From burhanud@usc.edu Thu Jul 19 04:53:09 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:06:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Iftikhar Burhanuddin
To: quiznet@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [quiznet] eivoMmmMovie Quiz Answers and Scores

Scores
9:
Manish Kathuria ~[6]
Suman Nambiar ~[4]
G. S. Ramasubramanian ~[4]

7:
Ravi Subramanian [1,2,3,5,6,7,8]
Avinash Mudaliar [1,2,5,6,7,8,10]

6:
Parthapratim Sengupta [2,3,5,7,8,10]

5:
Nikhil Iyengar [2,3,6,7,10]
Madhav Nair [2,4,6,7,10]

3:
Anoop Bhat [2,7,10]
Vrinda & Anurakshat [6,7,10]
Srini Nagrao [2,3,7]

2:
S.V.Sriram [2,10]
Abhijeet Dwivedi [2,5]
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1) Dominic Sena shot to fame with Janet Jackson's movie/video Rhythm Nation. He went on to direct 'Kalifornia' in 1993 with David Duchovny (a journalist writing a book on serial killers) sharing a ride with Brad Pitt (a real-life serial killer). Which recent remake of a 1974 movie did he direct?

## Gone in 60 seconds

2-3 Cellular Questions
2) In 1991 he directed a music video for R.E.M.'s 'Losing My Religion' and after a mysterious absence of 9 years returned to direct the J. Lo starrer 'The Cell'. Kaun?

## Tarsem Dhandwar Singh

3) He played the serial killer in the Cell. Married (1991-93) to Greta Scacchi (who appeared in Ismail Merchant's Cotton Mary). Who is this actor who got his first major role playing Private Gomer Pyle in Full Metal Jacket for which he gained 70 pounds?

## Vincent D'Onofrio

4) In the movie Flight Club, there is an ice cave dream sequence where Jack (Ed Norton) meets a penguin. Blue Sky Studios used graphically rendered icy, visible breath left over from a popular movie, the graphics for which were done by sister company VIFX. The kweschun is whose breath was recycled for Ed Norton's? Clue: Movie with Icy breath requirement and with a hero named being Jack D.

## Leonardo "Jack Dawson" DiCaprio. Movie should have read Fight Club. Sorry if that misled :-)
The funda was there in the extra footage section of the DVD. Couldn't find it on the Internet. Though...

http://www.vfxhq.com/1997/titanic.html
VIFX, who composited icy, visible breath to characters who speak to each other outside the doomed ship, in the freezing temperatures.

http://www.blueskystudios.com/pix/pages/features/fight_club.html
For an ice cave dream sequence, Blue Sky created a talking, photorealistic penguin capable of delivering the surreal performance Fincher wanted, while still looking completely real. In order to accommodate the visual depth and complexity of the penguin's feathers, which were so dense and heavy they actually behaved like fur, Blue Sky made advancements in its software to create and render fur up to 30% faster than previously possible. The studio also created breath and smoke effects to dramatize the cold temperature of the ice cave.

5) From the DVD sleeve: "One cast member, however did require persuasion. Frustrated in his search for the right person to play the diabolical twin Ceniza brothers, the director turned to the film's Spansih production manager, Jose Lopez Rodero, an industry veteran who began his career as an assistant director for such filmmakers as Stanley Kubrick, Joseph Mankiewicz and Nicholas Ray... Not only did Rodero play the Ceniza brothers, he also acted as the two workmen seen renovating the shop at the end of the film". If the director is Roman Polanski, name the movie.

## The Ninth Gate

6) Murnau was born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe on December 28, 1888 in Bielefeld, Westphalia, Germany. He took the name "Murnau" from a town in Germany. He was a combat pilot during World War I and directed his first film in 1919.
All known prints and negatives of one of his movies were destroyed under the terms of settlement of a lawsuit. Which movie? Hint: He was sued by the wife of the author of the book on which the movie was 'loosely' based.

## Nosferatu. The wife being Florence Stoker, widow of the Bram Stoker.
http://home.earthlink.net/~jakre/murnau/momurn.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9094/noshistory.html

7) During the filming of which movie did George Harrison meet his first wife Patti Boyd. She played one of the school girls in the train sequence Hint: The Beatles haven't worked (hard) in too many movies.

## A Hard Day's Night

8) He directed 'Pi' and 'Requiem for a Dream' and is all set to direct Batman V (Batman: Year One). Qui?

## Darren Aronofsky

9) Cloze Test: from a MTV interview with Cameron Crowe While Stillwater, the band Fugit's character joins on the tour bus, is fictional - modeled after Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Eagles, Zeppelin, and especially the Allman Brothers Band - much of the story is based on Crowe's own family life and experiences as a young rock writer. "The line Billy Crudup [who plays Stillwater lead guitarist Russell Hammond] says to William, 'Just make us look cool,' was actually said to me by __________," Crowe said.

## Glenn Frey of The Eagles
http://www.mtvasia.com/Music/Features/20010105001/index.html

10) From the *authority* imdb.com
His parents, wife and 9 other family members are MDs and/or Ph.Ds Completed 45 homemade movies by age 17. Graduate of Waldron and Episcopal academies; NYU(1992) Tisch School of the Arts. His second film which he wrote and directed, was actually shot in the Philadepphia area Catholic school he once attended, which his parents sent him to for its strict discipline. Yaar?

## Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan

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