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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Cameraman (1928) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Cameraman (1928) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928).
About the movie:
After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
Jack Nicholson
s directorial debut. It was one of two post-"Easy Rider" Nicholson films that had yet to be released on video of any kind - the other being
A Safe Place
- until 2010 when the Criterion Collection released both films on DVD and Blu-Ray as part of their "America Lost And Found - The BBS Story" box set.
b.
The film began production under the title "The Best of Friends," but
Otto Preminger
protested to the Motion Picture Association because he had already registered the similar title
Such Good Friends
. Producer
George Edwards
quickly responded by changing the title to a line from the script: "Whats the Matter with Helen?."
c.
Dennis Smithers, Jr. and editor/composer
Doug Johnson
met in person for the first time after the completion of the movie. They did all of their correspondence via email, phone, and mail.
d.
The famous "Dressing Room Scene" was an on-the-fly bit added by
Buster Keaton
, who snagged unit manager
Edward Brophy
from the crew because he looked the part. The two men crammed, unrehearsed, into the cubicle, and ad-libbed the whole gag in a single take.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
Every character in the movie is based on someone Matt Ryan met or knew while attending college.
b.
This film was used for many years by MGM as an example of a perfect comedy. The studio would get all its directors and producers to watch it and learn. Only two scenes were improvised on the spot by
Buster Keaton
: one was the baseball scene, and the other is the piggybank scene.
c.
Apparently
Ronald Reagan
was amused by Doc Browns disbelief that an actor like him could become president, so much so that he had the projectionist stop and replay the scene. He also seemed to enjoy it so much that he even made a direct reference of the film in his 1986 State of the Union address: "As they said in the film
Back to the Future
, Where were going, we dont need roads."
d.
In the Singaporean version of the film, the company "Insuricare" is translated into "Black-hearted insurance company" if read literally in the Chinese character subtitles.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
b.
Burt Lancaster
was due to appear in the film but had to withdraw through illness.
c.
The baseball stadium scene was more than just inspired comedy.
Buster Keaton
loved baseball and organized several charity teams in Hollywood. According to legend, the work application to Keatons company asked two questions: 1. Are you a good actor? 2. Are you a good baseball player? The applicant who answered "yes" to either one had a job with Keaton.
d.
Tim Burton
: the thug who accosts Pee-wee just before he enters the fortune tellers studio.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
Joey Buttafuoco
and
Kato Kaelin
were originally supposed to appear in the film, but their scenes were deleted from the script due to scheduling conflicts.
b.
This was
Buster Keaton
s first movie after the studio told him that he was restricted to his movie making, starting with this, he had to do what movies he was given.
c.
In the beginning of the film, Pons character escapes her wedding in a non-supercharged 1936 Cord Phaeton. The Indiana-made car, which cost about $3,700 was rare even when new and exotic enough to look like it belonged in the movie which begins set in France.
d.
In the film, Kit Ramseys house is the same residence depicted as "Stately Wayne Manor" in the 1966
Batman
television series.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
The trailers bill the movie as "inspired by true events". Director
Eli Roth
says that he found a Thai website that advertised itself as a "murder vacation," offering users the chance to torture and kill someone for the price of $10,000. Roth later showed the site to
Quentin Tarantino
and the two developed the idea for the film. Tarantino and Roth said later on an Icelandic talk show that they have no idea if the website was real or not.
b.
When
Buster Keaton
falls off of the bus, a billboard for
The Actress
appears in the background. The titles for both films were written by
Joseph Farnham
.
c.
The song The Egg was written very late into the writing process for the Broadway show. So late, in fact, that promotional material had already been printed and it was upon seeing a poster depicting an eaglet coming out of a British eggshell and holding an American flag that
Sherman Edwards
came up with the song.
d.
A large amount of the people we see fired in the film are not actors but people who were recently laid off. The filmmakers put out ads in St. Louis and Detroit posing as a documentary crew looking to document the effect of the recession. When people showed up, they were instructed to treat the camera like the person who fired them and respond as they did or use the opportunity to say what they wished they had. A way to discern who are the actors and who are the real people is that the real people do not have dialogue with
George Clooney
or
Anna Kendrick
, as they were shot separately.
Jason Reitman
did this intentionally, feeling that the real people would freak out Clooney and Kendrick.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
Detective Loomis eats in every single scene, and the food he eats (chips, cake, pie, chocolate, sweets, etc.) is always something different.
b.
The movies line "No wire hangers, ever!" was voted as the #72 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
c.
The baseball movie
Pastime
copied the scene from this film in which
Buster Keaton
s character enters an empty baseball stadium and pantomimes a game, playing all the positions.
d.
The music video for
Tupac Shakur
s 1996 hit "California Love" was shot at the Thunderdome set and features vehicles and clothes inspired by the Mad Max series.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
Before the Hamlet sequence, wherein the
Laurence Olivier
version is played on a projector, the teacher who introduces the film is
Joan Plowright
, an English actress and Laurence Oliviers third wife. Noting her students apparent ignorance of Oliviers storied career, she tells them they may remember him as Zeus in
Clash of the Titans
, one of Oliviers final roles.
b.
Selected for the 2005 National Film Registry.
c.
A member of the band
Orgy
instructed
Jamie Lee Curtis
on how to play the guitar. In the concert sequence, that is actually Curtis during the solo.
d.
In December 1972, screenwriter
Bill Norton Sr.
was contracted to re-write
Eleanor Perry
s script. Nortons work is uncredited on this movie. His alleged filing of a grievance with the Writers Guild of America for the inclusion of a screen credit apparently failed due to a delay in the filing of his complaint.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
s famous debut line Ill be back was originally scripted as Ill come back.
b.
The abbreviation "ID4" was invented due to undisclosed legal problems (long since resolved) with the title "Independence Day".
c.
The film was almost lost forever. The master copy of it used today was made using a print that was found in Paris, in 1968, and a master positive copy of nearly the entire film, found in 1991. In modern copies of the film, the quality of the image varies dramatically; the scenes with best quality were obtained from the material found in 1991.
d.
Second of eight films in which
Marjorie Main
and
Percy Kilbride
portrayed Ma and Pa Kettle.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
The first public screening for ThanksKilling was at the Merry Scary Winter Horrorland festival, part of the Sacramento Horror Fest.
b.
Willie the Dog is played by
Danny
Finn, whose owner had to stand in for the film companys dog-handler, who could not get Danny pay attention. (Danny is not a professional actor.)
c.
The scene in which
Buster Keaton
runs up and down the stairs of his rooming house when hes expecting
Marceline Day
s phone call was shot with an elevator crane. Though the German film
Der letzte Mann
had used an elevator crane, this film was the first comedy to use it. In 1960,
Jerry Lewis
used an elevator crane in
The Errand Boy
, and some writers have erroneously credited him with being the first comedian to use one.
d.
Not since
Bonnie and Clyde
(29 years earlier) have
Gene Hackman
and
Faye Dunaway
co-starred in a feature film.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cameraman (1928)?
a.
At the studios insistence,
Buster Keaton
shot an ending with him smiling. It was previewed, and hated, so it was replaced with the ending the film now has.
b.
Dick Hogan
s cameo as the murder victim, David Kentley, is his last appearance in a film.
c.
Although most
Kevin Smith
films have been interlocked with recurring characters, locations and themes, as well as many references to each other, this is the first real "sequel" made to any of the films.
d.
Dante Basco
, the actor who voiced Zuko in the original series, wanted to play Zuko in the film. Many of the producers also wanted Basco to play the role, but M.Night Shymalan had already chosen
Dev Patel
for the role.
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