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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Commune (2009) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Commune (2009)

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About the movie: When Jenny Cross has to spend summer vacation with her deadbeat dad in his creepy commune, she thinks clean living and boredom will kill her. But some fates are worse than death.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		The appearance of Albert Whitlock as Arthur Brisbane is yet another of the films many homages to Alfred Hitchcock; Whitlock was Hitchcocks special-effects man on several films.
b.		The name of Vaders super star destroyer is "Executor".
c.		All three lead actresses are given both a sex scene and a dance scene to represent the three stages of womens sexuality: virgin, mother, crone.
d.		The crew had foggy mornings just on the days they needed them, and the fog lingered only so long as it was needed to complete the scenes. Snow was written in the script for one sequence, never really thinking that it would actually happen. It normally snows hard enough to actually be visible on film 4 or 5 times a year. When they needed it, the snow came down in huge flakes just until the director said "Cut" on the last take, and then it stopped.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		Puck and Jennys sex scene and break up scene dialogue were from the writer/director/producer Elisabeth Fies love life.
b.		Sean Patrick Flanery was originally cast as Don West, but he was let go while the project was still in rehearsal because it was thought that he too closely resembled William Hurt. The part, played by Matt LeBlanc, was also previously offered to Matthew Perry.
c.		Walter Walker is in studio records/casting call lists for this movie in the role of "Mr. Platt," but that role was played by Frederick Burton. Also in the records were Frank Coghlan Jr. in the role of "Mascots Pal" and Andy Devine, both of whom were not seen in the film.
d.		Ben Mullens character of Scottie, the unsuspecting store clerk who receives Emmas wrath, was supposed to be in just one scene. Mullens character was merged with "The Ref" to expand his role and help Emmas character development.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		Another actor was hired in addition to Vijay Amritraj when there was a dispute with Actors Equity because Armitraj was not a member of the actors union.
b.		David Lago actually wrote the song he sings at the lake for Jenny when he was nineteen for his then girlfriend.
c.		Allison Akin Clark (Jenny) and Jake Fry (Choreographer) worked together on a cruise ship before working together on this film.
d.		This film - the first movie adaptation of an Edgar Rice Burroughs story - is believed lost.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		Along with Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne insisted the films production be halted until Van Johnson was well after his auto accident, in which he was seriously injured. During this period, MGM snatched Dunne up to make The White Cliffs of Dover, released the following year as the MGM 20th Anniversary film. As a thank you for her gratitude, Johnson appears in a small role in Dover.
b.		The film is titled after the anthology comic book series, published in the 1950s by the legendary William M. Gaines and his company EC Comics, which also published Tales from the Crypt and Mad Magazine. The plot of the film is loosely based on the story "Made of the Future" by Al Feldstein, from the fifth issue. Producer Joel Silver had acquired all EC film rights in the early 1980s.
c.		The movie was originally to have played at up to 2,500 theaters, but that number dropped to 1,600 and ended up lower due to prints being shipped to theaters that had not licensed the film.
d.		Actor David Lago says "Im Puck" to the Doctor in his Christopher Walken voice, a direct homage to Laagos infamous and misunderstood 2005 Emmy speech, which was Walkens "two mice" monologue from Catch Me If You Can.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		The first film Tim Burton has directed for The Walt Disney Company since leaving the studio in the 1980s (he wrote and co-produced Disneys The Nightmare Before Christmas). He worked as an animator there before becoming a director.
b.		Larry Linvilles film debut.
c.		The writer/director/producer/star Elisabeth Fies first visited Isis Oasis when she was sixteen, and has a photo of Ra the Ocelot hugging her.
d.		The school used in the film (with the bright "Neon Celery" and "Key Lime" colored classroom doors), was painted by students from the school through an innovative nonprofit youth development program called Publicolor in NYC.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		Paul McCartney was first asked to write theme music for this film. He came up with a title song called Same Time, Next Year, however this was rejected in favor of Marvin Hamlischs Academy Award-nominated "The Last Time I Felt Like This". The song was left unreleased until 1990 as a B-Side to the single "Put It There"
b.		Chauntal Lewis stars in all but five brief scenes.
c.		The scenes for the Eugene, Oregon, Western Regional Championships (49:10) were actually shot in Cove Creek Park, a complex of four baseball diamonds writer John Grisham constructed near Charlottesville, Virginia, while his son was playing in Little League there.
d.		The writer of this story and script was the little boy featured in the story who later went on to serve in the United States Army during another war.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		The melodramatic dialog between John Dillingers lawyer Louis Piquett (pronounced "Pickett"), prosecutor Robert Estill, and Sherriff Lilian Holley concerning the removal of Dillingers shackles and Piquetts request to keep Dillinger at Crown Point are virtually word for word the interaction between them in the court records. This includes Sherriff Holleys affirmation (which later proved a regretful statement) that Crown Point was "The safest jail in Indiana."
b.		The film was shot on Isis Oasis, a retreat center and ocelot wildlife preserve in Geyserville California.
c.		Many of the battle scenes were re-used for Universal Studios later picture The Young Warriors.
d.		First film to feature an all-Native American cast.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		The following characters "have a bad feeling about this": Leia. See also: Star Wars and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi.
b.		When John Wayne informed Bruce Dern that Derns character would shoot Waynes, he told Dern that audiences would hate him for it. Dern responded by saying, "Yeah, but theyll sure love me in Berkeley."
c.		Kirk Douglas and Richard Widmark were considered to play the title role of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The 15 February 1950 edition of The New York Times stated that the rights to Brig. Gen. Desmond Young M.C.s book Rommel had been acquired by 20th Century-Fox and "the title role will be offered to Kirk Douglas." Later, according to a February 1951 memo held in the AMPAS Library MPAA/PCA file for this film, "Richard Widmark has been chiefly mentioned as Rommel."
d.		The end credit love song is sung by stars David Lago and Chauntal Lewis, and lyrics were co-written by Elisabeth Fies. Music and co-lyrics by musician Jenn Oberle.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		Alexander Wraith did all his own stunts during the filming of Lady Magdalenes, including riding one of the worlds longest zip lines, a 75-foot jump out of a tunnel stopped only by a safety-line, and stunt driving.
b.		John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Hank Azaria all auditioned for Andy Kaufman.
c.		The writer/director/producer Elisabeth Fies appears nude for five seconds in her own movie to make bigger distribution sales overseas.
d.		It took Leslie Easterbrook (Callahan) four hours just to learn how to start one of the jet skis for the final chase scene.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Commune (2009)?
a.		Chauntal Lewis lost her left hand in an auto accident in Los Angeles in March 2009.
b.		In the original screenplay, writer Bruce Joel Rubin had created a typical Biblical hell, complete with winged demons, cloven hoofed devils with horns, people with beaks and strange objects lying randomly around (director Adrian Lyne likens Rubins vision to the work of Hieronymus Bosch). As with Rubins general depiction of demons however, Lyne felt that such scenes could very easily make an audience laugh. As such, he decided to rewrite the scene of Jacobs descent into hell; ultimately coming up with the hospital sequence where Jacob is wheeled on a gurney into a metaphorical hell which becomes more and more grotesque as he moves.
c.		There was a "Revenge On Cookie" subplot, cut from the final film.
d.		In this movie, Bruce Lees character is shot with a prop gun that was secretly made to fire a real bullet and kill him. Lees son, Brandon, was killed on the set of The Crow, when a prop pistol accidentally shot him in the abdomen.

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