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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Spy Game (2001) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Spy Game (2001) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001).
About the movie:
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names, if any):
Vera Lewis
(Mrs. Fogerty),
Creighton Hale
(Waiter) and
Stuart Holmes
.
b.
Dutch Oscar-winning director
Mike van Diem
was once attached to the project.
c.
Virginia OBrien
s first screen role.
d.
Most of the film was shot handheld as that was the best way to countermand the oceans swell.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
Based on the actual 1978 cover-up of the shooting deaths of Carlos Soto Arrivi and Arnaldo Dario Rosado at Cerro Maravilla mountain in Puerto Rico.
b.
Mr Hydes appearance was based on the Neanderthal man.
c.
In the scene where Nathan enters his office after the CIA employees rummaged through it we can see director
Tony Scott
s faded red hat on the right next to the door.
d.
Two of the songs played in the film - "Shake it Up" and "Im Hot Tonite" are performed by then-21-year-old
Elizabeth Daily
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
The winter scenes were filmed on a hot day in August 1966.
b.
Christopher Reeve
was offered the lead but turned it down after saying, "I didnt think I would be convincing as a seedy lawyer."
c.
Average Shot Length (ASL) = ~2.7 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~2.6 seconds.
d.
M. Night Shyamalan
: [Philadelphia, PA] The film takes place in Philadelphia, and the detective is from the Philadelphia Police Department.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
Dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Jean Scott (died 2001), mother of
Tony Scott
and
Ridley Scott
.
b.
The subplot of Gavilan trying to sell Jerry Durans house to Julius Armas is based on
Robert Souza
s real-life attempt to sell
Robert Evans
house to
Dodi Fayed
, who was in the music business at the time and for whom Souza did bodyguard work.
c.
Filming was done with rented hand-cranked vintage movie cameras using black and white film, thus adding to the authentic 1920s look of the film.
d.
Clint Eastwood
declined the directors seat, and
Ted Post
stepped in, although interviews with Eastwood and books about him have indicated that he and second unit director
Buddy Van Horn
actually directed more of the film than Post did.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
Adam Rifkin
: [Blumps] Semi truck for the "Blumps Foods" company. The Blumps name (with the womans face) is incorporated into all of Rifkins films in one way or another. The woman pictured is actually Rifkins grandmother.
b.
Harve Bennett
and
Nicholas Meyer
both had disagreements over the fate of Gillian Taylor, Bennett wanted her to go to the 23rd Century. while Meyer wanted her to stay in the 20th century
c.
When the film was previewed in the summer of 2001,
Brad Pitt
said that it dealt with blow back from unsuccessful CIA operations and suggested that it might mean America had been the worlds leading power for too long. However, after the 9/11 attacks, Pitt was quoted as saying the movie indicated that CIA operatives were needed "now more than ever".
d.
In the scene where Ipkiss puts the mask on in his apartment, and becomes a whirlwind, lightning strikes in the background reveal a back lit image of his skeleton. The viewer will need to play the movie in slow motions as the scene is only 1/10th of a second long.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
"Variety" credits
Nance ONeil
as Mrs. John Drake, but the role is played by
Virginia Howell
. AFI credits
Onslow Stevens
as President, but the role is played by
Frederick Burton
.
b.
The original ending for the film had
Van Johnson
hearing over his radio that the ship on which his lady-love,
June Allyson
, was serving had been sunk. Johnson then died and the picture ended. The New York Times reported on November 17, 1946 that 40 percent of the audience opinion cards handed out at a preview of the film in Los Angeles demanded that Johnsons character live. MGM spent $50,000 to shoot scenes for a new ending, which also had Allysons character surviving as well.
c.
This is the film for which
Michael Curtiz
is quoted as saying, "This will make your blood curl!"
d.
Part of the film was originally set to have been filmed in Israel, but due to the sudden escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (in September-October 2000), and following the requirements of the actors insurance companies, the filming took place in Morocco instead.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
Nathan Muirs personal car is a Porsche 912, basically a 911 with boxer 4 engine produced for a short while in the late 60s.
b.
Flora Finch
(Hard-of-Hearing Woman),
George Hackathorne
(YMCA Worker),
Theodore Lorch
(Simon Legree) and
Max Wagner
(Soldier) were filmed in scenes which were cut before the movies release.
c.
Originally
Walt Disney
had considered
Mary Martin
,
Bette Davis
and
Angela Lansbury
for the part of Mary Poppins based on the cold characterization portrayed in the
P.L. Travers
books. The Walt Disney Studio (with the Shermans and co-writer
Don DaGradi
acting as the studios sort-of advance team) first considered Julie Andrews after seeing her on
Ed Sullivan
s
Toast of the Town
in January 1961 do excerpts from Camelot, the show she was appearing in on Broadway. About a month later, Walt Disney himself went to New York, caught the show, and sounded out Julie backstage after the show. (The show was of double interest to Disney because his
The Sword in the Stone
animated feature was based on the first book of
T.H. White
s "The Once and Future King." "Camelot" was based on the 4th book of the same novel.) It was at that February 1961 backstage meeting that Disney first sounded Andrews out, including inviting Julies husband at the time, designer
Tony Walton
, to check things out in California relative to doing "Mary Poppins". While there was an open offer to Andrews, she of course, did not commit until the day after Warner Brothers announced that
Audrey Hepburn
would be doing
My Fair Lady
for them.
d.
Unlike other Star Wars installments,
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
was shot and completed in less than one year. Photography was done within June 1982-September 1982
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
Most of Paramounts top directors turned down this assignment, and
D.W. Griffith
tried to.
Adolph Zukor
and
Jesse L. Lasky
insisted that he do it.
b.
Loosely based upon Robert Pickton, a Canadian pig farmer who murdered several women during the late 90s and fed their remains to his pigs.
c.
The old building that became Xanadu was the Pan Pacific Auditorium on Beverly Boulevard, near CBSs Television City in Hollywood, California. It was built in 1935 but was only used for exteriors in this movie. Interiors were filmed on Stage 4 of the Hollywood Center Studios. The Pan Pacific Auditorium was destroyed by a fire in 1989. A community center now sits on the site, featuring a single version of the Pan Pacifics 4 curved deco spires
d.
Kimberly Paige
, playing the part of Sandy at the embassy in Berlin, is wife of the former US ambassador to Hungary, the location where the Berlin scenes were filmed.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
Charles Chaplin
wrote the entire script in script form, except for the fake German, which was improvised. In addition, he also scripted every movement in the globe dance sequence.
b.
The building identified as the US Embassy in Hong Kong is actually the headquarters of HSBC - the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
c.
Nelson Eddy
s film debut.
d.
In one particular scene, Ratso and Joe get into an argument over cowboys. Ratso states that "Cowboys are fags!" Joes response is "
John Wayne
is a cowboy! Are you calling John Wayne a fag?" Coincidentally,
Dustin Hoffman
and
Jon Voight
were nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for their roles as Ratso and Joe, respectively. They lost out - to John Wayne for his role in
True Grit
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spy Game (2001)?
a.
The "You think Im funny?" scene was based on a story that
Joe Pesci
acted out for
Martin Scorsese
. While working in a restaurant as a young man, Pesci once told a mobster that he was funny and the mobster became very angry. Scorsese allowed Pesci and
Ray Liotta
to improvise the scene. He did not tell the other actors in the scene what would happen because he wanted their genuine surprised reactions.
b.
One of the fight sequences was shot at the facilities of an adult film company.
c.
The scene where
Robert Redford
s character asks
Brad Pitt
s character if he knew anybody in this apartment house and tells him to be up on one of the balconies in five minutes is from a book by former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky who describes this test as part of the training of a Mossad agent.
d.
ZOWIE stood for Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage.
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