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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The American Astronaut (2001) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The American Astronaut (2001) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The American Astronaut (2001).
About the movie:
Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader, sets forth through a rustic and remote solar system, unaware that his old friend Professor Hess is trying to kill him.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The American Astronaut (2001)?
a.
Mary Badham
(Scout) and
Gregory Peck
(Atticus) became close during filming and kept in contact for the rest of his life. He always called her Scout.
b.
Strict confinement to the brace that held his legs together reportedly caused
Lon Chaney
to suffer severe pain for the rest of his life. The contact lens he wore in the film also caused tremendous vision loss.
c.
The costumes for the women of Venus were made from shower curtains.
d.
Early in the films pre-production stages,
Dustin Hoffman
and
Anne Bancroft
were strongly considered for the roles of Beau Burroughs and Katherine Richelieu. But when Bancroft died and Hoffman had filming commitments for several other projects, the roles were given to
Kevin Costner
and
Shirley MacLaine
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The American Astronaut (2001)?
a.
Bill Buell
s dance during "Love Smiles" was choreographed on the spot by director
Cory McAbee
by shouting things like "show us your karate, Bill!" and "the birds are attacking, Bill!"
b.
The car dealership in the movie was actually Harry Mahers used car lot near Universal Studios. Since Ford Motor company was a sponsor of
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show the car lots usual inventory was displaced in favor of shiny Edsels, Fairlanes and Mercury models from Ford.
c.
The humans communicate with the aliens by making music with their computers. Writer-director
Steven Spielberg
s mother was a musician and his father was a computer scientist. Spielberg himself had not thought of this until it was pointed out by
James Lipton
in an interview on
Inside the Actors Studio
.
d.
Its network television premiere had been scheduled for September 16, 2001 on NBC, but was scrapped because of the September 11th attacks.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The American Astronaut (2001)?
a.
According to the studio, this film cost $500,000 to produce and 2,000 people were employed behind the scenes.
b.
Peter does not utter his most famous catchphrase, "Pork Chops And Applesauce," but the phrase does appear on the kitchens blackboard menu.
c.
According to the DVD directors commentary, moviegoers would come up to Cory McAbee during film festivals and ask where he got the Old Man to recite the "donut" joke, not realizing it was
Tom Aldredge
.
d.
Frank Oz
once said that it was impossible to make
Peter Vaughan
laugh on the set because he was so deeply into the crotchety character of Uncle Alfie. This is why there was no footage of Peter cracking up to use for the closing credit montage.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The American Astronaut (2001)?
a.
With its spiraling budget, at one point this film was costing 20th Century Fox over $20,000 for every minute of every day.
b.
Was voted the both the 13th Greatest Film of all time and the Greatest Western of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
c.
When Barbie is going through Kens outfits, she declares the space suit is called "Mission to Mars", which was the name of one of the original rides from Disney Worlds Tomorrowland.
d.
When the alarm goes off: "What did your father teach you?", Curtis has to answer "My father taught me to kill the sunflower," which was something
Cory McAbee
once mistakenly thought someone said to him.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The American Astronaut (2001)?
a.
Universal Pictures was one of the few major studios that did not own a theater chain. Consequently, it had a long history of interesting marketing tactics (see
Carl Laemmle
) to sell its films to independent theaters. In the B-picture horror genre, it would often release films as part of a double bill. This film was originally released in the spring of 1946 with
She-Wolf of London
.
b.
The DVD includes a very unusual "Directors Comments" feature. Cory McAbee showed the movie in a Brooklyn pool hall, and had a question-and-answer session with the audience while the movie was screened. The audio recording of his interaction with the audience replaces the standard movie audio when the comments feature is selected.
c.
The fleet scenes were filmed using 22 ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet during maneuvers off Corsica between June 21-30, 1961. The cameras had to avoid shooting the area where the fleets aircraft carrier was positioned, as there were no carriers in the invasion.
d.
There is a reference to the Visual Effects Supervisor for the Matrix films, John Gaeta, during "The Second Renaissance Part II." As the human army gathers in the trenches, preparing for Operation Dark Storm, a male voice on the P.A. system announces, "Lt. Gaeta, please report to the Ops Center. Lt. Gaeta to Ops Center."
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