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Neither O Brother Where Art Thou? , or Down by Law.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?

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Not One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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  1. A group of people in seclusion
  2. Confession of sins
  3. Jailbreak
  4. A man who doesn’t talk at all
  5. A man who only wants to talk about medieval politics
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The Little Hours!

I know because my neighbor has Guelphish blood.

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Correct!

Please consult with a lawyer before sealing him or her in a wall.

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The little hours became big days, @Djscman! It may be time for a new movie.

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Working on it! Hoping to have it up by tonight, Central Time.

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While we wait for the next movie, here are the clues for The Little Hours:

  • A group of people in seclusion: I picked this movie partially because I figured a comedy set in a medieval convent would allow for interesting clues. Turns out I had trouble finding ones that weren’t obvious “movie set in a medieval convent”.

  • Confession of sins: Sins explicitly called out include (among many others) sleeping with another man’s wife, sodomy (multiple kinds), eating more than one’s fair share of turnips, enjoying life, eating blood, and witchcraft.

  • Jailbreak: Massetto is imprisoned for the adultery and sodomy mentioned above, but while he is waiting to be tortured to death, the nuns bust him out of jail with the aid of a turtle.

  • A man who doesn’t talk at all: The three main characters, led by Sister Fernanda, verbally and physically abuse the gardener until he quits. When Massetto is hired to replace him, it is decided he should pretend to be deaf and mute to avoid conflict with the nuns. I’m not sure how that’s supposed to work, and it doesn’t.

  • A man who only wants to talk about medieval politics: Lord Bruno is angry at his wife’s infidelity with a servant, but what really worries him is that she might be descended from the dreaded Guelphs that occupy his attention, and which Wikipedia tells me are supporters of the Pope in various wars in medieval Italy.

When I searched for the movie on the forums I found some mentions, but it didn’t show the actual thread Djscman linked. It seems like it wasn’t very successful at the box office, but I enjoyed it for what is- a sharp, funny comedy with a talented cast, that makes excellent use of a unique setting.

Also, in almost every review or discussion of the movie I saw, it was mentioned the dialogue was “anchronistic”. Now, obviously, no on expects a modern American movie to use whatever dialect of Italian was used in 14th century Tuscany, so I guess people expect all historical films to use the overly formal English we see in BBC productions? Why shouldn’t the everyday speech of a historical setting be profane and vulgar, and why is representing it as modern day English more anachronistic than, say, I, Claudius?

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Here’s the next adventure:

  • Confusing siblings
  • Confusing memory and hard drive space
  • A Rip Van Winkle conundrum
  • This actor used a different pseudonym this time in the credits
  • Round, round, get around, they get around
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I really liked it, but then again I’d probably like anything with Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Kate Micucci in it.

I think it’s because it’s such idiomatically modern English that it jars, or at least stands out, depending on how you reacted to it. Whereas “I, Claudius speech” already feels old, or at least timeless.

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Uh… Tron 2? Mainly for #2 and #3

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I think the cast added to the anachronistic flavor, for better or worse. The cast is awesome, but except for John C. Reilly and perhaps Alison Brie, they’re tied (in my anecdotal brain, anyway) to the present, to the contemporary, via their filmographies. There was something about watching our nuns bitch about matins that would be like watching Lawrence Olivier or Edwin Booth deliver dialogue about hacking a mainframe. It wasn’t bad! I loved it! It just didn’t sit comfortably in the setting. Which was fine, because the characters didn’t sit comfortably in their setting either. Fuckin’ cloistered.

Disney’s Tron? No, but… uh, no.

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Wait… there’s another Tron?

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Tron 1, I guess?

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Oh, sorry, my mistake. I didn’t see the 2 in Tron 2, my eyes just glanced right over it. I thought you wrote Tron (1).

It is neither Disney’s Tron nor Disney’s Tron: Legacy (aka Tron 2).

I regret the confusion.

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A.I.?

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Nope, not A.I.

  • Confusing siblings
  • Confusing memory and hard drive space
  • A Rip Van Winkle conundrum
  • This actor used a different pseudonym this time in the credits
  • Round, round, get around, they get around
  • Even a cell stocked with toys and games and a NASA hat is still a cell – and the first obligation of a prisoner kept against his will is to escape.
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#6 makes me think of either Space Camp or The Martian - and none of the other clues make sense for those… so ruling them out.

Trying to think of any other movie with a NASA cap and being trapped somewhere… all I can come up with is… Tomorrowland?

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Disney’s Tomorrowland? Getting warm. But that’s not it.

  • Confusing siblings
  • Confusing memory and hard drive space
  • A Rip Van Winkle conundrum
  • This actor used a different pseudonym this time in the credits
  • Round, round, get around, they get around
  • Even a cell stocked with toys and games and a NASA hat is still a cell – and the first obligation of a prisoner kept against his will is to escape.
  • Frisbees and a blimp float through the air like, uh, flying saucers