Once again, my crew of experts made short work of the trivia. Yum, trivia.
Archive for March 18, 2008
Tuesday Trivia: Seven Decades
Each movie is from a different decade:
1. “I had a friend once used to collect postage stamps. He always said the one good thing about a postage stamp: it always sticks to one thing ’til it gets there, y’know?”
Solved by Melville (comment #2).
2. “I don’t smoke, I only drink champagne when I’m lucky enough to get it, my hair is naturally natural, I live alone… and so do you.”
Solved by maurinsky (comment #8).
3. “Do sit down, Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent.”
Solved by Evn (comment #5).
4. “The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).
5. “Now look! We’ve figured it seventeen different ways, and each time we figured it, it was no good, because no matter how we figured it, somebody don’t like the way we figured it! So now, there’s only one way to figure it.”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).
6. “I just don’t like my son spending all his time with a man who carries a gun and goes around whacking people.”
Solved by Barbs (comment #10).
7. “You’re not a god. You can take my word for it; this is twelve years of Catholic school talking.”
Solved by Melville (comment #2).
Anthony Minghella has died
I loved Truly Madly Deeply and The Talented Mr. Ripley. I did not love Cold Mountain, it had a lot of problems. It also had enough absolute brilliance that I would happily recommend it to anyone, with some caveats about the shit-ass ending and the performance of Rene Zellwegger and Nicole Kidman’s horrendous accent.
He was clearly a talented and visionary writer/director, and he should have produced a lot more work. Should have. We don’t know these things; how long we have, how long we’re meant to have. Art, creation, work, we want them to last, to continue. We want each piece of brilliance to beget a new piece of brilliance. Eventually, that stops happening. And sometimes eventually is really damn soon.
May he be born again.
