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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Nixon (1995) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Nixon (1995) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Nixon (1995)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995).

About the movie: A biographical story of former U.S. president Richard Milhous Nixon, from his days as a young boy to his eventual presidency which ended in shame.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		"The Unforgiven" was Audrey Hepburns only Western.
b.		This is the second film that features the character of Buffalo Bill and Anthony Quinn playing cheyenne. The first one was The Plainsman (1936).
c.		Scott Careys closing soliloquy was added to the script by director Jack Arnold.
d.		The scene at Santa Anita Raceway echoes a similar scene in JFK, and even hints at the previous movie with John Williams JFK theme played in scenes in which Kennedy is referenced.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		To gain the feel of Richard Nixon, Anthony Hopkins watched almost every speech Nixon ever made on tape several times. He also met some people who knew Nixon that could lend Hopkins some insight on him.
b.		The design of Cyclops and Jean Greys tombstones is taken from the "X-Men" storyline Days of Future Past, where the X-Mens gravestones were in a similar deco (The X symbol with the member name below).
c.		The Volkswagen Jetta that Jesse drives in the movie was later purchased by Frankie Muniz.
d.		Car cost $84,000.00 to build.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		The name of the "actor" who plays Marlon is listed at the beginning of the film as "Louis Coltrane", an amalgam of the names of the jazz musicians Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane. The character also plays trumpet in the film, another allusion to Armstrong.
b.		Director Stephen Sommers claimed in an interview he changed the main characters name from Abraham Van Helsing to Gabriel Van Helsing, as he did not think he could have a lead character named Abraham. The Irishman who wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker, named the character after himself - Bram being a shortening of Abraham.
c.		More than half the movie had to be re-shot due to recasting and production issues.
d.		When Nixon returns from China and goes to the press area aboard Air Force One, the reporter in the front row on the left side can be seen knocking his head on the overhead compartment. This was the first of three takes of this shot. After Oliver Stone noticed on playback that Jim (the reporter) had bumped his head, Stone called for another take, which was followed by a third, "just to make sure". Ironically, the first take, with Jim the reporters head bump, is the one that made it into the final film.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		While shooting the scene where Nixon and Jones confront each other, the lights were aimed straight down at coffee tables in front of the fur-upholstered couch. The lights were so powerful that the rug beneath one of the tables started smoking. In the middle of the first take, an extra noticed the increasing amount of smoke, and muttered "fire" quietly during a pause between lines of dialogue. James Woods heard this and stopped the scene before the rug caught fire.
b.		Zac Efron was talked about to be cast as Kyle.
c.		During the Race Wars, real race cars with their real drivers came to participate in the huge scene.
d.		Jonathan Jackson, playing a 17-year-old character, is actually one year younger than Alexis Bledel, who plays a 15-year-old character. Bledel was 21 at the time of the films release, and Jackson was 20.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		Nearly all the extras and many of the actors in the "Fistful of Yen" sketch were recruited from nearby martial arts gyms.
b.		Director John McTiernan decided to change the heist from a bank robbery, as was seen in the Steve McQueen version, to an art heist. as seen in this version. McTiernan felt that at the time the film was released, audiences would be less forgiving of Thomas Crown if he staged two armed bank robberies for fun than if he staged an unarmed art heist.
c.		In Hong Kong, the movie was given a title that translated to The Big Liar.
d.		Originally, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn were only hired to write one song, "Candle on the Water." But the studio was so pleased with the song that they decided to make it as a musical and kept Kasha and Hirschhorn on to write the score.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		When Oliver Stone saw The Remains of the Day, he decided to cast Anthony Hopkins because he was able to exude the kind of inner conflict that he was looking for.
b.		Series Trademark: The Terminator loses its left arm, and hauls itself forward with its right.
c.		At one time the original title was Three Smart Girls Join Up.
d.		The phone number that Horrigan finds under the bed is the phone number for Sony Pictures.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		A Nitrate Print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, and is not listed for Preservation.
b.		Ellen Burstyn was originally considered for the role of Genevieve, but after meeting with Bogdonavich and reading for all three of the older women characters, he asked her to play Ruth Popper. Burstyn, however, preferred the role of Lois, and Bogdonavich told her to go home, think about whatever part she wanted to play, and call him the next day. She called him the next morning, telling him she still wanted to play Lois, and he agreed.
c.		Luis Guzmán had a small part as Marias brother, but this was eventually deleted from the film. The scene was a gag that made Harold think Guzman was dating Maria.
d.		Used the same Oval Office set as The American President.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		Tom Hanks was offered the part of Richard Nixon but turned it down.
b.		The South America scenes were deliberately tinted in sepia, as was done with the Kansas scenes in The Wizard of Oz. However, in the case of "The Sea Hawk", it is unclear why this was done. Many television prints of the film, however, were entirely in regular black-and-white. Robert Osborne noted in his lead in to this movie on "The Essentials" (August 7, 2010) that sepia tones were used in the 1940 movie because Warner Brothers used, in this film, footage from their earlier version of _The Sea Hawk_ that was filmed in sepia tones. That fleshed out the fight scenes, didnt cause viewers to be ill with the change back and forth from blank-and-white to sepia, and saved money.
c.		Two of the characters in the film, Peter The Pardoner and Simon The Summoner, are characters from Geoffrey Chaucers work, "The Canterbury Tales".
d.		Final theatrically released feature film of British director Peter Yates.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		The film was completed somewhere around the time the real Richard Nixon died in 1994. The footage of his funeral at the end, along with a narrated epilogue, was added several months before the films release.
b.		Early promotional photos of the spaceship Murray Leinster were printed upside down. As a result, the spaceship was also drawn upside down on the original theatrical one sheet poster.
c.		This movie was made and released about eighteen months after Moving Out, the productions previous and related picture.
d.		Bill Murrays directorial debut.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nixon (1995)?
a.		Frank Capra considered this the worst movie of his career.
b.		For the chestburster sequence, John Hurt stuck his head, shoulders and arms through a hole in the mess table, linking up with a mechanical torso that was packed with compressed air (to create the forceful exit of the alien) and lots of animal guts. The rest of the cast were not told that real guts were being used so as to provoke genuine reactions of shock and disgust.
c.		The smoke effects for the disappearing scenes were done in camera because there wasnt enough money in the budget to do any optical effects in post-production.
d.		The film was denounced by Richard Nixons daughters.

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