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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Thing (1982) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Thing (1982) - 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 Thing (1982).
About the movie:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
John Carpenter
comments that one of the bush pilots used on the film offered to crash one of the helicopters for money. The scene when MacReady and Dr. Copper go to visit the Norwegian camp via helicopter, the bush pilot actually turned the controls over to
Kurt Russell
once the chopper was off the ground. If you watch the shot you see the copter actually wobble, thats Russell taking the controls.
b.
When the sailors fight over the dress on the ship on which Elizabeth has stowed away, they talk about the ghost of a woman who was widowed before her wedding. This is a plot point in the Disney Ride "The Haunted Mansion".
c.
The rifle Andy carries to arrest English Bob is a Winchester 66 "Yellowboy" with the fore-stock removed to resemble a first-model Henry.
d.
In an interview with Cinescape magazine, director
Irvin Kershner
said that he thought the first film was trashy and how he had no interest in films with special effects. However, he was won over by
George Lucas
, although Kershner was determined to make the film more about characterizations than hardware. Kershner spent several months working on the script, pushing the writers into humanizing the characters more (something that Lucas has often been criticized for failing to do).
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
Rose McGowan
originally suggested her friend
Rey-Phillip Santos
for the role of El Wray. Instead it went to
Freddy RodrÃguez
.
b.
WILHELM SCREAM: Ewok killed while taking cover from the Imperial Walker turret fire.
c.
In August 2003 a couple of hard-core fans, Todd Cameron and Steve Crawford, ventured to the remote filming location in Stewart, British Columbia and, after 21 years, found remains of Outpost #31 and the Norwegian helicopter. The rotor blade from the chopper now belongs to Todd and rests in his collection of memorabilia from the film.
d.
Louis Calhern
replaced
Frank Morgan
in the role of Buffalo Bill after Morgan died just as filming was getting under way. But if you look closely at Buffalo Bills very first appearance on his horse, you will see a second of
Frank Morgan
before the shot of Calhern.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
Peter Firth
, who had played 17-year-old Alan Strang on the London stage from July 1973 and on Broadway from September 1974, was actually nearly 23 when the movie version was filmed in September 1976.
b.
This is the first of
John Carpenter
s films which he did not score himself. The films original choice of composer was
Jerry Goldsmith
, but he passed and
Ennio Morricone
composed a very low-key Carpenter-like score filled with brooding, menacing bass chords.
c.
Bills speech about Superman was in part inspired by "The Great Comic Book Heroes" a book by
Jules Feiffer
.
d.
Flints e-mail address is flockwood@flinternet.com. At the time of the movies release, going to Flinternet.com would redirect you to the movies official website.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
JoBeth Williams
was up for a different part in this film but when she read the script, she said the only part she would consider playing was Margo and she got that part instead.
b.
In the shot of MacReady holding the dish of Palmers blood right before he tests it, the hand that holds the dish is fake.
c.
A post-credits scene was planned, in which famously mute ninja Snake-Eyes tells a joke to the G.I. Joe team.
Larry Hama
advised against it because it would detract from the seriousness of the film, as well as go against the core of Snake-Eyes character, who has always been portrayed as a complete mute.
d.
The setting was changed from the 1930s to the Edwardian era at the suggestion of the Sherman Brothers (
Robert B. Sherman
and
Richard M. Sherman
).
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
The Broadway production of "A Little Night Music" won the Tony Award for Best Musical of 1973.
b.
Filming during the scene with the Orphans was interrupted by a police chase.
c.
Joseph Stefano
originally wrote a screen adaptation of the novel when
Grace Kelly
was supposed to star. Stefanos adaptation was much truer to the original book, and would have included two important characters from the novel that never made it into the final version of the film. One was a psychotherapist that Marnie was seeing at Marks insistence, whose role ended up being merged into Marks. The other was a man named Terry who was a co-worker of Marks and also in love with Marnie. The part of Terry was massively reworked and ended up becoming Lil.
d.
John Carpenter
and
Kurt Russell
both admit that after all of these years they still do not know who has been replaced by the creature and when.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
During the films premiere at the New York Film Festival, many members of the audience including Ferraras wife walked out of the theater. At the question-and-answer session that Ferrara held after the screening, the first question asked was, "This film is an abomination. Why arent you giving the proceeds to some drug rehab program?" At a second showing of the film the next day, Laurence Fishburne and Nicholas St. John (I) were booed off the stage.
b.
While discussing the character of MacReady, director
John Carpenter
and actor
Kurt Russell
discussed having MacReady be a former Vietnam chopper pilot who had felt displaced by his service in Vietnam. This ultimately did not make it into the finished film.
c.
John Landis
: [SYNW] the title of the "Feel-a-Rama" movie.
d.
In Chicago, airplanes dropped free tickets to the film, and small coins were scattered about town that said "The Miracle Man Is Here" on one side, and "Have faith, Keep this" on the other.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
Stuart Wilson wears a Crossworlds baseball cap in Second Sight.
b.
The sound effect of the Antarctic wind was actually recorded in the desert outside Palm Springs.
c.
The first film of
Nigel Hawthorne
.
d.
John Sheehan
is in studio records/casting call lists as "Bartender," but the only bartender seen was
Jack Kennedy
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
The quote that Papa shares with Avner when telling him that he is being hunted is loosely taken from Ecclesiastes 9:11: "I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all."
b.
Star
Fred Gwynne
dyed his hair white for the role of Judd Crandall.
c.
Robert Shaye
: selling bus tickets in a booth.
d.
There are no female characters in the film. The only female presence in the movie is in the voice of MacReadys chess computer and the contestants seen on the game show that Palmer watches. A scene containing a blow-up doll was filmed and then left on the cutting room floor. According to
John Carpenter
, only one crew member was female but she was pregnant and this forced her to leave the shoot; she was replaced by a male.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
For the first time,
Paul Winchell
does not play Gargamel, as he unfortunately passed away in 2006.
b.
The female voice on MacReadys computer was performed (uncredited) by the wife of director John Carpenter, actress
Adrienne Barbeau
.
c.
The song "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam" was sung by
Ethel Merman
and
Dan Dailey
in
Irving Berlin
s
Theres No Business Like Show Business
and previously by
Judy Garland
and
Fred Astaire
in Irving Berlins
Easter Parade
. In 1950, Judy Garland had started to film
Annie Get Your Gun
as Annie Oakley in the role that Ethel Merman had originated on Broadway in 1946.
d.
This film premiered at the grand opening of the Roxy Theater in New York City on 11 March 1927.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Thing (1982)?
a.
DeForest Kelley
s first line in this film ends with, "This mans dead, captain."
b.
Celeste Davis was 13 years old when she began writing the screenplay.
c.
The flesh-flower that attacks Childs is actually an incredibly detailed effect. Its petals are 12 dog tongues complete with rows of canine teeth. Effects designer
Rob Bottin
dubbed it the "pissed-off cabbage".
d.
The Eldorado Cadillac driven by Priest was owned by KC, the pimp who makes an appearance in the nightclub scene. The deal was that KC would get a part in the movie (in the opening credit it says "and introducing: KC") in exchange for the use of his car.
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