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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Time After Time (1979) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Time After Time (1979) - 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: Time After Time (1979).
About the movie:
H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Time After Time (1979)?
a.
Vestron Pictures were unhappy with director
Dennis Hopper
s original 180 minutes cut of the film and re-edited it without his knowledge. Hopper was so enraged he sued the company, but they had already gone bankrupt. He nevertheless insisted on the anonymous Alan Smithee credit.
b.
American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 identifies
Arnold Lucy
as playing Hamilton; actually, Lucy plays one of the other bankers, and
William Morris
plays Hamilton.
c.
The first advance trailer centered on
John Belushi
s character, who was identified as "Wild Wayne Kelso". When the movie was shot, the characters name was changed to "Wild Bill Kelso".
d.
Amy Robbins was the name of
H.G. Wells
second wife in real life.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Time After Time (1979)?
a.
More than 20 directors passed on directing the movie.
b.
Initially, the Indiana Student Foundation promised director
Peter Yates
20,000 student extras for the final race scenes. Unfortunately, only 3,000 showed up, causing Yates to change his camera angles.
c.
The tagline is a gross misrepresentation of statistics. The actual estimate of awareness during anesthesia is 1:14000 for high risk patients to as low as 1:42000.
d.
The cab driver says to Wells, "Whats Up, Doc?" This was the name of a famous comedy, which also took place in San Francisco.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Time After Time (1979)?
a.
Both director/writer
Stephen Milburn Anderson
and writer
Paul Sinor
have served in the Korean "Dead Men Zone" (a.k.a. DMZ).
b.
When initially release, the movie was often on a double bill with
The Legend of Tom Dooley
.
c.
The tune played by Jack the Rippers Pocket watch is based on Chants dAuvergne, "The Spinner".
d.
The name of the dancing hippo in the "Dance of the Hours" segment is Hyacinth, the Ostrich is Mlle. Upanova, and the alligator is Ben Ali Gator.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Time After Time (1979)?
a.
The line said by Nobody, "The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the Crow," is also a
William Blake
quote, from the proverbs of Hell in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell".
b.
The original concept of Krush Groove was a concert documentary of the original Fresh Fest, one of the first hip-hop concert-arena tours, but
Russell Simmons
convinced producers
Michael Schultz
and
Doug McHenry
to produce an original feature film instead.
c.
Stevenson commits six murders over the course of the film - one in 1893 London and five in 1979 San Francisco. The film itself takes place over a little less than a week, from the perspective of
H.G. Wells
and Stevenson. The historical Jack the Ripper killed a total of five women over the course of 11 weeks in 1888.
d.
Christian Slater
auditioned for the role of Lloyd Dobbler but director
Cameron Crowe
was adamant about getting
John Cusack
. Also, there was a tie between
Ione Skye
and actress
Jennifer Connelly
for the role of Diane Court.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Time After Time (1979)?
a.
The movies line "Well always have Paris." was voted as the #43 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
b.
Stars on the Shreveport, LA, premiere junket included
Gale Storm
,
June Preisser
,
John Gallaudet
,
Roddy McDowall
,
Freddie Stewart
,
Dottye Brown
(a Shereveport girl in her first film) and producer
Lindsley Parsons
.
c.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
d.
The movie theater where Wells and Amy see the film was the same one which showed The Exorcist in an exclusive engagement. The infamous San Francisco serial killer, Zodiac, saw the film there, too.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Time After Time (1979)?
a.
In an effort for
Tom Cruise
to look more "teenage" in appearance, the producers of
Risky Business
put him though an unusual bit of physical training. Cruise worked out 7 days a week in order to lose ten pounds. Once that had been accomplished, he immediately ceased working out and ate extremely fatty foods in order to add a layer of baby fat. This is how he achieved that "fresh-faced" teenage look.
b.
The real Heinrich Harrer joked that "
Brad Pitt
was a terrible choice to play me. At that age I was much better looking than him."
c.
The location for the Duke of Cornwalls castle is now a housing estate.
d.
The scenic elevator in the Hyatt Regency Hotel is the same elevator used in
The Towering Inferno
and
High Anxiety
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Time After Time (1979)?
a.
The film was created entirely without the use of rotoscoping or computers.
b.
Benicio Del Toro
chose
Ryan Gosling
to play Benigno Beni RamÃrez. Gosling met with the real Ramirez and learned some Spanish to prepare for role. But delays during pre-production caused Gosling to drop out of the project.
c.
Wellss landlady is named "Mrs. Turner." Sherlock Holmes refers to his landlady as "Mrs. Turner" once (in "A Scandal in Bohemia") even though her name is "Mrs. Hudson" in all the other stories.
Nicholas Meyer
, a Holmes aficionado and author of three well-known Holmes pastiches, is familiar with this inconsistency in the Holmes canon (he even mentions it at one point in his DVD commentary on
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
) and apparently included it as an inside joke, along with the several other Holmes references in the film.
d.
The plastic flowers/leaves that Charlotte is arranging to hang in her room are commonly used as decorations in shops in Tokyo. The fact that they are pink means it is springtime.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Time After Time (1979)?
a.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 11, 1946 with
June Haver
and
Dick Haymes
reprising their film roles.
b.
Patti DArbanville
plays two characters who are murdered by Stevenson. First the prostitute in 1893 at the opening of the film and the third victim Stevenson murders in 1979, Shirley in the apartment.
c.
Sylvester Stallone
,
Tom Cruise
and
Ben Affleck
were all said to have expressed interest in appearing in the project in the late 1990s. Cruise eventually took up a position as producer on the project instead, but he asked to have his name removed from the credits just prior to release.
d.
Sentinel Prime was originally meant to be coloured yellow, but as fire trucks are a standard red, he had to be re-coloured at an expense of thousands of dollars.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Time After Time (1979)?
a.
According to producer
Stephen Deutsch
,
Christopher Reeve
s agent literally laughed in his face when he was told the salary his client would be offered for the role ( in what would be his first role after his star-making performance in the smash hit _Superman(1978)_ ). He refused to read the script or allow Reeve to hear about it. Knowing he could not proceed without a star, Deutsch clandestinely slipped Reeve the script in his hotel room. Reeve called the next day and said he loved the script and would accept the part. Reeve told Deutsch that another reason why he accepted was that the other project he was being offered at the time was a viking movie.
b.
The movies title inspired
Cyndi Lauper
s song "Time After Time", when she browsed a copy of TVGuide for "imaginary song titles".
c.
In her very last interview, (10 years after making "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,")
Marilyn Monroe
recalls the lack of respect studio execs had for her, but makes a point of mentioning co-star,
Jane Russell
: "I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell, she was the brunette in it and I was the blond. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She by the way, was quite wonderful to me."
d.
Ray Walston
s first film.
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