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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wrong Is Right (1982) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wrong Is Right (1982) Quiz
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About the movie:
A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
Several of the names found in the DVDs and on Ritas fathers cast belong to the children of producers, directors, and other people involved in the movie.
b.
This movie was re-titled from Wrong Is Right to The Man With The Deadly Lens in mostly English speaking territories after this film failed at the box-office in the USA.
c.
Joan Blondell
was originally set to play the title role but because of an accident she was replaced with
Joan Crawford
.
d.
During filming the African portion of the film a freak rainstorm causing flash floods and mudslides forced half the cast and crew to remain trapped overnight at the remote location. Back in Los Angeles the traveling storm destroyed a three-story tall cave set intended for the Himalayan portion of the film. Under a tight schedule the Producers were forced to rebuild the set in a day inside the living room of a house.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
At Garys party the song playing in the background is "Heroes." A different version of this same song plays in the Microsoft commercials.
b.
This was the first animated feature in Cannes history to compete as part of the official competition.
c.
This movie features a gag that spoofs
Lawrence of Arabia
when former James Bond
Sean Connery
is in the desert, music score from that movie is sampled. Predating this picture, the Bond movie
The Spy Who Loved Me
actually did this gag about five years earlier with
Roger Moore
as James Bond.
d.
A sizable number of the high school scenes were shot at a health spa in Encino, Los Angeles, California.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
Written in less than 3 weeks.
b.
The audience for this movie was so small that when the song "A World That Never Was" was nominated for an Academy Award, song writers Paul Francis Webster and Sammy Fain hired publicist Michael B. Druxman to set up an 800-number so that Academy voters could call in and hear Fains demo recording of the song.
c.
At the start of the film when the boys are trying to convince Mary to go inside the fake spaceship, Andrew Nivens says, "She balked at Pirates of the Caribbean." Both
Ted Elliott
and
Terry Rossio
, two of the films credited screenwriters, went on to write all three of the, "Pirates of the Caribbean," movies.
d.
Sean Connery
has been a very identifiably Scottish movie star who in this movie plays a man called Patrick Hale, a character who has a very identifiably Irish first name. Fourteen years later, Connery would play John Patrick Mason in
The Rock
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
The filmmakers never intended to make this the launching pad for the series that followed. According to
Victor Miller
, Jason was only meant as a plot device and not intended to continue on his mothers grisly work.
b.
Project was originally titled "Fred Claus", but was changed due to a potential rights issue. It was then retitled "Joe Claus." After the rights were cleared, the title returned to "Fred Claus."
c.
Variety called this movie director "
Richard Brooks
shriek of protest at what he sees as the insane, downward spiral of world history over the past decade to that time."
d.
One of the early uses of martial arts in a Hollywood film is a key fight sequence (between
Frank Sinatra
and
Henry Silva
), over a decade before the Kung Fu craze of the 1970s. Still earlier, however, is
Blood on the Sun
, with its climactic judo bout involving
James Cagney
. And though
Peter Lorre
was using jujitsu in Mr. Moto movies as early as 1937,
Harry Parke
(as Parkyakarkus) mentions jujitsu in the
Eddie Cantor
movie
Strike Me Pink
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
Casper Andreas
originally wrote the part of Marcel for himself.
b.
This movie was made and released about three years after its
Charles McCarry
source novel The Better Angels was first published in 1979. This film was loosely based on this book.
c.
The house used to film this movie is located in Simi Valley, California where it still stands today. The family who owned it when this movie was filmed still live there today.
d.
According to Danny Peary in the book Cult Movies 2, originally this film would have had the title "The Phantom" but King Features Syndicate, producers of the Phantom comic strip, demanded that this film have a longer title.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
Final theatrically released Hollywood movie for
Hardy Krüger
.
b.
The marquee of the theater that Johnny and Missy go to says "Johnny Zombie", which was the original title of this movie.
c.
800 local schoolchildren were used as extras for the scene depicting Rockys run through Philadelphia.
d.
The role of Vanessa was originally written for Vanessa Lengies, who eventually turned it down to film "My Suicide"; the part still bares her name.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
This was a 10 chapter cliffhanger serial made by William M. Pizor Productions. Each chapter was two reels. It went unnoticed by trade papers and reviewers and was never copyrighted. According to the Film Daily Yearbook for 1928, it was released on December 15, 1927. Virtually nothing more is known of this film.
b.
Audrey Landers
left a successful recurring role on the TV show
Dallas
to take a role in this film.
c.
On older prints of the film, Tim Allen made a sarcastic remark in the movie, including the line "1-800-SPANK-ME". When a child decided to call the number, it turned out to be a phone sex line. The childs mothers complaint had the scene cut for future releases.
d.
This movies retitling from Wrong Is Right to The Man With The Deadly Lens in English speaking territories was to connect this
Sean Connery
movie with the James Bond franchise. Connery was the original James Bond in the movies. The new title connected most obviously with
The Man with the Golden Gun
. Interestingly, Connery though, did not star as James Bond in that movie,
Roger Moore
did.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
One night during filming, the production was stopped by the local police.
b.
PA Roman Montes had to rock a lever to make the spring-mounted set move whenever the train was supposed to be in motion.
c.
The Egyptian set seen in the prologue was, in reality, an enormous construction, and was actually considerably larger than the Babylon sets in
D.W. Griffith
s
Intolerance: Loves Struggle Throughout the Ages
, to which they are often compared.
d.
One of this movies main posters was designed in painted artwork featuring
Sean Connery
standing in a James Bond-like pose with a television camera instead of a gun and with two girls in bikinis at his feet. In the background inside a circle (evoking a gun barrel) were two scenes of action, while in the air above was a spy satellite. All these elements were typical of the James Bond movie franchise which Connery had been a big part of. This was not the original poster for this movie. The Bond-type poster was used in various non-USA markets, replacing the original poster after the film was a commercial failure in North America. This was the second Sean Connery non-Bond film to have a Bond-like poster in just a few years, as the main movie poster for
Cuba
was also designed like a Bond movie poster.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
According to
James Woods
, the question hes been asked the most is whether Max died in the garbage truck. To this day, he has no idea.
b.
Final film as a producer for
Richard Brooks
and penultimate film for him as both a writer and a director. His last film as a writer and director would be
Fever Pitch
.
c.
In the outfield during their second game there is a sign that says "Emilios Repo Depot".
Charlie Sheen
s brother
Emilio Estevez
was in the movie
Repo Man
.
d.
Columbia first optioned the film rights to
Dennis Lehane
s novel in 2003 when it was first published but after many delays, the rights relapsed back to the author.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wrong Is Right (1982)?
a.
This movies original American movie poster showed
Sean Connery
in the foreground with an atomic / nuclear bomb exploding into a mushroom cloud in the background. A number of Hollywood movies made during the early 1980s covered the subject of nuclear / atomic war and the bomb. Other films made during the 1980s which depicted mushroom clouds featured on their posters included
The Day After
(theatrical release);
One Night Stand
; and
The Atomic Cafe
.
b.
The barrel chairs in Saitos dining room were designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1937 for Wingspread, the Herbert Johnson house in Wisconsin.
c.
Kimble swears in German as he carries his colleague into the house. ("Das macht mich stinksauer! Jetzt bin ich sauer!", which means "That makes me pissed as hell! Now I am pissed!").
d.
The character of Jin Ke is very loosely based on a real historical person - Jing Ke. He was a guest residing in the estates of Dan, crown prince of Yan and renowned for his failed assassination of the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang who reigned from 221 BC to 210 BC.
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