# 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:** 20
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/381 "2002-12-16T08:38:23Z")
NDP 30 - To Die For ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/382 "2002-12-16T15:04:59Z")
Could NDP29 be _KPAX_? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/383 "2002-12-16T19:09:10Z")
Kawliga is right about NDP 30. NDP 29 is NOT **KPAX**. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/384 "2002-12-16T20:58:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\*Okay, this thread is slowing down. Let me bring back one of mine that hasn’t been solved: > > NDP 29 - Acting like he’s hardly ever breathed fresh air before, a man sticks his head out of the window of a moving car into a winter’s night. > \*\* 12 Monkeys? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/385 "2002-12-16T23:23:56Z")
HPL is right about NDP 29. Here’s a new one that should be fairly easy: NDP 31 - Two men in two offices fight over one desk. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/386 "2002-12-16T23:50:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\*HPL is right about NDP 29. > > Here’s a new one that should be fairly easy: > > NDP 31 - Two men in two offices fight over one desk. \*\* Brazil. I see that sombody is a Gilliam fan. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/387 "2002-12-17T01:15:28Z")
You’re right again HPL. (I knew that was too easy.) Here’s another: NDP 32 - Patrons of a movie theater in small Texas town sing along to a “Follow the bouncing ball” cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Fang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@Fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fang)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/388 "2002-12-17T03:49:26Z")
How about this one: F1: A man kills another man who looks like him. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/389 "2002-12-17T18:59:47Z")
Terminator 2: Judgment Day ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/390 "2002-12-18T07:41:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fang \* > \*\*How about this one: > > F1: A man kills another man who looks like him. \*\* Army of Darkness? ---
**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/391 "2002-12-18T14:26:45Z")
smam: A man is trying to think of the answer to question that is troubling him. A car pulls up behind him and the sound of the car door answers the mans question. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/392 "2002-12-19T07:00:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fang \* > \*\*How about this one: > > F1: A man kills another man who looks like him. \*\* How about Face-Off? ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/393 "2002-12-19T07:31:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\*You’re right again HPL. (I knew that was too easy.) > > Here’s another: > > NDP 32 - Patrons of a movie theater in small Texas town sing along to a “Follow the bouncing ball” cartoon. \*\* Hud ---
**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:** [December 19, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/394 "2002-12-19T07:39:02Z")
Kawliga is right. NDP 32 is “Hud.” A new one: NDP 33 - A girl tries to scare her younger brother with a puppet of a violinist. ---
**Author:** ![Fang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@Fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fang)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/395 "2002-12-23T16:56:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HPL \* > \*\*How about Face-Off? \*\* This was right - the answer to F1 is _Face/Off_. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/396 "2003-01-10T08:11:07Z")
Bringing it back again… NDP 34 - The mailbox of an abandoned house overflows with undelivered letters. NDP 35 - A boy is told not to wipe blood off a razor. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/397 "2003-01-10T10:33:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\* > > NDP 35 - A boy is told not to wipe blood off a razor. \*\* Gangs of New York. ---
**Author:** ![AchimbaProphet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@AchimbaProphet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AchimbaProphet)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/398 "2003-01-10T11:06:22Z")
Here is my clue for the best movie that no one has ever heard of: zz1: An interrogator and a prisoner, alone in a room. The interrogator a man, the prisoner a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Reuel\_Miller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@Reuel\_Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reuel_Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/399 "2003-01-10T11:19:14Z")
OK… I went from page one to page 8, and as far as I can tell… these have not been confirmed as correct… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spoonbender \* > > \*\*Spoonbender3:\*\*A man nearly falls to his death due to a spelling error. \*\* This is the Classic **Brazil** Jonathan Pryce’s Tuttle is mistaken for Bob Hoskin’s Buttle (or Buttle is mistaken for Tuttle, I forget which way round… damn fly’s in the systems) > [@](#): > > A respected woman of society appears at the opera, only to be booed by those in attendance. Dangerous Liansons… Glenn Close is boo’ed > [@](#): > > NDP 11 - A man re-enacts a scene from a popular movie using a snack chip and a condiment. Clerks … He re-enacts Jaws 😉 > [@](#): > > Protesilaus3: Two men beat up people who insulted them on the Internet. Jay and Silent Bob Strike back > [@](#): > > NDP 26 - A man eating breakfast is annoyed by the characters on a cereal box. Minority Report > [@](#): > > EL2: a bemused boy finds a bra on an outdoor table and calls after the girl who left it behind. The Good Girl? > [@](#): > > L4L - 10 A boy hangs himself, then has dinner with his mother. Better off Dead with John Cusack > [@](#): > > HPL 4: A young man saves the lives of several others by allowing himself to be killed. Donnie Darko > [@](#): > > zz1: An interrogator and a prisoner, alone in a room. The interrogator a man, the prisoner a woman. Sorry to get this so quick… Closetland 😉 Cheers Reuel ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/400 "2003-01-10T11:40:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reuel\_Miller \* > \*\*Donnie Darko > \*\* Got it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=21)