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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Police Academy (1984) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Police Academy (1984) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984).
About the movie:
A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
Was filmed in forty days.
b.
The scene depicting Lorelis breakdown was shot over the course of 12 hours.
c.
Steven Spielberg
: [mirror shot] Conversation between
Tom Hanks
and
Amy Adams
in the bedroom at the engagement party.
d.
In the original script, Red talks briefly to Amy in the gas station store at the beginning of the film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
Due to being filmed out of sequence, the head shaving scene of
Scott Thomson
and
Brant von Hoffman
caused problems when it was later determined that they would need to be shown arriving at the academy beforehand, with their full heads of hair intact. Producers worked their way around this by issuing wigs for all of Scott and Brants scenes that play prior to the head shaving.
b.
James Stewart
, who was portraying
Charles Lindbergh
at the age of 25, was 47 when the film was made.
c.
Until the first day of shooting it was unclear as to whether
Alec Baldwin
would shave his beard, which was described by
Art Linson
in his book "What Just Happened?" as being akin to that of Grizzly Adams. Baldwin was furious at the idea at first, but did go on to shave by production. A similar incident is dramatized in the film adaptation of
What Just Happened
with
Bruce Willis
as the celeb refusing to shave.
d.
The hooded terrorist in the "Fear, Excitement, Danger" segment is
Guillaume DeLouche
, the weapons master on the film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
Martha Plimpton
plays the older sister of
Joaquin Phoenix
. In real life, she dated his older brother
River Phoenix
for nearly five years.
b.
The hubcap falling off Facklers car as it backs out of his driveway was unplanned.
c.
In 2010 won 2 Telly Awards, a Communicator Award and 2 Accolade Awards.
d.
The lead was originally offered to
Gary Cooper
, who turned it down. It was then given to
Bing Crosby
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
This movie was the most successful film of 1984 in Germany.
b.
As they were shooting scenes in Las Vegas set in the 1970s, the husband of an elderly woman extra was given a period-correct leisure suit to wear by the wardrobe department. However, instead of providing the woman with period clothes, they told her, much to her chagrin, that her out-of-date attire was just fine.
c.
The remote used by Andrew Wyke is actually an Apple Universal remote used to control their Computers/iPod Docks.
d.
The real Sheryl Yoast died in 1996.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
After Lassard and the cadets drive away from the rioting mob, they crash into the back of a meat truck which reads "Maslanskys Bologna". This is a reference to the films producer
Paul Maslansky
.
b.
Producer
Walter Wood
once said of this movie: "The racing world makes you feel like youre 12 years old again in a very nice kind of a way. Stroker Ace tries to capture that spirit. My involvement with NASCAR put the bounce back in my step. I think that the movie, if we are successful, will do the same for audiences."
c.
According to director
Paul Verhoeven
, the woman in the opening scene was
Sharon Stone
and not a body double.
d.
Alex Proyas
was originally going to direct but pulled out of the project to work on
Dark City
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
Shooting started on 23 September 2002 and wrapped up by 04 November 2002. However, the film wasnt released until 2005 as it spent much of 2003 and 2004 on the film festival circuit.
b.
The Bazooko Circus Casino was modeled closely after the Circus Circus Casino in Las Vegas, which was mentioned in the original book. The real casino refused to have anything to do with the film, and even forbade the use of its name. The casino sign shown in the film replaces Circus Circus neon clowns pinwheel with a mallet, and the interior shots were partially filmed in the (now closed) Boardwalk Casino in Las Vegas. The carousel-themed "Merry-Go-Round" bar in the real Circus Circus (called the "Horse-A-Round" bar) revolves in the opposite direction as the one depicted in the film.
c.
The shot of George MartÃn leaving the womens dormitory at dawn was actually filmed at sunset.
d.
After the Batmobile rides up the wall to escape from Two-Face, there was going to be a car chase on the rooftops of Gotham. Due to time and money constraints, this idea was scrapped and used in the next film,
Batman & Robin
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
Ashton Kutcher
lost the role of Danny Walker to
Josh Hartnett
.
b.
After drugging Katie the housekeeper with tea to insure his alibi, Galloway pours out the contents of the cup in the sink, presumably to preclude any analysis of it, but he leaves the teapot to be discovered.
c.
Linda Blair
received her Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination before it was widely known that previous Supporting Actress winner
Mercedes McCambridge
had actually provided the voice of the demon. By Academy rules once Blair was given the nomination it could not be withdrawn, but the controversy about Blair being given credit for another actress work ruined her chances of winning the award.
d.
G.W. Bailey
s voice is noticeably lower than usual during the scene of the cadets shooting exercise in the little western town, as G.W. was sick with the flu that day.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
In the scene when Jones (
Michael Winslow
) is knocked out of the door and tumbles down the stairs, he sits up and mimics some video game sounds. The game sounds he is mimicking are those from the popular 1980s video game
Q*bert
.
b.
The previous play was produced on Broadway by
Richard Rodgers
and
Oscar Hammerstein II
. The films producers purchased the rights for $2500 for each week of the plays run, up to $150,000, on the condition that the film would not be made until the play closed. The stage version ended up running for nearly two years. The original Broadway production opened on October 19, 1944 at the Music Box Theater and ran for 713 performances with a cast that included
Marlon Brando
in his Broadway debut.
c.
In the video and DVD releases, the "JVC" logo originally seen in the rooftop scene in the theatrical cut has been airbrushed out. This is because the producers believed it to be "too distracting". They also claim that this particular product placement was unintentional.
d.
As he had done with the original,
Sylvester Stallone
incorporated biographical elements from his own life into Rockys story for this film. In particular, Stallone used as a central plot point the concept that yesterdays heroes are quickly forgotten. In the film, this manifests itself in terms of people quickly forgetting about Rockys exploits in the title fight. In reality, Stallone experienced a similar sense of being quickly forgotten after his two post-
Rocky
movies,
Paradise Alley
(Stallones directorial debut) and
F.I.S.T
, both underperformed at the box office.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
In the original
Batman
, District Attorney Harvey Dent was played by
Billy Dee Williams
. Williams accepted the role with the knowledge and expectation that Dent would eventually become Two-Face: he reportedly had a clause put into his contract reserving the role for him in any sequels, which Warner Bros. had to buy out so they could cast
Tommy Lee Jones
.
b.
Is a Science-Fiction Thriller dealing with alien abduction in the style of Alfred Hitchcock.
c.
Daryl Hannah
s character is called "Elle Driver." The production team for the documentary
Full Tilt Boogie
, a documentary about the production of
From Dusk Till Dawn
(which starred Quentin Tarantino), is also called " L. Driver Productions".
d.
The "shoe polish on the megaphone" originated from a prank played on British director
Michael Winner
on the set of one of his movies.
Hugh Wilson
decided to use the gag after he heard the story from a crew member.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Police Academy (1984)?
a.
Director
Bert I. Gordon
created some of the special ant-effects by shooting magnified images of the Panamanian bullet ant.
b.
According to an interview in Entertainment Weekly,
Tom Hanks
,
Michael Keaton
and
Judge Reinhold
were considered for the role of Mahoney.
c.
Dinah Shore
, who was a singer as well as an actress, was initially considered for the role of
Anna Leonowens
.
d.
While shooting inside of the Civic Arena, in some sections there were cardboard cut outs of people because production didnt have enough money to pay any more extras.
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