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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Toxic Avenger (1984) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Toxic Avenger (1984) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Toxic Avenger (1984) - Part (2)

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About the movie: This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		Although now the film is considered a Christmas classic, whats interesting is that at the time, according to Peter Billingsley, not many major studios were interested in a Depression-era story about a little boy wanting a BB gun for Christmas. Billingsley also stated in an interview that director Bob Clark agreed to make a horror film for the studio in order to get A Christmas Story made.
b.		Frequently missed shot: Mom tells Patty Dukes character itd be nice if she came over for dinner, cooked a chicken (i.e., wants her to be more normal). Her response is that itll be a cold day in hell before shes so conventional. In the final shot of the film, Patty is riding a motor scooter in downtown New York, going to visit her mom, hoping to reconcile. Theres a plucked chicken in the basket on the back of the scooter.
c.		Average Shot Length = ~9.2 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~8.6 seconds.
d.		After going behind the scenes on Rocky, Lloyd Kaufman decided to make a movie in a health club with his friend Michael Herz. After reading a magazine article with the headline "Horror Film Is Dead", Troma decided to change it into a horror movie. The films working title was "Health Club", and lobby cards bearing this title can be viewed on Tromas website.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		Among the garbage on the planet is the USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the F-117X Remora from Executive Decision, a spinner from Blade Runner, and a piece of the Lewis & Clark from Event Horizon.
b.		A deleted scene, which is available on the DVD, shows Toxie throwing a Peanut Butter and Drano sandwich, smacking the face of Saras next door neighbor. Playing Saras next door neighbor is Mitch Cohen without his Toxic Avenger make-up.
c.		After the success of Rocky, Sylvester Stallone lobbied hard to play Clark Kent/Superman, but he was ultimately turned down. Stallone found out that Marlon Brando, who had casting approval, turned him down for the role, just as he had allegedly vetoed Burt Reynolds casting as Sonny in The Godfather. (Responding to that rumor, Brando told Playboy Magazine interviewer Lawrence Gobel "Francis Francis Ford Coppola would never have cast Burt Reynolds.") Stallone subsequently went on Merv Griffins talk show and denounced Brando, saying he had no respect for the superstar as an actor or as a man. This surprised many as the early Stallone (as had the early Burt Reynolds) had clearly modeled himself after Brando, particularly Brandos characterization of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront in his own role as Stanley Rosiello in The Lords of Flatbush, a man named "Stanley" (a la Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire who had a coop of pigeons on his tenement roof (like Terry Malloy). This mimicry might have been one of the the reasons Brando reportedly had such antipathy for both actors. Stallone later explained that he felt that it was hypocritical that Brando, whom stated on numerous occasions that he took the role of Jor-El simply as a paycheck and nothing more, vetoed him for the role of Superman. Unlike Brando, Stallone grew up emulating and idolizing Clark Kent/Superman (and continues to) as well as having a great love for the comics mythology. Ironically, in his review for the Stallone film Rocky, Roger Ebert called Stallone "the next Marlon Brando".
d.		Actress and singer Martita Roca was the first cast member to be cast.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		The head-crushing scene was based on a time when Lloyd Kaufman was backing a car out of his garage and accidentally hit his younger sister. Nobody was harmed, but the memory haunted him for years.
b.		M-G-M also released this film as a silent version at 1,759.31 m.
c.		Ann and Joe get into an argument over which poet wrote the words that Ann quotes, "Arethusa rose from her couch of snows in the Acroceraunian mountains." Joe was right; its from the poem "Arethusa" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
d.		Filmed in Acapulco, Mexico, star Farrah Fawcett had actually visited there ten years prior to this movies shooting when she was a university student.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		The real Game is, more-or-less, a Ph.D. caliber scavenger hunt. Its also a team event. There is no prize money. Each teams entry fee is $25,000; limited to ten teams. All of the entry money is donated to charity. The game is actually supported by several wealthy benefactors, including Microsofts Bill Gates. Each team consists of one van full of players - usually four to six people. A series of clues, often in the form of puzzles, must be solved; each clues answers lead to the next clue. Teams travel from clue to clue, until reaching the finish line. The winners typically take about 24 hours to finish. Often the clues are so intricate and choreographed that they approximate small theatrical productions, occasionally employing a dozen or more actors.
b.		During the "Le Jazz Hot" rehearsal sequence, the choreographer who appears to help "Victor" run through the steps is actually choreographer Paddy Stone. He would also appear uncredited as "The Devil" in the surrealistic "Night Wind Goes To Hell" scene in Edwards bitch-slap at Hollywood, S.O.B..
c.		As of 2002, the rights to this film became public domain, and DVD copies that were "digitally remastered" began appearing in 99 Cent stores in LA area in 2004.
d.		The monster Melvin turns into was never actually referred to as the Toxic Avenger by any actor in the film besides the narrator. They did not have a name for the character as the film was being made. This is proved further by the kids in the film wearing t-shirts that say "I love the monster hero".

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		The sheep that Mark Torgl had to kiss was infested with lice, but he did not find that out until after the scene was shot.
b.		The studio wanted to fire Sam Peckinpah but Charlton Heston convinced them not to, when he threatened to return his $400,000 fee and pull out of the project.
c.		Henry Corden, who provided Fred Flintstones (uncredited) singing voice, also voiced several incidental characters on The Flintstones and would later take over Freds voice after Alan Reeds death in 1977.
d.		The voice of Auroras husband in the films opening scene is Albert Brooks(credited as A Brooks).

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		Cindy Morgan did not want to appear topless in the movie. While director Harold Ramis was amenable to changing the scene, producer Jon Peters asked to talk to her while Ramis had her on the phone. When the call ended, Peters informed Ramis that Morgan would do the topless scene - because Peters had told her she would never work again in Hollywood if she didnt. Morgan recounted in July 2010 that this incident contributed to her not working again (voluntarily) for a long time afterward.
b.		Cedric Gibbons was nominated for the Art Direction Academy Award for this picture, and also for When Ladies Meet.
c.		The scene where a toxic waste drenched Melvin soaks in his bathtub was largely directed by Mark Torgl himself. The water in the tub was ice cold, and attempts were made to warm it up. Ultimately, Torgl chose to bear the discomfort and get the shot finished.
d.		This film originated the "shooting the swordsman" gag that was popularized in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		Many of the non-English versions of the films title translate as something similar to "Alien: The 8th Passenger".
b.		It took four hours to get Mitch Cohen into the Toxic Avenger costume. While wearing it, he could only eat through a straw.
c.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on Thursday, October 21st, 1948, with William Bendix and Charles Bickford reprising their film roles.
d.		Originally premiered in the U.S. on September 7, 1930.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		Director Oliver Hirschbiegels English language debut.
b.		The seeing eye dog that was shot had been trained to glide across the floor on command and its "guts" were spaghetti covered in gray paint.
c.		The movie originally opened with a restaurant scene between Liz and Hennessy. That scene was cut, but actual dialogue from it can still be heard as part of a message Liz leaves on Hennessys answering machine.
d.		Jimmie (Quentin Tarantino) is wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of "Orbit", a local alternative newspaper in Metro Detroit, for which Tarantino did an interview when he was promoting Reservoir Dogs. See also the WWW-links section.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		When Kevin Klines character pops the cork off a bottle of champagne, the cork shoots off-camera and hits director Robert Altman in the forehead. A small cry of "OW!" can be heard and Kline says, "Sorry!" without breaking character.
b.		The title of the film refers to a breed of roses that while pretty and appealing in appearance, is often prone to rot underneath at the roots and branches of the plant. Thus, the tagline "...look closer" tells the viewer that when they look beyond the "perfect suburban life" they will find something rancid at the root.
c.		In a documentary entitled The Real Goodfella, which aired in the UK, Henry Hill claimed that Robert De Niro would phone him seven to eight times a day to discuss certain things about Jimmys character, such as how Jimmy would hold his cigarette, etc.
d.		Although Andree Maranda was dating one of the films main producers, she won her part through an audition.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984)?
a.		The Director, Fernando Fernandez (AKA Kiff Scholl) and the writer have bit parts in the movie. They play Fabrizio and Herr Rubio - the Fashion Director and Assistant at the photo shoot.
b.		In Venice, Lord Byron swam all the way down the Grand Canal from the Lido in 1818, a distance of more than four miles (6.5 kilometres). His most famous swim was in April 1810 when he swam across the Hellespont, the mile-wide (1.6 kilometre) channel that separates European Turkey from Asiatic Turkey.
c.		The spinning newspapers were simply newspapers placed on a spinning cheese rack.
d.		The interiors were shot at MGM in autumn of 1954, the first time that an outside production company not releasing through MGM was allowed to film a feature there.

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