For this week's Monday Movie Quiz you have to name each of the films from the trivia and then say what the connection is.
update:yes the connection is colours.
1. This 1986 comedy/drama/romance was filmed in the same L.A. high school where
Grease (1978) was made."If You Leave", performed by 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark' , was not the original song O.M.D. had composed for this movie. Their song "Goddess of Love" was the original composition but it did not fit when the ending was changed.
Rachie got - Pretty in Pink2. Desert scenes were filmed in the same location used for Mad Max, and the contact lenses worn by the actor were briefly available to the public from Lens Quest following the release of the film. They were called Shine Job, like in the movie.
Aunty Helpful Dictator got - Pitch Black3. For this 1985 film, Whoopi Goldberg won the part of Celie in her audition for Steven Spielberg, by doing a comedy act she had developed about a stoned E.T.
Aunty Helpful Dictator got - The Colour Purple
4. The electric chair featured in the film was built from the original designs of an electric chair named "Old Sparky" which is part of the museum/tour of the Moundsville State Penitentiary in West Virginia. The prison was one of the finalists for the final shooting location.
Aunty Helpful Dictator got - The Green Mile
5. The first line the prison minister says in the film, "What's it going to be, eh?" is nearly identical to the first sentence of the novel ("What's it going to be then, eh?"). In the early 1990's London's popular Scala Film Club showed this movie without permission from the director (who had withdrawn it and barred it's showing) or Warner Brothers.
Like Clockwork, at his insistence Warners sued and won. As a result the Scala was almost bankrupt and closed in 1993. (And I loved that place!)
Will got - A Clockwork Orange
6. With the closing song "All Together Now", the phrase itself is shown twenty-seven times in sixteen languages. The sequence: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Hebrew, Greek, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, English, Greek, Italian, Dutch, Farsi, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili, Sanskrit, French, Hebrew, Swedish, Chinese, German, Japanese, English.
Taffy got - Yellow Submarine
7. Billy Bob Thornton recorded a narration for the 3+ hour epic under the supervision of director Terrence Malick. But the final print of the film has voice-overs by 8 of the main characters in the film; none of the narration from Thornton is in the final print. In addition, several other stars who filmed scenes were left on the cutting-room floor, including Bill Pullman, Gary Oldman, Viggo Mortensen and Mickey Rourke.
Will got - The Thin Red Line8. First appearance of a laser beam in a movie. Harold Sakata burnt his hand when reaching for his hat during the Fort Knox bars and fireworks sequence. He said that the director didn't say cut so he kept on acting.
Will got - Goldfinger9. In this 2002 sequel, the original pug from the first film (1997) was used to play Frank again, but since the pug was now seven years old, they used makeup to hide the gray fur around its nose.The original ending of the film included a scene in which the World Trade Center towers opened up, releasing a swarm of UFOs into the air. Following the towers' destruction, the film's ending was changed.
Rachie got - Men in Black II
10. After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town. Several of the actors who were considered for the role of Frank found the character too repulsive and intense. Dennis Hopper, by contrast, is reported to have exclaimed, "I've got to play Frank. Because I am Frank!"
Will got - Blue Velvet
11. When Ordell Robbie first goes to Max Cherry's office and is asked if he has the cash for the bond, he responds "I got it right here in my brand new raptor bag." Although the logo is partially obscured, it is clearly that of the Toronto Raptors. The actor was frequently courtside at Toronto Raptor games the season before filming this 1997 movie.
Rachie got - Jackie Brown12. On the last day of their week long Army Ranger orientation at Fort Benning, the actors who portrayed the Rangers received a letter which had been anonymously slipped under their door. The letter thanked them for all their hard work, and asked them to "tell our story true", signed with the names of the Rangers who died in the Mogadishu firefight.
Aunty Helpful Dictator got - Black Hawk Down
13. More than one film using the same title character and Henry Mancini's famous theme, the name is from a diamond which gets its name from a flaw in its structure.
Aunty Helpful Dictatorgot- The Pink Panther14. Aimee Mann's music inspired the director to write the script and at least one lyric (and possibly more) from an Aimee Mann song was lifted and used as dialogue. In the song "Deathly" the lyric goes: "Now that I've met you / Would you object to / Never seeing / Each other again". In the film, one character says "Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing me again?"
Aunty Helpful Dictator got - Magnolia
15. According to
Rosemary Clooney, (yes, George's aunt) the "midnight snack" scene in which Bob Wallace expounds on his theory of what foods cause what dreams was almost entirely improvised. The "Sisters" comedy act that Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye perform was not originally in the script. They were clowning around on the set and the director thought it was so funny that it was written in.
Will got - White ChristmasLabels: monday movie quiz
