Oh my, I think it just dawned on me! Is it 12 Angry Men?!

Gremlins and Earth Girls Are Easy.


REPLACEMENT QUESTIONS:

2. From these clues, name the film: A man collecting insects. A house in a pit with a woman inside. Sweat. Skin. Sex. No way out.

4. Name this film -

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...2/27a5d396.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...2/20c71be0.jpg

4. Un chien andalou. If I'm right, my replacement question is: Kurosawa's Yojimbo had an unauthorised remake by which Italian director?

You are right. And the answer to yours is, of course, Sergio Leone with A Fistful of Dollars. :D

New #4:

What famous German filmmaker (who had made the move to Hollywood) died in a car accident in California on the very day that he finished editing his final film, just days before its premiere?

Is #2. Silence of the Lambs?

Either this, or The Collector (the 1960s film by Wiliam Wyler), methinks.

I no I'm wrong but I'm hoping its Uwe :r Boll!

1. is probably Cyrano de Bergerac.

Nevermind. I'm surprised, though.

Sounds like Fritz Lang.

Oh wait, while checking Fritz Lang death, I stumbled upon this guy:
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

He seems to fit the bill.

Sorry for the delay, again. :frown:

3. Why was the release of Dr. Strangelove delayed for several months, and what minor change was made to the film as a result?

Hmm... So, to anybody who has seen Cyrano (I haven't): *does* Depardieu get a sore throat in the end there, too? If he does, maybe my source was wrong, or perhaps the same thing happened to him twice?

About #2:

I was randomly asking a friend of mine yesterday if he knew the answer, and he said, "Silence of the Lambs right? Don't you mean a pit in a house?" Heh. I can see how people would think it is Silence of the Lambs because of the "pit with a woman inside" and the man who collects insects. But I do mean a house inside a pit, not the other way around. And sex plays a greater role in this film. Do I need to give the country of origin or some other hint? I couldn't get 12 Angry Men until AFGNCAAP elaborated so...

Right you are Ninth!

Kennedy assassination. I believe the change was that ridiculous text at the beginning, the disclaimer I guess one would call it.

I can't remember specifically enough to say for sure. I will say that Cyrano de Bergerac was my first guess as well, but you had already told someone that was wrong. Depardieu has made a ton of films and though I've seen many, I haven't seen them all, so I can't prove or disprove any answer I may give, lol.


UPDATED QUESTIONS:

1. During the final speech of this movie, Gérard Depardieu's character gradually loses his voice. In fact, the actor really was barely able to speak after numerous reshoots, and the director decided his exhausted whisper will work great in said scene. Name the film.

2. From these clues, name the film: A man collecting insects. A house in a pit with a woman inside. Sweat. Skin. Sex. No way out.

3. Name this film -

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...2/678667b7.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...2/5ab55828.jpg

4. Ninth will provide this one soon.

5. What classic Western had a "Yee Haa scene" that was talked about and imitated by characters in a later film, City Slickers?

There was also one other, minor, change that I was looking for; a line got dubbed over. I was trying to ask who said it and what the line was.

Since you've replaced the question, I'll tell you: Slim Pickens' character (Major Kong) orignally said about the plane's Emergency Survival Kit, "Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas with all that stuff." After Kennedy was killed in Dallas, the line was overdubbed to replace "Dallas" with "Vegas."

Oh cool, ha ha. I didn't even know that. But hey, they added the disclaimer too right? So I wasn't wrong, it just wasn't what you were looking for...correct? Because I'm pretty sure they mention that somewhere on the DVD, about the disclaimer.

The Battle for Algiers? If so, Chinese cinematographer Du Ke Fung was originally of what nationality?

Good question. I'm a Wong Kar-Wai fan so I know his cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, is from Australia and called Du Ke Fung by the Chinese. Ninth would have known this too, but I beat him to it. He's the world's biggest Wong Kar-Wai fan I think... :)

New #3:

3. In what mysterious, dreamlike film classic are the three main characters only known as A, X, and M?

4. Uh... Yeah, right.

4. Ok. Which really famous folk singer got a small part as a CIA agent in a strange (but famous) american movie?

It's alive!

Last Year in Marienbad, wicked film. The "A, X and M" was news to me, but I should have figured it out it anyway. :)

QUESTIONS:

1. During the final speech of this movie, Gérard Depardieu's character gradually loses his voice. In fact, the actor really was barely able to speak after numerous reshoots, and the director decided his exhausted whisper will work great in said scene. Name the film.

2. From these clues, name the film: A man collecting insects. A house in a pit with a woman inside. Sweat. Skin. Sex. No way out.

3. Which literary character was renamed when played in a movie by Paul Newman, and why?

4. Ok. Which really famous folk singer got a small part as a CIA agent in a strange (but famous) american movie?

5. What classic Western had a "Yee Haa scene" that was talked about and imitated by characters in a later film, City Slickers?

I think the longest standing ones need some kind of hints. Here's mine to #1: after giving his moving speech, the character gets killed, in a very specific-to-his-times way.

If a graphic novel counts as literary, John Looney, in Road to Perdition, became John Rooney for the movie, presumably to distance him from the real life gangster, who I'm not sure actually existed.

I was thinking of Ross MacDonald's private eye Lew Archer becoming the titular character of the excellent Harper, because the producers figured that recent Newman movies Hud and Hustler had both been successful, and wanted something beginning with the letter 'H' again. ( :crazy: )

That said, your answer fits the question, and I learnt something new thanks to it, so I'll accept it. :)

Hey, now I've got a new story to use in my "producers are idiots" rants.

Anyway, my question is: the attached image is from what film?

Il était une fois dans l'Ouest?

... erm, that's one of the Sergio Leone movie, the one with the harmonica playing guy (Bronson), and that would be the first scene... if my shooting in the dark has been lucky.

Would that be Bob Dylan in Masked and Anonymous?

Is anyone ever planning to let Ninth or Melanie know if they're right or not? I dunno about Melanie's, but I think Ninth is right about his. That does look like a shot from the opening 10 minutes of Once Upon a Time in the West.

Yeah, Ninth was right (I thought I might make it a little harder by choosing one of the few shallow focus shots from a movie full of great deep focus spectacles, but evidently not.) Sorry I didn't reply earlier, but I just got a new job and have been doing virtually nothing except work and sleep for the last few days.

Uh, no.

I mean, perhaps you're right, but that's not the answer I was waiting for. ;)
Now that I think about it, maybe the "folk" part is misleading people, so et's just say: a famous singer.

So...

3. In which movie is a gay man who owns a pet shop investigated for illegal animal traffic?
Yes, I know it's a weird question.

I had a feeling it wasn't right but thought I'd try. :)

Atom Egoyan's Exotica.

I'll be back with a question in a bit, but for now I just got my new DVD of The General. :D

Yep.

Seen "Where the truth lies" yet, Once a Villain?

Not yet Ninth. Have you?


Now for my question:

3. Name this film -

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...2/bddaabf5.jpg

Yep. See: Recent movie seen. (post #690)

Is that a Polish movie?

Nope. That's the Texas flag in the shot, if that helps.

3. Days of Heaven

Thus the thread is saved from oblivion (or is it? :shifty: ). Thanks go to Spiwak for accidentally unblocking my memory with his post in Recent movies seen. :D

Oh goody a movie trivia thread, hadn't spotted this yet :)

Haha...well now I wish I had seen Days of Heaven.....and known about this thread. :P

UPDATED QUESTIONS:

1. During the final speech of this movie, Gérard Depardieu's character gradually loses his voice. In fact, the actor really was barely able to speak after numerous reshoots, and the director decided his exhausted whisper will work great in said scene. Name the film.

Hint: After giving his moving speech, the character gets killed, in a very specific-to-his-times way.

2. From these clues, name the film: A man collecting insects. A house in a pit with a woman inside. Sweat. Skin. Sex. No way out.

Hint: The film is Japanese.

3. Name this film:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...2/a5ac0669.jpg

4. Which really famous singer got a small part as a CIA agent in a strange (but famous) American movie?

5. What classic Western had a "Yee Haa scene" that was talked about and imitated by characters in a later film, City Slickers?

2. Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes

3. Tarkovsky's Stalker

Nice job Spiwak. Now you replace those two questions. :D

1. Cyrano de Bergerac

5. Oregon Trail?

Alright. hm...

2. What poet appears in an incredibly long movie reciting all 4000+ pages of one of his poems?

3. This is probably pretty easy but, Name two multi-plotted movies in which the protagonist's fate depended on catching a train.

EDIT: I was close to putting Cyrano for 1, but didn't since I haven't seen it.