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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Great Dictator (1940) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Great Dictator (1940) - 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 Great Dictator (1940).
About the movie:
In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
OMalley jokes that Jaffe is now calling himself Hemingway and has shot himself, a grim precursor of the writers death.
b.
Chloe Moretz
and
Isabelle Fuhrman
were considered for the part of Lillith.
c.
J.G. Ballard
: the author played the part of a guest in the masquerade party scene. However, only a quick glimpse of him can be seen in the final cut.
d.
Charles Chaplin
spent some time attempting to simulate the sound of an airplane motor with various methods, only to be upstaged by one of his sound technicians who simply went to an airport for the appropriate sounds.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
During Hynkels speech, there are several recognizable German words used. Most popular are "Wienerschnitzel" (a Viennese style breaded veal cutlet), and "Sauerkraut" (a kind of sour preserved cabbage). Others are "Leberwurst" and "Blitzkrieg". Though some other utterances vaguely resemble words in German, the speech is actually gibberish. Several times in the film, Hynkel utters "cheese und cracken!" in the context of an obscenity.
b.
Frank Nelson
s movie debut.
c.
Eli Roth said that the scenes set in the Amsterdam brothel and the slaughterhouse when Paxton sees various people being tortured paralleled each other, with the former being an extreme view of sex and the latter an extreme view of violence.
d.
After doing
The Untouchables
,
Robert De Niro
was looking for some lighter material to do next. Initially, he wanted to play the lead in
Penny Marshall
s
Big
, but the studio wasnt interested in having DeNiro play the role, and it ultimately went to
Tom Hanks
. De Niro was then offered Midnight Run, which he liked, and agreed to appear in.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
Martin OMalley
, who plays the Mayor, is the real Mayor of Baltimore and spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
b.
Marilyn Monroe
s iconic white dress set a record when it was auctioned for $4.6 million in June 2011 (rising to $5.5 million after taxes and fees were included), quintupling the previous record for a movie costume ($923,000 for
Audrey Hepburn
s "little black dress" from
Breakfast at Tiffanys
).
c.
Financed entirely by
Charles Chaplin
himself, and his biggest box-office hit.
d.
On the DVD trailer for this film there are several scenes that never appear in the movie. For example, there is a clip with Jules tells Mox: "You woke up in the twilight zone....West Canaan, sex and football. Thats all there is." Another scene where a girl in the pep-rally asks Lance to sign her ass also never appears.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
This was
Jodie Foster
s last film before attending college at Yale University. Foster returned to acting in the late 1980s.
b.
The design of Cyclops and Jean Greys tombstones is taken from the "X-Men" storyline Days of Future Past, where the X-Mens gravestones were in a similar deco (The X symbol with the member name below).
c.
At one point when the Dormouse is searching for the Hatter in the Red Queens castle, she looks in a vacant room. A caricature of Henry VIII can be seen on the far wall.
d.
When
Charles Chaplin
first announced that he was going to make this film, the British government - whose policy at the time was one of appeasement towards Nazi Germany - announced that they would ban it. By the time of the films release, though, Britain was at war with Germany and in the midst of the blitz, so the governments attitude towards the film had completely changed toward a film with such obvious value as propaganda.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
Associate Producer
Tommy Clohessy
choreographed the end fight scene.
b.
In the scene after "Red" Bennett is appointed chairman in the union after the success of the Kreger strike, Jimmy Hoffa picks up a paper from the news stand and reads the headline about the strike. If you pay close attention to the moment when he slaps the paper and says "Aint that something?" the story his hand touches on the page reads: "Ma and Freddie Barker killed in gun battle". It is a true headline and it places the date in the scene somewhere around January 1935 (when Ma Barker was killed).
c.
Cary Grant
got $450,000 for this movie - a substantial amount for the time - plus a percentage of the gross profits. He also received $315,000 in penalty fees for having to stay nine weeks past the time his contract called for.
d.
At the 1940 Academy Awards, the film got five nominations. It failed to win any Academy Awards, and
Charles Chaplin
was hurt by this. He already had spent twenty-seven years in Hollywood.
James Stewart
, the winner of the Best Actor Award (for which Chaplin was nominated), was not even planning on going to the ceremony until someone told him to go there hours before it began. Interestingly enough, this was the first year in which the winners remained secret until the moment they won their Awards.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
Frank Churchill
and
Paul Francis Webster
(as Paul F. Webster) are credited onscreen for "Songs of Italy." However, that title refers to a medley of three Italian songs written by others. So we assume that both men were musical arrangers. They did publish a song, "Blue Italian Waters," which may have been played as background music.
b.
John Ford
loved the Monument Valley location so much that the actual stagecoach journey traverses the valley three times.
c.
At some points, Lord Rathbone and Wu Chow speak in iambic pentameter. Most notable is the stable scene: "I was taught to be neither seen nor heard/ Where is the seal? (Im a man of my word.)"
d.
Adolf Hitler
considered
Charles Chaplin
to be one of the greatest actors he had ever seen, while Hitler assumed that Chaplin was a Jew.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
Lichtenstein can clearly be seen mouthing the word "Damn!"
b.
When
Conan OBrien
was told that the character of Cleo was to be obsessed with him, he happily agreed to pose for a picture with
Melissa George
in character. A still photograph of OBrien and Cleo is shown during the closing credits.
c.
The airport security attack dog is named "W".
d.
Charles Chaplin
blinks fewer than ten times during the entire final speech, which lasts over five minutes.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
Alexander Korda
had previously taken an unsuccessful stab at the material. His advice to
Michael Todd
was "Back away from it, Mike. Ive been trying to lick it for years. Total loss."
b.
Movies prologue says, "For the first time in history, lions and tigers are worked together in the "Big Cage".
c.
Charles Chaplin
wrote the entire script in script form, except for the fake German, which was improvised. In addition, he also scripted every movement in the globe dance sequence.
d.
Average Shot Length ~6.0 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~5.7 seconds.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
When
Charles Chaplin
s young son
Sydney Chaplin
saw the scene where the artillery shell drops out of the supergun for the first time, he burst out laughing. It ruined the take.
b.
Writer
Jacob Forman
and production designer
Thomas S. Hammock
play the firework salesmen.
c.
The film is dedicated to
Charles Scorsese
, father of director
Martin Scorsese
, who died just before the film was completed. He and his wife
Catherine Scorsese
(the directors mother) have a cameo appearance in the scene at the station.
d.
The jeweler that made the different sized rings that were featured in the movies is in Nelson, New Zealand. Two of the rings (the biggest and the smallest) are there for public viewing.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Dictator (1940)?
a.
Final film of
Stanley Adams
.
b.
Vitaphone production reels #4826-4832 and #4807 (trailer)
c.
In Italy, all the scenes that involved Napalonis wife were cut from the movie to respect
Benito Mussolini
s widow, Rachele. The complete version wasnt seen until 2002.
d.
When Joe and DeDe leave the restaurant, there is a billboard on the left with a picture of an erupting volcano and the words "Fire in Paradise".
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