Movie Trivia Quiz
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Movie Trivia Quiz
You know the rules, here's the two-part question
Most of us have seen Christopher Walken performing the soft shoe shuffle in the excellent Fatboy Slim video, Weapon of Choice.
For one point, can you tell me in which movie Mr. Walken performed a very similar dance, along with a delightful striptease.
For a second point, tell me which famous English actor played the starring role in the UK television series version of the same movie.
Most of us have seen Christopher Walken performing the soft shoe shuffle in the excellent Fatboy Slim video, Weapon of Choice.
For one point, can you tell me in which movie Mr. Walken performed a very similar dance, along with a delightful striptease.
For a second point, tell me which famous English actor played the starring role in the UK television series version of the same movie.
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Is using IMDB against the rules? Well, if that is a crime, then I am guilty in the first degree -- though I kind of guessed already that it was our good pal T-Bone Burnett.
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I stand chastised...but my guilt is not so deep that I can't pose a new question (and, folks, do as I say, not as I did).
"The Magnificent Ambersons" was famously taken away from Orson Welles, cut, and a new, happier and really annoying ending added. Who directed this new ending?
"The Magnificent Ambersons" was famously taken away from Orson Welles, cut, and a new, happier and really annoying ending added. Who directed this new ending?
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That's way wrong as Mr. Cukor was already an old hand by then and this director was a total newbie at the time -- though it wouldn't be long before he or she started an illustrious career.
It's not really a trick question at all (well, not in any way that I can think.) Actually, for Ms. LJ, it's probably too easy as I've discussed this director with her a few times...
It's not really a trick question at all (well, not in any way that I can think.) Actually, for Ms. LJ, it's probably too easy as I've discussed this director with her a few times...
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Well yeah it was off, my first reaction was the editor but is it? Can you guess twice?
Yes you can guess twice-checked the music trivia thread-Robert Wise? It's a trick because he supposely messed it up by editing. I think I was blinded by the outrage that you said the ending way annoying
Of course if it's wrong then who is it?
Yes you can guess twice-checked the music trivia thread-Robert Wise? It's a trick because he supposely messed it up by editing. I think I was blinded by the outrage that you said the ending way annoying
Of course if it's wrong then who is it?
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Well, there's no accounting for taste, but LJ is right...or wrong...however you want to look at it.
It is a historical fact (well at least according to "The Battle Over Citizen Kane" and the non-Welles documentary portions of the "It's All True" and other sources I've long since forgot) that when the studio disliked Welles original ending for "Ambersons" and with Welles off in Brazil working on a never completed film, they asked the young editor of the film, Robert Wise -- who had also edited "Citizen Kane" to step in and reshoot the final sequences (as well as, of course, making the significant cuts they dictated).
While I can't agree (the tacked on feeling of the final scenes and there obvious stylistic dissimiliarty was so distressing to me that I haven't seen "Ambersons" since I saw it in film school...despite the fact that I thought the first 2/3 was actually better than "Kane"), Wise did go on to make some terrific B-pictures in the late forties and make many of my favorite studio films of the fifties, sixties and seventies, including "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "West Side Story" and "The Andromeda Strain" (the only good film I've seen made from a Michael Crichton novel!).
Anyhow, the floor is yours, LJ!
It is a historical fact (well at least according to "The Battle Over Citizen Kane" and the non-Welles documentary portions of the "It's All True" and other sources I've long since forgot) that when the studio disliked Welles original ending for "Ambersons" and with Welles off in Brazil working on a never completed film, they asked the young editor of the film, Robert Wise -- who had also edited "Citizen Kane" to step in and reshoot the final sequences (as well as, of course, making the significant cuts they dictated).
While I can't agree (the tacked on feeling of the final scenes and there obvious stylistic dissimiliarty was so distressing to me that I haven't seen "Ambersons" since I saw it in film school...despite the fact that I thought the first 2/3 was actually better than "Kane"), Wise did go on to make some terrific B-pictures in the late forties and make many of my favorite studio films of the fifties, sixties and seventies, including "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "West Side Story" and "The Andromeda Strain" (the only good film I've seen made from a Michael Crichton novel!).
Anyhow, the floor is yours, LJ!
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I'll account for loving Mr. Wise's redemptive ending any day! Cukor was a nod to the sentimentality effect, being 'a woman's director'.. Inside joke-to me and no one else it appears!
Here is the question:
What Nicholas Ray noir classic about a tempestuous screenwriter inspired a song by the Smithereens?
Here is the question:
What Nicholas Ray noir classic about a tempestuous screenwriter inspired a song by the Smithereens?
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They Live By Night pops into my head - cos it's Ray and the night is noir, but I don't recall if it's about a screenwriter (title doesn't sounds like it), though I think I saw it in my youth, and I have no idea about Smithereens songs (they sound like the 18th pale descendent of Morrissey).
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