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Posted by Scott McGuire (Member # 4508) on 01-12-2008, 05:35 PM:
I am helping put together a trivia night and am looking for some movie trivia to mix in with the questions. Any one have any thing good?
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 01-12-2008, 10:11 PM:
What is Dorthy's last name in the Wizard Of Oz? The character, not the actress.
What is Professor Marvel's horse's name in the Wizard Of Oz?
What words are on the wizards balloon in the Wizard Of Oz?
In what film did both Orson Wells and Woody Allen appear? Not a compilation, but an actual film.
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-12-2008, 11:19 PM:
Which Disney castle is depicted at the beginning of Disney's current films?
Why are movies often referred to as "flicks?"
And another Oz one: Who was the first actor slated to play the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz?
Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 01-12-2008, 11:49 PM:
What was "Rosebud"?
duh
How many films did John Ford shoot in Monument Valley?
Why did Buddy Ebsen get sick and leave the cast of a film in 1938 due to an allergic reaction to aluminum poweder?
How many horses were killed in the film "They Shoot Horses Don't They"?
How many wives did Dustin Hoffman portraying Jack Crabb in the film "Little Big Man"?
Last answer is five. Hoffman's first wife Olga, then the native american "Sunshine", plus had to service her three sisters. That makes five! What a life.... (this doesn't count Mrs. Pendrake).
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P.S. What is Lime Light?
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-13-2008, 12:23 AM:
1) Why are coming attraction previews called "trailers"?
2) Why are streets watered down for night filming?
3) In what year was the MPAA rating system introduced?
4) What movie won the most Academy Awards without winning Best Picture?
Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 01-13-2008, 12:36 AM:
Who had the biggest schlong ever in Hollywood?
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-13-2008, 12:39 AM:
I'll try to answer Mike Coate's questions:
1) Because they used to play after the feature.
2) I think it is so that the surface of the street is actually visible.
3) I'm thinking late 60's, early 70's.
4) Big Momma's House
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-13-2008, 01:35 AM:
A couple of easy ones:
Who was originally cast in the role of Dirty Harry?
Who was originally cast in the role of Indiana Jones?
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-13-2008, 03:52 AM:
1. Probably someone really old.
2. Tom Selleck! But he wanted to do Magnum PI instead.
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-13-2008, 07:31 AM:
quote: Mitchell Dvoskin
What is Dorthy's last name in the Wizard Of Oz? The character, not the actress.
What is Professor Marvel's horse's name in the Wizard Of Oz?
What words are on the wizards balloon in the Wizard Of Oz?
In what film did both Orson Wells and Woody Allen appear? Not a compilation, but an actual film.
The Wizard Of Oz? ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 01-13-2008, 07:39 AM:
quote: Mitchell Dvoskin
In what film did both Orson Wells and Woody Allen appear? Not a compilation, but an actual film.
Do I win anything if I say "Casino Royale?"
How about: Who is the first person to be seen as James Bond on the big screen?
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 01-13-2008, 11:17 AM:
Do I win anything if I say "Casino Royale?"
Only the respect of your fellow film buffs.
Who is the first person to be seen as James Bond on the big screen
A trickier question would be, Who was the first actor to play James Bond? Of course the answer is Barry Nelson, who played James Bond in the 1950's CBS tv production of Casino Royale.
Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 01-13-2008, 11:32 AM:
You got that right Mitchell, but my own question is plenty tricky. Can you guess?
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-13-2008, 11:35 AM:
Mike H...
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ROFL!! LOL! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Hillary, you're good, and I have a feeling this won't be right somehow.
Sean Connery?
Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 01-13-2008, 11:38 AM:
I appreciate your reasonable answer Tim, but it really is a trick question:
While it could easily be guessed (correctly) that Sean Connery was the first actor to play James Bond in "Dr. No," the first person to actually appear onscreen as Bond was stuntman and stunt coordinator Bob Simmons, who appears as Bond in the opening gunbarrel logo for the first three Bond films. Connery didn't appear in the opening sequence until "Thunderball."
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-13-2008, 11:51 AM:
Hahaha! I KNEW it... you.
Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 01-13-2008, 02:45 PM:
Actually wasn't there a TV movie made for Casino Royale that was made before Dr No? I seem to recall this as an extra on some disc and it was some actor I can't remember.
Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 01-13-2008, 03:00 PM:
Yeah Mike, that's the CBS Climax Theatre production of "Casino Royale" that Mitchell mentioned earlier. It was a live teleplay with Peter Lorre as LeChiffre (the role Orson Welles played in the 1967 version Mitchell also referenced) and Barry Nelson as "Jimmy" Bond. And this is the reason that I made the distinction of who was first seen as Bond on the "big screen."
Tim, you were right to be wary...
Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 01-13-2008, 09:24 PM:
Mike, according to an interview I saw a while back with Ron Jeremy Hyatt, it was John Holmes
Dorothys last name Gale
Professor horses name Sylvester
Words on baloon Oz
Who was Margaret Hamilton's stunt double?
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-13-2008, 10:02 PM:
quote: Bill Enos
Words on baloon Oz
Nope. Kansas State Fair, or something like that...I think.
Remember the Wizard says, "I'm an old Kansas man m'self."
Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 01-13-2008, 10:18 PM:
Yep, I think you're right
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-13-2008, 11:40 PM:
Steven Spielberg has directed 24 full-length feature films (translation: do not consider TV stuff or his segment of "Twilight Zone: The Movie"). John Williams has composed the music for 23 of the 24. Which film did Williams not score, and why?
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-13-2008, 11:53 PM:
The Color Purple because John Williams hates black people.
Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 01-14-2008, 01:28 AM:
In which movie did Alec Guinness appear in 8 different roles?
Which half-German American actor fought German terrorists in which movie?
Which movie features music by two well known "classical" composers with identical last names who aren't related?
Name at least 2 Kurosawa movies which are quoted in Star Wars.
Name at least 3 Western (meaning European or American in general, not necessarily "Wild West") remakes of original Kurosawa movies.
What's "Indiana" Jones' real first name?
Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 01-14-2008, 03:06 AM:
I assume we're talking Akira Kurosawa here:
Star Wars - a visual remake and homage to The Hidden Fortress
The Magnificent Seven - remake of Seven Samurai
Fist Full Of Dollars - remake of Yojimbo
The Outrage - remake of Rashomon
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-14-2008, 03:08 AM:
Which Kurosawa film is loosely based on Hamlet?
Alfred Hitchcock directed only one film which was based on an original screenplay - that is, not adapted from any previously published book or play. What was it?
In which 1988 Hollywood blockbuster does an English-born Shakesperian stage actor play a German terrorist?
What was the significance of the 'Paramount Case' of 1948?
What do the following 1920s film personalities all have in common: Alan Crosland (director of early Hollywood talkies including The Jazz Singer), the Western star Tom Mix and the German expressionist filmmaker F.W. Murnau?
What animal did Thomas Edison film being electrocuted in 1903 as part of a publicity stunt?
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-14-2008, 11:19 AM:
My tries... quote: Leo Enticknap
What was the significance of the 'Paramount Case' of 1948?
The Consent Decree? quote: Leo Enticknap
What animal did Thomas Edison film being electrocuted in 1903 as part of a publicity stunt?
An elephant. quote: Michael Schaffer
Name at least 2 Kurosawa movies which are quoted in Star Wars.
The Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai. The quotes are, "Threepio, get in here!" and "I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father."
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 01-14-2008, 11:40 AM:
The words on the Oz Balloon are: Omaha State Fair
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-14-2008, 05:57 PM:
The Paramount Case ruled that studios and theatres being owned by the same company violated antitrust legislation, and led to the break-up of the so-called 'classical' studio system. As for Edison, it was indeed a case of 'Did you see an elephant fry?' (a VERY bad joke, I know).
Admittedly, the others were evil. The Hitchcock film was The Ring, the Kurosawa film was The Bad Sleep Well, Alan Rickman played the terrorist leader (with a gruesomely unconvincing German accent) in 'Die Hard', and the 1920s personalities all died in car accidents.
Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 01-14-2008, 06:12 PM:
quote: Michael Schaffer
In which movie did Alec Guinness appear in 8 different roles?
"Kind Hearts and Coronets"
quote: Michael Schaffer
What's "Indiana" Jones' real first name?
Henry. "We named the DOG 'Indiana'!"
Oh, and I would have thought the answer to Heenan's question was Milton Berle. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
[ 01-15-2008, 05:24 AM: Message edited by: Hillary Charles ]
Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 01-14-2008, 07:41 PM:
It was... but I've also heard about George Raft recently. Mamie Van Doren's website has great stories.
Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 01-15-2008, 01:19 PM:
Ok,
What does HAL from Kubrick's 2001 stand for?
Guess
Posted by Peter David Bruce (Member # 4447) on 01-15-2008, 02:50 PM:
something Artificial Lifeform - isnt it?
Who made a surprise appearance as the Security Guard in Night at the Museum, starring Ben Stiller?
Posted by Jonathan M. Crist (Member # 413) on 01-15-2008, 03:06 PM:
HAL stands for IBM (the next letter of the alphabet added to each in HAL becomes IBM)
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-15-2008, 03:09 PM:
quote: Mike Heenan
Mamie Van Doren's website has great stories.
And how! I spent the whole morning on that site! Great pix and video, too. She's the hottest 76 year-old I've ever seen!
Posted by Clint Koch (Member # 1179) on 01-15-2008, 03:27 PM:
to Jonathan M. Crist,
Wrong, it does not stand for IBM.
HAL is an acronym for Heuristic ALgorithmic, the two competing methods of computer programming that, in the sixties, were seen as the leading conteders to produce artificial intelligence (AI).
There is a great site dedicated to things like this... http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/
Posted by Robert Minichino (Member # 3495) on 01-15-2008, 04:25 PM:
*puts computer scientist hat on* I have a hard time believing that for two reasons. First, a heuristic -is- an algorithm, so that description doesn't make any prima facie sense; probing deeper, I know of no such contention among AI researchers in the '60s or any other era. Second, it smacks of a "backronym" created to avoid trouble from a certain litigation-happy computer company after Clarke/Kubrick thought better of it.
Posted by Clint Koch (Member # 1179) on 01-15-2008, 04:56 PM:
Robert,
You may be right. I was just going on what I read a year or so ago on the Kubrick site I posted. Also, I remember reading years ago an interview with Clarke who said the same thing I posted. Anyway, if I am wrong, I apologize.
Clint
Posted by Robert Minichino (Member # 3495) on 01-15-2008, 05:43 PM:
Now that I read what I wrote I sounded a little more curt/irate than I had intended. I just meant to suggest that the whole HAL-IBM thing might be a bit more complex than they're letting on. I read a book about HAL a while back, and one of the authors coyly suggested IBM having a strict policy at the time about not ascribing any characteristics of intelligence to their computers.
Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 01-15-2008, 06:55 PM:
It's straight from the original 1968 Clarke novel ...
quote: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
Hal (for Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough. These seemed to occur at intervals of twenty years, and the thought that another one was now imminent already worried a great many people.
But then, the novel and film projects were developed in conjunction with one another, as I recall; basically simultaneously. Who knows if the "scientific technical" origin wasn't an afterthough, rather then the sole inspiration.
Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 01-16-2008, 06:54 AM:
Clark has stated often that if he had noticed the letters HAL were only one away from IBM he would have rewritten/changed them in the story. He felt it 'detracted' the reader from the story. But it was pointed out only after the book was released.
Although there was an electronics company named HAL in the late 1960's; they didn't make computers though. I bought a modem or something from them.
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-18-2008, 03:21 AM:
quote: Clint Koch
Wrong, it does not stand for IBM.
OK, what French science fiction film was originally going to be called Tarzan vs. IBM?
Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 01-18-2008, 04:54 AM:
For some reason, Leo, I'm thinking of "Alphaville." Is that correct?
Posted by Clint Koch (Member # 1179) on 01-18-2008, 11:54 AM:
I believe Hillary is correct. It was back in the mid sixties if we are right.
Posted by Scott McGuire (Member # 4508) on 01-19-2008, 12:19 AM:
trivia night is taken care of but keep this going i'm learning alot and seems like people are having fun with it.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-19-2008, 02:48 AM:
People are posting questions but rarely answers so learning is at a minimum.
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-19-2008, 02:58 AM:
Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 01-19-2008, 04:14 AM:
Yeah, I'd be interested in learning some of the answers to the questions posed, as well. How 'bout it?
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-19-2008, 07:57 AM:
Well, Joe already correctly answered all of mine. And he gets extra credit for nailing that tough two-part John Williams question.
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-19-2008, 09:34 AM:
quote: Hillary Charles
For some reason, Leo, I'm thinking of "Alphaville." Is that correct?
Bingo!
In 1925, the New York housewife Ruth Snyder conspired with her lover, lingerie salesman Judd Grey, to murder her husband in order to collect on his life insurance policy. Almost two decades later the case inspired a major Hollywood feature film - what was it?
The German director Detlef Sierck began his career in Nazi Germany, directing romantic melodrama propaganda films which stressed the importance of family values and women's role as a homemaker. He later emigrated to Hollywood, and became well known for a series of films he directed starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. By what name was he known in America?
What product did Eastman Kodak cease to manufacture in February 1950?
Foxfire in Hollywood and The Ladykillers in Britain were the last feature films shot using which process?
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-19-2008, 09:39 AM:
Well Joe is right that we should be posting the answers to our questions. Here are the Qs I posted:
quote: Mike Blakesley
Which Disney castle is depicted at the beginning of Disney's current films?
Why are movies often referred to as "flicks?"
And another Oz one: Who was the first actor slated to play the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz?
Answers:
1. Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland, Anaheim
2. Anybody here on F-T should know this
3. Buddy Ebsen
Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 01-19-2008, 10:01 AM:
Okay, Leo, I'll have another bash at this;
quote: Leo Enticknap
In 1925, the New York housewife Ruth Snyder conspired with her lover, lingerie salesman Judd Grey, to murder her husband in order to collect on his life insurance policy. Almost two decades later the case inspired a major Hollywood feature film - what was it?
Double Indemnity?
quote: Leo Enticknap
What product did Eastman Kodak cease to manufacture in February 1950?
Nitrate film?
quote: Leo Enticknap
Foxfire in Hollywood and The Ladykillers in Britain were the last feature films shot using which process?
Three-strip Technicolor
I just can't think of the German director. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-19-2008, 10:27 AM:
quote: Leo Enticknap
The German director Detlef Sierck began his career in Nazi Germany, directing romantic melodrama propaganda films which stressed the importance of family values and women's role as a homemaker. He later emigrated to Hollywood, and became well known for a series of films he directed starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. By what name was he known in America?
Douglas Sirk
Posted by Richard P. May (Member # 3598) on 01-19-2008, 10:40 AM:
I have used this one for a SMPTE meeting, and nobody got the answer.
In the 1952 MGM film, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, the movie producer (played by Kirk Douglas) and director (played by Barry Sullivan) take their new horror movie to a theater for a sneak preview. They rush into the lobby carrying cans of film, and to the projection booth.
A. What year is it?
B. What's wrong with the booth?
RPM
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-20-2008, 06:18 AM:
Hillary & Michael: Bugger! I'll have to think up some truly evil ones...
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-20-2008, 09:28 AM:
quote: quoting myself
Well, Joe already correctly answered all of mine.
Okay, okay, the one question of mine that Joe did not answer seriously/correctly was the one that asked for the film that won the most Oscars without winning Best Picture.
The answer: "Cabaret" (It won eight, none of which were for Best Picture; every other film with eight or more Oscars included one for Best Picture.)
And here's a new one to chew on...
What film has the record for having its trailer issued the furthest in advance of the film's release?
Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 01-20-2008, 09:49 PM:
Margaret Hamilton's stunt double in Oz.
Betty Danko
Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 01-20-2008, 09:54 PM:
Coate: I think ID4?
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-21-2008, 09:24 AM:
Wasn't ID4's trailer first played during the Super Bowl of that year? If so, there have been lotsa movies since then where the trailers came out sooner than that. We had some Harry Potter trailer about 9 or 10 months before the movie came out.
Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 01-21-2008, 10:09 AM:
You're probably right. Coate said trailer, but didn't specify as to whether he meant teaser or regular full length trailer. But I assume he meant the teaser.
Posted by Chris Mosel (Member # 1451) on 01-21-2008, 11:29 AM:
I think the Godzilla (1998) teaser was on Men in Black (1997) a full year before release. Great teaser with Godzilla foot smashing a T-Rex skeleton.
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-23-2008, 06:29 AM:
quote: Mike Heenan
Coate said trailer, but didn't specify as to whether he meant teaser or regular full length trailer. But I assume he meant the teaser.
A teaser is a trailer. So, obviously, the earliest one issued for a given title would be the potential answer.
quote: Chris Mosel
I think the Godzilla (1998) teaser was on Men in Black (1997) a full year before release.
"Godzilla" (1998), if it made its debut appearance with "Men In Black" (which I believe it did) and if I did the math correctly, was issued 46 weeks in advance of the film.
"Godzilla" is a good guess...but it isn't the winner!
[ 01-23-2008, 12:58 PM: Message edited by: Michael Coate ]
Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 01-23-2008, 07:28 AM:
The trailer for YOUNG BLACK STALLION ran for at least 1 year before release. It was attached to LION KING which was released on 12/25/2002. YBS was released on 12/28/2003. I think it might also have been attached to an earlier IMAX film from Disney.
This is a tricky call, as this is not a general release, but it did play in commercial theatres with IMAX rooms.
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-23-2008, 12:59 PM:
Thanks to a delay in a certain film's release, x film's first trailer ended up being issued 82 weeks in advance. (This one should be fairly easy to figure out since it was within the last few years.)
Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 01-23-2008, 02:19 PM:
I think you might be referring to the Ninth Gate. I know we had a trailer run for it almost 2 years earlier than it's release due to the whole controversy with Polanski being a convicted child rapist and all.
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-25-2008, 08:56 PM:
I'm not referring to "The Ninth Gate." The hint I'll give is that the movie with the year-and-a-half-in-advance trailer was (1) released this decade, (2) was animated, and (3) was a huge hit.
As for "The Ninth Gate" and its delay...I'm not sure if the delay was due to Polanski and his rape charge. That incident happened two decades prior and in the time since he remained productive making films. Wasn't "The Ninth Gate" delayed because, well, it sucked ass and the marketing folks needed time to spin it into something worth seeing?
Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 01-26-2008, 04:52 PM:
I remember the IMAX 3D Happy Feet trailer release was longer than a year. It displayed the release month accurately, so I don't think there was a delay, even though the final release scrapped the 3D.
The other recent animated feature with a very early trailer was ... Ratatouille?
Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 01-26-2008, 08:40 PM:
quote: Michael Coate
Wasn't "The Ninth Gate" delayed because, well, it sucked ass and the marketing folks needed time to spin it into something worth seeing?
I thought it was great. The ending, though, did suck ass.
Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 01-27-2008, 06:23 PM:
Q: How many times did Martin Sheen smoke a cigarette in "Apocalypse Now"?
A: More than I can count, used to be a drinking game.
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-28-2008, 04:19 AM:
quote: Michael Coate
The hint I'll give is that the movie with the year-and-a-half-in-advance trailer was (1) released this decade, (2) was animated, and (3) was a huge hit.
quote: Brian Michael Weidemann
The other recent animated feature with a very early trailer was ... Ratatouille?
Ask yourself "On what movie was the first 'Ratatouille' trailer attached?" and you'll have the answer.
[ 01-28-2008, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: Michael Coate ]
Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 01-29-2008, 05:13 AM:
Oh yeah! I remember there was a Cars teaser out forever ago! It was Cars, wasn't it?
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 01-29-2008, 05:36 AM:
quote: Brian Michael Weidemann
It was Cars, wasn't it?
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Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 01-29-2008, 11:56 AM:
Q: What does HAL stand for:
A: H euristically programmed AL gorithmic computer
Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 02-03-2008, 02:45 PM:
After reading that Uwe Boll's latest flick has been in the cans for nearly a year before being released, I got to thinking: What's the longest a film has been "in the cans" (completely finished, festival screenings don't count) for before being released theatrically? (I dont know the answer, maybe Coate does)
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-03-2008, 09:59 PM:
The Fantasticks?
quote:
The movie was filmed in 1994, and shelved for six years.
Posted by Scott McGuire (Member # 4508) on 02-03-2008, 11:41 PM:
Thanks everyone i used a few of the questions for our trivia night and they seemed to work out well. keep em coming, looks like people are having alot of fun with this.
Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 02-04-2008, 08:00 AM:
How about films that have *never* been released like, "The Day the Clown Cried" (1972) or that movie with Johnny Carson?
Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 02-04-2008, 04:49 PM:
On April 21, 1973, an innovative adventurer/filmmaker passed away, within 16 hours of the passing of the actor who portrayed a fictionalized version of that filmmaker in the most famous movie either ever made (together or separately).
Name the filmmaker, the actor, and the movie.
[ 02-07-2008, 04:47 PM: Message edited by: Hillary Charles ]
Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 02-07-2008, 05:46 PM:
Hillary,
I'm dying here. I was thinking Robert Armstrong (King Kong/Mighty Joe Young), but don't think that's the answer and I don't get free movie passes.
Help, I'm intellectually impaired!
Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 02-07-2008, 05:59 PM:
WE HAVE A WINNER! If only my undying respect.
Yes, the filmmaker was Merian C. Cooper. Robert Armstrong's character in the Cooper/Shoedsack film "King Kong," Carl Denham, is based upon Cooper himself, and both men died within a day of each other.
Cooper's own life before movies should become a film in itself.
Good job, Robert!
Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 02-07-2008, 06:04 PM:
Hillary,
That was a wild assed guess (WAG).
Do I get the free passes?
Bonus round: Alternate answer could be Jack Black?
Q: What was Harrison Ford's first uncredited motion picture appearance?
A: ?
HINT: Jerry Lewis
LOL
Rob
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-07-2008, 10:20 PM:
"Dead Heat On A Merry-Go-Round" (1966) is frequently recognized as Ford's first film, but I don't know if that's the answer you're looking for.
What was Harrison Ford's first above-the-title credit?
Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 02-08-2008, 06:42 PM:
Michael Coate WINS!
He played a "Bellboy", thus the Jerry Lewis Hint.
Congrats,
Rob
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-08-2008, 08:31 PM:
quote: Michael Coate
What film has the record for having its trailer issued the furthest in advance of the film's release?
quote: Brian Michael Weidemann
It was Cars, wasn't it?
What about THE SANTA CLAUSE 2, which had its trailer with 102 DALMATIANS, approximately 101 weeks before it was released?
Here's an easy one: Who was Quentin Tarantino's first choice to play Bill in KILL BILL?
Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 02-10-2008, 03:38 PM:
Q: Where did Stanley Kubrick make the final cut of 2001 prior to the NYC premiere?
A: ?
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-10-2008, 07:38 PM:
On a boat crossing the Atlantic. (The world premiere, by the way, was held in Washington, DC, not New York.)
Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 02-10-2008, 10:06 PM:
Schindler: I think Warren Beatty.
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-11-2008, 02:03 AM:
That's correct. I need to step up my game.
In BATMAN RETURNS, Batman's boot is a modified version of what shoe?
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-13-2008, 03:01 PM:
So what's the protocol here? How long should I wait before posting the answer to my question?
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-18-2008, 10:47 PM:
Q#1: Who directed the most "scope" movies?
Q#2: What was the first movie to gross $100 million?
Q#3: What was the first movie to be assigned a rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, and what was the rating?
Q#4: What was the first movie to be rated PG-13?
Q#5: Who has been nominated the most times for an Academy Award?
Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 02-18-2008, 10:56 PM:
quote: Michael Coate
Q#2: What was the first movie to gross $100 million?
Q#3: What was the first movie to be assigned a rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, and what was the rating?
Q#4: What was the first movie to be rated PG-13?
I'll shoot on these three questions since I don't know the 1st one:
Q2: JAW'd in 1975
Q3: "the Graduate" 1968 .. "M" rating
Q4: Indy Jones "Temple of Doom" (I know this is the wrong answer, but it was this feature to bring out the "PG-13" rating afterwards...)
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-18-2008, 11:21 PM:
quote: Michael Coate
Q#4: What was the first movie to be rated PG-13?
Red Dawn
And in case anyone was wondering...
quote: Mike Schindler
In BATMAN RETURNS, Batman's boot is a modified version of what shoe?
The Air Jordan VI
Q: What film does Irvin Kershner consider to be his biggest influence on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (no, not STAR WARS)?
Posted by Anslem Rayburn (Member # 1267) on 02-18-2008, 11:54 PM:
" quote: Michael Coate
Q#4: What was the first movie to be rated PG-13?
Q#5: Who has been nominated the most times for an Academy Award?
#4: The Flamingo Kid
#5: Walt Disney
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-19-2008, 12:21 AM:
"Red Dawn" was indeed the first movie to be rated PG-13.
"Jaws" is often cited as the first movie to break $100 million but I just read recently (maybe somewhere on this forum?) that that's incorrect. But I don't know what the true answer is.
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-19-2008, 12:26 AM:
Actually, I just looked on the imdb, and while RED DAWN was the first PG-13 movie to be released, THE FLAMINGO KID was the first film to be given the rating. Anslem wins.
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-19-2008, 01:14 AM:
quote: I asked:
What was the first movie to gross $100 million?
quote: Monte answered:
JAW'd in 1975
quote: Blakesley followed with:
"Jaws" is often cited as the first movie to break $100 million but I just read recently (maybe somewhere on this forum?) that that's incorrect. But I don't know what the true answer is.
Monte: "Jaws" is not the correct answer.
Mike B: You may be recalling my comment in the recent Roy Scheider obit thread where I remarked about how annoying I find it to keep reading the erroneous claim about "Jaws" being the first.
For the record, "Jaws" was the first movie to break $100 million in rentals (i.e. the percentage of the gross returned to the distributor).
Posted by Anslem Rayburn (Member # 1267) on 02-19-2008, 11:45 AM:
quote: Michael Coate
What was the first movie to gross $100 million?
I would have to guess "The Sound of Music"
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-19-2008, 01:51 PM:
quote: Anslem Rayburn
I would have to guess "The Sound of Music"
Correct! (And there were at least three others that cracked $100 mil before "Jaws" did.)
What was the first movie to gross $200 million?
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-19-2008, 03:36 PM:
What do Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Pulp Fiction have in common?
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-19-2008, 04:34 PM:
They were both released by Disney?
Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 02-19-2008, 04:46 PM:
Thunderball?
Posted by Anslem Rayburn (Member # 1267) on 02-19-2008, 05:01 PM:
quote: Mike Schindler
They were both released by Disney?
I'm pretty sure "Pulp Fiction" was from Miramax.
quote: Michael Coate
What was the first movie to gross $200 million?
Another guess, but "Star Wars" is the only thing I can think of.
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-19-2008, 06:24 PM:
Yeah, but Disney owns Miramax.
Posted by Anslem Rayburn (Member # 1267) on 02-19-2008, 06:42 PM:
quote: Mike Schindler
Yeah, but Disney owns Miramax.
I don't know how I forgot about that. Sorry. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-19-2008, 07:05 PM:
quote: Leo Enticknap
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
"Dwarfs"
Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 02-19-2008, 07:14 PM:
Today that would probably be
"Snow White and the 7 Little Male Persons"
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-19-2008, 07:36 PM:
quote: Leo
What do Snow White and the Seven Dwar[f]s and Pulp Fiction have in common?
Uh, they're both really good movies?
Posted by Paul Goulet (Member # 297) on 02-19-2008, 08:50 PM:
Q: In the USA, what was the highest grossing movie of 1961.
Q: What was the first Disney feature film to use photocopying technology (Xerography)
Q: What film first appeared as a serial in Ladies' Home Journal, under the title "The Great Dog Robbery"?
Can anyone name the movie?
Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 02-19-2008, 08:54 PM:
One Hundred and One Dalmations? (using the official spelling)
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-19-2008, 08:54 PM:
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
EDIT: Dammit! If I didn't spell it out, I would've beaten David.
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-20-2008, 03:02 AM:
quote: Anslem Rayburn
Another guess, but "Star Wars" is the only thing I can think of.
Try again. "Star Wars" was not the first movie to gross $200 million.
Posted by Ray Faultless (Member # 903) on 02-20-2008, 04:15 AM:
First to gross £200 million The Exorcist
Posted by Paul Goulet (Member # 297) on 02-20-2008, 06:51 AM:
quote: Mike Schindler
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
EDIT: Dammit! If I didn't spell it out, I would've beaten David.
Mike, You are correct! because you spelled Dalmatians correctly!
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-20-2008, 09:30 AM:
quote: Mike Schindler
Q: What film does Irvin Kershner consider to be his biggest influence on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (no, not STAR WARS)?
The Wizard of Oz
Q: For ALIENS, who was originally cast in the role of Hicks (eventually played by Michael Biehn)?
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-20-2008, 12:58 PM:
The production of Snow White and Pulp Fiction were both financed by Disney.
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-21-2008, 10:30 PM:
quote: Ray Faultless
First to gross £200 million The Exorcist
200 million pounds? Sounds heavy.
For the U.S. (and Canada), the first movie to top $200 million was "Jaws." Next question: What was the first to top $300 mil?
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-21-2008, 11:27 PM:
quote: Mike Schindler
Q: For ALIENS, who was originally cast in the role of Hicks (eventually played by Michael Biehn)?
James Remar (he's even in one shot).
Q: What Oscar nominated editor was brought in to "fix" MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II and LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER, and what movie was he given to direct as a reward?
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-22-2008, 02:35 PM:
Stuart Baird. The reward was whichever "Star Trek" he directed. (I lost track of 'em once they ditched the numerals in their titles!)
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-22-2008, 03:14 PM:
Correct! For the record, the movie was STAR TREK: NEMESIS.
Q: In SYDNEY (aka HARD EIGHT), there is a reference made to two characters named Floyd Gondoli and Jimmy Gator. What do these two characters have in common with the character of Sydney?
Posted by Anslem Rayburn (Member # 1267) on 02-22-2008, 03:30 PM:
They all are played by Phillip Baker Hall.
He plays Sydney in "Hard Eight."
He plays Floyd Gondolli in "Boogey Nights."
He plays Jimmy Gator in "Magnolia."
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-22-2008, 04:16 PM:
You go, Anslem!
Q: What is the only movie to feature the characters of Jay and Silent Bob that Kevin Smith did not direct?
Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 02-22-2008, 04:58 PM:
I thought it was one of the Scary Movies, but then I looked on imdb and it was Scream 3. Close enough...
Posted by Larry Myers (Member # 738) on 02-24-2008, 08:55 AM:
How about what two families did David O Selznic's cousin Milt Selznick work for as a horse trainer in Pittsburgh during the 1930's? HINT: The Last names starts with an "O" and a "S"
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-24-2008, 12:52 PM:
Q: Obviously, there are subtle differences between the hats that Indiana Jones wears in each of the four movies. However there is a noteworthy characteristic of the RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK hat which separates it from the other three. What is it?
P.S. I'm not talking about that grey travel hat BS.
Posted by Robert W. Jones (Member # 4228) on 02-25-2008, 08:28 PM:
A slight tear in the original hat, or maybe a bullet hole?
Posted by Mike Schindler (Member # 1309) on 02-25-2008, 09:07 PM:
The RAIDERS hat is "turned." In other words, instead of the symmetrical center of the undented hat lining up with the center of Indy's head, it's actually twisted about 1/8th inch to his right. The dent then goes down the "new" center of the hat. This gives the hat an unbalanced look, with the brim dropping down lower in front of the right eye, and curling up higher behind the left ear.
It's the type of thing I never noticed until it was pointed out to me, but once you know what to look for, it's really obvious. And way cooler than the symmetrical hats of the other three movies.
It's also pinched a lot tighter in the front.
Posted by Michael Coate (Member # 757) on 02-26-2008, 02:14 AM:
quote: Michael Coate
What was the first movie to be rated PG-13?
quote: Mike Schindler
Red Dawn
quote: Anslem Rayburn
The Flamingo Kid
quote: Mike Blakesley
"Red Dawn" was indeed the first movie to be rated PG-13.
quote: Mike Schindler
Actually, I just looked on the imdb, and while RED DAWN was the first PG-13 movie to be released, THE FLAMINGO KID was the first film to be given the rating. Anslem wins.
Can this be corroborated? (I hate to see the IMDb being used to settle such matters.) Anyone have either film on DVD (or any screenable format) and able to make out the certificate number next to the MPAA logo in the credits? Which film has the lower number (suggesting it was rated first)?
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-26-2008, 10:54 AM:
Here's a clip from Wikipedia - not sure if this is correct either, but it is what it is.
quote:
The first, widely-distributed PG-13 movie was Red Dawn (1984), a Cold War fantasy about a Communist invasion of the U.S.A., although Dreamscape was the first film so rated by the board.([8] Kevin S. Sandler, The Naked Truth)
I have the Boxoffice magazines from that era...when I get some time I'll look thru and see if I can find the definitive answer there. I just remember a lot of hype from those days about Red Dawn being the first PG-13 film. I know for sure it was the first film WE played with that rating.
I looked at the background info on www.filmratings.org (the CARA site) -- it only says that PG-13 was instituted on July 1, 1984. Doesn't say any titles involved.
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-04-2008, 06:57 AM:
What two actresses appeared in both Sunset Boulevard and Airport 1975, but not in the same scene in either film?
P.S. No IMDB cheating!
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-04-2008, 09:41 AM:
Gloria Swanson? (guessing)
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-04-2008, 12:23 PM:
Bingo (her last screen appearance in the latter); and Nancy Olson (in A75 she's the sick child's mother, who tries to fend off the folk-singing nun).
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