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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990).

About the movie: Two minor characters from the play, "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)?
a.		In June 2006, the "Flying Dutchman" set ship was towed to Castaway Cay, Disney Cruise Lines private island, where it was displayed in promotion release of the movies.
b.		The title comes from one of the final lines of "Hamlet", where a British ambassador enters the Danish court to find Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, and Laertes all dead. The ambassadors line is, "...To tell the King his commandment is fulfilled, that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead."
c.		Football players from USC played members of the opposing and home football teams
d.		The book Charlie Chan is reading in the opening scene on the plane is "Romantic Moon" by Michael Shawn.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)?
a.		The Russian space station Sergei Kirov (which is mentioned as having destroyed an American satellite) was named for an early Bolshevik leader, one of the first to be killed in Joseph Stalins "Great Purges".
b.		This movie is based on the original Broadway production of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" by Tom Stoppard and opened on October 9, 1967 at the Alvin Theater, ran for 420 performances and won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Play.
c.		According to Robert Evans the final 5 names considered for the role of Daisy Buchanan were Mia Farrow, Faye Dunaway, Candice Bergen, Katharine Ross and Lois Chiles. Farrow eventually beat off Bergen for the role and Chiles was given the smaller role of Jordan Baker.
d.		David Mamet incorporated a number of real life experiences from various U.S. special forces members for the production, including Eric L. Haney who had served in highly classified operations during his 20-year military career. Haneys experience included front-line combat units as a combat infantryman, as an Army Ranger, and as a founding operator within the elite Delta Force under Colonel Charlie Beckwith. These experiences helped Haney effectively serve as a technical advisor, weapons expert, and actors mentor to Val Kilmer, ensuring that Kilmer reflected an accurate depiction of a special forces operative in every capacity. Haney retired as a highly decorated Sergeant Major, and his documented experience also includes security surveys, metro SWAT team arms training, oil company guard force management, executive protection, and the recovery of American children kidnapped and taken overseas.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)?
a.		Xaviers School for the Gifted is located on "Graymalkin Lane, Salem Center". "Graymalkin" was the name of the witches cat in Macbeth (Act I, Scene I: "I come, Graymalkin!"), and Salem Village (present-day Danvers, MA) was the location of the infamous witch trials in the 1690s.
b.		Originally Spider Mike was to be completely naked when he masturbates but John Leguizamo refused to do it. He compromised by wearing a sock over his penis.
c.		The opening song at the beginning of the movie is Pink Floyds "Seamus" (Meddle, 1971). The version included in the movie is an instrumental version. The album version has vocals. During the theatre companys performance of pseudo-Hamlet, a sound bit from Pink Floyds "Echoes" (also from Meddle, 1971) can be heard. The sound of the rapier sword is the first note heard in "Echoes".
d.		The church pews and ministers podium in the movie were taken from St. Pauls United Methodist Church in Atlanta and moved into a church in Senoia Georgia (the white one with the turret used in the exterior scenes). The ministers office, kitchen and the rehearsal space thats not the choir loft where they perform was filmed in the Atlanta church. St. Pauls used the money for allowing filming in the church to add air conditioning to the sanctuary.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)?
a.		The film references a novel by Russell Hoban called "Riddley Walker" about a hero traveling in post-apocalyptic England.
b.		Director Tarsem Singh was enlisted to shoot the brief handheld montage of Benjamin backpacking through India and Cambodia, after David Fincher learned that Tarsem and Brad Pitt were both already planning to be in Southeast Asia at the same time.
c.		While on the ship bound for England, Tim Roth remarks, "I think Ill spend the rest of my life on boats." He does just that in the La leggenda del pianista sulloceano ("The Legend of 1900"), in which his character spends his entire life on a cruise liner, never once stepping on dry land.
d.		While much is made about the lack of education of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Swede Risenberg dropped out of school after the third grade.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)?
a.		Lynne Reid Banks wrote her original novel as a bedtime story for her son, Omri.
b.		The scene where the girls are having breakfast is a virtual recreation of the breakfast scene from Reservoir Dogs.
c.		The pieces of paper blowing around throughout the course of the movie are actually the pages of the Latin Vulgate Bible, as can be seen on the close-up of Rosencrantzs apple pinwheel (specifically, The Prophecy of Zacharias, chapter 8).
d.		June 2008 Ranked #9 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Courtroom Drama".

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)?
a.		Richard Dreyfuss part was to be played by Sean Connery, who abandoned the film for a bigger paycheck in The Hunt for Red October.
b.		One of the first films to be re-released to theaters after being shown on television.
c.		Miko Hughes has kept the sewn up Rex dinosaur since filming. Wes Craven has an original copy without the scars.
d.		The tie worn by Christopher Lloyds character Ray, when he performs the perception test, is a 1995 Ralph Marlin Tie entitled Billiards II.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)?
a.		There are 139 dance shots in the film. Out of the 139, 111 are untouched shots of Natalie Portman and the remaining 28 are her dance double, Sarah Lane. Of the shots in which Lane is featured, 26 of the 28 are wide shots and rarely appear on screen longer than one second. The two remaining shots required digital face replacement so the audience sees Portmans face instead of Lanes.
b.		In Italian, the actors are dubbed by: Lidia Simoneschi (Olivia De Havilland); Giulio Panicali (Montgomery Clift); Sandro Ruffini (Ralph Richardson); Andreina Pagnani (Miriam Hopkins); Rosetta Calavetta (Vanessa Brown); Miranda Bonansea (Mona Freeman) and Gaetano Verna (Ray Collins).
c.		Originally, the two leads (who appropriately spend the movie mixing up their own names) were cast the other way around.
d.		The day before principle photography, the original director bowed out claiming that he was offered a 14 week project at a major studio. Producer/director of photography Jacques R. Marquette kept the costs low by stepping in and directing it himself and assigning another to handle photography.

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