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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Tree of Life (2011) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Tree of Life (2011) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011).
About the movie:
The story centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
Famke Janssen
said she wouldnt have done this movie had
Robert De Niro
not been attached
b.
Judy Garland
s first film since
A Star Is Born
, seven years before.
c.
Heath Ledger
was originally slated to play Mr. OBrien.
Brad Pitt
took over the role.
d.
Several items in the movie, including
Jim Lovell
s jumpsuit and a coffee mug in mission control bear the mission patch for Apollo 8, the mission that took Lovell to the moon for ten orbits a year and a half earlier.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
Godzilla wasnt supposed to have any breath weapon at all in this movie until an outraged fan poll demanded it.
b.
Production designer
Jack Fisk
drew inspiration from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
c.
Rachel McAdams
auditioned for the role during another movies premiere. She was given the script just a day in advance. She beat nine other actresses for the role. The scenes used during her audition included the one of Allies and Noahs argument at the end after Allie and her mother return from their morning drive.
d.
Scottish Screen contributed 300,000 pounds towards the films budget.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
Photographer
Stanley Tretick
, best known for his iconic photos of
John F. Kennedy
with his children in the Oval Office, appears in the chaotic scenes as McKay reaches his victory, as part of the throng crushing around him. Tretick shot promotional stills for this and other
Robert Redford
films.
b.
The origin of this film goes back to the late 1970s, when after
Days of Heaven
director
Terrence Malick
was working on a project named "Q", that would explore the origins of life on earth. He abandoned the project, but this film contains elements from it.
c.
The Assistant Producer intentionally switched his watch from hand to hand at the end of filming to goof with continuity. While he did this about every thirty minutes, you can only notice about seven times.
d.
The title, "Abby Singer," refers to a famous Hollywood production term named after a 1950s and 1960s assistant director, who would announce "this is the next-to-the-last shot for the day." The final shot of the day is traditionally referred to as "the martini."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
The tree of life that appears in the film is a gargantuan 65000-pound live-oak tree situated at Smithville, Texas.
b.
"Special Thanks" in the credits go to several companies and agencies, and then to a list of over 60 people, in which actor Saul Rubinek is mentioned twice!
c.
The films climactic golf skit is taken right from Fields vintage stage routine and his first sound short,
The Golf Specialist
.
d.
This film was
Muriel Angelus
last screen appearance.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
Gueneveres wedding dress was hand made from hundreds of beads. Young brides requested the dress to no avail.
b.
VFX supervisor
Mike Fink
described the films scenes of the birth/death of the universe as "not narratively connected, but thematically complementary pieces."
c.
The Jabba the Hutt puppet took
Stuart Freeborn
s team three months to build, cost $500,000 to make and weighed 2000lbs.
d.
First Hollywood movie ever to be fully filmed and released in Spanish.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
After the sets were constructed,
George Lucas
went through them and had every single one of them "dirtied up". The R2-D2s were all rolled in the dirt, nicked with a saw, and kicked around a bit.
b.
In 2005
Terrence Malick
had talked to
Colin Farrell
about starring in the lead role.
c.
Director Robert Benton wanted Kim Basinger for the role of Toby,
Nick Nolte
for the role of Carl and
Jeff Bridges
for Peter Sullivan.
d.
The film was originally rated R for language. (this was most likely due to occasional usage of the F-word.) It was subsequently re-rated PG (most likely due to the historical significance of the material.)
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
An Italian cinema showed the film for a week with the first two reels switched. Even though the film starts with production logos, no one in the theater noticed and thought it was all part of
Terrence Malick
s "crazy editing style".
b.
Ronnie Gay
,
Lamar Jackson
and
Quinnon Sheffield
were real Georgia State Troopers at the time of the filming of the movie.
c.
The math homework that The Devil erases from the blackboard when she is the schoolteacher is Fermats Last Theorem - Solve for n>2, x^n + y^n = z^n. It was an extremely difficult mathematical problem that was only proved conclusively in the early 1990s, after four hundred years of it stumping the most brilliant mathematical minds in the world. In fact, the theorem states that this equation does not have any solutions. Fermat originally described it in a margin too small to contain his alleged proof. Andrew Wiles did prove it using elliptic curves, a fairly modern mathematical technique.
d.
Though the working title for the film was originally "Would I Lie to You?",
Dustin Hoffman
suggested the title "Tootsie." Tootsie was the name of his mothers dog.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
The sign on the business adjacent to the Tumult Saloon reads "Mine Office of Iverson". All of the films exterior photography was done at the Iverson Ranch.
b.
The scene with the bats flying in the evening skies was not computer generated animation. Shot in Austin, the bats under Congress bridge is a well-known phenomenon as one of the largest known bats population in the world, and they all live under a bridge. During spring and fall, the bats can be seen flying out in the evening to begin their daily hunt for food.
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 10, 1944 with
Don Ameche
and
Frances Dee
reprising their film roles.
d.
During the scene in the shed, after Matrix cuts the soldiers arm off, he was originally supposed to hit the victim with it and say "Need a hand?" This scene was never shot however, as it was considered too macabre.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
John C. Reilly
was originally supposed to play one of the men who come from Utah to collect the money. But Reilly thought that it was a strange role for him, considering how everyone would recognize him and would wonder why he was not doing more. So he dropped out.
b.
Two dream sequences for this film were made in the 2-color Technicolor process. This was the first commercially released color footage to be lit with artificial light.
c.
Roys pills are actually Benadryl, a popular over-the-counter allergy medicine.
d.
Shipped to theaters under the code name "Oak".
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Tree of Life (2011)?
a.
Mel Gibson
was considered for a role in this film.
b.
The roles Josh, Brian, Tom and Rachel were all specifically written for the actors who played them; Josh Davis, Brian W. Seibert, Tom Cryan and Rachel Kiri Walker.
c.
Kirk Alyn
was credited only as Clark Kent because the studio felt that no one should know who was playing the part of Superman. In fact, they spread the story that Superman was portraying himself in the serial.
d.
Both
Wil Wheaton
and
Leonardo DiCaprio
turned down the part of Aaron Stempler. Wheaton turned down the role because he didnt want to put off his acting school and when his manager urged him to take the role anyway he told him "It is like Luke Skywalker when Yoda told him not to go and save his friends but to stay on Dagobah and learn to be a Jedi instead. Luke didnt listen to him and thats why he never became true Jedi master." Later Wil Wheaton regretted turning this role down, saying that this was a crucial factor why his career never got to be a successful one.
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