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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Punch-Drunk Love (2002) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Punch-Drunk Love (2002) - 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: Punch-Drunk Love (2002).
About the movie:
A beleaguered small-business owner gets a harmonium and embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
Unusually,
Jon Brion
composed music for the film whilst filming was taking place, experimenting with tones and sounds, making particular note of what director
Paul Thomas Anderson
was responding to. Brions score would then be played on set, helping influence the tone of the film.
b.
Marilyn Monroe
kept insisting on retakes despite approval of takes by director
Howard Hawks
. When Fox asked Hawks how production could be sped up he retorted: "three wonderful ideas: Replace Marilyn, rewrite the script and make it shorter, and get a new director."
c.
Two scenes were written that do not appear in the final cut of the film: a scene where Rocky visits his gym with Apollo Creed as a photo op and Rocky beats up Dipper, the fighter who took his locker earlier in the story and a scene the night of the big fight in the locker room between Rocky and Adrian. The locker room scene was at least filmed because production stills from it exist.
d.
Glenda Jackson
was only cast after the first choice declined the part because she thought the role was too small.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
Humphrey Bogart
s last film.
b.
EASTER EGG: The DVD has an "Easter egg" Gag Ending. The Gag Ending with Credits is not accessible from the DVD Menu. Wait until the "Light & Dark Publicity Tour" ends. The movie trailer will play and then the Gag Ending with Credits will play immediately after.
c.
Ironically, this film was partially financed by gambler Abe Attell, a gambler who had helped
Arnold Rothstein
fix the 1919 World Series.
Babe Ruth
, the star of the film, has always been credited with saving baseball after the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
d.
Paul Thomas Anderson
refers to this film as "an arthouse
Adam Sandler
film".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
When Barry punches his office wall then rests a bloody hand on his piano, the cuts on his knuckles spell the word love.
b.
Banned in the UK until 1999.
c.
Film debut of
Cloris Leachman
.
d.
Twenty One villains from the
Chester Gould
comic strip appear in the movie: "Stooge" Viller Shoulders William "The Rodent" Wilson (originally Rhodent) The Brow "Littleface" Finny "Flattop" Jones Jake "Itchy" Rossi (originally Itchell Oliver) Patricia "Breathless" Mahoney 88 Keys (originally Keyes) "Lips" Manlis (originally Manlus) Steve "the Tramp" Brogan Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice Lorenzo "Pruneface" Prunesti Mumbles Texie Garcia Influence (originally The Influence) Ribs Mocca (originally Mocco) Ben "Spud" Spaldoni Johnny Ramm The Blank DeSanto
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
The original budget was $45 million which included
Sigourney Weaver
s fee of $5.5 million. The budget soon spiraled however, with first
Renny Harlin
and then
Vincent Ward
both leaving the project before novice feature film director
David Fincher
came on board. Extensive last minute re-shoots - especially after the finale was deemed to be too similar to
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- ultimately pushed the budget into the region of $65 million.
b.
Kirk Douglas
s salary was $325,000 against ten percent of the gross.
c.
Even when writing the script,
Paul Thomas Anderson
knew he wanted the score to heavily feature the harmonium.
d.
Patrick Stewart
(The Great Prince) is the only actor to appear in the film who was alive at the time that
Bambi
was produced.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
Vince Vaughn
accidentally had his face smashed into fake glass during one take where
Ben Stiller
arrests him while being dressed as a mime.
b.
Paul Thomas Anderson
first announced that his follow-up to
Magnolia
would be an
Adam Sandler
comedy at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival. The news was greeted with laughter by the assembled press. When "Punch-Drunk Love" eventually played at Cannes, Anderson won the Best Director Palm dOr.
c.
Melanie wears the same green suit throughout the movie, so
Tippi Hedren
was provided with six identical green suits for the shoot.
d.
Author
Lorenzo Carcaterra
has claimed that his book on which the film is based was a true story of his childhood. When the New York legal community went on record stating that no cases resembling the events of his book could be found in any court records, Carcaterra refused to discuss the discrepancy. His claims have been neither proven or disproven.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
A life-size animatronic puppet was made of actress
Veronica Cartwright
for the cherry pit vomiting scene. It gathered a lot of attention on set because it could realistically thrash about convulsively and spew out massive amounts of vomit on cue. However, preview audiences found the sequence too disgusting, and all the shots involving the puppet were cut out of the film.
b.
Early publicity for the film was a teaser campaign featuring just the "no ghosts" logo. As the campaign built, the Ectomobile was also driven around the streets of Manhattan.
c.
Director of photography
Robert Elswit
used a special film stock that allowed him to shoot mostly in underexposed light, thus giving the shadows greater depth.
d.
"El Macondo" Hotel is named after the imaginary city in
Gabriel García Márquez
s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
Working titles included "Punchdrunk Knuckle Love", "Just Desserts" and "The X-4 Project".
b.
Shelley Winters
trained with an Olympic swim coach so that her character, who is a former award-winning swimmer, would come across more realistically in the underwater scenes.
c.
The name of the fictional African country the main characters are from is called "Zamunda". This name was taken from a
Richard Pryor
routine where he referred to a fictional African tribe of the same name.
d.
Much of the film was shot in actual wards at Camarillo State Mental Hospital in California.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
When Samantha orders a pizza, the pizza guy asks if she wants a pizza with extra anchovies. This is a very subtle nod to the
Patrick Dempsey
comedy,
Loverboy
. The extra anchovies reference in that film meant that the delivery boy would be delivering a lot more than pizzas.
b.
This was Warner Bros. highest grossing film of 1954.
c.
The opening scene is three minutes long, taken in a single camera shot, beginning in the street where Jack Horner and Amber Waves drive up and follow them as they get out of the car and walk into a night club. Most of the characters in the movie are introduced in this shot.
d.
Barrys seven sisters are played by one actress -
Mary Lynn Rajskub
- and six non-professionals, four of whom were real-life blood relations.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
During the "Pure Imagination" song, Willy Wonka whips his cane around here and there to stop the crowd in place during various points of the song. According to
Paris Themmen
(Mike Teevee) in the DVD commentary (at 53:08), during one of the takes as
Gene Wilder
whipped his cane around, he accidentally whacked Themmen.
b.
Anderson deliberately wanted to make a very different film after the rigors of making
Magnolia
. He felt he had reached a dead end with his previous multi-character movies and he also wanted to subvert the critics expectations of his films. Being a close friend of
Adam Sandler
, it seemed like a natural fit to make a project with him.
c.
The film took nearly four years to make.
d.
This film violated the spirit of Dogme 95 by using a script as well as the Directors insistence on story boarding each scene. The film makers later found out that the originators of Dogme 95 also violated their own rules in films like
Breaking the Waves
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)?
a.
As sound is a major player in the film,
Paul Thomas Anderson
brought in
Gary Rydstrom
to do the sound mixing. Rydstrom, who is the chief sound editor for Pixar, is more noted for his work on big noisy special effects movies, notably through his longterm association with
Steven Spielberg
, for whom he worked on
Jurassic Park
and
Saving Private Ryan
.
b.
Dylan Johns (
Josh Lucas
) jogging on the deck of the ship during the beginning credits the evening before the ship capsizes pays homage to the original film,
The Poseidon Adventure
. In it, James Martin (
Red Buttons
) jogs on the deck of the ship before the night of capsizing. Mr Martin starts off by taking a deep breath at the deck railing before starting off, and Dylan ends his jog at the deck railing. Both wear a full jogging suit which are both the same color.
c.
Michael Miller
was hired by
Jon Peters
to direct this film in 1976, but was replaced in 1977 by
Irvin Kershner
because of "creative differences".
d.
The hedge maze was brought in as there was no actual garden maze on the mansion property.
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