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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Burning (1981) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Burning (1981) - 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 Burning (1981).
About the movie:
A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
Has never been released on home video due to the condition of the print.
b.
This film was one of the first movies to land on the UKs Video Nasties list, specifically because of the infamous raft massacre.
c.
This was the last Peanuts theatrical feature.
d.
This film is not the last Cannon Film that
Charles Bronson
did but the last one for The Cannon Group Inc. since
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
was made by Cannon Entertainment.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
Tom Savini
would play classical music during the long process of creating plaster castings of the actors faces.
b.
While some Italian prints give second unit director
Antonio Margheriti
credit as co-director,
Udo Kier
has stated that Margheriti had nothing to do with directing the movie.
c.
Considered to be lost until 2010. A print was found in Gosfilmofond, the Russian state film archive and a digital copy was presented to the Library of Congress on 22 Oct 2010.
d.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
The films title in France is Carnage.
b.
During post-production, the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
c.
When Bilbo finds the Ring at the start of the movie Gollum shouts "My Precious" however
Andy Serkis
wasnt on set that day so
Dominic Monaghan
stood in for him.
d.
Discounting later parodies and novelty films, this was the last major American film to make use of silent film conventions such as title cards for dialogue. The very last dialogue title card of this film (and thus, it can be said, the entire silent era) belongs to The Tramp, who says "Buck up - never say die! Well get along."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
For what its worth, Monas dead body on the morgue table is a womans, not a mans. The crests of the iliac, the hip bone, are pronounced, as they are in a womans pelvic girdle. What this means is that the body was born female and couldnt have been a genotypic male with added breasts, which is the explanation offered by the M.E.
b.
Harvey Weinstein
claims that he actually wrote this film before the release of
Friday the 13th
, the film that most critics call The Burning an imitator of.
c.
Four sound discs and one sound reel and trailer sound disc plus excerpts are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archives. The excerpts are also featured on a MGM/Au release called the dawn of sound which a copy is held in the Library of Congress.
d.
Monte Hellman
was originally tapped to direct the film as
Quentin Tarantino
was a complete unknown. However, when Tarantino sold the screenplay for
True Romance
for $50,000, he lobbied hard to direct the film himself. Hellman took on an executive producer role instead.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
For her dual role as Jean Gray/Phoenix,
Famke Janssen
extensively researched dissociative identity disorders and split personalities to make her performance convincing.
b.
Gert Fröbe
appears in this movie as a Bank Manager. His character and casting is designed to connect with his screen persona from the James Bond film _Goldfinger_. As Auric Goldfinger in that movie, he was a villain who loved gold, had it as part of his personal artifacts and his scheme was to rob it from Fort Knox. In this movie, as Mr. Kessel, he is seen handling gold bars and his bank is the films equivalent to Fort Knox.
c.
The film was shot in small increments over a three year period. By the time it was completed, two actors had to be replaced because they were no longer available to finish the film. The previous actors work had to be re-shot, though one of them appears very briefly in a wide shot.
d.
Director
Tony Maylam
said there was so much dust in the copper mine where the films finale was shot that he was still coughing it up several weeks after completing the shoot.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
Buster Keaton
s final film.
b.
Tim Matheson
s movie debut.
c.
The films climax was shot at the ruins of an abandoned copper mine that the production found.
d.
The idea for the story was inspired by the womens liberation movement.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
Most of the night scenes in the woods were shot day-for-night. The only exception are the campfire scenes which actually were shot at night.
b.
The main bully is named Seth Devlin, which sounds like devil. A sticker inside his locker reads: "What would Satan do?"
c.
In April 1948 MGM announced that
Tom Drake
would be cast in this movie playing the part of Capt. Tom Jenks. Drake in the end did not appear in this film. A May 1948 MGM press release reported that
Michael Steele
would be cast to play the role of the pilot Capt. Lucius Malcolm Jenks and Steele does appear in this film in this part.
d.
Renny Harlin
credits
Craig Bierko
with suggesting the song "Shes Not There" by
Santana
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
To create Cropsys distorted POV shots, the cinematographer rubbed Vaseline on the outside edges of the camera lens.
b.
Inspired by the story of
Merhan Nasseri
, an Iranian refugee. Dreamworks reportedly paid him $250,000 for the use of his biography. In 1988, he landed at
Charles de Gaulle
Airport near Paris after being denied entry into England because his passport and United Nations refugee certificate had been stolen. French authorities would not let him leave the airport. He remained in Terminal One, a stateless person with nowhere else to go. He has since been granted permission to either enter France or return to his own country. He instead chooses to continue to live in the terminal and tell his story to those who will listen. Reportedly, his mental health has deteriorated over the years. When given the opportunity to live in France, he refused because the documents did not name him as "Sir, Alfred", and he claims to have forgotten his native Persian language. Reportedly, he left the terminal in August 2006 to be hospitalized for an unspecified illness.
c.
The compact disc from which Mark plays "Superstar" by
Sonic Youth
is "If I Were a Carpenter", a 1994 compilation of covers of
The Carpenters
songs.
d.
The nosy reporter at the party was played by actual reporter
A.J. Benza
and the partner of
Gary Sinise
in the convenience store scene was played by screenwriter
Richard Price
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
A promo for the movie had to be shot prior to the main feature so that producers could be persuaded to finance the production.
b.
It was director
Tony Maylam
who chose garden shears as Cropsys weapon of choice.
c.
Dedicated to
Elliott Marks
, the Still Photographer, who died on the last day of principal photography.
d.
Referenced in
Bertie Higgins
1981 #1 hit song, "Key Largo".
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Burning (1981)?
a.
The song "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" plays as Johnny Truelove (
Emile Hirsch
) is getting ready to skip town and go on the run from the police. This makes sense, as Jesse James Hollywood is the person Johnny Truelove is based on.
b.
The revolver used to shoot Miles is correctly identified by Sam as a Webley-Fosbery. All Sam says about it is, "They dont make em anymore." Much more than that, it was an experiment to get a handgun to automatically reload and cock itself between shots. Were familiar with a typical semi-automatic pistol with a moving slide, but this was a revolver that used its backward momentum to cock the hammer and rotate the cylinder, readying it for the next pull of the trigger. They are very sought after by collectors. (see also Goofs)
c.
There are no opening credits or titles. The title of the movie appears as graffiti late in the film, which reads, "Our motto: Apocalypse Now". This was done simply so the film could be copyrighted, since it could not be copyrighted as "Apocalypse Now" unless the title was seen in the film.
d.
Director
Tony Maylam
said there was much more footage shot of the Cropsy killer for the film but he decided to cut back coverage on the killer to keep Cropsy more frightening on screen.
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