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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Paris brûle-t-il? (1966) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Paris brûle-t-il? (1966) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966).

About the movie: The true story of the departure of the German occupiers from Paris in 1944.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		In the late 1970s Jean-Luc Godard became obsessed with the story of Siegel and planned to make a movie about him. He wrote a screenplay called, simply, "The Story", and planned to cast Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton in the Siegel and Hill roles. He dropped this plan when Keaton lost interest and then turned his attention to Sauve qui peut (la vie) as his return to commercial filmmaking. An excerpt from his draft of the script can be found in the 1985 edition of the book "Godard on Godard."
b.		Ridley Scott actually turned down directorial duties on the project as he was about to begin work on another science fiction adaptation, Dune and was also prepping a version of Tristan & Isolde. Michael Apted, Bruce Beresford and Adrian Lyne also turned down the script. Eventually, Robert Mulligan was hired to direct the picture, and he and Hampton Fancher set about rewriting the screenplay. However, they disagreed about the direction of the project, and Mulligan left after three months. When Scott was presented with a revised version of the script, after he had left Dune due to a lack of progress, he decided to make it to take his mind off his brothers recent death.
c.		During this movie a Nazi propaganda film is shown, saying that Poland had attacked Germany and started the war. The truth is that the Germans staged a "Polish attack" by dressing Polish prisoners in military uniforms and filming the "invasion" as an excuse to invade Poland.
d.		On the back of the cop car at the ManZe gas station, the bumper reads "Donated by your local drug dealer."

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		Johnny Depp met with the actual Joseph D. Pistone a number of times to gain knowledge and expertise for the role. He also took gun firing lessons from the FBI.
b.		Several members of the marauding band of bikers were played by members of the local chapter of the Pagans Motorcycle Club. The elaborate motorcycles they drove were their own.
c.		Keira Knightley credits the food poisoning she had during her audition for landing her the part of a sickly alcoholic.
d.		The "German" Tanks were American built M-24 Chaffees with armor plates welded on.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		In 1967, Paramount Pictures distributed this film in the USA (dubbed in English and retitled "Is Paris Burning?") on a double bill with Chuka starring Rod Taylor and Ernest Borgnine.
b.		Orson Welles thought of Everett Sloane as primarily a radio actor who didnt move particularly well on film, so he introduced crutches to the character.
c.		The foam around Cujos mouth was made of a concoction of egg whites and sugar. The dogs caused problems on the set by constantly licking the tasty stuff off.
d.		Lillete Dubey (Pimmi Verma) and Neha Dubey (playing Ayesha Verma) are mother and daughter in real life.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		Final film of William Redfield. He died of leukemia about a month after filming was completed.
b.		Jean Harlow was forced to stay out of the production for ten days due to a severe case of sunburn poisoning.
c.		Roddy Mcdowell was booked for a major cameo role but was replaced before filming.
d.		The skull of the pagan god Dionin used in the movie was constructed by adding sculpted sections to a real cow skull. The original teeth were pulled and replaced with fabricated ones to simulate the serpent look. Two skulls were fabricated for various scenes in the movie.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		On the posters released for the movie, Music credit goes to Joe LoDuca, but is misspelled as Joe DoLuca.
b.		John Steinbeck wrote the story at Hitchcocks request.
c.		Mel Brookss first movie filmed in Panavision scope; 2.35:1
d.		The first unit that reached Paris belonging to the 2nd Armoured Divison of Leclerc was formed by former Spanish republican soldiers. In the scene where the first half-tracks enter into Paris, you can see the names "Madrid" and "Teruel", two Spanish cities, written on their sides.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		In order to get approval for a film he very much wanted to make, The Quiet Man, John Ford had to agree to Herbert J. Yates, head of Republic Pictures, to make this film, starring both John Wayne and Maureen OHara. Republic believed that "The Quiet Man" would tank at the box office and thought a western would recoup that films expected losses.
b.		On Rob Zombies Official Halloween Myspace page, he announced that the films trailer will be shown with the double-featured film Grindhouse.
c.		This is the last time we see Officer "House" Conklin in the series.
d.		This films opening prologue states: "This is not the story of a beautiful city - not as we know it today - but as it was in its most perilous and also its most glorious hours. Paris in 1944, after four years of bitter occupation, was seething on the verge of revolt against the Nazi oppressors. With the allies almost at the doorstep, the French Resistance in the city, composed of many divergent groups, struggled bitterly among themselves to find the way to liberation. TIME WAS TERRIBLY SHORT . . . "

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		One of the main reasons for the movie being filmed in B&W was the Nazi flags. The French authorities refused to allow red and black Nazi flags to fly in Paris, even for a movie. They agreed only to have black and gray flags.
b.		James Woods and James Belushi frequently clashed during filming. Their competitive rivalry was secretly encouraged by Oliver Stone.
c.		The entire pantomime scene was improvised by Ron Masak and was filmed in one take.
d.		Most of the High School scenes were filmed at Carlton J. Kell High School, in Marietta, Georgia (USA). Most of the background students in the school scenes were actual junior and senior students of Kell.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		A jet engine from a Boeing 707 was used to generate wind in some scenes.
b.		Principal photography was completed in 28 days.
c.		An article in the 7 November 1966 issue of Boxoffice reported that four featurettes were made to promote the movie: "He Must Find There Nothing", in a 20-minute and a 10-minute version, a making of the production and how locations had to be modified to reflect the 1944 period; "Reality Must Not Be Left to Chance", 10-minute short behind the scenes; and a fourth featurette about composer Maurice Jarre.
d.		The sixteenth of twenty-eight Blondie movies starring Penny Singleton as Blondie Bumstead and Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumstead.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		A French postman felt off his bicycle on the Champs Elysées, when he saw some extras dressed as German soldiers crossing the avenue during a lunch pause. He ran out screaming, "Theyre back! Theyre back!"
b.		The movie originally ended showing Dale sitting in the Black Lodge, comforting Laura after she entered. It then cut to the last scene of the TV series, with Harry breaking down the door of the bathroom and finding Dale smashing his head into the mirror and laughing. Dale tries to act like nothing happened, but is dragged off to bed. This was to confirm that it was Dales doppelganger that escaped the Black Lodge.
c.		Michelangelo Antonionis original ending was a shot of an airplane sky-writing the phrase "Fuck You, America," which was cut by MGM president Louis F. Polk along with numerous other scenes. Louis F. Polk was eventually replaced by James T. Aubrey, who had most of the cut footage restored, but without this final shot.
d.		Everything in the film was shot live; there were no optical effects done in post production.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)?
a.		Maximilian Schells Lead Actor Oscar makes him the lowest-billed lead category winner in history. He is billed fifth, after Tracy, Lancaster, Widmark, and Dietrich.
b.		"On the Road" author Jack Kerouac was disturbed that his friend, author John Clellon Holmes, managed to get his "Beat Generation" novel "Go" into print before his own was published ("Go", in which Kerouac is a main character, was published in 1952, while "On the Road" was not published until 1957). Kerouac was worried that Holmes was plagiarizing him, although Holmes was careful to credit Kerouac with creating the term "Beat" for their generation, and much of the material was common amongst them and other writers of their circle, such as Allen Ginsberg. Ironically, producer Albert Zugsmith outfoxed Kerouac by copyrighting the term "The Beat Generation", which he used as the title of this egregious exploitation film, which was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1959. A year later, M.G.M. released a film of Kerouacs novel "The Subterraneans", made by with top talent: It proved to be a major disappointment as it grossly misrepresented the scene (as well as Kerouacs novel). Ironically, "The Subterraneans" probably is the premier contemporary movie about the Beats, as so few "Beat" movies were made ("On the Road" has never been filmed), the phenomenon occurring during a time of strict screen censorship in the United States. By the time censorship was lifted in 1967, the Beats had been supplanted by the Hippies.
c.		In the shot of the United Nations Headquarters, the flags waving in front of the embassy include a rainbow flag and a pirate flag.
d.		Some of the French actors, such as Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron and Jean-Pierre Cassel, dubbed their own dialogue into English. The American theatrical release of this film had all the French dialogue parts of the film dubbed into English language.

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