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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The School of Rock (2003) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The School of Rock (2003) - 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 School of Rock (2003).
About the movie:
A wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
Sam Peckinpah
wanted
Richard Harris
or
Peter OToole
for the role of Charlie Vennor and the DVD contains an extract from his original letter to Harris.
b.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
c.
Of the 57 sets built for the production, only eight remained standing when filming ended.
d.
The rock band
Led Zeppelin
are notoriously hesitant to allow their music to be licensed for commercial purposes. Knowing this,
Richard Linklater
filmed a plea by actor
Jack Black
in front of 1,000 screaming fans, imploring the band to let the production use the "Immigrant Song" in the movie. The plea worked and the filmed request is included on the DVD.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
Meredith McGeachie
was injured on another film set and could not perform.
Jennifer Sciole
was moved from the Erin role to the Darcy role.
b.
Gregory Peck
, an activist liberal Democrat who strongly opposed blacklisting, later said that turning down this film was the biggest regret of his career, although he modestly added that he didnt think he could have played the lead character as well as
Gary Cooper
did.
c.
The finger point and nod that
Jack Black
teaches Zack is actually a move that
Angus Young
of
AC/DC
performs in concerts.
d.
The 19th century Victorian house was abandoned for 30 years. The Producer and Director had to clear out knee-deep trash and debris.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
The "snakehead fish vision" was actually a night vision feature on the camera used to film all of the scenes.
b.
Filmed when the X-Games (then called X-Games 101) started becoming popular and in-line skating was the craze. Chris Edwards (Walt) was a well known for his X-Games appearances and was one of the members of Team Rollerblade.
c.
The play originally opened in Paris, France, on 15 December 1908. An English translation of the play by John Raphael opened in New York City, New York, USA on 2 January 1910 and had 125 performances.
d.
The shirt that Freddy is wearing in the end is from
Green Day
s 2001 "Warning" tour.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
Best friends
Channing Tatum
and
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
star as Duke and Cobra Commander, who were arch-enemies in
G.I. Joe
.
b.
According to Bob Woodwards
John Belushi
biography "Wired",
Talia Shire
thoroughly enjoyed working with Belushi in this film. Knowing his drug problem, she told Belushi after the film wrapped he was a great actor when not using drugs and that she wanted to work with him again in the future. Unfortunately, with Belushis untimely death three years later, she didnt get the opportunity.
c.
Magician Kazah (
Paul Henreid
) briefly transforms Ben Ali (Hans Conreid) into a Beautiful Harem Girl (
Vivian Mason
), whose voice is dubbed by Conreid to comical effect.
d.
Early in filming, an insecure
Robert Tsai
approached director Linklater and tried to talk him out of letting him be in the film because he felt he wasnt right for the part. Linklater responded that it was his very insecurity that made him exactly right for the part, and kept him in.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
Eric Braeden
s movie debut.
b.
Julianne Moore
s time line was bumped up from the novels austere 1949 setting to the more optimistic and affluent 1951, as that better served to show Lauras powerless feeling of alienation.
c.
Deweys nickname for Freddy the drummer, "Spazzy McGee", is a reference to an early draft of the character in which Freddy is a spastic sufferer of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and can be seen taking Ritalin during class.
d.
Principal photography took place over 77 days.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
James Remar
often went without any sleep before shooting his scenes in order to give bad-guy Ganz a more washed-out, psychotic look.
b.
The original screenplay was called "The School of Rock", and it was later shortened to "School of Rock". However, the opening credits had already been designed and partially shown in theaters with the word "The" in the title. Director Linklater decided not to digitally remove the extra word from the credits.
c.
The first feature film to be directed by
Ida Lupino
since
The Hitch-Hiker
and
The Bigamist
over a decade earlier.
d.
The dialogue between Jordan and Sinestro about power batteries was taken verbatim from the "Green Lantern" comic Secret Origin.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
Renny Harlin
is famous for pushing actors to do their own stunts whenever possible. While promoting the film,
Geena Davis
appeared on talk shows with clips of her doing stunts over and over (including one take where she fell out of the window too soon, rolled down the roof and under the carriage) and explained the bruises and injuries she sustained while filming.
b.
Whitley has a picture of "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" by Hokusai on his wall, with an added cartoon character, facing the tsunami with an exclamation mark above his head, drawn in for comic effect.
c.
Originated in Chicago at the Kingston Mines Theatre, of which authors
Jim Jacobs
and
Warren Casey
were acting ensemble members. It opened on the 5 February 1971, and cast members
Marilu Henner
, who played Marty, and
James Canning
, who played Doody, went on to play those roles on Broadway. Others in the cast were Sue Williams (Rizzo),
Bruce Hickey
(Kenickie), Bill Cervetti (Miller), Sheila Ray Ceaser (Jan),
Hedda Lubin
(Frenchy), Polly Pen (Patti), Leslie Goto (Sandi), Doug Stevnson (Danny), Gerald Bolnick (Sonny), and
Gary Houston
(Roger).
Guy Barile
directed and Ronna Kaye choreographed the production, and Wrick Paul (aka
Rick Paul
) was set designer. The rock-and-roll band that accompanied the show, led by Michael Williams, was called Sex Nellie, and Love.
d.
When asked for his opinion about testing from the other teachers,
Jack Black
dodges the question with song lyrics including the line "Let the childrens laughter remind us how we used to be". One of the teachers asks if it is from a song, but he denies it. They are in fact from the song, "Greatest Love of All".
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
Denholm Elliott
was cut out of the final print.
b.
Selected as number 8 on AFIs 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES
c.
When Rose (
Bette Midler
) asks Dyer (
Frederic Forrest
) where he came from, he says "Waxahachie, Texas", which is Frederic Forrests real home town.
d.
Although the children in the film are supposed to all be the same age, the child actors ranged in age from
Kevin Alexander Clark
, who was nearly 15 by the time of the films release, to
Miranda Cosgrove
, who has just turned 10 by the time of the films release.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
Director
Rich Cowan
and director of photography
Dan Heigh
mention (DVD commentary) that shooting took 24 days (at 09:10) from late September to early October (at 03:54). Since the film debuted 6/5/1999 (at the Seattle International Film Festival) and has a 1999 copyright, it would have been shot in 1998.
b.
Several intended similarities between Nurv and Microsoft : President owns a large, sprawling lakefront home; Company set in rainy Pacific Northwest city; Office is referred to as a campus.
c.
The riff of the Darkness song "Black Shuck" is used in the film, but "Growing On Me" appears on the soundtrack. This is because Black Shuck contains the line "Black Shuck, that dog dont give a fuck" repeatedly.
d.
"Academy Award Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 30, 1946 with
Cary Grant
reprising his film role.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The School of Rock (2003)?
a.
Édgar Ramírez (II) wanted to meet Gerard Quicho, the real life Choco, but according to Ramírez,
Tony Scott
had mistakenly been told that Quicho was dead. Scott later found out through
Domino Harvey
that Quicho was alive.
b.
The movies composer
David Johansen
is a member of The New York Dolls. He also plays the movies main villain Tommy Thanatos. Johansens pseudonym (and side project band) is Buster Poindexter. Under Buster Poindexter name he performed the movies theme song "Rough Stuff" whose lyrics tell about the tribulations and future plans of the Hogans character from the movie.
c.
In the film, when the "groupies" approach Dewey at his desk to unveil the bands name they find him crooning a strange song and strumming his guitar. The song he is singing is the theme to the little known Internet comedy series
Computerman
, starring
Jack Black
.
d.
The movie had an estimated loss of $44,100,000.
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