Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Under Fire (1983) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Under Fire (1983) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Under Fire (1983).

About the movie: Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Under Fire (1983)?
a.		The film as delivered by Elaine May was drastically re-cut and shortened ("butchered", according to some) by Paramount before its release. Sadly, neither the directors cut of the film nor the original shooting script has ever been made publicly available.
b.		WILHELM SCREAM: when a man is thrown off an elephant in the beginning of the film
c.		"Little" Mary Pickford, the silent film star, liked Ernst Lubitschs tasteful touches of suggestiveness enough to ask him to direct her in a film that would help her show more maturity on screen. But she did not get along with Lubitsch himself nor did she appreciate Rosita, the film they made together. In later years she usually ranked it with her worst films.
d.		Although he had over 17 years of experience in the business in 1992, this film marked the first time that dialect coach Tim Monich had to teach his cast to speak in an Irish accent. Technically, Nicole Kidmans accent is incorrect. As a well-to-do landowners daughter in Ireland at the time, she would have spoken with a largely English accent, but, as this probably would have confused international audiences, she was taught to speak in an educated Dublin accent.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Under Fire (1983)?
a.		Ridley Scotts first cut of the film was 2 hours and 40 minutes long.
b.		The movie is partially based on true events in Nicaragua. In 1979, the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle was overthrown by Sandanista leftist rebels. Gene Hackmans character, Alex Grazier, is based on ABC News reporter Bill Stewart. On June 20, 1979, Stewart was traveling in a van that was stopped at a checkpoint in Managua, the capitol city of Nicaragua. Although he identified himself as an American journalist, Stewart was shot and killed by soldiers of the Nicaraguan National Guard, the main force behind Somozas dictatorship. As depicted in the film, the murder was filmed by Stewarts cameraman, and was later broadcast repeatedly on U.S. TV news reports. Public outrage over the murder forced the U.S. Government to drop its military support of the Somoza regime. In July, 1979, Somoza resigned and fled to Paraguay, where he was later assassinated by Sandanista hit men in September, 1980.
c.		As she stated in her autobiography, Lauren Bacall had been wanted by Columbia to appear in this film as Harpers Bazaar cover girl (as she had appeared on Harpers Bazaar cover in March 1943), but instead filmed To Have and Have Not at Warner Bros. and became a star.
d.		A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, and is not listed for preservation.

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