I've got to escape politics for a while. So how about a little movie trivia?

[Cyrano]

Looking up the answers on Google or elsewhere is not allowed, so we're on the honor system.

Name two movies written by John Steinbeck and directed by Elia Kazan. The male leads in both films were nominated for academy awards. Did they win for these films?

And for a bonus question, who's rumored to be thinking of remaking and starring in one of them?

Reminder: If you Google these answers, you are disqualified from a two-week, all-expense-paid, trip to Baghdad.

[terrya]

1. Would one be:

"The Grapes of Wrath"?

Henry Fonda did NOT win. If that's the correct answer.

[Cyrano]

3. Nope. "The Grapes of Wrath" was written by Seinbeck, but directed by John Ford.

[terrya]

5. Ok.

You're right.

It's so tempting to go to IMDB with these questions. But as you can see, I didn't.

[wildhorses]

2. east of eden was one of the movies

so would that make the male lead...james dean?

[Cyrano]

4. Yep.

[wildhorses]

6. of mice and men??

and who starred in it...dammit think girl!!

[Cyrano]

7. Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men but it was directed by Louis Milestone.

It starred Burgess Merideth and Lon Cheney Jr.

(edited to correct the incorrect, unforgiveable, stupid, answer with which I replied to this question.)

[wildhorses]

9. i am confused...

of mice and men is not the same as grapes of wrath...is it?



what about winter of our discontent?

[Cyrano]

10. Refresh your screen and see reply #7. I screwed up the first time around.

[jobycom]

8. No idea. Here's another one: Roald Dahl, famous children's book writer, co-wrote

two scripts based on Ian Flemming novels. Which ones?

[Cyrano]

11. self deleted.

[jobycom]

12. That's extreme, and sounds painful.

"I have disgraced myself. I must delete myself." :rofl:

[Cyrano]

13. Nah. That's too raical. Only Republican's delete themselves.

My original reply was straight out of their "Playbook of Insane Things to Do."

[Cyrano]

14. Hey, jobycom, after giving it a lot of thought, and a bloody mary, I think

that one of them could possibly be "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."

[jobycom]

15. That is correct. Try a shot of sake, you might get the other one.

:)

[Cyrano]

16. I can't handle sake. The last time I had some, I wanted to attack Pearl Harbor.

[jobycom]

19. Hint: The sake was a hint. nt

[Aristus]

23. "You Only Live Twice".

Am I right? I'm pretty sure Dahl wrote the screenplay for at least one Bond film.

[jobycom]

26. You are correct. nt

[PVnRT]

25. You Only Live Twice

Didn't know he wrote two.

[mitchum]

17. East of Eden (Dean) and Viva Zapata (Brando)

[Cyrano]

18. WE HAVE A WINNER. Now, who wants to remake and star in one of them?

[wildhorses]

20. brad pitt wants to remake east of eden

:applause:




and are you sure smarty pants didn't use google??

[Cyrano]

21. Nope. I didn't use google. I already knew the answers to the first two questions and

I read about Brad Pitt wanting to remake "East of Eden." (Don't ask me where. I think it was a magazine in a dentists office.)

[wildhorses]

22. silly -- i wan't talkin bout you--

i was talkin bout smarty pants mitchum

and i heard something about ron howard wanting to direct:shrug:

the east of eden thing that is:crazy:

[Mad_Dem_X]

24. Oh, HELL no!

Brad Pitt ain't worthy to shine James Dean's shoes. Sacrilidge!

[wildhorses]

27. sad but, true--

it is what we have been reduced to--

what can we do *wringing hands*

[Cyrano]

28. If the rumor is true, I think Brad Pitt should just drop the idea.

Only a fool would want to be compared to James Dean and that's exactly what would happen if Pitt (or anyone else) tried to remake it.

A perfect example of this is Brando in "Streetcar Named Desire." Brando "owns" that part and anyone else wanting to play Stanley Kawolski is setting themselves up for disaster.

One critic (it may have been Frank Rich, but I'm not sure) suggested that "Streetcar" be shelved for the next hundred years. I think that's pretty good advice.

[wildhorses]

29. why mess with perfection?

and if it ain't broke don't fix it--

are ya listening--brad?

[begin_within]

30. No! Please somebody STOP them. Nobody can do James Dean but himself.

Brad Pitt was good in "Seven Years in Tibet," but he's no James Dean, by a longshot.

[formerrepuke]

31. If Brad wants to re-make EoE he can't play the male lead..he's too OLD...

..but plenty old enough to play the father, maybe.

[wildhorses]

32. are ya hearing this brad?

ooohhh brad--are ya in da house?

[Cyrano]

33. Maybe he should try remaking a loser like "Ishtar." The worst that

can happen is that it will stink as much as the original did.