<WannaBe> scores.

<donald pleasance>, however, is incorrect. He dies in <James Garner's> arms after a plane crash.

And <Wannabe> gets the <trifecta>.

- When Mia calls Vincent "cowboy", to which John Travolta movie she's referring? When Vincent calls Mia "cowgirl", to which Uma Thurman movie he's referring?

- When Mia goes to the bathroom to "powder her nose", and says, "I said goddam, goddam" [I know that's not the correct way to spell that, but otherwise the word is censored here...] - to which song she's referring? In which movie did it feature as the opening song?

- Chronologically, which is the first scene (including flashbacks) and which is the last scene in the movie?

Ok- 1. <Urban Cowboy> (worst film ever, except for <Steel Magnolias>

2. <Unforgiven> (Eastwood's best film) <Little Bill>: "I don't deserve this." <William Munney, out of Missouri>: "Deserve got nothin to do with it."

3. <This Will Be The Day>

4. <Static>

5. <first scene> Tim Roth and accomplice in the restaurant

6. <last scene> Tim Roth and accomplice in the restaurant

7. <glowing case> Three Magic Beans?

I know the first two answers are correct. The rest I think not.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Thanks for showing me what a bad <buddhist> I am, <Eyal>...

But keep em coming. I need to learn.

Jess

And didn't <Brickhill> also write that great book about <Douglas Bader>, the incredible one-legged <Spitfire> Ace?

I love <The Great Escape> too. I watched in on TV with my Dad (recently departed) as a tot, so it has a special meaning for me. Plus it kicks ass. Who was sexier than <Steve McQueen>? I mean really. He makes <Ben Affleck> look like a tobacconist.

Cheers, pleezd ta meetchya,

DING DING DONG

jess gets 1 out of 4: <Urban Cowboy> is correct, the Uma Thurman movie is <Even Cowgirls Get the Blues> (1993), "I said goddam, goddam" is a reference to the song <The Pusher> by Steppenwolf (see http://www.steppenwolf.com/lyr/thps...), the opening song for <Easy Rider> (1969).

(5-6) When I said "Chronologically", I meant according to the reconstructed chronological order of events, not the film sequence. That's actually an interesting question, because the twisting of chronological order is a major aspect of the film's composition. Would you like to try again?

(7) That's supposed to remain a mystery, of course, but it's fun to speculate about it...

GOOD work <Delusional Patzer>.

Ok <Eyal>...

Who won the F.A. Cup in...

no, that's not it.

<Wolverhampton Wanderers> was the answer.

1. What is the name of the actor who plays the protagonist in <Herzog's> films <Strozeck> and <The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser> (also known by the much, much better original German title- "Man Against Man and God Against All")?

2. Why was <Herzog> severley criticized by many for using this particular actor?

3. When <Klaus Kinski> announced he was leaving the set of <Aguirre, the Wrath of God> what does <Herzog> claim he did to compel the cranky German actor to stay and finish the film?

4. <Herzog> once walked from Germany to France, with virutally no money, to visit what famous film legend before she died? (Herzog wrote an interesting account of this self-aggrandizing, yet surely interesting quest. Who was this mysterious filmic Holy Grail?)

5. Blows raspberry at <Eyal>

Ok buster put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I'll be very impressed if you get all them questions.

1. Bruno S.

2. I'm not absolutely sure about that - it probably relates either to his criminal/mentally deranged background, or to the fact that he had no previous acting experience. Also, Herzog's crew was probably unhappy with the fact that he was very hard to work with, sometimes needing several hours of screaming before he could do a scene.

3. To kill Klaus Kinski and then turn the gun on himself (Kinski stated in interviews that Herzog actually wielded a pistol to emphasize the threat, but Herzog denied this).

4. Film critic Lotte Eisner

And here are some follow-up questions about <Stroszek>:

- Which editor, who was known to highly dislike Herzog's movies, was invited by him to the set to oversee continuity? And what (reportedly) happened then?

- Stroszek is also the name of the leading character in which other Herzog movie? And, according to Herzog, where did he get the name from?

I think it fair to say that you are both <bona fide> and a <rara avis> to boot. You are clearly knowledgeable enough to be a Film Academic.

Very, very, impressed...

- The editor was Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, and the story goes that she was so disgusted by some of the scenes that she started to signal the camera operator to stop shooting. Infuriated by this, Herzog threatened to hit her with a shovel. (If it's true, then it actually wasn't the only time Herzog experienced such difficulties during the making of the film. The entire crew disliked the last sequence so much that Herzog had to shoot it by himself. He later said he considers this scene the best he has filmed, but that may be just bravado.)

- Stroszek is also the name of the leading character in Herzog's <Lebenszeichen> (1968). Herzog said he got the name from one of his classmates who once helped him cheat on a test, and used the name as a tribute to him.

- The scene of the man pulling his own tooth is based on a similar scene in Les Blank's <Spend It All> (1972), adapted with the permission of Les Blank.

Another curious fact about this film: some of the parts which take place in Wisconsin were shot in Plainfield. Herzog heard that it was the home of Ed Gein (the infamous cannibal/murderer who was the inspiration for "Psycho"), and decided he just had to shoot there.

Wasn't me, officer.

Thank you all for keeping the old place going while I was in absentia.

Dublin? What'd I want to go <there> for? Nah, it was definitely Absentia. Or maybe Ballydehob - I did say something about a metropolis...

Animals, chess, Melville, Dutch, movies... business as usual, then?

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues?
Novel by Tom Robbins.
Song by John Cale.