A game for all the apple-pickers out there...
Can you figure out these 2009 films based on their alternate titles? You have to explain how you arrived at your conclusion to get full credit. Potential answers include any film that I screened during the 2009 cinematic cycle (see the sidebar).
Let's look at an example:
Gee Owen of the Mail
What could this possibly be? Sound out the first two words: Gee Owen. If you listen carefully, you'll hear that you're actually spelling a different word! Gee-Oh-En, or G-O-N. So what is GON? A quick search on Wikipedia will tell you that a "gon" is "a measurement of plane angle equivalent to 1/400 of a full circle," or 0.9 degrees. But that's not the important part. This measurement is also called a grad. So now we have Grad of the Mail. What's a word that defines something as belonging to the mail? "Post" is the word we're looking for. Put it together, and you have figured out the real movie title:
Post Grad
Yikes! That was a tricky one, no? Well I wouldn't want to make them too easy now, would I? What's the fun in that?
The first person to correctly guess any remaining title correctly and provide an adequate explanation for their guess will receive a shiny, juicy [pixel-based] Granny Smith Apple! At some point in the (hopefully) near future, these apple points will be redeemable for cool prizes and movie swag!
So what are you waiting for? Get guessing!
{clue: consider the concept}
{clue: do the math}
3. Cantare Larus Vir = A Single Man
{clue: ask Ovid}
{clue: ask Ovid}
Solved by: J.D. of Valley Dreamin'
Solution: Cantare, Larus, and Vir are three LATIN words. The clue "ask Ovid" refers to the ancient Roman poet whose works were written in Latin. "Cantare" means "to sing," "Larus" means "gull," and "Vir" is "man." Put the three words together and you get "sing + gull + man," which is homophonic to "Single Man," or the film A Single Man.
{clue: also known as}
{clue: follow the directions}
{clue: also known as}
{clue: follow the directions}
{clue: let's be literal}
{clue: also known as}
{clue: that's an order}
These are extra, extra tricky, so start firing those neurons and see if you can decipher the actual titles of these films.
9 comments:
1. Florida 2000 is "The Hangover"? Referencing those hanging chads in that state during the 2000 Presidential election?
@ Pete - Right deduction. Wrong movie.
These are hurting my brain.
But I kinda think #10 is Two Lovers because to = two and it's a remake of Antonioni's La notti bianche/White Nights. I have no idea how peaks fits into it, lmao, but whatever. This is the closest I could get.
@JD - You overestimate my knowledge of film. I'll give you a clue that it's imperative.
#3: A Single Man
[I weep for Sing Bird Croatia tho. :(]
@JD - YOU ARE CORRECT! But how did you decipher it? You have to explain to get full credit :P
Google searched a Latin translator (got that part before the clue) which amounted the first two words to 'sing' and 'man' (though I for some reason I can't remember now associated it to Croatia?!), and larus is a kind of gull.
So. Sing-gull-man. Single man. A Single Man. Voila.
@JD - YOU ARE CORRECT! Score one for you! But can you guess any of the others?
@Peter
are you sure is this is it ?
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