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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : White Nights (1985) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : White Nights (1985) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: White Nights (1985).
About the movie:
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Nights (1985)?
a.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
reportedly was insistent with the films producers that gramatically-correct Russian be spoken in the film instead of the often nonsensical hybrid often used in American motion pictures.
b.
For the Special Extended Edition, the scene in which Pippin is looking for Merry after the battle on Pelennor Fields was digitally altered so that it appears to be night instead of day. According to
Peter Jackson
on the commentary track, this was done to make it appear that Pippin has been looking for hours instead of minutes, underlining the friendship between the two Hobbits. In the original edit, because it appears that Pippin has only been looking for a few minutes his reaction to finding Merry seems like hes overreacting.
c.
Alex Proyas
was originally going to direct but pulled out of the project to work on
Dark City
.
d.
This marks the only film directed by
Jerry Lewis
in which he did not appear.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Nights (1985)?
a.
The role of God was originally written for
Holly Hunter
, who passed. Even so, they kept the reference to
The Piano
in the script.
b.
Filmed at the now closed and historic Joliet Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois - the same prison where the opening sequences of
The Blues Brothers
were shot.
c.
Lionel Richie
s song "Say You, Say Me" wasnt included on the soundtrack album to the film. This is because Motown Records did not want Richies first single since the Cant Slow Down album to appear on another record label.
d.
This movie will complete the first ever backwards "trilogy" -
Along Came a Spider
occurred before
Kiss the Girls
, while I, Alex Cross introduces Dr. Cross.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Nights (1985)?
a.
One of the few critics to actually praise the film was Roger Ebert, who would win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism the following year.
b.
Portions of this movie were filmed in the former Broad Meadows correctional facility. Since 1995 when a new Delaware County, Pennsylvania correctional facility opened, Broad Meadows has been used for storage, according to the Delaware County Times newspaper. The now-closed Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadephia was used for some prison exteriors.
c.
On the walls of his Siberian flat, Gregory Hines has photos of
Martin Luther King
and
Malcolm X
, as well as album covers for "A Love Supreme" by
John Coltrane
and "Whats Going On?" by
Marvin Gaye
.
d.
There have been rumors that when Simba collapses on the cliff after talking with Timon and Pumbaa about stars, the dust that flies off the cliff forms the letters SEX. In fact it forms the letters SFX, the abbreviation of the special-effects team that worked on that portion of the film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Nights (1985)?
a.
The media in 2008 reported that
Gemma Arterton
once had six fingers on each hand. This is a condition known as polydactyly. She called it her "little oddity". Bond villains have long been famous for having some kind of physiological dysfunction. To date, no Bond movie villain characters have had this trait, though
Dr. No
had metal hands, Carl Stromberg in
The Spy Who Loved Me
had webbed-hands and there was also Mr.
Goldfinger
. Lee Fu-Chu in the Bond novel "Brokenclaw" was born with his left hands thumb on the opposite side of his palm whilst The Sheik villain in the Eurospy movie
Agent 505 - Todesfalle Beirut
has four fingers.
b.
The opening theatre sequence was filmed at the Bristol Hippodrome and the gentleman paging the curtain for Baryshnikov is John Randall (sadly now deceased) who was the Theatres technical director at the time.
c.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by
Harry Medved
and
Randy Lowell
.
d.
This movie utilized real black-and-white archival combat footage from the British documentary
Desert Victory
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Nights (1985)?
a.
The entire film was shot in five days.
b.
The "Top Gun" speech in Sleep with Me actually misquotes the real Top Gun script for intended humorous effect. Although Avarys speech claims that Iceman (Val Kilmer) says, "You can ride my tail any time" to Maverick (Tom Cruise) at the end of Top Gun, the character actually tells Maverick, "You can be my wingman any time."
c.
Although this comedy is reputed to be short on laughs, its long on cast. The main characters:
Jeff Goldblum
,
Ed Begley Jr.
,
Michael Richards
,
Jeffrey Jones
and
Geena Davis
all average 6 3" tall.
d.
The 747 aircraft is actually a 707 with an artificial hump on the top of the forward fuselage, as the studio couldnt afford to lease a 747.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Nights (1985)?
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.
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 government of Abu Dhabi did not allow filming as it was considered "too sexual" for the conservative Emirate.
d.
Helen Mirren
and director
Taylor Hackford
met on the set of this movie and would eventually marry.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Nights (1985)?
a.
S. T. Joshi points to Berkeley Square, a 1933 fantasy film, as an inspiration for The Shadow Out of Time: "Lovecraft saw this film four times in late 1933; its portrayal of a man of the twentieth century who somehow merges his personality with that of his eighteenth-century ancestor was clearly something that fired Lovecrafts imagination, since he had written a story on this very theme himself--the then unpublished The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)." Lovecraft called the film "the most weirdly perfect embodiment of my own moods and pseudo-memories that I have ever seen--for all my life I have felt as if I might wake up out of this dream of an idiotic Victorian age and insane jazz age into the sane reality of 1760 or 1770 or 1780." Lovecraft noted some conceptual problems in Berkeley Squares depiction of time travel, and felt that he had "eliminated these flaws in his masterful novella of mind-exchange over time."
b.
The film was banned in Russia until 1993.
c.
The plane crash sequence was filmed at Campbeltown Airport on the south west coast of Scotland. Mainly due to its remoteness and the runway is around 2.5 miles long. A number of local people were cast as extras for interior shots of the plane.
d.
During the filming of a climactic gun battle, which took several days to film, the cast and crew awoke to find that an unexpected snowfall had blanketed the set. The crew, and most of the cast, set to work clearing the large set of the fresh snow, and amazingly were able to do so in about an hour.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Nights (1985)?
a.
Both of the cars that Captain Ron drives in the movie are missing a headlight on the same side as his missing eye.
b.
The submarine used in this movie was the USS Ronquil (SS-396). Her hull number was repainted to 509. The first nuclear powered United States Submarine was the USS Nautilus (SSN-571).
c.
A real Aer Lingus 747 was used for the air-to-air sequences, and part of the landing, but for the crash, a 707 with an artificial hump was used.
d.
Because of digital technology, the crew were able to see much of movie only a few hours after the film wrapped.
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