An approach at trivia--a game (films, scene, action, watching)

[TamaraSavannah]

Today, I was watching a flick where a recurring theme or leitmotif was used, one I had seen in another production of the time...but a far different studio.

So what if some trivia was done like that, mechanisms in different productions, without being, or especially not being, copies of each other.

For those of us who really get into movies, it could be a way to search our noggins when such questions come up.

So as a game, say the first question is like this:

"Name three productions (one in mind was TV and then made into a movie) with a recurring theme where characters used both hands to sling themselves into action through a hatch."

[oeccscclhjhn]

Run Silent Run Deep
The Hunt for Red October
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

[TamaraSavannah]

That works!

The movie I saw yesterday was "The Andromeda Strain" so that's one. Of course, chute launches are what they did on "UFO". And finally, there's Gregory Peck's swinging up in the B-17 in "Twelve O'clock High".

Yours............................................. .......

[oeccscclhjhn]

Three films where there are different segments / storylines, say 3 or more, that are interconnected? One of them has a signature trunk shot.

[TamaraSavannah]

Pulp Fiction
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Gangway for Tomorrow (Gangway for Tomorrow (1943) - IMDb)

I was tempted to list "En esta cama nadie duerme" (No one sleeps in this bed) (youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAgW54zDUa8).....but not everyone watches foreign flicks.

Quite frankly, when you said a "signature trunk shot", I had to look it up. At first, I was thinking Burt Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity".

[oeccscclhjhn]

lol good one - Burt and Deborah at the beach doing the crocodile rock. Instant visual. I would add a few favorites, from Alejandro González Iñárritu: Babel (2006), and Amores Perros (2000).

You're up.

[TamaraSavannah]

Okay, took me a while to think up one.

Three flicks where the drug shipment goes up in a poof of dust.

[oeccscclhjhn]

Blow (2001)
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
The Punisher (2004)

[TamaraSavannah]

I'll guess I'll go for those.

I was thinking more like:

Annie Hall
The Man With One Red Shoe
Crocodile Dundee

I mean, if there is any scene of such, surely it is...................


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k6GqVWWLNs

Yours..............(and if there are any others out there, please join in!)

[oeccscclhjhn]

Ah. Great clip. Of course, I instantly thought explosions.