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I Left My Heart... Trivia Quiz


... in that movie project! Inspired by reading about Richard Attenborough's cherished project, this quiz looks at movies that some great film makers had their hearts set on making but which they never made.

A multiple-choice quiz by Upstart3. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
Upstart3
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
369,999
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
322
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 97 (8/10), Guest 90 (7/10), Guest 99 (6/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Lord Attenborough made movies about Gandhi, Chaplin and Churchill, but had his heart set on making a movie about which 'Common Sense' inspiration for American independence? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Following the success of '2001: A Space Odyssey', Stanley Kubrick planned a large-scale biopic about which charismatic European leader? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which American film maker - renowned for his unfinished projects - started work on a movie of 'Don Quixote' in 1955 that he spent the remaining 30 years of his life planning to complete? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Sergei Eisenstein died before he could complete his trilogy about which Russian leader with a bad reputation? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which giant of cinema wrote several screenplays for a potential movie about Napoleon and was offered help with the script by Winston Churchill? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Spaghetti Western maestro Sergio Leone died just before starting work on a long-planned movie about which momentous World War II subject? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Rainer Werner Fassbinder died while working on the script for a biopic of which female German Socialist? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Which celebrated English director knew too much about his ill health and gave up work on an adaptation of the spy thriller 'The Short Night' the year before he died in 1980? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Oliver Stone abandoned a movie project about ousted Panama leader Manuel Noriega in which Al Pacino was planned as the lead. Which 'no-name' actor had previously declined a request to play George H. W. Bush? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. George Cukor thought he was on a winner when he lined up Audrey Hepburn and Laurence Olivier for his live action movie of 'Peter Pan' in 1964. What went wrong? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Lord Attenborough made movies about Gandhi, Chaplin and Churchill, but had his heart set on making a movie about which 'Common Sense' inspiration for American independence?

Answer: Thomas Paine

A lifelong Socialist, albeit one who drove a Rolls-Royce, Richard Attenborough had a longstanding dream of making a film about his hero, the radical 18th century thinker and activist, Thomas Paine. He expended a lot of energy on the project, but could not secure the backing he needed.

Paine's pamphlet 'Common Sense' was hugely influential in the American Revolution.
2. Following the success of '2001: A Space Odyssey', Stanley Kubrick planned a large-scale biopic about which charismatic European leader?

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Kubrick did a lot of research and planning and wrote a first draft of a screenplay for an epic Napoleon biopic. Jack Nicholson was a potential lead! Due to the failure of other movies with a similar theme, the very high budget, and changes at MGM, the project was abandoned. Instead, Kubrick's next movie was 'A Clockwork Orange'.
3. Which American film maker - renowned for his unfinished projects - started work on a movie of 'Don Quixote' in 1955 that he spent the remaining 30 years of his life planning to complete?

Answer: Orson Welles

Welles was obsessed with the movie, picking it up periodically through his life, whenever he could pull funds together, largely through taking on work that was well beneath him. He was still talking about finishing the movie in the last months of his life in 1985.
4. Sergei Eisenstein died before he could complete his trilogy about which Russian leader with a bad reputation?

Answer: Ivan the Terrible

With the USSR at war with Germany, Eisenstein started a movie trilogy about the life of Ivan IV, better known as Ivan the Terrible. The first movie presented him as a heroic figure and proved highly popular with Stalin on its release in 1944. The second movie hit difficulties with the censors, who refused to release it until 1958. Eisenstein suffered a heart attack while filming the final instalment, and died of a further heart attack shortly afterwards, at the age of 50, in 1948.
5. Which giant of cinema wrote several screenplays for a potential movie about Napoleon and was offered help with the script by Winston Churchill?

Answer: Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin read widely about Napoleon and planned a movie over a long period. At a meeting with Churchill in 1929, the English politician gave an enthusiastic 'pitch' for a treatment he could do.

Nothing came of it. Chaplin went on to make 'Modern Times' and 'The Great Dictator', while Churchill found other things to occupy himself.
6. Spaghetti Western maestro Sergio Leone died just before starting work on a long-planned movie about which momentous World War II subject?

Answer: Siege of Leningrad

Leone was inspired in 1982 by reading Harrison Salisbury's book, 'The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad', and planned an epic movie with music by Ennio Morricone. The project was continually delayed until Leone secured funding in 1989. He died two days before signing contracts.
7. Rainer Werner Fassbinder died while working on the script for a biopic of which female German Socialist?

Answer: Rosa Luxemburg

Fassbinder's relentless and punishing work schedule was sustained by copious consumption of alcohol and drugs. After completing 'Querelle', his second movie in the first half of 1982, he started on 'Rosa L.', about the co-founder of the 'Spartacus League' who was executed in 1919 during the German Revolution.

He had been working on notes for the movie on the night he died at the age of 37 of an overdose of cocaine and barbiturates.
8. Which celebrated English director knew too much about his ill health and gave up work on an adaptation of the spy thriller 'The Short Night' the year before he died in 1980?

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

Looking to follow up 'Family Plot', Hitchcock went through several screenplays and screenwriters in his attempt to make a movie of Ronald Kirkbride's novel. Stars like Clint Eastwood and Walter Matthau were mooted. Ultimately he ran out of time and abandoned the project in 1979.
9. Oliver Stone abandoned a movie project about ousted Panama leader Manuel Noriega in which Al Pacino was planned as the lead. Which 'no-name' actor had previously declined a request to play George H. W. Bush?

Answer: Clint Eastwood

Stone spent months of effort on the planned biopic, 'Noriega', which was to look closely at the roles of George Bush, Sr. and Oliver North in the dictator's rise to power. As part of his research, he conducted a three hour interview with Noriega. Citing difficulties with funding, and script problems, he stopped work on the project in 1994.
10. George Cukor thought he was on a winner when he lined up Audrey Hepburn and Laurence Olivier for his live action movie of 'Peter Pan' in 1964. What went wrong?

Answer: Walt Disney blocked the movie

Imagine Audrey Hepburn - fresh from her success in 'My Fair Lady' - as Peter Pan and Laurence Olivier as Captain Hook. With tens of thousands of pounds being generated for patient care at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, to which J. M. Barrie had given the copyright to 'Peter Pan'.

Unfortunately, Walt Disney blocked the project, claiming he had sole rights to movie treatments after paying a few thousand pounds for permission to make his 1953 animation. The legal dispute continued beyond his death in 1966 and wasn't resolved until 1969 when the Walt Disney Company lost and had to pay compensation and costs to the hospital.
Source: Author Upstart3

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