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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mysterious Skin (2004) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mysterious Skin (2004) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004).
About the movie:
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
Final film of
Jackie Gleason
.
b.
According to director
Irvin Kershner
, the brief moment in which Laura walks into her warehouse studio office and opens the window overlooking featured a glaring continuity error that required post-production lab work to fix. The wide shot of Laura at the window was cold in tone, while the medium shot was much warmer. Allegedly, editor
Michael Kahn
resorted to gradually altering and "warming up" the tone of the wide shot to better match the color temperature of the medium shot that follows. (For those who notice, this explains why the central area of the wide-shot suddenly shifts in color temperature.)
c.
Deborah Kerr
always regarded this as her finest performance.
d.
The logo for the fictional show "World of Mystery" is the same as the logo for real-life production company "World of Wonder".
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
When Sony inherited the film from its acquisition of MGM, it decided to spend approximately $5 million to re-shoot and re-edit the film to tone down or cut explicit contents to get a PG rating.
b.
The song "Hangin on to You" was written for the film but not used.
c.
In the scene where the boy is lying in bed, he is wearing a shirt that says, "Sex Wax and Six Packs." This is a t-shirt made for a party that is hosted annually by a notable Kansas State University Fraternity House. Kansas State University is in Manhattan, KS and the fact that the boy is wearing this shirt passed down to Hutchinson, KS shows the great deal of costume accuracy of the area.
d.
Nelson Mandelas personal assistant, Zelda La Grange, apparently asked Morgan Freeman to stop walking like Mandela so that she could tell the difference between the two.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
Dave Barry
: During the surprise birthday party scene you can see the former Miami Herald columnist standing on the right of the shot smiling.
b.
Though deceased in "The Harimaya Bridge," the character Mickey is very much alive and featured as the central character in the short films "Eki" (The Station) and "Kuroi Hitsuji" (Black Sheep). "Eki," a comedy, takes place two weeks after Mickey first arrives in Japan. "Kuroi Hitsuji," a drama, takes place after Mickey has been in Japan for six months.
c.
Shot on location in Wales. But the final scene was shot in Skye, Scotland.
d.
The "Halloween house" was the same house used for Vernita Greens (Vivica A. Fox) house in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003).
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
The theatrical version contains roughly 800 special effects shots. The DVD Extended Edition adds about another 160 to that total.
b.
Mark Hamill
and
Carrie Fisher
are of Swedish and Jewish ancestry, respectively. In the prequels, their parents would be played by
Hayden Christensen
and
Natalie Portman
, who also have Swedish and Jewish ancestry.
c.
The finale in which Cranston chases Shiwan Khan through a hall of mirrors was intended to be longer, with Khan taunting Cranston by displaying images from his violent past on the mirrors. An earthquake (Northridge, 17 January 1994 - 6.7 magnitude) destroyed the set and the filmmakers, out of time and money, were unable to complete the scene as originally envisioned.
d.
After Brian steals the picture of his baseball team from the archives, the film cuts to Neil announcing a baseball game. He says "Thats two outs, Garfield the batter. Heim on deck."
Scott Heim
wrote the novel on which the film is based.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
Debra and John Strode were named after
John Carpenter
and
Debra Hill
who produced the first two films of the series.
b.
A copy of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
c.
This film was conceived to use the costumes and sets built both for an intended sequel of
Masters of the Universe
and a live version of Spider-Man. Both projects were planned to shoot simultaneously by
Albert Pyun
. After Cannon had to cancel deals with both Mattel and Marvel because of their financial troubles, they needed to recoup the money spent on both projects. Then Pyun wrote the story
Cyborg
. Some network television still give the films title as Masters of the Universe 2: Cyborg which often confuses many into thinking a sequel to that film was made.
d.
To prepare for his role, actor
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
spent a week visiting cities and towns in Kansas where the book is set.
Scott Heim
, author of the original novel, guided him around the locations and had him meet the actual people on whom the characters are based.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
The movie took five years to complete, but was in development for over ten years before it entered active production.
b.
The scene in which Guy (
John Gregory Willard
) is tap dancing was originally an outtake of the star ad-libbing a performance for cast, crew and fans.
c.
Hal Roach
had to come up with four different titles for the film, before finding a title that wasnt already owned by another studio. The three discarded titles were: "Youd Be Surprised", "Tonights the Night", and "In the Money".
d.
Gregg Araki
said in an NPR interview that he shot all of the scenes with the child actors in such a way that they did not know the sexual context of their abuse scenes, and only during editing did he make the movie appear to show children being abused or witnessing abuse.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
The movie that Brian and Eric are watching in Erics bedroom before Brians mom enters and disrupts their "studying," is
The Dead Next Door
.
b.
The author of "The Encyclopedia of Urban Legends" is Charles Breen. The doctor on Toshs bottle of lithium is a doctor Charles Breen.
Charles Breen
is the production designer
c.
Part of the film was shot at
William Randolph Hearst
s castle, San Simeon, where the horsemen ride up the marble stairs. Several scenes from
The Godfather
were also filmed there.
d.
According to director
Tom McGrath
, the film draws inspiration from
Batman
and
Superman
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
Kiefer Sutherlands mother, Shirley Douglas is in this film.
b.
Both
Clark Gable
and
Charlton Heston
, the two actors
John Wayne
wanted most to do the film, both expressed regret at not taking the parts they were offered. Heston declined the role of Bowie out of political ideology (a political view he later later vehemently rejected), and Gable passed due to to the age difference between himself and William Travis. Gables family later said that he wanted to do the film as a way to do "a macho film" to escape the typecasting of
Gone with the Wind
as a romantic lead.
c.
Stars
Jim Carrey
and
Zooey Deschanel
share the same birthday, January 17. However, Carrey was born in 1962 and Deschanel in 1980 making him exactly eighteen years older than her.
d.
Gregg Araki
cut the movie himself on his Macintosh computer, using Final Cut Pro 4.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
Cameron Mitchell
was offered his part after the filmmakers happened to see him in the studio commissary while discussing who to cast as Rojack.
b.
Edward Bunker
who plays Chadwell in the Northfield bank robbery was actually, among many other things, a convicted bank robber.
c.
Besides composing the score for the film, director
Mike Figgis
also played the trumpet and keyboards on the films soundtrack.
d.
Original novelist
Scott Heim
wrote a draft screenplay which he then entered into the Sundance screenwriting lab.
Gregg Araki
was on the judging panel and the two became friends. Eventually it was mooted that Araki himself tackle the material.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mysterious Skin (2004)?
a.
Adam Green
: Green and fellow genre director
Joe Lynch
cameo as two disgruntled patrons on the chairlift the first time the chairlift stops.
b.
Donner was not asked to return to complete
Superman II
because he had publicly criticized the Salkinds. A similar fate largely befell
Margot Kidder
who openly supported Donner; Kidder found her role as Lois Lane reduced to a mere cameo in
Superman III
.
c.
Each of the youths in the film is based in part on the life of
Scott Heim
, the book on which the film is based. Scott claims to have seen a UFO with his family, excelled in school and lived with his single mom after a divorce (like Brian), he announced baseball games (like Neil) and his infatuation with cosmetics and British goth pop made him the subject of death threats (like Eric).
d.
Film debut of
James Flavin
.
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