Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: jeremyp on September 15, 2016, 07:18:29 PM
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I had this idea for a game while walking to the office this morning. The idea is to describe the plot of a film (or book or TV programme etc) using some restrictive literary structure e.g. in only a certain number of words or as a limerick and see if people can guess the film.
It might be fun, or it might be pants.
Anyway, here's a film plot in the form of a Haiku.
Some fake terrorists
Crash the party to steal bonds
Lone cop kills them all.
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Is a Sun or Daily Mirror headline an accepted literary form?
If so, an opera:
Transvestite Toy Boy in Fake Marriage Scam
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Is a Sun or Daily Mirror headline an accepted literary form?
Absolutely
If so, an opera:
Transvestite Toy Boy in Fake Marriage Scam
That's probably good, but I don't know opera well enough to get it.
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I had this idea for a game while walking to the office this morning. The idea is to describe the plot of a film (or book or TV programme etc) using some restrictive literary structure e.g. in only a certain number of words or as a limerick and see if people can guess the film.
It might be fun, or it might be pants.
Anyway, here's a film plot in the form of a Haiku.
Some fake terrorists
Crash the party to steal bonds
Lone cop kills them all.
Too easy
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Too easy
But you don't seem to posting the answer.
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But you don't seem to posting the answer.
Duh! Die Hard
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Try this one then
"A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery."
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Or this one
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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Is a Sun or Daily Mirror headline an accepted literary form?
If so, an opera:
Transvestite Toy Boy in Fake Marriage Scam
Rocky Horror show? :-[
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Is a Sun or Daily Mirror headline an accepted literary form?
If so, an opera:
Transvestite Toy Boy in Fake Marriage Scam
Marriage of Figaro?
I'll try jeremyp's approach, though this film is a bit more obscure than his.
Friends meet here often
One of them getting married
If bride passes test
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Try this one then
"A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery."
What literary form is that...? ???
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What literary form is that...? ???
"in only a certain number of words"
;)
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Try this one then
"A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery."
The good the bad and the ugly.
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Five men practised their violinin
while secretly plottin an plannin
In the way of their course
stood Miss Wilberforce
So their cunnin all came to nothin
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Five men practised their violinin
while secretly plottin an plannin
In the way of their course
stood Miss Wilberforce
So their cunnin all came to nothin
The Ladykillers - v impressive
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Try this one then
"A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery."
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
I got this straight way because of a post on the Facebook group that I made which was a thinly disguised version of the plot. It was that post, in fact, that made me think of the challenge.
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What literary form is that...? ???
I'm trying to keep it flexible.
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Friends meet here often
One of them getting married
If bride passes test
Might need a clue there.
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Might need a clue there.
Same city, The Wire
No drugs, just bit of Bacon
And some years before
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Same city, The Wire
No drugs, just bit of Bacon
And some years before
I've got it but only by Googling. I've never seen the film in question.
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I've got it but only by Googling. I've never seen the film in question.
it's one of my favourites, heartily recommend it.
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Grumpy old man pretends to teach teenager martial art.
Actually just tricking boy into doing chores!
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Grumpy old man pretends to teach teenager martial art.
Actually just tricking boy into doing chores!
wax on, wax off
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One in room alone
He stands against eleven
He wins, the boy walks
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One in room alone
He stands against eleven
He wins, the boy walks
That I do know. Henry Fonda's finest hour.
The other one was The Diner.
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A British agent
Beats a bad man at po er
Then destroys Venice
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Marriage of Figaro?
No - it's about 100 years old.
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The good the bad and the ugly.
👍🏻
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A British agent
Beats a bad man at po er
Then destroys Venice
Casino Royale?
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Young girl from Kansas
kills witches, but not wizard
he sends her back home.
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Young girl from Kansas
kills witches, but not wizard
he sends her back home.
Kill Bill 2?
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Young girl from Kansas
kills witches, but not wizard
he sends her back home.
Oz
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Aerial reptiles.
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Aerial reptiles.
Snakes on a Plane?
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Casino Royale?
Yes
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Paint the whole town red
ordered the ghostly stranger
He got his revenge.
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Casino Royale?
And if you are wondering why the k was missing, I couldn't post a reply with the word "poker" in it for some bizarre reason, possibly involving spam protection.
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Paint the whole town red
ordered the ghostly stranger
He got his revenge.
High Plains Drifter
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Snakes on a Plane?
Yep.