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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Mummy (1999) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Mummy (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 Mummy (1999).
About the movie:
An American serving in the French Foreign Legion on an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra accidentally awakens a Mummy.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Mummy (1999)?
a.
Brendan Fraser
s camel during filming was named Barney.
b.
This was
Zero Mostel
s film debut.
c.
Electrician Jack Lorenz was killed when he fell from a 30-foot high catwalk while lighting a scene for the film.
d.
According the Netherlands Film Museum, which restored "Lucky Star", the film was originally a part talkie, with some dialog and effects, but the soundtrack has been lost.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Mummy (1999)?
a.
Sandahl Bergman
was initially cast as the title character, but decided on portraying "Queen Gedren" instead, to help avoid typecasting.
b.
In the original draft for
Bill Murray
s character, sexual obscenities were written on Peter Venkmans door; but
Ivan Reitman
wanted to make his film a target audience for families so the phrase "Venkman Burn in Hell" was added. In fact, this is a nod to the final scene in
Stephen King
s
Carrie
- where there is a for-sale sign on the vacant lot where Carries house once stood, and someone has graffitied it with "Carrie Burn in Hell".
c.
"Dueling Banjos" was the first scene shot. The rest of the movie was almost entirely shot in sequence.
d.
The character Ardath Bey was originally scripted to die at the end of the film. This was changed by director
Stephen Sommers
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Mummy (1999)?
a.
In his treatment of the Leopold-Loeb case,
Rope
,
Alfred Hitchcock
used his famous "ten-minute takes" and segued from one to the other with a "natural wipe" generally focusing on the back of one of the characters suit jackets. Perhaps as an homage to The Master, this films director,
Richard Fleischer
, uses a "natural wipe" focusing on the front of
Bradford Dillman
s suit to end a scene.
b.
In one scene, Beni is shown with a sackful of gold which he is trying to load onto a camel, and Beni pulls the camel by the reins but the camel doesnt budge; the camels all, for some reason, hated
Kevin J. OConnor
.
c.
The surviving 86 minute UK feature version, released by Wardour Films, resolves many of the plot issues left hanging in the considerably shorter 61 minute USA feature version released by Principal Distributing Corporation.
d.
Susan Justin
: The films composer can be seen on screen as the character of Annie, albeit only in a picture.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Mummy (1999)?
a.
In the final shot we see the Ark passengers disembarking with an obvious painted background depicting Zyra. This bad painting was tacked on for the films sneak previews. Originally, producer
George Pal
wanted to depict Zyra as a miniature set, but Paramount shipped the film out before this could be done.
b.
During the filming of the scene with scarabs eating his brain,
Omid Djalili
acted out his characters pain so much that he had ended up tearing his own shorts off.
c.
Lionel Newman
s original music consists of one cue ("Peter the Pole") lasting 22 seconds.
d.
Louis XIV did have a brother named Philippe, but he was not a twin. He was several years younger.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Mummy (1999)?
a.
When Frank (
Keith David
) angrily asks Nada (
Roddy Piper
) how many people he had killed, Nada replies that they werent people. The only human character killed by Nada is Holly Thompson (
Meg Foster
).
b.
The Hawkins family was originally named the Roth family.
c.
The sequence in the library with an old man reading a Hemingways book is a nod to the
Der Himmel über Berlin
. In it
Curt Bois
plays Homer, an aged poet that his poethical thoughts are read by Damiel some times.
d.
The location shown in the scene where Imhotep and his minions corner the protagonists was an actual entrance to a thirteenth-century graveyard in Marrakesh. In the shots of the graveyard entrance, a manhole cover was used for the surviving protagonists to escape; the manhole was constructed for the film and had a large pad inside so that the actors would land on the pad and not hurt themselves.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Mummy (1999)?
a.
Despite the name, the title character was never mummified. His followers were, but he was subjected to a very different death.
b.
After visiting many of
Johnny Cash
s old homes, production designer
David J. Bomba
created 90 different sets for the film and tried to underline the contrast between Cashs two lives, one that was close to earth and nature in Arkansas and Tennessee, and the other set in the fast-moving world of rock music.
c.
Historically, Ichabod Crane was a very unattractive man.
Johnny Depp
wanted to add prosthetics to his face to make himself look ugly, but
Tim Burton
wanted to base the character on Cranes more unattractive personality traits - his reported squeamishness and eccentricity.
d.
When the future Marty McFly attempts to play his guitar, he plays part of the main riff of Power of Love by
Huey Lewis
and The News, the theme song for the original movie.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Mummy (1999)?
a.
In an early draft of the script,
Lance Henriksen
was to reprise the role of Detective Vukovich (from
The Terminator
), having the character bound to a wheelchair following the events of the first Terminator. The idea was eventually dropped.
b.
Michael Powell
worked as an apprentice on this film, a position secured for him by
Harry Lachman
.
c.
In the original script, Evy was supposed to say, "Hes gorgeous" when she first sees the fully resurrected Imhotep. The line was filmed, but removed from the final cut.
d.
Before
Ryan Phillippe
signed on,
Heath Ledger
was in talks for the role of Hansen.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Mummy (1999)?
a.
Tom "the car salesman" character, played by real life Tom Trudeau, was actually a real car salesman in New Mexico before becoming an actor.
b.
The lever-triggered slowly settling stone megaliths with sand pouring out like water, from which the characters must escape or be entombed alive, are based upon
Howard Hawks
Land of the Pharaohs
, where Pharaoh Cheopss tomb is constructed to be sealed in this manner after he is placed within. Historically no such sophisticated engineering technology was ever employed.
c.
In Operation Firestorm, Simmons talks with the destroyer U.S.S. Kidd. This was the name of a ship that was decommissioned in 1945 after taking a direct hit from a Kamikaze plane. It now serves as a war museum in Baton Rouge, LA.
d.
Dean Georgaris
and
Frank Darabont
both worked on the screenplay in the early stages of production.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Mummy (1999)?
a.
Based (but altered considerably) on James Barries play, "The Admirable Crichton." The play originally opened in London on 4 November 1902.
b.
Filmed in "Perceptovision".
c.
The original inspiration for the film came from The Making of the Shining by Vivian Kubrick.
d.
Kevin J. OConnor
had been roughed up so much during the filming of the scene with Beni in the Egyptologists office that he was badly bruised and his nipples had to be iced afterward.
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