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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Vacation (1983) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Vacation (1983) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983).
About the movie:
The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
The "screenplay" for this film famously consisted of one mass, visually daunting flow-chart of ideas circled and connected to each other (in the center of this mass of ideas was written "New Years Day (Time to Move On)". Typical to Jagloms style, the actors improvised all the dialogue.
b.
Helen Broderick
was asked to play the role of Hortense but was unavailable.
c.
Daisy Mabel (Cousin Eddies tongueless daughter) was played by director
Harold Ramis
s own daughter,
Violet Ramis
.
d.
The subplot of the Secretary of Defense trying to assume control of the White House over the Vice President, was inspired by former Secretary of State
Alexander Haig
. After
Ronald Reagan
was shot, Haig incorrectly insisted that he was in control of the White House, because then-Vice President
George Bush
was in Texas. The Secretary of State is actually fourth in the presidential line of succession, behind the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Despite receiving generally favorable reviews, the movie proved to be one of
John Wayne
s least successful movies ever on its release.
b.
This film has three actors who later won Oscars for Best Actor:
Sean Penn
(Spicoli),
Forest Whitaker
(Charles Jefferson), and
Nicolas Cage
(Brads Bud).
c.
Was originally titled "The Flood", it was changed because the film-makers didnt want audiences to assume it was primarily a disaster movie.
d.
The poster art was by fantasy illustrator Boris Vallejo.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Dirk Bogarde
s portrayal of General Sir Frederick "Boy" Browning proved to be highly controversial. Brownings widow asked Earl
Louis Mountbatten
of Burma to boycott the films London premiere in protest. He declined since it was for charity.
b.
Billy Wilder
filmed the movie at a studio-owned ranch in Calabasas, California. He wore his best shoes and made sure cast and crew saw him with those shoes on in the mud. Wilder felt he could not ask his co-workers to work in the mud unless they saw him do the same.
c.
In the Walley World scenes near the end,
Anthony Michael Hall
is taller than
Beverly DAngelo
, than from previous scenes in the film where he matched her height. This occurred because Hall grew three inches after principal photography, and the ending was re-shot four months later, after the initial ending failed with test-audiences.
d.
Cinematographer
Matthew F. Leonetti
estimates that 50 to 60% of the film was shot with the Steadicam or some sort of moving camera.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
The original script was much darker to the one in the final film. In the original, Mandella (Kats best friend) referred openly and frequently to several suicide attempts, which were for her to join with
William Shakespeare
.
b.
Adolphe Menjou
s character was not in the original stage play
c.
Harold Ramis
has an uncredited role as an off-camera voice of one of the police officers at Walley World.
d.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 15, 1949 with
Claudette Colbert
and
Fred MacMurray
reprising their film roles.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Blackhawk was a creation of the Late Will Eisner for Quality Comics, which was later bought out by DC Comics. According to the "Whos Who In The DC Universe" update, Blachawks real name is Janos Prohaska, sometimes said to be Polish, other times said to be US-born. Hes the leader of the seven-man Blackhawks team, a group of WW2 ace pilots who travel the world combating evil.
b.
When Clay Dalton mentions traveling to his parents cabin that has trees and is private, this is a direct reference to the cabin used in
The Evil Dead
and
Evil Dead II
.
c.
Tony Twist is a former NHL hockey player, best known as "The toughest guy in the NHL while playing for the St.Louis Blues.
d.
The character of Roy Walley was based on a combination of the brothers
Roy Edward Disney
and
Walt Disney
, right down to the thin mustache.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
A ronin is a samurai who is masterless.
b.
Vitaphone production reels #4353-4360 and #4250 (trailer)
c.
The St. Louis inner city and the Dodge City main street were created and filmed on the Warner Brothers studio back lot.
d.
Greta Garbo
s last film.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Australian actors
Graeme Blundell
,
Trisha Noble
and
Claudia Karvan
were cast as Padmés parents and sister and were interviewed by
Ahmed Best
for the On Location web-series. Blundell was even involved in the location shoot in Italy for one scene. However, all of their scenes, which also included young
Keira Wingate
and
Hayley Mooy
playing Karvans daughters, ended up being cut. Most of the footage can be seen as an extra feature on the DVD. Despite of their absence in Attack of the Clones, the entire Naberrie family is still visible at the very end of
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
and are all credited as such.
b.
John Malkovich
kills
Richard Jenkins
with an axe in the same way
Peter Stormare
killed
Steve Buscemi
in
Fargo
.
c.
All of the distant shots of Walley World, including the sign the family truckster drives under, were matte paintings.
d.
In addition to his many contributions as the production designer,
Harper Goff
also taught
Kirk Douglas
to play the guitar for the "Whale of a Tale" number.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
refused to strip for this film, even though she had done nude scenes before (and would do them after this film). However, she insisted on choosing her body double, as she wanted the naked backside shown to resemble her own. She had the three finalists come into her trailer and drop their robes. She described it as such an odd experience that none of them could stop laughing. In between takes of the nude scene, Tripplehorn remained off-camera to offer a robe or towel to the double.
b.
Imogene Coca
originally turned down the part of Aunt Edna because she did not think she could portray such a mean character. Even during filming, she was often concerned that she was being (too) mean to her fellow cast members.
c.
Gastons butler Henri (played by
François Valorbe
) and chauffeur Pierre (played by
Roger Saget
) were both dubbed by
Paul Frees
.
d.
Third Best Picture winner (along with
Crash
and
Casablanca
) to have originally premiered in the year before it qualified for Academy Awards consideration.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Young Edward becomes a traveling salesman for a company that sells hands with metal tools as fingers, all held together by a plastic base. The crew were aware that people would draw connections between it and
Edward Scissorhands
, and therefore purposely did not include scissors in the design.
b.
The Pennsylvania Board of Censors demanded that
D.W. Griffith
cut scenes of brutality from the film. Griffiths response to those demands was to cancel the Philadelphia opening.
c.
According to
Harold Ramis
, he was inspired to shoot wide angle shots of Clark alone in the desert by
La guerre du feu
.
d.
Though
James Cagney
was 81 years old when he filmed this movie, the real Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo was only 32 at the time in which the movie was set.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
The prison pre-release center used at the beginning of the movie is the real center located near Sugar Land, Texas, where the true story began.
b.
Brazilian name: "Pecados Íntimos" (Intimate Sins)
c.
Part of this was filmed at New York Citys Calhoun School. They were extremely cooperative with the shooting. The Calhoun School is a college preparatory institution located in the heart of Manhattans West Side.
d.
The original ending of the film consisted of the Griswold family, after seeing that Walley World is closed, going to the Hollywood house of Roy Wally (Eddie Bracken), the owner of Walley World, and holding him and his family hostage and making them sing and dance Walley World theme songs before the police arrive to arrest all of them. This did not go over well with test-audiences and the in-park scenes with
John Candy
was a last minute alternate filmed over two weeks, four months after production ended. The original ending was deleted and is believed to be lost. Eddie Bracken never-less appeared as Roy Walley in both endings.
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