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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Shattered Glass (2003) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Shattered Glass (2003) - 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: Shattered Glass (2003).
About the movie:
The true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shattered Glass (2003)?
a.
In the DVD commentary director Billy Ray says that when Stephen Glass is talking to the class, the text on the blackboard says: "Thought for the day: Experience is the toughest teacher, because she gives the test first and the lesson after".
b.
Elia Kazan
: mortuary assistant.
c.
Ellen Wong
made two homemade Sex-Bob-Omb T-shirts for her character to wear. The one selected by
Edgar Wright
appears in the movie, the other on the DVD extras.
d.
David Cronenberg
was originally asked to direct.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shattered Glass (2003)?
a.
In the DVD commentary, the real Charles Lane talks about confronting Stephen Glass in front of a restaurant in which Glass claims to have had dinner with people he featured in a dubious article. Lanes comments occur as this confrontation is dramatized in an exterior shot filmed at the actual location of the restaurant in Bethesda, Md. Lanes comments identify the restaurant as "the Original House of Pancakes." But in the shot, a sign inside the restaurant that is visible through the glass front door shows a logo (a chef flipping a very large pancake above a frying pan) and name which correctly identifies the restaurant as part of the national breakfast-and-lunch franchise, "The Original Pancake House".
b.
The movie begins with the 1980s Universal logo, which refers to when director
Sam Raimi
got started in the horror genre with the first two "Evil Dead" movies. After the credits, there is also the title card that says to take a tour of Universal Studios. This was also used in the 1980s in other Universal movies, such as
An American Werewolf in London
.
c.
Vivien Leigh
was passed over for the role of Elizabeth Bennett in favor of
Greer Garson
.
d.
Lance Henriksen
: The driver who picks up a hitchhiker at the end.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shattered Glass (2003)?
a.
Brenda Joyce
s reluctance to appear in "A-Haunting We Will Go" led to the termination of her Fox contract. Her role was played by
Sheila Ryan
.
b.
Matthew Modine
auditioned for the role of Al but
Alan Parker
cast him as Birdy instead.
c.
Writer/Director
Billy Ray
first came to this project when HBO, which had optioned a
Buzz Bissinger
article about the
Stephen Glass
debacle, hired Ray to adapt the article into a screenplay. While he was writing it, certain HBO executives were fired. By the time he handed in the script, Ray says in an interview, there was a new administration at HBO who "hadnt ordered the script and didnt particularly care about it. So it sat for two years." As he continued writing scripts, he eventually decided "it was time to find out if I was grown up enough to be a director." And he thought that his adaptation of the Bissinger article would be "a good launching point for me because I knew there was nothing in there that was so craft-dependent that my lack of experience was going to hang me." Ray recounts these events in
The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray
.
d.
Marg Helgenberger
visited several mines while on location to achieve a better understanding of her character.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shattered Glass (2003)?
a.
Sound designer
Ben Burtt
got the opportunity to operate the mike boom in the dialogue scene between Luke and Leia on Endor. He didnt know the entire scene would take almost 3 minutes to shoot, so he got very tired holding up the microphone, and nearly dropped it on
Carrie Fisher
s head.
b.
Edward Judd has 2 lines.
c.
"C.H.U.D." is an acronym for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller", but it also means "Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal", as one can (barely) read on the crates full of toxic materials.
d.
In the 1998 Vanity Fair article that inspired the film,
Buzz Bissinger
wrote that Stephen Glass "established himself as the Darth Vader of Detail" as a fact checker.
Hayden Christensen
made this film between the two Star Wars films in which he portrays Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shattered Glass (2003)?
a.
Adan Hernandez
was commissioned to paint thirty paintings for the film. All the paintings that were in the film were done by him. Adan was in the Gallery opening scene as Gilbert.
b.
One abandoned concept was that one sign of Chucky turning more human the longer he spent in the doll was that the doll would grow stubble like Charles Lee Ray had when he was human.
c.
The Radiator Springs drive-in movie theatre is playing "The Incredimobiles", referencing one of Pixars other movies, "The Incredibles".
d.
In the scene where David shows up late in the office to give Steve a coffee, if you look on Stephens computer screen, you can see that he is building the website for Juct Micronics. It is said in the DVD commentary by Billy Ray and Chuck Lane that he was building the website in order to cover his tracks for the next day.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shattered Glass (2003)?
a.
One of the characters had her dialog replaced entirely by actress Teddi Siddall during post production.
b.
They shot 25 takes of the closing scene when
Bill Murray
wakes up next
Andie MacDowell
as they were unsure of the tonality of the scene.
c.
Donna Theodore
was nominated for the 1975 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actress in a Musical for "Shenandoah" in the role of Anne.
d.
In
The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray
, Ray reports that his adaptation of an article by
Buzz Bissinger
for the script of
Shattered Glass
, built on his experience of having worked on a draft of an adaptation of Bissingers book, Friday Night Lights, for the 2004 film of the same name. Ray did not receive a writing credit for the work he did on that adaptation.
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