Knox test 2
Terry Southern's biographer, _____, said the part was originally written with ___________ in mind, and that ____ was offered the role after Sellers was injured but he immediately turned it down. ______of the Bonanza western television series was approached to play the part, but according to Southern, _________'s agent rejected the script as being "too pinko." Kubrick then recruited ________
Lee Hill; John Wayne; wayne;Dan Blocker; Blocker; Pickens
What involves the use of less detailed and/or more stylized drawings andmethods of movement and cn be used as a method of stylized art expression?
Limited animation
What is the last thing Dr. Strangelove says?
"Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a _______ American animated film produced by _______ and released by _____
1937; Walt Disney; RKO Radio Pictures
Fantasia is a _____ American animated film produced and released by ___________
1940; Walt Disney
When was Dr. Strangelove made and what genre is is?
1964, black comedy
2001: A Space Odyssey is a ______year,______________ film produced and directed by _______, and co-written by _____ and ______
1968; American epic science fiction;Stanley Kubrick; Kubrick; Arthur C. Clarke
In ______, the United States Library of Congress deemed the Dr. Strangelove "_____________" and selected it for preservation in the _______________. It was listed as number ____ on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.
1989; culturally significant;National Film Registry; 3
In _____, Space Odyssey was deemed "__________,_____________,___________" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the _______________
1991;culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant;National Film Registry
Despite initially receiving mixed reviews, ____________ is today recognized by many critics and audiences as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made
2001: A Space Odyssey
Sellers ended up playing ____ of ___ roles given to him
3; 4
Fantasia conists of ____ animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by ________
8; Leopold Stokowski
According to film critic __________, _____improvised Dr. Strangelove's lapse into the Nazi salute, borrowing one of Kubrick's black leather gloves for the uncontrollable hand that makes the gesture. Dr. Strangelove apparently suffers from ________________, or _________
Alexander Walker;Sellers; diagnostic apraxia; alien hand syndrome
What encompasses a variety of techniques, the unifying factor being that the animation is created digitally
Computer animation
what film concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. It separately follows the crew of one B-52 as they try to deliver their payload?
Dr. Strangelove
what three parts does peter sellers play?
Dr.Strangelove, General Turgidson, and the pres.
"Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One" (TMA-1)-"deliberately buried" four million years ago. _______ and others ride in a Moonbus to the artifact, a ___________identical to the one encountered by the apes
Floyd;black monolith;
Who was the creator of the special-effect films, and was generally one of the first people to use animation with his technique?
George Melies
ship's___________, which runs most of Discovery's operations.
HAL 9000 computer
Military strategist and former physicist _________, in his 1960 ___________, used the theoretical example of a __________ to illustrate the concept of mutual assured destruction (MAD); in effect, he argued, both sides already had a sort of _________, since their nuclear arsenals were large enough to destroy most life on Earth
Herman Kahn; On Thermonuclear War; doomsdaymachine;doomsday machine;
What is Dr. Strangelove also known as?
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
What is a common feature of Satire?
Irony/sarcasma
Who was the most successful early animation producer ?
John Randolph Bray
What two men patented the cel animation process?
John Randolph Bray, and Earl Hurd
_____, a leading 1950s critic of American strategy, urged America to plan for a limited nuclear war, and later in the 1960s became one of the architects of the ________. He held that a nuclear war was inherently _____ (because it is unwinnable) thus neither side would be willing to engage in all-out nuclear war.
Kahn; MAD doctrine; suicidal
What was Dr. Strangelove based off of?
Peter George's Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, also known as Two Hours to Doom.
Who did Dr. Strangelove star?
Peter Sellers and George C. Scott
Columbia Pictures agreed to finance Dr. Strangelove on condition that _________ play at least ____major roles. This condition stemmed from the studio's impression that much of the success of _________, _______'s previous film, was based on Sellers's performance in which his single character assumes a number of identities
Peter Sellers; 4; Lolita (1962); Kubrick
_________ has Dr. Strangelove in his list of Great Movies, saying it is "arguably the best _________of the century."
Roger Ebert; political satire
__________, while acknowledging Kubrick's desire to use actors to portray humanoid aliens for convenience's sake, argued that alien life forms were unlikely to bear any resemblance to terrestrial life, and that to do so would introduce "_____________" to the film. Sagan proposed that the film ________, rather than ______ extraterrestrial superintelligence.
Sagan; at least an element of falseness;suggest; depict
Kubrick tricked _____ into playing the role of __________far more ridiculously than he was comfortable doing. Kubrick talked him into doing over the top "practice" takes, which Kubrick told himwould never be used, as a way to warm up for the "real" takes. Kubrick used these takes in the final film, causing him to swear never to work with Kubrick again.
Scott; General Turgidson
_______ is said to have improvised much of his dialogue which is known as ___________
Sellers; retroscripting
who plays Major Kong?
Slim Pickens
______________, an established character actor and veteran of many Western films, was eventually chosen to replace Sellers as ________ after Sellers's injury.
Slim Pickens; Major Kong
Who directed, produced, and co-wrote Dr. Strangelove?
Stanley Kubrick
Who did Dr. Strangelove feature?
Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim Pickens
What is used to describe animation created by physically manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame of film at a timr to create the illusion of movement?
Stop-motion animation
who coined Black Humour?
Surrealist theoretician Andre Breton in 1935
What is Snow White based off of?
The German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
What was the main attraction of Snow White for Disney at the start of the film?
The Seven dwarfs and their possibilities for "screwiness" or "gags"
Disney settled on Fantasia's concept as work neared completion on ____________
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Wht is the process used for m0st animated films of the 20th century?
Tranditional animation
The soundtrack in Fantasia was done with fantasound which is :
a pioneering sound reproduction system that made Fantasia the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound
2001 is "perhaps the most thoroughly and accurately researched film in screen history with respect to __________________".
aerospace engineering
Although it was not even nominated for Best Picture, 2001 is considered by many sources to be ________________
among the greatest films of all time
Bowman and Poole both have a "______" about Hal, despite the HAL series' _________
bad feeling; perfect reliability
Kahn came off as ________ and _________, for example in his willingness to estimate how many human lives the USA could lose and still rebuild economically. This attitude is reflected in ________'s remark to the president about the outcome of a pre-emptive nuclear war: "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, uh, depending on the breaks."
cold; calculating;Turgidson
What have many noted Space Odyssey as?
deliberate ambiguity
definition of Black Humour
designates a sub-genre of comedy and satire in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism, often about the topic of death
Upon release, 2001 polarized critical opinion, receiving both _____and ________
ecstatic praise; vehement derision
Stanley Kubrick encouraged people to ________________, and refused to offer an explanation of "what really happened" in the movie, preferring instead to let audiences embrace their own ideas and theories
explore their own interpretations of the film
Kubrick agreed with computer theorists who believed that highly intelligent computers that can learn by experience will inevitably develop emotions such as _____, _____, ____, and ____. Such a machine, he said, would eventually manifest human mental disorders as well, such as a ___________-as HAL did in the film.
fear, love, hate, envy;nervous break-down
Bowman is transformed into a__________________________ The new being floats in space beside the Earth, gazing at it.
fetus-like being enclosed in a transparent orb of light
science fiction
fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
, the computer states that he is "___________."
foolproof and incapable of error
What is the process of producing high-quality traditionally animated films, which regularly use detailed drawings and plausable movement?
full animation
The film deals with thematic elements of :
human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life.
What artistic forms of expressions are Satires found in nowadays?
literature, plays, commentary, and media such as lyrics
the ape leader throws his weapon-tool into the air, switching (via _________) from a bone to an orbital satellite millions of years in the future.
match cut
The wheelchair-using Strangelove furthers a Kubrick trope of the ________, __________, first depicted in ______.
menacing, seated antagonist; Lolita
Dr. Strangelove takes passing shots at numerous Cold War attitudes, such as the "________", but it primarily focuses its satire on the theory of _______________________in which each side is supposed to be deterred from a nuclear war by the prospect of a universal cataclysmic disaster regardless of who "won".
missile gap; Mutual Assured Destruction(MAD)
Those who adopted a more negative view at the time of Fantasia's release were mostly _______ who resisted the idea of presenting ___________ with _____________-
music critics; classical music; visual images
What does this militant irony do in a Satire?
often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack
Irony is militant, but what other things are frequently used in satires?
parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre
satire
primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. Vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, to shame individuals and society itself into improvement. It's usually meant to be funny, greater purpose is constructive socail criticism using wit as a weapon
As the astronauts agree to deactivate the computer if it is proven to be wrong, they are unaware that Hal is ________________.
reading their lips through the pod's window
It is notable for its :
scientific accuracy, pioneering special effects, ambiguous imagery that is open-ended to a point approaching surrealism, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue.
It had first been thought that the main focus of Snow White would be the _________ and many sequences were written for them
seven dwarfs
Sellers's Strangelove takes from Rotwang the_______________ (_____________), the _____and, most importantly, ___________________________.
single black glove hand (Which is mechanical in Rotwang's b/c of lab accident); wild hair; his inability to be completely controlled by political power
The film has a memorable ________the result of the association that Kubrick made between the spinning motion of the ________ and the _______, which led him to use _______ by __________, and the famous symphonic poem _________by_______, to portray the ________of Man theorized in Nietzsche's work of the same name.
soundtrack; satellites; dancers of waltzes;The Blue Danube waltz ; Johann Strauss II; Also Sprach Zarathustra; Richard Strauss;Philosophical evolution
Hal terminates the life functions of the crew in _____________
suspended animation
What did Dr. Strangelove satirize?
the nuclear scare
Animation
the rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement
Approaching it, the pod is suddenly pulled into a ___________, and a disoriented and terrified _____ finds himself racing at great speed across vast distances of space, viewing bizarre cosmological phenomena and strange alien landscapes of unusual colors
tunnel of colored light; Bowman
ambiguity
uncertainty or inexactness of meaning
