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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Shaun of the Dead (2004) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Shaun of the Dead (2004) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004).
About the movie:
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
The lines recited by the Gemini Killer in the cell ("Death be not proud...") are from a poem by
John Donne
.
b.
When the army shows up outside the pub,
Joe Cornish
can be glimpsed as a zombie being gunned down, shown in his video diary on the DVD. Hes being shot in the back, facing toward the camera.
c.
The title track is the Eton Boating Song, the school song for prestigious Eton College.
d.
To prepare for his role as Hector Hammond,
Peter Sarsgaard
spent time with a biologist from Tulane University, who he described as "the most eccentric guy I could find." They both worked on preparing the lecture Hammond gives in the film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
When Shaun is on the phone with Fulcis Italian restaurant, the voice of the host is
Edgar Wright
doing a terrible Italian accent.
b.
Based on a story of the same name by
Stephen King
that was written exclusively for the internet.
c.
Several characters do their "signature moves" from the video game in fight scenes: - Ryu appears to use a "hadouken" on Vega in their second fight (he holds his hands in the familiar position and a bright flash is seen on screen). Then finally defeats Vega with a Tatsumaki Senpyuu Kyaku or known as his Hurricane or Helicopter Kick - Vega does his rolling stab move twice in the same fight. - Ken uses a spinning uppercut (shoryuken in the game) against Sagat. - E. Honda appears to do his "hundred hand slap" against Zangief. - Guile does two "flash kicks" when fighting Bison (he performs a kick while in a back flip. - Although the move does not resemble the one from the game, Cammy says "Thrust kick!" while fighting a trooper in the assault. - While Bison is flying, he uses a move that resembles his "psycho crusher" on Guile several times (flying towards the enemy with an outstretched fist).
d.
The painting sold before Roxys LaTour is Claude-Joseph Vernets "La Nuit, au Port au Clair de Lune", which is in the Louvres permanent collection.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
Writer and Producer
Doug Kenney
passed away after the film was released. He had accidentally fallen off a cliff while on vacation in Hawaii. He had been in a deep depression after the film was in post-production as much of the original story had been butchered in the editing room and he was adamantly against the final addition of the gopher to the film.
b.
Following the success of the movie,
John Wayne
was invited to place his footprints in cement outside Graumans Chinese Theater. As part of the event, actual black sand from Iwo Jima was flown to Hollywood and mixed into the cement in which The Duke left his footprints and "fist print".
c.
Among the voices in the news reports you hear on television and radio you hear
David Walliams
on a TV news broadcast,
Mark Gatiss
on the radio,
Keith Chegwin
hosting the "Fun Dead" programme, and
Rob Brydon
voicing the "Zombies From Hell" show at the end. Also, the voice heard at the end dismissing the infected monkeys being the cause is
Edgar Wright
.
d.
After all of the ending credits, there is a short film about what happened that Christmas night for the family.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
According to a New York Times article on 16 October 1938, the Citizens Chiropractic Committee of New York State sued the film producers, authors and
Alan Mowbray
for $100,000 claiming damages to the profession. One doctor was very upset that the film implied it was possible to go through a chiropractic school through a correspondence course. The outcome of the suit is not known.
b.
Oliver Stone
,
Michael Bay
,
Robert Rodriguez
,
Martin Campbell
,
Shekhar Kapur
, and
Stephen Norrington
all turned down the chance to direct throughout the ten-year project development.
c.
Almost all bit-part characters can be seen later in the film as zombies
d.
Liza Minnelli
once said of this movie: "It took every ounce of craftsmanship you had ever learned, every bit of stamina, to do this picture."
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
In the scene where Fred, Velma and Daphne meet up at the airport, there was originally a flashback for each of them showing what they had all been doing: Fred on a book tour, Velma in a support group and Daphne learning Martial Arts. The flashbacks were cut out because the director thought they dragged out the scene.
b.
The original script called for Shaun to beat Mary and the hulking zombie with a girls bicycle.
c.
The ship Elvis is on in the first part of the movie is the USS GALLANT (MSO-489), an ocean-going minesweeper.
d.
The fish tank in Williams (
Peter Outerbridge
) office was full of real piranha.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
According to notes from Twentieth Century-Fox studio publicity and their Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library, planned but rejected and unfilmed scenes included a big wedding sequence between lead characters Carol Brown (
Betty Grable
and Tim Baker (
Tyrone Power
at the end of this movie after Baker had been discovered to being alive.
b.
The first Pixar film to be given a PG rating since
The Incredibles
.
c.
Elvis Presley
believed that this film would be more dramatic than his usual films, so he was very disappointed with the script.
d.
Shaun walks past a road sign for Weston Park which is a street in Crouch End, London, the same locale as
Spaced
and where
Simon Pegg
now lives.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
Billy Bob Thornton
and
Angelina Jolie
first met on the set of this movie. They fell in love and were briefly married.
b.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by
Harry Medved
and
Randy Lowell
.
c.
Cindy Williams
originally wanted to play Carol, and was even willing to have braces put on her teeth for better effect.
d.
Northern Irish rock band Ash donated 3 songs used in the film: "Meltdown", "Orpheus" and "Everybodys Happy Nowadays" featuring Chris Martin. These songs were donated for free as
Edgar Wright
s girlfriend, Charlotte Hatherley, played guitar and sang backing vocals for Ash at the time.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
Chris Columbus
was offered the directors chair but opted to make
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
instead.
b.
The "Black Cat" segment contains several other
Edgar Allan Poe
tales and character names. Two of the crime scenes recorded by Rod Usher are "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "Berenice"; the
Tom Savini
character in the latter is made up and costumed to look like Poe himself (who wrote "Berenice" in the first person, about a man who opens the tomb of his cousin and removes her teeth). Poe did, in fact, marry his own cousin, who died at the age of 25. Rods wifes name is Annabel (neé Lee, one supposes); the bartender who returns the cat to him is named Eleonora; and the next-door neighbors are called Pym (first name, no doubt, Arthur Gordon).
c.
David Walliams
auditioned for the role of David.
d.
At one point, Lewis mockingly refers to Wilbur as "Captain Timetravel". This is evidently an actual superhero character in Lewis time, since this character appears on the lunch box he uses for the control panel of the memory scanner. The graphic even resembles a muscular, caped version of Wilbur.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
In this film,
Christopher Reeve
plays a paralyzed man. Six days after this films theatrical release,
Christopher Reeve
broke his neck in a horse-riding accident, leaving him paralyzed for the rest of his life.
b.
Due to depiction of Gypsies, the movie was banned in Nazi Germany.
c.
The picnic scene in which Francie (
Grace Kelly
) asks John (
Cary Grant
), "Do you want a leg or a breast?" as well as Johns response, "You make the choice." was an improvisation.
d.
One of the zombies seen in the film previously featured in a TV ad for the Mini as a zombie.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Shaun of the Dead (2004)?
a.
Canonically, Autobots have blue eyes and Decepticons have red eyes. In the movie, the Decepticon spy Alice has blue eyes, the ex-Decepticons Jetfire and Wheelie have red eyes (though Jetfire defected long ago and Wheelie replaced his damaged red eye with a blue eye), and the Decepticon Devastator has green eyes.
b.
The music heard over the films opening credits was a retread: composer
Max Steiner
had originally written and used the theme for the 1934 John Ford film,
The Lost Patrol
. Steiner slightly altered the tempo and instrumentation of this theme music for
Casablanca
.
c.
Angela Lansbury
considered herself too young to play the role of the Queen and wanted to play Milady De Winter.
d.
When Shaun and his friends are trying to get inside the pub, horror writer and Frightfest organizer
Alan Jones
can be seen as a zombie walking past the phone box. Hes the bald one in a checkered shirt.
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