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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Astronaut Farmer (2006) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Astronaut Farmer (2006) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Astronaut Farmer (2006).
About the movie:
A NASA astronaut (Thornton), forced to retire years earlier so he could save his family farm, has never give up his dream of space travel and looks to build his own rocket, despite the government's threats to stop him.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Astronaut Farmer (2006)?
a.
Originally entitled "Dog Catchers".
b.
While Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello all have brown eyes Michelangelo has blue eyes. According to the films director this was done to make Michelangelo seem a bit more innocent and younger than the other turtles.
c.
In the scene where Charles Farmer asks the employee of Dunkin Dounts for advertising on his rocket, the shot shows Farmer in front of a large glass window in front of a graveyard with a short chain link fence around it. The shot of the employee is the actual inside of the real Dunkin Donuts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. However the graveyard in the shot is a real graveyard with graves dating back to roughly 1910. The graveyard is actually behind the Dunkin Donuts.
d.
Stuart Gordon
: The resident who gets yelled at by Rashids girlfriend in the apartment hallway.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Astronaut Farmer (2006)?
a.
During the filming in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, Billy Bob Thornton did a "One stop promotion tour" as he put it, for both his album Hobo, and The Astronaut Farmer at the Santa Fe bookstore, Borders.
b.
Lou Diamond Phillips
decided to play a prank on
Emilio Estevez
one night due to the fact he was very depressed through out shoot, because he had recently broke up with his girlfriend. Phillips manged to get a sheep and had the wardrobe department put make up on it and dressed up the sheep. He put the sheep in Emilios room one night to cheer him up.
c.
King Vidor directed the huge Battle of Borodino sequence himself rather than leave it to a second unit director as was the custom.
d.
When
Harvey Korman
s character purchases a ticket at the Graumans Chinese Theater box office, you can see the original film title, "BLACK BART" in the poster case in the background.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Astronaut Farmer (2006)?
a.
When Farmer is about to launch, Shepard says: "Cleared for launch at zero hour nine AM," an homage to the
Elton John
song "Rocket Man."
b.
About 23 minutes of this film survive with Getty Images Archive Films.
c.
Robert Rodriguez
first came up with the idea for Planet Terror while making
The Faculty
. He told
Elijah Wood
and
Josh Hartnett
that zombie movies were about to come back in a major way. He wanted to be there first when it happened so he prepared a script. But he only got as far as 30 pages before he got stuck for ideas. And when he got attached to other projects, the zombie craze happened just as he predicted. Rodriguez later commented, "I knew I shouldve made my zombie movie."
d.
This so-called live-action version of a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoon was not production of the Warner Brothers studio but one of the Columbia Pictures studio.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Astronaut Farmer (2006)?
a.
The wolves used in the London Zoo scene were kept privately by Roger Palmer in the UK and appeared in several TV programmes and in adverts. Roger went on to found the UK Wolf Conservation Trust which keeps wolves to this day.
b.
When Cosmonaut Boris (Jim Dowdall) meets General Zod on the moon, the approximate Russian translation is, "What is your name? Identify yourself!"
c.
Virginia Madsen
and
Bruce Dern
are alumni from the same high school, New Trier High School, which is noted for several celebrity alumni.
d.
Melvyn Douglas
was borrowed from
Samuel Goldwyn
to replace the originally cast
Robert Williams
, who had died of a ruptured appendix.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Astronaut Farmer (2006)?
a.
According to
Michael Bay
, the key to making those robots look real was lighting: each and every component of the robots had to reflect light like real metal. Photographs of each set were taken to use as a lighting reference to recreate the scene with the robots, and extensive use of ray tracing (a light reflection technique) was carried out. However, there were a variety of light sources (optics, headlights, lamps, sunlight, etc), which had to reflect off a variety of surfaces (which had different textures), which made ray tracing an arduous task to perform.
b.
Ethan Hawke
,
Matt Damon
and
Ben Affleck
all turned down the part of Bobby. The part eventually went to
Mark Wahlberg
. Ethan Hawke loved the script but could not commit to it because of scheduling conflicts. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck both said no because they found the script to be "ultra-violent".
c.
Natanya (played by
Gal Gadot
) is a name of a pretty mundane Israeli city. It is not a common Israeli female name.
d.
FBI Agent Mathis is played by
Mark Polish
, who wrote the screenplay.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Astronaut Farmer (2006)?
a.
In every living room there is a picture of a flower on the wall.
b.
Orson Welles
tried to acquire the rights to the novel so that he could film it. He had to be content with playing the part of General Dreedle.
c.
All songs were recorded live rather than being prerecorded in a studio.
d.
While the movie is set completely in Texas the filming was all done in and around Santa Fe and Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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