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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Speed (1994) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Speed (1994) - 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: Speed (1994).
About the movie:
A young cop must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
This is the only Death Wish movie that was made during the 1970s.
b.
The line "youre just a jumped-up pantry boy who doesnt know his place" is repeated almost verbatim in the song "This Charming Man" by The Smiths, 1982. Lyricist and singer
Morrissey
has always been fascinated by English pop culture and class issues, and several working-class English actors of the 1960s (including
Terence Stamp
,
Rita Tushingham
and
Diana Dors
) appear in the role of "cover star" on The Smiths albums.
c.
Vincent Gardenia
s first film.
d.
A Fox producer realized they might have a movie hit in their hands when he noticed that, during test screenings, audience members would walk backwards when they needed to go to the bathroom so they would miss as little as possible.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
The title comes from a
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poem called "Kubla Khan". The same name was also used as the name of Charles Foster Kanes residence in
Citizen Kane
.
b.
While shooting the sound of the extras flip-flops proved too distracting, so
Betty Thomas
made most of them change into tennis shoes.
c.
The Hughes Brothers originally wanted
Daniel Day-Lewis
to play the lead role. When that fell through, they interviewed
Sean Connery
,
Jude Law
, and
Brad Pitt
before settling on
Johnny Depp
.
d.
Line producer
Ian Bryce
was driving the towing vehicle, which was towing the large airplane at the airport.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
Fred Myrow
, composer of the emblematic main theme as well as the music for all the movies in the Phantasm series, died shortly after the films release.
b.
This is the only film acting appearance of Oona ONeil Chaplin, daughter of playwright Eugene ONeil and wife of film star
Charles Chaplin
. It was made ten years before her death of pancreatic cancer.
c.
The scene in which Annie (
Sandra Bullock
) takes the chewing gum out of her mouth and pretends to put it on her seat in order to have an excuse to change seats and move away from the obnoxious Stephens was improvised by Bullock.
d.
The song "Faith of the Heart" performed in this film by
Rod Stewart
, was later used as theme song of
Enterprise
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
Chapter titles: 1. The Sign of the Trident 2. The Red Mans Menace 3. A Strange Message 4. The Lost Trail 5. The Clash of the Clans 6. The Trap 7. The Mysterious Voyage 8. The Island of Terror 9. The Flaming Arrow 10. The Cave of Peril 11. Danger Rails 12. Win or Lose 13. Clash of the Clans 14. The Pivoted Rock 15. The Golden Pool
b.
The script was pitched to Paramount Studios, which placed the movie on turnaround and suggested to writer
Graham Yost
that his script, which called for the movie to end after everyone gets off the bus, had "too much bus" in it, implying audiences would not go for a movie in which a bus is driving around for two hours. Yost then added the subway scenes, and the modified script was presented to Fox Studios, which agreed to film the movie.
c.
This movie features two actors who played the character of
Antonio Salieri
:
F. Murray Abraham
, who played the character in the movie
Amadeus
; and
Ian McKellen
, who played the role on stage in the
Peter Shaffer
play.
d.
The nephew of
Robert Louis Stevenson
appears in a small uncredited role.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
According to
Joe Esposito
, "Youre the Best" was originally written for
Rocky III
which explains the lyric "History repeats itself". The song had been rejected in favor of
Survivor
s "Eye of the Tiger". Ironically, Survivor also performed the theme song ("The Moment Of Truth") for The Karate Kid.
b.
The bus jump scene was not in the original script, director
Jan de Bont
came up with the idea one day when he was driving around Los Angeles and noticed one section of the I-105 freeway was missing.
c.
The original 107-minute version with Scottish accents was completely withdrawn after the disastrous world premiere and did not resurface again until the 1980s.
d.
Will Scott
s play, "The Umbrella," was unpublished and possibly never performed.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
When Doctor Weir opens the blinds in his room during the opening sequence of the film, a whooshing sound effect can be heard. This sound effect is taken from the video game Doom, heard when the player opens a door.
b.
For the bus jump sequence, the city of Los Angeles gave permission to shoot on the I-105 freeway during the last month of its construction. This required the filming crew to be constantly on the move, depending on the location of the workers. It also created continuity problems because the appearance of the set kept changing as the construction crews would erect or tear down structures.
c.
Bolaji Badejo
beat
Peter Mayhew
to the part of the alien.
d.
When the officers are gathered around the dining table, they stand for a toast, Rusty misses and the drink goes down the front of his shirt, then quickly cuts.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
The song "Repave Amerika" appears on the soundtrack, written by
Tim Robbins
and performed by Bob Roberts. This was four years before
Bob Roberts
, written and directed by Robbins.
b.
Prior to the official announcement of this movies subtitle to be "Revenge of the Sith", several rumors had circled about as to speculation of the final prequels subtitle. Such speculations included possible subtitles as "Rise of the Empire" and "The Creeping Fear".
c.
The red plaid Spencer worn by
Toni Collette
(Harriet Smith) at Fords in the rain is the same costume worn by an extra in the Highbury Market Day scene in
Emma
.
d.
Writer
Graham Yost
named the main character Jack Traven after
B. Traven
, writer of
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
The movie had to undergo re-shoots after testing poorly with screeners, with only a month left before the theatrical release date.
b.
Celluloid art created the special effects of the Red Sea parting by pouring 300,000 gallons of water into a tank and then playing the film backward.
c.
The picture on Harrys desk is that of director
Jan de Bont
s wife Trish.
d.
Prior to filming,
Tom Hanks
had not seen
The Ladykillers
as he did not want it to prejudice the way he acted in the remake.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
Originally the getaway was a much longer sequence in which a bullet-wounded Handsome Rob reluctantly hands over the driving to Left Ear, despite the fact that he cant drive "stick". After narrowly avoiding pedestrians at the Staples Center, getting stuck in traffic in Downtown L.A. and driving into a shop window, Rob takes over the driving. Some footage from this sequence appears as deleted scenes on the DVD release.
b.
According to the films editor
Dede Allen
, the climactic massacre was meant to evoke
Abraham Zapruder
s footage of
John F. Kennedy
s assassination. As Clyde Barrow (
Warren Beatty
) goes to the ground in slow-motion, a fragment of his skull is dislodged by a bullet hit, a similar head shot captured by Zapruders footage of the JFK assassination.
c.
There was an instance where a schoolboy saved the lives of a schoolbus full of kids, when the driver had a heart attack, by climbing on to the drivers lap, jumping on the brake pedal and pulling the bus to the side of the road. When asked later why he did it, he told them that he had seen "that bus movie". At half time during an NFL game, there was a ceremony hailing the boy as a hero.
d.
Lara Flynn Boyle
is named after
Julie Christie
s character in
Doctor Zhivago
. This is the first time they act together.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed (1994)?
a.
There is a picture of an ocean wave on the side of the bus, more noticeably when the bus is circling the airport. That photograph was taken by
Jan de Bont
, for a campaign that was done for the American oceans, "Heal the Bay".
b.
The original negative mysteriously disappeared over 20 years ago. The print used for the Blue-Underground DVD is from director
Ken Wiederhorn
s personal collection.
c.
According to actress
Ellen Page
, the iconic red hooded shirt used in the movie and on the posters was, in fact, orange. The color was changed in post-production.
d.
This film about the Ku Klux Klan was found to be so racist that even
Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
(who wrote "The Clansman", the literary source for the controversial
The Birth of a Nation
) was offended. In addition, it was reported that the film was actually financed in part by a Florida chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
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