Quiz: test your movie knowledge

[montyb8]

2) Prior to this film, there was no regular “Best Make-Up” Academy Award. Make-up artists were honoured with special awards on rare occasions. However, when there was thus no nomination for make-up effects on this particular critically-acclaimed film, there were letters of protest sent to the Academy’s Board of Directors, saying that make-up technicians should be awarded and that the film be nominated for a special category. The film wasn’t nominated for such, but the following year, the “Best Make-up” Award was introduced permanently into the Oscars. Which film led to the permanent creation of a make-up Award at the Oscars?



Star wars - Ep V TESB?


The elephant man

[femme fatale]

6) When Bill Murray read the script for this film he thought it was so incredibly good that he would do it for free if need be. Name the film.

Broken Flowers?

Rushmore?

[Matt_3D]

6) When Bill Murray read the script for this film he thought it was so incredibly good that he would do it for free if need be. Name the film.

Lost In Translation?Poo, that was my first guess! Ok, let's go for a long shot. Groundhog day! :rolleyes: I did say it was a long shot :p

[custos]

cutos right with The Gypsy Moths
Coincidentally it was on Foxtel Classics last night, so I watched it again. Thanks Drifter :D

[custos]

1) This actor’s character in this movie was originally written as a shoe salesman. However, the actor successfully petitioned the screenwriter to re-write the character as a minister in order to create a more subversively satirical look at American sexual mores. Name the actor and the film.

Crimes of Passion (Anthony Perkins)

(I see Houndsy got an early jump on this round of questions :) )

[tuesday]

(I see Houndsy got an early jump on this round of questions :) )

And tuesdays late as usual. :(

[femme fatale]

9) The producer of this film had never read a comic book / graphic novel before casually reading this one. He was immediately struck by it and sent it to his father, a veteran Hollywood producer who also liked it and suggest they pursue Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was interested although from a production rather than directing end. The end result was one of the most atmospheric of graphic novel film adaptations. Name the film.

Road to Perdition?

[HoundsOfLove]

Crimes of Passion (Anthony Perkins)

(I see Houndsy got an early jump on this round of questions :) )

Thats what happens when everyone in the household wakes you bloody up in the morning early haha.

[custos]

8) One for Streisand fans: This was actress Barbra Streisand’s least successful film at the box-office and yet garnered her some of her best reviews as a performer and it remains a film she is intensely proud of, although is perhaps an obscurity in her filmography (my ex-wife was a huge Streisand fan and she dislikes this movie intensely – that’s not a clue, just an anecdote). Name the film.

Nuts or Up The Sandbox?

It should have been Yentl :) but I'd guess Heaven's Gate would have been one of her biggest bombs.

[tuesday]

7) This film was a notorious 1970s flop, critics calling it woeful and self-indulgent and the public staying away. Very shortly after it debuted in cinemas it was withdrawn due to lack of any audience buying tickets. Shortly after the film was withdrawn, the director wrote an open letter which was printed in many US newspapers. In the letter, he apologized sincerely for the terrible quality of the movie. Name the apologetic director and the film.

At Long Last Love directed by Peter Bogdanovich -1975.

[Drifter]

Hounds in early to snag a bunch of them: right with The Rose; Up the Sandbox; The Turning Point & The Color Purple; Mask but not right with Scarface or Lost in Translation (feem got that question right)

Montyb8 right with The Elephant Man

femme right with Rushmore and Road to Perdition

Matt: another good guess, but femme got that question right

custos right with Anthony Perkins, Crimes of Passion

tuesday12 right with Peter Bogdanovich, At Long Last Love

wow, that only leaves one question left... who knows their drug-dealing gangster films???

:)

[femme fatale]

:)


wow, that only leaves one question left... who knows their drug-dealing gangster films???


King of New York?

[Drifter]

:)
King of New York?

Yay! That's the one. :)

[Drifter]

OK. Back again after a computer malfunction (blown power supply) put me out of commission for a while. So, anyway... the late night and early morning crowd get first crack at this lot of ten new questions.

1) For this erotic movie, the director wanted to use a particular song. The lyric in the song went “what a fool am I, to so fall in love”. However, as the “love” in the movie bordered on the perverse, the director did not want to imply through the song that the female protagonist was foolish in any way in her desires. Thus he asked the songwriter-singer if she would change the lyric. As the songwriter wanted the song in the movie, she agreed, changing the lyric so that it became “what grace have I, to so fall in love”. Name the film which impelled this song lyric change. ANSWERED (by custos) as Secretary

2) The director of this film originally wanted it to be the first-ever mainstream Hollywood movie to feature hardcore sex scenes. To this end, for the lead female character (a porn star), he cast Annette Haven, a veteran of porno movies. When the studio found out what the director’s intention was, and what films Haven had been making, they vetoed this approach. Haven was dismissed from the film, later saying that she was happy with this as she did not particularly want to be in a film which mixed explicit sex and violent gore, as had been the director’s intention. Name the director, the film, and the actress who replaced Annette Haven. ANSWERED (by custos) as Brian DePalma, Body Double, Melanie Griffith

3) For this film on the troublesome aspect of teenage sexuality, the actress playing a mother begged the director to cast Jodie Foster as the sexually active daughter instead of the actress the director wanted as the actress felt the director's choice lacked talent. The director went ahead with his choice but found her responses in the lovemaking scene to be unconvincing, so he leaned in and roughly squeezed her toes in order to get a facial reaction from her on camera that would indicate orgasm. Name the film and actress so inspired to method act. ANSWERED (by custos) as Endless Love, Brooke Shields

4) For this classic porno movie, the actress (who had been spotted by the producers in a non-porn film) was offered a non-sex role. She chose a non-sex role but soon was talked into the lead sexually explicit role. Not only was she paid a flat rate but she was also awarded a financial percentage of the profits (1%). The film was an enormous hit and she was at the time the highest paid porn star and even a role model as a woman in control of her own financial independence and sexuality. Name the actress and the film. CLUE: she was 99 and 44/100% pure as soap before going through this door ANSWERED (by Tsargrad) as Marilyn Chambers; Behind the Green Door

5) On this film, a suicide sequence was originally edited to the music of Simon & Garfunkel’s classic “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. The director then tried to buy the rights, but Simon and Garfunkel refused, not wanting their music in a film of this nature. Name the film. ANSWERED (by custos) as The Devil in Miss Jones

6) The producer of this erotic thriller set in New York originally wanted Roman Polanski to direct the film, as they had worked together before. However, as Polanski was (and still is) wanted in the USA on statutory rape charges he would not return to the US to make it. The producer tried to get Polanski to agree to make the film in Paris and use a second-unit team to shoot some exteriors in New York if required but Polanski wasn’t interested. The film eventually flopped. Name the film they wanted Polanski to make. CLUE: after Sharon Stone spread her legs to fame, a film about voyeurism seemed a good idea ANSWERED (by Tsargrad) as Sliver

7) On this film, the actor had to wear a prototype set of contact lenses to render his eyes a certain way. However, after filming, the lenses could not be removed and an optometrist had to be flown in to the production. After the film proved a hit, the contact lenses were marketed to the public using a phrase from the movie. Name the actor and film. ANSWERED (by HoundsOfLove) as Vin Diesel, Pitch Black

8) This film was much hyped and in the USA debuted in some 2,200 theatres. Two weeks later it was only playing in about 200, having been one of the most awfully received of films and experienced the worst ever recorded drop in box-office earnings in a two week period. Indeed, the reviews were so poor that UK cinemas dropped the film after barely one week of screenings. Name this now-notorious dud. ANSWERED (by custos) as Gigli

9) An intriguing bit of trivia: this film is reportedly often shown in leadership seminars in the top fraternities in American Universities because the film’s premise is similar to the circumstances responsible for the creation of the fraternity system some 200 years ago. Name the film. ANSWERED (by HoundsOfLove) as Dead Poets Society

10) The lead actor for this film took over the editing process and reportedly re-edited the film to emphasize the screen time of his character. The director loathed this effort and vocally bad-mouthed the process and disowned the result, demanding his name be removed from credits of the released print. But, as he had spoken of his reasons for wanting this in opposition to Director’s Guild policies of secrecy regarding the use of pseudonyms, permission to use a pseudonym was denied and he was credited against his wishes. He later said that he wanted the director credit to read “directed by Humpty Dumpty”. Name the director, actor and film. ANSWERED (by HoundsOfLove) as Tony Kaye, Edward Norton, American History X

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ANSWERED:
custos: 217
HoundsOfLove: 129
Lizard Drinkin: 81
PLG: 80
Orko/Tsargrad: 67
femme fatale: 59
all about eve: 51
Ozeagle: 33
Ed W.: 26
tuesday12: 21
debs: 17
Winterfan: 16
m0nkie: 12
montyb8: 10
luther: 9
EMCWheels: 7
Funkaphiliac: 6
JenniV: 6
Diabolical: 5
sydneyswans1: 5
Rallygirl: 3
dvd Drifter: 3
Momentum: 2
Elc: 2
headrippa: 2
afterglow: 2
ThePaganWinter: 2
harvs: 1
popeye: 1
Mean Dean: 1
Jo-Jo: 1
dr_zoidberg: 1
whitlam: 1
The House: 69
blatant dead give-away: 1
Clean Sweeps (10 of 10 questions answered): Orko/Tsargrad

[HoundsOfLove]

10) The lead actor for this film took over the editing process and reportedly re-edited the film to emphasize the screen time of his character. The director loathed this effort and vocally bad-mouthed the process and disowned the result, demanding his name be removed from credits of the released print. But, as he had spoken of his reasons for wanting this in opposition to Director’s Guild policies of secrecy regarding the use of pseudonyms, permission to use a pseudonym was denied and he was credited against his wishes. He later said that he wanted the director credit to read “directed by Humpty Dumpty”. Name the director, actor and film.

American History X, Edward Norton, Tony Kaye

[HoundsOfLove]

7) On this film, the actor had to wear a prototype set of contact lenses to render his eyes a certain way. However, after filming, the lenses could not be removed and an optometrist had to be flown in to the production. After the film proved a hit, the contact lenses were marketed to the public using a phrase from the movie. Name the actor and film.


My husband, Pitch Black :dD

[custos]

1) For this erotic movie, the director wanted to use a particular song. The lyric in the song went “what a fool am I, to so fall in love”. However, as the “love” in the movie bordered on the perverse, the director did not want to imply through the song that the female protagonist was foolish in any way in her desires. Thus he asked the songwriter-singer if she would change the lyric. As the songwriter wanted the song in the movie, she agreed, changing the lyric so that it became “what grace have I, to so fall in love”. Name the film which impelled this song lyric change.

Secretary

[custos]

2) The director of this film originally wanted it to be the first-ever mainstream Hollywood movie to feature hardcore sex scenes. To this end, for the lead female character (a porn star), he cast Annette Haven, a veteran of porno movies. When the studio found out what the director’s intention was, and what films Haven had been making, they vetoed this approach. Haven was dismissed from the film, later saying that she was happy with this as she did not particularly want to be in a film which mixed explicit sex and violent gore, as had been the director’s intention. Name the director, the film, and the actress who replaced Annette Haven.

Melanie Griffith in Brian De Palma's Body Double

[custos]

10) The lead actor for this film took over the editing process and reportedly re-edited the film to emphasize the screen time of his character. The director loathed this effort and vocally bad-mouthed the process and disowned the result, demanding his name be removed from credits of the released print. But, as he had spoken of his reasons for wanting this in opposition to Director’s Guild policies of secrecy regarding the use of pseudonyms, permission to use a pseudonym was denied and he was credited against his wishes. He later said that he wanted the director credit to read “directed by Humpty Dumpty”. Name the director, actor and film.

Heh. Tony Kaye, American History X. The actor was Ed Norton.

[Lizard Drinkin]

8) This film was much hyped and in the USA debuted in some 2,200 theatres. Two weeks later it was only playing in about 200, having been one of the most awfully received of films and experienced the worst ever recorded drop in box-office earnings in a two week period. Indeed, the reviews were so poor that UK cinemas dropped the film after barely one week of screenings. Name this now-notorious dud.Hudson Hawk?