Alternative Film Plots Based on Their Titles

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Give an alternative film plot based on the film's title.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

a theatre employee is unable to carry out his duties properly, as he unable to enter the magician's dressing room, on account of the cloak hanging on the back of the door which absolutely terrfies him.

= Cape Fear

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Cliffhanger = a film which never actually ends

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

mary kills her mother while mentally unbalanced, but she and her brother charles (who will become a famous writer) say nothing, and no one ever finds out

WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Protagonist is taken violently ill, and vomits up a newborn child.

WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED?

― A. Person, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh GOD! Erm, weirdly returning to a writer discussed w/ Mark last week, but is it 'The Cement Garden'? No, but close. Argh.
But to point out inconsistency, obv the narrator found out... unless it was written by the brother.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

no, no the title = same as that of a famous film (the cement garden is an actual film of a vaguely similar story (the mum dies of natural causes tho)

we are watching so we know, it doesn't have a narrator as the iron law of film = narrator = unreliable narrator

BRINGING UP BABY!

(in mine he in fact goes on to be a famous a 19th-century CHILDREN'S writer and she often collaborates w.him) (also apparently she stabbed their dad)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(this will end in tears)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

WHAT?

All films have narrators (viz Peter Wollen, VF Perkins, et al).

So you are actually just playing? You kno the answer? Christ. Erm, 'Tales of Hoffman', wtf.

― Mr Peabody (Enrique), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

There's Something About Mary?
Silence of the Lambs!

Epic film follows fortunes of refugees fleeing war in southern Croatia
= 101 Dalmatians

Rogue virus afflicts town with plague of uncontrollable flatulence
= A Mighty Wind

― Ann Onymous, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

backstory: at the time he wasn't that keen on to pleasuring his girlfriend orally
as film opens: he has changed his mind

WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

this is such a great game!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Name this film: the story of the first president of spanish descent

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Psychotic man murders his newly wed wife, and in the process decapitates her. Police catch the murderer as he returns to the scene of the crime to retrieve the missing head.

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS NOVEL AND TV SERIES?

― A. Person, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Brideshead Revisited!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

backstory: at the time he wasn't that keen on to pleasuring his girlfriend orally
as film opens: he has changed his mind

Igby Goes Down?

Animated children's film following trials and tribulations of a pair of newborn ducklings
= Sammie and Rosie Get Laid

― Ann Onymous, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Victims of a mysterious disease pass into a coma for many years; this film is NOT Awakenings.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The Big Sleep?

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

you got it!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(yeah, I know, that one was pretty weak)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

silence of the lambs is CORRECT!
igby goes down is INCORRECT!

all films have an implied narrative pov, sure (if they don't have more than one) — but plenty of films don't have an actual narrator-as-character, in the sense that events occur which only the people involved know about and others may or may not discover, inspector frost doesn't haul the cameraman from behind the camera for grilling

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Psychotic man murders his newly wed wife, and in the process decapitates her. Police catch the murderer as he returns to the scene of the crime to retrieve the missing head.

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS NOVEL AND TV SERIES?

Prime Suspect!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

backstory: at the time he wasn't that keen on to pleasuring his girlfriend orally
as film opens: he has changed his mind

Down with Love?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

'K-19: the widowmaker'

jim belushi and the german shepherd are BACK, ten years later! except, in dog years, it's sixty years later!!! jim is almost a hundred and is no longer a cop. in fact, he spends his time around killing married men!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

A man who uses arcane language searches for his lost sibling. WHAT MOVIE?

A hemophiliac discovers an easy way to synthesize the substance he needs. WHAT MOVIE?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

A man who uses arcane language searches for his lost sibling. WHAT MOVIE?
O Brother Where Art Thou?

A hemophiliac discovers an easy way to synthesize the substance he needs. WHAT MOVIE?
Blood Simple.

Next!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Kevin Costner stars as a critical theory major dealing with issues of masculinity.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Keanu Reeves stars in this biopic of a critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful 1980s rock band...

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Speed?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Youngblood?
Permanent Record?
Parenthood?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The Replacements!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

A series of fights-to-the-death between rival groups of celebrities!

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The Replacements!

*ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding*

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

A series of fights-to-the-death between rival groups of celebrities!

Star Wars?

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

A British author terrorizes folks, asks rhetorical question.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Star Wars?

Ker-ching!

(i know, that was an easy one)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

What's New Pussycat?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Documentary about the day-to-day life of a Cabinet-level politician

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Anti-globalisation drama about how society is being destroyed by a multinational confectionary conglomorate.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Anti-globalisation drama about how society is being destroyed by a multinational confectionary conglomorate.

Mars Attacks.

Can you tell I'm the kind of person who enjoys cryptic crosswords?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ker-ching!

(clearly, you are. I can't get any of these, which is why I have to make the questions up instead)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

See, I can't make any up, I can just solve them. You are the yin to my yang (or something)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

What's New Pussycat?

Nope.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

A British author terrorizes folks, asks rhetorical question.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

― Ann Onymous, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Heartwarming film about a Christian man's relationship with his best friend's child

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Documentary about the day-to-day life of a Cabinet-level politician

Secretary?

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Documentary about owners who train their puppies to waterski in artificial lakes.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Resovoir Dogs!
Yay I got one!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Heartwarming film about a Christian man's relationship with his best friend's child \
Jesus' Son

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

80s Teensploitation flick cashing in on the short-lift "brail-graffiti" tagging style on the New York metro system.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Erm, I mean "short-lived"

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i see no one got gladiator while i wz away working on my book

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

a hahaha

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Revive! Because this thread was fantastic. And because I want an answer to that "brail-graffiti" one.

― The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 26 December 2004 07:48 (twenty years ago)

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