May 05, 2005
Movie Quiz #3: The Answers.
As I wrote before, a character -- or, in the case of Shot #2, every character -- sings the song:
Shot 1:
Larry Fishburne (oops, he's Laurence Fishburne now), who must have been all of 16 when Francis Ford Coppola filmed Apocalypse Now (1979), sings along to the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." (I think a shot of Sam Bottoms on a surfboard would have been an easier vidcap.) Probably my favorite film of all time, as I've mentioned on this blog over and over.
Shot 2:
Paul Thomas Anderson has pretty much the entire cast -- including Tom Cruise -- of Magnolia (1999) -- sing along to Aimee Mann's "Wise Up." It's a wonderfully risky scene, but it works.
Shot 3:
"Don't you never sleep?" asks Billy Chapin to himself when he hears Robert Mitchum on the horizon, singing "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms." Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955) is one of the greatest American movies ever made.
Shot 4:
In Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), Uma Thurman dances to an Urge Overkill cover of a Neil Diamond song: "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon." Most everyone got this correctly.
Shot 5:
Keir Dullea unplugs HAL 9000 -- who, in a last attempt at communication before his death, sings "Daisy" (the original title, though, is "Daisy Bell" from 1892!) -- in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Our highest scorer for this quiz is Steve Spence from New Mexico, with 9 points; Pat Padua, Pete Culley and Eric Braden all got 8 points each as well.
Posted by the wily filipino at May 5, 2005 09:16 AM