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Subject: [quiznet] eivoMmmmMovie Quiz Part Six - Scores and Answers
17: Stephen D Beakey
13: Siva Jayaraman
11: Sharad Singh, Seema Pai
9: Mitesh Agarwal
4: Krithika Kalyan
3: Madhav Nair
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[1] In the days when movies by Edison,
Porter, Lumiere freres and Pathe freres
ruled, the film maker didn't have
complete control over how the film was
screened. Movie exhibitors/Theatre owners
could enhance the movie by adding color
or as in the case of Edwin Porter's The
Great Train Robbery (1903) switch "this
scene" from the end to the begining. The
question is this start/end (depending on
where you saw the movie) scene has
appeared on a US postage stamp and
Scorcese paid tribute to the TGTR by
ending Goodfellas (1990) in the same way.
Kya scene hai or scene hai kya?
## Man shooting at the camera. Joe Pesci
in the case of Goodfellas.
[2] Fill in the blanks/identify the movie
which is directed by:
40 specially trained Ecuadorian Mountain
Llamas, 6 Venezuelan Red Llamas, 142
Mexican Whooping Llamas, 14 North Chilean
Guanacos (closely related to the Llamas),
Red Llama of Brixton, 76000 Battery
Llamas from "Llamas-Fresh" Farms Ltd. Near
Paraguay and _____ _____ & _____ ______
## Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975).
The blanks are Terry Gilliam and Terry
Jones.
[3] X was a pulp fiction writer and his
most famous novels provided the basis for
three 1940s classics: Tay Garnett's The
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946),
Michael Curtiz's Mildred Pierce (1945)and
Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944)
(short story: Double Indemnity in 'Three
of a Kind'). Joel Coen referring to The
Man Who Wasn't There (2001) says "This
movie is heavily influenced by X's work.
It's his kind of story." Whosz X?
## James M. Cain
[4] The begining credits roll up against
the Rodney King video and the movie ends
with:
"Thank Allah for Bill Cosby, Michael
Jordan, Magic Johnson, Oprah Winfrey,
Tracy Chapman, Prince, Janet Jackson and
Peggy Cooper Cafritz.
Thank Jesus for Aretha Franklin and
Arrested Development.
In memory of Alex Haley"
## The Spike Lee Joint - Malcolm X (1992).
[5] The Guns n' Roses song Civil War
begins with lines from which movie?
"What we've got here is failure to
communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week
Which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men."
## Cool Hand Luke (1967)
[6] The "_____ ____" character in THIS
movie was based on the "_____ ____, USMC"
TV series which premiered on CBS in
September 1964 and ran for five
successful seasons in prime time. The how
was based loosely on the film No Time for
Sergeants in which Andy Griffith played a
very similar military bumpkin.
THE movie had such memorable monologues
as: "God has a hard on for Marines,
because we kill everything we see. He
plays His games, we play ours. To show
our appreciation for so much power, we
keep heaven packed with fresh souls. God
was here before the marine corps, so you
can give your heart to Jesus, but your
ass belongs to the corps!"
Name the character.
## Private Gomer Pyle / Leonard Lawrence
in Full Metal Jacket (1987) played by
Vincent D'Onofrio. The blanks are Gomer
Pyle. Sound clips from FMJ are available
at Lee Ermey (the Drill Sergeant
character)'s website
http://www.rleeermey.com/soundclips1.html
[7] She was born Lucille LeSueur in San
Antonio, Texas in 1904. When her mother
remarried she changed her name to Billie
Cassin. She changed her name back to her
birth name because it sounded more
professional. In 1925 Photoplay magazine
had a name-the-star contest, which was won
by Mrs. Louise Artisdale of Rochester,
N.Y. who pocketed the kewl $500 prize.
What nom d'ecran did Mrs. Artisdale
suggest which stuck forever?
## Joan Crawford.
[8] She was named after the Gershwin
song "Liza" which her father had directed
for Ziegfeld Follies (1946) but the song
didn't make it through the final cut.
Scorcese pays homage to her father in New
York New York. Her mother was born
Frances Gumm and had too much fun with
Seconal and died. Nam'er.
## Liza Minnelli daughter of Vincente
Minnelli and Judy Garland (nee Frances
Gumm).
[9] The only color you see in this
Kurosawa film is a scene in which pink
smoke emanates from an incinerator. The
movie was based on Ed McBain (aka Curt
Cannon aka Hunt Collins aka Ezra Hannon
aka Evan Hunter aka Richard Marsten nee
Salvatore Lombino)'s King's Ransom. Movie?
## Tengoku to jigoku (1963) literally
means Heaven and Hell. It was released as
High and Low and *s the great Toshiro
Mifune.
[10] Which character has been played by
Anthony Parker, John Hurt on the silver
screen and by Philip Anglim on the boob
tube?
## The Elephant Man.
[11] Which character has been played by
Alain Delon, Matt Damon, Dennis Hopper
and John Malkovich?
## Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley.
[12] Which author/poet would you
associate with the following: Le Samourai
(1967, *ing Alain Delon), Joe's Apartment
(1996, *ing Jerry O'Connell and lotsa
cockroaches) and Pola X (1996, *ing
Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Depardieu
son of the great Gerard Depardieu)?
## Herman Melville. Le Samourai was
directed by Jean-Pierre Melville nee Jean
Pierre Grumbach who adopted the name
after his favourite author.
Joe's Apartment has a cameo by Moby
(descendant of HM, hence the name Moby).
Pola X was based on HM's Pierre or the
Ambiguities. Arbit trivia/connection at
it's best/worst!
[13-17] The songs a,b,c appear in movies
A,B,C. Identify the movies and connect A -
> B and B-> C
Clue: Soundtrack of A credits a to be
written by Russell Hammond of Stillwater
(a) Fever dog
Scratchin' at my back door
I hear you howl
But I don't listen no more
Got a feeling I could taste
Every hair of the fever dog
Come around again
Well that would be the end
Of the fever dog
(b) Mere kareeb aajao mere sanam
Aa ke gale lag jaaoo mere sanam
Tere hoot choomna chahoom
Tere Khushi dekna chahoom mere sanam
(c) Everyone says I love you
But just what they say it for I never knew
It's just inviting trouble for the poor sucker who
Says I love you.
## A: Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous
(2000). B: Woody Allen's Everyone Says I
Love You (1996). C: The Marx bros' Horse
Feathers (1932).
Spoiler regarding Everyone Says I Love
You...
Song a is sung by/credited to be sung by
Russell Hammond played by Billy Crudup in
A. In B Billy Crudup enters a taxi with a
lady from Alan Alda's household and they
sing "Cuddle up a little closer" and then
the sardar cabbie sings b and is joined
by Crudup. B's title comes from song c in
C. Woody Allen paying tribute to Groucho
Marx I guess and more so because B ends
with a Marx bros tribute party in Paris
on Christmas Eve where Woody Allen and
Goldie Hawn are dressed as Groucho.
[18,19,20]
"Cahiers du Cinema was founded in 1951 by
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Lo Duca, and the
great critic X. It was a direct outgrowth
of the Revue du Cinema published by Jean-
Georges Auriol and two important Parisian
cine-clubs from the heady years right
after the war, when American movies were
flooding into post-occupation France:
Objectif 49, which included, among
others, Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau, and
Alexandre Astruc; and the Cine-Club du
Quartier Latin. Edited by Maurice Scherer
(better known as Eric Rohmer), the clubs
magazine La Gazette du Cinema featured
the work of three young men who would
become very important to Cahiers: Jacques
Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude
Chabrol. They were joined by Y, a one-time
juvenile delinquent befriended by X and
his wife Janine. The first issue was
dedicated to Auriol (who was killed in a
car accident), and Sunset Boulevard was
on its cover."
Y made this movie Z the title of which
movie is a phrase which figuratively
means "to get into a lot of trouble" and
is supposedly derived from Louis XIII's
cannonade in 1621 at Montauban. Y
dedicated Z to X.
Solve for X, Y and Z.
## X=Andre Bazin, Y=Francois Truffaut, Z=
400 Blows. For the origin of the faire
les quatre cents coups phrase...
http://www2.ac-toulouse.fr/piquecos/pages/romancm1/400coups.htm
http://www.leximot.net/expression.php3?id_expr=537
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