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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sweetwater (2011) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sweetwater (2011)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Sweetwater (2011).

About the movie: A chronicle of the life of Sweetwater Clifton, the first black player signed by the NBA.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sweetwater (2011)?
a.		The script was originally developed by Castle Rock, the production company of Rob Reiner. When they didnt know what to do with it, filmmaker Kevin Smith took the script to Miramax. It became the highest grossing film in Miramax history until Chicago topped it.
b.		Clifton was given the "Sweetwater" nickname as a boy because of his love of soft drinks and he drank buckets of it throughout his career.
c.		With the exception of a voice-over narration, the movie is entirely in the Cheyenne and Crow Native American languages with subtitles.
d.		After his miserable experience on "Fedora", Billy Wilder has retired from films. However, he agreed to make this film once Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau had signed on.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sweetwater (2011)?
a.		In the scene where Madeline punches in the entrance code and enters the gate as Helen slips past her unseen, you get a brief glimpse of her license plate. It reads "2HYE305", not "ZHEMEKIS" as previously noted
b.		Writer/Director Martin Guigui first began working on "Sweetwater" in April of 1996 when he walked into the Basketball Hall Of Fame and found no information pertaining to the story behind the first African American to play in the NBA. At that time, Guigui was living in Burlington Vermont, making his living as a professional musician and had not yet directed his first film.
c.		In the original script, the time machine was a 1969 Chevy Van, but the filmmakers thought that it would be a rip-off of Back to the Future. So, they changed it to a phone booth (apparently unconcerned that Doctor Who uses a police telephone box as its time machine). Also, when they used the van, Bill and Ted picked up more historical figures than they did in the final film.
d.		John Boorman had originally planned to direct the film.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sweetwater (2011)?
a.		The equestrian performances were choreographed by the real Col. Alois Podhajsky.
b.		Nathaniel Cliftons birth name is actually Clifton Nathaniel. He flipped it around to exonerate the name given to his ancestors by slave owners.
c.		The trailers bill the movie as "inspired by true events". Director Eli Roth says that he found a Thai website that advertised itself as a "murder vacation," offering users the chance to torture and kill someone for the price of $10,000. Roth later showed the site to Quentin Tarantino and the two developed the idea for the film. Tarantino and Roth said later on an Icelandic talk show that they have no idea if the website was real or not.
d.		Producer Samuel Goldwyn hoped that this film would launch actress Anna Sten as "the next Greta Garbo." In spite of the doubling of the films budget, however, it was a flop.