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Game: In the Country

We’ve had so many cities that it’s now too difficult to find something that elicits more than a smattering of confusion. So, I’m going to expand the game and take it out of the city and into the country. Each week, I will list one country (or U.S. state). 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. You may also, as an aside to your primary selection, list films shot in that country that may have stood in for a completely different one.

What’s Been Chosen So Far

Today’s Country: Peru

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: Notorious to Schindler’s List

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: Gary Cooper – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town to George Bancroft – Thunderbolt

Game: A View from a Film

This game is an extension of In the Country. Instead of listing your favorite film from that state/country, you’ll list your favorite view from a film set in that area (for instance, if the country were Saudi Arabia, you might choose a vast vista from Lawrence of Arabia as your view). The best of the choices (if I’m able to find a high enough resolution picture of it), will be added to the banner page at the top every week (or added into the rotation if I can figure out how to rotate images periodically).

Today’s Country: Peru

Last Week’s Selection: With only one potential image in competition, I had no problem finding an image of Hatley Castle used as a stand in for the estate in the X-Men films.