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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Attic Expeditions (2001) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Attic Expeditions (2001) Quiz
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About the movie:
Trevor is a young man who has been sentenced to a long stay in a mental hospital after brutally killing his girlfriend...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
The house became a living space for the lead actor and at times for crew members. During the 18 days at "The House of Love," the challenging shooting schedule was handled by two revolving crews, sometimes working overlapping hours, as well as a third video unit shooting footage to be used for Dr. Eks monitors of the house.
b.
The film is the sequel to Hookman (2003), which was a short film released by Adam Dutch Durham and a few other core cast members after high school.
c.
Ian Malcolm (
Jeff Goldblum
) dresses entirely in black in both this film and its sequel. In the book, he tells Ellie Sattler that he only ever dresses in black and gray, so that he never has to waste time thinking about what to wear. Seth Brundle (
Jeff Goldblum
) gives the same reason for his monotonous fashion sense in
The Fly
.
d.
Having
David O. Russell
to direct the film was
Christian Bale
s suggestion. At first
Mark Wahlberg
was uncomfortable of calling his friend to do it after the harrowing experience of working in
Three Kings
but relented when Bale stated that he wanted to work with Russell.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
As of July, 2008,
Robert Arthur
(Sgt. McIllhenny) was the only remaining/living cast member who received billing in the original film credits. He turned 83 in June, 2008.
b.
The character of Judge Adam Fenton was based in part on Judge Isaac Parker whose federal court in Fort Smith, Arkansas had jurisdiction over the Oklahoma and Indian Territories.
c.
Blue Sky Animation has been developing improvements in computer-generated characters for over 15 years now. It was responsible for some of the aliens in
Alien: Resurrection
and the talking cockroaches in
Joes Apartment
.
d.
In keeping with Kastens vision for off-kilter hyper realism, the hospital location was exactly that; an abandoned hospital in Downey, California.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
The Inner Sanctum and the field locations were shot over a three-day weekend on a sound stage and in Malibu State Park, respectively.
b.
Scenes from the movie were filmed at New York Universitys freshman dorm, Hayden Hall.
c.
John Cleese
signed on after EMI pulled out of
Life of Brian
and it looked like the film would be canceled.
d.
Allen Fox
as "Cab Driver" is in studio records/casting call lists for that role, but he did not appear or was not identifiable in the movie.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
The screenplay for "The Attic Expeditions" was written in 1991 to be a completely different film. When director Jeremy Kasten, a recent film school graduate, was working as a production assistant on low-budget straight-to-video movies, he was given the opportunity to associate produce one such film called
Witchcraft IV: The Virgin Heart
. The writer of the film was late turning in his script so Kasten called his writing partner Rogan Marshall in Mississippi and asked if he was up to the task. Marshall had five days to come up with something. When Kasten got the script one day early, he knew he wanted it to be his directorial debut and decided not to turn it in.
b.
Like the first film, there are no murders depicted, and no violent fatalities.
c.
Jennifer Saunders
performed all her own singing in the film.
d.
Pixar developed a very realistic look of the surface water, but had to make it look more fake so people wouldnt think it was real footage of the ocean surface.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
The two tourist cars mention a trip to Shakopee to go to Crazy Days. Shakopee is a real city in Minnesota famous for the amusement park Valley Fair, and the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Shakopee does not have a Crazy Days as stated in the film however.
b.
This movies beginning starts with General
Douglas MacArthur
at age sixty-two commanding forces in the Phillipines.
c.
In one scene Seth Greens character Douglas must deliver a five-page monologue about paranoia to Andras Jones bewildered Trevor. Director Kasten felt that the only way to express the scenes complexities was to shoot the monologue in one continuous shot, moving constantly throughout the ballroom-sized game room in circles. Kasten rehearsed Green for three days in the room where they would be shooting; pulling Green on a predetermined path through the room and slowly increasing the tempo on a metronome set to a waltz rhythm.
d.
The name of the principal at Dashs school is John Walker (as seen on the plaques on his office wall), a reference to producer
John Walker
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
Many of the effects, including the self-igniting match, had to be devised as practical, theatrical or in-camera effects.
b.
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.
c.
Ric Edevane worked as the Director of Photography and the editor. He has a cameo playing the cameraman during the school news segment.
d.
The character of Jack, the Demon, was originally written as a dark, evil invisible rabbit that only Eric could see. This was an obvious twist and reference to the
James Stewart
film
Harvey
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
When the producers found the house that was to become the primary shooting location for the film in South Central LA, an agreement was reached between the mansions owner and the producers whereby the production could use the house as a base of operations and shooting location for several months, at no cost, in exchange for major renovations to the crumbling estate. Writer Marshall took up residence in the house and assisted the art department in creating the sets over the next three months.
b.
This film has two versions. One is considerably longer with character interviews mirroring a documentary film.
c.
Based on the true story of American diplomat Townsend Harris, his time in Japan in the 1850s and 60s, and his romance with a 17-year-old geisha named Kichi. Their story is one of the most well-known folk tales in Japan. The real Harris died in New York in 1878, and the real Kichi committed suicide in Shimoda in 1892.
d.
Gunnar Hansen
wore three-inch heels so that he was taller than the rest of the cast, but it meant that he had to duck to get through the doorways in the slaughterhouse.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
Ranked #4 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Gangster" in June 2008.
b.
Producer
Jon Peters
, who was
Barbra Streisand
s boyfriend at the time, has since said, "I talked Barbra into doing that ("The Main Event"). It was time for us to do another film and I felt a comedy was the best way to go."
c.
Oliver Hardy
could have played himself in this movie, as he was a regular at the Santa Anita Racetrack. For a short time, he owned a stable of horses.
d.
Kasten and editor Barbara Kaplan edited the film for six months on an Avid digital editing system. The Avid was rented on a deferred payment basis based on Kastens day job relationships in post-production.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
Originally, the character Frankie Cheeks was not meant to die. Rather than being fatally struck from the back of the head by a spinning engine propeller as shown in the final film, he looks at his rear-view mirrors and narrowly escapes his supposed death himself with only a broken neck. He is then later arrested by police and is charged for indecent exposure, due to the police seeing his camera having photos of "too revealing" girls.
b.
One of the scenes at the beginning of the movie uses the same set as Underworld: Evolution
c.
Anthony Hopkins
was suffering from a slipped disc throughout filming, and incorporated the pain he felt from this into his performance.
d.
The producers negotiated free scanning for the digital effects sequences from one of the leaders in the industry. The night before the digital effects work was to start on the film, the small effects house that had agreed to do the work for the film on a deferred basis backed out. Within the week, the filmmakers were meeting with Manex Effects, one of the biggest houses, and the people responsible for the Academy Award-winning effects in "The Matrix". Manex designed and created almost two dozen digital effects shots for "The Attic Expeditions."
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Attic Expeditions (2001)?
a.
Contains five Academy Award winning actors -
Gene Hackman
,
Ernest Borgnine
,
Shelley Winters
,
Jack Albertson
and
Red Buttons
.
b.
Al Pacino
,
James Caan
and
Diane Keaton
were all paid $35,000 for their work on the film.
c.
The last exterior in the film was to take place in a dream sequence. It was to be the big digital effects sequence where Trevor escapes from the house in a dream, finding himself on a street where every house is identical to the last detail. Kasten was sure he could shoot it and add minimal effects in wide shots, but only if they could find a street where the houses were almost completely the same, a street with no cars and no trees. Though the producers tried to find such a street, the task became practically impossible and the filmmakers were close to abandoning the scene altogether. At the last minute a call to an airforce base turned up a deserted military housing community.
d.
The premiere was on 14 August 1947 in Skowhegan, Maine, where the play had its initial performance eight years before. The stage play ran 3,224 performances, holding the record for the longest non-musical run on Broadway. The play was based on
Clarence Day
s book.
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