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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Patriot (2000) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Patriot (2000) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000).
About the movie:
Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
Given
Arnold Schwarzenegger
s $15-million salary and his total of 700 words of dialog, he was paid $21,429 per word. "Hasta la vista, baby" cost $85,716.
b.
Screenwriter
Robert Rodat
wrote 17 drafts of the script before there was an acceptable one.
c.
The radio station that awakens Sean is "WTNA". The music supervisors of the movie are Tom Hajdu and Andy Milburn (
tomandandy
); the radio DJs are also named "Tom" and "Andy"
d.
When Jonathan and his father enter the Tavern after the funeral of their family, a news program is playing on the TV in the background and discussing the murders. Someone immediately changes the channel and on comes (briefly) the 1986 concert footage of
Alice Cooper
s The Nightmare Returns tour.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
After proving his abilities to Aladdin by getting them out of a collapsed cave, Genie calls Aladdin "Mr. Doubting Mustafa". In the classic tellings of the Aladdin story, Mustafa was the name of Aladdins late father.
b.
Heath Ledger
performed his own stunts.
c.
Prior to production,
Gregory Peck
disliked this films script and demanded re-writes on it.
d.
Oliver Stone
wrote the first draft of Platoon in 1971 and sent it to
Jim Morrison
in hopes that he would play the part
Charlie Sheen
would ultimately play. Morrison had the script on him when he was found dead in Paris. It is unknown whether he would have been cast had he lived, however Stone eventually made
The Doors
based on Morrisons life.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
Aunt Charlottes house is the same one used in
Forrest Gump
, with slightly different interior paneling. The stone hedge visible in Forrest Gump is camouflaged with bushes in this film.
b.
The $50,000 fee paid to composer
Dimitri Tiomkin
was the highest fee paid to a composer for a single feature film score up to that time.
c.
Roland Emmerich
suggested composer
Joel Goldsmith
to
Vic Armstrong
after working with him on Moon 44 (1990). Armstrong and Emmerich worked together on Universal Soldier (1992) with
Dolph Lundgren
a year before this film.
d.
Some weapons used in the film are actually weapons from previous war epics like
Alexander
and
Troy
. They were "recycled" to cut costs.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
One of the "redcoats" (actually dummies) that is floating face down in the river after the "trap" is a dummy of
John Travolta
.
b.
Charlie Frosts (
Woody Harrelson
) animation about the end of the world heavily borrows and references the animated Internet meme, "The End of the World", which centers around the idea that we will kill ourselves as a race before any natural disaster would ever have the time to destroy us.
c.
The cast and crew resided in the E.E. Dickinson Mansion, the house used for the interior scenes, during the 25 days of filming.
d.
In an interview,
Christian Bale
spoke of the eccentric directing styles of
Terrence Malick
. He said that he wanted to see what Malick would do if he just walked out of a shot and towards the crew. Malick followed Christian with the camera and, as Christian put it, "the crew were running, and they were diving behind bushes to get away from the camera."
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
Natasha Lyonne
replaced
Rose McGowan
in the role of Tamara.
b.
Before the films release,
Steven Spielberg
assigned video game developers at Microsoft the task of developing a series of games based on the film for the XBox game system.
c.
Alfred Hitchcock
originally wanted to cast
Cary Grant
in the lead role, but Grant told him he was too old.
d.
Paul Walker
auditioned for the role of Gabriel Martin.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
During the bar scene, the paper John is reading shows a headline about Lockport High overcrowding. The school is in fact, Lockport Township High School of Lockport Illinois and is actually facing alarming overcrowding at both east and central campuses. A referendum has been proposed and rejected twice by the taxpayers to build a third campus in Homer glen, forcing the school to construct trailers and go to split-shift schedules.
b.
When teaching
Mel Gibson
and
Heath Ledger
how to shoot a muzzle-loading rifle, technical advisor Mark Baker gave them the advice to "aim small, miss small", meaning that if you aim at a man and miss, you miss the man, while if you aim at a button (for instance) and miss, you still hit the man. Gibson liked this bit advice so much he incorporated it into the movie, just prior to the ambush scene.
c.
Optimus Prime speaks his trademark motto ("Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.") for the first time ever; it was not heard in
Transformers
but was mentioned in the packaging for his original action figure back in the 1980s.
d.
Writer
Jerry Stahl
, whom
Ben Stiller
portrayed in
Permanent Midnight
, co-wrote the "cat milking" scene.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
Jake Gyllenhaal
auditioned several times and was considered for the role of Gabriel Martin, but eventually lost out to
Heath Ledger
.
b.
The part of Ralph, Susans husband, was written specifically for actor
Ian Geoghegan
.
c.
The stage musical adaption of the movie opened at the Broadway Theater in New York on December 1, 2005, ran for 910 performances and was nominated for the 2006 Tony Awards for the Best Musical, Book and Score.
d.
First time Don Stark and Mila Kunis worked together before starring on "That 70s Show" three years later.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
AC/DC was selected to make the music for the movie by
Stephen King
himself.
b.
The character Benjamin Martin was originally written with six children, but
Mel Gibson
added one more because he himself had seven children.
c.
Rapunzels parents dont say a word for the entire movie.
d.
Rosas Lounge is mentioned by Jesse played by
Jake La Botz
. Rosas Lounge is a well known real Blues club in Chicago that has been in business since 1984. On occasion, La Botz still performs at Rosas.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
Screenwriter
Robert Rodat
called the final battle a hybrid between the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and the Battle of Cowpens: The mixture of militia and Continental army in the battle. The militias reputation of not holding and the tactic of using that to lure the British in. The militia only firing a couple of volleys before a planned retreat to a secondary line composed of the Continental army. The Continental army firing and then performing a bayonet charge.
b.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
c.
The last film in the original "Nightmare" franchise in which Freddys house is the focal point of Freddys terror. In the rest of the series, Freddys terror revolves generally around Elm Street and the town of Springwood with the house occasionally making an appearance. In the hybrid film, "Freddy vs. Jason", there was a reference in the film that Lori lived in Freddys house but the reference was cut from the theatrical release (but appears in the Deleted Scenes section of the DVD).
d.
When Lily is going to mail out the invitation envelopes to future Zeta members, the boy that distracts her says his name is Cole Trickle - which is the name of the character played by
Tom Cruise
in
Days of Thunder
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Patriot (2000)?
a.
One of five body-swap movies all released around the same time. The others were
18 Again!
,
Like Father Like Son
,
Big
, and
Dream a Little Dream
.
b.
Harrison Ford
declined the lead role, feeling the script had boiled the Revolutionary War down to a "one-mans-revenge" melodrama.
c.
Originally set in Los Angeles.
d.
The original Broadway production of "Plaza Suite" by
Neil Simon
opened at the Plymouth Theater on February 14, 1968, ran for 1097 performances and was nominated for the 1968 Tony Award for the Best Play.
Maureen Stapleton
and
Jose Ocasio
reprise their roles in the movie version.
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