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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wonder Boys (2000) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wonder Boys (2000) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000).
About the movie:
An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
Filmed in sequence.
b.
The film was shot in only 9 days.
c.
Eddy Chandler
(Plainclothes Policeman),
Harry Strang
(Policeman) and
Robert Emmett OConnor
(Policeman) are in studio records for their roles, but were not seen in the movie.
d.
This movie is 99% unscripted.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
Many of the films scenes were filmed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
b.
Whilst double exposures had been used as early as 1898 to show two characters together in the same scene, played by the same actor, this is the first instance of two such characters seeming to touch one another.
c.
David Mamet
s script began as an adaptation of his friend
William J. Caunitz
s novel Suspects, but the more Mamet wrote, the more his story diverged from the novel, until it ultimately became an original screenplay.
d.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
composed 15 minutes of new music for the film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
None of the models or the original designs of the Narcissus (the Nostromos shuttle) from
Alien
could be found, so set designers and model-makers had to reconstruct the model of the ship and the interior set from watching
Alien
.
b.
Features
John Carradine
s own favorite performance.
c.
When Johnny hails a cab at the airport after his return from Sicily, he asks the driver to take him to "19 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn." This is a real house located a few blocks from the East River, just like the exteriors shown in the movie.
d.
The first sentence of the manuscript that Grady Tripp pulls from James Lears knapsack in the auditorium is actually the opening of the novel "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" by Michael Chabon.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
Scriptwriter Jeremy Larner used to write political speeches for 1968 Presidential candidate, Eugene McCarthy.
b.
Scott Hicks
points out a digital effects slowdown on Bobby (commentary at 36:28) as he comes out of Teds room after finding Ted in a trance and hugging him, thinking something was wrong. During the editing process they decided that a slower motion segment was needed to hint that, by touching Ted, some of Teds psychic perception had transferred to Bobby. Since it was too late to reshoot the scene with a high speed camera (which preserves the image quality), a digital slowdown was done. He also points out an in-camera slowdown of the Monte mans hands (40:56) combined with a digital slowdown of the Monte mans face (41:05) and an in-camera slowdown of Bobbys face (41:20) in the carnival scene.
c.
The exterior of the sports shop is actually a local bowling alley; the same bowling alley that appears in the beginning of the film
Kingpin
.
d.
The two bars shown in the movie were physically the same bar, decorated differently.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
The films that are watched by the characters in the Smar-Tech store are all produced by Universal.
b.
As he fights off the bat, Harold hums the theme from
Raiders of the Lost Ark
, a movie also written by
Lawrence Kasdan
.
c.
The movie was financed by the Dow chemical company in order to spend "frozen" finances (money that couldnt be spent outside the country of origin) that the company had in Yugoslavia.
d.
Books on James Leers desk include
Albert Camus
s "The Plague",
Truman Capote
s "Answered Prayers", and
Kenneth Anger
s infamous "Hollywood Babylon".
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
Aragorn battling the Ring Wraiths at Weathertop was
Viggo Mortensen
s very first day on set. It was also the first time that Mortensen had ever handled a sword.
b.
Despite that this movie has many references to
John Woo
s previous film _Hard Boiled (1992)_ (including half of the title). There is also a reference point from Woos earlier film Bullet in The Head (1990) in which Lance Henricksons character kicks a burning barrel at Jean Claude-Van Dammne and Jean Claude jumps over it at the end of the film.
c.
Scenes of
Adrien Brody
sobbing in the body drawer were real. Brody had asked director
John Maybury
to keep him locked in even when they werent filming so he could get the feel of the characters despair. Eventually, Brody lost it during filming and Maybury caught it on tape.
d.
The combination to the locked closet with the Monroe jacket is 5641. 56 games is the record number of consecutive games that Joe Dimaggio recorded a hit and 41 is the year in which he accomplished it.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
This was
Redd Foxx
s film debut.
b.
At the party, James talks about the actor
George Sanders
s suicide. Later,
George Sanders
is on the television in a scene for
The Picture of Dorian Gray
.
c.
Daniel Day-Lewis
turned down the role of Aragorn.
d.
Quentin Tarantino
,
Alan Parker
,
Danny Boyle
and
Stephen Daldry
were all considered to direct. Tarantino reluctantly declined as he was in the middle of production for
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
and
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
The whole movie, except for the scenes where Ned Land and Conseil go ashore at New Guinea and meet the cannibals, and most of the underwater scenes with the divers, were filmed at the Disney Studio.
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.
When Andy meets his demise, it seems that his head explosion was a CGI constructed effect, however it was done using a prosthetic head, modeled on the actor, this can be seen on the directors cut DVD extras.
d.
James Ellroy
, author of the novel
L.A. Confidential
(Hanson, Curtiss previous film), is an extra at the party in the home of the head of the English Department.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 12, 1951 with
Rosalind Russell
reprising her film role.
b.
Jasons heart was used in
From Dusk Till Dawn
as Monkey Mans heart.
c.
Cinematographer
John F. Seitz
took over as director of photography when
Karl Freund
fell ill.
d.
James Leers description of heaven as a greenhouse is a reference to the houses in
Zardoz
, which features a Utopian society who wore white and lived in crystal houses.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wonder Boys (2000)?
a.
Virginia Madsen
is allergic to bees, so an ambulance was always on set while filming the bee sequence.
b.
When Grady returns to his house to find Terry (
Robert Downey Jr.
) throwing a party, the song playing as he enters the house is "Waiting for the Miracle," by Leonard Cohen. This same song plays over the opening credits of
Natural Born Killers
, also starring Downey.
c.
Ben Nunziata plays the medical examiner and Jasmyn plays the other massage parlor girl. They both appear in the original film but are only credited in the later version.
d.
The last aerial shot of the bus and the train was filmed by
Haskell Wexler
, who was - at that time -
James Wong Howe
s assistant.
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