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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Boondock Saints (1999) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Boondock Saints (1999) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999).
About the movie:
Fraternal twins set out to rid Boston of the evil men operating there while being tracked down by an FBI agent.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
Connor and Murphy both use suppressed Beretta 92f pistols throughout the movie, with Roccos small revolver being a .38 caliber snub-nose. The .38 Snub-Nose is a Colt Python. The revolver is really a .357 magnum, but both the mag and .38 can be shot out of the handgun.
b.
Frank Mercer was named for
Frank Sinatra
and
Johnny Mercer
. Roy Waller is seen playing records by the two.
c.
The film was released in Spain as Brilliantina (Brilliantine) - because its English title translated as "fat" in Spanish.
d.
This movie was named after a street sign in LA.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
Delayed release and heavily restricted by MPAA after the Columbine shootings because of the violent content.
b.
To reach high authenticity the whole crew crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Spain to America in three original ships provided by the Spanish government.
c.
Director
Todd Haynes
never met
Bob Dylan
.
d.
Justin Hartley
was considered for the role of Troy.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
Tim Meadows
broke his hand before shooting and had to wear a cast, so the explanation that his character Mr. Duvall had carpal tunnel was added.
b.
Kevin Flynn sets down a metallic tetrahedron on the fireplace mantle. Later, when CLU comes in his house, he picks up this same metallic tetrahedron. This is a direct homage to
TRON
since this is a Bit which assisted both the original CLU and Flynn.
c.
Alison Eastwood
(
Clint Eastwood
s daughter)s directorial debut.
d.
When first entering The Sin Bin the words "Abandon all hope, ye who enter," are painted on the Door. This is a reference to literary masterpiece "The Divine Comedy" by
Dante Alighieri
. When the character Dante enters hell in The Divine Comedy, the same words are carved at the entrance.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
When the boys return from the mountain, after signing the book, they are bare-chested with their faces painted. This is very reminiscent of Lord of the Flies, the 1990 theatrical version of which also starred
Balthazar Getty
.
b.
In the scene where Connor and Murphy acquire their ammunition, the wall reads, "While the wicked stand confounded, call me with thy saints surrounded". This is the English translation of the Latin words "Confutatis maledictis, voca me cum benedictis" from a Latin religious hymn by Franciscan monk Thomas de Celano.
c.
Raquel Welch
makes an early appearance as one of the college kids at the Tea House.
d.
According to director
Michael Campus
, screenwriter
Robert J. Poole
started developing the treatment and script on toilet paper while he was in prison.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
Jonah Hill
s film debut.
b.
During the scene were
Harold Lloyd
s character meets Jackie the lion, on the first take when Harold pets Jackie, the lion actually bit him on his right hand. But Harold was not injured at all because the lions teeth scraped against his two prosthetic fingers. After that, Harold refused to pet the lion ever again on or off screen, and in the second take which was used for the film, Harolds terrified squirming over the lion standing next to him is genuine.
c.
The Kitty Genovese story told by the priest that inspires the brothers, also inspires Rorschach, a character from
Watchmen
, to become a masked hero in the graphic novel.
d.
After he had delivered a hit in the form of
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
to its studio,
David Geffen
asked
Neil Jordan
what he would like to make next. Jordan unearthed a script he had written 12 years earlier -
Michael Collins
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
While
Alfred Hitchcock
liked the actors, he felt that
Gregory Peck
,
Alida Valli
and
Louis Jourdan
were unsuited to their roles.
David O. Selznick
asserted his power as studio head to insist that Hitchcock use them.
b.
Body count: 33
c.
Jada Pinkett Smith
s character complains, "The horror genre is historical for excluding African-American elements." Pinkett played a strong character in
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
.
d.
50 Cent
watched all of
Jim Sheridan
s films to prepare for his role. His personal favorite was
The Boxer
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
The Desert Eagles the Russians use have the hammer and sickle symbol just below the bore of the gun.
b.
It took Frances Fisher 6 swings before the glass on the Toyota Camry Hybrid shattered. On the 4th swing, she screamed expletives bringing laughter from the crew.
c.
Several of
Groucho Marx
lines were cut on demand of the Hays office, including "I think Ill try to make her".
d.
Robert Maillet
accidentally knocked out
Robert Downey Jr.
while filming a fight scene.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
The spilt-screen telephone calls scenes are direct homages to 1950s/60s screwball comedies.
b.
The El Tovar Hotel, prominently shown in the movie, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
c.
Papa Joe uses a Colt Anaconda revolver at the end of the film.
d.
While filming scenes in Llantrisant, Wales,
Lee Evans
fell from a window and landed on a large nail. The sharp spike pierced his body and narrowly missed one of his kidneys.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
Steven Spielberg
and
George Lucas
argued over who Indys companion should be. One idea was that she was to be a Nazi spy. After discarding that idea, they couldnt decide if they wanted the character to be Indys former mentor, or an old lover. It was
Lawrence Kasdan
s idea to combine the two ideas, by making her the daughter of Indys teacher.
b.
The long shots of Kronos moving were accomplished by animation, presumably the work of animator
Gene Warren
.
c.
The woman that the priest refers to in the opening scene of the film, Kitty Genovese, was an actual person. She was raped and murdered by a serial rapist in 1964 outside her home in Queens while 38 eyewitnesses did nothing to save her. This apathetic bystander phenomenon is now referred to as the bystander effect or "Genovese Syndrome", stemming from the inability to take action or to know whether action has already occurred.
d.
Although Wargs in the novel are described merely as looking like wolves, the filmmakers decided to add in elements of hyenas (which are not members of the wolf/dog family) to their build, to create a uniquely fearsome appearance.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Boondock Saints (1999)?
a.
Gerard Parkes
, who plays the Irish bartender Doc, also played the character Doc in the childrens series
Fraggle Rock
(1983-1987). Coincidence, or perhaps an homage.
b.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
was instructed to play Amy Archer in the same fast-talking, no-nonsense way as
Rosalind Russell
did in
His Girl Friday
.
c.
An actor in make-up originally was to play the Troglodyte but animator
Ray Harryhausen
said they were striving for "that fantasy effect that
King Kong
had, that wonderful never-neverland of fantasy". So he created the creature himself.
d.
Chapter titles: 1. Jaws of the Jungle 2. The Grip of the Slavers 3. Paths of Peril 4. Find Livingston 5. The Flaming Spear 6. Lost in the Jungle 7. Trail of the Serpent 8. Pool of Death 9. Menace of the Jungle 10. The Ordeal 11. The Lions Prey 12. The Forest of Flame 13. Buried Alive 14. The Lair of Death 15. The Good Samaritan 16. The Slaves Secret 17. The White Tribe 18. Out of the Dark
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