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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Seven Days in May (1964) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Seven Days in May (1964) - 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: Seven Days in May (1964).
About the movie:
US military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Seven Days in May (1964)?
a.
John Cleese
takes over the role of Dreyfus from
Kevin Kline
. Cleese and Kline appeared together in
Silverado
,
A Fish Called Wanda
(for which Kline won his Oscar), and
Fierce Creatures
.
b.
Jerry Goldsmith
s synthetic and score was rejected early in post production for being "too weird" and replaced with music by
Curt Sobel
.
Jerry Goldsmith
s rejected score was released in Spring 2005 as a Varese Sarabande CD Club Release limited to 3000 copies.
c.
An important plot point in the film involves the attempted coup taking place on the same day as the Preakness Stakes horse race. However, the seven-day timeline for the film would have had the coup taking place on Sunday while the Preakness is always run on a Saturday.
John Frankenheimer
said that the problem was solved by a scriptwriting acquaintance of his. This man worked as a script doctor and liked to gamble but wagered his professional services instead of money. Frankenheimer had won some work from the man and gave him the problem. The solution? In one scene a character walks by a poster which says "First Ever Sunday Running of the Preakness".
d.
Chris Sarandon
was originally going to reprise his role as Det. Mike Norris from the first film as the main protagonist of this film, but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts and the role was erased from the final version.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Seven Days in May (1964)?
a.
The White House wanted the film made and was very cooperative with the production. Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger
arranged for the production designer to have access to President
John F. Kennedy
s office and other rooms so they could be duplicated exactly at the studio.
b.
According to
Lynn Collins
, director
William Friedkin
never took more than four takes to get a scene in this film, and in fact worked so fast that the actors sometimes had to beg him to do a second take when he thought theyd nailed it the first time.
c.
When the Tuohys are riding home from
S.J. Tuohy
s school play,
Sean Tuohy
says the "quesadilla saved our ass". According to the book, Taco Bell sales were down at one time and Seans stores were in some financial trouble. Then, Taco Bell introduced the quesadilla and sales increased and Seans stores prospered.
d.
The set for the musical number "Lose That Long Face" was created by taking New Orleans building facades left over from
A Streetcar Named Desire
and spray painting them white.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Seven Days in May (1964)?
a.
The working title for this film and
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
is "Prime Directive." This was the name of Dreamwave Productions first "Transformers" comic book, but it is also an edict mentioned in
Star Trek
which emphasizes avoiding interference, harmful or otherwise, in alien civilizations (which the Transformers obviously breach). Writers
Roberto Orci
and
Alex Kurtzman
and
William Morgan Sheppard
would go on to work in
Star Trek
.
b.
The original truck from the film is owned by a private collector in Maryland, who keeps it in storage awaiting the filming of JC3.
c.
Angela Lansbury
, who played Elvis mother, was only 35 years old when the movie was filmed, a mere 10 year older than Elvis.
d.
Originally scheduled for release in December 1963 but
Burt Lancaster
insisted the release date be postponed as it was too soon after the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy
. The same fate befell
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
, which was also scheduled for a December 1963 opening.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Seven Days in May (1964)?
a.
Not screened for critics.
b.
Re-released in 1955, as a double-feature with
Dead Reckoning
.
c.
Promotions for this film included twenty-five Southwestern cities which held "Charro Girl" contests, with finalists appearing in Dallas and Austin. In Austin, "Charro! Day" was hosted by the then Governor Preston Smith. Likewise, the governors of Oklahoma and Louisiana declared "Charro! Day" in honor of previews in their states. A number of actors from the film traveled to appearances at these sneak previews.
d.
According to director
John Frankenheimer
, the Gen. Scott character is an amalgam of Gen.
Curtis LeMay
and Gen.
Douglas MacArthur
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Seven Days in May (1964)?
a.
Isaac Asimov
was approached to write the novel from the script. He perused the script, and declared the script to be full of plot holes. Receiving permission to write the book the way he wanted, delays in filming and the speed at which he wrote saw the book appear before the film.
b.
During Simons programming, code quickly flashes. The scrolling code is a Perl script that virus scans HTTP/FTP downloads request on a UNIX server after passing through the Squid proxy server. This is a real project named "Viralator".
c.
At one point in the film,
Jude Law
recites, "And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." This is a line from
John Masefield
s poem, "Sea-Fever."
d.
Both the book and the movie suggest that the story takes place in the near future -- that is, after the early 1960s. Using the day-date combinations featured on screen, the most likely setting for these events is May 1969.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Seven Days in May (1964)?
a.
A lot of
Johnny Depp
s dialogue was improvised, including the scene where they are trying to find a place to put all their money from selling coke and his line "Were gonna need a bigger boat" (a quote from
Jaws
).
b.
John Larkin
, who plays Colonel Broderick, died suddenly less than a year after the film was released. Larkin had already shot many other films and TV episodes, which were released or aired posthumously.
c.
Sam Peckinpah
: for one fleeting shot, passing through the Palace Bar in the film. He appears immediately after
Barbara Leigh
s friend asks for "Three double bourbons" just before
Steve McQueen
asks her to dance.
d.
The films screenplay was in flux all the way from development through the entire production schedule.
Channing Gibson
, who took on primary scripting duties due to his longstanding work history with producer
Joel Silver
, was a successful TV writer who was looking forward to the more relaxed pace of screenwriting, ended up going through more revisions than any TV show hed worked on. Amongst other things, the character of Lee Butters was not in the original script, and hastily enhanced when
Chris Rock
signed on, and
Joe Pesci
s Leo Getz wasnt slated to be part of the film until
Richard Donner
and Silver recruited Pesci to reprise his role.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Seven Days in May (1964)?
a.
The real Anastasia once wore a dress almost exactly like the one Anya wears in the last scenes of the movie. This same dress was seen in
Anastasia
.
b.
Ellie, a demon who was Constantines lover, was almost completely cut from the film. Director
Francis Lawrence
stated that she was left on the cutting room floor because he wanted Constantine to be completely alone when he meets Angela. Ellie was played by
Michelle Monaghan
. Her scenes can be seen in the deleted scenes section of the DVD. In the theatrical cut, she can be seen briefly in the hospital scene; when Constantine sets off the sprinkler system, shes the one who exclaims, "Holy Water!"
c.
Fifth of seven films that
Kirk Douglas
and
Burt Lancaster
made together.
d.
The word "fiancée" has three acceptable pronunciations in English according to Webster, with the stress on the first, second, or final syllable. In the initial hospital room scene where the Callaghans discover Peter in a coma and meet Lucy, all three pronunciations of the word are given, and in consecutive order as far as the syllables. Nurse: "Shes his FIancée!" Midge: "His fiANcée"? Doctor (a few lines later, to intern): "Shes the fianCEE, you idiot!"
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