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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : O Lucky Man! (1973) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : O Lucky Man! (1973) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973).
About the movie:
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
In the prison governors office, there is a small photograph of
John Ford
- the one Ford sent to Anderson while he was shooting the movie. The dedication reads: "To my colleague Lindsay Anderson with best regards from his friend of many years. Jack."
b.
The filmmakers named the large Burmese python "Kitty".
c.
Barred from working under his own name by Will Hays after the 1922 scandal, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle deliberately selected a pseudonym, Will B. Goodrich, that spelled out "Wlll Be Good."
d.
The poem Whiteside recites ("Harriet Stanley took an ax; gave her father forty whacks...") is - but for the name - the same as the rhyme about Lizzie Borden, who was accused of killing her father and step-mother...with an ax.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
In Janies dream about marrying the rich Dick Hamilton, the front page of the newspaper announcing the nuptials also declares: "ADOLF HITLER ASSASSINATED ... World War End Expected as Hitler Slain ... Nazi Dictator Struck Down in Moscow".
b.
Director
Frank Oz
and cast member
Ian McDiarmid
had previously both been in
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
, though their characters had no scenes together. They subsequently worked together in all three Star Wars prequels, during which McDiarmid was digitally inserted into
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
, in which Oz already appeared.
c.
The part played by
Eleanor Fazan
in this project was first offered to casting director
Miriam Brickman
d.
Lou Ferrigno
: as a security guard. See also
The Incredible Hulk
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
In France the title is The Best of all Possible Worlds which is the refrain from Voltaires novel, "Candide", upon which the film is very loosely based.
b.
Director
Oliver Hirschbiegel
s English language debut.
c.
In March 1941, RKO was distributing this film on a double bill with
Sixty Glorious Years
. (
Sixty Glorious Years
was distributed with the alternate title "Queen of Destiny".)
d.
The role of Lucifer was offered to
Chuck Connors
,
Rory Calhoun
, and
Clint Walker
, all of whom turned it down.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
In reality it was not Itzhak Stern who helped
Oskar Schindler
put the list together, but Marcel Goldberg. Many survivors who speak of Goldberg do so with disdain, as he was unscrupulous in deciding who ended up on the list, reportedly accepting bribes from some Survivors, taking names off the list to add theirs instead.
b.
Desert footage was shot by
Merian C. Cooper
and
Ernest B. Schoedsack
in 1937 for an unmade film on the life of Lawrence of Arabia..
c.
Guillermo del Toro
: [underground areas] The subway system.
d.
Ralph Richardson
had real trouble remembering the names of all the other characters so he had them written on his hands and costumes.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
The first names of actors
Hristo Shopov
(Pontius Pilate) and
Christo Jivkov
(Apostle John) are variations of the name Christ.
b.
Only thirteen pieces of equipment were actually used: two full-sized locomotives, one yard engine, three passenger cars, two iron box cars, and five wooden box cars that were built specifically to be destroyed in the film. The various pieces of equipment wore different numbers on different trains throughout the movie.
c.
There were approximately 30 takes of the scene when the director (played by
Lindsay Anderson
) slaps
Malcolm McDowell
across the face with a script.
d.
Dewey (
David Arquette
) was supposed to die from the stab wound to the back. Director
Wes Craven
filmed the scene at the end of the film, where Dewey is alive and being taken to the hospital, just in case he changed his mind about killing Dewey. The screen-test audience loved the character Dewey so much that Craven decided to add his survival scene in the final cut. If you watch closely during the part where Gale (
Courteney Cox
) is knocked out by Billy (
Skeet Ulrich
), you can see that Dewey is not breathing when Gale lands on him because Dewey was intended to be dead. Every time Dewey is shown after he is stabbed before the final scene is intended to be his dead body, not him lying unconscious.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
Brad Dourif
, who played Grima Wormtongue, has a goddaughter named Arwen.
b.
No scenes were shot in Arizona; Utah and California were used instead.
c.
The name Alexander de Large (
Malcolm McDowell
s character in
A Clockwork Orange
) can be seen on Micks order book when he is working as a salesman.
d.
For this role,
John Krasinski
had to change his usual hair style. This hair change was worked into a story on his television show,
The Office
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
Ditzy model Marions interest in comic books was inserted into the film to reflect actress-model
Dovima
s real life passion for them.
b.
The working title for the initial screenplay that
Malcolm McDowell
and
David Storey
wrote was "The Coffee Man", a title they both hated.
c.
In the work print of the film, an alternate escape scene was used. In it Michael begins his escape from the institution by killing 2 young orderlies while they are molesting a catatonic female inmate.
d.
Shah Rukh Khan
was offered a part in the movie, but declined.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, who briefly appear in the final "roll call" shot, actually had not been created at the time the movie was set (1947). The characters were given a small cameo anyway at the insistence of
Steven Spielberg
.
b.
Helen Mirren
was an 11th hour casting.
Fiona Lewis
started filming but was fired so Mirren was cast as Patricia instead.
c.
The cast had to mouth the songs as production was so swift that the score had yet to recorded by the time it came to filming.
d.
The original Broadway production of "The King and I" opened at the St. James Theater on March 29, 1951, ran for 1246 performances and won the 1952 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
Malcolm McDowell
s favorite film of all that hes made.
b.
The United Artists logo seen in the opening credits of the film was from the companys archives. All the films released under United Artists at the time of Undertows release had a different logo. As a child, director Green always saw that logo and was unsettled by it, and for that reason, he used it in the film.
c.
The music used when Hal finds the whale ankle bracelet in the pool is the "Big W" music used in
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
.
d.
Del thinks about travelling to Jamaica.
John Candy
later did in
Cool Runnings
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: O Lucky Man! (1973)?
a.
When Rita and Betty go to the Sierra Bonita apartment complex, the name next to #17 is L.J. DeRosa - a member of the art department on the film,
Laura J. DeRosa
.
b.
The "Meths drinkers" are extreme, down and out alcoholics - what Americans might refer to as "skid row" bums. They drink methylated spirit, or "wood alcohol", which is very cheap, a poisonous variety of alcohol used as a fuel for lanterns and stoves and as a cleaning fluid and solvent. It is a nerve poison, which often causes blindness, so only those so poor and hard up for a drink that they will knowingly drink poison will drink it if nothing else can be found. (American down-and-outs often drink what is called "squeeze", made by squeezing the methyl alcohol liquid out of "canned heat" ("Sterno" brand is one such) heating gel.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and was never televised until many years afterward.
d.
The film was shot in sequence, so as filming went on and the actors grew tired from the shooting schedule, the characters they played would also look more and more tired as the night went on.
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