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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Black Hole (1979) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Black Hole (1979) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979).
About the movie:
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
was not the first choice for the part of troubled ex-fire fighter Darren McCord.
b.
At the time of its release, the movie featured the longest computer graphics sequence that had ever appeared in a film: the "green grid" sequence that appears under the opening titles.
c.
The character of Whitey is based on the character Whitey from
Adam Sandler
s album "Stan and Judys Kid". He also appears in
Little Nicky
.
d.
The experiment the medical student mentions, where Darwin preserved a worm in fluid until it came to life, is mentioned in
Mary Shelley
s foreword to the novel "Frankenstein." The Darwin in question was Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
The film contains over 550 visual effects shots, including over 150 matte paintings.
b.
Banned (and never released theatrically) in Turkey, until 1992 when the private TV channel HBB broadcast it.
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 25, 1946 with
Greer Garson
and
Walter Pidgeon
reprising their film roles.
d.
Director
Darren Aronofsky
asked
Jared Leto
and
Marlon Wayans
to avoid sex and sugar for a period of 30 days in order to better understand an overwhelming craving.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
Disney regarded the quality of the special effects to be so crucial that it called
Peter Ellenshaw
out of a 10-year retirement to work on the film.
b.
Theatrical Trailer is on DVD "42nd Street Forever Volume 1" by Synapse Films.
c.
This movie went through five script re-writes before it was completed, many of which were done in the middle of filming.
d.
Victor Slezak previously played the role of John F. Kennedy in the Broadway production of "Jackie."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
Originally set to star
Chuck Norris
.
b.
According to one biographer of
Spencer Tracy
, the script did not originally call for the lead character to be a one-armed man. The producers were keen to get Tracy but didnt think hed be interested, so they gave the character this disability with the idea that no actor can resist playing a character with a physical impairment.
c.
Rob Marshall
had previously been hired by the producers to direct the TV version (
Annie
) of the play "Annie"; he had not wanted to direct that earlier film, preferring only to do choreography, but was persuaded to do both. That films success resulted in his getting the job to direct this film.
d.
Disneys first PG-rated movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
Tim Curry
and
Mark Hamill
both auditioned for the role of Mozart (and played Mozart on Broadway).
b.
The spaceship Cygnus was actually a 12-foot-long model weighing 175 pounds.
c.
Marlon Brando
and
Elizabeth Taylor
were criticized in the mass media in 1963 for what was perceived as their part in causing the budgets of their epic films ("Mutiny on the Bounty" and
Cleopatra
) to balloon out of control. Aside from their paychecks ($1.25 million for Brando, with overages; a minimum of $1 million to Taylor, both record salaries for the time), the press claimed it was prima donna behavior on the part of the two stars that caused the resulting fiscal hardships at their respective studios, M.G.M. and 20th-Century Fox. The truth is, although both films were costly, and neither made a profit, "Cleopatra" cost more than twice what "Bounty" did (Taylors film cost $44 million approximately $270 million in 2006 dollars, making it the most expensive film ever made, when adjusted for inflation), and earned the studio only $26 million in rentals, generating a shortfall against budget of $18 million versus less than $10 million for the Brando picture. While M.G.M. was hurt financially, "Cleopatra" caused Fox to fail. In his defense, Brando later pointed out that M.G.M. charged the $500,000 paid in the mid-1930s to the books two authors to the budget of the remake, an example of creative accounting that makes Hollywood profit-and-loss statements highly suspect. Whatever the truth, the fact is that Brandos star went into decline after "Bounty" whereas Taylor went on to win a second Oscar and remained among the highest paid movie stars in the world throughout the decade of the 1960s.
d.
The filmmakers chartered the Seabourn Legend for 6 weeks. Additional scenes were filmed using a false prow built onto the freighter Sturgeon Atlantic.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
Based on Isle Of Children, a flop Broadway play that ran a couple of weeks in 1962;
Jodie Foster
s role originally played onstage by
Patty Duke
.
b.
The Prey was shot in 1978, but didnt see a release until 1984 when New World Pictures finally picked it up.
c.
It is British director
David Slade
s first feature film, having previously worked mostly with music videos.
d.
Dr. Reinhardts ship is called the "U.S.S. Cygnus." The first black hole was discovered in the constellation Cygnus.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
The films replica Soviet T-72 tank was so precise that when it was transported to the studio, two CIA agents followed and wanted to know where it had come from.
b.
Julia Faye
replaced
Jetta Goudal
, who was fired after repeatedly clashing with director
Cecil B. DeMille
.
c.
The character of V.I.N.CENT. was originally to have more elaborate electronic eyes (based on electronic stock ticker-type billboards), which would have given him a greater range of facial expressions. Unfortunately, the electro-mechanical eyes simply didnt work properly and the effect was abandoned at the beginning of principal photography.
d.
Producer
Robert Evans
was tapped early on to play the "second" Jake. Writer
Robert Towne
(who had hoped to direct the film) didnt think that Evans was up to the job and fired him, and
Jack Nicholson
became the pictures director. This film is/was the second in a planned trilogy of films.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
Little Miss Chatterbox is the only character in the film not to use her catchphrase "I love chocolate cake, I like pencil erasers too" at any time, her USA voice over Katie Leigh told Mark Risley not to include it in her characters script, although her UK voice over Teresa Gallagher didnt seem to mind about it.
b.
The title is from the song "Jennifers Body" by
Courtney Love
s band
Hole
.
c.
This is the second film in which sisters
Vanessa Redgrave
and
Lynn Redgrave
both appear.
d.
To film the special effects, Disney originally wanted to rent the Dykstraflex camera system (the first computer-controlled camera) from Industrial Light & Magic. However, the price and rental terms were unacceptable so Disney went to its acclaimed engineering division to come up with its own version. What resulted was Disneys A.C.E.S. (Automated Camera Effects System), which was radically superior to the Dykstraflex system; the Mattescan system, which enabled the camera to move on a matte painting (that was previously impossible); and a computer-controlled modeling stand. At the time, this put Disney technologically ahead of ILM.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
Director-producer
W. Lee Wilder
(and his son, the films screenwriter Miles Wilder) deliberately took the name of the police detective, Lt. Dunbar (played by William Phipps) from the name of the prisoner of war played by
Don Taylor
in the film
Stalag 17
, which was written, produced and directed by W. Lees much more famous brother:
Billy Wilder
.
b.
The USS Cygnus was originally called the Centaurus.
c.
When The Pool didnt get into the Directors Fortnight at Cannes, which had been the plan, the director decided to re-edit the film. About 9 minutes was cut.
d.
The tape that Alex removes from his stereo in order to play
Ludwig van Beethoven
bears the name of fictitious artist Goggly Gogol, mentioned later by one of the girls in the music store.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Black Hole (1979)?
a.
When Mufasa tells Simba about the Great Kings of the Past if you look at the stars in the wide shot you can see Mickey Mouse.
b.
As a promotional gimmick, families of theater patrons were offered $1,000 if relatives died watching the film.
c.
Although the "87th Precinct" series of novels by author
Evan Hunter
(writing as "Ed McBain") have sold millions of copies since the first one appeared in the late 1950s, and still sell well today, this is one of only a relative handful of theatrical films - not counting a few made-for-TV movies and a TV series in the 1960s - to have been made from them.
d.
The movie was renamed in the Soviet Union, because black hole is an obscene term in Russian.
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