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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Saving Private Ryan (1998) - 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: Saving Private Ryan (1998).
About the movie:
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
Veteran stunt man
Tom Steele
replaced
James Arness
in the fire scene. Steele wore an asbestos suit with a special fiberglass helmet with an oxygen supply underneath. He used a 100% oxygen supply which was highly combustible. It was pure luck he didnt burn his lungs whilst breathing in the mixture.
b.
The real
Gypsy Rose Lee
visited the set and gave
Natalie Wood
some tips on her stripping routines.
c.
Full character names: John H. Miller, Michael Horvath, Richard Reiben, Daniel Jackson, Stanley Mellish, Adrien Caparzo, Irwin Wade and Timothy E. Upham.
d.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
While
Paul Thomas Anderson
always intended that
Melora Walters
should play Jessie St. Vincent, the studio wanted a bigger name for the part. He offered the role to
Patricia Arquette
, knowing she would decline, and the role ultimately went to Walters.
b.
The opening and closing of the film features a US flag backlit by the sun. This is exactly the same as a shot in
Leni Riefenstahl
s
Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht
. In that film, a Nazi flag gently sways in the wind, with the sun shining through it from behind, rendering the flag somewhat translucent.
c.
The Scenes with Gromeks older brother was originally part of the final cut. Wolfgang Kieling (Gromek in this film) wrote in his autobiography that it was Paul Newman who wanted Gromeks older brother scenes to be removed from the final cut. Wolfgang Kieling also played Gromeks older brother. Bernard Herrmann composed 2 cues for Gromeks brother scenes. They are called "Photos" and "Sausage."
d.
At the end of the movie, when everybody is singing "Put a little love in your heart", Frank (
Bill Murray
) says (among many other things): "Feed me, Seymour!" This is a reference to
Little Shop of Horrors
, in which Murray has a small part.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
According to
Dennis Hopper
, the only words that were improvised in the scene with
Christopher Walken
were "egg plant" and "cantaloupe".
b.
In the German-dubbed version of the movie, one of the actors, himself a German veteran of the Normandy invasion, couldnt deal with emotional realism of the film and dropped out and had to be replaced.
c.
The character of Dax in this film (a young crew member questioned during the search for incriminating evidence) is no relation to the character of Dax from
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
. DS9s Dax would, at the time of this film, be in the persona of Curzon Dax, a Federation ambassador, which is clearly not the case for the character of this film. The name was a coincidence.
d.
Tom Cruise
s wearing Ray Bans boosted sales of that style 15%.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
One of the most famous scenes in the movie and the shot used for the posters and the cover of the DVD/VHS releases was inspired by the 1954 painting "Empire of Light" ("LEmpire des lumières") by
René Magritte
. It is the scene where Fr. Merrin steps out of a cab and stands in front of the MacNeil residence bathed in an eerie glow.
b.
Most of the film was edited from a press box at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, home of the San Diego Chargers football team.
c.
Jerry Thompsons (William Alland) face is never fully seen. It is always in the shadows.
d.
One cameras shutter was deliberately misaligned to make it go off sync. This was a direct homage to a shot by Director of Photography
Douglas Milsome
in
Full Metal Jacket
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
In the song "If I Only Had A Heart", the girl who says, "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" is
Adriana Caselotti
, the voice of Snow White in
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
.
b.
Harrison Ford
convinced
David Koepp
to include more jokes about Indys age in the script, believing they would help reduce the "American paranoia about aging." He also refused to dye his hair for the role, arguing Indys appeal wasnt in his youth but in his imagination and resourcefulness: "My ambition in action is to have the audience look straight in my face and not the back of a stuntmans head. I hope to continue that no matter how old I get."
c.
In the commentary track, it is mentioned that
Benicio Del Toro
chose to make Fensters dialogue unintelligible because Fensters only real purpose was to die as an example to the other characters, "so it doesnt matter what he says".
Kevin Pollak
jokingly laments that Del Toro is such a skilled actor that he took what was meant to be nothing but a throw-away character and "stole every scene he was in!"
d.
The two "German" soldiers who are shot trying to surrender were speaking Czech. They were saying, "Please dont shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didnt kill anyone, I am Czech!" They were members of what the Germans called Ost East Battalions, men - mostly Czech and Polish - taken prisoner in eastern European countries invaded by Germany and forced into the German army.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
Edward Norton
was offered the role of Private Ryan, but turned it down.
b.
The title is a reference to a short story by
Ray Bradbury
in which a group of people travel millions of years into the past and one of them unknowingly steps on and kills a butterfly which dramatically alters the future.
c.
Mark Wahlberg
and
Christian Bale
were set to star with
Bryan Singer
directing, but the idea was dropped.
d.
The black-and-white film was actually shot in color, then transferred to black and white because, according to the director, the black and white film "was so grainy it looked like Super-8 even in 35 millimeter."
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
Voted #1 greatest war film in UKs Channel 4 poll in 2005.
b.
Jonathan Rolas dad, Mingo Rola, plays the part of Paul.
c.
Rita Hayworth
played the sister of
Barbara Stanwyck
, but after a test screening all her scenes were cut at the request of
Darryl F. Zanuck
.
d.
In Charlies bedroom, there are wrappers of every Wonka bar he has ever eaten on the wall.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
This is
Bruce Willis
s least favorite film of the "Die Hard" trilogy.
b.
The controls to M. Bisons floating "desk" are identical to the controls of the Street Fighter video game.
c.
Gunfire sound effects heard in the film were recorded from actual gunfire with live ammunition fired from authentic period weapons, recorded at a live fire machine gun range near Atlanta, Georgia. The range is owned by a weapons manufacturer.
d.
Walter Gotell
plays Don Jose Pulido in this movie. Gotell is known for appearing five times as General Gogol in the James Bond movie franchise of which
Sean Connery
was the first ever James Bond. Both appeared in
From Russia with Love
(Gotell played Morzeny) but never did a Bond movie together where Gotell played Gogol.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
As an additional marketing ploy a special "anti-cell" spot was created with Sid complaining to the audience about a ringing cellular phone. The same was done for
Brother Bear
,
Robots
and
I, Robot
.
b.
The movie was dubbed into Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.
c.
The language spoken by the Jawas was created by recording speakers of the African Zulu language and electronically speeding it up. Greedos language is the Peruvian Indian language Quechua, played backwards. (
George Lucas
would later feature Peruvian Indians again in
Raiders of the Lost Ark
).
d.
The siege in the village of Ramelle was filmed on a set created on a disused airfield in Hatfield, England. The bridge so valiantly defended actually crosses a three foot deep canal created for the movie. Earlier scenes in the village of Neuville-au-Plain used the same set carefully shot from different angles.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
a.
Don Keith Opper
film debut.
b.
This is the last film edited on a non-digital editing system to win an Academy Award for editing.
c.
Proportionately, this film spent more on its costumes than any other. From a production budget of $7 million, over $1 million of that went on costumes.
d.
When "Matt" holds up a photo, near the end of the film, it is an actual photo of the three boys the film is based on taken from the early 1970s.
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