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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) - 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: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).
About the movie:
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
The chirping on the Tricorder (especially when Sulu scans after the Enterprise is destroyed) comes from an audio remote control device for the Radio Shack ("Realistic" label) answering machine. The remote control was able to be used away from home, over the phone to signal the answering machine (through electronic chirping sounds) to play back massages or carry out other functions.
b.
Robert Lansing
s film debut.
c.
This film is listed among the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John WIlsons book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
d.
The wax figures look like real people because they ARE real people. The original plan was to use actual wax figures, but they melted under the heat of the lights used at the time to film two-strip Technicolor.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
While on location for this film,
Doris Day
fell in love with the region. She retired there in the late 1970s, and has lived there ever since.
b.
As explained by
William Shatner
in
Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special
, there was tight security on the set to minimize theft, as incurred on Star Trek II. Picture ID badges, codes and the works were used so much that Shatner quipped it was like Paramounts real-life
Mission: Impossible
.
c.
According to the sign hung above the front door of Biffs house his grandmothers first name is "Gertrude."
d.
It was filmed in Ireland, in the Wicklow Mountains. They were only allowed to film there under the condition that they clean up entirely after themselves, without damaging the landscape.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
Nicole Shelby receives prominent billing in the opening credits, but is curiously absent during the end credits.
b.
The building used for the entrance to Aprils apartment is the office to the New York location of
Jim Henson
s Creature Shop.
c.
Edward James Olmos
was
Leonard Nimoy
s original choice for the role of Kruge. However, executive producer
Harve Bennett
preferred
Christopher Lloyd
. Nimoy finally cast Lloyd because he came off more operatic and physically intimidating.
d.
MGM was reluctant to release the film, which they believed would be a commercial flop. But when they found out that critic
Pauline Kael
had written a glowing review in the New Yorker, they immediately released it.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
Because of his negative experience with a studio changing his films title (see
Sydney
),
Paul Thomas Anderson
made sure that the title "Boogie Nights" was actually mentioned in the film.
b.
The Jellies sandals that
Jeff Bridges
wears in the movie were his own.
c.
James Coco
, originally cast as Dog, couldnt eat Russian food; the only local fare he could stomach was bread and butter. He wound up gaining so much weight his costume no longer fit, he suffered a gall bladder attack and eventually had to be replaced by
George Cole
. Coco later said, "They tell us the movie will finish by August, but not by August of what year. I understand Elizabeth Taylor is having Christmas cards printed."
d.
The USS Grissom is evidently named after real life astronaut Gus Grissom, who was killed after the Apollo 1 spacecraft itself was destroyed on 27 January 1967.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
Shot in a mere 8 days.
b.
The skateboarding film that the guys are watching at Javiers apartment is an old video featuring
Mark Gonzales
riding through the streets, which is
Video Days
.
c.
Sam Jaffe
s film debut.
d.
One of the boys who plays young Spock, had to wear brown colored contact lenses to match the color of
Leonard Nimoy
s eyes as the boys natural eye color was blue.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
According to
John Leguizamo
in his autobiography, he and
Penelope Ann Miller
did not get along during filming. He claims he got revenge on her by having the wardrobe department take in her clothes an inch at a time causing Miller to go on a crash diet.
b.
Chris Evans
was attracted to the role of Captain America by its character: "Even if it wasnt a comic book. I think the story of Steve Rogers is great. Hes a great guy. Even if it was just a script about anybody, I would probably want to do it. It wasnt necessarily about the comic itself. Hes a great character to play; he just happens to be a comic book character."
c.
James Goldstone
was considered to direct the movie before
Leonard Nimoy
asked to direct.
d.
According to Executive Producer
Mark Damon
(quoted from "A Life in Film: An Interview with Mark Damon," Director
Hal Ashby
"threw away the script" and had the actors improvise all their dialog and actions.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
The last feature film directed by veteran action specialist
B. Reeves Eason
. He did some second-unit work on features after this and some television directing, but this was the last feature he directed.
b.
A scene was filmed in which the Tin Woodman was turned into a "human beehive" by the Wicked Witch; after he crushes a bee, the tin woodman cries and rusts his jaw shut, then has to be oiled by Dorothy to get his jaw working again. This scene was cut and so the scene of Dorothy and her companions that comes after where the "beehive" scene had to be flipped to match their continuity in the earlier scene, causing them to appear blurred slightly.
c.
Christopher Lloyd
, who is most famous for playing Doc Brown, inventor of the time machine in the
Back to the Future
trilogy, plays the Klingon captain whos ship is taken over by Kirk and his crew. In the next movie,
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
, Kirk ironically uses this same ship to travel back to the 1980s, near the 1985 date that Brown first used his famous DeLorean time traveler.
d.
The interiors for the hotel scene were filmed (mostly) at the famous Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, on the corner of 5th and Grand. This famous location has been used for hundreds of films, TV shows, commercials and even a few music videos. The three doors that the Ghostbusters walk through in the movie are actually located on the entrance on 5th St. The Grand Avenue entrance leads you to the main lobby, which used to be the hotel ballroom, as seen in the film. (The ceiling is a dead give away.) The rooms formerly solid walls have been replaced by glass doors (at the entrance) and archways. The reception desk is where the long banquet table was located in the film. To the right of that would have been the bar that Egon blasts. If you go into the bar to the right of the main lobby, there is a picture of the old ballroom on one of the walls, giving you a better perspective of what the room looked like in the early 80s.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
When the crew is standing on the bluff supposedly watching the flaming Enterprise hulk, they were in fact watching a tennis ball mounted on an overhead boom microphone. The shot had to taken many times because not everyone was watching it at the same time.
b.
This film is a follow-up to
An Ordinary Killer
(Based on a True Story), written and co-directed by
Anthony Hornus
. "A State of Hate" brings back Michigan State Police detectives Lynn Kendall (
DJ Perry
) and Ben Bannister (
Terence Knox
).
c.
In the scene where
Daniel Stern
is asking
Fred Savage
to get the monsters autograph, the tickling was improvised and Savages reactions are genuine.
d.
Racing to complete his serial before Mascot finished
The Phantom Empire
, producer
Sherman S. Krellberg
used three production units, thereby slicing production time from the scheduled 35 days to 21.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
In the scene where Kirk meets Admiral Morrow for a drink to discuss taking the Enterprise back to the Genesis Planet, an abstract hanging sculpture can be seen on the wall behind Morrow. The sculpture is in fact one of the miniatures of the Epsilon IX station from
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
, which was made of acid-etched brass.
b.
Daniel Stern
declined the riding lessons offered for the movie in order to better convey his characters inexperience at horse riding.
c.
The only Police Academy movie that was given an MPAA "R" rating.
d.
To get the movie with an R-Rating, green blood was used for the reapers.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)?
a.
When Philip (
Bill Nighy
) is leaving Shauns (
Simon Pegg
) place of work, we see quickly that the name of the store is Foree Electric.
Ken Foree
stared in
Dawn of the Dead
and had a cameo in
Dawn of the Dead
.
b.
Christopher Lloyd
, who played the Klingon Captain Kruge, also played Jim Ignatalski on the classic television show
Taxi
. In one particular episode, a television executive is in his cab and Jim says he loved the show Star Trek. Jim added that he didnt like the leader of the Klingons because the writers had him say things a "real Klingon just wouldnt say."
c.
The half-track motorcycle Miller calls a "rabbit" (its Allied nick-name) was better known to the Germans as the Kleines Kettenkraftrad HK 101, or just Kettenkrad ("tracked motorcycle"). Designed to tow small trailers and light artillery over rough ground, it was the smallest tracked vehicle used in WWII. It was manufactured by NSU Motorenwerke AG, which survived the war to merge with Auto Union in 1969 to form Audi.
d.
Sigourney Weaver, Anjelica Huston and Kathleen Turner were all considered for the role ultimately played by Diane Keaton.
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