Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 3, The Winners!

That only about three dozen of you could correctly identify last week's quiz as coming from Robert Downey's (Sr., not Jr.) Putney Swope is cause for concern -- if you haven't seen what is easily one of the greatest satires on celluloid (and still remarkably poignant) then do so as soon as possible. It is an incredible film -- easily in Filmbrain's top fifty of all time. (Maybe this should be the prize for Round 4. . .) Well, Filmbrain has manually tabulated the results for Round 3, a task that took far longer than anticipated. We have winners for both first and second place, but a tiebreaker is required for third. Round 2 winner Aaron H once again walks away with the grand prize (any three DVDs from the Zeitgeist Films catalog), having scored twelve out of a possible fourteen (including bonus points). Second place (any two DVDs) goes to Matthew C, better known in the film-blog world as the man behind the great Esoteric Rabbit Films, with a total of eleven points. Great job, both of you! For third place, there is a many-way tie of people with ten points -- too many to list here. Quizzes will continue until there is a clear victor. Bear in mind that the contest is still open to everybody -- should none of the ten-pointers manage to guess the next quiz, somebody from behind can easily overtake the lead. The first tiebreaker quiz will appear next week -- Filmbrain is DVD-less in Germany. . .

Comments

[Aaron H.]

Huzzah! Thanks, Filmbrain!

[Matt]

Yeah, Filmbrain! Thanks a bunch.

[blackmail.is.my.life]

doesn't the dubbed voice bother you a bit in putney? i love the psychedelic ads though - and in fact forgot about the moonbounce nudity while playing it instore. oops!

[Matt]

Just saw "Oldboy," Filmbrain, and followed it with a reading your excellent review. Regarding all the possible influences of Hitchcock, Kubrick and so on upon Park, I couldn't help but wonder, for obvious, plot-related reasons, whether he was in some way inspired by "Chinatown" as well.

[Filmbrain]

He very well might have been influenced by Polanski. Film references abound, even on the soundtrack CD -- every track is the name of a film -- The Last Waltz, Cries and Whispers, Dressed to Kill, etc.