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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Handmaid's Tale (1990) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Handmaid's Tale (1990) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Handmaid's Tale (1990)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Handmaid's Tale (1990).

About the movie: In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Handmaid's Tale (1990)?
a.		After the release of the Academy Award winning Patton, a movie documenting the life of Douglas MacArthur was announced but it took about five to seven years for it to be achieved.
b.		When the picture was sent to the U.S. Navy for approval, the Navy refused to have its name associated with it because of the sequence at the end when Watson takes over a ship and does some decidedly un-military manoeuvres with it. The producers came up with the idea of having Watson accidentally taking a sleeping potion and dreaming the entire sequence. When this scene was shot and edited in, the Navy lent its backing to the picture.
c.		The tutu outfit that Carrie models for the girls is the same outfit she wears on the Sex and the City opening credits.
d.		In the original source novel, the main character is known only by her patronymic, "Offred" (or "of Fred," since she "belongs" to a Commander named Fred); her real name is never revealed, though many readers believe it may be June, based on various subtle hints in the text. However, the filmmakers chose Kate as her pre-Gileadean name, and choose to state it clearly.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Handmaid's Tale (1990)?
a.		David Dukes: a doctor
b.		The techno song played during the Germans "training" scene is same song played in Super Troopers when they pull over the Porsche. The song is "Bidibodi Bidibu" by Bubbles.
c.		The throng of uncredited teenagers included future actresses and celebrities Melinda Marx (daughter of Groucho Marx), Kim Darby (starred in True Grit), Linda Henning (Betty Jo Bradley in Petticoat Junction (1963)), Elaine Joyce (actress, game show guest star and wife to Bobby Van and Neil Simon) and Melody Patterson (Wrangler Jane on F Troop (1965)).
d.		The original Broadway production of "Zorba" opened at the Imperial Theater in New York on November 16, 1968, ran for 305 performances and was nominated for the 1969 Tony Award for the Best Musical. Anthony Quinn and Lila Kedrova who starred together in this movie version appeared in the revival of Zorba in 1982-3 with Lila Kedrova winning the 1984 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. "Zorba" was nominated for the 1969 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Handmaid's Tale (1990)?
a.		Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who got an "additional photography" credit in the film, complained to Roger Ebert that more than half of the footage was shot by him.
b.		After the films release, Marvel made a decision to have Peter Parker undergo a further mutation, which included having him shoot his own webbing, rather than use his artificial webbing from his webshooters which was met with some controversy. However, this was later undone in 2007 after the events of the One More Day storyline where Spider-Man would use his artificial webbing again.
c.		The lead role of Kate was offered to Jodie Foster and Sigourney Weaver.
d.		J.C. Agajanian, Jr., who plays a detective in the roadblock sequence at Torrance Mazda Agency, was almost killed when a stunt with "Eleanor" went wrong and the Mustang slammed into his unmarked police car, which he was standing behind. The scene was left in the film.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Handmaid's Tale (1990)?
a.		In a 2000 interview, Sandra Bullock jokingly referred to this movie as "the biggest piece of crap ever made."
b.		The character of Master Croc, voiced by Jean-Claude Van Damme, late in the movie performs a signature move of Van Dammmes. As he leaps onto the boat Master Croc lands in a wide split position, a characteristic Van-Damme move.
c.		This movie was filmed with two endings: one happy and one sad.
d.		The name "Particicution" is a play on the name "Participaction", a government corporation founded by Pierre Trudeau in 1972 in an attempt to get Canadians into fitness. The corporation lasted until 2000 in Margaret Atwoods homeland of Canada.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Handmaid's Tale (1990)?
a.		In the book, the story takes place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, predominantly in Harvard Square, on the Harvard campus, and in the general area. Harvard Square is a terribly busy place, however, and it would have been almost impossible to clear the Square for the scenes in question. In addition, Harvard University has a "no filming" policy that prohibits any filming from taking place on their campus. North Carolina substituted.
b.		Much of the dialog is taken from real life conversations writer/director Everett Lewis had. Dennys monologue detailing how he became involved with drugs and sex work comes directly from a man Lewis met who was in Alcoholics Anonymous.
c.		Bakers inability to throw the ball back to the pitcher was based on former New York Mets catcher Mackey Sasser. Sasser was very successful at throwing out runners attempting to steal second, but had a mental block causing him to flinch several times when trying to throw the ball back to the pitcher. Many baserunners took advantage of this affliction and stole bases while he was triple pumping his throw, and/or lollipopping the throw back.
d.		Director Sally Potter began writing the script on 12 September 2001.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Handmaid's Tale (1990)?
a.		Images of Witchfinder General album sleeves appear scattered throughout the film in tribute to the bands influence on director Richard R. Anasky.
b.		The repressive theocratic regime that has taken over the US in this movie (and its source novel) is called "The Republic of Gilead." Gilead is a place (or maybe several places) mentioned repeatedly in the Bible (first in Genesis 31:23), both as a geographic location and the source of a figurative or literal "balm" (curative or healing substance). Based on those constant Bible references, there is a well-known spiritual, "There is a Balm in Gilead," that is in the hymnals of many Christian denominations, and in the book iThe Handmaids Tale/i, Offred remembers the hymn and makes a joke about it.
c.		The three-legged dog "Tripod" was added to the script when the director saw the dog and its owner among spectators watching filming while in Elora, Ontario.
d.		Micil Murphy returned to prison for a role in the film. He had become an actor after being paroled from San Quentin in 1966 after serving five and a half years for armed robbery.

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