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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Falcon and the Snowman (1985).
About the movie:
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)?
a.
The RDAs private security force members all wear French military rank badge. Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) wears the rank badge of a French Colonel. When Trudy Chacón (Michelle Rodriguez) breaks Sully and Angustine out from jail and flies them to the avatar link outpost, the woman alerting Quaritch is shown wearing the 3 ribbons of a French captain.
b.
The poem from which Boyce and his father recite is Tennysons "Charge of the Light Brigade", about a battle in the Crimean War.
c.
Garn Stephens
refused to wear the prosthetic mask during the misfire scene. So a body double was used to complete the scene.
d.
Due to the similarities between his life and
Johnny Cash
s,
Joaquin Phoenix
was hospitalized after filming.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)?
a.
There is no audible dialogue from any of the characters for the first 37 minutes of the movie.
b.
While on location in San Carlos, Mexico, the cast and crew were constantly attacked by bees. Although faced with a constant barrage of painful stings (even while the cameras were rolling), cast and crew alike pushed on, completing the necessary shots on schedule.
c.
The main theme of the movie is an old Irish air "The Moreen", more often called "The Minstrel Boy" after Thomas Moore wrote the lyrics "The minstrel boy to the war is gone." However the words sung by Daniel and Peachie are from the Christian Hymn "The Son of God goes forth to war" by Reginald Heber.
d.
Christopher Boyce was released on parole in March 2003. Andrew Daulton Lee was paroled in 1998.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)?
a.
Susans singing voice was provided by a professional opera singer who, under
Orson Welles
direction, sang outside of her vocal range. She agreed to having her voice used this way on the condition that her identity never be revealed, fearing it would harm her career. She was
Jean Forward
of the San Francisco Opera.
b.
There were six television productions of the play: in 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1957 and 1959.
c.
After Andrew Lees parole in 1998,
Sean Penn
hired him as a personal assistant.
d.
The background comic art (panels) shown on most of the original posters for this serial came from the Sunday "Dick Tracy" comic page of December 6, 1936.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)?
a.
Timothy Hutton
and
Sean Penn
are exactly 1 day apart in birthdays. Hutton was born Aug. 16, 1960. Penn was born Aug. 17, 1960.
b.
This is the first film to be produced by
Hugh Jackman
and
John Palermo
s new production company, Seed Productions.
c.
The small spiders used in the film were Avondale spiders (Delena Cancerides), a harmless species from New Zealand that were provided by Landcare Research in Auckland. Despite their fierce appearance, this spider is docile member of the crab-spider family and are, in fact, harmless to humans. They were not allowed back in New Zealand for quarantine reasons. The giant "spider" used in the film was a species of a bird-eating tarantula, which attains an 8" legspan or more. Those types of tarantula are not easy to handle and can give a nasty bite. The spiders in the film were managed and handled by famed entomologist
Steven R. Kutcher
.
d.
MGM recycled some of its tornado footage from
The Wizard of Oz
for a key scene in this movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)?
a.
The production shoot for this movie went for nine weeks with cast and crew working six day weeks.
b.
A picture of
Michelle Pfeiffer
as Catwoman from
Batman Returns
can be seen in the pile of old catwomen pictures.
c.
In 1986, this movie became associated with one of the most famous hacking incidents in television history. On the night of April 27, 1986 at about 12:30am, a Florida satellite TV dealer named John MacDougall was working late at Central Florida Teleport which up-links pay cable services to satellites. At the time, he was up-linking "Pee Wees Big Adventure" but before he left, he pointed the dish directly upwards toward the location of HBOs Galaxy 1 satellite and for four and a half minutes, East Coast subscribers who has been watching The Falcon and the Snowman saw a message on a colored test pattern which read: GOODEVENINGHBO FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT $12.95/MONTH? NO WAY! SHOWTIME/MOVIECHANNEL BEWARE!. MacDougall had performed the stunt as a protest of satellite subscribers being forced to pay higher fees than regular cable subscribers. He turned himself in, was charged a $5,000 fine and placed on one year probation.
d.
The original plan was to use a Swedish JA 37 Viggen jet fighter as the Soviet aircraft, but the Swedish government refused permission.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)?
a.
Jerry Lewis
as the bellboy had exactly 24 words, all coming in the last scene of the movie. He played the bellboy and himself in the movie, but as the bellboy had only 16 words.
b.
To put River to sleep, Dr. Simon Tam says, "Eta Kooram Nah Smech!," Russian for "This is very ridiculous" (literally "This is for hens to laugh!").
c.
Early concept art for the character who ultimately became Toht depicted him as a uniformed Nazi officer with a mechanical arm that doubled as a machine gun and a radio antenna built into his head.
d.
The company that Christopher Boyce worked for in real life was TRW, portrayed as "RTX" in the movie.
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