Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Thin Red Line (1998) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Thin Red Line (1998) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998).

About the movie: Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		Several technicians are seen wearing shirts reading "Cayuga" on the back. Cayuga Productions was the name of Rod Serlings company that produced The Twilight Zone.
b.		One of the bounty hunters that Darth Vader hires to find Han Solo, IG-88, can be seen in the Cloud City. IG-88 is a droid, and his dead body is sitting next to a furnace in the room where C-3PO is dismantled.
c.		The premiere was on 14 August 1947 in Skowhegan, Maine, where the play had its initial performance eight years before. The stage play ran 3,224 performances, holding the record for the longest non-musical run on Broadway. The play was based on Clarence Days book.
d.		The piece of music playing in the scene with the captured Japanese soldier is called "The Unanswered Question" by Charles Ives.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		Terrence Malick changed Elias Koteass characters name so late in the production that the costume can be seen with the name Stein on it, not Staros.
b.		MGM didnt want to extensively use Elmore Leonard-inspired dialogue in the film, and pushed Barry Sonnenfeld and Scott Frank to make many passages more generic than the books, but once John Travolta signed on to the film he successfully pressured the studio to leave Franks original draft (which had a lot of colorful dialogue) intact for filming. A specific example of this end result came during the sequence where Chili Palmer goes to retrieve his coat from Bones.
c.		When Danny takes out the syringes from Amandas arm, the crew used a fake animatronic arm.
d.		German Import DVD has a Super-8 Version (German language only), as a special feature on the disc.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		The original Broadway production of "Broadway" opened at the Broadhurst Theater on September 26, 1926 and ran for 603 performances.
b.		Hans Zimmer, the composer on the film along with John Powell (who provided additional music) composed over four hours of music on this film, presumably for the original directors cut of the film. However, when director Terrence Malick re-cut the film down to its current running time of 170 minutes, he chose only a few select pieces of music from Zimmers and Powells musical contributions, along with original source music and thats what ended up in the theatrical edition of the film.
c.		There are two death scenes involving someone falling from a significant height: The 12th Ave. Bridge and the roof of UW library. The same mannequin was used for both scenes. After being shattered to hundreds of pieces in the first scene filmed, it was painstakingly glued back together piece by piece for the second plummeting death scene.
d.		Theatrical trailer features snippets of scenes that were not included in the final film.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		First cinema film of Matt Frewer.
b.		Producers Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau fell out with director Terrence Malick during pre-production. By the time they were filming, their relationship had so deteriorated that Malick barred them from visiting the set.
c.		Preview running times suggest the studio cut the film by at least 12 minutes before its release.
d.		The lead role was originally offered to Gary Cooper, who wanted to take it, but he was under contract to Paramount Pictures at the time, which felt that loaning him out to a "B" studio like Columbia Pictures was too demeaning for both Cooper and Paramount and refused to loan him out.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		In the final narration by Train (John Dee Smith), he says, "Darkness and Light. Strife and Love. Are they the workings of one mind, the features of the same face?" This is a slight misquote of William Wordsworths Prelude: Book Six, lines 636-8: "Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light / Were all like workings of one mind, the features / Of the same face".
b.		In order to get the background skies looking suitably stormy, the truck cab sequences had to be flooded with high-intensity lighting for contrast. As a result, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton suffered minor retinal burns through much of the filming.
c.		Wayne Kramer was originally hired to direct in February 2011. After clashing with Stallone over the tone of the film, he left the production and was replaced by Walter Hill on April 11, 2011.
d.		The first scene to be shot was of Marion getting pulled over by the cop. This was filmed on Golden State Freeway (number 99).

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		James Caan appeared six years later almost identically in sailors garb for an uncredited cameo in Steven Spielbergs 1941 as the sailor who throws the first punch in the ballroom fight sequence.
b.		Before pre-production began, director Terrence Malick walked on foot across the entire southwest, stopping periodically to call producers Robert Michael Geisler and Grant Hill to talk about the meaning of the film.
c.		The original play based on the novel by Edith Wharton and written by Margaret Ayer Barnes opened in New York on 27 November 1928.
d.		William Styrons second novel, "Set This House on Fire", describes a film crew on location - obviously based on director John Huston and gang during the shooting of this film. The town in the novel is Ravello on Italys Amalfi Drive, where most of the film was shot.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		Originally intended as a small low-budget adventure, production costs tripled to $22 million.
b.		The original cut of the film was just under 6 hours in length. Over a million feet of film was shot.
c.		Sensing a huge hit from industry buzz, MGM offered to buy the film outright from RKO for $1.072m (some $400,000 over its negative cost), figuring the little studio was reeling from losing $10+m in 1932. RKO was smart to decline the offer. The film smashed attendance records nationwide and ended up grossing $1.761m during its initial release. RKO would periodically, and extremely profitably, re-release the movie through the 1950s.
d.		While the reproduction of the Amityville Houses famous exterior was constructed in Silver Lake, Wisconsin, many of the interiors were built on a temporary sound stage in an empty building located in a corporate park in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. The production company took out building permits in the village of Silver Lake, Wisconsin (in Kenosha County) and spent about $60,000 to adapt the historic Rustman House summer estate on the south shore of Silver Lake at Kenosha County Highways F and SA for its cinematic debut. (The Rustman fortune was earned in the Jefferson Ice company of Chicago in the harvesting and storage of ice from the wintertime lakes of Kenosha County and elsewhere, and shipping it to hotels for summertime usage and cooling before the advent of refrigeration.) The Rustman Estate consists of the "big" house. a smaller guest cottage, several farm buildings, two workers cottages, a boathouse, a one-lane bowling alley, and wide pastures, garden plots and wooded areas. The porch on the house itself faces west and winds three-quarters of the way around the first floor. Inside there is a smallish kitchen but a dining room that seats 18-20 guests, a large living room, billiard room, butlers pantry, billiard room, and separate two-room maids quarters. On the grand staircase was a stained-glass window (now removed) featuring an Eve-like maiden offering the viewer and apple. Upstairs, a vast master suite has been created from some of the original five upstairs bedrooms, each with its own marble sink. The third floor is the attic with a turret room high above Silver Lake where Mrs. Rustman would sit and watch the ice-cutters. The Rustman House awaits its next occupants as it has been unoccupied for several years and remains protected by a chain-link fence and hidden security devices.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		In the films script, much of the characters speech and much of the narration are actually lines taken from the James Jones novel "From Here to Eternity". For example, Witt frequently speaks the words of Private Pruitt, and Sergeant Welsh speaks the words of Sergeant Warden.
b.		There are strong similarities between the plot of this film and that Robert A. Heinleins short story "Coventry". Both feature a protagonist who is a convict sent to a futuristic penal system which is actually a wilderness outland whose inhabitants have split off into two warring social factions. In the movie, the hero befriends a character known as The Father; in the short story, the protagonist befriends a man named Fader, which resembles the Dutch word "vader", which means "father".
c.		Gale Sondergaard was originally cast as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz, but she instead chose the role of Tylette the Cat in this film.
d.		Highest grossing R-rated comedy in the U.S. to its release date.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		Well-known Vietnam War veteran and radical anti-war activist Stan Goff briefly worked as a technical military adviser on the film. He later said it was one of the worst experiences of his life and that the finished product was "yet another guns and fire-balls, macho death-cult, fascist film-myth."
b.		In the script, the part of Cpl. Fife (Adrien Brody) was one of the meatiest, although he barely speaks a line in the finished film.
c.		Those Freaky McGuires, an installment of Lizzie McGuire (also produced by Disney), is considered a fourth version of Mary Rodgers story (see movie connections). "McGuire" star Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan had a rivalry during this period (see trivia for Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen) and apparently Duff, losing out on this role, demanded that her show get "Freaky" for one installment.
d.		Author of the book "Thomasina" Paul Gallico was present on the set during filming by special invitation. As Gallico quickly came to dislike "the great god Disney", he was vastly amused when one of the felines portraying Thomasina held up filming for two days when she flatly refused to perform a stunt for which she had been trained, in spite of Walt Disneys frustrated bellowing. Paul Gallico recalled in his memoirs: "I was proud of that cat!" As with many films with animals, more than one cat was used to portray Thomasina. Disney put a foreword on the film (DVD special features) and indicated Paul Gallico was his friend.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thin Red Line (1998)?
a.		While most of the character names are consistent in all three versions, the Captains name is not: its Stein in the novel, Stone in the 1964 film, and Staros in the 1998 version.
b.		Frank Price, then-president of Columbia Pictures, determined that an unknown American actress would help state side ticket sales as opposed to an unknown English actress. With that logic in mind, Price met with Lysette Anthony and informed her that all of her dialogue had been dubbed by actress Lindsay Crouse. Anthony was totally unaware that her voice was to be dubbed prior to the meeting.
c.		The prop 10-cent "CREEPSHOW" comic book featured in the film was drawn and inked by veteran artist Jack Kamen, one of the artists for the original E.C. crime and horror comics of the 1950s. Creepshow was a tribute to these comic books. Jack Kamen also created the comic book-style poster for the film, which was also featured on the front of the Plume "Creepshow" comic book adaptation (which Bernie Wrightson, another prolific horror comic artist, drew and inked the interiors for). Originally, (Stephen King (I) wanted Graham Ingels, another EC artist (famous for his work on the title "The Haunt of Fear") to do the artwork for the films poster, but he refused. It was head of EC comics William M. Gaines who then suggested Jack Kamen do the assignment. Kamen accepted.
d.		The opening 10 minutes of the movie was shot by a different director with a different cast and crew because producer Mark L. Lester insisted that the movie contain some nudity. None of the actors from this part of the movie are listed in the credits.

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