Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player Test | Final Test - Easy

Robert Rodríguez
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Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player Test | Final Test - Easy

Robert Rodríguez
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Columbia people considering after the reception of EL MARIACHI at the film festival?
(a) releasing the movie nationally
(b) giving Rodriguez a larger office
(c) having Rodriguez direct a new movie
(d) scrapping the whole project

2. How does EL MARIACHI do at the Sundance Festival?
(a) It bombs
(b) It is cancelled
(c) so so
(d) very well

3. After what do people start to recognize him on the street?
(a) a spot on Larry King Live
(b) an interview for the LA Times
(c) the premier of El Mariachi
(d) his photo on the cover of People magazine

4. What news about Rodriguez spreads fast around Hollywood?
(a) how grainy his film is
(b) what a pest he makes of himself
(c) how unmarketable his film is
(d) his unusual filmmaking and his talent

5. What is Rodriguez eager to make?
(a) the kind of movies he could make with a real budget
(b) low budget film where he does everything
(c) new friends in the movie industry
(d) as much money as possible

6. What is happening with Columbia Pictures?
(a) Contracts are being negotiated for El Mariachi.
(b) They are debating whether to buy the film.
(c) Counter offers are being made.
(d) They are refusing Rodriguez's demands.

7. Who goes with Rodriguez to Toronto?
(a) Gallardo
(b) Newman
(c) Alfonzo
(d) Elizabeth

8. In the meantime, what happens with the short film, Bedhead?
(a) It gets honorable mention at another film festival.
(b) It gets lost in the mail.
(c) It gets shown on German TV.
(d) It ties for first place at another festival.

9. Even though there is talk of releasing the original film, El Mariachi, what does Rodriguez want?
(a) Rodriquez wants to keep it as a test film.
(b) Rodriguez wants to show it free on Spanish TV.
(c) Rodgriguez wants to shoot some additional scenes.
(d) Rodriguez would rather do a remake.

10. After returning to Texas, which two Hollywood companies contact Rodriguez and want to fly him back to LA?
(a) Warner Bros. and Paramount
(b) Sean Penn and Bruce Willis
(c) Disney and Columbia
(d) Tri-Star and First Artists

11. What desperate thing does Rodriguez do while waiting for a check from Columbia?
(a) drives a school bus
(b) works as a bartender in Texas
(c) pawns his video camera
(d) sells his car

12. What good luck finally comes to Rodriguez?
(a) making another award winning short film
(b) getting a star for his next movie
(c) getting a free ticket to New York
(d) landing an agent and a Hollywood contract for El Mariachi

13. What do Rodriguez, Gallardo, and Peter see at the festival for the first time?
(a) the brand new Mariachi poster
(b) the ballots for audience members
(c) the panel of judges
(d) the red carpet

14. What does Rodriguez' life seem like after making it in Hollywood?
(a) like a fairy tale
(b) like a nightmare
(c) like a disaster
(d) like a whirlwind

15. What does John Watson, a producer, tell Rodriguez?
(a) He will never repeat what he did in EL MARIACHI.
(b) The popularity of the movie will work against him.
(c) The public will inevitably turn on him.
(d) He may just be a flash in the pan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the festival organizers decide to do after EL MARIACHI becomes so popular?

2. Who greets Rodriguez and Gallardo when they arrive at the Grammy party?

3. Besides the screening of his film, what bothers Rodriguez at the film festival?

4. What pleases Rodriguez about benefits for others who donated their time and talent to the film?

5. Even though enormous sums of money are being dangled in front of him, what is Rodriguez' actual financial condition?

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