Mr. Films Film Trivia

[Mr Films]

That's right, it's back. I did this shit a couple of years back and today I'm bored enough to bring it back!

Question 1:

What is the most successful movie ever made?

[roosta]

define successful.....

most money made?
most money made adjusted for inflation?
most tickets sold?

[Mr Films]

define successful.....

most money made?
most money made adjusted for inflation?
most tickets sold?

nope, sorry. figure it out yourself!

[roosta]

well, then theres no one answer! i'll pass!

[mp-seventythree]

ET?

[beastiegirrl101]

Citizen Cane?

[Mr Films]

no and no

[mp-seventythree]

Titanic?

[roosta]

what ever answer you think it is, cuz the question is not defined could be seen as wrong surely? if we dont know the parameteres how can we get it?

[burbboi]

Freddie Got Fingered

[abcdefz]

I'm guessing The Passion of the Christ, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, or The Blair Witch Project.

[Mr Films]

The Blair Witch Project.

correct.

the blair witch project cost only $22,000 to make and grossed $240 million domestically. therefore, it is the most successful film to date.

[ToucanSpam]

This sounds like a pretty cool idea.

[roosta]

correct.

the blair witch project cost only $22,000 to make and grossed $240 million domestically. therefore, it is the most successful film to date.

Well, that's if you definie success to being soley about return on investment surely? success can mean alot of things

[abcdefz]

Yeah -- I figured you meant profit margin.

Okay. Um. My turn?

[Mr Films]

by the way, no cheating using the intermanet

all right question 2:

What famous female movie star sang "Happy Birthday" to JFK on his final birthday in 1963?

[beastiegirrl101]

by the way, no cheating using the intermanet

all right question 2:

What famous female movie star sang "Happy Birthday" to JFK on his final birthday in 1963?

marilyn Monroe.

[Mr Films]

Yeah -- I figured you meant profit margin.

Okay. Um. My turn?

shoot.

[Mr Films]

marilyn Monroe.

WRONG!

[beastiegirrl101]

WRONG!

ok I suck.

[abcdefz]

Robert Altman hired an assistant to finish shooting his latest movie in case he died. Who is that assistant?

[Mr Films]

Robert Altman hired an assistant to finish shooting his latest movie in case he died. Who is that assistant?

Paul Thomas Anderson

ps, i hope that's how the insurance people put it. "Listen, Bob, in case you die- we should have a backup."

[abcdefz]

(y)

[Mr Films]

'ol pta is here in Texas about to start shooting his new flick. some big ass turn of the century oil epic with Daniel Day Lewis called "There Will Be Blood"

[abcdefz]

I wonder what it would've been like if Lewis had accepted the lead in Soderbergh's Solaris....

[Mr Films]

I wonder what it would've been like if Lewis had accepted the lead in Soderbergh's Solaris....

probably a fairly mediocre/crappy movie with one brilliant standout performance. you know, kinda like Gangs of New York

[Mr Films]

by the way, no one has taken another crack at my second question

[ChrisLove]

Audrey Hepburn

[abcdefz]

probably a fairly mediocre/crappy movie with one brilliant standout performance. you know, kinda like Gangs of New York

Whoa, nelly. Solaris is leaps and bounds ahead of Gangs. That movie was just shit.

Except for Dan, obviously.

[Mr Films]

Audrey Hepburn

word.

Question 3:

What was the first film ever to have a soundtrack album released for it?

[Mr Films]

Whoa, nelly. Solaris is leaps and bounds ahead of Gangs. That movie was just shit.

Except for Dan, obviously.

i actually prefer the original Solaris. despite the fact that it is, like, several days long.

i enjoy sody's also but it's kinda boring as all hell.

[abcdefz]

i actually prefer the original Solaris. despite the fact that it is, like, several days long.

i enjoy sody's also but it's kinda boring as all hell.


The Overneath (y)

Anyway. Yeah -- I don't think it's great, but it's good. It's just weird when a director makes a film that's trying to be really profound about something that's not much of a revelation at all.

Nolan did a way better job with the same subject matter in Memento.

[Mr Films]

The Overneath

ha. nice.

I will now repost my third question again as it is now banished to one page ago.

Question 3:

What was the first film ever to have a soundtrack album released for it?

[abcdefz]

...unless it's the obvious choice, I can't say for sure.

[Mr Films]

...unless it's the obvious choice, I can't say for sure.

obvious choice?

[sab0tage]

no idea - The Graduate?

[Mr Films]

no idea - The Graduate?

nope

[Mr Films]

Grease?

Sound of Music?

The Jazz Singer?

no x 3

here's a hint: it's animated

[sab0tage]

snow white?

[sab0tage]

dammit!!

[Mr Films]

Snow White is correct.

Question 4:

What present day director got his start working on visual effects for Return of the Jedi?

[Mr Films]

hint: he is a human being

[ToucanSpam]

Stan Winston?

[Rock]

Snow White is correct.

Question 4:

What present day director got his start working on visual effects for Return of the Jedi?
The dude who did fight club?

edit: David Fincher?

[ToucanSpam]

Damn, this one's a toughie...

[Mr Films]

The dude who did fight club?

edit: David Fincher?

correct.

Question the Fifth

When President Woodrow Wilson said "It's history written with lightning" What film was he referring to?

[abcdefz]

Birth of a Nation.

[abcdefz]

What was the first American film broadcast in letterboxed format, at the director's insistance?

[Mr Films]

Birth of a Nation.

I knew you'd probably get that one.

[abcdefz]

I knew you'd probably get that one.


That's an easy one.

A lady in my former church gave me a copy of the program for that when it first played in her town. That was interesting.

[Rock]

Damn, this one's a toughie...
You obviously haven't played Star Wars Trivial Pursuit enough times.

[ampm]

In "Sorority Sluts 3: XXXMas Break" who does Summer give oral to first? If you saw "Sorority Sluts 2: Pencils & Pens" don't answer because it won't be fair.

[abcdefz]

What was the first American film broadcast in letterboxed format, at the director's insistance?



...any guesses?

[ToucanSpam]

I'm not sure what letterboxed means, but I'll suggest Citizen Kane as a default guess.

[abcdefz]

It wouldn't have been necessary with Citizen Kane, really.

"Letterboxing" is when black bands are striped across the top and bottom of the screen so that the image can be presented in its full aspect ratio. Otherwise, you get pan-and-scan, or the theatrical aspect ratio is sometimes opened up to fill the screen.

[abcdefz]

Okay: I won't hold you all hostage.

It was Woody Allen. Cinemax was going to broadcast Manhattan and he wanted to presrve Gordon Willis' photography.



Okay, so, here's an easy one: Who was originally supposed to be Indiana Jones, but the network wouldn't make the TV shooting schedule flexible enough for him to do it?

[TAL]

kll's favorite, Tom Selleck.

[abcdefz]

kll's favorite, Tom Selleck.


Yup. Take it away, dude.

By the way -- did we ever find out what your favorite director's cuts are? Just curious, no pressure. I assumed maybe you had already seen enough to have some personal favorites.

[TAL]

How did Fatal Attraction originally end?




I'm still thinking about the director's cuts. So stop pressuring me!

[abcdefz]

I'm still thinking about the director's cuts. So stop pressuring me!


:eek:

[TAL]

I'm actually trying to figure out which ones I've seen both versions of. And I'm not trying really hard, but it's still something that I will do someday.

[adam_f]

The only worthwhile movies Michael Douglas ever made were Wall Street and Romancing the Stone.

[TAL]

You changed your post.

[adam_f]

I answered my own question.

[Documad]

I think that Michael Douglas goes to jail for murder, because Glenn Close somehow kills herself and frames him. I can't tell you how much I hate that movie. I have liked Michael Douglas in other movies though.

I knew the Manhattan one. I used to be a big Woody fan.

[TAL]

Documad for the win!

[abcdefz]

Psycho. (y)

[abcdefz]

...was Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black supposed to be his?

[Mr Films]

Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Will Smith were the first choices to play the lead in what 90's sci-fi thriller?

[YoungRemy]

What director got his start working as a Cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch, and which J.J. film was it?

[Mr Films]

What director got his start working as a Cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch, and which J.J. film was it?

no idea

[YoungRemy]

I stumped Mr. Films!!

hint: his first feature was about the world of independent filmmaking

[Mr Films]

I stumped Mr. Films!!

hint: his first feature was about the world of independent filmmaking

i thought Jarmusch has had the same dp for some time and all he's ever been is a dp

[Freebasser]

double penetration? :(

[abcdefz]

i thought Jarmusch has had the same dp for some time and all he's ever been is a dp


I thought he shot his own films, too.

I know he's one of the only directors who owns his movies. That's very cool.

[YoungRemy]

i thought Jarmusch has had the same dp for some time and all he's ever been is a dp

the answer to my question worked on at least two of J.J.'s earlier films as d.p.


since then, J.J. has used at least two more d.p.'s, including robby muller and frederick elmes...

my original statement regarding the trivia answers first feature was incorrect..

it was his second feature, in response to his frustrations making his first feature(starring Brad Pitt)

the movie about filmmaking starred Steve Buscemi

[Mr Films]

the answer to my question worked on at least two of J.J.'s earlier films as d.p.


since then, J.J. has used at least two more d.p.'s, including robby muller and frederick elmes...

my original statement regarding the trivia answers first feature was incorrect..

it was his second feature, in response to his frustrations making his first feature(starring Brad Pitt)

the movie about filmmaking starred Steve Buscemi


oh shit, the Brad Pitt gives it away. though, I can't remember his name- he's the guy who shot "stranger than paradise"

and he made "living in oblivion"

[abcdefz]

Tom DeCillo or something, isn't it?

[Mr Films]

Tom DeCillo or something, isn't it?

sounds about right.

on to another question:

What was the first film to gross $100 million at the box officE?

[YoungRemy]

Tom DeCillo or something, isn't it?

ding ding...

Johnny Suede
Living in Oblivion (James Legros' character was modeled after Pitt on the set of Johnny Suede)
Box of moonlight
The Real Blonde
Double Whammy

[abcdefz]

Okay... let me think of one...

[abcdefz]

What was the first movie to cost a million dollars to make?

[Mr Films]

What was the first movie to cost a million dollars to make?

hey! you skipped my question!

and i don't know....

[iceygirl]

What was the first movie to cost a million dollars to make?

cleopatra

[abcdefz]

sounds about right.

on to another question:

What was the first film to gross $100 million at the box officE?

Sorry, dude -- I didn't see this.

Um, lemme think. Probably The Godfather or Jaws. I'll say Jaws.


The first movie to cost a million to make was von Stroheim's Foolish Wives.

-- a good movie, by the way. It's not Greed, but it's really good.

[abcdefz]

cleopatra


Nope. That was about 30 million, I think.

[abcdefz]

So no one knows mine? Come on! It's a well known film!


Can you repeat the question?

[ToucanSpam]

What film is best known for killing off the main character halfway or even less than halfway (not quite sure on which) in the film, which was almost unheard of at the time?

Psyco.

[abcdefz]

Psyco.


...I answered that one on page two. :confused:

[ToucanSpam]

That's wierd, because it was on page three.:confused:

[abcdefz]

Two... three. Don't let's argue about "who killed who." :D

[ToucanSpam]

Okie dokie, Norman.



My question to you all:


What was the controversial film made by Disney in the 50s that has been pulled off of the market, and it's existance denied by the company?

[abcdefz]

What film did Hitchcock really wanted to make, but had to make Psycho instead? The one he really wanted to make was made by a french film director. Bonus points for knowing who that director was.



Ah -- that one. I guessed wrong on that already.

[abcdefz]

Okie dokie, Norman.



My question to you all:


What was the controversial film made by Disney in the 50s that has been pulled off of the market, and it's existance denied by the company?


Song of the South.

I saw that when I was little.

It was on laserdisc in Japan not that many years ago.

[abcdefz]

What film did Hitchcock really wanted to make, but had to make Psycho instead? The one he really wanted to make was made by a french film director. Bonus points for knowing who that director was.


Oh wait -- was it The Talented Mr. Ripley? René Claire made it as Purple Noon.

That would make sense because of the Patricia Highsmith connection.

[ToucanSpam]

Hahaha nice abcdeaf.


Next one:


Who was originally picked to be Aragorn in the LOTR triology, but was released for looking too young?

[abcdefz]

Hahaha nice abcdeaf.



...they still played that movie on The Wonderful World of Disney into the early '70's.

[abcdefz]

Nope. This director was seen as the french Hitchcock. The two competed for "Master of Suspense" I guess...


Drat. That was a damned good guess, too.

I have no idea. "The French Hitchcock"? :confused:

[Mr Films]

Stuart Townsend

he who porks charlize Theron

[abcdefz]

Fine, I'll give up the answer. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique.

I've seen it where he is referred to as the French Hitchcock.



Bloody hell!

*smacks forehead*


...did you ever catch the remake? Oh, God. SO awful. My friend and I left the theater after about fifteen minutes. It was that bad.

[abcdefz]

Who was originally picked to be Aragorn in the LOTR triology, but was released for looking too young?



...Dakota Fanning!

[ToucanSpam]

...Dakota Fanning!
Incorrect.

[abcdefz]

I never caught the remake...nor do I plan to. Remakes are things I often try to avoid. Only a few have I found to be decent. Herzog's Nosferatu, but I don't know if I'd call it a remake. Floating Weeds was good. And even soderbergh's Solaris wasn't that bad.



Herzog's was definitely a remake. He was pretty indebted to Murnau on that one.

Others:

Traffic
The Man Who Knew Too Much

...and the best remake so far: The Fly. (y)

[abcdefz]

This thread stalled out. Okay:

Name the four who founded United Artists.

[YoungRemy]

1. Charlie Chaplin

[abcdefz]

1. Charlie Chaplin


That's one...

[TAL]

That lady Pickford. Mary!

And that man named Douglas Fairbanks.

[abcdefz]

...two... three...

[abcdefz]

...one more... :D

[abcdefz]

United Artists was started by four people: Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and this last person...

Hint: Not an actor.

[YoungRemy]

D.W. Griffith...Birth of a Nation

[abcdefz]

(y)

Your turn.

[YoungRemy]

Orson Welles wanted to adapt this story into his first feature, but instead he wrote Citizen Kane based loosely on W.R. Hearst...

[abcdefz]

Orson Welles wanted to adapt this story into his first feature, but instead he wrote Citizen Kane based loosely on W.R. Hearst...

Heart of Darkness.

What was the other failed, attempted film Orson tried before Kane? Bonus point: who would star in it?

[YoungRemy]

the fantastic something?

or something Arcadian?

[abcdefz]

the fantastic something?

or something Arcadian?



..you might be thinking of "Mr. Arkadin," which he did make (a.k.a. "Confidential Report.")

This was "Smiler with a Knife," and he wanted Lucille Ball in the lead. The studio didn't think she could handle comedy.

[YoungRemy]

and the one i thought was "the fantastic..." was "The Magnificent Ambersons"

I am not looking these up until after the answer is posted... otherwise its a "how fast can you google or imdb search " contest

[abcdefz]

and the one i thought was "the fantastic..." was "The Magnificent Ambersons"



Why that's not on DVD yet is beyond me. Great movie. Agnes Moorehead is amazing.





I am not looking these up until after the answer is posted... otherwise its a "how fast can you google or imdb search " contest


Exactly. (y)

[abcdefz]

(y)

[abcdefz]

I can't wait to pick up the Mr. Arkadin DVD set coming out shortly.


I just found out my old film professor is one of the commentators! That's very cool. He wrote a great book about Welles' work called The Magic of Orson Welles (the publisher's title, not his :( ).

Jim Naremore. He's good. That'll be a good commentary. (y)

[sab0tage]

Who was originally offered the role of 'John Doe' in David Finchers 'Seven'?

[abcdefz]

Gary Cooper. (y)









































...that's a little joke, see.

[sab0tage]

hahaha......nope!

[abcdefz]

Yeah, I give.

[sab0tage]

give up?

[abcdefz]

Yeah, I give.

Uh, yeah. :D

[sab0tage]

believe it or not is was none other than REM's Michael Stipe(y)

[abcdefz]

...who later went on to produce Being John Malcovich.

I did not know that! (y)

[adam_f]

You sorta look like Michael Stipes without the whole gay overtures.

[BangkokB]

This country ganga loving cowboy has been in 31 movies.

[sab0tage]

...who later went on to produce Being John Malcovich.



and I didn't know that(y)

[sab0tage]

What fictional brand of cigarettes appear in almost every Tarantino movie?

[Mr Films]

What fictional brand of cigarettes appear in almost every Tarantino movie?

easy, red apple

[sab0tage]

i don't think judging by your name that i'll get you with anything. did you know the michael stipe one?

[Documad]

Song of the South.

I saw that when I was little.

It was on laserdisc in Japan not that many years ago.
I saw it as a kid too. The slaves were such a happy bunch! Those black folk, they sure did like pickin cotton!


One of my friends insisted that we all see Purple Noon after a happy hour about 10 years ago. Whenever he's recommended a movie ever since, we mock him by revisiting the horror that was Purple Noon.

[Mr Films]

i don't think judging by your name that i'll get you with anything. did you know the michael stipe one?

yeah, but the nuttier fact from seven is that Denzel Washington was originally offered Pitt's role.

AND, all the books owned by John Doe were real books that took 2 months to write specifically for the film.

that's fucking involved.

[sab0tage]

also when Brad Pitt hurts his arm in the chase, they added that bit into the film after he put his arm through a car windscreen during filming

[sab0tage]

3 actors were offered the part of Michael Corleone in the Godfather but refused.

Name them.......

[abcdefz]

I don't think anyone else was offered the role. Coppola had seen Pacino on Broadway and that was his first choice. The producer, Bob Evans, was trying to foist Warren Beatty and Robert Redford on him, and somebody else.

James Caan, I think, did audition for the part.

[sab0tage]

I don't think anyone else was offered the role. Coppola had seen Pacino on Broadway and that was his first choice. The producer, Bob Evans, was trying to foist Warren Beatty and Robert Redford on him, and somebody else.

James Caan, I think, did audition for the part.

Apparantly Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman were all offered the role! I'll try and check it out, I always like closure(y)

[abcdefz]

...with Coppola's consent?

I thought the big story was how hard Coppola fought to get Pacino and Brando approved.

I've been wrong before, though.

[abcdefz]

Hmmm.... IMDB has conflicting trivia:

* After his suggestions of Warren Beatty, Alain Delon and Burt Reynolds were rejected by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount production chief Robert Evans suggested Robert Redford. When Coppola demurred, preferring his first choice of Tony Award-winning Broadway actor Al Pacino, Evans explained that Redford could fit the role as he could be perceived as "northern Italian". Evans eventually lost the struggle over the actor he derided as "The Midget", but while Paramount brass dithered over whether to cast him as Michael, the role that would make him a star, a frustrated Pacino signed up for the role of Mario Trantino in The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971). When Paramount finally decided to give him the part, they had to buy out his contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The abandoned role in "Gang" went to Robert De Niro, whom The Godfather: Part II (1974) would make a star.

* Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Dustin Hoffman were all offered the part of Michael Corleone, but all refused. Robert Redford and Ryan O'Neal were also considered.


:confused:

[sab0tage]

oops, we posted at the same time there!

Don't know what site to trust:(

[abcdefz]

Ed Halliwell's site makes it sound like Coppola wouldn't budge:


Francis Ford Coppola was Paramount’s ninth choice as director for The Godfather. The film itself was way down the studio’s priority list, and given Coppola’s undistinguished track record, its producers were expecting little. However, when Coppola took the helm, he insisted on breaking the Hollywood mould when it came to casting. Paramount’s preference for the roles of Don Corleone and his son Michael were Laurence Olivier and Robert Redford, but Coppola was determined to cast actors who would have an innate understanding of Italian-American culture. This was radical stuff – Hollywood preferred its leading men to come from the old school. The film industry had come a long way since producing the first Italian-American movie (entitled The Dago, and featuring a guitar-playing, moustachioed, immigrant stereotype), but as ever when large sums of money are at stake, ultra-conservative forces retained a lot of power.

Coppola did manage to convince Paramount to accept Brando for the role of the Don, but the director was to face a far greater battle to install his favourite for the part of Michael Corleone. As well as Redford, Paramount were keen on Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, but Coppola had his heart set on Pacino. Brando attempted to persuade the intransigent Paramount boss Robert Evans: “The person who plays Michael should be a man who broods. He shouldn’t be the usual kind of leading man.” But Evans wasn’t convinced, telling Marty Bregman that Pacino would get the part “over my dead body”. Pacino didn’t do himself any favours – he turned up for his first and second tests without learning his lines, and soon became exasperated at jumping through hoops. Sally Kirkland recalls encountering him in tears on Columbus Boulevard, threatening to quit acting altogether: “I asked him what was wrong, and he said: “I can’t stand the humiliation, Sally. You have no idea how rejected I feel.” He said he thought acting was a woman’s profession, and that as a man, he couldn’t take it anymore. I had to take him for coffee and patch him back up. He was so humiliated at the idea that he wasn’t good-looking enough to do the Godfather. It broke his heart.”

Meanwhile, Niro also tested for Coppola, who, realising he had to play the studio game to secure Pacino, had asked Kirkland if she knew of any other Italian-American actors who might be able to play Michael. “I said, ‘Yes – there’s just as good an actor – Robert De Niro.” De Niro later played down his test (“I was one of like four hundred…well, maybe four thousand. They were all over the place, sitting on the cement floor, guys who spoke like “deez and doze””), but Coppola described him as ‘electric’. He was already fully committed to Pacino but, as he said later: “I never forgot it, and when I did Godfather II, I thought he could play the young Brando.”

Meanwhile, by his third test, Pacino had studied the script and learnt his lines. Coppola forced Paramount executives to watch Panic In Needle Park and this, together with the latest test, meant that Pacino was finally accepted. Coppola offered De Niro a smaller role, which he remembers as being Carlo Rizzi, whose wedding to Connie Corleone forms the film’s legendary opening. However, there was a final twist in the tale – believing he had no hope of landing Michael, Pacino had already signed to play the lead in James Goldstone’s The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. When he dropped out, De Niro chased and won the role in Pacino’s absence, rather than take up Coppola’s offer. He told Kirkland at the time: “I’d much rather do the lead in a small film than a small role in a large film.”

Coppola’s insistence on ethnic casting for The Godfather was not an isolated incident of directorial rebellion.

[sab0tage]

Coppola forced Paramount executives to watch Panic In Needle Park and this, together with the latest test, meant that Pacino was finally accepted.

I've heard that before I think. I hope your entire last post is true cos it certainly sounds good put like that(y)

[abcdefz]

You should pick a new trivia question, just to be fair.