From burhanud@usc.edu Tue Apr 2 19:11:47 2002
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:08:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Iftikhar Burhanuddin
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Subject: [quiznet] eivoMmmmMovie Quiz Part Quatre - Answers

[10]Anurag Gupta, Siva Jayaraman
[9] Anustup Datta
[8] Abhijeet Dwivedi, Kasthuri
[6] Vamsi Yadavalli
[5] Ratnakar S, Mitesh Agarwal, G. S. Ramasubramanian
[3] Madhav Nair
[2] Trey Boy
[1] Venkat Ramana Goud, Dibyendu Das, S.V.Sriram

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[1] He graduated from the Institut des Hautes etudes Cinmatographiques (Insitute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies) and made his debut as the cinematographer and co-director of Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Oscar winning documentary Le Monde du silence (The Silent World).

When his second solo feature was screened in Cleveland in 1959 its manager, Nico Jacobellis, got cited for obscenity and the State of Ohio used the obscenity law to ban the film. Nico Jacobellis fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court where the conviction was reversed. The case became famous for Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's obiter dictum, "I shall not here today attempt further to define (obscenity)...But I know it when I see it." Who is this director?

## Louis Malle

[2] The public outcry that followed Jesse James (1939) *ing Henry Fonda resulted in which now familiar disclaimer gracing the screen?

## "No animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture." A horse died during filming and there was hazzar outcry. Only one person got this question. Popular answer was "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental" which is due to Rasputin and The Empress (1932) *ing {John, Lionel, Ethel} Barrymores.

http://www.blockbuster.com/bb/movie/details/0,7286,VID-V++++40349,00.html "When seen today, Rasputin and The Empress seems rather choppy in spots, with isolated lines of dialogue and sometimes whole scenes completely missing. This is due to a million-dollar lawsuit brought against MGM by Prince Yossoupoff, the man who really engineered Rasputin's assassination. The Prince wasn't offended by being depicted as a murderer, but he was distressed when MGM suggested that his wife had been raped by Rasputin. As a result, the movie was withdrawn from distribution, and all prints were later bowdlerized when released to television. Also as a result, all future Hollywood films were obliged to carry the "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental"

[3] Which movie's name is a Yiddish word for 'blessed' used mostly by German Jews in recalling a beloved deceased. It features interviews with Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow and "cameos" by Al Capone, Charles Chaplin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lou Gehrig, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Gring, William Randolph Hearst, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Charles A. Lindbergh, Carole Lombard, Adolphe Menjou, etc.

## Woody Allen's Zelig (1983)

[4] Which movie's script starts thus:
"October 22, 1990. This movie is dedicated to these following sources of inspiration:
Timothy Carey, Roger Corman, Andre DeToth, Chow Yuen Fat, Jean Luc Goddard, Jean Pierre Melville, Lawrence Tierney, Lionel White
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Int. Uncle Bob's Pancake House - Morning
Eight men dressed in Black Suits, sit around a table at a breakfast cafe."

## Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992). Supposedly... when Tarantino worked in a video store, he referred to the Louis Malle's Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) as "the reservoir film" because he couldn't pronounce the title. He combined this with Sam Pechinpah's Straw Dogs (1971) to produce the title "Reservoir Dogs".

[5] He was the executive producer of The Elephant Man (1980) and was responsible for hiring director David Lynch and obtaining permission to film in black and white. He deliberately left his name off the credits, as he knew that people would get the wrong idea about the movie if they saw his name on the film, given his fame as a satirist. One of the few people (Rita Moreno, Barbara Streisand, etc) to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. Who is this mog?

## Mel Brooks. Mog was a reference to Mel's Space Balls (1987) and John Candy's character Barfolemew 'Barf' the Mog's one-liner from the flick: "I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend"

[6] Which movie is loosely based upon a Vibe magazine story by former New York Daily News reporter Ken Li?

## Rob Cohen's The Fast and the Furious (2001)

[7] Luxo Jr. debuted at SIGGRAPH in 1986 and was directed by Academy Award-winning director, John Lasseter, and received an Academy Award nomination in 1986. Who/what is the main character in Luxo Jr. and which company's logo is it a part of?

## The hopping table lamp which is part of Pixar's animated logo. http://www.pixar.com/shorts/ljr/

You can watch Luxo Jr at http://media.liacs.nl/~lindoorn/Luxo.html

[8] The end credits of which movie roll up against a blue background and end with "Nous remercions ALFA ROMEO qui a autorise la scene de l'accident de l'ALFA 164 dont la dynamique est bien entende porement imaginaire"
which translates to:
"We wish to thank ALFA ROMEO for authorizing the scene of the accident of the ALFA 164, the dynamics of which is purely fictitious"

## Krzysztof Kieslowski's Bleu (1993) *ing Juliette Binoche. Part of his Trois Couleurs Trilogy. The blue background clue was supposed to help.

[9] The start and end credits of Ghost World (2001) *ing Tora Birch and Steve Buscemi roll up against which song in the background?

## Spoiler...Md. Rafi's "Jaan pehchaan hai" from Gumnaam (1965)

[10] Which movie screened at Cannes on May 11th 2001 doesn't have a title/credit sequence. The name of the film appears twice as graphiti on the wall about 2 hours 30 minutes into the film which is about 3 hours 15 minutes long and features this impressive resume:

MLPJC - 177TS007
To:
Willard, Benjamin L., Cpt. USA
0-1305301
U.S. Armed Forces Intelligence Hq.
Nha Trang

Subject: Special Warfare Information, -----, ------ E., Col., Special Forces

1946
Graduates West Point; second in Class; third-generation appointee.
Completes Basic Training, Advanced Infantry Training, Fort Gordon, Georgia.

47-48
Assigned, West Berlin, U.S. Sector Command, G-1 (Plans) Promoted 1st Lt.

49-50
Masters Degree, Harvard University, History (Thesis: The Phillipines Insurrection: American Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia, 1898-1905.)

50-51 Assigned General Staff, U.S. Command, Seoul, Korea. Tours combat zones, Division-Evaluation Team. Requests transfer to Intelligence, returned U.S. for special training, Ft. Holabird and Washington. (Marries, Janet Anderson, 14 June 1951.) Returns to active duty, C-2, Seoul; Debriefs and evaluates information from American agents returning from Northern missions. Promoted Captain.

## FFC's Apocalypse Now Redux

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