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Subject: [quiznet] eivoMmmmMovie Quiz Part Trois - Scores and Answers
Neither did my comp crash nor was I struck by lightning. Just waited for #
of entries to reach critical mass but in vain. Sorry for the delay...
Scores:
Siva Jayaraman 10[dijkyon]
S Ramnarayan 8 [3,4]
Ravi Subramanian 6 [3,4,5,10]
Sundaram Parthasarathy 4 [1,6,8,10]
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1) Which story penned by Reginald Rose connects the following directors:
Basu Bhattacharya, Sidney Lumet, William Friedkin and Franklin Schaffner?
## 12 Angry Men.
Basu Bhattacharya directed the Hindi remix - "Ek Ruka Hua Faisla", *ing
K.K.Raina, Pankaj Kapoor, Annu Kapoor (1986)
Sidney Lumet directed the most popluar version, *ing Henry Fonda (1957)
Franklin Schaffner directed Ver1.0 for the small screen which garnered a
couple of Emmys
http://lostmind.100megsfree2.com/year/1954/1954emmy.html
William Friedkin directed the most recent star-studded TV remake, *ing
Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, James Gandolfini, Armin Mueller-Stahl (1997)
2) Cloze test:
The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving
Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate
________ __ ______
## Talented Mr. Ripley. The complete title
3) What's common to Martin Scorcese's Italianamerican, Wayne's World, Hot
Shots as far as the credits are concerned?
## The closing credits feature recipes.
Italianamerican - Scorcese's mom's spagheti sauce recipe,
Wayne's World - Brownie recipe
Hot Shots! - topping for brownies and nobby buns
4)Which film opens with the following sequence:
- Man (Luis Buñuel - the director) hones razor
- He gazes at moon
- Woman's eye replaces moon
- Razor slits the woman's eye?
## Un Chien Andalou (1929). Written by Bunuel and Salvador Dali.
5) If the hand_double for David_Helfgott_as_a_child was child prodigy
Simon Tedeschi, who was David_Helfgott_as_an_adult's hand_double (played
by Geoffery Rush) in the filum Shine?
## Himself!
6) Which recent movie would you associate the following thingies with:
A murdered man called Evan Chan, Dr. Jeanine Salla attached to Bangalore
World University - New York branch, Cloudmakers.org who are into
distributed biological processing among other things?
## A.I.
http://www.channelseven.com/adinsight/commentary/2001comm/comm20010508.shtml
The "starting point" of the game for many has been a movie trailer and
poster, which credit one Jeanine Salla as "sentient machine
therapist." Searching for Salla's name on the Web leads one down the rabbit hole --
into the world of interconnecting Web sites (including some password-
protected areas), which describe characters and events in a world of rogue
robots and sentient houses.
Even if you don't *indulge* yourself into the game, check these web-sites out
http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/salla/default.html
http://www.belladerma-srl-it.ro/
7) He turned towards acting after graduating with a degree in Law from
Cambridge. He became a theatre director on the West End and for the Royal
Shakespeare Company in the early '70s. Since then he has moved onto movies
directing features which include Clue (based on the boardgame Cluedo and
famous for its three separate endings), My Cousin Vinny and The Whole Nine
Yards. He is also the creator of a famous '80s British TV series. Who?
## Jonathan Lynn of "Yes, Minister", "Yes, Prime Minster" fame.
8) Movie studios seem to come up with hazzar mirror-sites for the official
movie site as part of the marketing effort. But those sites just seem to
disappear soon after the release of the movie.
Being John Malkovich had the following sites -
http://www.being-john-malkovich.com/
http://www.beingjohnmalkovich.com/
http://www.JMincorporated.com/ *dead*
The kweschun is which movie connects these now defunct web and phone links
http://www.seduceanddestroy.com,
http://www.wdkk.com,
1-800-TAME-HER.
(Clue: it rained like frogs and toads)?
## Magnolia
9) Who played the same historical character Bill Newman in both Oliver
Stone's JFK and the Spike Lee joint Malcolm X?
## Vincent D'Onofrio
10) identify:
He got his first break as the surfer dude in Cameron Crowe's Fast
Times at Ridgemont High. He was crowned "America's Best" Actor in the July
9th issue of Time magazine. Dennis Hopper did the write-up:
____ ____ -
Never flubs a line.
Goes to where the action is.
Prepares...prepares...becomes.
Will throw a punch
at a photog
or anyone who provokes him.
Is a stand-up guy.
A man's man.
A trusted friend.
An actor's actor.
A wonderful poet, screenwriter, director.
Father of Dylan and Hopper Jack.
Even sober, the one to party with.
Enjoy the differences in each of his performances.
Dark energy exploding like the sun.
Shows up everyone with his brilliance.
Lives in a moment-to-moment reality.
Uses all his senses in his work.
Makes the accident work for him.
____ ____ - He is an amazing actor, man, friend.
## Sean Penn
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