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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).
About the movie:
In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
With the appearance of Beast (though he was in the previous film) and Angel, the original X-Men team that were formed in 1963 (Professor X, Cyclops, Phoenix, Beast, Iceman, Angel) now fully appear in this film, though not all together.
b.
Daniel Day-Lewis
at first turned down the role feeling the script made him too nice. The script was revised and added in things from the book that made the character less "perfect".
c.
In the scene where Paul tells Cristina that he got her husbands heart implanted, he says that the surgical intervention took place October 11th. 10 plus 11 equals 21.
d.
The infamous Players Ball scene was largely
Richard Pryor
s idea. Other parts of the story Pryor took directly from people who he knew living this lifestyle. These included putting a man in the trunk of a car with rats and forcing a drug pusher to stab himself at gun point.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
Henry states that Tommy was shot in the face so that his mother could not give him an open-casket funeral. Tommys real-life counterpart, Tommy DeSimone, was killed in January 1979. His remains have never been recovered.
b.
Many of the extras, especially at Larrys birthday party scenes, are the friends, neighbors and family members of Dr. Gary Dresden.
c.
The house that Sabina is living in at the end when shes in America really belongs to film editor
Walter Murch
.
d.
For the scene where the miners greet their women by putting their earnings in baskets, actress
Maureen OHara
stopped the scenes filming once she noticed that her basket was a modern Kraft basket and not a basket of the movies period. Director
John Ford
was so upset by being corrected in front of the cast and crew that he closed down the set and told OHara to wait on a nearby hill until he called for her. Fuming, OHara waited an hour before an assistant came to retrieve her but was satisfied to see that the basket had been changed upon her return.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
Evan Glodell and Tyler Dawson, now old friends, originally met in 2003 after Evan saw him in a small play and cast him as the role of Aiden. The early version of the film was to be shot on a camcorder, mostly inside Evans small apartment. Five years later, after an attempt to make Bellflower and working on many other projects (and at one point becoming roommates), they finally returned to the original purpose of their meeting when the current version of Bellflower went into production in 2008.
b.
George Stevens
eschewed the use of the CinemaScope format, as he felt that the lenses tended to distort the image. In terms of his story, he felt that height was much more important than width.
c.
In the beginning credits of the movie, it states, "Radio music supplied by
Charles Greene
and
Brian Stone
". The music that they used was "Green Rocky Road", performed by the band "The Daily Flash", which Greene and Stone managed.
d.
According to
Lena Olin
, she met co-star
Daniel Day-Lewis
on her first day on the set and, according to the schedule, had to do one of the films most intense nude love scenes with him that very day.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
The actors playing Michael Moon (
Kaiser Johnson
) and Rosamund Hunt (
Ashley Ahlquist
) ended up really getting married a year after they filmed the movie
b.
At the start of the film, when the bar is shown, a painting can be seen on the wall which features the faces of the women in "Cell block tango".
c.
Ed Boon
, co-creator of the original video game "Mortal Kombat," starred as the voice of Scorpion.
d.
Lena Olin
s American film debut.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
The drive-in sequence was shot at the Centinela Drive-in in Inglewood, which had been closed since 1993. The theater was demolished in 1998, and the site is now occupied by an apartment complex.
b.
This film, along with
Repulsion
and
Le locataire
, forms a loose trilogy by
Roman Polanski
about the horrors of apartment/city dwelling.
c.
The scene depicting the euthanizing of Karenin the dog was the scene
Juliette Binoche
read at her audition for
Philip Kaufman
. She reduced him to tears and she got the role.
d.
Film debut of
Meg Ryan
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
Charles Bronson
was about sixty-one years of age when he appeared in this movie.
b.
In early drafts, the character of Boo was written to be six years old. The writers decided to make Boo younger because it would make her more dependent on Sulley.
c.
The production originally wanted
Vincent Price
for the role of Max.
d.
In 1989, the film was shown in Russia for the first time. Screenings were low-key, and held at midnight. Still, more than three thousand people attended each showing, with another thousand being turned away at the door. Many of the people had seen the Czech invasion footage before from the Soviet point of view - reedited to show the Soviet invaders as the heroes and the Czechs as the rebels. For many Russians, this was the first time theyd seen the point of view from the other side.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
After completing this film, director
Chris Sanders
s next project for Disney was
Bolt
. When
John Lasseter
took over as head of animation at Disney, he dismissed Sanders who then moved on to DreamWorks where he made
How to Train Your Dragon
.
b.
Average & Median Shot Length = ~4.2 seconds.
c.
The movie shown on the vintage television set is
The Rose Tattoo
with
Anna Magnani
and
Burt Lancaster
.
d.
Several Czechs were in consideration to be involved in this film, including director
Milos Forman
, but very few ultimately ended up working on the film. Allegedly, protecting relatives still in Czechoslovakia from reprisals from the Communist regime was a primary reason.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
Was June Lockharts second film, and first credited role. Out of the four children starring in the movie, she was the only one to continue acting in to adulthood.
b.
For the climactic train wreck scene, director
Sam Wood
used two complete trains, including 2 locomotives and 12 cars. Six cameras were used to film the scene where the trains meet in a head-on collision.
c.
Throughout the film
Joel Miller
opens a number of scenes with
Jason Barry
posed to reference famous pieces of art. Jacques-Louis Davids "Death of Marat," Michelangelos distorted, disconsolate self portrait that is within "the flayed skin" Bartholomew holds in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelos "Pieta," and Roudins "The Thinker."
d.
The sequence depicting the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia incorporates real documentary footage of the era shot by students of Prague Film School with new scenes recreated for the movie. One of the film students, Jan Nemec, has a small role as a cameraman who is beaten and has his film confiscated by the Soviet police.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
Cast members
Mary Badham
(Scout),
Robert Duvall
(Boo),
Frank Overton
(Heck Tate),
Collin Wilcox Paxton
(Mayella), and
William Windom
(Mr. Gilmer) all appeared in episodes of the original
The Twilight Zone
TV series.
b.
Olivia Newton-John
was interviewed for a key role.
c.
Milan Kundera
didnt particular care for this version of his novel and refused to do publicity for it.
d.
The play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 5 November 1929 and had 178 performances. In the cast were
Donald Meek
and
Bette Davis
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)?
a.
Kevin Costner
s spreading out of his arms while doing his suicide run at the start of the film was a completely spontaneous gesture that took his stunt coordinator by surprise.
b.
Fittingly, Tomas is seen reading a book called "The Adventures of Casanova in Switzerland."
c.
In an article in "Look" magazine that came out at the time the film was released
Ann Blyth
said that the hardest part of making the movie was trying to learn to swim while wearing the mermaid tail. She said that she practiced for more than a week before she felt comfortable with not being able to kick her legs to help her swim.
d.
The principle cast went through boot camp at a dairy farm so that they could empathize more easily with the titular character.
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