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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pearl Harbor (2001) - Part (5) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pearl Harbor (2001) - Part (5) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001).
About the movie:
Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
According to
Michael Bay
, after the film came out he got a letter from
Daniel Martínez
, the worlds foremost expert on Pearl Harbor and the director of the Pearl Harbor museum. In the letter, Bay says that Martinez wrote, "You got the essence of what happened right."
b.
This movie is actually a combination of
Lewis Carroll
s two "Alice" books, "Alices Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass".
c.
Jim Morrison
s comment while being interviewed about spending more money on alcohol and tobacco than education is taken from "The Doors of Perception" by
Aldous Huxley
.
d.
Cinema managers were offered the film with two endings, one happy and one sad. When
Ernest Hemingway
got wind of this tactic, he was furious so cinemas in the larger cities, where the mainly pro-Hemingway critics were based, were provided only with the downbeat ending, in accordance with the way the novel ended.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
During production,
Charles Bronson
met and fell in love with
David McCallum
s wife,
Jill Ireland
, and he jokingly told McCallum he was going to steal her away from him. In 1967, Ireland and McCallum divorced, and she married Bronson.
b.
Director
Simon West
opted not to show the crime scene Detective Hines has to see at the beginning of the movie to secure a PG-13 rating.
c.
Several people are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names):
Jay Eaton
(Assistant Clerk),
Ernie Alexander
(Drunk),
Charles Arnt
(Captain of Waiters) and
Gennaro Curci
(Greek).
d.
The production budget for the film was at the time the largest ever given to a movie before filming started - $140 million.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
Originally intended to be short film, "What Is It?" expanded out to be a feature over the 9 years of its production.
b.
The character portrayed by
Cuba Gooding Jr.
,
Doris Dorie Miller
, was the first African-American to be awarded the Navy Cross.
c.
The Scottish castle scene was filmed at Vikingsholm, a private residence at Lake Tahoe. It was built as a summer home by Mrs. Lora Josephine Knight, in 1929.
d.
The money that
Chloë Sevigny
made from her role was spent on a trip to Paris and London.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
Earned a place in the "Guinness Book of World Records" for the movie with the most explosives used.
b.
Charlton Heston
was taught to drive a chariot by the stunt crew, who offered to teach the entire cast. Heston was the only one who took them up on the offer. At the beginning of the chariot race, Heston shook the reins and nothing happened; the horses remained motionless. Finally someone way up on top of the set yelled, "Giddy-up!" The horses then roared into action, and Heston was flung backward off of the chariot.
c.
The bizarre car seen in the previews is a Tatra 603. Built in the present-day Czech Republic, it was designed as a limousine for Communist Party officials and VIPs. It was first designed in 1955; the model in the previews is from 1968-1975.
d.
Arnetia Walker
is only 9 years older than
Martin Lawrence
although she plays his mother in the movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
The poetry written by Simon Templars long-haired artist character, Thomas Moore, was actually written by
Val Kilmer
himself.
b.
Won "Best Feature" at the New York City Horror Film Festival.
c.
Lillian Gish
met with
Benito Mussolini
, whom she greatly admired, while filming in Italy.
d.
During the briefing of the Doolittle Raid, the pilots names are listed on the black board including "Lawson".
Ted Lawson
flew the Doolittle Raid and wrote the book "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", made into a film (
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
) with
Van Johnson
portraying Lawson.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
On his DVD commentary,
Michael Bay
argues that the heavily criticized first part of the film was very much designed to show the innocence and blasé attitude of Americans to the possibility of becoming embroiled in the "European war". He says that the reason this part of the film is so colorful and mirthful is because thats exactly what things were like back then - there was very much a sense of being untouchable, something which he says was emphasized time and again by the survivors to whom he spoke. Bay claims that many survivors say he got the pre-Pearl Harbor atmosphere perfect.
b.
Aaron Eckhart said, out of all the movies he has made, this was the funniest yet toughest one to make. He went on to say that he would love to return for a sequel and would like it to be set in Paris, France.
c.
The movies title inspired
Cyndi Lauper
s song "Time After Time", when she browsed a copy of TVGuide for "imaginary song titles".
d.
Cast member
Simon Callow
originally portrayed the part of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
in the 1979 stage production.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
The takeoff sequence for Doolittles Raid was filmed onboard the USS Constellation CV-64 off the coast of San Diego, CA, and the USS Lexington Museum CV-16 in Corpus Christi, TX.
b.
Although some people may be confused at the sight of
Burt Lancaster
playing a native American, in fact, Thorpe himself was not a full-blooded Native American, being part Irish on his mothers side.
c.
Effectively a successor to an Internet-based Flash series simply named "Booty Call", also featuring Jake. Jake references the movie throughout the series.
d.
Vitaphone production reels #2491-2498; this was the third Warner Brothers feature following The Jazz Singer (1927) to include talking sequences along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
Two of the Japanese A6M2 "Zero" planes were made specifically for the movie at the "Strela" plant in Oranienburg, Russia, which specializes in restoring WWII planes.
b.
After filming of this movie was completed,
Shirley Temple
was given the Pekingese dog that had played her characters pet dog, "Mr. Woo." Temple renamed the dog "Ching-Ching," after her character in the movie.
c.
Second in the poll for FIPRESCI GRAND PRIX OF THE YEAR 2005.
d.
The Roman taxi driver (
Roberto Benigni
) has an 8-ball as a gearstick knob. In
Down by Law
, Benigni played a character who killed a man using an 8-ball.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
On his DVD commentary, director
Michael Bay
makes it very clear that he was not attempting to make a contemporary love story, but a 1940s love story; the type of story that could have been seen in films of the day. Bay claims that one of the reasons the love story plot was so derided by critics and rejected by audiences was simply because they werent able to look at it from this perspective; that they werent able to adopt the sense of innocence and carefree attitude necessary to accept it.
Ben Affleck
also addresses this aspect of the story on his own commentary - especially in relation to the much maligned champagne cork scene, pointing out that such a scene would be right at home in a 1940s romance film.
b.
Last theatrical movie of
Hardie Albright
.
c.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
joined the cast when he was shown the mask he would wear as Cobra Commander.
d.
Upon seeing the film at a star-studded preview screening at Paramount, MGM studio head
Louis B. Mayer
screamed at director
Billy Wilder
that he should be tarred, feathered and horse-whipped for bringing his profession into such disrepute. Wilders response was a terse, "Fuck you" (Mayer would find himself ousted from his position within the year by the new regime at MGM, headed by
Dore Schary
).
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)?
a.
Ron Magid
commented that "its easier to spot the few hundred shots that dont feature any CG work at all than the nearly 2,000 shots that do."
b.
Green blood was used for the vampires to get the movie past the censors.
c.
Brad Pitt
stated it took 5 hours each day to complete the make-up required for the role.
d.
According to
Michael Bay
on his DVD commentary, after the film came out and the critics savaged the love story, he was deeply touched when he received hundreds of letters from people who felt the love story rang completely true for the tone of the film, and was an integral part of the atmosphere of the movie. Bay says that most of these letters came from older people, including many Pearl Harbor survivors.
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