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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Basket (1999) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Basket (1999) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Basket (1999).
About the movie:
A picturesque Pacific Northwest community raising its wheat and children in the midst of a nation reeling from World War I sets the stage for The Basket...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Basket (1999)?
a.
In the scene where Dracula and Renfield are traveling to London by boat, the footage shown is borrowed from a Universal silent film called
The Storm Breaker
. Silent films were projected at a different frames-per-second speed from that later adopted for sound films, accounting for the jerky movements and quicker-than-normal action of these shots.
b.
Spokane basketball player #2 is Scott McQuilken, actual Athletic Director at Whitworth College. McQuilken later made his stage debut as Egeus in the schools fall 2003 production of A Midsummer Nights Dream.
c.
Howard Hawks
was distressed by
John Ireland
s unprofessional and lecherous behavior during filming, which were partially due to the actors alcoholism. This contributed to Irelands part, "Cherry Valance", being drastically reduced in the finished film. At one point,
Cary Grant
was in consideration for the part (he turned it down).
d.
Scene where Herb talks to Jim Craig about his commitment to the team was filmed on a friday night at the dorms of the University of British Columbia. Rowdy students placed Canadian flags in windows and cranked the music.
Kurt Russell
s cast chair was stolen.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Basket (1999)?
a.
The opening scene shows a Japanese air raid and in the aftermath a crying child is sitting alone amid debris. This scene virtually duplicates a famous photo taken in 1937 and published in Life magazine following a Japanese air raid on Shanghai. (Located in the National Archives, ARC Identifier: 535557)
b.
Director
Rich Cowan
and director of photography
Dan Heigh
mention (DVD commentary) that shooting took 24 days (at 09:10) from late September to early October (at 03:54). Since the film debuted 6/5/1999 (at the Seattle International Film Festival) and has a 1999 copyright, it would have been shot in 1998.
c.
The ending originally had Ben surviving but it was changed to something far more shocking. Having the hero die after all.
d.
In addition to the hologram towards the end of the film, the old photographs of Totenkopf are actually of
Laurence Olivier
. They are modified to add the Unit Eleven logo, as well as to replace
Vivien Leigh
with
Ling Bai
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Basket (1999)?
a.
As a result of the box-office failure of this film, Paramount fired
Max Fleischer
and
Dave Fleischer
and took over their studio, renaming it Famous Studios.
b.
After
Cassandra Peterson
made a small, cameo appearance in
Pee-wees Big Adventure
, her good friend
Paul Reubens
wanted to return the favor for her film vehicle. Unfortunately, his film,
Big Top Pee-wee
, and her film were being filmed simultaneously.
c.
The music for the opera Der Korb used in the film was composed by co-writer/composer
Don Caron
of Spokan who mentions in the featurette "Behind the Basket: Composing" that as the screenplay was developed, a story for the opera was also developed. He started composing some of the music during the three year process of writing the script, but the bulk of the music was composed in the six weeks after the movie was posted. The record booklet shown in the film at 16:06 shows the composer as Gottlieb Mueller, possibly taken from Christian Gottlieb Müller, the first music composition teacher of Richard Wagner.
d.
The main musical theme of movie was previously used in
Transformations
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Basket (1999)?
a.
500 gallons of gasoline were used for the explosion in the Alaska airfield sequence. NASA had to be notified of it in advance because it was so big.
b.
At the Waterville "train station", director
Rich Cowan
and director of photography
Dan Heigh
mention (DVD commentary) that the locomotive didnt work, so the train couldnt move. Production designer,
Vincent DeFelice
, mentions in the featurette "Behind the Basket: Designing" that some of the horses that were to pull the Emerys wagon as they meet the train were sent to a different location, so to stay on schedule the scene was shot with staff out of camera range pulling the wagon by hand.
c.
In the original novel by
Rafael Sabatini
, the climactic duel occurred outdoors. The shooting script had planned for the duel to occur in a garden, until someone had the idea of moving it to the theater. In the climactic theatre scene, a shot where Andre Moreau swings on a rope to arrive on stage was cut. Still in, however, is the later shot where he uses the rope to swing up to the balcony.
d.
After the first edit was completed, it was discovered that one shot of Eve was missing from the opening scene. However, when it came time to shoot a pick-up, actress
Kimberly ODell
had already changed her hair color. So it had to be altered in post-production to match.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Basket (1999)?
a.
When
Warren Beatty
was on board as producer only, his sister
Shirley MacLaine
was a strong possibility to play Bonnie. But when Beatty decided to play Clyde himself, for obvious reasons he decided not use MacLaine.
b.
Tim Hunter
, who was set to direct but quit the project over "creative differences" during pre-production and was replaced by
Irvin Kershner
.
c.
The federal government of Mexico shut down part of the U.S./Mexico border to permit the cast and crew to shoot for two days at the Nogales, Mexico "port of entry." This special permission was granted by Mexicos highest "Aduana" and immigration officials only after they had read the script and given their blessing.
d.
Director of Photography
Dan Heigh
mentions that the "hero angle" of shots of Helmut slowly rise throughout the film, starting with the camera looking down at Helmut in the early scenes and ending with the camera looking up at Helmut in the last scenes. 00:35:43
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