# Special Movie Trivia: Identify the movie from this scene description. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533 "2002-03-11T07:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/1 "2002-03-11T07:44:35Z")
dougie monty started this threat on the temporary SDMB and I’m transferring it here. So, identify the following movies from these scene descriptions and submit your own. - A man (and the camera) is hung upside down as he’s being interrogated about a serious crime involving a very important person (who’s also the interrogator’s boss.) - Two men argue about what “i.e.” and “e.g.” mean. - One man tells another that he never knocked him down. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/2 "2002-03-11T10:45:54Z")
NDP writes: \> - One man tells another that he never knocked him down. _Raging Bull_ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/3 "2002-03-11T10:59:14Z")
Nobody answered this one back on the other board so I’ll bring it out here and try again. The wedding guests tense visibly as the groom(a Navy veteran) places the ring on his bride’s finger. ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/4 "2002-03-11T14:17:05Z")
\*Two men argue about what “i.e.” and “e.g.” mean. \* Is that from **Smoke \*\* or \*\* Blue in the face? \*\* Or perhaps a Tarrantino? \*\* Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction**? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/5 "2002-03-11T15:51:19Z")
i.e., e.g. was from get shorty…dont know anything else ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/6 "2002-03-11T18:04:34Z")
I’m really curious what the “upside down interrogation” one is. - Seeing someone apparently puke, several men grab spoons and earnstly ingest it off the floor. - A wheelchair bound man is thrown off a cliff onto a deserted beach. - A dozen or so men, some in raincoats, surround a pit and stare in gravely. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/7 "2002-03-11T18:13:27Z")
> [@](#): > > - Seeing someone apparently puke, several men grab spoons and earnstly ingest it off the floor. The Great Santini Is the upside down one from The Long Good Friday , or whatever the Bob Hoskins movie about a Cockney gangster was called? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/8 "2002-03-11T18:19:44Z")
> [@](#): > > -Seeing someone apparently puke, several men grab spoons and earnestly ingest it off the floor. –The Great Santini I’ll come back with some scenes later. ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/9 "2002-03-11T20:18:41Z")
\*\*- A wheelchair bound man is thrown off a cliff onto a deserted beach. \*\* Is that from “Carlito’s way”? Ewwwww at the puke scene. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/10 "2002-03-11T20:28:13Z")
No kase (with the cool a that I don’t know how to replicate). Hint: He’s thrown off by the man who’s having an affair with his wife. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/11 "2002-03-11T20:28:38Z")
Thanks, NDP. 🙂 I’ll offer some new ones: 1. The former owner of a dog, who had mistreated the animal, menaces the boy who took the dog in and is killed when a windmill blade strikes him. 2. Another windmill scene…this windmill drives a display of wax figures–actually human corpses coated with wax, as in _House of Wax_ with Vincent Price–along a track, as an attraction. But here, the mill owner goes mad and starts a fire; the wax figures, traveling along the track driven by the windmill, melt and the bodies beneath them burn and fall apart. 3. In an epilog to the movie, a man in an office–who has a skeleton for a secretary–tells the audience to wait until they go to bed at night and the room is dark, and “look through the red part of your viewer–if you dare!” 4. A man tricked into boarding a Russian airplane is strip-searched for a coin his captors want. They don’t find it–He concealed it in his mouth. 5. On an ocean liner, four stowaways running from the crew stop at a music stage; one plays the piano while the others play ten bars of sour music on saxophones, and then leave–to enthusiastic applause by the audience! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/12 "2002-03-11T23:46:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dougie\_monty \* > \*\*5. On an ocean liner, four stowaways running from the crew stop at a music stage; one plays the piano while the others play ten bars of sour music on saxophones, and then leave–to enthusiastic applause by the audience! 😃 \*\* Sounds like a Marx Brother’s movie to me. Duck Soup? I could never keep them straight. ---
**Author:** ![ignatzmouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b2d939/32.png) [@ignatzmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatzmouse)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/13 "2002-03-12T00:20:42Z")
> [@](#): > > - A man (and the camera) is hung upside down as he’s being interrogated about a serious crime involving a very important person (who’s also the interrogator’s boss.) Is this \*\*Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao \*\* _(Shanghai Triad)?_ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/14 "2002-03-12T03:57:44Z")
Two of mine that never got answered: [li]A man baptises his newborn son in a stream, only to be caught and taken prisoner by a group of soldiers.[/li] A boy proposes to his girlfriend at the stock markets. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/15 "2002-03-12T04:31:32Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* \*\*Two of mine that never got answered: [li]A boy proposes to his girlfriend at the stock markets. \*\*[/li][/QUOTE] Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/16 "2002-03-12T05:05:18Z")
The movie with the legless man in the wheelchair being pushed off a cliff was _Eye of the Needle_. How about this one: a mob uses a catapult to hurl flaming projectiles at an apartment building, until the building’s only inhabitant responds with a large-caliber sniper rifle. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/17 "2002-03-12T06:44:21Z")
> [@](#): > > On an ocean liner, four stowaways running from the crew stop at a music stage; one plays the piano while the others play ten bars of sour music on saxophones, and then leave–to enthusiastic applause by the audience! > > * * * > > Sounds like a Marx Brother’s movie to me. Duck Soup? I could never keep them straight. Is is **Monkey Business**? > [@](#): > > Is the upside down one from The Long Good Friday , or whatever the Bob Hoskins movie about a Cockney gangster was called? > > … > > Is this Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao (Shanghai Triad)? Good guesses (especially **Long Good Friday** ) but wrong. Remember, only one man is being interrogated and most of the scene is shot from his upside-down P.O.V. (Although, I admit that I have not seen **Shanghai Triad** so there might be an identical scene in it.) > [@](#): > > One man tells another that he never knocked him down. > > _Raging Bull_ > [@](#): > > i.e., e.g. was from get shorty…dont know anything else You are both right. Let me try one: > [@](#): > > A man baptises his newborn son in a stream, only to be caught and taken prisoner by a group of soldiers. I should know this movie better to know for sure whether this scene is in it but I guess **Sophie’s Choice**. Let me add a couple more. I’ll start numbering them so they’ll be easier to reference. NDP 1 - A young English woman washes the headstone at the grave of her mother who died destitute and shunned by her family. NDP 2 - A cabdriver quits his job by abandoning his taxi in the middle of a bridge. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/18 "2002-03-12T06:53:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \*NDP 2 - A cabdriver quits his job by abandoning his taxi in the middle of a bridge. \*\* Stripes Try these - a man enjoying a private moment finds he can’t get up - a man and a woman haggles over the price of contact lenses - a British officer scolds recruits, then grant them their wish ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/19 "2002-03-12T07:09:15Z")
> [@](#): > > ## NDP 2 - A cabdriver quits his job by abandoning his taxi in the middle of a bridge. > > Stripes Correct–and too easy! Here’s another: NDP 3 - A man holds an empty bottle of booze but doesn’t feel drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/20 "2002-03-12T08:40:13Z")
Holding the bottle but not feeling drunk is _Memento_. Enjoying a private moment is _Lethal Weapon 2_. I thought the pit gravely was _Monty Python’s Meaning of Life_ death skit, but then I read it again. Oops. Anyway, I don’t think I know any more. But to add to the glut (I think picking off two and adding 1 is good karma): Thousands of paper cranes… Tenebras [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=2)