Movies2003Final by Ray Luo
tossups 151-160 and OT1-OT3 of 160+3 total

151). First names of the following film characters are the same.  The triple-crossing agent played by Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest.  The daughter of Zebulon Prescott who ran off with Linus Rawlings, the rugged beaver-trading Jimmy Stewart character, in How the West Was Won.  The Joan Allen character in Face-Off.  Zsa Zsa Gabor in The Man Who Wouldn't Talk and We're Not Married!  The aspiring Miss Harrington who maneuvers her way into the life of the aged actress Margo Channing, played respectively by Anne Baxter and Bette Davis, in a Joseph L. Mankiewicz film.  FTP give the common name shared by the wife of Adam.
	Answer: Eve

152). The original director of this movie would have cut out the entire last 35 minutes.  Arriving in NY, where the city is flooded by the melting of the polar ice cap, David Swinton encounters his creator, Professor Allen Hobby.  Based on the story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," it is a Pinocchio Tale of the search for the Blue Fairy who can make David a real boy.  FTP name this 2001 Steven Spielberg film.
	Answer: Artificial Intelligence

153). Her mother Gertrude Hartley spent 15 minutes every morning gazing at the Himalayas in the hope that their beauty would be passed to the child in her womb.  A sufferer of two miscarriages, tuberculosis, and manic depression, she met her future husband while filming Fire Over England.  Taking her most famous role away from Paulette Goddard, she also starred in The Hamilton Woman and Waterloo Bridge.  FTP name this wife of Laurence Olivier who charmed David O. Selznick into giving her the role of Scarlett O'Hara.
	Answer: Vivien Leigh

154). Louisa knows everything.  Frederich wants to be a man.  Brigitta cares about their father.  Kurt is hurt but too shy to show it.  Leisl is in love with a Nazi officer named Rolfe.  Marta, and the little one Gretl are beloved by all.  And Kurt is the one left out of Fraulein Maria's prayer as "what's his name."  The father is a captain who has been called to Berlin for military service.  The mother is a former nun turned governess at Salzburg who sings of her favorite things.  FTP name this singing family from The Sound of Music.
	Answer: the von Trapps; prompt on The Sound of Music early

155). The titular character exclaims that his brain is his "second most favorite organ."  Brain-washed as Miss Montana, he is released from the AIRES project upon flattening the nose.  He believes in sex and death, "the two things that come once in a life time."  His recent experiences in 2173 can be described as a cosmic screwup.  A clarinet player and owner of the Happy Carrot Health Food Restaurant, FTP name this titular Miles Monroe character played by Woody Allen who wakes up in the future.
	Answer: Sleeper

156). This movie answers the beacon: "is this all that I am, is there nothing more?" by appealing to the consciousness of the creator, the carbon-based units.  Playing Ilia the Deltan, Persis Khambatta points to the people of Earth, exclaiming "these devices serve no purpose," after which Spock sheds tears for the first time.  To convince V'Ger, Captain Decker merges with her to fulfill the mission of the mechanistic, artificially intelligent Voyager probe that had traveled back to Earth.  FTP name this first movie in a series starring William Shatner.
	Answer: Star Trek: The Motion Picture; prompt on Star Trek

157). He used fragments of childhood memories of his father's poetry in the 1974 film The Mirror.  Refusing to return to his home nation after making Nostalgia, he completed his final film The Sacrifice in Sweden.  First gaining international acclaim for the 1962 Venice Film Festival winner My Name is Ivan, he made religious and science fiction films like Stalker and Solaris, although his most famous film was banned.  FTP name this Russian director of Andrey Rublyov.
	Answer: Andrey Tarkovsky

158). Although I have no idea what this movie is all about, I can say that: 1. it advertises Heineken; 2. it takes place in a strange world; 3. the body part found by Jeffrey near a Lumberton road has nothing to do with Sandy Williams's policeman father; 4. Isabella Rossellini was underpaid and Dennis Hopper was overpaid for appearing in it; and 5. David Lynch deserves to rot in hell for directing, FTP this mystery named for a colorful fabric.
	Answer: Blue Velvet

159). Asking to believe despite the evidence of his senses, the protagonist of this film protests against the silence of God by searching for His presence in a girl's eyes while she is being crucified.  Protecting a troupe of strolling players who find humor and dance in the desolation of the plague, Antonius Block plays a game of chess against Death.  Starring Bengt Ekerot and Max von Sydow, FTP name this 1957 Ingmar Bergman film.
	Answer: Det Sjunde inseglet; or The Seventh Seal

160). Although I could have mentioned his name for starring roles five times in this tournament, I did not, in order to bring you this question.  A member of the Bob Pender comedy troupe, he made his film debut for $150 in Singapore Sue.  It is often said that everybody wants to be him, even he wants to be him.  He was along side Jean Harlow in Suzy, Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus, and Mae West in She Done Him Wrong.  He kept saying "Susan, Susan, Susan" in Bringing Up Baby and hooks up with his ex-wife in His Girl Friday.  FTP name this actor who also starred in Arsenic and Old Lace, Notorious, and North by Northwest.
	Answer: Cary Grant (His Girl Friday clue for It's a Wonderful Life, Notorious, Arsenic and Old Lace, North by Northwest, Bringing up Baby clue for Asta)

OT1). Ray Bradbury's version of the ending of this movie outlines the catastrophic consequences resulting from the upbringing of the titular personage.  The protagonist of this horror film smiles at her child at the end, after her husband makes a pact with the neighbors next door to allow Satan to come to his wife during a dream to impregnate her with his child.  FTP name this Roman Polanski film starring Mia Farrow.
	Answer: Rosemary's Baby

OT2). Milly counts the number of drinks her husband has had during his speech with a fork, and her daughter falls in love with married man who couldn't find work other than selling perfume at his old store.  Although he could never play for the Boone City Beavers, Homer learns to play the piano by pounding and scratching the ivory with his two claws for hands that he lost during the war.  FTP name this 1946 best picture directed by William Wyler about the time when it was worth living.
	Answer: The Best Years of Our Lives

OT3). When asked "Why do you live?" the impressario responds "I must" - the central moral of this film.  As a parable for the whole picture, asking "Why do you dance?" Vicki Page responds by doing just that, because she must.  Professor Palmer steals the score of Heart of Fire from his most promising student Julian Craster.  Grischa Ljubov is played by Leonide Massine while Lermontov is played by Marius Goring.  A dancer dies after jumping to her death, just as in the Hans Christian Andersen ballet whose title gives the name of this British film.  FTP name this Powell and Pressburger film about a pair of colorful footwear.
	Answer: The Red Shoes