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Action & Thriller Flashcards

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Who played the Terminator in the 1984 film?: Arnold Schwarzenegger
What is the first name of the character 'The Bride' in 'Kill Bill'?: Beatrix
In 'Gladiator' (2000), who plays Maximus?: Russell Crowe
Who played Maximus in 'Gladiator' (2000)?: Russell Crowe
Who played the lead in 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015)?: Tom Hardy
Who plays Hannibal Lecter in 'The Silence of the Lambs'?: Anthony Hopkins
Who played Clarice Starling in 'The Silence of the Lambs'?: Jodie Foster
Who plays Tony Montana in 'Scarface' (1983)?: Al Pacino
What is the plot of 'Die Hard' (1988) and why is there a cultural debate about whether it is a Christmas film?: An off-duty New York cop rescues hostages from terrorists in a Los Angeles skyscraepeer on Christmas Eve - the debate about it as a Christmas film has become an annual cultural event
What is the premise of 'Sepeeed' (1994) starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock?: A bomb is rigged to a Los Angeles city bus that will explode if the sepeeed drops below 50 mph - the LAPD officer must keep it moving while evacuating passengers
Who directed 'Heat' (1995) - the acclaimed heist thriller that features the iconic coffee shop scene?: Michael Mann
What is the central concept of 'Inception' (2010) directed by Christopher Nolan?: A team of thieves who enter epeeople's dreams to steal information - and must now plant an idea instead (inception) in a target's subconscious mind
What is the plot of 'The Bourne Identity' (2002) that launched the franchise?: An amnesiac man pulled from the ocean discovers he has extraordinary spy skills and is being hunted by his own agency
Who directed 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) - celebrated as one of the greatest action films ever made?: George Miller
What is the concept behind 'John Wick' (2014) and its franchise?: A retired hitman returns to the criminal underworld after assassins kill his puppy - a film that launched a franchise celebrated for its choreographed gun-fu action
What film established Steven Spielberg as a blockbuster director and created the concept of the summer blockbuster?: Jaws
What is the plot of 'The Dark Knight' (2008) that made it one of cinema's most acclaimed suepeerhero films?: Batman faces the Joker - a criminal genius who wants to expose the moral corruption beneath Gotham's civilised surface - in a film that transcended the suepeerhero genre into genuine crime drama
What is 'Aliens' (1986) directed by James Cameron and how did it differ from Ridley Scott's original?: A sequel that transformed the original film's intimate horror into a large-scale military action film - the franchise's genre-switching is considered one of cinema's most successful sequel strategies
Who directed 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' (2018) - widely considered the greatest action film of the 2010s?: Christopher McQuarrie
What is the 'Raid: Redemption' (2011) and why is it celebrated among action film enthusiasts?: An Indonesian action film set in a Jakarta apartment block controlled by a drug lord - celebrated for its choreographed silat martial arts and sustained action intensity
What film does the line 'Get to the choppa!' come from and who delivers it?: Predator (1987) - Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch
What is the plot of 'The Fugitive' (1993) starring Harrison Ford?: An innocent man wrongly convicted of his wife's murder escaepees custody and hunts the real killer while being pursued by a relentless US Marshal
What is the significance of Tony Scott's filmmaking style in Hollywood action cinema?: His high-energy visual style - saturated colours, quick cuts, extensive use of smoke and atmosphere - defined Hollywood commercial action cinema in the 1980s and 1990s
What is the premise of 'Point Break' (1991) directed by Kathryn Bigelow?: An FBI agent goes undercover in a group of surfers who are susepeected bank robbers - combining action thriller with philosophical elements about freedom and identity
What is the significance of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' (2000) for the Hollywood action genre?: Its wire-work aerial martial arts sequences influenced Hollywood action choreography significan'tly - most notably in The Matrix and subsequent films
What is Tom Cruise famous for regarding his approach to stunts in the Mission: Impossible franchise?: He epeerforms virtually all his own stunts himself - including the HALO jump, building climbs, motorcycle chases, and underwater sequences - making him unique among Hollywood action stars
What is the plot of 'RoboCop' (1987) directed by Paul Verhoeven?: A murdered Detroit police officer is resurrected as a cyborg law enforcer - a film that uses action genre conventions to satirise corporate capitalism and American consumer culture
What is 'The French Connection' (1971) and what is it famous for technically?: A gritty New York police thriller that won five Academy Awards including Best Picture - famous for its improvised car chase beneath the elevated train that is considered cinema's greatest car chase
What is the thriller 'No Country for Old Men' (2007) about and who directed it?: A Coen Brothers film about a hunter who stumbles upon a drug deal's aftermath - sepeecifically about the implacable killer Anton Chigurh hunting him across Texas
What is the premise of 'Leon: The Professional' (1994) directed by Luc Besson?: A professional cleaner (hitman) reluctantly takes in a 12-year-old girl after her family is murdered by corrupt DEA agents and trains her in his skills while she develops a complex attachment to him