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the_other_sandy) wrote2007-10-29 04:59 pm
the_other_sandy) wrote2007-10-29 04:59 pm
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Monday Meme -- Movie Trivia
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sgflutegirl.
[01] -- Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] -- Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] -- Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.
[04] -- Tag five people!
Not tagging anyone. Feel free to grab it if you want to.
1. Gettysburg: The scene where the 20th Maine reaches the summit was actually filmed on Little Round Top. The actor with the binoculars behind them is playing General Gouverneur Warren. The man is in the same pose as the famous Warren statue and is blocking the camera from seeing the actual statue which is right behind him.
2. The Princess Bride: When Count Rugen hits Westley over the head, Cary Elwes told Christopher Guest to go ahead and hit him for real. Guest hit him hard enough to shut down production for a day while Elwes went to the hospital.
3. The Hidden: The transfer of the alien from DeVries into Jonathan Miller was accomplished by stop-motion photography. During the stops, stage hands would work at stuffing the creature model into the mock head. Actor William Boyett, upon seeing the alien going into "his" mouth, was so disgusted he refused to watch and actually left the room.
4. The Hunt for Red October: Jack Ryan takes a teddy bear home with him at the end of the film. McClane has one at the start of Die Hard (1988). It's the same bear (it belonged to director John McTiernan).
5. Murder By Death: The screaming woman sound used as a doorbell is Fay Wray's screams from King Kong (1933).
6. Airplane!: Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey spoofs his role as Jim Conrad in the TV series San Francisco International Airport (1970).
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Funds earned by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon went towards funding The Holy Grail. The band were such fans of the show they would halt recording sessions just to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
8. Blazing Saddles: According to Mel Brooks (in the commentary for Spaceballs (1987)) when Gene Wilder came on the cast for this movie, he requested that Mel Brooks do his movie idea next. Gene Wilder's idea was Young Frankenstein (1974).
9. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: The "oscillation overthruster" device reappeared as a "spectral analyzer" in the Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) episode "Pen Pals."
10. Hard Core Logo: Billy Tallent (Callum Keith Rennie) wears a ring depicting the logo of Canadian rock band Headstones. Hugh Dillon (who plays Joe Dick) is Headstones' lead singer.
I had a lot of fun reading through the trivia and trying to pick out which bits to use.
sgflutegirl.[01] -- Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] -- Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] -- Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.
[04] -- Tag five people!
Not tagging anyone. Feel free to grab it if you want to.
1. Gettysburg: The scene where the 20th Maine reaches the summit was actually filmed on Little Round Top. The actor with the binoculars behind them is playing General Gouverneur Warren. The man is in the same pose as the famous Warren statue and is blocking the camera from seeing the actual statue which is right behind him.
2. The Princess Bride: When Count Rugen hits Westley over the head, Cary Elwes told Christopher Guest to go ahead and hit him for real. Guest hit him hard enough to shut down production for a day while Elwes went to the hospital.
3. The Hidden: The transfer of the alien from DeVries into Jonathan Miller was accomplished by stop-motion photography. During the stops, stage hands would work at stuffing the creature model into the mock head. Actor William Boyett, upon seeing the alien going into "his" mouth, was so disgusted he refused to watch and actually left the room.
4. The Hunt for Red October: Jack Ryan takes a teddy bear home with him at the end of the film. McClane has one at the start of Die Hard (1988). It's the same bear (it belonged to director John McTiernan).
5. Murder By Death: The screaming woman sound used as a doorbell is Fay Wray's screams from King Kong (1933).
6. Airplane!: Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey spoofs his role as Jim Conrad in the TV series San Francisco International Airport (1970).
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Funds earned by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon went towards funding The Holy Grail. The band were such fans of the show they would halt recording sessions just to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
8. Blazing Saddles: According to Mel Brooks (in the commentary for Spaceballs (1987)) when Gene Wilder came on the cast for this movie, he requested that Mel Brooks do his movie idea next. Gene Wilder's idea was Young Frankenstein (1974).
9. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: The "oscillation overthruster" device reappeared as a "spectral analyzer" in the Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) episode "Pen Pals."
10. Hard Core Logo: Billy Tallent (Callum Keith Rennie) wears a ring depicting the logo of Canadian rock band Headstones. Hugh Dillon (who plays Joe Dick) is Headstones' lead singer.
I had a lot of fun reading through the trivia and trying to pick out which bits to use.
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