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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Fog (2005) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Fog (2005) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Fog (2005).
About the movie:
The inhabitants of Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon, are about to unveil a statue honoring the four men (Castle...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Fog (2005)?
a.
Director
Nancy Meyers
states in the commentary that she bases elements in her movies off of real life events that shes experienced, for example the esophageal spasms that
Cameron Diaz
s character has, which is something Meyers use to experience herself.
b.
Tom Welling
s character, Nick Castle, is named after
Nick Castle
, the actor who played The Shape in
John Carpenter
s
Halloween
.
c.
John Waters
originally wanted a man named "Mr. Ray" to be the narrator of Pink Flamingos. Mr. Ray was famous for his hair-weave radio ads and for his Baltimore accent. Mr. Ray refused, so Waters recorded the voice-over himself, imitating Mr. Rays voice as "Mr. J."
d.
Joseph Stefano
was adamant about seeing a toilet on-screen to display realism. He also wanted to see it flush.
Alfred Hitchcock
told him he had to "make it so" through his writing if he wanted to see it. Stefano wrote the scene in which Marion adds up the money, then flushes the paper down the toilet specifically so the toilet flushing was integral to the scene and therefore irremovable.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Fog (2005)?
a.
Originally titled "The Powers That Be" when written in 1995, and retitled "Havoc" in early 2003.
b.
A 1931 news item in Film Daily indicated the story was to be dramatized for the stage, but no performance of it has been found. However, a 1932 play with the title "I Like Your Nerve" was written by Katharine Kavanaugh and published in Chicago by The Dramatic Publishing Company. It is not known if this play was based on this movie.
c.
After this movie was completed,
Alfred Hitchcock
worked on the film script for the spy thriller The Short Night. He never got to direct it due to his ailing health and it was not made. It would have been his fifty-fourth film. The Short Night still has never been filmed to this day.
d.
When Elizabeth finds Father Malone in the cemetery, he is sitting next to a tomb which has been spray-painted with the words "MENE MENE TEKEL EUPHARIN". She asks what it means, and he simply says "Its from the Bible - its the "writing on the wall"". The words should read "MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN", and are from the book of Daniel. The story is found in Chapter 5, and the words were originally written by fingers upon the wall of the palace of King of Babylon. Loosely translated, they were a pronouncement of judgment and coming retribution on the unjust King.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Fog (2005)?
a.
The line "I see youve made your decision. Now lets see you enforce it," is taken from a statement made by President
Andrew Jackson
regarding the ruling of Supreme Court that the Indian Removal Act was illegal. The line was altered from "Thats John Marshalls decision; now lets see him enforce it," to use it in the movie.
b.
Body count: 8 people, 1 dog.
c.
Michelle Pfeiffer
took on the female lead because she was friends with the films writer and director Jessie Nelson, who had co-wrote the screenplay to the actress earlier film The Story of Us(1999) and because she wanted the chance to work with Sean Penn.
d.
Parker Posey
was originally considered for the role of Dorothy Boyd.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Fog (2005)?
a.
Selma Blair
was the studios first choice for Stevie Wayne, but she was not offered the part because
Julia Stiles
was still attached to play Elizabeth. Blair and Stiles had acted together two times previously (in
Down to You
, and most recently
A Guy Thing
). When the role of Elizabeth went to
Maggie Grace
, Blair was contacted and her contract closed with 48 hours. She started shooting less than two weeks later.
b.
The motto of the real Construction Battalion Seabees is: "We build, we fight". This is encapsulated in the line of dialogue said by Lieutenant Commander Robert Yarrow (
Dennis OKeefe
) at films end when he says: "We build for the fighters, we fight for what we build".
c.
Winifred (Colonel Hathis mate) is the only female animal to have any dialogue throughout the entire film, as though Raksha (the Mother Wolf) briefly appears at the beginning, she never actually speaks.
d.
Jose Rosete
was given the role of Darren the night before day one of shooting, after the original actor playing the role had to drop out.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Fog (2005)?
a.
As the photograph at the end shows, Captain William Blake and Elizabeth were married in 1865 (on Prince William Island, which is fictional).
b.
A scene where Betsy runs into Richie while walking through the woods to the Mars house was cut.
Joe Giannone
felt the scene slowed down the pace of the films finale, so it was edited.
c.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
d.
The NAACP gave M-G-M two awards for presenting an African American in an intelligent and sympathetic manner.
Dore Schary
deliberately did not tell writer
Robert Hardy Andrews
he was planning to cast an African American as one of the soldiers, in order to avoid any racial speeches in the script.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Fog (2005)?
a.
Tom Welling
had three weeks left on
Smallville
season 4 when he began shooting The Fog.
Selma Blair
often joked that the director kept two cameras running during his scenes - one for The Fog, and one for Smallville.
b.
Lightning McQueen, being a first-year "Piston Cup" racer, displays the traditional yellow "rookie stripe" on his rear bumper.
c.
The word "invictus" is Latin for "unbeaten". It is also the name of a short poem written in 1875 by
William Ernest Henley
, a British poet. The poem was written while Henley was in hospital having to have his stricken foot amputated.
Nelson Mandela
is heard saying lines from the poem.
d.
Right before we first see Jimmy and Ellie driving on the road, we can see a mark of the beast made of lights of the town.
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