A Movie Scene Quiz

Raggedy always gave us a final list. Are you going to make a list for us, Paaskynen?

Glad to oblige:
1. Cloverfield (The statue is decapitated by a monster)
2. The Day after Tomorrow (The statue is hit by a tidal wave and subsequently frozen in ice)
3. The Planet of the Apes (Remains of the statue on a beach)
4. Flodder in America (Anti-social Dutch family accidentally blows up the head of the statue)
5. Splash (Mermaid Madison comes ashore at the foot of Lady Liberty)
6. Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous (Remo walks on liquid cement during a fight at the foot of the statue).
7. X-men (A fight between the X-men and other mutants takes place on the statue).
8. The Godfather (Vito Corleone first sees the statue from behind bars in the holding centre of Ellis Island)
9. Ghostbusters II - The statue comes to life and wades into Manhattan.
10. Titanic - Rose (Kate Winslet) sees the statue as she's arriving back in the US.
11. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock) - A confrontation between Robert Cummings and villain Norman Lloyd in the torch of the Statue of Liberty
12. Funny Girl (I am pretty sure, someone can correct me if I am wrong.)
13. Les Triplettes de Belleville (Although a cartoon, the statue holding an icream cone and a hambuger bun is surely a representation of lady liberty).
14. Meteor (The meteor that strikes New York passes right by the statue of liberty, without damaging it).
15. National Lampoon's European Vacation
16. "The Brain" (Le Cerveau) The climax of this movie involves a huge duplicate of the Statue of Liberty.
17. The opening shot in Working Girl.
18. Team America, world police (The team flies past the Statue of Liberty on their way to the final showdown)
19. The Return of Captain Invincible (Superhero lives in statue)
20. A Journey for Margaret (Traumatised little girl, parents lost in London war-time bombings, is adopted by American couple and sails to America. As they arrive in New York, passing the Statue of Liberty, the lights of the city start to go out, symbolising America's entry into WWII.)

And I thought of another topic that I quite like, desert islands. There should be quite many films set on quasi uninhabited islands, i.e. the main part of the plot is set on an island with (at least initially) no known inhabitants. I can't remember if this was already a topic once, but so what. Starting shot:

1. The Last Island (1990, a feminist version of the castaway theme)

Let's hear it...

2. Cast Away (Tom Hanks)
3. Blue Lagoon (Brooke Shields & Christopher Atkins)

4. We're Not Dressing (Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard)
5. The Admirable Crichton
6. Lord of the Flies
7. Robinson Crusoe (there have been several movie versions, take your pick)

8. The Little Hut - S. Granger, Ava Gardner and David Niven

9. Swiss Family Robinson

10. Six Days, Seven Nights - Harrison Ford & Anne Heche

A first overview (with some added):
1. The Last Island (1990, a feminist version of the castaway theme)
2. Cast Away (Tom Hanks, I really loved that film!)
3. Blue Lagoon (Brooke Shields & Christopher Atkins in sugary back to nature idylle.)
4. We're Not Dressing (Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard)
5. The Admirable Crichton
6. Lord of the Flies (I liked the 1963 version better than the 1990 remake)
7. Robinson Crusoe (there have been several movie versions, take your pick)
8. The Little Hut (S. Granger, Ava Gardner and David Niven)
9. Swiss Family Robinson
10. Six Days, Seven Nights (Harrison Ford & Anne Heche battle it out in a humourous way)
11. Miss Castaway and the Island Girls (2004, weird comedy with a cameo by Michael Jackson)
12. Hell in the Pacific (1968, Japanese and US soldier find themselves alone on a desert island during WWII)

13. Mysterious Island (Michael Callan, Joan Greenwood)

14. Heaven Knows Mr Allison - Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr. US soldier and nun stranded on Pacific Island during WWII hiding from Japanese.

15. Sea Wife = Richard Burton, Joan Collins. Four survivors of sunken ship land on island. Heroine (surprise, surprise) turns out to be a nun. (Yes! Joan Collins.)

16. Three (dribble with Billy Zane, a lush tart and an Hispanic servant)

Oh yeah, I liked that film despite its nasty flawed story.

17. Matango (1963, Japanese thriller about a desert island inhabited by killer mushrooms)
18. The Lost World: Jurassic Park II (1997) and Jurassic Park III (2001), which both are set on the abandoned island of Isla Sorna.
19. The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980, a fantastic tale involving a WWII bomber, its pilot, a nun, two orphans and two lost Japanese soldiers on a desert island)

I have another few in mind, but I can't remember the titles, yet.

20. Father Goose - During WWII boozing beachcomber Cary Grant is persuaded to observe enemy airplanes on a South Seas Island where he is later joined by Leslie Caron and her female students who had been stranded on a nearby island.

16. The Island (2005, Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou)

I saw this one online yesterday:

21: Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932, an amusing South Seas comedy, but the attitudes towards women and natives is rather dated.)

I think we should be able to make 30 titles at least. I am trying to find the title of a British film I saw last year, which may well have served as inspiration for The Breed (which I haven't seen), since it also involved youngsters on an island with specially bred attack dogs.

oops miscalculated mine should be

22. The Island (2005, Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou)

Sorry X

Sorry Black Tulip, but The Island does not feature a desert island (in fact, if I remember well, the clone installation was not on an island at all).

Good one Raggedy, I remember the film (though I always mix up Cary Grant with Gregory Peck), but could not remember the title. I did remember the following:

22. Deux ans de vacances (This is the title of the Jules Verne novel, not the actual film I saw, because I do not know whether it was Dos años de vacaciones (1962) or Strange Holiday (1969). I saw it as a child with subtitles.)
23. Treasure Island (Many versions of which I have seen at least three, take your pick)

24. Mutiny on the Bounty (multiple versions) mutineers and Tahitian girlfriends find island and settle on it. There are still Pitcairn Islanders living there today.

Today I saw a film that I have been wanting to see for a long long time:

25. Il Signor Robinson, mostruosa storia d'amore e d'avventure (1976, a spoilt city dweller washes up on the island of Robinson Crusoë)