THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, April 25, 1995 TAG: 9504250037
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E1 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: VIDEOMATIC
SOURCE: Craig Shapiro
LENGTH: Long : 204 lines
HERE'S ONE for you movie experts out there. Attribute this quote. (Hint: It's from a Tom Hanks flick that won a lot of Oscars.)
``Life is like a box of chocolates.''
Try getting serious? OK.
``Grandaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.''
``You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.''
``Golden teeth and golden tones, welcome to my presence.''
Save your breath. They're from the 1991 remake of ``Cape Fear,'' ``The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'' and ``The Muppet Movie,'' and the reason you got the answers is to say that if you want to win a copy of ``Forrest Gump,'' which comes out on video Friday, it won't be easy.
The Videomatic Research Dept. - that would be VP/LS librarian Peggy Earle - has helped cook up a contest that we've cleverly called ``Win, Forrest, Win.'' Here's how it works: Match 20 quotes with 20 movies; those entries (the form is on Page E6) with the most correct go into a drawing for one of three copies of Paramount's hit movie.
Simple enough. The tough part was getting good quotes. No way were we going to trot out ``I'll make him an offer he can't refuse'' or ``After all, tomorrow is another day.'' Instead, Peggy went to Norway - via the Internet - and found Lars J. Aas, a 22-year-old computer science grad from Trondheim.
Lars, a big movie buff, was surfing the Net one day when he ran across a movie-related site (we'll tell you which one when we reveal the quiz answers). ``It had these funny sections with goofs and trivia,'' he said, ``and I thought, `Why not a quotes section?' ''
Bingo. Lars created a list that covers all types of movies: ``Fearless'' and ``The Fearless Vampire Killers,'' ``Sleeper'' and ``Sleepless in Seattle.'' My favorite quote is ``Woof woof woof woof woof,'' from ``Lassie Come Home.''
Bingo II. Peggy downloaded a bunch, from which we selected those for ``Win, Forrest, Win.'' Your turn now. The deadline is next Tuesday at 5 p.m.
As for me,
``That's all I have to say about that.''
ADD GUMP: Is Tom Hanks that good at Ping-Pong? How did they get that feather to land by Forrest's foot? ``Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump'' answers both questions, and more. The 37-minute film includes interviews with director Robert Zemeckis, Hanks and co-stars Gary Sinise, Robin Wright and Sally Field.
But the most interesting segments are those with visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston and his crew, who explain the sleight-of-hand that went into the movie. Fascinating. Paramount releases it Friday for $9.95.
Flashback
``It's not about Vietnam. It was Vietnam.'' Francis Ford Coppola was talking about ``Apocalypse Now'' and how making that film was like America's involvement in the war: too many people, too much equipment and access to too much money. ``Little by little,'' he says, ``we went insane.''
But as ``Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse'' (Paramount, 1991) makes clear, if Coppola hadn't pushed himself to that edge, there is no question his 1979 epic wouldn't be the masterpiece it is today.
Likewise, the documentary, shot by Coppola's wife, Eleanor, captures what was a visionary project in the face of great odds. A typhoon wrecked the set in the Philippines. Production was rearranged for five weeks while star Martin Sheen recovered from a heart attack. And, with only a three-week commitment from Marlon Brando, Coppola had no idea how his film would end.
At the end, Coppola says it's his great hope that the next generation of directors will have the means to destroy the professionalism of the movies and it will become an art form. ``Hearts of Darkness'' defines filmmaking as art. (RATED: R for language, animal sacrifice)
ODDS & ENDS: Quick, name Tom Hank's first Oscar-nominated role. If you said ``Big,'' it's yours - for $9.98. With ``Forrest Gump'' on the way, FoxVideo has marked down the 1988 comedy. Hanks plays a 13-year-old boy trapped inside a 35-year-old body.
Listen up, Kettle-heads. ``Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki'' makes its debut on video today. MCA/Universal has it for $14.98. Quiz: In which 1947 film was the hillbilly couple introduced? (For the answer, keep reading.)
A handful of foreign films, including ``In the Realm of the Senses,'' have been repriced at $19.98 by Fox Lorber. The others are ``Closely Watched Trains,'' ``Don Juan My Love,'' ``Luzia,'' ``The Story of Boys & Girls,'' ``The Story of Fausta,'' ``Amor Bandido'' and ``Larks on a String.''
Answer: Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride had supporting roles in ``The Egg and I.''
TOP TAPES (in Billboard):
Sales: ``The Lion King,'' ``The Pagemaster,'' ``Angels in the Outfield,'' ``The Mask,'' ``The Little Rascals''
Rentals: ``Stargate,'' ``The Specialist,'' ``The River Wild,'' ``Angels in the Outfield,'' ``Only You'' The Couch Report
``Hoop Dreams'' (New Line, 1994). The filmmakers' Herculean task - distilling five years in the lives of two prep basketball stars into a three-hour film - paid extraordinary dividends: a candid, unflinching documentary about the reality of the American Dream. Arthur Agee and William Gates are the Chicago schoolboys recruited, then callously used, by a Roman Catholic private school. The camera, however, ventures far beyond the court in piecing together this universal story. ``Hoop Dreams'' finished 1994 on many critics' Top 10 lists, and deservedly so. A
(RATED: PG-13 for language; 176 minutes)
``Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters'' (Hollywood, 1994). Donald Sutherland, so good in the '78 remake of ``Invasion of the Body Snatchers,'' faces an old foe. Only this time, the aliens look like stingrays that latch on to human backs and take over the brain. The plot manages a few new thrills and twists, but come crunch time, it's the same-old same-old. Sutherland's stilted monotone is the real mystery; he delivers his lines like the aliens got him. C+
(CAST: Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Richard Belzer. RATED: R for violence, language, brief nudity; 108 minutes)
Also: ``Terminal Velocity,'' the sky-diving actioner with Charlie Sheen and Nastassja Kinski (PG-13); Mary Stuart Masterson and Brian Benben in the comedy ``Radioland Murders'' (PG), and ``Sleepstalker: The Sandman's Last Rites,'' an original thriller from Turner (unrated)
NEXT TUESDAY: ``The Road to Wellville,'' ``Trapped in Paradise,'' ``I Don't Want to Talk About It'' ILLUSTRATION: ON THE SHELF
THIS WEEK'S VIDEOS
Forrest Gump (Fri.)
Hoop Dreams
Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters Terminal Velocity
Radioland Murders
Sleepstalker: The Sandman's Last Rite
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Forrest Gump
``WIN, FORREST, WIN''
How it works: Match the quotes with the movie. If you think No. 8
is from, oh, ``Body Heat,'' put an 8 in that box. The entries with
the most correct answers will go into a bag or something. We'll draw
the winners at random.
When its due: 5 p.m. next Tuesday, May 2. Winners will be
announced May 9 in Videomatic.
Who can play: Anyone who doesn't work for The Virginian-Pilot and
The Ledger-Star or isn't kin to someone who does.
Send it to: Win, ``Forrest,'' Win
P.O. Box
Norfolk, Va. 235
QUOTES
1. By the authority vested in me by the German Reich, I pronounce
you husband and wife. Proceed with the execution.
2. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.
3. You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way.
4. Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for
my sins, they gave me one.
5. Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
6. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for
me?
7. I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in Braille.
I used to rub the dirty parts.
8. You're not very bright, are you? I like that in a man.
9. How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Some
day they may be scarce.
10. We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she
ever did.
11. I mean it is real hard to be free when you are bought and
sold in the marketplace.
12. If you were happy everyday of your life you wouldn't be a
human being. You'd be a game-show host.
13. What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er, an
eating machine.
14. Patriotism means making the other poor damned bastard die for
his country before he can make you die for yours.
15. If it bleeds, we can kill it.
16. I think I must have one of those faces you can't help
believing.
17. I am not under any orders to make the world a better place.
18. You shoot me in a dream, you'd better wake up and apologize.
19. Women make the best psychanalysts until they fall in love.
After that they make the best patients.
20. Not a bad bit of rescuing. You know, sometimes I amaze even
myself.
MOVIES
``Arsenic and Old Lace''
``Spellbound''
``Easy Rider''
``The African Queen''
``Psycho''
``Star Wars''
``Body Heat''
``Alien''
``Reservoir Dogs''
``Predator''
``Patton''
``Animal Crackers''
``Jaws''
``Heathers''
``Bananas''
``Duck Soup''
``Reality Bites''
``Apocalypse Now''
``Back to the Future''
``Casablanca''
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