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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996).

About the movie: After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that it's inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		Released in 1996, the year of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the source novel in 1896.
b.		Alexs chicken spread was actually mushed up banana.
c.		Dustin Hoffman was considered for the role of Butch.
d.		Unable to record the films dialogue on-set due to technical problems, Stanley Kubrick was forced to post-sync all of this films dialogue and sound effects. Veteran soundman Nathan Boxer was hired to record sound. However, after his boom mike and pole created many shadows, the inexperienced Kubrick was forced to fire him and his sound crew. Irene Kane was unavailable to add her dialogue later, so radio actress Peggy Lobbin voiced her role.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		In Spanish (at least in Chile) this movie is titled "Heroes".
b.		When Val Kilmer showed up on set two days late, it was clear that he hadnt learned any lines or knew much about his character.
c.		The Micmac burial ground in the film was constructed upon an actual mountain top. According to director Mary Lambert bulldozers were brought in to build the stone mounds.
d.		The Marshall plane crash followed by 6 weeks a similar crash of one of 2 chartered planes carrying the Wichita State University football team (the plane that crashed carried the upperclassmen, the head coach and other team staff, university officials, and several boosters). The plane crashed into the side of a mountain in Colorado en route to a game in Logan, UT; 31 people were killed, about half of whom were players; there were 9 survivors, including the co-pilot. The surviving team members, plus some freshman players, continued to play for the remainder of the season.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		Towards the start of the film, a framed certificate in Swedish bears the names of Dr. Moreau, Alfred Nobel, Karolinska Institute. The Karolinska institute awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Immediately after the certificate is shown, the protagonist is seen examining a display box containing a Nobel Prize.
b.		The Matrix of Leadership never came up in the earlier drafts of the script, yet it is the main driving force behind the finished movies plot.
c.		Conrad Veidt, who played Maj. Strasser, was well known in the theatrical community in Germany for his hatred of the Nazis, and in fact was forced to hurriedly escape the country when he found out that the SS had sent a death squad after him because of his anti-Nazi activities.
d.		The set for Bedford Falls was constructed in two months and was one of the longest sets that had ever been made for an American movie. It covered four acres of the RKOs Encino Ranch. It included 75 stores and buildings, main street, factory district and a large residential and slum area. The Main Street was 300 yards long, three whole city blocks!

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		The Persian couple are called Shereen and Farhad. "Shereen and Farhad" is an ancient Persian love story by various poets, with Nizami Ganjavis being the most famous.
b.		Credited with launching the career of Christina Aguilera whose first song to be released in the US was the films song Reflection. The song went down so well that it landed her a recording contract with RCA Records.
c.		Walon Green did some uncredited contributions to the Ron Hutchinson draft of the screenplay when John Frankenheimer took over as director.
d.		This film was made and released about six years after Bruce Jay Friedmans source book The Lonely Guys Book of Life was first published in 1978.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 10, 1945 with Claudette Colbert again reprising her film role.
b.		Desert footage was shot by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack in 1937 for an unmade film on the life of Lawrence of Arabia..
c.		This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilsons book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
d.		According to Meryl Streep, Julie Walters injured herself whilst filming the "Dancing Queen" musical sequence, by tripping over some rocks on a cobbled street, but "soldiered on".

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		Sulu (George Takei) was supposed to leap into the Huey helicopter when the pilot was outside, looking the other way, and make off with it. Takei had just run the San Francisco marathon when they were supposed to shoot this scene, and was too sore to leap into the helicopter. They tried having a grip throw him in, but couldnt get it to look realistic, so the scene was cut. In the final edit, Sulu is shown talking to the pilot, then shows up flying the helicopter a few minutes later.
b.		Val Kilmer initially accepted his role so that he could work with Marlon Brando. Before filming started Kilmer informed the production that he did not want to be involved in any capacity due to the creative direction of the film, but due to the massive success of Batman Forever the studio could not afford to let him go and he was forced to participate by contractual obligation.
c.		In the script and novelization, the young boy that Tatsu attacks was to die from the beating. The sounds of the boy breathing and others saying he would be all right were added at the last minute after the movie ratings board objected to the scene.
d.		The film was initially rejected for a UK cinema certificate by the BBFC in March 1955. It was resubmitted again in August where it was then by around 6 minutes to remove uses of threatening dialogue and the entire climactic switchblade scene between Dadier and Artie. It would later be passed completely uncut for video and DVD with a 12 certificate.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer vacationed together in Ireland just before production started.
b.		While Karolina Kurkova described being part of the film as an amazing experience, she was upset that she didnt get to take part in any action sequences, due to her character, Cover Girl, being killed off by Zartan.
c.		From a budget of $1 million, the film lost over $600,000 - a huge amount of money for a small studio like RKO.
d.		Before the film was finished, Director Paul Thomas Anderson sent a rough copy to New Line Cinema for them to do the trailer for the film. The movie was pirated and distributed before it was released. The pirated work print includes many scenes not in the movie or DVD deleted scenes and were possibly deleted to avoid the NC-17 rating- as some are very explicit.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		Hitchcock shot some scenes involving actors Pidgeon and Bennett in a plane. They state he did this as a favor to this films producer Walter Wanger, with whom Hitchcock had worked on Foreign Correspondent.
b.		According to Richard Stanley, the original shooting script was changed by Ron Hutchinsons rewrites ordered by Frankenheimer, Brando, Kilmer and the studio. Frankenheimer wanted to change the basic tone of the movie and tried to merge his version with Brandos vision of Moreau. Major portions of the script were either transformed or scrapped. However, the WGA (Writers Guild of America) kept Stanleys co-writer credit.
c.		Walter Matthau had not been on the New York subway in many years at the time this movie was made even though he was born and raised in New York.
d.		During the late1930s and into the 40s, this film was constantly revived on the roadshow circuit with a spicy ad campaign and a new title: "Forbidden Desires". Surviving publicity material shows plenty of lascivious appeal but mentions nothing about the film being about venereal disease.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		The number on Bolts dog tag is the address of Disneys feature animation building.
b.		When Val Kilmer apes David Thewlis staid manner of saying "the islanders", he sounds more like Marlon Brando (who he later imitates more blatantly) than Thewlis.
c.		This movie was the Columbia Pictures studios first Australian theatrical feature film production in thirty years. At the time, their film Smithy had been their last.
d.		Originally Laurence Fishburne was keen to provide the voice for Galactus. He happily switched to the role of the Silver Surfer when it became clear that Galactus was not going to be represented in "human" form.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)?
a.		Shooting began mid October, 1938, released Jan. 6, 1939.
b.		Originally, Sam Peckinpah wanted to direct the movie. When John Boorman secured the rights, Peckinpah directed Straw Dogs instead.
c.		Premiered with three midnight screenings starting on a Thursday and lasting through Saturday in the small town of Beeville, TX.
d.		Val Kilmer described the shoot as "crazy". Marlon Brando was still recovering from the suicide of his daughter and the day production started the French set off an underwater atomic bomb near Tahiti where Brando owned an atoll. Then Kilmer learned that he was getting divorced when he turned on the TV. Two days later the director Richard Stanley was fired by the studio due to their concerns over the direction of the film. John Frankenheimer was then hired to replace Stanley but from the start clashed with Brando, Kilmer, and studio executives regarding the direction of the film.

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