Knox test 2

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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


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