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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Transmissions (2009) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Transmissions (2009) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009).

About the movie: People are just pieces.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009)?
a.		Director Jack Kentala was the only person - serving as both cast and crew - in the shooting location for every single shot of the entire film.
b.		The world premier of the film, which was in Australia, took place only 2 blocks away from where Ned Kelly was hanged.
c.		Richard Waring, who created the role of Morgan on stage in America was signed by Warner Bros. but he was drafted before shooting began and had to be replaced by John Dall. Veteran actor Gareth Hughes was then living in a monastery. An agreement was found with his religious superior so that he could serve as the Welsh dialect coach.
d.		President William McKinley is portrayed on screen by Dell Henderson, but with the dubbed voice of John Carradine.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009)?
a.		Director Penelope Spheeris admits the biggest challenge of filming was working with the younger kids as they often had problems saying their lines properly.
b.		Groucho Marx was fond of recounting how the original owner of the "gorilla skin" used in he film was so incensed when the stunt man wearing it poked ventilation holes in it with an ice pick that he took his suit and walked off the picture, forcing the producers to hastily rent an orangutan skin as a replacement. For this reason, Groucho claimed, the gorilla gets bigger and smaller from shot to shot. The man in the gorilla suit is in fact Charles Gemora, well know movie sculptor and gorilla artist, wearing his own custom made suit.
c.		Later produced as a live TV production - rare for TV theatrical presentations since the invention of videotape in the late 1950s. It starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer (who had previously co-starred in The Sound of Music) and was broadcast on CBS on April 29, 2001.
d.		The only visible people in the film are Jack Kentala and, via videotape, Michael Flavin in the film-within-the-film. The only other visible living creature is a squirrel seen through a window.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009)?
a.		Rated #11 in Entertainment Weeklys Top 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made (2006)
b.		The whole film was digitally color corrected at 2K resolution.
c.		In the original script, the leader of the "hot alien chicks" was supposed to say "blowjobs" instead of "pleasure" when they first confront Jesse and Chester. It was later filmed as "oral pleasure," but was ultimately changed to just "pleasure" to maintain their PG-13 rating. (The footage of the "oral" dialogue is included on the DVD.)
d.		The "conversation" between Kraids house A.I. Robert and "The House" was derived from actual written dialog in which the A.I. and "The House" gossip about Ridley Kraid. Their words were modulated and reversed in post-production to mask their true meaning. Even though he wrote the lines, director Jack Kentala promised actress Nicole Hicks that hed never listen to her recorded lines forward. He has only heard them played backwards.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009)?
a.		During one of Evans "flashback" scenes, he can be heard reading part of Ray Bradbury s short story "A Sound of Thunder". In this story, a group of people travel millions of years into the past to hunt dinosaurs. One of them accidentally steps on and kills a butterfly, which dramatically alters the future.
b.		The camera never intentionally moves during the whole film. The most noticeable exception is when the camera shakes when a bottle is smashed during the home-vacation sequence.
c.		The thirty-second of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.
d.		Steven Spielberg knew only vaguely what the mothership would look like when he was filming the live action scenes. Basically he decided it would be big and hulk-like, and very dark. While filming in India months later he drove past a giant oil refinery every day and was inspired by the many lights and pipes and outcroppings on the rig to change the look of the spaceship. He now decided it would be brightly lit, which is how it appears in the final film, even though the footage of it casting a dark shadow over the crowd had already been shot.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009)?
a.		The film was submitted to twenty-one film festivals. It was rejected by all of them.
b.		Writers (John Patrick Shanley) trademark: full moon.
c.		This was the only time that Myrna Loy worked with Boris Karloff; she had already worked with Bela Lugosi in 1930s "Renegades," and would conquer her femme fatale typecasting by 1934s "The Thin Man".
d.		Scarlett Johansson was originally cast as Rebecca Crane, but she dropped out shortly before filming and was replaced by Kelli Garner.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009)?
a.		Vitaphone production reels #4501-4510.
b.		Dito Montiel was reluctant to cast Shia LaBeouf in the role of young Dito because Montiel was intent on casting an unknown. After the first rejection, however, LaBeouf pushed for one more audition. He came into the casting office, punched a hole in the wall, and convinced Montiel that he could bring a requisite amount of anger to the role.
c.		Jerome Robbins rehearsed with the dancers for three months before shooting began. Once location shooting began, however, he kept revising and revising his original choreography. The dancers all claimed that they had never worked so hard on a dance piece, and most of them at one point or another sustained injuries during shooting.
d.		Director Jack Kentalas most-listened-to song during production was the appropriately-named "Agoraphobia" by the band Deerhunter.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009)?
a.		The picture takes place between 10:35 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. slightly longer than the 84 minute running time.
b.		To create a legitimate, visceral disgust, the black liquor-like beverage consumed on-screen by Jack Kentala was a mixture of soy sauce, Coca Cola, iced tea, and Tobasco sauce.
c.		In the scene where Sharpay arrives at East High School (making her first appearance in the film) the instrumental music from the song "Fabulous" from the second movie is heard.
d.		The character Mrs. Norbury was named after a German teacher at Upper Darby High School, where Tina Fey attended.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009)?
a.		The AI character Robert is a refurbished Creative Extigy external sound card made in 2001.
b.		Willie Brown: The former mayor appears as the black man who manages to have a word with Michael in the party sequence. He appears as a personal invitation by Francis Ford Coppola.
c.		The Latin in the Genovia crest is best translated as "The whole body works".
d.		In many shots the film skippers (Will, Morgan and Jack) can be seen driving the boats from the leeward side while beating to windward. In reality, most of the time skippers drive their boats from the windward side, mostly to help keep the weight on the windward side and also to give themselves a better view of the incoming waves so they can steer a proper course around them. The reason for putting the film skippers on the leeward side was so that the real sailors could control the boat from the windward wheel while remaining mostly out of shot (you can see their legs occasionally in some scenes.)

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Transmissions (2009)?
a.		The IND Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in Brooklyn was used for both the 57th St. and 42nd St. subway station scenes. The train, consisting of retired equipment, operated on one of the unused outer tracks.
b.		Ridley Kraids workstation computer is actually a mid-90s Hewlett-Packard desktop using Windows 95. Director Jack Kentala found it in his parents attic. The hard drive crashed shortly after filming completed.
c.		The tape used in the tape machines is a variety of decorative tape made by 3M. 3M only sold it in four-inch widths, so it had to be slit by hand to two-inch widths to fit in the tape machines. When filmed, they were astounded at how gaudy it looked, so to dampen its brightness, the prop crew wound the tape back and forth across a sander to dull its brilliance. "One of those things that actually looked a lot better on film when we finished with it," Douglas Trumbull commented.
d.		The films original director, John Huston, was fired after clashing with producer David O. Selznick. Cinematographer Oswald Morris quit after Selznick claimed Rock Hudson was being favored over his wife, Jennifer Jones.

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