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

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Despair (2009)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Despair (2009).

About the movie: Two drug Addicts, named Sean and Cliff, decide to leave a rehab facility, pick up their friends, and head to Cliff's Uncle's Cabin in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Despair (2009)?
a.		A number of day-to-day schedule problems and delays appear to have been costume-related, in many cases because Claudette Colbert felt they didnt fit her correctly and was sending them back to the costume shop.
b.		Josh Davidson, who plays Cliff in the movie, stars as the Joker in the YouTube hit, Born Laughing.
c.		One of the contentious issues between director Arthur Penn and cinematographer Burnett Guffey was that the latter insisted on lighting the principals with old-style lighting whilst Penn preferred a looser, less formal approach. Guffey was mindful that a vast majority of studio profits then came from drive-in theaters. Underlit scenes simply didnt show up well on those screens. Matters rose to the extent that Guffey quit the film for a week but ultimately came back (and won the Academy Award).
d.		As the film progresses, the walls of the ships corridors become darker and more ominous.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Despair (2009)?
a.		Paul W.S. Anderson was attached to direct this film but gave it up to the original director Sylvain White to direct Death Race instead. James Wan then took over after the movie was first considered "dead" and Anderson stayed on as producer.
b.		Shooting lasted from April 4-May 8, 1944, released December 15.
c.		Mike Crawford wore many hats during the filming of The Despair. He wrote directed, produced, edited, acted, and even wrote some of the music for the film.
d.		Because Peter Sarsgaard and Missy Yagers brutal rape scene was filmed in the mud, every time they did a new take they had to get up, get showered, get dressed, put new makeup on and do it again. It took all night to film.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Despair (2009)?
a.		Due to the near-impossibility to get away with filming on the T in Boston, to shoot the scene of Kristen Savage on the red line, director Timothy Norman had all the other actors with them that day form a human wall between the conductor and him to block what they were doing from view.
b.		The film is based on a play called "Lipschtick", the original title of the film was "Seeking Same."
c.		After "The End" appears on the screen, the entire Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra and its conductor (Herman S. Heller) appears on the screen, partly in closeup, for about 15 seconds. The New York Times reviewer of 4 February 1927 noted that the Vitaphone synchronization process was so good that he, and probably most of the audience, had forgotten that there was no orchestra in the pit. When the orchestra and conductor were shown onscreen, the surprised audience loudly cheered.
d.		Most of the movie was shot in a cabin in the Pocono Mountains in PA.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Despair (2009)?
a.		According to John Waters, when he asked the MPAA what would need to be removed in order for the film to obtain an R rating, he was told "after a while, we just stopped taking notes."
b.		The matte painting of the town of "Vasaria" is lifted from Universals My Little Chickadee.
c.		The Jersey Devil was of prominent character in the early screenplay, but was eventually cut out due to production cost.
d.		In 1998 it was reported that Mike Myers would be playing four characters in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, the fourth being Austins love guru. This character finally surfaced in a starring role in 2008.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Despair (2009)?
a.		Josh Davidson, was picked from 700 auditions for a lead role in After Dark Films feature film, Perkins 14, which is part of Horrorfest III, 8 Films To Die For.
b.		To get the ambiance of the film, production designer Raymond Zibach and art director Heng Tang spent years researching Chinese art and kung fu movies. This effort, combined with the rest of the crews extensive research and knowledge of Chinese culture, so impressed the Chinese that there were meetings by official government cultural bodies to discuss why their own country has not produced animated films of such quality themselves.
c.		Dick Powells portrayal of Philip Marlowe earned the approval of Raymond Chandler himself.
d.		Marie Antoinettes famously-high coiffure is shown adorned with a miniature diamond-studded bird cage complete with a canary that tweeted when she pulled a hidden string. This adornment was in fact worn by the Grand Duchess of Russia at a 1782 party that Marie Antoinette hosted at Trianon. The Duchesss bird not only chirped, but its wings also flapped with the tug of a thin gold chain.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Despair (2009)?
a.		One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
b.		Scenes of Poitier and Hartman kissing were excised from the film when it was shown in movie theaters in the southern states of the USA. These scenes are intact in the DVD version.
c.		The first time Colin Farrell had been able to use his own Irish accent in an American movie.
d.		This is the first feature film for most of the cast and crew.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Despair (2009)?
a.		Tom Savinis first film as a make-up artist.
b.		Erich von Stroheim had to agree to wave fees as writer and director in order to make this first film as writer director. However, he still got $200 a week to star.
c.		The cast and crew slept in a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom cabin for 16 straight days of production.
d.		Director Greg Stechman originally wanted Colin Hanks to play the role of Brett Starken. Stechman ended up playing the role himself.