Thanks for your comments. I've rechecked and updated the quiz from the ground up so hopefully it's as accurate as possible. Any comments with valid corrections concerning missing countries will be implemented when the quiz is next updated, which won't be for a while!
Schindler’s List is set in Poland, and ends in the Czech Republic and Israel. I haven’t seen it for a while so I may be forgetting scenes in Germany. I checked wiki summaries for all the Best Picture films and didn’t see any German scenes mentioned for Schindler’s List. Can you point to any? If so will include it :)
Someone on an Oppenheimer forum also pointed out that it has a cutaway depicting the Halifax harbor explosion of 1917 so Canada finally makes the list too! It's brief, but the dialog confirms it so it counts.
Also added a point to the tallies for USA, Germany and Switzerland.
Very interesting quiz. I wonder how comprehensive a list like this could possibly be, though, as there might be scenes that take place somewhere unspecified outside the main country, or scenes that take place in a different country without the viewer even being made aware.
Anyway, I noticed that The Bahamas is missing (final scene of The Silence of the Lambs). Also, perhaps you could somehow share your full list so that takers could help find the exact numbers?
In the process of updating and double checking. A lot to go through, but yes will share the list when I'm done. Thanks for the correction on Lambs!
Yes, there are some films that are hard to tell exactly. I've used wiki summaries, scripts, transcripts, the films themselves and other articles to try to clarify some moments.
But, for instance, Mrs Miniver has a montage of people dying in WW1 from 1914 to 1918. All quick medium shots dissolving together that don't show a specific location. It's more impressionistic than specific. Presumably representing at least France, but probably Belgium and elsewhere too. It's unspecified. With moments like that I haven't added to the tallies.
A WWI montage in Mrs. Miniver? Are you sure you don't mean Cavalcade? Because funnily enough that's exactly the scene I was thinking of when I wrote the comment. And while it's specified Robert and Joe are off to France, I imagine the montage is broader and in a way is actually set in all war zones and none of them at the same time. I agree that excluding impressionistic (well-chosen word) moments like those makes sense because at that point there are really no "narrative locations" involved.
Ugh, yes I meant Cavalcade! Well spotted. Too many movies on my mind. France is specifically depicted elsewhere, as is Switzerland, so I'm including those, but not Belgium.
Though I've discovered that Belgium does feature in Patton in newsreel footage. I'm just deciding whether to include that. I'm leaning towards yes as the film uses the newsreel, full screen, to depict the story i.e. it's not just a TV on in a background somewhere showing some other country, which I wouldn't count.
I've never actually seen the film, but I'm pretty certain that no, Malta is not in the Gladiator movie. Obviously it was used as a filming location, that's one of the reasons people even know about the country.
Great Quiz. If you make a sequel, (see what I did there!) you could use the BAFTAs, sometimes they mirror the Oscars, but not always.
You have also now given me an idea, that instead of spending almost as long as the film searching Netflix for something to watch, I can now just work my way through Award winners and nominated movies.
> I could've sworn The Bridge on the River Kwai took place in Myanmar
It's a common (and easy) misconception. The railway going over the eponymous bridge is the Burma Railway, and was being built by the Japanese to supply resources for their attempt to capture Rangoon.
However the bridge itself (as depicted in the book and movie) is in Thailand.
I thought the same but it seems there is a scene in Burmese village that a character escapes to. Will try to confirm the location and will add it an update at some point.
When does Switzerland appear in the Sound of Music? The film ends with the family walking over the mountains but I don’t remember any scene that definitely takes place in Switzerland?
I've always read that scene as them going over the peak on the mountain, crossing the border and descending into Switzerland with the camera pointing at the country.
Wikipedia has is that "The next morning, after driving to the Swiss border, the von Trapp family make their way on foot across the frontier into Switzerland to safety and freedom."
I've updated the clue anyway to focus on other films.
Before you resubmitted the quiz I was on 33,169 points. After successfully completing the quiz again this morning I was on 33,167 points. Nothing else has changed. Why have I been clipped 2 points for re-taking it?
Maybe you lost the 2 points from another quiz or two where the point boundaries changed? It will tell you at the top of this quiz how many points you were awarded and should say 5. If not it's probably just taking some time to update.
Ha, yeah it was a task! Looks like you're right. There's a character that escapes and probably goes through Burma. Will try to confirm and add in the next update.
I think I remember seeing Bermuda in the Silence of the Lambs credits, and assuming that's where the final scene took place. Perhaps it did in actuality, but according to the script, it must have been Bahamas.
Patton was dispatched there as a diversionary tactic, which confuses Nazi Germany. In the film, Patton gives a tour of an ancient battlefield (around 1:46 into the movie).
(To clarify: I'm not disputing it at all. Just registering my surprise.)
Schindler’s List is set in Poland, and ends in the Czech Republic and Israel. I haven’t seen it for a while so I may be forgetting scenes in Germany. I checked wiki summaries for all the Best Picture films and didn’t see any German scenes mentioned for Schindler’s List. Can you point to any? If so will include it :)
Someone on an Oppenheimer forum also pointed out that it has a cutaway depicting the Halifax harbor explosion of 1917 so Canada finally makes the list too! It's brief, but the dialog confirms it so it counts.
Also added a point to the tallies for USA, Germany and Switzerland.
Anyway, I noticed that The Bahamas is missing (final scene of The Silence of the Lambs). Also, perhaps you could somehow share your full list so that takers could help find the exact numbers?
Yes, there are some films that are hard to tell exactly. I've used wiki summaries, scripts, transcripts, the films themselves and other articles to try to clarify some moments.
But, for instance, Mrs Miniver has a montage of people dying in WW1 from 1914 to 1918. All quick medium shots dissolving together that don't show a specific location. It's more impressionistic than specific. Presumably representing at least France, but probably Belgium and elsewhere too. It's unspecified. With moments like that I haven't added to the tallies.
Though I've discovered that Belgium does feature in Patton in newsreel footage. I'm just deciding whether to include that. I'm leaning towards yes as the film uses the newsreel, full screen, to depict the story i.e. it's not just a TV on in a background somewhere showing some other country, which I wouldn't count.
Lovely Quiz :)
You have also now given me an idea, that instead of spending almost as long as the film searching Netflix for something to watch, I can now just work my way through Award winners and nominated movies.
Also, I could've sworn The Bridge on the River Kwai took place in Myanmar. Guess I was wrong.
It's a common (and easy) misconception. The railway going over the eponymous bridge is the Burma Railway, and was being built by the Japanese to supply resources for their attempt to capture Rangoon.
However the bridge itself (as depicted in the book and movie) is in Thailand.
Wikipedia has is that "The next morning, after driving to the Swiss border, the von Trapp family make their way on foot across the frontier into Switzerland to safety and freedom."
I've updated the clue anyway to focus on other films.
I know you won't update that quiz again for a while, but doesn't The Bridge on the River Kwaï have scenes in Myanmar?
Patton was dispatched there as a diversionary tactic, which confuses Nazi Germany. In the film, Patton gives a tour of an ancient battlefield (around 1:46 into the movie).
Awesome quiz by the way, great work!