My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he
taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.
It's called "Daisy". Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy
all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a
carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.
## HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
[3] Hell's kitchen summer 1966.
"This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood. This
is my story and that of the only 3 friends in my life who truly mattered.
Two of them were killers who never made it past the age of thirty. The
other is a non-practicing attorney living with the pain of his past too
afraid to let it go never confronting its horror. I'm the only one who
could speak for them ... and the children we were."
Based on a Lorenzo Carcaterra's book which gets its title from ...
"________ was a street name for anyone who spent time in a juvenile
facility."
## Barry Levinson's Sleepers (1996) with Robert De Niro making a
depature and playing a nice guy (priest).
[4] Starts ...
C.C. Baxter: On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was
8,042,753. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average
height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times
Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this
because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York.
We are one of the top five companies in the country. Last year we wrote
nine point three billion dollars worth of policies. Our home office has
31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of Natchez,
Mississippi, or Gallup, New Mexico. I work on the 19th floor - Ordinary
Policy department - Premium Accounting division - Section W - desk number
861.
ends ...
C.C. Baxter: You hear what I said, Miss Kubelik? I absolutely adore you.
Fran Kubelik: Shut up and deal.
Doesn't this ending rival the "Well, nobody's perfect" ending from Some
Like It Hot (1959). Identify the movie also by the great Mr. Billy
Wilder.
## The Apartement (1960). Great chemistry between Jack Lemmon and the
adorable Shirley MacLaine (who is Warren Beatty's sis and was named after
Shirley Temple acc to imdb ... didn't know!)
[5] Starts ...
On dec 15, 1935 mrs. william starwell, the wife of a new jersey handiman
gives birth to her first and only child. It is a boy and they name it
virgil. He is an exceptionally cute baby with a sweet disposition. Before
he is 25 years old he is wanted by Police in 6 states for assault, crimed
robbery and illegal possession of a wart. Growing up in a slum
neighbourhood where the crime rate is among the highest in the nation is
not easy particularly for vigil who is small and frail compared to the
other children.
Which Woody Allen movie is this?
## Take The Money and Run (1969)
[6] Starts ...
On Saturday 14th February 1900 a party of school girls from Appleyard
College _______ked at _______ ____ near Mt. Macedon in the state of
Victoria. During the afternoon several members of the party disappeared
with trace ...
(girl's voice) what we see and what we seem are but a dream -- a dream
within a dream
Movie?
## Peter Weir's visual treat Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). If you like
this check out Soffia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999).
[7-16] ******Misc. Corner******
[7] Based on book by harry grey aka harry goldberg ... the hoods ...
purported to be a true story. "The hoods" for sometime run a frontend
undertaker-ing business called berkovicz and co with the motto "why go on
living when we can bury you for $49.50". About 5-6 screen writers took 10
years to write the movie. The director's last. Jennifer Connelly's first.
Which one?
## Sergio Leone's gangsta epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
[8] Who is the head of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad whosz members
include Elle Driver aka California Mountain Snake, O-Ren Ishi aka
Cottonmouth, Vernita Green aka Copperhead, Bud aka Sidewinder and The
Bride aka Black Mamba.
Clues: (i)The Bride is angry at her boss as he shoots her in the head in
the opening sequence (with "Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" by ) (ii)
The film opens with a scratched-up ShawScope title, a reference to the
Shaw Brothers "masters".
Clue: Verb + Boss' name = movie
## Bill from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill (2003). Not for the
feeble-hearted.
[9] (Courtesy of Rishi Sinha) 'O Brother Where Art Thou' : Bluegrass ::
'Pulp Fiction' :
## Surf music (... maybe not the whole soundtrack but a major chunk of it
was)
[10] If what you see on screen is the International Secret Police
searching for a cryptographic key but the soundtrack convinces you that
they are in a search for the ultimate egg-plant recipe which movie would
you be wasting your time on?
## Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily (1966)
[11] He was born in 1945 in Warsaw. In 1970, graduated in law from Warsaw
University. He made a career out of practicing criminal law but has
received fame as a co-screenplay writer for 17 films directed by the
other
co-screenplay writer. These dudes have the same first name. Who?
## Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Krzysztof Kieslowski's collaborator.
[12] Author/screenwriter A comments: "X is a story about man testing
himself against nature and discovering the hidden forces within himself
that he never knew existed."
The movie's background score is a duelling banjos sequence. The
filmmakers
worked without insurance. No company would insure the actors because of
the kind of risks they were taking. After the film wrapped the B said: "I
had a turbulent and bruising relationship with A during the filming of X.
I felt like I went to 15 rounds with the champ and I'm still on my feet.
But I'd rather argue with A than have a conversation with many other
people."
A or B or X?
## A = James Dickey B = John Boorman X = Deliverance (1972).
[13] The tussle between the director and producer Sid Sheinberg is quite
legendary. In October 1985 the director placed a full-page plea in Daily
Variety to the president of Universal's parent company MCA: "Dear Sid
Sheinberg: When are you going to release my film, _____?"
## Terry "mad-genius" Gilliam's Brazil (1985). It was sad to hear that
Michael Kamen died last week. He composed the wonderful music in Brazil.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004383/
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/19/obit.kamen.ap/
[14] The triangle consisting of Beatrice "mama of dada" Wood, Marcel
Duchamp and his friend Michele Dupuy inspired Henri-Pierre Roche to write
which novel?
## Fran{\{c}}ois Truffaut's Jules et Jim (1962). Jeanne Moreau singing
"Le
Tourbillon" is a must-hear!
[15] The original version of Spartacus included a scene where Marcus
Licinius (Laurence Olivier) attempts to seduce Antoninus (Tony Curtis).
The Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency both
objected. At one point
Geoffrey Shurlock, representing the censors, suggested it would help if
the reference in the scene to a preference for oysters or snails was
changed to truffles and artichokes. In the end the scene was cut, but it
was was put back in for the 1991 restoration. But since the soundtrack
had
been lost in the meantime, the dialogue had to be dubbed; and since
Olivier had died, who was brought in to read his lines?
## Sir Anthony Hopkins
[16] Edwin Porter was a projectionist, inventor and entrepreneur before
starting work in 1900 for Edison('s company) where he was soon promoted
to
head of film production. Movies made by this dude were Execution of
Czolgosz, with Panorama of Auburn Prison (1901) (docudrama about the
electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley), The
Life of an American Fireman (1903) and giving an unknown actor and
playwright named David Ward Griffith his debut role in the Rescued from
An
Eagle's Nest (1908). Which is Porter's most famous movie?
## The Great Train Robbery (1903) featuring the famous
man-pointing-a-gun-at-the-camera/audience starting/ending.
Aside: I was initially planning to set a question on Edison revolving
around his scary "Electrocuting an Elephant" ... this short and the
website hosting it have gone dead!
(http://www.theelectricchair.com/videos.htm)
[17-20]*******Movie_with_in_movies Corner*******
[17] The title of which movie is the french name for a filter used to
make
day filming look like night filming? This movie features the shooting of
the movie "Je vous presente Pamela" (may I introduce Pamela) aka Meet
Pamela.
## Truffaut's La Nuit Americaine (1973) aka Day for Night.
Ian Anderson adds: seems in the movie shoot no one knew if truffaut was
shouting "cut" roll etc for the real movie or just playing the part of
the
director of pamela!
[18] Which movie features the following clapperboard?
31 C 4
Jeremiah Prokosch Productions
Odysseus
Director F Lang
Cameraman R Kutard
## Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris aka Contempt (1963) *ing Brigitte Bardot
and Fritz Lang playing a philosophy doling director.
[19] This movie M and the movie within MW share the same title: XY XX __
_____
Useless trivial clueless follow:
MW features Robert Talmadge, Anna Rayburn, Todd Morgan with Gil Sheperd,
Beatrice
Kelly, Sidney Oliver, Kate Payson and was produced by Raoul Hirsch and
written by Irving Sachs, RH Levine.
Gil Sheperd's real name was Herman Bardebedian and was originally a
taxidriver.
Gil's character in MW is Tom Baxter of the Chicago Baxters, Explorer,
poet, adventurer who has the following dialogue: "Its an old legend
that's
fascinated me for years. A pharaoh had a XX painted XY for his queen. And
now the story says, XX XY grow wild at her tomb"
Gil Shepherd has acted in six movies which include Honeymoon in Haiti,
Broadway Bachelors, Dancing Doughboys, MW. Gil later did a movie on the
life of Lindbergh.
## Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
[20] The movie Goldmember starts with the following opening credits for
which movie-within-the-movie before going onto the real credits?
Tom Cruise .... Famous Austin Powers
Gwyneth Paltrow .... Dixie Normous
Kevin Spacey .... Famous Dr. Evil
Danny DeVito .... Famous Mini-Me
Steven Spielberg .... Himself
John Travolta .... Famous Goldmember
## Austinpussy
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For the brave who made it this far ...
Q. Who directed The Little Train Robbery (1905)?
A. Edwin Porter again! He parodies his Great Train Robbery by having
children dressed up as bandits.
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