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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The 13th Warrior (1999) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The 13th Warrior (1999) Quiz
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About the movie:
In AD 922, an important emissary who is banished from his homeland. The nomadic outcast comes across...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
In real life Blanche Barrow did not run from the Joplin apartment screaming with a spatula. In fact she helped Clyde push one of the police cars out of the driveway which was down hill. The car started rolling faster and rolled across the street into a large tree. They both were dragged by the momentum and that is what witnesses saw. Clyde was shot at that time and Blanche let out one yelp and kept moving to get out of the line of fire. That was about the last shot since the officer shooting ran out of ammo so Buck called her back and she returned to get into the escape car in front of the apartment rather than being picked up down the street as the movie portrayed.
b.
Loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, "Beowulf", whose author is unknown.
c.
The Narrator and Marla are both in attendance at a Sickle-Cell Disease support group. Every other member is of an African or Latin racial background. This disease primarily infects people of African, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern or South Asian background, hence a further statement on their need to "crash" these meetings.
d.
The Eiffel Tower features prominently in the movie. In the earlier James Bond film
Moonraker
, it is mentioned that the villain Hugo Drax actually bought the structure but his application to transport the tower was refused.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
The opera piece heard during the scene with
Christopher Walken
and
Dennis Hopper
is from Lakmé by
Léo Delibes
. It is also used in
The Hunger
, another film directed by
Tony Scott
.
b.
Author Fannie Flagg was good friends with Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics. In the movie, Mrs. Threadgoode suggests Evelyn would be "good with cosmetics" - so she becomes a successful Mary Kay beauty consultant.
c.
One of the Viking ships used in the movie is now to be found in the Norwegian pavilion in the EPCOT-center, Walt Disney World, where it is used as a playground for kids. The Disney-company is also the owner of Touchstone Pictures that made the movie.
d.
Fictional filmmaker Mortimer J. Muggleworth screens several short films in the movie. They are real short films by director
David Rowlett
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
Omar Sharif
was so disappointed by the finished film that he took a temporary retirement from acting.
b.
This film was thought to have been lost for many years until a print was discovered in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s.
c.
To play the part of Aquamarine required for Sara Paxton to do a month of intensive swimming lessons beforehand.
d.
The films title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff for detention at New Trier High School, the school attended by the son of one of
John Hughes
friends. Thus, those who were sent to detention were designated members of "The Breakfast Club". "The Breakfast Club" at that school probably took its name in turn from the title of American radios longest running network entertainment show, broadcast from Chicago, 1933 to 1968.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
Was filmed two years before its eventual release date, which had been pushed back several times.
b.
Phillip Lambro
was originally hired to write the films music score but it was rejected at the last minute by producer
Robert Evans
, leaving
Jerry Goldsmith
only ten days to write and record the new score. Extracts from Lambros score can be heard on the trailer.
c.
Although the alien that hatched from the dog was a rod puppet, early filmed tests used an actual dog in an alien costume.
d.
The story of
Bonnie Parker
smoking a cigar in a picture is accurate. She did it as a joke. But after the shootout at the bungalow in Joplin, MO, police found the photos the gang had taken and published the photo of Bonnie, thereby leading to her unearned rep as a "Cigar Smokin Gun Moll".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
Director
John Huston
had failed to cast the role of Roxanne before shooting started. During filming, at a small dinner party for some cast and crew, Huston was asked if he had yet filled the part. When he answered no, all heads turned toward
Shakira Caine
, the wife of star
Michael Caine
. Huston cast her on the spot.
b.
John Wayne
, who had lost his entire left lung and several ribs in major surgery for cancer in 1964, had great difficulty breathing on an airplane while flying to the location for the start of filming and had to use an oxygen mask throughout the journey.
Kirk Douglas
recalled that he hadnt realized just how fragile Wayne was until this moment.
c.
In accordance with the book,
John McTiernan
s version of the Wendols mother was an old woman, which was filmed with veteran actress
Susan Willis
. When
Michael Crichton
took over and did the reshoots, it was decided that brutally killing off an old lady did not reflect very well on the heroes. Crichton decided after the fact to make her younger, sleeker and tougher. In the final released film, Wendols mother is played by actress
Kristen Cloke
(uncredited), but the final credits still list Susan Willis as the Wendols mother (although she is nowhere to be seen in the final cut).
d.
The insects attacking Jack Driscoll at the canyon bottom are gigantic versions of the Weta, a species native to New Zealand and the namesake of
Peter Jackson
s production studio.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
Reportedly
Tony Scott
used four cameras simultaneously for at least a few scenes.
b.
The Buliwyfs dog name is Rekkae (played by Connor).
c.
Welles later described the 88 minute version as if "it had been edited by a lawnmower".
d.
Harold Smith
is credited as Harold Smitty Smith in the beginning credits, and as Harold Smith in the end credits.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
Shooting lasted from June 27-July 12, 1940, released September 17.
b.
In 1917 an enterprising film processor from Chicago created his own version of the film, which he called
Charles Chaplin
comedies with scenes of the nude Miss Kellerman. The new film was a hit among the underground trade.
c.
The original tagline of "The War Begins 2003" was removed from all promotional material due to the political climate of the time, and the war in Iraq. The line was changed to simply "Coming Soon".
d.
The film omits an explanation of who the "mist monsters" actually are. In the novel, author
Michael Crichton
reveals they were the descendants of the Neanderthals.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
The scenes where R2-D2 is submerged in the mud pool were shot in
George Lucas
unfinished swimming pool. Most of the crew were hidden under the water and the entire sequence was shot by
George Lucas
himself.
b.
During the 1920s and 1930s, photographer Edward J. Kelty took a succession of group photographs of members of the Barnum and Bailey freak show. What is interesting is how many cast members can be spotted in them (this film is the only movie credit for most of them). Familiar faces include
Harry Earles
(Hans),
Daisy Earles
(Frieda),
Peter Robinson
(human skeleton),
Elvira Snow
(pinhead),
Jenny Lee Snow
(pinhead),
Elizabeth Green
(bird girl) and
Olga Roderick
(bearded lady).
c.
In the scene where Derek comes and gets Nigel and David to come hear a song from their past on the radio, the radio announcers voice is being supplied by
Harry Shearer
, who played Derek.
d.
Since
Michael Crichton
published his novel "Eaters of the Dead" in 1976, the basis of this film, it has become regarded as one of the most notorious hoaxes in Librarianship Circles. The Ahmad Tusi Manuscript that Crichton referenced in his bibliography as being the source of this story, is completely made up. The name of the translator Fraus Dolus is in fact two Latin words meaning both hoax and fraud. The University of Oslo, where this manuscript is supposed to be kept, have (since the book was published), on an annual basis had to send out letters telling enquirers that they have been the victim of a hoax.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
The characters all attended Georgetown University together. After reading the script, Georgetown University administrators refused to allow producers to film on campus, so the on-campus scenes were filmed at the University of Maryland. No Georgetown University buildings appear in the film.
b.
Graeme Revell
had composed a complete original score when the movie was slated to be released as "Eaters of the Dead" in 1998. But after the film was deemed unwatchable during test screenings,
Michael Crichton
took over the project and rejected Revells original score and brought in
Jerry Goldsmith
to rescore the film, renamed "The 13th Warrior."
c.
Jenny McCarthy
auditioned for the lead and was very much in the running until it was discovered that she couldnt dance.
d.
Came second in the UKs Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sold at cinemas
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 13th Warrior (1999)?
a.
The scenes of Mac running from the backyard into the hills were filmed in Hacienda Heights, California.
b.
"Eloi" means "My God" in Aramaic.
c.
In real life,
Christopher Lambert
is an enthusiastic gamer himself.
d.
Adapting "Beowulf" for his novel and then for this movie,
Michael Crichton
changed some of the original names for ones that sounded similar: Beowulf is here named Buliwyf, Hygelac becomes Hyglak, the Grendel transformed into the Wendol, etc.
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