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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Green Mile (1999) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Green Mile (1999) - 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 Green Mile (1999).
About the movie:
The story about the lives of guards on Death Row leading up to the execution of a black man accused of child murder and rape, who has the power of faith-healing.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
Film debut of
Johnny Carpenter
.
b.
The literal translations of some of this films foreign language titles include "Joy Stick Heroes" (Germany), "Sweet Road" (Japan), "The Wizard of Videogames" (Italy and Brazil), "Videokid" (France) "The Little Wizard" (Spain), "Gameboy" (Sweden), "Game Over" (Finland), and "The Child Genius" (Canada; French language).
c.
John Travolta was offered the role of Paul Edgecomb but turned it down.
d.
Warren Beatty
really wanted his then lover
Natalie Wood
to play the part of Bonnie Parker but Wood wanted to concentrate on her therapy at the time. She also didnt want to work professionally with Beatty again who she considered "difficult".
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
When Paul and Brutal take John Coffey outside at night John looks at the stars and says "Look Boss, its Cassie, the lady in the rocking chair." This is a reference to the constellation Cassiopeia. In Greek mythology Queen Cassiopeia is often depicted as sitting in a chair or rocking chair.
b.
John Wayne
s first movie role.
Raoul Walsh
was having trouble casting the movie when he saw Wayne taking furniture off a truck. Wayne worked for the studio in the prop department.
c.
Characters from film history that Eric Binford (
Dennis Christopher
) in this movie impersonates or dresses-up as include Dracula (
Bela Lugosi
), Hopalong Cassidy (
William Boyd
), The Mummy (
Boris Karloff
), Norman Bates (
Anthony Perkins
) from
Psycho
,
Arthur Cody Jarrett
(
James Cagney
) from
White Heat
and Tommy Udo (
Richard Widmark
) from
Kiss of Death
).
d.
Famous for playing James Bond, Sean Connery in this movie does not play a spy, but a diplomat. However, the picture inverts his James Bond persona by making his character the target of a professional international assassin and one that is a woman.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
J.J. Abrams
"good luck charm"
Greg Grunberg
had to turn down a role in this film due to other commitments. However, Grunberg was worked into the movie during post-production, voicing James Kirks step-father.
b.
This film was effectively "banned" (not rated by MPAA at all) in the U.S. following protest by Women Against Pornography.
c.
At $7 million - a drop in the bucket by todays movie budgets - this was the costliest of the
Ray Harryhausen
films to date.
d.
Voted number 2 in Channel 4 (UK) "Top 100 Tearjerkers" countdown, losing first place to "E.T The Extra Terrestrial".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
The rats all had numbers inked onto the underside of their tails so the filmmakers and trainers could keep track of them.
b.
This was the first film shown at the grand opening of the Granada Theatre in Racine, Wisconsin (USA) on Saturday, 7 April 1928.
c.
The boxing match that takes place in the MGM Grand is between
Lennox Lewis
and
Wladimir Klitschko
. These two have never fought, but on June 21, 2003, Lewis fought Vladimirs older brother,
Vitali Klitschko
.
d.
When the producers were having trouble finding the right actor to fill the role of John Coffey,
Bruce Willis
suggested
Michael Clarke Duncan
with whom he had co-starred in
Armageddon
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
Liz Smith
was cast at short notice after the original choice was too ill to work.
b.
John Huston
s only musical as a director, although he had been asked to direct
Doctor Dolittle
but turned it down. At one point, he was considered for the role of Daddy Warbucks but was turned down because he was too old.
c.
Richard Wilson
replaced
Nigel Hawthorne
.
d.
Doug Hutchison
(Percy) was given, according to the director, the squeakiest shoes hed ever heard. He thought this was the greatest bit of fate, and a "perfectly wonderful, annoying character trait" that he kept it in the movie, and you can hear sometimes how loud his shoes are.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
Many conservative social and religious groups demanded that the film be withdrawn or banned outright because of what they considered its "brutal and sensational" subject matter. The Chicago Censorship Board banned the film from being shown in Chicago for two years.
b.
The plot unfolds in the form of Paul telling Elaine the story of the Green Mile. In the book, Paul writes his story down in the form of a novel. At the end of the film, as Paul leaves the cemetery after Elaines burial, a tombstone can be seen behind him that reads "Greene", and two others, one in the foreground and one to the right of the screen, that read "Story".
c.
Producer Lawrence Elmer Fuhrmann Jr. plays The Gravedancers departed friend Devin Lansing.
d.
Bill Murray
was signed on as Willie but dropped out for
Lost in Translation
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
The bead of sweat that rolls down
Tom Hanks
face during his first encounter with
Jude Law
was not make-up but Hanks own sweat.
b.
Voted #5 Must See Movie of all time by listeners of Capital FM in London.
c.
Helen Mirren
shot all her scenes in four days.
d.
Jetfire rants about how his father was a wheel, and did not transform at all. He is possibly alluding to the Autobot Scrounge, who appeared in the "Transformers" comics and whose alternate mode was a wheel.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
This film was produced by George K. Spoor for his Natural Vision wide-screen format, but never released.
b.
When
Stephen King
visited the set he asked to be strapped into Old Sparky to see how it felt. He didnt like it and asked to be released.
c.
Writer/director
Daniel Boyd
also works as a college professor at West Virginia State University. One of Boyds students discovered make-up artist
Glen Harless
working at a costume make-up shop in Huntington, West Virginia.
d.
The title was originally going to be "Cop Gives Waitress Two Million Dollar Tip".
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
Dabbs Greer
s last film.
b.
The Long John Jump Band, who performed on the soundtrack and in the ballroom scenes, is fronted by John Sheridan (wearing a red suit jacket in the film). John Sheridan is the younger brother of Irish director
Jim Sheridan
.
c.
It was so cold on-site at the resort used, plus Goyband LLC couldnt afford the heat the place, that the interiors were all filmed in a studio.
d.
The opera
Richard Gere
takes
Julia Roberts
to is La Traviata, which is about a prostitute who falls in love with a wealthy man.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Green Mile (1999)?
a.
Considerable controversy exists over who supplied the voice of God for the film, for which no on-screen credit is given. The voice used was heavily modified and mixed with other sound effects, making identification extremely difficult. Various people have either claimed or been rumored to have supplied the voice:
Cecil B. DeMille
himself (he narrated the film),
Charlton Heston
and
Delos Jewkes
, to name a few. DeMilles publicist and biographer
Donald Hayne
maintains that Heston provided the voice of God at the burning bush, but he himself provided the voice of God giving the commandments. In the 2004 DVD release, Heston in an interview admitted that he was the voice of God.
b.
While many of
Stephen King
s novels are set in the authors native Maine, The Green Mile takes place in Louisiana. However, the surname of the main character - Edgecomb - is the name of a town on Maines mid-coast.
c.
Clark Gable
joined the Army Air Forces after his wife
Carole Lombard
died in a plane crash on a war bonds selling trip assisting the war effort. Gable entered as a lieutenant, but was promoted to major. He was a bomber pilot and was awarded both the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal for five aerial bombing missions over Germany from England.
Adolf Hitler
personally offered a reward to the pilot or gun crew who shot down Gables plane.
d.
Audrey Hepburn
and director
Terence Young
attended a school for the blind to learn more about the visually impaired. Hepburn even learned to read Braille.
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