Q 01/05

Which director made Saving Private Ryan, famous for its Omaha Beach opening sequence?

A) Oliver Stone

B) Ridley Scott

C) Steven Spielberg

D) Clint Eastwood

Answer · why

C) Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg won his second Best Director Oscar for it, yet the film itself lost Best Picture to the romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love.

Q 02/05

In Saving Private Ryan, why is Ryan being sent home?

A) His three brothers have all been killed

B) He has been wounded three times

C) His father is a US senator

D) He was exchanged for an officer

Answer · why

A) His three brothers have all been killed

His three brothers have all been killed, a plot drawn from the real Nilands, though one brother presumed dead later turned up alive in a Japanese pris...

Q 03/05

Which Vietnam War film is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness?

A) Platoon

B) The Deer Hunter

C) Full Metal Jacket

D) Apocalypse Now

Answer · why

D) Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now was planned as a shoot of a few months, but a typhoon wrecked the sets and its star had a heart attack, and filming dragged on for more...

Q 04/05

Which actor arrived on Coppola's Vietnam epic overweight and unprepared to play Colonel Kurtz?

A) Robert Duvall

B) Marlon Brando

C) Dennis Hopper

D) Gene Hackman

Answer · why

B) Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando arrived far heavier than the gaunt colonel Coppola had pictured, so the director dressed him in black and filmed little but his face in ...

Q 05/05

Who plays the overweight recruit Leonard Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket?

A) Vincent D'Onofrio

B) Matthew Modine

C) Adam Baldwin

D) Arliss Howard

Answer · why

A) Vincent D'Onofrio

Vincent D'Onofrio won the part with audition tapes he mailed to Kubrick in England, then gained about 70 pounds for it and wrecked a knee on the obsta...