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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Phone Booth (2002) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Phone Booth (2002) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002).
About the movie:
Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
The "Harvard" students for the riot scene, filmed at Bridgewater State College, were recruited from the varsity sports teams of Bridgewater State College, and via announcements on Boston radio stations.
b.
The movie was originally set to be released on 15 November 2002. However, after the sniper attacks in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., 20th Century Fox decided to delay the release of the film.
c.
Don Johnson
s film debut.
d.
When Rabbi Sendak opens the Hebrew book in his office, he thumbs through it in the wrong direction. Hebrew is written in the opposite direction to English; a real rabbi would have opened the book and read it from right to left.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
Director
Robert Kurtzman
came up with the story after he saw a vulture display at a museum in New York City.
b.
The stylized artwork that
Ridley Scott
used to create the storyboards that got Fox to double the budget were inspired by the artwork of famed comic book artist Mobius.
c.
Will Smith
was attached to star at one point.
d.
In an early scene, on-screen graphics appear that resemble an image used to illustrate the golden ratio. In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio between the sum of those quantities and the larger one is the same as the ratio between the larger one and the smaller. This ratio can be expressed as a mathematical constant, usually denoted by the Greek letter Phi.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
According to
Arthur C. Clarke
,
Stanley Kubrick
wanted to get an insurance policy from Lloyds of London to protect himself against losses in the event that extraterrestrial intelligence were discovered before the movie was released. Lloyds refused.
Carl Sagan
commented, "In the mid-1960s, there was no search being performed for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the chances of accidentally stumbling on extraterrestrial intelligence in a few years period was extremely small. Lloyds of London missed a good bet."
b.
In the scene where Dom is attacked by the killer in the stairway at the abandoned building, it was required for the killer to drop the knife after stabbing Dom once and have it land directly on the handrail below, sticking straight up. Director
Alfred Sole
only had one knife and had to drop it repeatedly, and then have a crew member run back down the stairs to retrieve it and try it all over again. Finally, after over 20 tries, the knife landed directly on the handrail, giving the filmmakers the shot that was needed.
c.
There are many comic book references that show up through the film. Gretchen comments on Donnies name as sounding like a superhero, to which he replies "What makes you think Im not?" Many characters have alliterative names (Donnie Darko, Cherita Chen, Frankie Feedler, Daye Dennis, Joanie James, Sean Smith, Donnie Dickson) like many comic book heroes (Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Susan Storm etc.). Also, it is believed that Donnie is a superhero, as he has powers and he uses them to save others.
d.
All scenes were shot in order as they happened.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
Al Pacino
was considered for the lead role
b.
Arnold Johnson
is credited as a cast member in the opening credits, but is omitted in the more comprehensive end credits. Therefore, the opening credits are listed first in the IMDb cast list and rest of cast list is filled in from the end credits, as required by IMDb rules.
c.
The scenes inside the phone booth took 10 days to shoot; the other 2 days of the 12 day schedule were used on exterior shots of the booths surroundings.
d.
The Spatula City ad contains a reference which is almost completely lost on modern audiences, where president Sy Greenblum states, "I liked the spatulas so much, I bought the company." This is a spoof of a 1970s series of commercials for Remington electric razors, in which chairman
Victor Kiam
said that he so liked the shaver his wife gave him that he bought the company.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
In his non-fiction book Danse Macabre,
Stephen King
declared this to be the scariest movie of all time and that
Alan Arkin
s performance "may be the greatest evocation of screen villainy ever."
b.
At one point,
Jim Carrey
reportedly showed interest in the lead role.
c.
Was originally planned as a direct-to-DVD sequel, but when producers saw the first results of the considerably lower budget production they were dissatisfied and gave the project back to the makers of the original for a cinematic release.
d.
James Caan
asked that he be paid the same amount of money to play Sonny Corleone at the end of the film in the flashback as he was paid to do
The Godfather
. He got his wish.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
The earpiece that Desmond gives Sean outside the book store was actually an eraser cap from a mechanical pencil.
b.
Just before the movie went into production, the Hollywood trade papers were touting that rising star
Kristy McNichol
was to headline in a comedy-drama with country music to be entitled "Ruby Red".
c.
Several of the phones used by characters in the movie were the Nextel Motorola i670.
d.
The toy robot vendor is speaking in Swahili.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
Matt Dillon
didnt actually want or expect to be cast in the movie. He went to the audition just so he could skip school.
b.
The phone booth is supposedly on the north side of West 53rd Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The filming began there but it was already November 2000 and much too cold for the cast and crew. After one day, the shoot took over in a historic section of downtown LA on 5th Street. It looks like NY, save for the well-known Studio 54 and
Ed Sullivan
Theatre which are on the original locations block.
c.
Title is taken from
The Cars
hit song (featured in the film).
d.
Thousands of pallets of green grass were brought in to make the baseball field, but due to the haste in planting because of the shooting schedule, the grass was not able to grow appropriately and died. In order to keep the grass green, the production crew painted the grass.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
Screenwriter
Larry Cohen
originally pitched the concept of a film that takes place entirely within a phone booth to
Alfred Hitchcock
in the 1960s. Hitchcock liked the idea, but he and Cohen were unable to figure out a plot reason for keeping the film confined to a booth. Once the idea of a sniper came to Cohen in the late 1990s, he was able to write the script in under a month.
b.
The alien costume would later be featured again in the film
Teenage Cave Man
.
Ross Sturlin
portrayed the monster in both films.
c.
When Arctor is going through the second phase of testing with the medical deputies, the laptop-like machine on which he is being tested is branded as V K mk1. V K stands for Voight Kampff, the test used in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (a.k.a. "Blade Runner") by
Philip K. Dick
, where the test is used to measure the response time and the involuntary reaction of the pupil of the eye, in short, an emotional reaction to determine whether they are humans or androids.
d.
According to
Francis Ford Coppola
in his "Cigar Aficionado" magazine interview, he had a meeting at his home in 1969 with producers
Albert S. Ruddy
and
Gray Frederickson
to discuss
The Conversation
. He had sent the script to
Marlon Brando
who called him during the meeting to politely turn it down. Right before the meeting, Coppola took note of a newspaper advertisement for an upcoming novel titled "The Godfather" by
Mario Puzo
. Just a few months later, all five people would meet to discuss a film version of the novel.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
Michael Bay
considered directing. When he met with the writer and producers, the first thing he asked was "How can we get him out of the phone booth?"
b.
In a interview on the DVD, director
Tobe Hooper
said that the mask worn by one of the creatures in
The Funhouse
was a Frankenstein mask. Hooper said that this was selected because the Universal Studios owned the image copyright for it from their
Frankenstein
horror film classic.
c.
Val Lewton
did not like the article "I Walked With A Zombie" by
Inez Wallace
that had been optioned so he adapted the story to fit the novel "Jane Eyre" because he felt the articles plot was too clichéd.
d.
According to Director
Peter MacDonald
in the DVD commentary, at the time this movie was being filmed, the Russians were in fact invading Afghanistan just as depicted in this movie, however about 4 weeks prior to this movies premiere, the Russians had in fact withdrawn from Afghanistan and were no longer at war with that country. MacDonald felt that this turn of events had hurt the movies box office returns, since the idea of the Russians being the primary villains in this movie was no longer really believable. At the same time though, MacDonald was somewhat glad of the idea that the events of this movie may have helped to contribute to Russias withdrawal from Afghanistan.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Phone Booth (2002)?
a.
At the time of the films theatrical debut, the phone number featured on Walters television show (1 800 BET ON IT) was the number of an actual sports advice service.
b.
Larry Joshua
is actually older than the two main counselors.
c.
The part of the sniper was originally shot with
Ron Eldard
; he was replaced with
Kiefer Sutherland
in re-shoots.
d.
Dr. Grants brown truck with the Museum of the Rockies and Montanta State University logos on it is actually based on the vehicle that belongs to Dr.
Jack Horner
, paleontologist consultant on the Jurassic Park films as well as the man that the character of Grant is based on. It was a difficult and time consuming process to find an exact match of Dr. Horners truck to be used in the movie.
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