A Movie Scene Quiz

Nobody has mentioned:

30. Phantom of the Opera (three versions)?

What's wrong with you people?

The opera, by the way, is Gounod's Faust.

Also:

31: Love and Death

Woody Allen's character attends an opera in St. Petersburg, although we never actually see the opera on stage.

And another:

32: Godfather, Part III

A performance of Cavalleria Rusticana serves as the backdrop for the inevitable bloodbath at the film's conclusion.

read the list, Joe...

32. The Awful Truth (Irene Dunn sings an opera for a small audience while Cary Grant falls out of a chair and creates a ruckus in the back of the room)

My apologies: in scanning the list, I must have missed that.

Here's a recap. Hope I got the numbers right.

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
21. Interrupted Melody
22. Camille
23. M. Butterfly
24. Going My Way (Rise Stevens in scene from Carmen)
25. Madam Bovary
26. Original Sin
27. 27. Farinelli Il Castrato (1994)
28. Topsy-Turvy (if Gilbert & Sullivan counts) Sure, the more the merrier
29. The Bride Wore Black (Jeanne Moreau meets one of her intended victims at the opera)
30. Love and Death (if he was at the opera, OK)
31.. The Awful Truth (Irene Dunn sings an opera for a small audience while Cary Grant falls out of a chair and creates a ruckus in the back of the room)

If operetta counts, then:

33. Foul Play (Climax of the movie takes place during a performance of The Mikado)
34. The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
35. Pas sur la bouche (Alain Resnais's 2003 film version of the Yvain operetta)

I imagine we've covered most of the operas by now. Let's stop with 35 and go on to:

P = Psychiatrist (or a session with a psychiatrist in a movie)

1. Spellbound

2. Now, Voyager

3. The Singing Detective (2003), Mel Gibson as psychotherapist
4. Scary Movie 4 (2005), Dr Phil has a cameo.
5. Shine (1996)

6. The Snake Pit

7. What About Bob?
8. The Man Who Loved Women
9. Trust the Man
10. Analyze This
11. Analyze That

Recap:

P = Psychiatrist (or a session with a psychiatrist in a movie)

1. Spellbound
2. Now, Voyager
3. The Singing Detective (2003), Mel Gibson as psychotherapist
4. Scary Movie 4 (2005), Dr Phil has a cameo.
5. Shine (1996)
6. The Snake Pit
7. What About Bob?
8. The Man Who Loved Women
9. Trust the Man
10. Analyze This
11. Analyze That

12. The Three Faces of Eve
13. Sybil
14. Prince of Tides
15. Antwon Fisher
16. An Unmarried Woman
17. What A Way To Go
18. The Thomas Crown Affair

In "Suddenly, Last Summer" Montgomery Clift may have played a psychiatrist but I think maybe his character was actually a surgeon. Anybody know for sure?

He was a surgeon. Lobotomies were his specialty.

19. Annie Hall
20. Zelig
21. Another Woman

(Psychiatrists are probably seen, or at least mentioned, in just about every Woody Allen movie, but the above three are the ones I'm certain of.)

22. Ordinary People

oh, and that really bad Bruce Willis one...I'll be back when I think of the title of that...

Got it...

23. Color of Night
24. Girl, Interrupted

25. Kings Row
26. Final Analysis
27. Mr. Jones

28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest