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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Waterworld (1995) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Waterworld (1995) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995).
About the movie:
In a future where the polar ice caps have melted and most of Earth is underwater, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
John Carpenter
turned down a chance to direct.
b.
The script was first developed in 1984.
c.
Gary Busey
and
Laurence Fishburne
also turned down the part of the Deacon.
d.
While shooting the films finale, where Ben flies out the attic window and falls, the films stunt man had a near-disastrous accident. He projected himself too far out from the window and the crew waiting below had seconds to move the safety padding for his landing. The stunt man almost missed the pad, landing a mere foot or so from the end of the safety pad.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
All four cinematographers were Oscar-winners.
b.
While Pete (
Topher Grace
) is talking to Angelica (
Kathryn Hahn
) in the bar, she talks about something called Big Love.
Ginnifer Goodwin
(Cathy) later starred in
Big Love
.
c.
Warner Bros. paid $40,000 for the screen rights to the 1200-page novel.
d.
The shoot was shut down 3 times due to hurricane alerts.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
John Travolta
turned down the role of Arthur.
b.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
and
Tina Majorino
were nearly drowned on their first day of filming when the trimaran they were on sank, dragging them behind it.
c.
Linda Gray
s film debut.
d.
Before the first song of the film, an announcer introduces the band with this: "Ladies and gentlemen, direct from Hell, Spinal Tap." This is a play on Venoms intro tape from the early 1980s, which went: Now, from the very depths of Hell...Venom!"
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
This was his only talking film of
Tyrone Power Sr.
, father of
Tyrone Power
. He died in 1931.
b.
Shosannas cinema was modeled after a few cinemas in California, but it was the Vista Cinema Silverlake and Los Angeles Theater that were main influences in its design.
c.
The boat that
Kevin Costner
used in the movie sold to a Turkish Businessman called Hakan Uzan. After the bankruptcy of the Uzan family the boat was confiscated and later auctioned by the state.
d.
Gary Cooper
was originally offered the role of Breck Coleman and wanted it, but he was under contract to Paramount Pictures, which refused to loan him out. The role was eventually given to
John Wayne
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
The working title for this film during production was "Full Contact".
b.
A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
c.
Kevin Costner
personally invested $22 million of his own money into the film.
d.
After the premiere,
Henry Hill
went around and revealed his true identity. In response, the government kicked him out of the Federal Witness Protection Program.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
Tired of not being around them,
Dwayne Johnson
invited his wife Dany and their daughter, Simone, to the set in order to spend time with them.
b.
The script underwent 36 different drafts which involved six different writers.
c.
During the scene in which Tej, Roman and Han sit around a coffee table each discussing his plans for his share the money, there is a bottle of Conjure Cognac on the table. Conjure is co owned by
Ludacris
who plays Tej Parker in the film.
d.
The Illuminati is purported to be a real-life secret society with origins dating back to at least the 1700s if not earlier, though it is a matter of debate whether it still exists. Many books - factual and fiction or science fiction novels - have been written about this legendary group, the best known being the "Illuminatus!" trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
Some of the orchestral score is from
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
s 1843 incidental music for the play. It has also been used in
Frederick Ashton
s 1964 ballet adaptation of the play, "The Dream", and in
George Balanchine
s ballet version of the play. The 1935 film version of Shakespeares play also used generous chunks of Mendelssohns music.
b.
The following prologue is featured at the beginning of this movie: "The filming of scenes at the house where
Anne Frank
wrote her diary was made possible through the cooperation of the City of Amsterdam."
c.
Miramax/Dimension had paid $4 million for the rights to distribute the movie in North America and some other territories, but then shelved it for more than two years. The company gave the film a US theatrical release at Christmas 2004 after heavy editing to secure a PG-13 rating.
d.
One script (later rejected) called for a second moon to appear in the sky, intimating that the cataclysm which created Waterworld was gravity-related, rather than warming.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
The WPA was the Work Progress Administration (formerly the Works Projects Administration), created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 to create employment and revitalize communities across the USA. It was part of his New Deal strategy.
b.
Kevin Costner
stayed in a luxurious water-front villa with a private butler, chef and swimming pool while the rest of the cast stayed in working class apartment complexes.
c.
Studio electrician
Carl Barlow
died during production when he slipped and fell off a platform.
d.
Most of the cast and crew were paid in cash, which furthered suspicions that it was funded by the controversial Unification Church.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
Rogers boat, "Claremore Queen," was named after his home town of Claremore, Oklahoma.
b.
The original screenplay by
Peter Rader
was pitched as an childrens adventure film. In Raders screenplay the Mariner was a human and the chief defender of the Atoll, whose embarrassing secret was that he enjoyed painting pictures of seahorses; Helen had two of her own children along with the adopted Enola, and the Deacon was a campy, silly villain who dressed up like King Trident, sat atop a throne on the Exxon Valdez, and punished his subordinates by slapping them around the face with a wet fish. Subsequent rewrites by
David Twohy
and
Joss Whedon
turned the original script into a much more serious action-adventure film.
c.
The movie is based on a one-act, two-character, off-Broadway play that originated as "The Tiger".
d.
Loretta Young
had a romance with
Clark Gable
while making this film, resulting in the birth of an out-of-wedlock daughter,
Judy Lewis
. For years, Ms. Young claimed she went away for a while, found the girl and adopted her. In 1994,
Judy Lewis
revealed the truth (which had long been the subject of speculation because of her resemblance to both parents) in her book "Uncommon Knowledge".
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Waterworld (1995)?
a.
In the style of the
Thunderbirds
show which the movie is a spoof of, close up shots of hands were not puppet hands but rather real hands dressed up to look like puppet hands.
b.
The makeup artist trying to put powder on Janes (
Ashley Judd
) face right before she goes on Dianes show is played by
Naomi Judd
, Ashley Judds mother.
c.
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.
d.
Denzel Washington
was first approached to play the title role, but passed on the project.
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