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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : RoboCop 2 (1990) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : RoboCop 2 (1990) - 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: RoboCop 2 (1990).
About the movie:
A corrupt businesswoman seeks to disable Robocop in favor of her own model of cyborg.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
Tim Hunter
, who was set to direct but quit the project over "creative differences" during pre-production and was replaced by
Irvin Kershner
.
b.
While auditioning actresses for the movie, Boyer graciously offered to stand on a box to tower over actresses who were uncomfortable by being taller than he was.
c.
Thomas Lennon
advised
Zac Efron
that his appendicitis was in fact bad wind, and advised him to hang upside down to cure it.
d.
"The Young Lions" novel that this film is based on was based on author
Irwin Shaw
s experiences in Europe during the Second World War.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
Darwins monkey "Wallace" is a reference to the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who independently developed the idea of natural selection. Darwin and Wallace presented the theory together, but due to the publication of "On the Origin of Species" Darwin usually gets sole credit for the theory. The scene on Butterfly Island when Darwin closes Wallace in the sack and says " we.... I have an idea" alludes to him taking sole credit for ideas that were not completely his own.
b.
This film gives no screen credit to
Jonathan Swift
, who wrote the book on which it is loosely based.
c.
The special-effects were generated with an Commodore Amiga computer.
d.
The elderly man and woman seated at a table on the right side of the screen during Penn and "Carlottas" conversation in the Mexican restaurant were Penns real-life parents, Sam and Valda Jillette.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
Writer/Director
Martin Guigui
first began working on "Sweetwater" in April of 1996 when he walked into the Basketball Hall Of Fame and found no information pertaining to the story behind the first African American to play in the NBA. At that time, Guigui was living in Burlington Vermont, making his living as a professional musician and had not yet directed his first film.
b.
The producers had built the El Condor fort, then found they werent happy with the original script, so had Larry Cohen re-write it to have the story focus more on the impressive set.
c.
Art director
Brian McEntee
color keyed Belle so that she is the only person in her town who wears blue. This is symbolic of how different she is from everyone else around. Later, she encounters the Beast, another misfit, also wearing blue.
d.
The role played by
Patricia Charbonneau
was originally written as a man.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
Even after it was filmed, the movie was almost never released, but
Jean-Claude Van Damme
helped edit the film so that it could be.
b.
Reshooting took place while Haley Joel Osment was still recovering from injuries in a car accident that occurred less than two weeks before.
c.
The folding submachine guns used by the bad guys (specifically the character Hob) are based on the 9mm M21 Sub Machine Gun (designed by Dave Boatman), which itself is an updated version of the Ares FMG (Folding Machine Gun) developed by Eugene Stoner (weapons designer known for designing the AR-10 and AR-15 assault rifles - the latter of which adopted by the U.S. military as the M16 since 1962).
d.
Gary Burghoff
s film debut.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
Writer Kemper Sease has stated that the overall feel of the screenplay is a mixture of Jeremiah Johnson meets Night of the Living Dead.
b.
Elis Corn Bible is the hardcover edition of
Stephen King
s "Night Shift" with an altered cover.
c.
The tiny "container" that held the drug Nuke was actually a saline re-moisturizer for contact lens wearers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The solution was dyed red and, in some shots, had a small needle sticking out after someone removes the covering.
d.
Lana Wachowski
and
Andy Wachowski
have been approached to direct
Batman Begins
but turned down for doing the Matrix sequels.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
Norwegian director
Nils Gaup
was offered the project but turned it down.
b.
Oliver Stone
later admitted that everyone involved told him
Daryl Hannah
was miscast and told him to replace her, but he was too proud. This caused tension on set particularly with
Sean Young
who wanted the role herself.
c.
Dumbledores fall from the tower filled
Alan Rickman
with nostalgic glee, as it harked back to his first hit
Die Hard
, where his character fell from a tall building. Rickman felt at least "he was on the other end in this film!"
d.
This was originally developed as a traditionally animated cartoon feature at Warner Brothers. The closure of Warners animation division led Bird to move to Pixar.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
The $30,000 that Leonard Smalls talks about as "1954 dollars" would be equal to just over $120,000 in 1987.
b.
Alan Moore
was originally offered the chance to write the film, but turned it down.
c.
For the premiere in Atlanta in December 15, 1939, the governor declared a state holiday. Ticket prices for the premiere were 40 times the usual going rate.
d.
One 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 Universal ever since.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
The ship used in the film was also used in
Treasure Island
.
b.
Vincent Price
s first horror film, 13 years before
House of Wax
typecast him in the genre. He also provided the voice of the Invisble Man in
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
.
c.
The leaking fire hydrant scene which was filmed on a street paved with red bricks was actually filmed on Andrews Street in the Freedmens Town Historical District, located in Houston, Texas.
d.
Howard Deutch
s directorial debut.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
Robert Mitchum
,
John Wayne
,
Steve McQueen
and
Burt Lancaster
all claimed to have turned the film down.
b.
The opening sequence of the film, where RoboCop foils the gun shop robbery, was used as the early teaser trailer for the movie.
c.
Bernard Herrmann
was hired to write an original background score and did compose several themes but due to various production delays as well as the fact that Herrmann was tiring of
David O. Selznick
s demands, he dropped out and was replaced by
Dimitri Tiomkin
who, at the insistence of Selznick, ended up using themes by
Claude Debussy
. At the time Tiomkin was condemned by his colleagues for his adaptations. All that remains of Herrmanns contribution is the haunting song sung by Jennie entitled "Where I Come From, Nobody Knows".
d.
For the song "Gee, I Wish I Was Back In The Army", there is the lyric, "Jolson, Hope And Benny all for free". This is a reference to three wartime entertainers:
Al Jolson
,
Bob Hope
and
Jack Benny
. The original words were "Crosby, Hope and Jolson all for free", but the lyric was changed because with Crosby in the cast the original lyric would break the fourth wall.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: RoboCop 2 (1990)?
a.
Steven Spielberg
is on record as saying he made the film for two reasons: 1) to fulfill a three-picture obligation he had with
George Lucas
, and, 2) to atone for the criticism that he received for the previous installment,
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
.
b.
According to
François Truffaut
, Director
Stanley Kramer
may have watched The Paradine Case before he shot the Nuremberg Trial in
Judgment at Nuremberg
. Truffaut mentioned about some of the similarities between the two films in an audio interview with
Alfred Hitchcock
.
c.
Although the producers loved
Frank Miller
s original version of the script, they quickly realized it was unfilmable as written. The final screen version was heavily rewritten and bears only a superficial resemblance to Millers story. In 2003, Millers screenplay was adapted into a comic book series titled, appropriately, "Frank Millers RoboCop".
d.
Brendan Fraser
and
John Hannah
are the only actors to appear in all three Mummy movies.
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