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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Waiting for Guffman (1996) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Waiting for Guffman (1996) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996).
About the movie:
An aspiring director and the marginally-talented amateur cast of a hokey small-town Missouri musical production go overboard when they learn that someone from Broadway will be in attendance.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
A musical number from "Red White and Blain" was cut, telling the tale of the great flood. The tune of this song is still in the shows overture.
b.
Curtis Hanson
asked
Eminem
to dye his hair back to his natural colour so that the audience would relate him to as Jimmy Rabbit, instead of his Eminem persona.
c.
Gene Kelly
s final feature film.
d.
Although the screenplay is based on the
Upton Sinclair
novel Oil!,
Paul Thomas Anderson
used only the first 150 pages for a big portion of the material. The rest was made up. The novels setting was in 1920s but it was moved to the beginning of the oil boom in California.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
Ranked #8 on the American Film Institutes 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time (2006).
b.
This movie is possibly the very first time a film was a prequel to another film.
c.
Tobey Maguire
first auditioned for the part of Toby but director
Michael Caton-Jones
thought he wasnt right for the role.
Leonardo DiCaprio
, who is close friends with Maguire, still wanted him to be apart of the film so he got him the role of Tobys friend Chuck Bolger.
d.
The music and lyrics for Red, White, and Blaine were written and composed by
Christopher Guest
,
Michael McKean
, and
Harry Shearer
, who were the three stars of
This Is Spinal Tap
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
The movies line "Well always have Paris." was voted as the #43 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
b.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
c.
The only parts that were actually scripted by
Christopher Guest
and
Eugene Levy
were the lines in the musical "Red, White and Blaine."
d.
Oliver Reed
was originally cast as James Parker but was forced to withdraw due to a strike by the Screen Actors Guild, of which he was a member. When the production resumed filming Reed had moved on to star in
Venom
and his role was taken by
Richard Harris
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
The haunting theme music by
Bronislau Kaper
was actually introduced two years earlier in MGMs
A Life of Her Own
, but became a jazz standard under the title Invitation, especially associated with tenor saxophonist
Joe Henderson
.
b.
According to the films make-up expert
Ed French
, it took four hours to apply the prosthetics to
James Marsters
to change him into Piccolo. At first it took 17 hours, but Marsters had difficulty breathing and Piccolos look also seemed overdone, so some prosthetics were removed, thus shortening the time to 4 hours.
c.
When playing Blaine Fabin in "Red, White and Blaine," it becomes necessary for Dr. Pearl (
Eugene Levy
) to remove his glasses. Unfortunately, Dr. Pearls glasses corrected his lazy eye problem. Actor
Fred Willard
was unaware of the gag during shooting, and after delivering the line "what did your keen and perceptive eyes behold?" to Fabin, stared at Levys lazy eye, finally understood why his line was funny, and "was gone for about ten minutes" with laughter.
d.
On the last day of filming, star
Ruby Lewis
, along with several members of the crew, became ill with flu-like symptoms. The production coordinator had to put on Lewis costume and stand in for her on the cutaway shots of Sarah sketching on the airplane.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
Much of the dialogue was ad-libbed.
b.
First production to film at the Los Angeles State Historic Park which had just opened. The park was the former site of The Cornfield, a maintenance yard for the Southern Pacific.
c.
Lost for over 40 years. Rediscovered and Restored by Independent International Films.
d.
In preparation for his role,
Robin Williams
trained for two and a half days at a photo developing training facility in Southern California on an Agfa MSC 101-D photo developing machine.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
Leon Askin
played a lawyer (reading the last will) but was cut out.
b.
In the end, Dr. Blair no longer wears his eyeglasses. This meant he no longer needed them-after being taken over by the Thing and killing Garry.
c.
Anthony Ochoa (II) had to re-cast the actor for the Man in the Mask three times before having Chris Ohanesian play the role.
d.
Don Lake
was originally cast as the principal of the high school who had problems with the rehearsals taking up basketball teams floor. When the character was ultimately cut from the story, Lake was re-cast as the town historian. However, all the footage of him during the performance of "Red, White and Blaine", including his intermission interview, is of him as the principal.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
A Print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
b.
Holly calls her baby girl Mary Todd, which makes her full name: Mary Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincolns wife).
c.
The musical auditions were the actors very first public performances of their respective audition pieces.
d.
John Wayne
did not get along with
Robert Duvall
during filming, and at one point threatened to punch the young Method actor if he argued with the director again.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
Writer/director
Christopher Guest
spent a year and a half editing almost 60 hours of footage with editor
Andy Blumenthal
to come up with the final cut for the film.
b.
Second of five movie pairings of
Clark Gable
and
Jean Harlow
.
c.
All the male lead characters have the same first name as the actors who play them, with the exception of Jim Hickory, whose first name comes from the actors last name, James.
d.
Katie Carman
: dead body in park, zombie at Aunt Millies.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
One of the collectible figures in Corkys shop at the end of the movie is
Cliff Arquette
in his Charley Weaver outfit. Cliffs son,
Lewis Arquette
, played Clifford Wooley, the narrator.
b.
The final draft of the script is dated December 7, 2009. The cast gathered for a table reading on December 15, 2009.
c.
"The Dionne Quintuplets" and the individual quintuplet first names appear on the title frame. Since they do not appear in the comprehensive cast list at the end, they are listed first in the IMDb cast list, according the IMDb policy.
d.
Final theatrical featured directed by
Charlton Heston
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waiting for Guffman (1996)?
a.
In 1946,
Gene Kelly
was scheduled to play Andy.
b.
Al Lewis
and
Nipsey Russell
were in the original
Car 54, Where Are You?
TV series, playing Officer Leo Schnauser and Officer Dave Anderson, respectively. Here they play the same characters years older, as if this film were a sequel to the original series, rather than the updated and (otherwise) recast remake that it is.
c.
In an early cut of the film, the musical alone ran forty minutes.
d.
Warwick Davis originally started writing the script while filming
Willow
.
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