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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Signs (2002) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Signs (2002) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002).
About the movie:
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
John Wayne
, who was 41 when the film was made, won great acclaim for his convincing portrayal of the 60-year-old Captain Brittles.
b.
The original musical play opened on October 7, 1943, at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. The show moved to the 46th Street Theatre on January 26, 1944, (two days after closing at the Imperial) and continued to run through February 10, 1945. The total number of performances was 567. The cast included
Mary Martin
(in a role originally meant for
Marlene Dietrich
),
John Boles
, and
Kenny Baker
.
c.
Joaquin Phoenix
replaced
Mark Ruffalo
, who had to pull out of the film due to a brain tumor. It was later found to be benign.
d.
The lead roles were originally offered to
Gary Cooper
and
John Wayne
, but Cooper vehemently rejected the offer.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
Post-production went on right up until the day before the films world premiere. Because time was so short, all the prints of the film were shipped "wet" - fresh from the duplication lab - and were airlifted directly out from a warehouse on the Paramount lot as they were assembled. Rewrites took place daily during filming, most of them on the order of
William Shatner
or
Leonard Nimoy
dropping lines that were superfluous ("My character wouldnt say that", etc). The logistics of the very end of the film - Decker merging with VGer - was devised more or less on the spot.
b.
Ken is never seen killing anyone on-screen (except himself) despite his profession as a hitman. Although given a gun to kill Ray on the orders of Harry over a botched hit, Ken fails to complete this task after preventing Rays suicide attempt.
c.
Graham Hess was originally written as an older character.
Paul Newman
was offered the role but turned it down, as did
Clint Eastwood
.
d.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
Director
Mike Newell
wanted the Dark Mark to "bubble up" out of the skin of Voldemorts followers. The makeup department achieved the effect by applying variations of a silicone skull-and-snake to each actors arm, gradually making the mark appear more "raised and angry looking". Digital effects were then used to create the snakes movement.
b.
In Feb. 1958, this film was being shown (with its alternate title "She Shoulda Said No!") at many drive-in theaters on a double bill with a reissue of
Mom and Dad
.
c.
Because of his invalid union card,
Hugh Grant
was dismissed from this production.
d.
Rather unusually,
James Newton Howard
started scoring the film before it had been shot, as he was able to work from
M. Night Shyamalan
s detailed storyboards.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
The name of the sporting goods shop that Rambo blows up is "The Outpost".
b.
The "Step in Time" sequence had to be filmed twice because of a scratch on the film from the first take. The entire sequence took a week to film.
c.
On November 2nd, 1937, this film opened the world famous Odeon Cinema, in Londons Leicester Square.
d.
M. Night Shyamalan
insisted that the film posters be released without showing
Mel Gibson
s face, as it is an ensemble piece, and that it didnt refer to
The Sixth Sense
, as its an entirely different movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
Composer
James Newton Howard
was asked to purposely reference classic film scores from similar genres, such as
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
and
Psycho
. The opening music and main three-note motif is strikingly similar (a probable reference) to both the theme of
Psycho
and the theme of
The Twilight Zone
.
b.
Simone Signoret
turned down the role of Irene Sperry.
c.
When
Roy Scheider
was trapped in the sinking Orca, it took 75 takes to get the shot right. Scheider did not trust the special effects team to rescue him in case of an emergency so he hid axes and hatchets around the cabin just in case.
d.
In John Rileys first scene as a San Patricio he asks their names to other Irish soldiers. When he asks his name to James Kelly, Riley asks him if he has any experience, and Kelly answers that he has been in His Majesty Royal Artillery. Riley replies with "Good experience, but there is no royalty here" to what Kelly answers "Yes, sir". Kelly is played by
Prince Albert of Monaco
, a member of the Royal family of Monaco.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
Marvin Kaplan
s film debut.
b.
In the film, Kirk Lazarus says "I dont drop character til Ive done the DVD commentary." When recording the audio commentary for the unrated DVD and blu-ray,
Robert Downey Jr.
actually spends the entire commentary in the character that appears on the screen as the movie progresses.
c.
The final scene, tinted in red, has the ongoing narration played backwards and thereby unintelligible; a sloppy mistake presumably made by the distributor preparing the DVD reissue, but assumed by the so-called "film historian" in his booklet notes for the DVD to be part of the original films intention since an original negative was used.
d.
The production used a new watering technique to make the corn grow faster which the Delaware Valley agricultural college was then very keen to adopt for themselves.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
Debut of
Ben Johnson
.
b.
W.C. Fields
and
Edgar Bergen
were paid $100,000 each. Fields was paid an additional $25,000 for writing the script.
c.
The artwork in the book about extraterrestrials was actually done by
Saleka Shyamalan
, director
M. Night Shyamalan
s daughter.
d.
When Oliver wakes up after sleeping on the truck tire, he sees people crossing past the alley where hes slept. One of those people is Roger from
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
(look for the guy with the brown hair, blue shirt, and blue pants).
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
Filmed in 1990.
b.
In the soda-shop scene, Fields turns to the camera and announces that the scene was supposed to have been filmed in a saloon "but the censor cut it out". He was telling the truth.
c.
Mel Gibson
didnt realize that his director was playing the vet until the day that they came to shoot their scenes together.
d.
The character of Kliest is only present as a telephone voice, spoken by the German actor
Christian Brückner
. Similarly, the character of the OSS Commander is only heard as a voice on the radio, played by
Harvey Keitel
. Christian Brückner provided the German dubbing voice for Harvey Keitel in
Pulp Fiction
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
The graffiti-covered buildings shown in the film are all that is left of some radar buildings built by Howard Hughes.
b.
This film was shot in Newtown, PA. The scene which takes place in "2 Aldos Pizzeria" is really a family-run pizzeria called "Moms Bake at Home Pizza".
c.
This is the first "Terminator" movie in which a character does not speak the word "Terminated" after killing a Terminator (i.e. "Youre terminated!"). However, the word "Terminated" flashes in red on the T-800s internal processor after it thinks it has killed Marcus Wright, a Terminator with a human brain and heart.
d.
Robert Redford
initially intended to play Denys Finch Hatton, as an Englishman. That was later nixed by director
Sydney Pollack
, who felt it would be too distracting for audiences. Redford had to overdub some of his lines from early takes, when he used a trace of English accent.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Signs (2002)?
a.
Tom Selleck
was rumored to be cast as The Terminator, but was forced to turn the role down due to his commitment to the TV series
Magnum, P.I.
.
Kevin Kline
and
Michael Douglas
were considered to play The Terminator.
b.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 10, 1945 with
Gary Cooper
and
William Demarest
reprising their film roles.
c.
Scatman Crothers
favorite role of his career.
d.
The film was shot on the property of an agricultural school, Delaware Valley College, where two areas of corn were already growing at different stages. The corn grown for the film was naturally further behind the other two areas of corn, so it was not a planned element.
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