Sunset Boulevard
Lost in Translation
Psycho
Film Terms
Random Film Trivia
100
The film Sunset Boulevard is set in this city
What is Hollywood, Los Angeles
100
The name of the director of Lost in Translation
Who is Sofia Coppola
100
Marion Crane is a secretary from this city
Phoenix, Arizona
100
The term that refers to all the events of the narrative as they occur in chronological order from beginning to end, including not only those that we see and hear, but those we infer
What is story
100
Citizen Kane's cinematographer, Gregg Toland, pioneered this cinematography technique where the objects near the camera, midway, and far from the camera are all in sharp focus.
What is deep focus
200
The profession of the character Betty Schaefer
What is a script reader
200
The character Bob Harris arrives in Tokyo to film an advertisement for this
What is Suntory whisky
200
Marion steals this amount of money from one of her employer's clients
What is $40,000
200
This term refers to the loudness or softness of the sound we hear
What is amplitude
200
This 1999 mockumentary horror film depended upon the shakiness of the camera work to convey the homemade quality of the filmmaker-characters' attempt to document the supernatural.
What is The Blair Witch Project
300
The character Norma Desmond is an aging actress who was famous during this film era
What is the silent era
300
Bob tells Charlotte that he has been married this many years
What is 25 years
300
Fatigued from driving through the rain, Marion stops for the night at this place
What is the Bates Motel
300
This term is defined as editing that alternates two or more lines of action occurring in different places or times, thereby connecting them
What is crosscutting or parallel editing
300
The first film in cinema history, "Exiting the Factory" (1895) was directed by these brothers
Who are the Lumiere Brothers
400
When Joe Gillis first arrives at the home of Norma Desmond, she is preparing to have a funeral for this animal
What is her pet monkey
400
Charlotte tells Bob that she just graduated with a major in this
What is philosophy
400
Norman Bates tells Marion that his hobby is this
What is taxidermy (stuffing dead animals for display)
400
Film studies tends to describe the central character's pursuit of a goal with this word
What is desire
400
The most famous example of Soviet-style montage in film history is this sequence from Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film Battleship Potemkin
What is the Odessa Steps sequence
500
Joe's voiceover narration compares Norma Desmond's house to the house of this fictional character from Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations
What is Miss Havisham
500
The actress Kelly is in Tokyo promoting her leading role in this movie
What is Midnight Velocity
500
Norman suddenly gets angry with Marion when she suggests that he do this
What is put Mother in an institution for the mentally ill
500
This term is used to describe an attempt by a performer to appear not to be acting
What is naturalism
500
These two Hollywood celebrities are known for their humanitarian personas
Who are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
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