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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Serpent's Egg (1977) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Serpent's Egg (1977) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Serpent's Egg (1977).
About the movie:
Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Serpent's Egg (1977)?
a.
Ingmar Bergman
: [name] Last name Vergerus.
b.
Alfred Hitchcock
was so pleased with the score written by
Bernard Herrmann
that he doubled the composers salary to $34,501. Hitchcock later said, "33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music."
c.
Production designer
Grant Major
personally supervised the translation of all the writings in Balins tomb into Dwarvish. He was then horrified to learn that a visiting
J.R.R. Tolkien
scholar had taken great offence at seeing the phrase "Joe was here" among the writings. They scoured the contents of Balins tomb and found nothing, only to learn that the scholar - who was overly serious about everything to do with Tolkien - had been told this by a crew carpenter who has having a joke at his expense. Intrepid fans later published screen captures and translations of Moria wall segments where the runes spelled "John was here" and "Made in New Zealand". During pre-production, Weta artists asked Tolkien expert Michael Martinez if there were any examples of Orc graffiti in the book. Martinez found one citation (in the scene where Frodo, Sam, and Gollum see a defaced statue in Gondor). He used other passages to argue that the Orcs would have used runes to carve graffiti on Morias walls.
d.
The map on the wall in the police chiefs office is a map of Los Angeles turned 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Serpent's Egg (1977)?
a.
The movie was based on ten pages of notes written by
Orson Welles
.
b.
American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 credits the uncredited role of the District Attorney to
Oscar Apfel
; this is incorrect; the role is played by an unmistakable
Morgan Wallace
as correctly listed on IMDb.
c.
According to promotional materials from Universal, the film is framed around a psychologist named Abigail Tyler who interviewed traumatized patients in Nome. However Alaska state licensing examiner Jan Mays says she cant find records of an Abigail Tyler ever being licensed in any profession in Alaska. Ron Adler, CEO and director of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute and Denise Dillard, president of the Alaska Psychological Association say theyve never heard of Abigail Tyler. Web sites for an "Alaska Psychiatry Journal" and "Alaska News Archive" containing references to Tyler were created by the films producers, but were outed as hoaxes when it was discovered they were registered a month before the films release and the purported author of one of the archived news articles stated she had never written it.
d.
Near the beginning of the movie Manuela is said to live at Bergmanstrasse, which is German for "Bergmans street". This movie was directed by
Ingmar Bergman
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Serpent's Egg (1977)?
a.
The boat going under the bridge that Jake and Elwood jump at the beginning of the film is the W.W. Holloway. She was originally launched in 1906, laid up on Dec 7, 1981 and scrapped in 1986. In the movie she is wearing the paint scheme of Oglebay-Norton, the last shipping company to operate her.
b.
Dustin Hoffman
was offered the lead role but turned it down.
c.
The original title was "Bill and Ted go to Hell" but was changed because of American objections to the use of the word "hell".
d.
The directors did the voices of the minions which is why they sound French and English at the same time.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Serpent's Egg (1977)?
a.
In the original script, Rosalie, the woman in the wheelchair at Peggy Sues high school reunion, was a gymnast who was crippled in an accident. In the original script, Peggy Sue tried to take advantage of her knowledge of the future. She invented pantyhose, encouraged people to invest in Xerox, and tried to prevent Rosalie from hurting herself.
b.
Footage from earlier
Mickey Rooney
film, _Broadway to Hollywood (1939)_, is seen to show flashbacks of Mickey Moran, Rooneys character, as a child performing in vaudeville.
c.
Ingmar Bergman
had planned to have a horse killed on camera to show the desperation of the German people during the Weimar Republics inflation crisis of 1923.
David Carradine
said he would walk off the film if Bergman went ahead with is plans. Bergman compromised, and the horse was killed off-screen, but the corpse is shown, as an impoverished man offers up handfuls of offal to Carradines character.
d.
The license plate on Andys mothers car reads "A 111" on the front and "A 113" on the rear. A111 and A113 are two rooms used by the animation department at CalArts - alma mater of a large number of Pixarians, including
John Lasseter
.
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