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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Godfather: Part II (1974) - Part (5) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Godfather: Part II (1974) - Part (5) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974).
About the movie:
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
Kiefer Sutherland
claimed in an interview that in one of the locations of the film, a Renaissance Fair was being held and the cast and crew attended and bought some cookies. Unfortunately, the cookies turned out to be pot cookies and two hours later, the crew found
Jerry OConnell
crying and high on the cookies somewhere in the park.
b.
The role of Cathy, Selmas best friend, was originally written for an African-American woman. However,
Catherine Deneuve
, who had written to
Lars von Trier
several years earlier about the possibility of doing a film together, expressed interest in the part. Von Trier cast her and slightly rewrote the part as a French immigrant woman to accommodate Deneuve.
c.
This was
Steven Seagal
s last film to be given a theatrical release until the upcoming
Machete
. All of his other films in between were released directly to video.
d.
The golden telephone presented to Cuban dictator
Fulgencio Batista
is based on an actual event. You can see the actual gold-plated (not solid gold) telephone in Havanas Museum of the Revolution (formerly Batistas presidential palace). The replica made for the movie looks pretty much like the original. No reference to the film is made in the information card of the telephone on display.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
During one of the bank robberies, Buck Barrow (
Gene Hackman
) does a leap over the tellers cage. This was a stunt routinely pulled by
John Dillinger
, who in turn learned it from watching
Douglas Fairbanks
in the "Zorro" movies.
b.
Marlon Brando
was scheduled to return for a cameo in the flashback at the end but, because of the way Paramount treated him during
The Godfather
, he did not show up for shooting on the day the scene was filmed.
Francis Ford Coppola
quickly re-wrote the scene on the spot.
c.
The animation of the sparkles produced by the Blue Fairys magic were designed by abstract animator
Oskar Fischinger
, who was working on the "Toccata and Fugue" sequence of
Fantasia
.
d.
The "oscillation overthruster" device reappeared as a "spectral analyzer" in the
Star Trek: The Next Generation
episode "Pen Pals."
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
Von Scherbach and the other officers of the camp are wearing Wermacht (Army) uniforms and caps. The stalag camps were operated by the Luftwaffe and, therefore, their caps and uniforms would have been slightly different (obvious from the emblems on the officers caps).
b.
Brad Hamiltons light-blue car is a 1960 Buick LeSabre.
c.
A test screening of the film garnered negative reactions from the audience. They found cutting back and forth between Michael and young Vito confusing and bothersome.
Francis Ford Coppola
and his editors decided to decrease the frequency of the transitions in order to make the parallel stories easier to follow.
d.
Laurence Olivier
was so afraid that he would accidentally hurt
Dustin Hoffman
while filming the torture scene that he would constantly ask Hoffman if he was all right after shooting a take. As a joke, Hoffman tried to make Olivier think that he had really hurt him by screaming in a very convincing and unexpected manner.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
Edith Massey
auditioned for the part of Big Ed, but
Paul Bartel
did not want her in the film because he thought it would look too much like a
John Waters
film without John Waters.
b.
Colin Strause
and
Greg Strause
both wanted the film to be 3-D, however the idea was dropped, because it would be too expensive.
c.
This was the first film sequel to receive five Academy Award Nominations for acting.
Talia Shire
(Best Actress In A Suporting Role),
Lee Strasberg
(Best Actor In A Supporting Role),
Michael V. Gazzo
(Best Actor In A Supporting Role) and
Al Pacino
(Best Actor) all received nominations, while
Robert De Niro
took home the Oscar for Best Actor In A Supporting Role.
d.
Gary Cole
and
Jason Bateman
had to keep redoing their voice recordings for the dodgeball matches because everyone kept changing stuff in the script during the shoots.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
Danny Aiello
said that his line "Michael Corleone says hello" was completely ad-libbed.
Francis Ford Coppola
loved it and asked him to do it again in the retakes.
b.
The character Addison Hanley is named after the former Letters to Cleo singer
Kay Hanley
.
c.
Andy Gibb
was originally cast to play Sonny.
d.
In the finale,
Groucho Marx
sings one line of a song called "Ive Got a Message from the Man in the Moon." The entire song was filmed but not used in the final cut.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
Alfred Hitchcock
s first color film.
b.
Robert De Niro
auditioned for and was almost cast in
The Godfather
in a minor role. When
Francis Ford Coppola
was casting this film, he saw
Mean Streets
and knew he wanted De Niro for a major role in this sequel.
c.
The renovated house where Kevin sets up his traps is not actually in New York City. All the scenes of the house and the surrounding neighborhood were filmed at the Hollywood backlot, Brownstone Street.
d.
Will says he changes the names of his girlfriends in the story he tells his daughter. Maya figures out their real names. Emilys real name is revealed to be Sarah, by Will when meet in the park. Summers name is Natasha mentioned by Maya when she speaks to her father.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
Last film of
Mary Ure
.
b.
In of many references to
Lolita
, "Lester Burnham" is an anagram for "Humbert learns".
c.
The orchestra that plays in the band shell during the party scene at Lake Tahoe was actually the Al Tronti Orchestra that played nightly for big names like
Elvis Presley
and
Tom Jones
at the Sahara Tahoe Casino/Hotel on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe while this film was being shot. Al Tronti himself sits in the orchestra in the front room (only seen in shadow). He wasnt allowed to appear as the orchestra conductor since he looked "too Italian" and the orchestra in the movie was supposed to be a West Coast group not able to play any traditional Italian music.
d.
Dan Resin
(Dr. Beeper) had to learn to play golf for the movie, but didnt keep up with it afterwards.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
The name "Snake Plissken" was changed to "Hyena" for the Italian release, and "Cobra" in Korea.
b.
The factory from which the truck that hits Gage (
Miko Hughes
) is leaving, is the International Paper Factory (formerly Champion Paper Factory) in Bucksport, Maine.
c.
Hyman Roths character is loosely based in real-life mobster
Meyer Lansky
. Lansky, who at the time of the films release was living in Miami, reportedly phoned
Lee Strasberg
and congratulated him for the role as Roth.
d.
The Battle of Ramelle never took place in real life. The town and the battle were both fictional. A German counter-attack over the causeway at La Fiere by the 1057th Grenadier Regiment and light tanks of the 100th Panzer Replacement Battalion was the inspiration for the climactic battle in the film, which is set around a bridge over the Merderet River in the fictional town of Ramelle.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
Brian Cox
was interviewed for Muldoon
b.
The Havana hotel that Michael stays in is the Capri. The location was the El Embajador Hotel in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
c.
To achieve the feel of a modern print,
Charles Chaplin
stretch-printed the footage, which slowed it down to sound speed so music could be added properly.
d.
Neale Donald Walsch laid the ground rule for the script: "None of Neales multiple wives and none of his nine children will be portrayed in this film" in order to protect their identity.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)?
a.
Studio records show that
Abe Dinovitch
and
Maude Erickson
filmed a production number with
Judy Garland
, but it was cut before the final release. Similarly,
Six Hits and a Miss
was filmed in another number cut before release.
b.
The musical play performed in the film, "Senza Mamma", was an actual early 20th century play composed by
Francis Ford Coppola
s grandfather,
Francesco Pennino
.
c.
The film was shot in 12 days just like the old B-Westerns of the 1930s and 40s. It is full of action just like most of
Sunset Carson
s films. The film was never released and its whereabouts remain a mystery.
d.
In Spain the Socialist Party in the city of Valladolid, PSOE, wanted to censure and withdraw the posters of the film because they claimed that the posters were offensive to women.
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