A Movie Scene Quiz

Do auditions count as job interviews?

4. Splash (Tom Hanks, the grownup, goes for a job interview)

Good question, joefromchicago.
Let's limit it to an audition in an office before the person who is responsible for hiring, and not a stage audition. (if that makes any sense )

Recap:

E = Employment agency/office scene, or a character being interviewed for, or applying for, a job.

1. Dave (Kevin Kline owns an employment agency for temps.)
2. Klute (Jane Fonda as "Bree" seeks a job at a modeling agency.)
3. Down in the Delta (Alfre Woodard applies for a job as a supermarket cashier, and is turned down for the job -- and thoroughly humiliated by the store owner -- because she doesn't know arithmetic)
4. Splash (Tom Hanks, the grownup, goes for a job interview)

5. Victor/Victoria (audition in an agent's office)

6. Lady Sings the Blues - Ross 'applies' for the job as cleaning lady at the whorehouse and as a singer at the nightclub across the street
7. Hollywood Shuffle - Robert Townsend auditions in an office for a movie role
8. The Apartment - Jack Lemmon is interviewed/interrogated by Fred MacMurray
9. Mrs. Doubtfire - Robin Williams interviews for housekeeping job over the phone

Don't know if this counts. In Working Girl, there's a scene in which Melanie Griffith rides up in an elevator with Philip Bosco and Harrison Ford. She's explaining to Bosco how she came up with the idea for the radio ad campaign. He hires her. But the purpose of the discussion wasn't for her to get a job. It was to prove that it was her idea and not Sigourney Weaver's. Whaddya think?

I'm thinking we better not use that one since she wasn't trying to get the job, but it brings back nice memories, Roberta.

10. Bridget Jones's Diary

11. Schindler's List
12. The Shining
13. Mary Poppins

14. The Devil Wears Prada
15. Secretary

16. Taxi Driver
17. Best Years of Our Lives
18. The Sting
19. Kramer versus Kramer

20. Awakenings (1990), Robin Williams applies for job at mental hospital
21. Lupaus (2005), girls apply as Lottas
22. Men in Black (1997), men apply as agents (a bit out of this world but still . )
23. The Downfall (2006), girls apply as secretaries to Adolf Hitler
24. Les Uns et Les Autres (1981), musicians apply for work at the Folies Bergères after the war (no audition)
25. Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979, The Marriage of Maria Braun), Hanna Schygulla applies for a job at a textile factory.
26. Solo Sunny (1980), singer applies for job with a band (no audition).

27. Rocky 2

"Do you have a criminal record Mr Balboa?"

"Well, nothing worth braggin' about"

28. Mr. Mom (Michael Keaton applies for his old job at the car company)
29. Blazing Saddles (Slim Pickens interviews assorted bunch of bad guys to attack Rock Ridge)
30 On the Waterfront (dockworkers waiting around to get hired every day)
31 The Producers (Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel interview Christopher Hewett to be their director)
32. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (Bette Davis interviews Victor Buono to be her accompanist)
33. Footlight Parade (Ruby Keeler applies for job as dance coach, although for some reason she ends up as lead dancer in the show)

Good ones.

Recap:

E = Employment agency/office scene, or a character being interviewed for, or applying for, a job.

1. Dave (Kevin Kline owns an employment agency for temps.)
2. Klute (Jane Fonda as "Bree" seeks a job at a modeling agency.)
3. Down in the Delta (Alfre Woodard applies for a job as a supermarket cashier, and is turned down for the job -- and thoroughly humiliated by the store owner -- because she doesn't know arithmetic)
4. Splash (Tom Hanks, the grownup, goes for a job interview)
5. Victor/Victoria (audition in an agent's office)
6. Lady Sings the Blues - Ross 'applies' for the job as cleaning lady at the whorehouse and as a singer at the nightclub across the street
7. Hollywood Shuffle - Robert Townsend auditions in an office for a movie role
8. The Apartment - Jack Lemmon is interviewed/interrogated by Fred MacMurray
9. Mrs. Doubtfire - Robin Williams interviews for housekeeping job over the phone
10. Bridget Jones's Diary
11. Schindler's List
12. The Shining
13. Mary Poppins
14. The Devil Wears Prada
15. Secretary
16. Taxi Driver
17. Best Years of Our Lives
18. The Sting
19. Kramer versus Kramer
20. Awakenings (1990), Robin Williams applies for job at mental hospital
21. Lupaus (2005), girls apply as Lottas
22. Men in Black (1997), men apply as agents (a bit out of this world but still . )
23. The Downfall (2006), girls apply as secretaries to Adolf Hitler
24. Les Uns et Les Autres (1981), musicians apply for work at the Folies Bergères after the war (no audition)
25. Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979, The Marriage of Maria Braun), Hanna Schygulla applies for a job at a textile factory.
26. Solo Sunny (1980), singer applies for job with a band (no audition).
27. Rocky 2
28. Mr. Mom (Michael Keaton applies for his old job at the car company)
29. Blazing Saddles (Slim Pickens interviews assorted bunch of bad guys to attack Rock Ridge)
30 On the Waterfront (dockworkers waiting around to get hired every day)
31 The Producers (Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel interview Christopher Hewett to be their director)
32. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (Bette Davis interviews Victor Buono to be her accompanist)
33. Footlight Parade (Ruby Keeler applies for job as dance coach, although for some reason she ends up as lead dancer in the show)

34. Mystery Men (Amateur superheroes hold interviews to get new members for their team. Female applicant: "I am the PMS warrior. My powers work only once a month. Do you have a problem with that?")

I loooooved the Kramer vs. Kramer interview.

Obviously overqualified, he was desperate for the job and willing to take the pay cut. "This is a one-time offer, boys. Take it or leave it."

35. Trainspotting

No, it wasn't Slim Pickens, it was Harvey Korman.

36. Kauas pilvet karkaavat (1996, Far away the clouds are drifting), man applies as a taxi driver.