Monty Python...
The number of horses seen in this film.
What is zero?
The name of the academy the boys attend in Dead Poets Society (1989).
What is Welton Academy?
Forrest Gump (1994) was shot mostly on-location in this state.
What is South Carolina?
"What is the film about?" refers to a film's ______.
Story.
Comedies are one of the oldest genres in film: which is the other?
Westerns.
The style of comedy that Monty Python and the Holy Grail utilizes most.
What is anarchic comedy?
The phrase that Robin Williams' character, John Keating, encourages his students to live by.
What is carpe diem, or, seize the day?
The style of editing used in this film.
What is discontinuity editing?
Tropes usually depend on the _____ they are written in.
Genre.
The more prevalent style of editing in mainstream filmmaking.
What is continuity editing?
The film's opening credits (and closed-captions) become hijacked by talk of which two animals?
Moose & llamas.
John Keating says that the boys can call him "O Captain! my Captain!" This is a quote from which poet's work?
Who is Walt Whitman?
The number of ways to prepare shrimp, as Bubba describes.
What is twenty-one?
The process of selecting, arranging, and assembling the essential components of a movie—visual, sound, and special effects—to tell a story in a unique way.
What is editing?
The word trope can refer to any type of figure of speech, theme, image, character, or plot element that is __________.
...used many times across time.
What were three of the bridgekeeper's five questions?
Name; quest; favorite color; capital of Assyria; or the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.
The name of Welton Academy's brutally-strict and hyper-traditional headmaster.
Who is Headmaster Nolan?
The number of the bus Forrest waits for at the bus-stop in order to see Jenny (which, he eventually doesn't take).
The definition of montage.
What is: a sequence of shots that show a condensed series of actions to indicate that time has passed?
Staging encompasses both the _____ & _____ of a film.
What is blocking & spacing?
Nearly all the knights have titles. What is Sir Robin's?
Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
The name of both the stage play and the role Neil occupies in that stage play at the end of the film.
What is Midsummer Night's Dream and Puck?
What year did Forrest Gump spend New Year's with Lieutenant Dan?
1971.
What are two of the seven types of comedies?
Anarchic, bathroom, black comedy, comedy of ideas, farces, parodies, slapstick.
Describe a moment in the score from one of our films and how it impacted the mood or narrative.
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