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Question 1 of 10
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Hitler was a big fan of Fritz Lang’s great science fiction film Metropolis. In what year does the film take place?
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Lang fled Germany in 1934 after Hitler’s rise.
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Question 2 of 10
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Charlton Heston blows up the world in Beneath The Planet of the Apes. The low budget dystopian sequel borrowed sets from what film?
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Fox was penny-pinching due to several big-budget flops including Julie Andrews’ Star.
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Question 3 of 10
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While Malcolm McDowall indulges in hate crimes in A Clockwork Orange what song is he fond of singing?
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Apparently Gene Kelly was none too happy about his joyous theme song being used in such brutal circumstances, irony or no.
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Question 4 of 10
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THX 1138, a film about a dystopian future society, was George Lucas’ breakout film. What Godfather actor starred in it?
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Duvall had just made a mark as Frank Burns in M.A.S.H but stardom would be a year later The Godfather.
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Question 5 of 10
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What novel about fascism inspired Philip K. Dick to write Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the basis for Blade Runner?
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Amazon recently turned the 1963 book into a TV series.
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Question 6 of 10
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Brazil was Terry Gilliam’s embattled film about encroaching fascism. In what year was it set?
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Jack Mathews details Gilliam long (and successful) fight to bring his vision to the screen in 1987’s The Battle for Brazil.
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Question 7 of 10
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In Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, society is collapsing due to nationalistic violence. What endangered species does Michael Caine portray?
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Regardless of the sad fate of Caine’s character, Children of Men does have a somewhat optimistic outcome.
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Question 8 of 10
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As the freedom-fighter “V” in V For Vendetta, Hugo Weaving wears a mask based on what political agitator?
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V’s creator, Alan Moore, complained about the films shift from his more direct message of anarchism vs. fascism but that didn’t stop naysayers from the right in their criticism.
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Question 9 of 10
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In Idiocracy, Mike Judge’s farce about a dumbed-down future society, real-life corporate logos are altered to reflect America’s descent into total brainlessness… except one. What is it?
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Nothing has changed!
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Question 10 of 10
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What noted feminist writer was hired to flesh out the female characters in in George Miller’s apocalyptic Mad Max – Fury Road?
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Miller and Ensler’s approach signaled a welcome sense of hope and diversity to the burnt-out wasteland of Max Rockatansky.
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