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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Roxanne (1987) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Roxanne (1987) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987).
About the movie:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
Hank Azaria
had previously worked with
Ben Stiller
in
Mystery Men
. Azaria also made cameo appearances in
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
and
Along Came Polly
, both of which also starred Stiller.
b.
Originally, there was a fertility dance number, but it was cut from the final print because preview audiences laughed at it.
c.
The play opened in London on 6 September 1931 and had 405 performances.
Una OConnor
,
Irene Browne
and
Merle Tottenham
originated their movie roles in the play.
d.
Bales is challenged to tell 20 nose jokes. After he tells 18 or 19, he asks "How manys that?" to which he is told, "Fourteen!" He goes on to tell another six, making 24 or 25 in total. (One was deleted in the TV version, resulting in the different totals.)
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
The only film to win more than 10 Academy Awards without receiving a single acting nomination.
b.
Kevin Nealon
s feature film debut.
c.
The film was pared down to 81 minutes from the preview running times of 87 and 85 minutes.
d.
Eve Arden
repeats her role from the Broadway stage version.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
In a scene where Roxanne slaps C.D. in the face,
Daryl Hannah
accidentally hits
Steve Martin
s prosthetic nose, apparently dislodging it. As Martin reaches to his face, otherwise on cue, the viewer can see him fumble with his nose using his fingertips, rather than more naturally holding his assaulted cheek.
b.
In the opening titles you see the characters behind different color backgrounds. Those colors are the characters Karma/Chakra colors.
c.
One scene called for
Shirley Temple
to slap
Jane Withers
. Temple repeatedly refused to do so, but after much coercion from director
David Butler
, she finally slapped Withers so hard that both girls burst into tears.
d.
Kirk Douglas
wanted to play the titular hero Ben Hur, but the films director
William Wyler
wanted
Charlton Heston
to play the role. Douglas was then offered the antagonist role of Messala, which was eventually given to
Stephen Boyd
, but refused to play second banana. In the later years, Douglas admitted that he made this film as to show up Wyler and his company of him making a Roman epic that could matched
Ben-Hur
. He once said, "That was what spurred me to do it in a childish way, the Ill show them sort of thing."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
Zack Snyders first live action film to not receive an R rating in the U.S.
b.
In a later flight, his planes engine lost a turbine disk during a routine climb, forcing a dead-stick landing.
c.
One of the nose insults that C.D. comes up with is "your nose was on time, but you were fifteen minutes late." Cyrano laments later in the play that his nose precedes him by fifteen minutes.
d.
Sandra Bernhard
was fired and replaced by
Loretta Swit
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
The movie that Rosa is watching in the theater is
High Plains Drifter
.
b.
This was the first movie ever to gross $100m before being released in the U.S.
c.
The character of Gomes (Chucks mechanic, played by John Sharian) was named after photographer Scott Gomes, whose photos of the screening in New York can be seen on the official Facebook page.
d.
During the balcony scene, C.D. speaks to Roxanne of being like Chagalls floating "blue man". The Marc Chagall painting titled "Above the Town" can be seen in CDs house over the fireplace.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
The title of the movie was taken from the book written by President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
and credited to him onscreen.
b.
In a radio interview,
Steve Martin
said about his role in Roxanne that it was the first time he felt respected in a film role as opposed to being recognized for his celebrity as a one-time stand-up comedian.
c.
The robot suits worn by actors were originally designed for and used in Mascots Gene Autry serial
The Phantom Empire
.
d.
The production had a 10-day location shoot in New York City in early July, 1953.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
In the scene in which C.D. is dropping the second letter into the mail he is clearly holding a copy of Fahrenheit 451 by
Ray Bradbury
in his left hand.
b.
This is Zach Lewiss third appearance as the killer.
c.
The projectionists records have revealed that over the years this has become one of the most frequently shown films in the screening room of The White House.
d.
It has been always been rumored that
Harrison Ford
intentionally performed the voice-over poorly, in the hope it would not be used, but in a 2002 interview with Playboy magazine, Ford clarified this mistaken assumption; "I delivered it to the best of my ability, given that I had no input. I never thought theyd use it. But I didnt try and sandbag it. It was simply bad narration."
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
Dwight H. Little
did extensive research on the history of Halloween and many of its harvest images were put in the creepy opening sequence.
b.
In the last shot of the movie, the camera pans from right to left and pulls back, just like a surveillance camera would do.
c.
At one point in the film a character is talking to Chris about Roxannes surname being odd and says "Its Kazanski or something like that". Iceman Kazanski was
Val Kilmer
s character in
Top Gun
which also starred
Rick Rossovich
.
d.
Script was based upon the 1933 kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart, the son of the owner of Harts Department Store in San Jose, California. The two kidnapping suspects were pulled from jail by a group of vigilantes, who dragged them across the street to St. James Park and lynched both of them.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
Steve Martin
s screenplay is based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)" by _Edmond Rostand_. C.D. Bales has the same initials as Cyrano.
b.
Refused a certificate in the UK for four years because of its graphic depiction of drug-taking.
c.
The first Sherlock Holmes film to reach U.S. movie theaters in over twenty years, since the 1988 comedy
Without a Clue
with
Michael Caine
as Reginald Kincaid/"Sherlock Holmes".
d.
Francis Ford Coppola
s first (credited) directorial effort in ten years.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Roxanne (1987)?
a.
Boxer
Jake LaMotta
appears as as one of the many bartenders in the film. His one line is "Check," and he says it three times.
b.
The voice of the SAL 9000 computer was actually performed by
Candice Bergen
, though the role was credited to "Olga Mallsnerd," a pseudonym combining the surname of Bergens spouse (director
Louis Malle
) and that of Mortimer Snerd, one of her father (ventriloquist
Edgar Bergen
)s famous puppet characters.
c.
Woody Harrelson
plays Ezra Turner, a meat salesman. He played another meat salesman, Mickey Knox, in
Natural Born Killers
.
d.
When C.D. is challenged to think of 20 better jokes than "big nose", one of them, "you must love the little birdies that you give them this to perch on" is taken directly from the original scene in "Cyrano de Bergerac."
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