Meme

[tahnan]

Sure, I'm a sucker for a meme. Yadda yadda, IMDb keywords for a single movie, yadda, guess. All movies guaranteed to be uniquely defined by the keywords. Keywords alphabetized for each movie; movies alphabetized by first keyword. Feel free to post guesses in the comments.

1. Blindness / Flood / Radio Station
2. Charades / Kite / Knife in Thigh
3. Cheating at Cards / House Painter / Telegraph Office
4. Coney Island / Lobster / Pygmalion
5. Cop Killer / Handcuffs / Work Ethic
6. Exchange Student / Snow / Voice Impersonator
7. Fibonacci / Judaism / Paranoia
8. Grocery Store / Orphanage / Stuttering
9. Havana Cuba / Head Cold / Sewer
10. Narcolepsy / Rich Snob / Told in Flashback

As a bonus hint, one of these movies (I won't say which one) is the only movie for which "Rolltop Desk" is a keyword. Another one is the only movie for which "University of Wisconsin" is a keyword. "Fibonacci" would be unique if it weren't for that recent thing with Tom Hanks.

(Quick personal note to Ms. Smith, if she's still reading--hi, got your email, terribly far behind on answering things, will reply soon.)

Comments

[qaqaq.livejournal.com]

Man, I suck at these, but I'll try 1 = O Brother Where Art Thou.

[saxikath]

Oh, I think I know one! #9 = Guys and Dolls.

[thedan.livejournal.com]

7 must be Pi.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's right! (I decided not to go with "Toad" or "Bipolar Disorder". It is, though, the only movie with "Pomade" as a keyword.)

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Not only must it be, it is.

[jangler-npl.livejournal.com]

3 is The Sting.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Yup. (Man, I love that movie.)

[siderea]

#7 is π

[siderea]

Whups, already gotten I see!

[bryant]

10 could be My Own Private Idaho.
6... Better Off Dead?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

6 is correct 10 is not--though "Flashback Sequence" is a keyword, "Told in Flashback" is not. (Nor is "Rich Snob" in there.)

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

Is #4 Splash?

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

5. His Girl Friday

Gotta say, I was originally thinking LA Confidential, but then I remembered I have the brain of a pancake.

[dr_whom]

My kind of meme! Posting without viewing other comments.

1. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. The Sting.
5. Reservoir Dogs?
7. π.
9. Guys and Dolls.
10. Moulin Rouge!?

[dr_whom]

Wait, if (5) is His Girl Friday and (1) is O Brother, Where Art Thou, how come only one movie has "Rolltop Desk" as a keyword?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Oh, good guess! And "lobster" is right for that--but, no. (I don't think they ever went to Coney Island.)

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Nice! I wasn't positive anyone would get that one.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Fine question. But in fact, His Girl Friday is the only movie in the IMDb with "Rolltop Desk" as a keyword. It didn't even occur to me that it'd be right for O Brother, too.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, #5 is wrong; but on the other hand, you're the first one to spot #10. (And the others, of course, are right.)

[dr_whom]

I wonder if I might have guessed (5) if I hadn't spotted the rolltop desk in O Brother and stopped looking for it elsewhere. Well, probably not; Reservoir Dogs seems like a pretty good match too.

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

It's Annie Hall isn't it?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Very much so. (Which has, of course, a scene at the University of Wisconsin.)

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

reservoir dogs is a good choice, too. i was definitely thinking la confidental, but the handcuff thing is a big deal in HGF.

gotta say, some of the best hats used in the movies sat atop the savvy head of hildy johnson.

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

i love roz russell. guess i better icon that somehow...

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

#8 is a reach here, but is it Dead Again? this one has been bothering me since i first read this, and while stuttering and orphanage does make sense, the grocery store threw me off. there's a mart of some sort, where we see the back room when kenneth brannagh meets robin williams, but i think it's smaller than a grocery store so i am not 100% convinced.

i did see this nine times in the theater, and spent that year past life regressing all my pals through the power of hypnosis. good times.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

http://www.suberic.net/~tahnan/Rosalind.gif ? (Can you tell I finally got around to installing a graphics editor?)

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

In fact, it's very much Dead Again, which is just utterly one of my favorite movies ever. The IMDb's keywords aren't always quite accurate, but I think that's the grocery store they have in mind.

[thedan.livejournal.com]

2 isn't Harold & Maude by any chance, is it?

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

A cannot believe I'm commenter #30 and nobody's gotten the second one yet.
"Puuin onna Riiiss!"

[luckylefty.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie versions, but presumably both versions of The Front Page should also have "rolltop desk" as a keyword.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Give him the sedagive?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

No--I've seen Harold and Maude, once, long ago, but not well enough to remember. In fact, #2 is what bookishfellow alludes to below.