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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Part (6) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Part (6) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
About the movie:
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
The first cut of this film was five reels of pantomime, unrelieved by title cards. In a moment of twelfth-hour jitters,
Samuel Goldwyn
(then Samuel Goldfish) ordered titles inserted, which only underscored
Maxine Elliott
s exaggerated acting. The Goldwyn Company had its first major flop with this film.
b.
The scene in the high school auditorium was totally ad-libbed by
Robert De Niro
and
Juliette Lewis
, and done on the first take.
c.
The most rented video of 1995.
d.
The entire shootout scene at the creek was filmed in two days due to restrictions. There were over 120 shots during this sequence.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
In the taffy pit scene, a ring with the initials JR can be seen on the Greedys hand while he tips his "hat" to his visitors. This is probably a more subtle tip of the hat to the films composer,
Joe Raposo
.
b.
Unusually the voiceover narration was recorded before filming began and was then played on set to dictate the rhythm of each scene. The guide track was recorded in an Iowa recording studio by
Morgan Freeman
in only 40 minutes. Unfortunately, there was a minor hiss to the track which sound engineers in Los Angeles were unable to eradicate. Consequently it had to be re-recorded in a proper studio; this time it took 3 weeks.
c.
When
Fred Astaire
learned that
Gracie Allen
was nervous about dancing with him onstage, he reportedly made a point of tripping and falling in front of her the first day on the set to put her at her ease.
d.
To create the rain effects, a combination of a simple hose with a spray nozzle and rain wave sprinkler were used. In addition, rain was added digitally to most of the windows in the house as well as to the view from the dining room window.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
Last cinema film of
Patrick Macnee
.
b.
Ellen Burstyn
received a permanent spinal injury during filming. In the sequence where she is thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her hard away from the bed. She fell on her coccyx and screamed in pain.
c.
One of the reasons why they didnt employ the full title of the
Stephen King
novella - "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" - was because there was a perception in Hollywood that this was actually going to be a biopic of
Rita Hayworth
. Indeed,
Frank Darabont
even received solicitations from several actresses about playing the lead.
d.
The character Mrs. Norbury was named after a German teacher at Upper Darby High School, where
Tina Fey
attended.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
Mick Gould
was hired to train
Tom Cruise
for the action sequences - including showing him how to fire live rounds.
Michael Mann
himself trained with various weapons so he knew how to direct the action sequences to full effect.
b.
Many critics have spotted many allegorical themes in the film, generally along the lines that Andy Dufresne is a latter day Jesus Christ.
Frank Darabont
refutes all such claims although he is delighted that so many people have read so much into his film.
c.
This movie marks
Bridget Fonda
s first venture into animated films.
d.
Francis Ford Coppola
was hired by
Robert Evans
to direct the movie after
Peter Bogdanovich
, among others, turned it down.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
Michael Haneke
: [character name]
Daniel Auteuil
s character is named Georges Laurent.
b.
Frank Darabont
took a pay cut in order to be allowed to shoot his own script.
c.
Mickey Reece and Kameron Primm were to make a movie that they had written together called "Rebel Nature". In the film, Primm was to play a rough and tumble Southern Womanizer. They shot about five minutes worth of scenes when Reece decided to scrap it. Needless to say when Reece, along with his brother Justin, pitched the idea of a new story involving Primm playing a drag queen, he was not pleased. "It took a-lot of convincing to get Kameron to leave behind such a masculine role to dress up like a woman. But we did it somehow," Reece explained.
d.
During the filming of the movie the film crew remodeled and flattened the beach using a tractor, making it unstable. The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 allowed the beach to be naturally restored to its previous state, much to the relief of the locals.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
Historians are sharply divided on the question of whether or not the Trojan War actually occurred - and if it did, which archaeological site is actually Troy. Discoveries made at the beginning of the 21st century provide new evidence of several armed battles in the right area at the right time - but definitive proof is hard to find, due largely to the historical practice of constructing one city on the ruins of another.
Homer
s Illiad (and other similar epics depicting the Trojan War) were written hundreds of years after the Trojan War supposedly occurred, and are of little use in determining factual historical events as they included many mythological elements: gods such as Apollo, Zeus, and Hera were central characters in the story who drastically affected the course of the war by killing and/or saving individual people during the conflict. There is also the theory that the Troy of Homers lifetime was destroyed by a sea earthquake and that the Illiad is a symbolic reinterpretation of this event, since a horse is the symbol of the Greek god of earthquakes. The producers decision to eliminate all mythological elements from the story gives their film an air of historical authenticity not present in the original works.
b.
The official Spanish title for the film is "La Maldici?n, which translates as "The Curse".
c.
Despite its box office failure, Warner Brothers shipped 320,000 rental copies to US video stores, a figure a spokesman freely admitted was "out of whack" with the films performance in the theaters.
d.
Montgomery Clift
,
Frank Sinatra
and author
James Jones
were very close during the filming, frequently embarking on monumental drinking binges. Clift coached Sinatra on how to play Maggio during their more sober moments, for which Sinatra was eternally grateful.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
Among the changes that
Frank Darabont
made to the story from the original novella was that there were originally three wardens and that Brooks poignant story was conveyed in one paragraph.
b.
Director Craig DiBona makes an almost unnoticeable cameo in the film. He is pictured as Isabels husband in the painting above the living room mantelpiece.
c.
The newspaper that lands on Stuart bears the headline "Feathered Filcher Fleeces Fifth Avenue".
d.
Director
Frank Oz
and cast member
Ian McDiarmid
had previously both been in
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
, though their characters had no scenes together. They subsequently worked together in all three Star Wars prequels, during which McDiarmid was digitally inserted into
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
, in which Oz already appeared.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
The film was produced by comedian
Lou Costello
, using his fathers name,
Sebastian Cristillo
.
b.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
c.
The prison that played Shawshank, the Mansfield State Reformatory, now serves as a museum. Because it was scheduled for demolition at the time of filming, several set pieces remain intact in the prison, including the tunnel Andy crawled out of and the wardens office.
d.
Roman Polanski
was so faithful to the novel that he asked
Ira Levin
the date of the issue of the New Yorker in which Guy Woodhouse sees a shirt he wants. Levin confessed that he had made up the detail.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
Originally cameo appearances were planned in the film for James Logan Howlett (Wolverine) and Erik Lensherr (Magneto), who were present during World War II (Logan was a soldier and Lensherr was a prisoner of war). These cameos were scrapped due to rights issues.
b.
Beer bottles didnt have screw tops in 1949.
c.
In addition to generally being considered the final "B" series western, this was also the final film of veteran director
Lewis D. Collins
. He died shortly after its release.
d.
Robert Francis
was originally cast in the role of Steve Miller but he died in a plane crash two weeks before he was set to begin filming on location in Colorado. He was replaced by
Don Dubbins
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
a.
Emilio Estevez
appeared in Disneys
D3: The Mighty Ducks
for free in exchange for the studio providing this films $3 million budget.
b.
Not heard in the film is a soulful rendition of "Necessity," taken from the
Burton Lane
-
E.Y. Harburg
1947 Broadway score and sung by
Brenda Arnau
with a chorus. Fortunately, this version has been preserved on the soundtrack LP from Warner Bros. Records, and more recently, on the soundtrack CD from Rhino Handmade.
c.
Shane Black
did uncredited work on the final script.
d.
Andy and Reds opening chat in the prison yard - in which Red is pitching a baseball - took 9 hours to shoot.
Morgan Freeman
pitched that baseball for the entire 9 hours without a word of complaint. He showed up for work the next day with his arm in a sling.
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