Serious Movie Trivia

NikeeGoddess · Sep 5, 2005

for the flicker freaks.
answer correctly then post one of your own. and so on....and so on....and so on...

Pong - one of the very first video games - yeah, i had one - was featured in what 1973 feature?

sspunisher · Sep 6, 2005

With a trivia question like that, this thread might not see another question lol. I'm exempt tho, I wasn't born yet, so I'll wait for a post 1983 question.

dpaterso · Sep 6, 2005

How about a quarter-point for knowing Computer Space featured in Solyent Green? (Shows on TCM every few weeks over here.) As for Pong, no idea.

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Joe Calabrese · Sep 6, 2005

The first use of PONG in movies was in the film Juggernaut with Omar Sharif.

NikeeGoddess · Sep 6, 2005

ssp - if you restrict you movie watching experience to post '83 flicks only then you're missing out big time. [[[the NikeeGoddess just shakes her head]]]

ok - back on topic:
my answer was indeed Soylent Green but, maybe i'm wrong and Juggernaut is the real answer.....which is a horrible way to start a game. and since neither of you posted another trivia then i'll go again.

something easy for the youngins'
You like apples? Well, I got her number. How do ya' like dem apples?!
name it!

Joe Calabrese · Sep 6, 2005

"Good Will Hunting." My turn twice.

"As a joke, what famous and classic movie script was circulated (unchanged) in the 1980's to every studio exec under its original title and was rejected by every one and covered as being being poor in its writing and dialog? Oddly, no one noticed the similarity to the original film, either."

Boo_Radley · Sep 6, 2005

I can think of three probables but I'll go with...Citizen Kane?

NikeeGoddess · Sep 6, 2005

i'm pretty sure that's not right, Boo.....esp since CK is not a remake from a classic.

My turn twice.

- and since you only posted one question then i'll post the 2nd one for you

for screenwriters:
What script had 42 rewrites with several different writers AFTER the script was sold?

WritingFool · Sep 6, 2005

Joe, was it Rocky?

Boo_Radley · Sep 6, 2005

Nikee -- I don't think the question was about a remake...just how the recirculated screenplay compared to the actual film. Of course, I could be reading it incorrectly.

sspunisher · Sep 6, 2005

NikeeGoddess said:
ssp - if you restrict you movie watching experience to post '83 flicks only then you're missing out big time. [[[the NikeeGoddess just shakes her head]]]

I was joking, I just didn't know the answer to the question.

Chesher Cat · Sep 6, 2005

Joe Calabrese said:
"Good Will Hunting." My turn twice.

"As a joke, what famous and classic movie script was circulated (unchanged) in the 1980's to every studio exec under its original title and was rejected by every one and covered as being being poor in its writing and dialog? Oddly, no one noticed the similarity to the original film, either."

It was Casablanca, but if memory serves, I believe it was retitled.

Is there a prize for this game???

Joe Calabrese · Sep 7, 2005

Casablanca was circulated around Hollywood in the 80's under its original stage play title, Everyone Comes to Rick's, and was rejected and dejected at every studio.

Chesher wins. Your turn.

WritingFool · Sep 7, 2005

okay, I suck at trivia, but I got a devastating hook to the body, and I can shoot you between the eyes inside 100 Meters, so Im not exactly good for nothing.

dpaterso · Sep 7, 2005

That Good Will Hunting question was scandalously easy!

Solyent Green was released in 1973, Juggernaut in 1974 (thank you, IMDb.com). Weren't Computer Space and Pong developed by the same guy? Brissant? Brissand? Can't remember.

Name the Magnificent Seven actors. No looking it up.

Edited to add: Bushnell. Knew it started with a "B." D'oh.

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NikeeGoddess · Sep 7, 2005

the magnificent seven

i can get the easy 4 - a gift for anyone who knows the last 3

james colburn, charles bronson, yul brunner, steve mcqueen

Joe Calabrese · Sep 7, 2005

Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter and a German guy (I can't remember his name.)

And just because it was made by the same computer programmer doesn't make it PONG. Pong wasn't released until 1974.

dpaterso · Sep 7, 2005

Joe Calabrese said:
And just because it was made by the same computer programmer doesn't make it PONG. Pong wasn't released until 1974.

Then your answer to Nikee's original question should have been "It's a trick question, 1973 is the wrong year."

-Derek
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Joe Calabrese · Sep 7, 2005

dpaterso said:
Then your answer to Nikee's original question should have been "It's a trick question, 1973 is the wrong year."

If we are going to be technical about it, any movie released in 74 was made in 73. Maybe Nikee meant year made?

Mac H. · Sep 7, 2005

Joe Calabrese said:
..And just because it was made by the same computer programmer doesn't make it PONG. Pong wasn't released until 1974.

The original pong was made with discrete logic (7400 series chips - which are still around!) rather than a computer, so there really wasn't a computer programmer involved.

If we consult the grail of democracy on the topic( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong ) we learn that the arcade 'pong' game was released in 1972.

The home version was released some time in 1975 (?)

And if we recall a screenplay excerpt on this very site, these were all variations of 'Computer Tennis' - created by William Higinbotham and Bob Dvorak in 1958.

(It turns out Bob Dvorak's son came across my excerpt, which led to an interesting email exchange. It turns out that he had been there at the first public showing of the video game.)

Mac

NikeeGoddess · Sep 7, 2005

enough already! geeesh!

back on topic:

someone needs to name the last of the 7....some German guy.
in the mean time i'm picking up the pace with...

What script had 42 rewrites with several different writers AFTER the script was sold?

in Weismuller's first installment of Tarzan his pal Cheetah was a chimpanzee but, what was Cheetah's mother?

dpaterso · Sep 7, 2005

Mac H. said:
(It turns out Bob Dvorak's son came across my excerpt, which led to an interesting email exchange. It turns out that he had been there at the first public showing of the video game.)

"Wow!" is the only answer to that one!

Nikee said:
in Weismuller's first installment of Tarzan his pal Cheetah was a chimpanzee but, what was Cheetah's mother?

I'm going out on a limb here and guessing an uncredited actor in a gorilla suit!

-Derek
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NikeeGoddess · Sep 8, 2005

Tarzan

yes - the chimps momma was indeed a gorilla

dp - post your trivia question

dpaterso · Sep 8, 2005

Damn, lucky guess!

Here's an easy one. A prodigious music composer, he's worked with famous screenwriters and directors; he's been music arranger on several movies including one taglined "A Rock & Roll Fable"; one of his songs has appeared in 4 different films; his 1977 blockbuster first album sold 30+ million copies.

-Derek
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Joe Calabrese · Sep 8, 2005

Ry Cooder, Streets of Fire, Paris Texas.

On second thought. I am confused.

Streets of Fire is known as A Rock & Roll Fable.
Ry Cooder did the score.

But Ry's first album was early 70's, not 77 and didn't sell that well.

Now if your talking Bruce, he has had a lot of songs in films and his Born to Run album has sold 30 million to date, but it was a 1975 album, not 77 and he has never scored a film.

Is this a trick question?

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