# Silly movie trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730 "2020-08-10T16:06:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/1 "2020-08-10T16:06:58Z")
Add your own - here is mine: Bill Murray was in the best movies ever made about both golf and bowling - “Caddyshack” and “Kingpin”. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/2 "2020-08-10T16:32:31Z")
Chris Cooper has played characters on both sides of (coal) mine owners vs. union organizers. In “Matewan” he played the union organizer. In “October Sky” he plays the manager of the mine (very much anti-union). ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/3 "2020-08-10T17:16:56Z")
Probably summer camp too. Anyone who thinks Meatballs is Caddyshack at summer camp needs to rewatch it. Murray is surpisingly touching. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/4 "2020-08-11T16:42:04Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > In “October Sky” he plays the manager of the mine (very much anti-union). “October Sky” is a movie adaptation of a book called “Rocket Boys”. The titles are perfect anagrams. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/5 "2020-08-11T16:55:00Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Bill Murray was in the best movies ever made about both golf and bowling - “Caddyshack” and “Kingpin”. So he’s got that going for him. Which is nice. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/6 "2020-08-11T16:59:19Z")
George Lucas’s Malamute dog, Indiana, served as an inspiration for two different characters of Lucas’s creation: the dog inspired the name of Indiana Jones, and his appeareance, as he sat in the passenger seat of Lucas’s truck, inspired Chewbacca. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/7 "2020-08-11T18:39:07Z")
According to Charleton Heston, when they were filming _Planet of the Apes_, during lunch breaks, the actors segregated themselves racially. The actors playing gorillas would sit at one table, the actors playing chimpanzees would sit at another table, and the actors playing orangutans would sit at a different table. The race of the actor under the makeup didn’t matter. The race of the character mattered. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/8 "2020-08-11T18:49:32Z")
Helen Hunt had sex with physically handicapped men in both “The Waterdance” and “The Sessions”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/9 "2020-08-11T18:57:16Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > George Lucas’s Malamute dog, Indiana, served as an inspiration for two different characters of Lucas’s creation: the dog inspired the name of Indiana Jones, and his appeareance, as he sat in the passenger seat of Lucas’s truck, inspired Chewbacca. Except Chewie resembles a Brussels Griffon, not a Malamute. [https://lasvegas-k9.com/content/images/thumbs/0006351\_brussels-griffon\_550.jpeg](https://lasvegas-k9.com/content/images/thumbs/0006351_brussels-griffon_550.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/10 "2020-08-11T18:59:02Z")
The movie _Real Genius_ ends with [a giant “Jiffy Pop”-style device](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/IdleYoungCuscus-poster.jpg) being set off by a high-powered laser inside of the home of professor Jerry Hathaway (Willam Atherton), [destroying the house](https://i.redd.it/6plspznmu0y01.jpg) as the huge volume of popcorn pops. According to Atherton, it took the production crew three full months to pop the quantity of popcorn required for the scene. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/11 "2020-08-11T19:05:18Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Except Chewie resembles a Brussels Griffon, not a Malamute. True enough, but here’s George’s own telling of the story, as quoted on [Indiana’s own entry on Wookieepedia](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Indiana) (the Star Wars wiki): > [@](#): > > “I had an Alaskan Malamute when I was writing the film. A very sweet dog, she would always sit next to me when I was writing. And when I’d drive around, she’d sit in the front seat. A Malamute is a very large dog—like a hundred and thirty pounds and bigger than a human being and very long-haired. Having her with me all the time inspired me to give Han Solo a sidekick who was like a big, furry dog. Not quite like a dog, but intelligent.” Also, I messed up in my earlier post; I’d forgotten that Indiana was a female dog. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/12 "2020-08-12T18:01:26Z")
Never mind ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/13 "2020-08-15T05:01:41Z")
John Cusack has played TWO losers who weaseled their ways back into their ex’s lives due to a tragedy befalling the ex’s father. “Say Anything” and “High Fidelity” Granted in Say Anything…he’s not really a loser and John Mahoneys “tragedy” is of his own doing, but had he not been arrested, Ione Skye would have flown off and never looked back. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/14 "2020-08-15T06:48:52Z")
Jennifer Connelly had a hat trick of standing on a pier: Dark City, House of Sand and Fog, and Requiem for a Dream. I think all three might have been the end of those three movies, but not positive on Requiem for a Dream. (Pretty sure that scene was a hallucination.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/05uR2qPUsqg/maxresdefault.jpg "Jennifer Connelly - A woman on a pier (in Dark City, Requiem and House of Sand and Fog)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05uR2qPUsqg) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/15 "2020-08-17T17:23:04Z")
\*Madeleine Albright’s father-in-law Ivan Albright, and his brother Marvin, were the artists who painted “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in the 1945 movie. \*Well, sorta. He would one day be her father-in-law. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/16 "2020-08-17T17:35:50Z")
The 1994 version of “Angels in the Outfield” features three Academy Award winners in its cast: Brenda Fricker, Matthew McConaughey, and Adrien Brody. Granted only Fricker had won her award at the time the movie was made. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-movie-trivia/917730/17 "2020-08-17T17:38:07Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Jennifer Connelly had a hat trick of standing on a pier Which reminds me of Rachel McAdams proclivity of being the love interest of a time traveler, but never getting to time travel herself. She did so in “About Time”, “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, “Doctor Strange”, and “Midnight in Paris”.