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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Tropic Thunder (2008) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Tropic Thunder (2008) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008).
About the movie:
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008)?
a.
Director
Elia Kazan
got
James Dean
drunk before filming the rooftop scene between Cal and Abra.
b.
The wide shot of the bridge exploding, followed by a tanker crashing into a group of houses as the minivan escapes, was conceived of, and shot, only one month prior to its footage premiering during the SuperBowl spot, effects ready and all.
c.
Kip Wellington reports for television station 48WONG, which is a play on an old local Philadelphia station and the last name of the directors friend.
d.
Justin Theroux
: the gunner on one of the Hueys in the beginning of the film, and the
Zoolander
DJ at the One Week Down party in the directors cut.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008)?
a.
Tug Speedmans celebration leap while holding his Oscar spoofs a similar antic by
Cuba Gooding Jr.
after he won for
Jerry Maguire
. Tugs leap can be seen on the TV screen behind Les Grossman when Grossman is talking to his assistant and telling him a monkey could do that job. (Grossman is played by
Tom Cruise
, Goodings Maguire co-star.)
b.
Final film of
Adolphe Menjou
.
c.
This was the first film that
Burt Reynolds
made with director
Peter Bogdanovich
. The second (and last) would be
Nickelodeon
.
d.
Chapter titles: 1. A Heritage of Danger 2. Perilous Paths 3. The Midnight Raid 4. Wheels of Doom 5. Thundering Hoofs 6. Against Desperate Odds 7. Back from the Missing 8. Fight for a Fortune 9. The Wolfs Cunning 10. A Six-Gun Wedding
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008)?
a.
Bugle call: see also
The Gay Divorcee
,
Follow the Fleet
.
b.
Oliver Stone
says that his biggest regret about the film is the fact that he had to cut out most of actor
Pruitt Taylor Vince
s performance as the prison guard Kavanaugh. As filmed, Kavanaugh becomes a comic character, who Mickey uses as a shield whilst moving through the prison, and who ends up being shot 16 times by the time Mickey meets Warden McClusky (
Tommy Lee Jones
) at the stairs. In the finished version of the film, you dont actually see Kavanaugh being shot at all prior to stairs. Stone says he was forced to cut much of this because the studio insisted that the movie be under two hours. Strangely however, the footage of Kavanaugh was not restored by Stone for his Directors Cut nor was it included as a deleted scene on the DVD.
c.
This is second time
Kevin Kline
and
Jon Kasdan
have played father and son. The first was in
The Big Chill
.
d.
Originally
Nick Nolte
s reveal during the video teleconference scene was intended to be an homage to
Robert Shaw
s character of Quint in
Jaws
.
Ben Stiller
toned it down because he felt there were too many homages in the film at that point.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008)?
a.
The character who starts spitting at Tugg Speedman is wearing a Coca-Cola T-shirt that says "drink Coca-Cola" in Hebrew.
b.
Filmed between late August 1952 and early February 1953 at MGMs British studio in Boreham Wood, Elstree, with shooting continuing at Metros Culver City, California studio between the third and thirteenth of October 1953, the movies box-office appeal was doubted by MGM executives, who held back the film until a national release on May 15, 1956, followed on May 22 by a Manhattan opening at the Plaza Theatre. Indeed, this innovative, all-dancing project failed to make money.
c.
Melissa Joan Hart
auditioned for a role in this movie.
d.
The Global Airways plane used in the movie was a World Airways Boeing 707 (N374WA). World Airways home base at the time was Oakland Metropolitan Airport, where just about all of the airport scenes in the movie were filmed.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008)?
a.
This film survives in black and white only.
b.
R2-D2s vocal patterns largely contain sound designer
Ben Burtt
s own voice. In trying to create the beeping, whistling noises of the droid, Burtt found that he was vocalizing a lot of what he was trying to achieve, so he recorded his voice - mainly making baby noises - and then fed it through a synthesizer.
c.
For all the violent action in the plot there is only one actual death depicted in the movie: director Damien Cockburn.
d.
Terrence Mann
and
Don Keith Opper
have appeared in all four films in the series.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008)?
a.
Ben Stiller
: [
Star Trek
] Speedman is seen watching clips from
Arena
.
b.
During filming of the cut sequence where the McFly family gathers around the table in 2015, between takes they had an earthquake, and were afraid the props may have moved around too much to edit the scene seamlessly as
Michael J. Fox
had played 3 characters in the same shot. To the film crews surprise however, everything was exactly where it was supposed to be for the sequence.
c.
Altagracia Guzman
, who starred in the independent hit
Raising Victor Vargas
, was offered the role of the lead characters grandmother. Shes known the director for many years as they are both based in Washington Heights. Ms. Guzman is the aunt of brothers
Jessy Terrero
and
Ulysses Terrero
.
d.
Producer
Sam Spiegel
- in his efforts for securing rights, casting, locations, etc. - flew around the world 4 times in the 3 years it took to get the film from page to screen.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008)?
a.
The only Dirty Harry movie in which the opening credits are not played over San Francisco scenery.
b.
Christine Taylor
:
Ben Stiller
s wife appears at the awards ceremony sitting a few chairs in from the aisle, seen for an instant as the camera follows Tugg down the aisle. She also plays Simple Jacks mother in the Simple Jack trailer.
c.
John Williams
and
Johnny Mercer
s title song crops up in various guises throughout the film, including on the radio, as a dirge played at a funeral by a Mexican marching band, and even as the first couple of notes of the Wades doorbell.
d.
Although technically still the only film rated "M" by the MPAA (the early equivalent of the later "PG", introduced in 1973), since this rating no longer exists, all home video and DVD versions released after 1973 are marked "Not Rated".
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008)?
a.
During the getaway, the helicopter pilot did actually fly under the bridge. You can find this on the DVD Special Feature.
b.
Joey Buttafuoco
s elusive "Night Man" bit part comprises a few seconds of on-screen time as he offers Jamal a flashlight just before Jamal escorts Forrester onto an empty baseball field (R1 DVD Time 1:21:34)
c.
Jon Voight
s character is visibly angry when loses the Oscar to Tugg at the films end. This is a reference to Voight losing the Oscar to
John Wayne
in
True Grit
when he was nominated for
Midnight Cowboy
.
d.
The brand of cigarettes the Oracle smokes is "Double Destiny".
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tropic Thunder (2008)?
a.
Disappointed by the muted reception to
The Sword in the Stone
,
Walt Disney
was determined to come back with a universally well regarded film. He urged his story men to not bother reading the original novel.
b.
WILHELM SCREAM During the three-helicopter raid at the beginning of the film, when an enemy soldier is hit by gunfire and is blown backwards (elapsed time 6:04). Also, when Tugg Speedman throws "Half-squat" into the river in the finale. When this throw is repeated in the end credits, the scream is heard again.
c.
This was the third superhero movie to be released in 2005, after
Elektra
and
Batman Begins
.
d.
The Horsemans horse is named Daredevil, the same name of Brom Bones (Brom Van Brunts) horse in Irvings original short story; the horse was purchased in Seville, Spain.
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