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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Part (8) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Part (8) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
About the movie:
Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
Filming completed in 72 days, 4 days ahead of schedule. The same time was used for
Steven Spielberg
s other movies,
Raiders of the Lost Ark
and
War of the Worlds
.
b.
Finnish censorship certificate # 031209.
c.
Steven Spielberg
and
George Lucas
argued over who Indys companion should be. One idea was that she was to be a Nazi spy. After discarding that idea, they couldnt decide if they wanted the character to be Indys former mentor, or an old lover. It was
Lawrence Kasdan
s idea to combine the two ideas, by making her the daughter of Indys teacher.
d.
Saul Zaentz
helped fund the film through his record label Fantasy Records, who agreed to distribute the films soundtrack. Zaentz later produced
The Lord of the Rings
, directed by
Ralph Bakshi
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
The sword that Blake carries is a Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sabre with an iron scabbard, produced between 1796 and 1821. Designed by Brigade Major John Le Marchant and Birmingham sword cutler Henry Osborn.
b.
The DVD contains exactly 23 chapters.
c.
It was
Yul Brynner
who approached producer
Walter Mirisch
with the idea of doing a Western adaptation of
Akira Kurosawa
s classic,
Shichinin no samurai
.
d.
Ishaq Bux
is crediting in the end titles as playing Omar but it is impossible to spot him in the film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
Lyle Alzado
s final film.
b.
The minor league baseball game Trip takes Paula to is a home game of the New Orleans Zephyrs.
c.
Jeff Bridges
turned down the role of Indiana Jones.
d.
When Commodus goes with Lucius to meet Maximus at the Colosseum, he tells Maximus that Lucius insists Maximus is Hector reborn. Then Commodus asks Lucius, "Or was it Hercules?" The real emperor Commodus believed *he* was Hercules reborn.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
Only 6% of the paratroopers depicted actually achieved their goal. 60% of the men and equipment parachuted in on D-Day was lost.
b.
The opera being performed in the climactic scenes is "The Mikado" by
William S. Gilbert
and
Arthur Sullivan
.
c.
Originally conceived by MGM production chief as one of the first All-Star vehicles. Conventional wisdom of the time was that you put no more than one or two of your biggest stars in a picture so as to lower production cost and to maximize profits.
Grand Hotel
featured 5 of MGMs top tiered stars and was one of the highest grossing pictures in studio history.
d.
The well-known line "Indy, theyre digging in the wrong place!" is in fact a misquote. The true line is simply "Theyre digging in the wrong place," and is spoken by both Sallah (
John Rhys-Davies
) and Indiana (
Harrison Ford
).
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
According to
Graham Hancock
s book "The Sign and the Seal", the Lost Ark of the Covenant actually resides in the city of Axum (Ethiopia), at the Saint Mary of Zion church.
b.
One of the earliest of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since.
c.
Warner Bros. was named to the Honor Roll of Race Relations of 1942 because of its dignified portrayal of African-Americans in this film. However, scenes in which
Ernest Anderson
s character was treated in a friendly fashion were cut for showings in the South to avoid offending those viewers. The film was initially disapproved for export by the Office of Censorship in Washington, D.C., because it suggests that the Negros testimony would be totally disregarded by the jury when it was disputed by a white person, which, in the South at the time and for long afterwards, was true.
d.
The character of Ben was originally written as an angry person. When
Duane Jones
was given the role, he expressed concern that the character be rewritten to remove some of the anger - such as the scene where Ben hits Barbara - afraid of how it would be widely perceived in the United States at the time to see a black man acting in this way. The nation was still plagued with high racial tensions during the late sixties; the film was released to theaters shortly after the assassination of
Martin Luther King
. Nonetheless,
George A. Romero
and most of the rest of the predominantly white crew decided against it, thinking they were being "hip" by not changing it. Years later, Romero lamented that he had not taken Jones concerns more into consideration, and thought that he was probably correct. Hes expressed that he wishes he could speak with the late Jones again, asking him how he felt about the films legendary status, and believes Jones would just say "Who knew?" and laugh.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
"The King of Broken Hearts" was actually written in tribute to George Jones, but the director felt it fit into the movie so he used it.
b.
Pat McCormick
(Big Enos Burdette) was only 13 years older than
Paul Williams
(Little Enos Burdette).
c.
Catherine Chisholm Cushing
s play opened in New York on 18 September 1916.
d.
The famous scene in which Indy shoots a marauding and flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script.
Harrison Ford
was supposed to use his whip to get the swords out of his attackers hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. After several unsuccessful tries, Ford suggested "shooting the sucker."
Steven Spielberg
immediately took up the idea and the scene was successfully filmed.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
John Williams
had actually written two themes for the film. He played them both for
Steven Spielberg
on the piano and Spielberg loved them so much, he suggested that Williams use both of them. He did and the result was the famous "Raiders March," performed by
Star Wars
s London Symphony Orchestra (who did not perform in any more Indiana Jones films). The March has become one of the most popular movie themes of all time.
b.
Christopher Reeve
once commented on his Clifford Anderson character he plays in this movie: "Theres a certain gee whiz quality about Clifford when you first meet him. But once you get to know him better - an experience thats just about as comfortable as dining with the Borgias - hes a very peculiar fellow."
c.
During filming, in order to get an actual reaction from
Liv Tyler
,
Bryan Bertino
would tell her where to expect a loud bang from, but would then have the loud noise come from a completely different direction.
d.
The robot that
Yul Brynner
portrays is an homage/spoof of his character Chris from
The Magnificent Seven
and wears the same costume.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
Composer
Randy Edelman
was initially not interested in the project because of the massive amount of music he would have to write for the films original six hour length (when it was meant to be a mini-series). However, says Edelman, "I saw the faces of these officers, at the beginning of it, and it completely turned me on. I knew I was going to have to do it."
b.
During the scene where
Michael Ironside
s character falls into the hole and gets his legs bitten off,
Dina Meyer
hit her head, was knocked unconscious, and suffered a concussion.
c.
The German plane that the Ark was going to be transported on is an experimental flying wing design by Blohm and Voss, a shipbuilding company that designed some rather unorthodox aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. This particular model only exists in the film, but borrows various design elements from authentic period aircraft.
d.
In the scene where
Daniel Stern
is asking
Fred Savage
to get the monsters autograph, the tickling was improvised and Savages reactions are genuine.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
The movies original score was partly composed by famous composer
Igor Stravinsky
but was subsequently rejected in favor of
Alfred Newman
s score. When Stravinsky was invited to a screening so he could plot out his score, he replied that hed already begun. Evincing an unwillingness to change what hed already composed, he was released from his contract. The second movement of his Symphony in Three Movements evolved out of the unused score.
b.
All of the German vehicles in the desert chase sequence are replicas of actual pre-WWII German vehicles. The Mercedes-Benz 320 staff car is actually a Jaguar MK9 with a modified MK5 body; two were built for the movie by Classic Cars of Coventry. The cargo truck is a Mercedes-Benz LG3000 replica built on a GMC CCKW. Goblers troop car is a replica of a Mercedes-Benz G5 Gelaendewagen.
c.
The movie was loosely inspired by the story of the mare Mariahs Storm. She was a promising filly who was being pointed towards the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies in 1993 but then broke her cannon bone. She recovered and later won some graded races. She started in the 1995 Breeders Cup Distaff and finished ninth. She was owned by Thunderhead Farms and trained by Don Von Hemel. Shes now known mostly for being the dam of Giants Causeway.
d.
Johnny Depp
s character, Captain Jack, is portrayed as having gold teeth in the film. The gold teeth were Depps idea, but he predicted that executives would want fewer gold teeth, and told his dentist to implant more gold teeth as a bargaining tool. Sparrows final number of gold teeth in the film was what Depp had envisioned all along.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
a.
Robert F. Simon
s final movie.
b.
This film is listed among the Top Ten Best Bad Films ever made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilsons book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE MOVIE GUIDE.
c.
The source novel by was first published in 1954, written by author
Erich Maria Remarque
who wrote other war tomes such as All Quiet on the Western Front and The Arch of Triumph.
d.
Voted #2 on Empire magazines 500 Greatest Movies of All Time (September 2008).
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