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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rain Man (1988) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rain Man (1988) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988).
About the movie:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
Reportedly one of
Princess Diana
s favorite films.
b.
One stuntman broke his leg after slamming his motorcycle into the back of a car.
c.
David Fincher
was first slated to direct the film but dropped out.
d.
At the films premiere, as the movie neared its third hour with the end not yet in sight, comedian
Mort Sahl
stood up from his seat in the packed theater and shouted, "Otto, let my people go!" The incident quickly became a popular piece of Hollywood lore.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
Carl Laemmles face appears superimposed over the Universal logo at the start of the film.
b.
Dustin Hoffman
was originally to play the part of Charlie Babbit, but after being moved to tears seeing a savant named Leslie Lemke (who is blind, mentally handicapped, and has cerebral palsy) play full concertos on the piano by ear, he decided to play the part of Raymond instead.
c.
The uplifting end of the world video scene was included by the filmmakers when they find out that one the news networks actually have such a video prepare to run in case of the end of the world. This video apparently still exists and still ready to run at the final hour.
d.
Scheduling conflicts with another film forced
Chevy Chase
to turn down the role of Scott Calvin/Santa Clause.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
Jorma Taccone
,
Andy Samberg
, and
Akiva Schaffer
made this movie between the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons of
Saturday Night Live
. The team started rewriting
Pam Brady
s script in June 2006. Filming began on July 24th and wrapped on September 23rd. The team reported back to SNL on September 25th.
b.
Holds the unique distinction of being the only film to have won the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear and a best picture Academy Award.
c.
The American actors had to absorb a Croatian accent and underwent training classes with producer Diane M. Kolanovic.
d.
The film debuts of
Paul Newman
and veteran character actor
Robert Middleton
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
Filmed in 1977, the film was released three years later to capitalize on the martial arts genre that was sweeping the USA at the time.
b.
During filming,
Dustin Hoffman
was unsure of the films potential and his own performance. Three weeks into the project, Hoffman wanted out, telling director
Barry Levinson
, "Get
Richard Dreyfuss
, get somebody, Barry, because this is the worst work of my life." Hoffman would nab his second Best Actor Academy Award for his work.
c.
The scenes at Dr. Bergers office were filmed with increasingly darker lighting to recreate the effect of it getting dark progressively earlier through the autumn.
d.
The scene in the construction yard takes place on the campus of Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The building under construction would later become the Worrell Professional Center.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
The script originally called for two farm kids, but after Catherine Dougherty brought six of her seven sons to audition for the part, the script was re-written to include the six boys. The boys also have an older brother and one younger sister.
b.
Irena is Serbian in origin (as shown on the precursor Cat People) yet sings a traditional French Christmas carol Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant to Amy.
c.
Although several actors from the first live action
The Flintstones
movie have roles in this movie,
Irwin Keyes
is the only actor to portray the same character, Joe Rockhead.
d.
One of the most successful independent films ever made.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
"Wallbrook", the building at the back of the long, tree lined drive, is actually Saint Annes, a convent that houses over 200 nuns, and is located in Melbourne, Kentucky.
b.
This film has over 150 shots containing miniatures. It took three years to complete.
c.
The Western Costume Co. received one of its first tasks on this film, to provide Civil War costumes. The costumes were also supplied by Goldstein and Co. The designs were made by
Robert Goldstein
and celebrated early costume designer
Clare West
.
d.
This was
Bob Hope
s first feature film in Technicolor.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
Helen Hunt
received her script for her role the day before filming began.
b.
Dustin Hoffman
spent a lot of time with savant
Kim Peek
, the inspiration for Raymonds character. Rain Man writer
Barry Morrow
first met Peek in 1986, and on winning an Oscar for the screenplay of "Rain Man" in 1989, gave his Oscar trophy to Kim Peek. Hoffman he made Kims father (the main caregiver) promise that he would "share Kim with the world." For nearly 20 years until his death, Kim Peek went all over the world impressing people with his incredible memory and ability to recall minute details from centuries of history.
c.
Uses the great gate set from
King Kong
for its temple.
d.
The plot of the movie is loosely based on the original treatment for
Toy Story
, which had Tinny (from
Tin Toy
) getting lost at a rest stop and being found by a junk man, who throws him into back of his truck. Tinny meets a ventriloquist dummy and they both decide to stick together. But in the end they end up in a preschool where theyll never get lost or outgrown.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
In an interview with director Terry Lofton he recalled during the making of the movie realizing that it would never be taken seriously as a horror movie. Instead Lofton decided to attempt to give the movie a more comical tone.
b.
Charles Lane, who was the real-life editor of The New Republic, was invited by writer/director
Billy Ray
to observe filming of some of the movies scenes. The one scene shot while he was in attendance was the one where the TNR writers bad-mouth Lane behind his back.
c.
During filming, both
Dustin Hoffman
and
Tom Cruise
doubted the movies potential and jokingly called it, "Two Schmucks in a Car".
d.
Francis Ford Coppola
lived in "West Egg," aka Great Neck, former home of
F. Scott Fitzgerald
, at the time of writing the screenplay for
The Great Gatsby
,
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
This movie was developed with
Sally Field
in mind for the central female character of Amy Post.
b.
When filming the sequence with the train and DeLorean, for safetys sake the builders rigged it so that the DeLorean could flip off at any given time.
c.
In an early scene, another taxi driver shows Travis Bickle a piece of
Errol Flynn
s bathtub that he owns.
Errol Flynn
would be a character (played by
Jude Law
) in a later
Martin Scorsese
movie -
The Aviator
.
d.
The radio station slogan that Raymond is so fond of repeating, "97X - Bam! - The future of rock and roll", is from a real independent Ohio radio station, WOXY. The station still fields questions about the movie.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rain Man (1988)?
a.
The elderly man in the waiting room who talks on and on about the Pony Express is
Byron P. Cavnar
, an 89-year-old local who was in the waiting room when the crew arrived to film there. He got to talking on his favorite subject, the Pony Express, and director
Barry Levinson
got such a kick out of it that he let Caunar keep on talking as the cameras rolled; all his dialog was spontaneous and not scripted.
b.
Madeline Zima
s film debut.
c.
The Smith estate house was originally occupied by Judge David Patterson Hatch, where he wrote occult books as well as metaphysical writings after he retired from the bench.
d.
The
Eddie Murphy
part was actually written for
Keanu Reeves
.
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