Pitch Perfect - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[victoria]

Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins filmed all their scenes in one day.

[tammy]

The film's three leads, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Skylar Astin, are all left-handed.

[veronica]

The song playing in the car Jesse is first seen in is "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas.

[liam]

Adam Devine and Rebel Wilson both acted opposite each other in the Workaholics episode Workaholics: Straight Up Juggahos (2011).

[lena]

During the opening sequence where Beca is mixing a track we see several other mashups already saved on her hard drive. The visible list includes: Accoustica_layer_05, Cat5LemonDrop_8.01, Fifinomenom_1.08, Go_Jump_Eric_2.02, HeavyHouse_remix_6.27, HotSummer_04.22, KillaNois_3.12, Lincifer_QuietRage_7.06, ScrimshawTwinning_2.03, Whisker_DinaSF, and ZebraLand_Source_3.18. All are saved in WAV format.

[willard]

At one point, while Beca is attending the activities fair and checking out the booth for the DJs (Deaf Jews), a spirited game of Quidditch (from the Harry Potter books and movies) can be seen going on in the background, including players straddling broomsticks and one player shouting, "Throw me the Quaffle!" Simulated Quidditch games have been enacted on a number of university campuses in recent years.

[kyle]

Although never working together before, Anna Kendrick (Beca) and Skylar Astin (Jesse) share a connection with the prestigious performing arts Camp Stagedoor Manor in upstate New York. Astin attended the Camp for multiple years and appeared in the documentary Stagedoor (2006), and Kendrick starred in Camp (2003) which was based on and filmed at Stagedoor Manor.

[oscar]

A special screening of the film was held on 25 September 2012 at the LSU Student Union Theater, because parts of the movie were filmed on LSU's campus. The turnout for the screening was so great that only a little more than half of the students in line got in to see the movie. The producer saw that there were more students wanting to see the film and allowed a second showing immediately following the first.

[caroline]

Beca and Benji don't talk to each other the entire movie.

[duane]

During the Riff-Off, Ester Dean sings S&M, which was co-written by her.

[willard]

The song "Starships" is sung in the movie as a background song. It is sung a capella by everyone in the movie, but it is not on the Pitch Perfect movie soundtrack CD.

[scarlett]

Both of the ICCA Finals scenes were filmed in an auditorium designed and built entirely from scratch by the filmmakers, possibly due to none of the performance facilities at the actual version of Lincoln Center having an auditorium flashy enough. However, in reality, the Finals are held in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall every year.

[terry]

At the end of the film, six months after the Bellas victory, they are given the chance to choose the audition song. With this in mind, that means the Treblemakers picked "Since U Been Gone" for the audition song at the start of the film.

[tamara]

Available categories for the Riff off: Ladies of the 80s, Songs About Sex, Black Michael Jackson, White Michael Jackson, Christian Rock, Hair Bands, TV Theme Songs, Reggae Time, Medium Rock, The Judds, Famous Duets, Overplayed The Black Eyed Peas, Puppet Songs, Songs Glee (2009) Ruined, Party Rock Anthems, Ugly Lead Singers, The only categories exercised were Songs About Sex and Ladies of the 80's.

[phyllis]

Ester Dean's character, Cynthia Rose, is named after a child mentioned in the Prince song "Starfish and Coffee."

[gerald]

Upon seeing the title, Adam Devine thought that Pitch Perfect was a baseball movie, and thus wasn't prepared to sing a song at his audition. The producers told him to sing any song, and he chose the Full House theme song. They were impressed and he was hired as the role of Bumper.

[violet]

Despite all playing college-age students, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp and Adam Devine were significantly older than their respective characters, by at least 8 years.

[stephanie]

Freddie Stroma (who plays the college radio station manager, Luke) doesn't have tattoos. Luke, however, has several, including a digital audio control panel (play, fast forward, stop, etc) inside his left forearm. Luke's college major isn't revealed in the movie, but Freddie Stroma has a bachelor's degree in neuroscience.