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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Star Wars (1977) - Part (16) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Star Wars (1977) - Part (16) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977).
About the movie:
Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
Terri Lynn
and
Cindy Williams
auditioned for the role of Princess Leia.
b.
Tom Cruise
received a speeding ticket for doing 85 in a 55 mph zone while working on this movie.
c.
Director
Larry Cohen
wanted to film at various authentic locations, but was repeatedly turned down for permission. However, when First Lady
Betty Ford
- a former dancer - found out that
Dan Dailey
was in Washington to make a film, she invited him and
Broderick Crawford
to the White House for lunch, as she had always liked Daileys films and work. Larry Cohen then started calling locations such as the FBIs training facility in Quantico, Virginia, and said that he wanted to film there but couldnt do so the next day because the cast was having lunch at the White House; likely supposing that the film had official backing, every location soon made themselves available.
d.
In the final battle preparations
Kiefer Sutherland
had to put on a "squib blood pack" vest underneath his clothes. It was supposed to be rigged to go off by Sutherland himself, to simulate when he gets shot, by pressing a hidden button; the whole rig took an hour to set up. When it came time to shoot the scene he got on to the horses and accidentally depressed the trigger and all the blood packs popped. Another hour had to be taken to re-do the pack.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
In one scene, Ed and Molly discuss the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. This was an advance plug of sorts: Universal had just completed production on the film version (
All Quiet on the Western Front
) and would open it the following month.
b.
In the earliest draft of the screenplay, the character Jeffery was an Asian-American teenager.
c.
Despite the fact that this was filmed with J-D-C anamorphic lenses, "Filmed in Panavision" is listed in the end credits.
d.
This is the only film in the series where
David Prowse
did the lightsaber fighting on his own; he was doubled in the sequels because he kept breaking the poles that stood in for the blades. This switch might explain why Vader pivots on his feet in this film, but not in the others.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
Set designer
Roger Christian
claims he added the pair of dice hanging in the Millennium Falcon cockpit (briefly seen when Chewbacca bumps his head on them as he first enters) because there were dice hanging in
Harrison Ford
s car in
American Graffiti
. However, Fords character had a skull hanging from his rear-view mirror.
Ron Howard
had the fluffy dice.
b.
With less than 16 minutes of screen time David Nivens performance in this movie is the shortest ever to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
c.
The movie that the gremlins George and Lenny are watching in the systems control center is
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
.
d.
The Martian box Willowbee had was a VHS case covered in metal tape. The Martian box Jack received from the Martians was a DVD case covered in metal tape.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
Naoh Hathaway was due to appear in the Broadway show "Chaplin" alongside
Gene Kelly
and
Ann Margaret
, but opted to do "The Neverending Story" instead. He had been cast in the film, then the original director was fired, and when Wolfgang Petersen was hired, Noah was immediately re-hired.
b.
Before production began, it had to be determined whether computer effects could convincingly create battle scenes featuring thousands and thousands of warriors.
Peter Jackson
invested his own money in the pursuit of this software.
c.
The day before he began filming as C-3PO,
Anthony Daniels
tried on his costume for the first time. Within two steps, the left leg shattered down into the plastic of the left foot, beginning to stab the actor every time he took a step.
d.
Olivia Thirlby
was at one stage rumored to replace
Amanda Seyfried
as Babydoll before
Emily Browning
replaced her.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
In the MTV Movie Awards for the year following the release of Clueless, the geriatric cast of
The Golden Girls
did a spoof on some of the high points of the film, most notably the "balls flying at my face" scene at gym class.
b.
Central plot point of a disassembled painting is derived from an actual occurrence in the writers hometown Art gallery in Rochester, New York.
c.
When writing the script,
George Lucas
had terrible trouble remembering how to spell all the odd names he had invented for his universe. This explains why there is such inconsistency over the way Wookiee is spelled.
d.
Shooting from May 25-June 13, 1944, released August 17.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
Robin Curtis
film debut.
b.
Released theatrically in the US on the same day as
Inglourious Basterds
by
Quentin Tarantino
. Tarantino and
Robert Rodriguez
last film was their collaboration
Grindhouse
.
c.
James Caan
,
Al Pacino
,
Jack Nicholson
,
Robert De Niro
and
Burt Reynolds
turned down the role of Han Solo.
d.
In the scene where Jude and Molly are at the Cavern Club, one of the guitarists on stage is playing a Gretsch Duo Jet guitar, very similar to the one that
George Harrison
played.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
20th Century Fox bought the screenplay largely because
George Lucas
had hired conceptual artist
Ralph McQuarrie
to create paintings of a number of scenes to help sell it in.
b.
Christian Slaters film debut.
c.
The Three Stooges
dog,
Moose
, was actually director
Norman Maurer
s own Labrador Retriever.
d.
Bernard Herrmann
s Oscar-winning musical score included recordings of the humming of telephone wires (heard when Mr. Scratch first appears to Jabez Stone in his barn), and four violin solos of Pop Goes The Weasel, recorded separately and laid over each other on the soundtrack to form a single violin solo (heard when Mr. Scratch plays his fiddle at Jabez Stones barn dance).
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
The design of the cleaner character that fixes Woody for Al was based on renowned makeup artist
Stuart Freeborn
.
b.
Special effects supervisor
Erwin Lange
was forced to appear before a special German government commission before he was permitted to acquire the huge number of explosives needed for the battle scenes. Over a ton of explosives were discharged in the first week of filming alone.
c.
Peter Mayhew
and
David Prowse
were both given a choice as to which giant character they wanted to play, Chewbacca or Darth Vader. Mayhew wanted to play a good guy and Prowse wanted to play a bad guy, so they ended up playing the matching characters.
d.
In the beginning of the film, Pons character escapes her wedding in a non-supercharged 1936 Cord Phaeton. The Indiana-made car, which cost about $3,700 was rare even when new and exotic enough to look like it belonged in the movie which begins set in France.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
The omission in this movie of the battle at Hogwarts between members of the Order of the Phoenix and Death Eaters was due to the fact that the writers did not want to seek repetition when they film the climactic battle of
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
.
b.
In its May 30, 1977 issue, Time magazine voted
Star Wars
"The Years Best Movie." The franchise would go on to feature on the magazines cover six times.
c.
Screenwriter
Kevin Ciappetta
made the decision to cast
Kimberly Caldwell
as Paige Matthews (an homage to
Rose McGowan
s character name on
Charmed
) after seeing her performance in
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
.
d.
Four out of five bar and restaurant scenes had no extras. The illusion of crowds was created by dark background lighting and crowd noise laid in during post-production.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Star Wars (1977)?
a.
A man in a red cap and glasses with a big nose appears in almost subliminal cameos throughout the film. This is the frequent self-caricature of
Osamu Tezuka
.
b.
Before filming began, the entire cast did a costume fitting and a script read through. Certain dialogs were altered to suit the different actors English speaking abilities, since the majority of the cast had English as their second language.
c.
The actors found
George Lucas
to be very uncommunicative towards them, with his only directions generally being either "faster" or "more intense". At one point, when he temporarily lost his voice, the crew provided him with a board with just those three words written on it.
d.
In
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
, Chekov was burned on the hand; in this film, he has a Ceti eel crawl in his ear.
Walter Koenig
joked that this film should be called "Star Trek II: Chekov Screams Again".
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