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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - 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 Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
About the movie:
An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
Giacomo DiNorscio died 14 November 2004, during the films production.
b.
The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 11 September 1935 and closed in October 1935 after 69 performances. The opening night cast included
John Harrington
as Remy Marco and
Georgia Caine
as Nora Marco. Future screen star José Ferrer (I) played a Policeman.
c.
In the scene where Gort is seen carrying Klaatus body (inside the ship),
Michael Rennie
was actually sitting on a dolly out of camera angle to support his weight during this brief scene, since
Lock Martin
(Gort) was unable to do so himself.
d.
Janet Leigh
only had three weeks to work on the movie and spent the whole of one of those weeks filming the shower sequence.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
The stunt driver liked to brag that he once drove a car off of a cliff just to prove to his girlfriend he could scare her.
b.
Charles Cousins
character was called Metal Head in all of the promotional material, but was merely called Velmas Friend in the movie credits.
c.
EASTER EGG: On the second disc of the DVD, go to the Gallery section and press up. Spidey-Sense will appear around Spider-Mans head. Click it to access a hidden movie of Doc Ock doing "Fiddler On The Roof", which
Alfred Molina
was performing at the time.
d.
Although he was already signed to play the Einstein-like Professor Barnhardt, the studio wanted to remove
Sam Jaffe
as a result of the political witch hunts that were then underway. Producer
Julian Blaustein
appealed to studio chief
Darryl F. Zanuck
. Zanuck allowed Jaffe to play the role, but it would be Jaffes last Hollywood film until the late 1950s.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
Clark Gable
personally chose
William A. Wellman
to direct because he admired
Battleground
.
b.
To increase the sense of reality, some of the most famous broadcast journalists of the time were hired to do cameos as themselves. These included
Gabriel Heatter
,
H.V. Kaltenborn
and
Drew Pearson
.
c.
Anne Hathaway
prepared for the part by volunteering for a week as an assistant at an auction house.
d.
Robert Engels
claims the script that he and Lynch wrote is much longer than the version that Lynch actually filmed. He claims there is enough story for a sequel. Indeed, as with many other Lynch films, about five hours of footage was shot. Many of the scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor involved characters who appeared in the television series but not in the movie. These scenes include Sheriff Harry Truman singing to girlfriend Josie Packard Johnny Hornes birthday party Bobby Briggs parents reading from the Bible Doc Hayward performing magic tricks a fight scene between FBI Agent Chester Desmond and Sheriff Cable.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
The book Helen spills tea on and reads later is "To Kill A Mockingbird" by
Harper Lee
.
b.
For the "waltzing commuter" scene in Grand Central station, the main hall of the terminal was shut down for the shoot from 8pm until the first commuter trains arrived at 5:30 am the next morning. Lighting effects outside of the large terminal windows made it seem to be 5:00 in the evening the entire night, and over 400 extras waltzed around the mirror-ball topped Information Booth again and again throughout the night. Now, on New Years, an orchestra plays there and people waltz for real.
c.
Director
Kevin Reynolds
received "special thanks" in the credits due to his helping
Kevin Costner
direct the famous buffalo hunt scene.
d.
One scene was cut from the movie before it was released. The original script called for Klaatu to be taken to a police station by the government man who came for him at the boarding house, not directly to Barnharts home. At the station, men were being dragged in from all over and questioned, and Klaatu becomes upset when he sees how a man was beaten up by a crowd because they thought he was the spaceman. The scene was cut because director
Robert Wise
realized that the audience was interested in the Klaatu/ Barnhart meeting and the scene at the police station was unnecessary, but on the DVD there are stills from that deleted scene.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
Mr Weasleys shed of Muggle artifacts contains, among other things, two Remington Noiseless Portable Typewriters and an HP Laserjet 4.
b.
The alcohol being consumed at the bar by
The Mad Turk
is "Black Death" vodka, popularized in the early 1990s by
Slash
from the band Guns N Roses. Not readily available in the US, the bottle labels were meticulously recreated for the film from a bottle purchased in 1991.
c.
Ranked #5 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Sci-Fi" in June 2008.
d.
Donald Sutherland
and
Kevin Costner
both have very long monologues in the movie. According to director
Oliver Stone
, both of them memorized these speeches (
Kevin Costner
had thought that one take was necessary for his speech).
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
The song playing on the radio before Lewis death in the weight room is "Killing Time" by (Hed) P.E.
b.
The scene where
Renée Zellweger
kicks
Jim Carrey
over the railing and down the hill was done by Jim Carrey himself (instead of a stunt double) after many pleadings. He did a few takes but they used the first one. A mattress was used for him to pop back into frame.
c.
Harry Bates
was paid a mere $500 by 20th Century-Fox for the rights to his short story "Farewell to the Master".
d.
It was
James Cameron
who convinced his ex-wife
Kathryn Bigelow
to direct this film. She originally had planned on doing another project and wasnt sure about doing this film. Cameron read it and told her to do this film, and it ended up earning her an Oscar nomination and award for Best Director -- in fact, _the film was nominated in seven categories against Camerons
Avatar
, and won six awards, including Best Picture. Cameron himself had said, "I wouldnt bet against her."
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
Stanley Kubrick
: [Bathroom] At the party, a girl overdoses in Victors bathroom.
b.
The movie was shot in sequence over a period of just 4 days.
c.
The "tornado" was a 35-foot-long muslin stocking, spun around among miniatures of a Kansas farm and fields in a dusty atmosphere.
d.
In the scenes of Gort carrying both Helen Benson and Klaatu up the ramp and into the ship, lightweight look-alike dummies were used because of
Lock Martin
s inability to actually carry either actor himself.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
In the movie, D-Fens (Douglas) is referred to as being in his late 30s, but the exact age of
Michael Douglas
was 49 at the time the movie was shot in 1993.
b.
The scene in which Nicole buries Carlos in a hole in the sand, with only his head above ground, and takes a picture, the original caption for the photo was "In Nicoles Hole". It was changed to "I Love Nicole" in order to maintain a PG-13 rating.
c.
The name "
Richard Carlson
" - another leading sci-fi actor of the 1950s - appears at the bottom of the glass door to
Hugh Marlowe
s office.
d.
The address to the Swedish bio-chem firm that Whitacre used to steal money from ADM happens to be the address to a real bio-chem firm in Lund (Novozymes Biopharma AB). Novozymes had nothing to do with the events depicted in the film though, as the company was founded in 2000.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
The word Kinjite comes from the Japanese language and is the "-te" conjugation form of the verb "kinjiru"; which means "to forbid" in English.
b.
Because the stationary Gort could not stand on the angled ramp,
Lock Martin
had to wear the Gort suit in the background during the final sequence. Martin, who was frail, had to wear the suit for so long that he began having spasms in his arms. During Klaatus final speech, Gorts arms can be seen moving slightly.
c.
Rob Schneider
was previously attached to star and
Michael Philip
to direct.
d.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 17, 1949 with
James Stewart
and
Joan Fontaine
reprising their film roles.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
a.
Several references to the Disney theme-park ride include: - the singing busts - the breathing door (even the doorknob is the same) - Madame Leota (and the spectral instruments) - the busts that follow Jim - the ghostly carriage (a prop outside the ride) - the old man and the dog in the cemetery - Master Gracys hanging - the ghostly ballroom dancers. - the Raven seen throughout the movie - the hitchhiking ghosts - the hangman - the eyes in some of the walls - morphing pictures in the hallway. - several lines throughout the movie that are also used in the rides narration, such as: "Welcome, foolish mortals", "Final arrangements have been made", "Theres always my way" - the floating candelabra in the credits - the brides dress in the attic - the screeching cat sound effect in graveyard scene - the skeletons hands that start to open coffin in the mausoleum - the knights in the hallway attacking Jim - the door knockers heard rapping in the bedroom hallway - the pipe-organ in the ballroom - the clock strikes 13 during the prologue
b.
Arch Hall Jr.
based his performace as psycho killer Charlie Tibbs on "Tommy Udo,"
Richard Widmark
s character in
Kiss of Death
, right down to the giggle.
c.
The film had a paltry music budget of about $15,000. Most of the artists featured on the soundtrack allowed the filmmakers to use their songs at bargain basement prices. David Bowie, however, asked for $100,000 to utilize his song "Heroes" during the final scene and credits, so Kate Bushs "Running Up That Hill" was substituted.
d.
Bernard Herrmann
used two Theremins to create his creepy score, one pitched higher, the other lower, making this one of the first films to feature a largely electronic score.
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