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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Splash (1984) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Splash (1984) - 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: Splash (1984).
About the movie:
A man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
Debra Winger
reportedly wanted the role of Madison, but
Ron Howard
turned her down.
b.
Filmed for USD$15,000 and grossed USD$9.1 million in its first week in the US, breaking the record of highest-grossing weekend ever for a movie playing at less than 200 theaters.
c.
Denis Lawson
plays Wedge Antilles. Wedge was not originally scripted to appear in this film, but intense fan interest prompted
George Lucas
to include him. See also
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
.
d.
In December of 2009, "A Modern Affair" was made Fancasts Movie of the Week.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
While Allen is offering girls names to the mermaid before she settled on Madison, the last two he suggests are Elizabeth and Samantha.
Elizabeth Hanks
is
Tom Hanks
s daughter and
Samantha Lewes
was his then-wife.
b.
During the films German release, the Nazis (not yet in power) interrupted screenings by shouting martial slogans and releasing rats into the theaters.
c.
Filming took about 2 weeks in Connecticut.
d.
While on set
Eva Green
was approached by producers of
The Golden Compass
and offered the role of Serafina Pekkala which she accepted.
Daniel Craig
also starred in it although their characters had no interaction.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
The map from the shipwreck that Madison uses to find Allens home is an old map of the Province of New York. It bears the name His Excellency William Tryon Esq. Tyron was the colonial governor of the Province of New York from 1771 to 1780.
b.
The first draft of the script was written during an eight day writing session at the Mauna Kea Hotel in Hawaii by
Russ Meyer
. It was the first feature script he wrote himself.
c.
The black and white film that Naylor watches is the end of
Sands of Iwo Jima
.
d.
The shoot was long, by low budget independent standards, lasting 16 weeks with additional footage shot in Los Angeles by the filmmakers after principal photography had wrapped.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
Chapter titles: 1. Lost in the Everglades 2. Caught by the Seminoles 3. A Perilous Love 4. The Social Vortex 5. The Gathering Storm 6. Hidden Fires 7. The Harvest of Sin 8. The Mesh of Mystery 9. The Shadow of Scandal 10. Tangled Threads 11. The Fugitive Witness 12. Her Fighting Spirit 13. The Midnight Riot 14. The Floating Trap 15. The Murderer at Bay 16. A Modern Pirate 17. The Tell-Tale Envelope 18. The Bitter Truth 19. Her Vow Fulfilled 20. Loves Reward
b.
When Tybalts car rolls over, the roll cage, which is used to protect the stunt driver, collapsed, almost breaking the stunt drivers neck.
c.
Warren Beatty
loved to perform multiple takes of his scenes. Once, when Altman was ready to wrap shooting for the day, Beatty insisted on more takes. Altman left and had his assistant shoot them and Beatty did over thirty takes of the scene. Altman got his revenge by ordering Beatty to do 25 takes of a scene involving Beatty in the snow.
d.
Rosanna Arquette
auditioned for the role of Madison, but had to back out.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
This was
Fritz Lang
s first American movie, having arrived from a year in Paris after he fled the Nazi regime in Germany.
b.
Many critics felt that
Lee Marvin
was too old at 54 to play the sergeant.
c.
The entrance to the Crescent View Cemetery is misspelled as "Cresent View Cemetery".
d.
According to Biography Channel,
Bill Murray
and
P.J. Soles
were considered for the roles of Allen and Madison, but Murray turned it down.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
Martin Scorsese
was worried about the
On the Waterfront
recitation because he knew hed be inviting critical comparison between the scene in this film and the original films scene.
Robert De Niro
read it in various ways. Scorsese chose the take in which the recitation is extremely flat specifically to mute the comparison, and to suggest that it is simply a recitation and not indicative of how
Jake LaMotta
felt about his brother.
b.
Directorial debut of a theatrical feature for producer-director
Robert Greenwald
.
c.
Brooke Shields
reportedly turned down an offer to play Madison so she could study French Literature at Princeton.
d.
Richard Dreyfuss
and
Emilio Estevez
were having a movie trivia contest on the set one day. Estevez asked Dreyfuss to identify the movie that the line "This is no boating accident" was from. Dreyfuss didnt recognize the quote, despite the fact that he was the actor who said it in
Jaws
. Deciding that this was too good to pass up, this incident was re-enacted for the film.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
The transporter beams are normally seen to speckle and sparkle in Star Trek, but in this film the beams swirl and flow.
J.J. Abrams
conceived this redesign to emphasize the transporters as beams that can pick up and move people around, rather than a signal of peoples scrambled atoms that can go anywhere.
b.
Before
Daryl Hannah
accepted the role of Madison, it had already been turned down by
Tatum ONeal
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
,
Melanie Griffith
,
Diane Lane
,
Kathleen Turner
and
Sharon Stone
.
c.
The effects department actually took mud showers to study how to realistically portray mud in the film.
d.
Marlon Brando
and
David Niven
were considered for the part of Humbert.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
Fictionalized account of the story and disappearance of aviator
Amelia Earhart
.
b.
Dudley Moore
turned down the lead role of Allen Bauer.
c.
Clark Gable
s close friend
John Lee Mahin
tried to dissuade him from making the film, insisting the part required a better actor like
Spencer Tracy
. Gable initially felt out of place since
Marilyn Monroe
,
Montgomery Clift
and
Eli Wallach
all practiced the Method, which was like an alien religion to him.
d.
The Mrs. Pickman creature was shot as a miniature. Originally it was a man in a suit prosthetic, but
John Carpenter
didnt find it convincing enough.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
Larry Cohen
indicated this film was the first in a back-to-back two-picture deal with
A Return to Salems Lot
and using the same crew.
Michael Moriarty
appears in both films.
b.
The "Crazy Eddie" commercial that surprises Madison was for a real electronics store. Eddie and Sam M. Antar opened Crazy Eddie in Brooklyn, NY in 1971. Their spokesman was WPIX-FM disc jockey Jerry "Dr. Jerry" Carroll, whose frenetic nonstop sales pitch was based on used car salesman Earl "Madman" Muntz. The pitch always ended with "Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-A-A-ANE!" The chain grew to 43 stores in 4 states. It closed in 1989 after charges of fraud and security violations.
c.
Biograph production number 608.
d.
Most of the car chase scenes were shot at normal speed and sped up slightly. To add more of a sense of speed, other cars rode along with them out of frame with revolving lights attached to them that made it seem like the car was passing other light sources faster.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Splash (1984)?
a.
Jodie Foster
auditioned for the role of Madison, but turned it down in order to play a character in
The Hotel New Hampshire
.
b.
Filmed almost extensively in the winter of 1995 and early 1996 in Chicago, the hometown of director
Andrew Davis
, where his other films
Code of Silence
,
Above the Law
,
The Package
, and
The Fugitive
were also filmed.
c.
This movie is Liv Tylers film debut.
d.
The release date for the film was set before
Spider-Man 2
was even released.
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