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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Red Badge of Courage (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Red Badge of Courage (1951) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Red Badge of Courage (1951).
About the movie:
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Red Badge of Courage (1951)?
a.
Planned to be shot in Technicolor, but made in black and white.
b.
John Huston
considered this his best film. After a power struggle at the top of MGM management, the film was cut from a 2 hour epic to the 69 minute version released to theaters. It was never released as a A-list movie but was shown as a 2nd feature B-list movie. Both Houston and star
Audie Murphy
tried unsuccessfully to purchase the film so that it could be re-edited to its original length. The studio claiming that the cut footage was destroyed. Unless there is an undiscovered copy of the uncut version, this movie will never be viewed as John Huston intended.
c.
When Sylvia Ganush attacks Christine in her car, Sylvia uses the Hungarian word "szajha" two times. The word means bitch or whore in English. She says it for the first time after her face has been stapled, the second time she says it right after she breaks Christines cars window with a brick.
d.
Though theyre never mentioned in the film until the credits, all of the vampires have names.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Red Badge of Courage (1951)?
a.
Woody Harrelson
was once arrested in Columbus, Ohio before he became famous.
b.
Director
James Whale
originally did not want to do a sequel to
Frankenstein
. For a time, Universal considered producing a sequel without Whales involvement. One possible story included an educated monster continuing Henrys research, while another chronicled Henrys creation of a death ray on the eve of a world war. However, after 4 years of badgering by Universal, Whale agreed to do the film.
c.
In the sequence where
LL Cool J
s character Gabe describes each character while Bobby (
Eion Bailey
) plays with a Rubiks Cube, Sara (
Kathryn Morris
) was originally filmed sitting outside sitting by the pool.
Renny Harlin
changed the film in post production to include her character. Only close-ups are shown of Morris in that sequence to hide the fact that she was not actually there.
d.
A huge chunk of Royal Danos role was removed from the final print.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Red Badge of Courage (1951)?
a.
Mel Smith
: Pushing past Mason at the train station whilst he is trying to explain to the ticket collector why he has not got a ticket.
b.
James Whitmore
s narration was added after several disastrous previews and extensive editing.
c.
There is a persistent rumor that
Ben Affleck
makes a cameo appearance but, although he did visit the set, he does not appear on screen.
d.
For one shot where Gollum is crawling and splashing down a river after a fish,
Andy Serkis
was actually in the water. It had been snowing the previous night, and the snow had been melted, but the water was still freezing cold.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Red Badge of Courage (1951)?
a.
One of Maximilian IIs titles is Master of all that crawls upon the Earth and swims beneath the Sea. This was one of Ugandan dictator Idi Amins many titles.
b.
The scene of Sincere (
Nas
) and the 12 year old boy on the park bench is a direct reference to the last verse from Nas song "One Love", off his 1994 debut album Illmatic.
c.
This production amounted to a power struggle between
Louis B. Mayer
and producer
Dore Schary
. Mayer rejected the production (partly on account of it lacking women and thus a romance angle) and Schary insisted. Mayer appealed to Loews Inc. chairman Nicholas Schenck and was rebuffed. This and other ego-bruising incidents that occurred during the same period resulted in Mayers ouster from the company he helped found in 1924. As Mayer predicted the $1.6 million film flopped badly but by the Summer of 1951 he was out.
d.
At one point in the movie Scott (
Michael Cera
) proclaims "Double negative" (while hes with Wallace and his lover in bed). Double Negative was the lead visual effects house on this movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Red Badge of Courage (1951)?
a.
French actor
Claude Rich
actually plays two characters in this film. Rich plays the young Lieutenant Pierre de la Fouchardière and the mustached Général Leclerc, the Commandant de la Fouchardière, but Rich is only credited in the films closing credits for playing Leclerc. In real life, as a teenage boy during the Second World War, whilst looking at soldiers in a street, Rich had been protected by the real de la Fouchardière when he motioned him to come into a building where he was.
b.
When someone was caught sitting in
Charles Bronson
s movie star chair on the set of this movie, Bronson apparently warned him: "I only tell someone to get out of my chair once!"
c.
Director
John Huston
lost control of this picture when, over his objections, his bosses at MGM recut it, editing out over 20 minutes. Whole scenes, including one featuring
Royal Dano
, were discarded. Huston did not waste any time fighting over it, as he was focused on the pre-production of his next picture,
The African Queen
.
Lillian Ross
wrote about the trials of producing "The Red Badge of Courage" in her book "Picture".
d.
A poster of the band Prinzhorn Dance School can be seen on the wall where Greenberg hangs the drawing made by Florence niece. Its a reference to
LCD Soundsystem
s
James Murphy
, who was responsible for the soundtrack. Murphy is the boss of the DFA record label, who released the Prinzhorn Dance School album.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Red Badge of Courage (1951)?
a.
John Travolta
ran two miles a day and danced for three hours daily to get in shape for this film. In the end, he dropped 20 pounds.
b.
Early in the film, Henry Fleming (Audie Murphy) is shown writing a letter to his family. The date at the top of the letter is 10 September, 1862. This makes the battle depicted in the film either Turners Gap, South Mountain, Maryland, on Sept 14; or Antietam Creek (Sharpsburg), Maryland, on Sept 17. Scholarship generally agrees that the battle in the novel is more like Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1863. The novel never names a place or gives a date. One year after the publication of the novel, Stephen Crane had a short story entitled "The Veteran," published in McClures magazine. In the story Henry Fleming is an old man telling the story of his first battle in the Civil War. There Fleming identifies the battle as being Chancellorsville.
c.
Claudette Colbert
only wears four different outfits throughout the course of the film: a flimsy nightgown at the beginning, her traveling suit,
Clark Gable
s pajamas, and her wedding dress.
d.
The third of forty-eight Bowery Boys movies.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Red Badge of Courage (1951)?
a.
John Dierkes
, who plays The Tall Soldier, also narrates the trailer.
b.
Director
Jim Wynorski
made a bet with
Roger Corman
that he could shoot the movie in twelve days. Wynorski finished the film in eleven and a half days.
c.
The movie was shot as Miguel Silveiras undergrad thesis film at Columbia College Chicago.
d.
Brad Dourif
, the actor who plays the stuttering gas station attendant at the beginning of the film, played the role of Billy Bibbit, who also had a speech impediment, in the film
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
.
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