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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Breakfast Club (1985) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Breakfast Club (1985) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985).
About the movie:
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
In the original drafts of the script, the name of the main character was not Maximus, but Narcissus, the name of the man who killed Commodus in real life.
b.
Roland Young was originally cast as Mayor Hastings and filmed almost all the characters scenes, but he fell ill and had to be replaced by Frank Morgan.
c.
The television show upon which this movie is based filmed its first 5 seasons in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It often used local Canadian actors in guest and secondary roles, reusing the same actors in different parts in multiple episodes. For example,
Alex Diakun
,
Lorena Gale
, and
Stephen E. Miller
each appeared as different characters in three episodes; Miller also appeared in the pilot.
Sarah-Jane Redmond
,
Stacee Copeland
, and
Callum Keith Rennie
each appeared as different characters in two episodes. Rennie was also the original choice to play the long-running character Alex Krycek. Production moved to Los Angeles for seasons 6-9. The film was shot in Vancouver, and producers recast many of the same actors they had used so often on the show. Several other secondary and tertiary movie cast members had also appeared on the show as other characters.
d.
One subplot that was filmed but deleted showed Principal Vernon watching some women faculty members using the school swimming pool.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
Film debut of
Barbara Britton
.
b.
Vicky Haughton
had to spend nearly six hours in makeup each morning for her role as the witch doctor, and receives less than two minutes of total screen time in the movie.
c.
Director
John Hughes
said that the cast rehearsed the entire movie as if it was a play a few times before filming began. After the film was a hit, Hughes was asked to write the script as a play so high schoolers could perform it.
d.
This movie was filmed in Columbia, Tennessee, which is the Mule Capital of the World.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
Starring in and directing the movie was so strenuous for
Ed Harris
that he collapsed on the set and had to be briefly hospitalized.
b.
Scored the biggest opening ever for an animated film, topping
Finding Nemo
s $70.2 million opening
c.
The title was originally going to be "Cop Gives Waitress Two Million Dollar Tip".
d.
Rick Moranis
was originally cast as the janitor; he left due to creative differences and was replaced by
John Kapelos
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
The film was shot at authentic locations such as
J. Edgar Hoover
s office and home, the FBIs headquarters in Washington, DC, and training facility in Virginia, and the Mayflower Hotel (where Hoover ate lunch daily).
b.
The scene in which all characters sit in a circle on the floor in the library and tell stories about why they were in detention was not scripted.
John Hughes
told them all to ad-lib.
c.
Both
Maria Bello
and
Lucy Lawless
were considered for the role of Jean Grey.
d.
Due to the films overwhelmingly negative critical reception, it is often erroneously considered to be a flop; in truth the film was financially successful and actually out-grossed several acclaimed and Oscar nominated films of that year including Raging Bull, The Elephant Man, American Gigolo and Tess.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
Nicolas Cage
was originally considered for the role of John Bender but the production couldnt afford his salary at the time.
John Cusack
was originally cast as John Bender, but
John Hughes
decided to replace him with
Judd Nelson
before shooting began.
b.
As a subtle detail in the opening scene in Paris, the streets are paved with croissants.
c.
In 2010, the same year this film was distributed, an actual plot to kidnap Pope Benedict XVI was foiled in London.
d.
This film is supposedly one of the reasons
Marilyn Monroe
ran away from Fox, because she wanted to star in something serious. They lured her back to the studio with
Bus Stop
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
This film was such a hit that it actually set an attendance record at the Paramount Theater in New York.
b.
The films title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff for detention at New Trier High School, the school attended by the son of one of
John Hughes
friends. Thus, those who were sent to detention were designated members of "The Breakfast Club". "The Breakfast Club" at that school probably took its name in turn from the title of American radios longest running network entertainment show, broadcast from Chicago, 1933 to 1968.
c.
The home of Scotty Pirie (
Robert Bettles
) was filmed at an outback location between the towns of Bingara and Barraba in New South Wales, Australia. This place was four hundred miles from Sydney, the same states capital city.
d.
The plot of the film and its characters are loosely based on
F. Scott Fitzgerald
s novel The Great Gatsby.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
John Hughes
wrote the screenplay to this movie in just two days (4 and 5 July 1982).
b.
A portion of the film was shot in Studio 28 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. It is the oldest known sound stage in the history of the studio.
c.
Vic Ramalot is based on the real life porn actor
Ron Jeremy
.
d.
In 1999 Sony paid MGM $5 million to settle the $40 million lawsuit that MGM had brought against Sony over the Bond rights. The lawsuit was filed because of Sonys intentions to remake Casino Royale. In the settlement Sony agreed to hand over all of its rights to the Bond character and Casino Royale. In an ironic twist of fate, Sony bought MGM in 2005, and in 2006, released a new serious adaptation of Casino Royale.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
Many viewers reviewed the motion picture in comparison to the cartoon, when it really was an adaptation of the toys only (which initially depicted He-Man as a barbarian in the first mini-comics (not Prince Adam or Orko). Ed Pressman was interested in the property before the cartoon was even aired and purchased the movie rights of the Mattel characters, not Filmations who had no involvement whatsoever in the film. Also it was logistically too complicated and expensive to include creatures such as Battle Cat.
b.
A Print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
c.
Most teenage movies that
John Hughes
has written are also take place in Shermer Illinois and involve a Shermer High School.
Weird Science
, written by Hughes and also starring
Anthony Michael Hall
, also takes place in Shermer.
d.
Third theatrical movie directed by
Burt Reynolds
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
Ruth Gordon
s last film.
b.
Claires entire ensemble was purchased specially for the character from a Ralph Lauren store, the only one in Chicago at the time. Hughes had rejected the original costume on the grounds that it wasnt sophisticated enough.
c.
Raquel Welch
was originally cast as Suzy. When Welch was fired, she sued the studio for wrongful termination and won.
d.
Gore Vidal
, who wrote the original play, was upset with the choice of
Jerry Lewis
as the lead in the movie version. On Broadway, Vidals play ran for 388 performances between Feb 7, 1957 and Jan 11, 1958, and won
Cyril Ritchard
, originator of the Kreton character, a 1957 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in Play. But Jerry Lewis was a star, twelve times named to the Top Ten list of Box Office Stars, six times with partner Dean Martin (with whom he was the top star of 1952), and six times solo (ranking as high as #3 in 1958). He got the part.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Breakfast Club (1985)?
a.
This film was the first winner for the inaugural Best Animated Feature Film category of the Academy Awards 2001.
b.
In the beginning of the movie you see different shots of the school hallways and classrooms, you can see what the flare gun did to Brians locker. Also there is a picture of a former Shermer High School student "Man of the Year". The guy in the picture is the janitor Carl Reed.
c.
Ranked #51 on Entertainment Weeklys "100 New Movie Classics" list in 2008.
d.
Filmed in 1974 but not released until 1981.
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