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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) - 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: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).
About the movie:
Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)?
a.
This movies MacGuffin are some stolen papers, documents, plans and ledgers which are owned by Abner Procane played by
John Houseman
. Interestingly, a few years before this movie was made, Houseman appeared in the
The Paper Chase
in which he won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Award Oscar.
Charles Bronson
s mission in this picture is to recover these papers, his charge being a kind of "paper chase" in a sense.
b.
As well as being her film debut, this was
Darlene Cates
only film role.
c.
Geraldine Page
was nominated for the 1960 Tony Award for best actress in a drama and recreated her role in this movie.
d.
Marks the first time since
The Living Daylights
that a James Bond movie has used an original
Ian Fleming
short story or novel title.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)?
a.
Buster Keaton
doubled for
Ford West
, the actor playing Gillette, in the scene where the motorcycle he is driving (with Keaton on the handlebars) hits a deep pothole and bucks him off flat on his behind.
b.
Hallstrom admitted that a lot of himself is reflected in Gilbert Grapes character.
c.
Director
George P. Cosmatos
wanted to relocate the entire film to a shopping mall. This may be the influence for a level in the game
Manhunt
, a game based on a similar premise in which a former death row inmate must fight for his life against several different street gangs in a complex snuff film hes been forcibly enlisted in. One of these levels, called "View of Innocence," takes place in an abandoned shopping mall.
d.
Harald Zwart
: [Fredrikstad] When Cody and Natalie are meeting in the café, the Norwegian ice-cream brand Diplom is is shown in the background on the wall behind Natalie. Also the Diplom-Is jenta is seen on the floor to the left behind Natalie.
Harald Zwart
always puts in a couple of items from Norway in his movies. He has also put in the scarf from his local soccer team, FFK (Fredrikstad Fotballklubb), which you can see hangs from the door to his room. There is even a pennant on the wall of his (Cody Banks) room from the same soccer team. The colors are red and white on both the scarf and the pennant.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)?
a.
The AFI Catalogue reports a release date of May 1919. However, a 13 April 1919 article "Written on the Screen" in the New York Times mentions the film was playing at the Broadway, although it was not reviewed. A week later, a similar article mentions it was in its second week at the Broadway.
b.
Hallstrom picked
Juliette Lewis
on the basis of her authentic teenage performance in
Cape Fear
.
Peter Hedges
thought she knew Beckys character so well she could have written her better than he did.
c.
When
Ken Howard
shows
Dyan Cannon
the nude photo he took of her, the face is Cannons but the body is someone elses. Dyan Cannon was uncomfortable doing a nude scene, especially directed by
Otto Preminger
, so she went for this option.
d.
The executive producer Mark Cuban can be seen briefly when the boys are flipping channels in Dylans room
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)?
a.
William Holden
was the original choice to star in the first film,
The Omen
, but turned it down as he did not want to star in a picture about the devil.
Gregory Peck
was selected as his replacement. "The Omen" went on to become a huge hit and Holden made sure he did not turn down the part in this sequel.
b.
In 1989, when this film was shown in the theaters in Denmark, a Danish man named Ole Bentzen, a Danish audiologist, literally laughed himself to death during the scene where Ken gets the chips up his nose. Bentzens heart rate went between 250-500 beats per minute and he eventually succumbed to cardiac arrest. The story behind this is that the man had made a joke a few years earlier with his family during dinner, where he put a piece of cauliflower up his and every family members nose as a joke and made a bet with them on who could eat up their carrots without the cauliflower falling out. When the scene with Ken and the chips came up, he started thinking about this dinner-incident and laughed so hard that his heart stopped. This story is well known in Scandinavia and spread around as almost an "urban legend" shortly after it happened. It was confirmed by his son, who also told the dinner-story as an explanation to why his father laughed so hard during the chips-scene that he died.
c.
Hilary Swank
read the script and pursued a role in the film, but was ultimately turned down.
d.
Lasse Hallström
picked
Johnny Depp
to play Gilbert Grape because of the way he can express so much emotion through his face and eyes.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)?
a.
The sled that Thatcher gives Kane for Christmas has "THE CRUSADER" written on it.
b.
Won the Audience Award also at the 2005 Nashville Film Festival
c.
Director
Bill Rebane
once referred to the film as The Giant Spider Disaster in an interview, due to how problematic the production was.
d.
Darlene Cates
hadnt left her house in five years at the time of the films release. Some of Bonnies problems mirrored those in Darlenes life. E.g. people staring at her, teasing her, retreating from wide society.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)?
a.
Peter Hedges
based Bonnie on a woman he used to know when he was growing up in Iowa.
b.
One of the first Disney movies to be shown on television, this was first telecast in January 1955, as part of the
Disneyland
television program. It was the first Disney live-action film to be shown complete on television, in two one-hour installments shown a week apart, rather than having the entire film on a single evening. It was broadcast again in the 1960s, in the same format, after the series had changed its name to "Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color" and the show had moved to NBC.
c.
Whenever a character uses the disguise generator their eye color remains the same, such as when Megamind uses it to disguise himself as Bernard. The sole exception seems to be when Minion uses it to disguise himself as Megamind during the climax of the film.
d.
Icelandic moviegoers (particularly the younger crowd) tended to crack up unexpectedly in theaters when Rita Skeeter first introduces herself. Apparently the audience werent expecting the pronunciation of her last name, Skeeter, to sound so close to the Icelandic verb "skíta", which happens to be a rather crude word for defecating.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)?
a.
The building used in the film was a series of miniatures and matte paintings. Only sections of the building were actually constructed for the actors and stunt people to perform their scenes. Exterior shots of the building were of San Franciscos Hyatt Regency with an additional 50 stories of matte paintings added.
b.
Originally, the beginning was over 20 minutes along the coast, but due to hurricane like weather most of it was cut.
c.
Johnny Depp
wanted to play Gilbert as someone who seems constantly half asleep/half awake. Someone numb to the peculiarities in his life.
Juliette Lewis
completely agreed with his interpretation of the character. Even still, Depp worried he was boring by playing Gilbert so mildly.
Lasse Hallström
however agreed with Lewis, and thought that Depp nailed the part.
d.
When
Clifford Odets
wrote his play, he had
John Garfield
in mind for the Joe Bonaparte part, but the Group Theatre company chose
Luther Adler
instead. Shortly afterward, Garfield left the Group Theater and was Hollywood bound.
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