Movie Quiz! (Acumen '13 Finals)

This movie was considered a reformist period master-piece.
Directed by Franz Osten, it talked about the social position of
Dalit girls in India.
The movie stars X (who was cast after the original hero had
eloped with the producer's wife and leading lady) and Y (the
producer's wife who decided to come back) in the lead roles. It
was released in 1936 and was one of the earliest several
successful Bombay.
Talkies collaborations
between Franz Osten, Niranjan
Pal, Himanshu Rai, and their
leading lady. Name the movie?

This movie is based on a book, which was the third in a series of
four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy : The Black Dahlia
(1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), __ ____________ (1990) and
White Jazz (1992).
Inspite of being nominated for 9 Oscars, it won just 2 because of
“Titanic”. The best supporting actress award, which this movie
won at the Oscars, was shared by both these movies at the
“Screen Actors Guild Awards”! It was also ranked the best film of
1997 by TIME Magazine!
Hint:The initial screenplay drafts for the movie “Street Kings” were
also written by James Ellroy in the late 1990s.

Released in 1994, this film is perhaps the Frenchiest hitman
thriller ever to take place on the streets of New York. The hero
is all Gallic cool as a simple- minded assassin and Mathilda (in
her movie debut) is heartbreaking as the teen who falls in love
with him.
Trivia: During the filming involving all of the police cars on the
street, a man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he
encountered the movie set by accident, he saw all of the
"police" and gave himself up to a bunch of uniformed extras!
Name the movie?

A working title, sometimes called a production title, is the
temporary name of a product or project used during its
development, usually used in filmmaking, television
production, novel, video game, or music album. It is a
practice by which a high-profile film or television series is
given a fake working title to keep its production a secret, and
to prevent price gouging by suppliers.
Which movie had the following working title:
Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday
the 13th

The role was originally going to be filled by a stand-in, until
casting director Robin Gurland came across X, who bore a
striking resemblance to Y. X played the role of Y’s body double
and decoy. X’s role was kept quiet by the movie’s marketing
department in order to heighten the surprise of there being a
decoy when the film was released. The costumes were
specifically designed to hide any height and shape differences
between X and Y.

X-Keira Knightley (Sabé)
Y-Natalie Portman (
Queen Padmé Amidala)
Queen Padmé Amidala)

Not happy with the roles being offered to him, X became a self-
taught professional carpentar to support his then-wife and two
small sons. He was then hired to build cabinets at the home of
director Y, who subsequently cast him in a pivotal supporting
role for his film American Graffiti (1973).
X's relationship with Y affected his career later on. After director
Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he
hired X to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next
two films, The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979);
in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named “Y”. X and Y.

X-Harrison Ford
Y-George Lucas
Y-George Lucas

"Cardio"
"Double tap"
"Beware of bathrooms"
"Wear seatbelts"
"Cast iron skillet"
"Travel light"
"Get a kickass partner"
"Bounty paper towels"
"Bowling Ball"
"Don't be a hero."
"Limber up""Avoid strip clubs""When
in doubt, know your way out""The
buddy system""Check the back
seat""Enjoy the little things""Swiss
army knife""Clean
socks""Hygiene""Always have
backup"
"Limber up""Avoid strip clubs""When in
doubt, know your way out""The
buddy system""Check the back
seat""Enjoy the little things""Swiss
army knife""Clean
socks""Hygiene""Always have
backup"

Movies directed by
Guru Dutt
Top Left : Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
Top Right: Chaudhvin Ka Chand
Bottom Left: Pyaasa
Bottom Middle: 12'O Clock
Bottom Right: Kaagaz ka Phool

“A Farewell to Arms
By John Carlin
For those on the ramparts of the world's sole superpower, the digital winds are blowing an icy
chill through the triumphant glow of the post-Cold War.
People in Washington play lots of games, but none for higher stakes than The Day After. They
played a version of it in the depths of the Cold War, hoping the exercise would shake loose
some bright ideas for a US response to nuclear attack. They're playing it again today, but the
scenario has changed - now they're preparing for information war.
The Day After starts in a Defense Department briefing room. The teams are presented with a
series of hypothetical incidents, said to have occurred during the preceding 24 hours. Georgia's
telecom system has gone down. The signals on Amtrak's New York to Washington line have
failed, precipitating a head-on collision. Air traffic control at LAX has collapsed. A bomb has
exploded at an army base in Texas. And so forth.”
These are the opening paragraphs of the article ‘A farewell to arms’ published in May 1997.
Which movie was inspired from this article?

A- You are serious, you don't know! Every body knows, you don't go full retard.
B- What do you mean?
A- Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, Rainman, looked retarded, act retarded, not
retarded. Count toothpicks, cheat at cards. Autistic sure, not retarded. Then you
got Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump. Slow yes, retarded, maybe, braces on his legs.
But he charmed the pants off Nixon and he won a Ping-Pong competition. That
ain’t retarded. And he was a goddamn war hero. You know any retarded war
heroes? You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask
_____X_____, _Y_, ____Z_____. Remember? Went full retard. Went home empty
handed.
These dialogues appear in the movie ‘Tropic Thunder’. Z is another movie
starring X which came in the year Y. Give X and Z.

The 1932 MGM movie, Rasputin and the Empress, hinted that the
character Princess Natasha had been raped by Rasputin.
Princess Natasha's character was supposedly intended to
represent Princess Irina of Russia, and the real Princess Irina
sued MGM for libel.
After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed that the princess had
been defamed. Princess Irina and her husband Felix Youssoupoff
were reportedly awarded $127,373 in damages by the English
Court of Appeal in 1934 and $1 million in an out-of-court
settlement with MGM. What originated as a result of this to avoid
future court cases?

"This motion picture is a work of fiction
and any resemblance to persons living
or dead is purely coincidental"

Brokeback Mountain
Monster's Ball
Eyes Wide Shut
The Wrestler
On the Road
Monster
The Sessions
Lawless
The Accused
Boys Don't Cry
Vanilla Sky
Heavenly Creatures
Jude
Hamlet

Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane Opens With

In the 1980s, while the west towers were under construction,
Washington National Cathedral held a decorative sculpture
competition for children. Word of the competition was spread
nationwide through National Geographic World Magazine.
The third-place winner was Christopher Rader, of Kearney,
Nebraska who submitted a drawing of this futuristic
representation of evil. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall
Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett, and placed high upon
the northwest tower of the Cathedral. The Cathedral boasts
what is probably the world's only sculpture of X on a religious
building.

The picture is that of “El Indio” Fernández, a famous Mexican actor,
screenwriter and director of the Cinema of Mexico. .He developed
his own style which had such an effect in the industry that his
portrayal of rural Mexico became a standard for the film industry
and also became the image of Mexico in the world.
Cedric Gibbons was introduced by his
then wife Dolores DelRio to El Indio.
Reluctant at first,
Fernández was finally convinced to
do some a special modeling
assignment that stands till now.
What did he do?

Emilio "El Indio" Fernández ,posed
nude to create what today is known
as the "Oscar".

Mark Allison who ran 874 miles in UK , one of
the many who have attempted running across
the country made famous by Forrest Gump.

In a certain Oscar ceremony the presenter of the Best
Film forgot to announce all the nominees instead he
went up the podium and directly opened the envelope &
announced the name of the winner . This was really a
rare occurrence .The presenter was one of the most
famous actors of the last century .
Which film?

Sir Laurence Olivier and Amadeus

This is a 2007 science fiction film about a retiring University
Professor who claims to be a cro-magnon who has survived for
14,000 years. The entire film is set in the professor's house
during his farewell party, with the plot advancing through
intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty
members.
The film was made on a budget of $200,000, and was screened
at many film festivals. However something related to the
distribution of the film is unique, with the producers actually
thanking a particular community/group. What is unique?

P2P network users
The Man from Earth

Penthouse founder and publisher Bob Guccione agreed to
finance the project on two conditions: that the film would be
transformed into a flamboyant, luxurious spectacle akin
to Hollywood's sword-and-sandal epics of the 1950s and 1960s,
and that extra sex and nudity would be added to the script in
order to promote Guccione's magazine.
Roger Ebert gave it a rare zero stars rating, calling it "sickening,
utterly worthless, shameful trash.“ It is one of only three films
Ebert ever walked out of ("two hours into its 170 minute length"),
the other two being Tru Loved and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

The name “Amiya Productions” was based on names of
X and Y as production partners.
It came into existence when Z was in financial crisis and
both X and Y supported it by becoming producers. The
credits though featured Pawan Kumar (X’s then
Secretary) & Sushila Kamath
(Hrishida’s Chief Assistant Director, assisted in Z too)
as producers.

Amitabh Bacchan & Jaya Bacchan
Abhimaan

“Preventing ______” is a project by a group of people who are
enthusiastic about the potential of artificial intelligence, but are
concerned about how it will act if we don’t program it to be
friendly to humans, and ensure that it retains that friendliness
as its intelligence increases.
They also run the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
the only 501(c)3 non-profit in the world devoted to the cause.
Fill in the blank.

Rain, River, Liberty, _____ (Leaf) and
Summer
Fill in the blank and explain

The missing blank is ‘Joaquin’ as in, Joaquin
Phoenix. The rest are his siblings. In his youth he
started calling himself ‘Leaf’ as he too desired the
nature inspired names his siblings had.

A very “simple” connect, right?
Satan’s Alley”, a movie about two gay priests at an 18th century
Irish monastery
“The Scorcher” movie franchise
“The Fatties: Fart 2”, the movie about a family which only farts!
’Bust-A-Nut” candy bar “Booty Sweat” energy drink

The answer is “Tropic Thunder”, nominated in
the year 2009 for the best supporting actor
Robert Downey Jr. These are all different spoof-
movie trailers mentioned before the movie starts
and the products were released before the
movie released as a gimmick. When I mentioned
“simple”, I was referring to “Simple Jack”, one of
the common running spoof- movie themes inside
this movie.

The director of this movie has said that he was inspired by “The
Tale of the Dream Girl” episode of Nickelodeon’s television series
”Are You Afraid of the Dark” to make this movie. The production
script for the film was unusual; nearly all of the information usually
included in screenplays was absent. Because the writer intended to
direct the film himself, he omitted from the screenplay most of the
information that a screenwriter would normally convey to a director.
The left-handed B.W. learned to write with his right hand for the film,
to hide from the audience that he was no longer wearing his
wedding ring. ID the movie?

He is the only actor, other than Jack Nicholson, to be
nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or
supporting) in every decade since the 1960s. Every decade!
He has a total of 6 nominations so far, winning two of them -
for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters, and his second in
1999 for The Cider House Rules, in both cases as a
supporting actor.
He has appeared in more than one hundred films and his real
name is Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
What is his screen name?

Danny Boyle pushed his “Solomon Grundy” project back because
he thought this story and “Solomon Grundy” were too similar.
Filmmakers worked closely with Levi’s to obtain clothing items
from their Levi’s Vintage Clothing collection to authenticate
various time periods captured throughout the film.
The second Hollywood feature film,
after Denzel Washington’s “Deja Vu” (2006), to film in New
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Name the movie.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Lara Dutta was offered a role in X as well as its sequel, but
turned the part down because she didn't like the script.
The script for X (while in production) was code-named The
Burly Man. The Burly Man is the title of the script Barton
Fink is working on in the film Barton Fink (1991). While
shooting the freeway sequence, the directors watched
rushes etc. in a vehicle referred to by the crew as the Burly
Van.

The film was originally set to shoot in spring of 2008, but was
delayed due to Heath Ledger's death. The producers and
director delayed the film out of respect for Michelle Williams
(lead actress in the movie), Ledger's ex-girlfriend and mother of
his daughter Matilda, rather than going ahead and shooting the
film with another actress in Michelle's role. The movie also
stars Ryan Gosling!
The screenplay won the 2006 Chrysler Film Project contest.
The prize was $1 million of funding, courtesy of the Chrysler
Brand and production company Silverwood Films.

Released in the year 2008, this movie is about a single
African-American mother struggles to clear her name
after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing
drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.
This hollywood flick was directed by Tim Disney, Great-
nephew of Walt Disney!

The language spoken by the protagonist and his accomplices is
author Anthony Burgess's invention, "Nadsat": a mix of English,
Russian and slang. X was afraid that they had used too much of it,
and that the movie would not be accessible. The original edition of
the novel suffered from similar criticisms, and a Nadsat glossary
appendix was added to the second and subsequent editions.
The first movie to make use of Dolby sound, it used Dolby noise
reduction on all pre-mixes and masters, but a conventional optical
sound track on release prints.
One of only two movies rated X on its original release (the other
being Midnight Cowboy) to be nominated for Best Picture at the
Academy Awards.

Sea of Time
Sea of Science
Sea of Nothing
Foothills of the Headlands (or Sea of Heads)
Sea of Holes
In which movie would you find the characters journeying
through all these scenic locales?

When the producers were having trouble finding the right actor to fill
the role of John Coffey, Bruce Willis suggested X with whom he had
co-starred in Armageddon. X was nominated for an
Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for
his role in the movie. X died on September 3rd, 2012.
This is supposed to be the second-most successful movie of Frank
Darabont in his whole career (the most successful being The
Shawshank Redemption)

The first movie adaptation of X fared poorly at the box
office. When the sequel to X was adapted and became a
hit, fresh attention was given to the original. It was finally
remade in 2002, this time the movie having the same name
as X.

This upcoming french movie is actually called ‘L'écume des jours’
& is an adaptation of Boris Vian's 1947 novel Froth on the
Daydream. The plot is about a woman suffering from an unusual
illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
It shares it’s English name with
something huge in India that
started in 1971, now in its 42nd
edition, & has snowballed to
become the largest of its kind
in Asia.

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