A new movie, @Ginger_Yellow?
Okay, l’ll take over l guess.
- A first shot very reminiscent of the first shot of another movie of the exact same genre, set in the exact same years, and filmed only two years before.
- A bank with an unusual content.
- A cliché German.
- Uncomfortable close-ups.
- Unconvincing accents.
Djscman
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Filmed how many years before, in the first clue? I’ll guess UHF, which started with a middling-to-good Raiders of the Lost Ark parody.
UHF is the same genre as Raiders?
Blood bank. Sperm bank. Sand bank.
Djscman
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Both movies were about, uh, poor archeological practices? Never mind.
Sorry, my keyboard is dying, and in particular the W key. l meant “two”.
And no, it is not UHF. l had never heard of that movie before.
These clues are a bit difficult, but l will add some easier ones later on.
I am sad you never heard of UHF. It isn’t a brilliant movie or anything, but as a window into the time it was made, it really captures the zeitgeist.
Cliche Germans imply and bridge demolition imply a war movie. A few years ago I was thinking “what’s that old movie I saw years ago on TV that had a bunch of American soldiers helping partisans blow up a bridge?” and when I googled it, it was Force 10 from Navarone.
Nope, it is not Force 10 from Navarone, the sequel nobody expected.
I remember almost nothing from that movie. I looked it up after posting, and it doesn’t really match any of the other clues, except the accents. I bet the partisans don’t sound Yugoslavian.
Don’t remember a German, and the only bank is a river bank, but I’ll just start throwing up bridge explosions:
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Now that’s a very very interesting guess! lt isn’t that, but it is definitely a good guess.
Oh dammit, I probably know what it is then, but I haven’t seen it.
OK, pretty sure my hunch is correct then:
A Fistful of Dynamite, aka Duck, You Sucker! , aka whatever its Italian title is.
The ltalian title is Giù la testa. l know it under the name Once Upon a Time the Revolution. So that’s 4 different titles! l’ll explain the clues tomorrow.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was a great guess, as l was indeed referring to that specific bridge explosion. Your turn, @Ginger_Yellow !
The clues:
1. A first shot very reminiscent of the first shot of another movie of the exact same genre, set in the exact same years, and filmed only two years before.: the first shot of the movie is a close up on some ants, which reminds me very much of one of my favourite movies, The Wild Bunch, whose first shot consists of scorpions and ants. They are both revisionist westerns set at the beginning of the 1910s.
2. A bank with an unusual content.: no money, but hundreds of political prisoners
3. A cliché German.
4. Uncomfortable close-ups.: Sergio Leone is famous for his close-ups, but the ones of the opening segments of the movie are unconvincing, at best. An entire minute of extreme close-ups of people eating and laughing.
5. Unconvincing accents.: Rod Steiger, who is very good as always, does a rather poor Mexican accent, while James Coburn doesn’t even try to take an lrish one.
- Blowing up a bridge (not the first time this happened in this director’s filmography):
Please proceed, @Ginger_Yellow!
