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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sorcerer (1977) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sorcerer (1977) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Sorcerer (1977).
About the movie:
A group of outcasts from different backgrounds/nationalities are forced by misfortune to work in a remote oil drilling operation in South America...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sorcerer (1977)?
a.
R. Lee Ermey
hardly blinks at all in any scene.
b.
Friedkin insisted that the DVD be released fullframe because he dislikes letterboxing. Because the film was originally presented in 1.66:1, he has said that the black bars on either side would look just as bad on a widescreen TV as those on the top and bottom would on a fullscreen one.
c.
Alongside the three credited directors,
Gerd Oswald
directed the parachute drop scene and
Darryl F. Zanuck
himself did some pick-ups.
d.
"Because" is sung by exactly nine actors - a reference to the way The Beatles recorded the song - the 3-part harmony vocal performance among John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison is overdubbed three times to make nine voices in all.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sorcerer (1977)?
a.
The screenplay had been offered (and been rejected by) virtually every big director in Hollywood before
Paul Verhoeven
got hold of it. He threw it away after reading the first pages, convinced it was just a dumb action movie. However, his wife read it all the way through and convinced him that the story was layered with many satirical and allegorical elements, after which Verhoeven finally decided to direct the film.
b.
Soviet Army soldiers and officers were extras.
c.
Paul Newman
turned down the leading role.
d.
The film made $19,343,976 with a budget of $5,000,000
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sorcerer (1977)?
a.
One of the last scenes in the film, with Andre on the airplane, was filmed several months after the initial completion of the film. The scene was added because test audiences reacted badly to Erin standing-up Andre at the end of the film. The intention of the scene was to show that Andre was not a nice guy (as he had been throughout the film) and remove any sympathy viewers had for him. The fact that this scene was filmed so much later also explains why Andres hair is significantly different in that scene than in the rest of the film.
b.
Although
Erich von Stroheim
was barred from the MGM lot by studio head
Louis B. Mayer
and production head
Irving Thalberg
, he was hired for the role of Karl Salter at the insistance of
Greta Garbo
, who threatened to quit otherwise.
c.
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. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and may not have ever been televised, at least not until many years afterward.
d.
Because of Friedkins explosive temper and the scene where he used helicopters to create the storm during the rope bridge sequence, this was the film that earned him the nickname Hurricane Billy.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sorcerer (1977)?
a.
The first movie recorded in Stereo using the Westrex Recording system. The Stereophonic version exists in the form of studio acetate masters but was never married to the picture. Only a handful of theaters were equipped for multi-channel sound at the time of its original release.
b.
David Cronenberg
was also an early choice to direct but later passed.
c.
The mountain to which Bill and Ted are brought to be killed by the evil robots is the same mountain Captain Kirk climbs in "Arena", the episode of
Star Trek
that Bill and Ted watched in their apartment.
d.
The rather odd watch worn by the demolitions man who demonstrates the danger of stale dynamite is a Bulova Accuquartz "Big Block" LED watch. Forerunners of contemporary digital timekeeping, the numerals were displayed as luminescent red figures.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sorcerer (1977)?
a.
Had
Steve McQueen
starred in the film as was originally intended,
Marcello Mastroianni
and
Lino Ventura
would have been cast in the two supporting roles played by
Bruno Cremer
and
Francisco Rabal
. However, after McQueen backed out, Mastroianni and Ventura did as well since they refused to take second billing to any actor besides him.
b.
Film debut of
Lynda Day George
.
c.
Being a WWE Film, the movie was continually promoted on all WWE programming (even
Extreme Championship Wrestling
, which is owned by WWE) weeks before and after its release to help boost sales as well as
John Cena
s popularity.
d.
Big Daddy
Burl Ives
was only one year older than
Jack Carson
, who plays his eldest son, and 16 years older than
Paul Newman
, who played his youngest.
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