The Birds
Alien (Hard!)
Arachnophobia
Godzilla Minus One
Film History
Review
100

What era is this movie from?

The Golden Age

100

What era is this from?

New Hollywood

100

What era is this movie from?

The Contemporary Era

100

What era is this movie from?

Digital 

100

Streaming services are part of this era

Digital Age (1999-present day)

100

Pivotal plot points that happen in every story are called...

Story Beats

200
Who directed it?

Alfred Hitchcock

200

Who directed it?

Ridley Scott

200

Arachnophobia was made in what year?

1990

200

The original Godzilla movie is from what year?

1954
200

Films in this era often relied upon overly stylized acting and title cards with captions

The Silent Era (1895-1926)

200

A moment in Act 1 of a film that causes the audience to root for the protagonist

a "save the cat moment"

300

an ornithologist is someone who studies...

birds

300

DAILY DOUBLE

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Star Beast

300

The film was the first produced by Hollywood Pictures, a subsidiary of ________ 

Disney

300

 Kōichi Shikishima's specific role in the war

a kamikaze pilot
300

The Hays Moral Code dictated what could and couldn't be shown in films during which era?

The Golden Age of Cinema (1927-1968)

300

Putting a series of shots together in a film (also called editing or cutting)

Montage

400

How many days did the attic scene take to film?

seven

400

Name the actress (she plays Cathy and Lambert)

Veronica Cartwright

400

John Goodman portrays this exterminator: 

Delbert McClintock

400

What specific phenomenon occurs when Godzilla is approaching from the water?

Dead fish float to the surface

400

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Steven Spielberg

400

Consistency across shots is called...

Continuity

500

Who plays Melanie?

Tippi Hedren

500

What  movie have we watched that directly references Alien? 700 points if you can describe the reference. 

Ferris Bueller's Day Off ("did you see Alien? Where that creature was in that guy's stomach?"- Ferris explaining how sick he is)

500

What type of docile spiders from New Zealand were used in the film?

Avondale Spiders

500

This movie won the Academy Award in which category?

Best Visual Effects

500

This movie marked the end of The Silent Era

The Jazz Singer (1927)

500

When viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.

Kuleshov Effect