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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Waking Life (2001) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Waking Life (2001) - 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: Waking Life (2001).
About the movie:
A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waking Life (2001)?
a.
A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
b.
The music which played when
Edward G. Robinson
was "going home": - The overture was the principal theme from the first movement of
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
s Symphony No. 6, the "Pathetique." - When the visual presentation starts, the music is the first movement of
Ludwig van Beethoven
s "Symphony #6 (The Pastoral)". - When the flock of sheep appear, the music is "Morning" from
Edvard Grieg
s "Peer Gynt Suite #1". - At the end of the presentation is "Asas Death", also from the "Peer Gynt Suite".
c.
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.
d.
The basic plot of the film is based on a physiological phenomenon known as "lucid dreaming". Lucid dreaming means dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. The term was coined by Frederik van Eeden who used the word "lucid" in the sense of mental clarity. Many of the dream state idiosyncrasies described in the film, such as the inability to read time on a digital watch or the tendency of light switches to malfunction, are described in studies authored by Dr. Stephen LaBerge of Stanford University, the leading American authority on lucid dreaming.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waking Life (2001)?
a.
The Vatican bankrolled some of the film, and the Vatican liaison was a young Joseph Ratzinger, who in 2005 became the 265th Catholic Pope as Benedict XVI.
b.
Some of the names of candy bars in a store toward the films end were changed in animation. Hersheys bars become "Hercules", Mentos are now "Memos", and Junior Mints were changed to "Junior Pants".
c.
The movie went back into the Disney vault on January 31, 2002. Typically, this means the VHS and DVD versions of the movie were pulled from store shelves on this day, and the movie wont re-appear in either format for 10 years.
d.
On opening night, many theatergoers simply walked in without paying. The official ticket count was 322. The actual attendance was upwards of 500.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waking Life (2001)?
a.
The shot of the building immediately before the Julie Delpy/Ethan Hawke scene is actually a portion of the opening shot from the remake of
Psycho
.
b.
The roadhouse sequence is included as supplemental material on Something Weird Videos DVD triple-feature release of
Marihuana
,
Assassin of Youth
and
Tell Your Children
.
c.
Paul W.S. Anderson
was offered the movie on the strength of the box office success of his previous film,
Mortal Kombat
. It meant he had to turn down the opportunity to direct
X-Men
and
Alien: Resurrection
.
d.
Zachary Quinto
was attracted to the role of Spock as he wanted to explore the characters dual heritages and his position of being caught between both Earth and Vulcan cultures: "He is constantly exploring that notion of how to evolve in a responsible way and how to evolve in a respectful way. I think those are all things that we as a society, and certainly the world, could implement."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waking Life (2001)?
a.
Ang Lee
was offered to direct the film, but turned it down to direct
Hulk
instead.
b.
Laurence Fishburne
and
Eriq La Salle
both auditioned for the role of Ben.
c.
Anne Hathaway
split her shin open on a pole during filming, resulting in 15 stitches.
d.
The pinball machine in the last scene is a Bally Fireball from 1971. In the film, the brand name "Bally" has been changed to "Rally", and while the name "Fireball" appears in some shots, in others it is changed to something else. The game is also shown in the film with 5 digit score displays while the real game has 4 digit displays. The Player 2 and Player 3 scores are both shown with a score of 11111, which means the player is playing a 3 or 4 player game all by himself and has a very unlikely score, or the machine in the dream is broken. Also, any real pinball machine with 5-digit scoring would have the rightmost digit fixed at "0".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waking Life (2001)?
a.
Tracie Thoms
, who appeared as Joanne in the final months of Rent, also appeared in the film version as the same character.
b.
Terrence Mann
and
Don Keith Opper
have appeared in all four films in the series.
c.
This movie upon theatrical release was marketed with Roman Numerals to signify the number 2 i.e. Death Wish II. In time, its modern DVD releases tend to show the number two of the title as a numerical digit instead. This is then consistent with the titles
Death Wish 3
and
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
. According to the book Bronsons Loose by Paul Talbot, the original working title of the next film Death Wish III was changed to Death Wish 3 because the Cannon Group conducted a survey and found that nearly half of the U.S. population could not read Roman numerals. Interestingly, the fifth film,
Death Wish V: The Face of Death
, reverted to the use of Roman Numerals to signify the film number
d.
The Philip K. Dick essay being discussed is "How to Build a Universe that Doesnt Fall Apart Two Days Later", the introduction to his short story collection "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon".
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waking Life (2001)?
a.
To help promote this film Disney teamed up with Amtrak and ran a special train that went across the country that showed different items from the movie.
b.
Sidney Poitier
insisted that the movie be filmed in the north because of troubles that other productions filmed in the south had had when using black actors, including
Hurry Sundown
which had recently been shot in Louisiana (hence the selection of Sparta, Illinois for the location filming). Nevertheless, the filmmakers and actors did venture briefly into Mississippi for the outdoor scenes at the cotton plantation, because there was no similar cotton plantation in Illinois that could be used.
c.
Each of the Gruber brothers, Simon and Hans, recruit a Karl on his team. Karl in
Die Hard
is the terrorist shot by Sgt. Powell at the end. In this film Karl is stationed at the Federal Reserve bank and is killed by McClane in the elevator sequence.
d.
Another clip from the Monkeys lecture film shows Kurt Cobain in concert spinning his guitar over his head and throwing it into an amplifier. This was taken from the documentary he conceived in 1993 called "Live, Tonight, Sold Out".
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waking Life (2001)?
a.
Shooting took 22 days, using a PC1 and TVR900 Sony consumer-level cameras.
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.
Neal Slavin
claimed to have wanted to make this film since college.
d.
This was singer
Carl Perkins
s only film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waking Life (2001)?
a.
While she was making this picture,
Jamie Lee Curtis
stayed in
Marlene Dietrich
s apartment (12E) at 993 Park Avenue in Manhattan. Shed been engaged to Dietrichs grandson, production designer
J. Michael Riva
.
b.
Screenwriter Kazuma Toyoda was 16 when he wrote the script.
c.
400 extras were meant to be filmed standing at Tony Starks press conference, but
Robert Downey Jr.
suggested they ought to sit down, as that would be more realistic and comfortable.
d.
It took up to 250 hours to make one minute of animation.
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