Quizzy Quizes (or is it Quizzes?)

[beagle]

19 Moebius

[Swatopluk]

#8, beagle, Silk
#12, beagle, Akahige (Redbeard) is sometimes found as Barbarossa in movie dictionaries
#13, beagle, Mifune takes the name of Kuwabatake Sanjuro (Mulberry field 30) in Yojimbo and Sanjuro by Kurosawa
#15, beagle, Paths of Glory
#16, beagle, Lone Wolf and Cub aka the Baby Cart series
#19, beagle Moebius

Remaining
1,2,4,6,11,14,17

There is a special parallel between Son of the Sheikh and Don Q - Son of Zorro. Hint: It required a special effect.
Hint 1,2,14 have been mentioned in the forum already
Hint for #6: made in America but not in the US. There was a sequel to it too

Looks like beagle is unbeatable this time (wait for quiz #3 )

[beagle]

mwa ha ha ha ha ha - the Oscar is mine....

Sorry, got carried away for a minute.  Actually I thought Yojimbo was a Southern U.S. greeting until I Googled.

[Opsa]

'Oy, you skipped my right answer to #18, ya Blaggard! 

(Oi needs me brownie points or it's no brownies for me!  )

[Bruder Cuzzen]

# 11 The Life of Brian ?

# The octopus movie....Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ?...Creature From The Deep ?

Is the answer to the Dracula question...Dracula ?..Johnathon? (Ger.1969 , don't remember this one) .

[Swatopluk]

'Oy, you skipped my right answer to #18, ya Blaggard! 

(Oi needs me brownie points or it's no brownies for me!  )

Nope. I didn't. I only announce new correct answers, yours was in the last one already
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#6,11,17 all wrong
There was a geographical hint for #6 (and although many German are in America, Germany is not (at least not as a nation state)
Hint for #17, the god of animation did it
Hint for #11, the movie takes place around the founding of modern Israel

[goat starer]

Dear swato. I am sure you are thinking of a different film from later on made in german but....

4. is whisky galore

[goat starer]

and number 17 is it came from beneath the sea

but it is an octopus

not a squid

so i am probably wrong again   

and i think number 2 is the final curtain

number 1 must surely be Shoot em up

[beagle]

Dear swato. I am sure you are thinking of a different film from later on made in german but....

4. is whisky galore

Nice try Goat, but I already did that one a page or two back.

[Swatopluk]

A few hits for the goat
#1, Shoot'em Up, Clive Owen loves carrots (and mentions the Vitamin A thing iirc) and kills several people with them (e.g. impact through the eye socket) in this very entertaining (and absurd) movie.
#2 The Final Curtain with Peter O'Toole
#17, It came from beneath the Sea, tricks by Ray Harryhausen (but they could afford only 6 arms for the giant cephalopod* that tears down the Golden Gate Bridge)

*most common dictionaries (those that do not specialize in marine biology) use squid as a general synonym for cephalopod, including octopus, calmar, sepia...
The German equivalent Tintenfisch (inkfish) is used the same way

[goat starer]

Nice try Goat, but I already did that one a page or two back.

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1,2,4,6,11,14,17

just swato trying to confuse me again... I think he has it in for me!

Also whilst both squid and octopus (ses) are cephlapods squid have 8 arms and 2 tentacles whilst octopus have 8 arms. As the one in the film has no tentacles just 6 arms (there is a distinction) it must be an octopus (also because it looks like one and the film says it is one) or the question makes no sense at all since the question implies that the number of similar appendages has been reduced for budgetary reasons. If it were a squid it would have had two similar appendages and two different appendages removed for budgetary reasons. (it makes no sense at all anyhow as a squid or octopus with 6 tentacles rather than arms would be a mutant).

Describing it as a giant squid (Architeuthis which is a specific creature within a family of an order of a class) would be like describing Tarka the Otter as being a film about an elephant.

Both are of the class mammalia just as both giant squid and octopus are of the class cephalopoda.

any dictionary that says that all squid and octopus are cephalopods is right
but not all cephalopods are squid.

a fairly basic principle of logic.

yours pedantically

Goat


PS. a long time ago i learned never to be the quiz master

[Griffin NoName]

Exactly how much money would be saved per missing appendage?

[Bruder Cuzzen]

^ must be in man hours rather than the high price of silly putty..... Oh ...that reminds me of Slinkys ...I saw one made of plastic a few years ago .

[Aphos]

Exactly how much money would be saved per missing appendage?

Probably depends on the current price of sushi.

[goat starer]

my brother made an 'arm' (tentacle) for the Badly Drawn Boy video for You Were Right


the video is here (arms (tentacles) at about 2mins 40)......

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K1BNOzDnOLI

those are real model tentacles (arms) knocking down the plane. I have seen them in the flesh (or soft polyeurothane foam in a latex shell i am informed by a sleepy paul)

he tells me it would cost about £500 at current prices for each casting (cost price) above the first one. not much of a cost all things considered.

and he is sitting behind me (well sleeping)

so it must be right