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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Graduate (1967) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Graduate (1967) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967).
About the movie:
Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
Vivien Leigh
wasnt happy with
Victor Fleming
s brusque style after the careful nurturing she had enjoyed with
George Cukor
. When she asked him for direction in one scene, he told her "Ham it up". On another occasion when she asked for his constructive advice, he told her to "take the script and stick it up her royal British ass". After Cukors departure, Leigh had to fight hard to keep the movies Scarlett true to her view. Flemings interpretation of her was that she was an out-and-out bitch as in the novel and that he had no desire to create any sympathy or insight for her.
b.
Burt Ward
had to turn down the role of Benjamin Braddock due to his commitment to
Batman
and the studio (20th Century Fox) wouldnt lend him.
c.
Adapted from a non-musical Broadway play. The stage version of "The Happiest Millionaire" starred
Walter Pidgeon
, opened Nov. 20, 1956 at the Lyceum Theatre in New York and ran for 271 performances.
d.
According to
Mel Brooks
1975 Playboy interview, "We mentioned Raisinets in Blazing Saddles and now the company sends me a gross of them every month. A gross of Raisinets!"
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
None of the older characters has their first name identified in the film; only the younger characters of Benjamin, Elaine and Carl do, increasing the sense of a generation gap.
b.
Actress
Adriana Barraza
, in real life, has had a long history of heart problems including two minor heart attacks. Despite this, she still insisted on carrying co-star
Elle Fanning
around in the desert for the two days of filming of Amelia walking in the desert with Mike and Debbie.
c.
The bridge used in the opening of the film is called the Kaw Bridge, named after the Kaw River that runs under it. The bridge still stands in Lawrence, Kansas though it has been re-built with concrete since the filming.
d.
Officially this was
Orson Welles
s final film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
To achieve the effect of cars sliding into each other when hit by the patrol car at Moran Cadillac, the filmmakers put oil under the tires of the first few cars to help them slide. When it came time to do the stunt, it worked too well and many of the agencys own Cadillacs that were for sale were badly damaged. Director
H.B. Halicki
had to purchase all of them.
b.
40th best grossing film in USA of 1966.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
d.
Ronald Reagan
was considered for the role of Mr. Braddock.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
Jack Nicholson
was considered for the part of Benjamin Braddock.
b.
According to visual effects supervisor
John Dykstra
, animating Spider-Man was the most sophisticated task he had accomplished at that time.
Sam Raimi
wanted to convey the essence of being Spider-Man ("the transition that occurs, between him being a young man going through puberty and being a superhero"); but the main difficulty was that as the character was masked, there was no context of eyes/mouth and it immediately lost a lot of characterization; thus the animators had to insert a lot of body language into his movements so that there would be some emotional content.
c.
The man playing the corpse of Jesus later became a seminarian because of the film.
d.
Carrie Fisher
s breasts were taped down with gaffer tape, as her costume did not permit any lingerie to be worn underneath. She joked later, "As we all know, there is no underwear in space."
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
Richard Boone
was the first choice for the role of Lonnegan.
Oliver Reed
was offered the role but refused to test for it (he would later play Lonnegan in the sequel).
Stephen Boyd
was also considered.
b.
Paul Simon
wrote two songs for the film that director
Mike Nichols
rejected: "Punkys Dilemma" and "A Hazy Shade of Winter". Both appear on the Simon and Garfunkel "Bookends" album. The song "Mrs. Robinson" was not written for the movie; it was the working title of a song Simon was then writing (originally called "Mrs. Roosvelt", and about
Eleanor Roosevelt
) and Nichols decided to include it. Simon and
Art Garfunkel
only sing the chorus but none of the verses of the later hit song. Additionally, the chorus portion sung contains some lyrics not featured in the more popular "final" version of the song.
c.
The original novel by
Margaret Buell Wilder
is in epistolary form - i.e., it consists of a series of letters that she wrote to her husband while he was away at war.
d.
Pre-production for the movie lasted just one week. The film was conceived after
Larry Cohen
was fired from a low budget film shooting in New York. Cohen, determined not to waste the hotel room he had paid for, hired the actors and prepared a shooting script within six days.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
One of the outtakes shown during the closing credits (the scene with the undressing cheerleader) has Starsky (
Ben Stiller
) blowing on Hutchs (Owen Wilsons) face to get his attention off the nude girl. This was a reference to a strip club scene from
Starsky and Hutch
, used in the opening credits of that series.
b.
At one point in the film, Sonny tells Calogero that he read Niccolo Machiavelli during his time in prison. He later tells Calogero how he runs his gang - that hed rather be feared than loved, because fear is something that he can control, while love is not. Sonny then goes on to stress its important not to give his people so little that fear crosses over into hate. This concept of leadership stems directly from Machiavellis most famous book, "The Prince."
c.
Apparently,
Dustin Hoffman
s screen test consisted of him fumbling his lines and awkwardly trying to grab
Katharine Ross
s behind, which angered her. As he left thinking he didnt get the role, his awkwardness was just what director
Mike Nichols
needed for Benjamin Braddock.
d.
The apartment complex where Detective Nick Curran lives is located at 1158-1170 Montgomery Street at the Green Street L-Bend.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
To further cut costs,
Edward Burns
found free locations to shoot in, partly in thanks to family and friends.
b.
The scenes where Billy has therapy sessions with Dr. Cleveland werent in the original script. They were added during production to help strengthen the narrative of the movie.
c.
Patty Duke
was offered the part of Elaine Robinson, but turned it down because she did not want to work at the time.
d.
When Jake and Anna go to the cinema they say theyre going to see "Garcías film", theyre talking about
Andy Garcia
and the movie is
When a Man Loves a Woman
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
This was the final theatrical film for
Roger Croucher
,
Carlo Cura
, and
Yvonne Shima
.
b.
Within a year of the movies release, plastic manufacturing companies became enormously successful. Many people attribute this to
Walter Brooke
s quote about "plastics". Brooke himself once told his nephew that he would have invested in plastics, if he had known that the remark would lead to such success.
c.
A Nitrate Print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and television archives, and is not listed for Preservation as it should be.
d.
Justin Shenkarow
loved the screenplay so much that he elected to take a minor behind-the-scenes role. His name appears 25th from the bottom of the credits.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
The cast improvised virtually all of the dialog where they sit around and tell their back stories. This includes Murrays lines about Lee Harvey making out with a cow and calling Sgt. Hulka a big toe.
b.
Ociee Nash was an actual person, the grandmother of author
Milam McGraw Propst
, who penned the novel "A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street" from which the screenplay was drawn. The real Ociee Nash was born in 1889 and was 9 years old in 1898 - the year in which the film is set, and the age of the on-screen title character.
c.
The name plate on the hotel desk reads "Mr. Kranze".
Don Kranze
was the films assistant director.
d.
Steven Spielberg
: [stars]
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Graduate (1967)?
a.
All Black Hawks and Little Birds used during the filming were from the 160th SOAR, (Special Operations Aviation Regiment) and most of the pilots were involved in the actual battle on 3/4 October 1993. A lot of the extra Rangers in the film were current Rangers, serving with the 3/75 Ranger Regiment
b.
This film was shot on the lavish sets created for
Phantom of the Opera
in an attempt to recoup the large budget of that film. The opera house set had been built for the original
The Phantom of the Opera
starring
Lon Chaney
, and this extraordinary set still exists on the Universal Studios lot. It is the oldest surviving movie set in the world.
c.
James Brolin
was originally approached for the role of Bernie but turned it down. When director
Jay Roach
went to approach
Dustin Hoffman
for the role, Hoffman was talking non-stop and even out of the point which made him the instant choice for Bernie.
d.
According to
Dustin Hoffman
at NYUs Tisch School of the Arts Graduation 2003, his friend and former roommate
Gene Hackman
was cast as Mr. Robinson but was fired after a few weeks of work.
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