I saw a really violent movie the other night, so I dunno, it warped my brain.
This is an open-ended quiz. I will accept any movies that correctly answer the questions:
1. Name 3 movies with someone being killed by sword.
Solved by Randal Graves (comment #3).
2. Name 1 movie with someone being killed by an ordinary pen.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #6).
3. Name 4 movies with people surviving gunshot wounds.
Solved by Melville (comment #4).
4. Name 3 movies in which there is a violent showdown between romantic partners.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).
5. Name 1 movie in which someone is killed by being run over by a dune-buggy.
Solved by George (comment #21).
6. Name 2 movies with decapitations.
Solved by TehipiteTom (comment #7).
7. Name 4 movies with strangulations.
Solved by Melville (comment #12).
#4. Prizzi’s Honor, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Batman Returns.
Very good Mel, two of those are the ones I was thinking of.
1. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King. 🙂
#3. L.A. Confidential(I think. Russell Crowe is shot and survives, right? I don’t remember exactly), Taxi Driver (Robert DeNiro), The Godfather (Part 1. Marlon Brando), Red River(John Wayne).
This is tough. I guess I don’t watch that many violent films.
Russell Crowe does survive.
2 is Grosse Pointe Blank.
#6: Mary, Queen of Scots and Cromwell?
Russell Crowe does survive.
Oh, I knew he was alive at the end. Also that he’d been hurt, but i wasn’t sure if it was by a gun.
Mel, now you’ve got me second guessing myself as well, but I think he gets shot.
Yes, that’s right. Shot multiple times.
Dang…I’m having a hell of a time coming up with a fourth strangulation.
#7. Of Mice and Men, Frenzy, The Boston Strangler, Touch Of Evil.
#5: I’ll bet anything that someone got whacked by a dune buggy in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.
d’Oh! Should have thought of Touch of Evil. Besides Frenzy, I had The Godfather and The Haunted Strangler.
Hey, once we get them all, can we do that thing where someone asks a question, and then whoever gets it right asks the next question?
Because I’ve got a good gory one.
Hey, once we get them all, can we do that thing where someone asks a question, and then whoever gets it right asks the next question?
If it’s okay with Deb, I’ll play. I have a pretty unusual movie death to ask, too. 🙂
Yeah, sure, have a party.
My strangulations included The Godfather and From Russia With Love. My romantic pairings included Duel in the Sun.
I need someone to confirm the Road Warrior dune buggy death, because I honestly don’t remember.
I know they have nearly all been solved but here’s some more violence: talking of Kathleen Turner, she is another violent romantic showdown (actually the whole film is one) in The War of The Roses. I think I remember someone being decapitated in The Omen. And Bruno strangles Miriam in Strangers on a Train.
I need someone to confirm the Road Warrior dune buggy death, because I honestly don’t remember.
Sorry, I can’t remember either.
*sigh* Can’t remember The Road Warrior, can’t remember the climax to L.A Confidential…I tell ya, my memory’s going. 🙁
If we’re doing more violence, some more decapitations I remembered (the memory isn’t totally gone) are Se7en, A Man For All Seasons, Intolerance (the first in movie history. Audiences were amazed at the sight), and all the versions of A Tale of Two Cities.
#5 has to be the Bond–For Your Eyes Only?
Not sure if Road Warrior has a dune buggy death. Too many deaths in that one to be certain.
As for #4, we can’t leave out Lady from Shanghai if for no other reason than it has one of the best kiss-off lines ever: “Killing you is killing myself. But, you know, I’m pretty tired of both of us.”
It’s also striking we have ignored horror/slasher films to answer all these questions. How sophisticated we are. How violent movies are.
Another really obvious one for #4 is Double Indemnity.
George, that’s what I had in mind for the dune buggy, and since no one can confirm Road Warrior, I’m giving you full credit.
I watched Kill Bill Vol. 1 this week, which has swords and decapitations, and Vol. 2 promises a violent showdown between former romantic partners. That’s what inspired today’s questions.
For surviving gunshots I was thinking 3:10 to Yuma and another which I can no longer remember!
It’s also striking we have ignored horror/slasher films to answer all these questions. How sophisticated we are. How violent movies are.
I was thinking that, too. I was watching the Bravo 100 Scariest Movie Moments countdown over the weekend, and I realized how few of the recent ones I’ve seen.
Does Evn want to post her gory question?
Evn’s a boy.
Evn’s a boy.
Oops. sorry.
Mel, Evn, whichever of you reads this first can go ahead and post a question.
O.K.
Name 1 movie where someone is killed by being pushed down the stairs.
Kiss of Death–pushed down the stairs in a wheelchair, no less.
Kiss of Death–pushed down the stairs in a wheelchair, no less.
Yup, that’s the one I was thinking of. Still one of the most brutal movie deaths I can think of.
Original question #3 made me think of Winchester 73, in which Shelly Winters is shot but survives. That’s unusual for Winters, as she was killed in films an amazing 24 times.
How many can you name, and how did she buy it?
Didn’t she drown in the Poseiden Adventure?
Well, she had a heart-attack after saving Gene Hackman and swimming really well. So almost.
Deb; a correction. #7 is solved in comment #12. So confusing!
Shelly Winters gets murdered by Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun, and hit by a car in The Big Knife.
She is murdered in Night of the Hunter.
Shelly Winters gets murdered by Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun
Not exactly.
Well, we’ll never know, will we, Tom?
Tom is right–Clift wants to kill her but she drowns when their boat capsizes.
And it’s actually a bus that hits her in The Big Knife; cars get her 3 other times, though, in The Great Gatsby, Lolita, and something called Mambo (guess every film can’t be based on a great novel).
You can read the full list of Winters’ deaths on this informative page. Indeed, that entire website will leave you reading about dead actors and actresses for a long time.
I had to cheat and check her IMDb listing (she was in so many movies), but having refreshed my recollection, here are a few:
Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July: hypothermia.
Portrait of a Lady: killed by boredom.
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell: Phil Silvers stabs her in the eye with his glasses.
Pete’s Dragon: charbroiled by Pete.
I think Tom gets to ask a question for having the funniest answer.
Okay, then…name one movie in which someone is devoured by locusts.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes?
That’s exactly the one I was thinking of (although I’m sure there are others). Your turn.
This couple has had their hands in some truly violent films–he directed a film about a photographer fascinated with showing people their own pain and horror while he killed them; she’s edited several films filled with violent scenes, no film more so than a remake of a scary, less-sensational film.
Name the 2 people and the 2 films.
MIchael Powell (Peeping Tom) and Thelma Schoonmaker (Cape Fear).
Indeed! The scene when DeNiro bites Ileana Douglas’s face is one of the most disturbing in any film, I think. Scorsese went way too overboard on that one.
I’m embarassed that I got A Place in the Sun wrong. It’s only THE CENTRAL PLOT POINT OF THE ENTIRE MOVIE! *smacks self on forehead*
I think I’ll go to bed early. More sleep will help.
Geez, you forget to read blog comments one afternoon, and awake to find out your gender’s been switched. Again.
No worries, though… but I am thinking about changing my name to Big Ed.