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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Hours (2002) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Hours (2002) - 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 Hours (2002).
About the movie:
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
Jurgen Prochnow (Duke Leto Atreides) and Dean Stockwell (Dr. Wellington Yueh)also appeared together three years earlier in David Lynchs Dune.
b.
Meryl Streep
is actually mentioned in the original novel on which the film is based.
c.
According to actor
Richard Kiel
in his autobiography "Making it Big in the Movies", he only turned down four roles in his whole life and the part that
Peter Fonda
plays in this movie is one of them.
d.
In the scene where Blade is chased to the subway, and the subway train is passing by, all the passengers are cardboard cutouts with the special FX man among them.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
Philip Rosenberg
, in charge of production design, is also credited on the billboard at the Met for the production of La Boheme attended by Loretta and Ronnie.
b.
It was director of photography
Rob Hahn
s idea to have Nick taunt Jack with Brians line "Okay, bye-bye" after tricking him at the end.
c.
Although the widely perceived notion was that
Michael Cunningham
s original novel was felt to be unfilmable, adapter
David Hare
actually thought it was effortlessly cinematic.
d.
Oliver Stone
had an actual RPG fired towards the end. This added to the effects realism.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
Re-released in France in May 1974.
b.
Ray Enright
directed additional scenes after
William A. Seiter
left the picture.
c.
Julianne Moore
s time line was bumped up from the novels austere 1949 setting to the more optimistic and affluent 1951, as that better served to show Lauras powerless feeling of alienation.
d.
In 1950, 20th Century Fox theatrically reissued this film on a bill with
Belle Starr
and
The Purple Heart
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
Matthew Broderick
, a friend of writer/director
Kenneth Lonergan
s, was the first actor cast in this movie. He visited Lonergan at his apartment, read the part of Brian and asked if he could audition for it. Lonergan then told him the part was already his.
b.
William Holden
s character in this film is dying of cancer. Sadly, this films director,
Peter Collinson
, died of cancer about five months after this film was released.
c.
"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel" is a quotation - sometimes misquoted with "on" in place of "upon" - from Alexander Popes "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" of January 1735. The line has entered common use and has become associated with more recent figures.
d.
Ed Harris
s apartment was supposed to be a drafty New York loftspace. In reality, the studio set in England was stiflingly hot and both
Meryl Streep
and Harris regularly had to have the sweat mopped off them.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
Nicole Kidman
is the third person and first actress to win an Oscar for a role played with a false nose. The other two are
José Ferrer
, for
Cyrano de Bergerac
, and
Lee Marvin
for
Cat Ballou
.
b.
Around 1,000 costumes were used - a major achievement for a film with such a small budget. Many costumes were originals culled from the Club Kids themselves, which contribute to the authentic feel of the overall design and look of the film.
c.
The mansion in the movie, "Hill House", was named after the producer of the movie,
Debra Hill
.
d.
Jodie Foster
s first film as director shot in 2.35.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
At one point
Sydney Pollack
let his friend
Barry Levinson
read the screenplay. Levinson was much taken with it. One evening, whilst driving across the desert, he saw a cluster of windmills on the horizon. He turned to his wife and said that it would make a perfect backdrop for a scene with Charlie and his girlfriend. Seven weeks before shooting, Pollack called Levinson and told him that he should make the movie. With a writers strike looming, Levinson had to agree immediately.
b.
John Boorman
had been offered the chance to direct, but declined because he felt the storyline was "cruel towards children". He did, however, accept the offer to direct the sequel,
Exorcist II: The Heretic
.
c.
Steven Spielberg
was offered the chance to direct this film, but he turned it down to go make
Schindlers List
instead.
d.
In the beginning of the movie, every house is seen to be having flowers. Every house has a different color of flowers: red, yellow and blue -
Virginia Woolf
s trademark.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
Meryl Streep
decided not to re-read "Mrs. Dalloway" in preparation for the film, as she felt that her character Clarissa would have read it in college and not particularly have understood it then, much as Streep herself had done when she was at college.
b.
Every character in the film is named after a close friend of director
Adam Green
.
c.
Codys driver-side window in his convertible is 3/4 up because the window was stuck.
d.
The film is loosely based on the Transylvanian legend of Krim Rosü (Krim Red in English), a man said to have lived thousands of years.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
The song "Over the Rainbow" was going to be used in the opening sequence.
b.
Nicole Kidman
read all of
Virginia Woolf
s personal letters, and found that they gave her greater access to her character than her novels.
c.
As the lead character of Alex Rider engages in mountain climbing, scuba diving, martial arts and many other extreme sports, the role is said to be one of the most physically demanding ever undertaken by a child actor.
d.
Director
Robert G. Vignola
started the film, was fired and replaced by
Edmund Mortimer
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
Warren Beatty
wanted to produce this movie in black and white. This was rejected by Warner Brothers.
b.
Oliver Stone
remarked that
Hunter S. Thompson
and gonzo-journalism were large influences on the film.
c.
When the seating chart for Richards party is shown, the name "Michael Cunningham" is in the middle.
Michael Cunningham
wrote the novel upon which the movie is based.
d.
Hans Zimmer
stated in an interview that he wrote the music for the films as if he was scoring a "biker movie", and that during the process he substituted the ships for motorcycles in his mind when viewing the film.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Hours (2002)?
a.
Sondra Locke
was offered the role of Sandy, but turned it down.
b.
Julianne Moore
s segment was filmed first, then
Meryl Streep
s, and finally
Nicole Kidman
s.
c.
Some, though not all, of the characters in the film have different names from their historical counterparts. For example, Colonel Franz Ritter (
George C. Scott
) was Colonel Fritz Erdmann in real life; the Countess (
Anne Bancroft
) was actually Margaret Mather; Martin Vogel (
Roy Thinnes
) represents Karl Otto Clemens; Captain Fellows (
Stephen Elliott
) is based on U.S. Navy airship commander Charles Rosendahl; Karl Borth (
William Atherton
) was named Eric Spehl in real life; his mistress, Freda Halle (
Lisa Pera
) was Beatrice Friedrich; Mr. and Mrs. Reed Channing (
Peter Donat
and
Joanna Moore
) were Leonhard and Gertrud Adelt; the Breslau family (
Alan Oppenheimer
,
Katherine Helmond
,
Jean Rasey
,
Johnny Lee
and
Stephen Manley
) was actually the Doehnerr family; Dimmler (
Rex Holman
), while there was an engineering officer by that name, is shown stationed in the main control gondola and likely represents either Captain Albert Sammt or Captain Anton Wittemann. Captain Ernst Lehmann, Captain Max Pruss, Joseph Spah, Edward Douglas, Ludwig Knorr, Hugo Eckener and Joseph Goebbels are among those who were called by their real historical names in the film.
d.
The screenplay for
The Inherited
served as part of the director
Patrick C. Clinton
s doctoral dissertation.
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