Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Variations on a High School Romance (2010) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Variations on a High School Romance (2010) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010).

About the movie: Four years in the lives of five high school students and the trials and tribulations they face while falling in love and growing up.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		The accompanying music for the first theatrical trailer is The Crystal Methods "I Know Its You". Milla Jovovich provides the vocals/wailing for the song, which was released three years earlier.
b.		Toward the end of the film when the nuns are admiring Graces bike, one of them rings the bikes bell. The other nun exclaims, in Italian, "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it wings", a reference to Its a Wonderful Life.
c.		At one time, director Mike Nichols was attached to the project.
d.		Production took so long on this movie that, in order to kill time between shooting days, Nicholas Zebrun suggested to David Sowden that the two of them collaborate on a short film that Sowden would direct and Zebrun would produce. The resulting film was _White Powder (2006)_.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		Daniel Baldwin dislocated his knee by sliding on a shag carpet in his fight scene with Robin Tunney. Tom Sizemore twisted his ankle on the same carpet several days later.
b.		The studio kept running out of money. They even kept two sets of costumes available in different places so that filming could continue if the creditors decided to seize one set.
c.		Filming began on October 17, 2003 and finished over five years later on March 8, 2009. Intense scheduling conflicts and casting irregularities caused several delays in the shooting process. One benefit to this was that it gave Nicholas Zebrun enough time to rework scenes in his original script he was not happy with.
d.		1941 it was rediscovered that the original nitrate print had decomposed in the Universal vaults.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		Larry Hovis film debut.
b.		Some of the flashback footage is taken from director Ulli Lommels earlier film Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe.
c.		Momma Grapes real name is Bonnie, but the credits still call her Momma. Probably because the only people who ever see her are her children.
d.		Nicholas Zebrun wrote the part of Jennifer specifically with Chelsea Collins in mind. When he first offered it to her their Sophomore year in high school, she turned it down, citing scheduling conflicts. Part of the reason the film never got made during Zebruns high school tenure was because of his reluctance to re-cast the role, feeling that Collins was perfect for it.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		Included among the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
b.		The uncut version, which is available on DVD, contains some scenes of violence that werent shown in theaters.
c.		In a poor attempt to keep a low profile, John Lyshitski (Dax Shepards character) appears disguised with suspicious looking outfits such as the Unabomber and Travis Bickle (from Taxi Driver).
d.		Although the school is never mentioned by name in the film, in the original script it was referred to as Addie Ross High School. Addie Ross is the name of a character from one of Nicholas Zebruns favorite films: A Letter to Three Wives. Despite this, several shots of the school and letter jackets are often shown with initials SHS, or Southwest High School - where the bulk of the movie was shot.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		It is never revealed what subject the Teacher is actually teaching. During some scenes she appears to be writing history notes, while other times literature notes, and still other times French notes. Nicholas Zebrun and Jessy Wise made a conscience effort to keep the Teachers subject ambiguous so as to focus more on the character and what she represents to Todd.
b.		Teri Garr, who plays Inga, was called in when Madeline Kahn, whom Mel Brooks had originally wanted for the role, turned it down and asked if she could play Elizabeth instead. Mel Brooks told Garr that if she could come back the next day with a German accent, hed like her for Inga. She looked at Mel and said, "Vell, yes, I could do zee German ackzent tomorrow - I could come back zis afternoon" and the part was hers. Garr has said that she based her accent on Chers wigmaker whom she worked with on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.
c.		Mark Ruffalo describes Bruce Banner as "a guy struggling with two sides of himself, the dark and the light; everything he does in his life is filtered through issues of control." He furthermore describes Banners alter ego the Hulk as "a loose cannon - hes the teammate none of them are sure they want, its like throwing a grenade into the middle of the group and hoping it turns out well!"
d.		When Dallas (Matt Dillon) robs the store clerk, the clerk is played by character actor William Smith, who a few years earlier had portrayed Falconetti in Rich Man, Poor Man. Years later, in the film Beautiful Girls, Matt Dillons character, Tommy, tells his roommate Paul (Michael Rapaport) that he will be skipping their high school reunion and staying home to watch "Rich Man, Poor Man". The two characters then gush that there was never a more terrifying on-screen villain than Falconetti.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		After Peter Pan finds his kids kidnapped he is talking with the inspectors, the main inspector is Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford steps forward to have a word with Phil Collins and rounding out the Genesis band appearance is Tony Banks standing in the background.
b.		Elvis Presleys costume was designed by director Gene Nelson.
c.		This film ranked second as best picture in the 1932 Film Daily poll of national critics, being beaten only by Grand Hotel.
d.		The entire movie was shot backwards for two key reasons: so that the characters relationships could grow over time (or appear in the film to fall apart towards the end), and because of the severe physical changes that the actors had gone through since graduating from high school. Of all the actors, Nicholas Zebrun went through the greatest physical change: growing a goatee and gaining nearly 30 pounds. Throughout the entire shoot, Zebrun lost and gained weight continually and had to grow three different goatees after continually shaving them off.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		Victor Kilian was in a contemporary Hollywood Reporter production list as a cast member, but he was not seen in the movie.
b.		Three high schools and two college campuses where edited together to form the High School. Southwest High School (Nicholas Zebrun and David Sowdens alma mater; used for most of the interiors), Arlington Heights High School (most of the exteriors and occasional interiors) and Trimble Tech High School (selected exteriors) where all used together. Both Texas Christian University (TCU) and Tarrant County Community College (TCC) South Campus where used for selected interior and exterior shots during their summer school program when high school shooting was deemed impossible. The school was intended to be a labyrinth of halls, parking lots and classrooms. Thus shots and locations were purposely designed not to match up, so as to give a sense of disorientation and confusion - recreating the blur of classrooms and buildings that formed several of the crew members high school years.
c.		This was Tom Cruises fifth consecutive $100-million-plus film, a new record.
d.		One of only two films shot in the MGM Camera 65 cinematographic process (the other being Raintree County, which was only released in 35mm prints). The MGM Camera 65 process used 65mm negative stock, but the 70mm prints intended for projection contained additional space for a stereophonic track that was printed in magnetic stripes directly on the film in the sprocket-hole area. Magnetic stripes were superior to optical soundtracks in that they could provide four channels of sound (six in the Todd-AO process) compared to the single sound channel of optical prints. The MGM Camera 65 used an anamorphic lens akin to CinemaScope that squeezed the image by 10%. Exhibitors rejected the new system as they had already made huge capital outlays of money to equip their theaters with CinemaScope lenses, stereophonic sound systems and 70mm projectors.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		Jennifers living room was actually the living room inside David Sowdens house. Melissas bedroom was actually the old bedroom of Sowdens sister who was away at college.
b.		A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
c.		According to director Mel Stuarts "Pure Imagination: The Making of Willy Wonka", when Gene Wilder walked in to audition, Stuart knew before hed even uttered a single word that he had found his Willy Wonka. The audition convinced him even further, so when Wilder finished and left the room, Stuart chased him down the hallway, cut him off at the elevator bank, grabbed his arm and told him "Youre doing this picture, no two ways about it! You are Willy Wonka!" Producer David L. Wolper, however, was furious because he hadnt yet had the chance to negotiate a fee.
d.		The racing scenes in Secretariat are all recreations except one: the Preakness which is seen on an old TV in the Tweedy family den. Thats historical footage of the actual race.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		The preview time of 75 minutes was reported by the Motion Picture Herald in its issue of 13 June 1931, so that it is possible that footage was added before the general release. In any case, RKO lost $215,000 on the film.
b.		As revealed in an interview with Mix Magazine Online the hit song Ghostbusters was created 4:30 in the morning when after almost 2 long days of trying to create a song Ray Parker Jr. saw a commercial for a drain company that reminded him of a scene from the film. That commercial helped him coin the popular line "Who you gonna call?"
c.		After being cast as Buffalo Bill, Ted Levine had done a lot of research into developing his character by reading profiles of serial killers. Levine later said that he found the material very disturbing. He also went out and attended a few transvestite bars, where he began interviewing patrons, as Bill was also a cross-dresser.
d.		Almost all the character names were little nods to some of Zebruns favorite people and characters from Hollywoods past: Jennifer Taylor (actress Elizabeth Taylor), Melissa Wyler (director William Wyler), Will Peterson (director Wolfgang Petersen), Sean Thornton (main character in The Quiet Man) and Dion Coulouris (actor George Coulouris)

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Variations on a High School Romance (2010)?
a.		In the book Off Hollywood, of this film, John Sayles said: "I knew how much money I had and then started to make certain decisions. I also had in mind many of the actors, people I knew from having worked in summer stock as an actor and director . . . Because of the budgetary limits, I decided to make the film at a ski lodge, which was cheap to rent out-of-season. We were able to use it as our set, as well as lodging for the crew and actors. We didnt have money for any artwork, so we had to use to the maximum what locations we had. Thats why so many scenes take place in the lodge and in a local bar nearby. We shot different conversations from different angles."
b.		Was to be shot while Nicholas Zebrun was still in high school, but scheduling conflicts and lack of preparation prevented this from happening. Of the original cast/crew hired during those years, only executive producer/editor David Sowden, actor Mark Spears and actress Chelsea Collins stayed on for the entire project.
c.		According to "Trains" Magazine, the train chase scene was actually filmed on the Shortline Montana Western, which of course is not in Utah or Colorado. There is no real rail company called "National Regional."
d.		At the films conclusion, Gary Coopers horse falls and breaks its leg. The only horse the crew could get to do the stunt was brown, but Coopers horse throughout the film was gray. Rather than re-shoot much of the film, Coopers brown stunt horse was painted gray.

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