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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Titus (1999) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Titus (1999) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999).

About the movie: This film is an adaptation of the Shakespeare play "Titus Andronicus." Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family. Who says revenge is sweet?

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		This is a remake of the Filipino horror movie entitled "Sigaw".
b.		Director Julie Taymor used anachronistic props and clothes throughout the film (eg chariots and tanks; swords and machine guns) because she wanted to symbolically depict 2,000 years of warfare and violence.
c.		Midway through production the film ran out of money and DeMilles original backers pulled out. The production was saved when DeMille called in a personal favor from his friend A.P. Giannini, one of the founders of Bank of America. Gianninis $500,000 investment allowed the production to continue without stopping.
d.		Film debut of Sally Fraser.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		The interiors of the Valenaris restaurant was actually a set designed and built by Richard Sylbert on a soundstage.
b.		All the scenes in the coliseum were shot in Pula, Croatia as the coliseum in Rome has no floor and couldnt be used.
c.		According to a John Sturges interview given in 1990 for the book John Sturges, Stories of a Filmmaker by Emmanuel Laborie, the music for the movie was to be composed by Dimitri Tiomkin. But the director had a quarrel with his favorite composer, because Sturges did not agree with a song during the opening credits, like in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Tiomkim dismissed and was replaced by Elmer Bernstein.
d.		Sandra Bullock co-wrote and performed the song "Heaven Knocking On My Door" in this film.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		John Landis: [ipanema] the music during the strip scene.
b.		The Hays Office cautioned the studio about showing scenes of the dead, injured or dying after the train wreck. Some countries banned the film altogether, while others cut the scenes of torture, guillotining and strangulation.
c.		Many of the flying scenes are clearly inspired by combat and aerobatic aircraft. Toothless performs many recognizable aerobatic maneuvers such as loop, snap rolls and combinations. For example when Astrid is taken for her spin, Toothless performs a loop while being "filmed" from near his wingtip. This is very similar to countless sailplane films with cameras mounted on the wingtip.
d.		During both the off-Broadway production of the play and the shooting of the film, director Julie Taymor used the work of Joel-Peter Witkin as inspiration.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		The large white building seen several times throughout the movie is the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, built by Mussolini as his governmental headquarters and known disparagingly in Rome as the Square Coliseum.
b.		This movie ended up being director Vernon Zimmermans final film for fifteen years until he directed the short Chuck and Wally on the Road.
c.		The Los Angeles Examiner reported on 7 July 1957 that US Navy Commander Eldon Edwards commanded the USS Stephen Potter for use in this movie.
d.		The robots are designed very similar to the large fighting machines in the future battle scenes in The Terminator.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		The scenes on the steps of the U.S. Capitol were filmed at the Utah State Capitol. The scenes inside the Capitol were actually filmed at the Illinois State Capitol Building. Both were modeled after and look similar to the national Capitol. Many Salt Lake City and Springfield locals took parts as extras in the movie.
b.		Second Death Wish movie that was made during the 1980s. The others were Death Wish II and Death Wish 4: The Crackdown.
c.		This film was apparently a guilty pleasure of Alfred Hitchcock.
d.		Production designer Dante Ferretti had to leave the film shortly after principal photography began to start work on Bringing Out the Dead. However, he left detailed instructions and designs for art director Pier Luigi Basile to implement during shooting, and he returned to the set every two weeks to check everything was going OK.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		Dwayne The Rock Johnson sings "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" in this movie. He sings the same song the first time he hosted Saturday Night Live.
b.		The fanfare which plays over the opening credits is in fact a recited version of a Latin translation of the dialogue from the play, as Titus is being welcomed back to Rome by Marcus. Composer Elliot Goldenthal had the text translated and then wrote it as an opera. It is sung by an all male choir of over 80 tenors, baritones and basses.
c.		The dream sequence of the inferno is stock footage taken from the 1924 film Dantes Inferno.
d.		When James Cromwell was handed the screenplay for Babe, he thumbed through it to see how many lines he had. He saw that he didnt have that many, he decided that he would do it as a nice easy film. What he didnt realize was that he would have more screen time in this film than any of his previous films.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		The soldiers in the opening scene are all played by students from the Zagreb Police Academy.
b.		Originally, it was hoped that this film would re-unite the principal players from The Silence of the Lambs. It turned out that only Anthony Hopkins and Frankie Faison returned for this film. However, it turned out to be a reunion for Hopkins anyway, as he had previously worked with Julianne Moore in Surviving Picasso and Gary Oldman in Dracula.
c.		In a 1960 interview John Wayne criticized this film and Montgomery Clifts Suddenly, Last Summer, both of which treated homosexuality (in this film because of an implied homosexual relationship between the characters played by Gary Cooper and Tab Hunter), as "poison polluting Hollywoods moral bloodstream." The latter, he said, was "too disgusting even for discussion."
d.		Adrian Dunbar was originally cast as Bail Organa and made a brief appearance in the senate sequence. When his performance was cut, the characters name was changed to Bail Antilles (mentioned on screen by Captain Panaka). A picture of Dunbar still appeared in two publications: The Ultimate Star Wars Episode I Sticker Book (as Senator Bail Organa) and Star Wars Episode I Whos Who (as Bail Antilles).

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		First film to use go-motion, a variant of stop-motion animation in which parts of the model (in this case, the dragon) were mechanized and the movement programmed by computer. During shooting, the computer moves the model while the camera is shooting, resulting in motion blur, which makes the animation more convincing.
b.		This film was delayed when independent filmmaker Michael Thomas Dunn was badly injured in November 2007. Principal Photography was about 35% completed when the film was forced into hiatus. As a result, Principal Photography took more than 2 years, not wrapping until late 2009.
c.		Many of the actors did not know when other actors where acting or not. Several real fights broke out on the set as a result.
d.		Nicola Pecorini was the original cinematographer on the project, but shortly after production began, he left due to creative differences with director Julie Taymor. Taymor had originally offered the job to Luciano Tovoli but he had had to turn it down as he was shooting Il gioco at the time. After Pecorini left, Taymor again contacted Tivoli, who was now free and who agreed to come on board.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		Many of the stars (including Isaiah Stone, Ashlee Thompson, and William White) and most of the extras are from the Forsyth, MO area, and had never acted before.
b.		The film represents Jessica Langes first time ever performing Shakespeare on either stage or screen.
c.		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.
d.		All of the scenes involving Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas) were shot near the start of principal photography, and director Gregory Hoblit was so impressed with the physicality of actor Koteas performance that he insisted everyone who subsequently becomes possessed by Azazel must move in a similar manner. Indeed, actors Robert Joy (who plays Charles Olom), James Gandolfini (Lou), Bob Rumnock (who plays the school teacher) and Tara Carnes (who plays the young girl) all studied Koteas performance before shooting their own possessed scenes.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Titus (1999)?
a.		This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1990.
b.		John Fergusons apartment is located at the corner of Jones and Lombard, just one block west of the famed steep switchback block of Lombard Street.
c.		Julie Taymor conceived of Saturninus (Alan Cumming) as being from the 1930s and rooted in Fascism, whilst Bassianus (James Frain) came from the 1950s and was concerned with conservatism. This is reflected in the cars they travel in and the clothes their supporters wear during the political speeches.
d.		Working on this movie, a 20th Century Fox studio camera operator for the flying sequences of this film, Otto Kanturek and his uncredited assistant, aerial photographer Jack Parry, were both killed in a military plane crash when a Hurricane fighter collided with their Avro Anson camera plane over Cawston, Norfolk, England on 26 June 1941 and this happened after filming for this picture. Other reports state that according to 20th Century-Fox studio publicity, these events involved the two flying to England to shoot airplane fight sequences and after this they, in a dogfight with the R.A.F., German aircraft shot them down and they were killed.

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