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

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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 - Medium

Robert Rodríguez
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 149 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the first celebrity Rodriguez meets on a movie set?
(a) Bruce Willis
(b) Angela Landsbury
(c) Pee Wee Herman
(d) Arnold Schwarzenegger

2. What surprises Rodriguez as he negotiates to do a remake of El Mariachi?
(a) They want to release the original too.
(b) They want to destroy the $7,000 original.
(c) They want to shoot it in 3-D.
(d) They want unknowns to play the lead roles.

3. After Telluride, where does Rodriguez take his film next?
(a) the Toronto Film Festival
(b) the Miami Film Festival
(c) the Sundance Film Festival
(d) the Los Angeles Film Festival

4. What does Rodriguez like to tell interviewers?
(a) to talk about other people's movies
(b) to explain in technical terms how he could make the movie
(c) to keep his secrets of economical film making to himself
(d) to brag about coming out of poverty

5. Where does Rodriguez meet Tarantino again?
(a) in the Hollywood Bowl
(b) in a producers' bargaining session with directors
(c) in an interview of young filmmakers
(d) at a Directors' Guild of America meeting

Short Answer Questions

1. What does ICM want to do with Rodriguez' diary?

2. What possibly could cause people to warn Rodriguez about the public?

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

4. What TV show films him for an entire day?

5. Why are Peter and Gallardo at the Sundance festival with Rodriguez?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Rodriguez suddenly being courted by Hollywood and what does he learn about the value of his movie?

2. How does Rodriguez express his philosophy of movie making?

3. Why does Rodriguez attend the Grammy Awards party and what kind of reception does he get?

4. What is the good news and bad news for Rodriguez as the negotiations for his movie continue?

5. How does a movie producer try to rain on Rodriguez' parade?

6. Tell what comes of Rodriguez' contacting ICM.

7. Briefly describe the changes in Rodriguez' life in just one year.

8. Give an example of Rodriguez's frugality before the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals.

9. Describe how Rodriguez delivers the script for a sequel to EL MARIACHI.

10. What is the feeling about how things will turn out at Sundance?

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