21 Questions Movie Game - Round 4 (SinisterDeath)

[SinisterDeath]

The Standard Rules of the game stll apply obviously.

You ask a yes or no question, and I answer it.

Any yes or no question goes, even if you ask me If I'm eating tonight. :P

 

I'll give you guys one free answer though.

The movie was Orginally Released before January 1st, 2000.

 

Good Luck! And I hope Someone besides Empy get it this time. :P

[Emperor]

I doubt Kevin Bacon is in it so let's not ask that this time unless you really believe he is in it.

 

Let's go ahead and ask a few standards.

 

Q1:  Was the film originally released in the USA?

Q2:  Was the film originally released before December 31, 1990?

[SinisterDeath]

Q1:  Was the film originally released in the USA? No

Q2:  Was the film originally released before December 31, 1990? Yes

[Emperor]

Crap... another one of those Foreign films.

 

Q3:  Is the film genre comedy, action or martial arts?

Q4: Was the film nominated for any Academy, Golden Globe, or Cannes Film Festival Awards?

[SinisterDeath]

Q3:  Is the film genre comedy, action or martial arts? Yes (According to IMDB)

Q4: Was the film nominated for any Academy, Golden Globe, or Cannes Film Festival Awards? No

[Cadsuane]

Q5: Was this movie originally released after December 25th, 1975?

[SinisterDeath]

 

Q5: Was this movie originally released after December 25th, 1975? No

 

 

 

:D

[Cadsuane]

Ok, so this is clearly an older movie. I'm suspicious it's a 1960's martial arts flick.  :D

 

Q6: Was this movie originally released after December 25th, 1959?

[SinisterDeath]

Q6: Was this movie originally released after December 25th, 1959? No

[ironcross]

is the movie in black and white?

 

empys ganra question dosent leave it as nessisarily a matial arts movie and considering it was made befor the 60's i would be more willing to bet it is either a action or comedy

[SinisterDeath]

Q7: is the movie in black and white? Yes.

[ironcross]

YAY  :)

[Cadsuane]

Yeah, I didn't have anything other than a completely random hunch that made me think it was 60's MA. And apparently I'm wrong, since it came out earlier than 1960. ^_^

 

If anyone knows what year color movies became more popular, they should post that info. It may help us to figure out what years this movie came out in. If it's REALLY old, it would waste a lot of questions just dropping it decade by decade until we run into it. I'd guess that if it's black and white, it's probably from the years before or right near the time color became possible.

[Haxorsist]

I remember Sin posting a quote from the movie Metropolis on the movie quote thread once (Yes, I remember random stuff). It's listed as action on imdb and is from 1927, which would mean it's black and white and it hasn't been nominated for any of those awards. This isn't a guess or a question, I'm just throwing it out there 'cus it popped up in my head. ;D

 

Edit: I doubt it's foreign, though.

 

Edit numero 2: Actually it premiered in Germany according to imdb.

[ironcross]

not a question to sin, i seem to remember snow white as the first color movie, dose anywone els remeber if im right? i also remember my dad saying somthing about wizerd of oz being relly cool because it was one of the first live action movies with color in it. 

 

i just found a web site that claims the first major motion picture to use color was "the adventures of robinhood" released in 1939. i dont know whether that will help us or not, but it might give us a starting point

[ironcross]

is the movie a silent film?

[SinisterDeath]

Q8: Is the movie a silent film? Yes.

[Cadsuane]

Good idea, Hax. Maybe we should ask a few questions to see if Metropolis fits, but that would also give us good info if it is NOT Metropolis.

 

According to the site below, a color movie was first produced in 1918, but even by 1954, only half of all movies were in color, so perhaps that idea will not help us as much as I thought.

http://www.moah.org/exhibits/archives/movies/technology_development.html

 

 

EDIT: Metropolis IS a silent film, so it's still on the list.

[ironcross]

ok most sites ive found claim theat the "silent era ended with the release of "modern times" a charlie caplin movie, in 1936, but the last silent film made was is berlin in 1939, so i would say that this movie was probly made befor 1939and probly befor 1936

[ironcross]

ok i got to go tomy second job so ill be gone again for a few hours :( but this is what we have for now

 

the movie is not made in the usa

the movie is black and white

the movie is silent

as a silent movie it is most likly made befor 1939

it is either a comedy action or martial arts movie

 

 

was the movie made in europe?

[SinisterDeath]

Q9: Was the movie made in europe? Yes

[Emperor]

Let's just get a list of the silent films and see what we have in common. 

[Emperor]

Q10:  Is the movie in the list below?

 

Rank  Title  Year  Director  Country of Production

2. Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang Germany

5. Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau Germany

7. La Passion et la Mort

de Jeanne d’Arc

[The Passion of Joan of Arc] 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer France

8. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] 1920 Robert Wiene Germany

9. Bronenosets ‘Potyomkin’

[The Battleship Potemkin] 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein USSR

10. Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim USA

11. Die Büchse der Pandora

[Pandora’s Box] 1929 G.W. Pabst Germany

15. Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance France

22. Der letzte Mann

[The Last Laugh] 1924 F.W. Murnau Germany

30. Chelovek s kinoapparatom

[Man with a Movie Camera] 1929 Dziga Vertov USSR

31. Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau Germany

34. Häxan

[Witchcraft Through the Ages] 1922 Benjamin Christensen Sweden

36. Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen

[The Diary of a Lost Girl] 1929 G.W. Pabst Germany

40. Un Chien Andalou

[The Andalusian Dog] 1928 Luis Buñuel and

Salvador Dali France

45. Die Nibelungen

(including Siegfried and Kriemhilds Rache

[Kriemhild’s Revenge]) 1924 Fritz Lang Germany

50. The Lodger 1922 Alfred Hitchcock England

60. Zemlya

[Earth] 1930 Alexander Dovzhenko USSR

64. Les Vampires 1915-16 Louis Feuillade France

73. Le Voyage dans la lune

[A Trip to the Moon] 1902 Georges Méliès France

75. Cabiria 1914 Giovanni Pastrone Italy

77. Oktiabr

[October] 1928 Sergei M. Eisenstein USSR

80. Stachka

1924 Sergei M. Eisenstein USSR

82. Der müde Tod

[Destiny] 1921 Fritz Lang Germany

90. Mat

[Mother] 1926 Vsevolod I. Pudovkin USSR

92. Variété

[Variety] 1925 E.A. Dupont Germany

93. Die Freudlose Gasse

[The Joyless Street] 1924 G.W. Pabst Germany

 

Source: http://www.silentera.com/info/top100.html

 

 

[SinisterDeath]

Q10:  Is the movie in the list below? Yes

[ironcross]

wowi think were going for a reacord here, got it down to 30 somthing movies in ten questions.  all we have to do is cut the list in 1/2 and then cut it in 1/2 again and then ask movie by movie and we will get it.