Best Pic Battles: Opening Lines
Friday, January 27, 2017 at 10:45AM Here are the opening lines of each Best Picture nominee. Can you guess which one belongs to which film?
A. "14....15...16... Prime."
B. "QUIET!"
C. "______ Come on, come on. Get up. Come on, quickly!"
D. "A lot of stuff he just doesn't understand about the world that I understand. That makes all my actions when I move through the world -- I do things better because I can see it all laid out like a map."
E. "Can you help me out, man?"
F. "Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting god, creator of the ends of the Earth."
G. "It's another hot sunny day today here in Southern California, temperature is 84 for downtown Los Angeles"
H. "I used to think this was the beginning of your story."
I. "____, you ought'a stop that lying."
Try to guess. Go ahead and tell us how you did once you check the answers after the jump / scroll down!
READY FOR THE ANSWERS?
A. HIDDEN FIGURES (young Katherine in the woods) "14....15...16... Prime."
B. HELL OR HIGH WATER (robbers to bank manager) "QUIET!"
C. LION (Big brother to his little brother, sneakily boarding a train) "Saroo, come on, come on. Get up. Come on, quickly!"
D. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (to his nephew) "A lot of stuff he just doesn't understand about the world that I understand. That makes all my actions when I move through the world -- I do things better because I can see it all laid out like a map."
E. MOONLIGHT (addict to dealer) "Can you help me out, man?"
F. HACKSAW RIDGE (Desmond in V.O.) "Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting god, creator of the ends of the Earth."
G. LA LA LAND (voice on the radio) "It's another hot sunny day today here in Southern California, temperature is 84 for downtown Los Angeles"
H. ARRIVAL (Dr. Louise Banks in V.O.) "I used to think this was the beginning of your story."
I. FENCES (Bono) "Troy, you ought'a stop that lying."
How well did you do? Did you even guess the pictures you haven't seen yet?
Reader Comments (14)
Okay
G: La La Land
F: Even though I haven't seen it, obviously Hacksaw Ridge
I: Moonlight
D: Hell or High Water
A: Hidden Figures
C: Fences
E: Manchester by the Sea
H: Lion
B: Arrival
These were my guesses before I looked at the answers --
A) HIDDEN FIGURES
B) MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
C) HELL OR HIGH WATER
D) LION
E) MOONLIGHT
F) HACKSAW RIDGE
G) LA LA LAND
H) ARRIVAL
I) FENCES
I got 2-4 switched up but otherwise I did surprisingly well, especially given I haven't seen half of these in months!
I got four right, which is ridiculous because I've seen them all, but I must confess I didn't try very hard or long. The easy ones: Arrival, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Fences.
volvagia -- yeah, hacksaw ridge is the easiest.
jason -- good job. but i giggle that Manchester gets the "Quiet!" -- describing the movie, perhaps?
I got the 6 that I've seen. No idea about the last three.
And I am the exact oppostie of Ajnrules. Got the last 3 because those are the only ones I've seen, (or read the play). And Hacksaw Ridge, that seemed like a pretty likely first line for that movie.
Easy enough for the film I saw except for HIGH OR HELL WATER. That one along with the two I haven't seen HACKRIDGE and FENCES I had to guess and I got them ALL wrong.
Here were my guesses
A. Hidden Figures
B. Hell Or High Water
C. Lion
D. Hacksaw Ridge
E. Moonlight
F. Fences
G. La La Land
H. Arrival
I. Manchester By The Sea
I got 6/9.
6 here too. Got Moonlight/Hell/Manchester mixed around.
La La Land is the easiest, then Hacksaw. I've seen all these films but I still couldn't get them all right. I got La La Land, Hacksaw Ridge, Hidden Figures, Arrival and Fences.
You should totally make opening lines/closing lines quizzes into a regular thing Nathaniel. This was fun.
I got 2 right, and one of those was La La Land, which was pretty easy. Feeling kind of ashamed of myself right now...
I'm impressed with how well some of you did. I wonder how i would have done.no way to know since i was typing them up and they seem obvious when you're watching but probably not out of context. especially the more generic first lines like LION and MOONLIGHT
I got all of them! Was only really sure about Hidden Figures, La La Land, Arrival, and Fences (even though I've seen all of the nominees except Hacksaw Ridge), but guessed right on the others. It helped that I'd seen LION super-recently.
Funny, I don't remember that line from Manchester at all.
Also, I thought Hell or High Water could have been B, C, or F but remembered it opened with a bank robbery so figured "Quiet!" made the most sense. (though C might have, too.)
lylee: I remembered the that Chris Pine's character was "the man with the plan" and Ben Foster was an impulsive idiot, so I guessed D for Hell or High Water. Also: God doesn't really come up in Hell or High Water, in spite of it being partially about grief in Texas.