2764

Nope!

2765
  1. Fake certificate
  2. Hustlers
  3. Baseball glove
  4. Anti-semite
  5. Throwing a game
  6. Promotion
  7. Parents locked up
  8. Condescending schoolteacher
2766
  1. Fake certificate
  2. Hustlers
  3. Baseball glove
  4. Anti-semite
  5. Throwing a game
  6. Promotion
  7. Parents locked up
  8. Condescending schoolteacher
  9. Morpheus gives a lesson
2767

Could it be Searching for Bobby Fischer? l haven’t seen it, but l can see it fitting many clues!

(and so the clues would correspond to:

2 - The hustlers in on Washington Square Park, near the Marshall Chess Club.
4 - Bobby Fischer himself
5 - A chess game
6 - A pawn promotion
9 - Larry Fishburne giving a chess lesson - since it’s a 90s flick and the first Black American to become a GM was Maurice Ashley in 99, l’d guess he plays a wise hustler rather than an actual chess teacher)

2768

Correct! All of your guesses are spot on.

  1. Fake certificate - Chess teacher Bruce Pandolfini tries to motivate Josh Waitzkin with a ‘master’s certificate’ and later reveals, rather cruelly, that it’s just a worthless photocopy
  2. Hustlers - The chess hustlers in Washington Square Park are the first ones to spark Josh’s love of the game
  3. Baseball glove - Josh’s dad, who works in major league baseball (sports writer? not sure) gives him a baseball glove at the beginning, but Josh traded away his baseball for a chess piece.
  4. Anti-semite - Bobby Fischer sure qualifies!
  5. Throwing a game - Josh lets his dad win the first time they play, because he doesn’t want to hurt his feelings
  6. Promotion - Pawn promotion plays a key role in the climactic game, as Josh and his opponent race their pawns to the back to get new queens
  7. Parents locked up - In Josh’s first tournament, the parents are locked downstairs so they won’t disturb the kids playing.
  8. Condescending schoolteacher - Laura Linney has a small role as Josh’s teacher, who compares chess to pinochle and gets an earful from Josh’s dad
  9. Morpheus gives a lesson - Laurence Fishburne plays one of the park hustlers, Josh’s first (unofficial) chess teacher, and in late Act II helps him regain his mojo in a game of speed chess

You’re up, @Buckaroo!

2769

Great! l’ve been very lucky for that one: l received the notification for your last clue while l was working on my chess, so promotion took another meaning entirely!

A new movie appears:

  1. Yamaha 600
  2. Jackpot!
  3. Garlic
  4. Metaphorical Castration
  5. Soda can tabs
2770
  • Yamaha 600
  • Jackpot!
  • Garlic
  • Metaphorical Castration
  • Soda can tabs

and now:

  • Dogs underwear
2771

I’m probably way off base here, but The Lost Boys?

2772

Nope!

2773

Saved me a guess. Not that I have another idea.

2774

This would should help:

  1. Yamaha 600
  2. Jackpot!
  3. Garlic
  4. Metaphorical Castration
  5. Soda can tabs
  6. Dogs underwear

and :

  1. Corrida
2775

Nobody?

  1. Yamaha 600
  2. Jackpot!
  3. Garlic
  4. Metaphorical Castration
  5. Soda can tabs
  6. Dogs underwear

and :

  1. Naked Corrida
2776

Corrida is running… as in, of the bulls. So someone is running nude, with the bulls?

There were a lot of nut shots in the Jackass movies – any semiologist would describe that as trying to diminish a social peer’s virility via the metaphoric castration of blunt force trauma – and maybe someone tried to outrun a bull, so I guess my next guess is Jackass.

2777

l like this guess, but no!

2778

Jackass 2

2779

Nope. l have never seen a Jackass movie.

2780

Old School?

2781

Nope! l am slowly heading towards a loss here…

  1. Yamaha 600
  2. Jackpot!
  3. Garlic
  4. Metaphorical Castration
  5. Soda can tabs
  6. Dogs underwear
  7. Naked Corrida

and:

  1. The end credits say the following for the three main female characters:

XXX - la madre puta
XXX - la puta madre
XXX - la hija de puta

2782

I got nothing… can we get a hemispherical hint? Is this set in the Old World or New World?

2783

It’s starting to sound very Almodovar, but I’m pretty sure it’s not one I’ve seen.