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by littlebeast13 » Fri Dec 09, 2022 4:27 am
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Game #211: Hollywood Hitlist
Identify the 100 movies in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 40 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Twenty movies will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
TANGREDI: Parts of two movie titles join together to form a song by an artist's name in a third title.
* Has part of song title in a complete match
# Has artist name in a complete match
1. The giant chicken was a man in a chicken suit, but the bear was real; the boot was made of licorice, but the dinner rolls were real.
THE GOLD RUSH
*2. “All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I f**k like you wanna f**k, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”
FIGHT CLUB?
3. The family in this film classic were played by a factory worker who had brought his son to audition, a journalist who had come to interview the director, and a little boy who was in the crowd watching the filming.
4. “This is twice in two days that a chick has OD'd on me!”
“Well, do you think this means that maybe ya oughta think about getting some new sh*t? Whaddya ya think?”
PULP FICTION
*5. The title character was played by Keiko, and he sadly died only seventeen months after someone finally did for him what the title of the movie demanded.
FREE WILLY
6. “Can I borrow your underpants for 10 minutes?”
SIXTEEN CANDLES
7. Kathryn Grayson reported that, during the filming of this movie, her co-star kept trying to French kiss her – after eating garlic – as they sang a duet from Madame Butterfly.
TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS
*8. “You see it, God, you see it. The innocent child's death and my revenge. You allowed it. I don't understand you. Yet now I beg your forgiveness. I know no other way to be reconciled with my own hands. I know no other way to live.”
THE VIRGIN SPRING
9. “The sickest film of the year" according to Gene Siskel, it was – rather surprisingly – inspired by the movie in the preceding clue.
10. “I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!”
“Wrong. You are a prince who has never tied his shoes. Believe me, I tied my own shoes once. It is an overrated experience.”
COMING TO AMERICA
*11. A sequel to Disney’s most popular Silly Symphony, it gave the title role to the villain of the original film.
THE BIG BAD WOLF?
*12. “I'm sick of these artificial barriers between the musical and the drama. In my mind, there is no difference between the magic rhythms of Bill Shakespeare's immortal verse and the magic rhythms of Bill Robinson's immortal feet.”
THE BAND WAGON
*#13. One reviewer called this 2016 horror-thriller "an impressive script-flip from the 1967 classic Wait Until Dark.
DON'T BREATHE
14. “S-ssss-ssss-sssss-smokin'!”
THE MASK
*15. It was the first film adapted from a Hemingway novel, and its leading man also starred in the second.
A FAREWELL TO ARMS?
16. “We can get together, once in a while, way the hell out in the middle of nowhere, but....”
“Once in a while? Every four f**kin' years?”
“If you can't fix it, Jack, you gotta stand it.”
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
17. A materialistic young woman becomes engaged to a rich industrialist … but while stranded in a remote village, she finds true love with a rugged sailor. No it’s not a Hallmark Christmas movie, it’s this 1945 British film classic.
I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING
18. “Quiet, please, quiet! Well, sir, here we are again. We've had quite a time of it lately, but it seems that the worst of it is over. ‘Course, the fireworks all blew up, but we can't very well blame that on you”.
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
19. This low-budget 1986 sex comedy was the first feature film of one of the most influential directors of modern times.
SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT?
20. “I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I've been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows…. Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.”
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
*21. The second film in which Christopher Lee played one of his signature roles, he claimed that the reason he didn’t have any dialogue is because he refused to speak the lines as written, but the screenwriter claimed it was because he didn’t write any dialogue for the character in the first place.
DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS
22. “Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat sh*t! Filth is my politics! Filth is my life!”
PINK FLAMINGOS
#23. The protagonist of this film was the real-life daughter of the writer who created roles that were played on screen by Wolverine and the Wolf Man’s dad.
THE STORY OF ADELE H
24. “First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: you began to kill your own people, a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb: many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb, split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun. The only explosion left is the Solaranite.”
PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE
25. This satire – by a director who had previously helmed two hit films starring a popular musical group – featured a member of that group in his only non-singing role.
HOW I WON THE WAR
26. “The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it.”
“Well, how did the poison get in the wine?”
“Well, we put in wine because it's less noticeable. When it's in tea it has a distinct odor.”
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
27. This was the first foreign language film to gross more than $100 million in the United States.
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL?
28. “Remember the funny movie where the dog died?”
INSIDE OUT
29. The director of this 1922 film intended it to run more than six hours and be shown over two nights – which was still shorter than the original cut of his next movie.
FOOLISH WIVES
#30. “In the harshest place on Earth loves finds a way. This is the incredible true story of a family's journey to bring life into the world.”
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
31. Many scenes in this wartime actioner were filmed on location at Austria’s Hohenwerfen Castle.
WHERE EAGLES DARE
32. “I tried the rehab thing. I tried it. But it didn't work, Didn't work. It works for some people. My ex-girlfriend is getting married. That's how it works for some people. Right? Didn't work for me. The kids keep me focused.”
*33. This 1936 movie was based on a controversial hit play, but the Hays Office insisted that a major plot point of the play be changed … and that it could not even use the title of the original.
THESE THREE
*34. “How come you don't wear gloves?”
“How 'bout 'cause they're not needed? Castrate fifteen hundred head, then nick your thumb on the last.”
THE POWER OF THE DOG
35. This Terrence Mallick film shared several characters with an animated Disney movie released ten years earlier.
THE NEW WORLD
36. “Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.”
BETTER OFF DEAD
37. This 1985 comedy shares its title with the debut single of a popular female singer, released two years earlier. (The song was released, not the singer.)
GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN?
38. “I'm a hard-bodied, hairy-chested, rootin'- tootin', shootin', parachutin' demolition double-cap crimpin' frogman.”
39. This movie about Yorkshire sheep farmers has inevitably been compared to the film in Clue #16.
40. "Did we set the timers on the lights?"
"Yeah."
“Did you close the garage?”
“That's it. I forgot to close the garage, that's it.”
“No, that's not it.”
“Well, what else could we be forgetting?”
HOME ALONE
41. This sequel to a 1984 adventure romance reunited the three stars of the original, who also appeared as backup singers in the music video for the hit song from the movie.
THE JEWEL OF THE NILE
42. “Don't lose your head!”
“I've got my head, I've lost my leopard!”
BRINING UP BABY
*43. This lower-than-low-budget horror movie was made on a bet … the villain was played by an actor who was on LSD for most of the shoot … most of the cast snuck out of the premiere in El Paso so nobody would know they were associated with it … and it was promptly forgotten until Mystery Science Theatre 3000 gave it a new lease on life.
MANOS THE HANDS OF FATE
44. “What the hell is wrong with freedom? That's what it's all about.”
“Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different thangs. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are.”
EASY RIDER
45. This film was a prequel to one of David Lynch’s most popular works.
FIRE WALK WITH ME
46. “You're looking so well, darling, you really are ... they've done a marvelous job. I don't know what sort of cream they've put on you down at the morgue, but I want some.”
47. A red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury plays a major – indeed, leading – role in this flick.
CHRISTINE
48. “Do you have contempt for your government?”
“I'll tell you, Mr. Schultz, it's nothing compared to the contempt my government has for me.”
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
*49. The star who won an Oscar for this movie was accompanied to the ceremony by the star she portrayed in the film.
COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER
50. “Nobody's missing a porpoise. It's a dolphin that's been taken. The common harbor porpoise has an abrupt snout, pointed teeth and a triangular thoracic fin. While the bottlenose dolphin, or Tursiops truncates, has an elongated beak, round cone shaped teeth and a serrated dorsal appendage. But I'm sure you already knew that. That's what turns me on about 'cha, your attention to detail.”
51. Performers featured in this concert documentary included Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Jimi Hendrix, and the Who.
52. “We do not and cannot accept the principle that incompetence justifies dismissal. That is victimisation.”
*#53. The subject of this biopic was a supporting character in the movie in Clue #49.
SWEET DREAMS
54. “The next time you strike an Indian for any reason whatsoever, it is you who is going to be sent away. They are different from us, they don't understand! And besides that, it could be very dangerous for us all.”
“Do you want Billy seeing their filthy tricks?”
“It will not seem filthy to him unless we make it so. Honey, it is very natural.”
“Natural? And if one of those nasty little savages puts a hand on him?”
“Then he might enjoy it.”
*#55. Adding a bit of beefcake to Jules Verne, this movie got both a clean-cut American pop star and an Icelandic Olympian to strip to the waist.
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
56. “Push the button, Max.”
THE GREAT RACE
#57. Reviewing this heavily fictionalized 1968 biopic about a self-confessed serial killer, Roger Ebert wrote, “This film, which was made so well, should not have been made at all.”
THE BOSTON STRANGLER
58. “Peace of mind! I have no peace of mind. I've had no peace of mind since we lost America. Forests, old as the world itself ... meadows ... plains. .. strange delicate flowers ... immense solitudes ... and all nature new to art ... all ours ... Mine. Gone. A paradise ... lost.”
#59. Robert Altman adapted this film from a play he had previously directed on Broadway with largely the same cast.
COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN
60. “I'm ashamed of you! I am so ashamed of you!”
“Why do you always take their side? I worked hard for this motel and I am not running a charity!”
“Anil, you have become American.”
“So what? I'm living in America! You don't like it? Then go back to India!”
#61. This classic caper film gave a considerable boost to the careers of two Italian leading men.
BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET
62. “For one dollar I'll guess your weight, your height, or your sex.”
THE JERK
63. The undead in this British horror film originally appeared on a double bill with the vampire in Clue #21.
64. “That's probably the prettiest speech you ever made. And in case I don't see you aga- … well, for a little while. I just want to tell you, it's been lovely, every bit of it, the whole 50 years.”
65. Felisha apparently got the message; she didn’t show up for either the sequel or this sequel to the sequel.
66. “If it were not for your job, we would not have thrown our plans out the window, rushed around at the last minute and settled on this f**king trip! We would be at home, in the middle of our hectic lives, which right now sounds like heaven to me. And in a month's time, seven months ago, we would be where we were supposed to be in the first place, and paying less than we are now to be shark bait!”
OPEN WATER?
67. Four years before this biopic was released, its subject was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
CINDERELLA MAN
68. “Screw the Oscars. Screw the Academy Awards. Screw me, Sidney. Please. Please.”
CALIFORNIA SUITE
69. The feat Fred and Ginger performed in this movie would be duplicated 18 years later by Gene Kelly.
IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER
70. “The war has come down to the two of us.”
HELL IN THE PACIFIC?
*71. Three years before this movie was released, the play on which it was based revolutionized the British theater – and gave its name to a whole movement on stage and screen.
LOOK BACK IN ANGER?
#72. “Ain't you got a drink in the house?”
“Well, not before breakfast, dear. ”
“I didn't ask you for any lip. I asked you if you had a drink. ”
“I know Tom, but I wish that.... ”
“There you go with that wishin' stuff again. I wish you was a wishing well, so that I could tie a bucket to ya and sink ya. ”
“Well, maybe you've found someone you like better.”
PUBLIC ENEMY
73. The real-life murder and scandal depicted in this film were a contributing factor in the Revolution of 1848.
MAYERLING?
#74. “It's great to live by the spirit, to testify day by day for eternity, only what's spiritual in people's minds. But sometimes I'm fed up with my spiritual existence. Instead of forever hovering above I'd like to feel a weight grow in me to end the infinity and to tie me to earth.”
WINGS OF DESIRE
*75. Notable for its nightclub and orphanage scenes, it was first film to employ the stop-motion genius of Ray Harryhausen.
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG
76. “We've met before, haven't we?”
“I don't think so. Where is it you think we've met? ”
“At your house. Don't you remember? ”
“No. No, I don't. ”
“In the East, the Far East, when a person is sentenced to death, they're sent to a place where they can't escape, never knowing when an executioner may step up behind them, and fire a bullet into the back of their head. ”
“What's going on? ”
“It's been a pleasure talking to you.”
77. When Peter Sellers suffered a heart attack, Billy Wilder recast his role in this movie with Ray Walston.
KISS ME STUPID?
*78. “Hey, Grandma! I brought a little bunny rabbit for you! Ta have!”
LITTLE RED RIDING RABBIT
*79. This 1990 British comedy marks the point where Some Like It Hot meets Sister Act.
NUNS ON THE RUN
80. “Seven simple rules of going into hiding: one, never trust a cop in a raincoat. Two, beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. Three, if asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. Four, never give your real name. Five, if ever asked to look at yourself, don’t. Six, never do anything the person standing in front of you cannot understand. And finally seven, never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.”
*#81. The real-life subject of this sports biopic called the actress who played her a ‘snot’ and stated she would much rather have had Jamie Lee Curtis in the role.
HEART LIKE A WHEEL?
82. “You perform abortions, don't you?”
“That's not what I do, dear. That's what you call it. But they need help. Who else they got to turn to? No one. I help them out.”
83. This look at Beatlemania was the first feature film by a future Oscar-winning director.
I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND
84. “You bet that you'll be alive tomorrow at 9 o'clock and we bet that you'll be dead. Okay?”
85. An adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, this 1948 film was set almost entirely in Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon.
THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE?
*86. “You're walking along, not a nickel in your jeans, your free as the wind, nobody bothers ya. Hundreds of people pass you by in every line of business: shoes, hats, automobiles, radios, everything, and there all nice lovable people and they lets you alone, is that right? Then you get a hold of some dough and what happens, all those nice sweet lovable people become helots, a lotta heels. They begin to creep up on ya, trying to sell ya something: they get long claws and they get a stranglehold on ya, and you squirm and you duck and you holler and you try to push them away but you haven't got the chance. They gots ya.”
MEET JOHN DOE
*87. This film earned its leading lady her only Oscar nomination. (Apparently, she should have made more movies in which she deliberately let crippled adolescent boys drown.)
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
88. “A creator who hates his own creation. A hidden key: a leap not taken. Retrace your steps, escape your past. And the key of Jade will be yours at last.”
#89. No Oscar winner for Best Picture was adapted from an older novel than this one.
TOM JONES
90. “I know I gave him four threes. He had to make a switch. We can't let him get away with that.”
“What was I supposed to do - call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others?”
THE STING
91. In this film by one of the world’s greatest directors, his favorite actor temporarily gave up sword fighting for running a shoe factory.
92. “I'm engaged.”
“Congratulations. Who's the lucky girl?”
“I am!”
SOME LIKE IT HOT
93. This 1934 film was a sequel to a 1928 silent classic by the same director, focusing on the same beleaguered married couple, but played by different actors.
OUR DAILY BREAD
94. “If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'.”
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
*95. In one of the most moving moments in Oscar history, the two antagonists featured in this sports film came up to the stage together when it was named Best Documentary Feature.
WHEN WE WERE KINGS
96. “I didn't want to be born. You didn't want me to be born. It's been a calamity on both sides.”
NOW VOYAGER
*97. In one of the hardest scenes to watch in film history, the once-proud protagonist of this movie crows like a rooster.
THE BLUE ANGEL
98. “You know, I think I do remember you now. Yeah ... a tall angry fellow with contentious hair. We came to you a long time ago seeking your help. And I'm gonna say to you what you said to us then: f**k off!”
99. This film – the third on this list by the same director – used actual borstal boys as extras in some scenes.
100. “Dear Lord, we've come to the end of our journey. In a little while, we will stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weakness, but for our love, and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Matches:
61. Big Deal on MADONNA Street = 81. Heart LIKE A Wheel + 8. The VIRGIN Spring
57. The BOSTON Strangler = 13. DON'T Breathe + 71. LOOK BACK in Anger
23. The Story of ADELE H. = 95. WHEN WE WERE Kings + 75. Mighty Joe YOUNG
81. HEART Like A Wheel = 33. THESE Three + 53. Sweet DREAMS
72. PUBLIC ENEMY = 2. FIGHT Club + 34. THE POWER Of The Dog
55. JOURNEY To The Center Of The Earth = 66. OPEN Water + 15. A Farewell To ARMS
89. TOM JONES = 49. Coal Miner's DAUGHTER + 21. Dracula: Prince OF DARKNESS
74. WINGS Of Desire = 12. The BAND Wagon + 79. Nuns ON THE RUN
59. Come Back To The 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, JIMMY DEAN = 11. BIG BAD Wolf + 86. Meet JOHN Doe
13. Don't BREATHE = 43. Manos The HANDS Of Fate + 87. Leave Her TO HEAVEN
30. March Of THE PENGUINS = 55. Journey To The Center Of The EARTH + 97. The Blue ANGEL
53. SWEET Dreams = 78. LITTLE Red Riding Rabbit + 5. Free WILLY
Partials:
21. Dracula: PRINCE Of Darkness = 78. LITTLE RED Riding Rabbit + (CORVETTE) [Not if the Sweet match is correct, but Prince is probably still here for a song]
5. FREE Willy = (ALL RIGHT) + 96. NOW Voyager
(BEACH BOYS) = 68. CALIFORNIA Suite + 37. GIRLS Just Wanna Have Fun (Even SSS could not come up with a Beach Boys movie. There are a lot of California titled songs, though....)
(PLAYER) = 42. Bringing Up BABY + 59. COME BACK To The 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
16. Brokeback MOUNTAIN = (MISSISSIPPI) + 100. The African QUEEN
25. How I Won The WAR = (LOW) + 44. Easy RIDER
41. The JEWEL Of The Nile = 29. FOOLISH Wives + (GAMES)
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