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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sympathy (2007) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sympathy (2007) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sympathy (2007)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Sympathy (2007).

About the movie: When a reckless bank robber and his rebellious teenage hostage hole up for the night in a bad motel...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sympathy (2007)?
a.		Vic Ramalot is based on the real life porn actor Ron Jeremy.
b.		The scene where Frodo and Sam climb raggedly up Mt. Doom was shot on a volcano called Ruapehu. The footing was so steep on the volcano that Elijah Wood and Sean Astin were hooked up to safety wires. If one of them lost their footing, the wires prevented them from sliding halfway down the volcano. The wires were painted out digitally.
c.		Steve McQueen and Audrey Hepburn were originally cast to play Major Julian Cook and Kate Ter Horst repectively. But they were dropped when Hepburns asking salary price was too high, and McQueen only wanted to appear in starring roles, not all-star assembled projects.
d.		There is a single cut in the film from a wide-shot to a close-up of two characters that was filmed a year apart.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sympathy (2007)?
a.		During the "Living Island" musical number, during a verse about the world, the image of the Earth and Van Allen radiation belts used by Universal Pictures as its logo at the time is briefly seen, but without the Univrersal lettering. The film happened to be distributed by Universal.
b.		To prepare for the initial love scene between Paul and Connie, director Adrian Lyne had Diane Lane watch the film Aimée & Jaguar.
c.		The actual Scopes Monkey Trial testimony was quite dull, until Darrow (Drummond) called Bryan (Brady) as a defense witness. Firing questions about the earths origins and Adam and Eve, Darrow quickly forced Bryan into raging contradictions, proving his point that the Bible, in light of scientific knowledge, cannot be interpreted literally.
d.		While cutting the film, director/editor Andrew Moorman worked as a camera operator at Universal Studios Theme Park in Hollywood. He would often sneak down to the lower lot and eat his lunch in the famed Bates Motel set for inspiration.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sympathy (2007)?
a.		The barn that acted as the sound-stage was not air conditioned or heated and had only one door. On the first day of shooting it was over 100 degrees, on the last it was below 0.
b.		The movie was filming in New York City on the night of the notorious 1977 blackout. The New York "Daily News" was able to publish despite the blackout, as the film company let the newspaper use their generators.
c.		All the blobs in the movie were practical effects. Depending on their stage of development they were made of gel wax, wallpaper paste, water balloons, Spanish moss, fake spider webbing, latex and/or Ultra-Slime. There were no CGI blobs in the movie.
d.		The filmmakers cite Alien and Predator as an influence on the look of aliens in the film.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sympathy (2007)?
a.		Sembagare (John Omirah Miluwi), is based on Rosamund Carrs former house boy Sembagare Munyamboneza who set up the Imbabazi orphanage with her in 1994 after the Rwandan Genocide.
b.		In the cookout scene at Edwards AFB, Sam Shepard is seen playing catch with his son. Chuck Yeagers real life nephew, Steve, played Major League baseball as a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
c.		Originally Raymond Chandler intended Buzz, the character played by William Bendix, to be the murderer of Helen Morrison. But the U.S. Navy reacted so strongly against the depiction of a service member becoming homicidal due to brain injuries suffered in combat that they threatened never again to cooperate with ANY Paramount production if that ending was left in the film, so Chandler reluctantly rewrote his script to make another character the killer.
d.		Sympathy was filmed entirely in one room. The set, structurally modeled after Room 1 in the Bates Motel, was constructed inside a barn in the middle of a corn field in Indiana.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sympathy (2007)?
a.		The movie was inspired by an actual series of games in Kiev, during the German occupation of the city. Several members of Dynamo Kiev, the top soccer team in Ukraine, found work in a bakery. There they formed a soccer team with other bakery employees. They began playing in a new league against teams supported by the Ukranian puppet government and German military. After they beat a team from a local German Air Force base, the league was disbanded and several of the team members arrested by the Gestapo and four were executed.
b.		The filming was so secluded, intense, and laborious that the last 20 minutes were shot with only the director and three cast members present. When off-screen the cast operated the boom mic and assisted with the camera work.
c.		MAXIM magazine had named this films sex scenes as the best sex scenes in film history.
d.		The demon in "Night on Bald Mountain" is named Chernobog, after the god of evil in Slavonic mythology.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sympathy (2007)?
a.		Pro Wrestler Kevin Nash had to cut his hair for his role. To explain the haircut to his wrestling fans, he "bet" his hair in a match against wrestler Chris Jericho.
b.		Another example of how digital filmmaking has changed the way movies are made: the visual effects artist for the film volunteered his efforts via a posting on the internet and received all the digital clips from an FTP site. He applied the effects in a matter of days and would then return them, where they were re-inserted in the final edit, and burned to DVD. This person has never met the cast and crew and only spoke with the director once over the phone.
c.		Joan Crawford had it in her contract that her trailer be placed so many yards from Bette Davis. The trailer was set up at the back of the house, with her own golf cart to take her back and forth when filming.
d.		Michael J. Pollards character, C.W. Moss, is a fictional conglomeration of all of Bonnie and Clydes minor sidekicks including: Ralph Fults (their first sidekick), William Daniel Jones (nicknamed "W.D." and "Deacon", and was an attendant at the gas station owned by Clydes father), Ray Hamilton, and Henry Methvin (whos father made the deal with Frank Hamer to set Bonnie and Clyde up).

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sympathy (2007)?
a.		The motel room set stayed erected for one year while the director cut the film for the purposes of re-shoots.
b.		Bruce Willis character is named David Dunn. It is very common for the "secret identities" of comic book heroes to be alliterative (e.g. Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Matt Murdock and Clark Kent).
c.		The movie was filmed in the actual abandoned Chippewa Lake amusement park. At the start of principal photography, the park has been abandoned 30 years almost to the date.
d.		One of the kids calls Penny "Bright Eyes". This is a reference to Shirley Temples earlier hit film, Bright Eyes.

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