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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Love Guru (2008) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Love Guru (2008) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Love Guru (2008).
About the movie:
Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Love Guru (2008)?
a.
Robert Altman
didnt want
Sally Kellerman
initially because "she was too attractive" and he wanted unattractive actors.
b.
There is an extra scene with
Kanye West
being interviewed at a hockey game to which
Mike Myers
has brought him. Each time the interviewer gives the microphone to Kanye, Mike Myers leans in and keeps repeating, "Dont say it, dont say it!" Mike Myers was onstage with Kanye West when Kanye made his infamous
George W. Bush
does not like Black people, statement.
c.
The lead character, Jett Rink, was based upon the life of Texas oilman Glenn McCarthy (1908 - 1988). The real Glenn McCarthy was an Irish immigrant who would later be associated with a symbol of opulence in Houston, Texas: the Shamrock Hotel, which opened on St. Patricks Day, 1949.
d.
All of the alcohol in the film is either water or root beer.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Love Guru (2008)?
a.
Dedicated to
John L. Black
.
b.
The scene where Pitka (
Mike Myers
) and Jane Bullard (
Jessica Alba
) are on the plane and said she turned for advice from gurus when her dad died, is based on a real life situation by Mike Myers after his father died.
c.
Ian McKellen
(Magneto) worked with screenwriters to make the scene in which Bobby Drake (Iceman) tells his parents he is a mutant to look more like a common gay "coming-out" scene.
d.
Celine says to Jesse "Youre a Scorpio, Im a Sag (Sagittarius), so we get along." These are
Ethan Hawke
and
Julie Delpy
s signs in real life.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Love Guru (2008)?
a.
Some additional characters shown as Addams (relatives which had more emphasis in the original script, but less screen-time) were: Dexter and Donald Addams (the two-headed cousin in matching turtlenecks); cousin Ophelia Addams (revealed to Morticias sister who looks like a
Tennessee Williams
heroine); Slosh Addams (a great, fat, toad-like man who was revealed in the script to have "made many a killing on Wall Street"); his child-sized wife, Lois; Digit Addams (a four-armed Addams with an over-aged Heidi-look-alike, complete with thick blonde braids, as his date); and Lumpy Addams (a teenage hunchback cousin in a loud blazer).
b.
The opening scene is set in a location named Harenmahkeester, as declared by a large sign. This prop reappears in the reality show
Junk Raiders
, Episode 4, where its salvaged to act as a headboard.
c.
The film was shot on two days a week over the course of 4 months. It took 26 days total to shoot.
d.
During his scene,
Michael Winslow
did all the sound effects. In the commentary for the movie
Mel Brooks
jokes that they saved around a $1000 by letting him do this.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Love Guru (2008)?
a.
The yellow 1947 Crosley convertible featured in this film was borrowed from a family member of the original Crosley Motors.
b.
The role of Maxine Richter was originally intended for
Gina Lollobrigida
.
c.
There was a real
Jacques Lecoq
. He was an actor, called the "father of modern mime."
d.
Much like the KKK scene, Odysseus and his men hide from the Cyclops by dressing as sheep.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Love Guru (2008)?
a.
Because
The Marx Brothers
are credited onscreen in the opening credits but are not in the comprehensive end credits, (where they are individually credited), the IMDb cast list uses the opening credits first, and completes them with those in the end credits not already mentioned.
b.
Title refers to the song "Dont Lets Start" by They Might Be Giants.
c.
During the scene where Guru Pitka and Rajneesh are singing More Than Words, the man waving a lighter on Guru Pitkas "hybrid pillow", is a real member of crew. He also appears at the beginning of the movie, after Guru Pitka sings "9 to 5" when he takes his pillow off camera.
d.
Most of the extras in the film are Ocean Citys infamous "pavillion kids" a group of youths that hang out on Ocean Citys 11th Street pavilion, most of whom were homeless. The director also employed them as gophers and miscellaneous hands.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Love Guru (2008)?
a.
In 1998 it was reported that
Mike Myers
would be playing four characters in
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
, the fourth being Austins love guru. This character finally surfaced in a starring role in 2008.
b.
Sahkanaga (pronounced "sock-uh-nogga") is the Cherokee word for "Great Blue Hills of God".
c.
Lucille Ball
s first film.
d.
In the steam engine scene where the boys are salvaging iron rails from unused rail lines, the Norfolk & Western coal hauling steam locomotive they see is the former Southern Railway engine #4501. This engine is currently in use at the Tennessee Valley Railroad in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The scenes with the locomotive were filmed in upper Tennessee around Harriman, Oliver Springs, and Lake City with engine #4501 pulling a string of coal hopper cars lettered in authentic N&W livery.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Love Guru (2008)?
a.
John Bunnell
(Police Chief) is actually a sheriff who regularly hosts
Worlds Wildest Police Videos
.
b.
The first film made in Kansas City.
c.
Used throughout the movie as a faux Indian greeting, "
Mariska Hargitay
" is the actually the name of an actress. When Guru Pitka greets his followers after his presentation at the Pitka Ashram, Haritay herself appears in a brief cameo scene which makes light of her role as Detective Olivia Benson in
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
.
d.
The rather explicit sex scenes were shot over 11 days on a closed set, with only the main camera and sound personnel present.
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