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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Matrix (1999) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Matrix (1999) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999).
About the movie:
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
Shooting took place from autumn 1993 to spring 1994.
b.
Hilary Mason
replaced
Jean Anderson
.
c.
Mafia crime boss Joe Colombo and his organization The Italian-American Civil Rights League started a campaign to stop the film from being made. According to
Robert Evans
in his autobiography, Colombo called his home and threatened him and his family. Paramount received many letters during pre-production from Italian-Americans - including politicians - decrying the film as anti-Italian. They threatened to protest and disrupt filming. Producer
Albert S. Ruddy
met with Colombo who demanded that the terms "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" not be used in the film. Ruddy gave them the right to review the script and make changes. He also agreed to hire League members (read: mobsters) as extras and advisers. The angry letters ceased after this agreement was made. Paramount owner
Charlie Bluhdorn
read about the agreement in The New York Times and was so outraged that he fired Ruddy and shut down production. But Evans convinced Bluhdorn that the agreement was beneficial for the film and Ruddy was rehired.
d.
By the middle of 2002, the famous "Bullet Time" sequence had been spoofed in over 20 different movies.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
Gary Busey
was originally slated to play Pfc. Franklin F. Bean Jr.
b.
The first male co-star of the movie was replaced. Oli Goodwill was the 2nd male lead.
c.
John Cusack
put a scar on his right eyebrow for Lloyds character. He says that the story behind that is that someone threw a rock at Lloyd when he was a kid.
d.
The book Neo hides his computer discs in is called "Simulacra and Simulation". The chapter where theyre hidden called Nihilism. Nihilism often involves a sense of despair coupled with the belief that life is devoid of meaning.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
Shot in six weeks.
b.
The entire 75 minute film was shot in only five days.
c.
Before his characters final speech at the end,
Keanu Reeves
never has more than five sentences in a row to speak.
d.
This film is ranked as #6 on AFIs 100 Years...100 Cheers, and as #3 on the AFIs top 10 science fiction films.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
Tobey Maguire and Robert Downey Jr play lovers in this film; both of them would later play lead Marvel superheros in
Spider-Man
and
Iron Man
, respectively.
b.
The windows that Trinity crashes the helicopter into are apparently those of the Columbia Pictures screening room in Sydney, Australia.
c.
According to the GPS, the location of the wreck is at Latitude 24° 58 250 North and Longitude 77° 18 596, which is an island near the Bahamas.
d.
Feature film debut of
Hoagy Carmichael
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
When Nicole and Chase sit down at the drive in dinner a voice over the intercom says references the Beatles song Revolution 9 from the White Album saying, "Orders ready for Number 9. Number 9. Number 9..."
b.
Lucinda Dickey
was cast in the film because she had worked on the "Breakin" films, which were both directed by
Sam Firstenberg
, and she had the physical presence to do all the stunts during the film.
c.
The schedule for the movie was 25 days (according to director
Martin Scorsese
s commentary for
Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore
).
d.
The date stamp on the phone trace program in the opening sequence reads "2/18/98". The date stamp on the phone trace program in the closing sequence reads "9/18/99". This means that the events in the movie take place over exactly 19 months.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
Mark Day
is the fifth editor the Harry Potter film series has had and the only one who has edited more than one film. Hes been involved the Harry Potter project since
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
.
b.
Nimród Antal
did over 100 pages of storyboards in preparation for directing.
c.
"The Hedda Hopper Show - This Is Hollywood" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 29, 1947 with
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
and
Maureen OHara
reprising their film roles.
d.
Shot almost entirely in Sydney, Australia, the location scouts found it very difficult to find burned-out, American-ghetto-looking locations. Many of the urban-decay locations had to be created from scratch.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
Numerous sets of identical twins were cast as extras in the "Woman in Red" scene - in which Morpheus takes Neo through a computer simulation of The Matrix - to create the illusion of a repeating program. Example: the tall man with slicked-back hair and sunglasses in the opening shot is seen seconds later as a police officer writing a parking ticket.
b.
In the late Thirties,
Fred Astaire
s box-office appeal temporarily dimmed somewhat. This film has been labeled a financial disappointment. Following next, the final two Astaire-
Ginger Rogers
pairings of the decade failed to equal the hefty profits of their seven prior match-ups.
c.
In the scene cuts during the award ceremony for the state polices drug bust where Farva continuously vomits into a toilet, it was actually
Kevin Heffernan
vomiting. This process can be seen in the outtake reel on the DVD.
d.
When Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn (
Hermione Gingold
) is performing in the "spectacle" with her schoolchildren, she says "Now count to twenty in the Indian tongue..." and proceeds to count in nonsense words ("Een! Teen! Tether mether fip!..."). It seems her counting is some form of traditional British sheep-counting.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
When Morpheus is explaining "What the Matrix is" to Neo, he uses the phrase, "Welcome, to the desert of the real." This is a paraphrase from Jean Baudrillards "Simulacra and Simulation", the hollowed-out book where Neo keeps his illegal software. The quote can be found in Chapter One - The Precession of Simulacra, Page one, Paragraph 2, "It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself." NB: The American title of Baudrillards book is Simulations. It was published by Semiotext(e) in 1983.
b.
The region-1 (North America) DVD version of the film contains about 304 shots in just under 92 minutes of action. This equates to an average shot length of approximately 17.9 seconds and a median shot length of approximately 18.6 seconds. This contrasts with most contemporary Hollywood films that usually contain a few thousand shots and average shot lengths of around 2 to 5 seconds.
c.
Shot as an experimental feature. It was fully improvised and shot in 6 days. This feature was never expected to receive a release. In fact it was a bit of joke around the team that no one would ever see the movie. The director and producers were shocked when it was picked up, and when asked to do a commentary on the DVD, the played it up as if they were seriously loving the feature. When the director was recently asked about the negative reviews, he laughed and said he agreed with them. He hates it as well.
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.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
Keanu Reeves
was recovering from neck surgery while training for this film. During the four months of training, he had to wear a neck brace.
b.
The voice explaining 9-ball is director
Martin Scorsese
s.
c.
This low budget 1954 release is believed to be the first film about the Yeti.
d.
Claud Cockburn (aka
James Helvick
) wrote the screenplay based on his novel.
Truman Capote
was purportedly brought to complete the script late in the piece when Cockburn left or was fired.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Matrix (1999)?
a.
In the early stages of developing what was to become the famous Bullet Time sequence, visual effects supervisor
John Gaeta
and director of photography
Bill Pope
constructed many gimbals and dollies in the hope of creating the effect the old fashioned way. The original dolly they created for the camera would be lead around the action at a tremendous speed, but after many failed tests and broken dollies, they opted for computer graphics, which meant writing an entirely new program for the effect. However, the Bullet Time sequence does still use one very old fashioned technique: still photography.
b.
Film debut of
Madge Blake
.
c.
First Batman film with no live-action or CGI bats.
d.
This was the first animated Disney movie to be filmed in widescreen since
Sleeping Beauty
. Movies released prior to
The Black Cauldron
and after
Sleeping Beauty
involved matting of the top and bottom of the filmed image in order to make a widescreen image suitable for the movie theatres.
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