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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Final Countdown (1980) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Final Countdown (1980)

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About the movie: A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		While filming this picture, the spirit gum holding Bing Crosbys ears back failed; he insisted on completing the film with his ears out, and never used the gum again.
b.		Production of the movie turned out to be so enduring and challenging that director Peter Jackson lost 70 lbs.
c.		A boom on the Pirates ship carries the friendly label "Watch Your Head." This is visible during the "I am a Pirate King" number.
d.		During shooting of the opening shot where the CAGs Tomcat is taking off from Pearl Harbor, the film crew actually underestimated the blast radius of the Tomcats exhaust and one of their cameras was blown over when the plane went to full afterburner, which resulted in the shot being filmed from a slightly different angle than originally planned.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		268 Sony Pictures Imageworks employees spent around 358,000 hours animating the Smurfs.
b.		Filmed during the Nimitz Sep 79-May 80 cruise. Squadrons aboard included VF-41 and VF-84 (F-14A Tomcats), VA-35 (A-6E Intruder), VA-82 and VA-86 (A-7E Corsair II), VFP-63 (RF-8G Crusader), VAQ-134 (EA-6B Prowler), VS-24 (S-3A Viking), VAW-112 (E-2B Hawkeye), and HS-9 (SH-3H Sea King). All squadrons get time on film.
c.		Very few of the principal cast members liked the characters they were portraying. Clark Gable was induced into accepting his role through arrangements to divorce his current wife and marry Carole Lombard. Rand Brooks, who played Scarletts first husband, Charles Hamilton, was actually a rough outdoors-man who objected to playing a wimpy character. Butterfly McQueen disliked the negative stereotype of her character. Leslie Howard felt he was too old for the role of Ashley Wilkes and complained that his costumes made him look like "a fairy doorman" at a hotel.
d.		Jamie Lee Curtis trained for several months before shooting began. All the scenes that show her leading classes were filmed first, with the narrative and dramatic sequences shot next. The last sequence filmed was the closing credits workout. It is noticeable that Curtis had lost 10 pounds of muscle since the workout scenes had been filmed. She also filmed a music video with Jermaine Jackson to promote the movie.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		As seen in the theatrical trailers, Lukes new light saber had a blue laser blade instead of the green that appears in the finished film, as it had been in the first two movies. The blade was changed to green as being blue, it was difficult to make out against the sky during the attack on the sail barge scene.
b.		Originally, director John Badham filmed the dance rehearsal sequence with Tony and Annettes characters playing music in the background at the same time with the action and dialogue; a form of production conduct not usually done. The song was "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs. However, after filming the scene, John Badham got word from Scaggs people they did not want the song in the picture, and so the sequence was dubbed, with John Travolta and Donna Pescow recording their lines in a vocal booth, and in the end composer David Shire orchestrated an instrumental piece for the sequence; ultimately the song (the title still unknown to this day) was picked up by the National Football Leagues, and used to open and close the Monday Night Football program for over 20 years.
c.		The school mascot is a rabbit. In the original Cabin Fever, Paul sees a guy in a rabbit suit at the hospital.
d.		Filmed in the Atlantic, not the Pacific Ocean (where it takes place). The USS Nimitz was an Atlantic fleet ship until the summer of 1987 when it was transferred to the Pacific. USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) stood in for the Nimitz for the arrival past the Arizona into Pearl Harbor.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		Alfred Molina lost some weight for the role of Doctor Octopus, considering he had had to gain some for the part of Diego Rivera in Frida. He said he wanted Doc Ock to have the build of a "1950s weightlifter".
b.		After Sulley says goodbye to Boo, he closes the closet door. When Boo jumps out of bed, she has grown 7% by the time she reaches the door. The programmers had to do this as she was too short.
c.		Composer Michael Kamen was so inspired by the story told in this film that he started a non-profit organization dedicated to providing musical instruments to underprivileged students.
d.		The grand finale, where Lasky is invited into the limo and drives away from the ship, was filmed at Nimitzs home port in Norfolk, Virginia. The limo is headed straight off the end of Pier 12.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		Reportedly, the filming wrapped early on the U.S.S. Nimitz as it was recalled to its home base so that it could take on the helicopters and crew that were used in the ill-fated "Operation Eagle Claw", the attempt to rescue the U.S. Embassy Iranian Hostages in 1980.
b.		Apparently, writer-director Steve Gordon had originally wanted to cast George Segal in the lead role of Arthur. After the box-office success of 10 however, Dudley Moore replaced Segal. This movie was actually the second time that Moore replaced Segal. Segal was originally cast in the lead role in 10 but Segal apparently walked off the set shortly after filming began. Reportedly, this was rumored because Julie Andrews role had been built up. Apparently, after 10 had been released, Segal, when once asked if he had seen the movie, allegedly replied with a finger gesture.
c.		When the Lifetime Achievement Award is presented at the Academy show, the projected photos are of famed sword and sandal star Steve Reeves.
d.		Catherine Scorsese, Martin Scorseses mother, is one of the women that stops Vincent to complain about the poor care of the neighborhood.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		The sailors on the carrier are playing a board war game by Avalon Hill called "Squad Leader".
b.		This movie was once nicknamed as "Dirty Harry Goes To Atlanta" by Burt Reynolds.
c.		Macaulay Culkin was paid 8 million dollars to star in this movie, the biggest paycheck ever to a 12 year-old child.
d.		Terry Gilliam was impressed by the films screenplay because it touched on some of the themes hed covered in his previous film Brazil. He was shocked to find out that Universal was interested in making the film, partly because it was the kind of movie that he didnt think major studios would support and partly because he and Universal had clashed violently over "Brazil" a decade earlier. When he learned then-Universal chief Casey Silver was a strong backer of the new project, and that none of the figures who hed clashed with over "Brazil" were going to block him or torpedo it, he signed up to direct.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		In the scene in Leos house, James Caan improvised mispronouncing "elected" as "elected-ed" to show that Frank was an uneducated man who tried project an air of sophistication.
b.		The character of Clay Driscoll is based on the legendary girls coach from Oklahoma, Jim Keith.
c.		The "identification" for the pilot who is doing the Recon mission over Pearl Harbor clearly says "Soup, Campbell"... or "Campbell Soup".
d.		One of the films biggest fans was Carry On regular Kenneth Williams who wrote about it at great length in his diaries.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		First theatrical trailer from the Blue Underground DVD includes more dialogue between Yelland and Lasky about the consequences of turning back the planes.
b.		The title "Redline" was one of the working titles of The Fast and the Furious.
c.		There is a 38-year gap between Jack Palances Oscar nomination for Shane in 1953 and his win for City Slickers in 1991.
d.		The line in the script where the main character orders "a Coffee and ice water" is based off the actor Jason Benjamin. In real life, Jason orders coffee and ice water every time he is out to diner.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		When an F-14 does a steep dive and pulls out just before crashing into the ocean while "playing" with one of the Zeroes, the "scream" the F-14 made was created by mixing the sound of the jet engines with the actual scream of the pilots wife when she saw that clip for the first time.
b.		The meaning and relevance of this movies Barney title is that it refers to the first name of the central boy character and films child protagonist Barney Dawson played by Brett Maxworthy.
c.		French visa # 12630.
d.		Hewitt never actually drove in any of the car scenes in the movie.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Final Countdown (1980)?
a.		Dyson Lovell was considered for the Young Doctor.
b.		The score credit in the film was originally only Brian Tyler, but Klaus Badelt was brought in by producers late in post-production to help enhance the comedic aspects of the film. Tyler and Badelt share a dual credit in composing the score.
c.		When Senna lists the strange robberies in town, he mentions Mr. Endicott. This refers to a scene in the script that was never shot
d.		As with most pre-CG-effects movies about the Pacific War, the planes standing in for the A6M2 Zeroes are actually specially-modified AT-6 Texans mocked up to look like Zeroes (since from the side - but not the wings - the two planes are remarkably similar).

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