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Game: In the City

Each week, I will list one major city. Your task is to list your favorite film that takes place primarily in that city. You are also welcome to cite runners-up or films that you love that only briefly take place in that metropolis.

What’s Been Chosen So Far

Today’s City: Berlin, Germany

Game: Wraparound Titles

Do you remember playing travel games in the car as a kid (or even as an adult) where you named a city and then the next person tried to come up with a city name that starts with the last letter of the previous? We’re going to try that with film titles. I’ll start off with a film title. The first person to respond will follow that up with a title starting with the last letter of the previous film. The next person uses that person’s response and so forth. You may not count the words “The”, “A”, “An”, “El”, “Le” or any other article in English or a foreign language. Numbers at the beginning and end are satisfactory. Please use the most common title even if the film goes by something else in another country (for instance, Forbidden Games is more commonly known as Jeux Interdits, therefore you would use the French title and not the English title). You can also can never duplicate a title used by another player. You may add as many responses as you wish, but at least give everyone a chance to put one in. The next week, I’ll pull the last title from the list and put it in to start off that week.

What’s Been Chosen So Far

My Continuation: The World According to Garp to The Pink Panther

Game: The Oscar Link

This is similar to the Six Degrees of Oscar Separation game except more interactive. Now, instead of connecting two people, we’ll post a starter Oscar nominee and/or winner and the next person in line must choose an Oscar nominee/winner that appeared in or contributed to a film with that first person. The next person uses the second person to connect and so forth. You may not use the same film for which an Oscar nominee/winner appeared. For instance, you can do Vivien Leigh appeared in Gone With the Wind with Clark Gable, but then you could not go Clark Gable appeared in Gone With the Wind with Olivia de Havilland, you would have to find another film Clark Gable was nominated for and go from there. The only exception is if the responder picks a one-time Oscar nominee who had no other nominations. If that individual also counts as that film’s only nominee, then you may find another Oscar nominated film that the individual contributed to and make the connection there with another Oscar nominee/winner. You must always have an Oscar nominee and an Oscar nominated-film as part of your response.

What’s Been Chosen So Far

My Continuation: Victor Fleming who directed Gone With the Wind to Olivia de Havilland in To Each His Own

Game: Modern Casting Couch

This game will take a famous movie and give you the opportunity to re-cast it with modern actors. We’ll list a film and you get to play the casting director removing the existing stars and replacing them with living actors. This is meant to be fun and I encourage discussion on choices being made. While some larger casts may have a number of important characters, I will attempt to limit the number of characters (probably around 7) to re-cast.

Our Casting Lists So Far

Today’s Film: Citizen Kane

Kane (Orson Welles)
Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten)
Susan Alexander Cane (Dorothy Comingore)
Mary Kane (Agnes Moorehead)
Emily Monroe Norton Kane (Ruth Warrick)
Jeffrey W. Gettys (Ray Collins)
Herbert Carter (Erskine Sanders)

And, it’s time to vote for who you think should take the reins in a modern Gone With the Wind. Choose only one actor from the list below.

Maria (Anne Hathaway, Lea Michele, Kate Winslet)
Captain Von Trapp (Colin Firth, Ewan McGregor, Alfred Molina)
The Baroness (Cate Blanchett, Donna Murphy, Catherine Zeta-Jones)
Max Detweiler (Jim Broadbent, Michael Cerveris, William H. Macy)
Mother Abbess (Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith)
Liesl (Emily Browning, Emmy Rossem)
Louisa (dropped from voting due to lack of submissions)

Here are the results from last week’s poll.

Scarlett O’Hara (TIE: Sandra Bullock, Zooey Deschanel)
Rhett Butler (TIE: George Clooney, Tom Hardy)
Ashley Wilkes (Ryan Gosling)
Melanie Hamilton (TIE: Amy Adams, Reese Witherspoon)
Gerald O’Hara (TIE: Jeff Bridges, Anthony Hopkins)
Mammy (TIE: Loretta Devine, Mo’Nique)
Prissy (TIE:Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington)

NOTE: I will likely be pulling this game out as a stand alone game at some point. I will probably start over with GWTW and then SOM and CK…