QuizAssess
Home
Popular Quiz Categories
Home
Hollywood Movies Famous Trivia Quizzes
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Network (1976) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Network (1976) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Network (1976).
About the movie:
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
The final scene, where the Barbusters perform in front of an adoring crowd, was shot twice. Bits of the first version can be seen in the music video for the song "Light of Day" (where
Joan Jett
s hair is in a noticeably different, fluffier style). Rolling Stone magazine reported that Jett wasnt happy with the first version and asked that it be re-shot. Director
Paul Schrader
said, "I was about to leave the set and wait out the storm in my trailer... but I listened to her arguments and decided she was right."
b.
This film was the defunct sequel to the successful "Whats new Pussycat?" Woody Allen disowns both movies, though, as well does most of the cast.
c.
According to a
Julie Andrews
, biography
Ian McKellen
screen tested for the role of Noel Coward by performing Cowards own "Parisian Pierrot" and received an ovation from
William Fairchild
and the crew. However he lost out to
Daniel Massey
.
d.
Film debut of
Tim Robbins
as one of the assassins that kills
Peter Finch
s character. Robbins does not talk at all in the film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
The movies line "Hey, dont knock masturbation - its sex with someone I love!" was voted as the #78 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
b.
Peter Finch
convinced
Sidney Lumet
to cast him as Beale over his concerns about his Australian accent, by sending him a recording of him reading the New York Times with a perfect American accent.
c.
Although some modern sources credit Boris Karloff with the role of the prison warden, Karloff does not appear in the film; the warden is played by another uncredited actor, identity unknown.
d.
The number on the locomotive at the beginning of the film is 95, which is a reference to the year that the first
Toy Story
was released.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
Producer
Ray Stark
was forced to sue
Barbra Streisand
to make this movie after she refused; Streisand had only one film left on her contract with him. Reportedly, upon completion of filming, she presented him with a mirror on which shed written in lipstick, "Paid in full".
b.
The US Government supplied three Marine Harriers and their pilots for a fee of $100,736 ($2,410 per hour).
c.
James Toback
was 6 years late delivering the screenplay to
Warren Beatty
.
d.
According to
Sidney Lumet
the "Mad as Hell" speech was filmed in one and a half takes. Midway through the second take,
Peter Finch
abruptly stopped in exhaustion. Lumet was unaware of Finchs failing heart at the time, but in any case did not ask for a third take. Whats in the completed film is the second take for the first half of the speech, and the second half from the first take.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
Bonnie Hunt
s sister, Mary, appears uncredited as the woman lighting the candle in the church where Marty briefly kneels in prayer.
b.
Maria Potts
("Xochitl"), during one of her many nude horse riding scenes, fell off of her horse. Though not severely hurt, during a scene filmed soon after where she wrestles with
Cliff Potts
, many of her reactions of pain are real, the result of her injuries.
c.
During his "the world is a business" speech, Jensen references rins. The rin was a Japanese currency taken out of circulation over 20 years earlier at the time.
d.
The characters portrayed by
Jane Wyatt
(Sondra) and
Edward Everett Horton
(Lovett) do not appear in the novel Lost Horizon by
James Hilton
but were added to the screenplay for romantic interest and comic relief accordingly.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
Although they first met years earlier, actors
Ed Harris
and
Amy Madigan
got married after working together on this film.
b.
This was one of the first films to be shot with Panavisions AWZ2 (Anamorphic Wide-Angle Zoom) lens. At the time of filming, the lens was just a prototype; it would not be formally introduced until 2006.
c.
Sidney Lumet
recalled that
Paddy Chayefsky
was usually on the set overseeing his direction, and would give him advice on how certain scenes should be played. Lumet claims that Chayefsky had better comedic instinct than him, but when it came time to shoot the scene between Max and Louise, Lumet told Chayefsky, "Paddy, please, I know more about divorce than you".
d.
Stephen Norrington
: During the chase with officer Krieger, the vampire on the side of the road biting the girls neck. In the alternate ending on the DVD, the blue figure in the black coat on the roof is Norrington again, as an unnamed vampire.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
Wesley Snipes
character is mistaken for
Arsenio Hall
. In an episode of
Martial Law
, Arsenios character is mistaken for Wesley, and the woman who does so says "I loved you in Passenger 57! "
b.
Sunny gives "Fred C. Dobbs" as the name of the hotel manager. This is the same name as Humphery Bogarts gold-prospecting character in
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
.
c.
Kay Lenz
was offered the lead female role but turned it down due to her commitment to the TV miniseries
Rich Man, Poor Man
.
d.
Veronica Lake
made this movie while pregnant.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
The street with the Washingtonia palms along it that introduces the stars homes segment is the residential part of Hollywood Boulevard. The street sign for the cross street, Fuller Avenue, is visible on the right.
b.
Sidney Lumet
claimed that he wanted to cast
Vanessa Redgrave
in the film, but
Paddy Chayefsky
didnt want her. Lumet argued that he thought she was the greatest English-speaking actress in the world, while Chayefsky, a proud Jew and supporter of Israel, objected on the basis of her support of the PLO. Lumet, himself a Jew, said "Paddy, thats blacklisting!" to which Chayefsky replied, "Not when a Jew does it to a Gentile." The year after this film swept the Oscars, Redgrave won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for
Julia
. The Jewish Defense League had protested her nomination and was picketing and burning her in effigy outside the Academy Awards ceremony. In her controversial acceptance speech, Redgrave decried intimidation by "Zionist hoodlums". Chayefsky was one of the scheduled presenters later in the evening, and he took a moment to express his contempt at Redgrave for "exploiting" the Academy Awards for "personal propaganda".
c.
This film was named in the Top Ten list of the 1948 year by both "Film Daily" and "The New York Times".
d.
At the drive in sequence, a Bedrock version of the Universal (Univer-shell) Logo is seen, complete with the main letters spelled out in bones, the older Universal/MCA Television theme music, and the continents on the globe placed together in to the prehistoric continent of Pangaea.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
Pam Grier
didnt expect her long-time friend
Sid Haig
to play the judge. She started to burst out laughing as she was surprised by Haig because they both starred together in a number of exploitation films, which this films style was influenced by.
b.
Bonnivard, originally known as François Bonivard (1496 - c. 1570), was a Swiss patriot/ historian. He was imprisoned at Chillon from c. 1530 to 1536. He inspired Byrons poem, The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816), which Winterbourne quotes to Daisy.
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.
In 1968 Chayefsky worked on a pilot script for a possible TV comedy series called "The Imposters" in which political subversives infiltrate and try to undermine a TV network.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
The sets for this film were reused for Columbias
One Night of Love
.
b.
Primo Carnera
was the worlds heavyweight boxing champion when this film was made and released. He refused to make the movie using the first script, which had him knocked out in the end, but agreed to a revised script with an additional $10,000 salary.
c.
The Naboo Palace setting was also the ballroom set for the Frankenstein family mansion in Geneva used in
Frankenstein
.
Celia Imrie
appears in both movies.
d.
Peter Finch
died before the Academy Awards were to take place, where he was nominated for Best Actor. He won, making him the first performer ever to receive a posthumous award at the Oscars. The second winner was fellow Australian
Heath Ledger
for
The Dark Knight
in 2009.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Network (1976)?
a.
Shot in six days.
b.
4 tons of blank ammunition was used.
c.
As of 2010, this is the last movie to receive five Academy Award nominations in the acting categories.
d.
The "S" and "Y" on the Sony television in the teachers lounge is blacked out, leaving "ON" on the front of the set.
Related movie quizzes
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Network (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Network (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Year: 1976 related famous movies quizzes
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Track of the Moon Beast (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : At the Earth's Core (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dixie Dynamite (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Incredible Torture Show (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Four Deuces (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Omen (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Midway (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Play Only with Me (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Food of the Gods (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Baker's Hawk (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : All the President's Men (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sweet Revenge (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Premonition (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Stay Hungry (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rocky (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Enforcer (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Barney (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Car Wash (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Next Man (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : From Noon Till Three (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : All the President's Men (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Please, Don't Bury Me Alive! (1976) Quiz
Related genere famous movies quizzes
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Iron Man 2 (2010) - Part (6) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Alien: Resurrection (1997) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Live by the Fist (1993) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Angus (1995) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Come Early Morning (2006) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Alexander (2004) - Part (9) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Rocky II (1979) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) - Part (6) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Man with Two Brains (1983) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Crazy in Alabama (1999) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Miller's Crossing (1990) - Part (8) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Luckytown (2000) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Party Monster (2003) - Part (5) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Prisoner of War (1954) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Hotel Rwanda (2004) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : A Killer Within (2004) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Thirteen Days (2000) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Hang 'Em High (1968) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Kingdom (2007) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Memento (2000) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Pi (1998) Quiz