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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Taking Woodstock (2009) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Taking Woodstock (2009) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009).
About the movie:
A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009)?
a.
Eric Bana
made his character Australian to allow him to improvise easier.
b.
The film was shot on a new technology called Andromeda. This was the first time a narrative feature had been shot using this system.
c.
The guitarist and white percussionist (playing an udu) in the El Monaco Bar Band during the limbo scene are members of the funk/folk band Flearoy.
d.
A rumor grew that the scene where the Marines call in an air strike over a commercial phone line was based on an actual event. The rumor was investigated by the US Department of Defense and proven false. In the book "Night Stalkers" by Michael Durant, published in December, 2006, a story is related where U.S. Navy Seals trapped at the Governors House on the island call the airport terminal on local phone lines to request air support. They had known in advance that their commander would probably be located there and took a chance that someone would answer the phone. It paid off. This incident later grew into the one depicted in the movie.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009)?
a.
Title taken from the title of a song by
Talking Heads
.
b.
According to the documentary included in the special edition DVD,
Casey Siemaszko
s character "Charlie Bowdre" was a real historical figure who actually survived the gunfight at Alex McSweens house. He dies in the movie however, when in real life he survived until a gunfight (at Stinking Springs, NM) that was depicted in
Young Guns II
. After his own death, a mere 7 months later, Billy was laid to rest next to Charlie and Tom OFolliard in the old Fort Sumner Cemetery.
c.
The cost of a ticket to attend the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was $18.00 in advance, and $24 for all 3 days.
d.
The watch shown prior to the first bank job is a Breitling New Pluton.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009)?
a.
In 1999,
John Ritter
married
Amy Yasbeck
in real life.
b.
Ron Perlman
was offered the role of Piccolo, but turned it down to work on
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
instead.
c.
Joseph Stefano
originally wrote a screen adaptation of the novel when
Grace Kelly
was supposed to star. Stefanos adaptation was much truer to the original book, and would have included two important characters from the novel that never made it into the final version of the film. One was a psychotherapist that Marnie was seeing at Marks insistence, whose role ended up being merged into Marks. The other was a man named Terry who was a co-worker of Marks and also in love with Marnie. The part of Terry was massively reworked and ended up becoming Lil.
d.
According to The Washington Post, screenwriter and producer
James Schamus
told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival that the biggest challenge in casting extras for the film was to find people "who were not working out all the time, and who still had pubic hair."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009)?
a.
Warner Brothers failed to renew this films copyright, and as a result, it is now public domain.
b.
In his "Spoken Word" concerts,
Henry Rollins
talked about how, he was very nervous about his nude scene and could not overcome his shyness. When he was finally able to complete the scene, he was relieved, then disappointed when it was such a brief shot in the final version of the film.
c.
In the end of the film Michael Lang says hes going to San Francisco to organize a free concert with the Rolling Stones. Hes referring to the infamous Altamont Free Concert where four people ended up dead, one of them by homicide. Because of these violent events the concert was later on viewed as the end of the hippie era.
d.
The biggest money-maker for
Vincente Minnelli
from his years at MGM.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009)?
a.
No authentic Woodstock footage was inserted into the film. According to director Ang Lee all the crowd and concert footage was shot specifically for the film.
b.
The Ambassador Hotel was being torn down as the film crew shot on the property.
c.
Junior Johnson is credited with inventing the "bootleg turn", in which a driver escapes a pursuer by sharply putting his speeding car into a 180-degree turn on the highway, then speeding off in the opposite direction before his pursuer can turn around. In the movie this is used to great effect twice on the same police officer: when he first encounters the officer he does a 180 and the chase begins and then uses the "bootleg turn" once more effectively causing the officer to embank his car on the road.
d.
Alfred Hitchcock
was embittered at the critical and commercial failure of the film in 1958. He blamed this on
James Stewart
for "looking too old" to attract audiences any more. Hitchcock never worked with Stewart, previously one of his favorite collaborators, again.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009)?
a.
Macaulay Culkin
s first on-screen kiss.
b.
The setting was changed from New York to London.
Harrison Ford
,
Viggo Mortensen
,
Benicio Del Toro
, and
Aaron Eckhart
were in the running for the lead when the film was initially set in the U.S.A.
Jude Law
,
Ewan McGregor
and
Gabriel Byrne
were nominated after the move.
Javier Bardem
was also considered at some point.
c.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 3, 1949 with
Linda Darnell
and
Paul Douglas
reprising their film roles.
d.
This is the second film to feature
Liev Schreiber
in drag. The first role was in his theatrical debut,
Mixed Nuts
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009)?
a.
The co-pilot of the real Memphis Belle was James Verinas. Col. Morgan always referred to him as the "other" pilot of the "Belle" since he was such an important part of the crew
b.
References to other
Kevin Costner
films: a mule is killed and Civil War battles (
Dances with Wolves
), and threatening to use a spoon as a weapon (
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
).
c.
The character Michael Langs motorcycle is a BSA 441cc Victor made by the Birmingham Small Arms company of Small Heath, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
d.
The announcer used in the movie is actually the Pittsburgh Penguins real announcer
Mike Lange
. He also uses some of his trademark sayings such as "Scratch my back with a hacksaw" and "Call Arnold Slick in Turtle Crick". The color commentator is also the current Penguins radio play by play man,
Paul Steigerwald
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009)?
a.
In the scene where Rotti Largo (
Paul Sorvino
) receives photos of his children the reaction shots of Luigi, Amber and Pavi are actually shots used from other parts of the movie.
b.
This is the second film to feature Liev Schreiber that concerned itself with Woodstock, the Catskills and the summer of 69. The first was
A Walk on the Moon
.
c.
According to
Peter Fonda
s auto-biography,
Tatum ONeal
was originally cast in
Karen Allen
s role. When the producers found out teenage ONeal was too young to be working without supervision, she was let go.
d.
Harry Houdini
s real name was Weiss (the German word for the color white), and he is played here by
Tony Curtis
, whose real name is Schwartz (schwarz is the German word for the color black).
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taking Woodstock (2009)?
a.
Mark Whittington
and
Karin Slater
worked together a year before filming "Lost Everything" in a small film called "The Attachment" in which they played lovers. "The Attachment" was written by Jerry Hamilton Bell & directed by Kim St. Leon.
b.
Ian Holm
and
Maury Chaykin
also co-starred in
The Sweet Hereafter
, in both movies they had only one scene together.
c.
In the film,
Linda Darnell
s character dies by being burned at the stake. This was a particularly difficult sequence for her to film, as she was terrified of fire. What makes this a double irony is the fact that, 19 years later, she was killed in a house fire.
d.
Although no actual Woodstock footage was used, the movie included re-enacted scenes of the original Woodstock movie being made as background to the action. Two examples are the film crew on the road to the festival getting the walking nuns to flash the peace sign and the toilet-cleaning "Port-O-San" man being interviewed.
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