Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) - Part (2) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984).

About the movie: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		Originally, D.W. Griffith was supposed to direct the film. However, he quit in the middle of filming so Hal Roach and his son completed the project.
b.		Lord John Whorfins line, "Character is what you are in the dark," is a quote from the 19th Century evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
c.		Warren Beatty originally agreed to play the lead role but changed his mind before signing the contract.
d.		In 1949, William Lundigan was rumored to be cast.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		An argument between Bill Murray and Lucy Liu shut down filming for a day.
b.		Frank Capra considered this the worst movie of his career.
c.		During the jetcar test, the computer screen that has the graphics shows three different words: SINED, SEELED, and DELIVERED.
d.		Neither Romola Garai nor Diego Luna (Katey and Javier) had any professional dance training. Before production began, the actors spent ten weeks in Puerto Rico, training for eight hours a day with producer JoAnn Fregalette Jansen and four additional dancer/choreographers.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		President Widmark is clearly intended to look and sound like Orson Welles, who directed and starred in the radio presentation of "War of the Worlds" referenced in the film.
b.		The play initially was performed in Los Angeles. It opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 25 December 1940, and closed on 10 May 1941 after 160 performances (considered a moderate hit). The opening night cast included Jack Albertson, Nanette Fabray, Jack Gilford, Peggy Ryan and Doodles Weaver.
c.		Since Jean Shepherd is listed in the opening set of credits, but is not in the more comprehensive end credits, the opening credits are used first in the IMDb cast list, followed by those in the end credits not yet in, as required by IMDb policy on cast ordering. In addition to being credited as "Ralphie as an Adult," Shepherd also is uncredited as the Narrator/The Man in Line for Santa/Santa.
d.		The camera never intentionally moves during the whole film. The most noticeable exception is when the camera shakes when a bottle is smashed during the home-vacation sequence.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		When John Whorfin calls collect for John Bigboote, he tells the operator he is calling "Grovers Mill." Grovers Mill was a real-life community in New Jersey which was used in Orson Welles famous radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" and is now a part of West Windsor Township in Mercer county.
b.		Although the film was finished and copyrighted in February 1941, it was not shown theatrically for another 2 years, mostly because of censorship problems which required cuts and revisions. By May 1941, the PCA agreed to approve the film, but Howard Hughes found that many state censor boards wanted a lot more cuts that he was not willing to make, so he shelved the film until 5 February 1943, when it was finally shown theatrically in San Francisco in the 115-minute version that we essentially see today. It caused quite a sensation, especially since Jane Russell and Jack Buetel performed a 20-minute scene that was cut from the film after each showing. More hassles about its possible release in New York caused Hughes to shelve the picture once again.
c.		While filming a scene in a subway tunnel, Inger Stevens and Rod Steiger were nearly asphyxiated by carbon monoxide fumes. Steiger said years later that when they were being given oxygen, Stevens tried to refuse it. She said at the time she wanted to die; Steiger and the crew had to convince her otherwise.
d.		There were plans to do a sequel which never materialized.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		On "At the Movies" in 1984 just before the films release, Gene Siskel correctly guessed that the movie would attain cult status.
b.		Robert Livingston was a former cowboy film star of the 40s and 50s. Producer Sam Sherman was a big fan of his work and coaxed him out of 15 years of retirement to appear in this film and its follow-up "Blazing Stewardesses".
c.		In an introduction to the film on Turner Classic Movies in November 2008, Robert Osborne said that everyone assumed that Bette Davis had based her characterization on Tallulah Bankhead, even Tallulah herself. In 1952, Tallulah Bankhead starred in a radio adaptation of "All About Eve" which featured in the supporting cast Mary Orr, author of the original story "The Wisdom of Eve". According to Robert Osborne, during a rehearsal Tallulah asked Mary Orr: "I was the prototype for Margo Channing, wasnt I?" and Orr set the record straight and said "no". Tallulah reportedly never spoke to Mary Orr again.
d.		Albert Finney: At the start of the opera sequence, he has a sentence about the quality of the opera singers.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		Actors considered for the role of Indiana Jones included Nick Nolte, Steve Martin (who chose to do Pennies from Heaven instead), Bill Murray (who dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with Saturday Night Live), Chevy Chase, Tim Matheson, Nick Mancuso, Peter Coyote, and Jack Nicholson. Harrison Ford was cast less than three weeks before principal photography began.
b.		A figure of Walter Lantzs character Woody Woodpecker can be glimpsed in the branches of the tree the initial Martian cylinder/meteor flies over. Lantz and George Pal were close friends and Pal always worked a Woody Woodpecker into each of his films.
c.		Shots through the Terminators vision shows a dump of the ROM assembler code for the Apple II operation system. If you own an Apple II, enter at the basic prompt: call -151 * p This will give you the terminator view. Other code visible is written in COBOL.
d.		Between his escape from the insane asylum and his ransom call, the movies main villain, John Worfin, is not seen for more than 42 straight minutes - over 40% of the films runtime.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		Editing this movie was so stressful that co-editor Richard Pearson was brought in to assist Matt Chesse to speed up the editing process. Marc Forster only had five weeks to edit the entire movie. In his previous movies, Forster would take an average of 14 weeks to edit.
b.		The scene when Dean threatens to jump off the bridge while climbing the chain fence was not in the script. Ryan Gosling had to seek a way to let Michelle Williams character to reveal her pregnancy.
c.		Based on the short film "Conspiracy", written and directed by Marc Clebanoff.
d.		Many names and terms were taken from Thomas Pynchons book "The Crying of Lot 49", most notably the company name Yoyodyne. To this day, there is a yoyodyne.com, which serves as a fan site for the film. "Yoyodyne" itself was Pynchons thinly veiled reference to Rocketdyne, a major defense industry contractor and manufacturer of rocket engines, founded just after WW II to reverse-engineer German V-2 rockets - thereby also making this a further veiled reference to Pynchons novel Gravitys Rainbow.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		Director Todd Haynes never met Bob Dylan.
b.		The meaning and relevance of a "Sting" is that it can be defined as a confidence trick, a scam, confidence game or a con. The use of the word sting to mean this is a metaphor based on the hurt or pain of a bee sting doubling for that of being a victim of a swindle.
c.		All soldiers in the scenes of D-Day and thereafter are US troops, and most of the music heard (the exception is "The British Grenadiers") are tunes associated with the US military, providing a false impression that only US troops were involved in these operations.
d.		Banzais mentioned but unseen foe Hanoi Xan seems to homage Hanoi Shan. In the genealogical section of Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973), Philip Jose Farmer added Hanoi Shan to the Wold Newton Universe. Hanoi Shan is an allegedly real-life criminal mastermind documented in the works of criminologist H. Ashton Wolfe. Farmers thesis was to make Hanoi Shan the same individual as Sax Rohmers totally fictional Dr. Fu Manchu.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		The quote "remember, no matter where you go, there you are" is from Confucius.
b.		When Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett turned in their script, the studio liked it, but felt it needed some work. The writers they hired to rewrite the script were: Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. The studio sent them their own script to rewrite without knowing it. Wilder and Brackett simply retyped their original script and the studio loved the "rewrites" so much, they produced it with no further "changes".
c.		Jin Kes fate during the "Last Supper" scene was shot differently than the way it was edited to appear. Originally, Jin Ke stabs his sword into a wall and beheads himself after realizing that he cannot beat Kell, denying Kell the opportunity of killing him. In the theatrical cut and the DVD "producers cut," the scene was edited to make it appear that Kell beheads Jin Ke (off-screen) along with the rest of the group. The original version of the scene with Jin Ke beheading himself can be seen in the rough cut of the film included as a special feature on Disc 2 of the Region 1 DVD.
d.		Adam Carl replaced Corey Feldman as the voice of Donatello in this live-action movie only.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)?
a.		The story begins with a mystical elk on the beach running at Julie and jumping over her. The scenes genesis was in a real event. One summer, when Suzanne Marie and Janine Doyon were just toddlers, they were on the Manzanita beach with their mother, director Jane Beaumont Hall. The children were a hundred feet away playing in the sand. Suddenly, from out of nowhere a huge Roosevelt Elk came running down the beach straight for the girls. "There was nothing I could do," says Hall. "Time stood still as I saw the Elk run towards the girls and then suddenly swerve around them. The elk ran into the ocean and swam out past the breakers. It was an amazing experience. I dont think I had time to be scared for the girls and the elk was such a magnificent creature." Hall remembered that scene when she and Richard Doyon wrote the screenplay. Both the elk on the beach and the elk swimming in the ocean were written into the script.
b.		Don Ameches character says, "None but the brave," and attributes the quote to Benjamin Franklin. Actually its from the first stanza of John Drydens Alexanders Feast, "None but the brave, deserve the fair."
c.		The kanji lettering on Buckaroo Banzais headband as he drives the jet car reads "seikatsu-bi", which appears to be Japanese, but does not make sense. The first two kanji mean living or lifestyle, but the second character, "bi" (not "bei" as has been reported elsewhere) or beautiful, does not add up to coherent Japanese. It seems to suggest the "beautiful life" but these 3 kanji together do not have a particular meaning in Japanese.
d.		Filmed in nine days.

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