If you don’t know by now, here’s how it works. I’ve take a short film synopsis from the listings page of a TV guide and fed it into Bable Fish, an online translating service. I then translated the synopsis from English into Greek, and then from Greek back into English. The resulting gobbledygook is posted below and your task is to try and identify what movie the passage refers to.
I didn’t get chance to pick up a actual guide this week so today’s review is from the Guardian newspaper website. No cheating and going over there.
The role that [actor] was given birth it plays: his fencer of 17 century has the heart of lion, the soul of poet and a big nose that, in case [actor], requires only the secondary additive increase. The [director] directs tragic [author] for the unselfish love [character] for his beautiful cousin [character] in the epic scale, with the enormous battles and a thin eye for the placements and the suit. (1990)
The winner last time was Phil from A Family Runs Through It. Phil has been waxing philosophical on the finite nature of childhood and the importance of crafting memories with his children. His kids meanwhile are oblivious to their dad’s ponderings and are busy building snowforts in the garden. To them their childhood seems endless, but there future selves are lucky they have a father as thoughtful as Phil
————-
In July of this year I shall be walking 78 miles in 6 days in aid of the Joseph Salmon Trust, a charity founded by my close friends in memorial to their son Joseph who died aged 3 in April of 2005. Please look here for further details and consider sponsoring me. Thank you.
This has to be Cyrano de Bergerac, right? What other story invoves fencing and a big nose? The first movie version was made with Mel Ferrer, but I know there was a remake in 1990 with a real Frenchman, Gérard Depardieu. Sorry, Dan, this was too easy!
Is it The Battleship Potemkin? *grin*
It’s Pinnochio!
The Princess Bride!
Ed (zoesdad)’s last blog post..Story Time with Zoë –Volume 1
Lise M. - Well done! I’m finding it hard to find the balance between too easy and too hard. Next week I’m going to try the other extreme.
Morticia - Smart arse
Oli - You’re a smart arse too.
Ed - I appear to be surrounded by smart arses.
Missed the boat again! Oh well… I would not have got it anyway - the words big monster were not involved!
Bec’s last blog post..Bothered?
OH, darn, someone beat me to it! I will watch for another one.
Nina’s last blog post..Sin of the week, 2/3/08
Yeah, I was thinking Cyrano, too, but only because of the big nose.
Avitable’s last blog post..Fuck.
Bec - no, but big nose is pretty close.
Nina - I fully expect you to spend each and every sunday in the future repeatedly refreshing my blog just so you can be the first to answer.
Avitable - Yes, it was either going to be Cyrano or some sort of Barry Manilow concert film