Quiz: test your movie knowledge

[custos]

custos: Fellini yes but not Mastroianni La Dolce Vita
Hmmmm.... Donald Sutherland in Casanova?

[custos]

not DMJ3, think a long way from a continental Sylvia Kristel
I'm guessing the Sylvia Kristel clue is an oblique reference to the "Em(m)anuelle" series, so perhaps Emanuelle and the last cannibals? I dunno, that's a bit out of my usual watching sphere :)

[Lizard Drinkin]

I dunno, that's a bit out of my usual watching sphere :):rolleyes: Sure.

[Drifter]

custos: right with Sutherland and Casanova; not that particular Emanuelle sphere-expansion experience though...

[custos]

Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline (Emanuelle's Revenge)? So many to choose from.... :)

[Lizard Drinkin]

Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline (Emanuelle's Revenge)? So many to choose from.... :)And allllll outside your watching sphere :dD

*Lizard tries to picture custos' Watching Sphere and marvels*

http://dragonshoarde.com/sphere/dsc05473.jpg

[PLG]

This sequel, which remains banned in Australia, is usually considered the nadir of a cycle, stretching the soft-core libertine ethic of the 1970s into not only bestiality but hardcore violent pornographic snuff. Name this notorious shocker. CLUE: here, a Sylvia Kristel spinoff finally hits the States, without Sylvia but now with Laura Gemser

Emanuelle Escapes From Hell

[PLG]

Dismissed as “a glorification of the bum and the freeloader”, this brutal anti-establishment allegory was set to be directed by the great Sam Peckinpah who was very attached to it. When not able to do it due to a falling out with the producer, Peckinpah wrote a letter to his replacement director saying that although he hated to be removed from the film, he felt that with this replacement, whose films he had always admired, “I feel that my adopted baby is in very good hands”. Name the replacement director, and the film that Peckinpah could have made. CLUE: (sings) "a man and a train"

Bound For Glory Hal Ashby

[Drifter]

custos: not Emanuelle's Revenge;

PLG: not that Emanuelle sequel either (think along the lines of Emanuelle in the Great Satan as Iran likes to think of this place); not Bound for Glory and Ashby;

[custos]

:) So, Emanuelle in America. I didn't know that that was banned in Australia.

[custos]

And allllll outside your watching sphere :dD
Bite me.... again :)

[custos]

1) When the director came to make this movie – about a nation’s independence – those then in power disliked the fact that the script gave some credit to the role of terrorists and terrorism in such statehood. In turn, the remaining “terrorist” groups felt they didn’t get enough credit. Name the film; and the “terrorist” group. CLUE: ironic, or Zionic, considering current affairs since; also a Bob Marley song title
Doh *slaps head*.... Exodus.

[custos]

5) Dismissed as “a glorification of the bum and the freeloader”, this brutal anti-establishment allegory was set to be directed by the great Sam Peckinpah who was very attached to it. When not able to do it due to a falling out with the producer, Peckinpah wrote a letter to his replacement director saying that although he hated to be removed from the film, he felt that with this replacement, whose films he had always admired, “I feel that my adopted baby is in very good hands”. Name the replacement director, and the film that Peckinpah could have made. CLUE: (sings) "a man and a train"; post-Dirty Dozen Marvin vs Borgnine brutality
Emperor of the North, Robert Aldrich

[PLG]

This well-known actor wrote the script for this film with his mother in mind. His mother would apparently speak out at parapsychology conventions and once had her psychic abilities tested by Duke University. Name the actor and the film made from his script. CLUE: a blade in a sling would make a strange present


Billy Bob Thornton The Gift

[PLG]

12) The traditional Afghani sport, the then national game of buzkashi, forms the backdrop for which film about pathological father-son relations? CLUE: Papa Palance, junior Sharif;

The Horsemen

Time for some new ones drifter

[Drifter]

OK: PLG right with those two; the House has picked up a straggler: so a Dirty Dozen worth of all-new questions...

1) 1980 saw two works inspired by the Rev. Jim Jones: a respected one for television and a less-respected one for the seedy grind-house circuit: name the two actors to have played Jones (or in the latter case the figure clearly inspired by Jones). ANSWERED (by The House) as Powers Boothe; Stuart Whitman

2) During the making of one film, a flop as it turned out, the lead actress’s publicist was so fascinated with her that when he was fired, he overdosed. In fact, he was blackmailing her to sleep with him regularly, having stolen love letters sent to her by Laurence Olivier. Name the unfortunate actress. CLUE: this occured when filming Lady Caroline Lamb ANSWERED (by The House) as Sarah Miles

3) For Alien, director Ridley Scott drew inspiration from reading one of his favourite comic books, later admitting, “I had been burying myself in the area of (this comic) and other similar things and Alien seemed well suited…Alien really was the first film I did with (this comic’s) sensibility. I think that’s pretty obvious to anyone who saw the film and is also familiar with (the comic).” Which comicbook is he talking about? ANSWERED (by Lizard Drinkin) as Heavy Metal

4) This actor was picked for a role in this film partially because his father was in prison, serving a double-life sentence for the murder of a federal judge and also having been apparently rumoured to have been one of the three people briefly arrested on the grassy knoll in Dallas now so infamously linked to the Kennedy assassination. The director insisted a genetic connection existed in the actor’s eyes. Name the actor. ANSWERED (by custos) as Woody Harrelson

5) This director, reportedly considering himself a self-styled “Zen anarchist”, was by the end of the 1970s / early 1980s considered Hollywood’s most reactionary young director and has been repeatedly subject to accusations of glorifying fascistic machismo. Name him. CLUE: between surfers and barbarians maybe he did see himself as Col. Kilgore ANSWERED (by custos) as John Milius

6) Name the film James Dean was next up to star in before he died. ANSWERED (by all about eve) as Somebody Up There Likes Me (ironic ain't it)

7) Two war movies, about different wars, concern what might be termed American military entrepreneurism: specifically, that soldiers act on their own initiative to go behind enemy lines with the express intention of stealing hidden gold. In the first, they go consciencelessly off into the sunset with their spoils; in the second, they develop a conscience. :rolleyes: Name the two movies which share this plot hook. ANSWERED (by custos) as Kelly's Heroes; Three Kings

8) For this film, an affectionate tribute to a black and white past classic, the director was fortunate enough to find that the 78 year old designer of the film being referenced had the original set still in his garage after some forty years. He gave it to the director and designed new things for him: so, which parody was filmed on sets from the original film? CLUE: Abby Normal went "puttin' on the Ritz" ANSWERED (by PLG) as Young Frankenstein

9) The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, was a huge hit. Hackman went on to the official sequel. Scheider, however, starred for the original film’s producer in a lesser known cop-movie spinoff – also in New York City and with a reportedly spectacular car chase. Name the “unofficial” sequel to The French Connection. ANSWERED (by all about eve) as The Seven Ups

10) This film’s plot called for the protagonist released after 5 years in prison to spend a night with his girlfriend. The director, often accused of misogyny, wanted the scene to be tender: to show that the protagonist clearly doubts his own ability to perform after so much time. The actor, then a macho icon, disagreed with this approach, feeling that after so much time away, the character would virtually rape his girlfriend. The director insisted and won out. Name the film. CLUE: actor and actress were husband and wife but apparently he wasn't her true love story; he was once "the Cooler king" ANSWERED (by PLG) as The Getaway

11) Producer Linda Obst had to “sell” this prospective film to her boss. To do so, she argued that it was a “masterpiece about the healing power of grace” but according to her, she left knowing that her boss, who eventually approved the picture, felt it could mae a little money as “a summer buddy comedy.” Either way, it proved a surprisingly graceful summer hit. Name the film. ANSWERED (by all about eve) as The Fisher King

12) This director claimed he lost a “Faustian bargain” with the studio when he convinced them to make his “fairy tale for adults which shows something of the psychopathology of fascism” as he saw it. The film was a major flop and for network and cable screening, the director tried even removing the ending, later realizing his mistake and putting the ending back on – not that anyone has since seen the film. Name the film and the director. CLUE: Nazi Insiders in a Heated haunted Castle? ANSWERED (by PLG; the House) as The Keep; Michael Mann

:)
ANSWERED:
custos: 98
Lizard Drinkin: 54
HoundsOfLove: 42
PLG: 37
Ed W.: 26
Orko: 16
all about eve: 15
m0nkie: 12
luther: 6
Funkaphiliac: 6
Ozeagle: 5
EMCWheels: 3
Rallygirl: 3
Momentum: 2
harvs: 1
popeye: 1
Mean Dean: 1
The House: 44

[Lizard Drinkin]

3) For Alien, director Ridley Scott drew inspiration from reading one of his favourite comic books, later admitting, “I had been burying myself in the area of (this comic) and other similar things and Alien seemed well suited…Alien really was the first film I did with (this comic’s) sensibility. I think that’s pretty obvious to anyone who saw the film and is also familiar with (the comic).” Which comicbook is he talking about? Heavy Metal?

[custos]

7) Two war movies, about different wars, concern what might be termed American military entrepreneurism: specifically, that soldiers act on their own initiative to go behind enemy lines with the express intention of stealing hidden gold. In the first, they go consciencelessly off into the sunset with their spoils; in the second, they develop a conscience. :rolleyes: Name the two movies which share this plot hook.
Three Kings with George Clooney comes immediately to mind. I'll have to think about the other one.

[custos]

10) This film’s plot called for the protagonist released after 5 years in prison to spend a night with his girlfriend. The director, often accused of misogyny, wanted the scene to be tender: to show that the protagonist clearly doubts his own ability to perform after so much time. The actor, then a macho icon, disagreed with this approach, feeling that after so much time away, the character would virtually rape his girlfriend. The director insisted and won out. Name the film.
Wild guess: An innocent man, Tom Selleck

[all about eve]

6) Name the film James Dean was next up to star in before he died.

Somebody Up There Likes Me ?