A Movie Scene Quiz

15. The Great Caruso (Mario Lanza)

Recap:

O = Opera (an opera scene in a movie)

1. Moonstruck
2. A Night at the Opera
3. The Godfather: Part III
4. Meeting Venus
5. Age of Innocence
6. Amadeus
7. Pretty Woman
8. Citizen Kane
9. Trollflöjten (The Magic Flute, 1975), Bergman and Mozart
10. Ba wang bie ji (Farewell to my concubine, 1993), if Chinese opera also counts.
11. Hsi yen (The Wedding Banquet, 1993), Wei Tung's date from the marriage agency is an opera singer, who demonstrates her skill.
12. Mademoiselle Else (2002), the opera in Vienna is featured.
13. Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2001), the opera in Copenhagen (if I remember well).
14. E la nave va (1983), brilliant Fellini with diva's competing with each other and the machinery of a luxury ocean liner!
15. The Great Caruso (Mario Lanza)

16. Dangerous Liasons
17. The Untouchables
18. The Fifth Element

19. Victor/Victoria

20. Fatal Attraction

I don't remember an opera scene in Fatal Attraction. Glenn Close's character listened to a recording but, did she actually attend?

20/21?. The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Glenn Close never got to "Madame Butterfly" in the movie. I think, but am not positive, that she had the tickets, but she never got there. I remember she was very upset about not going.

So, we'll make The Unsinkable Molly Brown (I'll be darned if I can remember an opera in that one, but I'll take your word for it, eoe), number:

20. The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Oh, the Fifth Element was next on my list! That was a literal "space opera"

Remember when they showed the snippets of Molly in Europe? There was one where she, JJ and the royals were in a box seat. We only heard the opera singers onstage but there was Molly, dressed to the nines, twirling her opera glasses and whistling. Remember? And JJ looked very bored and sad. This was before he abandoned her and came back to the States alone.

I stand corrected

X

eoe - I recorded "Molly" not too long ago so I plopped the DVD in. Sure enough, there was Molly in the box next to the Frenchman with Johnny standing behind her, and a baritone warbling a few lines of The Barber of Seville (I think) in the background.

Dorothy Parker: No problem.

O = Opera (an opera scene in a movie)

1. Moonstruck
2. A Night at the Opera
3. The Godfather: Part III
4. Meeting Venus
5. Age of Innocence
6. Amadeus
7. Pretty Woman
8. Citizen Kane
9. Trollflöjten (The Magic Flute, 1975), Bergman and Mozart
10. Ba wang bie ji (Farewell to my concubine, 1993), if Chinese opera also counts.
11. Hsi yen (The Wedding Banquet, 1993), Wei Tung's date from the marriage agency is an opera singer, who demonstrates her skill.
12. Mademoiselle Else (2002), the opera in Vienna is featured.
13. Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2001), the opera in Copenhagen (if I remember well).
14. E la nave va (1983), brilliant Fellini with diva's competing with each other and the machinery of a luxury ocean liner!
15. The Great Caruso (Mario Lanza)
16. Dangerous Liasons
17. The Untouchables
18. The Fifth Element
19. Victor/Victoria
20. The Unsinkable Molly Brown

I know my ****, raggedy...
for the most part anyways

I never doubted it for one minute, eoe.

Now, I would have sworn there was on opera scene in "Hannah and Her Sisters", but I ran it through quickly and couldn't find one. They just talked about it, I guess.

21. Interrupted Melody (The story of Australian opera singer, Marjorie Lawrence, played by Eleanor Parker)

22. Camille
23. M. Butterfly
24. Going My Way (Rise Stevens in scene from Carmen)

25. Madame Bovary

The Bovary's attend a performance at the opera house in Rouen. In the book, the opera is Lucia di Lammermoor -- I can't remember if it's the same in the movie.

26. Original Sin
27. The 5th Element

Sorry, The 5th was already taken (at no. 18)

I suggest:
27. Farinelli Il Castrato (1994)

28. Topsy-Turvy (if Gilbert & Sullivan counts)

29. The Bride Wore Black (Jeanne Moreau meets one of her intended victims at the opera)