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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984).
About the movie:
Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)?
a.
Kathryn Mullen
: helps Miss Piggy after her purse is stolen.
b.
Extras for the roll of running wildly up the street from the fire were offered $10.00 per say.
c.
Heather Graham
: Young Mary Ann Benedict.
d.
In the opening sequence there is a shot of the exterior of the fictional American Ballet Academy. Actually, that building is the Julliard School, and the top floor with the dance studio in it was added to the top of the building with digital special effects.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)?
a.
A prison riot sequence was cut from the film in order to avoid an NC-17 rating.
b.
First film of
Siân Phillips
.
c.
Roger Moore
s character in this movie, Captain Gavin Stewart, connects somewhat with his James Bond persona. Stewart is involved as a spy in espionage activities, liaises romantically with a female spy, is seen in a tuxedo, gambles at a casino and is consistently suave and debonair. Moore made this movie between making the James Bond movies
Moonraker
and
For Your Eyes Only
.
d.
Fran Brill
: As a reporter.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)?
a.
When Michael Caine was asked about this movie in an interview, he answered, "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."
b.
Jake Gyllenhaal
and
Chris Cooper
first worked together on
October Sky
, although they only share one scene in this film.
c.
Frank Oz
: At the board meeting for "Ocean Breeze Soap".
d.
The production had a fake working title, "Highway 66", so that the shoot of the controversial novel would not be effected by union problems. Much of the dire straits portrayed in the film continued during and after the release of the movie.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)?
a.
Frank Oz
cast the reverend
Cyril Jenkins
in the wedding sequence for authenticity, justifying Kermits surprise at the presence of "a real minister."
b.
John Cassavetes is an improvisational actor/director, and he at times got fed up with having to be precise in his dialogue and was quoted as saying to Director
John Badham
, "Kid youre getting more out of me, than anyone has in a lifetime."
c.
According to
Robert Davi
, he wrote his line "Loyalty is more important to me than money."
d.
Steven Seagal
hurt his knee during the car-jump-scene but kept shooting the movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)?
a.
Linda Darnell
was originally cast in the female lead, and never hid her disappointment when finding out that she had been replaced by
Anne Baxter
.
b.
Steven Spielberg
brought on
Janusz Kaminski
, whos shot all Spielbergs films since
Schindlers List
, to replace the now-retired cinematographer
Douglas Slocombe
, who had worked on all three of the previous Indy films. Spielberg refused to modernize the photography and wanted to retain the comic book style from the previous films; thus Kaminski had to watch all the three previous films repeatedly to study Slocombes techniques. Spielberg later commented that both he and Janusz had to swallow their pride: "Janusz had to learn another cinematographers look, and I had to acquire this younger directors look which I thought I had moved away from after almost two decades."
c.
David Lazer
: In Sardis Restaurant.
d.
The voice of
Sam Raimi
, from
Strykers War
can be heard at the end of the film, when Jamie is watching TV before turning the channel to
Generations
, the soap
Bruce Campbell
makes his cameo in. Sam can also be heard during the nightclub scene, during the bouncer/Eric fight. The line is "What an asshole" from the college-made Super-8 movie, "The Happy Valley Kid."
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)?
a.
Susan Sarandon
provided a g-string for
Brooke Shields
so she would not have to be totally nude.
b.
The film was originally going to be released on double feature with Ray Dennis Stecklers The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1963), however Steckler withdrew his film because he felt The Sadist was receiving preferential treatment on the double bill. Arch Hall Jr. would later say he felt it was a poor pairing for a double feature anyway.
c.
Because of the excessive overtime generated by shooting around the death of
Bert Lahr
,
Norman Lear
gave gifts of initialed Tiffany silver money clips to many of the crew members, at the wrap party.
d.
Gregory Hines
: Lends Miss Piggy his roller skates so that she may chase down the purse-snatcher. Also participates in Kermit and Miss Piggys reunion/confrontation immediately after the chase.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)?
a.
When "Splash Mountain", an amusement ride based on the film, "Song of the South" opened in Disneyland in the 90s, the local NAACP and others protested the ride.
b.
In the scene where Dark Helmet is dressed in safari clothes searching for Lone Starr and the others with binoculars, he is on top of a floating vehicle. In reality, the vehicle isnt floating or suspended on wires of any kind, but on top of a platform that was surrounded by mirrors that reflected the sand around it to give it the appearance of floating.
c.
In West Germany, this movie set a record for the number of video-cassette units sold. There, ten thousand tape sales of the home video were sold in two months thereby producing royalties of over $ 0.5 million in its first year on video-tape.
d.
Heather Henson
: At the Bavarian festival serving drinks.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)?
a.
All of the original footage for this "jungle" comedy was filmed on a soundstage.
b.
The gorilla suits used in movies up to this time had obvious anatomical differences from real gorillas; for instance, the wearers real eyes were seen, forcing modification to the face. For this film director
Michael Apted
wanted to use real gorillas where possible, but some shots would have to use gorilla suits, so the difference would show. Rick Baker met the challenge and created gorilla suits good enough that Apted could do what he wanted.
c.
Jim Henson
: As the horse and carriage driver.
d.
This was a remake of
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
. To conform with the "Hayes" Production Code, first imposed in 1934, the reporter in this film is killed by the fighters manager. In 1933, the prizefighter, Jimmy Dolan, the central character and hero, was the killer.
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