had treated him. He also shot scenes on the same balcony where Bauby relaxed, and on the same nearby beach his family took him to.
b.
The opening scene where
Nia Vardalos
and
Michael Constantine
travel in the early morning to open the restaurant was one of the very last scenes filled. Vardalos said that all of the other cast members had finished their scenes and had left, and so the sadness she and Constantine had in that car scene reflected the tearful goodbyes theyd said.
c.
Ludwig van Beethoven
s Ode to Joy is the music theme of the terrorists. This was the idea of director
John McTiernan
. Hans Gruber, the terrorist leader, even hums it at one point in the movie (while he is on the elevator with Mr. Takagi). Music composer
Michael Kamen
at first thought it was a "sacrilege" to use Beethoven in an action movie, telling McTiernan: "I will make mincemeat out of Wagner or Strauss for you, but why Beethoven?" McTiernan replied that Ode to Joy had been the theme of the ultra-violence in
Stanley Kubrick
s
A Clockwork Orange
. Kamen, a Kubrick fan, then agreed.
d.
Sylvester Stallone
,
Tom Cruise
and
Ben Affleck
were all said to have expressed interest in appearing in the project in the late 1990s. Cruise eventually took up a position as producer on the project instead, but he asked to have his name removed from the credits just prior to release.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
Patrick Swayze
and
April Allen
were each others first rolling skating partners as children in Houston, TX. They didnt seen each other for 11 years before filming started.
b.
The school used in the film (with the bright "Neon Celery" and "Key Lime" colored classroom doors), was painted by students from the school through an innovative nonprofit youth development program called Publicolor in NYC.
c.
Outdoor church shots are of the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Indoor church shots are of Torontos St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church.
d.
Neil Simon
claimed that Warner Bros. had saved light fixtures and decorations from
Humphrey Bogart
s club in
Casablanca
, allowing them to be reused as props in this movies club, Nix Place. He also claimed some of the original waiters were reused as well.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
At the wedding reception, no one was doing the dance correctly. The cast was too tired.
b.
Dave Toschi in real life was the inspiration for
Steve McQueen
s performance in
Bullitt
. In the film, Graysmith mentions that Toschi wears his gun like Bullitt. Avery replies that Bullitt got it from Toschi.
c.
According to an Australian radio interview with
Guy Pearce
, the role of Lynn Bracken was offered to
Jennifer Jason Leigh
, who turned it down because she had already played a few prostitutes.
d.
The set of the Christian neighborhood in Rome has previously been used in
The Robe
(of which this film is the sequel) as the village of Cana. We can easily recognize the well with old broken columns.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
Scott Hicks
notes that a real moth appears at a porch light at 12:09 when Bobby first talks with Ted, but at 12:18 and 12:26 digital moths are shown as part of several things done to make the scene appear more realistic even though it was shot on a set due to the restrictions
Anton Yelchin
s age imposed on his participation in night shooting. Despite using a moth wrangler (not specifically cited in the credits), only one real moth made it into the film.
b.
Nia Vardalos
is a Ryerson University graduate. The university was used for several scenes in the film. Kerr Hall is the school where Ian Miller teaches. The Rogers Communications building plays
Harry S. Truman
College.
c.
This movie premiered only just two-and-a-half years after another film which had the same title.
Nighthawks
was a very different film, a drama about a gay male schoolteacher.
d.
The real King Rama IV, the King referred to in this movie by his given name of Mongkut, is the great-grandfather of the present King of Thailand,
King Bhumibol
Adulyadej, known formally as King Rama IX.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)?
a.
Tom Hanks
s wife,
Rita Wilson
, saw the play and recommended that her husband produce a movie version. In an interview with the German magazine "Cinema",
Nia Vardalos
mentioned that she hung up when Hanks called, because she didnt believe it was really him.
b.
The experiences of Real life former NYPD Detectives
Thomas Mulhearn
and Pete Tessitore served as inspiration for the original screenplay. It is reported that
Paul Newman
spent some time with Mr. Mulhearn, getting into character for Officer Murphy. Thomas and Pete, along with other ex-cops helped add to the authenticity of the experiences documented in "Fort Apache the Bronx".
c.
Originally intended as a serious movie, this film was altered by
Harold Lloyd
into a comedy by adding the gag scenes later on.
d.
Voted #3 Must See Movie of all time by listeners of Capital FM in London.
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