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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Trading Places (1983) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Trading Places (1983) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983).
About the movie:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
Randolph Duke has a picture of
Ronald Reagan
on his side of the Dukes shared desk, while Mortimer has a picture of
Richard Nixon
.
b.
Near the end of the movie, theres a confrontation with a newly-minted Terminator with
Arnold Schwarzenegger
s face. However, Schwarzenegger didnt shoot anything for this movie; the effects team scanned his face from a previous film and applied the result to the stunt double. The result is a character with a much younger face than Arnold possesses today.
c.
Fuck" and its derivatives are said 75 times, mostly by Carl Showalter. He says 10 of these during the scene where
Steve Buscemi
shoots
Harve Presnell
.
d.
Although
Ted Levine
provides Rusty Nails voice, he actually wasnt brought in until post-production, and, physically, Rusty Nail is played by the hulking actor
Matthew Kimbrough
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
At the beginning of the movie, Neal Page (
Steve Martin
) races a character played by
Kevin Bacon
for a taxi. Later, Neal phones his wife to tell her that he has been delayed (again), in the background, you can hear the fight from
Shes Having a Baby
(also directed by
John Hughes
) between Bacon and
Elizabeth McGovern
, when she screams that she doesnt like his friends girlfriend.
b.
When explaining how their business works we can see a portrait of the Marquis De Lafayette over the right shoulder of Randolph Duke.
c.
Bette Davis
turned down the lead role in this film.
d.
The music video for the boy band "Teen Spirit" (filmed on the North Carolina coast while a massive storm approached) contains several references to a famous sequence in "Top Gun" and the opening sequence to "The Monkees".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
The idea for the film came to the Director as he was driving home after work. He was working as a development assistant.
b.
The line: "Detective First Grade Keith Frazier.....Yesss!!!" is a tribute to New York Knicks former long-time announcer
Marv Albert
. After a made basket by 1970s New York Knicks star Walter Frazier, Albert would say: "Walt Frazier shoots....Yesss!!!"
c.
An unusual trailer was made for the film that consisted of no footage, just an audio clip and the readout of a heart monitor.
d.
The home used in the film is not the Rosenbach Museum and Library, but is a private home two doors west. Both houses, however, were built at the same time and originally had an identical floor plan. During the filming of the movie, DeLancey Place was closed for a few days.
Denholm Elliott
was the only actor in the film to visit the Rosenbach. The staff of the museum were all given Pennsylvania State Film Commission tee shirts.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
The original title of Night Feeders was "the Feeding" but by odd coincidence another North Carolina production about a werewolf was also titled "the Feeding" causing us to change the title to "Night Feeders".
b.
Shot in four to five months
c.
The electronic status board at Duke & Dukes (seen prominently in the Christmas scene) is the "Big Money" board from
Family Feud
.
d.
To maximize profits from foreign distribution of the film, the studio suggested that any unpleasant characters other than the Nazis should also be from an enemy country, namely Italy. This is why Ugarte, Ferrari, and the dark European pickpocket are Italian.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
Kevin Pollak
is repeating the ongoing joke, which is about guessing wrong in jeopardy all the time. He originally did this in
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
.
b.
Based on the true story of the Duc de Choiseul-Praslin, a French politician who was accused of the brutal murder of his wife Fanny Sebastiani in 1848. Praslin committed suicide via poison while on house arrest, subsequently causing the murder trial to be annulled. To this day, the murder remains one of Frances most famous "unsolved" murder cases.
c.
Alfred Drake
s last film.
d.
In the novel, the Headless Horseman was a man who lost his head from a cannon blast in an unknown battle of the American Revolutionary War.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
Based on a story that aired on
Unsolved Mysteries
.
b.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
c.
Both
Penny Marshall
and
Cindy Williams
had small parts in this film five years before
Laverne & Shirley
, but both ended up on the cutting room floor.
d.
Scenes involving Quark (
Armin Shimerman
) from
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
were filmed, but cut.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
All the animals in the movie belonged to one of the actresss daughter in the home we used to shoot for the hotel.
b.
Brooke Shields
was originally cast as Sarah Williams, but turned down the role due to the erotic nature of the film.
c.
Banned in China because homosexuality is considered a taboo subject there.
d.
Several scenes were kept in the movie, even though they were considered either goofs or errors. The scene where Mortimer is trying to catch the money clip and having trouble wasnt supposed to happen that way, but both kept going with it and not breaking character, so it was kept in. Another, where
Jamie Lee Curtis
is doing her lines on the train and is questioned about her accent and outfit not matching, wasnt supposed to be shown either. Curtis couldnt do the correct Austrian accent.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
Randolph and Mortimer Duke later appear in
Eddie Murphy
s movie
Coming to America
, where, in a cameo appearance, the two are homeless on the street and Prince Akeem gives them a large amount of money to get them back off the streets.
b.
The final day of filming on the trilogy actually happened over a month after this movie was theatrically released, and three weeks after the 2004 Academy Awards.
Peter Jackson
arranged to film one final shot of skulls on the floor in the tunnel of the Paths of the Dead, which was included in the Extended Edition of ROTK. He thought it was funny to be doing filming on a movie that had already won the Best Picture Oscar.
c.
Screenwriters Jeffry Price and
Peter S. Seaman
first adapted the
Gary K. Wolf
novel, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, in 1981, with a view to making it with up-and-coming director
Robert Zemeckis
. However, when Disney viewed Zemeckis two feature films (
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
and
Used Cars
), they felt that Zemeckis wasnt talented enough to pull off the movie. After Zemeckis made
Romancing the Stone
and
Back to the Future
, Disney reconsidered and the movie was green-lit.
d.
Junis full name is Juni Rocket Racer Rebel Cortez. Rocket, Racer, and Rebel are the first names of
Robert Rodriguez
s three sons.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
Michele Soavi
and
Avi Nesher
were attached to direct.
b.
According to John Douglas (creator of criminal profiling) the Ripper murders were the work of a disorganized, paranoid personality, not the calculating one shown in the film.
c.
Jamie Lee Curtis
future brother-in-law, Nicholas Guest, appears as Harry.
d.
The looting and burning of Lawrence, Kansas actually occurred on 21 August 1863.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Trading Places (1983)?
a.
The Dude says "man" 147 times in the movie, nearly 1.5 times a minute.
b.
When
Eddie Murphy
is released from jail, he stands near three men in trench coats on the steps of the precinct. The man with his back to Murphy holding a briefcase is director
John Landis
.
c.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
plays a pop star, however she does not sing any songs herself. They are originally sung by
Kim Wayman
.
d.
Because the train scene was filmed on a forced-perspective set, Industrial Light & Magic did something called "lattice deformations "to squeeze the computer-generated train (including the smoke) onto the forced-perspective tracks.
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