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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Jacket (2005) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Jacket (2005) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005).
About the movie:
A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a Doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
Heavy Duty was originally named Lamont Morris, but the name was changed to Hershel Dalton. However, his code number ("807-46-LM65") contains Morris initials to honour him.
b.
Leonardo DiCaprio
grew a few inches while shooting the film and he had to slouch in several scenes to look smaller next to
Robert De Niro
.
c.
Keira Knightley
credits the food poisoning she had during her audition for landing her the part of a sickly alcoholic.
d.
In the scene where Kuffs asks his trainer why theyre running when theyre going to drive most of the time, the cadets are all wearing sweatshirts with their last names on the front. One of those shirts has the last name "Gideon", a nod to co-writer/producer
Raynold Gideon
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
There are some authentic (i.e. not mocked up especially for the occasion) photos purporting to show ectoplasm in this movie. However, though they were seized upon as authentic at the time; most people now acknowledge that what is shown is regurgitated cheesecloth. (cf Mary Roachs "Spook")
b.
At one point,
Training Day
director
Antoine Fuqua
was attached to direct.
c.
During the date montage,
Alison Tafel
actually WAS drinking glass after glass of champagne. By the end of the shoot she was quite buzzed and then had to go film the confrontation with Joseph at his house.
d.
In his non-fiction book Danse Macabre,
Stephen King
declared this to be the scariest movie of all time and that
Alan Arkin
s performance "may be the greatest evocation of screen villainy ever."
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
According to director
John Maybury
, the love scene between
Adrien Brody
and
Keira Knightley
was longer, but was cut because American test audiences did not like the scene, which included nudity.
b.
Throughout his career
Burt Reynolds
has made a number of movies that examine movie-making and this film is one of them. The pictures include
Fade-In
(location filming & westerns);
Silent Movie
and
Nickelodeon
(silent films);
Best Friends
(scriptwriting & Hollywood);
Hooper
(stuntwork and Hollywood);
The Player
(Hollywood);
Boogie Nights
(adult films);
The Last Producer
(producers and Hollywood);
The Hollywood Sign
and
A Bunch of Amateurs
(actors and Hollywood).
c.
The philosophical "babble" between the characters (e.g. "subjectivity is objective") actually comes from the writing of Russian philosophers
G.I. Gurdjieff
and
P.D. Ouspensky
, as does the title "Love and Death".
d.
The character nicknamed "Psycho" is actually named "Francis". Francis is Norman Bates middle name in
Psycho
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1992.
b.
Adrien Brody
did sessions in an isolation tank, performed prison exercises, and went on a protein diet for his role as war vet Jack Starks.
c.
Although the New York blackout occurred thirty months before this movie was released, it was based on a play that opened in Paris nine years before the blackout.
d.
The film takes place in the year 2020, although it isnt necessarily specified.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
Loretta Young
: At the premiere.
b.
Mark Wahlberg
and
Colin Farrell
were both considered for the role of Jack Starks before
Adrien Brody
landed the role.
c.
Although Andre is a bad dancer,
Gérard Depardieu
who plays him actually studied dance for many years.
d.
When
George Clooney
meets his son at Princeton University, hes actually in front of Sellinger Hall at Loyola College in Maryland.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
Elizabeth Taylor
became the first actress to earn a million dollars when she agreed to star in this film. Her overall take of seven million is equivalent to about 29 million in 2009 dollars.
b.
Panoramic shots of the futuristic city, which much of the action takes place in, is actually footage of the Domed City from
Logans Run
.
c.
The large, metal phone the President uses to talk to the Soviet premier was actually a special phone used by explosives companies during blasting.
d.
Scenes of
Adrien Brody
sobbing in the body drawer were real. Brody had asked director
John Maybury
to keep him locked in even when they werent filming so he could get the feel of the characters despair. Eventually, Brody lost it during filming and Maybury caught it on tape.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
The Jacket is based on the story "The Star Rover" by
Jack London
which in turn was based on his interviews with Ed Morrell, who whilst in prison at San Quentin was tortured, often with a very tight straitjacket which constricted his chest, breathing and blood flow. In order to cope with this he quickly learned self-hypnosis similar to what Jack Starks goes through.
b.
Ralph Fiennes
was considered for the part of Humbert Humbert.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
d.
In
Death Proof
, the
Jordan Ladd
character Shanna is wearing a shirt that says "Bad Ass Cinema". The picture on her shirt is from the classic Grindhouse movie,
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
Some scenes were re-shot as the Director didnt like the locations.
b.
Was rushed into production in early 2008 after
Oliver Stone
s intended project
Pinkville
was abruptly canceled in late 2007 only two weeks before filming was to begin.
c.
Lady
Anne Lambton
was originally cast as Nurse Harding. During principal photography, she fell ill with pancreatitis and was unable to continue filming.
d.
The car that Sam Masterson (
Van Heflin
) drives into Iverstown at the beginning of the film is a 1942 DeSoto Custom Convertible.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
According to a
John Sturges
interview given in 1990 for the book John Sturges, Stories of a Filmmaker by Emmanuel Laborie, the music for the movie was to be composed by
Dimitri Tiomkin
. But the director had a quarrel with his favorite composer, because Sturges did not agree with a song during the opening credits, like in
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
. Tiomkim dismissed and was replaced by
Elmer Bernstein
.
b.
The screenplay was changed from the original novel to fit budget and locations. Price wrote herself in as the main character and added a new character, "Ian", as well as the "Mom" and "Nick" characters. The Gabriel and Camael characters were used from the original novel.
c.
The first rough cut ran 2 hours and 20 minutes. Among the scenes later eliminated were: segments showing Alvys former classmates in the present day; Alvy as a teenager; a scene in a junk-food restaurant (featuring
Danny Aiello
); extensive additional scenes featuring
Carol Kane
,
Janet Margolin
,
Colleen Dewhurst
and
Shelley Duvall
; and a fantasy segment at Madison Square Garden featuring the New York Knicks competing against a team of five great philosophers.
Christopher Walken
s driving scene was also cut, but was restored a week before the film was completed. New material for the ending was filmed on three occasions, but most was discarded. The final montage was a late addition.
d.
The scenes in the mental hospital were shot in the former Bangour Village Hospital, a disused insane asylum, in West Lothian, Scotland, near Edinburgh. As The Jacket was released, several other film scouts expressed an interest in the hospital building as a location, but the area had already been earmarked for housing development. Since then, the housing development has been scrapped, and Bangour Village Hospital still stands as it did at the time of filming, and continues to attract ghost-hunters as certain of the patient villas are believed to be haunted.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Jacket (2005)?
a.
Title was changed to "The Never Dead" for Australian audiences as not to confuse it with the popular Aussie sex comedy
Fantasm
, which was also known as Fantasma.
b.
Keira Knightley
flew in from the set of
King Arthur
to audition for her part.
c.
The DVD release chooses the 78 minute re-release version, not the 95 minute original version.
d.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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