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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Pelican Brief (1993) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Pelican Brief (1993) - 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 Pelican Brief (1993).
About the movie:
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Pelican Brief (1993)?
a.
Pavel Cajzl
, who played the Sherpa guide, was also the uncredited assistant stunt coordinator.
b.
Alan Young
had performed a near-perfect Scottish accent as the voice Scrooge McDuck for the 1977 Disneyland Records adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" (which he also developed and wrote). He repeated the role of McDuck in the 1983 film adaptation, and was a natural for the Scots brogue of Hiram Flaversham. He continued as the official voice of the tightwad McDuck in a series of Disney film and television projects.
c.
Otto Preminger
experimented with LSD to prepare for this film. It is rumored that
Groucho Marx
also experimented with
Timothy Leary
.
d.
Victor Mattiece, the main villain, never appears in the film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Pelican Brief (1993)?
a.
The only stipulation that consulting anthropologists from the American Museum of Natural History in New York insisted on with the production was that there should be no dinosaurs. They would have been long gone 20,000 years ago, though a great deal of the animals shown in the film didnt live in the same eras or locations as the main characters. Dinosaurs were finally included in the second sequel,
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
, the explanation being that they survived extinction in underground caves.
b.
Colin Farrell
was in talks to play Watson before
Jude Law
was cast.
c.
The Region 1 DVD release was a flip sided disc that contained the movie split into two parts. You had to eject the disc and turn it over to continue watching. When the Blu-ray disc was released on February 10th, 2009 it was the first time since its VHS release that somebody could watch the movie straight through without stopping it.
d.
The ending on the beach was supposed to be shot day-for-night. Steckler disliked the results, so the ending was left as it was shot, in daylight.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Pelican Brief (1993)?
a.
In class, Darby and Callahan discuss the Bowers v. Hardwick case. This was a real Supreme Court case that ultimately vindicated a states right to make homosexual activity illegal. Darby passionately argues that the Supreme Court was wrong. Ten years after this film was released, the case was reversed in Lawrence (& Garner) v. Texas, which found such laws to be Unconstitutional.
b.
For the scene where Two Socks is being shot at by the soldiers, the wolf was actually hemmed into a small pen with puffs of smoke popping off around him. The animal was chained within the pen to prevent him escaping.
c.
Bill Clark is based on
Henry Paulson
who was Treasury Secretary under the Bush Administration when the financial crisis occurred. Similarly, the New York Federal Reserve Head played by
Jason Clarke
is clearly modeled on
Timothy Geithner
who held that position in real life in 2008 before succeeding Paulson as Treasury Secretary.
d.
Rumoured to have been filmed in Colour, but the film was processed into Black and White. Close examination of the Black and White film quality compared to similar Laurel and Hardy features of that time possibly suggest this but so far a colour print has not surfaced. The film was idea for colour testing due to the sets costumes and even the title lettering used.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Pelican Brief (1993)?
a.
John Goodman
and
Billy Crystal
sometimes recorded their lines in the same room together, an unusual move for animated films, where actors more often work alone.
Steve Buscemi
and
Frank Oz
(Randall and his assistant Fungus) also recorded their lines together for the bathroom scene.
b.
A variety of weapons were seen in this movies grand action finale. They included a German Second World War MG-42; a Wildey .475 caliber handgun; a Browning .30 caliber machine-gun; a .38 caliber snub-nose revolver and an anti-tank rocket launcher.
c.
There were scenes filmed for the movie that showed Verheek in DC showing his colleagues The Pelican Brief. These were cut from the final film but a brief glimpse of them is still visible in the theatrical trailer.
d.
The hair stylist was also the person who worked with and designed the distinctive big hair look for singer
Howard Jones
in the 1980s.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Pelican Brief (1993)?
a.
Redline marks the on-screen debut of the Swedish-made Koenigsegg CCX. Priced at over $500,000, the CCX sports a 4.7 liter twin-supercharged V8 that churns out 806 horsepower and does a top speed of over 245 mph.
b.
Sandra Oh
learned how to ride a motorcycle for her part in this film.
c.
When the trio are tripping on acid in the movie theatre, theyre watching
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
.
d.
Not only were the Georgetown Law library scenes filmed on location in the main reading room and one of the study rooms on the third floor of the schools library, the scenes at the Registrars Office and the Career Services Office, and of
Denzel Washington
and
Julia Roberts
talking in an open area outside of those offices, are all shot in the main building of the Law Center (McDonough Hall). You can see actual Georgetown Law security officers as extras in the background of the McDonough scenes.
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