Brad Pitt won a SAG award on Sunday, and he’s basically a lock to win Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars. YAY! He should have won for “Moneyball.”
I love Brad Pitt, and I think it’s totally fitting that he’s about to win his first acting statue for a supporting role in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” rather than for some of his previous leading man gigs. He’s a terrific and wildly underrated actor. It’s almost a shame that he’s so unbelievably handsome, because Hollywood made him a leading man when he should have been a character actor this whole time.
So cheers to Brad, and I hope he keeps going for weirdos and villains and broken men in the future. And here’s a trivia quiz about my Top 10 favorite Brad Pitt movies.
(Disclaimer: I have yet to see “Ad Astra” which is apparently the bomb, so it might knock one of these off the list. Such is the never-ending challenge of a movie Top 10 list-maker.)
Questions:
1. ‘Moneyball’
Brad Pitt plays Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who, sick and tired of losing to the deep-pocketed Yankees, introduces a novel system of prioritizing stats like on-base percentage and RBIs in his club’s roster moves. Developed by statistician Bill James, what’s the name of that system?
2. ‘Fight Club’
After the titular fight club begins to take off in popularity, it morphs into an anarchic cult of sorts with Tyler Durden calling the shots and assigning destructive and chaotic tasks to his followers, which the Narrator eventually tries to stop. What is Tyler’s grand plan called?
3. ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ (And ‘Twelve’ and ‘Thirteen’)
Danny Ocean’s crew takes on casino head Terry Benedict in the first movie, and they tangle with international super-thief Francois Toulour in the sequel. What casino magnate, played by Al Pacino, does the gang pull a revenge mission on in No. 3?
4. ‘Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles’
Claudia murders Lestat (under the guise of giving him a make-up gift after their fight) by offering him two young boys who she says are passed out drunk. The boys are actually dead, and drinking from them weakens Lestat enough that Claudia can slit his throat. What did she poison them with?
5. ‘Meet Joe Black’
The 1998 film “Meet Joe Black” includes a line that pays homage to an earlier movie that it’s loosely based on, when Joe is explaining his presence to the frightened Jamaican woman in the hospital who seems to know what he really is. What is the name of the 1934 movie starring Frederic March that the film is referencing?
6. ‘Se7en’
Before the showdown with John Doe in the desert, where the sins of envy and wrath play out according to Doe’s plan, detectives Mills and Somerset find five bodies representing the other deadly sins. In what order are they found?
7. ’12 Monkeys’
James Cole returns to 1996 from the future and kidnaps his former psychiatrist Kathryn Railly. He snatches her at a library after her lecture about a psychological phenomenon named for a Greek legend where the patient thinks they know the future — not unlike how she sees Cole. What is this phenomenon called?
8. ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’
Cliff Booth is a veteran Hollywood stuntman, who mostly just acts as a personal assistant to washed-up cowboy star Rick Dalton because of the scandal surrounding the death of his wife. Rumor has it that it wasn’t an accident, but that Cliff killed her intentionally with what weapon?
9. “Inglourious Basterds”
During one of the most tense scenes in the film, Lt. Archie Hicox is pretending to be a German officer in a bar filled with Nazis. But his cover is blown, leading to a deadly shootout. Later, film star Bridget von Hammersmark, who is a spy for the Allies, tells Aldo Raine that Hicox gave the game away with what hand gesture?
10. ‘Legends of the Fall’
Though he has a brief affair with Susannah, his late brother Samuel’s former fiancee, Tristan finds true happiness with Isabel Two, the daughter of his family’s Native American friend One Stab. But tragically his brother Alfred’s entanglements with what bootlegging brothers lead to her death?
Answers up after Pitt accepting his SAG award on Sunday night. It was essentially a dry run for his Oscar speech, and he killed it.
Answers:
- Sabermetrics
- Project Mayhem
- Willie Bank
- Laudanum
- “Death Takes a Holiday”
- Gluttony, greed, sloth, lust and pride
- The Cassandra Complex
- Harpoon
- Asks for three glasses without using his thumb in the German way
- The O’Banion brothers
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