# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/161 "2002-11-22T13:58:38Z")
**TK1- “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges.” (the first time it was said on film)** Treasure of Sierra Madre? **NDP 27 - Although it’s turned off, a disturbing image is seen on a TV screen.** The Ring? **ME 1 - The usual relationship between oil tanker and submarine is reversed dramatically.** The Spy Who Loved Me? Okay, my turn: L4L 1 - A priest sees two dogs fight in the desert, later he sees a man jump out a window. (Easy) L4L 2 - It’s Mother’s Day, and a group of soldiers are celebrating with whiskey and hookers. (Medium) L4L 3 A man gets divorced then travels to Poland in a suitcase. (hard) ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/162 "2002-11-22T14:05:30Z")
L4L 3: _Three Colours: White_ ---
**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:** [November 22, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/163 "2002-11-22T14:46:35Z")
NDP writes: \> NDP 27 - Although it’s turned off, a disturbing image is seen on \> a TV screen. I suspect that there have been a number of films with scenes like this, but one is _Poltergeist_. Michael Ellis writes: \> ME 6 - A furturistic spaceship is full of rusting pipes and boilers. Well, that’s sort of true in _Alien_. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/164 "2002-11-22T14:56:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jabba \* > \*\*L4L 3: _Three Colours: White_ \*\* Gee, you got the hard one first ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/165 "2002-11-22T15:00:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wendell Wagner \* > \*\*NDP writes: > > \> NDP 27 - Although it’s turned off, a disturbing image is seen on > \> a TV screen. > > I suspect that there have been a number of films with scenes like this, but one is _Poltergeist_. > \*\* Someone else said Poltergeist too, but was there an image on the screen at all? It’s been years since I’ve seen it, but I thought it was static and the girl got sucked into it or something. Now **The Ring** , that has disturbing images on a TV :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/166 "2002-11-22T15:04:30Z")
BWY1: Hundreds of bullets fly through a building, but there’s no sound of gunfire. BWY2: A man’s nightmare comes true behind a diner in LA. BWY3: A few soldiers, survivors of an avalanche, crawl out of the snow that buried them. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/167 "2002-11-22T15:12:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*ME 7 - A dead man just won’t shut up. \*\* American Werewolf in London? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/168 "2002-11-22T15:27:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bomzaway \* > **BWY2: A man’s nightmare comes true behind a diner in LA.** The Player ? ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/169 "2002-11-22T15:31:51Z")
**lost4life** Humphrey Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre is correct. I was afraid that’d be too easy or perhaps you’re just good. That line has been misquoted and paraphrased for decades. I was just wondering if anybody still living remembered where they first HEARD it. Not read it mind you, very good. You didn’t Google it did you? and in Poltergeist, IIRC the little girl was the one who saw the images on the TV, afterwards she WAS the image on the TV (quite disturbing) TK2 - (hint 1)Three friends who were in law enforcement together wind up at odds and one is executed by the other two for doing something they all three are guilty of. (hint2) Another member of the trio dies later, regretting the execution of the first. Admits to the sole surviving friend that they had killed him for doing the same thing they were guilty of. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/170 "2002-11-22T15:47:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by t-keela \* > \*\ ***lost4life** Humphrey Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre is correct. I was afraid that’d be too easy or perhaps you’re just good. That line has been misquoted and paraphrased for decades. I was just wondering if anybody still living remembered where they first HEARD it. Not read it mind you, very good. > > You didn’t Google it did you? > > and in Poltergeist, IIRC the little girl was the one who saw the images on the TV, afterwards she WAS the image on the TV (quite disturbing) > > \*\* Aside from a spoof in Blazing Saddles, I really only know it from Sierra Madre. I’ve heard people say it a lot, but I kind of took it as common knowledge, seeing how Bogart was fairly popular. And I still take The Ring TV over Poltergeist TV ! \*\*BWY1: Hundreds of bullets fly through a building, but there’s no sound of gunfire.[\B] The Matrix? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/171 "2002-11-22T16:08:49Z")
lost4life writes: \> And I still take The Ring TV over Poltergeist TV ! The problem with this whole game is that many of the scenes that we’re supposed to guess are described so vaguely that they could be found in half a dozen films. Come on, people, if you’re going to make this game work, be a little more specific in your descriptions so that they don’t apply to a dozen films. ---
**Author:** ![NYR407](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@NYR407](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NYR407)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/172 "2002-11-22T16:29:44Z")
L4L1 - Exorsist BWY1 - I was thinking Matrix too BWY3 - Fellowship of the Rings? Although I have some entries from page 1 I will start a new numbering system. NYR1- A blind man accidently lights a visitors thumb on fire NYR2 - A man’s surname becomes synonymous with failure NYR3- A boy returns a special gift and is rewarded with an even greater gift ---
**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:** [November 22, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/173 "2002-11-22T16:38:30Z")
NYR407 writes: \> NYR1- A blind man accidently lights a visitors thumb on fire _Young Frankenstein_ ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/174 "2002-11-22T16:40:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NYR407 \* > \*\*L4L1 - Exorsist > > NYR3- A boy returns a special gift and is rewarded with an even greater gift \*\* Correct. NYR3 Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. ---
**Author:** ![NYR407](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@NYR407](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NYR407)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/175 "2002-11-22T16:51:48Z")
WW is correct L4L is correct TK2 - Is that Sleepers? Its been a while since I seen it so my memory is a little foggy. I should have said Fellowship of the Ring (not plural) in case someone tries to correct me later. No guess on NYR2? NYR4 - A man dies before he gets a chance to see Montana. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/176 "2002-11-22T17:44:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bomzaway \* > **BWY1: Hundreds of bullets fly through a building, but there’s no sound of gunfire.** Sounds like The Matrix to me. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/177 "2002-11-22T17:48:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NYR407 \* > \*\*NYR2 - A man’s surname becomes synonymous with failure \*\* Kingpin ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/178 "2002-11-22T17:53:01Z")
NYR4 - A man dies before he gets a chance to see Montana hunt for red october? ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/179 "2002-11-22T17:57:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NYR407 \* > \*\* > > NYR4 - A man dies before he gets a chance to see Montana. \*\* Oooh Oooh WAG, but is it Badlands? (I previewed and saw t-keela’s answer…it sounds better, but weren’t the chartacters in Badlands heading for Montana? It’s been a while.) New ones: L4L - 4 A German lady makes coffee in the desert. L4L - 5 A German scientist is attacked by dogs in Pennsylvania. L4L - 6 A German girl screams very, very loud in a casino. knockwurst anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/180 "2002-11-22T18:12:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lost4life \* > \*\* > L4L - 6 A German girl screams very, very loud in a casino.[/SIZE] \*\* Run, Lola, Run. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=10)