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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rudy (1993) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rudy (1993) - 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: Rudy (1993).
About the movie:
Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rudy (1993)?
a.
While filming Sarumans death scene (now on the extended DVD),
Peter Jackson
tried to tell
Christopher Lee
how to react and breathe after he was stabbed in the back. Lee, a WWII veteran with British special forces, assured the director that he knew what a man sounded like when stabbed in the back.
b.
Originally titled Pistolero. Other titles considered were The Savage Riders Return, The Wild Riders, The Three Victors, and Route 666 to Hell.
c.
Rudy runs his fingers down the list in a close-up two times. The first time he starts on one name, the second time he starts on another name. The two names he starts his finger on are the actual names of the two players who picked him up and carried him off the field.
d.
Remo Vinzens
was in negotiations to play Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rudy (1993)?
a.
Some see
L. Frank Baum
s story containing political and social satire. The little girl from the Midwest (typical American) meets up with a brainless scarecrow (farmers), a tin man with no heart (industry), a cowardly lion (politicians, in particular
William Jennings Bryan
) and a flashy but ultimately powerless wizard (technology). Although the little people keep telling her to follow the yellow brick road (gold standard), in the end its her silver (in the original story) slippers (silver standard) that help her get back to the good old days.
b.
The character name Tim Avery is a reference to the cartoonist
Tex Avery
.
c.
The game film that Coach Parseghian is watching when Rudy walks in to ask if he could dress is actually from the game that Rudy played in.
d.
In the book, Mias father is not dead. Rather he has testicular cancer. In order to avoid what Disney thought was a too adult topic, he was just written as dead in the movie. In the book, when Mia shoves the ice cream on Lana, her father sticks up for her with her mother. Also in the book, the plot of Mias mother Helen dating her math teacher is a much bigger deal.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rudy (1993)?
a.
As per Pixar tradition,
John Ratzenberger
once again provides a voice in the movie, making him the only actor to do a voice in every Pixar film.
b.
According to the director, the theme park at the beginning of the film was originally going to be Disneyland. The theme park used is Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington.
c.
The football scenes have an added sense of realism because the director never filmed any scenes with a camera on the field. As with a broadcast of a real game, all football scenes were filmed with off-field cameras.
d.
Cameron Carr is reading Stephen Kings The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger when shes attacked.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rudy (1993)?
a.
American Rhapsody was the 1998 grand prize winner of the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Competition.
b.
In the movie Rudy is portrayed as having largely gone into the steel industry after graduating high school. In reality, he served four years in the US Navy which is never mentioned.
c.
Patrick Stewart
played Claudius in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
, a role that
Kyle MacLachlan
played in
Hamlet
.
Francesca Annis
played Hamlets mother Gertrude in a theatrical production. Appropriately, she was cast as Jessica in this film when the role was declined by
Glenn Close
, who played Gertrude in
Hamlet
.
d.
Football players from USC played members of the opposing and home football teams
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rudy (1993)?
a.
Many of the Priests and miscellaneous Notre Dame employees in the movie are actual Notre Dame employees.
b.
George M. Cohan
s play opened on Broadway in New York at the Astor Theater on September 22nd, 1913 and ran for 320 performances.
c.
The helicopter shot at the beginning of the movie was originally for a flying sequence where Lester floats over the houses and then down onto his bed.
d.
The classic "clank" was made by
Brad Fiedel
by hitting a microphone with a cast iron skillet.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rudy (1993)?
a.
After some disagreements with the director about re-writing process,
Scott Rosenberg
left the project. The writers
Jonathan Hensleigh
and
J.J. Abrams
came in and did uncredited re-write on the script.
b.
Faye Dunaway
,
Mia Farrow
and
Anjelica Huston
were originally considered for the role of Alex Forrest, but they never auditioned for the part.
Barbara Hershey
,
Miranda Richardson
and
Debra Winger
were the first choices to play Alex Forrest who auditioned for the part.
Glenn Close
was actually the fourth choice for the role of Alex Forrest.
c.
John Whitmer (the athletic trainer) was one of the actual Notre Dame Football Athletic Trainers. Likewise, the scene with him is shot in the actual Training Room in the Joyce Center at Notre Dame.
d.
The last Disney animated classic film to receive an Oscar nomination until
The Little Mermaid
, twelve years later.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rudy (1993)?
a.
In the middle of the film, during the scene in which Father Cavanaugh speaks to Rudy in the Basilica, Notre Dame president emeritus Father Theodore Hesburgh and Edmund (Ned) Joyce, Hesburghs vice-president, makes a cameo appearance. They are seen at the beginning of the scene walking in the Basilica to the right side of Father Cavanaughs character. Father Hesburgh was president when the actual Rudy Ruettiger attended Notre Dame. The Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center, on the Notre Dame Campus, was named after Ned Joyce.
b.
There are several unidentified musical pieces used during the film including an unusual birthday song sung acapella to Consuela,
c.
All interiors for the San Francisco scenes were shot in soundstages in Brazil.
d.
William Castle
toyed with other ideas to frighten audience members, in addition to percepto; among them: rolling bean bags to brush against the legs of audience members, speakers mounted at different areas that would give a screech when the tingler appeared, and possibly even using shills to operate some type of mechanical device to tickle the legs of the audience members; but the only viable way of doing it was by attaching buzzers in select seats to coincide with the appearance of the tingler- percepto.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rudy (1993)?
a.
While visiting the radio broadcast booth during a Giants baseball game,
Sean Astin
noted that the poster photo of him as Rudy wearing the suit with the duffel bag was shot on the field at Stanford University.
b.
According to Gary Busey in the DVD commentary, the line that Charles Martin Smith says about "A fighter who strafes and trains..." during the drive to Nashville was just Smith accidentally blurting out loud something he was thinking, thus Busey and Strouds genuine reactions.
c.
As a joke,
Walter Huston
kept fumbling his walk-on cameo so his son John had to do lots of different takes.
d.
The opening sequence at the bank is loosely based on the 1997 North Hollywood Shootout. Several radio calls (e.g. "Theres nothing we have that can stop them!") are also taken verbatim from the recording of the 1997 incident.
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