5. Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stick It (2006)? a. Just as the original NeverEnding Story covered the first half of the actual book, this movie covered most of the second half. The book differs from the movie in many ways. For instance, in the book, Bastians father never reads the NeverEnding Story, and Bastian "reads" the entire book in one sitting. b. 2008 Olympic gold medalist, Nastia Liukin , has a cameo in this film. She was chosen to win the uneven bar competition. c. The original cut of the film ran an hour longer. d. Tom Clancy objected to some of the changes made to his novel in the screenplay. In the novel, the noble that Ryan saves is in fact Prince Charles , and the tabloid reports of trouble in his marriage to Princess Diana is portrayed largely as the fabrication of a biased media. Subsequently, such reports would prove to be correct. The novel ends not with Millers death, but with his capture by American authorities. He was captured originally in England, which has no death penalty, but finally captured in the United States, which does (and in Clancys subsequent novel The Sum of All Fears, Miller and his fellow associates are executed by the State of Maryland for their crimes). Clancy felt that having him die in action robbed the story of this contrast.
6. Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stick It (2006)? a. When Paris is helping the citizens of Troy escape, he hands Priams sword to a young man named Aeneas and tells him that as long as the sword is in the hands of a son of Troy, the Trojans will survive. This is an obvious reference to Virgil aka Publius Vergilius Maro s epic poem, The Aeneid, which tells the story of a prince of Troy named Aeneas leading the survivors of Troy through a series of hardships before finally settling in Italy where his descendants where to found Rome 5 centuries later. However, Aeneas was the second greatest warrior the Trojans fielded during the war according to The Iliad, and was the son of Venus. These facts were also neglected in the movie and instead Aeneas was relegated to the role of a young boy. That boy should have been instead his son Julus, founder of the family of Gaius Julius Caesar . b. The band White Lion performs twice in this movie with a line-up that was pre their debut album. The bass player joined Black Sabbath between this movie and White Lions first album. c. Producer Robert Jones raised $3 million from Rysher Entertainment, a television company looking to break into movies. d. Missy Misdemeanor Elliott s video for the movie, "We Run This," won a 2006 MTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects.