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A small, beautiful and thoughtful film on one’s mortality and loved ones, starring his daughter and co-written by his son, the film was a truly fitting end to his legendary career. The Dead won various international awards and picked up two Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Adapted Screenplay. A small, beautiful and intimate film from a director whose career had largely consisted of far more stout-hearted fare.", "precise_score": 6.2589006423950195, "rough_score": 6.288522243499756, "source": "search", "title": "10 Essential John Huston Films You Need To Watch « Taste ..." }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "John Huston was dying when he directed \"The Dead.\" Tethered to an oxygen tank, hunched in a wheelchair, weak with emphysema and heart disease, he was a perfectionist attentive to the slightest nuance of the filming. James Joyce's story, for that matter is all nuance until the final pages. It leads by subtle signs to a great outpouring of grief and love, but until then, as Huston observed, \"The biggest piece of action is trying to pass the port.\" He began shooting in January 1987, finished in April, and at the end of August, he died. He was 81.", "precise_score": 4.505533695220947, "rough_score": 5.554277420043945, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "There is, as John Huston realized, no way to translate this epiphany into the action of a movie script. It exists resolutely as thoughts expressed in words. He and Tony in their screenplay did what they had to do, and made it an interior monologue, spoken by the actor Donal McCann, as his wife, having wept, now sleeps on their bed. We note that he thinks of \"his\" journey, although she will accompany him. He thinks of himself as alone. When I first saw \"The Dead,\" I thought it brave and deeply felt but \"an impossible film,\" and I wrote: \"There is no way in the world any filmmaker can reproduce the thoughts inside Gabriel's head.\" But of course there was. Huston could do the same thing Joyce did, and simply tell us what Gabriel was thinking.", "precise_score": 1.2946548461914062, "rough_score": 4.80079460144043, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "The Dead (1987)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.165875434875488, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Huston" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "The Dead (1987) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.2077054977417, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead (1987) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "Search for \" The Dead \" on Amazon.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.44038200378418, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead (1987) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "Early this summer he completed his last directorial work, making ''The Dead'' - as yet unreleased - from a James Joyce story. Mr. Huston's debilitating illness made him uninsurable, so the producers, who included his son Tony, had to insure another director willing to take over if necessary.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.714155197143555, "source": "search", "title": "John Huston, Film Director, Writer and Actor, Dies at 81" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "9. The Dead (1987)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.157379150390625, "source": "search", "title": "10 Essential John Huston Films You Need To Watch « Taste ..." }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "The Dead Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.6425199508667, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "All of this I have from The Hustons, by Lawrence Grobel, a biography that charts a scattered and troubled family, yet one that gathered Oscars in three generations, for Walter, John and Anjelica. John's daughter won hers for a supporting role in his previous film, \" Prizzi's Honor \" (1985), and now she was playing the crucial role in \"The Dead.\" John's son Tony, then 37, was nominated for his screenplay for \"The Dead,\" and served as his father's assistant, aware of the secret being kept from the world, which was how ill John really was.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.19256329536438, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "Joyce's \"The Dead\" is one of the greatest short stories in the language, but would seem unfilmable. Its action takes place in Dublin in 1904 at a holiday party given by two elderly sisters and their niece, who have spent their lives performing or teaching music. The guests arrive, we observe them as they observe one another and listen to talk that means more than it says. At the end of the long evening, Gabriel Conroy ( Donal McCann ), nephew of the Misses Morkan, leaves with his wife, Gretta ( Anjelica Huston ), to go back to the hotel where they will spend the night before going home to a far suburb in the morning.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.00961971282959, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "All was prologue to their cab ride and an hour or so in the hotel. She tells him a story he has never heard, about a boy who was sweet on her when he was 17, a boy named Michael Furey, who died. He was a sickly boy, who stood in the rain on the night before she was to leave Galway and go to a convent school. \"I implored of him to go home at once and told him he would get his death in the rain,\" she remembers. \"But he said he did not want to live.\" When she was only a week in the convent school, he died. \"What was it he died of so young?\" asks Gabriel. \"Consumption, was it?\" She replies, \"I think he died from me.\" In his final pages, Joyce enters the mind of Gabriel, who thinks about the dead boy, about his wife's first great love, about how he has never felt a love like that, about those who have died, and about how all the rest of us will die as well -- die, with our loves and lusts, our hopes and regrets, our plans and secrets, all dead.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.668606758117676, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, on the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.907428741455078, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "\"The Dead\" ends in sadness, but it is one of the great romantic films, fearless in its regard for regret and tenderness. John Huston, who lived for years in Ireland and raised Anjelica there until she was 16, had an instinctive sympathy for the kindness with which the guests at the Misses Morkan's party accepted one another's lives and failings. They have all fallen short of their hopes, and know it. Freddy Malins is a drunk, but as we see him seated beside his mother, we suspect that she has forced him to pursue defeat. Mr. Brown ( Dan O'Herlihy ) is a drunk in the classic mold, because of uncomplicated alcoholism. Molly Ivors (Maria McDermottroe), who supports the Republican cause, hurries off early to a meeting, still convinced their problems have political solutions. Aunt Julia ( Cathleen Delany ), who confesses she had a decent voice years ago, is persuaded to sing, and does so, not very well. Freddy lurches forward to blurt out praise that is so effusive, it embarrasses her in front of the party, but everyone understands that Julia's voice has failed, and that Freddy means well.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5050568580627441, "source": "search", "title": "The Dead Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "John Huston's The Dead - Finale - YouTube", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.6467024087905884, "source": "search", "title": "John Huston's The Dead - Finale - YouTube" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "John Huston's The Dead - Finale", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.23225601017475128, "source": "search", "title": "John Huston's The Dead - Finale - YouTube" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "\"Upon all the living and the dead\"...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.184653282165527, "source": "search", "title": "John Huston's The Dead - Finale - YouTube" }, { "answer": "The Dead", "passage": "The final scene of John Huston's \"The Dead\", adapted from James Joyce's unequaled masterpiece. Simply one of the best pieces of writing of all times.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.342160701751709, "source": "search", "title": "John Huston's The Dead - Finale - YouTube" } ]

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[ { "answer": "New York Jets", "passage": "Super Bowl III was the third AFL–NFL Championship Game in professional American football, and the first to officially bear the name \"Super Bowl\". The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in American sports history. The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New York Jets defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Baltimore Colts by a score of 16–7. This was the first Super Bowl victory for the AFL.", "precise_score": 7.751657962799072, "rough_score": 7.027163028717041, "source": "wiki", "title": "Super Bowl III" }, { "answer": "New York Jets", "passage": "An emotional Weeb Ewbank, right, coach of the New York Jets, congratulates quarterback Joe Namath with just seconds left in Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl in Miami on Jan. 12, 1969. The Jets beat the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts, 16-7. 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Unlike its earlier namesakes, however, this AFL was able to command sufficient financial resources to survive; one factor in this was becoming the first league to sign a television contract—previously, individual franchises had signed agreements with networks to televise games. The junior league proved successful enough, in fact, to make attractive offers to players. After the 1964 season, in fact, there had been a well-publicized bidding war which culminated with the signing, by the AFL's New York Jets (formerly New York Titans), of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for an unprecedented contract. Fearing that bidding wars over players would become the norm, greatly increasing labor costs, NFL owners, ostensibly led by league Commissioner Pete Rozelle, obtained a merger agreement with the AFL, which provided for a single draft, interleague play in the pre-season, a championship game to follow each season, and the integration of the two leagues into one in a way to be agreed at a future date. As the two leagues had an unequal number of teams (under the new merger agreement, the NFL expanded by one team to 16, and the AFL by one to 10), realignment was advocated by some owners, but was opposed. Eventually, three NFL teams (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Baltimore Colts) agreed to move over to join the original AFL franchises of 1960 in what became the American Football Conference. 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(This would not give them an advantage over the upstart New York Jets, however, because zone defenses were common in the AFL and the Jets knew how to attack them.)Matt Snell, \"Super Bowl III,\" Super Bowl: The Game of Their Lives, Danny Peary, editor. Macmillan, 1997. 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The Jets, winners of the American Football League playoffs, sought to avenge the drubbings AFL teams had taken in the two previous meetings between their upstart mickeymouse* league and the establishment National Football League. In those two contests, the AFL champion had been so thoroughly dominated by its NFL counterpart that cracks began appearing in the proposed merger of the two leagues. If the AFL didn't prove it could compete soon, the merger would be in serious jeopardy. A 26-team league with ten \"last-place\" teams would hardly seem credible to the ticket-buying public.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.9215859174728394, "source": "search", "title": "Super Bowl III: The True Story - hgwt.com" }, { "answer": "New York Jets", "passage": "New York Jets 16", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.558443069458008, "source": "search", "title": "History of Super Bowl III - About.com Sports" }, { "answer": "New York Jets", "passage": "Super Bowl III between the New York Jets and Baltimore Colts is possibly the most storied Super Bowl in the history of this great game. I think every football fan knows the story of how Joe Namath guaranteed his Jets would beat the heavily favored Colts in an appearance before the Miami Touchdown Club.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.040352463722229, "source": "search", "title": "History of Super Bowl III - About.com Sports" }, { "answer": "New York Jets", "passage": "New York Jets 16, Baltimore 7", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.538432121276855, "source": "search", "title": "Super Bowl Winners and Results - Super Bowl History ..." }, { "answer": "New York Jets", "passage": "Super Bowl 3 marks one of the biggest upsets in football history. In Miami, Florida on January 12th, 1969 Weeb Ewbank's New York Jets beat Don Shula's Baltimore Colts for the AFL's first Super Bowl victory. Everyone remembers Joe Namath's \"Guaranteed Victory\" over the heavily favored Colts. Namath followed through, taking home MVP honors. Running backs Matt Snell and Tom Matte each rushed for over 100 yards for there respective teams. Johnny Unitas came off the bench after starter Earl Morrall was intercepted thrice, but it wasn't enough, as the Jets won 16-7.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.9991824626922607, "source": "search", "title": "Super Bowl History 1967 - 1969 - Superbowl in the 60's" }, { "answer": "New York Jets", "passage": "He was Broadway Joe, the guy who guaranteed a Super Bowl victory for a three-touchdown underdog New York Jets team - and then delivered. He was a charismatic presence who became a larger-than-life figure. At 21, he was a star. At 25, he was a legend. His road roommate said it was like traveling with a Beatle.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.474940776824951, "source": "search", "title": "ESPN Classic - Namath was lovable rogue" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Olive", "passage": "Marie Osmond (born Olive Marie Osmond; October 13, 1959) is an American singer, film screenwriter, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family the Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s. Her best known song is a cover of the country pop ballad \"Paper Roses\". From 1976 to 1979, she and her singer brother Donny Osmond hosted the television variety show Donny & Marie.", "precise_score": 5.99815559387207, "rough_score": 6.357612609863281, "source": "wiki", "title": "Marie Osmond" }, { "answer": "Olive", "passage": "Marie Osmond was born on October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah, USA as Olive Marie Osmond. She is a producer and actress, known for Donny and Marie (1975), Marie (2012) and The Talk (2010). 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Osmond debuted as part of her brothers' act The Osmond Brothers on The Andy Williams Show when she was four, but generally did not perform with her brothers in the group's television performances through the 1960s.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.5847315788269043, "source": "wiki", "title": "Marie Osmond" }, { "answer": "Olive", "passage": "Osmond's latest work Music Is Medicine was announced through a social media campaign in late 2015. The online retailer Amazon.com along with Apple's iTunes and the brick and mortar giant Walmart released this album on April 15, 2016 in both CD and digital format. Amazon has an exclusive pre-release of an autographed vinyl pressing that will be available on August 5, 2016. This is Osmond's first new album in five years and only her second in the last 25 years. The album was produced by Jason Deere, with whom she has worked in the past. Additional guest artists are Marty Roe, Olivia Newton-John, Sisqó, John Rich and Alex Boyé. 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While QVC continues to be a primary source of distribution for her dolls, Osmond also carries her line in retail stores, through Internet sales in the United States and worldwide, and direct response. Her first sculpture, a toddler doll she created and named after her mother, \"Olive May\". set a collectible record on QVC. Since then, Osmond has sculpted several dolls, including \"Remember Me\", \"Baby Adora Belle\", \"Kissy and Huggs\" and her hallmark doll \"Adora Belle\". In 2009, Osmond debuted her dolls on The Shopping Channel in Canada. In 2009, a 16\" vinyl Fashion Doll of Marie Osmond \"Grand Finale Fashion\" was debuted at Osmond's 50th birthday party in Las Vegas in celebration of her 50th birthday. 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There are a lot of artifacts relating to the production of palm oil in the back which are fascinating too.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.861163139343262, "source": "search", "title": "Calabar travel guide - Wikitravel" }, { "answer": "Nigeria", "passage": "Drill Monkey Rehab Centre, Ndidem Nsang Iso Road hidden behind the Jahas Guest House. It was set up by two overlanders from the USA (Peter Jenkins and Liza Gadsby) who were biologists back home but who were persuaded by the Nigerian Government to stay in Nigeria and look after the endangered Drill Monkeys which were traditionally hunted and eaten in the Afi Mountain range that borders Cameroon. The couple now have staff in Calabar where they care for recently rescued monkeys e.g. those they capture from people trying to smuggle and export them and they also then return them to the wild at the Drill Ranch in Afi Mountains which is not too far from Calabar. You need a decent vehicle and map to get you to the ranch. 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Marian market is much smaller but is where the vegetables arrive once weekly from the north of Nigeria and the atmosphere on market day is fantastic, preachers are singing, women are joining in, traders are very vocal and one just bargains for everything.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.452469825744629, "source": "search", "title": "Calabar travel guide - Wikitravel" }, { "answer": "Nigeria", "passage": "Airlines operating from Nigeria's International Airports", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.707488059997559, "source": "search", "title": "Airlines operating from Nigeria's International Airports" }, { "answer": "Nigeria", "passage": "Situated in Ikeja, Lagos State, the Murtala Muhammed International Airport serves Lagos, southwestern Nigeria and the rest of the Nation. 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In particular, Heyerdahl obtained a radiocarbon date of 400 AD for a charcoal fire located in the pit that was held by the people of Easter Island to have been used as an \"oven\" by the \"Long Ears,\" which Heyerdahl's Rapa Nui sources, reciting oral tradition, identified as a white race which had ruled the island in the past (Heyerdahl 1958).", "precise_score": 4.137328147888184, "rough_score": 5.145228862762451, "source": "search", "title": "Expeditions - The Thor Heyerdahl Institute" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Since his voyage across the Pacific on the Kon-Tikiin 1947, Thor Heyerdahl has been the modern world's most renowned explorer-adventurer. He has made four oceanic trips in primitive vessels to demonstrate his theories that ancient civilizations may have spread from a common source through sea voyages. His expeditions to sites of ancient stone statues in the Pacific Ocean and pyramids in Peru have also attracted great interest. More than a dozen books about his adventures have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Heyerdahl's work has included several documentary films and hundreds of articles for journals and magazines. But while he has gained more popular attention than any contemporary anthropologist, the scientific community largely has rejected his controversial theories.", "precise_score": 3.6190059185028076, "rough_score": 5.592501640319824, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "After the war, Heyerdahl found little acceptance of his ideas in academic circles. He planned a dramatic experiment to convince his critics that a voyage by ancient peoples from Peru to Polynesia was possible. In 1947, he and a crew traveled to Peru and built a raft made of nine balsa logs, which they named the Kon-Tiki. Following the Humboldt Current, the voyagers covered 4, 300 miles of ocean in 101 days. Heyerdahl detailed the extraordinary journey in his book, The Kon-Tiki Expedition. The book was \"the first great post-war adventure story to catch the imagination of the world, \" according to biographer Christopher Ralling. It was translated into dozens of languages and sold more than 20 million copies. Heyerdahl's documentary movie of the voyage won him an Academy Award in 1951. \"That film won the Oscar because it was so badly shot they knew it couldn't have been faked, \" Heyerdahl told Pope Brock of People. \"It was done after 20 minutes instruction from a Bell & Howell dealer, and I filmed at the wrong speed.\"", "precise_score": 5.014989376068115, "rough_score": 5.419776439666748, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Thor Heyerdahl (hā´ərdäl´, hī´–), 1914–2002, Norwegian explorer and anthropologist, b. Larvik. He carried out research in the Marquesas Islands in 1937–38 and studied the indigenous peoples of British Columbia in 1939–40. To support his thesis that the first settlers of Polynesia were of South American origin, in 1947 he and five companions made the crossing from Peru to the Tuamotu Archipelago on a primitive log raft. This voyage is described in the international best seller Kon Tiki (tr. 1950). In 1970, Heyerdahl sailed, in a papyrus boat, from Morocco to Barbados, in an attempt to prove that ancient Mediterranean civilizations could have sailed in reed boats to America. This adventure is described in The Ra Expeditions (tr. 1971). In 1977, he sailed from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, following a route he believed was once used by the Sumerians; this trip is detailed in The Tigris Expedition (1979). Heyerdahl was an exponent of the diffusionist school of cultural anthropology, now largely discounted, and today most academics regard his theories as speculative and unproven. His other writings include American Indians in the Pacific (1952), Aku-Aku (tr. 1958), Sea Routes to Polynesia (1968), and Easter Island: The Mystery Solved (1989).", "precise_score": 5.487731456756592, "rough_score": 7.098001480102539, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In the Kon-Tiki Expedition, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers went to Peru , where they constructed a pae-pae raft from balsa wood and other native materials, a raft that they called the Kon-Tiki . The Kon-Tiki expedition was inspired by old reports and drawings made by the Spanish Conquistadors of Inca rafts, and by native legends and archaeological evidence suggesting contact between South America and Polynesia . After a 101 day, 4,300 mile (8,000 km) journey across the Pacific Ocean , Kon-Tiki smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7 , 1947.", "precise_score": 5.610629081726074, "rough_score": 6.574709415435791, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl proposed that Tiki's Stone Age people colonized the then-uninhabited Polynesian islands as far north as Hawaii , as far south as New Zealand , as far east as Easter Island, and as far west as Samoa around A.D. 500. They supposedly sailed from Peru to the Polynesian islands on pae-paes�large rafts built from balsa logs, complete with sails and each with a small cottage. They built enormous stone statues carved in the image of human beings on Pitcairn , the Marquesas, and Easter Island that exactly resembled those in Peru. They also built huge pyramids on Tahiti and Samoa with steps like those in Peru. But all over Polynesia, Heyerdahl found indications that Tiki's peaceable race had not been able to hold the islands alone for long. He found evidence that suggested that seagoing war canoes as large as Viking ships and lashed together two and two had brought Stone Age Northwest American Indians to Polynesia around A.D. 1100, and they mingled with Tiki's people. Genetic research has found that modern-day Polynesians, however, are more closely related to Southeast Asians than to American Indians; nor do Heyerdahl's assertions and interpretations agree with the archaelogical or linguistic evidence or with reasonable readings of Polynesian traditions.", "precise_score": 3.9643054008483887, "rough_score": 5.318711757659912, "source": "search", "title": "THOR HEYERDAHL RA AND RA II REED BOATS" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 performative experiment, to sail a raft from Peru to Polynesia, was lauded as a feat of ingenuity and endurance. Largely undertreated is the racially motivated theory undergirding Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki project — that the first settlers in Polynesia were a race of bearded, white-skinned supermen who remained deities in both South American and Polynesian mythology. Contemporary commemorations, however, emphasize feel-good stories of human achievement over Heyerdahl’s racist performance.", "precise_score": 6.474833965301514, "rough_score": 7.0167341232299805, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Thor Heyerdahl aboard Kon-Tiki, several weeks into his voyage across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia. (Courtesy of the Kon-Tiki Museum)", "precise_score": 6.938027381896973, "rough_score": 7.840292453765869, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Like many others, I spent most of my life only vaguely understanding the significance of Thor Heyerdahl. In 1947 the Norwegian adventurer built a log raft using ancient South American practices and sailed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia in a riveting adventure that captured the world’s attention. He published his book on the crossing in 1948; the first English-language edition was published in 1950. I grew up with a paperback copy of Heyerdahl’s best-selling account of the voyage, Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft, on my family’s bookshelf, but I had never read it. However, from the beginning of my formal research on historical simulations, I repeatedly encountered the story of Heyerdahl as a game-changer when it came to using performance to generate understanding about the past. Heyerdahl’s performative experiment, sailing a balsa raft christened with the name of the Peruvian sun god from South America to Polynesia, proved possible his theory of east-to-west colonization of the islands. The foundational text on living history, Jay Anderson’s Time Machines (1984) , positions Heyerdahl as a [End Page 25] pioneer who legitimized the use of hands-on practices to figure out those of the past: “It was the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition [...] that established [Heyerdahl] as the best-known of the experimental archaeologists,” writes Anderson, “After the Kon-Tiki voyage, simulation became a more acceptable research tool ( Anderson 1984 :89). Anderson’s follow up to Time Machines, the Living History Reader, puts Heyerdahl in a category of influence with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who financed Colonial Williamsburg, and James Deetz, who, in one of his first acts as director of Plimoth Plantation, jettisoned the fairy-tale buckled-hatted Pilgrims from the 1620s village the day before opening the 1969 season, initiating a new era of social history and kitchen-sink realism in living museums ( Anderson 1991 :3).", "precise_score": 4.601955890655518, "rough_score": 6.339660167694092, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In 1991, Heyerdahl married Jacqueline Beer (born 1932) as his third wife. They lived in Tenerife, Canary Islands and were very actively involved with archaeological projects, especially in Túcume, Peru, and Azov until his death in 2002. He still had been hoping to undertake an archaeological project in Samoa before he died. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.5974507331848145, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical fair-skinned people in Peru. The original name for Viracocha was Kon-Tiki or Illa-Tiki, which means Sun-Tiki or Fire-Tiki. Kon-Tiki was high priest and sun-king of these legendary \"white men\" who left enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The legend continues with the mysterious bearded white men being attacked by a chief named Cari, who came from the Coquimbo Valley. They had a battle on an island in Lake Titicaca, and the fair race was massacred. However, Kon-Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived on the Pacific coast. The legend ends with Kon-Tiki and his companions disappearing westward out to sea.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.7417577505111694, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers. The Incas described these \"white gods\" as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the \"morning of time\" and taught the Incas' primitive forebears architecture as well as manners and customs. They were unlike other Native Americans in that they had \"white skins and long beards\" and were taller than the Incas. The Incas said that the \"white gods\" had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled westward across the Pacific. After they had left, the Incas themselves took over power in the country.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.337820529937744, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "*In 1954 William Willis sailed alone from Peru to American Samoa on the small raft Seven Little Sisters.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.05838680267334, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "* Paul Theroux, in his book The Happy Isles of Oceania, criticizes Heyerdahl for trying to link the culture of Polynesian islands with the Peruvian culture. However, recent scientific investigation that compares the DNA of some of the Polynesian islands with natives from Peru suggests that there is some merit to Heyerdahl's ideas and that while Polynesia was colonized from Asia, some contact with South America also existed. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.9175368547439575, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "* Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Peru (1953)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.075379371643066, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "* Officer, Order of the Sun (Peru) (1975) and Knight Grand Cross", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.860222816467285, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "* Honorary Member, Geographical Societies of Norway (1953), Peru (1953), Brazil (1954)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.02247142791748, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "* Doctor Honoris Causa, University of San Martin, Lima, Peru, (1991)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.166926383972168, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "* Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.032294273376465, "source": "wiki", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Kon-Tiki left Callao, Peru, on the afternoon of April 28, 1947. To avoid coastal traffic it was initially towed 50 mi out by the Fleet Tug Guardian Rios of the Peruvian Navy, then sailed roughly west carried along on the Humboldt Current. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.9157416224479675, "source": "wiki", "title": "Kon-Tiki expedition" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl believed that the original inhabitants of Easter Island were the migrants from Peru. He argued that the monumental statues known as moai resembled sculptures more typical of pre-Columbian Peru than any Polynesian designs. He believed that the Easter Island myth of a power struggle between two peoples called the Hanau epe and Hanau momoko was a memory of conflicts between the original inhabitants of the island and a later wave of Native Americans from the Northwest coast, eventually leading to the annihilation of the Hanau epe and the destruction of the island's culture and once-prosperous economy. Robert C. Suggs, \"Kon-Tiki\", in Rosemary G. Gillespie, D. A. Clague (eds), Encyclopedia of Islands, University of California Press, 2009, pp. 515–16.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.9535645246505737, "source": "wiki", "title": "Kon-Tiki expedition" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In 1954 William Willis sailed alone on a raft Seven Little Sisters from Peru to American Samoa, successfully completing the journey. He sailed , which was farther than Kon-Tiki. In a second great voyage ten years later, he rafted 11000 mi from South America to Australia with a metal raft Age Unlimited.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.9282586574554443, "source": "wiki", "title": "Kon-Tiki expedition" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In 1955, the Czech explorer and adventurer Eduard Ingris attempted to recreate the Kon-Tiki expedition on a balsa raft called Kantuta. His first expedition, Kantuta I, took place in 1955–1956 and led to failure. In 1959 Ingris built a new balsa raft, Kantuta II, and tried to repeat the previous expedition. The second expedition was a success. Ingris was able to cross the Pacific Ocean on the balsa raft from Peru to Polynesia.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.3897429704666138, "source": "wiki", "title": "Kon-Tiki expedition" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "A Peruvian expedition led by Carlos Caravedo crossed the Pacific Ocean in 1965 in 115 days in a raft named Tangaroa, of which 18 days were used by the crew to cross Tuamotus, the Tuamotu Archipielago, making Tangaroa the only raft that has managed to cross that dangerous archipelago of French Polynesia by its own means. On November 18, 1965, the Tangaroa ended its journey on the Fakarava island. Fakarava is where the Tangaroa is currently preserved.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.388407230377197, "source": "wiki", "title": "Kon-Tiki expedition" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "He suggested that they evolved in the stony deserts of South America and were then domesticated and cried out into the Pacific by voyagers from the coast of Peru. He pointed out that all the nuts stored below waterline on the Kon Tiki balsa-wood raft were non-germinating by the time the raft reached Polynesia, while those above the line were able to germinate. Others have claimed that the coconut can drift for 110 days over 4,800 km and still germinate, and they point out that the coconut seems to require high humidity. It is actively sun-seeking in the direction the palm grows, and neither of these developments are a desert plant feature. Of course, the ability to store large amounts of water is not something you'd expect of coastal fringe evolution, either.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.8080943822860718, "source": "wiki", "title": "Polynesia" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl returned to Norway with fish, jars of beetles and a new dream—to challenge conventional wisdom and demonstrate that the first people who settled Polynesia came from the east, not the west. He abandoned his zoology studies and developed an ethnological theory that two waves of people from the Americas populated the South Pacific. The first wave, Heyerdahl said, arrived around A.D. 500 from pre-Incan Peru by way of Easter Island on rafts that drifted on the currents of the Pacific Ocean; the second came approximately 500 years later from the coast of British Columbia by way of Hawaii. Critics thought the theory impossible and said the open rafts of South America’s pre-Incan civilizations were hardly seaworthy enough to make an oceanic crossing.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.3605077266693115, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Voyage - History in the Headlines" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl, however, was determined to prove that such a voyage was possible—even if it meant risking his life. Although the Norwegian had no sailing experience and couldn’t even swim, he announced plans to make the perilous crossing on a log raft built only with tools available to pre-Columbian South Americans. “Your mother and father will be very grieved when they hear of your death,” one skeptical diplomat told Heyerdahl when hearing of his plan. Promising “nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back,” Heyerdahl recruited a five-man crew who built a 30-by-15-foot raft made of nine balsawood logs harvested from the Ecuadorian jungle lashed together with hemp ropes. An open bamboo cabin with overlapping banana leaves covering the roof provided the only protection from the elements.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.3066959381103516, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Voyage - History in the Headlines" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "With a smash of a coconut against the bow, the vessel was christened Kon-Tiki after the legendary Peruvian sun god who had vanished westward across the sea, a mythical figure who served as the mirror image to the Polynesian demigod Tiki who had arrived from the east. On April 28, 1947, Kon-Tiki departed Callao, Peru, with six men and a Spanish-speaking green parrot aboard. Borne along by the northeast-east trade winds that billowed the massive square sail bearing the image of the bearded Kon-Tiki, the raft groaned and creaked as it drifted across the vast blue desert of water.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.525200843811035, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Voyage - History in the Headlines" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Abandoning his study of zoology, Heyerdahl began an intensive study of testing his theory on the origins of the Polynesian race and culture. He suggested that migration to Polynesia had followed the natural North Pacific conveyor, therefore turning his search for origins to the coasts of British Columbia and Peru. While working at the Museum of British Columbia, Heyerdahl first published his theory (International Science, New York, 1941) that Polynesia had been reached by two successive waves of immigrants. His theory suggested that the first wave had reached Polynesia via Peru and Easter Island on balsa rafts. Centuries later, a second ethnic group reached Hawaii in large double-canoes from British Columbia. The results of Heyerdahl's research were later published in his 800-page volume, American Indians in the Pacific (Stockholm, London, Chicago, 1952).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.8807264566421509, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "After the war, Heyerdahl continued his research, only to meet a wall of resistance to his theories amongst comtemporary scholars. To add weight to his arguments, Heyerdahl decided to build a replica of the aboriginal balsa raft (named the \"Kon-Tiki\") to test his theories. In 1947, Heyerdahl and five companions left Callio, Peru and crossed 8000 km (4300 miles) in 101 days to reach Polynesia (Raroia atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago). Despite skepticisim, the seaworthiness of the aboriginal raft was thus proven and showed that the ancient Peruvians could have reached Polynesia in this manner.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.014167308807373, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Following the success of the Kon-Tiki Expedition, Heyerdahl organized and led the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands. The group investigated the pre-Columbian habitation sites, locating an Inca flute and shards from more than 130 pieces of ceramics which were later identified as pre-Incan. The Galapagos Islands are located about 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador and thus South American archaeology was extended for the first time in to the open Pacific Ocean. Parallel to this expedition, Heyerdahl worked with experts in rediscovering the lost art of the guara, a kind of aboriginal center-board used by the indians of Peru and Ecuador for navigation. From this tool, not used on the Kon-Tiki voyage, it become clear that ancient South American voyagers had the means to navigate as well as travel great distances in the Pacific.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.649749755859375, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Carbon dating showed that the Island had been occupied from about 380 A.D., about one thousand years earlier than scientists previously believed. Excavations indicated that some ancient stone carvings on the Island were similar to ancient traditions in Peru. Some Easter Islanders claimed that according to their legends, they orginally arrived from the far away lands to the East. The results of Heyerdahl's work were widely discussed and presented at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress in Honolulu (1961) where they were supported by the unanimous statement: \"Southeast Asia and the islands adjacent constitute one major source area of the peoples and cultures of the Pacific Islands and South America\". Thus, Heyerdahl's eastern migration theory had gained considerable influence.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.4127960205078125, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "He added that \"these navigators ... also made links, with Mexico and Peru possible, and from Peru again all the way (across the Pacific) to Western Samoa.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.467985153198242, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl said his critics read his book \"Kon-Tiki\" -- part science, part adventure story -- but ignored his academic manuscript, \"American Indians in the Pacific: The Theory Behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition,\" which he couldn't get published until 1952. The 800-page book uses genetic evidence such as blood types and cultivated plants to posit that settlers from Peru arrived in Polynesia before the Asian-descended people.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.418643951416016, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In the 1980s, he directed excavation of South America's largest pyramid complex, Tucume in Peru, where researchers found reliefs of bird-headed men navigating reed ships, evidence that men sailed along the Pacific coast before the Spanish conquest.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.193612098693848, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Step pyramids are found mainly in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mexico and Peru. Heyerdahl says there is evidence they existed around the Mediterranean -- including some along the North Africa coast that were destroyed and rebuilt into Greek temples. The largest is Peru's Akapana near Lake Titicaca, where the Aymara still weave reed boats.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.0116944313049316, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "After 101 days and 4,900 miles, he proved them wrong by reaching Polynesia from Peru, in a bid to prove his theories of human migration.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.224772453308105, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "His later studies focused on ancient step pyramids -- including those in Peru and on the island of Tenerife off Africa -- which he believed could show maritime links between ancient civilizations.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.39941120147705, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Expeditions and Archaeology of the Pacific ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In the Kon-Tiki Expedition, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers went to Peru, where they constructed a pae-pae raft from balsa wood and other native materials, a raft that they called the", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.1884965896606445, "source": "search", "title": "Expeditions - The Thor Heyerdahl Institute" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical fair-skinned people in Peru. The original name for Viracocha was Kon-Tiki or Illa-Tiki, which means Sun-Tiki or Fire-Tiki. Kon-Tiki was high priest and sun-king of these legendary \"white men\" who left enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The legend continues with the mysterious bearded white men being attacked by a chief named Cari who came from the Coquimbo Valley. They had a battle on an island in Lake Titicaca, and the fair race was massacred. However, Kon-Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived on the Pacific coast. The legend ends with Kon-Tiki and his companions disappearing westward out to sea.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5402354001998901, "source": "search", "title": "Expeditions - The Thor Heyerdahl Institute" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers. The Incas described these \"white gods\" as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the \"morning of time\" and taught the Incas' primitive forefathers architecture as well as manners and customs. They were unlike other Native Americans in that they had \"white skins and long beards\" and were taller than the Incas. The Incas said that the \"white gods\" had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled westward across the Pacific. After they had left, the Incas themselves took over power in the country.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.341095447540283, "source": "search", "title": "Expeditions - The Thor Heyerdahl Institute" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In 1933, Heyerdahl entered the University of Oslo and specialized in zoology and geography. In Oslo, he spent a lot of time in the home of a wealthy wine merchant and family friend who had a huge library of Polynesian artifacts. With his girlfriend Liv Torp, Heyerdahl decided to quit college and make an expedition to the South Seas. His father agreed to finance the trip. Heyerdahl and Torp were married on Christmas Eve in 1936, and the next day they set out for Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, their hand-picked Garden of Eden. On the island Heyerdahl discovered evidence that Peruvian aboriginal voyagers had visited the islands. The inhabitants told him stories of Kon-tiki, a bearded, white sun king who arrived over the sea. Heyerdahl's stay on Fatu Hiva is recounted in his 1996 book, Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.34724760055542, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In 1988, Heyerdahl returned to Peru to explore 26 pre-Incan pyramids at ruins named Tucume. In 1990, Ralling wrote a biography, Kon-Tiki Man, which quotes extensively from Heyerdahl's previous accounts of his travels. A reviewer in Publishers Weekly called the book \"a stimulating chronicle of curiosity and wanderlust.\" A television series was made to accompany the book.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.9314333200454712, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl’s theory was bold, and it was rejected by the academic community and subsequently every publisher he approached for funds. Of course, minor things like opposition, lack of support and being called “crazy” to his face dampened Heyerdahl’s enthusiasm. However, he assembled a motley crew of five men (one of whom was a refrigerator salesman), constructed a raft made of balsa wood (the same material the Incas would have used), and set sail from the Peruvian coast. He christened the raft “Kon-Tiki,” after the legendary Inca sun god. Four years later, Heyerdahl turned the expedition into an Oscar-winning documentary and his book recounting Kon-Tiki’s exploits, was translated into 67 languages and sold more than 5 million copies worldwide.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.4524201154708862, "source": "search", "title": "Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki adventure still inspires | The Japan ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical fair-skinned people in Peru . The original name for Virakocha was Kon-Tiki or Illa-Tiki, which means Sun-Tiki or Fire-Tiki. Kon-Tiki was high priest and sun-king of these legendary \"white men\" who left enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca . The legend continues with the mysterious bearded white men being attacked by a chief named Cari who came from the Coquimbo Valley . They had a battle on an island in Lake Titicaca, and the fair race was massacred. However, Kon-Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived on the Pacific coast. The legend ends with Kon-Tiki and his companions disappearing westward out to sea.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6845030784606934, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers. The Incas described these \"white gods\" as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the \"morning of time\" and taught the Incas' primitive forefathers architecture as well as manners and customs. They were unlike other Native Americans in that they had \"white skins and long beards\" and were taller than the Incas. The Incas said that the \"white gods\" had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled westward across the Pacific. After they had left, the Incas themselves took over power in the country.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.341095447540283, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": ". They supposedly sailed from Peru to the Polynesian islands on pae-paes--large rafts built from balsa logs, complete with sails and each with a small cottage. They built enormous stone statues carved in the image of human beings on Pitcairn , the Marquesas , and Easter Island that resembled those in Peru. They also built huge pyramids on Tahiti and Samoa with steps like those in Peru. But all over Polynesia, Heyerdahl found indications that Tiki's peaceable race had not been able to hold the islands alone for long. He found evidence that suggested that seagoing war canoes as large as Viking ships and lashed together two and two had brought Stone Age Northwest American Indians to Polynesia around 1100", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.7359137535095215, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In 1954 William Willis sailed alone from Peru to American Samoa on the small raft named \"Seven Little Sisters\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.046659469604492, "source": "search", "title": "Thor Heyerdahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical white people in Peru . The original name for Virakocha was Kon-Tiki or Illa-Tiki, which means Sun-Tiki or Fire-Tiki. Kon-Tiki was high priest and sun-king of these legendary \"white men\" who left enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The legend continues with the mysterious bearded white men being attacked by a chief named Cari who came from the Coquimbo Valley. They had a battle on an island in Lake Titicaca, and the fair race was massacred. However, Kon-Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived on the Pacific coast. The legend ends with Kon-Tiki and his companions disappearing westward out to sea.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5571964979171753, "source": "search", "title": "THOR HEYERDAHL RA AND RA II REED BOATS" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers. The Incas described these \"white gods\" as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the \"morning of time\" and taught the Incas' primitive forefathers architecture as well as manners and customs. They were unlike other Native Americans in that they had \"white skins and long beards\" and were taller than the Incas. They also had Semitic facial features. The Incas said that the \"white gods\" had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled westward across the Pacific. After they had left, the Incas themselves took over power in the country.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.324721336364746, "source": "search", "title": "THOR HEYERDAHL RA AND RA II REED BOATS" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Abandoning his study of zoology, Heyerdahl began an intensive study of testing his theory on the origins of the Polynesian race and culture. He suggested that migration to Polynesia had followed the natural North Pacific conveyor, therefore turning his search for origins to the coasts of British Columbia and Peru. While working at the Museum of British Columbia, Heyerdahl first published his theory (International Science, New York, 1941) that Polynesia had been reached by two successive waves of immigrants. His theory suggested that the first wave had reached Polynesia via Peru and Easter Island on balsa rafts. Centuries later, a second ethnic group reached Hawaii in large double-canoes from British Columbia. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.1234112977981567, "source": "search", "title": "THOR HEYERDAHL RA AND RA II REED BOATS" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "After the war, Heyerdahl continued his research, only to meet a wall of resistance to his theories amongst comtemporary scholars. To add weight to his arguments, Heyerdahl decided to build a replica of the aboriginal balsa raft (named the \"Kon-Tiki\") to test his theories. In 1947, Heyerdahl and five companions left Callio, Peru and crossed 8000 km (4300 miles) in 101 days to reach Polynesia (Raroia atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago). Despite skepticisim, the seaworthiness of the aboriginal raft was thus proven and showed that the ancient Peruvians could have reached Polynesia in this manner.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.014167308807373, "source": "search", "title": "THOR HEYERDAHL RA AND RA II REED BOATS" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Following the success of the Kon-Tiki Expedition, Heyerdahl organized and led the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands. The group investigated the pre-Columbian habitation sites, locating an Inca flute and shards from more than 130 pieces of ceramics which were later identified as pre-Incan. The Galapagos Islands are located about 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador and thus South American archaeology was extended for the first time in to the open Pacific Ocean. Parallel to this expedition, Heyerdahl worked with experts in rediscovering the lost art of the guara, a kind of aboriginal center-board used by the indians of Peru and Ecuador for navigation. From this tool, not used on the Kon-Tiki voyage, it become clear that ancient South American voyagers had the means to navigate as well as travel great distances in the Pacific.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.649749755859375, "source": "search", "title": "THOR HEYERDAHL RA AND RA II REED BOATS" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Carbon dating showed that the Island had been occupied from about 380 A.D., about one thousand years earlier than scientists previously believed. Excavations indicated that some ancient stone carvings on the Island were similar to ancient traditions in Peru. Some Easter Islanders claimed that according to their legends, they orginally arrived from the far away lands to the East. The results of Heyerdahl's work were widely discussed and presented at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress in Honolulu (1961) where they were supported by the unanimous statement: \"Southeast Asia and the islands adjacent constitute one major source area of the peoples and cultures of the Pacific Islands and South America\". Thus, Heyerdahl's eastern migration theory had gained considerable influence.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.4127960205078125, "source": "search", "title": "THOR HEYERDAHL RA AND RA II REED BOATS" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Experts scoffed at Heyerdahl when he set off to cross the Pacific aboard a balsa raft in 1947, saying it would get water logged and sink within days. After 101 days and 4,900 miles, he proved them wrong by reaching Polynesia from Peru, in a bid to prove his theories of human migration.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.2489004135131836, "source": "search", "title": "THOR HEYERDAHL RA AND RA II REED BOATS" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "His later studies focused on ancient step pyramids - including those in Peru and on the island of Tenerife off Africa - which he believed could show maritime links between ancient civilizations.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.390714645385742, "source": "search", "title": "THOR HEYERDAHL RA AND RA II REED BOATS" }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Right there, hidden in plain sight, is Heyerdahl’s claim that Con-Ticci Viracocha, the deity connected to a pre-Incan civilization and the raft’s namesake — Heyerdahl changed the spelling for branding purposes — was white. Kon-Tiki was never indigenous to what is now South America, he maintained, but was rather a bearded newcomer with Caucasoid features from the north and east who’d brought the Indians out of their primitive savagery into civilization (indigenous South Americans were darker skinned and didn’t grow facial hair for the most part). Heyerdahl writes in the first chapter of Kon-Tiki what the Incas told the Spaniards, whom they greeted as divine on their arrival to Peru:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.8774919509887695, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "The white, bearded men, having taught the brown-skinned indigenous Peruvians everything they knew, were ousted from the civilization’s center at Lake Titicaca after a great battle. “Finally they left Peru as suddenly as they had come; the Incas themselves took over power in the country, and the white teachers vanished forever from the coast of South America and fled westward across the Pacific” (17).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.145864486694336, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "But this didn’t explain Heyerdahl’s continued popularity throughout the remainder of the 20th century and now well into the 21st. While his theories were hardly accepted by the academic community (the east-to-west theory of Polynesian colonization never held much water with anthropologists, and archaeologists and historians would quickly determine the Peruvian raft was based nearly entirely on conjecture), Heyerdahl enjoyed a high profile in popular culture, becoming an international celebrity and brand by the second half of the 20th century. He reprised the Kon-Tiki expedition with the papyrus reed boat Ra II across the Atlantic in 1970 and the Tigris from Iraq to Djibouti in 1978. He established himself as an eminent environmental and peace activist, receiving awards and decorations from several countries and became a sought-after speaker. An asteroid was named in his honor. 3 The 2012 Norwegian feature film directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg based on the Kon-Tiki expedition, released in English in 2013, was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best foreign-language film. The film, the most expensive ever made in Norway and the highest grossing in that country’s box office in 2012, testifies to the enduring power of Heyerdahl’s story — notably that of Heyerdahl’s east-to-west theory of Polynesian origins, not his theory that Kon-Tiki was white. Unlike the movie, the book’s racist passages remain unexpurgated, yet it continues to do a brisk business. Nearly 11,500 readers gave it an average of 4.07 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.com, and 248 Amazon users, who can only rate a title if they submit a written review, give it 4.6 out of five stars ( Goodreads.com 2015 ; Amazon.com 2015 ).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.8384342193603516, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl positioned his conjectural raft with its racially loaded namesake as the protagonist on the epic stage of the Pacific in a historiographic struggle to topple paradigms of early human migration of his day and insert the neolithic white-skinned navigator as prehis-tory’s dominant bringer of culture to the Americas and the South Seas. It would be problematic enough if Heyerdahl’s project was an exercise in “playing Indian,” Philip J. Deloria’s term for non-Native appropriation of Native imagery (see Deloria 1998 ). But because Heyerdahl in fact believed that the ancient seafarers from South America were not indigenous Peruvians at all but rather a race of blond- or red-bearded, white-skinned men, treated as gods by the benighted Indians in Central and South America to whom they brought culture before sailing westward to Polynesia, he was doing something much worse. Clearly, the notion that the indigenous peoples of what is now South America did not have the wherewithal to come up with their own culture without the help of white, bearded men from the north is patronizing and racist. But the subsequent claim that the westward migration to Polynesia from the coast of South America was undertaken not by the indigenous Indians of Peru, but by these same white men, is a move that completely cuts both indigenous South Americans and Polynesians out as active agents in the discourse about how humanity — and specific cultural traits — spread across the globe. The Kon-Tiki raft, in other words, while ostensibly performing “American Indians in the Pacific” (the title of one of Heyerdahl’s subsequent books) ultimately divested indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Pacific of their place in global migration history. By the mid-1960s 50 million copies of this history had been sold around the world.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.376875400543213, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "The story of the Kon-Tiki expedition is readily available in Heyerdahl’s books, the various media adaptations of them, and in blow-by-blow accounts on the internet. Still, the briefest summary is in order here. Heyerdahl’s early attempts to publish his hyper-diffusionist theory of white racial origins of Polynesian culture as an academic project were foiled by the establishment, who refused to take his unorthodox arguments seriously. Undeterred, he pulled together a crew of Norwegian war heroes, a Norwegian engineer, and one Swede (a fellow migration theorist), to prove the validity of his idea through a reconstruction of the Pacific journey itself. The planning alone was a feat: Heyerdahl secured funding and contracts with the US military, permissions from the Peruvian government to use their naval shipyard for building the raft, contacts and suppliers for building materials deep in the South American forests, and press deals with the New York Times to publish real-time reports from the voyage. He oversaw the [End Page 29] building of a traditional balsa log raft based on various images of vessels from the 18th and 19th centuries and accounts from around the time of Spanish first-contact. 4", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.675004482269287, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "The raft began the voyage across the Pacific from Callao, Peru, toward the Marquesas island group in April of 1947, catching the Pacific Ocean’s Humboldt Current. During the voyage, Heyerdahl wired accounts of the journey to the press, the crew encountered a whale shark and undiscovered species of fish, and there were harrying adventures with the weather, man-eating sharks, and navigating the ocean by ancient means. The crew befriended a stowaway crab they named Johannes, who would make it the whole way, but their parrot companion, Lorita, given by a “friendly soul” in Lima before the raft sailed, was lost in a storm (in the 2012 film, she was eaten by a shark). One hundred and one days after launching from Callao, the Kon-Tiki crashed and wrecked itself on the reef off Raroia atoll, the crew waded to shore, and Heyerdahl finally had the proof he sought for the possibility of westward migration (see Heyerdahl [1950] 1956 ; and Heyerdahl and Nordemar 1950 ).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.9380292892456055, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl frames his 1948 narrative of the expedition with his hyper-diffusionist theories. By his own accounts, Heyerdahl had come up with the idea of westward migration to Polynesia when he and his wife, Liv, were on the island of Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas in 1937. There, at least according to his story in Kon-Tiki, he heard tales of the islanders’ ancestors arriving from the East and perceived cultural and botanical correspondence between the Marquesas and South America. The connection to the Peruvian sun god Con-Ticci Viracocha only became apparent afterward. The way he tells it, the Spanish historical accounts of being greeted by the Incas as if they were the returning white visitors who had sailed west into the sunset after bringing culture to the Indians rang a bell with the stories he had heard the Fatu Hiva islanders tell of their ancestors who came across the sea from a land where the sun rises. Heyerdahl’s own amateur studies of archaeology and ethnography while in Polynesia led him to draw comparisons between artifacts and linguistic terms and phrases across the islands with those of indigenous peoples of pre-contact Americas. He was particularly drawn to stone humanoid figures on the Pacific islands and across the Americas that shared traits suggesting beards, and Polynesian origin stories indicating that the islands’ inhabitants came from the east. 5 The preponderance [End Page 30] of these comparisons led him to declare, against prevailing scientific opinion, that the original peoples of Polynesia and the “white gods” of Peru were one and the same:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.498213291168213, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "I was no longer in doubt that the white chief-god Sun-Tiki, whom the Incas declared that their forefathers had driven out of Peru on to the Pacific, was identical with the white chief-god Tiki, son of the sun, whom the inhabitants of all the eastern Pacific islands hailed as the original founder of their race. And the details of Sun-Tiki’s life in Peru, with the ancient names of places round Lake Titicaca, cropped up again in historic legends current among the natives of the Pacific islands.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.3636322021484375, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "After the Kon-Tiki voyage secured him more clout, at least in the popular publishing world, Heyerdahl expounded his theories of the origins of Polynesian peoples in his 800-page American Indians in the Pacific: The Theory Behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition (1952) . Despite its title, a substantial portion of the book again argues that the first settlers of Easter Island and Polynesia were not indigenous Amerindians but bearded white men with Caucasian-like traits and that the present-day Polynesians only display mixed-race features after intermingling with subsequent waves of Mongoloid and Negroid settlers, first from the Pacific Northwest and later [End Page 32] from Asia and Melanesia. 9 In the essay “The Bearded Gods before Columbus,” first published in 1971, Heyerdahl returns again to the question of Polynesian origins. “Tall and red-haired persons with full beards were equally unknown on either side of Polynesia when the Europeans arrived,” he writes. “The short, round-headed yellow-brown peoples of Indonesia and South America were equally anatomically beardless. How then could the Polynesian islanders have obtained their deviant Europoid features?” ([1971] 1979:97). Heyerdahl finds his answer to this question by analyzing accounts of the soft, brown or blond, wavy hair and cranial characteristics and narrow features of pre-Inca mummified remains in Polynesia and South America, and makes his connection. “If [...] we assume that these mummies are what they appear to be — embalmed individuals with non-Mongoloid and clearly Caucasoid traits — then we have found in pre-Inca Peru what we were looking for: a natural source of the uru-keu strain on the adjacent islands of Polynesia, and an explanation of the blond ancestors of the Easter Islanders, cited by them as having come from a desert land to the east known as the ‘Burial Place’” ( Heyerdahl [1971] 1979 :103).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.397977828979492, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "El Perú", "passage": "Specimens of pre-Inca mummies with what Heyerdahl alleged were European-like traits. (From Heyerdahl 1952 ; courtesy of Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.363256454467773, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "In addition to consulting records of human remains for “Bearded Gods,” Heyerdahl inventoried origin stories of Peru: “Common to all accounts of how culture reached Peru is the admission that the Incas lived more or less as savages till a light-skinned, bearded foreigner and his entourage came to their country, taught them the ways of civilization, and departed” ([1971] 1979:106). The leader of these visitors, Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki amalgam, is described in various accounts as being tall, fair-skinned, with a flowing beard down to his waist, and flowing robes. He spoke lovingly and gently to the barbarians, leading them out of evil and human sacrifice, teaching instead loving-kindness and char ity (107). Heyerdahl finds similar fair-skinned figures among early histories of the Mayans and Aztecs (111ff). He suggests that the tall, blond, blue-eyed type would have come from the same stock as that found in Phoenicia and in the “Afro-Asiatic civilizations that extended from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic coast of Morocco.” The tall, blond-haired peoples of the Nordic cultures now living in northern Europe, argued Heyerdahl, would have originally come from the same region (124).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.14742887020111084, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Holton asserts that these pseudoscientific beliefs not only robbed indigenous peoples of their claim to history, but also were used to legislate and deny land and benefits to indigenous populations. “Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki theory strips away claims the Quechua and Aymara Indians, for example, might have to identify with the great artistic and engineering accomplishments still visible on their ancestral lands” (177). Holton points out that Heyerdahl actually mobilized this racial theory to help secure cooperation from the Peruvian government for the expedition: “Peru’s President Bustamente supported the Kon Tiki expedition because it claimed white Indians owned the land before the Incas, thereby eliminating potential Quechua lands rights” (178). Holton traces a trend in which “Great White Race” theories have similarly “been used by the governments of Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil to glorify their prehistory and oppose land rights claims by their indigenous peoples (177–78).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.11877308785915375, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Heyerdahl’s historiographic and performative act of divestiture is fourfold: First of all, the Kon-Tiki expedition and its follow-up accounts deny the ancient indigenous peoples of Peru their history in the building of the great pre-Incan civilization. Secondly, the historical first inhabitants of Polynesia, identified by mainstream anthropologists as being from Southeast Asia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, are likewise divested of a historical place at the table. “Whence had the Polynesians obtained their vast astronomical knowledge and their calendar, which was calculated with astonishing thoroughness?,” Heyerdahl queried:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.27077054977417, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." }, { "answer": "Peru", "passage": "Unlike the Creation Museum, however, in which most visitors already believe the museum’s narrative (God’s Word) as a resistance to the mainstream scientific view of evolution and of a universe billions of years old (Man’s Word), the Kon-Tiki Museum does not explicitly purport to tell a story that resists a mainstream narrative. In essence, by not explicitly arguing that Heyerdahl’s expedition proved that Polynesia was peopled via westward migration from the Americas, merely that he proved the possibility, the museum lays no claim to the truth of diffusion theory. The continued power of the raft is rooted in its function as the symbol of a man who, against all odds and naysayers, proved that if neolithic humans had wanted to conquer the Pacific from the coast of Peru, they could have done it just like Heyerdahl and his crew.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.3614388704299927, "source": "search", "title": "Project MUSE - White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon ..." } ]

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She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.", "precise_score": 6.838791847229004, "rough_score": 6.500761985778809, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe, where she met music producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. Summer returned to the U.S., in 1975 with commercial success of the song 'Love to Love You Baby', followed by a string of other hits, such as \"I Feel Love\", \"Last Dance\", \"MacArthur Park\", \"Heaven Knows\", \"Hot Stuff\", \"Bad Girls\", \"Dim All the Lights\", \"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)\" (duet with Barbra Streisand), and \"On the Radio\". She became known as the \"Queen of Disco\", while her music gained a global following. Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. In her obituary in The Times, she was described as the \"undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom\" who reached the status of \"one of the world's leading female singers.\" Moroder described Summer's work with him on the song 'I Feel Love' as \"really the start of electronic dance\" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.", "precise_score": 5.6584978103637695, "rough_score": 1.5568352937698364, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer, pseudoniem van LaDonna Adrian Gaines, (Boston, 31 december 1948 – Key West, 17 mei 2012), was een Amerikaans zangeres, songwriter en artieste. Ze was het bekendst van haar discohits uit de jaren 70, die haar de bijnaam \"koningin van de disco\" opleverden. Als een van de weinige discosterren slaagde ze er ook in om later met andere genres, zoals de r&b, hits te blijven scoren.", "precise_score": 2.7615621089935303, "rough_score": -5.179152011871338, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer, pseudoniem van LaDonna Adrian Gaines, (Boston, 31 december 1948 – Key West, 17 mei 2012), was een Amerikaans zangeres, songwriter en artieste. Ze was het bekendst van haar discohits uit de jaren 70, die haar de bijnaam \"koningin van de disco\" opleverden. Als een van de weinige discosterren slaagde ze er ook in om later met andere genres, zoals de r&b, hits te blijven scoren.", "precise_score": 2.7615621089935303, "rough_score": -5.179152011871338, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.", "precise_score": 6.838791847229004, "rough_score": 6.500761985778809, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "LaDonna Adrian Gaines, conocida como Donna Summer (Boston, Massachusetts, 31 de diciembre de 1948 - Naples, Florida, 17 de mayo de 2012) fue una cantante, compositora, pianista y actriz estadounidense, mundialmente famosa por sus géneros de disco y pop durante los años '70 y comienzos de los años ochenta.Sus canciones más conocidas a lo largo de su carrera son, «Last Dance», «Hot Stuff», «On the Radio», «She Works Hard for the Money», «Love to Love you Baby», «I Feel Love», «Bad Girls» y «No More Tears (Enough is Enough)», un dúo que grabó con Barbra Streisand.", "precise_score": -0.6581095457077026, "rough_score": -3.962700843811035, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), better known by her stage name, Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.", "precise_score": 8.777355194091797, "rough_score": 7.982761859893799, "source": "search", "title": "Who is Donna Summer dating? 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", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.645243644714355, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "While working as a model part-time and back up singer in Munich, she met German-based producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte during a recording session for Three Dog Night at Musicland Studios. The trio forged a working partnership, and Donna was signed to their Oasis label in 1974. A demo tape of Summer's work with Moroder and Bellotte led to a deal with the European-distributed label Groovy Records. Due to an error on the record cover, Donna Sommer became Donna Summer; the name stuck. Summer's first album was Lady of the Night. It became a hit in the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Belgium on the strength of two songs, \"The Hostage\" and the title track \"Lady of the Night\". \"The Hostage\" reached the top of the charts in France, but was removed from radio playlists in Germany because of the song's subject matter; a high ranking politician had recently been kidnapped and held for ransom. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.934112548828125, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Summer received four nominations for 1980 American Music Awards, and took home awards for Female Pop/Rock and Female Soul/R&B Artist; and well as Pop/Rock single for \"Bad Girls\". Just over a week after the awards, Donna had her own nationally televised special, The Donna Summer Special, which aired on ABC network on January 27, 1980. After the release of the On the Radio album, Summer wanted to branch out into other musical styles, which led to tensions between her and Casablanca Records. Casablanca wanted her to continue to record disco only. Summer was upset with President Neil Bogart over the early release of the single \"No More Tears (Enough is Enough)\"; she had penned \"Dim All the Lights\" alone, and was hoping for a number-one hit as a songwriter. Not waiting until \"Dim All the Lights\" had peaked, or at least another month as promised; Summer felt it had detracted from the singles chart momentum. Summer and the label parted ways in 1980, and she signed with Geffen Records, the new label started by David Geffen. Summer had filed a 10-million-dollar suit against Casablanca; the label counter-sued. In the end, she did not receive any money, but won the rights to her own lucrative song publishing. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.037572860717773, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Over the years, a few of the tracks would be released. The song \"Highway Runner\" appears on the soundtrack for the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High. \"Romeo\" appears on the Flashdance soundtrack. Both, \"I'm a Rainbow\" and \"Don't Cry For Me Argentina\" would be on her 1993 Anthology album. David Geffen hired top R&B and pop producer Quincy Jones to produce Summer's next album, the eponymously titled Donna Summer. The album took over six months to record as Summer, who was pregnant at the time, found it hard to sing. During the recording of the project, Neil Bogart died of cancer in May 1982 at age 39. Summer would sing at his funeral. The album included the top ten hit \"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)\"; for which she received a Grammy nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Donna was also nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for Protection, penned for her by Bruce Springsteen. Other singles included \"State of Independence\" ( 41 pop) and \"The Woman in Me\" ( 33 pop). Geffen Records were notified by Polygram Records who now owned Casablanca, that Donna still needed to deliver them one more album to fulfill her contract with them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.802111625671387, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "In 1990, a Warner compilation, The Best of Donna Summer, was released. The album went gold in the UK after the song \"State of Independence\" was re-released there to promote the album. The following year, Summer worked with producer Keith Diamond emerged with the album Mistaken Identity, which included elements of R&B as well as new jack swing. \"When Love Cries\" continued her success on the R&B charts, reaching 18. In 1992, Summer embarked on a world tour and later that year received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She reunited with Giorgio Moroder, for the song \"Carry On\", which was included on the 1993, Polygram issued The Donna Summer Anthology, it contained 34 tracks of Summer's material with Casablanca and Mercury Records, and from her tenures with Atlantic and Geffen. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.650252819061279, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "During this time, Summer had role on the sitcom Family Matters as Steve Urkel's (Jaleel White) Aunt Oona. She made a few appearances in 1997. In 1998, Summer received the first Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, after a remixed version of her 1992 collaboration with Giorgio Moroder, \"Carry On\", was released in 1997. In 1999, Summer was asked to do the Divas 2 concert, but when she went in and met with the producers, it was decided that they would do Donna in concert by herself. Summer taped a live television special for VH1 titled Donna Summer – Live & More Encore, producing the second highest ratings for the network that year, after their annual Divas special. A CD of the event was released by Epic Records and featured two studio recordings, \"I Will Go with You (Con te partirò)\" and \"Love Is the Healer\", both of which reached No. 1 on the U.S. dance charts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.274234771728516, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "In 2000, Summer participated in VH1's third annual Divas special, dedicated to Diana Ross, she sang the Supreme's hit Reflections, and her own material for the show. \"The Power of One\" is a theme song for the movie Pokémon: The Movie 2000. The dramatic ballad was produced by David Foster and dance remixes were also issued to DJs and became another dance floor success for Summer, peaking at No. 2 on the same chart in 2000. In 2003, Summer issued her autobiography, Ordinary Girl: The Journey, and released a best-of set titled The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer. In 2004, Summer was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame as an artist, alongside the Bee Gees and Barry Gibb. Her classic song, I Feel Love, was inducted that night as well. In 2004 and 2005, Summer's success on the dance charts continued with the songs You're So Beautiful and I Got Your Love.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.997186660766602, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Singers and music industry professionals around the world reacted to Summer's death. Gloria Gaynor said she was \"deeply saddened\" and that Summer was \"a fine lady and human being\". Liza Minnelli said, \"She was a queen, The Queen Of Disco, and we will be dancing to her music forever.\" She said that her \"thoughts and prayers are with her family always.\" Dolly Parton said, \"Donna, like Whitney, was one of the greatest voices ever. I loved her records. She was the disco queen and will remain so. I knew her and found her to be one of the most likable and fun people ever. She will be missed and remembered.\" Janet Jackson wrote that Summer \"changed the world of music with her beautiful voice and incredible talent.\" Barbra Streisand wrote, \"I loved doing the duet with her. She had an amazing voice and was so talented. It's so sad.\" Quincy Jones wrote that Summer's voice was \"the heartbeat and soundtrack of a generation.\" Aretha Franklin said, \"It's so shocking to hear about the passing of Donna Summer. In the 70s, she reigned over the disco era and kept the disco jumping. Who will forget 'Last Dance'? A fine performer and a very nice person.\" Chaka Khan said, \"Donna and I had a friendship for over 30 years. She is one of the few black women I could speak German with and she is one of the few friends I had in this business.\" Gloria Estefan averred that \"It's the end of an era\", and posted a photo of herself with Summer. Mary J. Blige tweeted \"RIP Donna Summer !!!!!!!! You were truly a game changer !!!\" Lenny Kravitz wrote \"Rest in peace Donna, You are a pioneer and you have paved the way for so many of us. You transcended race and genre. Respect.. Lenny\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.399392127990723, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Beyonce penned a personal note: \"Donna Summer made music that moved me both emotionally and physically to get up and dance. You could always hear the deep passion in her voice. She was so much more than the queen of disco she became known for, she was an honest and gifted singer with flawless vocal talent. I've always been a huge fan and was honoured to sample one of her songs. She touched many generations and will be sadly missed. My love goes out to her family during this difficult time. Love, B\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.157858848571777, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "United States President Barack Obama said, \"Michelle and I were saddened to hear about the passing of Donna Summer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Donna truly was the 'Queen of Disco.' Her voice was unforgettable and the music industry has lost a legend far too soon. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Donna's family and her dedicated fans.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.900733947753906, "source": "wiki", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "answer": "Queen of disco", "passage": "According to singer Marc Almond, Summer's collaboration with producer Giorgio Moroder \"changed the face of music\". Summer was the first artist to have three double albums reach 1 on Billboards album chart: Live and More, Bad Girls and On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II. She became a cultural icon and her prominence on the dance charts, for which she was referred to as the Queen of Disco, made her not just one of the defining voices of that era, but also an influence on pop artists from Madonna to Beyoncé. Unlike some other stars of disco who faded as the music became less popular in the early 1980s, Summer was able to grow beyond the genre and segued to a pop-rock sound. She had one of her biggest hits in the 1980s with \"She Works Hard For the Money\", which became another anthem, this time for women's rights. Summer was the first black woman to be nominated for an MTV Video Music Award. Summer remained a force on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs chart throughout her career and notched 19 number one singles. Her last studio album, 2008's Crayons, spun off three 1 dance/club hits with \"I'm a Fire\", \"Stamp Your Feet\" and \"Fame (The Game)\". In May 2012, it was announced that \"I Feel Love\" was included in the list of preserved recordings at the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. Her Rock and Roll Hall of Fame page listed Summer as \"the Diva De Tutte Dive, the first true diva of the modern pop era\". 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Fue la primera artista en tener tres álbumes consecutivos en alcanzar el número #1 en los Estados Unidos en el Billboard Hot 100. A lo largo de su carrera vendió más de 150 millones de copias en todo el mundo, lo que la convierte en uno de los músicos con mayores ventas de todos los tiempos. Sus canciones más conocidas a lo largo de su carrera son, «Last Dance», «Hot Stuff», «On the Radio», «She Works Hard for the Money», «Love to Love you Baby», «I Feel Love», «Bad Girls» y «No More Tears (Enough is Enough)», un dúo que grabó con Barbra Streisand. Summer se involucró en el mundo de la música a través de los grupos del coro de su iglesia antes de unirse a una serie de bandas influenciadas por la Motown Sound. Influida por la contracultura de la década de 1960, se convirtió en la cantante al frente de la banda de rock psicodélico Crow y se trasladó a la ciudad de Nueva York. Se casó con Helmut Sommer, de cuyo apellido derivó el nombre artístico Donna Summer. Le fue diagnosticado un cáncer de pulmón, por el que falleció el 17 de mayo de 2012, en su casa de Naples, Florida. En 2013 fue incluida en el Salón de la Fama del Rock. Es considerada la reina de la música disco.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.146762371063232, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer, nom de scène de LaDonna Andrea Gaines (née le à Dorchester, un quartier de Boston et morte le à Key West en Floride), est une chanteuse disco et pop-rock américaine. Elle est un mythe de la musique disco des années 1970 et 1980.Elle fut l'interprète de nombreux succès comme : Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love, Last Dance (Grammy Award en 1978 dans la catégorie Best R&B vocal performance female), Hot Stuff (Grammy Award en 1979 dans la catégorie Best rock vocal performance female), Could It Be Magic, Bad Girls, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) en duo avec Barbra Streisand, On The Radio et She Works Hard For The Money. Elle a vendu plus de 130 millions de disques dans le monde.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.266460418701172, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "La notorietà di Donna Summer è dovuta principalmente a una serie di successi discografici, ottenuti soprattutto negli anni settanta, che le valsero il titolo di \"Queen of Disco\" (\"regina della disco music\"). Con oltre 150 milioni di dischi venduti nel corso della sua ultra quarantennale carriera, è entrata nel novero degli artisti che hanno raggiunto il maggior numero di vendite nella storia della musica. Donna Summer rappresenta una rarità nel panorama della musica disco degli anni settanta: sebbene sia stata una delle artiste più note di quel genere, il suo repertorio includeva anche brani R&B, rock e gospel. Donna Summer ha vinto premi tra i più prestigiosi, tra cui 6 American Music Awards, 5 Grammy Awards, un Golden Globe e un Premio Oscar; nel 1994 è stata premiata con una stella da parte della Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Nel 2013, dopo la sua morte, è stata inserita nella \"Rock and Roll Walk Of Fame\". Donna Summer è stata anche la prima cantante a fissare tre doppi album consecutivi al primo posto della Billboard e quattro singoli al primo posto in un solo anno. Il compositore e produttore Giorgio Moroder ha descritto il lavoro svolto con la Summer come \"l'inizio della musica elettronica\", inoltre i brani I Feel Love e Hot Stuff sono stati inseriti nella lista delle 500 canzoni più belle di tutti i tempi.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.27876091003418, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer (* 31. Dezember 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts; † 17. Mai 2012 in Naples, Florida; eigentlich LaDonna Adrian Gaines) war eine US-amerikanische Sängerin und Songschreiberin. Summer gilt als die „unbestrittene Disco-Queen“. Gemeinsam mit den Produzenten Giorgio Moroder und Pete Bellotte entwickelte sie die moderne Tanzmusik aber auch weiter zu einer neuen Idee von internationalem Pop. Mit Songs wie Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love, Hot Stuff oder On the Radio wurde sie in der zweiten Hälfte der 1970er Jahre zum internationalen Star. Sie eroberte die Hitparaden weltweit und verkaufte geschätzte 130 Millionen Schallplatten. Ihr Vermögen wurde 2011 auf 75 Millionen US-Dollar geschätzt. Sie war 1977 und 1979 die erfolgreichste Musikerin in Deutschland und 1979 und 1980 die erfolgreichste Musikerin der USA. Ihr Song I Feel Love ist der weltweit erfolgreichste Song der 1970er Jahre aus Deutschland. Sie gewann von 1978 bis 1997 fünf Grammys in vier verschiedenen Musikrichtungen (R’n’B, Rock, Gospel, Dance-Pop) und ihr Song Last Dance 1978 einen Oscar. 1992 erhielt sie einen Stern auf dem Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2011 wurde Donna Summer mit ihrem Song I Feel Love für das Nationale Schallplattenverzeichnis der US-Kongressbibliothek (National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress) ausgewählt; sie gehört damit zum Klangerbe der USA, das für zukünftige Generationen bewahrt werden soll. 2013 wurde sie in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Im Dezember 2013 wurde ein Remix ihres Songs MacArthur Park ihr 17. Nummer-1-Hit in den US-amerikanischen Club-Charts.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.703503608703613, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "ドナ・サマー（Donna Summer、1948年12月31日 - 2012年5月17日）は、アメリカ合衆国のディスコ歌手、ディスコ・クイーン。マサチューセッツ州ボストン近郊のドーチェスター出身。グラミー賞を5回受賞した。 「ディスコの女王（Queen of Disco）」の異名を持つ。", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.716670989990234, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer, nome artístico de LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Boston, 31 de dezembro de 1948 — Naples, 17 de maio de 2012), foi uma cantora norte-americana conhecida por suas gravações em estilo disco dos anos 70 e posteriormente dance-music nos anos 80, 90 e 2000´s. Recebeu o título de Rainha da Disco. Com 37 anos de carreira, estima-se que tenha vendido mais de 130 milhões de discos. Foi a primeira artista a ter três álbuns duplos consecutivos a atingir o primeiro lugar nas paradas da Billboard nos Estados Unidos. Também teve quatro singles que atingiram o número 1 nos Estados Unidos num período de 13 meses.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.948166370391846, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer, właściwie LaDonna Andre Gaines (ur. 31 grudnia 1948 w Bostonie, zm. 17 maja 2012 w Naples) – amerykańska wokalistka muzyki disco i soul, a także pop i R&B. W późniejszym okresie swojej działalności eksperymentowała z takimi nurtami jak rock, reggae, gospel i hi-NRG. Szczyt jej popularności przypada na drugą połowę lat 70., kiedy to nurt disco dominował na rynku muzycznym. Swoimi osiągnięciami zapracowała sobie na tytuł „królowej muzyki disco”. Była laureatką pięciu nagród Grammy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.318662643432617, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "До́нна Са́ммер (англ. Donna Summer; 31 декабря 1948, Бостон — 17 мая 2012, Ки-Уэст) — американская певица, исполнявшая композиции в музыкальных направлениях ритм-н-блюз и диско. Наибольшим успехом пользовались её танцевальные записи со второй половины 1970-х и до начала 1980-х годов, изменившие лицо популярной музыки. Донну Саммер называли «королевой диско».Донне Саммер принадлежит рекорд по количеству выпущенных подряд двойных альбомов, которые занимали первую строчку в Billboard 200. Также стала первой в музыкальной истории певицей, чьи синглы за год 4 раза пробивались на вершину хит-парада Billboard Hot 100. За всю карьеру было продано более 130 миллионов записей. Выступала как в США, так и за их пределами. Певица 7 раз давала успешные мировые гастроли по странам Европы, Латинской Америки, Азии и в Австралии. С большим успехом проходили концерты Саммер в Великобритании, Бразилии, Германии и в других странах.Певица является обладателем 6 наград «Грэмми». В 1992 году на Голливудской аллее славы установили звезду её имени. Донна Саммер скончалась на 64 году жизни во Флориде 17 мая 2012 года после продолжительной борьбы с раком лёгких. Незадолго до смерти певица работала над новым альбомом.В 2013 году она была включена в «Зал славы рок-н-ролла».", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.820657730102539, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "拉丹娜·安卓莉安·蓋恩斯（英语：LaDonna Adrian Gaines，1948年12月31日－2012年5月17日），藝名唐娜·桑默（Donna Summer），生於美國麻薩諸塞州波士頓，著名流行樂歌手，曾五度獲得《葛萊美獎》，有「迪斯可女皇」(The Queen of Disco)之稱。", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.9429707527160645, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer, właściwie LaDonna Andre Gaines (ur. 31 grudnia 1948 w Bostonie, zm. 17 maja 2012 w Naples) – amerykańska wokalistka muzyki disco i soul, a także pop i R&B. W późniejszym okresie swojej działalności eksperymentowała z takimi nurtami jak rock, reggae, gospel i hi-NRG. Szczyt jej popularności przypada na drugą połowę lat 70., kiedy to nurt disco dominował na rynku muzycznym. Swoimi osiągnięciami zapracowała sobie na tytuł „królowej muzyki disco”. Była laureatką pięciu nagród Grammy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.318662643432617, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "拉丹娜·安卓莉安·蓋恩斯（英语：LaDonna Adrian Gaines，1948年12月31日－2012年5月17日），藝名唐娜·桑默（Donna Summer），生於美國麻薩諸塞州波士頓，著名流行樂歌手，曾五度獲得《葛萊美獎》，有「迪斯可女皇」(The Queen of Disco)之稱。", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.9429707527160645, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer, nom de scène de LaDonna Andrea Gaines (née le à Dorchester, un quartier de Boston et morte le à Key West en Floride), est une chanteuse disco et pop-rock américaine. Elle est un mythe de la musique disco des années 1970 et 1980.Elle fut l'interprète de nombreux succès comme : Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love, Last Dance (Grammy Award en 1978 dans la catégorie Best R&B vocal performance female), Hot Stuff (Grammy Award en 1979 dans la catégorie Best rock vocal performance female), Could It Be Magic, Bad Girls, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) en duo avec Barbra Streisand, On The Radio et She Works Hard For The Money.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.0798797607421875, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer (* 31. Dezember 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts; † 17. Mai 2012 in Naples, Florida; eigentlich LaDonna Adrian Gaines) war eine US-amerikanische Sängerin und Songschreiberin.Summer gilt als die „unbestrittene Disco-Queen“. Gemeinsam mit den Produzenten Giorgio Moroder und Pete Bellotte entwickelte sie die moderne Tanzmusik aber auch weiter zu einer neuen Idee von internationalem Pop. Mit Songs wie Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love, Hot Stuff oder On the Radio wurde sie in der zweiten Hälfte der 1970er Jahre zum internationalen Star. Sie eroberte die Hitparaden weltweit und verkaufte geschätzte 130 Millionen Schallplatten. Ihr Vermögen wurde 2011 auf 75 Millionen US-Dollar geschätzt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.875791072845459, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "La notorietà di Donna Summer è dovuta principalmente a una serie di successi discografici, ottenuti soprattutto negli anni settanta, che le valsero il titolo di \"Queen of Disco\" (\"regina della disco music\"). Con oltre 150 milioni di dischi venduti nel corso della sua ultra quarantennale carriera, è entrata nel novero degli artisti che hanno raggiunto il maggior numero di vendite nella storia della musica. Donna Summer rappresenta una rarità nel panorama della musica disco degli anni settanta: sebbene sia stata una delle artiste più note di quel genere, il suo repertorio includeva anche brani R&B, rock e gospel. Donna Summer ha vinto premi tra i più prestigiosi, tra cui 6 American Music Awards, 5 Grammy Awards, un Golden Globe e un Premio Oscar; nel 1994 è stata premiata con una stella da p", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.104137420654297, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "ドナ・サマー（Donna Summer、1948年12月31日 - 2012年5月17日）は、アメリカ合衆国のディスコ歌手、ディスコ・クイーン。マサチューセッツ州ボストン近郊のドーチェスター出身。グラミー賞を5回受賞した。「ディスコの女王（Queen of Disco）」の異名を持つ。", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.71667194366455, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Donna Summer, nome artístico de LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Boston, 31 de dezembro de 1948 — Naples, 17 de maio de 2012), foi uma cantora norte-americana conhecida por suas gravações em estilo disco dos anos 70 e posteriormente dance-music nos anos 80, 90 e 2000´s. Recebeu o título de Rainha da Disco. Com 37 anos de carreira, estima-se que tenha vendido mais de 130 milhões de discos. Foi a primeira artista a ter três álbuns duplos consecutivos a atingir o primeiro lugar nas paradas da Billboard nos Estados Unidos. Também teve quatro singles que atingiram o número 1 nos Estados Unidos num período de 13 meses.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.948166370391846, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "До́нна Са́ммер (англ. Donna Summer; 31 декабря 1948, Бостон — 17 мая 2012, Ки-Уэст) — американская певица, исполнявшая композиции в музыкальных направлениях ритм-н-блюз и диско. Наибольшим успехом пользовались её танцевальные записи со второй половины 1970-х и до начала 1980-х годов, изменившие лицо популярной музыки. Донну Саммер называли «королевой диско».Донне Саммер принадлежит рекорд по количеству выпущенных подряд двойных альбомов, которые занимали первую строчку в Billboard 200.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.915715217590332, "source": "search", "title": "About: Donna Summer - DBpedia" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Who is Donna Summer dating? Donna Summer boyfriend, husband", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.158271789550781, "source": "search", "title": "Who is Donna Summer dating? Donna Summer boyfriend, husband" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "More about Donna Summer", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.975925922393799, "source": "search", "title": "Who is Donna Summer dating? Donna Summer boyfriend, husband" }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "1000+ images about Donna summer on Pinterest | Lung cancer, Work hard and American bandstand", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.688454627990723, "source": "search", "title": "Donna summer on Pinterest | Donna Summers, Discos and ..." }, { "answer": "Donna Summer", "passage": "Disco legend Donna Summer died this morning at the age of 63, TMZ reports. The singer had been battling cancer for some time. According to TMZ, Summer was in Florida at the time of her death. 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[ { "answer": "Curium", "passage": "The curie (symbol Ci), a unit of radioactivity, is named in honour of her and Pierre (although the commission which agreed on the name never clearly stated whether the standard was named after Pierre, Marie or both of them). The element with atomic number 96 was named curium. Three radioactive minerals are also named after the Curies: curite, sklodowskite, and cuprosklodowskite. She received numerous honorary degrees from universities across the world. The Marie Curie Actions fellowship program of the European Union for young scientists wishing to work in a foreign country is named after her. In Poland, she had received honorary doctorates from the Lwów Polytechnic (1912), Poznań University (1922), Kraków's Jagiellonian University (1924), and the Warsaw Polytechnic (1926). In 1921, she was awarded the Iota Sigma Pi National Honorary Member for her significant contribution. ", "precise_score": 10.051962852478027, "rough_score": 9.077186584472656, "source": "wiki", "title": "Marie Curie" }, { "answer": "Curium", "passage": "The element curium is named after both Pierre and Marie Curie. The Curies discovered the elements polonium and radium; Marie was awarded the Nobel Prize for these discoveries in 1903. Curium was named in honor of their contributions to the field of radioactivity.", "precise_score": 10.533906936645508, "rough_score": 9.120628356933594, "source": "search", "title": "What element is named after Marie Curie? | Reference.com" }, { "answer": "Curium", "passage": "* Various synthetic transuranic elements, beginning with americium and curium", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.454034805297852, "source": "wiki", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "answer": "Curium", "passage": "curium (Cm, 96) – Pierre and Marie Curie", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.131187915802002, "source": "search", "title": "Elements Named for People - Element Eponyms" }, { "answer": "Curium", "passage": "Curium is a radioactive solid metal. Its atomic symbol is Cm, and its atomic number is 96. It was produced by scientists working at UC-Berkeley in 1944 who bombarded plutonium-239 with alpha particles. Curium has only been produced in milligram amounts, so no commercial use has been discovered. Several compounds have been created by scientists, such as curium dioxide, curium chloride, curium iodide and curium bromide. These compounds are primarily used for basic research.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.161545276641846, "source": "search", "title": "What element is named after Marie Curie? | Reference.com" }, { "answer": "Curium", "passage": "Curium", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.851417541503906, "source": "search", "title": "Nexus Research Group - How the elements were named" } ]

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[ { "answer": "9", "passage": "Mary Louise \"Meryl\" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Cited in the media as the \"best actress of her generation\", Streep is particularly known for her versatility in her roles, transformation into the characters she plays, and her accent adaptation. She made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville in 1971, and went on to receive a 1976 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her screen debut in the 1977 television film The Deadliest Season, and made her film debut later that same year in Julia. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries Holocaust, and received her first Academy Award nomination for The Deer Hunter. Nominated for 19 Academy Awards in total, Streep has more nominations than any other actor or actress in history; she won Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Best Actress for Sophie's Choice (1982) and for The Iron Lady (2011).", "precise_score": 3.4425461292266846, "rough_score": -0.05002252012491226, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep is one of only six actors to have won three or more competitive Academy Awards for acting. Her other nominated roles are The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), Evil Angels (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Adaptation (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), August: Osage County (2013), and Into the Woods (2014). She returned to the stage for the first time in over 20 years in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of The Seagull, won a second Emmy Award in 2004 for the HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003), and starred in the Public Theater's 2006 production of Mother Courage and Her Children.", "precise_score": 3.079699993133545, "rough_score": -0.7413014769554138, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep has also received 29 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight—more nominations, and more competitive (non-honorary) wins than any other actor (male or female) in the history of the award. Her work has also earned her two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, two Australian Film Institute awards, five Grammy Award nominations, and five Drama Desk Award nominations, among several others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ", "precise_score": 2.854755163192749, "rough_score": -1.3241089582443237, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Although in high school Streep appeared in numerous school plays, she was uninterested in serious theatre until acting in the play Miss Julie at Vassar College in 1969, in which she gained attention across the campus. Vassar drama professor Clinton J Atkinson noted, \"I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting. She really taught herself\". Streep demonstrated an early ability to mimic accents and to quickly memorize her lines. She received her BA cum laude from the college in 1971, before applying for an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. At Yale she supplemented her course fees by waitressing and typing, and appeared in over a dozen stage productions a year, to the point that she became overworked, developing ulcers. She contemplated quitting acting and switching to study law. Streep played a variety of roles onstage, from Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream to an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair in a comedy written by then-unknown playwrights Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato. One of her teachers was Robert Lewis, one of the co-founders of the Actors Studio. Streep disapproved of some of the acting exercises she was asked to do, remarking that the professors \"delved into personal lives in a way I find obnoxious\". She received her MFA from Yale in 1975. Streep also enrolled as a visiting student at Dartmouth College in the fall of 1970, and received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the college in 1981.", "precise_score": -3.372706890106201, "rough_score": -5.180130958557129, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep moved to New York City in 1975, and was cast by Joseph Papp in a production of Trelawny of the Wells at the Public Theater, opposite Mandy Patinkin and John Lithgow. She went on to appear in five more roles in her first year in New York, including in Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew with Raúl Juliá, and Measure for Measure opposite Sam Waterston and John Cazale. She entered into a relationship with Cazale at this time, and resided with him until his death three years later. She starred in the musical Happy End on Broadway, and won an Obie for her performance in the off-Broadway play Alice at the Palace.", "precise_score": -3.3023531436920166, "rough_score": -4.718185901641846, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Although she had not set out for a film career, Robert De Niro's performance in Taxi Driver (1976) had a profound impact on young Streep, who said to herself, \"that's the kind of actor I want to be when I grow up\". Streep began auditioning for film roles, and underwent an unsuccessful audition for the lead role in Dino De Laurentiis's King Kong. Laurentiis stated in Italian to his son: \"This is so ugly. Why did you bring me this\". Unknown to Laurentiis, Streep understood Italian and she remarked, \"I'm very sorry that I'm not as beautiful as I should be but, you know—this is it. This is what you get\". She continued to work on Broadway, appearing in the 1976 double bill of Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. For the former, she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination. Streep's other Broadway credits include Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical Happy End, in which she had originally appeared off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center. She received Drama Desk Award nominations for both productions.", "precise_score": -3.029208183288574, "rough_score": -4.075364112854004, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In the 1978 miniseries Holocaust, Streep played the leading role of a German woman married to a Jewish artist in Nazi era Germany. She found the material to be \"unrelentingly noble\" and professed to have taken on the role for financial gain. Streep travelled to Germany and Austria for filming while Cazale remained in New York. Upon her return, Streep found that Cazale's illness had progressed, and she nursed him until his death on March 12, 1978. With an estimated audience of 109 million, Holocaust brought a wider degree of public recognition to Streep, who found herself \"on the verge of national visibility\". She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance. Despite the awards success, Streep was still not enthusiastic towards her film career and preferred acting on stage.", "precise_score": -2.5117554664611816, "rough_score": -4.877260684967041, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 1979, Streep began workshopping Alice in Concert, a musical version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with writer and composer Elizabeth Swados and director Joseph Papp; the show was put on at New York's Public Theater from December 1980. Frank Rich of The New York Times referred to Streep as the \"one wonder\" of the production, but questioned why she had devoted so much energy to it. By 1980, Streep had progressed to leading roles in films. She was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine with the headline \"A Star for the 80s\", with Jack Kroll commenting, \"There's a sense of mystery in her acting; she doesn't simply imitate (although she's a great mimic in private). She transmits a sense of danger, a primal unease lying just below the surface of normal behavior\". Streep denounced the fervent media coverage of her at this time as \"excessive hype\".", "precise_score": -3.6026787757873535, "rough_score": -4.973818302154541, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "The story within a story drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) was Streep's first leading role. The film paired Streep with Jeremy Irons as contemporary actors, telling their modern story, as well as the Victorian era drama they were performing. Streep perfected an English accent for the part, but considered herself a misfit for the role: \" I couldn't help wishing that I was more beautiful\". A New York Magazine article commented that, while many female stars of the past had cultivated a singular identity in their films, Streep was a \"chameleon\", willing to play any type of role. Streep was awarded a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work. The following year, she reunited with Robert Benton for the psychological thriller, Still of the Night (1982), co-starring Roy Scheider and Jessica Tandy. Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, noted that the film was an homage to the works of Alfred Hitchcock, but that one of its main weaknesses was a lack of chemistry between Streep and Scheider, concluding that Streep \"is stunning, but she's not on screen anywhere near long enough\". ", "precise_score": -3.1092746257781982, "rough_score": -4.221319675445557, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Longworth considers Streep's next release, Out of Africa (1985), to have established her as a Hollywood superstar. In the film, Streep starred as the Danish writer Karen Blixen opposite Robert Redford's Denys Finch Hatton. Director Sydney Pollack was initially dubious about Streep in the role as he did not think she was sexy enough, and had considered Jane Seymour for the part. Pollack recalls that Streep impressed him in a different way: \"She was so direct, so honest, so without bullshit. There was no shielding between her and me.\" Streep and Pollack often clashed during the 101-day shoot in Kenya, particularly over Blixen's voice. Streep had spent much time listening to tapes of Blixen and began speaking in an old-fashioned and aristocratic fashion, which Pollack thought excessive. A significant commercial and critical success, the film earned Streep another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, also winning Best Picture. Critic Stanley Kaufmann wrote, \"Meryl Streep is back in top form. This means her performance in Out of Africa is at the highest level of acting in film today\".", "precise_score": -4.5372633934021, "rough_score": -5.029260635375977, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 1993, Streep appeared with Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close and Winona Ryder in The House of the Spirits, set during the military dictatorship of Chile. The film was not well received by critics. Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote: \"This is really quite an achievement. It brings together Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, and Vanessa Redgrave and insures that, without exception, they all give their worst performances ever\". The following year, Streep featured in The River Wild, as the mother of children on a whitewater rafting trip who encounter two violent criminals (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) in the wilderness. Though critical reaction was generally mixed, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone found her to be \"strong, sassy and looser than she has ever been onscreen\". ", "precise_score": -3.939739227294922, "rough_score": -4.789224624633789, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep's most successful film of the decade came in the 1995 romance The Bridges of Madison County from director Clint Eastwood, who adapted the film from Robert James Waller's novel of the same name. It relates the story of Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a photographer working for National Geographic, who has a love affair with a middle-aged Italian farm wife in Iowa named Francesca (Streep). Though Streep disliked the novel it was based on, she found the script to be a special opportunity for an actress her age. She gained weight for the part, and dressed differently from the character in the book to emulate voluptuous Italian film stars such as Sophia Loren. Both Loren and Anna Magnani were an influence in her portrayal, and Streep viewed Pier Paolo Passolini's Mamma Roma (1962) prior to filming. The film was a box office hit and grossed over $70 million in the United States. The film, unlike the novel, was warmly received by critics. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that Eastwood had managed to create \"a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill\", while Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal described it as \"one of the most pleasurable films in recent memory\". Longworth believes that Streep's performance was \"crucial to transforming what could have been a weak soap opera into a vibrant work of historical fiction implicitly critiquing postwar America's stifling culture of domesticity\". She considers it to have been the role in which Streep became \"arguably the first middle-aged actress to be taken seriously by Hollywood as a romantic heroine\".", "precise_score": -4.314380645751953, "rough_score": -5.486832618713379, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 1998, Streep played an Irishwoman opposite Michael Gambon and Catherine McCormack in Pat O'Connor's Dancing at Lughnasa, which was entered into the Venice Film Festival of 1998. Janet Maslin of The New York Times remarked that \"Meryl Streep has made many a grand acting gesture in her career, but the way she simply peers out a window in Dancing at Lughnasa ranks with the best. Everything the viewer need know about Kate Mundy, the woman she plays here, is written on that prim, lonely face and its flabbergasted gaze\". Later that year, Streep played a cancer sufferer caught in a difficult family situation, playing the mother of Renée Zellweger and wife of William Hurt in One True Thing. The film was well received by critics. Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle declared, \"After 'One True Thing', critics who persist in the fiction that Streep is a cold and technical actress will need to get their heads examined. She is so instinctive and natural – so thoroughly in the moment and operating on flights of inspiration – that she's able to give us a woman who's at once wildly idiosyncratic and utterly believable.\" Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan noted that Streep's role \"is one of the least self-consciously dramatic and surface showy of her career, but that she \"adds a level of honesty and reality that makes [her performance] one of her most moving.\" ", "precise_score": -3.3157541751861572, "rough_score": -4.548358917236328, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 1999, Streep portrayed Roberta Guaspari, a real-life New Yorker who found passion and enlightenment teaching violin to the inner-city kids of East Harlem, in the music drama Music of the Heart. A departure from director Wes Craven's previous work on films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream series, Streep replaced singer Madonna who left the project before filming began due to creative differences with Craven. Required to perform on the violin, Streep went through two months of intense training, five to six hours a day. Streep received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four and wrote that \"Meryl Streep is known for her mastery of accents; she may be the most versatile speaker in the movies. Here you might think she has no accent, unless you've heard her real speaking voice; then you realize that Guaspari's speaking style is no less a particular achievement than Streep's other accents. This is not Streep's voice, but someone else's – with a certain flat quality, as if later education and refinement came after a somewhat unsophisticated childhood.\" ", "precise_score": -0.5446256399154663, "rough_score": -4.461182117462158, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 2001, Streep returned to the stage for the first time in more than twenty years, playing Arkadina in The Public Theater's revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The same year, she began work on Spike Jonze's comedy-drama Adaptation (2002), in which she portrayed real-life journalist Susan Orlean. Lauded by critics and viewers alike, the film won Streep her fourth Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category. A. O. Scott considered Streep's portrayal of Orlean to have been \"played with impish composure\", noting the contrast in her \"wittily realized\" character with love interest Chris Cooper's \"lank-haired, toothless charisma\" as the autodidact arrested for poaching rare orchids. In 2002 Streep appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, based on the 1999 novel by Michael Cunningham. Focusing on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, the film was generally well received and won all three leading actresses a Silver Bear for Best Actress. ", "precise_score": -2.286825656890869, "rough_score": -4.119500637054443, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Also in 2007, Streep had a short role alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close and her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer in Lajos Koltai's drama film Evening, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot. Switching between the present and the past, it tells the story of a bedridden woman, who remembers her tumultuous life in the mid-1950s. The film was released to a lukewarm reaction from critics, who called it \"beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull [and] a colossal waste of a talented cast.\" Streep's last film of 2007 was Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs, a film about the connection between a platoon of United States soldiers in Afghanistan, a U.S. senator, a reporter, and a California college professor. Like Evening, critics felt that the talent of the cast was wasted and that it suffered from slow pacing, although one critic announced that Streep positively stood out, being \"natural, unforced, quietly powerful\", in comparison to Redford's forced performance. ", "precise_score": -4.733760833740234, "rough_score": -5.361806869506836, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep's other film of 2008 was Doubt featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. A drama revolving around the stern principal nun (Streep) of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 who brings charges of pedophilia against a popular priest (Hoffman), the film became a moderate box office success, but was hailed by many critics as one of the best of 2008. The film received five Academy Awards nominations, for its four lead actors and for Shanley's script. Ebert, who awarded the film the full four stars, highlighted Streep's caricature of a nun, who \"hates all inroads of the modern world\", while Kelly Vance of The East Bay Express remarked: \"It's thrilling to see a pro like Streep step into an already wildly exaggerated role and then ramp it up a few notches just for the sheer hell of it. Grim, red-eyed, deathly pale Sister Aloysius may be the scariest nun of all time.\" ", "precise_score": -0.469137966632843, "rough_score": -2.6402344703674316, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "The Iron Lady received criticism in some quarters for initially portraying Thatcher in her dotage as a forgetful old woman suffering from dementia. The film, directed by Mamma Mia's Phyllida Lloyd and written by Abi Morgan, then swept through the life of the Grantham grocer's daughter from her early years in politics to her 1980s heyday. The biopic received mixed reviews , but Streep was widely praised for her note-perfect turn as the former prime minister, a performance which saw her win her third Oscar, eighth Golden Globe and second Bafta. Jim Broadbent played Thatcher's husband, Dennis, and Anthony Head played her longest-serving cabinet member (and eventual deputy) Geoffrey Howe.", "precise_score": -3.1490426063537598, "rough_score": -4.18374490737915, "source": "search", "title": "Meryl Streep praises Margaret Thatcher as 'figure of awe ..." }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "The 25th Palm Springs International Film Festival is honoring three-time Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep with its Icon Award. The actress, who won her Academy Awards for 1989's \"Kramer Vs. Kramer,\" 1982's \"Sophie's Choice\" and 2011's \"The Iron Lady,\" will receive the festival's honor at its awards gala Jan. 4 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Streep has already received lead actress nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Golden Globes and Critics' Choice Movie Awards for her performance as matriarch of a dysfunctional family in \"August: Osage County,\" which opens Dec. 27. PHOTOS: Celebrities by The Times \"We're overjoyed to recognize Meryl Streep for yet another Oscar-worthy performance in 'August: Osage County,\" festival chairman Harold Matzner said in a statement.", "precise_score": 3.5402979850769043, "rough_score": 3.3016350269317627, "source": "search", "title": "Articles about Meryl Streep - latimes" }, { "answer": "Nine", "passage": "When the Oscar nominations were announced, Streep’s name WAS called – for Best Supporting Actress in “Adaptation.” But she was not mentioned for “The Hours,” even though Kidman, Moore and her scene mate Ed Harris all were. The film had done very well with the Academy, racking up an impressive nine nominations – including Best Picture, Best Director (Stephen Daldry) and Best Adapted Screenplay.", "precise_score": 1.7461611032485962, "rough_score": -0.7561526894569397, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars mystery solved: Why wasn’t Meryl Streep nominated ..." }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf Wilkinson (1915–2001), a commercial artist and art editor; and Harry William Streep Jr. (1910–2003), a pharmaceutical executive. The eldest child, she has two younger brothers, Dana David and Harry William III.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.789400100708008, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "1970s", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.414533615112305, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep's first feature film role came opposite Jane Fonda in the 1977 film Julia, in which she had a small role during a flashback sequence. Most of her scenes were edited out, but the brief time on screen horrified the actress: \"I had a bad wig and they took the words from the scene I shot with Jane and put them in my mouth in a different scene. I thought, I've made a terrible mistake, no more movies. I hate this business\". However, Streep cites Fonda as having a lasting influence on her as an actress, and has credited her as \"open[ing] probably more doors than I probably even know about\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.824195861816406, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Robert De Niro, who had spotted Streep in her stage production of The Cherry Orchard, suggested that she play the role of his girlfriend in the war film The Deer Hunter (1978). Cazale, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer, was also cast in the film, and Streep took on the role of a \"vague, stock girlfriend\" to remain with Cazale for the duration of filming. Longworth notes that Streep \"made a case for female empowerment by playing a woman to whom empowerment was a foreign concept—a normal lady from an average American small town, for whom subservience was the only thing she knew\". Pauline Kael, who would later become a strong critic of Streep's, remarked that Streep was a \"real beauty\" who brought much freshness to the film with her performance. The film's success exposed Streep to a wider audience and earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.713825225830078, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Hoping to divert herself from the grief of Cazale's death, Streep accepted a role in The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) as the chirpy love interest of Alan Alda, later commenting that she played it on \"automatic pilot\". She performed the role of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in Manhattan (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes, and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue. In the drama Kramer vs. Kramer, Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script portrayed the female character as \"too evil\" and insisted that it was not representative of real women who faced marriage breakdown and child custody battles. The makers agreed with her, and the script was revised. In preparing for the part, Streep spoke to her own mother about her life as a wife with a career, and frequented the Upper East Side neighborhood in which the film was set, watching the interactions between parents and children. The director Robert Benton allowed Streep to write her own dialogue in two key scenes, despite some objection from Hoffman, who \"hated her guts\". Jaffee and Hoffman later spoke of Streep's tirelessness, with Hoffman commenting, \"She's extraordinarily hardworking, to the extent that she's obsessive. I think that she thinks about nothing else but what she's doing.\" The film was controversial among feminists, but it was a role which film critic Stephen Farber believed displayed Streep's \"own emotional intensity\", writing that she was one of the \"rare performers who can imbue the most routine moments with a hint of mystery\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.863121032714844, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "For Kramer vs. Kramer, Streep won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in her three film releases of 1979. Both The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs. Kramer were major commercial successes and were the consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.136458873748779, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "1980s", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.428383827209473, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Greater success came later in 1982, when Streep starred in the drama Sophie's Choice (1982), portraying a Polish holocaust survivor caught in a love triangle between a young naive writer (Peter MacNicol) and a Jewish intellectual (Kevin Kline). Streep's emotional dramatic performance and her apparent mastery of a Polish accent drew praise. William Styron wrote the novel with Ursula Andress in mind for the role of Sophie, but Streep was determined to get the role. She obtained a bootlegged copy of the script, and threw herself on the ground begging the director Alan J. Pakula to give her the role. Streep filmed the \"choice\" scene in one take and refused to do it again, finding it extremely painful and emotionally exhausting. Emma Brockes of The Guardian believes the scene in which Streep is ordered by an SS guard at Auschwitz to choose which one of her two children would be gassed and which would proceed to the labor camp, is her most famous scene, remarking: \"It's classic Streep, the kind of scene that makes your scalp tighten, but defter in a way is her handling of smaller, harder-to-grasp emotions\". Among several notable acting awards, Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, and her characterization was voted the third greatest movie performance of all time by Premiere magazine. Roger Ebert said of her delivery, \"Streep plays the Brooklyn scenes with an enchanting Polish-American accent (she has the first accent I've ever wanted to hug), and she plays the flashbacks in subtitled German and Polish. There is hardly an emotion that Streep doesn't touch in this movie, and yet we're never aware of her straining. This is one of the most astonishing and yet one of the most unaffected and natural performances I can imagine.\" Pauline Kael on the contrary called the film an \"infuriatingly bad movie\" and thought that Streep \"decorporealizes\" herself, which she believed explained why her movie heroines \"don't seem to be full characters, and why there are no incidental joys to be had from watching her\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.527338981628418, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "The year 1983 saw Streep play her first non-fictional character, the nuclear whistleblower and labor union activist Karen Silkwood who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant, in Mike Nichols's biographical film Silkwood. Streep felt a personal connection to Silkwood, and in preparation she met with people close to the woman, and in doing so realized that each person saw a different aspect of her personality. She said, \"I didn't try to turn myself into Karen. I just tried to look at what she did. I put together every piece of information I could find about her... What I finally did was look at the events in her life, and try to understand her from the inside.\" Jack Kroll of Newsweek considered Streep's characterization to have been \"brilliant\", while Silkwood's boyfriend Drew Stephens expressed approval in that Streep had played Karen as a human being rather than a myth, despite Karen's father Bill thinking that Streep and the film had dumbed his daughter down. Pauline Kael believed that Streep had been miscast. Streep next played opposite Robert De Niro in the romance Falling in Love (1984), which was poorly-received, and portrayed a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II in the British drama Plenty (1985). For the latter, Roger Ebert wrote that she conveyed \"great subtlety; it is hard to play an unbalanced, neurotic, self-destructive woman, and do it with such gentleness and charm... Streep creates a whole character around a woman who could have simply been a catalogue of symptoms.\" In 2008, Molly Haskell praised Streep's performance in Plenty, believing it to be \"one of Streep's most difficult and ambiguous\" films and \"most feminist\" role.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.428499221801758, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Longworth notes that the dramatic success of Out of Africa led to a backlash of critical opinion against Streep in the years that followed, especially as she was now demanding $4 million a picture. Unlike other stars at the time such as Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise, Streep \"never seemed to play herself\", and certain critics felt her technical finesse led people to literally see her acting. Her next films did not appeal to a wide audience; she co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the dramas Heartburn (1986) and Ironweed (1987), in which she sang onscreen for the first time since the television movie, Secret Service (1977). In Evil Angels (1988), she played Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who had been convicted of the murder of her infant daughter despite claiming that the baby had been taken by a dingo. Filmed in Australia, Streep won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Streep has said of perfecting the Australian accent in the film: \"I had to study a little bit for Australian because it's not dissimilar [to American], so it's like coming from Italian to Spanish. You get a little mixed up\". Vincent Canby of The New York Times referred it to her performance as \"another stunning performance\", played with \"the kind of virtuosity that seems to redefine the possibilities of screen acting\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.761835098266602, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 1989, Streep lobbied to play the lead role in Oliver Stone's adaption of the play Evita, but two months before filming was due to commence she dropped out, citing \"exhaustion\" initially, although it was later revealed that there was a dispute over her salary. By the end of the decade, Streep actively looked to star in a comedy. She found the role in She-Devil (1989), a satire that parodied Hollywood's obsession with beauty and cosmetic surgery, in which she played a glamorous writer. Though not a success, Richard Corliss of Time wrote that Streep was the \"one reason\" to see the film and observed that it marked a departure from the dramatic roles she was known to play. Reacting to her string of poorly received films, Streep said: \"Audiences are shrinking; as the marketing strategy defines more and more narrowly who they want to reach—males from 16 to 25—it's become a chicken-and-egg syndrome. Which came first? First they release all these summer movies, then do a demographic survey of who's going to see them\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.767002105712891, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "1990s", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.427643775939941, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Biographer Karen Hollinger described the early 1990s as a downturn in the popularity of Streep's films, attributing this partly to a critical perception that her comedies had been an attempt to convey a lighter image following several serious but commercially unsuccessful dramas, and more significantly to the lack of options available to an actress in her forties. Streep commented that she had limited her options by her preference to work in Los Angeles, close to her family, a situation that she had anticipated in a 1981 interview when she commented, \"By the time an actress hits her mid-forties, no one's interested in her anymore. And if you want to fit a couple of babies into that schedule as well, you've got to pick your parts with great care.\" At the Screen Actor's Guild National Women's Conference in 1990, Streep keynoted the first national event, emphasizing the decline in women's work opportunities, pay parity, and role models within the film industry. She criticized the film industry for downplaying the importance of women both on screen and off.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.8259053230285645, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "After roles in the comedy-drama Postcards from the Edge (1990) and the comedy-fantasy Defending Your Life (1991), Streep starred with Goldie Hawn in farcical black comedy, Death Becomes Her (1992), with Bruce Willis as their co-star. Streep persuaded writer David Koepp to rewrite several of the scenes, particularly the one in which her character has an affair with a younger man, which she believed was \"unrealistically male\" in its conception. The seven-month shoot was the longest of Streep's career, during which she got into character by \"thinking about being slightly pissed off all of the time\". Due to Streep's allergies to numerous cosmetics, special prosthetics had to be designed to age her by ten years to look 54, although Streep believed that they made her look nearer 70. Longworth considers Death Becomes Her to have been \"the most physical performance Streep had yet committed to screen, all broad weeping, smirking, and eye-rolling\". Although it was a commercial success, earning $15.1 million in just five days, Streep's contribution to comedy was generally not taken well by critics. Times Richard Corliss wrote approvingly of Streep's \"wicked-witch routine\" but dismissed the film as \"She-Devil with a make-over\" and one which \"hates women\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.893036365509033, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Late 1990s", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.421908378601074, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 1996, Streep played the estranged sister of Bessie (Diane Keaton), a woman battling leukemia, in Marvin's Room, an adaptation of the play by Scott McPherson. Streep recommended Keaton for the role. The film also starred a young Leonardo DiCaprio as Streep's character's rebellious son. Roger Ebert stated that \"Streep and Keaton, in their different styles, find ways to make Lee and Bessie into much more than the expression of their problems.\" The film was critically acclaimed, and Streep earned another Golden Globe nomination for her performance.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.353431701660156, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep was next cast in the 2005 comedy film Prime, directed by Ben Younger. In the film, she played Lisa Metzger, the Jewish psychoanalyst of a divorced and lonesome business-woman, played by Uma Thurman, who enters a relationship with Metzger's 23-year-old son (Bryan Greenberg). A modest mainstream success, it eventually grossed US$67.9 million internationally. Roger Ebert noted how Streep had \"that ability to cut through the solemnity of a scene with a zinger that reveals how all human effort is\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.4535017013549805, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "2006–09", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.454475402832031, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "Nine", "passage": "In August and September 2006, Streep starred onstage at The Public Theater's production of Mother Courage and Her Children at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. The Public Theater production was a new translation by playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America), with songs in the Weill/Brecht style written by composer Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change); veteran director George C. Wolfe was at the helm. Streep starred alongside Kevin Kline and Austin Pendleton in this three-and-a-half-hour play. Also in 2006, Streep, along with Lily Tomlin, portrayed the last two members of what was once a popular family country music act in Robert Altman's final film A Prairie Home Companion. A comedic ensemble piece featuring Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline and Woody Harrelson, the film revolves around the behind-the-scenes activities at the long-running public radio show of the same name. The film grossed more than US$26 million, the majority of which came from domestic markets. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.615177154541016, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 2007, Streep was cast in four films. She portrayed a wealthy university patron in Chen Shi-zheng's much-delayed feature drama Dark Matter, a film about a Chinese science graduate student who becomes violent after dealing with academic politics at a U.S. university. Inspired by the events of the 1991 University of Iowa shooting, and initially scheduled for a 2007 release, producers and investors decided to shelve Dark Matter out of respect for the Virginia Tech massacre in April 2007. The drama received negative to mixed reviews upon its limited 2008 release. Streep played a U.S. government official who investigates an Egyptian foreign national suspected of terrorism in the political thriller Rendition (2007), directed by Gavin Hood. Keen to get involved in a thriller film, Streep welcomed the opportunity to star in a film genre for which she was not usually offered scripts and immediately signed on to the project. Upon its release, Rendition was less commercially successful, and received mixed reviews. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.332808017730713, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 2009, Streep played chef Julia Child in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia, co-starring Amy Adams and Stanley Tucci. (Tucci and Streep had worked together earlier in Devil Wears Prada.) The first major motion picture based on a blog, Julie and Julia contrasts the life of Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell (Adams), who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Longworth believes her caricature of Julia Child was \"quite possibly the biggest performance of her career while also drawing on her own experience to bring lived-in truth the story of a late bloomer\". The same year, Streep starred in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy It's Complicated, with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. She received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for both Julie & Julia and It's Complicated; she won the award for Julie & Julia and later received her 16th Oscar nomination for it. She also lent her voice to Mrs. Felicity Fox in the stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.514500617980957, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": " Such is Streep's contemporary position in world cinema that Vanity Fair has commented that \"it's hard to imagine that there was a time before Meryl Streep was the greatest-living actress\". Emma Brockes of The Guardian notes that despite Streep's being \"one of the most famous actresses in the world\", it is \"strangely hard to pin an image on Streep\", in a career where she has \"laboured to establish herself as an actor whose roots lie in ordinary life\". Despite her success, Streep has always been modest about her own acting and achievements in cinema. She has stated that she has no particular method when it comes to acting, learning from the days of her early studies that she can't be articulate. She said in 1987, \"I have a smattering of things I've learned from different teachers, but nothing I can put into a valise and open it up and say 'Now which one would you like'? Nothing I can count on and that makes it more dangerous. But then the danger makes it more exciting.\" She has stated that her ideal director is one who gives her complete artistic control, and allowing a degree of improvization and her to learn from her own mistakes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.553160190582275, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep is well known for her ability to imitate a wide range of accents, from Danish in Out of Africa (1985) to English received pronunciation in Plenty (1985), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), and The Iron Lady (2011); Italian in The Bridges of Madison County (1995); a Minnesota accent in A Prairie Home Companion (2006); Irish-American in Ironweed; and a heavy Bronx accent in Doubt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.4159979820251465, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep has stated that she grew up listening to artists such as Barbra Streisand, The Beatles and Bob Dylan, and she learned a lot about how to use her voice, her \"instrument,\" by listening to Barbra Streisand's albums. In the 1988 film Evil Angels, in which she portrays a New Zealand transplant to Australia, Streep perfected a hybrid of Australian & New Zealand English. Her performance received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, as well as Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.393144607543945, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "For her role in the film Sophie's Choice (1982), Streep spoke both English and German with a Polish accent, as well as Polish itself. In The Iron Lady, she reproduced the vocal style of Margaret Thatcher from the time before Thatcher became Britain's Prime Minister, and after she had taken elocution lessons to change her pitch, pronunciation, and delivery. 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I think you can assimilate the pain and go on without making an obsession of it\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.12204360961914, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Streep married sculptor Don Gummer six months after Cazale's death. They have four children: musician Henry (born 1979), actresses Mamie (born 1983) and Grace (born 1986), and model Louisa (born 1991). In August 1985, the family moved into a $1.8-million private estate in Connecticut, with an extensive art studio to facilitate Streep's husband's work, and lived there until they bought a $3-million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, in 1990. They eventually moved back to Connecticut. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.219322681427002, "source": "wiki", "title": "Meryl Streep" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "When asked if religion plays a part in her life in 2009, Streep replied: \"I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.\" In an interview in December 2008, she also alluded to her lack of religious belief when she said: \"So I've always been really, deeply interested, because I think I can understand the solace that's available in the whole construct of religion. But I really don't believe in the power of prayer, or things would have been avoided that have happened, that are awful. So it's a horrible position as an intelligent, emotional, yearning human being to sit outside of the available comfort there. 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See photos from the red carpet above. ] Ready to watch the 21st annual SAG Awards red carpet, streaming live from Los Angeles? While the media might be shoulder-to-shoulder on the carpet, shouting for the stars' attention, you can see the whole 90-minute scene here in comfort starting at 3 p.m. PST Saturday.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.197098731994629, "source": "search", "title": "Articles about Meryl Streep - latimes" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.455747604370117, "source": "search", "title": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.532011985778809, "source": "search", "title": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "created 9 months ago", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.485603332519531, "source": "search", "title": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Title: Out of Africa (1985)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.454195022583008, "source": "search", "title": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.4402494430542, "source": "search", "title": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.327136993408203, "source": "search", "title": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.38399600982666, "source": "search", "title": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "20 December 1985 (USA) See more  »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.407147407531738, "source": "search", "title": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "51 of 69 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.491762161254883, "source": "search", "title": "Out of Africa (1985) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Note: In order to be included, Streep’s performance had to be in a project conceived for film or television. Which means that you won’t find Streep’s turn as the title character in Alice at the Palace , a truly surreal 1981 stage play that had one of its performances taped, or Kiss Me Petruchio listed below.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.109601974487305, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3177759", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.364677429199219, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3174798", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.341696739196777, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179105", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.42215347290039, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "For “A Beer Can Named Desire,” a 1999 episode — heavily based on Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire — of Fox’s long-running animated comedy, Streep voiced Bill’s aunt, who the Hill family meets en route to a football game in New Orleans.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.885793685913086, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3174922", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.371764183044434, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "Covering almost 20 years, from the early 1940s to the 1960s, the film revolves around Susan Traherne, an Englishwoman who is constantly chasing the adrenaline-fueled life she once led as a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II, when she returns to England after the war.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.998509407043457, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "With the Iraq War dominating headlines, and American’s lives, Streep starred in back-to-back 2007 films that tackled our post-9/11 world: Rendition and Lions for Lambs. 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Streep’s senator, also the mother to Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) — a U.S. representative from New York, who, through her doing, is forced into becoming a vice presidential candidate — is a character so devious and manipulative, Lady MacBeth would have been taken aback.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.789700984954834, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3178589", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.369507789611816, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179067", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3517484664917, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179435", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.392416954040527, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179283", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.392114639282227, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179531", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.40103816986084, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179657", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.397787094116211, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179752", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.37416934967041, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 4567259", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.334181785583496, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "A housewife in the 1960s enters a torrid, four-day affair with a photographer.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.490199089050293, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179804", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.405167579650879, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179912", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.422011375427246, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3179965", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.426836967468262, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "ID: 3180494", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.360799789428711, "source": "search", "title": "Every Meryl Streep Performance, Ranked From Worst To Best" }, { "answer": "9", "passage": "In 1947, a young writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) moves into a Brooklyn house and befriends his neighbors: the hot-tempered Nathan (Kevin Kline) and the compassionate Polish immigrant Sophie (Streep). 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In 1980, the Ferrari 312T5 was a hopeless successor to the title winning machine and Scheckter retired from racing at the end of that season.", "precise_score": 7.207188606262207, "rough_score": 8.589522361755371, "source": "search", "title": "McLaren Formula 1 - Heritage - Jody Scheckter" }, { "answer": "Gilles Villeneuve", "passage": "Scheckter left for Walter Wolf's new team in 1977 and Scheckter gave the team a win in its maiden race. He won twice more with the team and was often on the podium, but finished second on points behind a more dominant Niki Lauda. 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Another close friend was Ronnie Peterson. Peterson was a quiet and shy man, whilst Hunt was exactly the opposite, but their contrasting personalities made them very close off the track. It was Hunt who discovered Gilles Villeneuve, whom he met after being soundly beaten by him in a Formula Atlantic race in 1976. Hunt then arranged for the young Canadian to make his Grand Prix debut with McLaren in 1977.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.166690349578857, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Hunt" }, { "answer": "Gilles Villeneuve", "passage": "Scheckter moved to Ferrari in 1979 , with instant success. The car was always near the front, and very reliable. Scheckter scored three wins, like his team mate Gilles Villeneuve , and with three second places and many points finishes, Scheckter took the title by four points over his team mate.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.39955559372901917, "source": "search", "title": "Jody Scheckter - The Formula 1 Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Gilles Villeneuve", "passage": "There had been a suspicion that the driver was better than his machinery and Scheckter accepted an invitation to join Ferrari for 1979. By now, he had mellowed his once wild driving style and it was talented young French-Canadian Gilles Villeneuve who more resembled the South African of old. Their characters and driving styles complemented each other and they soon became firm friends. Scheckter was consistently in the points from round two as he patiently built a championship-winning total. Second in South Africa and at Long Beach as Villeneuve prevailed, Scheckter then won successive races in Belgium and Monaco to establish the championship lead. Appropriately, it was at Monza that he clinched the 1979 World Championship for Ferrari – leading Villeneuve across the line in front of the adoring Italian fans.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.0750296115875244, "source": "search", "title": "Jody Scheckter | Motor Sport Magazine" }, { "answer": "Gilles Villeneuve", "passage": "1979 Signs for Ferrari, pairing up with Gilles Villeneuve. Wins the drivers' championship. Retires the next year after struggling very badly in his 1980 title defence, managing only two points. 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The 232-day strike, which lasted from August 12, 1994, to April 2, 1995, led to the cancellation of between 931 and 948 games overall, including the entire 1994 postseason and World Series (these numbers account for the fact that postseason series can be of varying lengths; in addition, 12 other games scheduled to be played prior to August 12, 1994 were cancelled for other reasons, mainly weather-related). The cancellation of the 1994 World Series was the first since 1904; meanwhile, Major League Baseball became the first professional sport to lose its entire postseason due to a labor dispute.", "precise_score": 6.5564656257629395, "rough_score": 7.389383316040039, "source": "search", "title": "1994 World Series is Canceled | World History Project" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "Twenty years ago Tuesday, baseball came to a screeching halt and didn't return for 232 days. 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Also that same year, Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals made the first serious legal challenge to the reserve clause. The major leagues' first general players' strike took place in 1972. In another effort to add more offense to the game, the American League adopted the designated hitter rule the following year. In 1975, the union's power—and players' salaries—began to increase greatly when the reserve clause was effectively struck down, leading to the free agency system. In 1977, two more expansion teams joined the American League. Significant work stoppages occurred again in 1981 and 1994, the latter forcing the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in 90 years. Attendance had been growing steadily since the mid-1970s and in 1994, before the stoppage, the majors were setting their all-time record for per-game attendance. 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While their identities were maintained for scheduling purposes (and the designated hitter distinction), the regulations and other functions—such as player discipline and umpire supervision—they had administered separately were consolidated under the rubric of Major League Baseball (MLB). ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.604372024536133, "source": "wiki", "title": "Baseball" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "In 2001, Barry Bonds established the current record of 73 home runs in a single season. There had long been suspicions that the dramatic increase in power hitting was fueled in large part by the abuse of illegal steroids (as well as by the dilution of pitching talent due to expansion), but the issue only began attracting significant media attention in 2002 and there was no penalty for the use of performance-enhancing drugs before 2004. In 2007, Bonds became MLB's all-time home run leader, surpassing Hank Aaron, as total major league and minor league attendance both reached all-time highs. Even though McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds—as well as many other players, including storied pitcher Roger Clemens—have been implicated in the steroid abuse scandal, their feats and those of other sluggers had become the major leagues' defining attraction. In contrast to the professional game's resurgence in popularity after the 1994 interruption, Little League enrollment was in decline: after peaking in 1996, it dropped 1 percent a year over the following decade. With more rigorous testing and penalties for performance-enhancing drug use a possible factor, the balance between bat and ball swung markedly in 2010, which became known as the \"Year of the Pitcher\". 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The Montreal Expos, now the Washington Nationals, were the best team in baseball at the time of the stoppage, with a record of 74–40 (since their founding in 1969, the Expos have never played in a World Series.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.6187825202941895, "source": "wiki", "title": "World Series" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "This was to have been the first year of a regularly scheduled three-tier playoff system, with the NL and AL divided into three divisions (East, Central, and West) at the start of the 1994 season. (An unscheduled three-tier system was used in 1981 due to the shortening of the season by a mid-season labor dispute.) The new playoff system (involving a wild card team in each league) did not go into effect until the 1995 postseason. 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The Braves had a 2½ game lead over the Houston Astros for the NL wild card at the time the rest of the season was canceled.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.0308949947357178, "source": "wiki", "title": "1994 World Series" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "The Associated Press writers, at the end of the aborted season, chose to name \"unofficial\" champions when naming their Managers of the Year as Felipe Alou of the Expos and Buck Showalter of the Yankees, who were leading when the season abruptly ended. The next season's All-Star Game managers are, by tradition, the managers of the previous year's league champions; and so the leagues chose to name those unofficial league champion managers of 1994 to the traditional honor of managing the 1995 All-Star Game.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.888086318969727, "source": "wiki", "title": "1994 World Series" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "The 1994 World Series was supposed to have the AL champion open at home for the second year in a row because the playoffs were expanded to include the new wild-card round. Up to 1994, the NL champion opened the World Series at home in even-numbered years and the AL champion in odd-numbered years, with this then being reversed starting 1995 because of the missed 1994 World Series. From to , the NL champion had home field advantage in odd-numbered years and AL in even-numbered years. Beginning in 2003, the league that won the All-Star Game had its champion open the World Series at home.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.835954189300537, "source": "wiki", "title": "1994 World Series" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "1994 World Series is Canceled | World History Project", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.62352991104126, "source": "search", "title": "1994 World Series is Canceled | World History Project" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "Sep 14 1994", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.297943115234375, "source": "search", "title": "1994 World Series is Canceled | World History Project" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "The 1994 World Series was supposed to have the NL champion open at home. Because it was canceled, the rotation was pushed back a year - which meant from 1995-2002, the NL champion had home field advantage in odd-numbered years, and AL in even-numbered years. Beginning in 2003, the league that won the All-Star Game had its champion open the World Series at home (as a consequence, since the AL has not lost the All-Star Game since 1996, the NL champ last opened at home in 2001).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.1052310466766357, "source": "search", "title": "1994 World Series is Canceled | World History Project" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "Owners demanded a salary cap in response to the worsening financial situation in baseball. Ownership claimed that small-market clubs would fall by the wayside unless teams agreed to share local broadcasting revenues (to increase equity amongst the teams) and enact a salary cap, a proposal that the players adamantly opposed. On January 18, 1994, the owners approved a new revenue-sharing plan keyed to a salary cap, which required the players’ approval. The following day, the owners amended the Major League agreement by giving complete power to the commissioner on labor negotiations.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.922078132629395, "source": "search", "title": "1994 World Series is Canceled | World History Project" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "On February 11, 1994, the owners greatly reduced the commissioner's power to act in \"the best interests of baseball.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.241056442260742, "source": "search", "title": "1994 World Series is Canceled | World History Project" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "Owner representative Richard Ravitch officially unveiled the ownership proposal on June 14, 1994. The proposal would guarantee a record $1 billion in salary and benefits. But the ownership proposal also would have forced clubs to fit their payrolls into a more evenly based structure. Salary arbitration would have been eliminated, free agency would begin after four years rather than six, and owners would have retained the right to keep a four or five year player by matching his best offer. Owners claimed that their proposal would raise average salaries from $1.2 million in 1994 to $2.6 million by 2001.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.161565780639648, "source": "search", "title": "1994 World Series is Canceled | World History Project" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "1994 American League Cleveland Jacobs Field Inaugural Ball            ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.585700988769531, "source": "search", "title": "RAWLINGS MASTER LIST - Big League Baseballs" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "After surviving two world wars and an earthquake in 1989, the World Series was cancelled for only the second time in 1994 due to the players' strike.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.9121408462524414, "source": "search", "title": "The World Series - Infoplease" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "1994 strike most embarrassing moment in MLB history", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.59885025024414, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Strike - USA TODAY: Latest World and US News" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "1994 strike most embarrassing moment in MLB history", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.59885025024414, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Strike - USA TODAY: Latest World and US News" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "1994 strike most embarrassing moment in MLB history", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.59885025024414, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Strike - USA TODAY: Latest World and US News" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "It was the 1994 Major League Baseball strike.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.467037677764893, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Strike - USA TODAY: Latest World and US News" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "Gossage's Hall of Fame career began with a strike as a rookie in 1972 with the Chicago White Sox and ended with the 1994 strike with the Seattle Mariners, with six work stoppages in between.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.657310485839844, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Strike - USA TODAY: Latest World and US News" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "GALLERY: 1994 MLB STRIKE", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.417600631713867, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Strike - USA TODAY: Latest World and US News" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "\"They should never, ever let a baseball player have the summer off,'' says Dave Henderson, the Boston Red Sox's 1986 playoff hero. \"As a baseball player, (1994) was my first summer off. Ever. And I liked it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.420312881469727, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Strike - USA TODAY: Latest World and US News" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "Tom Brunansky, who helped lead the Minnesota Twins to the 1987 World Series title with 32 homers, also planned to play one more season after 1994 and return to the Red Sox, thinking they had the team to finally end their World Series drought. The longer the strike dragged out, and the more he hung around his three young kids, he told his agent he was done.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.3047541677951813, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Strike - USA TODAY: Latest World and US News" }, { "answer": "1994", "passage": "Jordan began playing baseball in 1994 for the White Sox, also owned by Bulls' owner Jerry Reinsdorf. Jordan spent the season at Class AA Birmingham (Ala.), hitting just .202 with three homers and 51 RBI. He refused to give up, played in the Arizona Fall League and vowed to return to the White Sox's spring training camp in 1995.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.3533549308776855, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Strike - USA TODAY: Latest World and US News" } ]

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Giacometti also painted a number of meticulous portraits, notably a five-year study of Isabel Lambert and Portrait of Jean Genet (1955). In February 2010, Giacometti's Walking Man I, a life-size bronze sculpture cast in 1961, sold at Sotheby's in London for £65,001,250 ($104,327,006) - the highest-ever price paid at auction for a work of plastic art .", "precise_score": 3.5601651668548584, "rough_score": 0.6835731863975525, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, now Switzerland on the border with Italy in 1901. His father, Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933) was also a painter, his uncle Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947) was a decorative artist, while his brother Diego became a furniture maker and sculptor. Giacometti attended the Fine Arts School in Geneva, studying figurative drawing, etching and painting. In 1920 he travelled with his father to the Venice Biennale to see the work of Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964), one of the great abstract sculptors from the Ukraine.", "precise_score": 2.062678575515747, "rough_score": 4.1039228439331055, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "In 1922 Giacometti moved to Paris to study with the French expressionist sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1826-1929) at the Academie de la Grande-Chaumiere. Bourdelle was a former pupil of the master-sculptor, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). While in Paris, Giacometti experimented with new modern art movements like Cubism , and mixed with artists like Picasso, Max Ernst, Joan Miro and Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola). He also studied African art and primitive artefacts.", "precise_score": 1.699772596359253, "rough_score": 3.5423383712768555, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "In 1935 Giacometti had an artistic crisis. Although his early works were already well known and in demand, the artist was still struggling to find his own unique style. The first sculptures he did during this period were so tiny that they threatened to fall apart. Gradually the figures developed with more lively surfaces, elongated limbs and narrow small heads. It was for these, more naturalistic works, that he would become famous. Working from his studio in Montparnasse, his figures grew and grew in size. At first he found his studio too small, but the longer he stayed there, the larger he said, it seem to become. Even one of his life-size standing figures, such as Man Striding (1960, Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul) were created in this studio. In 1934 Giacometti had his first solo exhibition in New York. A few later he also met the famous philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who became a good friend and wrote two essays about the artistic impact of Giacometti's art. During the war years, Giacometti lived in Zurich, only returning to his studio in Paris again in 1945.", "precise_score": 3.7161366939544678, "rough_score": 2.868852138519287, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "In 1948 Giacometti held another exhibition in New York, where he presented his new elongated figures. Conceptually, his sculptures were regarded as representing the fragile, essentially lonely nature of human existence. Sartre associated it with Existentialism's pessimistic view of the world, but it was perhaps Barnett Newman's comment that was more accurate: these sculptures look 'as if they were made out of spit - new things with no form, no texture, but somehow filled'. The figure of a man striding was Giacometti’s most common motif, and those figures show his fascination with the surfaces of his work. He used his fingers and the modelling knife to shape his figurative sculptures. (For an example of an Irish sculptor influenced by Giacometti's work, see Edward Delaney , 1930-2009.) Though the figures are often pared down to their basic form, they retain an extraordinary presence. Around the 1950s, Giacometti modelled groups of figures: The Square (1949) and The Glade (1950). In 1955 the artist had two retrospectives, one in London and one in New York. In 1956 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale. Although he is best known for his sculpture, Giacometti was also adept at etching , graphic design and painting. In fact, he received the Guggenheim International Award for painting in 1964.", "precise_score": 0.8674880862236023, "rough_score": 1.0209928750991821, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "By now acclaimed as one of the giants of modern art , Giacometti worked prolifically until this death in 1966. Commissions for public sculpture however tended to come to nothing, but in 1961 he made a tree for the stage of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In 1961 he was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale, which bought him worldwide fame. Despite the fame, Giacometti was rarely satisfied with his work - he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later. Sartre was to remark of his friend 'He will never be finished with it; this is simply because a man is always beyond what he has done'. Despite declining health, the sculptor travelled to New York in 1965 to attend an opening of his work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) . He died a few months later in Switzerland.", "precise_score": 5.506128311157227, "rough_score": 4.254551887512207, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale , and the award brought with it worldwide fame. Even when he had achieved popularity and his work was in demand, he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later. The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné, Giacometti – The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust (Tudor 1970), comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print. Some of his most important images were in editions of only 30 and many were described as rare in 1970.", "precise_score": 4.92687463760376, "rough_score": 5.721900939941406, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com", "precise_score": -1.911660075187683, "rough_score": 2.7221486568450928, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "Born in Switzerland in 1901, Alberto Giacometti received his early foundation in art from family members before pursuing formal training in Geneva and Paris. In the 1920s he began to develop his personal style, creating abstracted sculptures that showed the influence of Cubism and tribal art. During the 1930s he became a part of the Surrealist movement, with his work becoming more dreamlike in nature, but he later split with the group when he became focused on new ways to express the human form. Influenced by the emergence of Existentialism, his small, thin figurative sculptures resonated with the atmosphere of suffering that followed World War II, and they were soon highly sought after. Giacometti’s work continued to evolve in the 1950s and 1960s, during which time he also produced an extensive series of portraits and provided illustrations for numerous books. After receiving several awards, honors and retrospective exhibitions, and achieving international fame, Giacometti died in 1966.", "precise_score": 2.8475780487060547, "rough_score": 3.334547281265259, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculpting", "passage": "Alberto Giacometti was born on October 10, 1901, in the small mountain village of Borgonovo, Switzerland, near the Italian-Swiss border. His father, Giovanni, was an accomplished painter who worked in the Post-Impressionist style, and both his godfather and an uncle were artists as well, providing Giacometti with his earliest instruction. When his family moved to the nearby town of Stampa in 1906, Giacometti was already showing an interest in drawing, and by his early teens he had begun painting, sculpting and making wood etchings.", "precise_score": 0.2794985771179199, "rough_score": 1.0904959440231323, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "In 1919, Giacometti moved to Geneva, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and École des Arts et Métiers. However, perhaps more important to his development as an artist were the trips he took to Italy during the next two years. In 1920 he accompanied his father to the Venice Biennale—where his father’s paintings were included in the exhibition and Giacometti first encountered the work of abstract sculptor Alexander Archipenko—and in 1921 he visited Rome, Florence and the surrounding areas, during which time he became enthralled with African and Egyptian art.", "precise_score": 1.1573512554168701, "rough_score": 0.6179608702659607, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "However, with the outbreak of World War II and the advance of the German army into France, in 1941 Giacometti was forced to flee Paris and return to Switzerland, where he would work until the conflict’s end. During that time, his art would take yet a new direction, with his sculptures of the human for becoming elongated and thin and increasingly small in size, lending the figures an air of loneliness and suffering. When Giacometti returned to Paris, he soon found that the anguished presence of works like Man Pointing (1947) and City Square (1948)—informed by his grasp of the existentialist philosophies emerging at the time—struck a chord with the pervasive postwar feelings of despair and loneliness. Now highly sought after by both museums and collectors, his work earned him solo exhibitions in New York in 1948 and 1950, one of which featured an introductory text by Jean Paul-Sartre , who described Giacometti’s work as “always halfway between nothingness and being.”", "precise_score": 1.0372414588928223, "rough_score": 0.7523332238197327, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Internationally famous by the early 1960s, Giacometti was commissioned by Samuel Beckett to create a tree sculpture for a production of his Waiting for Godot, and in 1962 he was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale. Amidst failing health, in 1964 he also received the Guggenheim International Award for Painting, followed by retrospectives of his work at the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Alberto Giacometti died of cardiac exhaustion on January 11, 1966, in Chur, Switzerland, and was buried in Borgnovo cemetery.", "precise_score": 4.26719856262207, "rough_score": 2.7830557823181152, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "Giacometti executed the Grande femme debout sculptures in response to a commission which--had he completed it--would have certainly been the crowning achievement of his career and his most famous public work. Giacometti was in his family home in Stampa, Switzerland, when he received word in December 1958 that Gordon Bunshaft, the chief architect and designer for the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, wanted him to consider taking on a project for a building whose construction would soon get underway in the Wall Street district of Manhattan. Bunshaft's client was the Chase Manhattan Bank, one of the world's largest financial institutions. The sixty-story glass and steel tower that he was designing at 18 Pine Street would serve as the company's world headquarters. A large public plaza would adjoin the building, and Bunshaft, one of America's leading proponents of the International style, wanted to install there the first example of monumental public modernist art ever to be seen in the Wall Street vicinity. To choose candidates for the job, Bunshaft headed a committee composed of leading museum curators, including Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and Dorothy Miller (The Museum of Modern Art), James Johnson Sweeney (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Robert Hale (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Perry Rathbone (The Boston Museum of Fine Arts). They considered the work of Giacometti, Calder and Noguchi, and then finally decided to ask Giacometti to submit plans for a project. They hoped that Giacometti would come to New York, examine the site, and meet with them.", "precise_score": 1.8804244995117188, "rough_score": 1.1199201345443726, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Lit: James Lord, A Giacometti Portrait (New York 1965), p.34; Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture Painting Drawing (London 1972), pp.135-9, 302, repr. p.117", "precise_score": -2.7496140003204346, "rough_score": 0.34965988993644714, "source": "search", "title": "'Man Pointing', Alberto Giacometti: Illustrated companion ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "Dec. 17, 2001 -- To many, the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti have become icons of the anxious mood of the post-World War II era: Thin, solitary figures with long arms and legs, betraying just a hint of human form.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.717672109603882, "source": "search", "title": "NPR's Morning Edition -- Giacometti Retrospective at the ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "The Swiss artist was one of the surrealists, but found fame with a style of sculpture that was completely original.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.681880950927734, "source": "search", "title": "NPR's Morning Edition -- Giacometti Retrospective at the ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "Giacometti would have been 100 this year -- and in an appropriate gesture by the first museum to ever buy his work, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is holding a commemorative exhibition with works from Giacometti's long career. David D'Arcy reports for Morning Edition that even now, what the artist's sculptures actually express is a matter of debate.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6418166160583496, "source": "search", "title": "NPR's Morning Edition -- Giacometti Retrospective at the ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Giacometti did not intend to become a sculptor when he began his art career in Paris. A few years before he died in 1966, he told a French television interviewer that he took up the form because it wasn't easy:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.12744814157485962, "source": "search", "title": "NPR's Morning Edition -- Giacometti Retrospective at the ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpting", "passage": "\"I did not want to spend my whole life making sculpture. I started sculpting because it was the art that I understood the least about. I should have moved on to other things that suited me better, but I couldn't tolerate the fact that I wasn't suited for sculpture. So kept doing it, so I'd get it out of my system.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.478386878967285, "source": "search", "title": "NPR's Morning Edition -- Giacometti Retrospective at the ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "That ended his relationship with the surrealists -- but the thin sculptures that began taking shape in Giacometti's studio still have echoes of the surreal, said Tobias Bezzola of the Kunsthaus Zurich, which collaborated with MoMA on the show.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.368195056915283, "source": "search", "title": "NPR's Morning Edition -- Giacometti Retrospective at the ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Libra Sculptor#4", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.305455207824707, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Bio, Facts, Family | Famous Birthdays" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Swiss painter and sculptor who was associated with the surrealist movement. He created Woman of Venice II, a painted bronze sculpture.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.972156524658203, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Bio, Facts, Family | Famous Birthdays" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.09314901381731033, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "For a list see: Greatest Sculptors .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.277881622314453, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculpting", "passage": "TYPES OF SCULPTING", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.4976806640625, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "see: History of Sculpture .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.267494201660156, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Giacometti's Surrealist Sculpture", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.09806306660175323, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "Half way through the 1920s, Giacometti broke with traditional academic techniques and began to seriously explore the sculptural possibilities of Surrealism . From the period 1927 to 1934 he created some of his most individual works. Taking typical Surrealist themes like dreams, sensuality and violence he created sculptures, which though cast in bronze, look like assemblage art . His avant-garde works Woman with Her Throat Cut (1932, National Gallery of Scotland ) and Spoon Woman (1936) - casts of which can be seen in the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art New York, and elsewhere - were his first critically acclaimed works. Woman with Her Throat Cut is part woman, part insect. One of the most evocative pieces of abstract sculpture - intended to be placed on the floor without a base - it suggests the violent image of a woman, lying raped and murdered. It is highly emotive and powerful, sitting firmly within the realms of Surrealism, and made Giacometti one of the best known surrealist artists .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.7738804817199707, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Note About Sculpture Appreciation", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3997220993042, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "To learn how to evaluate semi-abstract modernist sculptors like Alberto Giacomettil, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture . For earlier works, please see: How to Appreciate Sculpture .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.34337854385376, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "In February 2010 a record-setting art auction at Sotheby's London resulted in a £65,001,250 ($104,327,006) sale for Giacometti's sculpture Walking Man I (L'Homme Qui Marche). The 6-feet tall bronze depicts a man in mid-stride. The sale broke the previous $104,168,000 auction record, set in 2004 for Pablo Picasso's portrait Boy With a Pipe (1905). More than five times higher than its pre-sale estimate of £12m-18m, competitive bidding and scarcity of works by Giacometti were key factors in achieving the record price.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.8683934211730957, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "The Kunsthaus Zurich contains the collection of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation. Collated shortly after the death of the artist, the collection contains 150 sculptures, 20 paintings and many paper drawings. The works range from his early years, showing influences of Cubism and primitive art, his Surrealistic phase, and his most significant sculptures from the years 1947 to 1951. Works include:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.580190896987915, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "- Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.414432525634766, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.393280982971191, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti: Existentialist Sculptor" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "In 1922 he moved to Paris to study under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle , an associate of Rodin . It was there that Giacometti experimented with cubism and surrealism and came to be regarded as one of the leading surrealist sculptors. Among his associates were Miró , Max Ernst , Picasso , Bror Hjorth and Balthus .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.425672173500061, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculpting", "passage": "Between 1936 and 1940, Giacometti concentrated his sculpting on the human head, focusing on the sitter's gaze. He preferred models he was close to, his sister and the artist Isabel Rawsthorne (then known as Isabel Delmer). This was followed by a phase in which his statues of Isabel became stretched out; her limbs elongated. [2] Obsessed with creating his sculptures exactly as he envisioned through his unique view of reality, he often carved until they were as thin as nails and reduced to the size of a pack of cigarettes, much to his consternation. A friend of his once said that if Giacometti decided to sculpt you, \"he would make your head look like the blade of a knife\". After his marriage to Annette Arm in 1946 his tiny sculptures became larger, but the larger they grew, the thinner they became. Giacometti said that the final result represented the sensation he felt when he looked at a woman.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.7242116928100586, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Three Men Walking II, 1949, painted bronze sculpture Metropolitan Museum of Art . \"The surfaces of Three Men Walking (II), 1949, typify his technique.\" [4]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.295387268066406, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "In 1958 Giacometti was asked to create a monumental sculpture for the Chase Manhattan Bank building in New York, which was beginning construction. Although he had for many years \"harbored an ambition to create work for a public square\", [5] he \"had never set foot in New York, and knew nothing about life in a rapidly evolving metropolis. Nor had he ever laid eyes on an actual skyscraper \", according to his biographer James Lord. [6] Giacometti's work on the project resulted in the four figures of standing women—his largest sculptures—entitled Grande femme debout I through IV (1960). The commission was never completed, however, because Giacometti was unsatisfied by the relationship between the sculpture and the site, and abandoned the project.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.8463312387466431, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Regarding Giacometti's sculptural technique and according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art : \"The rough, eroded, heavily worked surfaces of Three Men Walking (II), 1949, typify his technique. Reduced, as they are, to their very core, these figures evoke lone trees in winter that have lost their foliage. Within this style, Giacometti would rarely deviate from the three themes that preoccupied him—the walking man; the standing, nude woman; and the bust—or all three, combined in various groupings.\" [4]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.346457004547119, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculpting", "passage": "Giacometti was a key player in the Surrealist art movement, but his work resists easy categorization. Some describe it as formalist, others argue it is expressionist or otherwise having to do with what Deleuze calls \"blocs of sensation\" (as in Deleuze's analysis of Francis Bacon ). Even after his excommunication from the Surrealist group, while the intention of his sculpting was usually imitation, the end products were an expression of his emotional response to the subject. He attempted to create renditions of his models the way he saw them, and the way he thought they ought to be seen. He once said that he was sculpting not the human figure but \"the shadow that is cast\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.090895652770996, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "Scholar William Barrett in Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1962), argues that the attenuated forms of Giacometti's figures reflect the view of 20th century modernism and existentialism that modern life is increasingly empty and devoid of meaning. \"All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces...So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.207813262939453, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "L'Homme qui marche I , a life-sized bronze sculpture of a man, became one of the most expensive works of art and the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction on February 2, 2010, when it sold for £65 million (US$104.3 million) at Sotheby's , London. [15] [16] Grande tête mince , a large bronze bust, sold for $53.3 million just three months later.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.301639556884766, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man) sold for $126 million (£81314455.32), or $141.3 million with fees, in Christie's May 11, 2015 Looking Forward to the Past sale in New York, a record for a sculpture at auction. The work had been in the same private collection for 45 years. [17]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.438375473022461, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Giacometti and his sculpture L'Homme qui marche I appear on the current 100 Swiss Franc banknote . [19]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.094908237457275, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti on ArtStack - art online" }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Henry Moore was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting reclining figures, or even more commonly, the mother and child theme.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.963263511657715, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Constantin Brancusi, a Romanian artist working in Paris, was one of the founders of modern sculpture. His abstracted animals, portrait busts, and totem-like figures revolutionized the traditional relationship between the sculpture and its base.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.022181510925293, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "Hans Arp (also known as Jean Arp) was a German-French artist who incorporated chance, randomness, and organic forms into his sculptures, paintings, and collages. He was involved with Zurich Dada, Surrealism, and the Abstraction-Creation movement.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.95448112487793, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Picasso dominated European painting in the first half of the last century, and remains perhaps the century's most important, prolifically inventive, and versatile artist. Alongside Georges Braque, he pioneered Cubism. He also made significant contributions to Surrealist painting and media such as collage, welded sculpture, and ceramics.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.398937225341797, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Isamu Noguchi was a Japanese-American modern artist. best known for his organic, biomorphic sculpture works, Noguchi was also a furniture designer and landscape artist.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.137492179870605, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Eduardo Paolozzi was a Scottish sculptor, printmaker and multi-media artist, and a pioneer in the early development of Pop art. His 1947 print 'I Was a Rich Man's Plaything' is considered the very first work of the movement. He was also a founder of the Independent Group in 1952.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.599701881408691, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Alexander Calder was an American artist who made important contributions to abstract sculpture, hanging mobiles, and Kinetic art. His work reflects both modern and Surrealist influences.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.051240921020508, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "At various times identified with Cubism, Surrealism and Existentialism, Alberto Giacometti used his sculptures, paintings and drawings to convey his unique artistic vision.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.2334517240524292, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "In 1922, Giacometti settled in Paris, where for the next four years he studied sculpture at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière. At the same time, he was falling under the influence of Cubists such as Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso and nurturing his newfound love for primitive art, both of which began to show in his work, with his representations of the human body becoming steadily more abstracted. By the time he completed his studies, Giacometti was resolved to abandon realism entirely, convinced of its inadequacy to convey the essence of his subject matter. Two of his most important and representative works from this period, Spoon Woman and The Couple, were exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries in 1927.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.35789754986763, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "In the early 1930s, Giacometti’s emerging style endeared him to some of the Surrealist movement’s most important figures, such as André Breton , Man Ray and Georges Bataille. Their influence on his work can be seen in such dreamlike, metaphorical pieces as Suspended Ball (1931), Walking Woman I (1932) and The Palace at 4 a.m. (1932). The impact of these and similar sculptures would lead to his first solo exhibitions in Paris (1932) and New York (1934).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.7781100273132324, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "Despite Giacometti’s growing notoriety as a member of the Surrealist movement, his personal inquiry into the nature of existence would ultimately lead him away from the group, and during the latter half of the decade he would focus his energies on a series of head sculptures meant to convey his own physical relation to his models in space.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.1521425247192383, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "During the 1950s, Giacometti’s work continued to evolve, with his sculptures becoming larger, thinner, and more complicated. He also undertook a series of dark, intense portraits of family members—primarily his wife, Annette (whom he married in 1949), and his brother Diego—and well-known friends such as Jean Genet, Henri Matisse and Igor Stravinsky . Later in the decade he began a lengthy period of illustration work for books by contemporary authors such as Paul Eluard and revered writers of the past like Cervantes and Balzac .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.1363551616668701, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti - Painter, Artist, Sculptor - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "The series of four tall standing women that Giacometti executed in 1960, each titled Grande femme debout with numbers I through IV, are the largest sculptures he ever made. The present version, Grande femme debout II, actually holds the distinction of the being the largest of all: her height exceeds that of her next tallest sister in the sequence, no. IV, by a couple of inches; she is three inches higher than no. I, and a full sixteen inches more than no. III. In the sheer scale of their conception these four giantesses stand at the other extreme from the tiny sculptures that Giacometti brought back with him from Switzerland when he returned to Paris after the Second World War; the latter were so miniscule that they fit into matchboxes he carried in his pockets, but they soon grew into the definitive and famous elongated figures of the late 1940s. \"In fact, while he was fascinated by tiny sculptures all his life,\" Yves Bonnefoy has observed, \"he also felt up until the end the need to challenge the darkness outside with these tall protective presences, either new versions of the Walking Man in 1959-60, of the Women of Venice of 1956, or the four Large Standing Women of 1960... Such works are indeed the deities that must protect the pyramid.\" (op. cit., p. 338).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.18115234375, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "James Lord, Giacometti's biographer, has pointed out that the sculptor \"had never set foot in New York, and knew nothing about life in a rapidly evolving metropolis. Nor had he ever laid eyes on an actual skyscraper. Moreover, he had a fear of heights, of empty space, of the void. He liked to keep his feet planted firmly on the ground. But he was immediately responsive to the American proposal... Alberto wrote his mother of the project. It interested him passionately, he said\" (in Giacometti: A Biography, New York, 1986, pp. 331-332).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.365720748901367, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "For nearly 25 years Giacometti had harbored a strong desire to create a work for a public square. Two earlier works suggest models of how he might consider placing elements or figures in a piazza environment (see lot 32). The surrealist poet Louis Aragon recalled a discussion he had with Giacometti in the late 1940s concerning the idea of a sculpture in a public space: \"At that time that meant a small figure, standing directly on the pavement where people walked, a very small figure with a wide space around it. [Giacometti] explained why: the smaller the figure was, the larger the square would seem--'larger than the Place de Concorde, no?'\" (quoted in R. Hold., Giacometti: A Biography in Pictures, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1998, p. 160). Dieter Honisch has explained, \"Giacometti felt that there was something imagined, rather than seen, about figures that approached life size, and he criticized this feature not only in the sculpture of Rodin and Houdon, but also in the paintings of Cézanne, Courbet and even Titian. For Giacometti, it was more important, and also more realistic to work in terms of how an object appeared to the eye--and the more surrounded by space it was seen to be, the smaller it had to be and the more energy and concentration it had to have--than in terms of what one knew about it and what connected it with models in nature\" (in \"Scale in Giacometti's Sculpture,\" Alberto Giacometti, Munich, 1994, p. 67).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.7490288615226746, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Giacometti nevertheless realized that figures placed in close proximity to very tall buildings needed to be much larger than anything he had done previously. Bunshaft had suggested that he simply take one of his table-top sized figures and make it thirty times as large. However, Giacometti did not want the figures to dominate the square or completely dwarf passersby. Most of all he did not want to create a tall sculpture that impressed solely through its sheer size. The appropriate scale of the figures would continue to vex him. Although it would have been helpful to visit the Chase Manhattan Plaza site, Giacometti decided he would not go to New York. He was normally averse to long-distance travel and, besides, he had an oil portrait of his wife Annette in progress and wanted to start a new bust of his brother Diego. Neither the importance of his corporate client nor expectations of the celebrity the project would likely bring his way seemed compelling enough to cause him to disrupt his dedicated and long-established work regimen. Bunshaft instead sent Giacometti a small scale model of the building and the plaza; the sculptor was accustomed to working in miniature. On 17 March 1959, Giacometti wrote Pierre Matisse, his dealer in New York: \"I work on my project almost every day, and I am eager to take it up again tomorrow. In any case, and whether or not it's what the architect wants, it's of enormous help to me in all my work and I am delighted to be doing it\" (quoted in J. Russell, Matisse Father & Son, New York, 1999, p. 332).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.8472689390182495, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "By the end of April 1960 Giacometti had completed the plaster models for four standing women, two walking men and two large heads (fig. 3). He then had the female and male figures and one of the heads cast in bronze. Giacometti told David Sylvester, \"The two walking men are the only two remaining ones out of at least forty which were neither better nor worse... The four women too were the only remaining ones of ten; the others were destroyed.\" He explained to Sylvester that the figures were done \"in a sort of nostalgia for large outdoor sculpture. Anyway I had always wanted to know how large a piece I could do [this] was a good way of settling the question. I'm absolutely against the current practice of making small sculpture and enlarging it mechanically. Either I can make it big as I want or I can't And I should be interested to discover the maximum height that I could do by hand. Well, maximum height, that's precisely what the tall women are. They're already almost beyond all possibility, and in that case we're talking about something completely imaginary. But then it would become easy again!\" (in Looking at Giacometti, New York, 1994, pp. 136-137).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.4807751178741455, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "In contrast to many of his standing women, and specifically to six of the nine Femmes de Venise cast in bronze four years earlier, Giacometti opened up the space between the arms and torso in each of the Grande femme debout figures, allowing him to articulate a classic feminine silhouette, albeit in the sculptor's characteristic manner with a very narrow waist and wider but still attenuated lower abdomen and hips. The pelvic region as seen here is roughly ovoid, and taken together with the figure's pendulous breasts, Grande femme debout II is as close as Giacometti comes in his work in creating a gigantic fertility fetish. Note the abbreviated gaps between the figure's legs, echoing the open spaces in the upper figure, which create an almost unbearable sense of tension in the lower part of the figure.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.6113710403442383, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "These sculptures were a remarkable achievement. Giacometti, an unrelenting and compulsive perfectionist, was nevertheless dissatisfied with the results. Their scale had confounded him. They required a new way of working in the confines of his small and cramped studio that was unfamiliar and uncomfortable for him. James Lord has written, \"It is true that large sculpture ideally pleads for unlimited space in which to hold its own. No sense of space entered Giacometti's studio. It was barely large enough for him to work and breathe in, barely, that is to say, life-size. Clambering up and down his stepladder as he worked, the sculptor could not possibly have had the same physical relation to them that he had had with all his other works. So long as he had his feet on the ground, it seems he was able to keep his sculpture where he wanted it, but it got away from him when he had to get up in the air to come to grips with it. The four women are not possessed of the same remoteness or surrounded by the same numinous aura as the majority of their smaller sisters These four are excessively present in their presence\" (op. cit., p. 419; fig. 4). Giacometti wrote to Pierre Matisse, \"I've spent more than a year on them. I dropped everything else and kept at them. I have never worked so hard.\" He then made a telling admission: \"The dimensions were totally confused. What I had seen as small, I mistakenly tried to enlarge. There were many other complications--far too many for a single year--quite apart from the fact that one can't possibly make anything for a given site without seeing the sculptures in place\" (J. Russell, op. cit., p. 334). He later told Sylvester, \"I haven't solved the problem and I gave up the whole idea when I saw that if I was ever going to realise them I would have to devote myself to it for years\" (quoted in D. Sylvester, op. cit., p. 137).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.651975631713867, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "Giacometti did not submit these sculptures for Bunshaft's approval. He decided on his own that he could not fulfill the Chase Manhattan commission. These commanding sculptures, however, took on a new life of their own, apart from their original purpose. Giacometti arranged a grouping of the male head, two walking men and two standing women in his pavilion at the 1962 Venice Biennale (fig. 5). He placed the same figures somewhat differently in an installation at the Fondation Maeght in Vence two years later. John Russell has pointed out that \"He did not see the project as a setback, or as a failure, but as a liberation. And the project even had, in a limited sense, a happy ending, in that casts were made of more than one version of the Big Woman, the Walking Man, and the Big Head. They do not call out for the Chase Manhattan building, but nowhere could they look better than in galleries of the Fondation Beyeler building that was designed by Renzo Piano and opened in 1997 in the outskirts of Basel (op. cit., pp. 335-336).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.997415542602539, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "The Chase Manhattan tower and plaza were completed in 1964 without its modern sculpture. Giacometti eventually made his first trip to New York, on the occasion of his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in June-October 1965. He and his wife Annette sailed on the liner France, in the company of Pierre and Patricia Matisse (fig. 6). James Lord has written: \"New York aroused him less to surprise than to excitement and curiosity. In the desire to orient himself as rapidly as possible, he bought a map of the city and studied it with care. In the taxi he wanted to make a detour to see the Chase Manhattan Plaza. When he found himself suddenly at the base of that tall, smooth, severe façade, he was at once excited by the prospect of trying to create a sculpture which would be powerful enough to maintain its presence there. He walked with long strides in every direction back and forth trying to determine what would be the best site for such a sculpture. The more he gazed at that wide empty space in front of the building, the more excited he became. That same evening, about midnight, he insisted on returning to the plaza with his wife and a friend. He spent an hour there in the cold, deserted square trying to judge various locations and dimensions for the piece, asked his friend to stand motionless here and there to gauge the effect. Several times during the following day he discussed the matter with the architect, Gordon Bunshaft, returning once again to the site, and he talked often about it in New York and later in Paris\" (op. cit., p. 190).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.869163990020752, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptor", "passage": "Giacometti now envisioned for the Chase Manhattan Plaza a single standing female figure at least 23 feet in height. He had Diego prepare an armature, but his work on progressed no further, because in late 1965 he became critically ill. Giacometti died in January 1966. Four Trees, a painted aluminum sculpture by Jean Dubuffet that measures 42 feet in height was finally installed in the plaza in 1972. While the lively organic shapes of Dubuffet's arbor contrast whimsically with the surrounding architectural grid, those who Giacometti's project might well imagine his tallest standing women, the walking man and the great head in its place, or to ponder how a single figure nearly two stories high, the sculptor's final conception, would have looked. No doubt, as purely a matter of size, anything Giacometti placed there would have been dwarfed by so much glass, steel and concrete, but the great woman would have dominated the space emotionally with heroic and monumental humanity. Dieter Honisch has written: \"The sense of personal exposure; the meaninglessness of individual existence and in spite of that, its dignity, the unrelatedness of human beings, their isolation and their aimlessness; the inability to believe and accept ideals; the desire to survive, to find one's place--all this is especially forcefully expressed in the figures created in connection with the group envisaged for the Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza, the only larger than life-size figures of his entire career. If Giacometti himself saw a meaning in this enlargement of scale, we can only assume this to have been the desire to create a monument that was not a memorial in the traditional sense: not an exaltation of the victors, but the victims, the maltreated and the nameless\" (op. cit., p. 68).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.045720066875219345, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "(fig. 5) Alberto Giacometti arranging his pavilion at the 1962 Venice Biennale. The sculptures include two bronze versions of Grande femme debout, both versions of Homme qui marche, and Grande tête. Photograph by Ugo Mulas, Milan. BARCODE 26015606", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.4901463985443115, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "A. Schneider, ed., Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Munich and New York, 1994, no. 120 (another cast illustrated).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.0825557708740234, "source": "search", "title": "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) | Grande femme debout II ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Exh: Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Arts Council Gallery, London, June-July 1955 (15, detail repr.); Alberto Giacometti, Kunsthalle, Bern, June-July 1956 (18, repr.); XXXI Biennale, Venice, June- October 1962 (Giacometti 82); Alberto Giacometti, Kunsthaus, Zurich, December 1962-January 1963 (29, repr.); Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture Pantings Drawings 1913-65, Tate Gallery, July-August 1965 (33, plaster repr.); Alberto Giacometti, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, October 1969-January 1970 (48, repr.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.008854607120156288, "source": "search", "title": "'Man Pointing', Alberto Giacometti: Illustrated companion ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Repr: Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century (New York 1952), p.210; John Rothenstein, The Tate Gallery (London 1958), pl.23", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.934860229492188, "source": "search", "title": "'Man Pointing', Alberto Giacometti: Illustrated companion ..." }, { "answer": "Sculptures", "passage": "This is one of several sculptures made very quickly for inclusion in Giacometti's first New York exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in January-February 1948. Giacometti told James Lord in 1964: 'I did that piece in one night between midnight and nine the next morning. That is, I'd already done it, but I demolished it and did it all over again because the men from the foundry were coming to take it away. And when they got here, the plaster was still wet.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.3629462718963623, "source": "search", "title": "'Man Pointing', Alberto Giacometti: Illustrated companion ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "'As for the sculpture of the pointing man of 1947 I wanted from the start to make a composition of two figures, but when the first was made (that of the Tate Gallery) it was entirely impossible for me to make the second and I didn't even begin it. It was not until 1951 that I had the urge to try to make it and the plaster figure was exhibited at Maeght's in my exhibition of 1951. It was not what I wanted and immediately after the exhibition I destroyed the plaster figure which was never cast in bronze, it therefore no longer exists and I have since completely abandoned the idea of making it. Therefore the first figure: the pointing man will remain on its own.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.266046524047852, "source": "search", "title": "'Man Pointing', Alberto Giacometti: Illustrated companion ..." }, { "answer": "Sculpt", "passage": "Reinhold Hohl points out that this sculpture is directly related to the 'Mannequin' of 1933 ('both describe space through a figure which marks the limits of its presence with an extended, space-encompassing arm') and that Ernst Scheidigger's well-known photograph of 'Man Pointing' standing at the intersection of the Rue Hippolyte-Maindron and the Rue du Moulin Vert (very near Giacometti's studio) gives the impression of a policeman on traffic duty - perhaps with Giacometti's consent.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.790988445281982, "source": "search", "title": "'Man Pointing', Alberto Giacometti: Illustrated companion ..." } ]

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Glenn", "passage": "On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit Earth. An Atlas launch vehicle propelled a Mercury spacecraft into Earth orbit and enabled Glenn to circle Earth three times. The flight lasted a total of 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds before the Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down in the ocean. Most major systems worked smoothly, and the flight was a great success as an engineering feat.", "precise_score": 7.2812652587890625, "rough_score": 6.962337017059326, "source": "search", "title": "Friendship 7 - Home - NASA" }, { "answer": "John Glenn", "passage": "February 20, 1962. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on this date. He made three turns around the planet before returning safely in his space capsule, which was called Friendship 7. 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Just 5 minutes and 44 seconds after launch, Glenn offered his first words about the view from his porthole: “This is Friendship 7. Can see clear back; a big cloud pattern way back across towards the Cape. Beautiful sight.” Three hours later, at the beginning of his third orbit, Glenn photographed this panoramic view of Florida from the Georgia border (right, under clouds) to just north of Cape Canaveral. His American homeland was 162 miles (260 kilometers) below. “I have the Cape in sight down there,” he noted to mission controllers. “It looks real fine from up here. I can see the whole state of Florida just laid out like on a map. Beautiful.” Image via NASA", "precise_score": 3.0014710426330566, "rough_score": 5.817577838897705, "source": "search", "title": "This date in science: John Glenn first American to orbit ..." }, { "answer": "John Glenn", "passage": "Bottom line: John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962. 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Glenn is the earliest-born American to go to orbit, and the second earliest-born man overall after Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy. Glenn received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990. With the death of Scott Carpenter on October 10, 2013, Glenn became the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.014459133148193, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Glenn" }, { "answer": "John Glenn", "passage": "John Glenn was born on July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio, the son of John Herschel Glenn, Sr. (1895–1966) and Teresa () Glenn (1897–1971). He was raised in New Concord, Ohio. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.814165115356445, "source": "wiki", "title": "John Glenn" }, { "answer": "John Glenn", "passage": "Glenn was one of the five U.S. senators caught up in the Lincoln Savings and Keating Five Scandal after accepting a $200,000 contribution from Charles Keating. Glenn and Republican senator John McCain were the only senators exonerated. The Senate Commission found that Glenn had exercised \"poor judgment\". The association of his name with the scandal gave Republicans hope that he would be vulnerable in the 1992 campaign. Instead, Glenn defeated Lieutenant Governor Mike DeWine to keep his seat, though his percentage was reduced to a career low of 51%. 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It is believed that President Kennedy and other government officials, well aware of the symbolic importance of the first man to orbit the Earth, ordered NASA to keep him grounded, for fear of his being injured or killed in a space program that was still, in many ways, in the developmental stage. Glenn returned to Ohio, where he became a successful businessman. He later entered politics, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974, serving four terms. Glenn maintained close contacts with NASA, and spoke often of his regret at not having been part of subsequent missions, including the lunar landings. In 1998, however, John Glenn got his wish and returned to space. Though it had been more than 35 years since he had last suited up, Glenn was selected as part of the crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery. His participation, at the age of 77, would allow scientists to study the affects of space travel on the elderly. 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We're so used to the new and the untried in this country, whether it is the equivalent in automobiles or whatever it is, that I think we've gotten used to that. So it has been a little bit of a surprise that attention has been and keeps coming back to some of those very early flights.\" [ Photos: John Glenn's Space Legacy ]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.096266746520996, "source": "search", "title": "Godspeed - Space.com: NASA, Space Exploration and ..." }, { "answer": "John Glenn", "passage": "Shortly before his return to space, Glenn announced the creation of the John Glenn Institute (now the John Glenn School of Public Affairs) at Ohio State University in Columbus. 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Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Glenn entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. He ultimately flew 59 combat missions in the Pacific during World War II.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.088401794433594, "source": "search", "title": "John Glenn: 1st American to Orbit Earth, Oldest Man in Space" }, { "answer": "John Glenn", "passage": "At the time, the United States was in the midst of a race with the Soviet Union to reach the stars. Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man launched into space on April 12, 1961, beating Alan Shepard by less than a month. Gagarin's craft took him in a full orbit around Earth, making him the first person to circle the planet, as well. 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[ { "answer": "Lloyd Price", "passage": "\"Stagger Lee\", also known as \"Stagolee\" and other variants, is a popular American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by \"Stag\" Lee Shelton in St. Louis, Missouri at Christmas, 1895. The song was first published in 1911, and was first recorded in 1923 by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. A version by Lloyd Price reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959.", "precise_score": 0.04180636256933212, "rough_score": 2.108079195022583, "source": "wiki", "title": "Stagger Lee" }, { "answer": "Lloyd Price", "passage": "In 1950, a version by New Orleans pianist Archibald reached #10 on the Billboard R&B chart. Lloyd Price recorded the song in 1958, and it rose to the top of both the R&B and US pop charts in early 1959. His version was ranked #456 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, and also reached #7 on the UK singles chart. Price also recorded a toned-down version of the song that changed the shooting to an argument between two friends for his appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.17618179321289, "source": "wiki", "title": "Stagger Lee" }, { "answer": "Lloyd Price", "passage": "Price, Lloyd: \"Stagger Lee\" by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price (based on traditional material) (1958)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.2217609882354736, "source": "search", "title": "The Annotated \"Stagger Lee\" - University of California ..." }, { "answer": "Lloyd Price", "passage": "I started thinking about the significance of the African-American song tradition surrounding the legend of Stagger Lee after I heard the white rock musician Huey Lewis's recording  \"Stagger Lee\" which he based on Lloyd Price's classic hit from the late 1950s.  Lewis recorded a straight cover of Price's record, but he made a very significant change to the lyrics--the backup vocalists sing \"Whoa! Stagger Lee\" in Lewis's version, but they chant \"Go! Stagger Lee\" in Price's record. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.345972537994385, "source": "search", "title": "The Stagger Lee Files - Google Sites" }, { "answer": "Lloyd Price", "passage": "Cecil Brown, in his book Stagolee Shot Billy, points out that the Stetson hat represented manhood to black Americans.   He explains that the struggle between Stagger Lee and Billy over the hat represents a fight for manhood.  One of the main points I make in my essay below (titled \"Stagger Lee: From Mythic Blues Ballad to Ultimate Rock 'n' Roll Record\") is that this struggle for manhood was symbolic of the struggle for black freedom.  I also argue that Lloyd Price's classic 1958 recording \"Stagger Lee\" is a record which points to victory for African-Americans in their fight for freedom, just as certain black spirituals pointed to the day when slavery would end.  I believe that Price's version of the Stagger Lee legend is a landmark record which reflects the outlaw's transformation from badman to hero, with his victory over Billy acting as a symbol of liberation. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.556300640106201, "source": "search", "title": "The Stagger Lee Files - Google Sites" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Loos. The story involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclub.", "precise_score": 10.116609573364258, "rough_score": 9.923766136169434, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)" }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "The 100 best novels: No 49 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) | Books | The Guardian", "precise_score": 9.84080982208252, "rough_score": 9.882389068603516, "source": "search", "title": "The 100 best novels: No 49 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by ..." }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "The 100 best novels: No 49 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925)", "precise_score": 10.131545066833496, "rough_score": 9.905927658081055, "source": "search", "title": "The 100 best novels: No 49 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by ..." }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "Edith Wharton called Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes \"the great American novel\" and declared its author a genius. Winston Churchill, William Faulkner, George Santayana and Benito Mussolini read it – so did James Joyce, whose failing eyesight led him to select his reading carefully. The 1925 bestseller sold out the day it hit the stores and earned Loos more than a million dollars in royalties.", "precise_score": 10.044177055358887, "rough_score": 9.887405395507812, "source": "search", "title": "Book club brings the Roaring '20s to Stanford with Anita ..." }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "Anita Loos, whose novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes will be the topic of Stanford's Another Look book club's gathering on May 28.", "precise_score": 8.904979705810547, "rough_score": 9.74901294708252, "source": "search", "title": "Book club brings the Roaring '20s to Stanford with Anita ..." }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "Subtitled The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, Anita Loos’s novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is the story of Lorelei Lee, a former actress and social climber who makes her way into the glittering social life of the Jazz Age. Told in the first person, the novel takes the form of Lorelei’s diary and records events in the final months before her marriage to the wealthy Henry Spoffard.", "precise_score": 9.571928977966309, "rough_score": 9.42980670928955, "source": "search", "title": "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Summary - eNotes.com" }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "While she is now best known for her book \"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,\" Anita Loos was one of Hollywood's foremost early screenwriters. She began writing screen scenarios for the 'Biograph Company' at an early age (though not 12, as she later claimed), and the first to be produced, The New York Hat (1912), was not only directed by the legendary D.W. ... 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However, I myself pronounce my name as if it were spelled luce, since most people pronounce it that way and it was too much trouble to correct them.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.785881042480469, "source": "wiki", "title": "Anita Loos" }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "After spending several weeks with a lung infection, Anita Loos died in New York City at the age of 92 from natural causes. At the memorial service, friends Helen Hayes, Ruth Gordon, and Lillian Gish, regaled the mourners with humorous anecdotes and Jule Styne played songs from Loos' musicals, including \"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.986276626586914, "source": "wiki", "title": "Anita Loos" }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "When James Joyce was nearly blind and working on the first draft of Finnegans Wake , the book he permitted himself during his daily reading window was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a best-selling satire by Anita Loos . 1", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 8.084545135498047, "source": "search", "title": "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Modernism Lab Essays" }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "1 Richard Ellman, James Joyce: 582; James Joyce, Letters I: 246; Gary Carey, Anita Loos: A Biography: 98, 108. Hereafter cited as Carey, with page number.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.362363815307617, "source": "search", "title": "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Modernism Lab Essays" }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "3 Anita Loos, Cast of Thousands (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1977): 85. Hereafter cited as Loos, with page number.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.294731140136719, "source": "search", "title": "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Modernism Lab Essays" }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "6 Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (New York: Liveright, 1973): 11-12. Hereafter cited as Blondes, with page number.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.983784198760986, "source": "search", "title": "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Modernism Lab Essays" }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "A Philadelphia copywriter named Frances Gerety is credited with coining the phrase, “A Diamond Is Forever” for De Beers in 1947 . But a similar phrase served as a punchline more than twenty years earlier, in Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. “Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good,” observes Loos’s narrator, Lorelei Lee, “but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.” It seems right that the line Advertising Age called “the slogan of the century” originated in Anita Loos’s novel. Lorelei Lee at least would have found it most intreeging.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.2211480140686035, "source": "search", "title": "How Joyce and Faulkner Fell for a Blonde - The Daily Beast" }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "Anita Loos, a screenwriting Hollywood wunderkind, says she began to draft Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a jazz age classic, on the American railroad, as she crossed from New York to LA in the early 1920s. Travelling on the celebrated Santa Fe Chief with the movie star Douglas Fairbanks and his brainless leading lady, the young Loos became exasperated that a woman so stupid could \"so far outdistance me in feminine allure\". 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A year later, Photoplay reported that Griffith had called her “The most brilliant woman in the world”, and praised her skilful writing, saying: “The most important service that Anita Loos has so far rendered the screen is the elevation of the subcaption [sic], first to sanity then to dignity and brilliance combined.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.840473175048828, "source": "search", "title": "Anita Loos – sharp, shameless humour of the 'world's most ..." }, { "answer": "Anita Loos", "passage": "Jean Harlow and Anita Loos in a publicity photo for Red Headed Woman. 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Gulf Air also introduced daily flights to Athens and Sydney via Singapore on 23 November 2003.", "precise_score": 3.270566940307617, "rough_score": 4.663923740386963, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "The owner states of Gulf Air at that time—the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and the Sultanate of Oman—confirmed their support for further expansion of the airline through a new three-year strategic plan which would include re-equipment of the aircraft fleet and recapitalization of the business through private sector financing. Gulf Air was also placed on the IOSA registry following its successful completion of the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA).", "precise_score": 6.186842441558838, "rough_score": 5.084125995635986, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "Gulf Air temporarily suspended flights to Iran, Iraq and Lebanon during the height of the Bahraini uprising. 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Gulf Traveller has since been disbanded due to these changes.", "precise_score": 5.230495929718018, "rough_score": 3.7095589637756348, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "Bahrain's flag carrier, Gulf Air (GF) was founded in 1950 as Gulf Aviation. It is headquartered in Muharraq and operates from a hub at Bahrain International Airport (BAH). Gulf Air flies to more than 40 destinations in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe. These include Egypt, Germany, India, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. The airline also has codeshare agreements with nine other carriers. Gulf Air's fleet consists of 16 Airbus A320-200, six Airbus A321-200 and six Airbus A320-200 planes configured with two cabins, Falcon Gold (Business Class) and Economy Class.", "precise_score": 6.935910224914551, "rough_score": 5.219608306884766, "source": "search", "title": "Gulf Air Flight Information - Airline Seat Maps, Flights ..." }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "In the late 1940s Freddie Bosworth, a British pilot and entrepreneur, began an air taxi service to Doha and Dhahran from Bahrain. Bosworth later expanded service and on 24 March 1950 registered Gulf Aviation Company Limited as a private shareholding company. This makes its current operating company, Gulf Air, one of the oldest carriers in the Middle East. The early fleet contained seven Avro Ansons and three de Havilland DH.86B four-engine biplanes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.73176908493042, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "In 1973 the governments of the Emirate (now Kingdom) of Bahrain, the State of Qatar, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the Sultanate of Oman agreed to purchase the BOAC Associated Companies holding in Gulf Aviation. The Foundation Treaty was signed on 1 January 1974 and gave each government a 25% shareholding in Gulf Aviation, which became a holding company. The operating company was now branded as Gulf Air and became the flag carrier for the four states.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.545708656311035, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "In 2004, Gulf Air introduced direct flights between Dubai and London and Muscat and London, and a daily service between Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah and carried a record 7.5 million passengers during this year. Gulf Air's sponsorship of the Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix continued, with a record race crowd and a global TV audience. The airline announced a return to profit, with the best financial performance since 1997. Despite a BD30 million (US$80 million) cost to the business through fuel price rises during the year, Gulf Air recorded a profit of BD1.5 million (US$4.0 million) in the calendar year to December 2004, on revenues up 23.8% to BD476.3 million (US$1.26 billion) (2003: BD 384.6 million / USD1,020.2 million). The results meant the airline out-performed the targets set under Project Falcon, the three-year restructuring plan approved by the Board in December 2002.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.5518317222595215, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "2006–2008: Bahrain takes over", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.516919136047363, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "The new summer schedule commencing 28 April 2006 saw the complete withdrawal from Abu Dhabi as a hub following the decision on 13 September 2005 by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to withdraw from Gulf Air and establish its own airline, Etihad Airways. Gulf Air changed its operations to a dual hub basis between Bahrain and Muscat airports. The airline produced a series of adverts in local newspapers thanking Abu Dhabi for its contribution to Gulf Air. Due to the airline being the national carrier for the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, it has a large customer base located in Abu Dhabi. Gulf Air endeavoured to show the continuing support for flights to Abu Dhabi from Bahrain and Muscat, connecting to the rest of the Gulf Air network, via advertisements placed in local newspapers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.219644546508789, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "James Hogan resigned as President and Chief Executive Officer as of 1 October 2006 and has since taken the position of CEO at rival airline Etihad. Ahmed Al Hammadi was named acting chief executive officer until Swiss national André Dosé, the former chief executive officer of Crossair and Swiss International Air Lines, began on 1 April 2007. A few days later, Dosé announced a BD310 million (USD825 million) restructuring plan that included originating or terminating all flights in Bahrain, ceasing routes to Johannesburg, Dublin, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney; eliminating all Boeing 767s and Airbus A340-300s from the fleet; introducing the Airbus A321 in July 2007 and the Airbus A330-300 in 2009; and terminating employees based on performance and without regard for nationality. This led to some employees applying for jobs in other airlines and, in less than a month, Gulf Air lost 500 persons from its workforce, prompting the airline to rule out mass layoffs as part of its recovery plan, except for performance reasons.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.512364625930786, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "On 6 May 2007, the government of Bahrain claimed full ownership of the airline as joint-owner Oman withdrew from the airline. André Dosé resigned on 23 July 2007 and was replaced by Bjorn Naf. On 6 November 2007, Gulf Air started its third daily nonstop flight to London Heathrow Airport from Bahrain. On the same day, Gulf Air became fully owned by Bahrain.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.7376573085784912, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "Starting June 2009, Gulf Air's Golden Falcon logo was to be on the streets of London, emblazoned on the side of the city's taxi cabs, as part a two-year marketing deal. Fifty Hackney Carriages were to be rolled out in full Gulf Air livery to promote the airline's flights from London Heathrow to Bahrain and beyond. Later in June, the carrier announced the departure of CEO Bjorn Naf and the appointment of Samer Majali (who worked previously for Royal Jordanian) as CEO effective 1 August 2009.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.11832783371210098, "source": "wiki", "title": "Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "Gulf Air sponsors events, of which the most prestigious is the Bahrain Grand Prix. This is usually the first or fourth race of the Formula One season and is held in March or April of each year. Gulf Air was also the first ever shirt sponsor of Chelsea F.C. in 1983 and 1984. More recently, it was shirt sponsor of Queens Park Rangers F.C.; this was from 2008 to 2011. 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While carrying out a turning climb the aircraft entered a descent at 15 degrees nose down. The aircrew did not respond to repeated GPWS warnings and approximately one minute after starting the go-around the aircraft disappeared from radar screens. All 143 passengers and crew, including 36 children, were killed in the accident. The accident investigation concluded that the primary cause of the crash was pilot error (including spatial disorientation), with a secondary factor being systemic organizational and oversight issues. Flight 072 was the highest death toll of any accident involving an Airbus A320 at that time. 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From the moment your flight to Bahrain lands you will be exposed to the many attractions including the magnificent Al Fateh Grand Mosque set against the backdrop of palm trees and sea. Although Saudi Arabia is just a short flight from Bahrain it is also accessible from the King Fahad Causeway which is a delightful midpoint, connecting Bahrain with neighbouring Saudi Arabia.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.021848678588867, "source": "search", "title": "Bahrain | Gulf Air" }, { "answer": "Bahrain", "passage": "For those interested in the business sector, there are many world class projects that have changed the face of Bahrain into being known as Business Friendly Bahrain. 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[ { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Percy Robert Miller, known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, author, filmmaker, record producer, philanthropist, and former basketball player. He is the founder of the record label No Limit Records, which was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Universal Records and Koch Records, then again as Guttar Music Entertainment, and finally, currently, No Limit Forever Records. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, a conglomerate company, and Better Black Television, a cable television network.", "precise_score": 4.903465270996094, "rough_score": 4.5253586769104, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Percy Robert Miller was born and raised in New Orleans in the Calliope Projects. He is the oldest out of five children. He has one sister, Germaine, and three brothers: Kevin, and platinum-selling rap artists Corey \"C-Murder\" & Vyshonne \"Silkk The Shocker\" Miller. He attended Booker T. Washington High School & Warren Easton High School. Having played on the basketball team, Miller then attended the University of Houston on an athletic scholarship, but he dropped out months into his freshman year and transferred to Merritt College in Oakland, California to major in business. After the death of his grandfather, Miller inherited $10,000 as part of a malpractice settlement. Miller opened a record store in Richmond, California called No Limit Records, which later became the foundation for his own record label of the same name. On February 15, 1990, Master P released the cassette tape Mind Of A Psychopath. His brother Kevin Miller was killed that same year in New Orleans. Instead of letting this destroy his dreams, it only increased the motivation of Master P to become a successful entrepreneur to change his life and save his family. ", "precise_score": 0.9425811767578125, "rough_score": -0.5825098752975464, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Aside from being a rapper, Master P has also enjoyed a highly successful career as an entrepreneur and investor. After the death of his grandfather, Miller inherited $10,000 as part of a malpractice settlement and opened a record store in Richmond, California called No Limit Records, which later became the foundation for his own record label of the same name. He has since parlayed his $10,000 initial seed capital investment into a $250 million business empire spanning a wide variety of industries. As a businessman, Miller was known for his frugality and keeping business expenses down and profit margins high. His shrewd business acumen allowed Miller to take his profits from one venture to bankroll the next venture. ", "precise_score": -0.7223250269889832, "rough_score": -5.377847671508789, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Miller was one of the first rappers to notice and take advantage of the retail potential of the music industry. As an investor, Master P was one of the first rappers to build a business and financial empire by investing in a wide range of business and investment ventures from a variety of industries. He has since invested the millions of dollars he made from his No Limit record company into a travel agency, a Foot Locker retail outlet, real estate, stocks, film, music, and television production, toy making, a phone sex company, clothing, telecommunications, a jewellery line, auto accessories, book and magazine publishing, car rims, fast food franchises, and gas stations. His sports management agency No Limit Communications, a joint venture with marketing guru Djuan Edgerton, was a surprising success. His conglomerate company, No Limit Enterprises quickly became a financial powerhouse. His real estate investment and property management company, the New Orleans-based PM Properties controls over 100 properties across the United States. According to Black Enterprise magazine, No Limit Enterprises grossed $110 million in revenue in 1998 alone. This level of success inspired other rappers to branch out into other business ventures and investments. Miller also has his own line of beverages, called \"Make ‘Em Say Ughh!\" energy drinks. Miller has also made a foray into mass media, where he founded Better Black Television, a cable television network in November 2010 based in New Orleans, making him the first hip hop entrepreneur to establish a cable television network. ", "precise_score": -2.1238229274749756, "rough_score": -4.699525833129883, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "American rapper, entertainer, investor and entrepreneur, Percy Robert “Master P” Miller, has an estimated net worth of $350 million. Percy Miller, best known in the hip hop world as Master P is the president-CEO , founder of No Limit Records, also the founder of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate and Better Black Television.Like Jay-z, Master P got superb business skills, he built a well diversified empire that includes several rap labels, a clothing line, a management company, a high end travel agency, a film production company, a video game company and even a phone sex line.His most notable and likely most successful endeavor was his No Limit record company which pioneered the Southern Rap sound. Once a top company, housing the likes of Mystikal, Silk the Shocker and even Snoop Dogg at one point, the label has since fallen on hard times.", "precise_score": 6.280456066131592, "rough_score": 6.516164302825928, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Net Worth - TheRichest" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "When you browse our annual ranking of the richest rappers in the world, many of the top names are probably easy to guess. You've got Dr. Dre at #1 with $830 million and Diddy at #2 with $760 million. The top 10 is predictably filled with some of today's biggest entertainers like Jay-Z Eminem, Birdman and Lil Wayne. On the other hand, many people are surprised by who comes in at #5. The fifth richest rapper in the world today hasn't had a major hit in over a decade. In fact, his once dominant rap label filed for bankruptcy back in 2003 and his most recent self released studio album sold just 75,000 copies. In case you haven't figured it out yet, we are talking about the ultimate No Limit soldier, Percy Miller. Better known as Master P .", "precise_score": 3.0386734008789062, "rough_score": -6.026422023773193, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Armed with $10,000 and two years worth of junior college business classes, Master P decided to open a record store. He found a dilapidated building and struck a deal with the owner that gave him the first three months rent free in exchange for cleaning and renovating the storefront. The 21 year old future mogul soon launched \"No Limit Records & Tapes\" on San Pablo Avenue in Richmond, California. To reduce costs in those early days, Master P lived in a tiny storage room in the back of the shop with his wife Sonya and their one year old son, Percy Romeo Miller, Jr (AKA the future Lil Romeo ). No Limit Records & Tapes mainly sold West Coast gangster rap albums with an emphasis on local East Bay artists like Tupac, Too Short, Rappin 4 Tay and E-40. Within a few months, the store was a hit in the community and in 1991 Master P began selling his own self produced album \"Get Away Clean\" through the newly launched \"No Limit Records\" label. To support the album, Master P set out on a West Coast tour as the opening act for Tupac and Too Short. Along the way, P connected with as many promoters and DJs that he could find. In 1992, after Master P's second album \"Mama's Bad Boy\" sold more than 150,000 album independently, he decided to move No Limit Records back to New Orleans in order to make a real run at the label business. By 1994, his third album \"The Ghettos Tryin to Kill Me!\" sold an unheard of 250,000 units independently and No Limit Records grossed more than $900,000!", "precise_score": -4.3943376541137695, "rough_score": -8.203184127807617, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P Net Worth is $350 Million. Master P is an American rap mogul with a net worth estimated at $350 million. Master Phas built a well diversified empire that includes several rap labels, a clothing line, a management company, a high end travel. Percy Robert Miller (born Apr...", "precise_score": -1.1784974336624146, "rough_score": -6.009218692779541, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Broke - Master P Net Worth" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P Net Worth is $350 Million. Master P is an American rap mogul with a net worth estimated at $350 million. Master Phas built a well diversified empire that includes several rap labels, a clothing line, a management company, a high end travel Percy Robert Miller , better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is a former American rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, which went bankrupt and was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch Records. followed by Guttar Music Entertainment, Take A Stand Records and No Limit Forever Records. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate and Better Black Television.", "precise_score": 5.052881240844727, "rough_score": 3.9405200481414795, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Broke - Master P Net Worth" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "When you browse our annual ranking of the richest rappers in the world, many of the top names are probably easy to guess. You’ve got Diddy at #1 with $500 million and Jay-Z at #2 with $475 million. The top 10 is predictably filled with some of today’s biggest entertainers like Dr. Dre, Eminem, Birdman and 50 Cent. On the other hand, many people are surprised by who comes in at #3 right behind Diddy and Jay-Z. The #3 richest rapper in the world today hasn’t had a major hit in over a decade. In fact, his once dominant rap label filed for bankruptcy back in 2003 and his most recent self released studio album sold just 75,000 copies. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we are talking about the ultimate No Limit soldier, Percy Miller. Better known as Master P. It might be hard to fathom today, but back in the mid-to-late 90s no other rap label or CEO was more successful than Master P and No Limit Records. Master P pulled himself out of one of the roughest and poorest ghettos in New Orleans by launching a hugely successful business empire that earned him hundreds of millions of dollars. And it all started with a $10,000 life insurance settlement check.", "precise_score": 1.865838885307312, "rough_score": -5.186399459838867, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Percy Robert Miller (born April 29, 1967), better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, which went bankrupt and was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch Records. followed by Guttar Music Entertainment, Take A Stand Records and No Limit Forever Records. He is the founder and CEO of P. LessPercy Robert Miller (born April 29, 1967), better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an … More", "precise_score": 6.018945217132568, "rough_score": 6.206668853759766, "source": "search", "title": "Master P | Music News and Videos - Yahoo Music" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Percy Robert Miller Sr. better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American former rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch Records. followed by Guttar Music Entertainment, Take A Stand Records and No Limit Forever Records. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate and Better Black Television.", "precise_score": 6.489617347717285, "rough_score": 6.052762031555176, "source": "search", "title": "Exclusive Interview with Percy Miller aka Master P!!! You ..." }, { "answer": "Percy Miller", "passage": "Michael started his first record label called Smoke -1 Records with some mutual friends. In 1994, Michael met with Percy Miller, better known as Master-P owner of No Limit Records, who helped him produce and distribute his first artist, Tre-8, whose CD was entitled, “Ghetto Stories”. However, conflict soon developed between Michael and his associates and he branched out on his own with some financial backing from Percy Miller. He started “Too Loaded Records Inc. and it has been around for the past ten years.", "precise_score": 3.1599085330963135, "rough_score": 2.373626947402954, "source": "search", "title": "About Money Mike Willis - Sonicbids" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Percy Miller, better known as “Master P,” is a New Orleans-based rapper and record producer. Read »", "precise_score": 5.133125305175781, "rough_score": 4.395813941955566, "source": "search", "title": "M | Entries | KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P net worth is estimated at $56.5 million. Known as Percy Robert Miller, Master P is the president-CEO and founder of No Limit Records and Better Black Television. Add to that, he is also the founder of P. Miller Enterprises, which is an entertainment as well as financial conglomerate which is one sources of Master P net worth. Just like any other businessman, Master P invested his money on several things including a number of rap labels, clothing line, travel agency, video game company, film production company plus a phone sex line. He became even more known thanks to his record company No Limit because it introduced what Southern Rap sound is all about. During its peak, the company was able to house Snoop Dogg, Mystikal and Silk the Shocker. However, things started to breakdown and eventually Master P had to file bankruptcy in 2003 and even shutting the label. The business seemed to be in luck’s side as it relaunched itself in 2011 headed by Master P’s oldest son, Romeo. Just like that, the business opened its doors once again and their revenue has been better than ever. Having a net worth of $600 million, it went down to roughly $350 million. Financial problems arose when he and his ex-wife had a heated discussion over child support wherein Master P had to pay $271 million a month as his child support share for his four minor children. Adding to Master P net worth are the DVD films and television shows that he was able to star in. Because of the countless businesses his music mogul has, it does come as a surprise that he ranked tenth on the 1998 Forbes’ list of America’s 40 highest paid entertainers. Since Master P has a soft spot for charities, he dedicates his time helping others through the P. Miller Youth Centers as well as the P. Miller Food Foundation of the Homeless, this added a charisma Master P net worth. His daughter Cymphonique who is a singer/actress, his son Romeo who is a rapper/actor/singer also seeks some advice from their father when it comes to decision making. His brothers, C-Murder and Silk the Shocker, are also in the entertainment industry. You can clearly see that this rap tycoon has so much to offer and perhaps in the future, he will be adding new ventures under his name thus making Master P net worth grow even more.", "precise_score": 3.9280152320861816, "rough_score": 4.1594085693359375, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Net Worth - biography, quotes, wiki, assets, cars ..." }, { "answer": "P. Miller", "passage": "In 1998, P. Miller released his most successful album to date, MP Da Last Don. The album was also based on a film that Miller produced, which came out earlier that year with the same name. The album hit number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, selling over 400,000 copies in a week. The album was certified 4× platinum, with over four million copies sold, making it Miller's highest selling album. In 1999, Miller released his eighth album, Only God Can Judge Me. It was not as successful as his previous album, though it reached a gold certification. Miller also starred in the movie I Got the Hook Up, with A. J. Johnson, and created the soundtrack of the same name. On November 28, 2000, he released his ninth album, Ghetto Postage, which sold 500,000 copies, but it did not compare to his earlier more successful releases.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.243919372558594, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On February 12, 1991, Master P released his debut studio album Get Away Clean which was quickly followed by his second album Mama's Bad Boy, in April 1992. Both albums were released through In-A-Minute Records. In 1993, Master P released his first collaboration album with his group TRU entitled Who's da Killer? Master P released his third studio album The Ghettos Tryin to Kill Me! on March 18, 1994; it was later re-released in 1997 as a limited edition under Priority. That same year Master P collaborated on the No Limit compilation albums West Coast Bad Boyz, Vol. 1: Anotha Level of the Game & West Coast Bad Boyz: High fo Xmas. On June 6, 1995, Master P released his fourth studio album 99 Ways to Die. Master P and TRU released their third album True in 1995, which was the group's first major release after two independent albums. The album reached #25 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #14 on the Top Heatseekers. The album was known for its first single and one of Master P's best known songs \"I'm Bout' It, Bout It\". He also worked on the compilation album, Down South Hustlers: Bouncin' and Swingin' during that year.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.128171920776367, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "In 1995, Master P moved from Richmond, CA back to New Orleans to relocate No Limit Records with a slew of new artists and in-house producers Beats By the Pound. On April 16, 1996 Master P released his fifth album Ice Cream Man. It contained his hit single from the album Mr. Ice Cream Man, which accelerated Master P's rise to fame. Later in 1996, Master P returned with TRU to work on Tru 2 da Game, which would not be released until February 18, 1997. At that time TRU was reduced to a trio with just Master P alongside his brothers C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker. On September 2, 1997, Master P released his breakthrough album, Ghetto D. The first week sales of the album were the highest of any of Master P's albums, selling over 761,000 copies, and it went on to go certified triple platinum. It contained the hit single \"Make 'Em Say Uhh!\", Master P's highest charting single to date. The song earned him an MTV Video Music Award nomination the following year for \"Best Rap Video\", but lost to Will Smith's \"Gettin' Jiggy Wit It\". On June 2, 1998, P. Miller released his seventh and best-selling album to date MP Da Last Don. Master P released a film of the same name earlier that year. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 charts selling over 400,000 copies in its first week, and went on to sell over four million copies. On October 26, 1999 Master P. Miller released his eighth studio album Only God Can Judge Me, which contained his single \"Step To Dis\". The album went certified gold, selling over 500,000 copies. In 1999, Master P & TRU released their fifth studio album Da Crime Family. On November 28, 2000, he released his ninth studio album Ghetto Postage which contained his hit singles \"Bout Dat\" and \"Souljas\". Also in 2000, Master P and his new group 504 Boyz released their debut album Goodfellas, which peaked at #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and contained their hit single, \"Wobble Wobble\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.561188697814941, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On December 18, 2001, Master P released his tenth studio album Game Face, the first Master P album released on The New No Limit, which had a partnership with Universal Records. In 2002, The 504 Boyz released their second album Ballers. Both albums charted it high on the Hip-Hop charts, but shortly after, No Limit began to decline in popularity. Record sales as well as roster changes and lawsuits caused No Limit Records to file for bankruptcy on December 17, 2003. Master P's eleventh album, entitled Good Side, Bad Side, was released on March 23, 2004, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart. Master P & hip hop group TRU released their last album The Truth in 2005.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.205179214477539, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "In 2005, Master P and his son Romeo Miller formed the independent label Guttar Music. On April 26, 2006, P. Miller released his twelfth studio album Ghetto Bill. It contained the single \"I Need Dubs,\" which sampled LL Cool J's \"I Need Love\". On November 29, 2005, P. Miller released his first independent album Living Legend: Certified D-Boy on Guttar Music. Master P and 504 Boyz also released their last album entitled Hurricane Katrina: We Gon Bounce Back that year, and it was dedicated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. In 2007, Master P released a collaboration album with Romeo titled Hip Hop History that sold 32,000 copies worldwide.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.440993309020996, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On December 6, 2010, it was announced that Master P was going on a new tour with his brother Silkk The Shocker and his son Romeo entitled No Limit Forever International. On February 8, 2011, Master P was featured on rapper Gucci Mane's track entitled \"Brinks\". It was his first recorded song in over four years. Early 2012 Master P started to re brand his label with fresh new talent from the streets, including Graphic Designer @Hitmayne4Hire / HITGPX to revision the tanks look and bring back that \"NO LIMIT\" look with modern style to all future projects and promotions. On 10 August 2012, he performed at Detroit, MI rap duo Insane Clown Posse's 12th Annual \"Gathering of the Juggalos\" concert. On November 16, 2011 Master P released his first mixtape and first solo project in over 6 years, entitled TMZ (Too Many Zeros). On August 2, 2012 it was announced that Master P was working on his thirteenth studio album Boss Of All Bosses. On September 17, 2012 Master P released snippet of an upcoming single entitled \"Friends With Benefits\" featuring Houston rapper/singer Kirko Bangz. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.107802391052246, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On January 16, 2013, Master P released his second official mixtape entitled Al Capone as promotion for his Boss Of All Bosses album. Then on February 12, 2013 Master P released his first collaboration mixtape entitled New World Order with his new group, Louie V. Mob, which includes himself, Atlanta rapper Alley Boy, and Washington, DC rapper Fat Trel . On August 6, 2013, Master P released his third official mixtape entitled Famous Again as promotion for his Boss Of All Bosses album, it featured appearances from Rome, Silkk The Shocker, Dee-1, Young Louie, Play Beezy, Gangsta, Howie T, Clyde Carson, Game, Chief Keef, Fat Trel, Alley Boy, Problem, Wiz Khalifa, Tyga, and Chris Brown, as well as production from 1500 & Nothin, Young Bugatti, Stiv Schneider, The Composer, and JB. On December 6, 2013, Master P released his thirteenth album entitled The Gift. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.113040924072266, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On January 23, 2014, it was announced that The Gift would be re-released on February 21, 2014, as a Video album with a music video for every song, and that it would be entitled The Platinum Gift. On February 6, 2014, it was announced that Master P was working on two new albums, Ice Cream Man 2, which is a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut major label album Ice Cream Man, and Boss Of All Bosses. On February 28, 2014 Miller released his fourth mixtape The Gift Vol. 1: Return of The Ice Cream Man. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.478443145751953, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On January 5, 2015 Master P released his second collaboration mixtape entitled We All We Got with his new group Money Mafia, which includes himself, his son Maserati Rome, Ace B, Young Junne, Eastwood, Gangsta, Play Beezy, Calliope Popeye, Flight Boy, and No Limit Forever in-house producer Blaq N Mild. The mixtape would also include a surprise feature from fellow well-known New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne, on the track \"Power\". On February 9, 2015 Master P released his third collaboration mixtape entitled #CP3 with his No Limit Forever artist and fellow New Orleans rapper Ace B. On April 20, 2015 Master P released his fourth collaboration mixtape entitled Hustlin with his group Money Mafia. On June 4, 2015 it was announced that Master P's newest group Money Mafia would be releasing their debut album in 2015 entitled Rarri Boys. On June 8, 2015 Master P along with Money Mafia would release their first single from Rarri Boys entitled \"Bonita\". On July 16, 2015 Master P released his fifth collaboration mixtape entitled The Luciano Family with his group Money Mafia. On October 7, 2015 Master P would reveal the cover art's & announced that there would be three sequel album installments to his critically acclaimed debut major label album Ice Cream Man entitled Ice Cream Man 2: The Streets, Ice Cream Man 3: The Hustle, Ice Cream Man 4: The Lifestyle that will be released all on the same day. On October 13, 2015 Master P would reveal & announced the cover art, release date & tracklist to his upcoming new album entitled Empire that will be released on November 28, 2015. On November 27, 2015 Master P would release his fourteenth album titled Empire, from the Hood to Hollywood it would feature guest appearance's from Krazy, Lil Wayne, Maserati Rome, Money Mafia, Ace B, BlaqNmilD, Fame-O & Luccianos, it would be released via his label No Limit Forever Records & Globy House Records. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.899115562438965, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On February 23, 2016 Master P would release a new single entitled \"Funeral\" it would feature his new group No Limit Boys members Ace B & Angelo Nano. On March 2, 2016 Master P would release a new single entitled \"Middle Finga\". On March 16, 2016 Miller released his fifth mixtape entitled Middle Finga. On March 18, 2016 during an interview Master P would announce he was working on a new album entitled The Grind Don't Stop with his new group No Limit Boys & he would also announce his new tour entitled the Pop-Up Tour. On March 28, 2016 it was announced that Master P's newest group No Limit Boys formerly Money Mafia would be releasing their debut album in 2016 titled No Limit Boys. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.607391357421875, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Before the arrival of Master P, rappers had historically focused more on the artistic and glamorous side of hip hop music while paying very little attention to the business, investment and financial aspects. All that changed in 1996 when Master P signed a groundbreaking music distribution deal with Priority Records, one where No Limit Records would retain 100% ownership of their master recordings and keep 85% of their record's sales while giving Priority 15% in return for pressing and distribution which allows No Limit to profit from future sales such as catalogs and reissues. Master P went on to make hundreds of millions of dollars from this deal. Additionally, Master P invented many innovative marketing techniques. According to Wendy Day, CEO of the Rap Coalition, \"Master P had a whole marketing movement. He was the first person to market the way a corporate entity like IBM would market to their clientele.\" Whereas the traditional model for marketing records was to spend millions of dollars on expensive videos and air play, Miller didn't have such a luxury. As an independent artist, Miller had to find a way to sell, market and build platinum record selling demand on a limited recording budget. He was well known for keeping upfront business expenses down and profit margins high. He began selling tapes out the trunk of his car in every city and town in America where there was potential demand for his music. He gave out free samples to people with expensive cars and had them playing his music all throughout their neighborhoods. This street level guerrilla marketing technique set the early foundation to build a larger fanbase for the future. After signing his historic deal with Priority, Miller began a high volume business model of cranking out as many records as possible, as frequently as possible. He branded all his albums, so that the No Limit brand became more important than the actual artist's name. Miller cross-promoted all his artists and albums inside the album covers. He also used pen and pixel graphics and mafia-inspired themes to make his albums stand out using Photoshop. He offered 20 songs per album when as most albums offered 15 or less as Miller learned that customers wanted more for their money. He turned his artists into Marvel comic book-like characters rather than just rappers. He made sure his artists were number one on SoundScan every time they released an album, to build the perception of popularity. He used inexpensive videos to promote his artists and he cross promoted albums using films and vice versa and tied them altogether as a package. Brand image and identity became more important than just music quality. Miller's record labels have sold 75 million records as a result of his innovative marketing and branding strategies. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.866947174072266, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Since 1997, Master P has been in numerous feature and straight to DVD films, and in television shows. His filmography includes Uncle P, Uncle Willy's Family, Soccer Mom, Gone in 60 Seconds, Toxic, Foolish, and I Got the Hook Up. In 1999, he had a small run in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he led a professional wrestling stable called The No Limit Soldiers in a feud with Curt Hennig's The West Texas Rednecks. Master P also starred in Romeo! alongside his son Romeo Miller on the children's network Nickelodeon from 2003 to 2006. He was also a contestant on Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 2), replacing Romeo who dropped out due to an injury. He partnered with Ashly DelGrosso and received a total score of 8 out of 30 for his pasodoble, the lowest score in the show's history. He was eliminated on Week 4.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.531290054321289, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On June 10, 2015, it was announced that Master P and his family, would be starring in their own reality show entitled Master P's Family Empire. It is scheduled to be aired on Reelz sometime in November. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.465121269226074, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On Master P's new track \"Brick to a Million\", with Fat Trel and Alley Boy, Master P rapped lyrics that many interpreted as a diss to Kanye West and Lil Wayne. On the song, he raps, \"New hittas wearing dresses, f it, I ain't scared to address it, Gangstas on skateboards, I'm at the house breaking headboards, Real stand up.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.324301719665527, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "During an interview with Power 106's Big Boy's Neighborhood, Master P cleared up misconceptions about the lyrics, stating that he was not addressing those rappers in particular but was instead talking about a radio station employee who told him he was finished. \"Even that, that ain't a diss. I never made a diss record. Like I said, a lot of people, if you feel salty behind that, then I could say if the shoe fit well, I'm not afraid to address it,\" he said. \"I just feel like in Hip Hop, we've got to stick to whether we're going to be real or we not. Like I said, I'm just addressing what I see. To be honest with you, that particular song wasn't about nobody in Hip Hop but I think people taking it like that. This was one of these guys that worked at the radio station and didn't believe in me and told me it was over for me. He ridin' up on a skateboard and got a little mini-skirt on. This a new dude into the business, and he telling me it's over for me.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.146430969238281, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P, who was rumored to have issues with Cash Money Records back in the day, said that if the rappers took offense to the song, they might want to rethink their choices. But he insists that he has no beef with either of them. \"If you feel guilty about something, then that's something you need to address about with yourself,\" he said. \"Y'all gotta realize, we really from the streets. If there really was a feud, there would have been a problem. But I got love for Baby and them, Lil Wayne. They come from where I come from. It's always been a competition. Everybody want to be the best.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.169063568115234, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Miller is held in high esteem by other rappers as well. During an interview after meeting Miller, Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz stated, \"This is my first time meeting [him]. I just want to let him know how he influenced the whole South in Hip-Hop.\" 2 Chainz went on, \"We used to argue people like they ain’t understand why we appreciated Master P and his music. It was more than that. I felt like it was his grind, his hustle. He actually put music out like every week. I even heard stories about some of the songs never even being mixed before. It was just about giving the fans what they needed. And he the reason why a lot of us are here, including myself.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.268972396850586, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "In 1999, Master P won the award for \"Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist\" at the American Music Awards.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.524136543273926, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "In November, 2011 Miller's son Romeo Miller would perform at the 2010 Hip Hop Honors, along with his brother Valentino Miller, his cousins Lil' D and Black Don, and his uncle Silkk The Shocker, as well as Trina, Gucci Mane, and Mystikal to honor Master P and No Limit Records. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.432602882385254, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On December 11, 2012, DJ 5150 and DJ Hektik released a tribute mixtape to Master P entitled Uptown Veteran. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.523366928100586, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "On January 20, 2015, Montreal R&B/Hip Hop artist Xav released a song with Master P called \"Bout It Bout It\", from his upcoming Zeeky EP, paying homage to Master P's 1995 international hit. The music video, which also features Master P, premiered on Vibe.com the same day. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.452250480651855, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "P. Miller", "passage": "Miller has dedicated his time to communities through P. Miller Youth Centers and his P. Miller Food Foundation for the Homeless. On July 12, 2005, Willie W. Herenton Jr, the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee presented Miller with the key to the city. On April 27, 2010 Miller along with his son Romeo was awarded the Certificate of Special Recognition, from Congress member Maxine Waters. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.685955047607422, "source": "wiki", "title": "Master P" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "About Master P", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.421746253967285, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Net Worth - TheRichest" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Numerous lawsuits forced P to shut the label down and file for bankruptcy in 2003, but it appears as if No Limit is looking to bounce back, announcing a relaunch in 2011, helmed by Master P’s oldest son, Romeo. The young rapper revealed to the Boombox that he has been working on his solo project as well as cultivating new talent for the label.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.304543495178223, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Net Worth - TheRichest" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P with son,Rapper Romeo Miller and daughter, singer Cymphonique Miller and father rapperattend the 10th Annual BMI Urban Awards at the Pantages Theatre on September 10, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.174692153930664, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Net Worth - TheRichest" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "The below financial data is gathered and compiled by TheRichest analysts team to give you a better understanding of Master P's net worth by breaking down the most relevant financial events such as yearly salaries, contracts, earn outs, endorsements, stock ownership and much more.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.009405136108398, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Net Worth - TheRichest" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "How Master P Built A $250 Million Business Empire Off A $10,000 Life Insurance Settlement | Celebrity Net Worth", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.443670272827148, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "How Master P Built A $250 Million Business Empire Off A $10,000 Life Insurance Settlement", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.490650177001953, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "It might be hard to fathom today, but back in the mid-to-late 90s no other rap label or CEO was more successful than Master P and No Limit Records. Master P pulled himself out of one of the roughest and poorest ghettos in New Orleans by launching a hugely successful business empire that earned him hundreds of millions of dollars. And it all started with a $10,000 life insurance settlement check.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.1808500289917, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P – The Early Years", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.503585815429688, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P was raised in the Calliope housing projects, one of the most violent and drug infested areas of New Orleans. P planned to get his family out of the ghetto by playing in the NBA. After high school, he won a basketball scholarship to the University of Houston. Unfortunately P's NBA dreams were dashed after he suffered a severe knee injury during the first few months of freshman year. After the injury, Master P left Houston and transferred to Merritt Junior College in Oakland to be closer to his family which had recently moved to the nearby city of Richmond. Determined to make something of himself and help his family live a better life, he soaked up as many business classes as he could at Merritt. In 1990, tragedy struck when P's grandfather was killed in a work related accident. The one bright side of the accident was that it left Percy with a $10,000 malpractice insurance settlement check.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.901166915893555, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Pretty soon, all the major record companies came calling. Leveraging his astonishing success as an independent artist, Master P was able to secure an unprecedented deal between No Limit and Priority Records. Not only would No Limit receive a $375,000 advance for every album produced and 75% of the wholesale price for every album sold (the standard at the time for a major artist like Madonna was 25-50%), but at the end of the deal Master P would own every master recording from his entire roster of artists, including himself.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.237228393554688, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Considering how successful he was as an independent artist without money, marketing or national distribution, perhaps what happened next is not surprising. Master P's first album for Priority Records \"Ice Cream Man\" reached #3 on the Billboard charts in 1996 and would eventually go platinum with over 1.7 million copies sold in The US alone. No Limit quickly churned out albums for roster artists like Silkk The Shocker and C-Murder (P's brothers), Mystikal, Mia X and Steady Mobb'n. By 1997, No Limit had produced more than 8 platinum albums. Between 1997 and 1998, No Limit released nearly 50 albums that often topped various Billboard sales charts. Master P's 1997 album \"Ghetto D\", which featured his most famous song \"Make Em' Say Uhh\", sold 3.2 million copies in The US. The single for \"Make Em' Say Uhh\" sold over a million copies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.9118070602417, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "1998 was the definitive year for Master P and No Limit Records. 1998 saw the release of Master P's penultimate album \"MP Da Last Don\". That album debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart and sold a whopping 500,000 copies in its first week alone. The album would eventually go on to sell more than four million units. Capitalizing on their success, No Limit signed super star rapper Snoop Dogg whose deal with Death Row had recently expired. Snoop's first No Limit album \"Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told\" debuted at #1 on Billboard, sold 800,000 units in its first two weeks and would eventually be certified 2X platinum. Thanks to Snoop and the other hit making artists at No Limit, Master P's label sold more than 20 million albums in 1998 alone.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.111529350280762, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "As if this wasn't enough, while No Limit was tearing up the Billboard charts, Master P was expanding his empire into a diverse array of side businesses. He launched a sports management company, a clothing line, a real estate firm, a phone sex business, a high end travel agency, a video game company and a film studio. No Limit Films produced a series of straight to VHS movies that routinely sold millions of copies. Between 1992 and 1998, No Limit Records sold $120 million worth of albums and in 1998 alone Master P's various business ventures generated revenues of more than $160 million. As of March 2013, No Limit Records has sold nearly 80 million albums worldwide and Master P has a personal net worth of $250 million!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.073060989379883, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "No matter how much talent or luck No Limit had, it would have been extremely difficult to top the success of 1998. Between 1999 and 2002 Master P focused much of his time on trying to jump start an NBA career. He actually landed contracts with the Charlotte Hornets and the Toronto Raptors. He never made a regular season NBA roster but he did play a few seasons in the Continental and American Basketball Associations. While he was shooting hoops, No Limit did release a few more platinum albums including two from Snoop Dogg and two from his son Lil Romeo. Unfortunately, as Master P's focus shifted to basketball, America's taste in music shifted away from No Limit. Their most popular artists left for new labels and by December 2003 No Limit filed for bankruptcy. In 2004 Master P launched \"New No Limit Records\" and released a self produced album called \"Living Legend: Certified D-Boy\" which only sold 75,000 units. In 2010 the label was renamed \"No Limit Forever Records\" and today they represent a handful of lower and mid-level rap acts. But don't count Master P out just yet, as he proved time and again, with a little hustle and luck there really is no limit to your success.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.960205078125, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $250 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P Broke - Master P Net Worth", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.538141250610352, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Broke - Master P Net Worth" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P Broke", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.505974769592285, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Broke - Master P Net Worth" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.460336685180664, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Broke - Master P Net Worth" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P Net Worth is $350 Million.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.425081253051758, "source": "search", "title": "Master P Broke - Master P Net Worth" }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "The A&R Power Summit – How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business Empire", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.48094654083252, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business Empire", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.490348815917969, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P’s Empire", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.534187316894531, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P – The Early Years", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.503585815429688, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Master P was raised in the Calliope housing projects, one of the most violent and drug infested areas of New Orleans. P planned to get his family out of the ghetto by playing in the NBA. After high school, he won a basketball scholarship to the University of Houston. Unfortunately P’s NBA dreams were dashed after he suffered a severe knee injury during the first few months of freshman year. After the injury, Master P left Houston and transferred to Merritt Junior College in Oakland to be closer to his family which had recently moved to the nearby city of Richmond. Determined to make something of himself and help his family live a better life, he soaked up as many business classes as he could at Merritt. In 1990, tragedy struck when P’s grandfather was killed in a work related accident. The one bright side of the accident was that it left Percy with a $10,000 malpractice insurance settlement check.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.925640106201172, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Armed with $10,000 and two years worth of junior college business classes, Master P decided to open a record store. He found a dilapidated building and struck a deal with the owner that gave him the first three months rent free in exchange for cleaning and renovating the storefront. The 21 year old future mogul soon launched “No Limit Records & Tapes” on San Pablo Avenue in Richmond, California. To reduce costs in those early days, Master P lived in a tiny storage room in the back of the shop with his wife Sonya and their one year old son, Percy Romeo Miller, Jr (AKA the future Lil Romeo). No Limit Records & Tapes mainly sold West Coast gangster rap albums with an emphasis on local East Bay artists like Tupac, Too Short, Rappin 4 Tay and E-40. Within a few months, the store was a hit in the community and in 1991 Master P began selling his own self produced album “Get Away Clean” through the newly launched “No Limit Records” label. To support the album, Master P set out on a West Coast tour as the opening act for Tupac and Too Short. Along the way, P connected with as many promoters and DJs that he could find. In 1992, after Master P’s second album “Mama’s Bad Boy” sold more than 150,000 album independently, he decided to move No Limit Records back to New Orleans in order to make a real run at the label business. By 1994, his third album “The Ghettos Tryin to Kill Me!” sold an unheard of 250,000 units independently and No Limit Records grossed more than $900,000!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.242958068847656, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Pretty soon, all the major record companies came calling. Leveraging his astonishing success as an independent artist, Master P was able to secure an unprecedented deal between No Limit and Priority Records. Not only would No Limit receive a $375,000 advance for every album produced and 75%of the wholesale price for every album sold (the standard at the time for a major artist like Madonna was 25-50%), but at the end of the deal Master P would own every master recording from his entire roster of artists, including himself.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.237228393554688, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "Considering how successful he was as an independent artist without money, marketing or national distribution, perhaps what happened next is not surprising. Master P’s first album for Priority Records “Ice Cream Man” reached #3 on the Billboard charts in 1996 and would eventually go platinum with over 1.7 million copies sold in The US alone. No Limit quickly churned out albums for roster artists like Silkk The Shocker and C-Murder (P’s brothers), Mystikal, Mia X and Steady Mobb’n. By 1997, No Limit had produced more than 8 platinum albums. Between 1997 and 1998, No Limit released nearly 50 albums that often topped various Billboard sales charts. Master P’s 1997 album “Ghetto D”, which featured his most famous song “Make Em’ Say Uhh”, sold 3.2 million copies in The US. The single for “Make Em’ Say Uhh” sold over a million copies.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.911409378051758, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "1998 was the definitive year for Master P and No Limit Records. 1998 saw the release of Master P’s penultimate album “MP Da Last Don”. That album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart and sold a whopping 500,000 copies in its first week alone. The album would eventually go on to sell more than four million units. Capitalizing on their success, No Limit signed super star rapper Snoop Dogg whose deal with Death Row had recently expired. Snoop’s first No Limit album “Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told” debuted at #1 on Billboard, sold 800,000 units in its first two weeks and would eventually be certified 2X platinum. Thanks to Snoop and the other hit making artists at No Limit, Master P’s label sold more than 20 million albums in 1998 alone.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.11061954498291, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "As if this wasn’t enough, while No Limit was tearing up the Billboard charts, Master P was expanding his empire into a diverse array of side businesses. He launched a sports management company, a clothing line, a real estate firm, a phone sex business, a high end travel agency, a video game company and a film studio. No Limit Films produced a series of straight to VHS movies that routinely sold millions of copies. Between 1992 and 1998, No Limit Records sold $120 million worth of albums and in 1998 alone Master P’s various business ventures generated revenues of more than $160 million. As of March 2013, No Limit Records has sold nearly 80 million albums worldwide and Master P has a personal net worth of $350 million!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.074509620666504, "source": "search", "title": "How Master P Turned $10,000 Into A $350 Million Business ..." }, { "answer": "Master P", "passage": "No matter how much talent or luck No Limit had, it would have been extremely difficult to top the success of 1998. Between 1999 and 2002 Master P focused much of his time on trying to jump start an NBA career. He actually landed contracts with the Charlotte Hornets and the Toronto Raptors. He never made a regular season NBA roster but he did play a few seasons in the Continental and American Basketball Associations. 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He was 100 years old and lived in Bel-Air, Calif.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.246236324310303, "source": "search", "title": "Hal Roach Is Dead at 100 - A Pioneer in Film Comedy ..." }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "His 100th birthday in January, celebrated at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, produced what proved a final outpouring of sentiment and public attention to the film industry's oldest pioneer.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.465124130249023, "source": "search", "title": "Hal E Roach: person, pictures and information - Fold3.com" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "Old age did not really began to slow him until he turned 100 this year, Bann said. \"It was as if he had achieved his goal of getting to be 100 and now there wasn't anything left.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.92216968536377, "source": "search", "title": "Hal E Roach: person, pictures and information - Fold3.com" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "He was the last surviving founder of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. His 100th birthday was celebrated fittingly at the fund's home and with a parade in Culver City.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.515716552734375, "source": "search", "title": "Hal E Roach: person, pictures and information - Fold3.com" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "\"Today the Hollywood community mourns the loss of one of its earliest pioneers,\" Reagan said in a statement issued Monday. \"At 100 years old, Hal Roach made us all feel young. Hal was one of the founding fathers of the motion picture industry, the original . . . producer, director, writer and studio boss.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.4142038822174072, "source": "search", "title": "Hal E Roach: person, pictures and information - Fold3.com" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "Under doctor's orders to improve a heart condition, Hardy lost over 100 pounds in 1956. Several strokes (that some doctors partly attribute to the rapid weight loss) resulted in loss of mobility and speech. He died of a major stroke on August 7, 1957. Longtime friend Bob Chatterton said Hardy weighed just 138 pounds at the time of his death. A depressed Laurel did not attend his partner's funeral, due to his own ill health, explaining his absence with the line \"Babe would understand.\" Just after Hardy's death, Laurel and Hardy returned to movie theaters, as clips of their work were featured in Robert Youngson 's silent-film compilation The Golden Age of Comedy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.001009464263916, "source": "search", "title": "Laurel and Hardy - Laurel and Hardy Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "A funeral Mass will be said for veteran film producer-director Hal Roach on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in West Los Angeles. The family asks that any donations in Roach's memory be made to the Motion Picture and Television Fund, 23300 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills 91364. Roach was 100 when he died Monday.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.27794280648231506, "source": "search", "title": "Articles about Hal Roach by Date - Page 2 - latimes" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "He Made a Fine Mess of Things : Film: Hal Roach, the man who gave the world Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, 'Our Gang' and a million laughs, is honored this week as he celebrates his 100th birthday.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.3341827392578125, "source": "search", "title": "Articles about Hal Roach by Date - Page 2 - latimes" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "A Celebrity's Celebrity : Hal Roach Honored on His 100th Birthday--Almost", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.105039596557617, "source": "search", "title": "Articles about Hal Roach by Date - Page 2 - latimes" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "Please--don't rush Hal Roach. A couple of hundred of the legendary filmmaker's friends and admirers gathered Sunday in Woodland Hills to celebrate his 100th birthday. But as Roach, the man who teamed Stan Laurel with Oliver Hardy and turned a group of child actors into \"Our Gang,\" pointed out, they were a couple of days early. \"I've got two more days to go,\" Roach said in crotchety tones when he was asked how it felt to be 100. \"I can talk about being 99 all afternoon.\" Ask him again Tuesday.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.3879780769348145, "source": "search", "title": "Articles about Hal Roach by Date - Page 2 - latimes" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "Hollywood's Oldest Storyteller : Soon to be 100, the man who put Harold Lloyd, 'Our Gang' and Laurel and Hardy on the screen has a lot to talk about", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.294012069702148, "source": "search", "title": "Articles about Hal Roach by Date - Page 2 - latimes" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "Hollywood legend Hal Roach, 100, dies | Variety", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.6363718509674072, "source": "search", "title": "Hollywood legend Hal Roach, 100, dies | Variety" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "Hollywood legend Hal Roach, 100, dies", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.525820016860962, "source": "search", "title": "Hollywood legend Hal Roach, 100, dies | Variety" }, { "answer": "100", "passage": "President Ronald Reagan described his former colleague in this light: “At 100 years old, Hal Roach made us all feel young. 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(Moscow Agreement, August 1970, Warsaw Agreement, December 1970, Four Power Agreement over the status of West Berlin in 1971 and an agreement on relations between West and East Germany, signed in December 1972.) These agreements were the basis for a rapid improvement in the relations between east and west and led, in the long-term to the dismantlement of the Warsaw Treaty and the Soviet Union's control over Eastern Europe. Chancellor Brandt was forced to resign in May 1974, after Günter Guillaume, a senior member of his staff, was uncovered as a spy for the East German intelligence service, the . Brandt's contributions to world peace led to his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.", "precise_score": 6.97454309463501, "rough_score": 8.713874816894531, "source": "wiki", "title": "West Germany" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "In the early 1970s, Willy Brandt's policy of \"\" led to a form of mutual recognition between East and West Germany. The Treaty of Moscow (August 1970), the Treaty of Warsaw (December 1970), the Four Power Agreement on Berlin (September 1971), the Transit Agreement (May 1972), and the Basic Treaty (December 1972) helped to normalise relations between East and West Germany and led to both German states joining the United Nations. The Hallstein Doctrine was abolished.", "precise_score": 0.9091314077377319, "rough_score": 7.8064494132995605, "source": "wiki", "title": "West Germany" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "In the 1969 election, the SPD gained enough votes to form a coalition government with the FDP. SPD leader and Chancellor Willy Brandt remained head of government until May 1974, when he resigned after the Guillaume Affair, in which a senior member of his staff was uncovered as a spy for the East German intelligence service, the . However the affair is widely considered to have been merely a trigger for Brandt's resignation, not a fundamental cause. Instead, Brandt, dogged by scandal relating to alcohol and depression as well as the economic fallout of the 1973 oil crisis, almost seems simply to have had enough. As Brandt himself later said, \"I was exhausted, for reasons which had nothing to do with the process going on at the time\". ", "precise_score": 7.027256488800049, "rough_score": 7.652882099151611, "source": "wiki", "title": "West Germany" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German statesman and politician, who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe. He was the first Social Democrat chancellor since 1930.", "precise_score": 9.710411071777344, "rough_score": 10.399362564086914, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Fleeing to Norway and then Sweden during the Nazi regime and working as a leftist journalist, he took the name Willy Brandt as a pseudonym to avoid detection by Nazi agents, and then formally adopted the name in 1948. Brandt was originally considered one of the leaders of the right wing of the SPD, and earned initial fame as Governing Mayor of West Berlin. He served as Foreign Minister and as the 5th Vice Chancellor in Kurt Georg Kiesinger's cabinet, and became chancellor in 1969. As chancellor, he maintained West Germany's close alignment with the United States and focused on strengthening European integration in western Europe, while launching the new policy of Ostpolitik aimed at improving relations with Eastern Europe. Brandt was controversial on both the right wing, for his Ostpolitik, and on the left wing, for his support of American policies, including the Vietnam War, and right-wing authoritarian regimes. The Brandt Report became a recognised measure for describing the general North-South divide in world economics and politics between an affluent North and a poor South. Brandt was also known for his fierce anti-communist policies at the domestic level, culminating in the Radikalenerlass (Anti-Radical Decree) in 1972.", "precise_score": 6.0790276527404785, "rough_score": 8.743265151977539, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt, May 1971   © Brandt was a German politician, and chancellor from 1969 to 1974. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1971.", "precise_score": 8.412111282348633, "rough_score": 10.264837265014648, "source": "search", "title": "BBC - History - Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "1969-1974 - Willy Brandt", "precise_score": 3.943566083908081, "rough_score": 7.478945732116699, "source": "search", "title": "1969-1974 - Willy Brandt - GlobalSecurity.org" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "1969-1974 - Willy Brandt", "precise_score": 3.943566083908081, "rough_score": 7.478945732116699, "source": "search", "title": "1969-1974 - Willy Brandt - GlobalSecurity.org" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "In the West German Bundestag elections of September 1969, the CDU/CSU remained the largest political group, holding eighteen more seats than the SPD. With the help of the FDP, which had earlier supported the candidacy of the SPD minister of justice Gustav Heinemann for the federal presidency, Willy Brandt was able to form an SPD-FDP coalition government, with himself as federal chancellor. The SPD-FDP coalition lasted until late 1982 and was noted for its accomplishments in the area of foreign policy. The formation of this new coalition forced the CDU/CSU into opposition for the first time in the history of West Germany.", "precise_score": 5.207880020141602, "rough_score": 7.051138877868652, "source": "search", "title": "1969-1974 - Willy Brandt - GlobalSecurity.org" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (December 18, 1913 – October 8, 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) (1964–1987). Because resistance from the opposition kept much of Brandt's domestic program from being implemented, his most important legacy is the Ostpolitik, a policy aimed at improving relations with East Germany , Poland , and the Soviet Union . This policy caused considerable controversy in West Germany, but won Brandt the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. The citation stated that \"the ideal of peace\" had been a \"guiding star\" to the chancellor throughout his active political career.\" [1]", "precise_score": 9.740959167480469, "rough_score": 10.270733833312988, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt in 1961, as mayor of West Berlin, inspecting a sector boundary some time before the East Germans began work on the Berlin Wall. Brandt would become a controversial chancellor of West Germany.", "precise_score": 4.5773606300354, "rough_score": 7.822228908538818, "source": "search", "title": "Ostpolitik: How East Germany Tried to Undermine Willy ..." }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "The Cold War had ended, the Berlin Wall had come down and German reunification was imminent when Markus Wolf , the former head of the Stasi and East Germany's spy chief, wrote a letter to former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. In the letter, Wolf told Brandt that he regretted \"that the intelligence service of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which was under my command, contributed to the extremely negative political events that led to your resignation in 1974.\"", "precise_score": 6.042657375335693, "rough_score": 7.66468620300293, "source": "search", "title": "Ostpolitik: How East Germany Tried to Undermine Willy ..." }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "The official German reunification ceremony on 3 October 1990 was held at the building, including Chancellor Helmut Kohl, President Richard von Weizsäcker, former Chancellor Willy Brandt and many others. One day later, the parliament of the united Germany would assemble in an act of symbolism in the Reichstag building. Germany had split into two places in 1945, after the end of World War Two.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.201158046722412, "source": "wiki", "title": "West Germany" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Carl Frahm in the Free City of Lübeck (German Empire) on 18 December 1913. His mother was Martha Frahm, a single parent, who worked as a cashier for a department store. His father was an accountant from Hamburg named John Möller, whom Brandt never met. As his mother worked six days a week, he was mainly brought up by his mother's stepfather, Ludwig Frahm, and his second wife, Dora.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.9379959106445312, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "After passing his Abitur in 1932 at Johanneum zu Lübeck, he became an apprentice at the shipbroker and ship's agent F. H. Bertling. He joined the \"Socialist Youth\" in 1929 and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1930. He left the SPD to join the more left wing Socialist Workers Party (SAP), which was allied to the POUM in Spain and the Independent Labour Party in Britain. In 1933, using his connections with the port and its ships, he left Germany for Norway to escape Nazi persecution. It was at this time that he adopted the pseudonym Willy Brandt to avoid detection by Nazi agents. In 1934, he took part in the founding of the International Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations, and was elected to its Secretariat.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.2576591968536377, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Brandt was in Germany from September to December 1936, disguised as a Norwegian student named Gunnar Gaasland. He was married to Gertrud Meyer from Lübeck in a marriage of convenience to protect her from deportation. Meyer had joined Brandt in Norway in July 1933. In 1937, during the Civil War, Brandt worked in Spain as a journalist. In 1938, the German government revoked his citizenship, so he applied for Norwegian citizenship. In 1940, he was arrested in Norway by occupying German forces, but was not identified as he wore a Norwegian uniform. On his release, he escaped to neutral Sweden. In August 1940, he became a Norwegian citizen, receiving his passport from the Norwegian legation in Stockholm, where he lived until the end of the war. Willy Brandt lectured in Sweden on 1 December 1940 at Bommersvik College about problems experienced by the social democrats in Nazi Germany and the occupied countries at the start of the Second World War. In exile in Norway and Sweden Brandt learned Norwegian and Swedish. Brandt spoke Norwegian fluently, and retained a close relationship with Norway.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.23588797450065613, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "In late 1946, Brandt returned to Berlin, working for the Norwegian government. In 1948, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and became a German citizen again, formally adopting the pseudonym Willy Brandt as his legal name.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.935545444488525, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "From 3 October 1957 to 1966, Willy Brandt was Governing Mayor of Berlin, during a period of increasing tension in East-West relations that led to the construction of the Berlin Wall. In Brandt's first year as mayor, he also served as the president of the Bundesrat in Bonn. Brandt was outspoken against the Soviet repression of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 and against Nikita Khrushchev's 1958 proposal that Berlin receive the status of a \"free city\". He was supported by the influential publisher Axel Springer. As mayor of West Berlin, Brandt accomplished much in the way of urban development. New hotels, office-blocks and flats were constructed, while both Schloss Charlottenburg and the Reichstag building were restored. Sections of the \"Stadtring\" Bundesautobahn 100 inner city motorway were opened, while a major housing programme was carried out, with roughly 20,000 new dwellings built each year during his time in office. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.764458656311035, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Time magazine in the U.S. named Brandt as its Man of the Year for 1970, stating, \"Willy Brandt is in effect seeking to end World War II by bringing about a fresh relationship between East and West. He is trying to accept the real situation in Europe, which has lasted for 25 years, but he is also trying to bring about a new reality in his bold approach to the Soviet Union and the East Bloc.\" President Richard Nixon also was pushing détente on behalf of the United States. The policies of Nixon and Henry Kissinger, after some initial suspicion, amounted to co-opting Brandt's Ostpolitik. 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A number of liberal social reforms were instituted whilst the welfare state was significantly expanded (with total public spending on social programs nearly doubling between 1969 and 1975), with health, housing, and social welfare legislation bringing about welcome improvements, and by the end of the Brandt Chancellorship West Germany had one of the most advanced systems of welfare in the world.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.365808963775635, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "During Willy Brandt's presidency the SI developed activities and dialogue on a number of International issues. This concerned the East-West conflict and arms race where the SI held high level consultations with the leaderships of the United States and the Soviet Union. The SI met with such leaders as President Jimmy Carter and Vice-Presidents Walter Mondale and George Bush. They also met with the Secretaries General Leonid Brezhnev and Michail Gorbachev and with the Soviet President Andrei Gromyko. The SI also developed active contacts to promote dialogue concerning regional conflicts. Those included the Middle East, where they helped to build contacts between Israel and the PLO, and also in Southern Africa and Central America. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.943534851074219, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt died of colon cancer at his home in Unkel, a town on the Rhine River, on 8 October 1992, and was given a state funeral. He was buried at the cemetery at Zehlendorf in Berlin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.1261353492736816, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "The Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation was erected in 1994. It serves to honor the memory of Brandt's political accomplishents and his commitment to peace, freedom and democracy. The foundation runs two permanent exhibitions – one in Berlin, and the other in Lübeck, where Brandt was born. Other works of the foundation include the edition of Brandt's papers, speeches and letters (the Berlin Edition), historical research as well as organizing lectures and international conferences. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.238435745239258, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "When the SPD moved its headquarters from Bonn back to Berlin in the mid-1990s, the new headquarters was named the \"Willy Brandt Haus\". One of the buildings of the European Parliament in Brussels was named after him in 2008.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.922508239746094, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "On 6 December 2000, a memorial to Willy Brandt and Warschauer Kniefall was unveiled in Warsaw, Poland.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.548304557800293, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "In 2009, the University of Erfurt renamed its graduate school of public administration as the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy. A private German-language secondary school in Warsaw, Poland, is also named after Brandt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.418037414550781, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "The main boulevard on the north entrance to Montenegrin capital Podgorica was named Willy Brandt Boulevard in 2011. 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Hansen and Brandt had three sons: (born in 1948), (born in 1951) and (born in 1961). After 32 years of marriage, Willy Brandt and Rut Hansen Brand divorced in 1980, and from the day that they were divorced they never saw each other again. On 9 December 1983, Brandt married (born in 1946).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.9531190395355225, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "*2002 Berliner Ausgabe, Werkauswahl, ed. for Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt Stiftung by Helga Grebing, Gregor Schöllgen and Heinrich August Winkler, 10 volumes, Dietz Verlag, Bonn 2002f, Collected Writings, ISBN 3-8012-0305-0", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.507817268371582, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "*Helga Grebing, Willy Brandt. Der andere Deutsche. (ISBN 978-3-7705-4710-4) ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.023236274719238, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "*Barbara Marshall, Willy Brandt, A Political Biography (ISBN 0-312-16438-6)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.578184604644775, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "*Peter Merseburger, Willy Brandt (ISBN 3-421-05328-6) ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.615211486816406, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "*Nestore di Meola, Willy Brandt raccontato da Klaus Lindenberg (ISBN 88-7284-712-5) ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.405962944030762, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "*Hans-Joachim Noack, Willy Brandt, Ein Leben, Ein Jahrhundert (ISBN 978-3-87134-645-3)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.544826507568359, "source": "wiki", "title": "Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "BBC - History - Willy Brandt", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.4461989402771, "source": "search", "title": "BBC - History - Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt was born Karl Herbert Frahm on 18 December 1913 in Lübeck, northern Germany. He became a socialist in the late 1920s. In 1933, he changed his name and fled to Norway to avoid arrest by the Nazis. After the German occupation of Norway in 1940, he escaped to Sweden where he lived until 1945.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.23621252179145813, "source": "search", "title": "BBC - History - Willy Brandt" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt became the first democratically elected Social Democrat to hold the chancellorship. Born in L�beck in 1913, Brandt first joined the SPD in 1930 and later joined a smaller leftist grouping, the Socialist Workers Party (Sozialistiche Arbeiterpartei--SAP). After Hitler came to power, Brandt emigrated to Norway, where he became a citizen and worked as a journalist. After Germany occupied Norway in 1940, he fled to Sweden. Brandt returned to Germany after the war as a news correspondent and later as a Norwegian diplomat in Berlin. After he had again assumed German citizenship, Brandt rejoined the SPD in 1947. He became mayor of Berlin in 1957 and was the SPD candidate for the chancellorship in 1961. In the late 1950s, Brandt was a principal architect of the SPD's rejection of its Marxist past and adoption of the Bad Godesburg Program, in which the party accepted the free-market principle. The triumph of the CDU/CSU in the 1957 national elections and widespread and increasing prosperity made such a step necessary if the SPD were to win the electorate's favor. In 1964 Brandt became the chairman of the SPD. From 1966 to 1969, he served as minister for foreign affairs and vice chancellor in the Grand Coalition.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.363529682159424, "source": "search", "title": "1969-1974 - Willy Brandt - GlobalSecurity.org" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.877440929412842, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.5666800737380981, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt in 1973", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.497442722320557, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm", "passage": "Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in Lübeck, Germany to Martha Frahm, an unwed mother who worked as a cashier for a department store. His father was an accountant from Hamburg by the name of John Möller, whom Brandt never met.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.129387378692627, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "He became an apprentice at the shipbroker and ship's agent F. H. Bertling. He joined the \"Socialist Youth\" in 1929 and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1930. He left the SPD to join the more left wing Socialist Workers Party (SAPD), which was allied to the POUM in Spain and the ILP in Britain. In 1933, using his connections with the port and its ships from the time he had been apprentice, he left Germany for Norway on a ship to escape Nazi persecution. It was at this time that he adopted the pseudonym Willy Brandt to avoid detection by Nazi agents. In 1934, he took part in the founding of the International Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations, and was elected to its secretariat.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.272416591644287, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Gunnar Gaasland", "passage": "Brandt visited Germany from September to December 1936, disguised as a Norwegian student named Gunnar Gaasland. In 1937, during the Civil War , he worked in Spain as a journalist. In 1938, the German government revoked his citizenship, so he applied for Norwegian citizenship. In 1940, he was arrested in Norway by occupying German forces, but he was not identified because he wore a Norwegian uniform. On his release, he escaped to neutral Sweden . In August 1940, he became a Norwegian citizen, receiving his passport from the Norwegian embassy in Stockholm, where he lived until the end of the war. Brandt returned to Sweden to lecture on December 1, 1940, at Bommersvik College about the problems experienced by the social democrats in Nazi Germany and the occupied countries at the start of World War II .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.6170427799224854, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt and Richard Nixon , December 29, 1971", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.598207473754883, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Willy Brandt speaking in Dortmund, 1987", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.73540461063385, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Brandt was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1983, and Honorary Chairman of the SPD from 1987 until his death in 1992. When the SPD moved its headquarters from Bonn back to Berlin in the mid-1990s, the new headquarters was named the \"Willy Brandt Haus.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.553023338317871, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Binder, David. The Other German: Willy Brandt's Life & Times. Washington: New Republic Book Co, 1975. ISBN 9780915220090", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.2416033297777176, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Merseburger, Peter. Willy Brandt. Stuttgart: Dt. Verl.-Anst., 2002. ISBN 978-3421053282 (in German)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.0380334854125977, "source": "search", "title": "Willy Brandt - New World Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "Willy Brandt", "passage": "Marshall, Barbara. Willy Brandt: A Political Biography. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 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It was the fourth live-action film to be released in theaters and the first film of the prequel trilogy. It was also the first Star Wars film to be re-released in 3D. The film was produced by Rick McCallum and stars Liam Neeson , Ewan McGregor , Natalie Portman , Jake Lloyd , and Ian McDiarmid as the primary characters.", "precise_score": 6.880752086639404, "rough_score": 7.3251824378967285, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Wookieepedia" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "The Phantom Menace was released in theaters on May 19 , 1999, becoming the first Star Wars film since Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi sixteen years earlier. The release was accompanied by extensive media coverage and great fan anticipation. Despite mixed reviews from critics and fans, the film grossed $924.3 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing Star Wars film when unadjusted for inflation. The film was re-released on Blu-ray in September 2011 , and was re-released in theaters in 3D on February 10 , 2012 .", "precise_score": 5.706691741943359, "rough_score": 7.295876502990723, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Wookieepedia" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews Movie Reviews", "precise_score": 0.8763907551765442, "rough_score": 2.769608497619629, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace (United States, 1999)", "precise_score": 6.194755554199219, "rough_score": 6.992323398590088, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace (United States, 1999)", "precise_score": 6.194755554199219, "rough_score": 6.992323398590088, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It Means To Be A Star Wars Movie", "precise_score": 1.1851720809936523, "rough_score": 3.6434943675994873, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It Means To Be A Star Wars Movie", "precise_score": 1.1851720809936523, "rough_score": 3.6434943675994873, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "George Lucas’s 1999 film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has long been a lightning rod for hatred, and for plenty of good reasons. However, revisiting the film, it’s kind of amazing to see just how badly it doesn’t understand what Star Wars actually is.", "precise_score": 7.116377353668213, "rough_score": 7.132859230041504, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "At a ShoWest convention in 2005, Lucas demonstrated new technology and stated that he planned to release the six films in a new 3D film format, beginning with A New Hope in 2007. However, by January 2007, Lucasfilm stated on StarWars.com that \"there are no definitive plans or dates for releasing the Star Wars saga in 3-D.\" At Celebration Europe in July 2007, Rick McCallum confirmed that Lucasfilm was \"planning to take all six films and turn them into 3-D\", but they are \"waiting for the companies out there that are developing this technology to bring it down to a cost level that makes it worthwhile for everybody\". In July 2008, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of DreamWorks Animation, revealed that Lucas planned to redo all six of the movies in 3D. In late September 2010, it was announced that The Phantom Menace would be theatrically re-released in 3-D on February 10, 2012. The plan was to re-release all six films in order, with the 3-D conversion process taking up to a year to complete for each film. However, the 3D re-releases of episodes II and III were postponed to enable Lucasfilm to concentrate on Episode VII. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.4520392417907715, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "The term Expanded Universe (EU) is an umbrella term for officially licensed Star Wars material outside of the feature films. The material expands the stories told in the films, taking place anywhere from 25,000 years before The Phantom Menace to 140 years after Return of the Jedi. The first Expanded Universe story appeared in Marvel Comics' Star Wars #7 in January 1978 (the first six issues of the series having been an adaptation of the film), followed quickly by Alan Dean Foster's novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye the following month. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.06296534836292267, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Despite Disney's acquisition of the product, George Lucas retains artistic control over the Star Wars universe. For example, the death of central characters and similar changes in the status quo requires his approval before authors were allowed to proceed. In addition, Lucasfilm Licensing and the new Lucasfilm Story Group devote efforts to ensure continuity between the works of various authors across companies. Elements of the Expanded Universe have been adopted by Lucas for use in the films, such as the name of capital planet Coruscant, which first appeared in Timothy Zahn's novel Heir to the Empire before being used in The Phantom Menace. Additionally, Lucas so liked the character Aayla Secura, who was introduced in Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars series, that he included her as a character in Attack of the Clones. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.232419490814209, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "LucasBooks radically changed the face of the Star Wars universe with the introduction of the New Jedi Order series, which takes place some 20 years after Return of the Jedi and stars a host of new characters alongside series originals. For younger audiences, three series have been introduced. The Jedi Apprentice series follows the adventures of Obi-Wan Kenobi and his master Qui-Gon Jinn in the years before The Phantom Menace. The Jedi Quest series follows the adventures of Obi-Wan and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker in between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. The Last of the Jedi series follows the adventures of Obi-Wan and another surviving Jedi almost immediately, set in between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.5560967922210693, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "* There have also been many songs based on, and in, the Star Wars universe. \"Weird Al\" Yankovic recorded two parodies: \"Yoda\", a parody of \"Lola\" by The Kinks; and \"The Saga Begins\", a parody of Don McLean's song \"American Pie\" that retells the events of The Phantom Menace from Obi-Wan Kenobi's perspective. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.6019110679626465, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Enter THE PHANTOM MENACE. Not only did this film have to live up to memories of the originals, it also had to compete in an entertainment world that had caught up. Lucas could never create an experience as mind-blowing as he had in the original.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.55198860168457, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "THE PHANTOM MENACE, like all the films in the series, has it's own unique tone and flavor. And though these flavors may not be to everyone's taste, I think in the coming years more and more fans will come to appreciate this film for what it is, rather than what they wish it would be.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.480142593383789, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Phantom is a frustrating watch, however there are elements worth admiring: its ambition plot, Williams' score, the art direction, and the iconic duel with Darth Maul.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.07915210723877, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - Rotten ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Filled with horrific dialogue, laughable characters, a laughable plot, ad really no interesting stakes during this film, \"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace\" is not at all what I wanted from a film that is supposed to be the huge opening to the segue into the fantastic Original Trilogy. The positives include the score, the sound effects, and most of the visual effects, which provide some great eye candy for audiences, but if that's all the film has, then what the hell is the film's purpose? It does helm one of the best lightsaber battles in the franchise and there are a few fun fan service moments, but I don't have anything else nice to say, and I could rant for days, so I am stopping here. This film is a complete mess in every way, but it still could have been worse.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.686901867389679, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - Rotten ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "I've had a saying that I've used for almost 20 years now in relation to The Phantom Menace. I compare the film to waking up Christmas morning expecting some great present only to receive socks. Nothing against socks. They have a place and are quite needed, but there's no flash with it. The same goes for The Phantom Menace, a film that really doesn't live up to the excitement of the films that came before it. The film follows the early adventures of Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan MacGregor) and Anakin Skywalker (Jake Loyd), the boy found in the Tatoine desert by Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson). In that sentence the film sounds like it would have some potential. Throw in trade routes, treaties, and Jar Jar Binks and you derail any exciting ideas that are out there. Sadly, this is what the film focuses on as it fails in many ways. Bloated with CGI overindulgence and dialogue that is embarrassing the film relies on its action, which it hands out in spoonfuls. Looking back over 15 years later you can see what a great film this could have been. The opening scenes with the Jedi fighting droids and hiding on the planet of Naboo. The pod race. The ending with three fronts and Darth Maul. If these sections could have been bridged in a better way than this could have been a far superior film than it turned out to be. Why, of why, didn't we get more Darth Maul when he was plastered on every piece of merchandise back in 1999? There are the parts to a good Star Wars film there, just not enough hardware to pull it together. Would it have compared to the originals? No, but that's ok. This film was parsecs away from those films (error intended) What The Phantom menace represents is the footing that the saga is built on. It's buried deep underground and doesn't serve much purpose. It's there doing its job, even if it's an ugly mess. Kind of like socks. I've softened a bit on the film, but I can't call it anything more than average. That's it. An average film equals a horrible Star Wars film. Even years later this is still one of the most disappointing films of all time.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.926952600479126, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - Rotten ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "And another important point (not specific to The Phantom Menace, but to Star Wars as a whole) is that the story clearly shows that the 'good guys' embrace all species and skin colours in their ranks - Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, C-3P0, Leia, Yoda, Ewoks, etc., whereas the 'bad guys' are mostly white, human, and male (at least once the Empire starts up).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.632432222366333, "source": "search", "title": "Is the movie: 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' racist? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "In short, anyone who claims there is any racism in The Phantom Menace is mistaken, either because they are mistaken about the difference between an archetype and a racial stereotype or because they are trying to find something that looks like it might be racially insensitive.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.088340759277344, "source": "search", "title": "Is the movie: 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' racist? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "“Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” 2 STARS", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.5536727905273438, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Maybe George Lucas — the director, writer, and Yodalike poohbah behind “”Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” — isn’t responsible for the hype associated with its release.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.890104055404663, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "But he is responsible for “”Phantom Menace” being nowhere near as good as the original “”Star Wars” trilogy. Lucas has had 16 years to imagine what his “”prequel” to that trilogy would be — “”Return of the Jedi” was made in 1983.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.311583161354065, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Perhaps he has become too lost in his mastery of computer-generated effects and digital sound to remember that creativity in the movies is not just a technical thing. It also takes good writing and inspired acting, as well as plot points that are clever and detailed rather than perfunctory. “”Phantom Menace” lacks these.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.390928268432617, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "And for that matter, computer effects have their limits — there are times in “”Phantom Menace” when it looks as if the backgrounds have been superimposed. The film made me want to visit a park or a zoo; the artificiality of its computer-generated world grows suffocatingly fakey.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.732904434204102, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "“Phantom Menace” does offer the kind of sights and sounds that kids should relish — lightsaber battles, heroic children, fantastical creatures, exotic cities and a mysterious teenage queen.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.022964000701904, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "All these elements give “”Phantom Menace” appeal for young viewers. Yet even then, it has a split personality. The action scenes have the kind of relentless PG-rated intensity that will appeal to older preteens, for better or worse.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.482209205627441, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Maybe Jar Jar would be easier to take if the human characters were better. But “”Phantom Menace” offers only the rudimentaries of a relationship between its adult heroes, the young Jedi apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his long-haired mentor, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.014775276184082, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "(And don’t go to “”Phantom Menace” because you’re a Samuel L. Jackson fan; his role is a cameo.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.695725440979004, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "A villain called Darth Maul is played by Ray Park in orange-and-black Halloween makeup. He is a ferocious practitioner of martial arts and has a double-edged saber. But who is he, really? We are told an apprentice to Sith Lord Darth Sidious, but essentially he’s just a prop that appears out of nowhere whenever “”Phantom Menace” needs a good fight. He’s no Darth Vader.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.710262298583984, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "I’d be more enthusiastic about “”Phantom Menace” as a kid’s movie if it weren’t so umbilically connected to all the merchandise. What came first, the picture books and the action-figure dolls or the story? And what took more time?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.50431489944458, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Maybe it originally was meant for kids, but its inspired craftsmanship allowed it to speak convincingly to the kid in all of us. That’s why “”Star Wars” has lasted. “”Phantom Menace” offers fun for kids, but the adult in us can see its shabby construction. It’s just a mediocre movie sequel. Or prequel. Whatever.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.9179893732070923, "source": "search", "title": "“Episode I – The Phantom Menace” original Star Wars movie ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace | Wookieepedia | Fandom powered by Wikia", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.5908899307250977, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Wookieepedia" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.747783660888672, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Wookieepedia" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "The film was the first major story in the prequel era and began fifteen years of canon Star Wars storytelling that would primarily take place around the time of the prequel storyline. The success of the film allowed for the next two chapters of the prequel trilogy, as well as the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and television series . Numerous Star Wars Legends stories were also told in or influenced by The Phantom Menace and the prequels.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.0477319955825806, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Wookieepedia" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "THE PHANTOM MENACE", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.1369428634643555, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Wookieepedia" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "The Phantom Menace received enormous media-created hype, which made Lucasfilm's $20 million advertising campaign – with the distinctive artwork of Star Wars series artist Drew Struzan gracing the movie poster and other advertising – seem modest and almost unnecessary because of the unprecedented interest amongst both fans and the wider audience in the return of the franchise. Few film studios released films during the same week as the release of The Phantom Menace; among the more courageous were DreamWorks and Universal Studios , with the releases of The Love Letter and Notting Hill respectively. The Love Letter resulted in a box-office flop, whereas Notting Hill fared rather well and followed The Phantom Menace closely in second place. [5] Challenger, Gray & Christmas of Chicago, a work-issues consulting firm, estimated that 2.2 million full-time employees did not appear for work to attend the film, resulting in $293 million in lost productivity. The Wall Street Journal reported that such a large number of workers announced plans to view premiere screenings that many companies shut down on the premiere day. [6] Many fans began waiting outside cinema theaters as early as a month in advance of ticket sales. [7]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.443763494491577, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Wookieepedia" }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Array ( [page] => reelviews [view] => star-wars-episode-1-the-phantom-menace )", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.0418848991394043, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "When George Lucas first conceived the idea for Star Wars , it was just a movie. Over the course of 22 years, it has grown into a full-blown phenomenon - an event that gives promoters orgasmic shivers and makes theater employees wish they could take a week off. When it comes to unbridled anticipation generated by the release of a film, The Phantom Menace has antecedents. Gone with the Wind was the entertainment event of the '30s. Goldfinger was so popular that some movie houses stayed open 24 hours a day to meet demand. And Star Trek: The Motion Picture had Trekkies and Trekkers standing in lines for hours on end. Yet, in terms of both intensity and widespread interest, the motion picture industry has never seen anything like this before, nor is it likely to in the foreseeable future (not even in 3 years, when the next Star Wars movie is released). The hype has dwarfed the film, reducing it to a cultural footnote. Even Lucas, who will reap the majority of The Phantom Menace's financial windfall, is concerned. In New York on May 9, he was quoted as saying, \"People should have a well-rounded life. I'm happy that Star Wars stimulates young people's imagination... but when you get a situation like this where you have so much hype and expectation, a movie can't possibly live up to that.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.7152999043464661, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Indeed, when you get right down to it, The Phantom Menace is a movie, and can be treated as such. Those who have camped out at a theater box office for three-plus weeks may disagree, as may those who have spent $500 on an advance charity screening, but, in the end, everyone will be doing the same thing, regardless of whether they're the first admission or the last: sitting in a darkened theater, staring at the screen, and absorbing the sounds and images that represents the vision of a film maker who has left an indelible imprint upon two generations of movie-goers. Consideration of the movie, with its strengths and weaknesses, deserves to be divorced from an analysis of the Star Wars phenomenon. This is not the greatest film ever made, as some fans would have you believe, nor does it signal the death knell of artistic motion pictures, as high-brow critic-prophets cry out.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.501033067703247, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "So what about the movie? How close does it come to meeting the astronomical expectations placed upon it by a frenzied fandom and a curious public? The best place to start is with the storyline, which does an effective job of fulfilling its three-fold purpose: telling a self-contained tale set in the Star Wars universe, setting up the first trilogy, and remaining faithful to the previously-established mythos. We already know how everything ends. Now it's time to learn how it all begins. The Phantom Menace starts in familiar fashion: the Lucasfilm logo materializes, followed by the words \"Star Wars\", then the introductory crawl - all are done in accompaniment to John Williams' score. It's the kind of opening that brings a twinge of nostalgia to those of us who were there, in theaters, in 1977.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.4634218215942383, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Plot-wise, the film borrows a lot, at least in terms of structure, from Return of the Jedi. After a rousing opening sequence, things slow down for a while. Then, on Tatooine, there's an amazing racing sequence featuring \"pod\" space ships. Finally, the film concludes with three separate, simultaneous story threads all building to a climax. The martial arts-influenced light saber duel between Darth Maul and Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan is the best that The Phantom Menace has to offer - a virtuoso action sequence directed with skill and understanding of what an audience craves from this sort of confrontation. Those looking for influences will find that Lucas draws from sources as diverse as TV sports commentary and religious traditions (there's a \"Chosen One\" - not Keanu Reeves - and a virgin birth). Attempts to provide a more scientific explanation for the Force are ineffective, however. Ben Kenobi's quick tutorial in the original Star Wars should have been allowed to stand on its own. Adding physics to the metaphysical doesn't work.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.755051612854004, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "The Star Wars movies have always relied on the nobility of heroes and the nastiness of villains, and The Phantom Menace is no exception. As Qui-Gon, Liam Neeson brings an unforced nobility to his performance, while Ewan McGregor injects a sense of recklessness into his portrayal of Obi-Wan. Neither is an earthshaking acting job, but the two accomplished thespians are doing more than simply reacting to special effects. On the other side of the Force is Ray Park's Darth Maul (he of the black-and-orange painted face), who doesn't say much, but compensates with menacing stares and quick reflexes. Ian McDiarmid makes for a more chilling villain, even though his Darth Sidious stays in the shadows.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6052663326263428, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Plainly, this is not an actors' movie and the director, George Lucas (at the helm for the first time since the original Star Wars), is not an actors' director. Lucas' forte is in creating worlds and pushing the special effects envelope, and, in both of those areas, The Phantom Menace doesn't just meet expectations - it exceeds them. For the most part, Lucas' vision isn't limited to putting spectacular visuals on screen for the purpose of creating a momentary sense of awe. His intention is to craft a wonderful, weird, vast universe that we can experience in a way that no other movie has been able to offer.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.5328632593154907, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "The Phantom Menace is a testimony to how far special effects have come. Does Lucas overdo it? Yes. Every scene is crammed with as many aliens, otherworldly creatures, and CGI synthetics as space will allow. Sometimes, it's breathtaking, but there are occasions when Lucas seems to be saying, \"See! Look what I can do!\" Another problem with the aliens is that some of them are too silly to be convincing, as if the director was placing added emphasis on capturing the adulation of the under-10 audience (something he probably already has). Jar Jar Binks is the most glaring example. He's irritating, and obviously a special effect.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.60645055770874, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "When it comes to action sequences, The Phantom Menace is not lacking. There are several battles involving light sabers, the pod race on Tatooine (which clearly owes a debt to the chariot race in Ben Hur), a climactic space battle that echoes the ending of both Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, and an enormously complex war between two completely computer-generated opponents. Lucas has said that The Phantom Menace contains a hard-to-conceive 2000 special effects shots, and the final product makes it apparent that there's probably not a scene in which a computer didn't make some contribution.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.700764000415802, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "In many ways, the music for Star Wars has been as important and enduring as the images. The title theme is as instantly recognizable as a picture of Darth Vader's mask, and the soundtracks for the first three movies have been huge sellers (The Phantom Menace CD will doubtlessly surpass them all). Despite not having composed a Star Wars score in 16 years, John Williams doesn't miss a beat, incorporating familiar notes and new material into a cohesive whole that provides the perfect, epic musical background to the film. Williams' approach also provides foreshadowing. Every time Darth Sidious appears, we hear strains of the \"Emporer's Theme\" from Return of the Jedi. And \"Darth Vader's Theme\" is used just once (and then only briefly and in a muted fashion) - when Yoda and Obi-Wan are speaking about Anakin's future.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.1781959533691406, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Looking at the big picture, in spite of all its flaws, The Phantom Menace is still among the best \"bang for a buck\" fun that can be had in a movie theater. It isn't as fresh as the original Star Wars nor does it have the thematic richness and narrative complexity of The Empire Strikes Back , but it is a distinct improvement over Return of the Jedi. In fact, after Return of the Jedi, I didn't have a burning desire to return to this galaxy \"far, far away,\" but, with The Phantom Menace, Lucas has revived my interest. Now, it's with genuine regret that I realize the next segment of the series is three long years away.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.6747443675994873, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Some will doubtlessly worry that The Phantom Menace will accelerate the conversion of movie theaters into giant arcades. And, while it's true that special effects-driven movies can be the bane of the industry, The Phantom Menace has far more going for it in terms of heart, plot, and human interest than the likes of Armageddon and Godzilla. This is not a mindless blockbuster designed solely to make a killing at the box office. Lucas, already wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, is hopefully beyond that (not that he'll refuse the money...). What he has done with The Phantom Menace is to satisfy an artistic craving, and it shows in almost every frame. The director's vision and reverence for his own creation are the two key elements that differentiate this movie from 95% of the others with similar $100 million-plus budgets.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.259409427642822, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "The bottom line? Well, nearly everyone reading this review either has already seen or is going to see the film. It doesn't matter what any critic has to say; but, for what it's worth, you can proceed to the theater with a recommendation from this corner. The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.978662490844727, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars (Episode 1): The Phantom Menace | Reelviews ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Star Wars is archetypes. Good vs. evil. Star Wars is adventure, excitement, characters, humor, swagger, amazing locations and more amazing creatures.. It’s about people who are nothing becoming something. And yes, The Phantom Menace has some of those things, but certainly not enough—and certainly not in a story that grabs the audience in any meaningful way.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.815299928188324, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Why did I decide to revisit Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace? Because we have six weeks until Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and I figured I’d rewatch one Star Wars movie per week, as a lead up. So I started at the beginning and, in the coming weeks, you’ll read about the other five as well.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.08630974590778351, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Oddly enough, “the beginning” is probably one of the biggest issues in The Phantom Menace. When it was released, fans had been waiting over 15 years for a new Star Wars movie, and anticipation was at an all time high. So things should have started with a bang. The world was George Lucas’ oyster, he could do absolutely anything. Star Wars was back!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.1186234951019287, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "After the crawl, The Phantom Menace drops us in the middle of a trade dispute. Confused ambassadors taking orders from some kind of larger enemy, and even the Jedi in the middle don’t know what’s happening. Literally the first 20 of the movie feels like Lucas cut out 40 minutes beforehand, which contained some necessary context.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.632042407989502, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "That said, The Phantom Menace truly begins when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan finally meet Queen Amidala. Unfortunately, it takes about 25 minutes for that to happen. I can’t think of a worse mishandling of a franchise start than the beginning of The Phantom Menace. It’s like George Lucas lined up for the 100 yard dash at the Olympics and not only tripped at the start, but crawled the first half of the race with bloody nose.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.057589530944824, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Skipping ahead a bit, when I saw The Phantom Menace in theaters (which I did. A lot) I would always love the film’s finale. Once they get back on Naboo and the film cross cuts between four different action scenes, it was incredibly rousing. Now, it’s less so. The battle between the Gungans and Battle Droids feels pointless and the terrible green plains are a huge eyesore. Queen Amidala and her group firing through the palace is made interesting mostly by the music. Then there’s the iconic two-on-one lightsaber battle between Darth Maul, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.1535115242004395, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." }, { "answer": "Phantom", "passage": "Is The Phantom Menace as bad as history remembers? Yes and no. Yes, for all the reasons mentioned above and more. No, because it has a handful of genuine Star Wars moments. Moments, however, don’t quite make a movie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.403884768486023, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "Her other movie roles include Appointment With Death, A Chorus Of Disapproval, Miss Beatty's Children, and Don't Go Breaking My Heart with ER's Anthony Edwards.", "precise_score": 5.094685077667236, "rough_score": 1.391937017440796, "source": "search", "title": "BBC - Drama - People Index Jenny Seagrove" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "ER star Anthony Edwards has launched his first lead role in a movie, in the new British film Don't Go Breaking My Heart.", "precise_score": 5.647450923919678, "rough_score": 5.900726318359375, "source": "search", "title": "BBC News | Entertainment | ER star in premiere spotlight" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "This is a very funny romantic comedy which works because Jenny Seagrove musters her whimsicality and shows that she is an excellent comedienne with perfect comic timing. She plays a widow whose husband has died 18 months earlier unexpectedly of a heart attack, leaving her and her children bereft and bewildered. She is a very attractive woman, and her lecherous dentist, played by Charles Dance, has designs upon her. Instead of injections, he uses hypnosis on his dental patients. In Seagrove's case, he goes beyond dentistry and while she is 'under' he makes increasingly naughty suggestions to her to assist him in his dastardly plans to seduce her and marry her. Anyone who does not believe that things like this can happen has only to read the book OPEN TO SUGGESTION, where many cases of such abuses are described. But back to the film. This hypnotic manipulation has some comic moments. At one point, while Seagrove is in the dental chair in a state of trance and Dance is called out suddenly, leaving the radio on, she accepts hypnotic instructions from a radio announcer, with comic consequences. Seagrove has mastered a wonderfully 'dipsy' expression which makes her hypnotically motivated adventures come across as hilarious. The man who is in love with her is played by an American actor named Anthony Edwards, who had just appeared in a successful American comedy called PLAYING BY HEART (1998). This light and enjoyable confection was directed by Willi Patterson, a TV drama director who had directed Charles Dance 11 years earlier in a TV movie spy drama, OUT OF THE SHADOWS (1988). For some reason, Patterson ceased being a director after this film and since 1999 has done nothing else in the film or TV business which is recorded on IMDb. He had a light touch which was very suited to gentle comedy, and this film works very well.", "precise_score": 2.609919309616089, "rough_score": 1.487043857574463, "source": "search", "title": "Don't Go Breaking My Heart Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "Morris made his feature film debut in �Don't Go Breaking My Heart�, a 1999 comedy/romance film directed by Willi Patterson and starring Jenny Seagrove, Anthony Edwards, and Charles Dance. The same year, he appeared as school boy in the TV series �Kid in the Corner�. Morris' first significant TV role was as Carl Lumsden in the BBC drama series �Fish� (2000), where he acted alongside Jill Baker, Paul McGann and Jemma Redgrave. In 2002, he starred as the title character on an unsold NBC pilot, �Young Arthur�, and also starred as Fiz in the award winning short film �Spin�, written and directed by Cath Le Couteur.", "precise_score": 5.040017127990723, "rough_score": 5.5477294921875, "source": "search", "title": "The Julian Morris Picture Pages - SuperiorPics.com" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "The original starring cast consisted of Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene, George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross, Sherry Stringfield as Dr. Susan Lewis, Noah Wyle as medical student John Carter, and Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton. As the series continued, some key changes were made: Nurse Carol Hathaway, played by Julianna Margulies, who attempts suicide in the original pilot script, was made into a regular cast member. Ming Na debuted in the middle of the first season as medical student Jing-Mei \"Deb\" Chen, but did not return for the second season, while Gloria Reuben and Laura Innes would join the series as Physician Assistant Jeanie Boulet and Dr. Kerry Weaver, respectively, by the second season. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.252789497375488, "source": "wiki", "title": "ER (TV series)" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "Anthony Edwards, Jenny Seagrove and Bill Kenwright", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.523081302642822, "source": "search", "title": "BBC News | Entertainment | ER star in premiere spotlight" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "This is a slushie, a moving Mills & Boone. You could just as easily call it moving wallpaper. It passes a couple of hours and it doesn't offend anyone. Jenny Seagrove acts woodenly, a Lada of femmes-fatales, while Anthony Edwards strolls through the film in an apologetic decaffeinated sort of a way, looking out-of-synch with his English surroundings and upper middle class hinglish. He delivers such an uncommanding screen presence in this big-screen film that I question his wisdom in giving up his day job on Channel 4's \"ER\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.285362482070923, "source": "search", "title": "Don't Go Breaking My Heart Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "\"Us Begins with You\" is the American title. Quite clever, eh? For a moment or so. The British title is better. But it too means nothing, and tells you even less about the film. So what's it all about? Jenny Seagrove is a widow running her husband's gardening business. She's happy with her widowhood, keeps busy with the family gardening business and isn't looking for a replacement hubby. Young son is unhappy, misses dad, is under-achieving at boarding school. Jenny's friends are trying to fix her up with a fella in the shape of Charles Dance, a dentist. He does the dirty by hypnotising her in his dentists chair, aiming to make her receptive to his charms. Coincidence, and film scrptwriters, get in the way of his evil plans. Up turns Anthony Edwards, sports psychologist, who has just lost his job training Linford Christie. Honest! Can it get any worse? You betcha.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.701884746551514, "source": "search", "title": "Don't Go Breaking My Heart Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "Anthony Edwards is good, Jane Leeves (Frasier) is very good. Tom Conti is a scene-stealer and Jenny Seagrove is great - not wooden as previously!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.80604887008667, "source": "search", "title": "Don't Go Breaking My Heart Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "Compared with the atrocious Love Actually, this is not bad. For a change, the film focuses on the nouveau riche rather than pompous middle-class people who plaque such films as Love Actually and Notting Hill. Jenny Seagrove's character epitomises this nouveau riche world, alongside Charles Dances's pony-tailed dentist. It's the first time I have seen Charles Dance not play a upper-crust toff and it was quite a shock. Anthonhy Edwards plays the requisite American in London and it was fairly obvious what the outcome of the film would be early on. There are a few funny lines of dialogue and some scenes are quite touching. Jenny Seagrove does a good job but isn't stretched by the limitations of the script. Charles Dance is underused but manages to steal some scenes from the rather bland character Anthony Edwards plays. Not bad for a British romcom.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.027809500694275, "source": "search", "title": "Don't Go Breaking My Heart Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "Anthony Edwards - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.209040641784668, "source": "search", "title": "Anthony Edwards - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "Anthony Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 19, 1962, to a well-blended family. He is the youngest of five children, and the son of Erika Kem (Weber), a landscape painter and artist, and Peter Edwards, an architect. His mother was of German descent, and his father was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Spanish-Mexican ancestry. ... See full bio »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.234735488891602, "source": "search", "title": "Anthony Edwards - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "How much of Anthony Edwards's work have you seen?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.450204849243164, "source": "search", "title": "Anthony Edwards - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "- Anthony Edwards/Foo Fighters (1995) ... (performer: \"Endless Love\", \"Queen Diana\" (uncredited))", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.737133026123047, "source": "search", "title": "Anthony Edwards - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "\"8,\" special benefit original drama; written by Dustin Lance Black ; directed by Joe Mantello ; with Bob Balaban (portraying Judge Vaughn Walker); Ellen Barkin (portraying Sandy Stier); Matt Bomer (portraying Jeff Zarillo); Campbell Brown (portraying Broadcast Journalist); Anthony Edwards (portraying Dr. Ilan Meyer); Morgan ... See more »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.525508880615234, "source": "search", "title": "Anthony Edwards - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "Trivia 15. Which UK pop singer an environmental campaigner appeared in Dune? 16. What was Stanley Kubrick's final movie? 17. Which animation film was originally a 50s musical set in Siam? 18. Who tries to save the world from virtual reality in The Matrix? 19. Which decade does Michael J Fox go back to in Back to the Future? 20. In which 90s movie did Al Pacino play retired Colonel Frank Slade? 21. What is the name of Kate Winslet's character in Titanic? 22. Which spin-off from a 60s sitcom was a 1999 movie with Jeff Daniels and Christopher Lloyd? 23. Which Star Trek star directed Three Men and a Baby? 24. Which sitcom star appeared on the big screening The Object of My Affection? 25. Who played the title role in Emma? 26. Who played Batman immediately before George Clooney? 27. Who played the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel? 28. Who played Drew Barrymore's stepmother in Ever After? 29.Which character did Julia \"Roberts play in Steven Spielberg's Hook?. 1. Phantom. 2. Gertie. 3. Anthony Edwards. 4. Junior. 5. Jeff Goldblum. 6. Harrison Ford. 7.Oprah Winfrey. 8. Matt LeBlanc. 9. Alien Resurrection. 10. II. 11. Julia Roberts. 12. Louis XIV. 13. The Prince of Wales. 14. Gillian Anderson -- in The X Files. 15. Sting.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.2434720993042, "source": "search", "title": "Deal Maker October 2010 by Kayla Williams - issuu" }, { "answer": "Anthony Edwards", "passage": "During her stint on “Frasier,” Leeves kept on busy working on other acting projects. In 1994, she played the supporting role of Wylie in the comedy film “Mr. White,” starring Paul Reiser, Jessica Tuck and Martin Mull, and offered a notable performance as Alberta Leonard on the Les Mayfield directed drama “Miracle on 34th Street,” opposite Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins and Dylan McDermott. She next guest starred as Daphne Moon in an episode of “Caroline in the City” called “Caroline and the Bad Back” (1995), played Rachel Sherwood in the television film adaptation of “Pandora's Clock” (1996), opposite Richard Dean Anderson, Stephen Root, Robert Loggia and Daphne Zuniga, and did voice overs in the animated film “James and the Giant Peach” (1996, as Ladybug) and “Hercules: The Animated Series” (1998, as Athena). In 1999, she supported Jenny Seagrove, Anthony Edwards and Charles Dance in the British film “Don't Go Breaking My Heart,” directed by Willi Patterson, portrayed Dorothea von Haeften in “Music of the Heart,” a drama/music film starring Meryl Streep, Cloris Leachman and Henry Dinhofer and directed by Wes Craven, and landed a guest spot in “The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.” She continued to appear in episodes of “Late Night with Conan O'Brien” (2000) and “The Simpsons” (2003, as the voice of Edwina) as well as in the direct to video animated film “The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina” (2002, as Margaret Beetle) and “The Event” (2003), a drama film directed by Thom Fitzgerald and starring Parker Posey, Don McKellar, Olympia Dukakis and Sarah Polley. In summer of 2002, Leeves could be seen on stage making her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in “Cabaret.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.7785842418670654, "source": "search", "title": "The Jane Leeves Picture Pages - SuperiorPics.com" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Rick Deckard is the protagonist in Ridley Scott 's 1982 science-fiction film, Blade Runner . The character originally appeared in Philip K Dick 's novel, \" Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? \" on which the movie is based. Rick Deckard was played by Harrison Ford.", "precise_score": 10.915549278259277, "rough_score": 10.121500968933105, "source": "search", "title": "Rick Deckard - Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "The film is a combination of 1940s film noir and futuristic detective thriller. The setting is the decayed, rain-soaked Los Angeles of 2019. Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, is a retired Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in hunting down replicants. The replicants are artificial humans, indistinguishable from the real thing in every way but two; they have no memories, and they have lifespans of only four years.", "precise_score": 10.146319389343262, "rough_score": 8.175442695617676, "source": "search", "title": "BBC - Films - review - Blade Runner" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "The film's titular Blade Runner, played by Harrison Ford. At the beginning of the film, Deckard is disillusioned, and retired from hunting replicants. His old inspector, Bryant, drags him back into the fold to apprehend six Nexus 6 Replicants who have staged a mutiny and escaped to Earth. Over the course of the film, Deckard falls in love with Rachael, a sophisticated model of Replicant - leading to the final revelation that Deckard may be a replicant himself.", "precise_score": 9.230232238769531, "rough_score": 8.74002456665039, "source": "search", "title": "Blade Runner Characters | GradeSaver" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "The character of Rick Deckard is played by the American actor Harrison Ford, a major American movie star well known for his role in Star Wars and the Indiana Jones saga.", "precise_score": 8.100138664245605, "rough_score": 7.495201587677002, "source": "search", "title": "Deckard | ScreenSense" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Then: Harrison Ford wasn't the first choice to play Rick Deckard in 'Blade Runner' -- that honor goes to Dustin Hoffman, who turned down the role because it was too \"macho.\" Other actors considered for the part before the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' star nabbed it include Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, Al Pacino, Arnold Schwarzenegger and pretty much every name in town except Ford.", "precise_score": 9.874441146850586, "rough_score": 9.072689056396484, "source": "search", "title": "See the Cast of 'Blade Runner' Then and Now - ScreenCrush" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, is the main character from the film Blade Runner.", "precise_score": 11.055787086486816, "rough_score": 10.474464416503906, "source": "search", "title": "Rick Deckard - IGN" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, is the main character from the film Blade Runner.", "precise_score": 11.055787086486816, "rough_score": 10.474464416503906, "source": "search", "title": "Rick Deckard - IGN" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "He was portrayed by Harrison Ford in the 1982 film adaptation Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott and by James Purefoy in the 2014 BBC Radio 4 adaptation directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.5571134090423584, "source": "wiki", "title": "Rick Deckard" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "In the film, the bounty hunters are replaced by police \"Blade Runners\", the androids are called \"replicants\", terms not used in the original novel. The novel depicts Deckard as obsequious and officious \"little man\", so much so it is interesting to note that Dustin Hoffman was involved in the film production for a short time. However it is not documented as to how Hoffman was going to play the character. In the novel Deckard is human and has a wife but because of the many versions of the film and because of script and production errors, the back story of the movie version of Rick Deckard becomes unclear. The viewer has to make up their own mind as to whether Deckard is a replicant or not and therefore whether he has a past or not. The voice over in the theatrical release indicates Deckard is divorced, as it mentions an ex-wife. However the voice over has been removed from subsequent versions and so this detail is not mentioned. If the viewer takes the perspective that Deckard is a replicant then the \"ex-wife\" only becomes an implanted memory. Philip K. Dick approved of Harrison Ford's performance, saying that Ford had brought to life \"a genuine, real, authentic Deckard.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.237906455993652, "source": "wiki", "title": "Rick Deckard" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Blade Runner is a 1982 American tech noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is a modified film adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.7058959007263184, "source": "wiki", "title": "Blade Runner" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in which genetically engineered replicants, which are visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation. The use of replicants on Earth is banned and they are exclusively utilized for dangerous or menial work on off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and killed (\"retired\") by special police operatives known as \"Blade Runners\". The plot focuses on a group of recently escaped replicants hiding in L.A. and the burnt-out expert Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.4504137337207794, "source": "wiki", "title": "Blade Runner" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "In Los Angeles in November 2019, ex-police officer Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is detained by officer Gaff (Edward James Olmos) and brought to his former supervisor, Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh). Deckard, whose job as a \"Blade Runner\" was to track down bioengineered beings known as replicants and \"retire\" (a euphemism for killing) them, is informed that four have come to Earth illegally. As Tyrell Corporation Nexus-6 models, they have only a four-year lifespan and may have come to Earth to try to extend their lives.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.04564094543457, "source": "wiki", "title": "Blade Runner" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "The question of whether Deckard is intended to be a human or a replicant has been an ongoing controversy since the film's release. Both Michael Deeley and Harrison Ford wanted Deckard to be human while Hampton Fancher preferred ambiguity. Ridley Scott has confirmed that in his vision Deckard is a replicant. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.416421890258789, "source": "wiki", "title": "Blade Runner" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Casting the film proved troublesome, particularly for the lead role of Deckard. Screenwriter Hampton Fancher envisioned Robert Mitchum as Deckard and wrote the character's dialogue with Mitchum in mind. Director Ridley Scott and the film's producers spent months meeting and discussing the role with Dustin Hoffman, who eventually departed over differences in vision. Harrison Ford was ultimately chosen for several reasons, including his performance in the Star Wars films, Ford's interest in the Blade Runner story, and discussions with Steven Spielberg who was finishing Raiders of the Lost Ark at the time and strongly praised Ford's work in the film. Following his success in films like Star Wars (1977) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Ford was looking for a role with dramatic depth. According to production documents, several actors were considered for the role, including Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino, and Burt Reynolds.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.002384185791016, "source": "wiki", "title": "Blade Runner" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "In 2006, Scott was asked \"Who's the biggest pain in the arse you've ever worked with?\", he replied: \"It's got to be Harrison ... he'll forgive me because now I get on with him. Now he's become charming. But he knows a lot, that's the problem. When we worked together it was my first film up and I was the new kid on the block. But we made a good movie.\" Ford said of Scott in 2000: \"I admire his work. We had a bad patch there, and I'm over it.\" In 2006 Ford reflected on the production of the film saying: \"What I remember more than anything else when I see Blade Runner is not the 50 nights of shooting in the rain, but the voiceover ... I was still obliged to work for these clowns that came in writing one bad voiceover after another.\" Ridley Scott confirmed in the summer 2007 issue of Total Film that Harrison Ford contributed to the Blade Runner Special Edition DVD, having already done his interviews. \"Harrison's fully on board\", said Scott. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.357623100280762, "source": "wiki", "title": "Blade Runner" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "It was announced on August 18, 2011, that Scott was to direct a new Blade Runner film, with filming to begin no earlier than 2013. Indications from producer Andrew Kosove were that Ford was unlikely to be involved in the project. Scott later said that the film was \"liable to be a sequel\" but without the previous cast, and that he was close to finding a writer that \"might be able to help [him] deliver\". On February 6, 2012, Kosove denied that any casting considerations had been made in response to buzz that Ford might reprise his role, saying, \"It is absolutely, patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner. To be clear, what we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to break the back of the story ... The casting of the movie could not be further from our minds at this moment.\" When Scott was asked about the possibility of a sequel in October 2012, he said, \"It's not a rumor—it's happening. With Harrison Ford? I don't know yet. Is he too old? Well, he was a Nexus-6 so we don't know how long he can live. And that's all I'm going to say at this stage.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.667814254760742, "source": "wiki", "title": "Blade Runner" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Blade Runner is a 1982 American dystopian science fiction noir film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.055150032043457, "source": "wiki", "title": "List of Blade Runner characters" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Agent Deckard was played by Harrison Ford.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.959003925323486, "source": "wiki", "title": "List of Blade Runner characters" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Harrison Ford", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.413371086120605, "source": "search", "title": "Rick Deckard - Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Actor Harrison Ford however considers Deckard to be human. \"That was the main area of contention between Ridley and myself at the time,\" Ford told interviewer Jonathan Ross during a BBC1 Hollywood Greats segment. \"I thought the audience deserved one human being on screen that they could establish an emotional relationship with. I thought I had won Ridley's agreement to that, but in fact I think he had a little reservation about that. I think he really wanted to have it both ways.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.0572785139083862, "source": "search", "title": "Blade Runner (1982) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "- In the scene in his bathroom, when Rachael asks Deckard if he would follow her if she left, he says he wouldn't and then leaves the room, but he stops, puts his hand on her shoulder and says \"But someone would.\" When he says this, Deckard's eyes have a red glow, the same effect seen in the other replicants' eyes and in Tyrell's owl. In relation to this scene, Ridley Scott maintains that that effect was purposely set up and executed on the set, but Harrison Ford denies this, saying it was unintended. In an interview with Paul Sammon in 2007, Ford comments simply \"I might have strayed into her light\" (Future Noir, 565 - 2nd Edition).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.497633934020996, "source": "search", "title": "Blade Runner (1982) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "It is often claimed that Ridley Scott never wanted the film to have any kind of voice-over whatsoever, but this is inaccurate. As he himself explains on his DVD commentary track, he was quite open to the idea of a voiceover (there is a brief voice-over towards the end of the Workprint). Indeed, according to Hampton Fancher, the idea of a voice-over first originated with Scott himself: \"Ridley was the one who initially pushed the voice-over idea. That's why it's in so many of my drafts. Scott was after the feel of a forties' detective thriller, so he liked the idea of using this film noir device\" (Future Noir, 292). Scott himself confirms this in Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner ; \"It wasn't [ Perenchio and Yorkin's ] idea, it was our idea. I'm not stupid; I looked at the results and I saw this ain't working. I agree with [them]. 'What can we do; how about voiceover'?\" Harrison Ford, however, was dead set against a voiceover from the very start of the film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.871559143066406, "source": "search", "title": "Blade Runner (1982) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "(A)n extensive voice-over was added to help people relate to Harrison Ford's character and make following the plot easier. [A]fter a draft by novelist-screenwriter Darryl Ponicsan was discarded, a TV veteran named Roland Kibbee got the job. As finally written, the voice-over met with universal scorn from the filmmakers, mostly for what Scott characterized as its 'Irving the Explainer' quality [...] It sounded so tinny and ersatz that, in a curious bit of film folklore, many members of the team believe to this day that Harrison Ford, consciously or not, did an uninspired reading of it in the hopes it wouldn't be used. And when co-writers Fancher and Peoples, now friends, saw it together, they were so afraid the other had written it that they refrained from any negative comments until months later. (Los Angeles Times, 13 September, 1992).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.899238586425781, "source": "search", "title": "Blade Runner (1982) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Disc 4: ' The Electric Dreamer: Remembering Philip K. Dick ', a 14 minute featurette looking at the life of Philip K. Dick; ' Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film ', a 15 minute featurette looking at the differences between the film Blade Runner and the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; 14 short audio-only interviews between Paul M. Sammon and Philip K. Dick, recorded between 1980 and 1982 (25 minutes in total); ' Signs of the Times: Graphic Design ', a 14 minute featurette presented by production illustrator Tom Southwell , who takes us through some of the design work he did for the film; ' Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling ', a 21 minute featurette looking at the costumes made for the film; ' Screen Tests: Rachael and Pris ', a 9 minute featurette, introduced by casting director Mike Fenton , looking at the auditions of Nina Axelrod for Rachael and Stacey Nelkin for Pris (includes 2007 interviews with both Axelrod and Nelkin); ' The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth ', a 20 minute featurette looking at the career of cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth ; ' Blade Runner: Deleted and Alternate Scenes ', 24 deleted and alternate scenes (see below for more information); 'On the Set', a 14 minute featurette from 1982 looking at the making of the film, narrated by Morgan Paull (includes interviews with Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young); 'Convention Reel,' a 13 minute featurette from 1982 which was sent out to science fiction conventions in the weeks leading up to the theatrical release of the film, featuring behind-the-scene footage and details about the milieu of the film (includes interviews with Ridley Scott, Syd Mead and Douglas Trumbull); a 9 minute visual-only clip of random behind-the-scenes footage; 1981 Theatrical Teaser; 1982 Theatrical Trailer; 1982 TV Spot; 1992 Directors Cut Trailer; 2007 Dangerous Days Trailer; 2007 Final Cut Trailer; ' Promoting Dystopia: Rendering the Poster Art ', a 10 minute featurette looking at the posters used to advertise and promote the film both for the original release in 1982 and the release of the Final Cut in 2007; ' Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard ,' a 10 minute featurette looking at the question of whether or not Deckard is a replicant; and ' Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers ', a 22 minute featurette looking at the continuing popularity and influence of the film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.4536397159099579, "source": "search", "title": "Blade Runner (1982) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Although they are viewable as a series of 24 separate deleted/alternate scenes, the Blade Runner DVD also presents the deleted scenes as a single 47 minute block of scenes, which have been edited together to form a 'mini' version of the film itself, complete with never-before-heard voiceover narration by Harrison Ford. The scenes which comprise this short version of the film are:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.811610221862793, "source": "search", "title": "Blade Runner (1982) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Because there are so many things to see and hear, and the story is different, one filled with strange characters, I can see where people would watch this film multiple times and enjoy it very much each time. The \"Collector's Edition\" has the best picture ever, according to director Ridley Scott, and \"is the version I'm most pleased with.\" It has added scenes one didn't see in earlier versions. The rest of the DVD has those earlier versions. Apparently, there are several including those with Harrison Ford doing narration, like out of a late '40s film noir.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.068618774414062, "source": "search", "title": "Blade Runner (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Ironically \"Blade Runner\" did not do well on its initial release. The film was burdened by numerous studio impositions, including an inane happy ending and a frankly embarrassing voice-over from Harrison Ford. The film was criticised for its thin story line, gaps in logic, and over reliance on spectacle. Reaction varied between indifference and hostility.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.7770538330078125, "source": "search", "title": "BBC - Films - review - Blade Runner" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Released 31 years ago, Ridley Scott 's sci-fi masterpiece 'Blade Runner' follows an agent played by Harrison Ford who must track down and eliminate four bioengineered \"replicants\" who are seeking answers about their existence. Now that there's all this talk of a sequel , let's take a look back at the cast of this highly influential film and see what they're up to these days.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.2657721042633057, "source": "search", "title": "See the Cast of 'Blade Runner' Then and Now - ScreenCrush" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Harrison Ford, Rick Deckard", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.07074391841888428, "source": "search", "title": "See the Cast of 'Blade Runner' Then and Now - ScreenCrush" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "When Ridley says, \"Yes, Deckard was a Replicant,\" he does so with that wicked grin challenging us to continue doubting, (or perhaps just knowing that many will). Cast and crew are very divided on their belief on this matter and Harrison Ford actually played the character as human. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter whether we \"know\" if Deck-a-Rep or Deck-a-Human as this is just part of the bigger question explored in the movie, i.e. \"what is human?\". In fact it adds an extra layer that would be destroyed if it actually were made explicit.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.173581600189209, "source": "search", "title": "BRmovie.com: Profiles: Rick Deckard" }, { "answer": "Harrison Ford", "passage": "Played by: Harrison Ford", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.248518943786621, "source": "search", "title": "Blade Runner / Characters - TV Tropes" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Alien: Resurrection", "passage": "Alien has been released in many home video formats and packages over the years. The first of these was a seventeen-minute Super-8 version for home projectionists. It was also released on both VHS and Betamax for rental, which grossed it an additional $40,300,000 in the United States alone. Several VHS releases were subsequently sold both singly and as boxed sets. LaserDisc and Videodisc versions followed, including deleted scenes and director commentary as bonus features. A VHS box set containing Alien and its sequels Aliens and Alien 3 was released in facehugger-shaped boxes, and included some of the deleted scenes from the Laserdisc editions. When Alien: Resurrection premiered in theaters, another set of the first three films was released including a Making of Alien: Resurrection tape. A few months later the set was re-released with the full version of Alien: Resurrection taking the place of the making-of video. Alien was released on DVD in 1999, both singly and, as The Alien Legacy, packaged with Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. This set, which was also released in a VHS version, included a commentary track by Ridley Scott. The first three films of the series have also been packaged as the Alien Triple Pack.", "precise_score": -2.1699419021606445, "rough_score": -4.185628890991211, "source": "wiki", "title": "Alien (film)" }, { "answer": "Alien: Resurrection", "passage": "The success of Alien led 20th Century Fox to finance three direct sequels over the next eighteen years, each by different writers and directors. Sigourney Weaver remained the only recurring actor through all four films, and the story of her character Ripley's encounters with the Aliens became the thematic thread running through the series. James Cameron's Aliens (1986) focused more on action and involved Ripley returning to the planetoid accompanied by marines to confront hordes of Aliens. David Fincher's Alien 3 (1992) had nihilistic tones and found her on a prison planet battling another Alien, ultimately sacrificing herself to prevent her employers from acquiring the creatures. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection (1997) saw Ripley resurrected through cloning to battle more Aliens even further in the future. ", "precise_score": 0.1944197416305542, "rough_score": -2.281170606613159, "source": "wiki", "title": "Alien (film)" }, { "answer": "Alien: Resurrection", "passage": "The success of Alien spawned a media franchise of novels, comic books, video games, and toys. It also launched Weaver's acting career by providing her with her first lead role, and the story of her character Ripley's encounters with the Alien creatures became the thematic thread that ran through the sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997). A prequel series, which includes Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), continues in development. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.551920413970947, "source": "wiki", "title": "Alien (film)" }, { "answer": "Alien: Resurrection", "passage": "Alien: Resurrection (1997) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.342744827270508, "source": "search", "title": "Alien: Resurrection (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Alien: Resurrection", "passage": "Search for \" Alien: Resurrection \" on Amazon.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.383790969848633, "source": "search", "title": "Alien: Resurrection (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Alien: Resurrection", "passage": "With Alien 3 closing the story arc of the Alien trilogy, this film begins with a fresh slate. The Alien films have always been a director's series but in this film it was the writing that ultimately killed it. Resurrection tries to be too many things at once. It has a very artistic and dynamic visual style, but cardboard characters. It has a very overt sense of humor, but it is all done in a very juvenile manner. Much of the maturity and restraint of the previous three films is thrown out in favor of a more comic book style. The cinematography and set design is gorgeous to the point of decadence. Sigourney Weaver has been given an interesting character to play and does it with a strange sense of detachment that lends more depth to the proceedings than the script ever could. Thinking back, the first three films all had very solid overall stories and well developed characters while Resurrection has a very solid concept but can't seem to build a coherent movie around it. If you follow the overall themes of the series with the first, second and third being birth, life, and death respectively that leaves Resurrection on shaky thematic ground. Since this is Alien: RESURRECTION obviously the filmmakers wished for rebirth to be the theme, but somehow it never quite works. The characters are basically action movie clichés, and the action sequences of the movie are hopelessly contrived. Why does the Alien always stop to snarl before it attacks giving people just enough time to shoot it? Alien 3 did not have this problem and it reinforced how dangerous the creature really was. Resurrection turns the Aliens into monsters from a B-movie. Very few scenes in the film are particularly memorable. Sure, the underwater chase is a nice bit of action derring-do, but there's no real sense of danger...except for the supporting characters you barely know who get killed in the reverse order they appear in the credits. Two fantastic scenes that I wish there were more of in the film are the doctor's examination of the Aliens where he \"plays\" with them. Now that was a scene of inspired genius. The other scene was when Ripley wakes up in her circular chamber. It is interesting to note that neither of these scenes have any dialogue, because the dialogue is pretty atrocious. Ron Pearlman is always fun to watch and makes a good comic duo with Dominique Pinon, but Winona Ryder absolutely kills this movie with her nonperformance. The effects look less realistic this time out and the score at times seems to try too hard to emulate the second and third films with Goldsmith's original Alien theme being used on several occasions. The film is a brilliant exercise in dynamic visuals but the story really does not go anywhere. Unlike the first three films this one does not take itself seriously at all so the danger level becomes nonexistent. I believe Jean-Pierre Jeunet was an excellent choice for a director but the script served him very badly. This is an interesting film to watch for an interesting scene here and there but not in the same league as the previous films.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.993275165557861, "source": "search", "title": "Alien: Resurrection (1997) - IMDb" } ]

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[ { "answer": "II", "passage": "The success of the critically acclaimed sequel, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, reversed the fortunes of the franchise. While the sequel grossed less than the first movie, The Wrath of Khans lower production costs made it net more profit. Paramount produced six Star Trek feature films between 1979 and 1991. In response to the popularity of Star Trek feature films, the franchise returned to television with Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) in 1987. Paramount chose to distribute it as a first-run syndication show rather than a network show.", "precise_score": 6.329045295715332, "rough_score": 6.638665199279785, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the second film based on Star Trek, and is a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). The plot features Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise facing off against the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán), a character who first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek television series episode \"Space Seed\". When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. The film concludes with the death of Spock (Leonard Nimoy), beginning a story arc that continues with the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and concludes with 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.", "precise_score": 6.857170104980469, "rough_score": 8.234537124633789, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The Wrath of Khan was released in North America on June 4, 1982. It was a box office success, earning US$97 million worldwide and setting a world record for first-day box office gross. Critical reaction to the film was positive; reviewers highlighted Khan, the film's pacing, and the character interactions as strong elements. Negative reaction focused on weak special effects and some of the acting. The Wrath of Khan is considered by some to be the best film of the Star Trek series, and is credited with renewing substantial interest in the franchise.", "precise_score": 4.954745292663574, "rough_score": 6.163100242614746, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "The Reliants first officer and a former Enterprise crewmember. During filming, Kelley noted that Chekov never met Khan in \"Space Seed\" (Koenig had not yet joined the cast), and thus Khan recognizing Chekov on Ceti Alpha did not make sense. Star Trek books have tried to rationalize this discrepancy; in the film's novelization by Vonda N. McIntyre, Chekov is \"an ensign assigned to the night watch\" during \"Space Seed\" and met Khan in an off-screen scene. The non-canonical novel To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh explains the error by having Chekov escort Khan to the surface of Ceti Alpha after the events of the television episode. The real cause of the error was a simple oversight by the filmmakers. Meyer defended the mistake by noting that Arthur Conan Doyle made similar oversights in his Sherlock Holmes stories. Chekov's screaming while being infested by the Ceti eel led Koenig to jokingly dub the film Star Trek II: Chekov Screams Again, in reference to a similar screaming scene in The Motion Picture. Paul Winfield plays Reliant captain Clark Terrell; Meyer had seen Winfield's work in films such as Sounder and wanted to direct him. Meyer thought in retrospect that the Ceti eel scenes might have been corny, but felt that Winfield's performance helped add gravity.", "precise_score": -2.0827701091766357, "rough_score": -5.181990146636963, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "Bennett realized he faced a serious challenge in developing the new Star Trek movie, partly due to his never having seen the television show. To compensate, Bennett watched all the original episodes. This immersion convinced Bennett that what the first movie lacked was a real villain; after seeing the episode \"Space Seed\", he decided that the character of Khan Noonien Singh was the perfect enemy for the new film. Before the script was settled upon, Bennett gathered his production staff. He selected Robert Sallin, a director of television commercials and a college friend, to produce the film. Sallin's job would be to produce Star Trek II quickly and cheaply. Bennett also hired Michael Minor as art director to shape the direction of the film.", "precise_score": -1.7391619682312012, "rough_score": -5.177789211273193, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Bennett wrote his first film treatment in November 1980. In his version, entitled The War of the Generations, Kirk investigates a rebellion on a distant world and discovers that his son is the leader of the rebels. Khan is the mastermind behind the plot, and Kirk and son join forces to defeat the tyrant. Bennett then hired Jack B. Sowards, an avid Star Trek fan, to turn his outline into a film-able script. Sowards wrote an initial script before a writer's strike in 1981. Sowards' draft, The Omega Syndrome, involved the theft of the Federation's ultimate weapon, the \"Omega system\". Sowards was concerned that his weapon was too negative, and Bennett wanted something more uplifting \"and as fundamental in the 23rd century as recombinant DNA is in our time\", Minor recalled. Minor suggested to Bennett that the device be turned into a terraforming tool instead. At the story conference the next day, Bennett hugged Minor and declared that he had saved Star Trek. In recognition of the Biblical power of the weapon, Sowards renamed the \"Omega system\" to the \"Genesis Device\".", "precise_score": -2.5945277214050293, "rough_score": -5.215895652770996, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "Meyer attempted to change the look of Star Trek to match the nautical atmosphere he envisioned and stay within budget. The Enterprise, for example, was given a ship's bell, boatswain's call, and more blinking lights and signage. To save money on set design, production designer Joseph Jennings used existing elements from The Motion Picture that had been left standing after filming was completed. Sixty-five percent of the film was shot on the same set; the bridge of the Reliant and the \"bridge simulator\" from the opening scene were redresses of the Enterprises bridge. The Klingon bridge from The Motion Picture was redressed as the transporter and torpedo rooms. The filmmakers stretched The Wrath of Khans budget by reusing models and footage from the first Star Trek film, including footage of the Enterprise in spacedock. The original ship miniatures were used where possible, or modified to stand in as new constructions. The orbital office complex from The Motion Picture was inverted and retouched to become the Regula I space station. Elements of the cancelled Star Trek: Phase II television show, such as bulkheads, railings, and sets, were cannibalized and reused. A major concern for the designers was that the Reliant should be easily distinguishable from the Enterprise. The ship's design was flipped after Bennett accidentally opened and approved the preliminary Reliant designs upside-down.", "precise_score": -0.3793218433856964, "rough_score": -2.30417537689209, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Principal photography began on November 9, 1981, and ended on January 29, 1982. The Wrath of Khan was more action-oriented than its predecessor, but less costly to make. The project was supervised by Paramount's television unit rather than its theatrical division. Bennett, a respected television veteran, made The Wrath of Khan on a budget of $11 million—far less than The Motion Pictures $46 million. The budget was initially lower at $8.5 million, but it rose when the producers were impressed by the first two weeks of footage. Meyer used camera and set tricks to spare the construction of large and expensive sets. For a scene taking place at Starfleet Academy, a forced perspective was created by placing scenery close to the camera to give the sense the set was larger than it really was. To present the illusion that the Enterprises elevators moved between decks, corridor pieces were wheeled out of sight to change the hall configuration while the lift doors were closed. Background equipment such as computer terminals were rented when possible instead of purchased outright. Some designed props, such as a redesigned phaser and communicator, were vetoed by Paramount executives in favor of existing materials from The Motion Picture.", "precise_score": 1.4994391202926636, "rough_score": 4.007434368133545, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "With a short timeframe to complete The Wrath of Khans special effects sequences, effects supervisor Jim Veilleux, Meyer, Jennings, Sallin, and Minor worked to transform the written ideas for the script into concrete storyboards and visuals. The detailed sequences were essential to keep the film's effects from spiraling out of control and driving up costs, as had occurred with The Motion Picture. Each special and optical effect, and the duration of the sequences, was listed. By the end of six weeks, the producers determined the basic look and construction of nearly all the effects; the resulting shots were combined with film footage five months later. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) produced many of the effects, and created the new models; the Reliant was the first non-Constitution-class Federation starship seen in the series. Originally, the Reliant was supposed to be a Constitution-class starship identical to the Enterprise, but it was felt audiences would have difficulty distinguishing between the two ships. As the script called for the Reliant and Enterprise to inflict significant damage on each other, ILM developed techniques to illustrate the damage without physically harming the models. Rather than move the models on a bluescreen during shooting, the VistaVision camera was panned and tracked to give the illusion of movement. Damage to the Enterprise was cosmetic, and simulated with pieces of aluminum that were colored or peeled off. Phaser damage was created using stop motion. The script called for large-scale damage to the Reliant, so larger versions of the ship's model were created to be blown up.", "precise_score": 0.8145293593406677, "rough_score": 0.549012303352356, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "The Wrath of Khan follows in a long tradition of films in which the adventurer or explorer must undergo a figurative or literal death to start anew. Spock is Kirk's doppelgänger and together they represent a bifurcated hero, with the two characters representing dueling halves of the human condition. Spock represents the supernatural ideal of a completely logical and infallible person, while Kirk represents the impassioned and human reality, prone to error and at odds with himself. Spock's sacrifice at the end of the film allows for Kirk's spiritual rebirth in the tradition of the death-rebirth cycle. After commenting earlier that he feels old and worn out, Kirk states in the final scene that \"I feel young.\" The Kobayashi Maru test forces its participants to confront an unwinnable situation which serves as a test of character, but Kirk reveals that he won the test by cheating; Saavik responds that Kirk has never faced death. Spock's own solution to the no-win scenario, that of self-sacrifice, forces Kirk to confront death after continually cheating it, and to grow as a character. Sight and sound reinforce the themes of death and aging, as well as the promise of rebirth; Spock is the first character seen and his voice is the last heard, and his coffin follows the same trajectory towards the new planet as the Genesis Device does in a video lecture earlier in the film. The principle of sacrificing the needs of the one for those of the many was translated to modern triage via the 'Spock principle'. ", "precise_score": 0.1698465347290039, "rough_score": -0.41821902990341187, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The Wrath of Khan opened on June 4, 1982 in 1,621 theaters in the United States. It made $14,347,221 in its opening weekend, at the time the largest opening weekend gross in history. It went on to earn $78,912,963 in the US, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 1982. It made $97,000,000 worldwide. Although the total gross of The Wrath of Khan was less than that of The Motion Picture, it was more profitable due to its lower production cost. The film's novelization, written by Vonda N. McIntyre, stayed on the New York Times paperback bestsellers list for more than three weeks. Unlike the previous film, Wrath of Khan was not promoted with a toy line, although Playmates Toys created Khan and Saavik figures in the 1990s, and in 2007 Art Asylum crafted a full series of action figures to mark the film's 25th anniversary. In 2009 IDW Publishing released a comic adaptation of the film, and Film Score Monthly released an expanded score. ", "precise_score": 1.688798189163208, "rough_score": 5.695847988128662, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The film's pacing was praised by reviewers in The New York Times and The Washington Post as being much swifter than its predecessor and closer to that of the television series. Janet Maslin of The New York Times credited the film with a stronger story than The Motion Picture and stated the sequel was everything the first film should have been. Variety agreed that The Wrath of Khan was closer to the original spirit of Star Trek than its predecessor. Strong character interaction was cited as a strong feature of the film, as was Montalbán's portrayal of Khan. In 2016, Playboy ranked the film number four on its list of 15 Sequels That Are Way Better Than The Originals. ", "precise_score": 5.033474922180176, "rough_score": 6.396409034729004, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The Wrath of Khan won two Saturn Awards in 1982, for best actor (Shatner) and best direction (Meyer). The film was also nominated in the \"best dramatic presentation\" category for the 1983 Hugo Awards, but lost to Blade Runner. The Wrath of Khan has influenced later movies: Meyer's rejected title for the film, The Undiscovered Country, was finally put to use when Meyer directed the sixth film, which retained the nautical influences. Director Bryan Singer cited the film as an influence on X2 and his abandoned sequel to Superman Returns. The film is also a favorite of director J. J. Abrams, producer Damon Lindelof and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the creative team behind the franchise relaunch film Star Trek. ", "precise_score": 4.480878829956055, "rough_score": 5.102988243103027, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Paramount released The Wrath of Khan on VHS and Beta in 1983. The studio sold the VHS for $39.95, $40 below contemporary movie cassette prices. It needed to sell 60,000 tapes to make the film as profitable as other tapes, but sold 120,000. The successful experiment was credited with instigating more competitive VHS pricing, an increase in the adoption of increasingly cheaper VHS players, and an industry-wide move away from rentals to sales as the bulk of videotape revenue. ", "precise_score": 0.24295440316200256, "rough_score": 1.9342633485794067, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Paramount released The Wrath of Khan on DVD in 2000; no special features were included on the disc. Montalbán drew hundreds of fans of the film to Universal City, California where he signed copies of the DVD to commemorate its release. In August 2002, the film was re-released in a highly anticipated two-disc \"Director's Edition\" format. In addition to remastered picture quality and 5.1 Dolby surround sound, the DVD set included director commentary, cast interviews, storyboards and the theatrical trailer. The expanded cut of the film was given a Hollywood premiere before the release of the DVD. Meyer stated that he didn't believe directors' cuts of films were necessarily better than the original but that the re-release gave him a chance to add elements that had been removed from the theatrical release by Paramount. The four hours of bonus content and expanded director's cut were favorably received. ", "precise_score": 0.9063302278518677, "rough_score": 1.6133670806884766, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The film's original theatrical cut was released on Blu-ray Disc in May 2009 to coincide with the new Star Trek feature, along with the other five films featuring the original crew in Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection. Of all six original films, Wrath of Khan was the only one to be remastered in 1080p high-definition from the original negative. Nicholas Meyer stated that the Wrath of Khan negative \"was in terrible shape,\" which is why it needed extensive restoration. All six films in the set have new 7.1 Dolby TrueHD audio. The disc also features a new commentary track by director Nicholas Meyer and Star Trek: Enterprise showrunner Manny Coto. 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Apparently, the studios were adamantly against this idea, and instead wanted to call the movie The Vengeance of Khan. At the time, the third Star Wars film was still know as Revenge of the Jedi, a point which Meyer made to the studio. (Reportedly, he also didn’t care for the Vengeance title.) In the end, it was changed to The Wrath of Khan, to avoid the Vengeance/Revenge problem, which didn’t matter with the re-titled Return of the Jedi. According to the same book, Meyer didn’t like that title either. 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It didn’t lose its dramatic momentum like TMP. TWOK was more than just action thought. It had ideas. Revenge. The limits of science. Sacrifice. Aging. Friendship.", "precise_score": 3.497751474380493, "rough_score": 6.259886741638184, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "I am so jealous of the people near the Alamo Drafthouse showing it on the big screen. We have a wonderful classic movie palace near, and I emailed them to please consider “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” for their summer film series due to the 30th anniversary. I received a very nice reply stating “unfortunately we are not able to get the film to show. As you know if is very difficult to get the permission to show the films from GEORGE LUCAS!!!!! 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Four spin-off television series were eventually produced: Star Trek: The Next Generation followed the crew of a new starship Enterprise set a century after the original series; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, set contemporaneously with The Next Generation; and Star Trek: Enterprise, set before the original series, in the early days of human interstellar travel. Four additional The Next Generation feature films were produced. In 2009, the film franchise underwent a \"reboot\" set in an alternate timeline, the \"Kelvin Timeline\", titled simply Star Trek. This film featured a new cast portraying younger versions of the crew from the original show. A sequel to that film, Star Trek Into Darkness, premiered on May 16, 2013. A thirteenth film feature and sequel, Star Trek Beyond, was released in July 2016, to coincide with the franchise's 50th anniversary. A new Star Trek TV series, titled Star Trek: Discovery, will premiere in January 2017 on the digital platform CBS All Access.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.583380222320557, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Star Trek has been a cult phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called Trekkies or Trekkers. The franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek had a themed attraction in Las Vegas that opened in 1998 and closed in September 2008. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. The series has its own full-fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek. In addition, viewers have produced several fan productions.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.301914215087891, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science-fiction series that would become Star Trek. Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called \"Wagon Train to the Stars\" (like the popular Western TV series) —he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two levels: as a suspenseful adventure story and as a morality tale. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.454891681671143, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Many of the conflicts and political dimensions of Star Trek represent allegories of contemporary cultural realities. Star Trek: The Original Series addressed issues of the 1960s, just as later spin-offs have reflected issues of their respective decades. Issues depicted in the various series include war and peace, the value of personal loyalty, authoritarianism, imperialism, class warfare, economics, racism, religion, human rights, sexism, feminism, and the role of technology. Roddenberry stated: \"[By creating] a new world with new rules, I could make statements about sex, religion, Vietnam, politics, and intercontinental missiles. Indeed, we did make them on Star Trek: we were sending messages and fortunately they all got by the network.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.21397876739502, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Roddenberry intended the show to have a progressive political agenda reflective of the emerging counter-culture of the youth movement, though he was not fully forthcoming to the networks about this. He wanted Star Trek to show humanity what it might develop into, if it would learn from the lessons of the past, most specifically by ending violence. An extreme example is the alien species, the Vulcans, who had a violent past but learned to control their emotions. Roddenberry also gave Star Trek an anti-war message and depicted the United Federation of Planets as an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations. His efforts were opposed by the network because of concerns over marketability, e.g., they opposed Roddenberry's insistence that the Enterprise have a racially diverse crew.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.334087371826172, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The first regular episode (\"The Man Trap\") of Star Trek: The Original Series aired on Thursday, September 8, 1966. While the show initially enjoyed high ratings, the average rating of the show at the end of its first season dropped to 52nd (out of 94 programs).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.494508743286133, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Unhappy with the show's ratings, NBC threatened to cancel the show during its second season. The show's fan base, led by Bjo Trimble, conducted an unprecedented letter-writing campaign, petitioning the network to keep the show on the air. NBC renewed the show, but moved it from primetime to the \"Friday night death slot\", and substantially reduced its budget. In protest Roddenberry resigned as producer and reduced his direct involvement in Star Trek, which led to Fred Freiberger becoming producer for the show's third and final season.Roddenberry did, however, co-author two scripts for the third season. Despite another letter-writing campaign, NBC cancelled the series after three seasons and 79 episodes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.845099449157715, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "One sign of the series' growing popularity was the first Star Trek convention which occurred on January 21–23, 1972 in New York City. Although the original estimate of attendees was only a few hundred, several thousand fans turned up. Star Trek fans continue to attend similar conventions worldwide.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.854846000671387, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "The series' newfound success led to the idea of reviving the franchise. Filmation with Paramount Television produced the first post original series show, Star Trek: The Animated Series. It ran on NBC for 22 half-hour episodes over two seasons on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1974. Although short-lived, typical for animated productions in that time slot during that period, the series garnered the franchise's only \"Best Series\" Emmy Award as opposed to the franchise's later technical ones. Paramount Pictures and Roddenberry began developing a new series, Star Trek: Phase II, in May 1975 in response to the franchise's newfound popularity. Work on the series ended, however, when the proposed Paramount Television Service folded.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.949536323547363, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "Following the success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Paramount adapted the planned pilot episode of Phase II into the feature film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The film opened in North America on December 7, 1979, with mixed reviews from critics. The film earned $139 million worldwide, below expectations but enough for Paramount to create a sequel. The studio forced Roddenberry to relinquish creative control of future sequels.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.402246475219727, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Following Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Roddenberry's role was changed from producer to creative consultant with minimal input to the films while being heavily involved with the creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Roddenberry died on October 24, 1991, giving executive producer Rick Berman control of the franchise. Star Trek had become known to those within Paramount as \"the franchise\", because of its great success and recurring role as a tent pole for the studio when other projects failed. TNG had the highest ratings of any Star Trek series and became the #1 syndicated show during the last years of its original seven-season run. In response to TNG's success, Paramount released a spin-off series Deep Space Nine in 1993. While never as popular as TNG, the series had sufficient ratings for it to last seven seasons.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.026644229888916, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "In January 1995, a few months after TNG ended, Paramount released a fourth TV series, Voyager. Star Trek saturation reached a peak in the mid-1990s with DS9 and Voyager airing concurrently and three of the four TNG-based feature films released in 1994, 1996, and 1998. By 1998, Star Trek was Paramount's most important property; the enormous profits of \"the franchise\" funded much of the rest of the studio's operations. Voyager became the flagship show of the new United Paramount Network (UPN) and thus the first major network Star Trek series since the original. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.77200174331665, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "After Voyager ended, UPN produced Enterprise, a prequel TV series to the original show. Enterprise did not enjoy the high ratings of its predecessors and UPN threatened to cancel it after the series' third season. Fans launched a campaign reminiscent of the one that saved the third season of the Original Series. Paramount renewed Enterprise for a fourth season, but moved it to the Friday night death slot. Like the Original Series, Enterprise ratings dropped during this time slot, and UPN cancelled Enterprise at the end of its fourth season. Enterprise aired its final episode on May 13, 2005. Fan groups, \"Save Enterprise\", attempted to save the series and tried to raise $30 million to privately finance a fifth season of Enterprise. Though the effort garnered considerable press, the fan drive failed to save the series. The cancellation of Enterprise ended an eighteen-year continuous production run of Star Trek programming on television. The poor box office performance in 2002 of the film Nemesis, cast an uncertain light upon the future of the franchise. Paramount relieved Berman, the franchise producer, of control of Star Trek.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.873563766479492, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "2009 \"reboot\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.455764770507812, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Paramount turned down several proposals in the mid-2000s to restart the franchise. These included pitches from film director Bryan Singer, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, and Trek actors Jonathan Frakes and William Shatner. The studio also turned down an animated web series. Instead, Paramount hired a new creative team to reinvigorate the franchise in 2007. Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and Lost producer, J. J. Abrams, had the freedom to reinvent the feel of Trek.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.526506423950195, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The team created the franchise's eleventh film, titled simply Star Trek, releasing it in May 2009. The film featured a new cast portraying the crew of the original show. Star Trek was a prequel of the original series set in an alternate timeline, known as the \"Kelvin Timeline\". This gave the film and future sequels to it freedom from the need to conform to the franchise's canonical timeline. The eleventh Star Trek film's marketing campaign targeted non-fans, even stating in the film's advertisements that \"this is not your father's Star Trek\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.390295028686523, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The film earned considerable critical and financial success, grossing in inflation-adjusted dollars more box office sales than any previous Star Trek film. The plaudits include the franchise's first Academy Award (for makeup). The film's major cast members are contracted for two sequels. Paramount's sequel to the 2009 film, Star Trek Into Darkness, premiered in Sydney, Australia on April 23, 2013, but the film did not release in the United States until May 17, 2013. While the film was not as successful in the North American box office as its predecessor, internationally, in terms of box office receipts, Into Darkness was the most successful of the franchise. A thirteenth film entitled Star Trek Beyond was released on July 22, 2016. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.081539154052734, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Star Trek will return to subscription-television in January 2017. The new series, titled Star Trek: Discovery, will be the first series produced specifically for CBS All Access. Episodes will also be available on Netflix within 24 hours of their U.S. premieres. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.456426620483398, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Six television series make up the bulk of the Star Trek mythos: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. All the different versions in total amount to 726 Star Trek episodes across the 30 seasons of the TV series.This episode count includes the animated series, and the original pilot, \"The Cage\". Two part episodes that were not originally aired at the same time are considered two separate episodes. Ten feature-length episodes were originally aired as two-hour presentations and are sometimes considered single episodes, however in this count they too are seen as two individual episodes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.952855110168457, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The Star Trek wiki Memory Alpha differs from the count listed because it includes the feature films in its total and it uses the method that counts feature-length episodes as single episodes. This makes that wiki's total release count 728.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.16294002532959, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Star Trek: The Original Series or \"TOS\"Originally titled Star Trek, it has in recent years become known as Star Trek: The Original Series or as \"Classic Star Trek\"—retronyms that distinguish it from its sequels and the franchise as a whole. debuted in the United States on NBC on September 8, 1966. The show tells the tale of the crew of the starship Enterprise and its five-year mission \"to boldly go where no man has gone before.\" The original 1966–1969 television series featured William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard \"Bones\" McCoy, James Doohan as Montgomery \"Scotty\" Scott, Nichelle Nichols as Uhura, George Takei as Hikaru Sulu, and Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov. During the series' original run, it earned several nominations for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and won twice: for the two-parter \"The Menagerie\" and the Harlan Ellison-written episode \"The City on the Edge of Forever\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.224006175994873, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Star Trek: The Animated Series, produced by Filmation, ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974. Most of the original cast performed the voices of their characters from The Original Series, and many of the writers who worked on The Original Series, D. C. Fontana, David Gerrold, and Paul Schneider, wrote for the series. While the animated format allowed the producers to create more exotic alien landscapes and life forms, animation errors and liberal reuse of shots and musical cues have tarnished the series' reputation. Although it was originally sanctioned by Paramount, which owned the Star Trek franchise following its acquisition of Desilu in 1967, Gene Roddenberry often spoke of TAS as non-canon. Star Trek writers have used elements of the animated series in later live-action series and movies, and , the Animated Series has references in the library section of the official Startrek.com web site officially bringing the series into the franchise's main canon.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.105770111083984, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The Animated Series won Star Treks first Emmy Award on May 15, 1975. Star Trek TAS briefly returned to television in the mid-1980s on the children's cable network Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon's Evan McGuire greatly admired the show and used its various creative components as inspiration for his short series called Piggly Wiggly Hears A Sound which never aired. Nickelodeon parent Viacom would purchase Paramount in 1994. In the early 1990s, the Sci-Fi Channel also began rerunning TAS. The complete TAS was also released on Laserdisc format during the 1980s. The complete series was first released in the USA on eleven volumes of VHS tapes in 1989. All 22 episodes were released on DVD in 2006.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.300203800201416, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Star Trek: The Next Generation, also known as \"TNG\", takes place about a century after The Original Series (2364–2370). It features a new starship, the Enterprise-D, and a new crew led by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes). Some crewmembers represent new alien races, including Deanna Troi, a half-Betazoid counselor played by Marina Sirtis. Michael Dorn plays Worf, the first Klingon officer in Starfleet, alongside Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher, LeVar Burton as chief engineer Geordi La Forge, the android Data portrayed by Brent Spiner, and Dr. Crusher's son Wesley Crusher played by Wil Wheaton. The show premiered on September 28, 1987, and ran for seven seasons, ending on May 23, 1994. It had the highest ratings of any of the Star Trek series and became the #1 syndicated show during the last few years of its original run, allowing it to act as a springboard for ideas in other series. Many relationships and races introduced in TNG became the basis of episodes in Deep Space 9 and Voyager. During its run it earned several Emmy awards and nominations – including a nomination for Best Dramatic Series during its final season – two Hugo Awards and a Peabody Award for Outstanding Television Programming for the episode \"The Big Goodbye\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.8913655281066895, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, also known as \"DS9\", takes place during the last years and the immediate post-years of The Next Generation (2369–2375) and aired for seven seasons, debuting the week of January 3, 1993. Like Star Trek: The Next Generation, it aired in syndication in the United States and Canada. Unlike the other Star Trek series, DS9 takes place primarily on a space station rather than aboard a starship.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.0266242027282715, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Voyager (1995–2001)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.332781791687012, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Star Trek: Voyager ran for seven seasons, airing from January 16, 1995, to May 23, 2001, launching a new Paramount-owned television network UPN. It features Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, the first female commanding officer in a leading role of a Star Trek series, and Commander Chakotay, played by Robert Beltran.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.461012840270996, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Voyager takes place at about the same time period as Deep Space Nine and the years following that show's end (2371–2378). The premiere episode has the USS Voyager and its crew pursue a Maquis (Federation rebels) ship. Both ships become stranded in the Delta Quadrant about 70,000 light-years from Earth. Faced with a 75-year voyage to Earth, the crew must learn to work together to overcome challenges on their long and perilous journey home while also seeking ways to shorten the voyage. Like Deep Space Nine, early seasons of Voyager feature more conflict between its crewmembers than seen in later episodes. Such conflict often arises from friction between \"by-the-book\" Starfleet crew and rebellious Maquis fugitives forced by circumstance to work together on Voyager. Eventually, though, they settle their differences, after which the overall tone becomes more reminiscent of The Original Series. The starship Voyager, isolated from its home, faces new cultures and dilemmas not possible in shows based in the Alpha Quadrant. Later seasons, however, brought an influx of characters and cultures from prior shows, the Borg, Q, the Ferengi, Romulans, Klingons, Cardassians and cast members of The Next Generation.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.363398551940918, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Enterprise (2001–05)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.408683776855469, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Star Trek: Enterprise, originally titled Enterprise, is a prequel to the original Star Trek series. It aired from September 26, 2001 to May 13, 2005. Enterprise takes place in the 2150s, some 90 years after the events of Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight and about a decade before the founding of the Federation. The show centers on the voyages of Earth's first warp-five capable starship, the Enterprise, commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer (played by Scott Bakula), and the Vulcan Sub-Commander T'Pol (played by Jolene Blalock).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.326633453369141, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "During the show's first two seasons, Enterprise featured self-contained episodes, like The Original Series, The Next Generation and Voyager. The third season consisted of one arc, \"Xindi mission\", which had a darker tone and serialized nature similar to that of Deep Space 9. Season 4 consisted of several two to three episode mini-arcs. The final season showed the origins of elements seen in earlier series, and it rectified and resolved some core continuity problems between the various Star Trek series. Ratings for Enterprise started strong but declined rapidly. Although critics received the fourth season well, both fans and the cast reviled the series finale, partly because of the episode's focus on the guest appearance of members of The Next Generation cast. The cancellation of Enterprise ended an 18-year run of back-to-back new Star Trek shows beginning with The Next Generation in 1987.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.00578784942627, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Discovery (2017–)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.389704704284668, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "On November 2, 2015, it was announced that a new Star Trek TV series is in development by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman. The new series will premiere on CBS All Access in January 2017. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.64350700378418, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Paramount Pictures has produced thirteen Star Trek feature films, the most recent being released in July 2016.[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2660888/] The first six films continue the adventures of the cast of The Original Series; the seventh film, Generations was designed as a transition from that cast to The Next Generation television series; the next three films, 8–10, focused completely on the Next Generation cast.Film titles of the North American and UK releases of the films no longer contained the number of the film following the sixth film (the sixth was Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country but the seventh was Star Trek Generations). However, European releases continued using numbers in the film titles until Nemesis. The eleventh and twelfth films take place in an alternate timeline from the rest of the franchise set with a new cast playing the original series characters, and with Leonard Nimoy as an elderly Spock providing a physical link to the original timeline. This alternate timeline has been named by CBS, for the computer came Star Trek Online , the Kelvin Timeline. Star Trek, Into Darkness, and Beyond occur in a separate timeline from the rest of the series. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.199290752410889, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Prolific Star Trek novelists include Peter David, Diane Carey, Keith R. A. DeCandido, J. M. Dillard, Diane Duane, Michael Jan Friedman, and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Several actors from the television series have also written or co-written books featuring their respective characters: William Shatner, John de Lancie, Andrew J. Robinson, J. G. Hertzler and Armin Shimerman. Voyager producer Jeri Taylor wrote two novels featuring back story for Voyager characters, and screen authors David Gerrold, D. C. Fontana, and Melinda Snodgrass have penned books, as well.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.34499454498291, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "A scholarly book published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2014 discusses the actualization of Star Treks holodeck in the future by making extensive use of artificial intelligence and cyborgs. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.363874435424805, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Star Trek-based comics have been almost continuously published since 1967. They have been offered by several companies, including Marvel, DC, Malibu, Wildstorm, and Gold Key. Tokyopop is publishing an anthology of Next Generation-based stories presented in the style of Japanese manga. , IDW Publishing secured publishing rights to Star Trek comics and published a prequel to the 2009 film, Star Trek: Countdown. In 2012, they published Volume I of Star Trek – The Newspaper Strip featuring the work of Thomas Warkentin. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.847816467285156, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "On June 8, 2010, Wiz Kids Games, which is owned by NECA, announced that they are developing a Star Trek collectible miniatures game using the HeroClix game system. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.961161613464355, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "In 2013, Star Trek Magazine was a significant publication from the U.K. which was sold at newsstands and also via subscription. Other magazines through the years included professional magazines as well as magazines produced by fans, referred to as \"fanzines\". Star Trek: The Magazine was a magazine published in the U.S. which ceased publication in 2003.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.662307739257812, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The Star Trek franchise inspired some designers of technologies, the Palm PDA and the handheld mobile phone. Michael Jones, Chief technologist of Google Earth, has cited the tricorder's mapping capability as one inspiration in the development of Keyhole/Google Earth. The Tricorder X Prize, a contest to build a medical tricorder device was announced in 2012. Ten finalists have been selected in 2014, and the winner will be selected in January 2016. Star Trek also brought teleportation to popular attention with its depiction of \"matter-energy transport\", with the famously misquoted phrase \"Beam me up, Scotty\" entering the vernacular. The Star Trek replicator is credited in the scientific literature with inspiring the field of diatom nanotechnology. In 1976, following a letter-writing campaign, NASA named its prototype space shuttle Enterprise, after the fictional starship. Later, the introductory sequence to Star Trek: Enterprise included footage of this shuttle which, along with images of a naval sailing vessel called the Enterprise, depicted the advancement of human transportation technology.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.00798511505127, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Star Trek has been blended with Gilbert and Sullivan at least twice. The North Toronto Players presented a Star Trek adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan titled H.M.S. Starship Pinafore: The Next Generation in 1991 and an adaptation by Jon Mullich of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore that sets the operetta in the world of Star Trek has played in Los Angeles and was attended by series luminaries Nichelle Nichols, D.C. Fontana and David Gerrold. A similar blend of Gilbert and Sullivan and Star Trek was presented as a benefit concert in San Francisco by the Lamplighters in 2009. The show was titled Star Drek: The Generation After That. It presented an original story with Gilbert and Sullivan melodies. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.89786958694458, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "In August 2010, the members of the Internal Revenue Service created a Star Trek themed training video for a conference. Revealed to the public in 2013, the spoof along with parodies of other media franchises was cited as an example of the misuse of taxpayer funds in a congressional investigation. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.783392906188965, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Although Star Trek has been off the air since 2005, CBS and Paramount pictures have allowed fan-produced shows to be created. While not officially part of the Star Trek universe, several veteran Star Trek actors, actresses, and writers have contributed their talents to many of these productions. While none of these films have been created for profit, several fan productions have turned to crowdfunding from sites, such as Kickstarter to help with production costs. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.519219398498535, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "Two series set during the TOS time period are Star Trek Continues and the Hugo award nominated Star Trek: Phase II. Another series, Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, takes place on the Briar Patch, a region of space introduced in Star Trek Insurrection. It has had over 50 episodes produced, and has two spin-off series, Star Trek: Odyssey and Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles. Several standalone fan films have been created including Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. Future fan films include Star Trek: Axanar.Kickstarter[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/194429923/star-trek-prelude-to-axanar Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar]Prelude to Axanar features some well known actors portraying both new and familiar characters in the Star Trek universe. Audio only fan productions includes Star Trek: The Continuing Mission. Several fan film parodies have also been created.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.425562858581543, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Of the various science fiction awards for drama, only the Hugo Award dates back as far as the original series.Although the Hugo Award is mainly given for print-media science fiction, its \"best drama\" award is usually given to film or television presentations. The Hugo does not give out awards for best actor, director, or other aspects of film production. Before 2002, films and television series competed for the same Hugo, before the split of the drama award into short drama and long drama. In 1968, all five nominees for a Hugo Award were individual episodes of Star Trek, as were three of the five nominees in 1967.The other two films nominated for the Hugo in 1967 were the films Fahrenheit 451 and Fantastic Voyage. The only Star Trek series not even to get a Hugo nomination are the animated series and Voyager, though only the original series and Next Generation ever won the award. No Star Trek feature film has ever won a Hugo, though a few were nominated. In 2008, the fan-made episode of Star Trek: New Voyages entitled \"World Enough and Time\" was nominated for the Hugo for Best Short Drama. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.686811447143555, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The two Star Trek series to win multiple Saturn awards during their run were The Next Generation (twice winning for best television series) and Voyager (twice winning for best actress – Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan).The science fiction Saturn Awards did not exist during broadcasting of the original series. Unlike the Hugo, the Saturn Award gives out prizes for best actor, special effects and music, and also unlike the Hugo (until 2002) movies and television shows have never competed against each other for Saturns. The original series retroactively won a Saturn Award for best DVD release. Several Star Trek films have won Saturns including categories best actor, actress, director, costume design, and special effects. However, Star Trek has never won a Saturn for best make-up. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.18625545501709, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "As for non science fiction specific awards, the Star Trek series has won 31 Emmy Awards. The eleventh Star Trek film won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Makeup, the franchise's first Academy Award. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.78729248046875, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "At Star Treks creation, Norway Productions, Roddenberry's production company, shared ownership with Desilu Productions and, after Gulf+Western acquired Desilu in 1967, with Paramount Pictures, the conglomerate's film studio. Paramount did not want to own the unsuccessful show; net profit was to be shared between Norway, Desilu/Paramount, Shatner, and NBC but Star Trek lost money, and the studio did not expect to syndicate it. In 1970 Paramount offered to sell all rights to Star Trek to Roddenberry, but he could not afford the $150,000 ($ in 2007) price.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.477712631225586, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "In 1989, Gulf+Western renamed itself as Paramount Communications, and in 1994 merged with Viacom. In 2005, Viacom divided into CBS Corporation, whose CBS Television Studios subsidiary retained the Star Trek brand, and Viacom, whose Paramount Pictures subsidiary retained the Star Trek film library and rights to make additional films, along with video distribution rights to the TV series on behalf of CBS.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.67954683303833, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "After the lackluster critical and commercial response to The Motion Picture, series creator Gene Roddenberry was forced out of the sequel's production. Executive producer Harve Bennett wrote the film's original outline, which Jack B. Sowards developed into a full script. Director Nicholas Meyer completed the final script in 12 days, without accepting a writing credit. Meyer's approach evoked the swashbuckling atmosphere of the original series, and the theme was reinforced by James Horner's musical score. Nimoy had not intended to have a role in The Motion Pictures sequel, but was enticed back on the promise that his character would be given a dramatic death scene. Negative test audience reaction to Spock's death led to significant revisions of the ending over Meyer's objections. The production used various cost-cutting techniques to keep within budget, including utilizing miniatures from past projects and re-using sets, effects footage and costumes from the previous movie. Among the film's technical achievements is it being the first feature film to contain a complete sequence created entirely with computer-generated graphics.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.749408721923828, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "In the year 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk oversees a simulator session of Captain Spock's trainees. In the simulation, Lieutenant Saavik commands the starship USS Enterprise on a rescue mission to save the crew of the damaged ship Kobayashi Maru. When the Enterprise enters the Klingon Neutral Zone to reach the ship it is attacked by Klingon cruisers and critically damaged. The simulation is a no-win scenario designed to test the character of Starfleet officers. Later, Dr. McCoy joins Kirk on his birthday; seeing Kirk in low spirits, the doctor advises Kirk to get a new command and not grow old behind a desk.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.8949613571167, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Meanwhile, the USS Reliant is on a mission to search for a lifeless planet for testing of the Genesis Device, a technology designed to reorganize matter to create habitable worlds for colonization. Reliant officers Commander Pavel Chekov and Captain Clark Terrell beam down to the surface of a possible candidate planet, which they believe to be Ceti Alpha VI; once there, they are captured by genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh. The Enterprise discovered Khan's ship adrift in space 15 years previously; Kirk exiled Khan and his fellow supermen from 20th-century Earth to Ceti Alpha V after they attempted to take over the Enterprise. After they were marooned, Ceti Alpha VI exploded, shifting the orbit of Ceti Alpha V and destroying its ecosystem. Khan blames Kirk for the death of his wife and plans revenge. He implants Chekov and Terrell with indigenous creatures that enter the ears of their victims and render them susceptible to mind control, and uses the officers to capture the Reliant. Learning of Genesis, Khan attacks space station Regula I where the device is being developed by Kirk's former lover, Dr. Carol Marcus, and their son, David. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.477899551391602, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "The Enterprise embarks on a three-week training voyage. Kirk assumes command after the ship receives a distress call from Regula I. En route, the Enterprise is ambushed and crippled by the Reliant, leading to the deaths and injuries of many trainees. Khan hails the Enterprise and offers to spare Kirk's crew if they relinquish all material related to Genesis. Kirk stalls for time and uses the Reliants prefix code to remotely lower its shields, allowing the Enterprise to counter-attack. Khan is forced to retreat and effect repairs, while the Enterprise limps to Regula I. Kirk, McCoy, and Saavik beam to the station and find Terrell and Chekov alive, along with slaughtered members of Marcus's team. They soon find Carol and David hiding deep inside the planetoid of Regula. Khan, having used Terrell and Chekov as spies, orders them to kill Kirk; Terrell resists the eel's influence and kills himself while Chekov collapses as the eel leaves his body. Khan then transports Genesis aboard the Reliant. Though Khan believes his foe stranded on Regula I, Kirk and Spock use a coded message to arrange a rendezvous. Kirk directs the Enterprise into the nearby Mutara Nebula; static discharges inside the nebula render shields useless and compromise targeting systems, making the Enterprise and the Reliant evenly matched. Spock notes however that Khan's tactics are two-dimensional, indicating inexperience in space combat, which Kirk then exploits to critically disable the Reliant.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.517651557922363, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "After being alerted by McCoy, Kirk arrives in the engine room and discovers Spock dying of radiation poisoning. The two share a meaningful exchange in which Spock urges Kirk not to grieve, as his decision to sacrifice his own life to save those of the ship's crew is a logical one, before succumbing to his injuries. A space burial is held in the Enterprise's torpedo room and Spock's coffin is shot into orbit around the new planet. The crew leaves to pick up the Reliants marooned crew from Ceti Alpha V. Spock's coffin, having soft-landed, rests on the Genesis planet's surface. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.272326469421387, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Other characters include Kirstie Alley as Saavik, Spock's protege and a Starfleet commander-in-training aboard the Enterprise. The movie was Alley's first feature film role. Saavik cries during Spock's funeral. Meyer said that during filming someone asked him, \"'Are you going to let her do that?' And I said, 'Yeah,' and they said, 'But Vulcans don't cry,' and I said, 'Well, that's what makes this such an interesting Vulcan.'\" The character's emotional outbursts can be partly explained by the fact that Saavik was described as of mixed Vulcan-Romulan heritage in the script, though no indication is given on film. Alley was so fond of her Vulcan ears that she would take them home with her at the end of each day. Bibi Besch plays Carol Marcus, the lead scientist working on Project Genesis, and the mother of Kirk's son, David (played by Merritt Butrick). Meyer was looking for an actress who looked beautiful enough that it was plausible a womanizer such as Kirk would fall for her, yet who could also project a sense of intelligence. Meyer liked that Butrick's hair was blond like Besch's and curly like Shatner's, making him a plausible son of the two. John Winston reprises his series role as Kyle, the Enterprise transporter chief.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.100984573364258, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "By April 1981, Sowards had produced a draft that moved Spock's death to later in the story, because of fan dissatisfaction to the event after the script was leaked. Spock had originally died in the first act, in a shocking demise that Bennett compared to Janet Leigh's early death in Psycho. This draft had a twelve-page face-to-face confrontation between Kirk and Khan. Sowards' draft also introduced a male character named Saavik. As pre-production began, Samuel A. Peeples, writer of the Star Trek episode \"Where No Man Has Gone Before\", was invited to offer his own script. Peeples' draft replaced Khan with two new villains named Sojin and Moray; the alien beings are so powerful they almost destroy Earth by mistake. This script was considered inadequate; the aliens resembled too closely the villains on a typical TOS episode. Deadlines loomed for special effects production to begin (which required detailed storyboards based on a completed script), and by this point there was no finished script to use.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.116998672485352, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Karen Moore, a Paramount executive, suggested to Bennett that Nicholas Meyer, writer of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and director of Time After Time, could help resolve the screenplay issues. Meyer had also never seen an episode of Star Trek. He had the idea of making a list consisting of everything that the creative team had liked from the preceding drafts—\"it could be a character, it could be a scene, it could be a plot, it could be a subplot, [...] it could be a line of dialogue\"—so that he could use that list as the basis of a new screenplay made from all the best aspects of the previous ones. To offset fan expectation that Spock would die, Meyer had the character \"killed\" in the Kobayashi Maru simulator in the opening scene. The effects company required a completed script in just 12 days. Meyer wrote the screenplay uncredited and for no pay before the deadline, surprising the actors and producers, and rapidly produced subsequent rewrites as necessary. One draft, for example, had a baby in Khan's group, who is killed with the others in the Genesis detonation. Meyer later said:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.637703895568848, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Meyer had a \"No Smoking\" sign added to the Enterprises bridge, which he recalled \"Everyone had a fit over [...] I said 'Why have they stopped smoking in the future? They've been smoking for four hundred years, you think it's going to stop in the next two?\" The sign appeared in the first shot of the film, but was removed for all others appearing in the final cut of the film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.364208221435547, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The barren desert surface of Ceti Alpha V was simulated on stage 8, the largest sound stage at Paramount's studio. The set was elevated 25 feet off the ground and covered in wooden mats, over which tons of colored sand and powder were dumped. A cyclorama was painted and wrapped around the set, while massive industrial fans created a sandstorm. The filming was uncomfortable for actors and crew alike. The spandex environmental suits Koenig and Winfield wore were unventilated, and the actors had to signal by microphone when they needed air. Filming equipment was wrapped in plastic to prevent mechanical troubles and everyone on set wore boots, masks, and coveralls as protection from flying sand.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.832273483276367, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "The battle in the nebula was a difficult sequence to accomplish without the aid of computer-generated models. The swirling nebula was created by injecting a latex rubber and ammonia mixture into a cloud tank filled with fresh and salt water. All the footage was shot at two frames per second to give the illusion of faster movement. The vibrant abstract colors of the nebula were simulated by lighting the tank using colored gels. Additional light effects such as auroras were created by the ILM animation department. Using matte work, the ships were physically stuck on a background plate to complete the shot. The destruction of the Reliants engine nacelle was created by superimposing shots of the engine blowing apart and explosions over the model.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.190472602844238, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "The scene in which Terrell kills Jedda, a Regula scientist, by vaporizing him with a phaser was filmed in two takes. Winfield and the related actors first played out the scene; this footage became the background plate. A blue screen was wheeled onto the set and actor John Vargas, the recipient of the phaser blast, acted out his response to being hit with the energy weapon. A phaser beam element was placed on top of the background plate, and Vargas' shots were optically dissolved into an airbrushed disintegration effect which matched Vargas' position in every frame.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.886845588684082, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Paramount's vice-president of music Joel Sill took a liking to a 28-year-old composer named James Horner, feeling that his demo tapes stood out from generic film music. Horner was introduced to Bennett, Meyer and Salin. Horner said that \"[The producers] did not want the kind of score they had gotten before. They did not want a John Williams score, per se. They wanted something different, more modern.\" When asked about how he landed the assignment, the composer replied that \"the producers loved my work for Wolfen, and had heard my music for several other projects, and I think, so far as I've been told, they liked my versatility very much. I wanted the assignment, and I met with them, we all got along well, they were impressed with my music, and that's how it happened.\" Horner agreed with the producers' expectations and agreed to begin work in mid-January 1982.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.051098823547363, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "The soundtrack was Horner's first major film score, and was written in four and a half weeks. The resulting 72 minutes of music was then performed by a 91-piece orchestra. Recording sessions for the score began on April 12, 1982 at the Warner Bros. lot, The Burbank Studios and continued until April 15. A pickup session was held on April 30 to record music for the Mutara nebula battle, while another session held on May 3 was used to cover the recently changed epilogue. 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Immediately afterward, they view the Project Genesis video and are attacked by Khan in the stolen Reliant. The warp drive is damaged in the battle, yet they manage to get to Regula a short time later anyway. See more »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.54446029663086, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Saavik : Captain's log: Stardate 8130.3. Starship Enterprise on training mission to Gamma Hydra, section 14, coordinates 22-87-4. Approaching Neutral Zone; all systems normal and functioning.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.794471740722656, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "I never did understand how this film was so much more successful and popular than the first. Quite clearly the film has gone for a slightly more silly plot losing a lot of the straight laced sci-fi from the first. I suppose you could say they lost the aspiring '2001' type sequences and went back to the more well known cardboard cutout type effects of the old Star Trek show...shame. Now I realise the slow building straight faced Star Trek we got in the first film was frowned upon but its hard to see what the fans actually wanted in a big screen version. There were complaints that the original was just an outstretched TV episode with fancy visuals, yet this sequel (in my opinion) was even more of an outstretched TV episode with lousy visuals. As we all know this movie is a sequel or follow up to the original TV episode 'Space Seed' where Kirk and co battled against the deadly super strong Khan and his boy band of super studs. I've always thought this idea was a brave one personally. Although the original TV episode did do well when it was first shown that was way back in 1967, who knew if anyone would take to seeing an old Khan doing the same kind of thing he did once before. Obviously the gamble paid off as we now know but wow talk about risky...if you ask me. So you gotta give it to the creative teams behind the film. I mean lets face it, if you hadn't seen the original TV episode then you would be a little stuck as to what's going on. So technically the director has already, possibly, excluded most of the target audience as I'm sure many would not have seen it being too young. Of course many would have but back in the old days you couldn't just catch up on an old TV episode and watch it easily, so if you wanted to watch 'Space Seed' again back then you might have been stuck. That aside I think the film looked pretty poor also, the effects looked a lot rougher (which is saying something) than the first movie and in general the grandiose feeling you got in the first film seemed to have been sucked away. What you had left was a quite cheap looking and very generic film, the only thing that looked spruced up was the character uniforms. The models were still solid visually don't get me wrong (although they were reused from the first movie), but they were set against some really bad bluescreen space backdrops. Its such a shame because they are very obviously models with stark black lines around their edges giving the game away, plus they clearly looked exactly the same as the previous movies models which was dull. I think the effects team struggled throughout with this movie as you can see various methods used to create the entire illusion which kinda looks like a muddle at times. For the time these effects were decent and did the job but these days its quite shocking how dodgy they can appear but I guess that's to be expected. The whole production was a cheap affair really with so many props reused or cannibalized from a cancelled sequel TV series idea (sequel to the original series). Whilst certain sets such as the Enterprise bridge were redressed and reused as was the Klingon bridge set. Heck even the old costumes were kinda Frankensteined and reused to save money! but admittedly the new naval inspired look was perfect for the franchise. On the flip side Khan's people were kinda dressed like a band of warriors from the Mad Max universe...or any group of savages you'd see in any apocalyptic sci-fi movie really. For me the franchise went backwards in terms of visuals with this outing, it was kinda cool how they explored and expanded an old TV episode but the whole thing is so basic looking. I liked the slow strategic galleon/submarine type starship battle between Kirk and Khan in the nebulae, this was obviously the highlight of the movie and created perfect tension. Sure it was basically submarines in space but it worked well. Apart from that there was nothing really that stuck out for me as a big kickass moment (apart from that raging scream courtesy of Kirk). There is of course the small subplot of Spock's death which at the time stunned everyone. Yet this was clearly a setup for the next sequel, to turbo charge emotions and get people back into the cinemas again. It was pretty clear that Spock would not die for good and he would come back in the next movie, no way they would let one of the most popular characters get killed off. So in all honesty that shocker never really affected me, sure it was sad seeing Kirk choke up at the funeral, a real tearjerker I'm willing to admit...but it was also kind of a cheap tactic really. Of course a sneering seething Ricardo Montalbán really helped the film with his portrayal of the dastardly Khan but he doesn't do much does he. I still don't really understand why he blamed Kirk for the death of his wife. In the TV episode after Khan is defeated he happily agrees to be marooned on Ceti Alpha VI to rule as a king on his own planet. OK so things went tits up with the neighbouring planet causing massive troubles but that's got nothing to do with Kirk. Khan was happy with Kirk's original decision so...you can't blame Kirk surely, you agreed Khan. The movie is really all about the main trio of Spock, Kirk and McCoy, everyone else is there of course but they don't get much screen time. Even back then it was clear that the team were cracking on age wise with Shatner at 50 years of age. Despite that the movie is most definitely a solid Star Trek entry offering thrills and spills of a nautical theme...dare I say Hornblower in space. Its nowhere near as visually epic as the first movie and I did miss those Kubrick-esque shots as I've already said, but it does have that classic Star Trek feel even though its somewhat missing the classic technical babble. I still think its a pretty basic and generic concept overall but I guess the original TV series had both action based plots and thinking based plots to cover all angles.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.349923610687256, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - Rotten Tomatoes" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "1982 • Action/Adventure • 1 h 53 min • English •", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.271059036254883, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Microsoft Store" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "(232)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.448996543884277, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Microsoft Store" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan (Ricardo Montalban)—brilliant renegade of 20th century Earth—has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.557035446166992, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Microsoft Store" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "28 min", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.224153518676758, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Microsoft Store" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan (Ricardo Montalban)—brilliant renegade of 20th century Earth—has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.557035446166992, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Microsoft Store" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "When you rent, the viewing period is 14 days from the time of your order or 24 hours from the time you start to watch, whichever comes first.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.549304962158203, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Microsoft Store" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "In 2285 at Starfleet Academy, Admiral Kirk is busy training new cadets. 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And we most certainly weren't prepared for what we can only describe as That Ear Scene.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.242716789245605, "source": "search", "title": "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan: The History of the ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) lands on a seemingly deserted planet with Captain Terrell (Paul Winfield),and discovers that it's the residence of Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban). A genetically-manipulated genius with an alarming appetite for despotism, Khan was left in exile 15 years earlier, and he's plotting to exact his revenge of Kirk for the inadvertent death of his wife and 20 of his men. 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Instead, Nimoy had to be dragged kicking and screaming to appear in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and was originally not going to be involved in the aborted second Star Trek TV show, Star Trek: Phase II. So, when the first person assigned to script writing duty—producer Harve Bennett—sat down to write a script, Spock wasn’t really in it. This script was called Star Trek II: War of the Generations and featured Khan, Kirk’s son, and a renegade Federation colony. To help him with the script, Bennet brought in Jack B. Sowards, who introduced the idea of killing Spock off as a way to coerce Nimoy back into the fold. Nimoy was told Spock would be offed early in the script. It worked. Nimoy came back.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.129428386688232, "source": "search", "title": "5 Things You Might Not Know About The Wrath of Khan | Tor.com" }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "4.) 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It thrilled me then, and 30 years on I still feel the same excitement!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.362662315368652, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:24 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.224705696105957, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "There was a website I stumbled upon years ago which had some very interesting stills and script excerpts from filmed, but unused scenes for “TWOK”. Among these were a eerie child’s face peering from one of the cargo containers, and a rag swathed infant crawling towards the Genesis device on the Reliant tansporter platform. This hinted that the survivors of the Botany Bay had borne a new generation, but all references to them were cut out of the finished film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.826546669006348, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:25 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.213858604431152, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Happy anniversary ST 2.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.400609016418457, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:26 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.230789184570312, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:28 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.215946197509766, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:30 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.299640655517578, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:31 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.252059936523438, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:43 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.947282791137695, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:43 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.947282791137695, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "That trailer gave me chills! Now I have to watch the movie again. It’s been too long since I had a trek marathon. Those even numbered movies really set the standard for any modern attempts at a great Star Trek movie. High hopes for number 12.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.511907577514648, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:44 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.143756866455078, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:45 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.181222915649414, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "I love TWOK, loved it then and love it now. Shame that in the bluray release they color timed it so Regula is now gray instead of brown like it was back in 1982.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.334696769714355, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:45 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.181222915649414, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "I love the “slow motion picture” – I guess I’m one of the few that do. But TWOK is also amazing. Two totally different movies and I love them both for different reasons.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.36229419708252, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:46 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.86425495147705, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:59 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.131221771240234, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "ST II: TWOK was the first Star Trek movie I ever saw. My Dad taped it off of ABC back in ’89 and then let me watch it (I was 8) in half hour increments. What an impression it made!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.155734062194824, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Happy 30th, TWOK", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.365653038024902, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 8:59 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.131221771240234, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Im going to see it tonight on the big screen. The alamo draft house is doing the summer of 1982, and Khan is being shown over the next few days", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.973360061645508, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:13 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.271842956542969, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "I was 13 and saw it in the theatre in 1982. I feel privileged to have been there.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.306833267211914, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:15 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.326415061950684, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:24 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.25699520111084, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:24 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.25699520111084, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "“Kirk to Spock, its two hours are you ready? “I don’t like to lose”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.525334358215332, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:34 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.081803321838379, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:35 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.207474708557129, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:35 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.207474708557129, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "Love it of course, but I think The Search For Spock is, for me at least, part of the same movie. I always watch TSFS on the heels of TWOK. Four hours of complete bliss.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.290746688842773, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:42 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.141901016235352, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "II", "passage": "I loved Star Trek II (still do), but I also still love ST TMP more. Yes, I am one of the few, the proud. ;-)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.595848083496094, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:54 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.955000877380371, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "TWOK is responsible for all Trek that followed as none would have been possible without the success/brilliance of Meyer/Bennett they are the unsung heros of modern Star Trek.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.705738067626953, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 9:55 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.944754600524902, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 10:02 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.330610275268555, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "Khan 2.0", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.291585922241211, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "two", "passage": "TWOK equals the most rewarding experience Star Trek has ever provided…", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.747905731201172, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 10:36 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.189630508422852, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 10:44 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.167643547058105, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 10:51 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.064859390258789, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 10:52 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.08205795288086, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 10:52 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.08205795288086, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "June 4, 2012 10:53 am", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.105988502502441, "source": "search", "title": "Remembering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 30 Years ..." }, { "answer": "2", "passage": "I see Star Trek 2 and 3 is two parts of the same movie. 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[ { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "The following year, DiCaprio made a self-mocking cameo appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, based on the same-titled 1939 film. Despite receiving a rather mixed to negative response, the film became a box office success, grossing US$180 million internationally. Though DiCaprio's performance was generally well-received, with Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman writing that \"the shockingly androgynous DiCaprio looks barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones, but he's a fluid and instinctive actor, with the face of a mischievous angel,\" he was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. 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The mask, obviously, was to hide the resemblance to the King. The ultimate version is \"The Man in the Iron Mask\" by Alexandre Dumas (père), published in 1850 as part of his trilogy on the Three Musketeers. All the movies (there have been at least a dozen in Europe and the U.S. since 1910) are based on this popular book. 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Like the 1998 version, the two aforementioned adaptations were also released through United Artists.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.5771560668945312, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "France is under the reign of a cruel and self-centered version of King Louis XIV (DiCaprio), who spends his time declaring a war against the Dutch, distributing rotten food to the rioting citizens of Paris, and with women attempting to seduce him so that they would become queen of France.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.173317909240723, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "At D'Artagnan's grave Philippe asks Athos to be his father-figure. It is later revealed that Philippe becomes a good king known as Louis XIV and later pardons his brother Louis to live quietly in the country and is visited often by the queen.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.693286895751953, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "* Hugh Laurie as Pierre, Advisor to King Louis XIV", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.659996032714844, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "* David Lowe as Advisor to King Louis XIV", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.605379104614258, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "In Dumas's The Vicomte de Bragelonne, although the plot to replace King Louis XIV with his twin brother is foiled, the twin is initially depicted as a much more sympathetic character than the King. However, in the last part of the novel, the King is portrayed as an intelligent, more mature and slightly misunderstood man who in fact deserves the throne - and the Musketeers themselves are split, Aramis (with assistance from Porthos) siding with the prisoner, D'Artagnan with King Louis, and Athos retired from politics entirely. In the 1929 silent version, The Iron Mask starring Douglas Fairbanks as D'Artagnan, the King is depicted favorably and the twin brother as a pawn in an evil plot whose thwarting by D'Artagnan and his companions seems more appropriate.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.115955352783203, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "* A portrait of Louis XV can be seen in Louis XIV's apartments: the film takes place about half a century before the birth of Louis XIV's great-grandson and successor.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.29198169708252, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "* Louis XIV had a real-life brother, Philippe d'Orléans, who is not depicted in the film and was not the King's twin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.493534088134766, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "* Notwithstanding the peace and prosperity alluded to at the film's conclusion, Louis XIV spent most of the remainder of his reign at war.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.062308311462402, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother who he keeps imprisoned. 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But with all due respect to Monsieur Dumas, it's dreadful: A dumbed-down, star-studded period piece about the Four Musketeers' attempts to replace the sneering, playboy King Louis XIV with his long-imprisoned twin (both played by DiCaprio). The young actor seems out of his element here, and not even the veteran actors surrounding him – Gabriel Byrne! John Malkovich! Gerard Depardieu! Jeremy Irons! – can't do much with the dopey script.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.5184898376464844, "source": "search", "title": "'The Man in the Iron Mask' (1998) | Leonardo DiCaprio's ..." }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "First, let's set the scene. We're in the reign of Louis XIV of France, the Sun King, who ruled from 1643 to 1715.  It's the era of the \"divine right of kings\"--the king's power was absolute and unquestioned. To Louis XIV is attributed the quote: \"L'état, c'est moi!\" (\"I am the state!\") ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.216816902160645, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: Who was the \"Man in the Iron Mask\"?" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "At the other end of society were prisoners, many jailed by the king, who could imprison someone for any reason that struck his fancy. Political intrigue? Prison. Inappropriate remarks? Prison. Fashion faux pas? Maybe not prison, but who knows? Louis XIV condemned folks for good reasons and bad, with a \"carefree flourish of the royal quill.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.947431564331055, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: Who was the \"Man in the Iron Mask\"?" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "Our first record of a masked prisoner is from a notebook kept by Lieutenant Etienne du Junca, an official of the Bastille from October 1690 until his death in September 1706. His notebooks are \"the most important and reliable source of information we have about the management and conduct of the Bastille under Louis XIV,\" according to Theodore M.R. von Keler.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.383504867553711, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: Who was the \"Man in the Iron Mask\"?" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "The stories reached new heights after the prisoner's death. By 1711, we have letters from Princess Palatine, the second wife of Louis XIV's brother, speculating about the \"man who lived masked for long years in the Bastille and masked he died there.\" Other prisoners later claimed they had known the Man in the Mask, and told their invented stories to different writers, such as Voltaire, who exaggerated them even more. Speculation ran wild over the next two centuries.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.808637619018555, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: Who was the \"Man in the Iron Mask\"?" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "In the 1770s, Voltaire hinted that the prisoner was an older half-brother of Louis XIV with a family resemblance, but not necessarily a twin, such as the Duke of Beaufort. Such a person might have raised complications about the royal succession, hence the need for absolute secrecy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.952790260314941, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: Who was the \"Man in the Iron Mask\"?" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "If not an older brother or a twin of Louis XIV, perhaps his illegitimate son, such as the Count of Vermandois? Such stories often included wonderful embellishments such as being imprisoned because he struck his older brother, the Dauphin, heir to the throne. Alas, Vermandois died in 1682, too early to be the masked prisoner.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.519447326660156, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: Who was the \"Man in the Iron Mask\"?" }, { "answer": "Louis XIV", "passage": "Marcel Pagnol speculated in The Secret of the Iron Mask (1965) that Dauger was, in fact, the identical twin brother of Louis XIV. John Noone comments: \"\"That brings us back, with a cavalier flourish, to square one!\"\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.414020299911499, "source": "search", "title": "The Straight Dope: Who was the \"Man in the Iron Mask\"?" } ]

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The film's story begins nearly three decades into George's reign, in 1788, as the unstable king ( Nigel Hawthorne , reprising his stage role) begins to show signs of increasing dementia, from violent fits of foul language to bouts of forgetfulness. This weakness seems like the perfect chance to overthrow the unpopular George, whom many blamed for the loss of the American colonies, in favor of the Prince of Wales ( Rupert Everett ), but the king's prime minister William Pitt ( Julian Wadham ) and his wife Queen Charlotte ( Helen Mirren ) are determined to protect the throne. Doctors are brought in, but the archaic treatments of the time prove of little value. In desperation, they turn to Dr. Willis ( Ian Holm ), a harsh, unconventional specialist whose unusual methods recall modern psychiatry. Willis struggles to break through to the mad king, treating him with an anger and haughtiness George has never before experienced. Stressing the absurdity of the entire situation, Bennett's witty screenplay emphasizes dry humor over tragedy, even utilizing references to King Lear for comic effect. Hawthorne's fiery yet vulnerable performance received much critical praise, including Best Actor at the British Academy Awards and a nomination for the same at the Oscars. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi", "precise_score": 7.168213844299316, "rough_score": 7.088473796844482, "source": "search", "title": "The Madness of King George (1994) Synopsis - Fandango" }, { "answer": "The Prince of Wales", "passage": "The Madness of King George is a 1994 British biographical historical comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own play, The Madness of George III. It tells the true story of George III of Great Britain's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788–89. Modern medicine has suggested that the King's symptoms were the result of acute intermittent porphyria, although this theory has more recently been vigorously challenged, most notably by a research project based at St George's, University of London, which concluded that George III did actually suffer from mental illness after all. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.426612615585327, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Madness of King George" }, { "answer": "The Prince of Wales", "passage": "The King's madness is treated using the relatively primitive medical practices of the time, which include blistering and purges, led on particularly by the Prince of Wales' personal physician, Dr. Warren. Eventually, Lady Pembroke recommends Dr. Willis, an ex-minister who attempts to cure the insane through new procedures, and who begins his restoration of the King's mental state by enforcing a strict regime of strapping the King into a waistcoat and restraining him whenever he shows signs of his insanity or otherwise resists recovery.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.354536056518555, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Madness of King George" }, { "answer": "The Prince of Wales", "passage": "* Rupert Everett as George, the Prince of Wales", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.802436113357544, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Madness of King George" }, { "answer": "The Prince of Wales", "passage": "The Prince of Wales see this weakness in his father as an opportunity for him to make a bid for control of the crown, and he rallies a slew of supporters. The ensuing palace intrigues depict the gamesmanship in which the King's supporters involve themselves in order for the King not to lose his crown in addition to his wits. The only question is whether the King will succeed in recovering his wits in a timely enough fashion in order for them to prevail.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.956684112548828, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The Madness of King George: Nigel Hawthorne ..." }, { "answer": "The Prince of Wales", "passage": "The story remains fairly true to the facts. Late in 1788, George III is taken by a mysterious illness (lately surmised to be porphyria) that strongly resembles the then-popular conception of madness. Chaos ensues, mainly in the desperate efforts of the Government (headed by William Pitt - Julian Wadham) to hush the whole matter up lest the forces of the Whig Opposition (led by Charles James Fox - Jim Carter) use the power vacuum to place the king's eldest son, the Prince of Wales, at the head of a regency sympathetic to their political cause. But Alan Bennett, who originally wrote the script for the theatre, is wise enough to treat the potentially tragic story as essentially comic even while raising the question of the basic insanity behind all pretensions to royalty. (\"Some of my lunatics fancy themselves kings,\" notes the \"mad doctor\" who undertakes the case. \"But he IS the king. Where shall his fancy take refuge?\")", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.600672483444214, "source": "search", "title": "The Madness of King George (1994) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Prince of Wales", "passage": "The rest of the cast is impeccable as well. Ian Holm is all steely religious conviction turned to medical practice as Dr. Willis, who undertakes to treat the king. Rupert Everett, despite the double handicap of an obviously false stomach and the silliest wig in the film, does a creditable turn as the Prince of Wales, though the script treats Prinny unfairly, mainly for the comic potential of doing so. Ministers of state and Parliamentarians Wadham, Carter and John Wood handle their lines with a panache and wit that would do credit to any authentic 18th-century gentleman. Some of the best lines go to Wood, who as usual gives his unsurpassable style and timing, as when he growls out in church, \"I'm praying, goddammit!\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.1741886138916016, "source": "search", "title": "The Madness of King George (1994) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Prince Charles", "passage": "I saw this on DVD. Interesting look at monarchy. It raises questions about WHY monarchy of course. It was produced in 1994 and I think there were a lot of questions around then about WHY the monarchy when you had Prince Charles doing make-work waiting for mum to move aside--still waiting--and Fergie and Diana trying to figure out how to be real women while also being every little girl's fantasy--and Prince Phillip looking stern--and well, it's obviously a defunct institution but the Brits love 'em so who am I--an American, or a Colonist as King George would say--to tell them what to do? They're a colorful lot. This movie also really gets into the power behind the thrown--Pitt, Fox--great depictions and not unlike we're going through in 2012./", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.271636962890625, "source": "search", "title": "The Madness of King George (1994) - Rotten Tomatoes" } ]

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And, in an interview with the Mirror, she also took aim at fellow pop stars who charge their fans big money for concert tickets. “Because I’m a socialist , I think it’s disgusting when Madonna and co set ticket prices at £300. I don’t believe in elitism,” she said.", "precise_score": -11.204319953918457, "rough_score": -9.838542938232422, "source": "search", "title": "8 political pop stars - pop and politics UK What is POLITICS?" }, { "answer": "Sting", "passage": "Sting - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.214776992797852, "source": "search", "title": "Sting - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Sting", "passage": "Sting was born Gordon Matthew Sumner on 2 October, 1951 in Wallsend, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, the eldest of four children of Audrey (Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, an engineer and milkman. He received his name from a striped sweater he wore which looked like a bee. He grew up in the turmoil of the ship-building ... 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The song asks David Cameron: “You’re supposed to be our protector – what about the whole public sector?” Lily is a passionate supporter of the Labour Party. She backed Ed Miliband in his successful party leadership bid and posted a ‘liliband’ selfie of herself with the Labour leader on Instagram.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.602008819580078, "source": "search", "title": "8 political pop stars - pop and politics UK What is POLITICS?" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Kubrick's final film was Eyes Wide Shut (1999), starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a Manhattan couple on a sexual odyssey. Tom Cruise portrays a doctor who witnesses a bizarre masked quasireligious orgiastic ritual at a country mansion, a discovery which later threatens his life. The story is based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Freudian novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story in English), which Kubrick relocated from turn-of-the-century Vienna to New York City in the 1990s. Kubrick said of the novel: \"A difficult book to describe—what good book isn't. It explores the sexual ambivalence of a happy marriage and tries to equate the importance of sexual dreams and might-have-beens with reality. All of Schnitzler's work is psychologically brilliant\". Although Kubrick was almost 70, he worked relentlessly for 15 months to get the film out by its planned release date of July 16, 1999. He commenced a script with Frederic Raphael, and worked 18 hours a day, all the while maintaining complete confidentiality about the film. Principal photography began on November 7, 1996, and ended in February 1998. Eyes Wide Shut, like Lolita and A Clockwork Orange before it, faced censorship before release. Kubrick sent an unfinished preview copy to the stars and producers a few months before release, but his sudden death on March 7, 1999, came a few days after he finished editing. He never saw the final version released to the public, but he did see the preview of the film with Warner Bros., Cruise, and Kidman, and had reportedly told Warner executive Julian Senior that it was \"my best film ever\". Today, critical opinion of the film is mixed, and it is viewed less favorably than most of Kubrick's films. Roger Ebert awarded it 3.5 out 4 stars, comparing the structure to a thriller and writing that it is \"like an erotic daydream about chances missed and opportunities avoided\", and thought that Kubrick's use of lighting at Christmas made the film \"all a little garish, like an urban sideshow.\" Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post disliked the film, writing: \"Its actually sad, rather than bad. It feels creaky, ancient, hopelessly out of touch, infatuated with the hot taboos of his youth and unable to connect with that twisty thing contemporary sexuality has become.\" ", "precise_score": 6.28312349319458, "rough_score": 0.6381083130836487, "source": "wiki", "title": "Stanley Kubrick" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "One of the more outlandish conspiracy theories holds that Stanley Kubrick was killed by the Illuminati for revealing too much about the secret society in his final film Eyes Wide Shut. While the official cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest (certainly not shocking for a 70 year-old man), some conspiracists point to the preponderance of Illuminati symbolism in his films, his clean bill of health prior to dying, and the strange editorial takeover of the film before its release as evidence there was more going on here than meets the eye.", "precise_score": 6.594265937805176, "rough_score": 6.108124732971191, "source": "search", "title": "Was Stanley Kubrick Killed By The Illuminati? | The Ghost ..." }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Involves his wives in his movies. His first wife, Toba Etta Metz Kubrick, was the dialogue director for Stanley's first feature film Fear and Desire (1953). His second wife, Ruth Sobotka Kubrick, was in Killer's Kiss (1955) as a ballet dancer named Iris in a short sequence for which she also did the choreography. Kubrick's third, and final, wife, Christiane Harlan Kubrick, appeared (as Susanne Christian) in Paths of Glory (1957) before she married him as the only female character (a German singing girl) in the movie. She also did some of the now-infamous paintings for A Clockwork Orange (1971) and some more for Eyes Wide Shut (1999). In addition, her brother, Jan, was Stanley's assistant for A Clockwork Orange (1971) and the executive producer for all of Kubrick's films starting with Barry Lyndon (1975) and going through The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Also, his daughter, Vivian Kubrick , is the little girl who asks for a Bush Baby for her birthday in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).", "precise_score": 5.640200614929199, "rough_score": 4.5413594245910645, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Born in New York City on July 26, 1928, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photographer for Look magazine before exploring filmmaking in the 1950s. He went on to direct a number of acclaimed films, inclduing Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), Clockwork Orange (1971), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick died in England on March 7, 1999.", "precise_score": 5.26297664642334, "rough_score": 3.9902405738830566, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Screenwriter, Director, Producer - Biography" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Stanley Kubrick died in his sleep after suffering a heart attack at his home in Childwickbury Manor, Hertfordshire, England, on March 7, 1999, hours after delivering a print of what would be his last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), to the studio. The film, starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise (who were married at the time), went on to earn both commercial and critical acclaim, including Golden Globe and Satellite award nominations.", "precise_score": 7.585905075073242, "rough_score": 5.373282432556152, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Screenwriter, Director, Producer - Biography" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "13 Facts You May Not Know About Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'", "precise_score": 0.5022889971733093, "rough_score": -0.03903718292713165, "source": "search", "title": "13 Facts You May Not Know About Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes ..." }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Fifteen years ago, on July 16, 1999, Stanley Kubrick's final film, \"Eyes Wide Shut,\" opened nationwide. Setting records for the longest shoot in movie history, it was an excruciating labor of love for lead stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman -- one that would often be traced back to the alleged start of their marriage's decline. Throughout the process, cryptic reports implied that Kubrick's obsessive perfectionism had reached peak levels, which was especially eyebrow-raising given the film's sexual explicitness. The director, who won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects for \"2001: A Space Odyssey,\" died of a heart attack in March 1999, days after screening the final cut. Had he lived, perhaps we'd have more perspective on the movie's production -- or perhaps not, as Kubrick was notoriously reclusive.", "precise_score": 8.80908489227295, "rough_score": 7.747656345367432, "source": "search", "title": "13 Facts You May Not Know About Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes ..." }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Kubrick is noted for his attention to detail and skillful use of music. A demanding perfectionist, he assumed control over most aspects of the filmmaking process, from direction and writing to editing, and took painstaking care with researching his films and staging scenes, working in close coordination with his actors and other collaborators. He often asked for several dozen retakes of the same scene in a movie, which resulted in many conflicts with his casts. Despite the resulting notoriety among actors, many of Kubrick's films broke new ground in cinematography. The scientific realism and innovative special effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) were without precedent in the history of cinema, and the film earned him his only personal Oscar, for Best Visual Effects. Steven Spielberg has referred to the film as his generation's \"big bang\", and it is often included in polls of the greatest films ever made. For the 18th-century period film Barry Lyndon (1975), Kubrick obtained lenses developed by Zeiss for NASA, to film scenes under natural candlelight. With The Shining (1980), he became one of the first directors to make use of a Steadicam for stabilized and fluid tracking shots. While many of Kubrick's films were controversial and initially received mixed reviews upon release—particularly A Clockwork Orange (1971), which Kubrick pulled from circulation in the UK following a mass media frenzy—most of his films were nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes, or BAFTA Awards. His last film, Eyes Wide Shut, was completed shortly before his death in 1999.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.7123313546180725, "source": "wiki", "title": "Stanley Kubrick" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Walker notes that Kubrick was influenced by the tracking and \"fluid camera\" styles of director Max Ophüls, and used them in many of his films, including Paths of Glory and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick noted how in Ophuls' films \"the camera went through every wall and every floor\". He once named Ophüls' Le Plaisir (1952) as his favorite film. According to film historian John Wakeman, Ophüls himself learned the technique from director Anatole Litvak in the 1930s, when he was his assistant, and whose work was \"replete with the camera trackings, pans and swoops which later became the trademark of Max Ophüls\". Geoffrey Cocks believes that Kubrick was also influenced by Ophüls' stories of thwarted love and a preoccupation with predatory men, while Herr notes that Kubrick was deeply inspired by G. W. Pabst, who earlier tried, but was unable to adapt Schnitzler's Traumnovelle, the basis of Eyes Wide Shut. Film critic Robert Kolker sees the influence of Welles' moving camera shots on Kubrick's style. LoBrutto notes that Kubrick identified with Welles and influenced the making of The Killing, with its \"multiple points of view, extreme angles, and deep focus\". Kubrick also cited David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) as one of his favorite films and used it as a creative reference during the directing of The Shining. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.6261515617370605, "source": "wiki", "title": "Stanley Kubrick" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Kubrick is credited with introducing Hungarian composer György Ligeti to a broad Western audience by including his music in 2001, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. According to Baxter, the music in 2001 was \"at the forefront of Kubrick's mind\" when he conceived the film. During earlier screening he played music by Mendelssohn and Vaughan Williams, and Kubrick and writer Clarke had listened to Carl Orff's transcription of Carmina Burana, consisting of 13th century sacred and secular songs. Ligeti's music employed the new style of micropolyphony, which used sustained dissonant chords that shift slowly over time, a style he originated. Its inclusion in the film became a \"boon for the relatively unknown composer\" partly because it was introduced alongside background by notable composers, Johann Strauss and Richard Strauss.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.9218798875808716, "source": "wiki", "title": "Stanley Kubrick" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "On March 7, 1999, four days after screening a final cut of Eyes Wide Shut for his family and the stars, Kubrick died in his sleep at the age of 70, after suffering a massive heart attack. His funeral was held five days later at his home estate at Childwickbury Manor, with only close friends and family in attendance, totaling approximately 100 people. The media were kept a mile away outside the entrance gate. Alexander Walker, who attended the funeral, describes it as a \"family farewell, ... almost like an English picnic,\" with cellists, clarinetists and singers providing song and music from many of his favorite classical compositions. Kaddish, the Jewish prayer of mourning, was recited. A few of his obituaries mentioned his Jewish background. Among those who gave eulogies were Terry Semel, Jan Harlan, Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. He was buried next to his favorite tree on the estate. In her book dedicated to Kubrick, his wife Christiane included one of his favorite quotations of Oscar Wilde: \"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.2749674320220947, "source": "wiki", "title": "Stanley Kubrick" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Part of the New Hollywood film-making wave, Kubrick's films are considered by film historian Michel Ciment to be \"among the most important contributions to world cinema in the twentieth century\", and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema. Leading directors, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, James Cameron, Woody Allen, Terry Gilliam, the Coen brothers, Ridley Scott, and George A. Romero, have cited Kubrick as a source of inspiration, and in the case of Spielberg, collaboration. On the DVD of Eyes Wide Shut, Steven Spielberg comments that the way Kubrick \"tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories\" and that \"nobody could shoot a picture better in history\". Writing in the introduction to a recent edition of Michel Ciment's Kubrick, film director Martin Scorsese notes that most of Kubrick's films were misunderstood and under-appreciated when first released. Then came a dawning recognition that they were masterful works unlike any other films. Perhaps most notably, Orson Welles, one of Kubrick's greatest personal influences and all-time favorite directors, famously said that: \"Among those whom I would call 'younger generation', Kubrick appears to me to be a giant.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.1065523624420166, "source": "wiki", "title": "Stanley Kubrick" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "But if Kubrick’s body of work is rife with Illuminati symbolism, his final film Eyes Wide Shut is the climax. Not only is this film about a mysterious, perhaps murderous, secret society, it is drenched in allusions to the New World Order cabal. Occult symbols like the pentagram can be found throughout the film, as well as multiple references to rainbows and looking glasses, which are notoriously used to evoke The Wizard of Oz and the cultural brainwashing of MKULTRA and other CIA operations.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.4601700007915497, "source": "search", "title": "Was Stanley Kubrick Killed By The Illuminati? | The Ghost ..." }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Eyes Wide Shut, the phrase itself, is a calling card among secret societies, meaning ‘my eyes are shut to your misdeeds, brother.’ This anonymity is required of the participants, otherwise the society’s moneyed elite would be revealed. For as one character in the film says, “If I told you their names I don’t think you’d sleep so well.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.370904922485352, "source": "search", "title": "Was Stanley Kubrick Killed By The Illuminati? | The Ghost ..." }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "While pre-production work on \"AI\" crawled along, Kubrick combined \"Rhapsody\" and \"Blue Movie\" and officially announced his next project as Eyes Wide Shut (1999), starring the then-married Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman . After two years of production under unprecedented security and privacy, the film was released to a typically polarized critical and public reception; Kubrick claimed it was his best film to date.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.3911633491516113, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "[Narration] Nearly all of his films contain a narration at some point ( 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)) contains narration in the screenplay, as does the screenplay for Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and The Shining (1980) has some sparse title cards.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.589849472045898, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "One of his signature shots was \"The Glare\" - a character's emotional meltdown is depicted by a close-up shot of the actor with his head tilted slightly down, but with his eyes looking up - usually directly into the camera. Examples are the opening shot of Alex in A Clockwork Orange (1971), Jack slowly losing his mind in The Shining (1980), Pvt. Pyle going mad in Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Tom Cruise 's paranoid thoughts inside the taxicab in Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Even HAL-9000 has \"The Glare\" in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.902792930603027, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Preferred mono sound over stereo. Only three of his movies - Spartacus (1960), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - were originally done in stereo sound.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.883771896362305, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "[Duality] Kubrick's last five films, minus The Shining (1980), are structurally split into two distinct halves, most likely to mimic the nature of duality in the characters of his films. For example, A Clockwork Orange (1971) shows Alex ( Malcolm McDowell ) as a sadistic rapist and murderer in the first half of the film and a mind-controlled guinea pig in the second half. In Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Bill ( Tom Cruise ) travels amidst sexual temptation in New York at night in the first half of the film and rude awakenings during the day in the second half.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.582188606262207, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Rarely gave interviews. He did, however, appear in a documentary made by his daughter Vivian Kubrick shot during the making of The Shining (1980). According to Vivian, he was planning on doing a few formal TV interviews once Eyes Wide Shut (1999) was released, but died before he could.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.836341381072998, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "His next project after Eyes Wide Shut (1999) was to be A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which was taken over by Steven Spielberg . It is dedicated to Kubrick's memory.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.887768745422363, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "According to his wife Christiane Kubrick , he would screen every movie he could get ahold of. One of his favorites was The Jerk (1979). He considered making Eyes Wide Shut (1999) a dark sex comedy with Steve Martin in the lead. He even met with Martin to discuss the project.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.756829738616943, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Kubrick had started pre-production on Full Metal Jacket (1987) in 1980, a full seven years before it was theatrically released. The success of similar films during that time (particularly Oliver Stone 's Platoon (1986) and John Irvin 's Hamburger Hill (1987)) left him a bit jaded, feeling like he had been beaten at his own game. This sentiment stayed with him in the early 1990s when he decided to shelve Aryan Papers, his adaptation of the Louis Begley novel Wartime Lies. Kubrick had completed the script and had done a large amount of pre-production work on Aryan Papers; Johanna ter Steege and Joseph Mazzello had been cast in the lead roles and locations had been scouted in Denmark, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Warners officially announced the project as Kubrick's next film in April 1993 and it was scheduled for a December 1994 release. Around the same time Steven Spielberg was shooting Schindler's List (1993), and Kubrick thought the Holocaust-based subject matter of the two projects was too similar. The shelving of this project helps to explain the 12-year gap between Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.560642659664154, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "A few days before his abrupt death, he revealed his least and most favorite personal films. He labeled Fear and Desire (1953) as his least favorite personal film, and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as his most favorite personal film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.89002513885498, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Despite being known for his meticulous methods of filming, he was quite prolific in his earlier years. Beginning with Fear and Desire (1953) and ending with Barry Lyndon (1975), the average time between his films was two years. His last three films took much longer to complete. It took him five years to complete and release The Shining (1980), seven years to complete Full Metal Jacket (1987), and a whopping 12 years to complete Eyes Wide Shut (1999).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.965645790100098, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "In between Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Kubrick was interested in making a film, for children and young adults, based on the viking epic novel, Eric Brighteyes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.558928966522217, "source": "search", "title": "Stanley Kubrick - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "As one of the most universally acclaimed and influential directors of the postwar era, Stanley Kubrick enjoyed a reputation and a standing unique among the filmmakers of his day. A perennial outsider, he worked far beyond the confines of Hollywood, maintaining complete artistic control and making movies according to the whims and time constraints of no one but himself, but with the rare advantage of studio financial support for all of his endeavors. Working in a vast range of styles and genres spanning from black comedy to horror to crime drama, Kubrick was an enigma, living and creating in almost total seclusion, far away from the watchful eye of the media. His films were a reflection of his obsessive nature, perfectionist masterpieces which remain among the most provocative and visionary motion pictures ever made. Born July 26, 1928 in New York City, Kubrick initially earned renown as a photographer, selling his first free-lance pictures to Look magazine while still in high school. By the age of 17 he was working as a Look staff photographer, travelling the world in their employ for several years. He subsequently enrolled as a non-matriculating student at Columbia University, attending classes taught by the likes of Calvin Trillin and Mark Van Doren. In the late 1940s Kubrick became enamored of filmmaking, attending Museum of Modern Art showings regularly. To supplement his income, he also played chess for money in Greenwich Village. In 1951, Kubrick used his life savings to finance his first film, Day of the Fight, a 16-minute documentary profiling boxer Walter Cartier. The piece was later purchased by RKO for its This Is America series and played at the Paramount Theatre in New York. Encouraged by his success, Kubrick quit his post at Look to pursue filmmaking full-time. Soon, RKO assigned him to helm a short for their documentary series Pathe Screenliner. Titled Flying Padre, the nine-minute work spotlighted Fred Stadtmueller, a priest who piloted a Piper Cub around his 400-mile New Mexico parish. In 1953 the Atlantic and Gulf Coast District of the Seafarers International Union commissioned Kubrick to direct a half-hour industrial documentary called The Seafarers, his first color film. With the aid of relatives, Kubrick raised some $13,000 in order to finance his feature debut, the war story Fear and Desire. Filmed in the San Gabrielle mountains near Los Angeles with a crew of less than ten people (including Kubrick's then-wife Toba Metz), the picture was filmed silently, with its dialogue dubbed-in later (a measure which ultimately added $20,000 to the final cost). Shown only briefly on the New York arthouse circuit, Fear and Desire failed to earn back its initial investment and was later disowned by its creator. His sophomore feature, the gangland melodrama Killer's Kiss, followed in 1955. A more successful effort, it was sold to United Artists and received worldwide distribution, playing primarily as a second feature. In 1956 Kubrick directed his first studio picture, The Killing. A heist film told via an ambitious overlapping time structure, the film starred Sterling Hayden, with dialogue from the legendary hard-boiled crime novelist Jim Thompson. The result was the director's first artistic triumph, and it brought him to the attention of MGM production head Dore Share, where Kubrick was teamed with novelist Calder Willingham to develop future projects. After preparing a screenplay based on Steven Zweig's story \"The Burning Secret\" which went unproduced, Thompson joined the duo to adapt the Humphrey Cobb war novel Paths of Glory. Studio after studio rejected the project until Kirk Douglas agreed to star, resulting in a financing deal with United Artists. Shot in Germany, the 1957 film won considerable critical acclaim, and further cemented Kubrick's reputation as a rising talent. However, the next two years left him in a state of limbo, as a pair of proposed projects -- I Stole 16 Million Dollars, a planned vehicle for Douglas based on the life of safecracker Herbert Emmerson Wilson, and an untitled film about Mosby's Rangers, a southern guerilla force active during the U.S. Civil War -- both failed to come to fruition. Kubrick then spent some six months on pre-production work for the Marlon Brando western One-Eyed Jacks, only to look on helplessly as Brando decided at the eleventh hour to direct the picture himself. Finally, in 1959 he replaced Anthony Mann on Spartacus, a lavish historical epic starring Douglas, Laurence Olivier, and Tony Curtis. The most costly film produced in Hollywood to date, with a budget of over $12 million, it proved to be a major hit, winning the Golden Globe Award for \"Best Picture.\" In 1962 Kubrick resurfaced with the controversial Lolita, based on the infamous Nabokov novel about a man's infatuation with his teenaged stepdaughter. Due to a number of financial and legal difficulties, the film was shot in England, where Kubrick continued to live and work after the project's completion. He next turned to his first undisputed masterpiece, the 1964 Cold War-era black comedy Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a brilliant adaptation of the Peter George novel Red Alert starring Peter Sellers in three different roles. In December of 1965 Kubrick began production on what was to become his crowning achievement, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke story The Sentinel, the 1968 film -- a complex meditation on man's instinctive desire for violence, set against a backdrop of an American spacecraft's contact with extraterrestrial intelligence -- quickly emerged as a landmark in motion picture history, growing in status to become recognized as one of the greatest and most thought-provoking movies ever released. A biography of Napoleon was projected as the follow-up, but when expected costs proved too prohibitive, the film never moved beyond the planning stages. Instead, Kubrick turned to another controversial novel, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. A satiric 1971 essay on crime and punishment set in a violent future world, the film initially scored an \"X\" rating in the U.S. but proved surprisingly popular regardless, even netting several Oscar nominations. In Britain, A Clockwork Orange played theatrically for a year without incident, but was pulled after a number of copy-cat crimes which authorities blamed on the picture's influence, including a brutal gang-rape mirroring a scene in the film. Moving from the future to the past, in 1975 Kubrick adapted William Makepeace Thackery's 19th century novel Barry Lyndon, a lavish costume drama detailing the rise and fall of an Irish rogue (Ryan O'Neal) during the 1700s. In 1980, Kubrick helmed The Shining, an adaptation of a horror novel by author Stephen King. While one of the director's greatest popular successes, critical notice was less kind, and he spent the early half of the decade away from the camera, plotting his next move. The result was 1987's Full Metal Jacket, a Vietnam War drama which scored with both audiences and critics. Despite the film's success, Kubrick again went into hibernation. Finally, in late 1996 Kubrick began work on Eyes Wide Shut, starring husband and wife Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. In 1997, Kubrick was given two of the film world's highest honors, winning the D.W. Griffith Award from the Director's Guild of America as well as the Golden Lion Award at the 54th Venice International Film Festival. Two years later, Eyes Wide Shut was released to extremely mixed reviews; a dreamlike erotic odyssey, it proved to be Kubrick's last film. 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With insightful aplomb he reflected the realities of the most taboo of subjects: satanic cults composed of elites, human sacrifice and paedophile networks. The front drop dealt with a professional, bored with his life and specifically his marriage, until his curiosity brings him in full contact with the realities of an underworld that slithers all about him. Eyes Wide Shut was a commentary on disaffected decadence as a lifestyle, as much as it was an exposure of the organised evil lurking about just beneath the surface.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.7992424964904785, "source": "search", "title": "Suspicious Deaths: Stanley Kubrick" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "Shortly after screening a final cut of Eyes Wide Shut for his family, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Warner Brothers executives, Kubrick suffered a sudden myocardial infarction in his sleep. What makes his untimely and sudden death suspicious is the nature of the very verboten subject he covered. For those unfamiliar with the real crimes, personalities and the institutionalised power of satanic groups, Eyes Wide Shut's depiction presented it in very real terms. I would imagine that in the circles of Hollywood this would not be something desired whatsoever, especially when Kubrick had full artistic control and final editing. To the powers that be, this would be yet another in the series of exposures into the realities of their operations.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.6804956197738647, "source": "search", "title": "Suspicious Deaths: Stanley Kubrick" }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "13 Facts You May Not Know About Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' | The Huffington Post", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.114429235458374, "source": "search", "title": "13 Facts You May Not Know About Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes ..." }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "An excerpt from Amy Nicholson's book, \"Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor,\" printed in Vanity Fair , offers details about the project's goings-on. Coupled with a 1999 Entertainment Weekly article pegged to the film's release and a Los Angeles Times report about its box-office expectations, the passage reveals some things you may not know about \"Eyes Wide Shut.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.019707679748535, "source": "search", "title": "13 Facts You May Not Know About Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes ..." }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "5. To say Kubrick is a perfectionist is an understatement: His intent was to film scenes so many times that it would wear down his actors and they'd forget the cameras existed. During the course of shooting \"Eyes Wide Shut,\" the director filmed 95 takes of Cruise walking through a door.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.37495756149292, "source": "search", "title": "13 Facts You May Not Know About Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes ..." }, { "answer": "Eyes Wide Shut", "passage": "7. Frenzied tabloids ran reports that Cruise and Kidman's marriage was crumbling in late '90s. If anything, that notion was only enhanced by their \"Eyes Wide Shut\" dynamic. Kubrick coaxed the couple into sharing their personal reservations about the marriage with him, in turn transferring those troubles onto their characters, Bill and Alice. Kidman called it a kind of \"brutally honest\" anti-therapy , as no one asked how they felt about each other's criticisms.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.729721069335938, "source": "search", "title": "13 Facts You May Not Know About Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes ..." } ]

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The film follows the mis-matched pair over the course of the weekend, as they learn about life through their series of adventures. Though the story is a little contrived and predictable, it pulls all the right strings, thanks to O'Donnell's sympathetic supporting role and Pacino's powerful lead performance, for which he won his first Academy Award. Scent of a Woman is based on the 1975 Italian film Profumo Di Donna.", "precise_score": 6.080821990966797, "rough_score": 6.950694561004639, "source": "search", "title": "Frank Defends Charlie in Court - Scent of a Woman (8/8 ..." }, { "answer": "Scent of a Woman", "passage": "...\"HoooHaaa!\" A few days ago, I chose to view and analyze the popular movie Scent of a Woman. I had never seen the movie before but had only heard good things about it. I can now say good things about this movie from personal experience. This film was extraordinary. 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My favorite line comes during the Ferrari scene (I was laughing so hard when the cop left, failing to realize Slade is blind.) As Slade careens down the street at 70 mph, Charlie yells, \"You're going to get us killed!\" Slade answers, \"Can you blame me? I'm blind!\" On that note, Pacino succeeds marvellously in portraying a blind man. We never doubt for a second that he does, in fact, live in total darkness. Yet others, like the cop, probably the spectators in the restaurant in the tango scene, don't realize it. Ironically enough, Slade acts as though he doesn't want to be treated as the proverbial blind man who needs a cane and a guiding arm. However, in the final scene, he emerges with a never-before-seen pair of dark glasses (after which follows the charismatic speech.) 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Though the story is a little contrived and predictable, it pulls all the right strings, thanks to O'Donnell's sympathetic supporting role and Pacino's powerful lead performance, for which he won his first Academy Award. Scent of a Woman is based on the 1975 Italian film Profumo Di Donna . ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi", "precise_score": 5.994494438171387, "rough_score": 6.973117351531982, "source": "search", "title": "Plot Summary - Fandango - Movie Times - Fandango" }, { "answer": "Scent of a Woman", "passage": "Pacino has not received another Academy Award nomination since winning for Scent of a Woman, but has won three Golden Globes since the year 2000, the first being the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001 for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.64639949798584, "source": "wiki", "title": "Al Pacino" }, { "answer": "Scent of a Woman", "passage": "When things get tangled, tango on! Great Film! 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He doesn't blame anyone or anything for his blindness. He's man who thinks that somehow, he was destined to \"tour the battlefield\" this way.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.922886848449707, "source": "search", "title": "Scent of a Woman Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Scent of a Woman", "passage": "This is a good movie. Great really. It ranks on my top 10 of all time. Number 1 being Saving Private Ryan. If you want to see what Academy voters are swayed by, see Unforgiven. If you want to see a masterful movie that contains one of what I consider to be the best performance by an actor ever(the real best being Charles Sheen in Major League 2)see Scent of a Woman. The script does have its errors. The time duration is often unclear. Slade tells Charlie that his gun is not a gun, but a weapon or a piece. Seconds later, Charlie asks for it and Slade refers to it as his gun. Just little stuff like that are the reasons why the Academy didn't give it their vote. I don't care about that though. See it. Remember, the two best syllables in the world are....oh wait. I can't print that. If you've seen the movie, you get the joke.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.673324584960938, "source": "search", "title": "Scent of a Woman Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Scent of a Woman", "passage": "I do not tend to go along with Hollywood-created cult figures, that kind of hero-worship, idol-making, whatever: you can have your Julia Roberts and such like making endless and mindless blockbuster hits with such insipid nonsense as `Pretty Woman', `Notting Hill' and so on, but it has to be something more serious like Joel Schumacher's `Dying Young' or even Steven Soderbergh's `Erin Brockovich' to convince me that Ms Roberts can/might be a good actress. The same goes for Al Pacino. Until the arrival of `Scent of a Woman' he was just merely another actor of those who come out of the Hollywood mass-manufacturing industry. `Scent of a Woman' changed all that: here Pacino shows he is a grand master, a brilliant actor. It is not important that this film is a redoing of an Italian original, or even whether this film won him an Oscar: the film stands up for its own merits, and Pacino reaches colossal heights in this well-directed drama, ably and willingly aided by a refreshing Chris O'Donnell. 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I don't know why you're even seeing anyone else!\" Her persistence, as well as her talent, eventually convinced him to cast her in the role.", "precise_score": 6.578736305236816, "rough_score": 4.44887113571167, "source": "wiki", "title": "Kate Winslet" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Cast as the sensitive seventeen-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, a fictional first-class socialite who survives the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, Winslet's experience was emotionally demanding. \"Titanic was totally different and nothing could have prepared me for it. ... We were really scared about the whole adventure. ... Jim [Cameron] is a perfectionist, a real genius at making movies. But there was all this bad press before it came out, and that was really upsetting.\" Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing more than $2,186,800,000 in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed Winslet into a commercial movie star. Subsequently, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning a European Film Award. ", "precise_score": 4.569555282592773, "rough_score": 2.654780149459839, "source": "wiki", "title": "Kate Winslet" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Winslet received Academy Award nominations as the younger versions of the characters played by fellow nominees Gloria Stuart, as Rose, in Titanic (1997) and Judi Dench, as Iris Murdoch, in Iris. These are the only instances of the younger and older versions of a character in the same film both yielding Academy Award nominations, thus making Winslet the only actor to twice share an Oscar nomination with another for portraying the same character. ", "precise_score": 6.683677673339844, "rough_score": 4.728761672973633, "source": "wiki", "title": "Kate Winslet" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater: Cameron said Winslet \"had the thing that you look for\" and that there was \"a quality in her face, in her eyes,\" that he \"just knew people would be ready to go the distance with her\". Rose is a 17-year-old girl, originally from Philadelphia, who is forced into an engagement to 30-year-old Cal Hockley so she and her mother, Ruth, can maintain their high-class status after her father's death had left the family debt-ridden. Rose boards the RMS Titanic with Cal and Ruth, as a first-class passenger, and meets Jack. Winslet said of her character, \"She has got a lot to give, and she's got a very open heart. And she wants to explore and adventure the world, but she [feels] that's not going to happen.\" Gwyneth Paltrow, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, and Gabrielle Anwar had been considered for the role. When they turned it down, 22-year-old Winslet campaigned heavily for the role. She sent Cameron daily notes from England, which led Cameron to invite her to Hollywood for auditions. As with DiCaprio, casting director Mali Finn originally brought her to Cameron's attention. When looking for a Rose, Cameron described the character as \"an Audrey Hepburn type\" and was initially uncertain about casting Winslet even after her screen test impressed him. After she screen tested with DiCaprio, Winslet was so thoroughly impressed with him, that she whispered to Cameron, \"He's great. Even if you don't pick me, pick him.\" Winslet sent Cameron a single rose with a card signed \"From Your Rose\" and lobbied him by phone. \"You don't understand!\" she pleaded one day when she reached him by mobile phone in his Humvee. \"I am Rose! I don't know why you're even seeing anyone else!\" Her persistence, as well as her talent, eventually convinced him to cast her in the role.", "precise_score": 5.484067440032959, "rough_score": 4.613641262054443, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "The role that transformed Winslet from art house attraction to international star was Rose DeWitt Bukater, the passionate, rosy-cheeked aristocrat in James Cameron 's Titanic (1997). Young girls the world over both idolized and identified with Winslet, swooning over all that face time opposite heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio and noting her refreshingly healthy, unemaciated physique. Winslet's performance also garnered a Best Actress nomination, making her the youngest actress to ever receive two Academy Award nominations.", "precise_score": 5.405274868011475, "rough_score": 3.7712314128875732, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Kate Winslet In The Titanic Movie | Jack And Rose Dawson", "precise_score": 5.964372158050537, "rough_score": 6.920235633850098, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet In The Titanic Movie | Jack And Rose Dawson" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Kate Winslet plays Rose DeWitt Bukater, a seventeen year old Philadelphia girl who is pressured by her family to marry a man she despises, a steel fortune heir by the name of Caledon Nathan Hockley (played by actor Billy Zane). Rose's father passed away, leaving her family deep in debt, and Rose feels an obligation to help her family by accepting Cal's hand in marriage. Rose's life seems to be over until she meets Jack (Dicaprio) and falls madly in love, creating a cinematic affair that will go down in pop culture history.", "precise_score": 1.8813449144363403, "rough_score": 1.7575807571411133, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet In The Titanic Movie | Jack And Rose Dawson" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "In 1997, Australian Vogue printed excerpts of Kate Winslet's diary from the filming of Titanic. Kate writes of her first meeting with James Cameron - he showed her a model of the Titanic and demonstrated how many special effects shots could be captured using a tiny camera with the model. She then goes on to express her admiration for two of Cameron's other films, True Lies and the Abyss, exclaiming at the end of the entry that, after reading the treatment for Titanic, she very much wants to play Rose.", "precise_score": 5.2577009201049805, "rough_score": 5.846145153045654, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet In The Titanic Movie | Jack And Rose Dawson" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "To the millions of movie lovers who adore Titanic, Kate Winslet's role as Rose DeWitt Bukater will never be forgotten. Kate's natural acting abilities and innocent yet sophisticated personality added the romantic spark needed to push the movie across the line from a big budget disaster flick to an enduring, heart breaking romance. To modern audiences, Jack and Rose have become the new Romeo and Juliet, which is fitting, as Dicaprio played the star crossed lover in the popular William Shakespeare adaptation, and Cameron's pitch to the movie studio for his epic blockbuster was, \"Romeo and Juliet on the Titanic\".", "precise_score": 7.339792728424072, "rough_score": 6.827805995941162, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet In The Titanic Movie | Jack And Rose Dawson" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Titanic's female lead character, Rose Dewitt Bukater, is again NOT an actual person, however, Rose, together with the rest of the Hockley entourage, are representative of a typicaly wealthy family of the era. I can see why Cal and Jack were fighting over her, there's not many seventeen-year old girls will lie there naked while you draw them!", "precise_score": 3.459050178527832, "rough_score": -2.0994319915771484, "source": "search", "title": "James Cameron's Titanic Characters" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study", "precise_score": 7.77155876159668, "rough_score": 8.33299446105957, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study", "precise_score": 7.77155876159668, "rough_score": 8.33299446105957, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Born in Philadelphia in 1895, Rose DeWitt Bukater is 17 during the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic . Played by Kate Winslett, Rose boards the ship with her fiancé Caledon Hockley (Billy Zane) and her mother Ruth DeWitt Bukater (Frances Fisher). Although she does not love Cal, she is being forced to marry him by who mother who is obsessed with maintaining her social status. After the death of her father, Rose and Ruth were left with nothing. Rose is one of the two main characters in the Titanic movie .", "precise_score": 5.54411506652832, "rough_score": 7.166411876678467, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "In a similarly high-brow role, Kate Winslet starred with Christopher Eccleston in Jude, a modern interpretation of the Thomas Hardy novel Jude the Obscure. She then appeared as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh 's Hamlet (1996), and landed squarely on the A-list of leading ladies with her performance as Rose DeWitt, the heroine of James Cameron 's record-breaking blockbuster Titanic (1997). The film won numerous Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, and scored Winslet her second Academy Award nomination, this time for best actress. Her co-star, Gloria Stuart, also earned a nod in the supporting actress category for her portrayal of the older Rose DeWitt; the two actresses became the first ever to earn nominations for playing two versions of the same character.", "precise_score": 6.594783782958984, "rough_score": 7.204103946685791, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet - Biography.com" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh search the wreck of RMS Titanic for a necklace with a rare diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. They recover a safe containing a drawing of a young woman wearing only the necklace dated April 14, 1912, the day the ship struck the iceberg. Rose Dawson Calvert, the woman in the drawing, is brought aboard Keldysh and tells Lovett of her experiences aboard Titanic.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.06572437286377, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "In 1912 Southampton, 17-year-old first-class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, her fiancé Cal Hockley, and her mother Ruth board the luxurious Titanic. Ruth emphasizes that Rose's marriage will resolve their family's financial problems. Distraught over the engagement, Rose considers suicide by jumping from the stern; Jack Dawson, a penniless artist, intervenes and discourages her. Discovered with Jack, Rose tells a concerned Cal that she was peering over the edge and Jack saved her from falling. When Cal becomes indifferent, she suggests to him that Jack deserves a reward. He invites Jack to dine with them in first class the following night. Jack and Rose develop a tentative friendship, despite Cal and Ruth being wary of him. Following dinner, Rose secretly joins Jack at a party in third class.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.728953838348389, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Aware of Cal and Ruth's disapproval, Rose rebuffs Jack's advances, but realizes she prefers him over Cal. After rendezvousing on the bow at sunset, Rose takes Jack to her state room; at her request, Jack sketches Rose posing nude wearing Cal's engagement present, the Heart of the Ocean necklace. They evade Cal's bodyguard and have sex in an automobile inside the cargo hold. On the forward deck, they witness a collision with an iceberg and overhear the officers and designer discussing its seriousness.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.84707260131836, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Cal discovers Jack's sketch of Rose and an insulting note from her in his safe along with the necklace. When Jack and Rose attempt to inform Cal of the collision, he has his bodyguard slip the necklace into Jack's pocket and accuses him of theft. Jack is arrested, taken to the master-at-arms' office, and handcuffed to a pipe. Cal puts the necklace in his own coat pocket.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.20280647277832, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "With the ship sinking, Rose flees Cal and her mother, who has boarded a lifeboat, and frees Jack. On the boat deck, Cal and Jack encourage her to board a lifeboat; Cal claims he can get himself and Jack off safely. After Rose boards one, Cal tells Jack the arrangement is only for himself. As her boat lowers, Rose decides that she cannot leave Jack and jumps back on board. Cal takes his bodyguard's pistol and chases Rose and Jack into the flooding first-class dining saloon. After using up his ammunition, Cal realizes he gave his coat and consequently the necklace to Rose. He later boards a collapsible lifeboat by carrying a lost child.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.603445053100586, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "After braving several obstacles, Jack and Rose return to the boat deck. The lifeboats have departed and passengers are falling to their deaths as the stern rises out of the water. The ship breaks in half, lifting the stern into the air. Jack and Rose ride it into the ocean and he helps her onto a wooden panel only buoyant enough for one person. He assures her that she will die an old woman, warm in her bed. Jack dies of hypothermia but Rose is saved.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.970536231994629, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "With Rose hiding from Cal en route, the RMS Carpathia takes the survivors to New York City where Rose gives her name as Rose Dawson. She later finds out Cal committed suicide after losing all his money in the 1929 Wall Street crash.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.273049354553223, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Back in the present, Lovett decides to abandon his search after hearing Rose's story. Alone on the stern of Keldysh, Rose takes out the Heart of the Ocean — in her possession all along — and drops it into the sea over the wreck site. While she is seemingly asleep or has died in her bed, photos on her dresser depict a life of freedom and adventure inspired by the life she wanted to live with Jack. A young Rose reunites with Jack at the Titanic Grand Staircase, applauded by those who died.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.117136001586914, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson: Cameron said he needed the cast to feel as though they were really on the Titanic, relive its liveliness, and \"to take that energy and give it to Jack, [...] an artist who is able to have his heart soar\". Jack is portrayed as a homeless, poor man from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin who has toured numerous places in the world, primarily Paris. He wins two tickets onto the RMS Titanic in a poker game and travels as a third-class passenger with his friend Fabrizio. He is attracted to Rose at first sight and meets her when she attempts to throw herself off the stern of the ship. This enables him to mix with the first-class passengers for a night. When casting the role, various established actors, including Matthew McConaughey, Chris O'Donnell, Billy Crudup and Stephen Dorff, were considered, but Cameron felt that a few of the actors were too old for the part of a 20-year-old. Tom Cruise was interested in portraying the character, but the asking price was too much for the studio to consider. Cameron considered Jared Leto for the role but he refused to audition. DiCaprio, 22 years old at the time, was brought to Cameron's attention by casting director Mali Finn. Initially, he did not want to portray the character, and refused to read his first romantic scene on the set (see below). Cameron said, \"He read it once, then started goofing around, and I could never get him to focus on it again. But for one split second, a shaft of light came down from the heavens and lit up the forest.\" Cameron strongly believed in DiCaprio's acting ability, and told him, \"Look, I'm not going to make this guy brooding and neurotic. I'm not going to give him a tic and a limp and all the things you want.\" Cameron rather envisioned the character as a James Stewart type. Although Jack Dawson was a fictional character, there is a grave labeled \"J. Dawson\" in Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia where 121 victims are buried. The real J. Dawson was Joseph Dawson, who shoveled coal in the bowels of the ship. \"It wasn't until after the movie came out that we found out that there was a J. Dawson gravestone,\" said the film's producer, Jon Landau, in an interview. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.156249523162842, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Billy Zane as Caledon Nathan \"Cal\" Hockley: Cal is Rose's 30-year-old fiancé. He is arrogant and snobbish, and the heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune. He becomes increasingly embarrassed, jealous, and cruel about Rose's relationship with Jack. The part was originally offered to Matthew McConaughey.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.991741180419922, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Rose's widowed mother, who arranges her daughter's engagement to Cal to maintain her family's high-society status. She loves her daughter, but believes that social position is more important than having a loving marriage. She scorns Jack, even though he saved her daughter's life.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.17573356628418, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Gloria Stuart as Rose Dawson Calvert: Rose narrates the film in a modern-day framing device. Cameron stated, \"In order to see the present and the past, I decided to create a fictional survivor who is [close to] 101 years, and she connects us in a way through history.\" The 100-year-old Rose gives Lovett information regarding the \"Heart of the Ocean\" after he discovers a nude drawing of her in the wreck. She tells the story of her time aboard the ship, mentioning Jack for the first time since the sinking. At 87, Stuart had to be made up to look older for the role. Of casting Stuart, Cameron stated, \"My casting director found her. She was sent out on a mission to find retired actresses from the Golden Age of the thirties and forties.\" Cameron said that he did not know who Stuart was, and Fay Wray was also considered for the role. \"But [Stuart] was just so into it, and so lucid, and had such a great spirit. And I saw the connection between her spirit and [Winslet's] spirit,\" stated Cameron. \"I saw this joie de vivre in both of them, that I thought the audience would be able to make that cognitive leap that it's the same person.\" Stuart died on September 26, 2010, at age 100, approximately the same age elder Rose was in the film. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.637426376342773, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett: A treasure hunter looking for the \"Heart of the Ocean\" in the wreck of the Titanic in the present. Time and funding for his expedition are running out. He later reflects at the film's conclusion that, despite thinking about Titanic for three years, he has never understood it until he hears Rose's story.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.589679718017578, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Suzy Amis as Lizzy Calvert: Rose's granddaughter, who accompanies her when she visits Lovett on the ship and learns her grandmother's true identity and romantic past with Jack Dawson.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.57070255279541, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy: An ex-Pinkerton constable, Lovejoy is Cal's English valet and bodyguard, who keeps an eye on Rose and is suspicious about the circumstances surrounding Jack's rescue of her. He dies when the Titanic splits in half, causing him to fall into a massive opening.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.9492292404174805, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Eric Braeden as John Jacob Astor IV: A first-class passenger whom Rose (correctly) calls the richest man on the ship. The film depicts Astor and his 18-year-old wife Madeleine (Charlotte Chatton) as being introduced to Jack by Rose in the first-class dining saloon. During the introduction, Astor asks if Jack is connected to the \"Boston Dawsons\", a question Jack neatly deflects by saying that he is instead affiliated with the Chippewa Falls Dawsons. Astor is last seen as the Grand Staircase glass dome implodes and water surges in. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.951316833496094, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Bernard Fox as Colonel Archibald Gracie IV: The film depicts Gracie making a comment to Cal that \"women and machinery don't mix\", and congratulating Jack for saving Rose from falling off the ship, though he is unaware that it was a suicide attempt. Fox had portrayed Frederick Fleet in the 1958 film A Night to Remember.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.935379028320312, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Michael Ensign as Benjamin Guggenheim: A mining magnate traveling in first-class. He shows off his French mistress Madame Aubert (Fannie Brett) to his fellow passengers while his wife and three daughters wait for him at home. When Jack joins the other first-class passengers for dinner after his rescue of Rose, Guggenheim refers to him as a \"bohemian\". He is seen in the flooding Grand Staircase during the sinking, saying he is prepared to go down as a gentleman.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.845479965209961, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Mark Lindsay Chapman as Chief Officer Henry Wilde: The ship's chief officer, who lets Cal on board a lifeboat because he has a child in his arms. Before he dies, he tries to get the boats to return to the sinking site to rescue passengers by blowing his whistle. After he freezes to death, Rose uses his whistle to attract the attention of Fifth Officer Lowe, which leads to her rescue.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.71073055267334, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Ioan Gruffudd as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe: The ship's only officer to lead a lifeboat to retrieve survivors of the sinking from the icy waters. The film depicts Lowe rescuing Rose.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.662796974182129, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Rochelle Rose as Noëlle, Countess of Rothes: The Countess is shown to be friendly with Cal and the DeWitt Bukaters. Despite being of a higher status in society than Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff-Gordon, she is kind, and helps row the boat and even looks after the steerage passengers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.931364059448242, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "* Liam Tuohy as Chief Baker Charles Joughin: The baker appears in the film on top of the railing with Jack and Rose as the ship sinks, drinking brandy from a flask. According to the real Joughin's testimony, he rode the ship down and stepped into the water without getting his hair wet. He also admitted to hardly feeling the cold, most likely thanks to alcohol. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.184774398803711, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Cameron felt the Titanic sinking was \"like a great novel that really happened\", but that the event had become a mere morality tale; the film would give audiences the experience of living the history. The treasure hunter Brock Lovett represented those who never connected with the human element of the tragedy, while the blossoming romance of Jack and Rose, Cameron believed, would be the most engaging part of the story: when their love is finally destroyed, the audience would mourn the loss. He said: \"All my films are love stories, but in Titanic I finally got the balance right. It's not a disaster film. It's a love story with a fastidious overlay of real history.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.26446533203125, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Cameron framed the romance with the elderly Rose to make the intervening years palpable and poignant. While Winslet and Stuart stated their belief that, instead of being asleep in her bed, the character dies at the end of the film, Cameron stated that, although he knows what he intended with the ending, he will not reveal its intention, adding, \"The answer has to be something you supply personally; individually.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.57410717010498, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Principal photography of Titanic began in July 1996 at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with the filming of the modern day expedition scenes aboard the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. In September 1996, the production moved to the newly built Fox Baja Studios at Rosarito, Mexico where a full scale RMS Titanic had been constructed. The poop deck was built on a hinge which could rise from zero to ninety degrees in a few seconds as the ship's stern rose during the sinking. For the safety of the stuntmen, many props were made of foam rubber. By November 15, the boarding scenes were being shot. Cameron chose to build his RMS Titanic on the starboard side as a study of weather data showed prevailing north-to-south wind which blew the funnel smoke aft. This posed a problem for shooting the ship's departure from Southampton, as it was docked on its port side. Any writing on props and costumes had to be reversed, and if someone walked to their right in the script, they had to walk left during shooting. In post-production, the film was flipped to the correct direction. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.814276218414307, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Cameron sketched Jack's nude portrait of Rose for a scene which he feels has the backdrop of repression. \"You know what it means for her, the freedom she must be feeling. It's kind of exhilarating for that reason,\" he said. The nude scene was DiCaprio and Winslet's first scene together. \"It wasn't by any kind of design, although I couldn't have designed it better. There's a nervousness and an energy and a hesitance in them,\" Cameron stated. \"They had rehearsed together, but they hadn't shot anything together. If I'd had a choice, I probably would have preferred to put it deeper into the body of the shoot.\" He said he and his crew \"were just trying to find things to shoot\" because the big set was not yet ready. \"It wasn't ready for months, so we were scrambling around trying to fill in anything we could get to shoot.\" After seeing the scene on film, Cameron felt it worked out considerably well.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.104321479797363, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "During the first assembly cut, Cameron altered the planned ending, which had given resolution to Brock Lovett's story. In the original version of the ending, Brock and Lizzy see the elderly Rose at the stern of the boat, and fear she is going to commit suicide. Rose then reveals that she had the \"Heart of the Ocean\" diamond all along, but never sold it, in order to live on her own without Cal's money. She tells Brock that life is priceless and throws the diamond into the ocean, after allowing him to hold it. After accepting that treasure is worthless, Brock laughs at his stupidity. Rose then goes back to her cabin to sleep, whereupon the film ends in the same way as the final version. In the editing room, Cameron decided that by this point, the audience would no longer be interested in Brock Lovett and cut the resolution to his story, so that Rose is alone when she drops the diamond. He also did not want to disrupt the audience's melancholy after the Titanic sinking. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.351313591003418, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "The version used for the first test screening featured a fight between Jack and Lovejoy which takes place after Jack and Rose escape into the flooded dining saloon, but the test audiences disliked it. The scene was written to give the film more suspense, and featured Cal (falsely) offering to give Lovejoy, his valet, the \"Heart of the Ocean\" if he can get it from Jack and Rose. Lovejoy goes after the pair in the sinking first-class dining room. Just as they are about to escape him, Lovejoy notices Rose's hand slap the water as it slips off the table behind which she is hiding. In revenge for framing him for the \"theft\" of the necklace, Jack attacks him and smashes his head against a glass window, which explains the gash on Lovejoy's head that can be seen when he dies in the completed version of the film. In their reactions to the scene, test audiences said it would be unrealistic to risk one's life for wealth, and Cameron cut it for this reason, as well as for timing and pacing reasons. Many other scenes were cut for similar reasons.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.91761589050293, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "As regards to television broadcasts, the film airs occasionally across the United States on networks such as TNT. To permit the scene where Jack draws the nude portrait of Rose to be shown on network and specialty cable channels, in addition to minor cuts, the sheer, see-through robe worn by Winslet was digitally painted black. Turner Classic Movies also began to show the film, specifically during the days leading up to the 82nd Academy Awards. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.649718284606934, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "A 2012 re-release, also known as Titanic in 3D, was created by re-mastering the original to 4K resolution and post-converting to stereoscopic 3D format. The Titanic 3D version took 60 weeks and $18 million to produce, including the 4K restoration. The 3D conversion was performed by Stereo D and Sony with Slam Content's Panther Records remastering the soundtrack. Digital 2D and in 2D IMAX versions were also struck from the new 4K master created in the process. For the 3D release, Cameron opened up the Super 35 film and expanded the image of the film into a new aspect ratio, from 2:35:1 to 1:78:1, allowing the viewer to see more image on the top and bottom of the screen. The only scene entirely redone for the re-release was Rose's view of the night sky at sea, on the morning of April 15, 1912. The scene was replaced with an accurate view of the night-sky star pattern, including the Milky Way, adjusted for the location in the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912. The change was prompted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who had criticized the scene for showing an unrealistic star pattern. He agreed to send film director Cameron a corrected view of the sky, which was the basis of the new scene. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.644928932189941, "source": "wiki", "title": "Titanic (1997 film)" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": " 2002-2008 Charlie Rose (TV Series)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.357336044311523, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Rose DeWitt Bukater", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.398938179016113, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Rose", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.145187377929688, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Rose DeWitt Bukater", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.398938179016113, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Rose", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.145187377929688, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "On the day she had to film the straitjacket scene in Hamlet (1996), she learned she had won the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.037722587585449, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Although she had already acted in Sense and Sensibility and Heavenly Creatures, and was initially introduced to Cameron by the casting director Mali Finn, Kate had to fight for the role of Rose. Although the role was turned down by Gabrielle Anwar (from Scent of a Woman), Claire Danes and Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cameron was unsure about Winslet, who was 22 years old at the time. Kate screen tested, and still Cameron balked, despite being pleased with the results. After imploring Cameron for the part through letters and phone calls, the elite director finally gave in, realizing that Kate possessed a certain quality that audiences would fall head over heels for.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.138721942901611, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet In The Titanic Movie | Jack And Rose Dawson" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "In the next entry, Kate writes of her very first proper Hollywood screen test - it took all day, and was complete with full costumes, makeup, and hair design. Kate then crosses her fingers \"very tightly\" in the hopes she will receive the part. Kate got the acceptance call on her mobile phone for her role as Rose in Titanic on March 19th at 5am, and was so excited that her screams of joy woke up everybody else in the place she was staying. Cameron explained to Kate that, due to the long and strenuous shoot ahead, she should get into an eating and exercise routine. In response, Kate writes that she began \"cycling my buns off\" and \"exercising like a freak\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.773648262023926, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet In The Titanic Movie | Jack And Rose Dawson" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Kate Winslet as Rose wore an array of alluring movie dresses during the film, from the black dress (kimono) during the famous naked drawing scene (which turned into one of the most memorable love scenes in movie history) to a deck dress, tea gown, and boarding suit. It seemed as though Kate changed clothes in the movie just to ride the elevator, much to the delight of female viewers worldwide.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.131007194519043, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet In The Titanic Movie | Jack And Rose Dawson" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Character: Rose DeWitt Bukater", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.69340705871582, "source": "search", "title": "James Cameron's Titanic Characters" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Super control freak Cal Hockley was another work of fiction, and a nasty one at that! He was heir to his father's steel company, which was quite ironic, since Jack would 'steal' Rose from him during the journey! Geddit!? Poor Cal was quite upset by the time he got to New York, he'd lost his girl and his diamond, both replaceable I suppose, but worst of all, he had lost his 'man', Spicer Lovejoy, in the sinking!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.169108390808105, "source": "search", "title": "James Cameron's Titanic Characters" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Ruth DeWitt Bukater, yet another fictional character, may have had a rather fancy name, but all of the family's millions had been whittled away to next to nothing, so it was Ruth's job to ensure that only an heir to a fortune could get their hands on a jewel like Rose! She failed miserably, I wonder what happened to her?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.448570251464844, "source": "search", "title": "James Cameron's Titanic Characters" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Margaret \"Molly\" Brown was a REAL person, she did exist, and most of what you hear about her in the movie is correct. However, any interaction with any of the fictional characters, like the meeting on the boat deck with Jack and Rose, should be dismissed. A plain-talking, down to earth woman, she probably taught Jack to spit!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.723106384277344, "source": "search", "title": "James Cameron's Titanic Characters" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Another fictional character, the treasure-seeking Brock Lovett, who thinks he's hit the jackpot when Rose's daughter Lizzie steps out of the helicopter onto the deck of the Keldysh! In an outrageous attempt to seduce Lizzie, he tells her, \"I never let it in before\". Well, she didn't fall for that one Mr. Lovett, even given your surname.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.96418571472168, "source": "search", "title": "James Cameron's Titanic Characters" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Joseph Bruce Ismay was a REAL person, he was Chairman of the White Star Line , the company who owned Titanic , but despite his position, Cameron belittled him in some scenes, especially with Rose's 'Freud joke' at dinner! He did board a lifeboat as seen in the movie, and his actions would haunt him for the rest of his life.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.71147346496582, "source": "search", "title": "James Cameron's Titanic Characters" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Tired of the repetitive lifestyle she leads, she tries to commit suicide by throwing herself overboard. She is convinced to save herself by third class passenger Jack Dawson who is played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Jack and Rose end up falling in love after dining together in the First Class Dining Room, and Jack sketches Rose wearing nothing but the fabled Heart of the Ocean; a necklace given to her by Cal.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.81474494934082, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "The two then make their way to the cargo hold where they find William Carter’s brand new Renault traveling car. The two proceed to make love in the back seat. They return at 11:40 pm when the ship hits an iceberg. When the two warn Cal and Ruth about the collision, Jack is framed for stealing the Heart of the Ocean and is locked in the Master-at-arms office. Rose is taken onto a lifeboat with her mother but then leaves to rescue Jack.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.225722312927246, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Cal and Jack convince Rose to board another lifeboat and Cal tells her that she is making arrangements for both of the men to leave the ship safely. Cal betrays Jack and Rose returns for Jack once she finds out. The two are then chased by Cal who is holding a pistol. Once Rose and Jack escape Cal, he realizes that the ship is about to go down and heads back up onto a lifeboat after pretending to care for an abandoned child.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.994905471801758, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Once the ship sinks, Jack helps Rose onto a floating door that can support the weight of one person. The two exchange words and Jack assures that she will make it out alive and die in her sleep as an old woman. Jack then dies of hypothermia and Rose boards the RMS Carpathia. She then sees Cal, who is desperately looking for her. She hides her face in a blanket as soon as Cal looks over and Cal walks away never to be seen again.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.98886489868164, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "She arrives in New York and introduces herself as Rose Dawson. She does everything that she promised Jack she would do including horseback riding on the beach, going to Santa Monica Pier, flying a plane, etc. At the end of the movie, Old Rose ( Gloria Stewart ) drops the Heart of the Ocean into the deep.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.91878890991211, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Rose DeWitt Bukater Quotes", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.410175323486328, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "Old Rose – “Fifteen-hundred people went into the sea, when Titanic sank from under us. There were twenty boats floating nearby… and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six… out of fifteen-hundred. Afterward, the seven-hundred people in the boats had nothing to do but wait… wait to die… wait to live… wait for an absolution… that would never come.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.641640663146973, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet –A Character Study" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "After she was cast as Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, she had roses sent to director James Cameron for casting her.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.62247896194458, "source": "search", "title": "50 Things about Kate Winslet - BOOMSbeat" }, { "answer": "Rose", "passage": "“I agree, I think he could’ve actually fitted on that bit of door!” Kate admitted to Jimmy Kimmel on Feb. 1. Of course, she’s referring to the scene where Rose and Jack jump into the freezing cold ocean after the Titanic sinks, and she survives by floating on a door from the boat, while he freezes to death in her arms. Fans have been saying for years that Jack could’ve fit on the door with Rose, and Kate clearly agrees!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.292062997817993, "source": "search", "title": "Kate Winslet On ‘Titanic’ & Jack Dying: Admits Her ..." } ]

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In November 2007, Lloyd was reunited onscreen with his former Taxi co-star Judd Hirsch in the season-four episode \"Graphic\" of the television series Numb3rs. He played Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2008 production of A Christmas Carol at the Kodak Theatre with John Goodman and Jane Leeves. In 2009, he appeared in a comedic trailer for a faux horror film entitled Gobstopper, in which he played Willy Wonka as a horror-movie-style villain. In October 2009, he did a two-man show with comic performer Joe Gallois in several Midwest cities.", "precise_score": 3.762718677520752, "rough_score": 2.659280300140381, "source": "wiki", "title": "Christopher Lloyd" }, { "answer": "Uncle Martin", "passage": "The big innovation is that Uncle Martin (Christopher Lloyd), the quizzical alien with the ’50s TV antennas popping out of his head, has been given an anthropomorphic silver space suit — a dancing, prancing, horny polymer uniform that carries on like Jim Carrey in ”The Mask.” The big drag is that the suit completely outshines Martin. In this glorified special-effects demo reel based on the singularly daft ’60s sitcom (what’s next — ”Petticoat Junction”?), Lloyd, when not spouting hyperkinetic scientific gibberish, makes scoops of ice cream fly around the room, guzzles the contents of a lava lamp, and literally falls apart into head and rascally limbs, as his earthly caretaker (Jeff Daniels) gawks in dismay. ”Flubber” was more edifying — and more fun.", "precise_score": 4.26017951965332, "rough_score": -0.9261025786399841, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian Review | Movie Reviews and News - EW.com" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "Bixby was a familiar face to television audiences first in MFM, then The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, The Magician and The Incredible Hulk. Bixby also helmed episodes of TV shows as diverse as Sledgehammer and Blossom. Bixby died of cancer at age 59 in 1993. 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Liz Hurley (seen more often in cinemas than on the screen) is around as the arrogant daughter of Daniels's boss and if I claimed that the picture isn't funny, witnesses could be called to testify that I laughed quite often, even at the lavatorial jokes. The 1963 sitcom (whose star, Ray Walston, has a walk-on part in the film) is seen as a seminal work that led to Mork and Mindy and E.T., though My Favourite Martian was clearly inspired by Gore Vidal's TV and stage play of the mid-Fifties, Visit to a Small Planet.", "precise_score": 6.468875408172607, "rough_score": 7.485426425933838, "source": "search", "title": "That Nelson Mandela had me in the back of his cab once ..." }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "My Favorite Martian – EW.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.441526412963867, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian Review | Movie Reviews and News - EW.com" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "My Favorite Martian (1999)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.655713081359863, "source": "search", "title": "10 Mars Movies That Are Out of This World | Fandango" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "My Favorite Martian (1999) - Review | Sci-Fi Movie Page", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.837050437927246, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian (1999) - Review | Sci-Fi Movie Page" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "MY FAVORITE MARTIAN", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.410955429077148, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian (1999) - Review | Sci-Fi Movie Page" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "All kinds of comic mayhem ensue in the process. Think Alf crossed with Third Rock From the Sun and you might get the idea. Analogies with sitcoms are apt in this movie's case since the humor in My Favorite Martian never really rises above that of your average American situation comedy - with sleek special effects, that is.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.77082347869873, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian (1999) - Review | Sci-Fi Movie Page" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "My Favorite Martian", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.410955429077148, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian (1999) - Review | Sci-Fi Movie Page" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "My Favorite Martian Movie Review (1999) | Roger Ebert", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.999349594116211, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian Movie Review (1999) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "\"My Favorite Martian'' is slapstick and silliness, wild sight gags and a hyped-up acting style. The Marx Brothers would have been at home here. The movie is clever in its visuals, labored in its audios, and noisy enough to entertain kids up a certain age. What age? Low double digits, I'd say.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.84725570678711, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian Movie Review (1999) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "Uncle Martin", "passage": "It stars Jeff Daniels , a seasoned straight man (\"Dumb And Dumber''), as a TV producer named Tim. He sees a flying saucer crash and is soon adopted by its occupant, a Martian named, for purposes of the human appearance he assumes, Uncle Martin. The Martian is played by Christopher Lloyd with zestful looniness, and the Martian's space suit, named Zoot, becomes a character in its own right. Both Uncle Martin and Zoot are capable of instant shape-shifting, and depending on what color of extraterrestrial gumball they're chewing, Martin (and the humans) can turn into a variety of monsters.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.621825218200684, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian Movie Review (1999) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "Uncle Martin", "passage": "There's a love story in the frenzy. As the film opens, Tim is in love with his on-air talent, a reporter named Brace ( Elizabeth Hurley ). By the end, Tim has come to realize that Lizzie ( Daryl Hannah ), his technician, is a better choice in every way. All of this is decided at breakneck speed, and at one point Lizzie even turns into a bug-eyed monster and entirely devours a bad guy. (Soon after, defying one of Newton's laws--I'm not sure which one--she turns back into a lithesome young woman who has not put on any weight.) The villains are all government scientists, led by Coleye (pronounced \"coli,'' as in \"e. coli''), a bureaucrat obsessed with aliens. Played by Wallace Shawn , who often looks as if he is about to do something immoral with a clipboard, he desperately chases Tim and \"Uncle Martin'' because he wants to prove there is intelligent life on other planets. Uncle Martin, on the other hand, only wants to lay low, be friends with Tim and Lizzie, repair his spaceship and go home. Then he discovers ice cream, and all he wants to do is eat ice cream.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.113797187805176, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian Movie Review (1999) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "There are some good moments in \"My Favorite Martian,'' which was inspired by the '60s sitcom, and the best comes right at the top, where we see one of NASA's Martian exploratory vehicles roll up to a rock, stop and run out of juice just before it would have stumbled upon an amazing sight. I also liked the gyrations of Zoot the suit, which develops an addiction to washing machines. And the scene where Martin chug-a-lugs a lava lamp. I also appreciated the information that the space probe contained the ashes of Jerry Garcia.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.289628982543945, "source": "search", "title": "My Favorite Martian Movie Review (1999) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "My Favorite Martian", "passage": "It looks as if everyone who made this film had a lot of fun. Spirits and energy are high, mugging is permitted, dialogue is rapid-fire, nobody walks if they can run. As kids' entertainment, it's like a live-action cartoon, and I can recommend it on that level, although not on a more ambitious plane. I came upon the movie just a few days after seeing \"Children Of Heaven,'' a children's film from Iran that has the power to absorb and teach any child, and I found \"My Favorite Martian'' noisy and superficial by comparison. (But of course it's noisy and superficial. That's its mission. 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But West did his best to deliver some really goofy lines as seriously as possible. Sure the series reduced Batman to a joke. But West managed to the less silly than George Clooney, he did. At number 3 is Michael Keaton, Tim Burton's casting of Michael Keaton as Batman was controversial at the time, how was Bettlejuice gonna be the Batman and you know what, he was really really good, he might have been a better Bruce Wayne than Batman, his Bruce Wayne is a tiny bit unhinged As he should be. Wayne is the man who dresses as a bat and fights crime. He is unhinged. At number two Christian Bale. This guy can act. he was an excellent Bruce Wayne. He was an excellent Batman with his gruffed bat voice a little over the top. sure but again this is a man who dresses as a giant bat. When Bale was back man and all you saw was Batman Bale and the Bruce Wayne character disappears. He is a tough act to follow. And the number one actor to play Batman is Kevin Conroy. You might know his name or his face but you know his voice. Kevin Conroy's the voice of Batman in animated shows like Batman the animated series, Justice League and others. Conroy says the people behind Batman, the Animated Series, auditioned over 500 people before he gave it a try. It was also Conroy's idea to use two distinct voices for Bruce Wayne and Batman, because since Bruce Wayne is so rich and famous. People would recognize his voice. And so the Kevin Conroy legend grows. Don't agree with this video? Let me know in the comments or argue with me on twitter. I'm at iyaz. I'm always up for some verbal fist a cuffs. 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As The New York Times put it, “The prime costume is now worn by Val Kilmer, who makes a good Batman but not a better one than Michael Keaton.” Bob Kane felt otherwise, saying he thought Kilmer did the best job of all the actors to have played Batman up to that point.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.517082214355469, "source": "search", "title": "The Actors Who’ve Played Batman | Den of Geek" }, { "answer": "Val Kilmer", "passage": "Val Kilmer: Kilmer took over for Keaton in Joel Schumacher's \"Batman Forever,\" a box office hit that received mixed reviews. He opted not to return for the next sequel, \"Batman and Robin,\" because he believed his heroic character was marginalized in favor of the villains. Looking back on Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze, he may have been right.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.129982948303223, "source": "search", "title": "Ben Affleck Is Batman: 16 Actors Who Played the Dark ..." } ]

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Ewan McGregor doesn’t need the work, and he’s never started any sort of campaign on social media for Disney or Lucasfilm to give him his own Star Wars film, but if he’s getting criticism from industry insiders, and if that’s hurting his reputation, then it needs to stop.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.950689315795898, "source": "search", "title": "Stop Asking Ewan McGregor to do Another Star Wars Film" }, { "answer": "Ewan McGregor", "passage": "Although, this could all be over if Disney and Lucasfilm would just pull their collective heads out of their butts and realize that the majority of the Star Wars fan base would kill to see an Obi-Wan standalone film with Ewan McGregor as the lead. 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The site’s sources are also claiming that “conversations” are currently underway between Disney/Lucasfilm and Ewan McGregor – who played the younger version of Obi-Wan featured in the Star Wars prequel movie trilogy (Episodes I-III) – and that the talks involve an “unknown” project, rather than the aforementioned Boba Fett film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.2881646156311035, "source": "search", "title": "Obi-Wan Kenobi-led Star Wars Anthology movie - Screen Rant" }, { "answer": "Ewan McGregor", "passage": "Ewan McGregor’s performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi has long been cited as one of the Star Wars prequel movie trilogy’s bright spots – and there are many fans who would like to see him get his own film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 8.680275917053223, "source": "search", "title": "Obi-Wan Kenobi-led Star Wars Anthology movie - Screen Rant" }, { "answer": "Ewan McGregor", "passage": "A younger version of Obi-Wan Kenobi, portrayed by the somewhat less expressive Ewan McGregor.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.079102993011475, "source": "search", "title": "Obi-Wan Kenobi - Uncyclopedia - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ewan McGregor", "passage": "In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), set 32 years before A New Hope (which makes the Alec Guinness version of Obi-Wan less than 60. 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At age 18, she is now a servant on her family’s farm where she’s treated badly by her domineering stepmother Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent (the incomparable Anjelica Huston) and her stepsisters Marguerite and Jacqueline (Megan Dodd and Melanie Lynskey, both hilarious). Instead of pouring her heart out to pet mice, Danielle finds companionship in nature, books, and her fellow servants. And then there’s Prince Henry ( would-be Wolverine Dougray Scott ), who hates his life in the castle and has taken to roaming the countryside on horses stolen from peasants. He makes the mistake of attempting to steal one from Danielle, who lobs an apple at him. 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Shortly thereafter, he dies, leaving Danielle to the care of her stepmother, who already resents the love that he displays to his daughter (especially as he calls for her over his wife in his final moments), and the estate's three devoted servants - the housemaids, Paulette and Louise, and the retainer, Louise's husband Maurice.", "precise_score": 5.360657215118408, "rough_score": 7.754469394683838, "source": "search", "title": "Ever After (Film) - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "Anjelica Huston", "passage": "In the 19th century, a Grande Dame (Jeanne Moreau) summons The Brothers Grimm to her palace, where the brothers discuss their interpretation of the Cinderella story and notice a painting displayed in the room. The Grande Dame shows the brothers a glass slipper and tells them the story of Danielle de Barbarac, the true story of Cinderella. In 16th-century France, widower Auguste de Barbarac (Jeroen Krabbé), father of eight-year-old Danielle, marries Rodmilla de Ghent (Anjelica Huston), a wealthy baroness with two young daughters, Marguerite and Jacqueline, but he dies of a heart attack shortly afterwards. Before dying, Auguste's last words are directed to Danielle, which causes the Baroness to envy Danielle and treat her miserably for the next ten years. While Marguerite (Megan Dodds) is hostile and cruel to Danielle, Jacqueline (Melanie Lynskey) is kinder and more respectful to her, though she often stays out of the crossfires to keep the peace. By the time Danielle (Drew Barrymore) is eighteen, the estate has fallen into decline, as the Baroness has no interest in farming and wishes to get back to court as soon as possible. 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This novel variation is still set in the once-upon-a-time 16th century, but it features an active, 1990s-style heroine -- she argues about economic theory and civil rights with her royal suitor -- rather than a passive, exploited hearth sweeper who warbles 'A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes'.\" She also praised Anjelica Huston's performance as a cruel stepmother: \"Huston does a lot of eye narrowing and eyebrow raising while toddling around in an extraordinary selection of extreme headgear, accompanied by her two less-than-self-actualized daughters -- the snooty, social-climbing, nasty Marguerite, and the dim, lumpy, secretly nice Jacqueline. \"Nothing is final until you're dead\", Mama instructs her girls at the dinner table, \"and even then I'm sure God negotiates\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.771749496459961, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ever After" }, { "answer": "Anjelica Huston", "passage": "Even as a little girl, the feisty Danielle (Anna Maguire) could whip the boy next door (Ricki Cuttell). But when her father (Jeroen Krabbe) dies, leaving her in the care of his new bride, Rodmilla (a deliciously vicious Anjelica Huston), Danielle's fire is buried under the soot from the hearth she is forced to clean. \"Cinder-soot\" and \"Cinderella,\" her nasty and demanding stepsister Jacqueline (Melanie Lynskey) soon dubs her. Less snooty but no more helpful is the other stepsibling, namby-pamby Marguerite (Megan Dodds).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.03013801574707, "source": "search", "title": "'Ever After: A Cinderella Story' - The Washington Post" }, { "answer": "Anjelica Huston", "passage": "Cate Blanchett , 45, nearly stole the movie when she stepped onto the screen as the deliciously wicked Lady Tremaine in the live-action remake of Cinderella . Anjelica Huston, 63, Jennifer Coolidge, 53, have all tackled the nasty character, but Cate managed to one-up them all. Let’s take a look back at previous Cinderella stepmothers to really drill home why Cate takes the evil crown!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.159864902496338, "source": "search", "title": "Cate Blanchett In ‘Cinderella’: Why She’s The Most Evil ..." }, { "answer": "Anjelica Huston", "passage": "Anjelica Huston in Ever After: A Cinderella Story", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.9422025680542, "source": "search", "title": "Cate Blanchett In ‘Cinderella’: Why She’s The Most Evil ..." }, { "answer": "Angelica Huston", "passage": "Dougray Scott (\"Deep Impact\") is good but not outstanding in the standard issue role of the handsome prince. Fortunately, he gives the character enough charm to overcome such shortcomings. The scene stealer, however, belongs to Angelica Huston (\"Prizzi's Honor,\" \"The Grifters\") as the cruel stepmother.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.973115921020508, "source": "search", "title": "EVER AFTER: A CINDERELLA STORY - Screen It" }, { "answer": "Anjelica Huston", "passage": "13. Anjelica Huston", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.462629318237305, "source": "search", "title": "Ever After: The best Cinderella movie ever | EW.com" }, { "answer": "Anjelica Huston", "passage": "Various elements of Anjelica Huston’s performance as Danielle’s stepmother could easily have comprised every single item on this list and that would be a compelling enough argument. Her Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent is cruel and calculating, yes, but also intelligent, funny, and strangely appealing. The actress more than makes the most of the one scene that humanizes her, in which she observes to Danielle, “You have so much of your father in you,” then admits regretfully, “I barely knew him.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.8973283767700195, "source": "search", "title": "Ever After: The best Cinderella movie ever | EW.com" }, { "answer": "Anjelica Huston", "passage": "14. Anjelica Huston’s eyebrows", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.484309196472168, "source": "search", "title": "Ever After: The best Cinderella movie ever | EW.com" } ]

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In 1996, he was the executive producer and star of the cartoon Bruno the Kid which featured a CGI representation of himself. He went on to play the lead roles in Twelve Monkeys (1995) and The Fifth Element (1997). However, by the end of the 1990s, his career had fallen into another slump with critically panned films, like The Jackal, Mercury Rising, and Breakfast of Champions, saved only by the success of the Michael Bay-directed Armageddon which was the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide. The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game Apocalypse. In 1999, Willis then went on to the starring role in M. Night Shyamalan's film, The Sixth Sense. The film was both a commercial and critical success and helped to increase interest in his acting career.", "precise_score": -0.9644066691398621, "rough_score": -5.620428562164307, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bruce Willis" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth. It features an ensemble cast including Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, William Fichtner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Keith David, and Steve Buscemi.", "precise_score": 2.5061333179473877, "rough_score": -0.9188171625137329, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "In the 1998 film Armageddon, Nasa recruits a team of deep core drillers to save the planet after discovering that an asteroid is going to impact Earth in less than a month. The new project funded by Nasa hopes to take asteroids and turn them into spaceships that could save Earth from collisions", "precise_score": -1.732792615890503, "rough_score": -3.208543300628662, "source": "search", "title": "Nasa funds Armageddon-stylerobots who will protect Earth ..." }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "1998’s much more serious and somber disaster movie chronicles the attempts to destroy a seven-mile-wide comet (discovered by a teenage amateur astronomer played by Elijah Wood) that’s set to collide with the Earth and cause mass extinction; unfortunately, the nuclear bomb planted on the thing by the spacecraft “Messiah” (a join venture between the U.S. and Russia, notch) only succeeds in splitting it in two, which means there’s now a pair of 3.5-mile-wide comets en route to kill us all. “Deep Impact” was released in May and received praise for its (relative) scientific credibility; however, “Armageddon” had Bruce Willis, Aerosmith on the soundtrack and a Fourth of July weekend release date, so it ultimately made more money. Directed by Mimi Leder, a protege of Steven Spielberg’s; oddly enough, she’s barely been heard from since.", "precise_score": 1.9081143140792847, "rough_score": 1.1160837411880493, "source": "search", "title": "The 10 best Earth in distress movies (with video) – IFC" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Think back to 1979 and a disaster movie called Meteor; Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Russian and American scientists united in a desperate attempt to stop a giant asteroid ploughing into the Earth. Twenty years on and Meteor has spawned itsThink back to 1979 and a disaster movie called Meteor; Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Russian and American scientists united in a desperate attempt to stop a giant asteroid ploughing into the Earth. Twenty years on and Meteor has spawned its very own trend. Bar a certain giant lizard, 1998 is the year of the asteroid disaster-movie. And while action junkies should gear up for Jerry Bruckheimer's explosive Armageddon (big rock threatens the Earth, Bruce Willis dives into a space shuttle to destroy it), DreamWorks' more thoughtful Deep Impact (same plot, no Bruce Willis, more human drama) has managed to get its foot in the door first.", "precise_score": 0.6461948752403259, "rough_score": -1.8761743307113647, "source": "search", "title": "Read User Reviews and Submit your own for Deep Impact ..." }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "*1998: Golden Raspberry Award (Worst Actor) for Armageddon, Mercury Rising and The Siege", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.088773727416992, "source": "wiki", "title": "Bruce Willis" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Armageddon opened in theaters only two and a half months after the similar asteroid impact-based film Deep Impact, which starred Robert Duvall and Morgan Freeman. Armageddon fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more scientifically accurate. Armageddon was an international box-office success despite generally negative reviews from critics, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.891009330749512, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "According to Bruce Joel Rubin, writer of Deep Impact, a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.612637519836426, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Two soundtrack albums were released for the film. The first, Armageddon: The Album, was released by Columbia Records on June 23, 1998; it consists mainly of songs from the film, with one score suite.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.640149116516113, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "A more complete album of the film score by composers Trevor Rabin and Harry Gregson-Williams was released as Armageddon: Original Motion Picture Score by Sony Classical on November 10, 1998. While not featured on the album, the film also featured additional music by Don L. Harper, Paul Linford, Steve Jablonsky and John Van Tongeren.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.883508682250977, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Prior to Armageddons release, the film was advertised in Super Bowl XXXII at a cost of $2.6 million. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.22854995727539, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Despite a mixed critical reception, a DVD edition of Armageddon was released by The Criterion Collection, a specialist film distributor of primarily arthouse films that markets what it considers to be \"important classic and contemporary films\" and \"cinema at its finest\". In an essay supporting the selection of Armageddon, film scholar Jeanine Basinger, who taught Michael Bay at Wesleyan University, states that the film is \"a work of art by a cutting-edge artist who is a master of movement, light, color, and shape—and also of chaos, razzle-dazzle, and explosion\". She sees it as a celebration of working men: \"This film makes these ordinary men noble, lifting their efforts up into an epic event.\" Further, she states that in the first few moments of the film all the main characters are well established, saying, \"If that isn't screenwriting, I don't know what is\". The film was also released by Touchstone Home Entertainment on standard edition Blu-ray disc in 2010 with only a few special features.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.955781936645508, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Following the 2003 Columbia disaster, some screen captures from the opening scene where Atlantis is destroyed were passed off as satellite images of the disaster in a hoax. Additionally, the American cable network FX, which had intended to broadcast Armageddon that evening, removed the film from its schedule and aired Aliens in its place. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.53634262084961, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Armageddon was released on , 1998 in in the United States and Canada. It ranked first at the box office with an opening weekend gross of . It grossed in the United States and Canada and in other territories for a worldwide total of .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.920321464538574, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Armageddon received mostly negative reviews from film critics, many of whom took issue with \"the furious pace of its editing\". The film is on the list of Roger Ebert's most hated films. In his original review, Ebert stated, \"The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained\". On Siskel and Ebert, Ebert gave it a Thumbs Down. However, his co-host Gene Siskel gave it a Thumbs Up. Ebert went on to name Armageddon as the worst film of 1998 (though he was originally considering Spiceworld). Todd McCarthy of Variety also gave the film a negative review, noting Michael Bay's rapid cutting style: \"Much of the confusion, as well as the lack of dramatic rhythm or character development, results directly from Bay's cutting style, which resembles a machine gun stuck in the firing position for 2½ hours.\" The film has a cumulative 39% \"Rotten\" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while achieving a 42% aggregate score on Metacritic.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.0866117477417, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "The film received four Academy Award nominations at the 71st Academy Awards, including; Best Sound (Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith A. Wester), Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Original Song (\"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing\" performed by Aerosmith). The film received the Saturn Awards for Best Direction and Best Science Fiction Film (where it tied with Dark City). It was also nominated for seven Razzie Awards including: Worst Actor (Bruce Willis), Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting Actress (Liv Tyler), Worst Screen Couple (Tyler and Ben Affleck) and Worst Original Song. Only one Razzie was awarded: Bruce Willis received the Worst Actor award for Armageddon, in addition to his appearances in Mercury Rising and The Siege, both released in the same year as this film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.045254707336426, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Armageddon – Les Effets Speciaux is an attraction based on Armageddon at Walt Disney Studios Park located at Disneyland Paris. The attraction simulates the scene in the movie in which the Russian Space Station is destroyed. Michael Clarke Duncan (\"Bear\" in the film) is featured in the pre-show.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.396095275878906, "source": "wiki", "title": "Armageddon (1998 film)" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Nasa funds Armageddon-stylerobots who will protect Earth from asteroids | Daily Mail Online", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.43140983581543, "source": "search", "title": "Nasa funds Armageddon-stylerobots who will protect Earth ..." }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "You are probably familiar with films such as Armageddon, telling stories of the human race nearly being wiped out by impacts from asteroids.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.780891418457031, "source": "search", "title": "Nasa funds Armageddon-stylerobots who will protect Earth ..." }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "“Armageddon” (1998)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.620166778564453, "source": "search", "title": "The 10 best Earth in distress movies (with video) – IFC" }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "An average adventure similar to the same-year release of Armageddon. It packs a few punches but not enough to make Deep Impact worth re-watching. A shame, too.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.240090370178223, "source": "search", "title": "Read User Reviews and Submit your own for Deep Impact ..." }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "I think this movie is BETTER THAN ARMAGEDDON! It has nearly no stereotype \"heroes\" and a humanitarian side. It's too long for the story, but it has a good ending.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.17153549194336, "source": "search", "title": "Read User Reviews and Submit your own for Deep Impact ..." }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Nevertheless, there are some impressive disaster effects in the final hour, and thanks to some clever and knowing twists, Deep Impact keeps you averagely entertained right up until the cataclysmic tidal-wave finale. That said, it still merely makes you hunger for Armageddon; an event movie that promises more of the things that would have made this film better (deep-space heroics, action, adventure, ooh-ahh computer-graphics), but with less of the spiritual guff that ultimately sucks the fire from its rival.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.705832481384277, "source": "search", "title": "Read User Reviews and Submit your own for Deep Impact ..." }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "While the forthcoming Armageddon promises to unload a Con-Air-in-space adrenalin rush, Deep Impact is a more spiritual \"Let's solve our personal problems before the comet kills us\" movie. It's a slowly-spun sci-fi fable - but **** what an ending...… Expand", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.590865135192871, "source": "search", "title": "Read User Reviews and Submit your own for Deep Impact ..." }, { "answer": "Armageddon", "passage": "Différent d'Armageddon et au moins sans Bruce Willis (ouf !) et malgré sa réalisation appliquée, Deep machin n'a décidément aucun impact sur le spectateur et le reste du monde. Un courant d'air tout au plus.… Expand", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.791093826293945, "source": "search", "title": "Read User Reviews and Submit your own for Deep Impact ..." } ]

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Along with his literary work, he is credited with coming up with the idea for a real-life space success: geostationary communications satellites. Since 1956 he has lived in Sri Lanka. Clarke was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998. Arthur C. Clarke - The Authorized Biography was published by Neil McAleer in 1992. He died in the Indian Ocean country of Sri Lanka, his home since 1956.", "precise_score": 8.381430625915527, "rough_score": 9.789227485656738, "source": "search", "title": "Arthur C. Clarke Biography (Writer) - factmonster.com" }, { "answer": "2001: A Space Odyssey", "passage": "Arthur C. Clarke is the architect of some of the 20th Century's most enduring mythology. A futurist and science fiction writer, Clarke has penned over 600 articles and short stories, as well as dozens of novels and collections. His work has been translated into over 30 languages and adapted on television and in Hollywood movies, most notably in the classic 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. 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Clarke has published hundreds of essays and short stories and over 75 novels, including the sequels 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), 2061: Odyssey Three (1988), 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997). Along with his literary work, he is credited with coming up with the idea for a real-life space success: geostationary communications satellites. Since 1956 he has lived in Sri Lanka. Clarke was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998. Arthur C. Clarke - The Authorized Biography was published by Neil McAleer in 1992. He died in the Indian Ocean country of Sri Lanka, his home since 1956.", "precise_score": 8.381430625915527, "rough_score": 9.789227485656738, "source": "search", "title": "Arthur C. Clarke Biography (Writer) - Infoplease" }, { "answer": "A Space odyssey", "passage": "Sci-fi superstar Arthur C. Clarke wrote the 1953 novel Childhood’s End, which went on to become one of most popular and acclaimed science fiction novels of all time. 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His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the towering figures of science fiction. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were known as the \"Big Three\" of science fiction.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.985931396484375, "source": "wiki", "title": "Arthur C. Clarke" }, { "answer": "2001: A Space Odyssey", "passage": "Because of his post-polio deficits, which limited his ability to travel and gave him halting speech, most of Clarke's communications in his last years were in the form of recorded addresses. In July 2007, he provided a video address for the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial in which he closed his comments with a goodbye to his fans. In September 2007, he provided a video greeting for NASA's Cassini probe's flyby of Iapetus (which plays an important role in the book of 2001: A Space Odyssey). In December 2007 on his 90th birthday, Clarke recorded a video message to his friends and fans bidding them good-bye. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.15764045715332, "source": "wiki", "title": "Arthur C. Clarke" }, { "answer": "2001: A Space Odyssey", "passage": "In 1948 he wrote \"The Sentinel\" for a BBC competition. Though the story was rejected, it changed the course of Clarke's career. Not only was it the basis for 2001: A Space Odyssey, but \"The Sentinel\" also introduced a more cosmic element to Clarke's work. Many of Clarke's later works feature a technologically advanced but still-prejudiced mankind being confronted by a superior alien intelligence. In the cases of The City and the Stars (and its original version, Against the Fall of Night), Childhood's End, and the 2001 series, this encounter produces a conceptual breakthrough that accelerates humanity into the next stage of its evolution. 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Mister Freeze crashes a charity event held by Wayne Enterprises and steals a diamond from the event. Mister Freeze is captured by Batman and detained at Arkham Asylum, but flees with the help of Poison Ivy and Bane. Ivy cuts off Nora's life support and convinces Mister Freeze that Batman was responsible for the deed; enraged, he vows to destroy Gotham City by freezing it solid. With the use of a gigantic ray gun stationed in an observatory, he freezes over the entirety of Gotham. In a subsequent fight with Batman, Mr. Freeze destroys the observatory with a set of bombs (planted by Bane) in an unsuccessful attempt to take Batman with him. Batman shows Mr. Freeze a recording of Ivy during her fight with Batgirl, in which she brags about killing Nora. Batman tells Mr. Freeze that his wife is not dead; she was restored and moved to Arkham, where he can complete his research. 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The first was similar to the Terminator in the film, while the second was made of liquid metal and could not be destroyed with conventional weaponry. Cameron could not think of a good way to depict this robot, stating that he \"was seeing things in his head that couldn't be done with existing technology.\" Ultimately only one Terminator appeared in the film. The liquid metal Terminator would be revisited with the T-1000 character in the 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.973499059677124, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Terminator" }, { "answer": "Judgement Day", "passage": "The soundtrack album was originally released through Enigma Records. It was followed by a CD and cassette reissue on July 1, 1991 through DCC Compact Classics. A remastered edition containing only Fiedel's score entitled The Definitive Edition (titled \"The Definite Edition\" on the cover) was released on August 22, 1995 through Edel AG. This edition contained a 73-minute running time and included a bonus track the \"Judgement Day Remix\" of \"Theme from The Terminator.\" The liner notes of the album contained extensive annotations for each track. Milan Records released a remastered version of the score on April 8, 2016. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.538804054260254, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Terminator" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day (also referred to as simply Terminator 2 or T2) is a 1991 American science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong. It is the sequel to the 1984 film The Terminator, and the second installment in the Terminator franchise. Terminator 2 follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her ten-year-old son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator, the liquid metal, shapeshifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John Connor and prevent him from becoming the leader of the human resistance. A second, less advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is also sent back in time to protect John.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.13647931814193726, "source": "wiki", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "An alternate ending shows an elderly Sarah Connor watching an adult John, who is a US Senator, playing with his daughter in a Washington playground in the year 2029, narrating that Judgment Day never happened. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.521980285644531, "source": "wiki", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" }, { "answer": "Judgement Day", "passage": "Terminator 2: Judgement Day received widespread critical acclaim. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes – established on the Web in 1998 – retroactively reports that T2 earned 93% positive reviews. The average score was 75 out of 100 from 22 critics on Metacritic. Voters on the Internet Movie Database give the movie an 8.5 out of 10, ranking it as #39 on the Top 250 movies of all time. CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film a rare \"A+\" grade.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.388367652893066, "source": "wiki", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "The 137 minute theatrical cut of the movie was first released on VHS in November 1991. On November 24, 1993, the Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Special Edition cut of the film was released to Laserdisc and VHS, containing 15 minutes of previously unseen footage including scenes with Michael Biehn reprising his role as Kyle Reese in a dream sequence. Some scenes, however, were still not included in the two-cassette VHS cut. In October 1997, the film received its first DVD release which included only the theatrical cut. The subsequent \"Ultimate Edition\" and \"Extreme Edition\" DVD releases also included the extended version of the film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.83515739440918, "source": "wiki", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "The score by Brad Fiedel was commercially released as the Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CD and cassette tape and contained twenty tracks with a runtime of 53 minutes. The score spent six weeks on the Billboard 200, reaching a peak of No. 70. The album was re-issued in 2010 by Silva Screen Records and featured a collectable booklet", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.485579967498779, "source": "wiki", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "In June 2001, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked the film at number 77 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, a list of films considered to be the most thrilling in film history. In 2003, the AFI released the AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains, a list of the 100 greatest screen heroes and villains of all time. The Terminator, as portrayed by Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, was ranked at number 48 on the list of heroes, as well as at number 22 on the list of villains for its appearance in the first Terminator film. The character was the only entry to appear on both lists, though they are different characters based on the same model. In 2005, Schwarzenegger's famous quote \"Hasta la vista, baby\" was ranked at number 76 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes best film quotes list. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.534931659698486, "source": "wiki", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "The film placed number 33 on Total Films 2006 list of The Top 100 Films of All Time. Empire ranked the film number 35 on its list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. In 2008, the film was voted the eighth-best science fiction film ever on AFI's 10 Top 10. IGN named the film the tenth-greatest science fiction film of all time, saying that it was \"one example of a sequel coming along and just destroying the original in every regard.\" Empire ranked Terminator 2: Judgment Day as the third-best film sequel of all time. In 2012, Total Film placed the film at eighth place on its list of \"50 Sequels That Were Better Than The Original\". In 2016, Playboy ranked the film number one on its list of 15 Sequels That Are Way Better Than The Originals. Richard Roeper named Judgment Day the third-best film sequel ever made, stating that it \"surpasses the original in every level.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.896576881408691, "source": "wiki", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day subtitles | 498 subtitles", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.2724260091781616, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day subtitles | 490 subtitles" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day YIFY subtitles", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.23233219981193542, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day YIFY subtitles" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Eleven years after Sarah Connor destroyed the original Terminator that was programmed to kill her, two Terminators arrive in Los Angeles from the year 2029. The first is a Terminator identical to the one that Sarah first encountered, while the second is a new model which assumes the identity of a police officer. John Connor is now a 10 year old living with foster parents. Sarah's experiences have made her tougher and more vigilant, but also desperate to warn humanity about the coming apocalypse. After attempting to bomb a computer factory, Sarah is arrested and remanded to the Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane under the supervision of Dr. Silberman. Meanwhile, the Terminators locate John Connor in a mall. After John is rescued and a chase through the L.A. storm drain channels, the original Terminator escapes with John on his motorcycle. The Terminator explains that he is reprogrammed by the future John Connor to protect and obey John's younger self. The other Terminator is a T-1000, an advanced new prototype programmed to kill John. It is made of \"a mimetic polyalloy\", a liquid metal that allows it to take the shape and appearance of anything it touches. It can also form into knifes and stabbing weapons. Learning that the T-1000 will likely kill Sarah and then mimic her to lure John, John orders the Terminator to help free her. Initially, Sarah is terrified by the Terminator; but after seeing it fight off the T-1000, she accepts that they need its help. As they escape the city, the Terminator informs John and Sarah about Skynet, the sentient computer system that will nearly wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic nuclear attack on \"Judgment Day\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.578667640686035, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day YIFY subtitles" }, { "answer": "Judgement Day", "passage": "A Terminator(Arnold Schwarzenegger) was sent from the future to kill the unborn son of Sarah Connor(Linda Hamilton) in the original. Now, that Terminator has been sent back again but with a different assignment: Protect John Connor. John Connor(Edward Furlong) is now about 10 years of age and must evade a new Terminator sent to kill him;The T-1000(Robert Patrick). Sarah, John, and The Terminator journey together on their quest to stop Judgement Day, with a trailing, shape-shifting Termiantor trailing from behind.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.292037487030029, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day YIFY subtitles" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Sci-fi movies can rarely be made in such way that can be looked at as works of art. This is one of the few exceptions. The prediction of judgment day with Hamilton watching a playground full of kids be burnt to the ground is an absolute brilliant portrayal of Armageddon. The theme that men will destroy themselves is also shown throughout the movie also and is even said by The Terminator\" It's in your nature to destroy yourselves\". 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It lacks the horrific central focus of the first film (futuristic, indestructible cyborgs with no feelings being able to unemotionally kill), but it makes up for this with a new focus of humanity, coming to accept your future, and how it would look if two colossal killing machines entered into an arena together.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.417041778564453, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day YIFY subtitles" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.856379270553589, "source": "search", "title": "Subtitles For Terminator 2: Judgment Day" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 231 English Subtitles | SubtitleSeeker.Com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.4540760517120361, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 226 English Subtitles ..." }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Rate Terminator 2 Judgment Day Terminator 2 Judgement Day Directors Cut 1991 1080p HDDVD DTS x264-hV Sub as good", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.6538838148117065, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 226 English Subtitles ..." }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Rate Terminator 2 Judgment Day Terminator 2 Judgement Day Directors Cut 1991 1080p HDDVD DTS x264-hV Sub as bad", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.8997776508331299, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 226 English Subtitles ..." }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Subtitles Terminator 2: Judgment Day - subtitles english 1CD srt (eng)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.36552196741104126, "source": "search", "title": "Subtitles Terminator 2: Judgment Day - subtitles english ..." }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "AKA:Terminator 2: Judgment Day (eng), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Theatrical Version) (eng), Термiнатор 2: Судний день (eng), T2 (eng), T2 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day T2: Extreme Edition (eng), T2: Extreme Edition (eng), T2: Ultimate Edition (eng), Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (eng), Terminator 2 Judgment Day (eng), Terminator 2 Judgment Day Skynet Edition (eng), Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition (eng)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.020713806152344, "source": "search", "title": "Subtitles Terminator 2: Judgment Day - subtitles english ..." }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.856379270553589, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day Subtitles" }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Rate Terminator 2 Judgment Day Terminator 2 Judgmenty Skynet Edition 1991 Bluray 720p DTSHD-x264CHD Sub as good", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6456175446510315, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1762 Subtitles in 47 ..." }, { "answer": "Judgment Day", "passage": "Rate Terminator 2 Judgment Day Terminator 2 Judgmenty Skynet Edition 1991 Bluray 720p DTSHD-x264CHD Sub as bad", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.3992464542388916, "source": "search", "title": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1762 Subtitles in 47 ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Classic! Independence Day its a powerful movie. A classic of 1996. I can watch it over and over again, and never get bored.", "precise_score": -0.683215320110321, "rough_score": -5.304977893829346, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Fourth of July weekend. It’s a time for barbecues, fireworks, road trips, and generally celebrating America. (Or, y’know, ‘MURICA.) But for those of us who have always been somewhat movie-obsessed, it’s a long weekend during which we can cram in more than a few blockbuster matinees. Hollywood, of course, has caught on to this and turned the Independence Day weekend into an opportunity to release what the studios hope to be one of their most boffo popcorn flicks of the year. (Interestingly, that’s not really happening this year: The only hyped releases this week are the Melissa McCarthy vehicle Tammy, which is theme appropriate because it has a lesbian July 4th party, and Deliver Us From Evil.) Throughout the last four decades everything from Big Trouble in Little China to The Amazing Spider-Man has dominated the July 4th weekend and we here at WIRED have very emotional attachments to many of them. In honor of the holiday weekend we decided to take a trip down Nostalgia Way and remember how it felt to watch these summer movies back in the day. Sit down, grab a cherry Icee, and remember the good ol’ days with us.", "precise_score": 0.8611811399459839, "rough_score": -5.030655384063721, "source": "search", "title": "16 4th of July Blockbusters You'll Want to Watch ... - WIRED" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Why It Made for an Epic Fourth of July: The Eddie Murphy rom-com Boomerang might not have been epic in the way that, say, Independence Day was epic, but it will certainly be burned into my brain until the day I die. When it hit theaters in 1992 I was a kid at a summer camp, where the counselors—who undoubtedly were trying to be “cool” counselors—took all the campers to the movies and bought us tickets to R-rated movies. We had two choices: Universal Soldier, a story about genetically-enhanced soldiers beating each other to death, or Boomerang, a story about Eddie Murphy having explicit sex with lots and lots of women.", "precise_score": -1.4302453994750977, "rough_score": -1.1182862520217896, "source": "search", "title": "16 4th of July Blockbusters You'll Want to Watch ... - WIRED" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Why It Made for an Epic Fourth of July: There is really no reason for this movie—about three underage brothers who set out into the wilderness with a Super 8 camera to capture the country’s most dangerous wildlife for no reason other than kids lie to their parents and are sensationally stupid—should have been included on a list of best-performing, and therefore supposedly most beloved, Independence Day movies. I mean, firstly, it made less than $2 million over that long weekend, which even for 1997 is pretty terrible. (The Karate Kid Part III made $10.3 million over the same weekend in 1989, for crying out loud. Part III.)", "precise_score": -0.15414829552173615, "rough_score": -3.306673049926758, "source": "search", "title": "16 4th of July Blockbusters You'll Want to Watch ... - WIRED" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: “Independence Day” then and now and monoculture’s slow demise - Salon.com", "precise_score": 3.309041738510132, "rough_score": -0.5539349317550659, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: “Independence Day” then and now and monoculture’s slow demise", "precise_score": 3.6604020595550537, "rough_score": -0.7151951193809509, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Topics: 4th of July , box office , Independence Day , independence day resurgence , Movies , tarzan , Entertainment News", "precise_score": 0.3891971707344055, "rough_score": -5.083333492279053, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Following “Independence Day,” Smith put out a miracle string of films that did huge numbers on the July 4th holiday weekend. The next year boasted the release of “Men in Black” ($589 million worldwide), and in the next decade, Smith would have comparable success with “Men in Black II” ($441 million) and Hancock ($624 million). “Wild Wild West” ($222 million) would have been another feather in his cap if not for its hefty price tag and very poor critical reception; it won the Razzie for Worst Picture in 1999.", "precise_score": -0.07952940464019775, "rough_score": -3.101428508758545, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Smith’s success with the July 4th release date paved the way for a number of other blockbusters to launch on the day of barbecues, hot dogs, and family picnics. Bay released all four “Transformers” movies on Independence Day, while “Spider-Man 2,” “The Perfect Storm,” “Armageddon,” “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” and “War of the Worlds” all bowed over the holiday weekend.", "precise_score": 2.5415844917297363, "rough_score": -1.826966404914856, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "That mass participation is also part of the film’s appeal. Lindsay Robertson, the former digital editorial director for the Tribeca Film Festival, argued in a critical round-up of 4th of July films that “Independence Day” is “less like a movie and more like a sports event.”", "precise_score": 1.6420351266860962, "rough_score": -4.425813674926758, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Best July 4th Movies | List of Films Released on Independence Day", "precise_score": 0.017620988190174103, "rough_score": -2.8253369331359863, "source": "search", "title": "The Best Movies Released July 4th Weekend - Ranker" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "What are the best movies released over the July 4th weekend? Movies that came out over the Independence Day weekend include a lot of major blockbusters. Films that get a July fourth release are big: Think 'Transformers,' Spider-Man 2' and pretty much any film starring Will Smith. Movie studios know that by early-July, movie goers are craving some epic movie entertainment, and in recent years, they've definitely delivered. Vote for the July 4th movie releases you loved the most, vote down any you thought were duds and feel free to re-rank these films in any order you want.", "precise_score": 0.8735973238945007, "rough_score": -2.678379535675049, "source": "search", "title": "The Best Movies Released July 4th Weekend - Ranker" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Over the past couple of decades, more and more major films have gotten July 4th weekend release dates. Why? Because, quite frankly, long holiday weekends are perfect for movie goers. Need proof? Check out this list of some of the best movies released on Christmas Day . People looking for an escape from the Independence Day festivities (and probably the heat) are more than happy to sit back and relax in a cool, dark theater and be totally swept away for a few hours by a great film. 2012's summer blockbusters included 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' which was released on July 3, 2012.", "precise_score": -0.11259706318378448, "rough_score": -2.7009170055389404, "source": "search", "title": "The Best Movies Released July 4th Weekend - Ranker" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "How many movies about July 4th have actually come out over the July 4th weekend? Actually, just one, but it's a biggie: the Will Smith sci-fi/action movie 'Independence Day' was released on July 3, 1996, and wound up grossing more than $50 million in its opening weekend. Several other Will Smith movies are on this list, including 'Men in Black' and 'Men in Black II,' 'Hancock' and 'Wild Wild West.' For a time, the man seriously ruled the Fourth of July when it came to movie releases.", "precise_score": 6.3080735206604, "rough_score": 5.410584926605225, "source": "search", "title": "The Best Movies Released July 4th Weekend - Ranker" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "It’s the same movie but since this is a sequel everything is bigger and louder and dumber. It’s not quite as fun as the first, but that’s only because Liam Hemsworth’s star just isn’t as bright as Will Smith’s. That’s actually a problem across the board: Most everyone of the old stars from 1996 are back, but they are shifted to the background to let the kids take the lead. The problem is, the kids just don’t quite have the stage presence that the original stars had in 1996. The movie succeeds in recreating the original’s structure (it felt like an Independence Day movie), while upping the stakes across the board (the aliens switched it up from trying to blow up buildings to trying to blow up the whole planet) but it misses in that one critical area: The stars at the center just aren’t magnetic enough to keep your attention.", "precise_score": -4.3369059562683105, "rough_score": -5.340142250061035, "source": "search", "title": "Review: Independence Day - Resurgence (explosions is love ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day of the United States, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth in the U.S., is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 on July 4 by the Continental Congress. It declared that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and were no longer part of the British Empire. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.971344947814941, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, and political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the National Day of the United States. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.464263916015625, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Coincidentally, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only signers of the Declaration of Independence later to serve as Presidents of the United States, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration. Although not a signer of the Declaration of Independence, James Monroe, another Founding Father who was elected as President, also died on July 4, 1831. He was the third President in a row who died on the anniversary of independence. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President, was born on July 4, 1872; so far he is the only U.S. President to have been born on Independence Day.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.069584846496582, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "* In 1870 the U.S. Congress made Independence Day an unpaid holiday for federal employees. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.5397367477417, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "* In 1938 Congress changed Independence Day to a paid federal holiday. 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Decorations (e.g., streamers, balloons, and clothing) are generally colored red, white, and blue, the colors of the American flag. Parades are often held in the morning, before family get-togethers, while fireworks displays occur in the evening after dark at such places as parks, fairgrounds, or town squares.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.553155899047852, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day fireworks are often accompanied by patriotic songs such as the national anthem \"The Star-Spangled Banner,\", \"God Bless America,\", \"America the Beautiful,\" \"My Country, 'Tis of Thee,\" \"This Land Is Your Land,\" \"Stars and Stripes Forever,\" and, regionally, \"Yankee Doodle\" in northeastern states and \"Dixie\" in southern states. 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", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.51712703704834, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "During the annual Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival, Detroit, Michigan hosts one of the world's largest fireworks displays, over the Detroit River, to celebrate Independence Day in conjunction with Windsor, Ontario's celebration of Canada Day.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.407134056091309, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Miamifireworks.jpg|In addition to a fireworks show, Miami, Florida lights one of its tallest buildings with the patriotic red, white and blue color scheme on Independence Day", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.369089126586914, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day, 1940 Promotion.ogv|Patriotic trailer shown in theaters celebrating July 4, 1940", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.815561294555664, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Fourth of July Cake.jpg|A festively decorated Independence day cake.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.36984634399414, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "* Held since 1785, the Bristol Fourth of July Parade in Bristol, Rhode Island is the oldest continuous Independence Day celebration in the United States.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.807463645935059, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "* Since 1959, the International Freedom Festival is jointly held in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario during the last week of June each year as a mutual celebration of Independence Day and Canada Day (July 1). It culminates in a large fireworks display over the Detroit River.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.54878044128418, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "July 4 was intentionally chosen by the United States because it corresponds to its Independence Day, and this day was observed in the Philippines as Independence Day until 1962. In 1964, the name of the July 4 holiday was changed to Republic Day. In Rwanda, July 4 is an official holiday known as Liberation Day, commemorating the end of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in which the U.S. government also played a role. A national park in Denmark is said to hold the largest July 4 celebrations outside of the United States.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.739540100097656, "source": "wiki", "title": "Independence Day (United States)" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day (1996) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.9719038009643555, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day (1996) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Search for \" Independence Day \" on Amazon.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.45899772644043, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day (1996) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.495003700256348, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day (1996) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Movie review: Independence Day Resurgence", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.064302444458008, "source": "search", "title": "Movie review: Independence Day Resurgence - filmfare.com" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Movie review: Independence Day Resurgence", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.064302444458008, "source": "search", "title": "Movie review: Independence Day Resurgence - filmfare.com" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "The word Resurgence is perhaps the most appropriate way to describe the efforts to make a franchise out of the Independence Day movie. As the dictionary definition goes, resurgence is : a new increase of activity or interest in a particular subject or idea that had been forgotten for sometime. The new Independence Day movie is nothing but the studios and the director Roland Emmerich find a new excuse to make easy money. Their renewed interest in the original 1996 movie has spawned an embarrassing shambles of a film. Even two decades ago, the Independence Day movie was a sinful experience in escapist entertainment. It was more of an action upgrade on Mars Attacks (which oddly seemed like a corny rip-off of Independence Day), though some of its set pieces were as bizarrely over the top as the Tim Burton comic caper. But it was good fun, mainly thanks to a charming young Will Smith and his bromance pairing with Jeff Goldblum. None of that goodness in the new movie though. This alien invasion flick is as banal as the Clash Of The Titans flicks.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.018927574157715, "source": "search", "title": "Movie review: Independence Day Resurgence - filmfare.com" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "The single mantra behind Independence Day Resurgence is to be bigger than the predecessor. So they scale the size of the alien ship and make it half as big as planet Earth. Not just that, they even scale the size of the aliens, so the new antagonist, the Alien Queen (any creative resemblance to Ridley Scott's Alien movies is pure coincidental) is as tall as a sky scraper. When she finally reveals herself in the latter part of the movie, you can't help but draw an uncanny resemblance to the invaders from War Of The Worlds (any resemblance again is purely coincidental). There's also alien flora and fauna experience on-board the giant new ship, a lot like the Avatar and/or Prometheus movies (resemblance coincidental...) and the aliens this time are digging to the Earth's core in an effort to terraform (Man Of Steel resemblance is totally coincidental). Humans have developed their own fancy technology and weapons inspired by the aliens they defeated 20 years ago. So the fight this time is more advanced. But the humans stand no chance, because the screenplay is just rehashed from 1996, right down to borrowing the same dialogue too. Sadly, the fun part of the original movie was that they blew up so many monuments and cities, but the new movie does nothing exciting of that sort. Here the action is just down to humans and aliens exchanging green laser firefights.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.215777397155762, "source": "search", "title": "Movie review: Independence Day Resurgence - filmfare.com" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.252267837524414, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.38446044921875, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "A disparate ensemble of heroes band together to defeat the alien invaders who are bent on exterminating mankind with formidable firepower. On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.121204376220703, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Prepare for a spectacular double feature that’s out of this world! Mysterious aliens launch an all-out war against humankind in Independence Day, blasting destructive beams around the globe that ne...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.448930740356445, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "My most favorite movie of all... I always cry with the president's speech The President: Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind. Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist. And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: \"We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive!\" Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.752715110778809, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "This movie did everything right.... and for me to watch it young new and still watch it in 2015 and love it after seeing 50 million times, (almost 20 years old)... if you youger peeps think this is a bad movie.... think of this as done in 1996 and then imagine what it would be like in todays market... Not to mention they are working on an Independence day 2. God I hope it is in IMAX", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.830498695373535, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "It's definitely corny and overly dramatized, but \"Independence Day\" is one of those action-packed classics that just draws you in, no matter how you look at it! How could you go wrong with a movie that has both Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum? The writing, acting and directing is top-notch. It's a movie that has a little bit of everything: action, laughter, and definitely some feels. This is one of those 90's films that, if you're a \"90's kid\" will make you feel like one again. With priceless moments from all involved, you can't go wrong with Independence Day, ANY day of the year!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.014385223388672, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "mark a roth this movie was one of the first alien invasion movies with good effects and story line made a big star out of will smith always on TV during independence day almost 20 years old. no take me to your leader stuff?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.198586463928223, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence day Best bad movie ever. Full of cheese and feel better cliche. Awesome!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.299111366271973, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Classic I really loved this movie when it came out. The graphics is garbage but at the time it came out, it was amazing. I consider Independence day a classic now.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.294835090637207, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Today, We Celebrate Our Independence Day! This is obviously one of the best Emmerich film. It had a wonderful score, and even better duologue. The scene in which the president gives his speech was touching. So good it returned in Resurgence (See \"ID Forever: Part 1\".) The film was excellent. Something to watch this Fourth of July.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.919358253479004, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day - Movies & TV on Google Play" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "\"Independence Day\" (1996)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.972343444824219, "source": "search", "title": "10 Patriotic Movies to Fire Up Your July 4th | NBC New York" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "This blockbuster has to be high on any July 4 movie list. Completely over the top, it's the story of an alien invasion of Earth, and the last ditch attempt to save it by a disparate group of humans that takes place on, you guessed it, July 4. Starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, it features a scene in which the president of the United States (Pullman) personally flies a fighter jet in the attack against the extraterrestrials. Best quote: \"This… is our Independence Day!\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.995177745819092, "source": "search", "title": "10 Patriotic Movies to Fire Up Your July 4th | NBC New York" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "16 Independence Day Blockbusters You’ll Want to Watch All Over Again | WIRED", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.32411003112793, "source": "search", "title": "16 4th of July Blockbusters You'll Want to Watch ... - WIRED" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "16 Independence Day Blockbusters You’ll Want to Watch All Over Again", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.2661771774292, "source": "search", "title": "16 4th of July Blockbusters You'll Want to Watch ... - WIRED" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Why It Made for an Epic Fourth of July: When Big Trouble came out I had just turned one year old, so I wasn’t at the theater. But if I had known then what I know now, I would have army crawled to the nearest big screen on my tiny belly in my tiny footy pajamas and started my life the right way. The Jack Burton way. Between Burton and Snake Plissken, American Icon Kurt Russell may be one of our greatest domestically-harvested cinema badasses. And even though Plissken has that sweet eye patch and managed to escape the penal colonies of both New York and LA, it’s Burton who we’d most want by our sides on a dark and stormy night when the going gets weird. Jack might look like he’s all swagger and no smarts, but this unlikely hero is quick on his feet and knows how to surround himself with the right people to get out of tough jams—just like a certain beloved home country we know! Now, BTiLC may not be as overtly flag-waving as some other Independence Day releases, but the Pork Chop express and its cocksure captain are as red, white and blue as they come, and along with his high capable co-pilot Wang Chi, they do our apple-pie-lovin’ hearts proud. —Jordan Crucchiola", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.860384464263916, "source": "search", "title": "16 4th of July Blockbusters You'll Want to Watch ... - WIRED" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day (1996)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.381901741027832, "source": "search", "title": "16 4th of July Blockbusters You'll Want to Watch ... - WIRED" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Why It Made for an Epic Fourth of July: Well, for starters it’s called Independence Day and it’s about the world coming together to battle an alien invasion on July 4th. So it pretty much couldn’t hit this nail more on the head with a laser sight. The fact that Will Smith flies an alien spacecraft and Jeff Goldblum somehow writes an extraterrestrial-software-compatible virus as part of this counter-offensive is just a bonus. (Double Bonus: Brent Spiner plays a scientist who works at Area 51.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.0551557540893555, "source": "search", "title": "16 4th of July Blockbusters You'll Want to Watch ... - WIRED" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day came out when I was in high school. (Shut it.) I wasn’t supposed to see it when it came out, but when rain shut down the roller coasters at Cedar Point (the Lake Erie amusement park in Ohio known as “America’s Roller Coast”), I poured me and my soaked Nine Inch Nails T-shirt (shut it) into a car with some friends and headed to the theater. Everyone was seeing this movie, especially since rain meant there was nothing else to do in Sandusky, Ohio than go to the movies. It blew my mind. It blew everyone’s mind (or at least that’s my memory of it). And when President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman) gave his rousing “today is our Independence Day” speech, I’ve never felt more patriotic. In fact, this entire day may have been the most American day I’ve ever had. —Angela Watercutter", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.273411750793457, "source": "search", "title": "16 4th of July Blockbusters You'll Want to Watch ... - WIRED" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "\"Independence Day,\" 1996(Credit: 20th Century Fox)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.475591659545898, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "After making his name as a major draw in Michael Bay’s “Bad Boys,” Smith launched the movie that would announce his status as “Mr. July”: the aptly-named “Independence Day.” Co-starring Bill Pullman (“Spaceballs”) and Jeff Goldblum (“Jurassic Park”), the Roland Emmerich-helmed disaster film all but printed its own money in 1996. At the time, Its $817 million worldwide haul was the biggest ever for a studio film (the unstoppable behemoth that was “Titanic” would be released the following year).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.1613850593566895, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "While “Independence Day” is undoubtedly cheesy, there’s a reason that the film has proven so iconic in the two decades since its release. Its cheerfully naïve optimism about the human condition is difficult to resist—from a presidential address delivered in accidental couplets (“We will not go quietly into the night!/We will not vanish without a fight!”) to a drunken Randy Quaid flying into the mothership to save humanity from destruction. “Independence Day” is brainless jingoism, but it’s damn fun, and the sight of DJ Jazzy Jeff’s bandmate beating up an alien (“Welcome to Earth!”) never gets old.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.003535270690918, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "“Tarzan,” which cost $180 million, looks to continue that trend. Meanwhile, none of this weekend’s Fourth of July entries —not even Steven Spielberg’s family-friendly Roald Dahl adaptation, “The BFG”—is slated to end its run with more than $100 million domestically. Even “Independence Day 2” couldn’t break the curse: The Liam Hemsworth-fronted sequel nobody wanted is likewise flailing in theaters.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.794527053833008, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "To a certain extent, this is a matter of happenstance. Studios can’t control which movies make money and which don’t (or Taylor Kitsch would be a much bigger star than he is), and many of the movies that flopped were—at one time—expected to do well, or at least better than they did. Disney sunk $225 million into “The Lone Ranger,” and releasing it on Independence Day was a sign that the Mouse House hoped to milk it for every dollar the notorious bomb was worth. When it comes to making big-budget tentpoles, you market the hell out it and hope for the best.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.397674560546875, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "But if the industry is letting seasonal tommyrot guide its decision making, that’s a shame. During the Will Smith era, the Fourth of July was the third-biggest moviegoing day of the year, one of the few times that Americans were all expected to go to the movies together. When I saw “Independence Day” in the theaters 20 years ago, the movie was standing room only. People squatted in the aisles and sat on each other’s laps, breaking nearly every fire code imaginable to see humans fight off space evil.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.154304504394531, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "“I saw Independence Day five times in the theater,” Robertson said. “The reason I kept going back was the thrill of being part of an audience all experiencing the same emotions at the same time—and cheering, yelling, clapping, jumping up, whooping at the end together. … It’s easy to forget that one reason we go to the movies is to see them with other people.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.30406665802002, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "The universal experience of film (part of what’s often referred to as “monoculture”) is increasingly rare in a fragmented entertainment landscape where we have more options than ever. If yet another movie about a jungle boy being raised by apes doesn’t sound appetizing, audiences can stay home and watch Netflix, HBOGo, or Hulu. Movie theater attendance has been steadily declining since 2002, and if current ticket sales hold, 2016 will be one of the worst years since 1995, the year before “Independence Day” was released.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.89438533782959, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Don’t let the nostalgia fool you: “Independence Day” is no masterpiece. But facing down yet another year without an heir to its summer movie throne, it’s looking pretty good.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.144827842712402, "source": "search", "title": "RIP, big 4th of July movie: \"Independence Day\" then and ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Highly anticipated 2013 summer movie releases due out in early July included 'Despicable Me 2' and Disney's 'The Lone Ranger,' so it seems, at least for now, this trend towards huge Independence Day movie releases will continue.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.773995399475098, "source": "search", "title": "The Best Movies Released July 4th Weekend - Ranker" }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day (1996)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.381901741027832, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day (1996) - MovieWeb: Movie News, Movie ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day (1996)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.381901741027832, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day (1996) - MovieWeb: Movie News, Movie ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Independence Day Synopsis", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.406862258911133, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day (1996) - MovieWeb: Movie News, Movie ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Latest 'Independence Day' News", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.502535820007324, "source": "search", "title": "Independence Day (1996) - MovieWeb: Movie News, Movie ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "Review: Independence Day - Resurgence (explosions is love; explosions is life)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.342676162719727, "source": "search", "title": "Review: Independence Day - Resurgence (explosions is love ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "No one watches 1996’s Independence Day and comes away saying “that was a brilliant piece of cinematic art…the characters, the acting, the plot, the cinematography…it was all so beautiful.” Approximately no one has said those words.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.6843085289001465, "source": "search", "title": "Review: Independence Day - Resurgence (explosions is love ..." }, { "answer": "Independence Day", "passage": "But who cares, because the movie is loud, dumb, farcical and highly highly enjoyable. It’s buoyed by great starring performances by Will Smith (his first big blockbuster), Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman. There’s also a host of “oh it’s that guy” actors who pop in and out, adding to the fun. It’s great, it’s fun, it’s freaking Independence Day; it’s a Fourth of July staple. In fact it was previously labeled the number one “Fourth of July Viewing Experience” movie of last year. That’s a high honor! If you’re too lazy to click the link, here’s what is said about it:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.973963260650635, "source": "search", "title": "Review: Independence Day - Resurgence (explosions is love ..." } ]

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Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.", "precise_score": 3.8845865726470947, "rough_score": 5.961390018463135, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 Official Trailer #1 - Tom Hanks Movie (1995) HD ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "In what was one of the best films of 1995 and one of the better of the 1990's, Apollo 13 is nearly a flawless film. Filled with emotion, drama and suspense, it harkens back to the days when America was just starting to become cynical, but still had that \"can do\" attitude. With the crisis that developed, the families, the NASA family, and the nation came together to hope, pray and work together to bring the three men back from outer space. And director Ron Howard captures those emotions and dramatic intensity in this amazing film that's uplifting, suspenseful and just plain fun to watch. But what Howard captures best is the time and feeling when NASA astronauts were living legends and heroes to the public, which is certainly gone in today's world. The only post-release drawback to the film is that Ed Harris didn�t win the Oscar for best supporting actor. He created a character with a positive attitude that was unmatched in intensity. The rest of the performances are outstanding and Hanks finishes off his \"acting trifecta\" (\"Philadelphia\" and \"Forrest Gump\" being parts one and two) and proves that he's one of the most versatile actors working today. You'll be hard pressed to find a film that's as good at \"Apollo 13\" and we give it a big 9 out of 10.", "precise_score": 1.3221559524536133, "rough_score": 1.0537314414978027, "source": "search", "title": "APOLLO 13 - Screen It" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of manned lunar landing, despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings, but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon, which damaged the CSM's propulsion and life support. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a \"lifeboat\" for these functions. It used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973–74, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.811915874481201, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The LOC included Launch Complex 39, a Launch Control Center, and a 130 million cubic foot (3.7 million cubic meter) Vertical Assembly Building (VAB) in which the space vehicle (launch vehicle and spacecraft) would be assembled on a Mobile Launcher Platform and then moved by a transporter to one of several launch pads. Although at least three pads were planned, only two, designated A and B, were completed in October 1965. The LOC also included an Operations and Checkout Building (OCB) to which Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were initially received prior to being mated to their launch vehicles. The Apollo spacecraft could be tested in two vacuum chambers capable of simulating atmospheric pressure at altitudes up to 250000 ft, which is nearly a vacuum. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.45407485961914, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The LOR method had the advantage of allowing the lander spacecraft to be used as a \"lifeboat\" in the event of a failure of the command ship. Some documents prove this theory was discussed before and after the method was chosen. A 1964 MSC study concluded, \"The LM [as lifeboat] ... was finally dropped, because no single reasonable CSM failure could be identified that would prohibit use of the SPS.\" Ironically, just such a failure happened on Apollo 13 when an oxygen tank explosion left the CSM without electrical power. The Lunar Module provided propulsion, electrical power and life support to get the crew home safely. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.445446968078613, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "A cylindrical Service Module (SM) supported the Command Module, with a service propulsion engine and an RCS with propellants, and a fuel cell power generation system with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen reactants. A high-gain S-band antenna was used for long-distance communications on the lunar flights. On the extended lunar missions, an orbital scientific instrument package was carried. The Service Module was discarded just before re-entry. The module was long and in diameter. The initial lunar flight version weighed approximately 51300 lb fully fueled, while a later version designed to carry a lunar orbit scientific instrument package weighed just over 54000 lb.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.128281593322754, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "File:apollo11-13.png|Trans-Earth injection The SM engine fires to send the CSM back to Earth.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.215723037719727, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "*Starting with Apollo 13, descent orbit insertion was to be performed using the Service Module engine instead of the LM engine, in order to allow a greater fuel reserve for landing. This was actually done for the first time on Apollo 14, since the Apollo 13 mission was aborted before landing. 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These flights validated the Service Module engine and the Command Module heat shield.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.23105525970459, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Deke Slayton, the grounded Mercury astronaut who became Director of Flight Crew Operations for the Gemini and Apollo programs, selected the first Apollo crew in January 1966, with Grissom as Command Pilot, White as Senior Pilot, and rookie Donn F. Eisele as Pilot. But Eisele dislocated his shoulder twice aboard the KC135 weightlessness training aircraft, and had to undergo surgery on January 27. Slayton replaced him with Chaffee. NASA announced the final crew selection for AS-204 on March 21, 1966, with the backup crew consisting of Gemini veterans James McDivitt and David Scott, with rookie Russell L. \"Rusty\" Schweickart. Mercury/Gemini veteran Wally Schirra, Eisele, and rookie Walter Cunningham were announced on September 29 as the prime crew for AS-205.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.155341625213623, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "rect 596 0 1376 600 Apollo 7 first manned CSM test", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.591055870056152, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "rect 1377 0 2076 600 Apollo 8 first manned flight to the Moon", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.817727088928223, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "rect 596 601 1376 1200 Apollo 10 manned lunar orbital LM test", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.709174156188965, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "rect 1377 601 2076 1200 Apollo 11 first manned Moon landing", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.041949272155762, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "rect 603 0 1205 600 Apollo 13 unsuccessful Moon landing attempt", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.605813980102539, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The success of the first two landings allowed the remaining missions to be crewed with a single veteran as Commander, with two rookies. Apollo 13 launched Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in April 1970, headed for the Fra Mauro formation. But two days out, a liquid oxygen tank exploded, disabling the Service Module and forcing the crew to use the LM as a \"life boat\" to return to Earth. Another NASA review board was convened to determine the cause, which turned out to be a combination of damage of the tank in the factory, and a subcontractor not making a tank component according to updated design specifications. Apollo was grounded again, for the remainder of 1970 while the oxygen tank was redesigned and an extra one was added. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.072057723999023, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo program" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Apollo 13's Fra Mauro mission was reassigned to Apollo 14, commanded in February 1971 by Mercury veteran Alan Shepard, with Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell. This time the mission was successful. 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In Saving Mr. Banks, co-starring Emma Thompson and directed by John Lee Hancock, he played Walt Disney, being the first actor to portray Disney in a mainstream film. That same year, Hanks made his Broadway debut, starring in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.347487449645996, "source": "wiki", "title": "Tom Hanks" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "On October 7, 2013, on The Late Show with David Letterman, Hanks announced that he has Type 2 diabetes. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.023167610168457, "source": "wiki", "title": "Tom Hanks" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Hanks was outspoken about his opposition to the 2008 Proposition 8, an amendment to the California constitution that defined marriage as a union only between a man and a woman. Hanks and others raised over US$44 million to campaign against the proposition, in contrast to the supporters' $39 million, but Proposition 8 passed with 52% of the vote. It was overruled in June 2013, when the Ninth Circuit lifted its stay of the district court's ruling, enabling Governor Jerry Brown to order same-sex marriage officiations to resume. While premiering a TV series in January 2009, Hanks called supporters of Proposition 8 \"un-American\" and criticized the LDS Church members, who were major proponents of the bill, for their views on marriage and role in supporting the bill. About a week later, he apologized for the remark, saying that nothing is more American than voting one's conscience. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.797771453857422, "source": "wiki", "title": "Tom Hanks" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Hanks is perceived to be amiable and congenial to his fans. In 2013, when he was starring in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy on Broadway, he had crowds of 300 fans waiting for a glimpse of him after every performance. This is the highest number of expectant fans post-show of any Broadway performance. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.395153999328613, "source": "wiki", "title": "Tom Hanks" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.241466999053955, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "On October 30, 1969, as Lovell conducts a VIP tour of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, his boss Deke Slayton informs him that he and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. Lovell, Ken Mattingly, and Fred Haise train for their new mission. Days before launch, Mattingly is discovered to have been exposed to rubella, and the flight surgeon demands his replacement with Mattingly's backup, Jack Swigert, as a safety precaution. Lovell initially resists breaking up his team, but relents when Slayton threatens to bump his crew to a later mission. As the launch date approaches, Marilyn has a nightmare about her husband's safety, but goes to the Kennedy Space Center the night before launch to see him off.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.651318311691284, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 Flight Director Gene Kranz gives the go-ahead from Houston's Mission Control Center for launch. As the Saturn V rocket climbs into the sky, an engine on the second stage cuts off prematurely, but the craft reaches its Earth parking orbit. After the third stage re-fires, sending Apollo 13 to the Moon, Swigert docks the Command/Service Module Odyssey with the Lunar Module Aquarius and pulls it away from the spent stage.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.595088481903076, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "* Kevin Bacon as Apollo 13 backup Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.728466033935547, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "* Bill Paxton as Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.862565994262695, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "* Gary Sinise as Apollo 13 prime Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly: Sinise was invited by Howard to read for any of the characters, and chose Mattingly.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.024765968322754, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "* Ben Marley as Apollo 13 backup Commander John Young", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.12419605255127, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "While planning the film, director Ron Howard decided that every shot of the film would be original and that no mission footage would be used. The spacecraft interiors were constructed by the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center's Space Works, which also restored the Apollo 13 Command Module. Two individual Lunar Modules and two Command Modules were constructed for filming. While each was a replica, composed of some of the original Apollo materials, they were built so that different sections were removable, which enabled filming to take place inside the capsules. Space Works also built modified Command and Lunar Modules for filming inside a Boeing KC-135 reduced-gravity aircraft, and the pressure suits worn by the actors, which are exact reproductions of those worn by the Apollo astronauts, right down to the detail of being airtight. 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", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.18953800201416, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The actors then traveled to Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they flew in NASA's KC-135 reduced-gravity aircraft to simulate weightlessness in outer space. While in the KC-135, filming took place in bursts of 25 seconds, the length of each period of weightlessness that the plane could produce. The filmmakers eventually flew 612 parabolas which added up to a total of three hours and 54 minutes of weightlessness. Parts of the Command Module, Lunar Module, and the tunnel that connected them were built by production designer Michael Corenblith, art directors David J. Bomba and Bruce Alan Miller, and their crew to fit inside the KC-135. Filming in such an environment, while never done before for a film, was a tremendous time saver. In the KC-135, the actors moved wherever they wanted, surrounded by floating props; the camera and cameraman were weightless, so filming could take place on any axis from which a shot could be set up.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.431408882141113, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "In Los Angeles, Ed Harris and all the actors portraying flight controllers enrolled in a Flight Controller School led by Gerry Griffin, an Apollo 13 flight director, and flight controller Jerry Bostick. The actors studied audiotapes from the mission, reviewed hundreds of pages of NASA transcripts, and attended a crash course in physics. Astronaut Dave Scott was impressed with their efforts, stating that each actor was determined to make every scene technically correct, word for word.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.406207084655762, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The score to Apollo 13 was composed and conducted by James Horner. The soundtrack was released in 1995 by MCA Records and has seven tracks of score, eight period songs used in the film, and seven tracks of dialogue by the actors at a running time of nearly seventy-eight minutes. The music also features solos by vocalist Annie Lennox and Tim Morrison on the trumpet. The score was a critical success and garnered Horner an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.8268933296203613, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: \"A powerful story, one of the year's best films, told with great clarity and remarkable technical detail, and acted without pumped-up histrionics.\" Richard Corliss from Time highly praised the film, saying: \"From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride.\" Edward Guthmann of San Francisco Chronicle gave a mixed review and wrote: \"I just wish that Apollo 13 worked better as a movie, and that Howard's threshold for corn, mush and twinkly sentiment weren't so darn wide.\" Peter Travers from Rolling Stone praised the film and wrote: \"Howard lays off the manipulation to tell the true story of the near-fatal 1970 Apollo 13 mission in painstaking and lively detail. It's easily Howard's best film.\" Movie Room Reviews said \"This film is arguably one of the most dramatic and horrendous spaceflight stories ever told.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.610006809234619, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Janet Maslin made the film an NYT Critics' Pick, calling it an \"absolutely thrilling\" film that \"unfolds with perfect immediacy, drawing viewers into the nail-biting suspense of a spellbinding true story.\" According to Maslin, \"like Quiz Show, Apollo 13 beautifully evokes recent history in ways that resonate strongly today. Cleverly nostalgic in its visual style (Rita Ryack's costumes are especially right), it harks back to movie making without phony heroics and to the strong spirit of community that enveloped the astronauts and their families. Amazingly, this film manages to seem refreshingly honest while still conforming to the three-act dramatic format of a standard Hollywood hit. It is far and away the best thing Mr. Howard has done (and Far and Away was one of the other kind).\" The academic critic Raymond Malewitz focuses on the DIY aspects of the \"mailbox\" filtration system to illustrate the emergence of an unlikely hero in late 20th-century American culture—\"the creative, improvisational, but restrained thinker—who replaces the older prodigal cowboy heroes of American mythology and provides the country a better, more frugal example of an appropriate 'husband'.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.012747764587402, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "In 2006, Apollo 13 was released on HD DVD; on 13 April 2010, it was released on Blu-ray disc as the 15th-anniversary edition, on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 accident.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.629009246826172, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The movie depicts Swigert and Haise arguing about who was at fault. The show The Real Story: Apollo 13 broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel includes Haise stating that no such argument took place and that there was no way anyone could have foreseen that stirring the tank would cause problems. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.948369979858398, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The tagline \"Failure is not an option\", stated in the film by Gene Kranz, also became very popular, but was not taken from the historical transcripts. The following story relates the origin of the phrase, from an e-mail by Apollo 13 Flight Dynamics Officer Jerry Bostick:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.495080947875977, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "* In the film, Mattingly plays a key role in solving a power consumption problem that Apollo 13 was faced with as it approached re-entry. Lovell points out in his commentary that Mattingly was a composite of several astronauts and engineers—including Charles Duke (whose rubella led to Mattingly's grounding)—all of whom played a role in solving that problem.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.9077558517456055, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "*The film depicts Marilyn Lovell dropping her wedding ring down a shower drain. According to Jim Lovell, this did occur, but the drain trap caught the ring and his wife was able to retrieve it. Lovell has also confirmed that the scene in which his wife had a nightmare about him being \"sucked through an open door of a spacecraft into outer space\" also occurred, though he believes the nightmare was prompted by her seeing a scene in Marooned, a 1969 film they saw three months before Apollo 13 blasted off.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.349237442016602, "source": "wiki", "title": "Apollo 13 (film)" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.519289016723633, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (1995) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "created 24 Feb 2013", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3965482711792, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (1995) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "created 05 May 2013", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.386157035827637, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (1995) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "created 24 Dec 2013", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.366819381713867, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (1995) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Search for \" Apollo 13 \" on Amazon.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.056622505187988, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (1995) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Based on the true story of the ill-fated 13th Apollo mission bound for the moon. Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert were scheduled to fly Apollo 14, but are moved up to 13. It's 1970, and The US has already achieved their lunar landing goal, so there's little interest in this \"routine\" flight.. until that is, things go very wrong, and prospects of a safe return fade. 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En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.18923282623291, "source": "search", "title": "Tom Hanks on the Apollo 13 Film and the NASA Space Program ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Released in the United States on June 30, 1995, Apollo 13 garnered critical acclaim and was nominated for many awards, with nine Academy Awards including Best Film Editing and Best Sound.[3] In total, the film grossed over $355 million worldwide during its theatrical releases.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.3240867853164673, "source": "search", "title": "Tom Hanks on the Apollo 13 Film and the NASA Space Program ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Cast: Tom Hanks as Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. Jim Lovell stated that before the book was even written, the rights were being shopped to potential buyers[4] and that his first reaction was that actor Kevin Costner would be a good choice to play him.[5][6] However, by the time Howard acquired the director's position, Costner's name never came up in serious discussion, and Hanks had already been interested in doing a film based on Apollo 13. When Hanks' representative informed him that there was a script being passed around, he had the script sent to him.[4] John Travolta was initially offered the role of Lovell, but declined.[7] Gary Sinise as Apollo 13 prime Command Module Pilot (CMP) Ken Mattingly. Sinise was invited by Howard to read for any of the characters, and chose Mattingly.[4] Kevin Bacon as Apollo 13 backup CMP Jack Swigert. Bill Paxton as Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise. Ed Harris as White team Flight Director Gene Kranz. Harris described the film as \"cramming for a final exam\". Harris described Gene Kranz as \"corny and like a dinosaur\", but was respected by the crew.[4] Kathleen Quinlan as Lovell's wife Marilyn. Chris Ellis as Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton. Joe Spano as \"NASA Director\", a composite character based loosely on Chris Kraft. Marc McClure as Black team Flight Director Glynn Lunney. Clint Howard as White team EECOM (Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager) Sy Liebergot. Ray McKinnon as White team FIDO (Flight Dyamics Officer). Todd Louiso as White Team FAO (Flight Activities Officer). Loren Dean as EECOM John Aaron. Xander Berkeley as \"Henry Hurt\", a fictional NASA Office of Public Affairs staff member.[8] David Andrews as Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad Christian Clemenson as Flight surgeon Dr. Charles Berry Ben Marley as Apollo 13 backup Commander John Young Brett Cullen as CAPCOM 1 Ned Vaughn as CAPCOM 2 Tracy Reiner as Haise's then-wife Mary Mary Kate Schellhardt as Lovell's older daughter Barbara. Max Elliott Slade as Lovell's older son James (Jay), who attended military school at the time of the flight. Emily Ann Lloyd as Lovell's younger daughter Susan. Miko Hughes as Lovell's younger son Jeffrey. Thom Barry as an orderly at Blanch's retirement home.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.2675507068634033, "source": "search", "title": "Tom Hanks on the Apollo 13 Film and the NASA Space Program ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Apollo 13: In space, no-one can see you exaggerate | Film | The Guardian", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.70114803314209, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13: In space, no-one can see you exaggerate | Film ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Apollo 13: In space, no-one can see you exaggerate", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.85704231262207, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13: In space, no-one can see you exaggerate | Film ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Ron Howard's take on the crew of the stricken Apollo 13's fight to get back to earth introduces chaos into Nasa's well-rehearsed damage control", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.2279691696167, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13: In space, no-one can see you exaggerate | Film ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Apollo 13 was a 1970 moon landing mission mounted by Nasa's Apollo Space Program, which ran from 1961 until 1972. 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Dramatically convenient though these premonitions may seem, the real Jim Lovell has confirmed that they both really happened .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.278252601623535, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13: In space, no-one can see you exaggerate | Film ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "\"We just lost the moon,\" Lowell says sadly. Swigert has noticed it's worse: \"If this doesn't work, we're not going to have enough power left to get home.\" This column is not Reel Rocket Science, but the film seems to do a convincing job of explaining the technical faults – and most of the audience will appreciate that losing power, oxygen and bits of one's spaceship is not good news. The real Ken Mattingly outlined a few differences between the film and real life in a NASA oral history . His main point was that the film makes it look like \"we invented a lot of stuff\". In reality it was less chaotic, for NASA had already simulated many of the faults which would occur on Apollo 13. In the film, his character is rewarded for nobly not going into space by nobly saving his stricken crewmembers from the control centre. In real life, the tasks Mattingly performs were down to a whole team, and they were operating more closely along the lines of existing procedures. Of course, to show all this accurately would have been much less dramatic.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.288947105407715, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13: In space, no-one can see you exaggerate | Film ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "A well-researched adaptation of the Apollo 13 story makes for a pacy, compelling movie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.949925422668457, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13: In space, no-one can see you exaggerate | Film ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "‎Apollo 13 (1995) directed by Ron Howard • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.775262713432312, "source": "search", "title": "‎Apollo 13 (1995) directed by Ron Howard • Reviews, film ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Although the plot is the same as every other non-science-fiction space film ever (many of which are probably inspired by this true story) — men go up in space, encounter a disastrous defect of some sort, must creatively “science the shit out of” their situation, before returning safely, though hectically, to Earth — Apollo 13 is as thrilling as a movie depicting real events can possibly be (notwithstanding that director Ron Howard probably twisted plenty of facts for the sake of creating entertaining tension). Despite its well over two-hour runtime, characters do not get much development; they are too cramped, literally and figuratively, by the intense linear story. But that does mean that they do not work as characters; Tom…", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.239431381225586, "source": "search", "title": "‎Apollo 13 (1995) directed by Ron Howard • Reviews, film ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "\"Houston, we have a problem\". Those words were immortalized during the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis of 1970. The pressure the crew and those tasked with trying to get them safely home is something most of us can only imagine. There's no way in hell I could of handled that pressure much less performed the way they did. These people made decisions, came up with solutions for catastrophic problems, and worked under very bleak circumstances all while 3 American lives hung in the balance. 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En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASAs flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.3871283531188965, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Released in the United States on June 30, 1995, Apollo 13 garnered critical acclaim and was nominated for many awards, including nine Academy Awards (winning for Best Film Editing and Best Sound). 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Lovell initially resists breaking up his team, but relents when Slayton threatens to relieve him of his command. As the launch date approaches, Marilyns fears for her husbands safety manifest in nightmares, but she goes to Cape Kennedy the night before launch to see him off despite her misgivings.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.5227842330932617, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "On April 11 1970, Apollo 13 Flight Director Gene Kranz gives the go-ahead from Houstons Mission Control Center for launch. As the Saturn V rocket climbs into the sky, an engine on the second stage cuts off prematurely, but the craft reaches Earth orbit. 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While each was a replica, composed of some of the original Apollo materials, they were built so that different sections were removable, which enabled filming to take place inside the capsules. Space Works also built modified Command and Lunar Modules for filming inside a Boeing KC-135 reduced gravity aircraft, and the pressure suits worn by the actors, which are exact reproductions of those worn by the Apollo astronauts, right down to the detail of being airtight. When the actors put the suits on with their helmets locked in place, air was pumped into the suits to cool them down and allow them to breathe, exactly as in launch preparations for the real Apollo missions.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.547466516494751, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Howard anticipated difficulty in portraying weightlessness in a realistic manner. He discussed this with Steven Spielberg, who suggested using a KC-135 airplane, which can be flown in such a way as to create about 23 seconds of weightlessness, a method NASA has always used to train its astronauts for space flight. Howard obtained NASAs permission and assistance in filming in the realistic conditions aboard multiple KC-135 flights.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.992785453796387, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The actors then traveled to Johnson Space Center in Houston where they flew in NASAs KC-135 reduced gravity aircraft to simulate weightlessness in outer space. While in the KC-135, filming took place in bursts of 25 seconds, the length of each period of weightlessness that the plane could produce. The filmmakers eventually flew 612 parabolas which added up to a total of three hours and 54 minutes of weightlessness. Parts of the Command Module, Lunar Module and the tunnel that connected them were built by production designer Michael Corenblith, art directors David J. Bomba and Bruce Alan Miller and their crew to fit inside the KC-135. Filming in such an environment, while never done before for a film, was a tremendous time saver. In the KC-135, the actors moved wherever they wanted, surrounded by floating props; the camera and cameraman were weightless so filming could take place on any axis from which a shot could be set up.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.314664840698242, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "In Los Angeles, Ed Harris and all the actors portraying flight controllers enrolled in a Flight Controller School led by Gerry Griffin, an Apollo 13 flight director, and flight controller Jerry Bostick. The actors studied audiotapes from the mission, reviewed hundreds of pages of NASA transcripts and attended a crash course in physics. Astronaut Dave Scott was impressed with their efforts, stating that each actor was determined to make every scene technically correct, word for word.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.42011022567749, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The score to Apollo 13 was composed and conducted by James Horner. The soundtrack was released in 1995 by MCA Records and has seven tracks of score, eight period songs used in the film, and seven tracks of dialogue by the actors at a running time of nearly seventy-eight minutes. The music also features solos by vocalist Annie Lennox and Tim Morrison on the trumpet. The score was a critical success and garnered Horner an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.8268933296203613, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Apollo 13 received very positive reviews from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that the film has an overall approval rating of 95% based on 84 reviews, with a weighted average score of 8.1/10. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized 0–100 rating to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 77 based on 22 reviews.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.865324974060059, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: \"A powerful story, one of the years best films, told with great clarity and remarkable technical detail, and acted without pumped-up histrionics.\" Richard Corliss from Time highly praised the film, saying: \"From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride.\" Edward Guthmann of San Francisco Chronicle gave a mixed review and wrote: \"I just wish that Apollo 13 worked better as a movie, and that Howards threshold for corn, mush and twinkly sentiment werent so darn wide.\" Peter Travers from Rolling Stone praised the film and wrote: \"Howard lays off the manipulation to tell the true story of the near-fatal 1970 Apollo 13 mission in painstaking and lively detail. Its easily Howards best film.\" Movie Room Reviews said \"This film is arguably one of the most dramatic and horrendous spaceflight stories ever told.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.190186977386475, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Janet Maslin made the film an NYT Critics Pick, calling it an \"absolutely thrilling\" film that \"unfolds with perfect immediacy, drawing viewers into the nail-biting suspense of a spellbinding true story.\" According to Maslin, \"like Quiz Show, Apollo 13 beautifully evokes recent history in ways that resonate strongly today. Cleverly nostalgic in its visual style (Rita Ryacks costumes are especially right), it harks back to movie making without phony heroics and to the strong spirit of community that enveloped the astronauts and their families. Amazingly, this film manages to seem refreshingly honest while still conforming to the three-act dramatic format of a standard Hollywood hit. It is far and away the best thing Mr. Howard has done (and Far and Away was one of the other kind).\" The academic critic Raymond Malewitz focuses on the DIY aspects of the \"mailbox\" filtration system to illustrate the emergence of an unlikely hero in late twentieth-century American culture—\"the creative, improvisational, but restrained thinker—who replaces the older prodigal cowboy heroes of American mythology and provides the country a better, more frugal example of an appropriate husband.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.00706958770752, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "In 2006, Apollo 13 was released on HD DVD; on 13 April 2010, it was released on Blu-ray disc as the 15th anniversary edition, on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 accident (Central Standard Time).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.5461297035217285, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The movie depicts Swigert and Haise arguing about who was at fault. The show The Real Story: Apollo 13 broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel includes Haise stating that no such argument took place and that there was no way anyone could have foreseen that stirring the tank would cause problems.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.948369979858398, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The tagline \"Failure is not an option\", stated in the film by Gene Kranz, also became very popular, but was not taken from the historical transcripts. The following story relates the origin of the phrase, from an e-mail by Apollo 13 Flight Dynamics Officer Jerry Bostick:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.495080947875977, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "In the film, Mattingly plays a key role in solving a power consumption problem that Apollo 13 was faced with as it approached re-entry. Lovell points out in his commentary that Mattingly was a composite of several astronauts and engineers—including Charles Duke (whose rubella led to Mattinglys grounding)—all of whom played a role in solving that problem.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.367452144622803, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "The film depicts Marilyn Lovell dropping her wedding ring down a shower drain. According to Jim Lovell, this did occur, but the drain trap caught the ring and his wife was able to retrieve it. Lovell has also confirmed that the scene in which his wife had a nightmare about him being \"sucked through an open door of a spacecraft into outer space\" also occurred, though he believes the nightmare was prompted by her seeing a scene in Marooned, a 1969 film they saw three months before Apollo 13 blasted off.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.528482437133789, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "Apollo 13 | Film from RadioTimes", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.036993026733398, "source": "search", "title": "Apollo 13 | Film from RadioTimes" }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "\"Apollo 13\" film opened 20 years ago, birthing an annoying catchphrase - Houston Chronicle", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.665355205535889, "source": "search", "title": "\"Apollo 13\" film opened 20 years ago, birthing an annoying ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "\"Apollo 13\" film opened 20 years ago, birthing an annoying catchphrase", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.374921798706055, "source": "search", "title": "\"Apollo 13\" film opened 20 years ago, birthing an annoying ..." }, { "answer": "13", "passage": "** FILE **Director Ron Howard, left, and Producer Brian Grazer review footage from the motion picture \"Apollo 13,\" in this undated handout photo. 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They raped the 16-year-old girl, Debbie Morris (née Cuevas), who would later become the author of her book Forgiving the Dead Man Walking and then stabbed and shot her boyfriend, 20-year-old Mark Brewster, leaving him tied to a tree paralyzed from the waist down.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.956781387329102, "source": "wiki", "title": "Helen Prejean" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Dead Man Walking (1995) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.447882652282715, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - Dead Man Walking (1995)" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Title: Dead Man Walking (1995)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.43743896484375, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - Dead Man Walking (1995)" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "This Film Was Edited On Old Fashioned Machines. This credit was inspired by John Ottman, editor of 'The Usual Suspects'. Ottman had wanted to put \"edited on a piece of s*** Steenbeck\" at the end of his movie, but settled for the more subtle \"Edited on film\". Tim Robbins heard about this, and decided to put his own variation of the line on the credits of 'Dead Man Walking.' See more »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.080312728881836, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - Dead Man Walking (1995)" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.538411140441895, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Tim Robbins's 'Dead Man Walking' is a brave piece of cinema. Though the film is about a man on death row and a nun's struggle to help him, I liked how he presented both sides of the central theme of capital punishment. This isn't a preachy film about capital punishment being wrong or right as I doubt one's opinion would change on that after watching the movie. But, it's more of a subtle movie that tells the story of two people who form an unlikely friendship.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.140883445739746, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "I haven't seen many films that really, truly made me rethink a long-held position or opinion on a thorny issue, but \"Dead Man Walking\" is one of them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.20256519317627, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "\"Dead Man Walking\" is a piece of incredible filmmaking. All the acting is top-notch and realistic, and the script examines the issue of the death penalty from both sides, paying equal homage to both. Above all, this is a deeply moving story of redemption, of death with dignity and loss of ego. Any film that deals this courageously and maturely with such incredibly difficult subject matter deserves a rating of 10/10. Thank you, Tim Robbins!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.240004539489746, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "In a world in which debatable and misunderstood subjects can be listed endlessly, this powerful 1995 film takes on one at the top of that list; moreover, it does it objectively and realistically, and with a sensibility and sensitivity that makes it a truly great film by anyone's measuring stick. And to add some irony to it all, even the subject matter of this film has been widely misunderstood, as it is wrongly perceived that this is a film about the pros and cons of the death penalty; it is not. At the heart of `Dead Man Walking,' directed by Tim Robbins, is a subject that in reality is possibly the most misunderstood of all, and with good reason, because it just may be the hardest thing there is for a human being to really-- and truly-- understand. And it is what this film is actually all about: Forgiveness. Real forgiveness; not excusing a heinous crime or the perpetrator thereof-- not saying that what's happened is okay-- but finding the strength to go on, and to do so by choosing life.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.147465705871582, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "The supporting cast includes R. Lee Emery (Clyde Percy), Celia Weston (Mary Beth Percy), Lois Smith (Helen's Mother), Scott Wilson (Chaplin Farley), Roberta Maxwell (Lucille Poncelet), Margo Martindale (Sister Colleen) and Jack Black (Craig Poncelet). It is doubtful that this film will change anyone's mind one way or another about the death penalty, but that was never the intention; what was intended, was to make a thought-provoking, emotionally involving film, which is exactly what Robbins has accomplished with `Dead Man Walking.' Regardless of your personal point of view, this film will have an impact, and hopefully will open some minds to the true nature of forgiveness. For, as we see through the character of Earl Delacroix, true forgiveness is not something one merely decides to do, but is a task that can become a lifetime's work. And it's possibly one of the hardest things in life to effectively accomplish; and you come away from this film with an appreciation for individuals like Sister Prejean, who has selflessly dedicated her life to helping those in need, and to filmmakers like Robbins and Sarandon for bringing her to life for millions of people who otherwise would never have known her. I rate this one 10/10.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.991020917892456, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "\"Dead Man Walking\" deals with one nun's struggle (Susan Sarandon in her Oscar-winning part) to help a convicted death row inmate (Sean Penn in an Oscar-nominated role) come to terms with his imminent execution. Writer-director Tim Robbins does something very difficult in this film, he makes us care about the unsympathetic character that Penn plays. Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn dominate the film in every aspect imaginable, they play a complicated chess match at times and eventually become close friends by the end of the picture. The fact that Sarandon and Robbins are openly against the death penalty in real life just adds to this film. Their strong opinion on the subject leads to an unforgettable motion picture that is made well and performed well by the two leads. 4.5 out of 5 stars.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.1025683879852295, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "How do you know if a movie is good or not? It is the impact it has on you that makes the difference. \"Dead Man Walking\" upset me a great deal. I watched it twice. I don't know if I will be strong enough to watch it again. No, I did not feel good at all after watching it, but the film was as successful as it can be.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.372366905212402, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Robbins did a great job in incorporating all aspects of this controversial topic. He avoided making an argument that could easily be seen as biased or subjective. I hope that many people get to see \"Dead Man Walking\". I believe that anyone who supports or opposes the death penalty so enthusiastically should see the movie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.325321197509766, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "\"Dead Man Walking\" is one of the most powerful movies I have ever seen. I find it hard to believe that anyone, after having seen the movie, could feel indifferent about the film or its message. Tim Robbins does not try to impose his ideas and beliefs on the viewers, but manages to make a film that are in most ways sympathetic to both views on the death penalty -- whether it is right to murder a murderer or not. I have always known where I stand in this question, even as a child, and this movie -- despite the fact that it does not really take any sides -- made me even surer in my conviction that it can never be right to murder *anyone*.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.297285079956055, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Upon Sonnier’s request, Sister Helen repeatedly visited him as his spiritual advisor. In doing so, her eyes were opened to the Louisiana execution process. Sister Helen turned her experiences into a book that not only made the 1994 American Library Associates Notable Book List. Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States was number one on the New York Times Best Seller List for 31 weeks. It also was an international best seller and has been translated into ten different languages.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.26780891418457, "source": "search", "title": "Biography | Sister Helen Prejean" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Sister Helen and Dead Man Walking have been the subject of numerous media stories and reviews in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Holland, England, Scotland, France and Australia. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, the St. Anthony Messenger, the Ligourian, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Constitution, the Times Picayune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New Orleans Magazine, the Tablet, Sisters Today and numerous other print media.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.480727195739746, "source": "search", "title": "Biography | Sister Helen Prejean" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Her book Dead Man Walking was on the New York Times bestseller list for 31 weeks.  It was also on the International bestseller list.  It has been translated into ten different languages.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.35640811920166, "source": "search", "title": "Biography | Sister Helen Prejean" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Dead Man Walking Movie Review (1996) | Roger Ebert", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.199236869812012, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Movie Review (1996) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "After seeing \"Dead Man Walking,\" I paused outside the screening to jot a final line on my notes: \"This film ennobles filmmaking.\" That is exactly what it does. It demonstrates how a movie can confront a grave and controversial issue in our society and see it fairly, from all sides, not take any shortcuts, and move the audience to a great emotional experience without unfair manipulation. What is remarkable is that the film is also all the other things a movie should be: absorbing, surprising, technically superb and worth talking about for a long time afterward.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.246942520141602, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Movie Review (1996) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Tim Robbins, Sarandon's longtime companion, has directed once before (\" Bob Roberts ,\" an intelligent political drama). With this film he leaps far beyond his earlier work and has made that rare thing, a film that is an exercise of philosophy. This is the kind of movie that spoils us for other films, because it reveals so starkly how most movies fall into conventional routine, and lull us with the reassurance that they will not look too hard, or probe too deeply, or make us think beyond the boundaries of what is comfortable. For years, critics have asked for more films that deal with the spiritual side of life. I doubt if \"Dead Man Walking\" was what they were thinking of, but this is exactly how such a movie looks, and feels.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.562594413757324, "source": "search", "title": "Dead Man Walking Movie Review (1996) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Vintage is releasing a 20th-anniversary edition of 'Dead Man Walking' with a new subtitle.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.502145767211914, "source": "search", "title": "Five questions for Sister Helen Prejean - USA TODAY" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "Sister Helen Prejean, author of 'Dead Man Walking.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.811876118183136, "source": "search", "title": "Five questions for Sister Helen Prejean - USA TODAY" }, { "answer": "Dead Man Walking", "passage": "It's called River of Fire. It's a prequel to Dead Man Walking. It's about my spiritual journey, how this nice, polite nun came to a new understanding of Christianity and the need to fight for social justice. With God's good grace, it will be finished in 2015.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3580322265625, "source": "search", "title": "Five questions for Sister Helen Prejean - USA TODAY" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "The film was a co-production between the motion picture studios of Centropolis Entertainment and TriStar Pictures . It was commercially distributed by TriStar Pictures theatrically, and by Sony Pictures Entertainment for home media. Godzilla explores nuclear mutation, crisis management and military warfare. [2 ] Following its wide release in theaters, the film won and was nominated for multiple mainstream awards, including Saturn Award nominations for Best Special Effects, Best Fantasy Film, and Best Director. The film also won the People's Choice Award in the category of Best European Director for Emmerich from the European Film Awards. On May 19, 1998, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released by the Epic Records label. It features songs written by several recording artists including The Wallflowers , Rage Against the Machine , Silverchair , and the Foo Fighters . The film score was composed and orchestrated by musicians David Arnold and Nicholas Dodd .", "precise_score": 0.9644716382026672, "rough_score": -3.8298699855804443, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "In October, 1992, the American company TriStar Pictures bought the rights to the Godzilla-character from Toho Co., Ltd. and came to an agreement to produce a trilogy of Godzilla-films and that a sequel should be released within five years of the release of the first film. The first film was to be released by Sony subsidiary TriStar Pictures in the summer of 1994. In May 1993 producer Cary Woods hired Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio (the writers of Aladdin, Shrek, Pirates of the Carribean) to write the screenplay for  Godzilla (1994 film) . After months of fruitless searching for a director, the studio signed Jan DeBont (fresh off the Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock hit Speed) in July, 1994. DeBont began pre-production on Godzilla for a summer 1996 release, but quit the film at the end of 1994 when Sony would not approve his budget request. With no director attached to the project, TriStar’s Godzilla went into production limbo for the next year. [1]", "precise_score": -3.4872169494628906, "rough_score": -2.7772486209869385, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Prior to the release of their much anticipated Independence Day (1996), producer Dean Devlin and director Roland Emmerich agreed to make Godzilla under the condition that their production company Centropolis Entertainment would have the freedom to do the movie “their way”. The duo discarded the script and preliminary work done for DeBont’s aborted version. Emmerich had designer Patrick Tatopoulos (Stargate, Pitch Black, Underworld) create a totally new look for the monster; a slim, fast-moving creature taking inspiration from iguanas (mainly Green Iguana and Marine Iguana), crocodiles and ostritches. Tatopoulos explains that Godzilla's legs are dinosaur-legs which he created after looking on the legs on birds such as the ostritch. He also stated that his Godzilla-design is like what a traditional legendary fire-breathing dragon would have looked like in real life. Toho gave their approval for the changes made to Godzilla saying they \"love this design\", and the film was finally scheduled for May 19, 1998. Based on the popularity of Godzilla and the blockbuster success of Independence Day, Devlin and Emmerich’s Godzilla was predicted to be the top box office hit of 1998. [2]", "precise_score": -2.1144161224365234, "rough_score": 0.7565137147903442, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "The final fate of Godzilla : The remains of the 1/6 scale animatronic Godzilla rusts away on the Sony backlot. Photo by Bob Johnson. © 1998 Toho Co., Ltd./TriStar Pictures, Inc.", "precise_score": -2.6383533477783203, "rough_score": 1.8048123121261597, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Following its cinematic release in theaters, the Region 1 widescreen edition of the film was released on DVD in the United States on November 3, 1998. Special features for the DVD include; photo galleries, visual effects and special FX supervisor commentaries, the music video of \"Heroes\" by The Wallflowers, Behind the Scenes of Godzilla with Charles Caiman, theatrical trailers, a featurette, director/producer and cast biographies, a photo gallery, music video, and Godzilla Takes New York (before and after shots). [12] Additionally, a special edition DVD was also released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on March 28, 2006. The DVD contains all of the above features as well as the \"All-Time Best of Godzilla Fight Scenes\" featurette, 3 episodes from Godzilla: The Animated Series, and a \"never-before-seen\" production art gallery. [13]", "precise_score": 3.8530211448669434, "rough_score": 2.5780258178710938, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Barbara Shulgasser, writing in The San Francisco Examiner, said in a one star review, \"OK. Maybe the special effects are slightly more sophisticated than they were in Jurassic Park, but the techno-stuff is all getting a bit boring. When a movie is nothing but relentless action, there's little chance for dramatic tension to develop.\" She wrote that the film was, \"devoid of any discernible plot logic.\" [21] Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote that the film was \"an overblown action monstrosity with no surprises, no exhilaration and no thrills... What passes for thrills is a succession of scenes lifted and extended from Jurassic Park and The Lost World. Godzilla, shot mostly from the waist down, steps on cars and strafes the sides of buildings with his tail.\" [22] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post, said the film \"neither draws upon our fears nor revels in the original's camp charms. The picture really isn't about anything unless it is the deep pockets and shallow minds of the honchos who begat this colossal bore.\" She wrote further, \"Size vanquishes both substance and subtlety in the overhyped, half-cocked and humorless resurrection of dear old Godzilla. It might well be titled Iguana Get You Sucka [23] The film however, was not without its supporters. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, wrote that the film was an \"An expertly designed theme park ride of a movie that packs nonstop thrills.\" [24] In a slightly positive fashion, Gary Kamiya of Salon.com commented that \"The plot is about as ridiculous as you'd expect, but for the most part its absurdities are tolerable.\" [25] Joe Leydon of Variety, contributed mildly to the positive sentiment by saying \"Throughout Godzilla, New York endures the most sustained rainfall in all of movie history. Most of the action takes place at night, but even the daytime scenes unfold under darkly overcast skies, which, of course, makes it all the easier for Emmerich to obscure Godzilla's features for the maximum amount of time to generate the maximum amount of suspense.\" [26]", "precise_score": 0.05642218887805939, "rough_score": -3.9666836261749268, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Veteran Godzilla actors, Haruo Nakajima and Kenpachiro Satsuma were also critical of the film and its character. Nakajima stated \"its face looks like an iguana and its body and limbs look like a frog.\" [33] Satsuma walked out of the Japanese premiere of the film and commented, \"it’s not Godzilla, it doesn’t have his spirit.\" [34] The \"Godzilla\" on the film was considered so different from the original Godzilla that the term GINO (acronym for Godzilla In Name Only) was coined by critic Richard Pusateri to distinguish the character apart from the original Godzilla [35] however, Toho (Godzilla's parent owners) later recognized the creature as a totally different monster and officially renamed it as Zilla for later appearances only. [36] [37] [38]", "precise_score": -4.934665679931641, "rough_score": -5.9147629737854, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "In the film Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, it is mentioned that a creature had attacked New York City  and that American officials thought it was the  Japanese Godzilla  but the Japanese didn't think so; it is obvious that they are referring to TriStar's Godzilla remake.", "precise_score": 3.861964225769043, "rough_score": 2.6452889442443848, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "The 1998 film has since its release become the most well known, most popular and most loved Godzilla-film in Sweden. There are also many people, not necessarily fans, in other countries such as USA who also loves the new Godzilla and who thinks the old Godzilla is forgettable in comparison, but which is still liked.", "precise_score": 4.640476703643799, "rough_score": 3.0631022453308105, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "\"From Madison Square Garden to the depths of the New York City subways, from midtown Manhattan to the Fulton Street Fish Market, Godzilla Online is a massive, action-packed adventure -- ever changing, always enthralling, and forever challenging.", "precise_score": 4.6029181480407715, "rough_score": 0.4124068319797516, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: Online - Wikizilla - Wikia" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "GODZILLA: Online is a fast-paced action game that takes place soon after the events of the 1998 film GODZILLA . New York City has come under attack by newly hatched Baby Godzillas . Players can assume the role of a soldier with his sights set on eradicating the baby Godzillas. Scientists attempt to take blood samples of the baby Godzillas while defending themselves from the soldiers and the new baby Godzilla threat. Baby Godzilla strive to evolve into a larger adult Godzilla while defending themselves against soldiers and scientists. The reporters' main goal is to film all the chaos between the three opposing groups and avoiding getting killed at all costs. GODZILLA: Online is further noteworthy, as it is one of the few games (and fewer multiplayer games) to use voxels to render its characters and environments.", "precise_score": 7.365734100341797, "rough_score": 8.119521141052246, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: Online - Wikizilla - Wikia" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Following the French atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing eastward through the Panama Canal. Scientist Niko Tatopolous is called in to investigate the matter, and he quickly arrives at the conclusion that a giant, irradiated lizard has been created by the explosions. Godzilla then makes its way north, landing at Manhattan to begin wreaking havoc in the big city. Even with the combined forces of the U.S. military to fight the monster, will it be enough to save the people of New York? Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>", "precise_score": 0.933722972869873, "rough_score": -4.705941677093506, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "The chief complaint seems to come from a very vocal but relatively small crowd of fanboy purists--they dislike that Godzilla is different here. In the Japanese films, made by the Toho production company, Godzilla is a guy in a rubber suit who stomps on models of buildings and such. He tends to lumber, as irrelevant military attacks on him provide pretty fireworks. Most Godzilla films feature him fighting some other monster, \"professional wrestling\" style, and Godzilla arbitrarily falls down and gets back up as he is attacked and attacks with various \"death rays\" from his mouth, eyes, etc. Now that might sound like I don't like the typical Godzilla film, but that's not true. I like them quite a bit, but a big part of the reason why is that most of them are very cheesy. I'm a fan of bizarre cheese/camp, and you get tons of that in Godzilla films.", "precise_score": -4.343356132507324, "rough_score": -4.263036251068115, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "So what Emmerich gives us instead is an epic, expensive-looking film that spans a number of genres, features more coherent dialogue and subplots than a typical Toho Godzilla film, and showcases a redesigned, mostly cgi cast of monsters, where Godzilla looks and behaves much more like a \"real\" giant, mutant lizard. For those of us who are not purists, who do not care if our opinions match the majority, and who evaluate films on all or their technical and artistic levels, it's difficult to deny that Godzilla has many merits.", "precise_score": -5.77391242980957, "rough_score": -5.98835563659668, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Satire is high up on Emmerich's agenda. Godzilla not only satirizes the media, but the military, New York/New Yorkers, film critics, and even monster movies. While the film is simultaneously giving us a lot of genres--sci-fi, horror, adventure, war film, drama, etc. the most unexpected motif is the almost cartoonish, spoof-like humor. Godzilla is more frequently laugh-out-loud funny that anyone expected it to be. It's not just one-liners and overt jokes, although those are certainly present, but the amped up intentional absurdity of situations such as the final taxi cab \"chase\".", "precise_score": -3.085876226425171, "rough_score": -4.542301654815674, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "You’d be forgiven for admitting to enjoying the hype surrounding the late-90’s release of Godzilla, the famous Japanese monster franchise delivered to Western audiences thanks to the prowess of then up-and-coming blockbuster director Roland Emmerich; the prospect of state-of-the-art digital effects delivering the ultimate creature feature (at least since King Kong climbed the World Trade Centre in the 70’s version) to show New York being torn a new one. The trailers, posters, destruction: epic spectacle was the order of the day, and considering the destructive pedigree behind the camera, you’d have expected something pretty cool. Emmerich, having directed Stargate and Independence Day and riding the wave of high expectation his new film would deliver, tried to “bring it” – to use a popular vernacular catch-phrase – to the audience of the day; the result, however, is something of a mixed bag in the end. Godzilla is replete with problems, on all fronts, and yet when it comes to the destruction and carnage, delivers everything a big-budget Hollywood spectacle can.", "precise_score": -1.2184829711914062, "rough_score": -4.310370445251465, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "with as much enthusiasm than Roland Emmerich. One mans seemingly unending desire to see the world destroyed – via global warming, alien invasion or some other insurmountable threat – was still growing by the time he filmed Godzilla, and it’s equally fair to say that Godzilla did nothing to satiate that desire. There’s probably more money-shot action per second in Godzilla than the entire Debbie Does.. saga, and that’s saying something. Mind you, when the majority of the film was released in the multitude of trailers, teasers, clips and whatnot in the ensuing blitzkrieg advertising promotion, sitting through the film is like watching them all out of sequence and suddenly going “so that’s where that bit fits in”. The film follows the traditional blockbuster monster movie – start off slow, hint at the creature’s power, size and intent by showcasing destruction of increasing ferocity throughout, while keeping the Big Reveal until about an hour into your film, then unleash all kinds of heck to salvage whatever Shock And Awe The Audience program you were following. Emmerich delivers what American audiences expected to see, I guess, which was a city filled with major national landmarks being obliterated in typically gung-ho style. The problem with Godzilla as a film is that the spectacle is outweighed by the turgid, lamentably stupid, insipidly acted, screenplay. The script shoehorns in every conceivable “monster movie” cliche, and even a few more than that, to make sure you “get your money’s worth” from what is essentially a two-hour-plus destruction reel from the visual effects dudes over at Sony. The film runs some 2 hours and ten minutes, which by my estimation is probably a good hour over what it needed to to deliver a decent story.", "precise_score": -0.4189419746398926, "rough_score": -3.2280383110046387, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Another problem the film had, and this is touched on in almost every review of Godzilla ever written, is the depressing visuals of the film in the first place. The movie starts off interestingly enough, with stop-overs in tropical jungles and windswept beaches, before finally settling down in New York – where it f*cking rains the rest of the film. New York is one of America’s crowning achievements, a modern masterpiece of architecture and design, filled with iconic buildings and locations and most assuredly one of the worlds most amazing cities – and yet, Roland decides to film the entire thing during monsoon season. Okay, so New York doesn’t have a monsoon season, but holy crap does it have to rain the entire time? Drenched in rain, shrouded in depressing grey and monochromatic drabbery, New York feels somewhat isolated from the rest of the world as the events of this film take place, a sense of being otherworldly that alienated the audience in the first instance. People have often stated that the constant rain allowed many of the films visual effects to be hidden behind the gauze of precipitation, perhaps a way of counteracting future claims that the visual effects look dodgy (they do now anyway – Godzilla changes size more times in this than Broderick does double-takes!) and making the effects work “easier” somehow. I think this is a little unfair, because the work that went into the Godzilla effects was undoubtedly hard to do, but to have all that glorious digital work smeared over by rain would have felt like a big smack in the gob for the dudes sitting at their computers hoping their one single shot looked cool. Most of the major part of the film takes place at night, or in the afternoon during sunset, and if I was a betting man, I’d say that’s to the explosions look cooler when framed against a black sky. Just a thought.", "precise_score": 3.558990001678467, "rough_score": -2.966033697128296, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Yes, Godzilla is a loud, insipid and completely horrifying exercise in Hollywood film-making. The film plods along, even during the “action” sequences, and you never feel the urgency and energy Emmerich probably wanted so desperately in this thing. The sense of awe and amazement at Godzilla exploding up through a New York City street never arrives – it was never there in the first place, because by the time we finally get to it, the audience has succumbed (hopefully, for their sakes) to complete boredom and fallen asleep. It’s such a laborious process, this film, that it’s even hard to watch it while doing this review. The script is atrociously written, the cast little better with their performances, and the direction from Emmerich feels uninspired and second rate, almost like he was sleepwalking through it to get to The Patriot. You get the sense that nobody’s heart was really in this – and even listening to the commentary found on the DVD release of this, those involved still seem… bored by all that’s going on, almost as if they can’t believe they were even involved in such a mess.", "precise_score": 3.18312406539917, "rough_score": 4.287379741668701, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "I know, I know, it’s easy to sit here and judge a multi-million dollar film after the fact, but the sheer fact-of-the-matter is that Godzilla deserved better than what was served up. We deserved better. As it stands, Godzilla is testament to the audacity of the Hollywood 90’s mentality of “bigger, better, blow it up” that pervaded cinemas for nearly a decade before petering out into some level of restraint. Almost. Roland Emmerich’s next film, The Patriot, was a decent effort to say the least, but he’d never again reach the dizzying heights of ID4 with any of his other big budget spectacle disaster epics. There’s about 45 minutes of watchable film in Godzilla. The rest is just filler, and shithouse filler at that.", "precise_score": -4.628327369689941, "rough_score": -4.299987316131592, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Godzilla Online is a fast-paced action game that takes place soon after the events of the 1998 reboot film Godzilla. New York City has come under attack by newly hatched Baby Godzillas. Players can assume the role of a soldier with his sights set on eradicating the baby Godzillas. Scientists attempt to take blood samples of the baby Godzillas while defending themselves from the soldiers and the new baby godzilla threat. Baby Godzillas strive to evolve into a larger Godzilla while defending themselves against soldiers and scientist. The Reporters main goal is to film all the chaos between the three opposing groups and avoiding getting killed at all costs. Godzilla Online is further noteworthy, as it is one of the few games (and fewer multiplayer games) to use voxels to render its characters and environments. [3]", "precise_score": 7.098086833953857, "rough_score": 8.001620292663574, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla Online - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "The year 1998 in film involved many significant films including; Shakespeare in Love (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Saving Private Ryan, American History X, The Truman Show, Primary Colors, Rushmore, Rush Hour, There's Something About Mary, The Big Lebowski, and Terrence Malick's directorial return in The Thin Red Line. Animated films included A Bug's Life, Antz, Mulan and The Prince of Egypt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.28264856338501, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*American History X, directed by Tony Kaye, starring Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Elliott Gould and Stacy Keach", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.293519973754883, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "*Art Museum by the Zoo (Misulgwan yup dongmulwon), starring Shim Eun-ha – (South Korea)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.216269493103027, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*BASEketball, directed by David Zucker, starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy and Robert Vaughn", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.320409774780273, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Beloved, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Thandie Newton", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.234396934509277, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*A Civil Action, directed by Steven Zaillian, starring John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy, Tony Shalhoub, Kathleen Quinlan, James Gandolfini and John Lithgow", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.911140441894531, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Clay Pigeons, directed by David Dobkin, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn and Janeane Garofalo – (U.S.A./Germany)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.048492431640625, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Deep Rising, directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Wes Studi and Anthony Heald", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.372281074523926, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur, starring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Sir John Gielgud, Daniel Craig, Fanny Ardant, Kathy Burke and Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.171725273132324, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Enemy of the State, directed by Tony Scott, starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Barry Pepper, Lisa Bonet and Regina King", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.060153007507324, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Ellen Barkin, Christina Ricci and Cameron Diaz", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.914365768432617, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Happy Birthday (S dnyom rozhdeniya) – (Russia)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.462902069091797, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*The Impostors, directed by and starring Stanley Tucci, with Oliver Platt, Alfred Molina, Lili Taylor, Hope Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Billy Connolly and Steve Buscemi", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.954877853393555, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*The Last Days of Disco, directed by Whit Stillman starring Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Chris Eigeman and Robert Sean Leonard", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.419313430786133, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Les Misérables, directed by Bille August, starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman and Claire Danes – (Germany/U.K./U.S.A.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.267330169677734, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Lethal Weapon 4, directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock and Jet Li", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.035252571105957, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Little Tony – (Netherlands)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.270383834838867, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Living Out Loud, starring Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito and Queen Latifah", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.382543563842773, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*The Longest Nite (aka Dark Flowers), starring Tony Leung – (Hong Kong)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.30547046661377, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*The Mask of Zorro, directed by Martin Campbell, starring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stuart Wilson", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.986766815185547, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Meet Joe Black, directed by Martin Brest, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Jeffrey Tambor, Marcia Gay Harden", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.231760025024414, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Paulie, starring Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands, Cheech Marin, Jay Mohr and Buddy Hackett", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.150092124938965, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Places in Cities (Plätze in Städten) – (Germany)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.840503692626953, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Prometheus, directed by Tony Harrison, starring Walter Sparrow (U.K.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.253181457519531, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Run Lola Run (Lola rennt), directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Franka Potente and Moritz Bleibtreu – (Germany) – Golden Space Needle Award (for 1999)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.708483695983887, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*The Siege, directed by Edward Zwick, starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis and Tony Shalhoub", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.141283988952637, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*Wide Awake, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Rosie O'Donnell, Dana Delany and Denis Leary", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.265398025512695, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "*The X-Files, directed by Rob Bowman, starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau and Blythe Danner", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.283604621887207, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "*Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Tiān Yù), directed by Joan Chen – (China)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.273117065429688, "source": "wiki", "title": "1998 in film" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Dr. Niko \"Nick\" Tatopoulos ( Matthew Broderick ), an NRC scientist, is in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine researching the effects of radiation on wildlife, but is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of an official from the U.S. State Department . He is sent to Tahiti and Jamaica , escorted by the military, to observe the wreckage of the recovered Japanese fishing trawler with massive claw marks on it. The Frenchman is also present, observing the scene, and introduces himself as Philippe Roaché ( Jean Reno ), an insurance agent. Aboard a military aircraft, Nick identifies skin samples he discovered in the shipwreck as belonging to an unknown species. He dismisses the military's theory that the creature is a living dinosaur, instead deducing that it is a mutant created by nuclear testing. The large reptilian creature dubbed as \" Godzilla \" by the media (or more specifically by  Charles Caiman ), travels to New York City leaving a path of destruction in its wake. The city is evacuated as the military attempts to kill it but fails in an initial attempt. Dr. Tatopoulos later collects a blood sample and learns that Godzilla reproduces asexually and is collecting food for its offspring. Aspiring journalist and ex-girlfriend of Dr. Tatopoulos, Audrey Timmonds ( Maria Pitillo ), uncovers a classified tape in his provisional military tent which concerns the origins of the lizard. Her superior Charles Caiman ( Harry Shearer ) however, declares the tape as his own media discovery. The tape is broadcast on television embarrassing the military on the sensitive nature of the situation. Dr. Tatopoulos is thrown off the team but is kidnapped by Roaché, who reveals himself to be an agent of the DGSE , the French foriegn intelligence agency. He and his colleagues have been keeping close watch on the events and are planning to cover up their role in the nuclear accident that spawned the creature. Suspecting a nest somewhere in the city, they cooperate with Dr. Tatopoulos to trace and destroy it. [2 ]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.620939254760742, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four, bluntly noting that \"One must carefully repress intelligent thought while watching such a film. The movie makes no sense at all except as a careless pastiche of its betters (and, yes, the Japanese Godzilla movies are, in their way, better - if only because they embrace dreck instead of condescending to it). You have to absorb such a film, not consider it. But my brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome.\" [27] In an entirely negative review, James Berardinelli writing for ReelViews, called the film \"one of the most idiotic blockbuster movies of all time, it's like spitting into the wind. Emmerich and Devlin are master illusionists, waving their wands and mesmerizing audiences with their smoke and mirrors. It's probably too much to hope that some day, movie- goers will wake up and realize that they've been had.\" [20] Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that the film \"is so clumsily structured it feels as if it's two different movies stuck together with an absurd stomping finale glued onto the end. The only question worth asking about this $120 million wad of popcorn is a commercial one. How much further will the dumbing down of the event movie have to go before the audience stops buying tickets?\" [28]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.6583075523376465, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post queried, \"The question is this: Are the awe-inspiring creature effects and roaring battle scenes impressive enough to make you forget the stupid story, inaccurate science and basic implausibility?\" Thoughtfully disillusioned, he wrote, \"The cut-rate cast seems to have been plucked from the pages of TV Guide. There's Doug Savant from Melrose Place as O'Neal, a scaredy-cat military man who looks like Sgt. Rock and acts like Barney Fife . There's Maria Pitillo (House Rules) as Nick's soporific love interest, Audrey; The Simpsons‚ Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer as a wise-cracking news cameraman and superficial reporter; Vicki Lewis of NewsRadio as a lusty scientist. Shall I continue?\" [29] However, in a more upbeat tone, Owen Gleiberman writing for Entertainment Weekly thought \"There's no resonance to the new Godzilla, and no built-in cheese value, either. For a while, the filmmakers honor the sentimental paradox that seeped into the later Godzilla films: that this primitive destroyer, like King Kong, doesn't actually mean any harm.\" He opined that the film contained \"some clever and exciting sequences\", but ultimately came to the conclusion that, \"It says much about today's blockbuster filmmakers that they could spend so much money on Godzilla and still fail to do justice to something that was fairy-tale destructo schlock to begin with.\" [30] Film critic Aladino Debert of Variety was consumed with the nature of the special effects exclaiming, \"the title creature is wonderfully designed and the animation is excellent.\" Complimenting the technical aspects of the film, he summarized, \"The integration of the lizard into its surroundings is for the most part very well accomplished, with rigged cars collapsing under the massive weight of Godzilla, and buildings either demolished or partially damaged. The compositing of the debris and pyrotechnics is generally good, especially when the monster runs or walks on the streets: The asphalt gives way convincingly every time the massive feet touch the ground, and a variety of CGI elements are seamlessly composited. Debris flies off buildings with every touch of the monster.\" [31]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.870760917663574, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Moderator: Before we begin, will you introduce yourself Gcon98 and explain how things are working on your end?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.522310256958008, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Gcon98: Jim: Please ask any questions that you have...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.366372108459473, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Moderator: to : Mr. Satsuma, Mr. Nakajima, Have you seen a photo of the new Godzilla? If so how do you feel about it? And I thank both of you for all the years of great fun you have given me!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.833853721618652, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Gcon98: Mr. Nakajima: In my case, in the zoo I observed bears, monkeys and anything big like an elephant.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.396357536315918, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Gcon98: Mr. Nakajima: This is a question you`d better ask the scriptwriters!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.462346076965332, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Moderator: to : How much lattitude did the directors allow the actors in their role as Godzilla? Any creative stomping around?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.660396575927734, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Gcon98: Mr. Satsuma: I didn`t have any method to cool myself. Exactly the same as Mr. Nakajima with one exception: my studio was air conditioned.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.493246078491211, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Moderator: to : Did any of these gentlemen ever suffer injuries while playing GODZILLA on the set??", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.49200439453125, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Moderator: to : Mr. Nakajima: What did you think of the idea of Godzilla when you first were asked to play him in 1954?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.47351598739624, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Moderator: to : Did you play any of the other Monsters that appered in Godzilla Movies ?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.185159683227539, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Gcon98: I also played many monsters and robots in the Ultra series.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.352132797241211, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Gcon98: Mr. Satsuma: I also played Gigan and Hedorah (the Smog Monster) before I played the Heisei Godzilla. Moderator: to : so is there any hint that there may be a new kaiku film from Toho featuring one of you as the new young Godzilla we saw in the Destroyah movie", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.604066848754883, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Gcon98: Mr. Satsuma: I also played the eight headed serpent in Yamato Takeru and I also did Pulgasary, the North Korean monster movie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.826963424682617, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Gcon98: Mr. Nakajima: He was truly a gentleman; he never showed any anger toward his staff nor the cast.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.43544864654541, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Gcon98: When you see Godzilla on screen, you can not calculate how much is me and how much is Godzilla.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.581680774688721, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Gcon98: Mr. Satsuma: Though I can think of several reasons (like Godzilla`s nuclear theme) for the huge popularity throughout many generations and lanuguages,", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.111819267272949, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998 film) - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "If you're ready, click the Play button and jump into action. If you are new, browse around and get to know Godzilla Online. Click each of the three images scattered among these paragraphs for sneak game previews. Follow the How to Play and Community buttons for more information. And when you go online, human guides are available to help.\" [1]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.617176532745361, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: Online - Wikizilla - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Air Taser - Electrical weapon. Delivers a damaging shock to anything it hits but drains the scientists battery in the process.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.479280471801758, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: Online - Wikizilla - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Pepper Spray - A stream of pepper spray. Does damage to any enemy who comes in contact with it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.536086082458496, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: Online - Wikizilla - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Pepper Grenade - A thrown object. When it explodes, a cloud of pepper spray is created for a few seconds, damaging any enemy that comes in contact with it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.450270652770996, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: Online - Wikizilla - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Ducking negates any damage taken.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.452103614807129, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: Online - Wikizilla - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Escape from NYC", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.30468463897705, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: Online - Wikizilla - Wikia" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Arenas were all enclosed areas based on various New York City landmarks. Many were built like small mazes, leading into central battle areas were players congregated (like the court in Madison Square Garden). Multiple copies (or \"shards\") of each map ran concurrently, and players could select matches through an in-game server browser. The first three maps were:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.148380279541016, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla: Online - Wikizilla - Wikia" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.550511360168457, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Courtesy of Together Again Video Productions/Sony Wonder", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.356550216674805, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "(New York City) – See all my reviews", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.040745735168457, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "After bizarre attacks on a Japanese freighter, first the French then the U.S. learn of the existence of an apparent modern \"dinosaur\". When it's suspected that radiation from nuclear weapons testing in French Polynesia may have instead produced the monster, biological radiation specialist Dr. Nick Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick) is called to the scene. While investigating the monster's path of destruction, a new sighting arrives--just off the coast of New York City!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.85804557800293, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "It's no secret that Godzilla has been much maligned. Even Fangoria editor Tony Timpone stated in an editorial that he thought it sucked, and he's usually willing to give movies the benefit of the doubt. The reasons why director Roland Emmerich's version of Godzilla is hated are as varied as people stating opinions. But I tend to think that there is also a strong bandwagon effect with this film that will be tempered by time. There are already signs of a number of people giving it a second look and lessening the severity of their criticism.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.695590972900391, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "But I'm not a purist. To me, there's no good reason why Emmerich's Godzilla needs to be similar to the Toho incarnations, which in fact are often quite different from and inconsistent with each other, too. At this point, I see Godzilla more as a recurring character type--think of the various instantiations of Dracula or Frankenstein throughout the 20th Century. The Toho films can't really be seen as chapters in a single, long story. But whether their arguments are wrong or not, the fanboy purists are at least noisy and prolific, and too many people are followers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.074772357940674, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "If Emmerich would have given us a guy in a rubber suit, acting just like the Toho Godzillas (not \"Godzilla\"), with the typical gobbledy-gook of a Toho script, this film would have bombed even worse (if we can call a 100 million dollar film that made a profit a \"bomb\") and the fanboys would have still found something to complain about. Even though I love the Toho Godzilla films, too, we can't deny that they do not tend to be bestsellers on video in the U.S., despite the fact that they're readily available for purchase.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.377432823181152, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "For example, the cinematography in this film is gorgeous. The sound design is superb and the soundtrack (score and songs) works well with the film. All of the action sequences, and they comprise a large percentage of the film, are expertly staged--Emmerich doesn't resort to darkness, blur-cams and overly quick cuts like many other directors. It's always easy to follow the narrative during action scenes, it's always easy to see what's going on, and it's always coherent. That goes for the non-action scenes, too--the entire film is ingeniously designed in terms of the progression from one sequence to another. Also, the cgi is amazing--it's often difficult to tell where it stops and mechanicals/models begin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.31967544555664, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Even if you think that Godzilla has some internal problems as an artwork (and I agree that there is a slight clunkiness in parts of the narrative flow--it caused me to subtract a point), there's no way it deserves the trashing it's received so far. This is at least a well-made film on a technical level, and if you have any taste for slightly campy sci-fi/monster flicks, you should find much to enjoy here.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.779911041259766, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "The creature (clearly a man in a rubber suit) was even campier than the original who had debuted some eighteen years earlier in the original \"Godzilla\" (better known in native Japan as \"Gojira\" � the domestic release hit American shores two years later with added Raymond Burr scenes), but the big guy was still as much fun. Equally goofy and charming, and eons before Barney or \"Jurassic Park\" was even a glint in their creators' eyes, the big, lumbering fella (with a penchant for throwing in some martial arts moves), entertained kids of all ages with appearances in some twenty-two films.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.628779411315918, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "That said, this isn't your father's Godzilla, and unlike the big lug from the past, this one is anything but loveable. Essentially a supped up, oversized byproduct of an iguana mixed with a T-Rex, Godzilla is now nothing more than a wild animal on the loose. The filmmakers, however, and for whatever reason, have removed any sort of \"fun\" personality traits, and instead have made the creature quite intelligent without any proper explanation. Not only is he able to dodge missiles fired at him, but he's also smart enough to lead a volley of torpedoes back toward the attacking subs (he must have watched \"Jurassic Park\" and figured he must outdo the raptors who -- also inexplicably -- figured out how to open doors in that film).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.247908115386963, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Just like any novice screenwriters are apt to do (and just like they did in \"Independence Day\"), Emmerich and Devlin have liberally \"borrowed\" so many scenes from other movies � and then just increased their amplitude � that this should be case study of how not to write a screenplay. Of course this film will make a gazillion or so dollars at the box office thus insuring that these two won't care and that future filmmakers will copy this formula.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.370258331298828, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "For those who do care about the cinematic pillaging, here's a quick look at the looting spree. From \"King Kong\" they've obviously borrowed the New York \"concrete jungle island\" concept and have replaced biplanes with helicopters and jet fighters for the big finale atop another landmark piece of architecture.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.03576946258545, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "From \"Jaws\" they not only steal and then modify the film's best line, \"We're gonna need a bigger boat\" (substituting gun for boat), but they also lift the scene of the creature destroying a dock and nearly getting the man on it. Additionally, they copy the scene where Bruce the shark pulls the Orca backwards through the water while Robert Shaw and company try to cut the lines. Here, they've made it three boats that get pulled under water (because, you see, Godzilla is bigger than a great white shark -- don't forget that saying about \"size\").", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.306842803955078, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Essentially a find and chase or be found and chased by Godzilla (or other creatures) plot, there's little room for anything else. A subplot about a failed romance between the human leads is given neither the time nor thought to be anything near convincing, and as an afterthought it only bogs down the film's momentum.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.292108535766602, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Perhaps sensing this, Emmerich and Devlin try to throw in some humor, but like most of the rest of the film, it falls flat. Attempts include Reno's French character continually complaining about American coffee, people mispronouncing Nick's last name, and repetitiously boring bits featuring the \"thumbs up\" Mayor who's named Ebert, and his partially bald assistant Gene (gee, I wonder who they're supposed to be?) that aren't anywhere near being funny and certainly didn't elicit even a chuckle from our audience.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.316563606262207, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "The only thing that works in the film are the special effects and fortunately they are quite spectacular. Forgetting for a moment the \"Jurassic Park\" comparisons, the scenes of Godzilla racing and smashing his way through Manhattan are a lot of fun as is most of the end of the movie (as long as you can turn your brain off � the creature that can outrun an attack helicopter can't catch a taxi driving down a debris filled street). Kudos should go to cinematographer Ueli Steiger and effects supervisor Volker Engel (and his company of visual artists) for capturing and creating some wild cinema.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.290700912475586, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Unfortunately, effects alone don't make for a good movie. If Emmerich and Devlin had created some original set pieces (instead of stealing, borrowing or paying homage to others), the film might have been more enjoyable. Yet there are so many other plot and character problems scattered throughout the production that even such remedies probably wouldn't have saved the picture.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.301570892333984, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Beyond all of the mayhem, destruction and related scenes, the rest of the film is relatively mild. Profanity, while varied, doesn't include any use of the \"f\" or \"s\" words, and the film's sexual content is limited to a few bits of innuendo. Drinking and smoking are barely present and there are only a few bits of bad attitude. Even so, and mainly due to the rather intense and often long monster chase/suspense scenes, you may want to carefully consider whether your kids (or you) can handle the film's intense material.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.246740341186523, "source": "search", "title": "GODZILLA - MOVIE REVIEWS AND RATINGS FOR PARENTS" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Synopsis: An enormous genetically mutated lizard makes landfall on Manhattan island and proceeds to tear up the city of New York. A gaggle of scientists and plenty of US military show up to try and get rid of it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.149624824523926, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Anybody know the way to West 32nd street?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.43193531036377, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Nick Tatopolous (Matthew Broderick) is seconded by the US military to New York, to try explaining mysterious event staking place along the Eastern seaboard of the USA. Ships have gone missing, are washed ashore, giant footprints now dot the landscape, and bizarre sightings of a giant lizard, nicknamed “gojira” by Japanese fishermen, now begin to cause alarm amongst those in scientific circles. Sure enough, French nuclear testing in the Pacific has caused a major mutation amongst one of the indigenous lizard population, whereby one of the lizards has grown to enormous proportions. The lizard makes a grand arrival in New York City, stomping its way through Midtown and the financial district, before burrowing underground into the city’s maze of subterranean tunnel systems. With an increasingly harried bureaucracy in charge of an almighty military force within the city, and the giant lizard threatening not to leave the rain-drenched metropolis, Nick and his friends, including ex-girlfriend Audrey (Maria Pitillo), her news cameraman partner Victor (Hank Azaria), and a French secret service agent, Phillipe (Jean Reno) must discover the reason the enormous beast has chosen New York for its lair. Along the way, plenty of building destroying action takes place, as Godzilla stomps and roars his way through the Big Apple.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.146646499633789, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "While you’re down there, can you check my feet for fungus?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.566051483154297, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "The trouble with a story trying to accomplish such an “epic” scale, the filmmakers decided that they needed a cast of thousands to justify it. They really, really didn’t. Matthew Broderick is woefully miscast… strike that… Maria Pitillo is horrifically miscast… strike that….. Hank Azaria is terribly miscast….. ahh hell, the entire film is just badly cast, from Broderick down to the inevitable dude who gets eaten by Godzilla’s progeny late in the film, this is a debacle of acting talent wasting all our time when we really just wanna see shit blow up. The “story”, and I use that term exceptionally lightly with regards to Godzilla, is stretched out by a myriad of hackneyed, unoriginal and utterly unnecessary subplots, none of which we care about because they ultimately slow the pacing of the film down for a few cheap -and rare – laughs. Hank Azaria is woefully out of form as the resident “comedy relief”, playing the obligatory cameraman without a self-preservation instinct, and much of his stuff doesn’t work – at least, it doesn’t work for audiences outside of New York, I reckon. Jean Reno does a solid job against the flow of turd-acting as a French secret Service dude, but not even he can salvage any respectability in this mess. It’s like the entire cast signed up for a role, without actually knowing what role they were going to play. Emmerich seemed to be making it up as he went along, and it shows in the convoluted, protracted pseudo-dramatic moments this film passes off as character building. As films like Cloverfield many years later would show, you don’t need a massive cast to make the destruction of a city by a giant unkillable monster feel awesome.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.087995529174805, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "The cast are (with the exception of Reno) uniformly awful in their respective roles. Broderick, as the main role of the film, totters about looking bewildered he’s even in the film, while his on-screen love interest, played by Maria Pitillo, is about as sexually tense as a cardboard box. Come to think of it, I think I’ve seen cardboard boxes act better than Pitillo does in this – she is, quite frankly, horrendous to watch in this. Pitillo’s Audrey is a screeching, obnoxious, unfunny, abomination of a character, and if that was the intent of Emmerich then he made a monumental cock-up. Pitillo’s performance here is awful, truly barrel-bottom-scraping stuff, the kind of third-rate primary school acting that you might see on any episode of Yo Gabba Gabba. She’s wooden, has zero chemistry with her supposed former flame in Matthew Broderick’s Nick, and delivers every line with the audacity to call herself an actor just searing into your eyeballs and eardrums. And let’s not forget Kevin Dunn’s entirely apoplectic portrayal of the military commander trying to bring the giant lizard down – his berating of all and sundry throughout the film is wearing, and instead of seeming “gruff but fatherly”, he comes across as “annoyed and pissed off”, which isn’t endearing to the audience. Michael Lerner and Harry Shearer pay the mortgage with this effort – Lerner as the imbecilic New York City mayor, and Shearer as a sniveling, sneaky reporter trying to usurp the Godzilla story out of Audrey’s hands; they both do nothing for their careers here. Doug Savant stutters (why?) his way through a performance as the most inept army Sergeant in history, while Vicki Lewis and Arabella Field play token (and entirely useless) female characters just to make sure things don’t get too filled with testosterone. It’s my belief, however, that the cast are only as good as the words they say, and here, they spout some absolute solid gold crap. Therefore, the blame for a lot of this film’s problems can be laid squarely on the script.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.443902015686035, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "The script borders on inane – there’s nothing exciting or thrilling about the character or their stories, and while I can expect that characters in films like these may not always be the most well thought out, you expect at least some sort of effort by the scriptwriters to make us like (or even appreciate) even one of these people. No, we don’t – not even Jean Reno can undo the horrendously mystifying way Emmerich has chosen to shoot him in this film, and his gargantuan fan following must still be ruing the day he chose to make dreck such as this. Characters spout dialogue like they’re still sitting about the read-through table discovering their characters; there’s no realism or believability to any of the people in this film, they just exist to serve the visual effects and constant plot build up to the next Godzilla attack. Every walking cliche in Hollywood appears in this film at some point, and whereas Independence Day hit a nerve with audiences for its heart and soul while delivering cornball antics on a widescreen scale, here, cornball comes across as simply insufferable. The script also tries to shove in a bunch of plot “twists”, most of which make no sense or offer no surprises. The films finale, the destruction of Madison Square Garden, is but a speed-hump in the true finale, an eardrum-bashing, foot-stomping, car-chasing hurley burley of last-gasp theatricality, designed to waste the last of this bloated turd’s budget before producers figured out what Emmerich had done. There’s no sense of logic to this film, no effort to craft a story above spectacle, and that, I think, is the biggest reason Godzilla fails as a film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.753657341003418, "source": "search", "title": "Movie Review – Godzilla (1998) - Fernby Films" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Air Taser - Electrical weapon. Delivers a damaging shock to anything it hits but drains the scientists battery in the process.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.479280471801758, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla Online - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Pepper Spray - A stream of pepper spray. Does damage to any enemy who comes in contact with it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.536087036132812, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla Online - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Pepper Grenade - A thrown object. When it explodes, a cloud of pepper spray is created for a few seconds, damaging any enemy that comes in contact with it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.450270652770996, "source": "search", "title": "Godzilla Online - The American Godzilla Wiki - Wikia" } ]

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Cheers was also able to gradually phase in characters such as Cliff, Frasier, Lilith, Rebecca, and Woody. During season 1, only one set, the bar, housed all of the episodes. Later seasons introduced other sets, but the show's ability to center the action in the bar and avoid straying was notable.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.950007677078247, "source": "wiki", "title": "Cheers" }, { "answer": "Ted Danson", "passage": "She was romantically linked with actors Frank Langella, Timothy Dalton, and Ted Danson, who controversially appeared in blackface during her 1993 Friars Club roast. She has stated that she has no future plans to marry again, commenting \"Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I’m sure it is wonderful for lots of people.\" In a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan, she explained that she never loved the men she married and commented \"You have to really be committed to them. And I'm justI don't have that commitment. 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(2008), the Roman Polanski-directed political thriller The Ghost Writer (2010) and the action spy thriller The November Man (2014).", "precise_score": 1.6854805946350098, "rough_score": 1.140175461769104, "source": "wiki", "title": "Pierce Brosnan" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "On the 8th of June 1994, on the set of the fated 17th James Bond film, Pierce Brosnan was introduced to the world as the new 007. His first film as Bond would be \"GoldenEye\", which ultimately cleared $350 million at the box office, and marked a big-time comeback for Bond producers. While he might have had a shot at clinching the role in '87, 1994 proved to be a far more appropriate year for Brosnan - he was older and far more worldly and jumped into 007's shoes with vigor and determination.", "precise_score": 7.923391342163086, "rough_score": 8.353812217712402, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - MI6 - James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of ..." }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Pierce Brosnan (Honorary) OBE (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish American film actor and producer. He is best known for portraying James Bond in four films: GoldenEye , Tomorrow Never Dies , The World Is Not Enough , and Die Another Day . His fans credit him with reviving the James Bond film series after a six year hiatus caused by legal disputes", "precise_score": 0.32479625940322876, "rough_score": 1.174275279045105, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - James Bond Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Brosnan was signed for a four-film deal and first appeared as agent 007 in 1995's GoldenEye to much critical praise. GoldenEye more than doubled the gross of Dalton's previous film in worldwide ticket box office sales. Pierce returned as Bond in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies and 1999]'s The World Is Not Enough to virtually the same success. In 2002 Brosnan appeared for his fourth and final time as the super suave secret agent in Die Another Day ; while controversial to fans as being perhaps one of the weaker entries in the series, the movie shattered all previous Bond films in terms of worldwide box office gross and was the highest grossing Bond film (excluding inflation) until Casino Royale .", "precise_score": 5.827401161193848, "rough_score": 7.81395149230957, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - James Bond Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Ultimately, Remington Steele cost Brosnan the 007 role in 1986, when MTM refused to release him from his contract. (subsequently the role went to Timothy Dalton). However, after a six-year absence from the cinema screens due to legal wrangles, James Bond bounced back in 1995 with Brosnan as 007 in the phenomenally successful GoldenEye.", "precise_score": 2.5958776473999023, "rough_score": 2.3812029361724854, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan – The James Bond International Fan Club" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Irish actor Pierce Brosnan held the role from 1995 to 2004. He appeared in GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). In addition he also provided his likeness for six James Bond video games , starting with Rareware's 1997 blockbuster  GoldenEye 007 . Although he didn't voice the character until  Everything or Nothing , his last appearance as 007, several actors have lent their voices to Brosnan's Bond, including Adam Blackwood in Tomorrow Never Dies (1999), Timothy Bentinck in The World Is Not Enough (2000) [2] and later  Maxwell Caulfield in Nightfire (2002).", "precise_score": 4.199626922607422, "rough_score": 6.832247257232666, "source": "search", "title": "James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) - James Bond Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Brosnan finally landed the role in 1994 when Dalton called it quits on Bond after two films and an extended court battle between the producers and MGM over rights to the series. Brosnan made his debut in GoldenEye (1995). The film scored at the box office, grossing $352.2 worldwide, and Brosnan’s ride as 007 was off to a promising start.", "precise_score": 3.9143028259277344, "rough_score": 1.4878073930740356, "source": "search", "title": "50 Years of James Bond: Pierce Brosnan Took 007 into 21st ..." }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Brosnan was signed for a three-film Bond deal with the option of a fourth. The first, 1995's GoldenEye, grossed US $350 million worldwide, the fourth highest worldwide gross of any film in 1995, making it the most successful Bond film since Moonraker, adjusted for inflation. It holds an 80% Rotten tomato rating, while Metacritic holds it at 65%. In the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4, saying that Brosnan's Bond was \"somehow more sensitive, more vulnerable, more psychologically complete\" than the previous ones, also commenting on Bond's \"loss of innocence\" since previous films. James Berardinelli described Brosnan as \"a decided improvement over his immediate predecessor\" with a \"flair for wit to go along with his natural charm\", but added that \"fully one-quarter of Goldeneye is momentum-killing padding.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.9312025308609009, "source": "wiki", "title": "Pierce Brosnan" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "In January 2016 Pierce Brosnan was seen filming The Foreigner in London, co-starring with Jackie Chan, taking on a role of a former IRA man turned government official Liam Hennessy. The film is directed by Martin Campbell, who previously worked with Brosnan on his debut James Bond film, GoldenEye. It was noted that Brosnan bore a strong resemblance to Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams. An announcement was made that Brosnan and Campbell will team up once again in a film adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway novel, Across the River and into the Trees, in which Brosnan will play the role of the protagonist, Colonel Cantwell. He's also set to appear alongside Dave Bautista in Final Score. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.737583577632904, "source": "wiki", "title": "Pierce Brosnan" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "While filming The Deceivers in Rajasthan, India, in 1987, Brosnan's wife Harris became seriously ill. She was later diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died on 28 December 1991 at age 43. Brosnan struggled to cope with her cancer and death. \"When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying. And it was that way through the chemotherapy, through the first-look operation, the second look, the third look, the fourth look, the fifth look. Cassie was very positive about life. I mean, she had the most amazing energy and outlook on life. It was and is a terrible loss, and I see it reflected, from time to time, in my children.\" Harris had always wanted Brosnan to play the role of James Bond, and in 1995, four years after her death, Brosnan was given the role in GoldenEye.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.638979434967041, "source": "wiki", "title": "Pierce Brosnan" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Brosnan first became aware of nuclear disarmament at the age of nine when worldwide condemnation of the 1962 U.S. nuclear tests in Nevada headlined international news. During the 1990s, he participated in news conferences in Washington, D.C. to help Greenpeace draw attention to the issue. Brosnan boycotted the French GoldenEye premiere to support Greenpeace's protest against the French nuclear testing program. From 1997 to 2000, Brosnan and wife Smith worked with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to stop a proposed salt factory from being built at Laguna San Ignacio. The couple with Halle Berry, Cindy Crawford and Daryl Hannah successfully fought the Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas facility that was proposed off the coast of Malibu; the State Lands Commission eventually denied the lease to build the terminal. In May 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the facility. Brosnan is also listed as a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Board of Advisors. Brosnan was named 'Best-dressed Environmentalist' by the Sustainable Style Foundation in 2004. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.4326133728027344, "source": "wiki", "title": "Pierce Brosnan" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": " 2006 GoldenEye: Building a Better Bond (Video documentary short)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.523096084594727, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": " 1995 GoldenEye: Behind the Scenes (Video documentary short)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.484078407287598, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": " 1995 GoldenEye: The Secret Files (TV Short documentary)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.51236343383789, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "In the novels, James Bond is the son of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond of Glencoe, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, from the Canton de Vaud. He acquired a first-class command of the French and German languages during his early education, which he received entirely abroad. Both parents were tragically killed during a climbing accident in the French Alps which was revealed in GoldenEye .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.43565559387207, "source": "search", "title": "James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) - James Bond Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "― M to James Bond in Goldeneye.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.342572212219238, "source": "search", "title": "James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) - James Bond Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "In 1986, Bond and Alec Trevelyan , agent 006, infiltrate an illicit Soviet chemical weapons facility and plant explosive charges. Trevelyan is shot, but Bond escapes from the facility as it explodes. Nine years later, Bond witnesses the theft by Xenia Onatopp , operative of criminal organisation Janus , of a prototype Eurocopter Tiger helicopter that can withstand an electromagnetic pulse. Janus uses the helicopter to steal the control disk for the dual GoldenEye satellite weapons, using the GoldenEye to destroy the complex with an electromagnetic pulse; there is one survivor of the attack, a programmer, Natalya Simonova .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.134719848632812, "source": "search", "title": "James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) - James Bond Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Bond investigates the attack and travels to Russia where he locates Simonova and learns that Trevelyan, who had faked his own death, was the head of Janus. Simonova tracks computer traffic to Cuba and she and Bond travel there and locate Trevelyan, who reveals his plan to steal money from the Bank of England before erasing all of its financial records with the GoldenEye, concealing the theft and destroying Britain's economy. Bond and Simonova destroy the satellite facility, killing Onatopp and Trevelyan in the process.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.456212043762207, "source": "search", "title": "James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) - James Bond Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Brosnan was signed for a three-film Bond deal with the option of a fourth. The first, 1995's GoldenEye , grossed US $350 million worldwide, [15] the fourth highest worldwide gross of any film in 1995, [16] making it the most successful Bond film since Moonraker , adjusted for inflation. [17] It holds a 78% Rotten tomato rating, [18] while Metacritic holds it at 65%. [19] In the Chicago Sun-Times , Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4, and said Brosnan's Bond was \"somehow more sensitive, more vulnerable, more psychologically complete\" than the previous ones, also commenting on Bond's \"loss of innocence\" since previous films. [20] James Berardinelli described Brosnan as \"a decided improvement over his immediate predecessor\" with a \"flair for wit to go along with his natural charm\", but added that \"fully one-quarter of Goldeneye is momentum-killing padding.\" [21]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.613316535949707, "source": "search", "title": "James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) - James Bond Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "as the 5th 007. 'GoldenEye', his first Bond role, took in over", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.119084358215332, "source": "search", "title": "Read How James Bond 007 Went Downhill from Brosnan to Craig" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Sideshow’s collector friendly packaging continues with final US release posters for the cover of the Bond boxes. The quality of the print and box is of the high standard that you expect from SideShow. The back face features a summary of Brosnan's role as 007 over the last nine years and the gadgets, villains and Bond girls of GoldenEye.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.6491904258728027, "source": "search", "title": "James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of James Bond" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Goldeneye", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.391732215881348, "source": "search", "title": "Aston Martin | Heritage | James Bond 007" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "Reviewing GoldenEye, movie critic Roger Ebert wrote , “[Brosnan] is somehow more sensitive, more vulnerable, more psychologically complete, than the Bonds played by Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton. They were all, in their various styles, cold and dispassionate. Brosnan’s Bond looks at home in the casinos of Monte Carlo, but he’s more knowing, more aware of relationships. I am not sure this is a good thing. Agent 007 should to some degree not be in on the joke.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.291198968887329, "source": "search", "title": "50 Years of James Bond: Pierce Brosnan Took 007 into 21st ..." }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "The problem was that the films, particularly after GoldenEye, were decidedly mediocre. They were over-produced, clattering affairs, full of hi-tech gimmickry and clunky one-liners. For sheer stupidity, it would be hard to beat the car that turned invisible in Die Another Day.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.466154098510742, "source": "search", "title": "50 Years of James Bond: Pierce Brosnan Took 007 into 21st ..." }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "When Entertainment Weekly recently ranked all 22 previous Bond films, the highest a Brosnan film made it on the list was No. 6 for GoldenEye. His three other films were considerably farther back in the pack.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.289763927459717, "source": "search", "title": "50 Years of James Bond: Pierce Brosnan Took 007 into 21st ..." }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "In addition to his salary for his James Bond movies, Brosnan received a car. The BMW Z3 from GoldenEye (1995), an 8-series BMW (instead of the 750iL) from Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and the Z8 from The World Is Not Enough (1999).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.8277740478515625, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "According to the James Bond tailors in London, he has been both the lightest and heaviest of all the James Bonds. The tailors who fitted him for his Bond films state that in his first Bond movie, GoldenEye (1995), he weighed 164 pounds, making him the lightest actor to play Bond. However, in his fourth Bond movie, Die Another Day (2002), he weighed 211 pounds, making him the heaviest actor to play Bond.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.285202980041504, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "He has two roles in common with Sean Connery : (1) Connery played James Bond in Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983) while Brosnan played him in GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002) and (2) Connery played King Arthur in First Knight (1995) while Brosnan played him in in The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot (1998).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.376638412475586, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Goldeneye", "passage": "He appeared in three films with Joe Don Baker in as many years: GoldenEye (1995), Mars Attacks! 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When I did it I knew the movie wasn't up to speed; it wasn't as good as GoldenEye (1995) and you have to bang the drum loudly to get the attention.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.838799476623535, "source": "search", "title": "Pierce Brosnan - Biography - IMDb" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "The Bridges of Madison County is a 1995 American romantic drama film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Robert James Waller. It was produced by Amblin Entertainment and Malpaso Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment. The film was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with Kathleen Kennedy as co-producer and the screenplay was adapted by Richard LaGravenese. The film stars Eastwood and Meryl Streep.", "precise_score": -0.6206421256065369, "rough_score": -5.083476543426514, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County (film)" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "The film received largely positive reviews upon its initial release. Rotten Tomatoes reports a \"Certified Fresh\" score of 89% based on 57 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The site's consensus states: \"Sentimental, slow, schmaltzy, and very satisfying, The Bridges of Madison County finds Clint Eastwood adapting a bestseller with heft, wit, and grace.\" On Metacritic, the film has a 66 out of 100 rating, based on 22 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". ", "precise_score": -3.5444440841674805, "rough_score": -9.360949516296387, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County (film)" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "According to Janet Maslin, \"Clint Eastwood, director and alchemist, has transformed The Bridges of Madison County into something bearable—no, something even better. Limited by the vapidity of this material while he trims its excesses with the requisite machete, Mr. Eastwood locates a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill. The movie has leanness and surprising decency, and Meryl Streep has her best role in years. Looking sturdy and voluptuous in her plain housedress (the year is 1965), Ms. Streep rises straight out of \"Christina's World\" to embody all the loneliness and fierce yearning Andrew Wyeth captured on canvas. And yet, despite the Iowa setting and the emphasis on down-home Americana, Mr. Eastwood's Bridges of Madison County has a European flavor. Its pace is unhurried, which is not the same as slow. It respects long silences and pays attention to small details. It sustains an austere tone and staves off weepiness until the last reel. It voices musings that would definitely sound better in French.\" Richard Corliss said Eastwood is the \"most reticent of directors—where the book ogles, the film discreetly observes—and, here, the courtliest of stars....As scripted by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King), the Madison County movie has a slightly riper theme than the book's. It is about the anticipation and consequences of passion—the slow dance of appraisal, of waiting to make a move that won't be rejected, of debating what to do when the erotic heat matures into love light. What is the effect of an affair on a woman who has been faithful to her husband, and on a rootless man who only now realizes he needs the one woman he can have but not hold?\" Corliss concludes \"Madison County is Eastwood's gift to women: to Francesca, to all the girls he's loved before—and to Streep, who alchemizes literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion.\" ", "precise_score": -2.7183830738067627, "rough_score": -7.3135199546813965, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County (film)" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Amazon.com: The Bridges of Madison County: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Jim Haynie, Annie Corley: Amazon Digital Services LLC", "precise_score": 0.09239577502012253, "rough_score": -4.467854022979736, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The Bridges of Madison County: Clint Eastwood ..." }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Finally, it was Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies (1983) who was officially announced as the director with Clint Eastwood firmly set to star as Robert Kincaid. At 65 Eastwood was a bit older than the 52-year-old character in the book, but after a career of playing mostly tough guys and steely cowboys, Eastwood saw the role as an intriguing opportunity to show a more sensitive side on screen.", "precise_score": -8.182209014892578, "rough_score": -8.072081565856934, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County - Turner Classic Movies" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "When the soul of a movie is reflected in an actor's eyes then you have a miracle, you have something that's going to last. Meryl Streep in \"The Bridges Of Madison County\" is such a miracle to me. I never thought for a moment that she, no matter how wonderful an actress she is, could fool me. Meryl Streep could never be Italian. Well, there I was, thinking and pre-judging like people I detest. I was so wrong. Not just because she fooled me, although there is no fooling involved here. She won me over. I forgot she was Meryl Streep, the actress, and I lived Francesca's story to the fullest because, I suppose, that's the mystery of great acting, I was confronted by her sheer undiluted truth. The truth in her eyes in every one of her gestures. The truth on her brow. Her thinking, transparent. Clint Eastwood does the right thing putting the entire film at her service and placing himself as the foil to liberate that powerful latent side of Francesca. I though it was ironic and I'm not sure if was meant to be that a wonderful woman like Francesca will sacrifice, what could arguably be call the love of her life, for those children. The grown children's mediocrity was kind of shocking to me. Will the revelation of their mother's secret, reveal a latent, greater side to their natures. I hope so. Francesca deserved extraordinary children. Try no to miss this little miracle.", "precise_score": -3.9507267475128174, "rough_score": -8.214360237121582, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "On the page \"The Bridges of Madison County\" often read like a reject from Mills and Boon and yet it was tremendously popular. People who normally wouldn't read this sort of thing were not only reading it but quoting it. You could say that for some people it held the kind of camp appeal that bad books sometimes do for the so-called intelligentsia. Personally, I am inclined to think that its tale of middle-aged romance struck a cord. It may not have been well-written but many people recognized in its two central characters a reflection of themselves. It spoke of a great passion and a great loss; a \"Brief Encounter\" for the nineties. Still, it never quite seemed like a vehicle for Clint Eastwood; (once upon a time you might have envisaged Arthur Hiller doing it), yet here it is, larger than life on the big screen and utterly lovely, utterly heart-breaking.", "precise_score": -3.3921396732330322, "rough_score": -5.391303539276123, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "The premise doesn't sound too original, but Eastwood wonderfully captures all the raw emotions between these people, who seem throughly genuine, alive, and passionate. Lennie Niehaus' beautiful music score helps enhance the romantic atmosphere, and the slow pace is never a bore since it's necessary to make you live those brief but special moments with them. From westerns to female boxers to jazz musicians to war dramas, Clint Eastwood knows how to tell a good story, and \"The Bridges of Madison County\" ranks among his best. 10/10.", "precise_score": -5.424761772155762, "rough_score": -9.90792179107666, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "In the final days of the five-week shoot of The Bridges of Madison County last fall, Meryl Streep did one of the many things she does better onscreen than anyone else: she cried. Filming an emotional scene in which her character struggles to say goodbye to her lover, the actress would show up on the set in Winterset, Iowa, at 9 in the morning and start to cry on cue. “Except for 45 minutes at lunch, Says her makeup man J. Roy Helland, “the tears were flowing for two days.” By the third day, her director and costar Clint Eastwood asked her to reshoot a couple of earlier, and happier, scenes, and Streep had to beg for a reprieve. “No amount of ice could possibly get Meryl’s eyes down,” says Helland. “They were so filled with fluid. There’s no glycerin with Meryl. When she cries, she cries.”", "precise_score": -4.252506256103516, "rough_score": -7.010373115539551, "source": "search", "title": "Heart Land : People.com" }, { "answer": "Clinton Eastwood", "passage": "Father was Clinton Eastwood Sr. (1906-1970), an executive at Georgia Pacific LLC, a pulp and paper manufacturing company. Stepfather, after his widowed mother remarried in 1972, was John Belden Wood (1913-2004), a lumber executive.", "precise_score": -9.929971694946289, "rough_score": -9.900259971618652, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Numerous critics thought that the movie version of \"The Bridges of Madison County,\" which came out in 1995 and starred Streep and Clint Eastwood, was better than the syrupy best-selling book. Streep was again nominated for a best actress Oscar but did not win.", "precise_score": -0.0029484385158866644, "rough_score": -4.352303504943848, "source": "search", "title": "Happy 65th birthday, Meryl Streep! - TODAY.com" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "* Clint Eastwood as Robert Kincaid", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.509650230407715, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County (film)" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "** Best Foreign Language Film Director (Clint Eastwood)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.624187469482422, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County (film)" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "This review is more about the special features that came with the bluray rather than the movie itself. The movie is a cult classic - as it should be - because it's a beautifully shot film. I think this may have been my first full length feature film with Clint Eastwood. I did not grow up with Mr. Eastwood but was very well acquainted with his cowboy, tough guy image.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.543539047241211, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The Bridges of Madison County: Clint Eastwood ..." }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Producer: Clint Eastwood, Kathleen Kennedy", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.50758171081543, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County - Turner Classic Movies" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Director: Clint Eastwood", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.56911563873291, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County - Turner Classic Movies" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Cast: Clint Eastwood (Robert Kincaid), Meryl Streep (Francesca Johnson), Annie Corley (Caroline), Victor Slezak (Michael Johnson), Jim Haynie (Richard Johnson), Debra Monk (Madge).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.318558692932129, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County - Turner Classic Movies" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Meryl Streep is absolutely astonishing. I forgot it was her ten seconds into the film. That opening breakfast scene where all of her story is written in her magnificent face. As an Italian I know there is no acting involved here. She IS Italian. She reminded me of Anna Magnani in \"Bellissima\" there is not a single false note. Clint Eastwood, clearly, dedicates the film to her and the results are pure magic. The film is based on an unreadable book- at least I couldn't get through it, in spite of the brevity of the volume - the film however, is bound to become a classic thanks to the powerful chemistry of the stars. If you love film,like I do, I recommend you to see it once and let yourself be taken away by the truths in Meryl's eyes then go again and take note. Look at every one of her moments, from how she closes the refrigerator door to her laughter. Look at her reaction when she discovers that Clint stopped at Bari, her home town, just because he thought the place was pretty. Look at her hands, her walk and then go back to her eyes. It's a treat of the first order. Clint, in front as well as behind the camera,does a miraculous job. I passionately recommend it, no matter how young you are.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.474942207336426, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "The book on which this film is based is a very thin volume, thin in every department. As a matter of fact I gave up after a few pages. The film is something else entirely. Meryl Streep plays an Italian living in rural America and she is out of this world. Her opening scenes at the breakfast table are staggeringly beautiful, it could have been a silent movie, we would've understood and live Francesca's story just by looking into Meryl's beautiful face. Every laugh, every move, every nuance is so Italian and so real that I went to look up her background to see if there was some Italian blood in her. Apparently not, but she reminded me of Anna Magnani and of my mother - she's Italian too, so I should know. Clint Eastwood's performance is tender, powerful and generous. I started going to the movies in the 70's and part of the fascination was to go and see movies with adults doing adult things, behaving and reacting to life the way adults do. \"Five Easy Pieces\" \"Coming Home\" \"Sophie's Choice\" and then the old great old ones from \"Sullivan's Travels\" to \"All About Eve\" As a side note I should inform the decision makers that on my second visit to the theater I took five kids with me, two 17 year old boys and three girls, 18, 16 and 16. They went back to see it a few days later with some of their contemporaries. The comment of one of the boys was: \"It made me think of things I don't usually think about\". He invited his mom to the movies to see \"Bridges of Madison County\" According to his mother, that was the first time ever, but, as it happens, not the last.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.963501930236816, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Yet Clint Eastwood has waved a magic wand, and worked wonders on the lack lustre source material, by pairing it down to produce a beautiful, warm film with only one real flaw (more on that later)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.521012306213379, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Clint Eastwood provides good, solid support in the sense that he doesn't overact, and allows Meryl to become the heart of the film. This is a wise decision - part of the terrible weakness of the book was its dependence upon the inane thoughts and ramblings of Robert Kincaid. The film is beautifully directed, beautifully photograhed and beautifully scored - the radio tunes and the non-diegetic Bridges Love theme really enhance the romantic, lush tone and mood of the film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.389039993286133, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "And its finest quality has to be the magic of Meryl Streep who proves, yet again, why she is uniquely the best actress we have ever had. As Clint Eastwood said about casting this role: 'I only made one phonecall'. He knew as you will too - no other actress could have brought so much depth, warmth, beauty, charisma and humanity to this character. As a humble film lover, it's all I can do to applaud her from the depths of my heart. Bravo, Queen Meryl!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.317760467529297, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "I am a fan of Clint Eastwood and this film was a real pleasant surprise as it showed how able he is as a director and performer. I have already praised his work as director but he also turns in an unshowy and natural performance in the lead. Streep has never totally won me over and I often felt that doing an accent is not the same as giving a performance. Here her accent put me off at first but generally she is good and shows suitable restraint in depicting her character. She suffers a bit from having to deliver a narration that occasionally contains sentimental dialogue but she does well despite this. The support cast is OK but really contributions from Corley and Slezak are no more than distractions from the main show which is a collection of natural scenes between the two leads and no one else.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.52667236328125, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) stops at Francesca's farm to ask for directions... While close-ups provide Streep's intimate thoughts, some women lost patience with her indecision and reticence...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.504779815673828, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "I think this movie of one of the best movies I have ever seen. Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood really did a great job in this movie. for him to come in and change her life in just four days is amazing. To fall in love with some one in just four days is just wonderful to me. I watch it on Starz, and it played everyday for a week and I watch it every day it came on. she was a strong lady to stay there and be unhappy for all of those years. It is simply a beautiful movie. I love the part when he was picking flowers for her and she told him that the flowers were poison and then she started to laugh, that was hilarious to me. Because just in the few minutes she had know him he brought out something in her something that has not been released. She was more herself in this movie.I would surely recommend this movie to some one else.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.445499420166016, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "I admire the likes of Woody Allen, Chaplin and Clint Eastwood (just to name a few), who possess(ed) the chops to write, direct AND act. They're complete artists, and I wish I could be like that (I'll be already too happy if I can ever achieve my life passion of writing and directing, though, since my acting would be less convincing than Owen Wilson playing Hamlet).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.52925968170166, "source": "search", "title": "The Bridges of Madison County Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.564604759216309, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Clint Eastwood", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.537010192871094, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Perhaps the icon of macho movie stars, and a living legend, Clint Eastwood has become a standard in international cinema. Born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, the elder of two children in a middle-class family, Eastwood stayed in high school until the comparatively late age of nineteen and worked menial jobs over a period of several years before enrolling at Los Angeles City College, from which he dropped out after two semesters to pursue acting. He found uncredited bit parts in such nondescript B-films as Revenge of the Creature (1955) and Tarantula (1955) during the mid-'50s while simultaneously digging swimming pools for a living, until he got his first breakthrough in the long-running TV series Rawhide (1959) with Eric Fleming . Though only a secondary player in the early seasons, Clint made the show his own by end of its run and became a recognizable face to television viewers around the country.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.610451698303223, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Eastwood has managed to keep his extremely convoluted personal life top secret and never discusses his families with the media. He had a long time relationship with frequent co-star Locke and has at least eight children by at least six other women, although he has only been married twice. Clint Eastwood lives in Los Angeles and owns homes in Monterey, Northern California, Idaho and Hawaii.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.163411140441895, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "It's interesting, given his penchant towards violence, that his name, Clint Eastwood, is an anagram for 'old west action'.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.46451473236084, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "His name is used as the title of the hit Gorillaz song and video \"Clint Eastwood\" (2001).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.555899620056152, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Opened the Hog's Breath Inn with co-founders Paul E. Lippman and Walter Becker in 1972. According to Lippman, \"I had to terminate three pretty good waitresses in the first few months of operation; not because they went to bed with Clint Eastwood, but because they either talked about it all over the premises, or came in the next day acting like they owned the place.\" The restaurant closed in 1999 and then re-opened under new management.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.4913911819458, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "Served as President of the Cannes Jury when Pulp Fiction (1994) won but the film was not his personal choice: \"On the jury here when 'Pulp Fiction' won, somebody said, 'Oh, Clint Eastwood was on the jury, so he voted for the American film.' But my sensibilities are European, here is where my success started. Actually, 'Zhang Yimou''s To Live (1994) was my favorite piece, but most of the European jurors seemed to like 'Pulp Fiction'.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.544817924499512, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clinton Eastwood", "passage": "Has a grandson born in February 1984 named Clinton Eastwood Gaddie through his illegitimate daughter Kimber Tunis ( Kimber Eastwood ). Clint and Roxanne Tunis are great-grandparents via Kimber's son.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.315635681152344, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "A July 1968 item by Dorothy Manners gives insight to Eastwood's rapid rise to stardom: \"Clint Eastwood is on his way to earning $750,000 per picture while the proverbial man in the street is still asking, 'Who's Clint Eastwood?'. He's the hottest property sight unseen (almost) in Hollywood today.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.251358032226562, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "The only biographical book he's ever authorized is \"Clint Eastwood: A Biography\" (1996) by Richard Schickel , which contains extensive plot summary for each of Eastwood's movies but leaves his private life little documented by comparison.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.54405403137207, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "After meeting Sondra Locke at a luncheon in 1994, feminist activist Gloria Steinem said she would orchestrate a nationwide campaign to ban Clint Eastwood films.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.523184776306152, "source": "search", "title": "Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Clint Eastwood", "passage": "For years I bummed around trying to get an acting job. 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[ { "answer": "Nicholas Cage", "passage": "8mm focuses on \"snuff\" movies and follows Nicholas Cage as he ventures into the dark underworld of the pornographic industry. I'm not a great fan of Nicholas Cage (I still wonder how he ever made it as a movie star), but in 8mm felt he redeemed himself from past performances. Other actors in the film put on great performances, notably Joaquin Pheonix, and James Gandolfini (of Sopranos).", "precise_score": 6.206532001495361, "rough_score": 5.89385986328125, "source": "search", "title": "8MM Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Nic Cage", "passage": "8MM was a very dark and powerful film featuring the seedy underground world of pornography and snuff movies. It was, to be frank, fantastic. Nic Cage, rapidly becoming one of my favourite actors, walks through with a disgusted air and even Joaquin Phoenix, who I've never been that impressed with, hit the nail as a porn shop manager", "precise_score": 6.18048095703125, "rough_score": 4.929558277130127, "source": "search", "title": "8MM Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Nicholas Cage", "passage": "When I watched 8 MM, I didn't know what to expect, but I noticed that Joel Schumacher directed it and I am a fan of his. Also it stars two other terrific actors like Nicholas Cage and Joaquin Phoenix, so usually that equals a great film. 8 MM turned out to be a terrific dark drama that I'm not so sure that I understand it's low rating. I was actually expecting it to be in the 7.0 range when I went to check it out on IMDb, but it's in the low 6.0's. I understand that it's an extremely dark movie that not too many people would wanna take a look at, but for what it was, I thought it was great. It took us into the deep dark world of porn and what some sick people get off on. It's not just about that, but also it takes us into a detective type of drama that makes it into a scary type of thriller.", "precise_score": 5.4343767166137695, "rough_score": 3.993168830871582, "source": "search", "title": "8MM Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Nicholas Cage", "passage": "Original starring Nicholas Cage as a private eye on the case of a most mysterious snuff film, Schumacher’s low-key picture also featured Joaquin Phoenix in one of his earlier forays into cinema. In hindsight, 8MM is a startlingly dark thriller, dipping its toe into the underbelly of illegal pornography without batting an eyelid – particularly for a studio movie.", "precise_score": 7.0861287117004395, "rough_score": 5.300151348114014, "source": "search", "title": "Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker Keen On 8MM Remake" }, { "answer": "Nicholas Cage", "passage": "When I watched 8 MM, I didn't know what to expect, but I noticed that Joel Schumacher directed it and I am a fan of his. Also it stars two other terrific actors like Nicholas Cage and Joaquin Phoenix, so usually that equals a great film. 8 MM turned out to be a terrific dark drama that I'm not so sure that I understand it's low rating. I was actually expecting it to be in the 7.0 range when I went to check it out on IMDb, but it's in the low 6.0's. I understand that it's an extremely dark movie that not too many people would wanna take a look at, but for what it was, I thought it was great. It took us into the deep dark world of porn and what some sick people get off on. It's not just about that, but also it takes us into a detective type of drama that makes it into a scary type of thriller.", "precise_score": 5.4343767166137695, "rough_score": 3.993168830871582, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - 8MM (1999)" }, { "answer": "Nicolas Cage", "passage": "The intensely intriguing storyline of 8MM follows the haunting search by a private investigator (played superbly by Nicolas Cage) for the makers of a grotesque and disturbing snuff film in which a young woman is murdered. Starting by looking through endless missing persons files (in an attempt to identify the victim), Cage ultimately follows leads to the world of underground seaze films and the people who are involved in making them. Throughout his creepy investigation, Cage becomes more and more disturbed by the Snuff film and stops at nothing in an attempt to track down answers to what really happened. This film is So intriguing and suspenseful, there are scenes that will leave your heart pounding in anticipation of what's to come. I don't know if I have ever seen such an intriguing and suspenseful Drama/Thriller ever before! This film is so realistic, there are times when you feel as if what is going on is real, and you begin to feel more for the characters than you usually do in a film. The last 20 minutes of the film are heart pounding and breathtaking! Director Joel Schumacher delivers one of the most mind haunting dramas you will ever see and gives us a story that won't be easy to forget. It's dark, moody, creepy, brilliant, and disturbing! And when all the pieces finally come together, you'll be glad you went along for the ride. Wow, It's a sick world we live in!! I give this movie 4 out of 4 stars!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.9680241346359253, "source": "search", "title": "8MM Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Nicholas Cage", "passage": "Even our hero here, played by Nicholas Cage, starts off as a clean-cut fairly straight dude, and changes for the worst, too. Joaquin Phoenix has a good line in here, with the prophetic statement, \"The devil doesn't change; he changes you.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.28756332397461, "source": "search", "title": "8MM Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Nicolas Cage", "passage": "Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, Catherine Keener, and Amy Morton Directed by Joel Schumacher. Written by Andrew Kevin Walker. Running time: 123 minutes. Rated R (for strong sexual content, nudity, violence, and for strong language).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.463089942932129, "source": "search", "title": "8MM Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Nicolas Cage", "passage": "Nicolas Cage stars as Tom Welles, a highly acclaimed private detective living with his wife Amy (Catherine Keener), and their newborn son in a homey, relaxed country house. As the film opens, he is called upon by the widow of an important political man, Mrs. Mathews (Amy Morton). This elderly woman has discovered the contents of her late husband's secret safe and his extremely concerned about some of them. Most of the objects found in the safe are normal. One in particular, however, a film strip, is not what you would call ordinary, but suspicious and concealed. Mrs. Mathews explains to Tom what he will see on this tape is something of unimaginable terror. Tom views the 8mm tape, watching in horror as a young girl is raped and brutally beaten to death in front of a camera operator, a silent viewer, and a muscular man wearing all sorts of S&M clothing. The well-developed conflict brought to our attention at this point: Mrs. Matthews is requiring Tom to find out if the tragic events that occur on tape are real or not, and if her husband had anything to do with this atrocity.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.7875237464904785, "source": "search", "title": "8MM Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Nicolas Cage", "passage": "Nicolas Cage is obviously the right choice for Tom Welles, a man who is more submissive than brutal, but is placed in a situation where deep down he desires bloodshed, but knows his morals challenge him otherwise. \"8MM\" is a movie that frolics with this character's emotions and values, and at the same time lives up to a premise that is way out of his league.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.068239212036133, "source": "search", "title": "8MM Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Nicholas Cage", "passage": "\"8mm\" sucks you in from the moment you watch the snuff film with Nicholas Cage, not letting you go until the very end, where it spits you out encased in a cocoon of bloody phlegm.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.445833206176758, "source": "search", "title": "8MM Reviews & Ratings - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Nicholas Cage", "passage": "First things first. This film has nothing to do with the first 8mm starring Nicholas Cage and I knew that before I watched this, so I wasn't expecting much. In fact, the only thing that resembles 8mm in this film is the plot deals with corruption and black mail within the porn industry. I also remember reading that the \"8mm 2\" wasn't even the original title. It was changed at the last second, probably to draw attention to more viewers. With that said, lets move on.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.3511147499084473, "source": "search", "title": "8MM 2 (2005) - Rotten Tomatoes" }, { "answer": "Nicolas Cage", "passage": "You are never prepared for the truth. Good movie. This film is very strong,gritty,edgy and dark. Nicolas Cage did a very good job acting on this one. The thing is this film is very real and there's actually people so sick like this in the world we live in, it's disturbing to know this and those who do those kinds of things shall receive no forgiveness. Tom Welles, private eye, is hired by a wealthy widow, whose well-known husband passed away recently. She has found a reel of S8-film in a safe. On the film is a cruel slaughtering of a young girl, who obviously does not pretend or act: A snuff-movie. Welles takes up investigation, which leads him to the girl's mother and from there to Hollywood, into the office of a porn flick producer. Welles' rising obsession to solve the case also carries him away from his wife and new-born daughter. But when finally names are at hand, Welles suddenly finds himself on ice much thinner than he planned.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.4244232177734375, "source": "search", "title": "8MM (1999) - Rotten Tomatoes" }, { "answer": "Nicolas Cage", "passage": "Joel Schumacher 's \"8mm'' is a dark, dank journey into the underworld of snuff films, undertaken by a private investigator who is appalled and changed by what he finds. It deals with the materials of violent exploitation films, but in a non-pornographic way; it would rather horrify than thrill. The writer is Andrew Kevin Walker , who wrote \"Seven,'' and once again creates a character who looks at evil and asks (indeed, screams), \"why?'' The answer comes almost at the end of the film, from its most vicious character: \"The things I do--I do them because I like them. Because I want to.'' There is no comfort there, and the final shots, of an exchange of smiles, are ironic; Walker accepts that pure evil can exist, and that there are people who are simply bad; one of his killers even taunts the hero, \"I wasn't beaten as a child. I didn't hate my parents.'' The movie stars Nicolas Cage as an enigmatic family man named Tom Welles, who works as a private investigator and comes home to a good marriage with his wife ( Catherine Keener ) and baby. He specializes in top-level clients and total discretion. He's hired by the lawyer for a rich widow who has found what appears to be a snuff film in the safe of her late husband; she wants reassurance that the girl in the film didn't really die, and Welles tells her snuff films are \"basically an urban legend--makeup, special effects, you know.'' The film follows Welles as he identifies the young woman in the film, meets her mother, follows her movements, and eventually descends into the world of vicious pornographers for hire, who create films to order for a twisted clientele. Joel Schumacher has an affinity for dark atmosphere (he made \"The Lost Boys,'' \"Flatliners'' and the two of the Batman pictures). Here, with Mychael Danna's mournful music and Robert Elswit's squinting camera, he creates a sense of foreboding even in an opening shot of passengers walking through an airport.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.7793314456939697, "source": "search", "title": "8mm Movie Review & Film Summary (1999) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "Nicolas Cage", "passage": "That Nicolas Cage agreed to star in this project is one of the movie's more unintended mysteries. Perhaps he thought screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker's \"8\" would be as good as his \"Seven.\" Cage's presence is workmanlike and watchable enough to make you sit through most of the movie. But as the movie's gratuitous agenda begins to smell too obvious, and it becomes clear this thing's a disaster, Cage's credibility goes to seed. You're almost tempted to wait outside his front door with a camera crew, harsh lights and the inevitable question: \"Why, Nicolas? Why?\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.499317646026611, "source": "search", "title": "'8MM' - washingtonpost.com" }, { "answer": "Nicolas Cage", "passage": "Nicolas Cage played Tom Welles, a private investigator hired to find out if a “snuff film” is legit. For a studio movie, 8MM is unexpectedly bleak at times, but it never fully commits to its darkness or its implied themes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.297974109649658, "source": "search", "title": "Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker Wants A '8MM' Remake" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters. ", "precise_score": 1.2159535884857178, "rough_score": 3.2228944301605225, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "A Christmas Carol is most likely his best-known story, with frequent new adaptations. It is also the most-filmed of Dickens's stories, with many versions dating from the early years of cinema. According to the historian Ronald Hutton, the current state of the observance of Christmas is largely the result of a mid-Victorian revival of the holiday spearheaded by A Christmas Carol. Dickens catalysed the emerging Christmas as a family-centred festival of generosity, in contrast to the dwindling community-based and church-centred observations, as new middle-class expectations arose. Its archetypal figures (Scrooge, Tiny Tim, the Christmas ghosts) entered into Western cultural consciousness. A prominent phrase from the tale, \"Merry Christmas\", was popularised following the appearance of the story. The term Scrooge became a synonym for miser, and his dismissive exclamation 'Bah! Humbug!' likewise gained currency as an idiom. Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray called the book \"a national benefit, and to every man and woman who reads it a personal kindness\".", "precise_score": -3.657870054244995, "rough_score": -3.8209915161132812, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty; prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations (popular both with readers and literary critics) has been translated into many languages and adapted numerous times into various media.", "precise_score": 4.8018574714660645, "rough_score": 5.797856330871582, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "This discussion between Dickens, Bulwer-Lytton and Forster has provided the basis for much discussion on Dickens's underlying views for this famous novel. Earle Davis, in his 1963 study of Dickens, wrote that \"it would be an inadequate moral point to deny Pip any reward after he had shown a growth of character,\" and that \"Eleven years might change Estella too.\" John Forster felt that the original ending was \"more consistent\" and \"more natural\" but noted the new ending's popularity. George Gissing called that revision \"a strange thing, indeed, to befall Dickens\" and felt that Great Expectations would have been perfect had Dickens not altered the ending in deference to Bulwer-Lytton.George Gissing wrote: \"Great Expectations (1861) would be nearly perfect in its mechanism but for the unhappy deference to Lord Lytton's judgment, which caused the end to be altered. Dickens meant to have left Pip a lonely man, and of course rightly so; by the irony of fate he was induced to spoil his work through a brother novelist's desire for a happy ending, a strange thing, indeed, to befall Dickens.\" ", "precise_score": -1.4845077991485596, "rough_score": -1.0739727020263672, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Robert L. Patten identifies four American editions in 1861 and sees the proliferation of publications in Europe and across the Atlantic as \"extraordinary testimony\" to Great Expectationss popularity. Chapman and Hall published the first edition in three volumes in 1861, five subsequent reprints between 6 July and 30 October, and a one-volume edition in 1862. The \"bargain\" edition was published in 1862, the Library Edition in 1864, and the Charles Dickens edition in 1868. To this list, Paul Schlicke adds \"two meticulous scholarly editions\", one Clarendon Press published in 1993 with an introduction by Margaret Cardwell and another with an introduction by Edgar Rosenberg, published by Norton in 1999. The novel was published with one ending, visible in the four on line editions listed in the External links at the end of this article. In some 20th century editions, the novel ends as originally published in 1867, and in an afterword, the ending Dickens did not publish, along with a brief story of how a friend persuaded him to a happier ending for Pip, is presented to the reader (for example, 1987 audio edition by Recorded Books ).", "precise_score": -0.2946907877922058, "rough_score": 5.072601318359375, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Overall, Great Expectations received near universal acclaim. Not all reviews were favourable; Margaret Oliphant's review, published May 1862 in Blackwood's Magazine, vilified the novel. Critics in the 19th and 20th centuries hailed it as one of Dickens's greatest successes although often for conflicting reasons: GK Chesterton admired the novel's optimism; Edmund Wilson its pessimism; Humphry House in 1941 emphasized its social context. In 1974, Jerome H. Buckley saw it as a bildungsroman, writing a chapter on Dickens and two of his major characters (David Copperfield and Pip) in his 1974 book on the Bildungsroman in Victorian writing. John Hillis Miller wrote in 1958 that Pip is the archetype of all Dickensian heroes. In 1970, QD Leavis suggests \"How We Must Read Great Expectations.\" In 1984, Peter Brooks, in the wake of Jacques Derrida, offered a deconstructionist reading. The most profound analyst, according to Paul Schlicke, is probably Julian Moynahan, who, in a 1964 essay surveying the hero's guilt, made Orlick \"Pip's double, alter ego and dark mirror image.\" Schlicke also names Anny Sadrin's extensive 1988 study as the \"most distinguished.\" ", "precise_score": -0.22630220651626587, "rough_score": 5.18895149230957, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "The theme of homecoming reflects events in Dickens's life, several years prior to the publication of Great Expectations. In 1856, he bought Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent, which he had dreamed of living in as a child, and moved there from faraway London two years later. In 1858, in a painful divorce, he separated from Catherine Dickens, his wife of twenty-three years. The divorce alienated him from some of his closest friends, such as Mark Lemon. He quarrelled with Bradbury and Evans, who had published his novels for fifteen years. In early September 1860, in a field behind Gad's Hill, Dickens burned almost all of his correspondence, sparing only letters on business matters. He stopped publishing the weekly Household Words at the summit of its popularity and replaced it with All the Year Round.", "precise_score": 0.1316690593957901, "rough_score": 2.0537269115448, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Great Expectations begins around 1812 (the date of Dickens' birth), continues until around 1830–1835, and then jumps to around 1840–1845, during which the Great Western Railway was built. Though readers today will not notice this, Dickens uses various things to emphasises the differences between 1861 and this earlier period. Among these details – that contemporary readers would have recognized – are the £1 note (in chapter 10) that the Bank Notes Act 1826 had removed from circulation; likewise, the death penalty for deported felons, who returned to Britain, was abolished in 1835. The gallows erected in the swamps, designed to display a rotting corpse, had disappeared by 1832, and George III, the monarch mentioned at the beginning, died in 1820, when Pip would have been seven or eight. Miss Havisham paid Joe 25 guineas, gold coins, when Pip was to begin his apprenticeship (in chapter 13); the guinea coins were slowly going out of circulation after the last new ones were struck with the face of George III in 1799. This also marks the historical period, as the one pound note was the official currency at the time of the novel's publication. Dickens placed the epilogue eleven years after Magwitch's death, which seems to be the time limit of the reported facts. Collectively, the details suggest that Dickens identified with the main character. If Pip is around twenty-three toward the middle of the novel and thirty-four at its end, he is roughly modeled after his creator who turned thirty-four in 1846.", "precise_score": -0.7224223017692566, "rough_score": 3.390491008758545, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Like many other Dickens novels, Great Expectations has been filmed for the cinema or television numerous times, including:", "precise_score": -0.017911331728100777, "rough_score": 0.48705944418907166, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "* 1946 – Great Expectations, the most celebrated film version, starring John Mills as Pip, Bernard Miles as Joe, Alec Guinness as Herbert, Finlay Currie as Magwitch, Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham, Anthony Wager as Young Pip, Jean Simmons as Young Estella and Valerie Hobson as the adult Estella, directed by David Lean. It came fifth in a 1999 BFI poll of the top 100 British films.", "precise_score": -1.100461483001709, "rough_score": 0.6371660232543945, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "* 1998 – Great Expectations, a film starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. This adaptation is set in contemporary New York, and renames Pip to Finn and Miss Havisham to Nora Dinsmoor. The film's score was composed by Patrick Doyle.", "precise_score": 3.2579140663146973, "rough_score": -3.580155849456787, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "* Charles Dickens (1999), Great Expectations, authoritative text, backgrounds, context, criticism, ISBN 0-393-96069-2 New York: W.W. Norton, edited by Edgar Rosenberg. A Norton critical edition.", "precise_score": 1.3510122299194336, "rough_score": 6.0546064376831055, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "y the time that the first black-and-white film version of Dickens's 1861 novel (scripted by Paul West) was made at Paramount in 1917, over forty other films of Dickens's works had already been made. The cinematic interest in this late novel seems to have quickened with the onset of the Great Depression, and in every decade of the twentieth century since the 1934 version a film has been made�of Great Expectations, often with an eye to the television audience: 1946, 1959, 1961, 1967, 1974, 1989, and 1998. Increasingly, the issues of class-consciousness and the money morality of a society organized according to the Cash Nexus have been complicated by matters of obsessive romance and arrested emotional development, to say nothing of the Freudian treatments of Miss Havisham, Orlick, and Mrs. Joe. A further wrinkle is the antipodean interest in Magwitch's s Australian years, a textual lacuna that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in particular has sought to address.", "precise_score": 3.0669519901275635, "rough_score": 6.789585590362549, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Just prior to the Christmas 1946, David Lean's Great Expectations became the first adaptation to arrive in cinemas after the Second World War. Long-time theatrical reviewer and editor of The Dickensian Leslie C. Staples pronounced the new film “a worthy transcription of a great book\" (79). With a lifetime's appreciative reading of Dickens and personal knowledge of many British stage adaptations from Dickens's works, Staples provides a highly readable but, by today's standards, amateurish assessment; he relishes the Dickensian impersonations, and seems resigned to the un-Dickensian ending as “ingenious and effective\" (81), given that neither of the original textual endings would do for a film. Regina Barreca remarks of Lean's rejigging of the ending that Estella is still a virgin, having been jilted rather having married Bentley Drummle: “In the film, she comes Pip broken-hearted but with everything else intact\" (44), so that we see her as an extension of Miss Havisham, “who she claims is still a forceful presence in the house\" (44), so that the conclusion involves Estella choosing Pip and the sunlight over Miss Havisham and the perpetual shadows of the past.", "precise_score": -0.3342774212360382, "rough_score": 3.310133218765259, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "A radical departure from the above relatively close adaptations for screen and television was Alfonso Cuaron's modernized and Americanized treatment of Dickens's story filmed in 1998 with some recognizable characters in very different settings. Cuaron's biggest problem was also his biggest strength: his thorough knowledge of David Lean's 1946 adaptation. What attracted Cuaron to Great Expectations was not Dickens's England but his moral universe; he thus was prepared to accept Mitch Glazer's screenplay of the poor boy with a good heart who goes from penury to celebrity and affluence, but suffers unrequited love, even though the treatment has transferred the scene of the romance from nineteenth-century England to the bright, green world of twentieth-century Florida (its tropic warmth a stark contrast to the chilled world of the Marshes) and New York (the American equivalent of London). The most significant modification is not one of scene, however, but of sex, sensuality, and eroticism, all amply provided by a sultry Gwyneth Paltrow: in Cuaron's opinion, remarks Pamela Katz, “Sex without love . . . can be even more painful than no sex at all\" (97). The steamy romance, the lush setting, the contemporary casting (with the late Anne Bancroft delivering a splendidly neurotic Miss Havisham), and dazzling cinematography made the film popular with North American adolescents, who, unencumbered by having to read the novel as part of their schooling, discovered the novel for themselves — surprised that it contained virtually no sex and was set in nineteenth-century England. That the book's controlling consciousness, filtering our perceptions of his younger self and of the other characters, would have come as no surprise since Finn's [with a nod to Mark Twain, the film's name for Pip]", "precise_score": 2.0492687225341797, "rough_score": 0.32039979100227356, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Rosenberg, Edgar (ed.). “Launching Great Expectations.\" Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. Pp. 389-423.", "precise_score": 2.3375871181488037, "rough_score": 6.870460510253906, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsea Island (Portsmouth), the second of eight children of John Dickens (1785–1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow; 1789–1863). His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and was temporarily stationed in the district. He asked Christopher Huffam, rigger to His Majesty's Navy, gentleman, and head of an established firm, to act as godfather to Charles. Huffam is thought to be the inspiration for Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company in Dickens's eponymous Dombey and Son (1848).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.638251304626465, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Righteous indignation stemming from his own situation and the conditions under which working-class people lived became major themes of his works, and it was this unhappy period in his youth to which he alluded in his favourite, and most autobiographical, novel, David Copperfield: \"I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.356965065002441, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "In 1832, at age 20, Dickens was energetic and increasingly self-confident. He enjoyed mimicry and popular entertainment, lacked a clear, specific sense of what he wanted to become, and yet knew he wanted fame. Drawn to the theatre—he became an early member of the Garrick —he landed an acting audition at Covent Garden, where the manager George Bartley and the actor Charles Kemble were to see him. Dickens prepared meticulously and decided to imitate the comedian Charles Mathews, but ultimately he missed the audition because of a cold. Before another opportunity arose, he had set out on his career as a writer. In 1833 he submitted his first story, \"A Dinner at Poplar Walk\", to the London periodical Monthly Magazine.. William Barrow, a brother of his mother, offered him a job on The Mirror of Parliament and he worked in the House of Commons for the first time early in 1832. He rented rooms at Furnival's Inn and worked as a political journalist, reporting on Parliamentary debates, and he travelled across Britain to cover election campaigns for the Morning Chronicle. His journalism, in the form of sketches in periodicals, formed his first collection of pieces, published in 1836: Sketches by Boz—Boz being a family nickname he employed as a pseudonym for some years. Dickens apparently adopted it from the nickname \"Moses\", which he had given to his youngest brother Augustus Dickens, after a character in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. When pronounced by anyone with a head cold, \"Moses\" became \"Boses\"—later shortened to Boz. Dickens's own name was considered \"queer\" by a contemporary critic, who wrote in 1849: \"Mr Dickens, as if in revenge for his own queer name, does bestow still queerer ones upon his fictitious creations.\" He contributed to and edited journals throughout his literary career. In January 1835 the Morning Chronicle launched an evening edition, under the editorship of the Chronicles music critic, George Hogarth. Hogarth invited Dickens to contribute Street Sketches and Dickens became a regular visitor to his Fulham house, excited by Hogarth's friendship with a hero of his, Walter Scott, and enjoying the company of Hogarth's three daughters—Georgina, Mary, and nineteen-year-old Catherine. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.103073120117188, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "In November 1836 Dickens accepted the position of editor of Bentley's Miscellany, a position he held for three years, until he fell out with the owner. In 1836 as he finished the last instalments of The Pickwick Papers, he began writing the beginning instalments of Oliver Twist—writing as many as 90 pages a month—while continuing work on Bentley's and also writing four plays, the production of which he oversaw. Oliver Twist, published in 1838, became one of Dickens's better known stories, and was the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.308821678161621, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "During his American visit, Dickens spent a month in New York City, giving lectures, raising the question of international copyright laws and the pirating of his work in America. He persuaded a group of twenty-five writers, headed by Washington Irving, to sign a petition for him to take to Congress, but the press were generally hostile to this, saying that he should be grateful for his popularity and that it was mercenary to complain about his work being pirated. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.256702899932861, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Soon after his return to England, Dickens began work on the first of his Christmas stories, A Christmas Carol, written in 1843, which was followed by The Chimes in 1844 and The Cricket on the Hearth in 1845. Of these, A Christmas Carol was most popular and, tapping into an old tradition, did much to promote a renewed enthusiasm for the joys of Christmas in Britain and America. The seeds for the story became planted in Dickens's mind during a trip to Manchester to witness the conditions of the manufacturing workers there. This, along with scenes he had recently witnessed at the Field Lane Ragged School, caused Dickens to resolve to \"strike a sledge hammer blow\" for the poor. As the idea for the story took shape and the writing began in earnest, Dickens became engrossed in the book. He later wrote that as the tale unfolded he \"wept and laughed, and wept again\" as he \"walked about the black streets of London fifteen or twenty miles many a night when all sober folks had gone to bed.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.919704914093018, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "At about this time he was made aware of a large embezzlement at the firm where his brother, Augustus, worked (John Chapman & Co.). It had been carried out by Thomas Powell (1809-1887), a clerk, who was on friendly terms with Dickens and who had acted as mentor to Augustus when he started work. Powell was also an author and poet and knew many of the famous writers of the day. After further fraudulent activities, Powell fled to New York and published a book called The Living Authors of England with a chapter on Charles Dickens, who was not amused by what Powell had written. One item that seemed to have annoyed him was the assertion that he had based the character of Paul Dombey (Dombey and Son), on Thomas Chapman, one of the principal partners at John Chapman & Co. Dickens immediately fired off a letter to Lewis Gaylord Clark, editor of the New York literary magazine The Knickerbocker, saying that Powell was a forger and thief. Clark published the letter in the New-York Tribune and several other papers picked up on the story. Powell started proceedings to sue these publications and Clark was arrested. Dickens, realising that he had acted in haste, contacted John Chapman & Co. to seek written confirmation of Powell’s guilt. Dickens did receive a reply confirming Powell's embezzlement, but once the directors realised this information may have to be produced in court they refused to make further disclosures. Due to the difficulties of providing evidence in America to support his accusations, Dickens eventually made a private settlement with Powell out of court. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.557263374328613, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "In May 1846 Angela Burdett Coutts, heir to the Coutts banking fortune, approached Dickens about setting up a home for the redemption of fallen women of the working class. Coutts envisioned a home that would replace the punitive regimes of existing institutions with a reformative environment conducive to education and proficiency in domestic household chores. After initially resisting, Dickens eventually founded the home, named \"Urania Cottage\", in the Lime Grove section of Shepherds Bush, which he managed for ten years, setting the house rules, reviewing the accounts and interviewing prospective residents. Emigration and marriage were central to Dickens's agenda for the women on leaving Urania Cottage, from which it is estimated that about 100 women graduated between 1847 and 1859. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.173257827758789, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "NYS", "passage": "In June 1862 he was offered £10,000 for a reading tour of Australia. He was enthusiastic, and even planned a travel book, The Uncommercial Traveller Upside Down, but ultimately decided against the tour. Two of his sons— Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens—migrated to Australia, Edward becoming a member of the Parliament of New South Wales as Member for Wilcannia 1889–94. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.645486831665039, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "In the late 1850s Dickens began to contemplate a second visit to the United States, tempted by the money that he believed he could make by extending his reading tour there. The outbreak of the Civil War in America in 1861 delayed his plans. Over two years after the war, Dickens set sail from Liverpool on 9 November 1867 for his second American reading tour. Landing at Boston, he devoted the rest of the month to a round of dinners with such notables as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and his American publisher, James Thomas Fields. In early December, the readings began. He performed 76 readings, netting £19,000, from December 1867 to April 1868. Dickens shuttled between Boston and New York, where he gave 22 readings at Steinway Hall. Although he had started to suffer from what he called the \"true American catarrh\", he kept to a schedule that would have challenged a much younger man, even managing to squeeze in some sleighing in Central Park.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.716343879699707, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Between 1868 and 1869, Dickens gave a series of \"farewell readings\" in England, Scotland, and Ireland, beginning on 6 October. He managed, of a contracted 100 readings, to deliver 75 in the provinces, with a further 12 in London. As he pressed on he was affected by giddiness and fits of paralysis and collapsed on 22 April 1869, at Preston in Lancashire, and on doctor's advice, the tour was cancelled. After further provincial readings were cancelled, he began work on his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It was fashionable in the 1860s to 'do the slums' and, in company, Dickens visited opium dens in Shadwell, where he witnessed an elderly addict known as \"Laskar Sal\", who formed the model for the \"Opium Sal\" subsequently featured in his mystery novel, Edwin Drood. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.059554576873779, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "His writing style is marked by a profuse linguistic creativity. Satire, flourishing in his gift for caricature, is his forte. An early reviewer compared him to Hogarth for his keen practical sense of the ludicrous side of life, though his acclaimed mastery of varieties of class idiom may in fact mirror the conventions of contemporary popular theatre. Dickens worked intensively on developing arresting names for his characters that would reverberate with associations for his readers, and assist the development of motifs in the storyline, giving what one critic calls an \"allegorical impetus\" to the novels' meanings. To cite one of numerous examples, the name Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield conjures up twin allusions to \"murder\" and stony coldness. His literary style is also a mixture of fantasy and realism. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery—he calls one character the \"Noble Refrigerator\"—are often popular. Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats, or dinner-party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens's acclaimed flights of fancy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.636865615844727, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Dickensian characters are amongst the most memorable in English literature, especially so because of their typically whimsical names. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes, Pip, Miss Havisham, Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Daniel Quilp, Samuel Pickwick, Wackford Squeers, and Uriah Heep are so well known as to be part and parcel of British culture, and in some cases have passed into ordinary language: a scrooge, for example, is a miser.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.523119926452637, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "His characters were often so memorable that they took on a life of their own outside his books. \"Gamp\" became a slang expression for an umbrella from the character Mrs Gamp, and \"Pickwickian\", \"Pecksniffian\", and \"Gradgrind\" all entered dictionaries due to Dickens's original portraits of such characters who were, respectively, quixotic, hypocritical, and vapidly factual. Many were drawn from real life: Mrs Nickleby is based on his mother, though she didn't recognise herself in the portrait, just as Mr Micawber is constructed from aspects of his father's 'rhetorical exuberance': Harold Skimpole in Bleak House is based on James Henry Leigh Hunt: his wife's dwarfish chiropodist recognised herself in Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield. Perhaps Dickens's impressions on his meeting with Hans Christian Andersen informed the delineation of Uriah Heep. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.978556632995605, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Authors frequently draw their portraits of characters from people they have known in real life. David Copperfield is regarded by many as a veiled autobiography of Dickens. The scenes of interminable court cases and legal arguments in Bleak House reflect Dickens's experiences as a law clerk and court reporter, and in particular his direct experience of the law's procedural delay during 1844 when he sued publishers in Chancery for breach of copyright. Dickens's father was sent to prison for debt, and this became a common theme in many of his books, with the detailed depiction of life in the Marshalsea prison in Little Dorrit resulting from Dickens's own experiences of the institution. Lucy Stroughill, a childhood sweetheart, may have affected several of Dickens's portraits of girls such as Little Em'ly in David Copperfield and Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens may have drawn on his childhood experiences, but he was also ashamed of them and would not reveal that this was where he gathered his realistic accounts of squalor. Very few knew the details of his early life until six years after his death, when John Forster published a biography on which Dickens had collaborated. Though Skimpole brutally sends up Leigh Hunt, some critics have detected in his portrait features of Dickens's own character, which he sought to exorcise by self-parody. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.94407844543457, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Most of Dickens's major novels were first written in monthly or weekly instalments in journals such as Master Humphrey's Clock and Household Words, later reprinted in book form. These instalments made the stories affordable and accessible, and the series of regular cliff-hangers made each new episode widely anticipated. When The Old Curiosity Shop was being serialised, American fans waited at the docks in New York, shouting out to the crew of an incoming ship, \"Is little Nell dead?\" Part of Dickens's great talent was to incorporate this episodic writing style but still end up with a coherent novel at the end.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.692628860473633, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Dicken's serialisation of his novels was not uncriticised by other authors. In Robert Louis Stevenson's novel \"The Wrecker\", there is a comment by Captain Nares, investigating an abandoned ship: \"See! They were writing up the log,\" said Nares, pointing to the ink-bottle. \"Caught napping, as usual. I wonder if there ever was a captain yet that lost a ship with his log-book up to date? He generally has about a month to fill up on a clean break, like Charles Dickens and his serial novels.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.031062126159668, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Dickens's novels were, among other things, works of social commentary. He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. In a New York address, he expressed his belief that \"Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen\". Dickens's second novel, Oliver Twist (1839), shocked readers with its images of poverty and crime: it challenged middle class polemics about criminals, making impossible any pretence to ignorance about what poverty entailed. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.426025390625, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "The question as to whether Dickens belongs to the tradition of the sentimental novel is debatable. Valerie Purton, in her recent Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition, sees him continuing aspects of this tradition, and argues that his \"sentimental scenes and characters [are] as crucial to the overall power of the novels as his darker or comic figures and scenes\", and that \"Dombey and Son is [ ... ] Dickens's greatest triumph in the sentimentalist tradition\". The Encyclopædia Britannica online comments that, despite \"patches of emotional excess\", such as the reported death of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol (1843), \"Dickens cannot really be termed a sentimental novelist\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.1031813621521, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Dickens was the most popular novelist of his time, and remains one of the best-known and most-read of English authors. His works have never gone out of print, and have been adapted continually for the screen since the invention of cinema, with at least 200 motion pictures and TV adaptations based on Dickens's works documented. Many of his works were adapted for the stage during his own lifetime, and as early as 1913, a silent film of The Pickwick Papers was made. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.73103141784668, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Museums and festivals celebrating Dickens's life and works exist in many places with which Dickens was associated, such as the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum in Portsmouth, the house in which he was born. The original manuscripts of many of his novels, as well as printers' proofs, first editions, and illustrations from the collection of Dickens's friend John Forster are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Dickens's will stipulated that no memorial be erected in his honour; nonetheless, a life-size bronze statue of Dickens entitled Dickens and Little Nell, cast in 1891 by Francis Edwin Elwell, stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Another life-size statue of Dickens is located at Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia. In 2014, a life-size statue was unveiled near his birthplace in Portsmouth on the 202nd anniversary of his birth; this was supported by the author's great-great grandsons, Ian and Gerald Dickens. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.063601970672607, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "* The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.190926551818848, "source": "wiki", "title": "Charles Dickens" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about seven years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother Georgiana, father Philip Pirrip and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive elder sister and her kind husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another escaped convict; the two are returned to the prison ships.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.415594100952148, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Four years into Pip's apprenticeship, Mr. Jaggers, a lawyer, approaches him in the village with the news that he has expectations from an anonymous benefactor, with immediate funds to train him in the gentlemanly arts. He will not know the benefactor's name until that person speaks up. Pip is to leave for London in the proper clothes. He assumes that Miss Havisham is his benefactor. He visits her to say good-bye.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.064791679382324, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Eleven years later, Pip visits the ruins of Satis House and meets Estella, widow to the abusive Bentley Drummle. She asks Pip to forgive her, assuring him that misfortune has opened her heart and that she now empathises with Pip. As Pip takes Estella's hand and leaves the ruins of Satis House, he sees \"no shadow of another parting from her.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.436483383178711, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "* Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, an orphan and the protagonist and narrator of Great Expectations. In his childhood, Pip dreamed of becoming a blacksmith like his kind brother-in-law, Joe Gargery. At Satis House, about age 8, he meets Estella, a contact which destroys his peace of mind. He tells Biddy that he wants to become a gentleman. As a result of Magwitch's anonymous patronage, Pip lives in London and becomes a gentleman. Pip assumes his benefactor is Miss Havisham; the discovery that his true benefactor is a convict shocks him.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.273324012756348, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "* Georgiana, a relative of Miss Havisham who is only interested in her money. She is one of the many relatives who hang around Miss Havisham \"like flies\" for her wealth.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.469043731689453, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "* Mr. Jaggers, prominent London lawyer who represents the interests of diverse clients, both criminal and civil. He represents Pip's benefactor and Miss Havisham as well. By the end of the story, his law practice links many of the characters.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.471451759338379, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Dickens was pleased with the idea, calling it \"such a very fine, new and grotesque idea\" in a letter to Forster. He planned to write \"a little piece\", a \"grotesque tragi-comic conception\", about a young hero who befriends an escaped convict, who then makes a fortune in Australia and anonymously bequeaths his property to the hero. In the end, the hero loses the money because it is forfeited to the Crown. In his biography of Dickens, Forster wrote that in the early idea \"was the germ of Pip and Magwitch, which at first he intended to make the groundwork of a tale in the old twenty-number form.\" Dickens presented the relationship between Pip and Magwitch pivotal to Great Expectations but without Miss Havisham, Estella, or other characters he later created.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.255434513092041, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Dickens, whose health was not the best, felt \"The planning from week to week was unimaginably difficult\" but persevered. He thought he had found \"a good name\", decided to use the first person \"throughout\", and thought the beginning was \"excessively droll\": \"I have put a child and a good-natured foolish man, in relations that seem to me very funny.\" Four weekly episodes were \"ground off the wheel\" in October 1860, and apart from one reference to the \"bondage\" of his heavy task, the months passed without the anguished cries that usually accompanied the writing of his novels. He did not even use the Number Plans or Mems;Nineteen double sheets folded in half: on the left, names, incidents, and expressions; on the right, sections of the current chapter. he only had a few notes on the characters' ages, the tide ranges for chapter 54, and the draft of an ending. In late December, Dickens wrote to Mary Boyle that \"Great Expectations [is] a very great success and universally liked.\"Charles Dickens, Letters, Letter to Mary Boyle, 28 December 1860.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.767292022705078, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Following Monayhan, David Trotter notes, that Orlick is Pip's shadow. Co-workers in the forge, both find themselves at Miss Havisham's, where Pip enters and joins the company, while Orlick, attending the door, stays out. Pip considers Biddy a sister; Orlick has other plans for her; Pip is connected to Magwitch, Orlick to Magwitch's nemesis, Compeyson. Orlick also aspires to \"great expectations\" and resents Pip's ascension from the forge and the swamp to the glamour of Satis House, from which Orlock is excluded, along with London's dazzling society. Orlick is the cumbersome shadow Pip cannot be rid of.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.877103805541992, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "However, according to Paul Pickrel's analysis, Pip being both narrator and protagonist; recounts with hindsight the story of the young boy he was, who did not know the world beyond a narrow geographic and familial environment. The novel's direction emerges from the confrontation between the two periods of time. At first, the novel presents a mistreated orphan, repeating situations from Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, but the trope is quickly overtaken. The theme manifests when Pip discovers the existence of a world beyond the marsh, the forge and the future Joe envisioned for him, the decisive moment when Miss Havisham and Estella enter his life. This is a red herring, as the decay of Satis House and the strange lady within signals the fragility of an impasse. At this point, the reader knows more than the protagonist, creating dramatic irony that confers a superiority that the narrator shares. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.976247787475586, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Edward W. Said, in his 1993 work Culture and Imperialism, interprets Great Expectations in terms of postcolonial theory about of late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries British imperialism. Pip's disillusionment when he learns his benefactor is an escaped convict from Australia, along with his acceptance of Magwitch as surrogate father, is described by Said as part of \"the imperial process\", that is the way colonialism exploits the weaker members of a society. Thus the British trading post in Cairo's legitimatises Pip's work as a clerk, but the money earned by Magwitch's honest labour is illegitimate, because Australia is a penal colony, and Magwitch is forbidden to return to Britain.Cairo was of course not a British colony at this time, though Egypt became a British Protectorate in the 1880s Said states that Dickens has Magwitch return to be redeemed by Pip's love, paving the way for Pip's own redemption, but despite this moral message, the book still reinforces standards that support the authority of the British empire. Said's interpretation suggests that Dickens' attitude backs Britain's exploitation of Middle East \"through trade and travel\", and that Great Expectations affirms the idea of keeping the Empire and its peoples in their place – at the exploitable margins of British society.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.613965034484863, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Pip feels excluded by society and this leads to his aggressive attitude towards it, as he tries to win his place within society through any means. Various other characters behave similarly, and that the oppressed become the oppressors. Jaggers dominates Wemmick, who in turn dominates Jaggers' clients. Likewise Magwich uses Pip as an instrument of vengeance, as Miss Havisham also uses Estella. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.422928810119629, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "However, hope exists despite Pip's sense of exclusion because he is convinced that divine providence owes him a place in society and that marriage to Estella is his destiny. Therefore, when fortune comes his way, Pip shows no surprise, because he believes, that his value as a human being, and his inherent nobility, have been recognized. Thus Pip accepts Pumblechook's flattery without blinking: \"That boy is no common boy\" and the \"May I? May I?\" associated with handshakes. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.419132232666016, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "On the other hand, Magwitch's wealth is socially unacceptable, firstly because he earned it, not through the efforts of others, but through his own hard work, and secondly because he was a convict, and he earned it in a penal colony. These critics argue that the contrast with Miss Havisham's wealth is suggested symbolically. Thus Magwitch's money smells of sweat, and his money is greasy and crumpled: \"two fat sweltering one-pound notes that seemed to have been on terms of the warmest intimacy with all the cattle market in the country\", while the coins Miss Havisham gives for Pip's \"indentures\" shine as if new. Further it is argued Pip demonstrates his \"good breeding\", because when he discovers that he owes his transformation into a \"gentleman\" to such a contaminated windfall, he is repulsed in horror. A. O. J. Cockshut, however, has suggested that there is no difference between Magwitch's wealth and that of Miss Havisham's, ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.337573051452637, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "There are a couple of ways by which someone can acquire gentility, one being a title, another family ties to the upper middle class. Mrs Pocket bases every aspiration on the fact that her grandfather failed to be knighted, while Pip hopes that Miss Havisham will eventually adopt him, as adoption, as evidenced by Estella, who behaves like a born and bred little lady, is acceptable. But even more important, though not sufficient, are wealth and education. Pip knows that and endorses it, as he hears from Jaggers through Matthew Pocket: \"I was not designed for any profession, and I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could hold my own with the average of young men in prosperous circumstances\". But neither the educated Matthew Pocket, nor Jaggers, who has earned his status solely through his intellect, can aspire to gentility. Bentley Drummle, however, embodies the social ideal, so that Estella marries him without hesitation.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.352690696716309, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Pip's moral regeneration is a true pilgrimage punctuated by suffering like Christian in Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Pip makes his way up to light through a maze of horrors that afflict his body as well as his mind. This includes the burns he suffers from saving Miss Havisham from the fire; the illness that requires months of recovery; the threat of a violent death at Orlick's hands; debt, and worse, the obligation of having to repay them; hard work, which he recognises as the only worthy source of income, hence his return to Joe's forge. Even more important, is his accepting of Magwitch, a coarse outcast of society. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.356864929199219, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "* 1989 – Great Expectations, a Disney Channel two-part film starring Anthony Hopkins as Magwitch, John Rhys-Davies as Joe Gargery, and Jean Simmons as Miss Havisham, directed by Kevin Connor.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.730193614959717, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "* 1988 – Glasgow Mayfest, stage version by the Tag Theatre Company in association with the Gregory Nash group", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.640291213989258, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "* 2002 – Melbourne Theatre Company four-hour re-telling, in an adaptation by company director Simon Phillips", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.450902938842773, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "* 2005 – Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation by the Cheek by Jowl founders Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, with Sian Phillips as Miss Havisham", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.147819519042969, "source": "wiki", "title": "Great Expectations" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.718819618225098, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.551151275634766, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him... Written by Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.902328491210938, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Let desire be your destiny.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.416695594787598, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "It's true that the character development on the character of Finn is a little weak, but the characters of Estella and the over flamboyant and heartbroken Miss Dinnsmore certainly make up for Finn's minor flaws. Personally i found the film very enjoyable and immersive, and the incredibly imaginative cinematography will certainly keep anyone's attention as well.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.307608604431152, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "This film is a stylish and brilliant remake of a classic and could almost be considered timeless compared to other recent attempts at \"updating\" the classics which fail in comparison(such as the recent failed attempt at romeo and juliet). Great Expectations is certainly worth a rental (or even purchase) for anyone that enjoys simply a good, immersive movie with some absolutely beautiful imagery.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.605088233947754, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations (1998) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "The first cinematic interpretation of Great Expectations was a silent film produced in 1917 by Daniel Frohman, who had attained prominence on the New York Stage. Speed gives the date as 1916, and mentions Jack Pickford played Pip, and Louise Huff Miss Havisham. A second black-and-white silent film was scripted by Laurids Skands and directed at Nordisk (Denmark) by A. W. Sandberg in 1921. In 1934 Universal Studios in the U. S. did a talking picture written by Gladys Unger and directed by Stuart Walker. Phillips Holmes was Pip; Florence Reed, Miss Havisham; Jane Wyatt, Estella; with Henry Hull and Alan Hale.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.535021781921387, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Produced by Cineguild, England, the 1946 version starred a youthful Sir John Mills as Pip (the boy being played by Anthony Wager) and the lovely Valerie Hobson as the difficult grownup Estella, with Ivor Bernard as a flitting Wemmick, Bernard Miles as the affable Joe, a cold and calculating Francis L. Sullivan as Jaggers, Freda Jackson as Mrs. Joe, Martita Hunt as an icey Miss Havisham, and Finlay Currie “wholly magnificent as Magwitch\" (Speed 20). Bosley Crowther, reviewing the film in the New York Times just after its American release in May 1947 described Lean's adaptation as “screen storytelling at its best.\" For this quality he singles out for praise the authors of a “script that is swift and sure in movement\" (co-writers Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame) and the director, Lean, for superlative sensitivity. Ronald Neame doubled as producer, providing an interesting team approach that created a tonally unified conception of the novel. The ending is reminiscent of Poe rather than Dickens, however, as Pip rips down the draperies of Satis House to let in the light of day upon the mould and decay of Satis House and release Estella (caught up in his arms) from the possessive spirit of the vengeful Miss Havisham.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.262960433959961, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Objecting to technical aspects of setting rather than to manipulation of plot, Leslie C. Staples notes how unlike any Kentish church he has ever seen is the one which Lean has employed for the opening graveyard scene; an additional moment of aporia is the seawall by which young Pip makes his way home after the incident with the convict. Despite these and other inconsistencies in setting, Staples is pleasantly surprised by how much of Dickens's story Lean has been able to retain in a two-hour adaptation. Inevitably, he observes, such minor but charming Dickensian originals as Miss Skiffins had to be eliminated, but excising Orlick renders Mrs. Joe's sudden death less probable than her slow decline after her assault by her husband's journeyman in the novel. Staples praises the film for its verisimilitude in its re-creation of a packet-steamer from the period, and the dramatizing of “the attempted escape of Magwitch (photographed on the Medway, to avoid the heavy traffic on the Thames) . . . [which he describes as both] convincing and thrilling\" (80). The sets for Barnard's Inn, a London landmark with which Staples was familiar, Bill Barley's Thames-side cottage, and the ruined precincts of Satis House, he highly approved. But his most fulsome praise he bestows upon the stellar cast of British actors, lauding in particular Alec Guinness, reprising his 1940 stage role of Herbert Pocket, as “wholly charming\" (81). However, he obviously has some reservations about Hay Petrie's impersonation of Uncle Pumblechook: although Petrie is a “superb character actor,\" remarks Staples, Lean's Pumblechook “has not the aspect one associates with that redoubtable seedsman\" (81). Veteran British comedian O. B. Clarence made a welcome — if far too brief — appearance as Wemmick's Aged Parent, in which role he proved “an unalloyed delight\" (81).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.294074058532715, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Significantly, David Lean and his screenwriters did away with the role of Orlick, a character often omitted from subsequent “made-for-tv\" productions such as NBC's (1974), written by Sherman Yellen and starring Michael York (Pip), Sara Miles (Estella), James Mason (Magwitch), Anthony Quayle (Jaggers), and Robert Morley (Pumblechook). Both the 118-minute 1946 and the 124-minute 1974 versions (the latter directed by Joseph Hardy) end amidst the Gothic cobwebs of a ramshackle Satis House rather than, as in the book, in the light of day in the ruined garden. Lean's ending strikes one today as excessively melodramatic and somewhat contrived, the lovers still young and not broken by the vagaries of time. Yellen's scripting of the reunion is much more muted, with streaks of grey and a world-weariness characterizing both Pip and Estella; particularly delightful is the wistful note of melancholic comedy sounded in Estella's remarking to the middle-aged lover “You may kiss me now, Boy.\" Sylvia Miller, reviewing the production, found the Yellen-Hardy tv adaptation “an insipid seasonal confection\" (261), but apparently enjoyed Anthony Quayle as Jaggers for his having been able “to preserve something of the grim sidelong humour of the original.\" The sardonic Miss Havisham (Margaret Leighton), who sees her own folly even as she enacts it, is immolated with spectacular effect, and her death is one of the finest things in the film as she begs Pip (Michael York) for forgiveness.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.395601272583008, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "An extended version not catalogued by Bolton (1987) is the leisurely-paced 1989, six-hour British version featuring Anthony Hopkins as Magwitch and as Miss Havisham an elderly Jean Simmons, who in youth had been David Lean's Estella. John Rhys-Davies, still very active in television today, played an affable Joe Gargery; Martin Harvey, young Pip, and Anthony Calf, mature Pip; Kim Thomson, Estella; Adam Blackwood, Herbert; Ray McAnally, Jaggers; Niven Boyd, Orlick; Susan Franklyn, Biddy; Rosemary McHale, Mrs. Joe; Frank Middlemass, Uncle Pumblechook; Charles Lewesen, Wemmick, John Quentin, Wopsle; and Sean Arnold, Compeyson.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.438433647155762, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "Other extended versions include the leisurely-paced 1989, six-hour British version featuring Anthony Hopkins as Magwitch and as Miss Havisham an elderly Jean Simmons, who in youth had been David Lean's Estella. John Rhys-Davies, still very active in television today, played an affable Joe Gargery; Martin Harvey, young Pip, and Anthony Calf, mature Pip; Kim Thomson, Estella; Adam Blackwood, Herbert; Ray McAnally, Jaggers; Niven Boyd, Orlick; Susan Franklyn, Biddy; Rosemary McHale, Mrs. Joe; Frank Middlemass, Uncle Pumblechook; Charles Lewesen, Wemmick; John Quentin, Wopsle; and Sean Arnold, Compeyson.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.7423734664917, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Finally (at least at the time of writing) in terms of attempts at faithful adaptations, we come to Tony Marchant's admirable screenplay for the 1999 three-part (180-minute) Masterpiece Theater mini-series starring Ioan Gruffudd of Horatio Hornblower fame as mature Pip and Justine Waddell as Estella, psychologically impaired by the anti-male programming of Miss Havisham (Charlotte Rampling). With plenty of screen time available for the PBS production, director Julian Jarrold enlisted an extensive cast, including Clive Russell as Joe Gargery; Leslie Sharp, Mrs. Joe; Laura Aikman as young Biddy, and Emma Cunniffe as mature Biddy; Nicholas Blane, Wopsle; Selina Cadell, Sarah Pocket; Jo Cameron Brown, Miss Skiffins; Timothy Tranter as young Orlick, and Tony Curran, mature Orlick; Gemma Gregory, young Estella; Bernard Hill, Magwitch; David Horovitch, Matthew Pocket; Laurence Dobiesz, young Herbert, and Daniel Evans, mature Herbert; Hugh Lloyd, the Aged P; Ian McDiarmid, Jaggers; Laila, Molly; Terence Rigby, Pumblechook; and Nicholas Woodeson as Wemmick. Charlotte Rampling is effective as the eccentric, enigmatic crone who has exiled herself from society — and reality — and taken refuge in the Gothic shadows of Satis House. The adult Pip is strikingly handsome and poised, coolly smitten by the troubled Estella. The shoot was set in Edinburgh, which still offers many locales redolent of early nineteenth-century London.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.523161888122559, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "N Y", "passage": "As a footnote, the most bizarre video adaptation of Dickens's classic bildungsroman is Southpark's Episode No. 62, which aired 29 November 2000. Writer Trey Parker provides a science-fiction treatment of the novel as Malcolm McDowell ('English Person') narrates what begins as a textually accurate synopsis but turns into a fantastic yarn about a Genesis device on the Havesham Estate designed to emasculate young men. The interjection of robotic monkeys to facilitate the villainess's carrying out her evil designs is an indication of a post-modernist intertextual approach which synthesizes the children's classic The Wizard of Oz and Dickens's first-person narrative about nineteenth-century British class-consciousness. Estella is still the main romantic interest, the scornful beauty for whom Pip realizes only a gentleman will do, but her insults have a most un-Dickensian, in-your-face sting. The sitcom departs from the original text significantly, when, after mere months away in London, Pip returns to uncover Miss Havesham's scheme to use his tears and those of other heart-broken young men to enable her Genesis device to ensnare Estella's soul and allow her to live forever while exacting revenge on the entire male gender. Whether Dickens or Feminism or High Culture (as exemplified by PBS's Masterpiece Theatre) is the main butt of the spoof is difficult to say. Ironically, according to Jeffrey Sconce, this episode, perhaps because it departed from the Southpark formula, met with considerable audience resistance:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.490066051483154, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Connor, Kevin (director). Great Expectations. Screenplay by John Goldsmith. Starring Jean Simmons (Miss Havisham), John Rhys-Davies (Joe), Ray McAnally (Jaggers), Anthony Calf (Pip), Kim Thomson (Estella), Adam Blackwood (Herbert), Anthony Hopkins (Magwitch). UK: mini-series (six episodes of 60 mins. each); USA running time 303 minutes. 1989.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.045468807220459, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Crowther, Bosley. “Great Expectations.\" [Review.] New York Times, 23 May 1947. Accessed at the New York Times Movie Reviews' website 24 April 2005: http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-printpage.html!res=EE05E7DF173CE564BC4B51DFB366838C659EDE", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.822151184082031, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Davis, Paul. Charles Dickens A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, 1998.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.6409993171691895, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "New York", "passage": "Hardy, Joseph (director). Great Expectations. Screenplay by Sherman Yellen. Starring Michael York (mature Pip), Sarah Miles (Estella), Joss Ackland (Joe), James Mason (Magwitch), Margaret Leighton (Miss Havisham), and Robert Morley (Pumblechook). London and New York: ITC Live Home Video, 1993. Originally filmed in 1974. Running time 124 mins. VHS 69926.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.27200174331665, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Jarrold, Julian (director). Great Expectations. Screenplay by Tony Marchant. Starring Ioan Gruffudd (Pip), Justine Waddell (Estella), Charlotte Rampling (Miss Havisham), Daniel Evans (Herbert), Gemma Gregory (young Estella), Bernard Hill (Magwitch), Ian McDiarmid (Jaggers), and Gabriel Thomson (young Pip), and Clive Russell (Joe). First broadcast on Masterpiece Theater, 1999. Running time 180 mins.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.420825958251953, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" }, { "answer": "Ny", "passage": "Lean, David (director and screenwriter). Great Expectations. Starring John Mills (Pip), Valerie Hobson (Estella), Bernard Miles (Joe), Francis L. Sullivan (Jaggers), Martita Hunt (Miss Havisham), Ivor Barnard (Wemmick), Anthony Wager (young Pip), Jean Simmons (young Estella), and Alec Guinness (Herbert). London: 1946. The Criterion Collection, Rank and Janus: 1998. Running time 118 mins. DVD 0-78002-127-4. Liner notes by Adrian Turner. GRE 270.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.264169216156006, "source": "search", "title": "Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998" } ]

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[ { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Meanwhile, Zod and his fellow Kryptonites flew by the Mount Rushmore historical monument and defaced three presidential faces, and crumbled the fourth Abraham Lincoln carving. They then flew onto Washington, D.C., as Clark and Lois laid in each other's arms in the sleeping chamber of the Fortress, after a blissful evening of sex. The trio crashed through the ceiling of the White House, where they overcame Marine soldiers and Secret Service agents whose bullets bounced harmlessly off them. They burst into the well-barricaded Oval Office of the President, where Zod forced the US commander to kneel and surrender to him. However, the President threatened Zod with the presence of the invincible Superman, although of unknown whereabouts at the present time: \"But there is one man here on Earth who will never kneel before you.\"", "precise_score": -6.387833595275879, "rough_score": -9.274412155151367, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II (1980) - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "White House", "passage": "A stack of the latest Daily Planet newspapers fluttered, with the headline: \"WHITE HOUSE SURRENDERS,\" as a restored and rejuvenated Superman flew into the city, and landed on a horizontal flagpole outside Perry White's office. As Zod demanded that the \"son of Jor-El\" kneel before him, Superman defiantly challenged the three villains: \"Would you care to step outside?\" and then flew away to await their arrival atop another skyscraper. Their destructive Herculean conflict in the skies high above the city also carried over to the Hudson River and into the cavernous areas between the towering buildings. Superman found the three of them to be as formidably strong as he was, especially since he was outnumbered and the fact that he was also protecting innocent bystanders from falling debris (i.e., the top of the Empire State Building). Zod proclaimed he knew Superman's weakness: \"He actually cares for these Earth people,\" and began setting cars and gas tanks ablaze with his Heat-vision to draw Superman away, although the Man of Steel thwarted him by reflecting back the Heat-vision beam with a rear-view mirror, and freezing a heated gas tank (under a gasoline tanker truck) with his breath. The fight was taken underground, causing the ground to tremble and manhole covers to explode open. One of the covers was tossed into Superman's stomach like a frisbee. Superman hurled Zod into a giant, lighted Coca-Cola sign, and then absorbed the impact of an imperiled, tossed-aloft city bus with passengers aboard. The three villains used their Super-breath to cause a tremendous hurricane-force gale, producing more devastation and chaos (flying cars, phone booths, fire hydrants, etc.). Deciding that it wasn't safe to continue to confront the three with so many innocent people around, although he was deemed a \"coward,\" Superman soared off to a more secluded place. Zod declared: \"Our victory is complete. The son of Jor-El has fled.\" But Luthor knew the fight wasn't over - he persuaded Zod to not kill him by promising to lead them to Superman's address (at the Fortress of Solitude), while Ursa added that they should increase his handicap by taking Superman's \"favorite\" human (Lois Lane) with them, to trap him. Both Luthor and Lois were flown northward to the Fortress by the Kryptonians.", "precise_score": -5.306941032409668, "rough_score": -7.924835681915283, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II (1980) - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "In the film's epilogue, Clark entered the Alaskan diner where Rocky had beaten him up, and this time provoked the bullying truck driver into punching him in the stomach. Rocky's fist cracked as he hit solid rock, and then Clark spun Rocky's diner stool at a dizzying speed. He placed Rocky on the counter (\"This order's to go\") and shoved him down its entire length into a pinball machine, reading TILT. Clark paid the astonished, open-mouthed owner for the damage, and then casually explained: \"I've been working out.\" In the final scene, Superman flew the American flag back to the top of the White House. He stood on the roof and apologized for being away so long. He then assured the President: \"I won't let you down again,\" before soaring into the stratosphere above Earth, to vigilantly keep protective watch.", "precise_score": -6.7230544090271, "rough_score": -7.644115447998047, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II (1980) - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "The villains attack the White House and force the President to kneel before Zod. This Donner-filmed scene was featured in Lester’s Superman II. The new cut features extended footage throughout.", "precise_score": -6.267181873321533, "rough_score": -8.54771614074707, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - Superman Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Luthor visits the villains inside the White House and offers them the son of Jor-El. This Donner-filmed scene featured in Lester’s Superman II.", "precise_score": -7.473480701446533, "rough_score": -9.229090690612793, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - Superman Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "With the American flag held firmly in both hands, Superman flies to the White House. Standing above the shattered roof, he looks down at the President and the Joint Chiefs. \"I'm sorry I've been away so long,\" he says. \"I won't let you down again.\"", "precise_score": -2.937225818634033, "rough_score": -4.399085521697998, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II - Movie Synopsis/Review/Critique" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Years later, the Phantom Zone is shattered near Earth by a shockwave stemming from the detonation of a hydrogen bomb, which had been launched into space by Superman (Christopher Reeve) after foiling a terrorist plot to blow up Paris. The three Kryptonian criminals are freed from the Zone, finding themselves with super-powers granted by the yellow light of Earth's sun. After attacking human astronauts on the Moon and the small town of East Houston, Idaho (which they mistake as being capital city of \"Planet Houston\" due to NASA's transmissions), the three criminals travel to the White House and force the President of the United States (E.G. Marshall) to kneel before General Zod, on behalf of the entire planet during an international television broadcast. When the President pleads for Superman to save the Earth, Zod demands that Superman come and \"kneel before Zod!\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.7744779586792, "source": "wiki", "title": "Superman II" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "At the Daily Planet the following day, Clark finds Lois upset about knowing his secret and not being able to be open about her true feelings because he is Superman. He kisses her, using his abilities to wipe her mind of her knowledge of the past few days. Later, Clark has a rematch with Rocky, who beat him up earlier and defeats him easily. Superman restores the damage done by Zod, replacing the flag on top of the White House and promising the President to never let him down again.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.707657814025879, "source": "wiki", "title": "Superman II" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Scenes filmed by Donner were included in the finished film. These scenes include all the Gene Hackman footage, the Moon sequences, the White House shots, Clark and the bully, and much of the footage of Zod, Ursa and Non arriving at the Daily Planet. Since the Lester footage was shot two years later, both Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve look different between the Lester and Donner footage. Reeve appears less bulked up in Donner's sequences (filmed in 1977), as he was still gaining muscle for the part. Kidder also has dramatic changes throughout; in the montage of Lester-Donner material, shot inside the Daily Planet and the Fortress of Solitude near the movie's conclusion, her hairstyle, hair color, and even make-up are all inconsistent. Indeed, Kidder's physical appearance in the Lester footage is noticeably different; during the scenes shot for Donner she appears slender, whereas in the Lester footage she looks frail and gaunt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.353594779968262, "source": "wiki", "title": "Superman II" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "* Extended scenes of the three Kryptonians invasion of the White House, with Zod using a gun and Non frightening a dog.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.4478759765625, "source": "wiki", "title": "Superman II" }, { "answer": "White House", "passage": "* Much violence in the opening White House scene was left out.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.438699722290039, "source": "wiki", "title": "Superman II" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "In the film, after attacking the White House, Lex Luthor enters the Oval Office to make a deal with the Kryptonians. By the end of the scene, he is sitting behind the President's desk. In the comics (in the year 2000), Lex Luthor ran for President of the United States and won. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.19965648651123, "source": "wiki", "title": "Superman II" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "In the White House's Oval Office, General Zod and his companions were deathly bored without a rival arch-nemesis, until interrupted by the brazen arrival of boastful Lex Luthor, who planned to partner-in-crime with them: \"I can give you anything you want. I can give you the brass ring, the unlimited freedom to maim, kill, destroy. Plus Lex Luthor's keen mind. Lex Luthor's savvy. Lex Luthor's career guidance. Lex Luthor's School of Better...\" He offered them the son of Jor-El -- better known as Superman. Zod was intrigued: \"Revenge. We will kill the son of our jailer...We will bring him to his knees.\" To gain Zod's cooperation and trust, Luthor promised to locate Superman, in exchange for becoming the ruler of the \"beachfront\" continent of Australia. Back in the office of the Daily Planet in Metropolis, Lois, Jimmy, and Perry White were speaking about Superman's unusual \"disappearing act\" (with Lois uncertain about where he was since he left her to return to the Fortress), when suddenly, the trio of Kryptonite villains (accompanied by Luthor) crashed in and smashed up the offices and furniture. They were there to kidnap Lois - \"the next best thing\" besides Superman, according to Luthor: \"Hold onto that little lady and he'll be along.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.563655853271484, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II (1980) - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "The three super-villains attack the White House and force the president to \"kneel before Zod.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.296756744384766, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - Superman Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Lex Luthor visits the super-villains in the White House.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.361075401306152, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - Superman Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "The three Kryptonian villains arrive on Earth in a small town in Idaho, where they declare their reign over the entire planet to the townspeople after using their powers to easily stop incoming military forces. They then fly to the White House and easily defeat the military defenses that are protecting the President of the United States. Afterwards, General Zod forces the President to kneel before him in submission by threatening everyone’s lives. The President kneels with despair, praying for Superman, wherever he is, to come to the rescue.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.739107131958008, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - Superman Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Lex Luthor finally arrives at the White House and offers the three villains a way to find Superman, who he notes is the son of Jor-El, their imprisoner, in exchange for possession of 'beachfront property': Australia. Luthor agrees to help the three villains and hopefully find a way to have Superman defeated.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.971331596374512, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - Superman Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "There is a new live-action shot of the White House before the super-villains attack, as well as several new live-action shots during the time-reversal sequence.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.380505561828613, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut - Superman Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "The same night, Superman visits the White House to meet with President Martinez. He apologizes for waking him up but he says that they need to talk. The President thanks him for saving his life and then properly introduces himself saying that he can call him \"Thomas\" to which Superman replies that he can call him \"Kal-El\", of Krypton and he's an alien.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.903787612915039, "source": "search", "title": "Clark Kent - Smallville Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Superman visits the White House once again.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.259660720825195, "source": "search", "title": "Clark Kent - Smallville Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "While Superman/Clark sleeps with Lois; Zod, Ursa and Non continue to reek havoc: they reconstruct Mt. Rushmore, then challenge the troops to enter the White House. They plow through the troops to get to the Oval Office. On the floor is a carpet with the American seal, a large eagle. \"I see that you are practiced in worshipping things that fly\". Zod calls for the president and tells him to kneel. \"You are not the president. You kneel too fast for someone that leads so many.\" The real president comes forward. \"I will kneel if it will save lives,\" he says. \"It will\" says Zod, \"starting with your own.\" \"Oh, God\" says the President. \"No. Zod!\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.783217430114746, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II - Movie Synopsis/Review/Critique" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Inside the White House, the Kryptonians plot their next move. To their surprise, a brazen human, Lex Luthor, walks into the room to introduce himself to Zod. His bravado catches them off guard, especially when he tells them that he wants is to be the emperor of Australia. \"I have a thing for ocean front property,\" he says. But what does he have to offer? He tells Zod that Superman is the son of Jor-El and says that he can deliver Superman for Zod's revenge. \"Welcome, Lex, Luthor, ruler of Australia\", says Zod.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.178735733032227, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II - Movie Synopsis/Review/Critique" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "ABC-TV and CTV (Canadian) did use some of the original Donner footage (along with commercials) to expand the movie to 2 hr 21 min for television broadcast over two nights. There are some interesting differences between the two television versions. In the American version, the White House fight scene goes on for nearly 4 minutes, while that scene is no more than one minute in the CTV version. Also in the US version, Superman uses his heat vision to cook a souffle for his dinner with Lois in the Fortress while this was cut in the Canadian version. In both versions, Superman destroys the Fortress of Solitude (which somehow reappears in Superman IV) at the end of this film. However, this takes only 30 seconds in the US version, while the CTV versions uses the time it saved by cutting the White House fight scene to insert 5 minutes of important conversation between Superman and Lois as they profess their mutual love and loss to each.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.545214653015137, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II - Movie Synopsis/Review/Critique" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Next, the criminals assault the White House, and this action sequence is a little longer than in the Lester Cut. There are a few new bits here, like Ursa winking at a guy before kicking him in the face, and another moment where Zod picks up a gun and begins shooting people, which is also kind of hilarious (if a bit out of character).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.263543128967285, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) – the agony booth" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "Next, Lex shows up at the White House to inform the three Phantom Zone criminals that he knows where to find Superman, who also happens to be the son of Jor-El. This plays out pretty much the same, except for a dumb bit where Zod eagerly asks, “Jor-El, our jailer?” and Lex puts on a strange (Spanish?) accent and says, “No, Jor-El, the baseball player!” What?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.053466796875, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) – the agony booth" }, { "answer": "The White House", "passage": "The assault on the rednecks of East Houston was dumb, but it serves an important purpose in setting up the criminals as a real menace. Without it, the three of them barely do anything evil before taking over the White House. And there are several other scenes, like Lois throwing herself into the rapids instead of jumping out of a building, that are clearly better in the theatrical cut. (Though, I have to say I don’t miss the Paris sequence one bit.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.384970664978027, "source": "search", "title": "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) – the agony booth" } ]

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Vader's mask was originally designed by Ralph McQuarrie as part of Vader's spacesuit and not intended to be part of the regular costume. Brian Muir sculpted Vader's costume based on McQuarrie's design.", "precise_score": 1.1469058990478516, "rough_score": 3.830897808074951, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Darth Vader was portrayed by bodybuilder David Prowse and by stunt performer Bob Anderson during the character's intense lightsaber fight scenes. James Earl Jones provided Vader's voice, but was initially uncredited in Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back because he felt his contributions were too small to warrant recognition. The character has also been voiced by Scott Lawrence and Matt Sloan for several video games. Hayden Christensen portrays Vader in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Brock Peters provided the voice of Darth Vader in the NPR/USC radio series. Spencer Wilding will portray Vader in Rogue One. ", "precise_score": 1.1734098196029663, "rough_score": 4.447737216949463, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Darth Vader appears in six of the seven live-action Star Wars films and The Clone Wars. He has a recurring role in Star Wars expanded universe material.", "precise_score": 2.988065719604492, "rough_score": 4.673036575317383, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Darth Vader first appears in Star Wars (1977), the first original Star Wars trilogy film, as a ruthless cyborg serving the Galactic Empire. He is tasked, along with Imperial commander Grand Moff Tarkin, to recover the secret technical plans of the Death Star, which were stolen by the Rebel Alliance. Vader captures and tortures Princess Leia Organa, who has hidden the plans inside the droid R2-D2 and sent it to find Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi on the planet Tatooine. During Leia's rescue, Vader kills Obi-Wan in a lightsaber duel. Vader later attempts to shoot down Luke's X-wing fighter as the Death Star prepares to destroy the Rebel base on Yavin 4. However, Han Solo sends Vader's TIE fighter spiraling off course, allowing Luke to destroy the Death Star.", "precise_score": 3.4882619380950928, "rough_score": 6.144002914428711, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Darth Vader is a recurring character in the television series Star Wars: Rebels, which takes place 14 years after The Clone Wars concludes. James Earl Jones and Matt Lanter reprised the roles of Vader and Anakin, respectively. In this series, Vader leads a squadron of Force-sensitive Imperial Inquisitors who are actively searching for and killing any remaining Jedi and Force-sensitive children. In the first season finale, Vader eventually discovers that his former Padawan Ahsoka Tano has joined the Rebels, and the Emperor orders him to hunt her down. In the second season, Ahsoka passes out in shock when she discovers Darth Vader's identity as Anakin. A vision of Anakin blames her for leaving him and allowing him to the fall to the dark side in the episode, \"Shroud of Darkness\". In the second season finale, Ahsoka duels with her former master inside a Sith Temple, allowing her friends from the Ghost to escape Vader and the temple's destruction. As the episode concludes, Vader escapes from the temple's ruins.", "precise_score": 3.7207112312316895, "rough_score": 6.534725189208984, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "In 2015, Marvel released a 25 issue series called Darth Vader, which focused on the title character learning about the existence of his son, and the aftermath of the destruction of the Death Star. He also appeared in the Star Wars comic. Both series were set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.", "precise_score": 2.6113126277923584, "rough_score": 4.623528957366943, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Darth Vader appears numerous times in comic books such as Dark Horse Comics's Star Wars Tales and Marvel Comics' Star Wars series (1977–1986).", "precise_score": 1.6701829433441162, "rough_score": 3.043462038040161, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Darth Vader plays a central role in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008). He is a playable character in the first level of the game, where he and his armies invade Kashyyyk to hunt down a Jedi who had survived the Order's destruction. Vader kills the Jedi and kidnaps the man's young Force-sensitive son, whom he raises as his secret apprentice. Vader sends Starkiller (the game's protagonist) on various missions throughout the galaxy, with an ultimate goal to assassinate Palpatine so that Vader can rule the galaxy himself. Toward the end of the game, however, it is revealed that Vader isn't planning to overthrow Palpatine at all; he is merely using his apprentice to expose the Empire's enemies. At the game's climax, the player chooses between attacking Palpatine to help his Rebel friends escape the Death Star or killing Vader to become the Emperor's new apprentice. He also appears in the sequel Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II as the main antagonist and final boss.", "precise_score": 2.430011749267578, "rough_score": 5.359836101531982, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Many films and television series have paid homage to Darth Vader. Marty McFly in Back to the Future (1985), dressed in a radiation suit, calls himself \"Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan\" to convince the past version of his father to ask his mother to a dance. Rick Moranis plays \"Dark Helmet\" in the Star Wars parody Spaceballs (1987). In Chasing Amy (1997), Hooper X speaks at a comic convention about Darth Vader being a metaphor for how poorly the science fiction genre treats black people; he is especially offended that Vader, the \"blackest brother in the galaxy\", reveals himself to be a \"feeble, crusty old white man\" at the end of Return of the Jedi. The character was also parodied in the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko's Modern Life in the episode \"Teed Off\". On another Nickelodeon cartoon, Jimmy Neutron, Darth Vader's infamous line was interpolated in the mini-episode \"New Dog, Old Tricks\". The line was also alluded to in Toy Story, a film franchise also owned by Disney. ", "precise_score": 1.187807321548462, "rough_score": 4.061774730682373, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "The animated series takes place in the time between Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. A ragtag crew led by the soon-to-be powerful Jedi Ezra Bridger (Taylor Gray) and renegade Jedi Kanan Jarrus (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) are tasked with taking on threatening villains and saving the day. Their main threat will be the aforementioned Inquisitor (Jason Isaacs), who has been tasked by Darth Vader to rid the universe of all Jedi. The show is also notable because it is expected to be canon.", "precise_score": 1.4470043182373047, "rough_score": 5.459490776062012, "source": "search", "title": "Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why ..." }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "True, for much of the original trilogy, we didn't know that Darth Vader was The Sith Formerly Known as Anakin Skywalker. ", "precise_score": 2.64298939704895, "rough_score": 3.3480868339538574, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "He provided the voice of Darth Vader in Episode IV, Episode V, Episode VI, and Episode III, as well as in the animated series Star Wars Rebels. ", "precise_score": 1.0029244422912598, "rough_score": 4.023160934448242, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange", "precise_score": 1.9268608093261719, "rough_score": 6.280455112457275, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Luke's father", "passage": "I believe Darth Vader was originally intended to be the character's name. In the Star Wars scene where Obi-Wan explains Luke's father's death, he refers to Vader as \"A Jedi by the name of Darth Vader\", and then later uses the name Darth to address Vader at least once in the original film.", "precise_score": 4.950525760650635, "rough_score": 5.766781806945801, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "When last we saw Darth Vader (on the proper timeline), he was a ghost. It was the end of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, and Anakin Skywalker had made peace with his son, Luke, after years of trying to kill him. So how will Lord Vader factor in to J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII -- and what might he look like? Read on.", "precise_score": 2.506131172180176, "rough_score": 5.057735443115234, "source": "search", "title": "Here's What Darth Vader Will Probably Look Like In Star ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "So there you have it. Darth Vader likely won’t be in Star Wars: Episode VII. But his legacy may continue to cast a large shadow over the main characters in the movie, possibly influencing a villain known, for now, as the \"Grave Robber.\" Thoughts?", "precise_score": 3.9917824268341064, "rough_score": 5.914427757263184, "source": "search", "title": "Here's What Darth Vader Will Probably Look Like In Star ..." }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "When “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” opened in theaters May 19, 1999 the anticipation for the continuation of the saga was palpable. Fans would finally get the first three installments leading up to “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.” All those hours of discussing what led Obi-Wan Kenobi to live in seclusion on Tatooine or why Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side to become Darth Vader would finally be revealed.", "precise_score": 1.5581789016723633, "rough_score": 3.7540690898895264, "source": "search", "title": "‘Star Wars’: Making the Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi ..." }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "The original trilogy begins with the Galactic Empire nearing completion of the Death Star space station, which will allow the Empire to crush the Rebel Alliance, an organized resistance formed to combat Emperor Palpatine's tyranny. Palpatine's Sith apprentice Darth Vader captures Princess Leia, a member of the rebellion who has stolen the plans to the Death Star and hidden them in the astromech droid R2-D2. R2, along with his protocol droid counterpart C-3PO, escapes to the desert planet Tatooine. There, the droids are purchased by farm boy Luke Skywalker and his step-uncle and aunt. While Luke is cleaning R2, he accidentally triggers a message put into the droid by Leia, who asks for assistance from the legendary Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke later assists the droids in finding the exiled Jedi, who is now passing as an old hermit under the alias Ben Kenobi. When Luke asks about his father, whom he has never met, Obi-Wan tells him that Anakin Skywalker was a great Jedi who was betrayed and murdered by Vader. Obi-Wan and Luke hire the smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca to take them to Alderaan, Leia's home world, which they eventually find has been destroyed by the Death Star. Once on board the space station, Luke and Han rescue Leia while Obi-Wan allows himself to be killed during a lightsaber duel with Vader; his sacrifice allows the group to escape with the plans that help the Rebels destroy the Death Star. Luke himself (guided by the power of the Force) fires the shot that destroys the deadly space station during the Battle of Yavin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6340527534484863, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Luke's father", "passage": "Three years later, Luke travels to find the Jedi Master Yoda, now living in exile on the swamp-infested world of Dagobah, to begin his Jedi training. However, Luke's training is interrupted when Vader lures him into a trap by capturing Han and his friends at Cloud City. During a fierce lightsaber duel, Vader reveals that he is Luke's father and attempts to turn him to the dark side of the Force. Luke escapes and, after rescuing Han from the gangster Jabba the Hutt, returns to Yoda to complete his training; only to find the 900-year-old Jedi Master on his deathbed. Before he dies, Yoda confirms that Vader is Luke's father. Moments later, the Force ghost of Obi-Wan tells Luke that he must confront his father once again before he can become a Jedi, and that Leia is his twin sister.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.712141513824463, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "As the Rebels attack the second Death Star, Luke engages Vader in another lightsaber duel as the Emperor watches; both Sith Lords intend to turn Luke to the dark side and take him as their apprentice. During the duel, Luke succumbs to his anger and brutally overpowers Vader, but controls himself at the last minute; realizing that he is about to suffer his father's fate, he spares Vader's life and proudly declares his allegiance to the Jedi. An enraged Palpatine then attempts to kill Luke with Force lightning, a sight that moves Vader to turn and kill the Emperor, suffering mortal wounds in the process. Redeemed, Anakin Skywalker dies in his son's arms. Luke becomes a full-fledged Jedi, and the Rebels destroy the second Death Star. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.9378480911254883, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "The prequel trilogy begins 32 years before the original film, with the corrupt Trade Federation setting up a blockade of battleships around the planet Naboo. The Sith Lord Darth Sidious had secretly planned the blockade to give his alter ego, Senator Palpatine, a pretense to overthrow and replace the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. At the Chancellor's request, the Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, a younger Obi-Wan Kenobi, are sent to Naboo to negotiate with the Federation. However, the two Jedi are forced to instead help the Queen of Naboo, Padmé Amidala, escape from the blockade and plead her planet's crisis before the Republic Senate on Coruscant. When their starship is damaged during the escape, they land on Tatooine for repairs, where Qui-Gon discovers a nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon comes to believe that Anakin is the \"Chosen One\" foretold by Jedi prophecy to bring balance to the Force, and he helps liberate the boy from slavery. The Jedi Council, led by Yoda, reluctantly allows Obi-Wan to train Anakin after Qui-Gon is killed by Palpatine's first apprentice, Darth Maul, during the Battle of Naboo. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.056562669575214386, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "The remainder of the prequel trilogy, set a decade later, chronicles Anakin's gradual descent to the dark side as he fights in the Clone Wars, which Palpatine secretly engineers to destroy the Jedi Order and lure Anakin into his service. Anakin and Padmé fall in love and secretly wed, and eventually Padmé becomes pregnant. Anakin has a prophetic vision of Padmé dying in childbirth, and Palpatine convinces him that the dark side of the Force holds the power to save her life. Desperate, Anakin submits to Palpatine's Sith teachings and is renamed Darth Vader.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.2234615087509155, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Lucas hired 'the Dean of Special Effects' John Stears, who created R2-D2, Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder, the Jedi Knights' lightsabers, and the Death Star. The technical lightsaber choreography for the original trilogy was developed by leading filmmaking sword-master Bob Anderson. Anderson trained actor Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and performed all the sword stunts as Darth Vader during the lightsaber duels in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, wearing Vader's costume. Anderson's role in the original Star Wars trilogy was highlighted in the film Reclaiming the Blade, where he shares his experiences as the fight choreographer developing the lightsaber techniques for the movies. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.015122413635254, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Luke's father", "passage": "For the second draft, Lucas made heavy simplifications, and introduced the young hero on a farm as Luke Starkiller. Annikin became Luke's father, a wise Jedi knight. \"The Force\" was also introduced as a mystical energy field. The next draft removed the father character and replaced him with a substitute named Ben Kenobi, and in 1976 a fourth draft had been prepared for principal photography. The film was titled Adventures of Luke Starkiller, as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars. During production, Lucas changed Luke's name to Skywalker and altered the title to simply The Star Wars and finally Star Wars. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.843658447265625, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Luke's father", "passage": "When Star Wars proved successful, Lucas decided to use the film as the basis for an elaborate serial, although at one point he considered walking away from the series altogether. However, Lucas wanted to create an independent filmmaking center—what would become Skywalker Ranch—and saw an opportunity to use the series as a financing agent. Alan Dean Foster had already begun writing the first sequel novel, but Lucas decided to abandon his plan to adapt Foster's work; the book was released as Splinter of the Mind's Eye the following year. At first, Lucas envisioned a series of films with no set number of entries, like the James Bond series. In an interview with Rolling Stone in August 1977, he said that he wanted his friends to each take a turn at directing the films and giving unique interpretations on the series. He also said that the backstory in which Darth Vader turns to the dark side, kills Luke's father and fights Ben Kenobi on a volcano as the Galactic Republic falls would make an excellent sequel.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.39995276927948, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Luke's father", "passage": "Later that year, Lucas hired science fiction author Leigh Brackett to write Star Wars II with him. They held story conferences and, by late November 1977, Lucas had produced a handwritten treatment called The Empire Strikes Back. The treatment is similar to the final film, except that Darth Vader does not reveal he is Luke's father. In the first draft that Brackett would write from this, Luke's father appears as a ghost to instruct Luke. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.32795700430870056, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Luke's father", "passage": "Brackett finished her first draft in early 1978; Lucas has said he was disappointed with it, but before he could discuss it with her, she died of cancer. With no writer available, Lucas had to write his next draft himself. It was this draft in which Lucas first made use of the \"Episode\" numbering for the films; Empire Strikes Back was listed as Episode II. As Michael Kaminski argues in The Secret History of Star Wars, the disappointment with the first draft probably made Lucas consider different directions in which to take the story. He made use of a new plot twist: Darth Vader claims to be Luke's father. According to Lucas, he found this draft enjoyable to write, as opposed to the yearlong struggles writing the first film, and quickly wrote two more drafts, both in April 1978. He also took the script to a darker extreme by having Han Solo imprisoned in carbonite and left in limbo.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.7106146812438965, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "This new story point of Darth Vader being Luke's father had drastic effects on the series. Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was separate from Luke's father; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1978. After writing the second and third drafts of Empire Strikes Back in which the point was introduced, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin Skywalker was Ben Kenobi's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was swayed to the dark side by Emperor Palpatine (who became a Sith and not simply a politician). Anakin battled Ben Kenobi on the site of a volcano and was wounded, but then resurrected as Darth Vader. Meanwhile, Kenobi hid Luke on Tatooine while the Republic became the Empire and Vader systematically hunted down and killed the Jedi.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.16576476395130157, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "After losing much of his fortune in a divorce settlement in 1987, Lucas had no desire to return to Star Wars, and had unofficially canceled the sequel trilogy by the time of Return of the Jedi. At that point, the prequels were only still a series of basic ideas partially pulled from his original drafts of \"The Star Wars\". Nevertheless, technical advances in the late 1980s and 1990s continued to fascinate Lucas, and he considered that they might make it possible to revisit his 20-year-old material. After Star Wars became popular once again, in the wake of Dark Horse's comic book line and Timothy Zahn's trilogy of novels, Lucas saw that there was still a large audience. His children were older, and with the explosion of CGI technology he was now considering returning to directing. By 1993, it was announced, in Variety among other sources, that he would be making the prequels. He began penning more to the story, now indicating the series would be a tragic one examining Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side. Lucas also began to change how the prequels would exist relative to the originals; at first they were supposed to be a \"filling-in\" of history tangential to the originals, but now he saw that they could form the beginning of one long story that started with Anakin's childhood and ended with his death. This was the final step towards turning the film series into a \"Saga\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.894032001495361, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "A sequel trilogy was reportedly planned (Episodes VII, VIII and IX) by Lucasfilm as a sequel to the original Star Wars trilogy (Episodes IV, V and VI), released between 1977 and 1983. While the similarly discussed Star Wars prequel trilogy (Episodes I, II and III) was ultimately released between 1999 and 2005, Lucasfilm and George Lucas had for many years denied plans for a sequel trilogy, insisting that Star Wars is meant to be a six-part series. In , speaking about the upcoming Star Wars: The Clone Wars film, Lucas maintained his status on the sequel trilogy: \"I get asked all the time, 'What happens after Return of the Jedi?,' and there really is no answer for that. The movies were the story of Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, and when Luke saves the galaxy and redeems his father, that's where that story ends.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.837491512298584, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "LucasBooks radically changed the face of the Star Wars universe with the introduction of the New Jedi Order series, which takes place some 20 years after Return of the Jedi and stars a host of new characters alongside series originals. For younger audiences, three series have been introduced. The Jedi Apprentice series follows the adventures of Obi-Wan Kenobi and his master Qui-Gon Jinn in the years before The Phantom Menace. The Jedi Quest series follows the adventures of Obi-Wan and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker in between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. The Last of the Jedi series follows the adventures of Obi-Wan and another surviving Jedi almost immediately, set in between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.022945404052734, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "The best-selling games so far are the Lego Star Wars and the Battlefront series, with 12 million and 10 million units respectively while the most critically acclaimed is the first Knights of the Old Republic. The most recently released games are Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, for the PS3, PSP, PS2, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and Wii. While The Complete Saga focuses on all six episodes of the series, The Force Unleashed, of the same name of the multimedia project which it is a part of, takes place in the largely unexplored time period between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope and casts players as Darth Vader's \"secret apprentice\" hunting down the remaining Jedi. The game features a new game engine, and was released on September 16, 2008 in the United States. There are three more titles based on the Clone Wars which were released for the Nintendo DS (Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Jedi Alliance) and Wii (Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels and Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.9936179518699646, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Luke's father", "passage": "After the success of Star Wars, Lucas hired science fiction author Leigh Brackett to write the sequel with him. They held story conferences and, by late November 1977, Lucas had produced a handwritten treatment. The treatment is similar to the final film, except that Vader does not reveal he is Luke's father. In the first draft that Brackett would write from this, Luke's father appears as a ghost to instruct Luke. Lucas was disappointed with the script, but Brackett died of cancer before he could discuss it with her. With no writer available, Lucas had to write the next draft himself. In this draft, he made use of a new plot twist: Vader claiming to be Luke's father. According to Lucas, he found this draft enjoyable to write, as opposed to the year-long struggles writing the first film. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.180726051330566, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Luke's father", "passage": "The new plot element of Luke's parentage had drastic effects on the series. Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was a separate character from Luke's father. After writing the second and third drafts in which the plot point was introduced, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin had been Obi-Wan's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was swayed to the dark side by Palpatine. Anakin battled Kenobi on the site of a volcano and was badly wounded, but was then reborn as Vader. Meanwhile, Kenobi hid Luke on Tatooine while the Galactic Republic became the tyrannical Galactic Empire and Vader systematically hunted down and killed the Jedi. This change in character would provide a springboard to the \"Tragedy of Darth Vader\" storyline that underlies the prequels. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.515505313873291, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "For the first prequel, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Lucas made Anakin nine years old to make the character's separation from his mother more poignant. Movie trailers focused on Anakin and a one-sheet poster showing him casting Vader's shadow informed otherwise unknowing audiences of the character's eventual fate. The movie ultimately achieved a primary goal of introducing audiences to Anakin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.9837212562561035, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "Anakin Skywalker has been portrayed by Sebastian Shaw in Return of the Jedi, Jake Lloyd in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and Hayden Christensen in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Christensen appears briefly reprising the role in the new edited final scene of Return of the Jedi. The character has also been voiced by Mat Lucas for the 2003 micro-series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Matt Lanter in the CGI animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and television series of the same name. Lanter and Jones contributed their voices for the second-season finale of Star Wars: Rebels, at times with identical dialogue spoken by both actors blended together in different ways. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.781663656234741, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Luke's father", "passage": "In the 1980 sequel The Empire Strikes Back, Vader leads the Imperial attack of the Rebel base on Hoth, but the Rebels escape. The Emperor tells him that Luke has become a threat and must not become a Jedi. Vader persuades the Emperor that Luke can be turned to the dark side of the Force. Vader negotiates with Cloud City administrator Lando Calrissian to capture Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO on Cloud City, luring Luke into a trap. Vader tortures Han, freezes him in carbonite, and delivers him to bounty hunter Boba Fett. Calrissian betrays Vader and helps the other prisoners flee. A lightsaber battle between Vader and Luke ensues, and Vader easily defeats him. Revealing that he is Luke's father, Vader implores Luke to join the dark side. Horrified, Luke falls through an air shaft and escapes. Vader telepathically tells Luke that it is his destiny to come to the dark side.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.3432259559631348, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Anakin makes his final live-action film appearance in Revenge of the Sith (2005). During a mission to rescue Palpatine from Separatist commander General Grievous, Anakin and Obi-Wan again confront Count Dooku. Anakin subdues Dooku and kills him in cold blood on Palpatine's orders before they return to Coruscant. When Padmé tells Anakin that she is pregnant with his child, Anakin begins to have prophetic visions of Padmé dying in childbirth. Palpatine entices him with knowledge of the dark side, including the power to \"cheat death\", and eventually reveals himself as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. Anakin reports Palpatine's treachery to Jedi Master Mace Windu, who attacks and subdues the Sith Lord. Fearing that he may lose Padmé without Palpatine's teachings, Anakin intervenes and allows Palpatine to kill Windu. Anakin pledges himself to Palpatine, who dubs him \"Darth Vader\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.902278900146484, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Palpatine dispatches Vader to kill everyone inside the Jedi Temple and then to assassinate the Separatist leaders on Mustafar. The 501st became Darth Vader's personal unit as he led them during Operation: Knightfall, in which the clones helped take down the Jedi, whom they believed to be traitors to the Republic. Padmé travels to Mustafar and implores Vader to leave the dark side, but he refuses and uses the Force to choke her into unconsciousness when he sees Obi-Wan emerge from her ship. Vader duels with Obi-Wan, but Vader eventually loses both legs and one of his arms, and gets burned by one of the planet's lava flows. Obi-Wan leaves Vader for dead.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.059403419494629, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Sensing that his apprentice is in danger, Palpatine travels to Mustafar and finds Vader still alive. After returning to Coruscant, he rebuilds Vader's ruined body with the black armored suit from the original trilogy. Palpatine then tells Vader that Padmé was killed in the heat of Vader's anger, breaking what remains of his apprentice's spirit. As the film concludes, Vader watches the original Death Star's construction, with Palpatine and Wilhuff Tarkin at his side.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.621273994445801, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "In Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Vader's grandson Ben Solo, trained in the ways of the Force by Luke Skywalker following the events of Return of the Jedi, has been turned to the dark side of the Force by Supreme Leader Snoke of the First Order. Taking upon the name of Kylo Ren, he acquires Vader's semi-melted mask and uses it as a symbol of his dedication to Vader. Kylo's obsession with Vader, the dark side and eradicating his own weaknesses ultimately lead him to kill his own father, Han Solo.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.7213563919067383, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "Anakin Skywalker is a lead character in the 2003–05 animated microseries Star Wars: Clone Wars. As a Jedi Knight, Anakin has adventures such as battling Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress and liberating the planet Nelvaan from the Confederacy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.608863353729248, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "In James Luceno's Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (2005), set a few months after the events of Revenge of the Sith, Vader disavows his identity as Anakin Skywalker as he systematically pursues and kills the surviving Jedi and cements his position in the Empire. The novel also reveals that Vader plans to eventually overthrow Palpatine, and that he betrayed the Jedi because he resented their supposed failure to recognize his power.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.7210218906402588, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Vader's Quest (1999) depicts Vader hiring a bounty hunter to bring him information about the pilot who destroyed the Death Star, ultimately meeting Luke for the first time. In the novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978), Vader and Luke duel for the first time, and Luke cuts off Vader's right arm. Shadows of the Empire (1996) reveals that Vader is conflicted about trying to turn his son to the dark side of the Force, and knows deep down that there is still some good in him.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.237013816833496, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "In The Dark Nest trilogy (2005), Luke and Leia uncover old recordings of their parents in R2-D2's memory drive; for the first time, they see their own birth and their mother's death, as well as their father's corruption to the dark side. In Bloodlines (2006), Jacen—who has himself turned to the dark side—uses the Force to \"watch\" Darth Vader slaughter the children at the Jedi Temple.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.06271018087863922, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Vader is also a playable character in the video games Lego Star Wars: The Video Game, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Soulcalibur IV, Star Wars: Battlefront II, Star Wars: Empire at War, Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption, Star Wars Commander, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and Star Wars Battlefront. He also is an active but non-playable character in Star Wars Galaxies, Star Wars: Battlefront, (as an evil pig) is a non-playable character in Angry Birds Star Wars and is a playable character in Angry Birds Star Wars II. Vader's helmet and mask appear as a selectable attire for created superstars in WWE SmackDown! Shut Your Mouth. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.0333869457244873, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "Anakin Skywalker is a playable character in the video games Star Wars: Battlefront II, Lego Star Wars: The Video Game, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Lightsaber Duels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Jedi Alliance, Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes and is featured (as an Angry Bird) in Angry Birds Star Wars II.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.149890422821045, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "In Attack of the Clones, Anakin Skywalker feels \"smothered\" by Obi-Wan Kenobi and is unable to control his life. By Revenge of the Sith, however, his \"father-son\" friction with his master has matured into a more equal, brotherly relationship. Once he becomes Darth Vader, each evil act he commits makes it harder for him to return to the light, but he ultimately escapes the dark side and redeems himself by sacrificing his life to save his son Luke Skywalker and kill Palpatine in Return of the Jedi. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.133821964263916, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "Eric Bui, a psychiatrist at University of Toulouse Hospital, argued at the 2007 American Psychiatric Association convention that Anakin Skywalker meets six of the nine diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD), one more than necessary for a diagnosis. He and a colleague, Rachel Rodgers, published their findings in a 2010 letter to the editor of the journal Psychiatry Research. Bui says he found Anakin Skywalker a useful example to explain BPD to medical students. In particular, Bui points to Anakin's abandonment issues and uncertainty over his identity. Anakin's mass murders of the Tusken Raiders in Attack of the Clones and the young Jedi in Revenge of the Sith count as two dissociative episodes, fulfilling another criterion. Bui hoped his paper would help raise awareness of the disorder, especially among teens.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.561261177062988, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Darth Vader's iconic status has made the character a synonym for evil in popular culture; psychiatrists have even considered him as a useful example to explain borderline personality disorder to medical students. Anakin's origin story in The Phantom Menace has been compared to signifiers of African American racial identity, and his dissatisfaction with his life has been compared to Siddartha's before he became Gautama Buddha. A Mexican church advised Christians against seeing The Phantom Menace because it portrays Anakin as a Christ figure. The slime-mold beetle Agathidium vaderi is named after Vader, and several buildings across the globe are regularly compared to him. A grotesque of Darth Vader looms over the east face of the Washington National Cathedral's northwest tower. During the 2007–08 NHL season, Ottawa Senators goaltender Martin Gerber performed so well in an all-black mask that fans endearingly termed him \"Darth Gerber\". In 2015, a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Odessa, Ukraine, was converted into one of Darth Vader due to a law on decommunization. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.10240726172924042, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Many commentators and comedians have also evoked his visage to satirize politicians and other public figures, and several American political figures have been unflatteringly compared to the character, including General George Custer, the subject of the acrylic painting Darth Custer by Native American artist Bunky Echohawk. In 2005, Al Gore referred to Tele-Communications Inc.'s John C. Malone as the \"Darth Vader of cable\", and political strategist Lee Atwater was known by his political enemies as \"the Darth Vader of the Republican Party\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.738497734069824, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "On June 22, 2006, US Vice President Dick Cheney referred to himself as the Darth Vader of the Bush administration. Discussing the administration's philosophy on gathering intelligence, he said to CNN's John King, \"It means we need to be able to go after and capture or kill those people who are trying to kill Americans. That's not a pleasant business. It's a very serious business. And I suppose, sometimes, people look at my demeanor and say, 'Well, he's the Darth Vader of the administration.'\" Jon Stewart put on a Darth Vader helmet to address Dick Cheney as a \"kindred spirit\" on The Daily Show on January 25, 2007. Cheney's wife, Lynne, presented Stewart with a Darth Vader action figure on her appearance on the show on October 10, 2007. Both Stewart and Stephen Colbert have occasionally referred to Cheney as \"Darth Cheney\". In the satirical cartoon show Lil' Bush, Dick Cheney's father is portrayed as being Darth Vader. At her presidential campaign event on September 19, 2007, Hillary Rodham Clinton also referred to Cheney as Darth Vader. At the 2008 Washington Radio and Television Correspondents' Association Dinner, Cheney joked that his wife Lynne told him that the Vader comparison \"humanizes\" him. George Lucas told The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, however, that Cheney is more akin to Emperor Palpatine, and that a better stand-in for Vader would be George W. Bush. An issue of Newsweek referenced this quote, and compared Bush and Cheney to Vader and Palpatine, respectively, in a satirical article comparing politicians to various Star Wars and Star Trek characters. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.3433972597122192, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "The character has gained much positive reception as a classic film villain. Darth Vader ranked number two on Empire magazine's 2008 list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters. Premiere magazine also ranked Vader on their list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. On their list of the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters, Fandomania.com ranked Vader at number 6. Darth Vader was also the #1 supervillain on the Bravo series Ultimate Super Heroes, Vixens and Villains. Darth Vader was also ranked as #1 in IGN's list of top 100 Star Wars characters. Furthermore, Darth Vader's quote in The Empire Strikes Back — \"No, I am your father\" (often misquoted as \"Luke, I am your father\"), — is one of the most well known quotes in cinema history. The line was selected as one of the 400 nominees for the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes, a list of the greatest American movie quotes. Vader received the Ultimate Villain recognition at the 2011 Scream Awards. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.8472981452941895, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "In 2010, IGN ranked Darth Vader 25th in the \"Top 100 Videogames Villains\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.580791473388672, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "In Ukraine the Internet Party of Ukraine regularly lets people named Darth Vader take part in elections.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.970477104187012, "source": "wiki", "title": "Darth Vader" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why - CINEMABLEND", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.6724836826324463, "source": "search", "title": "Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.9207026958465576, "source": "search", "title": "Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "That’s right, when Spark of Rebellion heads to ABC later this month, fans will be treated to an additional scene featuring none other than Darth Vader. And thanks to Jones’ involvement, the iconic character will get his original voice. On Thursday, executive producer Dave Filoni explained why the new scene has been added in.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.8294599056243896, "source": "search", "title": "Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "“We wanted to do something special for the ABC broadcast. We’ve added a scene which gives audiences insight into the Inquisitor and includes a cameo by Darth Vader voiced by the distinguished actor James Earl Jones.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.537261724472046, "source": "search", "title": "Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "A scene with added information and a Darth Vader cameo might inspire fans to rewatch Star Wars Rebels: Spark The Rebellion when it re-airs on ABC on October 26 at 9 p.m. ET. Even if it doesn’t, it’s still an added reason for new viewers to give the show a shot, without having to add Disney or Disney XD to their cable package in order to do so.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.7411017417907715, "source": "search", "title": "Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why ..." }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.702561378479004, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "The first actor to portray Anakin Skywalker technically was...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.098884582519531, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "However, David didn't fully portray Skywalker/Vader.  The voice of Darth Vader was portrayed by...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.3189316987991333, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "The first actual appearance (face and overall presence) of the redeemed Anakin Skywalker appeared in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.  He was portrayed by...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.3121209144592285, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "Note:  In the Return of the Jedi Special Edition, Shaw's Force ghost portrayal of Anakin Skywalker was replaced by Hayden Christensen's Star Wars prequels portrayal. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.212311744689941, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "Now we have the prequel era Anakin Skywalker (sigh).  He was first portrayed by...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.7076311111450195, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "In Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, Anakin Skywalker was portrayed vocally by...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.689302921295166, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "In The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Anakin Skywalker was ALSO portrayed by...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.792525291442871, "source": "search", "title": "Who portrays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars? - Quora" }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Origin of Darth Vader's name", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.425795793533325, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Who came up with the name Darth Vader? According to Wiktionary (apparently Darth Vader now warrants a dictionary entry meaning \"a malevolent, dominating and threatening force\" :o):", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.9743154048919678, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Derived from the fictional character, Darth Vader, itself derived from either Dark Lord of the Sith or a blend of dark and death + Dutch vader (“father”).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.2665009498596191, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "My reading - and it's only a personal interpretation so hence it remains a comment - is that \"Darth Vader\" was originally just a proper name; first name \"Darth\", surname \"Vader\". This seems supported by Ben's \"only a master of evil, Darth\" answer, although one could argue that Ben may have been addressing him by a title (which - to me - seems odd for a Jedi to do to a Sith). – user8719 Dec 18 '12 at 9:06", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.034471236169338226, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "How did you get the name Darth Vader?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.1391854286193848, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "In A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi addresses Darth Vader simply as \"Darth\". That sounds like a proper name, not a title.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.3444181680679321, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "There are reasons to believe that the \"father\" angle was developed way after the name. From \" The Visual Development of Darth Vader \"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.0268235206604, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "In the first draft, Darth Vader is fairly inconsequential, and is merely an Imperial General; most of his later traits are exhibited instead by Prince Valorum, a Sith Lord who dresses in black robes and who speaks in terse, no-nonesense phrases. Both of these characters are human and generally unremarkable in the visual sense; no artwork was ever done. In draft two, however, the two characters were combined, and this is where the Darth Vader that we are familiar with first becomes recognizable in prototype form.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.4523277282714844, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "The deliberately mythic names of the Star Wars characters took months to evolve. \"Skywalker\" was originally \"Darklighter\" and then \"Starkill.\" \"Darth Vader\" was Lucas's careful blend of Deathwater and Darkfather. \"Jedi\" was chosen for its knightish echo of \"Samurai,\" while \"Obi-wan Kenobi\" seems to Lucas both ancient and hypnotically phonetic.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.1342644691467285, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "It is easy to note the phonetic resemblance of Darth Vader to \"dark father.\" In a New York Times interview (May 18, 1980), just before the opening of The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas claimed that he chose \"Darth Vader\" because it sounded like both \"dark father\" and \"deathwater\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.07481050491333, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "It may or may not be relevant that the archvillain's name is Darth Vader which strongly suggests death and father.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.4269800186157227, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Darth Vader's name combines elements which reach to the very wellsprings of human emotion, for if I am not mistaken, Darth is a portmanteau or condensation of the words \"dark,\" \"earth,\" and \"death.\" Its resonance with the word \"dearth\" is also notable.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.420916795730591, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Vader's", "passage": "Darth Vader's name is a cross between the symbols \"dark\" and \"death,\" and the German word vater [?], meaning father.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.9541361331939697, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "We realize now that Luke has been battling all along to kill his own father. The deliberate suggestion of \"Death Father\" in the name \"Darth Vader\" becomes transparently clear.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.970365285873413, "source": "search", "title": "star wars - Origin of Darth Vader's name - Science Fiction ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Here's What Darth Vader Will Probably Look Like In Star Wars 7 - CINEMABLEND", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.394345760345459, "source": "search", "title": "Here's What Darth Vader Will Probably Look Like In Star ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Here's What Darth Vader Will Probably Look Like In Star Wars 7", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.278712272644043, "source": "search", "title": "Here's What Darth Vader Will Probably Look Like In Star ..." }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Before you go thinking that through the magic of time travel (or bad screenwriting), J.J. Abrams will bring Darth Vader back, let me ease your concerns. From what we can tell in the concept art, only Darth Vader’s mask will be evident in Star Wars: Episode VII. That mask, which we saw Luke taking off (and later burning) now sits in the hands of this dude… who is a mystery at the moment.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.6868178844451904, "source": "search", "title": "Here's What Darth Vader Will Probably Look Like In Star ..." }, { "answer": "Lord Vader", "passage": "The web sites refer to him as \"Grave Robber,\" and if he’s holding the mask of Lord Vader, you can understand why. In the image above, you can see a number of important details about this character, who – in the past – has been rumored to be everything from a Sith Inquisitor to Luke Skywalker, himself. He does have the mechanical hand of Skywalker, something that J.J. Abrams hinted at in a cryptic Tweet a while back. But he facial features are deformed, covered in robotic technology, and the way that he lovingly looks at the Vader helmet in the above image (and in this one ) suggests a bit of hero worship. As if he were a student, trying to continue his master’s work.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.552769184112549, "source": "search", "title": "Here's What Darth Vader Will Probably Look Like In Star ..." }, { "answer": "Anakin Skywalker", "passage": "The saga begins with a child Anakin Skywalker , the future Darth Vader , being discovered by Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn , who senses the boy's enormous potential. It is here that Skywalker first encounters the legendary Obi-Wan Kenobi , who himself is still but a pupil. As the first film unfolds, key characters appear, such as Padmé Amidala , R2-D2 , C-3PO , Yoda , and the villainous Sheev Palpatine , who is a mere Senator in the Galactic Republic at the time. After a debate with the Jedi Council , one which includes the possible resurface of the Sith in addition to Skywalker, it is decided that Anakin will not be trained as a Jedi. At the end of the film, the Sith, Darth Maul , leads an attack against the Jedi on Naboo, and only the tragic death of Qui-Gon at his hands persuades the Jedi to reconsider their decision. Anakin Skywalker then becomes Obi-Wan's apprentice in the ways of the Force .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.4951521158218384, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars prequel trilogy - Wookieepedia - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "At first, the Jedi Council does not heed Skywalker's revelation that Palpatine is the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious. Upon realizing their error, the Jedi Council moves to confront the Chancellor. Master Mace Windu and three other Jedi Masters attempt to arrest Sidious. However, they are overcome, and with the help of the fallen Skywalker, the Jedi are all killed. With this act, Anakin becomes Darth Vader. His convictions that the Jedi are behind the treachery cause him to lead the destruction of the Jedi Order. Palpatine issues Order 66 , whereupon many Jedi are slaughtered by the clone troopers . Darth Vader conquers the Jedi Temple and sets the Jedi beacon to call all remaining Jedi back to the temple into an ambush waiting to slaughter them. After Vader leaves for Mustafar , Yoda and Obi-Wan infiltrate the temple, where Obi-Wan alters the signal to alert all Jedi to stay away. While in the temple, Obi-Wan activates the security recording, leading him to learn the truth about Anakin. With this knowledge, Yoda and Obi-Wan agree the two Sith Lords must be defeated. Yoda would remain on Coruscant to confront Darth Sidious, while Obi-Wan would battle his former apprentice.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.8120689392089844, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars prequel trilogy - Wookieepedia - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Darth Vader", "passage": "Once you get over the shock of seeing a lightsaber go through someone, you can't help but find the reaction of Kenobi eerily similar to Luke Skywalker watching Kenobi’s death by the hand of Darth Vader in “A New Hope.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.926168441772461, "source": "search", "title": "‘Star Wars’: Making the Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "The film's massive success led to the production of two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), both of which became critically and commercially successful. Since 1977, Star Wars was subsequently reissued multiple times at Lucas' behest, incorporating many changes including modified computer-generated effects, altered dialogue, re-edited shots, remixed soundtracks, and added scenes. A prequel trilogy was later released between 1999 and 2005, followed by a sequel trilogy which began in 2015.", "precise_score": 6.307901382446289, "rough_score": 4.160544395446777, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars (film)" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Star Wars debuted on Betamax, LaserDisc, Video 2000, and VHS between the 1980s and 1990s by CBS/Fox Video. The final issue of the original theatrical release (pre-Special Edition) to VHS format occurred in 1995, as part of \"Last Chance to Own the Original\" campaign, available as part of a trilogy set and as a standalone purchase. The film was released for the first time on DVD on September 21, 2004, in a box set with The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and a bonus disc of supplementary material. The films were digitally restored and remastered, and more changes were made by George Lucas. The DVD features a commentary track from Lucas, Ben Burtt, Dennis Muren, and Carrie Fisher. The bonus disc contains the documentary Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy, three featurettes, teasers, theatrical trailers, TV spots, still galleries, an exclusive preview of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, a playable Xbox demo of the LucasArts game Star Wars: Battlefront, and a \"Making Of\" documentary on the Episode III video game. The set was reissued in December 2005 as part of a three-disc limited edition boxed set without the bonus disc. ", "precise_score": 1.0613982677459717, "rough_score": 4.302826881408691, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars (film)" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars, (subtitled Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) by 20th Century Fox, which became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. It was followed by the similarly successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983); these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was later released between 1999 and 2005, which received a more mixed reaction from critics and fans in comparison to the original trilogy. A sequel trilogy is also currently being produced with the first installment as The Force Awakens (2015). All seven films were nominated for or won Academy Awards, as well as being commercial successes, with a combined box office revenue of $6.46 billion, making Star Wars the fourth highest-grossing film series. ", "precise_score": 7.052063465118408, "rough_score": 6.7950544357299805, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25, 1977. This was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21, 1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25, 1983. The opening crawl of the sequels disclosed that they were numbered as \"Episode V\" and \"Episode VI\" respectively, though the films were generally advertised solely under their subtitles. Though the first film in the series was simply titled Star Wars, with its 1981 re-release it had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to remain consistent with its sequel, and to establish it as the middle chapter of a continuing saga.", "precise_score": 9.228187561035156, "rough_score": 9.061327934265137, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Star Wars-based fiction predates the release of the first film, with the 1976 novelization of Star Wars (ghost-written by Alan Dean Foster and credited to Lucas). Foster's 1978 novel, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, was the first Expanded Universe work to be released. In addition to filling in the time between the original 1977 film and The Empire Strikes Back, this additional content greatly expanded the Star Wars timeline before and after the film series. Star Wars fiction flourished during the time of the original trilogy (1977–83) but slowed to a trickle afterwards. In 1992, however, Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy debuted, sparking a new interest in the Star Wars universe. Since then, several hundred tie-in novels have been published by Bantam and Del Rey. A similar resurgence in the Expanded Universe occurred in 1996 with the Steve Perry novel Shadows of the Empire, set in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and accompanying video game and comic book series. ", "precise_score": 2.84059476852417, "rough_score": 7.33337926864624, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "In 1989, the Library of Congress selected the original Star Wars film for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry, as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\" Its sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, was selected in 2010. Despite these callings for archival, it is unclear whether copies of the 1977 and 1980 theatrical sequences of Star Wars and Empire—or copies of the 1997 Special Edition versions—have been archived by the NFR, or indeed if any copy has been provided by Lucasfilm and accepted by the Registry.", "precise_score": 4.2709197998046875, "rough_score": 3.4251811504364014, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Even after the enormous success of ‘Star Wars,’ its sequel, ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ nearly bankrupted Lucasfilm – which financed the film independently instead of accepting backing from 20th Century Fox as Lucas had with the first film – and if ‘Empire’ had bombed, Lucasfilm itself would have gone bust. (This, as we know, didn’t happen.) The money Lucasfilm used to finance ‘Empire’ was basically what Lucas had earned on ‘Star Wars’ after Fox took their cut.", "precise_score": 5.08536958694458, "rough_score": 4.244056701660156, "source": "search", "title": "The 'Star Wars' Sequel That Never Happened - ScreenCrush" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "In 1979, director George Lucas said in an interview on the set of The Empire Strikes Back , \"The first script was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were conceived of as six films of which the first film was number four.\" Lucas backed this up with a 1980 interview with the L.A. Reader, stating \"Star Wars is really three trilogies, nine films... it won't be finished for probably another 20 years.\"", "precise_score": 1.2283579111099243, "rough_score": 2.9355318546295166, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Disney Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Star Wars Episode V", "passage": "The Star Wars sequel trilogy is the upcoming third trilogy in the Star Wars film series created by George Lucas . It consists of Episodes VII through IX and will follow Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi in the saga's chronology. The trilogy was planned around 1975 by Lucas, who initially said that he wanted to do four trilogies of films. After the success of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope , Lucas planned to include three trilogies. However, in publicity reviews for Return of the Jedi, Lucas revealed that he would not be drawn into committing to when he would continue the saga. In 1987, Lucas confirmed that he would eventually continue the saga, starting with the prequel trilogy.", "precise_score": 5.4246721267700195, "rough_score": 2.6141886711120605, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Lucasfilm Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "The film was originally released in 1977 with the title \"Star Wars\". The subtitles Episode IV and A New Hope were only added to the opening crawl in subsequent re-releases. Accounts differ as to when this designation was first added; some date the change at the theatrical re-release of April 10, 1981, while others place it much earlier at the re-release in July 1978. The retroactive addition of these subtitles was intended to bring the film into line with the introduction to its sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, which was released in 1980 bearing the designation \"Episode V\". It is uncertain if the introduction of an episodic naming convention was an indicator of Lucas's original intent, or if this was simply a later redraft of the narrative. According to some accounts, Lucas has claimed that he was discouraged by Twentieth Century Fox from using an episode number on a new film because it would confuse audiences. Gary Kurtz has stated that he and Lucas had originally considered using an episode number for Star Wars to emulate the chapter numbering used in the 1936 Flash Gordon installments, but they were uncertain whether they should designate it Episode III, IV or V. However, some of Lucas's early script drafts bear titles such as \"The Adventures of the Starkiller (Episode One): The Star Wars\" (1975) or \"The Adventures of Luke Starkiller as Taken from the Journal of the Whills:Saga One: Star Wars\" (1976). The Revised Fourth Draft of the script dated January 1975 acquired the subtitle \"Episode IV - A New Hope - from the Journal of the Whills\" when published in the 1979 book The Art of Star Wars. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.75184965133667, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars (film)" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Star Wars was re-released theatrically in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982. After ILM used computer-generated effects for Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Jurassic Park, Lucas concluded that digital technology had caught up to his original vision for Star Wars. For the film's 20th anniversary in 1997, Star Wars was digitally remastered and re-released to movie theaters, along with The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, under the campaign title Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition. This version of the film runs 124 minutes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.156156539916992, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars (film)" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Star Wars was voted the second most popular film by Americans in a 2008 nationwide poll conducted by the market research firm, Harris Interactive. Star Wars has also been featured in several high-profile audience polls: in 1997, it ranked as the 10th Greatest American Film on the Los Angeles Daily News Readers' Poll; in 2002, the film and its sequel The Empire Strikes Back were voted as the greatest films ever made in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Films poll; in 2011, it ranked as Best Sci-Fi Film on Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, a primetime special aired by ABC that counted down the best films as chosen by fans, based on results of a poll conducted by ABC and People magazine; in 2014 the film placed 11th in a poll undertaken by The Hollywood Reporter, which balloted every studio, agency, publicity firm, and production house in the Hollywood region. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.6944961547851562, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars (film)" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Lucas hired 'the Dean of Special Effects' John Stears, who created R2-D2, Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder, the Jedi Knights' lightsabers, and the Death Star. The technical lightsaber choreography for the original trilogy was developed by leading filmmaking sword-master Bob Anderson. Anderson trained actor Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and performed all the sword stunts as Darth Vader during the lightsaber duels in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, wearing Vader's costume. Anderson's role in the original Star Wars trilogy was highlighted in the film Reclaiming the Blade, where he shares his experiences as the fight choreographer developing the lightsaber techniques for the movies. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.84487247467041, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Later that year, Lucas hired science fiction author Leigh Brackett to write Star Wars II with him. They held story conferences and, by late November 1977, Lucas had produced a handwritten treatment called The Empire Strikes Back. The treatment is similar to the final film, except that Darth Vader does not reveal he is Luke's father. In the first draft that Brackett would write from this, Luke's father appears as a ghost to instruct Luke. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.332785606384277, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Empire strikes back", "passage": "Brackett finished her first draft in early 1978; Lucas has said he was disappointed with it, but before he could discuss it with her, she died of cancer. With no writer available, Lucas had to write his next draft himself. It was this draft in which Lucas first made use of the \"Episode\" numbering for the films; Empire Strikes Back was listed as Episode II. As Michael Kaminski argues in The Secret History of Star Wars, the disappointment with the first draft probably made Lucas consider different directions in which to take the story. He made use of a new plot twist: Darth Vader claims to be Luke's father. According to Lucas, he found this draft enjoyable to write, as opposed to the yearlong struggles writing the first film, and quickly wrote two more drafts, both in April 1978. He also took the script to a darker extreme by having Han Solo imprisoned in carbonite and left in limbo.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.206112384796143, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Empire strikes back", "passage": "This new story point of Darth Vader being Luke's father had drastic effects on the series. Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was separate from Luke's father; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1978. After writing the second and third drafts of Empire Strikes Back in which the point was introduced, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin Skywalker was Ben Kenobi's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was swayed to the dark side by Emperor Palpatine (who became a Sith and not simply a politician). Anakin battled Ben Kenobi on the site of a volcano and was wounded, but then resurrected as Darth Vader. Meanwhile, Kenobi hid Luke on Tatooine while the Republic became the Empire and Vader systematically hunted down and killed the Jedi.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.998449325561523, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Empire strikes back", "passage": "With this new backstory in place, Lucas decided that the series would be a trilogy, changing Empire Strikes Back from Episode II to Episode V in the next draft. Lawrence Kasdan, who had just completed writing Raiders of the Lost Ark, was then hired to write the next drafts, and was given additional input from director Irvin Kershner. Kasdan, Kershner, and producer Gary Kurtz saw the film as a more serious and adult film, which was helped by the new, darker storyline, and developed the series from the light adventure roots of the first film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.045829772949219, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Empire strikes back", "passage": "By the time he began writing Episode VI in 1981 (then titled Revenge of the Jedi), much had changed. Making Empire Strikes Back was stressful and costly, and Lucas' personal life was disintegrating. Burned out and not wanting to make any more Star Wars films, he vowed that he was done with the series in a May 1983 interview with Time magazine. Lucas' 1981 rough drafts had Darth Vader competing with the Emperor for possession of Luke—and in the second script, the \"revised rough draft\", Vader became a sympathetic character. Lawrence Kasdan was hired to take over once again and, in these final drafts, Vader was explicitly redeemed and finally unmasked. This change in character would provide a springboard to the \"Tragedy of Darth Vader\" storyline that underlies the prequels. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.522759914398193, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "In 1994, Lucas began writing the screenplay to the first prequel, titled Episode I: The Beginning. Following the release of that film, Lucas announced that he would also be directing the next two, and began work on Episode II, The first draft of Episode II was completed just weeks before principal photography, and Lucas hired Jonathan Hales, a writer from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, to polish it. Unsure of a title, Lucas had jokingly called the film \"Jar Jar's Great Adventure\". In writing The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas initially decided that Lando Calrissian was a clone and came from a planet of clones which caused the \"Clone Wars\" mentioned by Princess Leia in A New Hope; he later came up with an alternate concept of an army of clone shocktroopers from a remote planet which attacked the Republic and were repelled by the Jedi. The basic elements of that backstory became the plot basis for Episode II, with the new wrinkle added that Palpatine secretly orchestrated the crisis. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.7287120819091797, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "Star Wars Episode V", "passage": "Despite insisting that a sequel trilogy would never happen, George Lucas began working on story treatments for three new Star Wars films in 2011. In October 2012, The Walt Disney Company agreed to buy Lucasfilm and announced that Star Wars Episode VII would be released in 2015. Later, it was revealed that the three new upcoming films (Episodes VII-IX) would be based on story treatments that had been written by George Lucas prior to the sale of Lucasfilm. The co-chairman of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy became president of the company, reporting to Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn. In addition, Kennedy will serve as executive producer on new Star Wars feature films, with franchise creator and Lucasfilm founder Lucas serving as creative consultant. The screenplay for Episode VII was originally set to be written by Michael Arndt, but in October 2013 it was announced that writing duties would be taken over by Lawrence Kasdan and J. J. Abrams. On January 25, 2013, The Walt Disney Studios and Lucasfilm officially announced J. J. Abrams as Star Wars Episode VIIs director and producer, along with Bryan Burk and Bad Robot Productions. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.666834831237793, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "A radio adaptation of the original 1977 film was first broadcast on National Public Radio in 1981. The adaptation was written by science fiction author Brian Daley and directed by John Madden. It was followed by adaptations of The Empire Strikes Back in 1983 and Return of the Jedi in 1996. The adaptations included background material created by Lucas but not used in the films. Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, and Billy Dee Williams reprised their roles as Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, and Lando Calrissian, respectively, except in Return of the Jedi in which Luke was played by Joshua Fardon and Lando by Arye Gross. The series also used John Williams' original score from the films and Ben Burtt's original sound designs. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.697320461273193, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Star Wars videogames commercialization started in 1982 with Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back published for the Atari 2600 by Parker Brothers. Since then, Star Wars has opened the way to a myriad of space-flight simulation games, first-person shooter games, role-playing video games, RTS games, and others.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.4675402641296387, "source": "wiki", "title": "Star Wars" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "It might not seem like such a bold move today – in the era of blockbuster franchises – to be planning for a sequel before the first movie has even been released. But, in the 1970s, this was downright revolutionary thinking. Especially considering that we’re talking about a movie set in another galaxy in an era where such films were considered inane. (Granted, some people still consider them inane.) But not only did Lucas have a plan for a ' Star Wars ' sequel, he had two plans. One, as you know, became ‘The Empire Strikes Back.’ The other exists as a sort of alternative universe oddity of what could have been – a story titled ‘Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.’", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.2937474250793457, "source": "search", "title": "The 'Star Wars' Sequel That Never Happened - ScreenCrush" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Solo and Chewbacca aside, due to some very important plot points that are revealed during 'The Empire Strikes Back,' 'Splinter' had a tendency to create a lot confusion for anyone who happened to read it after they watched 'Empire.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.425694465637207, "source": "search", "title": "The 'Star Wars' Sequel That Never Happened - ScreenCrush" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "It was somewhere between Leigh Brackett’s original 'The Empire Strikes Back' script ( which looks very little like the completed film ) and the second draft when George Lucas had the idea to make Darth Vader Luke Skywalker’s father. So, there was no way for Foster to know that as-of-yet-undecided plot point when he wrote ‘Splinter’ – let alone the twist that Luke and Leia are siblings (which Lucas didn’t decide until after the release of ‘Empire.’)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.125130653381348, "source": "search", "title": "The 'Star Wars' Sequel That Never Happened - ScreenCrush" }, { "answer": "Star Wars: Episode V", "passage": "The Star Wars sequel trilogy is a film trilogy that begins approximately thirty years after the ending of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi . The trilogy is comprised of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens , directed by J.J. Abrams and written by Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan and released on December 18 , 2015 ; and the forthcoming films Star Wars: Episode VIII , written and directed by Rian Johnson ; and Star Wars: Episode IX , which Johnson is writing a story treatment for. The films will be produced by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy , with Bad Robot Productions also producing The Force Awakens. The trilogy will feature the return of classic Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker , Leia Organa , Han Solo , Chewbacca , R2-D2 , and C-3PO , as well as a host of new characters.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.3732054233551025, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars Sequel Trilogy - Wookieepedia - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "―George Lucas, around the release of The Empire Strikes Back [src]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.406923294067383, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars Sequel Trilogy - Wookieepedia - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Star Wars: Episode V", "passage": "As the saga developed after the success of A New Hope, these plans began to change. Lucas stated in 1979 that there would be three trilogies, plans he continued to talk about into the 1980s. Lucas described the potential sequels as being \"what happens to Luke\" after the original trilogy, and that it would be \"much more ethereal\" and \"ambitious.\" By the time Lucas produced Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi , the final film of the original trilogy, he no longer had plans to produce a sequel trilogy, stating that the \"next trilogy will be someone else's vision.\" [15]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.3334893584251404, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars Sequel Trilogy - Wookieepedia - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Several plot points had been discussed for the sequel trilogy that were eventually condensed into Return of the Jedi. According to Gary Kurtz , the producer of A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back , the creative team had discussed the sequels showing Skywalker's new life with the Jedi , finding his long-lost sister—at the time, Leia Organa was not Skywalker's sister— [16] and a final confrontation with the Emperor . [17]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.4708591401576996, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars Sequel Trilogy - Wookieepedia - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Star Wars Episode V", "passage": "The Sequel Trilogy is an upcoming film trilogy in the Star Wars franchise, sequel to the original trilogy. Following the Walt Disney Company 's October 30, 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm Ltd. from George Lucas, Disney announced Star Wars Episode VII is scheduled for a 2015 release, with Star Wars Episode VIII and Star Wars Episode IX to be released in 2017 and 2019 , respectively. [1]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.8754910230636597, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Disney Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "However, as Michael Kaminski points out in The Secret History of Star Wars, at the time this quote was made, The Empire Strikes Back was still being referred to as 'Star Wars II'. George Lucas was not actually referring to Episode III of the prequel trilogy, but rather, the third film of the original trilogy, i.e. Return Of The Jedi. It remains unknown who this character was intended to be, but it is unlikely that he/she did, in fact, appear in Return Of The Jedi in any form, given that Lucas had all but completely scrapped plans to make the sequel trilogy by that stage. The character is often referred to as being a villain when being discussed in the false context of it having been a character from the prequel trilogy, although Lucas's actual quote makes no such implication - quite the contrary, it implies that this character is the hero/protagonist of the sequel trilogy.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.953259289264679, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Disney Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Gary Kurtz, the producer of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back , recalls that the outline for a sequel trilogy was \"very vague\", outlining Skywalker's journey to becoming the premiere Jedi Knight in the Obi-Wan Kenobi mold, and his ultimate confrontation with Emperor Palpatine . According to Kurtz, early plans for this trilogy would have included the introduction of Luke's sister (who was not slated to be Princess Leia ), and the first appearance of the Emperor, elements that were incorporated into Return of the Jedi once Kurtz and Lucas parted ways after The Empire Strikes Back.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.31958270072937, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Disney Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Given the complete absence of any other possibility, it is most likely that this character was to be the 'Other' that Yoda referred to in The Empire Strikes Back. However, George Lucas has also claimed that Yoda's line was merely a dramatic device employed to heighten the threat to Luke - if the audience thought that the Jedi could not continue without him, the possibility that Luke might die was not as credible.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.393331527709961, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Disney Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "It is important to note that at the time The Empire Strikes Back was made, Leia was not intended to be Luke's sister or the 'Other'. This has been corroborated by both Gary Kurtz and Mark Hamill. By the time Return of the Jedi was being scripted, George Lucas had decided that the story would not continue past Episode VI, and so, had to tie up this loose end. Making Leia both Luke's sister and the Other did so, as well as resolving the love triangle with Han.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.208089828491211, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Disney Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Star Wars: Episode V", "passage": "Boyega, whose breakout came with Attack The Block, next stars with Tom Hanks and Emma Watson in The Circle, and follows The Force Awakens with Star Wars: Episode VIII, as well as the animated BBC miniseries Watership Down opposite James McAvoy and Ben Kingsley. Boyega will make his stage-starring debut on the West End in Woyzeck at The Old Vic, next year.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.381723403930664, "source": "search", "title": "‘Star Wars’ John Boyega Takes Lead In ‘Pacific Rim’ Sequel" }, { "answer": "Star Wars: Episode V", "passage": "By now, you've heard the news that Disney and Lucasfilm announced a new release date for Star Wars: Episode VIII, the sequel to The Force Awakens. Previously slated for a summer 2017 opening, Episode VIII will instead hit theaters December 15, 2017. The delay isn't due to any problems in development, but rather a well-considered response to the earth-shattering performance of The Force Awakens. Which means Episode VIII now appears set for a head-on collision with a sequel to the biggest film in cinema history: Avatar 2, which is currently scheduled for a Christmas 2017 opening. So, is Disney-Lucasfilm crazy? Or is this apparent challenge nothing of the sort, and instead a very smart decision?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.701803684234619, "source": "search", "title": "Will 'Star Wars' Sequel And 'Avatar' Sequel Face ... - Forbes" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "The focus would be on Luke Skywalker 's journey to becoming the premier Jedi knight, with Luke's sister (who was not Leia) appearing in Episode VIII, and the first appearance of the Emperor, and Luke's ultimate confrontation with him, in Episode IX (a storyline as planned pre-1980, according to A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back producer Gary Kurtz ). [1] [4] [10]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.761363983154297, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Lucasfilm Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Mark Hamill has stated that Lucas told him in 1976, while filming Star Wars in Tunisia , that four Star Wars trilogies were planned. Lucas suggested Hamill could have a cameo role in Episode IX, which might be filmed in 2001. [13] [16] A Time magazine story in March 1978, quoting Lucas, also contained the assertion there would be 10 further Star Wars films after Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back . [17] Gary Kurtz was also aware of proposed story elements for Episodes VII to IX before 1980. [1] [10]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.698427200317383, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Lucasfilm Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Following the success of the first Star Wars film in 1977, George Lucas expanded his plans for the Star Wars saga to include three trilogies rather than two. [18] In 1980, at the time of the release of The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas was saying there were seven further Star Wars films he wanted to make. He said he had \"twelve-page outlines\" for those films. [19] In an interview with Steranko in Prevue magazine published in late 1980, Lucas described how the expansive scope of Star Wars had started with an overlong screenplay: \"So, I took the screenplay and divided it into three stories, and rewrote the first one. As I was writing, I came up with some ideas for a film about robots, with no humans in it. When I got to working on the Wookiee, I thought of a film just about Wookiees, nothing else. So, for a time, I had a couple of odd movies with just those characters. Then, I had the other two films, which were essentially split into three parts each, two trilogies. When the smoke cleared, I said, 'This is really great. I'll do another trilogy that takes place after this.' I had three trilogies of nine films, and then another couple of odd films. Essentially, there were twelve films.\" He then added that he had \"eliminated the odd movies, because they really don't have anything to do with the Star Wars saga. ... I'm just going to keep it pure. It's a nine-part saga that has a beginning, a middle and an end. It progresses over a period of about fifty or sixty years with about twenty years between trilogies, each trilogy taking about six or seven years.\" [5] In this interview, Lucas also stated that he had \"titles and ten-page story outlines for each of\" the nine episodes. [5] In an interview with Gary Kurtz in the same magazine, Kurtz said, \"[w]hether or not all nine or twelve films actually get made depends on how George feels as time goes along. The series may happen the way he originally planned or may completely change. As the films are made, each of the stories develops. As each is finished, I think the direction of the saga may change a bit.\" [20]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.585330605506897, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Lucasfilm Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Star Wars Episode V", "passage": "In July 2008, Lucas explained the logical difficulties of making a Star Wars Episode VII:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.404784202575684, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars sequel trilogy - Lucasfilm Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Star Wars: Episode V", "passage": "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (original title)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.733551025390625, "source": "search", "title": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Imagine a version of The Empire Strikes Back without Han Solo, Cloud City or wampas. Instead, picture a lovestruck Luke as he and his non-sibling crush object Princess Leia, try to find a way off a foggy swamp planet called Mimban before being captured by Imperial troops. That’s the plot of Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, a 1978 spin-off novel by Alan Dean Foster that was commissioned as a possible springboard for a new Star Wars  film, should the first one survive its legendary behind-the-scenes problems and become a hit.  ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.8680033683776855, "source": "search", "title": "'Star Wars' Author Alan Dean Foster on 'Splinter of the ..." }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "Of course, by the time Splinter hit shelves in March 1978, the first Star Wars movie was a confirmed pop culture phenomenon, and when it came to a new Star Wars film, George Lucas and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan decided to take the story in a different direction for 1980′s The Empire Strikes Back. But Foster’s book remains an intriguing hint of where the Star Wars franchise could have gone, had Lucas adapted the book. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.1716926097869873, "source": "search", "title": "'Star Wars' Author Alan Dean Foster on 'Splinter of the ..." }, { "answer": "The Empire strikes Back", "passage": "At the time, the indications and the vibe I got from the first film was that they were not siblings and that Luke was interested in her, and she was, casually perhaps, interested in him. And you actually get that [feeling] partway through The Empire Strikes Back, too. [Editor’s Note: This deleted scene from The Empire Strikes Back depicts an almost-kiss between Luke and Leia that’s more in line with their relationship as it exists in Foster’s book.]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.855803489685059, "source": "search", "title": "'Star Wars' Author Alan Dean Foster on 'Splinter of the ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "Fonda made her Broadway debut in the 1960 play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received the first of two Tony Award nominations, and made her screen debut later the same year in Tall Story. She rose to fame in 1960s films such as Period of Adjustment (1962), Sunday in New York (1963), Cat Ballou (1965), Barefoot in the Park (1967) and Barbarella (1968). Her first husband was Barbarella director Roger Vadim. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969) and went on to win two Best Actress Oscars in the 1970s for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations were for Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981) and The Morning After (1986). Her other major competitive awards include an Emmy Award for the 1984 TV film The Dollmaker, two BAFTA Awards for Julia and The China Syndrome and four Golden Globe Awards.", "precise_score": 2.535303831100464, "rough_score": 5.426441192626953, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jane Fonda" }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "In 1968, she played the title role in the science fiction spoof Barbarella, which established her status as a sex symbol. In contrast, the tragedy They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) won her critical acclaim, and she earned her first Oscar nomination for the role. Fonda was very selective by the end of the 1960s, turning down lead roles in Rosemary's Baby and Bonnie and Clyde, which went to Mia Farrow and Faye Dunaway, respectively.", "precise_score": 2.410332202911377, "rough_score": 3.9690287113189697, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jane Fonda" }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "In a 60 Minutes interview on March 31, 2005, Fonda reiterated that she had no regrets about her trip to North Vietnam in 1972, with the exception of the anti-aircraft-gun photo. She stated that the incident was a \"betrayal\" of American forces and of the \"country that gave me privilege\". Fonda said, \"The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine.\" She later distinguished between regret over the use of her image as propaganda and pride for her anti-war activism: \"There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs. Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda ... It's not something that I will apologize for.\" Fonda said she had no regrets about the broadcasts she made on Radio Hanoi, something she asked the North Vietnamese to do: \"Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war.\" ", "precise_score": -3.088923454284668, "rough_score": -2.5894675254821777, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jane Fonda" }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "There have been many incarnations of Jane Fonda over the years, but the one common denominator has been the enthusiasm with which she has embraced them all. Whether she was vamping it up as screen goddess Barbarella, campaigning against the Vietnam war as Hanoi Jane, or donning legwarmers for her aerobic work-out videos and exhorting women to ‘feel the burn’, Jane Fonda has never shown less than 100 per cent commitment to all of her endeavours.", "precise_score": -1.7504664659500122, "rough_score": -2.322408676147461, "source": "search", "title": "Jane Fonda on the highs and lows of her life: 'I'm the ..." }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "Her first husband, Barbarella director Roger Vadim, persuaded her to engage in threesomes, while her second husband, politician Tom Hayden, seemed to almost delight in putting her down. Though her work-out videos sparked a fitness revolution in the early 1980s, with Jane ploughing $17 million of the profits into his campaigns, Hayden still seemed unimpressed. Watching her in the Vietnam War-veteran movie Coming Home, his verdict was, ‘Nice try.’ (It won Jane the Best Actress Oscar in 1978.)", "precise_score": -5.590238094329834, "rough_score": -1.984325885772705, "source": "search", "title": "Jane Fonda on the highs and lows of her life: 'I'm the ..." }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "Fonda, 74, had no idea how influential the inaugural music and arts event was to the hippie movement in 1969, so Keener took it upon herself to school the Barbarella star about the alternative lifestyle.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.734267234802246, "source": "search", "title": "Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding (2011) - News - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "From left: Jane as Barbarella, the 1968 role that established her as a sex symbol; a 1970 publicity shot", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.497457981109619, "source": "search", "title": "Jane Fonda on the highs and lows of her life: 'I'm the ..." }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "She married Roger Vadim in 1965, the couple going on to make Barbarella – still regarded as one", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.555804252624512, "source": "search", "title": "Jane Fonda on the highs and lows of her life: 'I'm the ..." }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "What she did actually say about the matter was, “I carry a lot of baggage from that.” and ‘The image of Jane Fonda, ‘Barbarella,’ Henry Fonda’s daughter…sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal…the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.038989543914795, "source": "search", "title": "Jane Fonda Learned ‘Empathy is Revolutionary’ From Vietnam ..." }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "Jane Fonda did not commit treason because there was no declared war. I was over there fighting for her right to exercise free speech no matter how misguided. We were lied into that war by fabrications about a Gulf of Tonkin “incident” that never happened. You want traitors, I give you Henry Kissinger and Richard Perle who betrayed their government and dishonored their oaths by informing the South Vietnamese delegation in Paris that they would get a better deal my waiting for Nixon to be elected. Every American who died after the Fall of ’68 is on them. The officer Fonda supposedly betrayed (what does Snopes say about this?) violated the code of conduct by communicating more than his name, rank and service number to someone other than a credentialed representative of the IRC. I write this knowing you yahoos will now take cheap shots at me which to my mind will just prove your idiocy. The real issue here is that her movie “Barbarella” in which she appeared to bare her lovely breasts was shown through the AAMPS system in 1967 and you guys feel like you’ve been stood up by your main squeeze. Why the hell were we bombing the shit out of a little country half a world away? Was PRV really a threat to us? They were Buddhist kind to us. They could easily have organized a 9/11 style attack and how could we have responded? Bounced their rubble a few more times? You all need to get real or your sons and daughters will be sent on some foreign adventure to, oh, maybe Iraq or Afghanistan and get killed or maimed to keep Shiite or Taliban religious fanatics in power.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.6695163249969482, "source": "search", "title": "Jane Fonda Learned ‘Empathy is Revolutionary’ From Vietnam ..." }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "sorry to break up the circle jerk but Barbarella is my president.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.260702133178711, "source": "search", "title": "Jane Fonda Learned ‘Empathy is Revolutionary’ From Vietnam ..." }, { "answer": "Barbarella", "passage": "Barbarella? huh? 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After peaceful floating in zero-gravity, astronaut Barbarella lands on the frozen planet Lythion and sets out to find renowned scientist Durand Durand in the City of Night, Sogo, where a new sin is invented every hour. There, she encounters such objects as the Excessive Machine, a genuine sex organ on which an expert artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who can make her fantasies take form in her Chamber of Dreams, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which dispenses Essence of Man through a poor victim struggling in its glass globe. You can not help but be impressed by the special effects crew and the various ways that were found to tear off what minimal clothes our heroine seemed to possess. 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And Barbarella with the Black Queen. And the Black Queen with the Rolling Stones. And if you don't know what camp is, then you have to see Barbarella: even if the film is more sublime than camp, a kind of psychedelic Brechtian fantasia. (If that's not a contradiction in terms, then this isn't on my sci-fi shortlist.) One to own, to watch again and again.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.26913595199585, "source": "search", "title": "Barbarella (1968) - IMDb" } ]

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Hepburn’s first came for 1933’s Morning Glory, whose title derived from whether her actress character would have a long career or fade “like a morning glory.” And Hepburn’s award winning did fade: She went from a 26-year-old phenom getting a statuette for her third film to being labeled “box-office poison” in a 1938 exhibitors poll.", "precise_score": 6.745683670043945, "rough_score": 7.166626930236816, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn Won Four Oscars, Never Recevied Them At ..." }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Katharine Hepburn (12); with four wins (Morning Glory (1932/33), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), On Golden Pond (1981)); two nominations were consecutive (from 1955-1956); two wins were consecutive (1967-1968)", "precise_score": 4.398012638092041, "rough_score": 4.203786849975586, "source": "search", "title": "Academy Awards Best Actress - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Katharine Hepburn, two consecutive Best Actress Oscars in four wins, for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968)", "precise_score": 6.988387584686279, "rough_score": 7.4906907081604, "source": "search", "title": "Academy Awards Best Actress - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Cate Blanchett won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as legendary, four-time Oscar winning actress Katharine Hepburn who had an affair with billionaire Howard Hughes, in The Aviator (2004) - the only instance of a performer winning an Academy Award for playing a real-life Oscar winner (Katharine Hepburn)", "precise_score": 6.435951232910156, "rough_score": 7.194153785705566, "source": "search", "title": "Academy Awards Best Actress - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Faye Dunaway was the only performer who won an Academy Award Oscar of her own (Best Actress for Network (1976) ) and then went on to portray in the film Mommie Dearest (1981) a real-life star, Joan Crawford, who won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Mildred Pierce (1945) . 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Hepburn did not accept any of her 4 wins (for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981). The others are Claudette Colbert , Judy Holliday , Joan Crawford , Vivien Leigh , Anna Magnani , Ingrid Bergman , Sophia Loren , Anne Bancroft , Patricia Neal , Elizabeth Taylor , Maggie Smith , Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn .", "precise_score": 3.769099235534668, "rough_score": 1.4668965339660645, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Meryl Streep could equal Katharine Hepburn's 4 Oscars this weekend if she wins for Into the Woods Photo: Rex Features/Getty Images", "precise_score": 4.419134140014648, "rough_score": 3.3751871585845947, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2015: Is Meryl Streep any match for Katharine Hepburn" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "If Meryl Streep is named Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards on Sunday – for her heavily made-up turn as a singing witch in Into the Woods , no less – she will match Katharine Hepburn’s record haul of four Oscars. 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She quickly bought the film rights, and so was able to negotiate her way back to Hollywood on her own terms, including her choice of director and co-stars. The film version of The Philadelphia Story (1940), was a box-office hit, and Hepburn, who won her third Oscar nomination for the film, was bankable again. For her next film, Woman of the Year (1942), she was paired with Spencer Tracy , and the chemistry between them lasted for eight more films, spanning the course of 25 years, and a romance that lasted that long off-screen. (She received her fourth Oscar nomination for the film.) Their films included the very successful Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), and Desk Set (1957).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.348199844360352, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "With The African Queen (1951), Hepburn moved into middle-aged spinster roles, receiving her fifth Oscar nomination for the film. She played more of these types of roles throughout the 50s, and won more Oscar nominations for many of them, including her roles in Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Her film roles became fewer and farther between in the 60s, as she devoted her time to her ailing partner Spencer Tracy. For one of her film appearances in this decade, in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), she received her ninth Oscar nomination. After a five-year absence from films, she then made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), her last film with Tracy and the last film Tracy ever made; he died just weeks after finishing it. It garnered Hepburn her tenth Oscar nomination and her second win. 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Problem is, if you're not careful, it stops the rest of you too. My head just shakes, but I promise you, it ain't gonna fall off!\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.019087791442871, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Was a direct descendant of England's King John through one of his illegitimate children. Hepburn played King John's mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, in The Lion in Winter (1968).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.854565620422363, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "On American Film Institute's list of \"Top 100 U.S. Love Stories,\" compiled in June 2002, Hepburn led all actresses with six of her films on the list. (Actor Cary Grant , co-star with her in two of them, led the male field, also with six films on list). The duo's The Philadelphia Story (1940) was ranked #44 and their Bringing Up Baby (1938) ranked #51. 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Each of their six children were given Mrs. Hepburn's maiden name for their middle names.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.954087257385254, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Her maternal grandfather; her father's brother, Charlie; and her older brother, Tom, all committed suicide. These tragedies were never talked about in her family. Ms. Hepburn said of her parents, \"There was nothing to be done about these matters and [my parents] simply did not believe in moaning about anything.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.252020835876465, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "On June 2004 Sotheby's auction house hosted a two-day estate sale auctioning personal belongings of the legendary actress to collectors. The 700-plus items included Hepburn's furniture, jewelry (which included the platinum, diamond and sapphire brooch from one-time lover Howard Hughes which fetched $120,000, six times its estimated price); paperwork (such as personal checks, telegrams, birth certificates, letters, film contracts, movie scripts), and nomination certificates from the Academy Awards. Among other items were casual clothes, and gowns that included her unusual wedding dress to Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928, made of crushed white velvet with antiqued gold embroidery, which sold for $27,000. Also in the lot were house decorations drawings and paintings done by the actress herself, glamour portraits, and a glass bronze sculpture entitled \"Angel on a Wave\", which sold for $90,000; while a self-portrait entitled \"Breakfast in Bed and a Self-Portrait in Brisbane, Australia\", fetched $33,000, some 40 times the estimated price. Movie memorabilia included a ring from 1968's The Lion in Winter (1968), and Gertrude, the canoe from the film On Golden Pond (1981) which was bought for $19,200 by entertainer Wayne Newton . The most sought-after piece and the most expensive item was the bronze bust of Spencer Tracy that Hepburn created herself and that was also featured in their Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). The audience cheered when the three-inch sculpture sold for $316,000, compared to the estimated $3,000-$5,000. The only awards won by the actress that were auctioned were her 1958 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, the annual Shakespeare Club of New York City award, the Fashion Desinger Lifetime Achievement, a few Box Office Blue Ribbons, her Hollywood Walk of Fame plaque and the 1990 Kennedy Center Honor. Hepburn's four Oscars were not included due to contract reasons.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.769134521484375, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "In The Lion in Winter (1968) she plays the mother of Richard the Lionheart, who is played by Anthony Hopkins . Hopkins later said that Hepburn's voice was, in part, the basis for Hannibal Lecter's voice.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.545357704162598, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "According to Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley's book \"Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s\", Hepburn was a leftist in her politics in the 1940s. When the Conference of Studio Unions, headed by suspected Communist Party member Herb Sorrell, launched a strike in 1946-1947 against the studios and fought other unions for control over Hollywood's collective bargaining, she expressed support for him (Sorrell was kidnapped, beaten, and left for dead, during the strike, possibly by the Mafia, which up until the early 1940s, had controlled the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which was contesting the CSU for jurisdiction over Hollywood unions.) At a Screen Writers Guild meeting during the CSU strike, She also made a speech which anti-communist, anti-CSU SAG activist Ronald Reagan recognized as being based word for word on a CSU strike bulletin. She ignored lover Spencer Tracy 's admonition that actors should stay out of politics (\"Remember who shot Lincoln\"). Despite their family's wealth, her mother had been sympathetic to Marxism and the Soviet Union. On May 19, 1947, Hepburn addressed a Progressive Party rally at the Hollywood Legion Stadium with Progressive Party stalwart and later presidential candidate Henry Wallace (with a crowd that included the likes of Judy Garland , Edward G. Robinson , Lena Horne , Charles Chaplin , Gene Kelly , Frank Sinatra , Ava Gardner and Danny Kaye ), the former vice president of the U.S. who had been sacked from President Harry S. Truman 's cabinet for being pro-Soviet. Wearing a red dress, Hepburn delivered a speech, written by Communist Party member and soon-to-be indicted Hollywood Ten member Dalton Trumbo . When another Hollywood Ten screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. , (winner of an Oscar for writing her picture Woman of the Year (1942), was jailed, she wrote a letter of support for him. Years later, in 1964, when Lardner was trying to get Tracy to star in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), he thanked Hepburn her support. She told him she didn't remember writing the letter and refused to talk about it.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.932150840759277, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Became very fond of Christopher Reeve , both as an actor and as a person, when he made his Broadway debut opposite her in the 1978 production of \"A Matter of Gravity\". She became so fond of him that she used to tease him that she wanted him to take care of her when she retired. Ironically, his reply was \"Miss Hepburn, I don't think I'll live that long\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.284355163574219, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Kate Bosworth has said that Hepburn was her primary inspiration for her portrayal of \"Lois Lane\" in Superman Returns (2006).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.928886413574219, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Did not attend Spencer Tracy 's funeral out of respect to his family. Instead she went to the home of writer/director 'Richard Brooks (I)' where she watched, and wept, as he screened Tracy 's Oscar-winning performance in Captains Courageous (1937) for her. Later, Brooks and his wife 'Jean Simmons' named their only child, Kate Brooks , after Hepburn.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.603897571563721, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "A resident for most of her life of Manhattan's row of brownstone dwellings renowned as Turtle Bay Gardens, Hepburn lived in the four-story building at 244 East 49th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues). Famous neighbors over the years included, Robert Benton , Stephen Sondheim , Garson Kanin and wife Ruth Gordon .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.842264175415039, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Was nominated 12 times for the Academy Award, all as Best Actress, and won four times. Jack Nicholson also has 12 nominations (8 as Best Actor and 4 Best Supporting Actor nominations) and three wins (two Best Actor trophies and one Best Supporting Actor gong). Hepburn beat out previous acting nomination record holder Bette Davis (a double winner who was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award, all of them Best Actress nods, and who had also received a write-in nomination in 1934, which was unofficial) with her 11th nod and 3rd win for The Lion in Winter (1968) (a record she extended with her 12 nomination and fourth win for On Golden Pond (1981). Hepburn herself was surpassed by Meryl Streep , with 17 nods (14 in the Best Actress category, 3 in the Best Supporting Actress category) and three wins (two in the Best Actress category and one Best supporting actress award). While it is possible that Nicholson and Streep might equal her four Oscar acting wins, it is improbable that her record of four wins in the top category will ever be surpassed.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.6199328899383545, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Godmother of Stanley Kramer 's daughter Katharine. She was named after Hepburn, who was directed by Kramer in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.089993953704834, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "One of her closest friends, Canadian portrait artist Myfanwy Pavelic died on May 11, 2007, one day short of Hepburn's 100th birthday anniversary.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.937071800231934, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Thought very highly of the acting talents of Jeremy Irons and John Lithgow . She particularly disliked Meryl Streep , claiming she could recognize Streep's constant search for tactics during a performance. Hepburn also thought Glenn Close talented, but said openly Close's feet were too big for audiences to take her seriously as an actress.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.25697135925293, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "The intersection of East 49th Street and Second Avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City was renamed \"Katharine Hepburn Place\" shortly after her passing. Hepburn lived in a brownstone (244 East 49th Street) which is close to the intersection.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.741025924682617, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Aunt of sculptor Mundy Hepburn .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.935694694519043, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Survived the Great New England Hurricane of Sept. 21, 1938 while at her summer home in the Borough of Fenwick in Old Saybrook, CT. Reportedly she was there considering a marriage proposal by Howard Hughes. The storm killed at least 682. Hepburn, her family and servants barely escaped with their lives: Soon after fleeing it on foot in the storm, her home was washed away along with her Oscar for her film Morning Glory (1933) which was later found intact. Hepburn rebuilt the home in 1939, and was locally famous for running people off \"her\" (public) beach in her later years.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.288578033447266, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "In 2010, Jason Bateman , who was in one of Hepburn's last movies, This Can't Be Love (1994), told New York Magazine that the legend only wore white Reebok high-top sneakers on and off the set. If a scene called for her to be wearing something fancier, she would wear black socks over the white sneakers.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.983688354492188, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Hepburn's record-setting affiliation with New York's legendary Radio City Music Hall will likely never be challenged. Beginning with Christopher Strong (1933) in 1933, seventeen consecutive films of hers played in the huge theater.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.883599281311035, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Release of the book, \"At Home with Kate: Growing Up in Katharine Hepburn's Household\" by Eileen Considine-Meara, daughter of Norah Considine (Kate's longtime cook and housekeeper). [2007]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.641366958618164, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Release of the book, \"Kate: The Woman who was Hepburn\" by William J. Mann. 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It's what I wish for you...a life with no regrets'.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.786214828491211, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Of Jewish descent, she was a paternal great-granddaughter of a Jewish Christian whose name was Sewell Hepbron. Sewell Hepbron may have been a Levite, given that one of Katherine's uncles was named Charles Levin Hepburn; and he seems to have changed the name \"Hebron\" to \"Hepbron\", which Katherine's grandfather (Sewell's child) Samuel, an Episcopalian priest, changed to the Anglophonic \"Hepburn\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.726726531982422, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Who is Katharine Hepburn? 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Two Telegraph writers explain why Hepburn and Streep deserve all the plaudits", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.078546047210693, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2015: Is Meryl Streep any match for Katharine Hepburn" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "KATHARINE HEPBURN", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.319530010223389, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2015: Is Meryl Streep any match for Katharine Hepburn" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Anyone who imagines that Katharine Hepburn could ever be eclipsed is – to use Hepburn-esque language – a fool. She was simply awesome, as the thousands currently flocking to the BFI Southbank’s Hepburn season would passionately endorse.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.726170539855957, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2015: Is Meryl Streep any match for Katharine Hepburn" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "A class act as an actor and a human being, Hepburn was a born grafter. When her career took a nose in the late Thirties, she engineered her own triumphant return in The Philadelphia Story (1940), designed to reveal the tender side of her patrician persona.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.858183860778809, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2015: Is Meryl Streep any match for Katharine Hepburn" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "As an individual, she was no less bold. The public was forced to learn to love her for her bluntness, standoffishness, and boyish style, and love her they did. Hepburn was the woman who wore the trousers, literally and metaphorically. Even if Streep does win her fourth Oscar, she will not – and could never – come near. 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Little girls of all ages would cry: “Jo March in Little Women (1933)”.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.745437622070312, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2015: Is Meryl Streep any match for Katharine Hepburn" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "On being introduced to Jane Fonda on the set of On Golden Pond (1981), Hepburn declared: “I don’t like you.” Fonda recalled: “It was a terrible moment… someone only a notch below God was damning me.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3533296585083, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2015: Is Meryl Streep any match for Katharine Hepburn" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Dorothy Parker on Hepburn’s Broadway appearance in The Lake in 1934: “Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.” When Hepburn vied for the role of Scarlett O’Hara, producer David O Selznick remarked: “I can’t see Rhett Butler chasing you for 12 years.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.900440216064453, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2015: Is Meryl Streep any match for Katharine Hepburn" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.106070518493652, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.129305362701416, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Katharine Hepburn", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.319530010223389, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Search Amazon for Katharine Hepburn", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.7974371910095215, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "She was born Katharine Houghton Hepburn on May 12, 1907, in Hartford, CT. Her father was a well known urologist and her mother a feminist suffragette and an early advocate of birth control. Katharine had a comforable upbringing with her three brothers and two sisters and was encouraged by her parents to be independent minded and self disciplined.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.8221330642700195, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Hepburn received her primary education at the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut, before going on to Bryn Mawr College where she graduated in history and philosophy in 1928. Whilst there she met and married Ludlow Ogden Smith, a New York businessman. Smith was to become a lifelong friend and financial support but the marriage was a stormy one and did not survive Katharine's driven theatrical ambition. They spent less and less time together and finally divorced in 1934.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.213738441467285, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "The following year (1933), Hepburn won her first Oscar in 'Morning Glory', for her compelling portrayal of the ingenue Eve Lovelace who focuses on career instead of romance. In the same year, she played Jo in the record-breaking screen adaptation of 'Little Women' and she earned her second Oscar nomination in 1935 in the title role of 'Alice Adams'. In a few years she had become a major Hollywood star but she then had a series of box-office failures. 'Spitfire' in 1934, 'Break of Hearts' and 'Sylvia Scarlett' the following year, 'Mary of Scotland' in 1936, and 'Quality Street' in 1937 were all unpopular. Even the wonderful screwball comedy 'Bringing Up Baby' in 1938, with Hepburn and Cary Grant at their comedic best was not well received by the public although it is now revered as a comedy classic.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.623065948486328, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "She was voted 'Box Office Poison' in 1938 but she was in good company - Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río and Marlene Dietrich were also similarly voted. Part of Hepburn's problem in the early years of her career was her disregard for the normal conventions of acceptable film star behaviour. She rarely wore makeup, she wore trousers most of the time, before it was fashionable to do so, she often refused to give autographs or pose for photographs, and she gave sharp answers to reporters' questions, (\"Two white and three colored,\" was her answer when asked if she had any children).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.509593963623047, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Hepburn recognised that her fledgling movie career was sliding and she fought back strongly. She first acquired the film rights to Philip Barry's play 'Holiday' and then, in 1938, with Cukor directing, appeared in it, co-starring at her dazzling best with Cary Grant. She built on that success by commissioning a new play from Barry and after playing it successfully on Broadway, she sold it, with herself and Cukor to MGM. The resulting movie, 'The Philadelphia Story', came out in 1940 and was a critical and box-office triumph, showing Hepburn at her majestic best as the spoilt heiress Tracy Lord, along with the considerable talents of Cary Grant and James Stewart. She received another Best Actress Nomination and the revival of her career was triumphantly accomplished.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.477210998535156, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "After her stormy marriage to Ludlow Smith in the early 1930's, Hepburn was romantically linked to several men including Hollywood agent Leland Hayward and multimillionaire Howard Hughes, but the love of her life was undoubtedly Spencer Tracy. After falling in love on the set of 'Woman of the Year' theirs became one of Hollywood's most famous, and most secret, romances. They never married, as Tracy, a strict Catholic would not divorce his estranged wife and although they were undeniably a loving couple they maintained separate homes to give the impression of living apart.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.361369132995605, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "By her own high standards, Hepburn's next few films during the mid to late 1940's were very average but then she hit top form again with the wonderfully witty 'Adam's Rib' in 1949, her third movie with Tracy. Then in 1951 she co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in 'The African Queen' playing a prim and proper spinster missionary in Africa during World War I, who convinces a hard-drinking riverboat captain (Bogart), to use his boat to attack a German ship. She received her fifth Best Actress nomination, losing out to Vivien Leigh in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.775592803955078, "source": "search", "title": "Katharine Hepburn - Hollywood's Golden Age" }, { "answer": "Hepburn", "passage": "Hepburn never forgot her theatrical side and in 1952 appeared in London in an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 'The Millionairess'. 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The scene of Gump running across the country is often referred to when real-life people attempt the feat. In 2011, the Library of Congress selected Forrest Gump for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". ", "precise_score": 2.7744088172912598, "rough_score": 3.7366654872894287, "source": "wiki", "title": "Forrest Gump" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Nineteen years ago today, on July 6, 1994, one of the great American epics was released. \"Forrest Gump\" became a staple of movie culture, producing one of the most indelible title characters of all time. 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[His character followed in the tradition of similar characters in King of Hearts (1966), Being There (1979), and Rain Man (1988).]", "precise_score": 8.813582420349121, "rough_score": 8.411564826965332, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Academy Awards® Winners - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Tom Hanks won his second Oscar in a row for his expertly sympathetic performance as the kind-hearted man-child who introduces himself with the line, \"My name is Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.\" Waiting for a bus, Forrest relates his amazingly eventful life story through a series of flashbacks that span thirty years of post-war American history. He lives through the Vietnam war and - thanks to director Robert Zemeckis' dazzling use of digital effects - crosses paths with everyone from former US President Richard Nixon to Beatle John Lennon.", "precise_score": 9.049707412719727, "rough_score": 8.149238586425781, "source": "search", "title": "Film - Forrest Gump - Into Film" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic romantic-comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a slow-witted but kind-hearted, good-natured and athletically prodigious man from Alabama who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States; more specifically, the period between Forrest's birth in 1944 and 1982. The film differs substantially from Winston Groom's novel, including Gump's personality and several events that were depicted.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.4903937578201294, "source": "wiki", "title": "Forrest Gump" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "In 1981, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) sits at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia. As a feather floats down toward him, he picks it up and recalls his childhood in Greenbow, Alabama during the 1950s, being raised by a single mother (Sally Field), and having to wear leg braces. Despite being intellectually challenged, Forrest is admitted to public school.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.864156484603882, "source": "wiki", "title": "Forrest Gump" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "* Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump: Though at an early age he is deemed to have a below average IQ of 75, he has an endearing character and shows devotion to his loved ones and duties, character traits which bring him into many life-changing situations. Along the way, he encounters many historical figures and events throughout his life. Tom's younger brother Jim Hanks is his acting double in the movie for the scenes when Forrest runs across America. Tom's daughter Elizabeth Hanks appears in the movie as the girl on the school bus who refuses to let young Forrest (Michael Conner Humphreys) sit next to her. John Travolta was the original choice to play the title role, and admits passing on the role was a mistake. Bill Murray and Chevy Chase were also considered for the role. Hanks revealed that he signed onto the film after an hour and a half of reading the script. He initially wanted to ease Forrest's pronounced Southern accent, but was eventually persuaded by director Robert Zemeckis to portray the heavy accent stressed in the novel. Hanks agreed to take the role only on the condition that the film was historically accurate. Michael Conner Humphreys portrayed the young Forrest Gump. Hanks revealed in interviews that after hearing Michael's unique accented drawl, he incorporated it into the older character's accent. Winston Groom, who wrote the original novel, describes the film as having taken the \"rough edges\" off of the character, and envisioned him being played by John Goodman. 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The love of his life, wonderfully played by Robin Wright Penn, chooses a different path; she becomes a drug-addled hippie, with disastrous results.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.191279649734497, "source": "wiki", "title": "Forrest Gump" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "On the very first page of the sequel novel, Forrest Gump tells readers \"Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story,\" though \"Whether they get it right or wrong, it doesn't matter.\" The first chapter of the book suggests the real-life events surrounding the film have been incorporated into Forrest's storyline, and that Forrest got a lot of media attention as a result of the film. During the course of the sequel novel, Gump runs into Tom Hanks and at the end of the novel in the film's release, including Gump going on The David Letterman Show and attending the Academy Awards.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.431064128875732, "source": "wiki", "title": "Forrest Gump" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Tom Hanks Wins Best Actor: 1995 Oscars - YouTube", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.087676048278809, "source": "search", "title": "Tom Hanks Wins Best Actor: 1995 Oscars - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Tom Hanks Wins Best Actor: 1995 Oscars", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.276541709899902, "source": "search", "title": "Tom Hanks Wins Best Actor: 1995 Oscars - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Photos: Three Oscar-winning performers: Dianne Wiest, left, in \"Bullets Over Broadway\" (Brian Hamill/Miramax Films); Tom Hanks, center right, with Gary Sinise in \"Forrest Gump,\" (Phil Caruso/Paramount Pictures) and Martin Landau in \"Ed Wood.\" (Suzanne Tenner/Touchstone Pictures)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.131937265396118, "source": "search", "title": "'Forrest Gump' Triumphs With 6 Academy Awards - NYTimes.com" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "On this day in 1994, the movie Forrest Gump opens in U.S. theaters. 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And three of the four Oscar winners in the acting categories were second-time winners:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.043087482452393, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Academy Awards® Winners - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Tom Hanks", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.472829818725586, "source": "search", "title": "1994 Academy Awards® Winners - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Born in the small Alabama town of Greenbo, and raised by his single mother, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is a below-average kid with a small I.Q.. His mother is determined to get her young son a good education just like everyone else. Forrest's life is, as his mother liked to say, \"like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.586156845092773, "source": "search", "title": "Forrest Gump (1994) - Oscar Movies" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Tom Hanks is not Tom Hanks in this picture. He is Forrest Gump. Hanks lost something like 30 pounds to play this role, and clich�d as it may sound, Tom Hanks is amazing as Forrest Gump. Hot off the heels of his Oscar win for Philadelphia, Tom won another for his incredible performance as the simplistic but kindly Forrest. It isn't Tom Hanks we are watching, it's Forrest Gump. Good actors make you forget who they are; Tom does that here, too.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.945033848285675, "source": "search", "title": "Forrest Gump (1994) - Oscar Movies" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Director Robert Zemeckis perfectly captures each era of American history, The older generations can easily relate to each era. We like seeing Forrest go through each time period. We marvel at young Forrest and Jenny, how cute they are. We marvel at him becoming a ping-pong champion. We marvel at him meeting the presidents, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. We marvel so much we miss the fact that Tom Hanks never actually met these guys.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.091022491455078, "source": "search", "title": "Forrest Gump (1994) - Oscar Movies" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "The Visual effects of the film are stunning; Tom Hanks was actually inserted into vintage clips of all three presidents. The President's voices were re-recorded by other actors, and bang! You have a vintage clip of Forrest Gump meeting JFK. But the visuals don't stop there. Like was stated above, Gary Sinise had his legs digitally removed so he played half his part without being able to use his legs. In one scene they even remove his legs and give him metal rods to walk on. The visual effects don't stop there, either; suffice to say, they flawlessly help the story along. When the Academy Awards broadcast showed Gump winning best visual effects, I wondered \"What visual effects?\" I quickly found out, and yah, Gump was the right choice.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.062326908111572, "source": "search", "title": "Forrest Gump (1994) - Oscar Movies" }, { "answer": "Tom Hanks", "passage": "Forrest Gump is one long yarn filled with iconic images, iconic songs and iconic phrases; The amazing visual effects and three Oscar-worthy performances not to be missed. In part, because of Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks is one of the greatest actors of the 1990's and of his generation. Watch Forrest Gump. 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The Palm Springs International Film Festival is honored to present this year's Icon Award to Tom Hanks.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.158264636993408, "source": "search", "title": "Tom Hanks - Awards - IMDb" } ]

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His Charlie is wound up a little too tightly by the wishes of his recently deceased father to leave his fortune to Charlie’s brother Raymond, a brother Charlie didn’t know he had. He’s angry at his father, angry at his brother, and everyone around him as he struggles to come to terms with the aftermath of his father’s death. 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The critical consensus states \"This road-trip movie about an autistic savant and his callow brother is far from seamless, but Barry Levinson's direction is impressive, and strong performances from Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman add to its appeal.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.991268634796143, "source": "wiki", "title": "Rain Man" }, { "answer": "Dustin Hoffman", "passage": "Rain Man won Academy Awards for Best Picture; Best Actor in a Leading Role (Dustin Hoffman); Best Director; and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. It was nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Ida Random, Linda DeScenna); Best Cinematography (John Seale); Best Film Editing; and Best Music, Original Score (Hans Zimmer). 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Conversely, Rain Man has also been seen as dispelling a number of other misconceptions about autism, and improving public awareness of the failure of many agencies to accommodate autistic people and make use of the abilities they do have, regardless of whether they have savant skills or not. 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[ { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "He found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). After his film True Lies (1994) Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, Titanic (1997), which earned him Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Film Editing.", "precise_score": 5.129664897918701, "rough_score": -3.001605987548828, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "After Titanic, Cameron began a project that took almost 10 years to make: his science-fiction epic Avatar (2009), which was in particular a landmark for 3D technology, and for which he received nominations for the same three Academy Awards. In the time between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films (specifically underwater documentaries) and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. Described by a biographer as part scientist and part artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies.Parisi P (1998). Titanic and the making of James Cameron: The inside story of the three-year adventure that rewrote motion picture history. New York: Newmarket. [https://books.google.com/books?idKbKXvTvkALYC&printsec", "precise_score": 0.38492274284362793, "rough_score": -3.0114293098449707, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Cameron has been married five times to the following spouses: Sharon Williams (1978–1984), Gale Anne Hurd (1985–1989), director Kathryn Bigelow (1989–1991), Linda Hamilton (1997–1999, daughter Josephine born in 1993), and Suzy Amis (2000–present). Cameron had dated Hamilton since 1991. Eight months after the marriage, however, they separated, and within days of Cameron's Oscar victory with Titanic, the couple announced their divorce. As part of the divorce settlement, Cameron was ordered to pay Hamilton $50 million.[http://www.zimbio.com/The+10+Most+Expensive+Celebrity+Divorces/articles/0pbKGq2F82u/7+James+Cameron+Linda+Hamilton+50+million #7: James Cameron and Linda Hamilton: $50 million – The 10 Most Expensive Celebrity Divorces – Zimbio] Hamilton later revealed that the reason for their divorce was not only Cameron's blind devotion to his work to the exclusion of almost everything else, but also that he had been having an affair with Suzy Amis, an actress he cast as Lizzy Calvert in Titanic. He married Amis in 2000, and they have one son and two daughters. Cameron lives in New Zealand, a country he fell in love with when he was filming Avatar. ", "precise_score": 0.058114636689424515, "rough_score": -3.0876805782318115, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "The score for director James Cameron’ s epic, 3D sci-fi adventure Avatar was composed by longtime collaborator James Horner , who won an Oscar for his work on the director’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic. Never one to shy away from familiar motifs, the vaguely wistful, mostly magical main theme that weaves its’ way throughout the film relies unapologetically on the composer’s Titanic love theme (try humming the first three notes of the chorus to the Horner -penned, Celine Dion smash My Heart Will Go On), but the overall feel of the score owes more to Ennio Morricone' s iconic work on the Mission, utilizing an atmospheric blend of native drums and choirs with lush, traditional adventure orchestration. In an attempt to double up on his success with Dion in 1997, Cameron and Horner recruited English pop and R&B, post-reality show singer Leona Lewis for the torch ballad I See You, a forgettable piece of grocery store balladry that (unlike the schmaltzy, but appropriate My Heart Will Go On) feels ridiculously out of place, especially in a film about 10 foot tall blue aliens.", "precise_score": 7.370913982391357, "rough_score": 7.927485942840576, "source": "search", "title": "Avatar - James Horner | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "And while Avatar director James Cameron may have had the Academy Awards pedigree - his last blockbuster Titanic picked up a record-equalling 11 awards in 1998 - it was Miss Bigelow who triumphed at the 82nd Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.", "precise_score": 6.101923942565918, "rough_score": 7.3501434326171875, "source": "search", "title": "James Cameron won the divorce... but Kathryn Bigelow got ..." }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Don't worry, Jack Dawson lovers! Leonardo DiCaprio has only good things to say about his 1997 blockbuster hit Titanic. 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(Titanic remained at the top until Cameron's own Avatar (2009) surpassed it 12 years later at $760.5 million (domestic).) It was the first film with a budget of $200 million, and it was the first movie to gross $1 billion (worldwide). When adjusted for inflation, however, Cleopatra (1963) had the highest budget of any film, and Gone with the Wind (1939) remained the highest grossing.", "precise_score": 2.2947134971618652, "rough_score": -0.07907886058092117, "source": "search", "title": "Film History Milestones - 1997 - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "The blockbuster film Titanic (1997) had a record-tying fourteen nominations and won a record-tying eleven Academy Awards (duplicating the feat of All About Eve (1950) ). That made it the second of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. It was also the second film to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture - it tied Ben-Hur (1959) with eleven Oscar wins - the most Oscar wins of any film in Academy Awards history. [ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) would equal the feat in six years with 11 wins.]", "precise_score": 2.1324682235717773, "rough_score": 4.21117639541626, "source": "search", "title": "Film History Milestones - 1997 - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "There were only two instances in which the same movie character was Oscar-nominated within the same film. The first instance was in Titanic (1997), where the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater was played by nominees Gloria Stuart and Kate Winslet. 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Cameron also holds the achievement of having directed two of the three films in history to gross over $2 billion worldwide. In March 2011, he was named Hollywood's top earner by Vanity Fair, with estimated 2010 earnings of $257 million. In October 2013, a new species of frog Pristimantis jamescameroni from Venezuela was named after him in recognition of his efforts in environmental awareness, in addition to his public promotion of veganism. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.097172737121582, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Titanic (1997) ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.298686981201172, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Released to theaters on December 19, 1997, Titanic grossed less in its first weekend ($28.6 million) than in its second ($35.4 million), an increase of 23.8%. This is unheard of for a widely released film, which is a testament to the movie's appeal. This was especially noteworthy, considering that the film's running time of more than three hours limited the number of showings each theater could schedule. It held the No. 1 spot on the box-office charts for months, eventually grossing a total of $600.8 million in the United States and Canada and more than $1.84 billion worldwide. Titanic became the highest-grossing film of all time, both worldwide and in the United States and Canada, and was also the first film to gross more than $1 billion worldwide. It remained the highest-grossing film since 1998, until Cameron's 2009 film Avatar surpassed its gross in 2010. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.570326805114746, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "In March 2010, Cameron revealed that Titanic would be re-released in 3D in April 2012, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the real ship. On March 27, 2012, Cameron attended the world première with Kate Winslet at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Following the re-release, Titanic's domestic total was pushed to $658.6 million and more than $2.18 billion worldwide. It became the second film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide (the first being Avatar).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.213831901550293, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "In 1998 James and John David Cameron formed a digital media company, earthship.tv, which became Earthship Productions. The company produced live multimedia documentaries from the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. With Earthship Productions, John Cameron's recent projects have included undersea documentaries on the (Expedition: Bismarck, 2002) and the (Ghosts of the Abyss (2003, in IMAX 3D) and Tony Robinson's Titanic Adventure (2005)). He was a producer on the 2002 film Solaris, and narrated The Exodus Decoded.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.642459392547607, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "As a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, Cameron re-investigated the sinking of the Titanic with eight experts in 2012. The investigation was featured in the TV documentary special Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron, which premiered on April 8 on the National Geographic Channel. In the conclusion of the analysis, the consensus revised the CGI animation of the sinking conceived in 1995. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.503557205200195, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Avatar had an estimated budget of over $300 million and was released on December 18, 2009. This marked his first feature film since 1997's Titanic. It is composed almost entirely of computer-generated animation, using a more-advanced version of the \"performance capture\" technique used by director Robert Zemeckis in The Polar Express. James Cameron had written an 80-page scriptment for Avatar in 1995 and announced in 1996 that he would make the film after completing Titanic. In December 2006, Cameron explained that the delay in producing the film since the 1990s had been to wait until the technology necessary to create his project was advanced enough, since at the time no studio would finance for the development of the visual effects. The film was originally scheduled to be released in May 2009 but was pushed back to December 2009 to allow more time for post-production on the complex CGI and to give more time for theatres worldwide to install 3D projectors. Cameron originally intended Avatar to be 3D-only. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.183638572692871, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Avatar broke several box office records during its initial theatrical run. It grossed $749.7 million in the United States and Canada and more than $2.74 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time in the United States and Canada, surpassing Cameron's Titanic. Avatar also became the first movie to ever earn more than $2 billion worldwide. Including revenue from the re-release of Avatar featuring extended footage, it grossed $760.5 million in the U.S. and Canada and more than $2.78 billion worldwide. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.128903388977051, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Hurd was the producer of Cameron's The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss, and the executive producer of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Hamilton played the role of Sarah Connor in both Terminator films. Amis played the part of Lizzy Calvert, Rose's granddaughter, in Titanic. Both Cameron (Avatar) and Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) were nominated for the Oscar, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for Best Director for films released in 2009. Cameron won the Golden Globe, while Bigelow won the Oscar and the BAFTA for Best Director, becoming the first woman to win either. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.373173713684082, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Cameron became an expert on deep-sea exploration in conjunction with his research and underwater filming for The Abyss (1989) and Titanic (1997). In June 2010, Cameron met in Washington with the EPA to discuss possible solutions to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (BP) oil spill. Later that week at the All Things Digital Conference, he attracted some notoriety when he stated, \"Over the last few weeks I've watched...and been thinking, 'Those morons don't know what they're doing'.\" Reportedly, Cameron had offered BP help to plug the oil well, but it declined. The oil spill was eventually stopped using techniques similar to those Cameron recommended. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.136005401611328, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "After working with Cameron on Titanic, Kate Winslet decided she would not work with Cameron again unless she earned \"a lot of money\". She said that Cameron was a nice man, but she found his temper difficult to deal with. In an editorial, the British newspaper The Independent said that Cameron \"is a nightmare to work with. Studios have come to fear his habit of straying way over schedule and over budget. He is notorious on set for his uncompromising and dictatorial manner, as well as his flaming temper.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.442708969116211, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Composer James Horner refused to work with Cameron for a decade following their strained working relationship on 1986's Aliens. They eventually settled their differences, and Horner went on to score both Titanic and Avatar. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.943047046661377, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Cameron did not receive any major mainstream filmmaking awards prior to Titanic. For Titanic he won several including Academy Awards for Best Picture (shared with Jon Landau), Best Director and Best Film Editing (shared with Conrad Buff and Richard A. Harris). Cameron is one of the few filmmakers to win three Oscars in a single evening and Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.622754096984863, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Cameron has received numerous awards; mainly for Titanic and Avatar.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.674436569213867, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "The Abyss dealt with deep sea exploration (shot in an unfinished nuclear reactor filled with water) and Cameron himself became an expert in the field of deep-sea wreckage exploration, exploring the wreckage of the Titanic and the Bismarck. Cameron will return to this theme with The Dive, shooting from a minisub.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.035224914550781, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Cameron" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Historically, the \"Oscarcast\" has pulled in a bigger haul when box-office hits are favored to win the Best Picture trophy. More than 57.25 million viewers tuned to the telecast for the 70th Academy Awards in 1998, the year of Titanic, which generated close to US$600 million at the North American box office pre-Oscars. The 76th Academy Awards ceremony in which The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (pre-telecast box office earnings of US$368 million) received 11 Awards including Best Picture drew 43.56 million viewers. The most watched ceremony based on Nielsen ratings to date, however, was the 42nd Academy Awards (Best Picture Midnight Cowboy) which drew a 43.4% household rating on 7 April 1970. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.7722697257995605, "source": "wiki", "title": "Academy Awards" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "HELEN HUNT in \"As Good As It Gets\", Judi Dench in \"(Her Majesty) Mrs Brown\", Helena Bonham Carter in \"The Wings of the Dove\", Kate Winslet in \"Titanic\", Julie Christie in \"Afterglow\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.313433647155762, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "KIM BASINGER in \"L.A. 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The reconstructed ship in the film was three-quarters actual size.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.6088128089904785, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Titanic had a record number of nominations and wins - fourteen, tying the all-time record set by", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.102633476257324, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Both Titanic and", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.406536102294922, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Ben-Hur (1959) failed to win Best Original Screenplay (Titanic wasn't even nominated in the category), although both films won Best Picture and Best Director honors. 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Titanic lost only three awards for which it was nominated - its two acting nominations, and the Best Make-up nomination. The film wasn't even nominated for its screenplay, and it lost its two actress nominations, making it less of an acting film and more of a technical, craft-related masterpiece. Leonardo DiCaprio in a lead role opposite nominated Kate Winslet was denied a nomination. And 87 year-old veteran actress Gloria Stuart was denied an Oscar - the award would have made her the oldest recipient of an Oscar.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.388124465942383, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Titanic was the first Best Picture winner to be produced, directed, written and edited by the same individual - James Cameron. Cameron's win put him fifth in a long line of directors who have triple wins for director, writer, and producer for the same film: Leo McCarey for Going My Way (1944), Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960) , Francis Ford Coppola for", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.82070255279541, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Every director with a Best Picture nomination was a first-time Best Director nominee. The winner of the Best Director award was James Cameron for Titanic. The only director with a Best Picture nomination who wasn't included (and was snubbed) in the group of Best Director nominees was James Brooks. His spot in the Best Director line-up was taken by Canadian director/writer Atom Egoyan for his adaptation of Russell Banks' novel The Sweet Hereafter (with two nominations and no wins) about the aftermath of a tragic schoolbus accident in a small British Columbia town.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.875802040100098, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Kate Winslet (with her second nomination) as upper-class debutante Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.998449325561523, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "favored 87 year-old Gloria Stuart as Old Rose - the 101 year-old survivor of the disastrous ship accident in Titanic", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.43891429901123, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Titanic (1997) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.434514045715332, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.481245040893555, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Search for \" Titanic \" on Amazon.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.496651649475098, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning. Written by Anthony Pereyra <hypersonic91@yahoo.com>", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.243614196777344, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Shortly before Titanic's break-up, we see Charles Lightoller (Jonny Phillips) clinging to an overturned lifeboat. Lightoller actually went into the water just after the fall of Murdoch. He was either attempting to hide the suicide or a rescue. The suction of the ship pulled him down and Lightoller was underwater at the time of the breakup. He was freed when a boiler exploded and the warm air freed him from the suction, thus saving his life. He surfaced just as Titanic's stern was sinking. Lightoller did indeed believe the ship had sunk intact. Lightoller died in December of 1952; thirty-three years before the Titanic wreck was located (1985). 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Just once.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.94586181640625, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "The modern day opening is excellent,making effective use of some of Cameron's real footage he took of the sunken Titanic. There is a real sense of mystery. Than we flash back to the Titanic being boarded,and the film stalls just a little for around two hours. The attention to detail is amazing {even all the cutlery matched,you know} and there is nothing wrong with an extremely slow build up to action-think of The Seven Samourai. However,the central romance between Leo and Kate is often badly written and unconvincing. For a start Kate's Rose would certainly not have done two things she does in the film as quickly as she did {Obviously thousands of teenage girls seeing the film in 1997 would disagree with my views}. We also have to suffer Cameron constantly labouring the point that the poor people on the ship are better than the rich people.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.819626808166504, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Titanic has some excellent use of CGI {watch out for the transitions from present to the past on the sunken ship} and one glaringly bad special effect-the iceberg which looks like polystyrene. James Horner's best selling score is really quite poor and only occasionally brings the emotion it should do. Performances are generally excellent and sometimes succeed in overcoming some thin characterisation {such as Billy Zane as Rose's fiancée,who even has to suffer with far too much eye make up!}", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.337104797363281, "source": "search", "title": "Titanic (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Overall Titanic is still worth seeing,and sometimes it really does hit the heights that it should. 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This time out, Wallace and Gromit have teamed up to provide a window-washing service, and that's how Wallace meets the lovely Wendolene Ramsbottom, a wool-shop owner whose malevolent dog Preston turns out to be the mastermind of a sheep-napping scheme! Of course, no Wallace and Gromit adventure can be without a grandiose gadget, so Wallace's latest invention is the Knit-O-Matic, a yarn-making machine capable of shearing a whole flock of sheep just a bit too efficiently! When the villainous Preston gains control of the mechanical knitting marvel, Gromit must race to the rescue, and A Close Shave reaches new heights of clay-animation mastery. Every shot is a testament to Nick Park's patience, his clever ingenuity, and his film-making flair. The movie's so technically impressive, in fact, that the whole world wondered where Park could go next. 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It all begins on the morning of Gromit's birthday, when Wallace gives his beloved pooch the gift of his latest invention--a pair of mechanical \"techno-trousers\" that can be programmed to take Gromit out for \"walkies\" while Wallace sits comfortably at home. Gromit's not exactly thrilled with the new gadget, and things go from bad to worse when Wallace rents a room to a new boarder--a rather suspicious-looking penguin--to offset his rising expenses. As it turns out, the penguin's a notorious thief, and the amazing techno-trousers provide a foolproof method of pulling off a diamond heist! It's Gromit's big opportunity for canine heroics, and The Wrong Trousers turns into one of the funniest, most inventive caper-comedies ever made, with an action-packed climax on a speeding miniature train. Will the notorious \"Feathers\" wind up in jail where he belongs? Will Gromit finally get his due recognition? 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This time out, Wallace and Gromit have teamed up to provide a window-washing service, and that's how Wallace meets the lovely Wendolene Ramsbottom, a wool-shop owner whose malevolent dog Preston turns out to be the mastermind of a sheep-napping scheme! Of course, no Wallace and Gromit adventure can be without a grandiose gadget, so Wallace's latest invention is the Knit-O-Matic, a yarn-making machine capable of shearing a whole flock of sheep just a bit too efficiently! When the villainous Preston gains control of the mechanical knitting marvel, Gromit must race to the rescue, and A Close Shave reaches new heights of clay-animation mastery. Every shot is a testament to Nick Park's patience, his clever ingenuity, and his film-making flair. The movie's so technically impressive, in fact, that the whole world wondered where Park could go next. 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In their debut adventure, Wallace and his furry pal Gromit find themselves desperate for \"a nice bit of Gorgonzola\", but their refrigerator's empty and the local cheese shop is closed for a holiday! Undeterred, Wallace comes up with an extreme solution to the cheese shortage: since the moon is made of cheese (we all know that's true, right?), he decides to build a rocket ship and blast off for a cheesy lunar picnic! Gromit's only too happy to help, and before long the inventive duo is on the moon, where they encounter a clever appliance that's part oven, part robot, part lunar skiing enthusiast ... well, you just have to see the movie to understand how any of this whimsical lunar-cy can make any sense! 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As it turns out, the penguin's a notorious thief, and the amazing techno-trousers provide a foolproof method of pulling off a diamond heist! It's Gromit's big opportunity for canine heroics, and The Wrong Trousers turns into one of the funniest, most inventive caper-comedies ever made, with an action-packed climax on a speeding miniature train. Will the notorious \"Feathers\" wind up in jail where he belongs? Will Gromit finally get his due recognition? 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In their debut adventure, Wallace and his furry pal Gromit find themselves desperate for \"a nice bit of Gorgonzola\", but their refrigerator's empty and the local cheese shop is closed for a holiday! Undeterred, Wallace comes up with an extreme solution to the cheese shortage: since the moon is made of cheese (we all know that's true, right?), he decides to build a rocket ship and blast off for a cheesy lunar picnic! Gromit's only too happy to help, and before long the inventive duo is on the moon, where they encounter a clever appliance that's part oven, part robot, part lunar skiing enthusiast ... well, you just have to see the movie to understand how any of this whimsical lunar-cy can make any sense! It's a grand tale of wonderful discoveries, fantastic inventions--and really great cheese!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.905839920043945, "source": "search", "title": "Wallace And Gromit: Three Cracking Adventures DVD: Amazon ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "Fra", "passage": "Connery has been married to Moroccan-French painter Micheline Roquebrune (born 1929) since 1975. A keen golfer, Connery owned the Domaine de Terre Blanche in the South of France for twenty years (from 1979) where he planned to build his dream golf course on the 266 acre of land, but the dream was not realised until he sold it to German billionaire Dietmar Hopp in 1999. He has been awarded the rank of Shodan (1st dan) in Kyokushin karate. ", "precise_score": -1.3564893007278442, "rough_score": -7.023983478546143, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sean Connery" }, { "answer": "Friar", "passage": "The Name of the Rose is a 1986 Italian-French-German drama mystery film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Christian Slater is his apprentice Adso of Melk, who are called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey. 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He'd be walking down the street and people would say, \"Look, there's James Bond.\" That was particularly upsetting to him.\" While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other acclaimed films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and The Hill (1965). Apart from The Man Who Would Be King and The Wind and the Lion, both released in 1975, most of Connery's successes in the next decade were as part of ensemble casts in films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier. 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Aside from the rather unusual subject matter, this is a unique film in that it does not feature the usual starlets and pretty boy actors populating a glossy Hollywood-ized version of history; it actually looks and feels like a working Medieval abbey. And as such, the monks will win no beauty competitions! Most of them would look perfectly at home adorning the abbey walls with the rest of the gargoyles! This just adds to the already potent atmosphere, and in one of his best roles, Sean Connery commands the screen as well as the able supporting cast including the ever reliable Ron Perlman as the demented hunchback. The story explores the theme of religious intolerance and climate of hysteria in which a reasonable minded man of learning can find it impossible to function within; \"justice\" is doled out by self-appointed prophets who dare not be opposed on pain of death, and blind faith and superstition replace logic and reason. Let's face it, things haven't changed much over the centuries. Add some wonderfully literary and witty dialogue and fascinating historical insights, and you have a film that works both as an excellent adaptation and a satisfying murder mystery.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.6826090812683105, "source": "search", "title": "The Name of the Rose (Der Name der Rose) (1986) - Rotten ..." } ]

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Her second film direction, Home for the Holidays (1995), was not well-received commercially, while critical reviews were mixed.", "precise_score": 8.413172721862793, "rough_score": 4.047603607177734, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jodie Foster" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Foster's first film release after the success of The Accused was the thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She played FBI trainee Clarice Starling, who is sent to interview incarcerated serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in order to solve another serial murder case; Foster later named the role one of her favorites. She had read the novel it was based on after its publication in 1988 and had attempted to purchase its film rights, as it featured \"a real female heroine\" and its plot was not \"about steroids and brawn, [but] about using your mind and using your insufficiencies to combat the villain.\" Despite her enthusiasm, director Jonathan Demme did not initially want to cast her, but the producers overruled him. Demme's view of Foster changed during the production, and he later credited her for helping him define the character. ", "precise_score": 9.406768798828125, "rough_score": 7.149745464324951, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jodie Foster" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "In the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, she was played by Jodie Foster, while in the film adaptation of Hannibal, she was played by Julianne Moore.", "precise_score": 2.857161521911621, "rough_score": 2.6610710620880127, "source": "wiki", "title": "Clarice Starling" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Although she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster decided not to reprise her role in Hannibal. Julianne Moore portrayed the character in the sequel, with Anthony Hopkins himself recommending her for the role after his previous experience working with her in the film Surviving Picasso.", "precise_score": 5.306215763092041, "rough_score": 4.136546611785889, "source": "wiki", "title": "Clarice Starling" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Hannibal, the long awaited sequel to The Silence Of The Lambs, has finally been cast - without Jodie Foster. Instead, Julianne Moore is to play FBI agent Clarice Starling. Damon Wise explains the politics of casting and wonders how Moore will fare against Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter", "precise_score": 8.737710952758789, "rough_score": 8.207386016845703, "source": "search", "title": "Is that you, Clarice? | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Because, for now, Julianne Moore is one of America's sweethearts. So when Jodie Foster announced her decision to bow out of Hannibal , the long-awaited sequel to The Silence of The Lambs, to be directed by Ridley Scott, it seemed perfectly logical that Moore would make the short list. And it also reflects our rather perverse fascination with serious crime. Looking at the other names considered for the role of FBI agent Clarice Starling, the plucky young hick who develops a dangerous empathy with jailed murderer Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, there's a curious consistency. Gillian Anderson, Hilary Swank. Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow. The keywords here seem to be intelligent, vulnerable, fearless and - most important of all - beautiful.", "precise_score": 7.58309268951416, "rough_score": 6.736154079437256, "source": "search", "title": "Is that you, Clarice? | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "`Silence of the Lambs' is the story of a young FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) who is summoned to help find one serial killer called `Buffalo Bill.' by interviewing another. Foster's performance is absolutely brilliant. While Anthony Hopkins receives most of the (well-deserved) praise for his chilling portrayal of incarcerated serial killer `Hannibal ‘the Cannibal' Lector', it is Foster's performance that holds the movie together. The fear she shows just behind her eyes makes Clarice's outward courage all the more interesting and vulnerable. This is the perfect way to play the part because it explains Lector's interest in Clarice. Her only bargaining chip in getting Lector's help is to let him `feed' on her innermost secrets and fears in exchange for his brilliant insights into the psychotic mind. The title of the movie comes from these exchanges and is very poignant.", "precise_score": 8.183834075927734, "rough_score": 7.532550811767578, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Today’s Daily Variety reports that the Oscar-winning star has formally passed on the offer to reprise her role as FBI Agent Clarice Starling in “Hannibal,” the much-delayed and much-awaited sequel to “ Silence of the Lambs .”", "precise_score": 8.197816848754883, "rough_score": 4.153326034545898, "source": "search", "title": "Jodie Foster Declines \"Hannibal's\" Invite - Hollywood.com" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "The second side of \"The Silence of The Lambs\" concentrates on the character of Clarice Starling and her relationship with Dr Hannibal Lecter. This in fact has two elements in itself; firstly we get to watch the character of Starling grow from a trainee FBI recruit who could possibly be on the verge of flunking out of the FBI, to a more confident woman. This is entwined with her relationship with Lecter as he manages to get inside her head with his psychological games and clues. This is definitely a very strong part of the movie and is no doubt down to the brilliant performances from Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins which makes it work so exceptionally well. Put all these elements together and you have in my opinion one of the best storylines for a movie from the last century. Neither one of the main elements takes precedence over the other, and in doing so work brilliantly together to make the movie thoroughly engrossing from start to finish.", "precise_score": 6.801821708679199, "rough_score": 5.817680835723877, "source": "search", "title": "The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - The Movie Scene" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Yes, he's back, and he's still hungry. Ten years after The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal \"the Cannibal\" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, reprising his Oscar-winning role) is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good--an outsider from the start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who doesn't play bureaucratic games and suffers for it. A botched drug raid results in her demotion--and a request from Lecter's only living victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman, uncredited), for a little Q and A. Little does Clarice realize that the hideously deformed Verger--who, upon suggestion from Dr. Lecter, peeled off his own face--is using her as bait to lure Dr. Lecter out of hiding, quite certain he'll capture the good doctor.", "precise_score": 7.013650894165039, "rough_score": 6.035501003265381, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The Hannibal Lecter Collection (Manhunter ..." }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "A portion of the first encounter between FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and the jailed cannibal psycho-killer psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), in The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991, from the Thomas Harris novel.", "precise_score": 8.336638450622559, "rough_score": 7.263166904449463, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "A portion of the first encounter between FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and the jailed cannibal psycho-killer psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), in The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991, from the Thomas Harris novel.>", "precise_score": 8.179849624633789, "rough_score": 7.2866668701171875, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) checking out a storage locker on a lead from imprisoned psycho-killer Hannibal Lecter, with the proprietor (Lieb Lensky), in Jonathan Demme's The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991.>", "precise_score": 9.433794021606445, "rough_score": 7.579716682434082, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Following the credits, Jodie Foster (as FBI trainee Clarice Starling, her Academy Award-winning role), summoned by behavioral sciences chief Crawford (Scott Glenn), in Jonathan Demme's The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991. >", "precise_score": 9.445615768432617, "rough_score": 7.468235969543457, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Released in February 1991, Silence of the Lambs became one of the biggest hits of the year, grossing close to $273 million, with a positive critical reception. Foster received largely favorable reviews and won Academy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA awards for her portrayal of Starling; Silence won five Academy Awards overall, becoming one of the few films to win in all main categories. In contrast, some reviewers criticized the film as misogynist for its focus on brutal murders of women, and blamed it for homophobia due to its main villain, serial killer \"Buffalo Bill\".Hollinger 2012, pp. 46–47 Much of the criticism was directed towards Foster, whom the critics alleged was herself a lesbian. Despite the controversy, the film is considered a modern classic: Starling and Lecter are included on the American Film Institute's top ten of the greatest film heroes and villains, and the film is preserved in the National Film Registry. Later in 1991, Foster also starred in the unsuccessful low-budget thriller Catchfire, which had been filmed before Silence, but was released after it in an attempt to profit from its success. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.095115661621094, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jodie Foster" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Foster's sexual orientation became subject to public discussion in 1991, when activists protesting the alleged homophobia in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) claimed that she was a closeted lesbian in articles in publications such as OutWeek and The Village Voice.Hollinger 2006, pp. 145–146 While she had been in a relationship with Bernard for a long time, Foster first publicly acknowledged it in a speech at the Hollywood Reporter's \"Women in Entertainment\" breakfast honoring her in 2007. In 2013, she addressed coming out in a speech after receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards, which led many news outlets to afterwards describe her as lesbian or gay, although some sources noted that she did not use the words \"gay\" or \"lesbian\" in her speech. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.066136360168457, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jodie Foster" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "*The Silence of the Lambs (1991)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.401659965515137, "source": "wiki", "title": "Jodie Foster" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Clarice M. Starling is a fictional character that appears in the novels The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal by Thomas Harris.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.022439479827881, "source": "wiki", "title": "Clarice Starling" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "The Silence of the Lambs", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.435514450073242, "source": "wiki", "title": "Clarice Starling" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "In The Silence of the Lambs, Starling is a student at the FBI Academy. Her mentor, Behavioral Sciences Unit chief Jack Crawford, sends her to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. He is housed in a Baltimore mental institution. Upon arriving at the asylum for her first interview with Lecter, the asylum manager Frederick Chilton makes a crude pass at her, which she rebuffs; this helps her bond with Lecter, who despises Chilton. As time passes, Lecter gives Starling information about Buffalo Bill, a currently active serial killer being hunted by the FBI, but only in exchange for personal information, which Crawford has specifically warned her to keep secret from Lecter.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.881550312042236, "source": "wiki", "title": "Clarice Starling" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "In the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, Starling's role remains relatively unchanged from the book. However, the film adaptation of Hannibal significantly diverges from the novel's conclusion. In the film, Lecter neither attempts to brainwash Starling nor feeds her Krendler's brain (although he does feed portions of it to Krendler himself); instead, Starling tries to apprehend Lecter, but he overpowers her and she handcuffs both of them to the refrigerator in an attempt to keep him in the house before the imminent arrival of the police. Lecter then cuts off his own hand and escapes, leaving Starling to explain the situation to the police. He is later seen on a plane, apparently fleeing the country again.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.223991394042969, "source": "wiki", "title": "Clarice Starling" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Bryan Fuller, the creator of the TV series Hannibal, has stated that he planned for the show's fifth season to cover the events of The Silence of the Lambs, and the sixth to cover the events of Hannibal, with the seventh to be an original storyline resolving Hannibals ending, and had stated his desire to include Clarice Starling as a character, provided that he can get the rights from MGM. Since the series' cancellation, Fuller has stated that should the series continue, whether for a fourth season or feature film, and should they obtain rights to adapt The Silence of the Lambs, Ellen Page would be his ideal casting for Clarice Starling.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.456872463226318, "source": "wiki", "title": "Clarice Starling" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Ten years after the events in The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling ( Julianne Moore ) is assigned to the case of Mason Verger ( Gary Oldman ), the only surviving, but severely disfigured, victim of cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ), and Verger wants revenge. Lecter, who disappeared (after the events in The Silence of the Lambs), is currently living in Florence, Italy as a library curator under the assumed name of Dr Fell. Recently disgraced for a bungled drug raid, Clarice is contacted by a sympathetic Lecter. Now that Lecter's whereabouts are known, the hunt for Lecter begins.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.01181960105896, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Hannibal is based on a 1999 novel of the same name by American writer Thomas Harris. The novel was adapted for the movie by American screenwriters David Mamet and Steven Zaillian. Hannibal is the film sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991). It was followed by Red Dragon (2002) and Hannibal Rising (2007), both adapted from novels by Thomas Harris and written as prequels to The Silence of the Lambs. Prior to The Silence of the Lambs, there was another Hannibal Lecter movie, Manhunter (1986), also based on Harris' 1981 novel, Red Dragon, but not considered to be part of The Silence of the Lambs franchise.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.792671203613281, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Who from \"The Silence of the Lambs\" is back in \"Hannibal\"?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.349424362182617, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "According to the film, Mason Verger is the only surviving victim of Dr. Lecter's 14 victims. In the novels, it is said that there are three known surviving victims: (1) Verger, (2) an unnamed victim residing in a mental hospital in Colorado, and (3) Will Graham from Red Dragon. Although the novel Red Dragon was written in 1981, before The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and Hannibal (1999), it wasn't filmed until 2002, after the filming of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Hannibal (2001), so the character of Will Graham hadn't yet been introduced to the Hannibal franchise.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.76919174194336, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Clarice mentions that Hannibal killed a musician called Benjamin Raspail. Didn't Hannibal deny killing Raspail in \"Silence of the Lambs\"?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.299683570861816, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Indeed he did. Benjamin Raspail was the man whose severed head was found by Clarice in the locked storage garage in the beginning of Silence of the Lambs. In that movie, Hannibal Lecter later identifies the head as belonging to Raspail, but claims not to have killed him; he merely admits to have found Raspail's remains after he missed several appointments, and simply hid them. Lecter claims that Raspail was killed by his (Raspail's) lover, who is the same person as Buffalo Bill.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.946769714355469, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "In the novels Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, the events are told a bit differently. The head that Clarice finds in the storage locker belonged to Raspail's boyfriend Klaus. Klaus was actually killed and beheaded by a jealous Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill, who was once Raspail's lover. Raspail found Klaus' head, kept it in his garage and told his psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter, about it. Raspail went missing shortly thereafter, and his body found a few days later, missing its pancreas and thymus. Hannibal was caught several days later, and found to be the so-called Chesapeake Ripper, who had already made nine victims. During his trial, Hannibal admitted to feeding Raspail's organs to the orchestra board.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.497807502746582, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "In the movie adaptation of Silence of the Lambs, most of this information was not used or changed. Most references to the Red Dragon novel (including Will Graham's earlier interaction with Lecter) were purposely removed to make Silence a stand-alone movie, and possibly to avoid legal issues (since the studio did not own the rights to either the Red Dragon novel, nor its first adaptation, Manhunter ). The character of Klaus was omitted completely, perhaps to avoid introducing characters that had no significant role in the plot. However, since Clarice finding a severed head was so central in the progress of the plot, this was kept in; however, the victim was changed from Klaus to Raspail, and was explicitly established as Gumb's very first kill (in the book, Gumb had already killed his grandparents at age 10).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.490970611572266, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "From what we can tell, the movies Hannibal and Red Dragon followed the continuity established in the books, so this seems like a deliberate retcon without a clear in-universe explanation. One possibility could be that Hannibal is still playing a game with Clarice in Silence of the Lambs, by providing her with false information, to see how quickly she can see through his lies. Note that Hannibal did the same with her when he told her to look for Ms Moffet, (an anagram for \"the rest of me\") and with senator Martin, providing her with a false name of the killer, as his way to toy with people.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.760860443115234, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "The Silence of the Lambs is Chilton's last appearance in the franchise, in both the novels and the films. It is never out right stated whether Hannibal did kill and cannibalize Chilton during the time between The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. In the novel, it is mentioned that Chilton disappeared while on vacation seven years before the events of Hannibal; in the film Barney says that Lecter, when possible, preferred to eat \"the rude\" and that Chilton \"was a bad man\". Both statements strongly imply that Lecter did indeed kill and eat Chilton.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.826624870300293, "source": "search", "title": "Hannibal (2001) - FAQ - IMDb" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "On second glance, it would seem the Hannibal cycle has more in common with the Bond franchise; indeed, when Jonathan Demme's adaptation of The Silence Of The Lambs swept the 1991 Oscars, nobody seemed too concerned that Lecter had already made his big-screen debut some five years before in Michael Mann's Manhunter, an adaptation of Harris's second book, Red Dragon. Here, Lecter was played by Brian Cox, a bigger, arguably more masculine alternative to Anthony Hopkins's gentrified performance. The two Lecters both have their fans, both very different in their attitudes to the two films, but - interestingly - their success is simply a matter of preference.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.506098747253418, "source": "search", "title": "Is that you, Clarice? | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Because, going back to Harris's original novels, there really is no blueprint for the definitive Lecter. Refer to chapter seven of Red Dragon , in which Detective Will Graham first visits Lecter (Mann inexplicably changed the name to Lecktor for the film adaptation) in the Chesapeake State Hospital For The Criminally Insane. Harris tells us little or nothing about Lecter, except that 'his eyes are maroon and they reflect the light redly in tiny points'. His only elaboration is that he 'is a small, lithe man. Very neat.' Compare this with chapter two of The Silence Of The Lambs : '[Clarice] could see that he was small, sleek; in his hands and arms she saw wiry strength like her own.' And a paragraph later: 'Dr Lecter's eyes are maroon and they reflect the light in pinpoints of red.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.763399124145508, "source": "search", "title": "Is that you, Clarice? | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Awards: Best actress Oscars for The Accused and The Silence of The Lambs . Also nominated for Nell and Taxi Driver (best supporting actress).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.232307434082031, "source": "search", "title": "Is that you, Clarice? | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.391551971435547, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 )", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.389609336853027, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Title: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.388250350952148, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence of the Lambs See more  »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.487955093383789, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Sean Connery was director Jonathan Demme 's first choice to play Hannibal Lecter, but he turned the part down. Connery later did a similar serial-killer thriller called Just Cause (1995), where Ed Harris plays a sort of bible-bashing, redneck rip-off of Hannibal Lecter. The film was neither a critical or commercial smash like The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was. See more »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.235368728637695, "source": "search", "title": "IMDb - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "In The Silence of the Lambs, Starling is a student at the FBI Academy. She hopes to work at the Behavioral Science Unit, tracking down serial killers and ultimately apprehending them. Her mentor, FBI director Jack Crawford, sends her to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter , a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. He is housed in a Baltimore mental institution. Upon arriving at the asylum for her first interview with Lecter, the asylum manager Frederick Chilton makes a crude pass at her, which she rebuffs; this helps her bond with Lecter, who also despises Chilton. As time passes, Lecter gives Starling information about Buffalo Bill, a currently active serial killer being hunted by the FBI, but only in exchange for personal information, which Crawford has specifically warned her to keep secret from Lecter.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.2384653091430664, "source": "search", "title": "Clarice Starling - Hannibal Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Clarice (Jodie Foster) in The Silence of the Lambs", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.9058494567871094, "source": "search", "title": "Clarice (Jodie Foster) in The Silence of the Lambs - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "That's where Clarice finds herself at the beginning of The Silence of the Lambs. The head of the Behavior Science Unit, Jack Crawford, gives her a job. \"More of an interesting errand,\" he says. She's a stellar student, and Crawford knows she's up to the task. And she manages to figure it out—with Lecter's help, sure, but she does a bang-up job of piecing together clues and intuition to track down Buffalo Bill and rescue his surviving captive. When she graduates from the Academy, everyone, including Lecter, is proud of her.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.125542640686035, "source": "search", "title": "Clarice (Jodie Foster) in The Silence of the Lambs - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "A brief scene in The Silence of the Lambs shows Clarice engaging in a practice FBI operation. She bursts into a room to save a captive, but someone pulls a fake gun on her and fake shoots her. The instructor asks her,", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.8946382999420166, "source": "search", "title": "Clarice (Jodie Foster) in The Silence of the Lambs - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "The Silence of the Lambs (1991) starring Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine directed by Jonathan Demme - movie review on The Movie Scene", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.9270825386047363, "source": "search", "title": "The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - The Movie Scene" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Back in 1991 a movie came out which got audiences flocking to the cinema, the movie was \"The Silence of The Lambs\". Now many years later \"The Silence of The Lambs\" is still as popular as ever as is Anthony Hopkins's chilling performances as Hannibal Lecter. From the performances through to the atmosphere and sense of foreboding horror pretty much everything about the movie works.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.631128311157227, "source": "search", "title": "The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - The Movie Scene" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "Although labelled a horror flick by some reviewers, \"The Silence of The Lambs\" is definitely not in the tradition of most slasher flicks, it is much more intelligent than that, with most of the scary moments coming from brilliantly built up suspense and the psychology of Lecter getting in to Starlings head. In reality it is a brilliant combination of several movie genres, firstly you have the detective side with the FBI in search of a serial killer, next you have the horror side with not only the gruesomeness of the serial killings but also the psychological side and finally it is also a coming of age movie, as we watch the character of Clarice grow from being a nervous recruit who is on the edge of failing and pressured out in a male orientated world into a confident woman in control of her destiny.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.705890655517578, "source": "search", "title": "The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - The Movie Scene" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "The story is based upon the novel \"The Silence of the Lambs\" by Thomas Harris and in my opinion is one of the best horror/thrillers from the last century. Even though some critics have ripped it apart and highlighted some of its flaws, I personally find it completely gripping on every level. In reality the movie has two story lines running through it. The first and in some ways the most prominent of them is the hunt for the serial killer Buffalo Bill, lead by Clarice Starling and assisted by imprisoned serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter. Not that I am an expert in the psychology or the ways and means that either the FBI or a serial killer operates, but I found this side of \"The Silence of The Lambs\" completely engrossing, as we watch clues fall into place as the FBI search for Buffalo Bill. The fact that Buffalo Bill's latest victim is the daughter of a Senator helps heighten the tension and not once does this side of the story drag, keeping the pace of the movie at a perfect rate.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.088915824890137, "source": "search", "title": "The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - The Movie Scene" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "\"The Silence of The Lambs\" is directed by Jonathan Demme and again he thoroughly deserved the Oscar he won for best direction despite being up against the equally great Oliver Stone for \"JFK\". In a movie which I feel is close on being perfect, it is hard for me to pick just one thing which I feel Demme did exceptionally well, and it would take to long to discuss every single thing which he did right in the film. If I had to pick one, it would have to be the manner in which he creates suspense throughout the movie, in some ways very similar to the style of Hitchcock. Just when you are being sucked into what is happening on screen, something unexpected happens which has you jumping in shock, tie this in to the fact that he never shows you the actual horror which is taking place, but uses sounds and lighting to fuel your own imagination to scare yourself, and you have a perfect movie packed with suspense.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.878823280334473, "source": "search", "title": "The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - The Movie Scene" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "What this all boils down to is that \"The Silence of The Lambs\" was and some 20 years after it's release still is a magnificent movie. It has a brilliant storyline which is held together brilliantly by some stunning performances and the characters are some of the most memorable in cinematic history. I have lost count of the number of times I have watched it, but each time it is as engrossing, suspenseful and enjoyable as the first. Demme's direction is brilliant and it was no surprise that Hopkins went on to reprise his role of Hannibal Lecter in the following two films \"Hannibal\" and \"Red Dragon\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.758903503417969, "source": "search", "title": "The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - The Movie Scene" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "CrazED Critiques: Silence of the Lambs - YouTube", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.504133224487305, "source": "search", "title": "CrazED Critiques: Silence of the Lambs - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "CrazED Critiques: Silence of the Lambs", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.465713500976562, "source": "search", "title": "CrazED Critiques: Silence of the Lambs - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Amazon.com: The Hannibal Lecter Collection (Manhunter / Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal) [Blu-ray]: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Rhys Ifans, Li Gong, William Petersen, Lawrence A. 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Based on Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon, which introduced the world to the nefarious killer Hannibal \"the Cannibal\" Lecter, the film stars William Petersen (giving a suitably brooding performance) as ex-FBI agent Will Graham, who is coaxed out of semiretirement to track down a serial killer who has thwarted the authorities at every turn.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.074071884155273, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The Hannibal Lecter Collection (Manhunter ..." }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "The Silence of the Lambs", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.435514450073242, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The Hannibal Lecter Collection (Manhunter ..." }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.101224899291992, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.101224899291992, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.101224899291992, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "The Silence of the Lambs", "passage": "View the TCMDb entry for The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.42841625213623, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.966245651245117, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.101224899291992, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) If...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.068699836730957, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) If Anything Should Happen", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.23910903930664, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Do You...", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.060519218444824, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" }, { "answer": "Silence of the lambs", "passage": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Do You Spook Easily?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.21904182434082, "source": "search", "title": "Silence Of The Lambs, The -- (Movie Clip) Poor White Trash" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Julie Christie was nominated for Best Actress in a Lead Role in the 1997 Academy Awards for her role. She won best actress at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The cast won the jury award for best ensemble performance at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, and Nick Nolte won the best actor award at the same festival.", "precise_score": -2.259657382965088, "rough_score": -3.3138527870178223, "source": "wiki", "title": "Afterglow (film)" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "The winner in the Best Actress category was twenty-four year-old Julie Christie (with her first of three career nominations - and her sole Oscar win) for her role as Diana Scott - an ambitious, vain, irresponsible, ruthless, promiscuous, and selfish hip, mini-skirted London model who tempts a serious journalist (Dirk Bogarde) to leave his wife and family, then tires and becomes a decadent, international celebrity/swinger, and finally ends up living a meaningless life as a disillusioned, bored wife of an Italian prince in Darling. It was notable as the first Oscar-winning performance for a nude scene. (Note: Christie also appeared in one of the year's biggest pictures - Doctor Zhivago, but was un-nominated for that role. Christie would be nominated three more times in her career for her role as Mrs. Miller, madam of a brothel in Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), as Phyllis Mann in Afterglow (1997), and as afflicted Alzheimer's patient Fiona Andersson in Away From Her (2007).)", "precise_score": 2.812100648880005, "rough_score": 3.7578117847442627, "source": "search", "title": "1965 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Although Julie Christie was nominated - and won - for her role in Darling, she was not nominated for her equally great performance as blonde-haired Lara in David Lean's Russian epic Doctor Zhivago. Rod Steiger, who was nominated as Best Actor for a different film this year, wasn't nominated for one of the best roles of his career in Doctor Zhivago as the nefarious Victor Komarovsky. And two major stars of the year's two film rivals, Christopher Plummer (as aristocratic widower Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music ) and Omar Sharif (as Yuri Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago) were not nominated for Best Actor.", "precise_score": 1.8058106899261475, "rough_score": -0.6928731799125671, "source": "search", "title": "1965 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "British actress Julie Christie arrives at the British Academy Film Awards 2008, held at the Royal Opera House in London, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008. The actress became a star in the 1960's but by the mid-70's began to turn down leading roles in large budget films. She made a comeback in the mid-90's earning a BAFTA and Academy Award nomination for \"Afterglow,\" and a BAFTA nomination for \"Finding Neverland.\"", "precise_score": 1.6549817323684692, "rough_score": -2.1851394176483154, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - Photo 4 - Pictures - CBS News" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Julie Christie in \"Away From Her.\" The actress, born in 1941 in India, which was then part of the British Empire, won an Academy Award, New York Film Critic Circle Award, National Board of Review Award, and a BAFTA Award in 1965 for her breakthrough role as the amoral model Diana Scott in Darling. In 2008 she won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actor's Guild Award for \"Away From Her.\"", "precise_score": 3.8163836002349854, "rough_score": 3.0896575450897217, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - Photo 4 - Pictures - CBS News" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Oscar-nominated actress Julie Christie, left, and John Cleese, right, pose for a photograph during AARP The Magazine's Seventh Annual Movies For Grownups Awards, Monday, Feb., 4, 2008, in Los Angeles. The event honored the achievements of filmmakers, actors and actresses who offer projects with mature characters and storylines. Christie plays a woman suffering from Alzheimer's in \"Away From Her.\"", "precise_score": -3.329880714416504, "rough_score": -4.302364349365234, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - Photo 4 - Pictures - CBS News" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "A collection of four classic films starring Julie Christie. In ’Billy Liar’ (1963), undertaker’s clerk Billy (Tom Courtenay) escapes his dreary small town existence in a 1950s Northern town by living in a fantasy world where he realises his ambitions. When his job, unsympathetic working class family and two fiancees threaten to become too much, he meets the fashionable Liz (Christie), who offers him his one chance for real escape. Christie won an Oscar for her role in ’Darling’ (1965). In the film she plays Diana Scott, an ambitious model determined to make it to the top. Using her sexuality, she manipulates powerful men, but in so doing becomes a prisoner of the jet-setting lifestyle she once yearned for. Dirk Bogarde co-stars as Diana’s long-suffering boyfriend. ’Far From The Madding Crowd’ (1967) is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 19th-century story of a woman’s passion. Bathsheba (Christie) is in love with three very different men who are also in love with her: her first love is a handsome and wayward soldier; the second is the local noble Lord, and the third is an ever-patient farmer. ’The Go-Between’ (1970) is an adaptation of the classic novel by L.P. Hartley. A young teenage boy, Leo (Dominic Guard), is invited to a wealthy school friend’s rich family estate and is drawn into a love affair between his friend’s twenty-something sister, Marian (Christie), and the family neighbour, even though she is engaged to be married. She uses Leo as a go-between, sending messages to her lover. Despite feeling he is betraying her fiance Hugh (Edward Fox), Leo carries on being the messager boy and discovers more about the attraction between men and women along the way.", "precise_score": 0.9713854193687439, "rough_score": -3.1372692584991455, "source": "search", "title": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection - MovieMail" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "After her Oscar-nominated performance in Afterglow (1997), Christie will return to the screen in Away From Her (2006), a film delayed to make her performance eligible for the 2008 Academy Awards.", "precise_score": 0.9631695747375488, "rough_score": 1.870563268661499, "source": "search", "title": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection - MovieMail" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Julie Christie was born in 1941 in Chabua, Assam, India, then part of the British Empire. Christie's father ran the tea plantation around which Christie grew up, and her mother was a painter. As a teenager, she played the role of the Dauphin in a school production of George Bernard Shaw's \"Saint Joan\". She later studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama before getting her big break in 1961 in a science fiction series on BBC television, \"A for Andromeda\". Christie's first major film role was in \"The Fast Lady\", a 1962 romantic comedy. She first gained notice as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the eponymous \"Billy Liar\" (1963) played by Tom Courtenay. It was 1965 when Christie became known internationally. Schlesinger directed her in her breakthrough role, as the amoral model Diana Scott in \"Darling\". Christie appeared as Lara Antipova in David Lean's adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel \"Doctor Zhivago\" (1965), one of the all-time box office hits, and as Daisy Battles in \"Young Cassidy\", co-directed by Jack Cardiff and John Ford. In 1966, the 25-year-old Christie was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role when she played a double role in François Truffaut's \"Fahrenheit 451\" and won the Academy Award for Best Actress and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for \"Darling\". Later, she played Thomas Hardy's heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's \"Far from the Madding Crowd\" (1967) and the lead character, Petulia Danner, (opposite George C. Scott) in Richard Lester's \"Petulia\" (1968). In the 1970s, Christie starred in smaller, but culturally significant films such as Robert Altman's western \"McCabe & Mrs. Miller\" (1971), with Warren Beatty, where her role as a brothel 'madam' gained her a second Best Actress Oscar nomination, \"The Go-Between\" (again with Alan Bates, 1971), \"Don't Look Now\" (1973), \"Shampoo\" (1975), Altman's classic \"Nashville\" (1975), \"Demon Seed\" (1977), and \"Heaven Can Wait\" (1978), again with Beatty. She moved to Hollywood during the decade, where she had a high-profile (1967-1974), but intermittent relationship with Warren Beatty who described her as \"the most beautiful person I had ever known.\" Following the end of the relationship with Beatty, she returned to the United Kingdom, where she lived on a farm in Wales. Christie made fewer and fewer films in the 1980s. She had a major supporting role in Sidney Lumet's \"Power\" (1986). Christie appeared as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's \"Hamlet\". Her next critically acclaimed role was the unhappy wife in Alan Rudolph's comedy-drama \"Afterglow\", which gained her a third Oscar nomination. Christie made a brief appearance in \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\", playing Madam Rosmerta. That same year, she also appeared in two other high-profile films: Wolfgang Petersen's \"Troy\" and Marc Forster's \"Finding Neverland\", playing Kate Winslet's mother. The latter performance earned Christie a BAFTA nomination as supporting actress in film. Christie portrayed the female lead in \"Away From Her\", a film about a long-married Canadian couple coping with the wife's Alzheimer's disease. On December 5, 2007, Christie won the Best Actress Award from the National Board of Review for her performance. She also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and the Genie Award for Best Actress for the same film. On January 22, 2008, Christie received her fourth Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 80th Academy Awards. 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She won the Oscar for best actress in 1965 for Darling and in 1966, the 25-year-old Christie was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role when she played a double role in Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451.", "precise_score": 4.695897579193115, "rough_score": 6.227439880371094, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - IGN" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "In the 1970s, Christie was nominated for her second Best Actress Oscar for McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and starred in several high-profile films such as Don't Look Now (1973) and Shampoo (1975) and her star hit an all time high when she started dating actor Warren Beatty in 1976.", "precise_score": -4.1437273025512695, "rough_score": -3.4400529861450195, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - IGN" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "The Film She Won For: Unlike many of our picks here, Julie Christie didn’t win her Oscar as a way of the Academy making up for previous snubs, she won at pretty much the start of her career. Christie was the sort of Carey Mulligan of the day, a young starlet with real acting chops and serious promise, and she quickly became one of the most in-demand actresses around, thanks to her Oscar for \"Darling.\" Christie’s still luminous in the picture, but it’s aged very badly—shallow and flashy in a way that so much of John Schlesinger‘s other work isn’t, and pretty judgmental and misogynistic with it. As far as Christie’s work goes, much, much better was to come.", "precise_score": 2.772461414337158, "rough_score": -0.3190148174762726, "source": "search", "title": "10 Oscar Winners Who Won For The Wrong Film | IndieWire" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "66 year-old British actress Julie Christie (with her fourth Best Actress nomination and fourth career nomination) for her role as afflicted Alzheimer's patient Fiona Andersson in actress-turned-director Sarah Polley's debut feature film, Away From Her, Polley's Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Alice Munro short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain [Note: Julie Christie won the Best Actress Oscar for Darling (1965), and was also nominated as Best Actress for McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Afterglow (1997).]", "precise_score": 7.041790008544922, "rough_score": 6.967626094818115, "source": "search", "title": "2007 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Afterglow is a 1997 feature film starring Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle and Jonny Lee Miller. 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She and Lucky haven't touched each other in ages. 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Christie has enjoyed a long film career with many strong performances, but may still be best known as Lara Antipova in David Lean's adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel \"Doctor Zhivago\" (1965), which was one of the all-time box office hits.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.028837203979492, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - Photo 4 - Pictures - CBS News" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "British actress Julie Christie, left, who won the SAG award for best female actor in a leading role for her work in \"Away From Her,\" speaks with presenter Kate Hudson backstage at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The awards were held on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, in Los Angeles.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.080851078033447, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - Photo 4 - Pictures - CBS News" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Daniel Day-Lewis talks to Julie Christie backstage at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, in Los Angeles. Day-Lewis won the award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for his work in \"There Will Be Blood.\" Christie won outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for her work in \"Away From Her.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.505897521972656, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - Photo 4 - Pictures - CBS News" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Actress Julie Christie arrives at the Toronto International Film Festival presentation of \"Away From Her\" on Sept. 11, 2006, in Toronto. Christie lives on a farm in Montgomeryshire, Wales with her husband, journalist Duncan Campbell, and is active in many causes including animal rights and environmental protection.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.115478515625, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - Photo 4 - Pictures - CBS News" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection - MovieMail", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.835330963134766, "source": "search", "title": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection - MovieMail" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.5861234664917, "source": "search", "title": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection - MovieMail" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "A collection of four classic films starring Julie Christie. In ’Billy Liar’ (1963), undertaker’s clerk Billy (Tom Courtenay) escapes his... Read More", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.581652641296387, "source": "search", "title": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection - MovieMail" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Described by Al Pacino as the most poetic of actresses, Christie cemented her stardom not by chasing top parts, but by turning them down.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.143223762512207, "source": "search", "title": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection - MovieMail" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "The films she made with John Schlesinger, Billy Liar (1963), Darling (1965) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1967) brought a much needed spark to British New Wave cinema, and Christie similarly came to embody the energy and defiance of the decade.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.587769031524658, "source": "search", "title": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection - MovieMail" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "In recent years, Christie has returned to the screen in roles both large and small - as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996), as a steely-eyed matriarch in Finding Neverland (2004), and as Brad Pitt’s mother(!) in Troy (2004).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.613109588623047, "source": "search", "title": "Screen Icons: Julie Christie Collection - MovieMail" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Julie Christie Tribute - YouTube", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.551351547241211, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie Tribute - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Julie Christie Tribute", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.396800994873047, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie Tribute - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Here is an ambiance song, chosen to enhance the exceptional beauty of English first-class actress Julie Christie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.594842910766602, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie Tribute - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Enjoy Julie Christie's immarcescible beauty!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.633337020874023, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie Tribute - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Lara Flynn Boyle is named after Julie Christie 's character in Doctor Zhivago (1965). This is the first time they act together. See more »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.6116838455200195, "source": "search", "title": "Afterglow (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "\"You're the most fascinating woman I've ever met\", he tells her after knowing her for about five minutes. Perhaps that will give you a sense of the sophomoric nature of \"Afterglow\"; a film which tells of two neurotic married couples, one middle aged (Nolte/Christie) and one younger (Boyle/Miller), and their respective interwoven infidelities. With a solid core cast and good technical and artistic capabilities and an interesting premise, \"Afterglow\" should have offered more than characters we're not given to care about even if we could suspend disbelief long enough to care. Nonetheless, there's enough going for this mediocre drama to make it a worthwhile small screen watch for sofa spuds with an appetite for the subject.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.479065895080566, "source": "search", "title": "Afterglow (1997) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Julie Christie - IGN", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.719084739685059, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - IGN" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Christie was born in Chabua, Assam, India, then part of the British Empire, but her parents separated when she was 6 and she was forced into a foster home back in England. She earned an education at the Central School of Speech and Drama as a teen and got her 'break' in 1961 on the BBC science fiction series A for Andromeda.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.889894485473633, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - IGN" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Christie's most recent works include a brief appearance in the third Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), as Madame Rosmerta. That year she also appeared in Troy and Finding Neverland, in which she played Kate Winslet's mother.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.598418235778809, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - IGN" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "In 2007, Christie won the Best Actress Award from the National Board of Review for her performance in Away From Her, her first leading role in over 10 years. In 2008, she narrated the short film \"Uncontacted Tribes\" and appeared in a segment of New York, I Love You, written by Anthony Minghella and co-starring Shia LaBeouf.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.78066349029541, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - IGN" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Christie married for the first time in November 2007 at age 66. She married her long-time partner journalist Duncan Campbell.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.215682029724121, "source": "search", "title": "Julie Christie - IGN" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Julie Christie", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.710090637207031, "source": "search", "title": "10 Oscar Winners Who Won For The Wrong Film | IndieWire" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "The Film She Should Have Won For: Many of Christie’s best performances didn’t get nominations (\"Petulia,\" \"Doctor Zhivago,\" \"Don’t Look Now,\" \"Shampoo\"), and she’s brilliant in \"McCabe & Mrs. Miller,\" but we actually wish she’d won for a more recent picture, Sarah Polley‘s devastating \"Away From Her.\" Christie appears on screen rarely enough these days that it can’t help but feel like an event (yes, even in \"Red Riding Hood\"), but an older actress couldn’t wish for a better role than in Polley’s picture, where Christie plays the Alzheimer’s-inflicted woman who starts to forget her relationship with her husband. It’s a tough and unsentimental picture, with a tough, unsentimental, and totally committed performance from Christie.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.407041549682617, "source": "search", "title": "10 Oscar Winners Who Won For The Wrong Film | IndieWire" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "MARION COTILLARD in \"La Vie en Rose,\" Cate Blanchett in \"Elizabeth: The Golden Age,\" Julie Christie in \"Away From Her,\" Laura Linney in \"The Savages,\" Ellen Page in \"Juno\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.696101188659668, "source": "search", "title": "2007 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "It was notable that four of the ten Oscar-nominated scripts this year were written by females - for their individual screenplays, and they were all first-time nominees. The winners of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar were directors/scripters the Coen Brothers for No Country for Old Men. Other nominees in the category included director/scriptwriter Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood, writers Christopher Hampton for Atonement and Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and 28 year-old Sarah Polley for the sensitive marital drama Away From Her about Alzheimer's disease and its effect upon an aging couple: Fiona Andersson (Julie Christie) and husband Grant (Gordon Pinsent). The winner of the Best Original Screenplay Oscar was for ex-stripper/scriptwriter pen-named Diablo Cody for Juno. The other nominees were Tamara Jenkins for The Savages, Nancy Oliver for Lars and the Real Girl, writers/directors Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton, and Brad Bird (with his second Oscar win for Best Animated Feature Film - he won his first Oscar in the same category for The Incredibles (2004)) for Ratatouille (with five nominations, but not one for Best Song, although it won Best Animated Feature Film).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.747951030731201, "source": "search", "title": "2007 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.80544662475586, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "The great frustration of Julie Christie's life is that her face has often got in the way of things she knows to be more important. Today is no exception. She is in Belfast, where her new film is being shown at the city's film festival, and typically embarrassed that a picture of her has pushed Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley's historic meeting off the front pages of the morning paper. No Oscar-winning film star has ever been more sceptical about limelight. Warren Beatty, who met her in 1965, and with whom she formed Hollywood's most glamorous couple for seven on and off years described her as 'the most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I had ever known'. Four decades later, indelible traces of both attributes persist.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.98078727722168, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "It is the combination of those qualities, and her effort to overcome each of them, that also make Christie the most mesmerising of screen presences. Her new film, Away From Her, beautifully directed by her 27-year-old friend, the actress Sarah Polley, tells the story of a woman observing her life disappear, as Alzheimer's removes her past. It seems a perfect vehicle, among other things, for Christie's ambivalence toward her own magnetism. She has always wanted to be there and not there.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.142322540283203, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Polley adapted the film from a story by the Canadian writer Alice Munro, 'The Bear Came over the Mountain'. She first read it in the New Yorker on a plane back from Iceland, where she had been filming with Christie in 2001. She thought the story helped her to make sense of the actress; saw Christie's face in it. That stayed with her, and once Polley had written the script, she spent a year tying to persuade Christie to take the role. In the end, Christie agreed, she says, 'because Sarah is this extraordinary talent, and I did not want anyone else to have the experience of working with her on her first movie'.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.785981178283691, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "There are a couple of lines in Munro's story that Away From Her seems to grow out of. They are spoken of Christie's character, Fiona, by her husband whose fate is to watch his wife move into a care home, forget their 40-year marriage and fall in love with a fellow patient. He looks for signs of the woman he loves in her face: 'Very few women kept their beauty whole, though shadowy, as Fiona had done. And perhaps that wasn't even true. Perhaps to get that impression you had to have known a woman when she was young.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.298601150512695, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "The thing about Christie's face, as Polley's camera dwells on it, is that everyone has known it young, as Lara in Dr Zhivago and Bathsheba in Far from the Madding Crowd and Liz in Billy Liar. She dislikes being interviewed, she tells me, in part because she has noticed how 'people are cross somehow, underneath, that I am not the person that I was. They feel like I am letting them down in some way. I sometimes feel they dislike me for appearing with all my lines and wrinkles. As a culture we seem unable to embrace change in people without being harsh about it...'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.328185081481934, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "We meet at the appointed hour in the bar of Malmaison, near Belfast's new waterfront. The hotel is decorated in what might be called infernal chic - our lunch is in a pitch-black dining room in front of a wide, eye-level fireplace with licking flames - which, given that interviews are Christie's idea of hell, seems appropriate. She makes a last request before I turn on my tape recorder: 'I hope this isn't going to be another interview in which under instruction from your editor you interrogate me for an hour about whether I have had a facelift.' (She once admitted to minor work on her famous jawline.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.422825813293457, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "You see straight away why she finds interviews a trial. Unlike almost every other actor I have met, Christie seems to find it almost impossible to dissemble on cue, and so she is happiest talking about almost anything but herself. At every opportunity she diverts our conversation towards extraordinary rendition, or the situation in Iran, or the rise of China, with an enthusiasm and curiosity that seems not so much a tactic as a temperamental necessity.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.412349700927734, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "She talks of the shadow life that exists in her cuttings file, as something 'disgusting' to her, 'like having chewing gum in your hair always'. It struck her first when she made Far From the Madding Crowd. 'I was staying with a friend, and this journalist came to see me, and my friend kindly made a plate of sandwiches for us, and the journalist wrote: \"Christie's maid came in with sandwiches\" in an attempt to show I was being pampered. I just thought: how very cruel.' A lot of her life since then, and certainly since she left Hollywood at the end of the Seventies has been a pretty successful attempt at what she calls 'de-celebritisation'.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.347661018371582, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "In 1967 Time magazine declared that 'what Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the 10 Best-Dressed women combined'; hers was routinely known as the face of the decade, but it never felt quite like that from inside.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.005998611450195, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "The anxiety and the desire to escape it were partly, she suggests, rooted in her childhood. Christie grew up during the war in India, in Assam, on a tea plantation that her father ran. This life was cut short at the age of six when her parents sent her back to England to go to a convent school and to live with a foster mother. The shock of that transition has never quite left her. She hated the school, hated being away from her mother. She was eventually expelled from her Catholic secondary school for telling a rude joke. When she won her Oscar at the age of 24 for her role in John Schlesinger's Sixties morality film Darling, in which she played a model, the bed-hopping barefoot 'Happiness girl', she described going up to collect the award as like being once again called up in front of the whole school to explain herself.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.341774940490723, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "She did not see her father much after she left India, her parents separated, he died relatively young, and her mother came home to Britain to live in rural Wales when Christie was in her early teens. Her childhood had made her a compulsive letter writer and she has recently been going through their correspondence. It takes in Christie's first visits to America, initially with the Royal Shakespeare Company, subsequently as a film star. 'In one letter I wrote to my mother saying America was like being in a garden of very little sweet children who don't know anything at all but are very nice to you,' she says, laughing.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.274507522583008, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "These surrogate families, mostly writers and artists and film-makers, have compensated any desire that Christie might have had for a family of her own. She was always too independent for that, she suggests, or in any case never wanted to be part of a conventional relationship (just as she had never really been part of one as a child). Likewise, she says, perhaps scarred by her experiences with Beatty, she has 'never been keen on the idea of living with one person all the time, though,' and she smiles, 'there are times these days when I think it would be rather delightful.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.33090877532959, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "I have half a sense that she worries about this latter prospect. She won't talk about it, for her usual reason: it will become a 'fact' about her. She spoke once on American public radio about the comedy of getting older and not being able to retain your lines, which the Sunday Times spun into a story in which a neurologist was wheeled out to suggest that Christie suffered from a rare memory disorder. The same article also gave Christie a son called Luke, who played in a rock band. She wrote a sharp letter in reply which suggested that her condition must be worse than she thought, since she had completely forgotten that she had a child.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.271052360534668, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "'Well, they nearly always involve a chap and nature,' she says briskly. 'I'm not going into detail but there is a strong sense of sexuality, always, because that is the life force, the thing that memory retains. There are quite a few of those moments in my head, anyway...' I fear just for an instant Christie might start to cry when she says this, but she laughs loudly instead.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.383687973022461, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Born Julie Frances Christie on 14 April 1941 in Assam, India, to English parents who ran a tea plantation.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.205643653869629, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Philip French's favourite Julie Christie films", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.276396751403809, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Billy Liar (John Schlesinger, 1963) The point at which the grittily realistic British New Wave started to flow south arrived the moment Julie Christie's Liz swept through a Yorkshire town as a harbinger of Swinging London.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.634265899658203, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "The Go-Between (Joseph Losey, 1970) The concluding film in Losey's trilogy of literary adaptations with Harold Pinter. Christie rose to the challenge of playing the upper-middle-class Edwardian woman poisoning the life of the innocent boy who carries love letters between her and her lower-class lover.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.665929794311523, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "McCabe and Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, 1971) In this classic revisionist western, the first of three films in which she co-starred with Warren Beatty, Christie gives her most self-abnegatory performance as a tough, vulnerable cockney madame.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.571502685546875, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) Roeg photographed Christie in Far From the Madding Crowd and Petulia, then directed her in this dazzling occult thriller set in a wintry Venice and featuring a crucial erotic scene unsurpassed in movie history.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.821173667907715, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "Christie", "passage": "Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh, 1996) In this much underrated film, Christie more than holds her own in an all-star cast, playing Gertrude as a loving mother in awe of her son, opposite Derek Jacobi's Claudius.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.381122589111328, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Adams meets Julie Christie | Film | The Guardian" } ]

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The film, set in 1950s blue-collar New York City, won 10 Oscars in total, claiming everything from Best Picture to Best Costume Design.", "precise_score": -0.08299873769283295, "rough_score": -2.85422682762146, "source": "search", "title": "The Oscars: the 87 films to win Best Picture - The Telegraph" }, { "answer": "West Side Story", "passage": "West Side Story (1961) is an energetic, widely-acclaimed, melodramatic musical - a modern-day, loose re-telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet tragedy of feuding families, although the setting is the Upper West Side of New York City in the late 1950s with conflict between rival street gangs rather than families. West Side Story is still one of the best film adaptations of a musical ever created, and the finest musical film of the 60s. It arrived at a time when the silver screen was realizing tremendous competition from TV and other genres of cinematic entertainment.", "precise_score": 0.6882363557815552, "rough_score": -1.140870451927185, "source": "search", "title": "West Side Story (1961) - Greatest Films - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "West Side Story", "passage": "The much-praised, box-office blockbuster for United Artists received eleven Academy Award nominations and won all but one - Best Adapted Screenplay. Its achievement as a ten Oscar winner has only been surpassed by three films (all with eleven Oscars): Ben-Hur (1959) , Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003). West Side Story's Oscar awards include: Best Picture, Best Director (Wise and Robbins - the first time that awards went to co-directors), Best Supporting Actor and Actress (George Chakiris in his first major film role and Rita Moreno), Best Color Cinematography, Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Sound, Best Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Film Editing, and Best Color Costume Design. Robbins was also awarded a special statuette for \"his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.\" Robbins was the only Best Director Oscar winner to win for the only film he ever directed. Robert Wise won his second directorial Oscar for The Sound of Music (1965) . Natalie Wood was un-nominated for West Side Story, but she was competing for a Best Actress Oscar (that she lost to Sophia Loren for Two Women) for her role in Spendor in the Grass (1961) .", "precise_score": -1.9499497413635254, "rough_score": -0.5104821920394897, "source": "search", "title": "West Side Story (1961) - Greatest Films - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "West Side Story", "passage": "In 1962, the film version of the popular musical \"West Side Story\" won not one, not two, but ten academy awards. The American Film Institute placed it second on it's list of the greatest film Musicals of all Time, right after \"Singin' In the Rain\" (and above The Wizard of Oz). Obviously a film of this caliber doesn't need me or my praise, but I will share my opinion regardless. The premise of the film (and I assume of the stage version) is simple: what if Romeo and Juliet took place in modern (1961) New York, and instead of rival families separating the two lovers, it was rival gangs? The Jets vs. the Sharks, Americans vs. Puerto Ricans, white vs. hispanic, the barriers separating the two factions are distinct and seemingly uncrossable. So Maria (Natalie Wood) and Tony (Richard Beymer) find themselves falling in love at first sight when they meet at a dance, oblivious to the world around them. I'm sure the film version has technical advantages over the stage version, and the \"first meeting\" scene is a perfect example of this. It's a great piece of direction and artistry, undeniable artistry. Whatever your feelings about singing, prancing gang members, it would be impossible to ignore the artistry of the film on display. Add to this musical numbers that have entered into the cultural lexicon, and you have a near flawless film.", "precise_score": 1.9126980304718018, "rough_score": -1.2302809953689575, "source": "search", "title": "West Side Story (1961) - Rotten Tomatoes" }, { "answer": "West Side Story", "passage": "3. Romeo + Juliet (1996): One of the better known cinematic adaptations is this gem from Baz Luhrmann ('Moulin Rouge!', 'The Great Gatsby') starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes. Nominated for Best Art Direction at the Oscars and winning three BAFTAs, this uniquely combined the classic Shakespearean language with a modern setting. Then you've got the musical re-telling set in New York City, 'West Side Story', which won no less than 10 Oscars after its release in 1961.", "precise_score": 3.2859251499176025, "rough_score": 3.1086339950561523, "source": "search", "title": "From 'Romeo + Juliet' To Macbeth: 11 Of The Best William ..." }, { "answer": "West Side Story", "passage": "West Side Story (1961) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.33314323425293, "source": "search", "title": "West Side Story (1961) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "West Side Story", "passage": "Title: West Side Story (1961)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.131098747253418, "source": "search", "title": "West Side Story (1961) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "West Side Story", "passage": "West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, \"Romeo and Juliet\". The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Sharks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway - whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending. Written by Anonymous", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.622051239013672, "source": "search", "title": "West Side Story (1961) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "West Side Story", "passage": "It was a late Saturday night. I'd done my chores and decided to relax with some needlework before crawling into bed. Looking over my tapes, I decided it was time to visit West Side Story again, after some years. It was a fine choice. I would catch myself with my hands idle, as my eyes tracked the dancing, the most dynamic part of the film. I reveled in the Sharks on the rooftop and the gymnasium dance. \"Cool\" was cool, as always. This is a musical that doesn't try to transcend itself. It just lets the music and dancing speak for itself (and offkey singing along is allowed at home). I've always felt that Richard Beymer was the weakest of the actors, and nothing has changed my mind. But he's easy to ignore in comparison to the outstanding performances of George Chakiris, Rita Morena (who dominates the screen and steals all her scenes), Russ Tamblyn and the rest of the supporting cast. I'll leave the experts to make the minute comparisons to Romeo and Juliet, and to the critics to point out all the flaws. 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She married McQueen on August 31, 1973, and divorced him in 1978.", "precise_score": 1.8016983270645142, "rough_score": -3.276273012161255, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ali MacGraw" }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "In 1973, she was cast as Carol McCoy in the hit The Getaway in which she co-starred with Steve McQueen.  They fell madly and passionately in love while filming and Ali would eventually leave Robert Evans to be with McQueen.  The Getaway would be her last role while she was married to him.  She gave up her career to become a full-time wife to placate McQueen, he preferred his wife to be in the role of a homemaker rather than a career woman.  While Ali was happy to give up her interests to make Steve happy, he was unwilling to do the same. While he was a talented and well-loved actor, he was not a supportive or faithful husband.  Soon after they were married, he returned to his old ways of drinking, taking drugs and having numerous affairs.  Ali was devastated and soon realized she needed more than to be just Mrs. Steve McQueen to fulfill her life. ", "precise_score": 4.992061138153076, "rough_score": 2.6274259090423584, "source": "search", "title": "About Ali MacGraw - The Steve McQueen Site" }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "In the early 1960s, she married her college sweetheart, Robin Hoen; they divorced after a year and a half. In 1971, on the heels of MacGraw's success in \"Love Story,\" she married legendary producer Robert Evans and gave birth to her only son, Josh. Two years later, MacGraw and Evans broke up after she began a public affair with screen icon Steve McQueen. And, after five tumultuous years together, McGraw and McQueen also divorced, in 1978.", "precise_score": 1.7289842367172241, "rough_score": -3.3625988960266113, "source": "search", "title": "Ali MacGraw: All My Marriages Ended In Divorce For The ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Veteran actress Ali McGraw regrets not demanding more money from her ex-husbands, including Steve McQueen , branding her \"romantic\" notion of her divorces \"stupid\".", "precise_score": 2.710292339324951, "rough_score": -2.8792519569396973, "source": "search", "title": "Love Story Star Ali MacGraw Reveals She Was 'Stupid' Over ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "When McQueen started developing The Getaway, he was the highest-paid actor in America, and though he was known for what he called “Peter Perfect” hero roles, in his private life he had been the ultimate bad boy—gang member, freight-train jumper, and bookie’s assistant, according to Marshall Terrill’s Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel. Mainly, though, Terrence Steven McQueen was a midwesterner who had never known his father and whose alcoholic mother, a restless beauty named Julian, had left him with relatives, later sent for him, then left him again. When the teenage Steve fought with Julian’s third husband, she sent him to the Boys Republic, a reform school in Chino, California, where he stayed for 14 months. After his release, Steve took a cross-country bus to join his mother in Manhattan, but she immediately informed him that she had a new boyfriend and that he wasn’t welcome in the apartment. The Village became his base. After a period of creative conning, motorcycling, and shipping out to sea, he took the acting lessons that harnessed his roiling emotions.", "precise_score": -4.557612895965576, "rough_score": -5.49024772644043, "source": "search", "title": "Sheila Weller on Ali MacGraw | Vanity Fair" }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "-- For six years, she was \"Mrs. Steve McQueen,\" and much has been made about \"bad Steve, saint Ali,\" MacGraw said. \"That's a crock.\" The marriage failed because they two were very different, she was interested in the arts, and he was not, and because they didn't communicate.", "precise_score": -3.9283876419067383, "rough_score": -4.919466018676758, "source": "search", "title": "Actress Ali MacGraw on Steve McQueen, Kardashians' strange ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "The 1970s were incredibly busy for Hollywood actress Ali MacGraw . Professionally, she had skyrocketed to international fame in the movie \"Love Story,\" and went on to star in two more major hits during that decade. One of those films was \"The Getaway,\" where MacGraw worked alongside screen icon Steve McQueen. MacGraw was married to producer Robert Evans at the time, but ended up falling for her co-star -- and McQueen became her third husband in 1973.", "precise_score": 1.9548847675323486, "rough_score": 1.8233392238616943, "source": "search", "title": "Ali MacGraw's 'Absurd' Fear About Ex-Husband Steve McQueen ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "MacGraw first gained attention with her role in Goodbye, Columbus in 1969, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She reached international fame in 1970's Love Story, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female box office star in the world and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after having been in just three films. MacGraw went on to star in the crime film The Getaway (1972) and married co-star Steve McQueen. She later appeared in the action film Convoy (1978), and the 1983 television miniseries The Winds of War. In 1991, she published her autobiography, Moving Pictures.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.792903900146484, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ali MacGraw" }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "In 1972, after appearing in just three films, she had her footprints and autograph engraved at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. She then starred opposite Steve McQueen in The Getaway (1972), which was one of the year's top ten films at the box office. Having taken a five-year break from acting, in 1978 MacGraw re-emerged in another box office hit, Convoy (1978), opposite Kris Kristofferson. She then appeared in the films Players (1979) and Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), directed by Sidney Lumet.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.920987606048584, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ali MacGraw" }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "About Ali MacGraw, Ali MacGraw Biography, Ali MacGraw Bio at The Steve McQueen Site", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.232091903686523, "source": "search", "title": "About Ali MacGraw - The Steve McQueen Site" }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Love Story Star Ali MacGraw Reveals She Was 'Stupid' Over Divorces From Steve McQueen, Robert Evans | The Huffington Post", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.933116912841797, "source": "search", "title": "Love Story Star Ali MacGraw Reveals She Was 'Stupid' Over ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Love Story Star Ali MacGraw Reveals She Was 'Stupid' Over Divorces From Steve McQueen, Robert Evans", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.811497688293457, "source": "search", "title": "Love Story Star Ali MacGraw Reveals She Was 'Stupid' Over ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Finally, this hotel is a stone’s throw from the cottage she moved to with Steve McQueen when—early in her marriage to Evans—they fell helplessly in love while making The Getaway. She was the biggest female star of the year; he was the biggest movie star in the world. She was a Wellesley-educated aesthete who fantasized about living in Paris and who, as a girl, had checked Nijinsky’s biography out of the Pound Ridge, New York, library 16 times. He was a motorcycle-racing reform-school kid who had worked as a towel boy in a brothel, had spent 41 days in the brig as a Marine, and generally had the kind of street cred Jack Kerouac would have killed for. Theirs was one of the great love affairs of the past century. “It was very, very passionate, and dramatic, and hurtful, and ecstatic,” says MacGraw. “It was pretty much a wipeout for both of us. But I think it’s safe to say it would have been impossible not to fall in love with Steve.” As for McQueen, the actor’s closest friend in his last years, martial-arts master Pat Johnson, says, “I have to be careful, because I still know Barbara [Minty McQueen, the last of Steve’s three wives], and he did love Barbara, but … ” He pauses, then out it pours: “Steve loved Ali MacGraw more than he loved anyone else in his entire life. Until the day he died”—in November 1980, of lung cancer, three years after he and MacGraw divorced—“he was madly in love with her.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.515177249908447, "source": "search", "title": "Sheila Weller on Ali MacGraw | Vanity Fair" }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "MacGraw did not want to do The Getaway, which would star Steve McQueen and be directed by Sam Peckinpah. McQueen would play Doc McCoy, a bank robber who is sprung from prison because his wife, Carol, seduces a powerful official. MacGraw recalls, “Of course he said, ‘I want the girl from Love Story.’” Evans urged her to do the film, because it would stretch her beyond preppy roles, but MacGraw didn’t want to be separated from her baby. Moreover, she was apprehensive. She remembered that “one winter day in 1968 it was raining and freezing and I had time to kill” before one of Sokolsky’s shoots, “so I darted into Radio City Music Hall to see Bullitt.” McQueen was at the height of his fame with that movie, with its genre-creating extended car chase, most of which he performed himself. MacGraw says, “That was the only time in my life I went, ‘Oh. My. 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I knew it was Steve McQueen he was talking about.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.174283981323242, "source": "search", "title": "Sheila Weller on Ali MacGraw | Vanity Fair" }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Affairs Spelled End to Steve McQueen - Neile Adams Marriage", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.249374389648438, "source": "search", "title": "Neile Adams Says Affairs Spelled End to Marriage to Steve ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "“She’s the only one around who knows Steve McQueen’s entire body of work,” exclaims Steve Moyer, her publicist.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.303516387939453, "source": "search", "title": "Neile Adams Says Affairs Spelled End to Marriage to Steve ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Actress Ali MacGraw on Steve McQueen, Kardashians' strange fame, life after 'Love Story' | AL.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.756839752197266, "source": "search", "title": "Actress Ali MacGraw on Steve McQueen, Kardashians' strange ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Actress Ali MacGraw on Steve McQueen, Kardashians' strange fame, life after 'Love Story'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.7174072265625, "source": "search", "title": "Actress Ali MacGraw on Steve McQueen, Kardashians' strange ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "She's also someone who has learned a lot during an eventful life that has included marriage to two of Hollywood's most influential men, the producer Robert Evans and the movie star Steve McQueen. She stepped away from her acting career at its height when she married McQueen in 1973, returning in 1978 in the movie, \"Convoy.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.803827285766602, "source": "search", "title": "Actress Ali MacGraw on Steve McQueen, Kardashians' strange ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Steve McQueen was one of the biggest stars in the world then and, when it came time to make his next film,\"The Getaway,\" the studio came calling for MacGraw. \"It was a calculation that the biggest movie star in the world would use the girl in the hit movie.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.306697845458984, "source": "search", "title": "Actress Ali MacGraw on Steve McQueen, Kardashians' strange ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "-- MacGraw does admire some of the actors working today -- Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon -- but said the mythic actors such as Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum and Steve McQueen just aren't here anymore. \"They were so larger than life,\" she said, \"and there's some other little piece that is missing for me\" in today's stars. She attributes a lot of that to the nonstop news about celebrities that is fed by modern technology.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.132538795471191, "source": "search", "title": "Actress Ali MacGraw on Steve McQueen, Kardashians' strange ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "-- She's not a fan of the celebrity culture that makes people like the Kardashians famous for being famous. That's the same culture that she said promotes the popular over quality, pop stars over real actors. \"I'm waiting in terror for the inevitable Steve McQueen movie in which I will be played by, ooh, Selena Gomez,\" she said.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.177545547485352, "source": "search", "title": "Actress Ali MacGraw on Steve McQueen, Kardashians' strange ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Ali MacGraw's 'Absurd' Fear About Ex-Husband Steve McQueen (VIDEO) | The Huffington Post", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.209565162658691, "source": "search", "title": "Ali MacGraw's 'Absurd' Fear About Ex-Husband Steve McQueen ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Ali MacGraw's 'Absurd' Fear About Ex-Husband Steve McQueen (VIDEO)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.141854286193848, "source": "search", "title": "Ali MacGraw's 'Absurd' Fear About Ex-Husband Steve McQueen ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Unfortunately, MacGraw was never able to experience this type of renewed friendship with McQueen. \"Steve McQueen is dead for 30-some-odd years, and it's very sad to me that as sober, grown-up, nonsexually connected beings, we didn't get to sit down and clean it all,\" she says.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.170064926147461, "source": "search", "title": "Ali MacGraw's 'Absurd' Fear About Ex-Husband Steve McQueen ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "The Love Story star said she feels ‘stupid’ for caving in to her exes including producer Robert Evans and screen icon Steve McQueen.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.221940994262695, "source": "search", "title": "Love Story actress Ali MacGraw admits she should have ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "Love story: She left her second husband Hollywood producer Robert Evans for bad-boy actor Steve McQueen", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.765155792236328, "source": "search", "title": "Love Story actress Ali MacGraw admits she should have ..." }, { "answer": "Steve McQueen", "passage": "It's been 44 years since an ethnic working-class girl named Jenny fell in love with a waspy \"preppie\" named Oliver. 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And a damn enduring one, which was delivered by Clark Gable's Rhett Butler to his never-satisfied wife Scarlett O'Hara (played by Vivien Leigh) in 1939's \"Gone With the Wind.\"", "precise_score": -1.406394600868225, "rough_score": -2.779265880584717, "source": "search", "title": "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a straw: 'Gone With ... - TODAY" }, { "answer": "Clark Gable", "passage": "Rhett Butler's (Clark Gable) scandalous, swear-word farewell to Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) in Gone With the Wind (1939) did not include Scarlett's name. It was:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.823457717895508, "source": "search", "title": "Greatest Film Misquotes - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Clark Gable", "passage": "Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) does fall for Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) in \"Gone With the Wind,\" but alas, it cannot last.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.076921463012695, "source": "search", "title": "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a straw: 'Gone With ... - TODAY" }, { "answer": "Clark Gable", "passage": "Rhett (Clark Gable) leaves Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) in tears, but she still finds hope in tomorrow.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.12319278717041, "source": "search", "title": "Frankly My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn - Gone with ... - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Clark Gable", "passage": "Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to expand this concept, and Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, into nearly four hours' worth of screen time, on a then-astronomical 3.7-million-dollar budget, creating what would become one of the most beloved movies of all time. Gone With the Wind opens in April of 1861, at the palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry \"mealy mouthed\" Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). Despite warnings from her father (Thomas Mitchell) and her faithful servant Mammy (Hattie McDaniel), Scarlett intends to throw herself at Ashley at an upcoming barbecue at Twelve Oaks. Alone with Ashley, she goes into a fit of histrionics, all of which is witnessed by roguish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), the black sheep of a wealthy Charleston family, who is instantly fascinated by the feisty, thoroughly self-centered Scarlett: \"We're bad lots, both of us.\" The movie's famous action continues from the burning of Atlanta (actually the destruction of a huge wall left over from King Kong) through the now-classic closing line, \"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.\" Holding its own against stiff competition (many consider 1939 to be the greatest year of the classical Hollywood studios), Gone With the Wind won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar). The film grossed nearly 192 million dollars, assuring that, just as he predicted, Selznick's epitaph would be \"The Man Who Made Gone With the Wind.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.697315216064453, "source": "search", "title": "Frankly My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn - Gone with ... - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Clark Gable", "passage": "Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.30611515045166, "source": "search", "title": "Frankly My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn - Gone with ... - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Clark Gable", "passage": "A year later, Selznick still hadn’t found an actress or received a satisfactory script. In May 1938, running low on funds, Selznick struck a deal with MGM. He sold the worldwide distribution rights for the film to the studio for $1.5 million, and MGM agreed to lend Clark Gable to Selznick.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.915055274963379, "source": "search", "title": "“Frankly, My Dear…” - History.com — American ..." }, { "answer": "Clark Gable", "passage": "This famous line was spoken by Rhett Butler, played by Clark Gable, in the movie Gone with the Wind, directed by Victor Fleming (1939).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.908978462219238, "source": "search", "title": "Quotes - Frankly , my dear , I don't give a damn. - Shmoop" }, { "answer": "Clark Gable", "passage": "On 15 December, 1939, Gone with the Wind premiered at Loew’s Grand Theatre in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The occasion remains an important one in cinematic history not only because of the film’s unprecedented critical and popular reception (it won 10 Academy Awards and remains the highest grossing film ever, adjusting for inflation), but also because of Clark Gable’s iconic line, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” That inclusion of that line helped deal a critical blow to the nascent Hollywood production code (popularly known as the Hays Code), which had banned the use of a wide variety of words from American movies just five years earlier.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.350271224975586, "source": "search", "title": "“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” | OxfordWords blog" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "In 1956, she worked closely with Deborah Kerr to supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I and the next year she again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in An Affair to Remember. That year, she also sang for Sophia Loren in Boy on a Dolphin. In 1960, she had an on-screen chorus role in Can-Can.Ruhlmann, William. [http://www.mtv.com/artists/marni-nixon/biography/ \"About Marni Nixon\"], MTV, accessed November 24, 2014 In 1961's West Side Story, the studio kept her work on the film (as the singing voice of Natalie Wood's Maria) a secret from the actress,Lawson, Kyle. [http://www.azcentral.com/ent/arts/articles/2008/06/10/20080610fairlady.html \"6/17-22: Marni Nixon in My Fair Lady\"], AZCentral.com, June 10, 2008, accessed December 23, 2011 and Nixon also dubbed Rita Moreno's singing in the film's \"Tonight\" quintet. She asked the film's producers for, but did not receive, any direct royalties from her work on the film, but Leonard Bernstein contractually gave her 1/4 of one percent of his personal royalties from it. In 1962, she also sang Wood's high notes in Gypsy. For My Fair Lady in 1964, she again worked with the female lead of the film, Audrey Hepburn, to perform the songs of Hepburn's character Eliza. Because of her uncredited dubbing work in these films, Time magazine called her \"The Ghostess with the Mostest\". ", "precise_score": 5.974947452545166, "rough_score": 5.424725532531738, "source": "wiki", "title": "Marni Nixon" }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "\"Loverly\" soprano Marni Nixon has ensured herself a proper place in film history although most moviegoers would not recognize her if they passed her on the street. But if you heard her, that might be a horse of a different color. Marni is one of those unsung heroes (or should I say \"much sung\" heroes) whose incredible talents were given short shrift at the time. For those who think film superstars such as Deborah Kerr , Natalie Wood , and Audrey Hepburn possessed not only powerhouse dramatic talents but amazing singing voices as well...think again. Kerr's Anna in The King and I (1956), Natalie's Maria in West Side Story (1961), and Audrey's Eliza in My Fair Lady (1964) were all dubbed by the amazing Marni Nixon, and nowhere in the credits will you find that fact. Born Marni McEathron in Altadena, California, she was a former child actress and soloist with the Roger Wagner Chorale in the beginning. Trained in opera, yet possessing a versatile voice for pop music and easy standards as well, she not only sang for Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky but also recorded light songs. Marni made her Broadway musical debut in 1954 in a show that lasted two months but nothing came from it. In 1955, the singer contracted to dub Deborah Kerr in The King and I (1956) was killed in a car accident in Europe and a replacement was needed. Marni was hired...and the rest is history. Much impressed, the studios brought her in to \"ghost\" Ms. Kerr's voice once again in the classic tearjerker An Affair to Remember (1957). From there she went on to make Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn sound incredibly good with such classic songs as \"Tonight\" and \"Wouldn't It Be Loverly.\"", "precise_score": 5.636133193969727, "rough_score": 6.135159969329834, "source": "search", "title": "Marni Nixon - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "Marni Nixon, seen in 2008 as part of a touring production of \"My Fair Lady,\" in which she played the mother of Professor Higgins - a non-singing role, ironic for a woman who made her career dub-singing for stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Natalie Wood.", "precise_score": 6.6648640632629395, "rough_score": 7.676807880401611, "source": "search", "title": "Marni Nixon, voice of the stars, dies at 86 - philly.com" }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "In 2007 the New York Philharmonic held a full-costume concert presentation of the musical. The concert had a four-day engagement lasting from March 7–10 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. It starred Kelsey Grammer as Higgins, Kelli O'Hara as Eliza, Charles Kimbrough as Pickering, and Brian Dennehy as Alfred Doolittle. Marni Nixon played Mrs. Higgins; Nixon had provided the singing voice of Audrey Hepburn in the film version. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.8418494462966919, "source": "wiki", "title": "My Fair Lady" }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "An Oscar-winning film version was made in 1964, directed by George Cukor and with Harrison again in the part of Higgins. The casting of Audrey Hepburn instead of Julie Andrews as Eliza was controversial, partly because theatregoers regarded Andrews as perfect for the part and partly because Hepburn's singing voice had to be dubbed (by Marni Nixon). Jack L. Warner, the head of Warner Bros., which produced the film, wanted \"a star with a great deal of name recognition\", but since Julie Andrews did not have any film experience, he thought a movie with her would not be as successful. (Andrews went on to star in Mary Poppins that same year and won the Golden Globe for Best Actress over Audrey Hepburn, and the Academy Award for Best Actress; Mary Poppins became Disney's most successful live-action film, until Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was released in 2003.) Lerner in particular disliked the film version of the musical, thinking it did not live up to the standards of Moss Hart's original direction. He was also unhappy with Hepburn's replacement of Andrews in the role of Eliza Doolittle and that the film was shot in its entirety on the Warner Brothers backlot rather than, as he would have preferred, in London. My Fair Lady eventually won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture of the Year, Best Actor for Rex Harrison, and Best Director for George Cukor— the lone Oscar win in his fifty-year film career.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.5491770505905151, "source": "wiki", "title": "My Fair Lady" }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "Has appeared in one film with Julie Andrews : The Sound of Music (1965). She also provided Eliza Doolittle's singing voice for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (1964)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.013198733329773, "source": "search", "title": "Marni Nixon - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "Nixon did the same for Natalie Wood in 1961’s “West Side Story” and Audrey Hepburn in 1964’s “My Fair Lady,” which had starred Julie Andrews onstage. Earlier, she added a few notes to Marilyn Monroe’s “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5367043018341064, "source": "search", "title": "Marni Nixon, voice of classic movie songs, has died at 86" }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "Nixon did the same for Natalie Wood in 1961’s West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn in 1964’s My Fair Lady, which had starred Julie Andrews onstage. Earlier, she added a few notes to Marilyn Monroe’s Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.5978548526763916, "source": "search", "title": "Marni Nixon, Voice of Classic Movie Songs, Has Died at 86 ..." }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "Nixon did the same for Natalie Wood in 1961's \"West Side Story\" and Audrey Hepburn in 1964's \"My Fair Lady,\" which had starred Julie Andrews onstage. Earlier, she added a few notes to Marilyn Monroe's \"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend,\" from \"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.5119969844818115, "source": "search", "title": "Marni Nixon, voice of classic movie songs, has died at 86 ..." }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "Nixon did the same for Natalie Wood in 1961’s “West Side Story” and Audrey Hepburn in 1964’s “My Fair Lady,” which had starred Julie Andrews onstage. Earlier, she added a few notes to Marilyn Monroe’s ‘‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5754296779632568, "source": "search", "title": "Marni Nixon, 86, voice of classic movie songs - The Boston ..." }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "Ms. Nixon did the same for Natalie Wood in 1961's West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn in 1964's My Fair Lady, which had starred Julie Andrews on stage. Earlier, she had added a few notes to Marilyn Monroe's \"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend\" in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.1449711322784424, "source": "search", "title": "Marni Nixon, voice of the stars, dies at 86 - philly.com" }, { "answer": "Audrey Hepburn", "passage": "If you’ve ever had “I Feel Pretty” or “I Could’ve Danced All Night” stuck in your head, it was likely in Nixon’s voice, for she was the “ghost-singer” for much of Natalie Wood’s Maria in West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn’s Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Even if the aforementioned songs aren’t your favorites, Nixon contributed to over 50 films, so more likely than not, she’s crooned her way through your subconscious on various occasions. (The Times points out that sometimes she wouldn’t even dub full songs — for example, she sang just two lines of Marilyn Monroe’s “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.889831066131592, "source": "search", "title": "Marni Nixon — Whose Voice You May Know as Maria From ‘West ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Following a $14.7 million marketing effort, Ben-Hur premiered at Loew's State Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1959. It was the fastest-grossing as well as the highest-grossing film of 1959, in the process becoming the second-highest-grossing film in history at the time after Gone with the Wind. It won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Wyler), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Heston), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Griffith), and Best Cinematography – Color (Surtees), an accomplishment that was not equaled until Titanic in 1997 and then again by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. Ben-Hur also won three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Stephen Boyd. Today, Ben-Hur is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, and in 1998 the American Film Institute ranked it the 72nd best American film and the 2nd best American epic film in the AFI's 10 Top 10. In 2004, the National Film Preservation Board selected Ben-Hur for preservation by the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being a \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" motion picture.", "precise_score": 6.570652484893799, "rough_score": 6.597300052642822, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ben-Hur (1959 film)" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Ben-Hur was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won an unprecedented 11. , only Titanic in 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004 have matched the film's wins. The lone category where Ben-Hur did not win was for Best Adapted Screenplay (losing to Room at the Top), and most observers attributed this to the controversy over the writing credit. MGM and Panavision shared a special technical Oscar in March 1960 for developing the Camera 65 photographic process. ", "precise_score": 5.8198394775390625, "rough_score": 6.608657360076904, "source": "wiki", "title": "Ben-Hur (1959 film)" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "The blockbuster film Titanic (1997) had a record-tying fourteen nominations and won a record-tying eleven Academy Awards (duplicating the feat of All About Eve (1950) ). That made it the second of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. It was also the second film to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture - it tied Ben-Hur (1959) with eleven Oscar wins - the most Oscar wins of any film in Academy Awards history. [ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) would equal the feat in six years with 11 wins.]", "precise_score": 7.66251277923584, "rough_score": 8.531911849975586, "source": "search", "title": "Film History Milestones - 1997 - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Three films have won 11 Oscars. The first to achieve the record was Ben-Hur (USA 1959) which won from 12 nominations on 4 April 1960, followed by Titanic (USA 1997) from 14 nominations on 23 March 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (NZ/USA 2003) which won all 11 of its nominations on 29 February 2004.", "precise_score": 8.113626480102539, "rough_score": 8.8215913772583, "source": "search", "title": "Most Oscars won by a film | Guinness World Records" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "At the 1960 Oscars, Ben-Hur swept 11 categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith, playing an Arab sheik who befriends Ben-Hur), Best Color Cinematography, Best Color Art Direction/Set Direction, Best Sound, Best Score, Best Film Editing, Best Color Costume Design and Best Special Effects. It was also nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. Ben-Hur’s record number of Oscars still stands, although two films (1997’s Titanic and 2003’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) have matched it.", "precise_score": 7.450658321380615, "rough_score": 7.190253257751465, "source": "search", "title": "Ben-Hur wins 11 Academy Awards - Apr 04, 1960 - HISTORY.com" }, { "answer": "Titantic", "passage": "Experience the visual splendor, thundering action and towering drama of this record-setting film; winner of ELEVEN Academy Awards (a feat not equalled until 1997's Titantic and 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)!", "precise_score": 1.0494768619537354, "rough_score": 5.240563869476318, "source": "search", "title": "Ben-hur - WarnerBros.com - Movies" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "One of the great movie spectacles, BEN HUR is a tour de force for Heston. In remaking the silent classic (1927, with Ramon Novarro and Francis X. Bushman), quality-conscious director Wyler presented a modern interpretation of the 1880 novel by General Lew Wallace. Majesty is in almost every frame of this film directed by Wyler, who tells the story in human, understated terms, except for the great chariot race, which was directed by action expert Andrew Marton. Everything about BEN HUR was enormous; more than 300 sets were employed, covering more than 340 acres. BEN HUR held the record for winning the most Academy Awards (11 won) for 38 years till 1997, tying with TITANIC and also in 2004 with THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING for that honor.", "precise_score": 4.988654136657715, "rough_score": 4.842075347900391, "source": "search", "title": "BEN-HUR PG.1:VHS,DVDs & Posters- Available Here to Buy!" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "To watch 1959's Ben-Hur is to take a class in \"How to Win Academy Awards\". I say this not solely because of the movie's tremendous success at the 1960 Oscars, though it definitely cleaned up during that ceremony. Nominated for 12 awards, it took home 11, which still ties it with 1997's Titanic for the most trophies ever garnered by one film. (For the record, 1950's All About Eve earned the most nominations with 14, but it \"only\" grabbed six Oscars. If I'm not mistaken, 1977's The Turning Point and 1985's The Color Purple co-own the record for futility; they both got 11 nominations but won no prizes.)", "precise_score": 6.269632339477539, "rough_score": 7.388271331787109, "source": "search", "title": "Ben-Hur (1959) - DVD Movie Guide - www.dvdmg.com" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Historically, the \"Oscarcast\" has pulled in a bigger haul when box-office hits are favored to win the Best Picture trophy. More than 57.25 million viewers tuned to the telecast for the 70th Academy Awards in 1998, the year of Titanic, which generated close to US$600 million at the North American box office pre-Oscars. The 76th Academy Awards ceremony in which The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (pre-telecast box office earnings of US$368 million) received 11 Awards including Best Picture drew 43.56 million viewers. The most watched ceremony based on Nielsen ratings to date, however, was the 42nd Academy Awards (Best Picture Midnight Cowboy) which drew a 43.4% household rating on 7 April 1970. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.3533549308776855, "source": "wiki", "title": "Academy Awards" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "James Cameron's Titanic (1997), the most expensive film of all time at the time of its release, also soon became the highest grossing and most successful film of all-time in Hollywood history (at $600.8 million domestic gross box-office receipts, and $1.8 billion total worldwide gross), surpassing the all-time box-office (domestic) record of Star Wars (1977) . (Titanic remained at the top until Cameron's own Avatar (2009) surpassed it 12 years later at $760.5 million (domestic).) It was the first film with a budget of $200 million, and it was the first movie to gross $1 billion (worldwide). When adjusted for inflation, however, Cleopatra (1963) had the highest budget of any film, and Gone with the Wind (1939) remained the highest grossing.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.594141960144043, "source": "search", "title": "Film History Milestones - 1997 - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "There were only two instances in which the same movie character was Oscar-nominated within the same film. The first instance was in Titanic (1997), where the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater was played by nominees Gloria Stuart and Kate Winslet. [Note: The second instance was the character of Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001).]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6707128286361694, "source": "search", "title": "Film History Milestones - 1997 - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Due to its opening against James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic (1997), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) was the first (and only) Pierce Brosnan Bond film to not open as the # 1 film at the box-office.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.792142868041992, "source": "search", "title": "Film History Milestones - 1997 - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "HELEN HUNT in \"As Good As It Gets\", Judi Dench in \"(Her Majesty) Mrs Brown\", Helena Bonham Carter in \"The Wings of the Dove\", Kate Winslet in \"Titanic\", Julie Christie in \"Afterglow\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.21901798248291, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "KIM BASINGER in \"L.A. 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The reconstructed ship in the film was three-quarters actual size.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.135565757751465, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Titanic had a record number of nominations and wins - fourteen, tying the all-time record set by", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.622753143310547, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Both Titanic and", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.261199951171875, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Ben-Hur (1959) failed to win Best Original Screenplay (Titanic wasn't even nominated in the category), although both films won Best Picture and Best Director honors. To date, it was the last film to win Best Picture without a Screenplay nomination (Adapted or Original); the last Best Picture to not have its screenplay nominated was The Sound of Music (1965) .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6261062622070312, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "[The earlier version, Titanic (1953), lacked nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, but had two nominations, including Best Art Direction and it won an Oscar for Best Story and Screenplay - by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Richard Breen.]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.72350025177002, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Its fourteen nominations included: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Make-up, Best Score, Best Song (\"My Heart Will Go On\"), Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Visual Effects. Titanic lost only three awards for which it was nominated - its two acting nominations, and the Best Make-up nomination. The film wasn't even nominated for its screenplay, and it lost its two actress nominations, making it less of an acting film and more of a technical, craft-related masterpiece. Leonardo DiCaprio in a lead role opposite nominated Kate Winslet was denied a nomination. And 87 year-old veteran actress Gloria Stuart was denied an Oscar - the award would have made her the oldest recipient of an Oscar.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.641777038574219, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Titanic was the first Best Picture winner to be produced, directed, written and edited by the same individual - James Cameron. Cameron's win put him fifth in a long line of directors who have triple wins for director, writer, and producer for the same film: Leo McCarey for Going My Way (1944), Billy Wilder for The Apartment (1960) , Francis Ford Coppola for", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.63280200958252, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Every director with a Best Picture nomination was a first-time Best Director nominee. The winner of the Best Director award was James Cameron for Titanic. The only director with a Best Picture nomination who wasn't included (and was snubbed) in the group of Best Director nominees was James Brooks. His spot in the Best Director line-up was taken by Canadian director/writer Atom Egoyan for his adaptation of Russell Banks' novel The Sweet Hereafter (with two nominations and no wins) about the aftermath of a tragic schoolbus accident in a small British Columbia town.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.834794044494629, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Kate Winslet (with her second nomination) as upper-class debutante Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.160201072692871, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "favored 87 year-old Gloria Stuart as Old Rose - the 101 year-old survivor of the disastrous ship accident in Titanic", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.339542388916016, "source": "search", "title": "1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Titanic (1997), Ben Hur (1959), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.40773898363113403, "source": "search", "title": "Most Oscars won by a film | Guinness World Records" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Titanic received awards for: Best Picture, Best Director, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume, Visual Effects, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Film Editing, Original Dramatic Score, Original Song and losing out on Best Actress, Supporting Actress and Makeup.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.699166297912598, "source": "search", "title": "Most Oscars won by a film | Guinness World Records" }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "'Titanic' Ties Record With 11 Oscars, Including Best Picture - The New York Times", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.7037390470504761, "source": "search", "title": "'Titanic' Ties Record With 11 Oscars, Including Best ..." }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Movies |'Titanic' Ties Record With 11 Oscars, Including Best Picture", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.2298460006713867, "source": "search", "title": "'Titanic' Ties Record With 11 Oscars, Including Best ..." }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "'Titanic' Ties Record With 11 Oscars, Including Best Picture", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.1417512893676758, "source": "search", "title": "'Titanic' Ties Record With 11 Oscars, Including Best ..." }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "''Titanic,'' the James Cameron epic about a tragic love affair aboard the doomed ocean liner, glided triumphantly through the 70th annual Academy Awards tonight, winning 11 accolades, including best picture and the top director Oscars for Mr. Cameron. The film's honors tied it with ''Ben-Hur'' for the most ever.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.983862280845642, "source": "search", "title": "'Titanic' Ties Record With 11 Oscars, Including Best ..." }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "At the close of a long evening, Mr. Cameron accepted the best-picture award for ''Titanic'' and asked for a few moments of silence for those who died in the ocean tragedy. ''The only thing we truly own is today,'' he said. ''Life is precious.''", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.184370040893555, "source": "search", "title": "'Titanic' Ties Record With 11 Oscars, Including Best ..." }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "Even before the awards presentation, the odds were heavily in favor of ''Titanic,'' the 3-hour-and-14-minute blockbuster that has been No. 1 at the box office for 14 weeks and has grossed a record $1.2 billion around the world, including $495 million in the United States. The film starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as fictional lovers aboard the vessel that sank in the Atlantic in 1912, carrying more than 1,500 people to their deaths.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.675149917602539, "source": "search", "title": "'Titanic' Ties Record With 11 Oscars, Including Best ..." }, { "answer": "Titanic", "passage": "With 14 Oscar nominations, which tied the record set by the Joseph L. Mankiewicz classic ''All About Eve'' (1950), ''Titanic'' was, from the outset, almost certain to dominate the Academy Awards. 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Watch LIVE OSCAR SUNDAY on ABC.", "precise_score": 9.322402954101562, "rough_score": 10.072381973266602, "source": "search", "title": "'The Oscars': John Wayne Wins Best Actor for 'True Grit ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "The eye patch worn by actor John Wayne for his role in ''True Grit'' is shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters April 5, 2011. Wayne's personal items will go on auction in October, to benefit John Wayne Enterprises which supports and funds the John Wayne Cancer Foundation.", "precise_score": 6.0077128410339355, "rough_score": 7.128720760345459, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne's True Grit eye-patch up for auction | Reuters" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "LOS ANGELES John Wayne's iconic eye-patch from his 1969 film \"True Grit\" and the Golden Globe award he won for playing drunken U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the movie are to be sold at auction, Heritage Auctions said on Tuesday,", "precise_score": 7.225194931030273, "rough_score": 8.127028465270996, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne's True Grit eye-patch up for auction | Reuters" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "The patch was worn by Wayne's character Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 western. It was this performance that won the actor the only Academy Award of his career, a success which Wayne himself attributed to the patch. In his acceptance speech for the Oscar, Wayne exclaimed: \"Wow! If I'd known I'd have put that patch on 35 years earlier!\"The star would wear the eyepatch again in 1975 for True Grit's sequel, Rooster Cogburn. Shortly after filming, Wayne donatedit to a charity auction for the Southern California Chamber Symphony Society.The fantastic itemcomes to auction complete with a letter of provenence from Wayne himself, which was written ahead of the original charity sale. Dated November 4,1975 on Wayne's personal stationary, the letter reads: \"Dear Friend: Please let this certify that the enclosed 'eyepatch' is one which I wore during the filming of 'True Grit' and 'Rooster Cogburn'. Now that my eye is better I'm happy to donate it to such a worthy cause - the Southern California Chamber Symphony Society auction. Wear it in good health! Sincerely [signed] John Wayne\".The auction house can expect renewed interest in True Grit related items, following a successful 2010 re-make of the film. With less than 48 hours left to go in the sale, bids have already reached $11,000. Paul Fraser Collectibles has a brilliant photograph of Rooster Cogburn signed by John Wayne . Like the eyepatch, we ensure that all our items have unrivalled provenance so you can feel confident in your purchase.", "precise_score": 7.737306594848633, "rough_score": 8.670896530151367, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne 'Grit' Eyepatch To Appear At Auction" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "True Grit, the movie that finally won Wayne his Oscar, was transparently one of those movies designed to win an old warhorse legend his Oscar. Here he was — or so the rap went — running through his rawhide-cowboy shtick, only this time with the added gimmick of an eye patch and an attitude. As if to make him seem even more outdated, True Grit was released within a week of The Wild Bunch, the apocalyptic New Hollywood Western in which director Sam Peckinpah, spattering blood and bullets and doom, exploded the mythology of six-gun heroism that John Wayne incarnated. If you love movie-star acting, however, do yourself a favor: Get a hold of the original True Grit and watch it. Because what you’ll see is that John Wayne’s performance is a marvel. He makes Rooster Cogburn a cantankerous old cuss, a kind of cowpoke precursor to Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry — the kind of law enforcer who never met a bad guy he didn’t like to shoot.", "precise_score": 6.400877475738525, "rough_score": 8.508728981018066, "source": "search", "title": "'True Grit': John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges -- which one has ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "Based on Charles Portis' novel, the original \" True Grit \" starred an eye patch-wearing John Wayne as 'Rooster' Cogburn, an aging U.S. marshal who helps a 14-year-old girl find the man who killed her father. Also along for the ride in the original is country singer Glen Campbell, who additionally performed the film's Oscar-nominated theme song. \"Grit\" is mostly remembered for being the film that finally won Wayne his only Academy Award, which many fans consider to be one of those career-honoring Oscars.", "precise_score": 8.15971851348877, "rough_score": 9.884645462036133, "source": "search", "title": "Jeff Bridges And Coen Brothers Reunite For 'True Grit ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "True Grit is a 2010 American Revisionist Western film directed, written, produced and edited by the Coen brothers and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the second adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name, which was previously filmed in 1969 starring John Wayne and Glen Campbell. This version stars Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. \"Rooster\" Cogburn, along with Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper. After an outlaw named Tom Chaney murders her father, feisty 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross hires Cogburn, a boozy, trigger-happy lawman, to help her find Chaney (Brolin) and avenge her father. The bickering duo are accompanied on their quest by a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (Damon), who has been tracking Chaney for killing a State Senator. As they embark on a dangerous adventure, each character has their \"grit\" tested in unprecedented ways.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.760462760925293, "source": "wiki", "title": "True Grit (2010 film)" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "Entertainment Weekly gave the movie a B+: \"Truer than the John Wayne showpiece and less gritty than the book, this True Grit is just tasty enough to leave movie lovers hungry for a missing spice.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.884824752807617, "source": "wiki", "title": "True Grit (2010 film)" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "John Wayne's True Grit eye-patch up for auction | Reuters", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.564793586730957, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne's True Grit eye-patch up for auction | Reuters" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "John Wayne's \"True Grit\" eye-patch up for auction", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.4283552169799805, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne's True Grit eye-patch up for auction | Reuters" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "The hat worn by actor John Wayne for his role in ''Rooster Cogburn'' is shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters April 5, 2011. Wayne's personal items will go on auction in October, to benefit John Wayne Enterprises which supports and funds the John Wayne Cancer Foundation.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.00102710723877, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne's True Grit eye-patch up for auction | Reuters" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "Movie scripts that belonged to actor John Wayne are shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters April 5, 2011. Wayne's personal items will go on auction in October, to benefit John Wayne Enterprises which supports and funds the John Wayne Cancer Foundation.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.368700981140137, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne's True Grit eye-patch up for auction | Reuters" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "The Golden Globe award presented to Jonh Wayne for his role in ''True Grit'' is shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters April 5, 2011. 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John Wayne is the iconic actor for westerns and this eyepatch is the iconic prop in his most famous role.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.430042266845703, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne's True Grit eyepatch for sale in online auction ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "John Wayne 'Grit' Eyepatch To Appear At Auction", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.752233028411865, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne 'Grit' Eyepatch To Appear At Auction" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "John Wayne 'Grit' eyepatch to appear at auction", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.752233028411865, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne 'Grit' Eyepatch To Appear At Auction" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "John Wayne 'Grit' eyepatch to appear at auction", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.752233028411865, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne 'Grit' Eyepatch To Appear At Auction" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "The eyepatch worn by John Wayne in True Grit is set to appear at auction on May 29", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.193193435668945, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne 'Grit' Eyepatch To Appear At Auction" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "The eyepatch worn by John Wayne in True Grit, his most iconic role, is to appear in an online auction which ends on May 29.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.353622913360596, "source": "search", "title": "John Wayne 'Grit' Eyepatch To Appear At Auction" }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "‘True Grit’: John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges — which one has more true grit? – EW.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.122457981109619, "source": "search", "title": "'True Grit': John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges -- which one has ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "There are differences, of course. The Coen brothers’ version is more tasteful and intimate and art-directed, a kind of color-coordinated curio. Hailee Steinfeld’s Mattie Ross is notably younger than Kim Darby’s (which, at times, makes the new Mattie seem even more of an old movie concoction), and major sections of the picture are set at night (a technique that worked a lot better in No Country for Old Men). That said, the essential hook of the new True Grit is, and always was, the sheer curiosity factor of wanting to see Jeff Bridges, in his born-again middle-aged movie-star prime, take on the role of Rooster Cogburn, the part that won John Wayne his only Academy Award.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.763176918029785, "source": "search", "title": "'True Grit': John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges -- which one has ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "There’s a reason that a great many people still don’t hold Wayne’s cornball-crusty performance in very high esteem. By the late ’60s, movies were in the middle of a revolution, and they had a new audience, known (it now sounds so quaint) as the Film Generation. At the time, a lot of folks under a certain age felt that it was almost their duty to hate John Wayne. He’d become the living embodiment of the Old Values. He was a saber-rattling conservative who, only the year before, in 1968, had pushed his pro-Vietnam hawkishness to the nth degree in the jarringly jingoistic The Green Berets. He had every right to, of course. But what made The Green Berets, as a corrective to Hollywood liberalism, so infamous and despised is that it was such a didactically wooden combat movie. All that came through, really, was the propaganda. And this reinforced the notion that Wayne, though he remained the most larger-than-life of all Hollywood movie stars, was never, in the fullest sense, an actor. He had come to be seen as the macho cartoon version of himself: the arms-out swagger, the slow-motion molasses drawl, the toughness that never wavered.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.915300369262695, "source": "search", "title": "'True Grit': John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges -- which one has ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "Wayne’s Rooster lives by a code, all right, but the movie suggests that he’s trapped by it as well. In one of the key scenes that’s more or less duplicated in the Coen brothers version (though to far less emotional effect), he talks about his past, including his wrecked marriage, and we see that he’s the sort of “noble” loner who’s really a broken-down, half-dead codger. Killing bad guys isn’t just his mission — it’s the major thing that’s keeping him alive. At the same time, he’s an irresistible rascal whose one-eyed squint becomes a wink of valor. Forty years later, Wayne’s performance has aged beautifully, because it’s easier to see now how much acting there really is in it. There is one moment, though, that almost by definition can’t match the power it had back in 1969: When Wayne’s Rooster, just before the famous, climactic, reins-in-his-mouth shoot-out, growls out the line “Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch!”…there’s simply no way to recapture how funny-edgy, and even shocking, it once was to hear John Wayne, apostle of American values, spit out an epithet like that. The glory of it, of course, is that the real son-of-a-bitch was Rooster.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.142165184020996, "source": "search", "title": "'True Grit': John Wayne vs. Jeff Bridges -- which one has ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "Entire costume worn by John Wayne in True Grit set to fetch $160,000 at auction, boots, eye patch and all | Daily Mail Online", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.10787296295166, "source": "search", "title": "Entire costume worn by John Wayne in True Grit set to ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "Greg Rohan, president of Heritage Auctions, said the collection 'is a time capsule of classic Hollywood and US history that has remained carefully preserved by his family since John Wayne died.'", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.285943984985352, "source": "search", "title": "Entire costume worn by John Wayne in True Grit set to ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "One of the more anticipated films of the holiday season is the Coens Bros. remake of the classic Western “True Grit.”  The 1969 Henry Hathaway flick supplied John Wayne with his one and only Best Actor Oscar and tells the story of a U.S. Marshall who helps a stubborn young lady track down her father’s murderer.  The new version features recent Academy Award winner Bridges in the Wayne role, but also includes Matt Damon and reunites the Coens with their “No Country for Old Men” star Josh Brolin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.3486655056476593, "source": "search", "title": "First Look: Jeff Bridges and his eyepatch in the Coen Bros ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "I can see all of those movies that you mentioned being remade. John Wayne’s films are mostly great, but they’re all products of their time. They had exceptional stories most of the time and nearly all of them could be updated and probably will be. You should probably start getting used to the idea if this movie is successful.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.387911796569824, "source": "search", "title": "First Look: Jeff Bridges and his eyepatch in the Coen Bros ..." }, { "answer": "John Wayne", "passage": "will i hope this new version isn’t a rip off of the 1969 classic, if its different i probrably watch it though John wayne and Kim Darby were great and to tell you the truth Wayne makes these young city slicken actors trying to be a cowboy today look like Barbie’s boyfriend Ken “oh wow look im a cowboy, err..whats a stensen?!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.896585464477539, "source": "search", "title": "First Look: Jeff Bridges and his eyepatch in the Coen Bros ..." } ]

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In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond visits an exclusive ski resort in Switzerland, where he is told that David Niven is a frequent visitor and in You Only Live Twice, Niven is referred to as the only real gentleman in Hollywood. ", "precise_score": 7.816522598266602, "rough_score": 6.55018949508667, "source": "wiki", "title": "David Niven" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "In 1967 Casino Royale was adapted into a parody Bond film starring David Niven as Sir James Bond and Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd. Niven had been Fleming's preference for the role of Bond. The result of a court case in the High Court in London in 1963 allowed Kevin McClory to produce a remake of Thunderball titled Never Say Never Again in 1983. The film, produced by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm production company and starring Sean Connery as Bond, was not part of the Eon series of Bond films. In 1997 the Sony Corporation acquired all or some of McClory's rights in an undisclosed deal, which were then subsequently acquired by MGM, whilst on 4 December 1997, MGM announced that the company had purchased the rights to Never Say Never Again from Taliafilm. As at 2015 Eon holds the full adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels. ", "precise_score": 8.271098136901855, "rough_score": 7.569847106933594, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Casino Royale is a 1967 spy comedy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. The film stars David Niven as the \"original\" Bond, Sir James Bond 007. Forced out of retirement to investigate the deaths and disappearances of international spies, he soon battles the mysterious Dr. Noah and SMERSH. The film's slogan: \"Casino Royale is too much... for one James Bond!\" refers to Bond's ruse to mislead SMERSH in which six other agents are pretending to be \"James Bond\", namely, baccarat master Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers); millionaire spy Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress); Bond's secretary Miss Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet); Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet), Bond's daughter with Mata Hari; and British agents \"Coop\" (Terence Cooper) and \"The Detainer\" (Daliah Lavi).", "precise_score": 7.921028137207031, "rough_score": 7.1768646240234375, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "In March 1955 Ian Fleming sold the film rights of his novel Casino Royale, the first book featuring the character of James Bond, to the producer Gregory Ratoff for $6,000 ($ in dollars). In 1956 Ratoff set up a production company with Michael Garrison to produce a film adaptation, but wound up not finding financial backers before his death in December 1960. After Ratoff's death, the producer Charles K. Feldman represented Ratoff's widow and obtained the Casino Royale rights. Albert R. Broccoli, who had a long time interest in adapting James Bond, offered to purchase the Casino Royale rights from Feldman, but he declined. Feldman and his friend, the director Howard Hawks, had an interest in adapting Casino Royale, considering Leigh Brackett as a writer and Cary Grant as James Bond. They eventually gave up once they saw the 1962 film Dr. No, the first Bond adaptation made by Broccoli and his partner Harry Saltzman through their company Eon Productions. ", "precise_score": 1.3519690036773682, "rough_score": -3.672219753265381, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "What a mess of the royal proportions - such a great cast (Peter Sellers, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress, Deborah Kerr, and Jean-Paul Belmondo), the James Bond's story, plenty of beautiful (and I mean it) girls, the music by Burt Bacharach, most famous sets - but the movie is almost totally unwatchable. It started funny enough - at Sir James Bond's (David Niven) home where he was approached by four international agents that forced him to come out of retirement and head up the operation against the evil organization SMERSH. His mission is to destroy Topple LeChiffre (Orson Welles} at the baccarat tables where he never loses and wins a lot of money to supply SMERSH. Then, the movie becomes silly, stupid, pointless, and (what is the worst) not funny. Only Woody Allen, (as Bond's incompetent nephew, Jimmy Bond) brilliant as usual has appeared in two scenes and made them silly and hilarious. I think that \"Casino Royale\" (the way it was made) illustrates the fact that bigger is not always better - overlong and overblown, written and directed by five or more writers and directors, it brings to mind an old saying, \"Too many cooks spoil the broth\".", "precise_score": 3.8175086975097656, "rough_score": 6.533082008361816, "source": "search", "title": "Casino Royale (1967) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "David Niven (1910-1983) was a British actor. He plays James Bond in the 1967 spoof of Casino Royale . He was the second actor to play the role in a film outside the official franchise.", "precise_score": 10.312129974365234, "rough_score": 9.200746536254883, "source": "search", "title": "David Niven - James Bond Wiki - Wikia" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Niven continued his career as a high-priced, A-list actor well into the '60s. He played the amiable comic thief Sir Charles Lytton in 'The Pink Panther' (1963) and returned to television in the stylish \"caper\" series 'The Rogues' in 1964. He than played Sir James Bond in the 1967 version of 'Casino Royale'.", "precise_score": 7.962899208068848, "rough_score": 5.9766058921813965, "source": "search", "title": "David Niven | Films | Movies | Cinema | Biography of this ..." }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "In which the un-retired James Bond (David Niven) meets the new Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet) and introduces his errant nephew Jimmy (Woody Allen), in the 007 spoof Casino Royale, 1967.", "precise_score": 8.57022476196289, "rough_score": 7.7583489418029785, "source": "search", "title": "Casino Royale (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Little Jimmy" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "In which the un-retired James Bond (David Niven) meets the new Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet) and introduces his errant nephew Jimmy (Woody Allen), in the 007 spoof Casino Royale, 1967.>", "precise_score": 8.371468544006348, "rough_score": 7.759857654571533, "source": "search", "title": "Casino Royale (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Little Jimmy" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "The first movie version of the first James Bond novel Casino Royale (1967) was this wild 60's farce with 16 stars and 6 directors.>", "precise_score": 1.3706276416778564, "rough_score": -3.836355686187744, "source": "search", "title": "Casino Royale (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Little Jimmy" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "We meet the retired, stuttering, annoyed James Bond (David Niven), visited by English, American, Soviet and French head spooks (director John Huston, William Holden, Kurt Kasznar, Charles Boyer), needing help figuring out who's offing their agents, in the all-star satire Casino Royale, 1967.>", "precise_score": 7.469099998474121, "rough_score": 6.749411106109619, "source": "search", "title": "Casino Royale (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Little Jimmy" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Trailer Casino Royale (1967) The first James Bond parody, based on the Ian Flemming Novel, David Nivens, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen star as James, James, and Jimmy to thwart Smirch and it's gambler leader, Orson Welles.", "precise_score": 7.468355655670166, "rough_score": 7.514329433441162, "source": "search", "title": "Casino Royale (1967) Trailer - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Amazon.com: Casino Royale (1968): Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles: Amazon Digital Services LLC", "precise_score": -1.1905696392059326, "rough_score": -2.8915939331054688, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: Casino Royale (1968): Peter Sellers, Ursula ..." }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "James Bond made his first on-camera appearance just one year after the publication of the first Ian Fleming novel. But he wasn’t played by Sean Connery , and he wasn’t in theaters. Heck, he was actually an American, “Jimmy Bond,” played by Barry Nelson, an actor otherwise most famous for his supporting role in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. This short adaptation of Casino Royale plays fast and loose with the character, and Nelson is hardly the most memorable actor to have played Bond, but Peter Lorre does give an excellent performance as the villain Le Chiffre. ", "precise_score": 4.135695934295654, "rough_score": -0.5407825708389282, "source": "search", "title": "James Bond Actors Spotlight - ComingSoon.net" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "The 1967 farce Casino Royale , based extremely loosely on Fleming’s original novel, is a rather silly film. David Niven plays James Bond, who is forced out of retirement to take down his arch-nemesis SMERSH once and for all. The tag line for the film was “Casino Royale is too much… for one James Bond!” and the filmmakers followed up on this promise by having multiple agents operating under the code name “James Bond,” in an attempt to confuse the enemy. Niven is the only true Bond in Casino Royale, but the other faux-Bonds are played by Peter Sellers, Barbara Bouchet, Joanna Pettet, Terence Cooper, Daliah Lavi and former “Bond Girl” Ursula Andress. Adding to the confusion is Woody Allen, playing James Bond’s nephew “Jimmy” Bond.", "precise_score": 9.576225280761719, "rough_score": 8.35987377166748, "source": "search", "title": "James Bond Actors Spotlight - ComingSoon.net" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "The character has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games and film. The films are the longest continually running and the third-highest-grossing film series to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond. As of , there have been twenty-four films in the Eon Productions series. The most recent Bond film, Spectre (2015), stars Daniel Craig in his fourth portrayal of Bond; he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also been two independent productions of Bond films: Casino Royale (a 1967 spoof) and Never Say Never Again (a 1983 remake of an earlier Eon-produced film, Thunderball).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.917475461959839, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Fleming decided that Bond should resemble both American singer Hoagy Carmichael and himself and in Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd remarks, \"Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless.\" Likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is \"certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.557365417480469, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Whilst serving in the Naval Intelligence Division, Fleming had planned to become an author and had told a friend, \"I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories.\" On 17 February 1952, he began writing his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, where he wrote all his Bond novels during the months of January and February each year. He started the story shortly before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend, Ann Charteris, in order to distract himself from his forthcoming nuptials.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.452309608459473, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "After completing the manuscript for Casino Royale, Fleming showed the manuscript to his friend (and later editor) William Plomer to read. Plomer liked it and submitted it to the publishers, Jonathan Cape, who did not like it as much. Cape finally published it in 1953 on the recommendation of Fleming's older brother Peter, an established travel writer. Between 1953 and 1966, two years after his death, twelve novels and two short-story collections were published, with the last two books – The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights – published posthumously. All the books were published in the UK through Jonathan Cape.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.07721996307373, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "In 1954 CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 ($ in dollars) to adapt his novel Casino Royale into a one-hour television adventure as part of its Climax! series. The episode aired live on 21 October 1954 and starred Barry Nelson as \"Card Sense\" James Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. The novel was adapted for American audiences to show Bond as an American agent working for \"Combined Intelligence\", while the character Felix Leiter—American in the novel—became British onscreen and was renamed \"Clarence Leiter\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.256576061248779, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "In 1957 the Daily Express approached Ian Fleming to adapt his stories into comic strips, offering him £1,500 per novel and a share of takings from syndication. After initial reluctance, Fleming, who felt the strips would lack the quality of his writing, agreed. To aid the Daily Express in illustrating Bond, Fleming commissioned an artist to create a sketch of how he believed James Bond looked. The illustrator, John McLusky, however, felt that Fleming's 007 looked too \"outdated\" and \"pre-war\" and changed Bond to give him a more masculine look. The first strip, Casino Royale was published from 7 July 1958 to 13 December 1958 and was written by Anthony Hern and illustrated by John McLusky.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.8265862464904785, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "In 1973 Roger Moore was appointed to the role of 007 for Live and Let Die and played Bond a further six times over twelve years before being replaced by Timothy Dalton for two films. After a six-year hiatus, during which a legal wrangle threatened Eon's productions of the Bond films, Irish actor Pierce Brosnan was cast as Bond in GoldenEye, released in 1995; he remained in the role for a total of four films, before leaving in 2002. In 2006, Daniel Craig was given the role of Bond for Casino Royale, which rebooted the series. The twenty-third Eon produced film, Skyfall, was released on 26 October 2012. The series has grossed almost $7 billion to date, making it the third-highest-grossing film series (behind Harry Potter and the Marvel Cinematic Universe), and the single most successful adjusted for inflation. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.798977375030518, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "A Bond film staple are the theme songs heard during their title sequences sung by well-known popular singers. Several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song, including Paul McCartney's \"Live and Let Die\", Carly Simon's \"Nobody Does It Better\", Sheena Easton's \"For Your Eyes Only\", Adele's \"Skyfall\", and Sam Smith's \"Writing's on the Wall\". Adele won the award at the 85th Academy Awards, and Smith won at the 88th Academy Awards. For the non-Eon produced Casino Royale, Burt Bacharach's score included \"The Look of Love\", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.455903053283691, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "In 1999 Electronic Arts acquired the licence and released Tomorrow Never Dies on 16 December 1999. In October 2000, they released The World Is Not Enough for the Nintendo 64 followed by 007 Racing for the PlayStation on 21 November 2000. In 2003, the company released James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, which included the likenesses and voices of Pierce Brosnan, Willem Dafoe, Heidi Klum, Judi Dench and John Cleese, amongst others. In November 2005, Electronic Arts released a video game adaptation of 007: From Russia with Love, which involved Sean Connery's image and voice-over for Bond. In 2006 Electronic Arts announced a game based on then-upcoming film Casino Royale: the game was cancelled because it would not be ready by the film's release in November of that year. With MGM losing revenue from lost licensing fees, the franchise was removed from EA to Activision. Activision subsequently released the 007: Quantum of Solace game on 31 October 2008, based on the film of the same name. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.591244220733643, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Bond's most famous car is the silver grey Aston Martin DB5, first seen in Goldfinger; it later featured in Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale and Skyfall. The films have used a number of different Aston Martins for filming and publicity, one of which was sold in January 2006 at an auction in the US for $2,090,000 to an unnamed European collector. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.972212791442871, "source": "wiki", "title": "James Bond" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Charles K. Feldman, the producer, had acquired the film rights in 1960 and had attempted to get Casino Royale made as an Eon Productions Bond film; however, Feldman and the producers of the Eon series, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, failed to come to terms. Believing that he could not compete with the Eon series, Feldman resolved to produce the film as a satire. The budget escalated as various directors and writers got involved in the production, and actors expressed dissatisfaction with the project.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.3094964027404785, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Casino Royale was released on 13 April 1967, two months prior to Eon's fifth Bond movie, You Only Live Twice. The film was a financial success, grossing over $41.7 million worldwide, and Burt Bacharach's musical score was praised, earning him an Academy Award nomination for the song \"The Look of Love\". Critical reception to Casino Royale, however, was generally negative; some critics regarded it as a baffling, disorganised affair. Since 1999, the film's rights have been held by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, distributors of the official Bond movies by Eon Productions.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.936697959899902, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "The story of Casino Royale is told in an episodic format. Val Guest oversaw the assembly of the sections, although he turned down the credit of \"co-ordinating director\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.139159202575684, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Tremble arrives at the Casino Royale accompanied by Lynd, who foils an attempt to disable him by seductive SMERSH agent Miss Goodthighs. Later that night, Tremble observes Le Chiffre playing at the casino and realises that he is using infrared sunglasses to cheat. Lynd steals the sunglasses, allowing Evelyn to eventually beat Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat. Lynd is apparently abducted outside the casino, and Tremble is also kidnapped while pursuing her. Le Chiffre, desperate for the winning cheque, hallucinogenically tortures Tremble. Lynd rescues Tremble, only to subsequently kill him. Meanwhile, SMERSH agents raid Le Chiffre's base and kill him.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.888751983642578, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "In London, Mata Bond is kidnapped by SMERSH in a giant flying saucer, and Sir James and Moneypenny travel to Casino Royale to rescue her. They discover that the casino is located atop a giant underground headquarters run by the evil Dr. Noah, secretly Sir James' nephew Jimmy Bond, a former MI6 agent who defected to SMERSH to spite his famous uncle. Jimmy reveals that he plans to use biological warfare to make all women beautiful and kill all men over 4 ft tall, leaving him as the \"big man\" who gets all the girls. Jimmy has already captured The Detainer, and he tries to convince her to be his partner; she agrees, but only to dupe him into swallowing one of his \"atomic time pills\", turning him into a \"walking atomic bomb\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.275123596191406, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Sir James, Moneypenny, Mata and Coop manage to escape from their cell and fight their way back to the Casino Director's office where Sir James establishes Lynd is a double agent. The casino is then overrun by secret agents and a battle ensues. American and French support arrive, but just add to the chaos. Eventually, Jimmy's atomic pill explodes, destroying Casino Royale with everyone inside. Sir James and all of his agents then appear in heaven, and Jimmy Bond is shown descending to hell.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.404276847839355, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "* Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble/James Bond 007 – A baccarat master recruited by Vesper Lynd to challenge Le Chiffre at Casino Royale.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.602844715118408, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "* Jacqueline Bisset (credited as Jacky Bisset) as Giovanna Goodthighs – A SMERSH agent who attempts to kill Evelyn Tremble at Casino Royale. Also, as an extra who stands behind Le Chiffre at the casino. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.982597351074219, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Casino Royale also takes credit for the greatest number of actors in a Bond film either to have appeared or to go on to appear in the rest of the Eon series – besides Ursula Andress in Dr. No, Vladek Sheybal appeared as Kronsteen in From Russia with Love, Burt Kwouk featured as Mr. Ling in Goldfinger and an unnamed SPECTRE operative in You Only Live Twice, Jeanne Roland plays a masseuse in You Only Live Twice, and Angela Scoular appeared as Ruby Bartlett in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jack Gwillim, who had a tiny role as a British army officer, played a Royal Navy officer in Thunderball. Caroline Munro, who can be seen very briefly as one of Dr Noah's gun-toting guards, received the role of Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me. Milton Reid, who appears in a bit part as the temple guard, opening the door to Mata Bond's hall, played one of Dr. No's guards and Stromberg's underling, Sandor, in The Spy Who Loved Me. John Hollis, who plays the temple priest in Mata Bond's hall, went on to play the unnamed figure clearly intended to be Blofeld in the pre-credits sequence of For Your Eyes Only. John Wells, Q's assistant, appeared in For Your Eyes Only as Denis Thatcher. Hal Galili, who appears briefly as a US army officer at the auction, had earlier played gangster Jack Strap in Goldfinger.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.187832355499268, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "By 1964, with Feldman having invested nearly $550,000 of his own money into pre-production of Casino Royale, he decided to try a deal with Eon Productions and its distributor United Artists. The attempt at a co-production eventually fell through as Feldman frequently argued with Broccoli and Saltzman, specially regarding the profit divisions and when the Casino Royale adaptation would start production. Feldman approached Sean Connery to play Bond, with Connery's offering to do the film for one million dollars being rejected. Feldman eventually decided to offer his project to Columbia Pictures through a script written by Ben Hecht, and the studio accepted. Given Eon's series led to a spy film craze at the time, Feldman opted to make his film a spoof of the Bond series instead of a straightforward adaptation.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.935921669006348, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Some biographies of Sellers suggest that he took the role of Bond to heart, and was annoyed at the decision to make Casino Royale a comedy, as he wanted to play Bond straight. This is illustrated in somewhat fictionalised form in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, based on the biography by Roger Lewis, who has claimed that Sellers kept re-writing and improvising scenes to make them play seriously. This story is in agreement with the observation that the only parts of the film close to the book are the ones featuring Sellers and Welles.Lewis, Roger. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Applause Books, 2000, ISBN 1-55783-248-X In the end, Sellers' involvement with the film was cut abruptly short.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.08290958404541, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "For the music, Feldman decided to bring Burt Bacharach, who had done the score for his previous production What's New Pussycat?. Bacharach worked over two years writing for Casino Royale, in the meantime composing the After the Fox score and being forced to decline participation in Luv. Lyricist Hal David contributed with various songs, many of which appeared in just instrumental versions. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass performed some of the songs with Mike Redway singing the lyrics to the title song as the end credits rolled (a version of the song was also sung by Peter Sellers). The title theme was Alpert's second number one on the Easy Listening chart where it spent two weeks at the top in June 1967 and peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.0549898147583, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "The fourth chapter of the film features the song \"The Look of Love\" performed by Dusty Springfield. It is played in the scene of Vesper Lynd recruiting Evelyn Tremble, seen through a man-size aquarium in a seductive walk. \"The Look of Love\" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song. The song was a Top 10 radio hit at the KGB and KHJ radio stations. It was heard again in the first Austin Powers film, which was to a degree inspired by Casino Royale. For the European release, Mireille Mathieu sang versions of \"The Look of Love\" in both French (\"Les Yeux D'Amour\"), and German (\"Ein Blick von Dir\"). ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.360246658325195, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "# \"Casino Royale Theme\" – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.37539291381836, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "# \"The Big Cowboys and Indians Fight at Casino Royale\" / \"Casino Royale Theme\" (reprise)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.229326248168945, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "The studio approved the film's production budget of $6 million, already quite large in 1966. However, during filming the project ran into several problems and the shoot ran months over schedule, with the costs also running well over. When the film was finally completed it had doubled its original budget. The final production budget of $12 million made it one of the most expensive films that had been made to that point. The previous Eon Bond film, Thunderball (1965), had a budget of $11 million while the nearly contemporary You Only Live Twice (1967), had a budget of $9.5 million. The extremely high budget of Casino Royale led to comparisons with a troubled production from 1963, and it was referred to as \"a runaway mini-Cleopatra\". Columbia at first announced the film was due to be released in time for Christmas 1966. The problems postponed the launch until April 1967.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.143013954162598, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Casino Royale had its world premiere in London's Odeon Leicester Square on 13 April 1967, breaking many opening records in the theatre's history. Its American premiere was held in New York on 28 April, at the Capitol and Cinema I theatres. It opened two months prior to the fifth Bond film by Eon Productions, You Only Live Twice.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.515846252441406, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "No advance press screenings of Casino Royale were held, leading reviews to only appear after the premiere. The chaotic nature of the production was featured heavily in contemporary reviews, while later reviewers have sometimes been kinder towards this. Roger Ebert said \"This is possibly the most indulgent film ever made\", Time described Casino Royale as \"an incoherent and vulgar vaudeville\", and Variety declared the film to be \"a conglomeration of frenzied situations, ‘in’ gags and special effects, lacking discipline and cohesion.\" Bosley Crowther of The New York Times had some positive statements about the film, considering Casino Royale had \"more of the talent agent than the secret agent\" and praising the \"fast start\" and the scenes up to the baccarat game between Bond and Le Chiffre. Afterwards, Crowther felt, the script became tiresome, repetitive and filled with clichés due to \"wild and haphazard injections of 'in' jokes and outlandish gags\", leading to an excessive length that made the film a \"reckless, disconnected nonsense that could be telescoped or stopped at any point\". ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.099498748779297, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Since its release the film has been widely criticised by a number of people. The film currently holds a 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews with the consensus stating: \"A goofy, dated parody of spy movie cliches, Casino Royale squanders its all-star cast on a meandering, mostly laugh-free script.\" For instance, Simon Winder called Casino Royale \"a pitiful spoof\", while Robert Druce described it as \"an abstraction of real life\". In his review of the film, Leonard Maltin remarked, \"Money, money everywhere, but [the] film is terribly uneven – sometimes funny, often not.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.57062816619873, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Some later reviewers have been more impressed by the film. Andrea LeVasseur, in the AllMovie review, called it \"the original ultimate spy spoof\", and opined that the \"nearly impossible to follow\" plot made it \"a satire to the highest degree\". Further describing it as a \"hideous, zany disaster\" LeVasseur concluded that it was \"a psychedelic, absurd masterpiece\". Cinema historian Robert von Dassanowsky has written about the artistic merits of the film and says \"like Casablanca, Casino Royale is a film of momentary vision, collaboration, adaption, pastiche, and accident. It is the anti-auteur work of all time, a film shaped by the very zeitgeist it took on.\" Romano Tozzi complimented the acting and humour, although he also mentioned that the film has several dull stretches. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.415184020996094, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Columbia Pictures released Casino Royale on VHS in 1989, and on Laserdisc in 1994. In 1997, following the Columbia/MGM/Kevin McClory lawsuit on ownership of the Bond film series, the rights to the film reverted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (whose sister company United Artists co-owns the Bond film franchise) as a condition of the settlement. MGM then issued the first DVD release of Casino Royale in 2002, followed by a 40th anniversary special edition in 2007. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.837963104248047, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Years later, as a result of the Sony/Comcast acquisition of MGM, Columbia would once again become responsible for the co-distribution of this film as well as the entire Eon Bond series, including the 2006 adaptation of Casino Royale. However, MGM Home Entertainment changed its distributor to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in May 2006. Fox has since been responsible for the debut of the 1967 Casino Royale on Blu-ray disc in 2011. Danjaq LLC, Eon's holding company, is shown as one of its present copyright owners..", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.635838508605957, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Alongside six other MGM-owned films, the studio posted Casino Royale on YouTube.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.933039665222168, "source": "wiki", "title": "Casino Royale (1967 film)" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Casino Royale (1967) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.235024452209473, "source": "search", "title": "Casino Royale (1967) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Search for \" Casino Royale \" on Amazon.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.475190162658691, "source": "search", "title": "Casino Royale (1967) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Casino Royale", "passage": "Casino Royale is too much for one James Bond! 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Depth is far more evident than the SD renderings and Bacharach's lively score via Herb Alpert is intoxicating in lossless. Let's not forget Dusty Springfield singing \"The Look of Love\". Both tracks are worth the price of the disc alone. There are multiple foreign language DUBs as well as subtitle choices signifying this to be a region FREE disc playable on Blu-ray machines worldwide. Extras : we get the DVD commentary by James Bond Historians Steven Jay Ruben and John Cork filling in plenty of Bond references for us as well as the more serious Making of Casino Royale over 40-minutes and 4 chapters worth of looking at the franchise. 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[ { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 American period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. Actress Emma Thompson wrote the script and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry, as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. They are forced to seek financial security through marriage. Actors Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman play their respective suitors. The film was released on 13 December 1995 in the United States and on 23 February 1996 in the United Kingdom.", "precise_score": 4.33492374420166, "rough_score": 6.260756492614746, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Out of the 1990s Austen adaptations, Sense and Sensibility received the most recognition from Hollywood. It garnered seven nominations at the 68th Academy Awards ceremony, where Thompson received the Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person to have won an Oscar for both her writing and acting (Thompson won the Best Actress award for Howards End, in 1993). The film also was the recipient of twelve nominations at the 49th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Thompson), and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (for Winslet). In addition, the film won the Golden Bear at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival, making Lee the first director to win this twice.", "precise_score": 6.160062313079834, "rough_score": 7.4221062660217285, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "The Sense and sensibility screenplay & diaries: bringing Jane Austen's novel ... - Emma Thompson, Jane Austen - Google Buku", "precise_score": 4.168718338012695, "rough_score": 6.030465126037598, "source": "search", "title": "The Sense and sensibility screenplay & diaries : bringing ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Contains the 1995 screenplay of Sense and Sensibility along with diaries written by screenwriter author and actress Emma Thompson during the shooting of the film.", "precise_score": 5.046669960021973, "rough_score": 7.5915398597717285, "source": "search", "title": "Sense and Sensibility | Book Reviews | Books ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Emma Thompson won an Oscar in 1995 for her screenplay adaptation of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. This paperback includes the screenplay, her Golden Globe acceptance speech, her diaries written during the film's production, a full list of cast and crew credits, and more than 50 photos including stills, cast photos, and behind-the-scenes shots. In the introduction, producer Lindsay Doran comments:", "precise_score": 10.252350807189941, "rough_score": 9.774721145629883, "source": "search", "title": "Sense and Sensibility | Book Reviews | Books ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Emma Thompson winning an Oscar® for \"Sense and Sensibility\" - YouTube", "precise_score": 8.706314086914062, "rough_score": 8.227802276611328, "source": "search", "title": "Emma Thompson winning an Oscar® for \"Sense and ... - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Emma Thompson winning an Oscar® for \"Sense and Sensibility\"", "precise_score": 9.24770736694336, "rough_score": 8.507296562194824, "source": "search", "title": "Emma Thompson winning an Oscar® for \"Sense and ... - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Anthony Hopkins presenting Emma Thompson with the Oscar® for Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published) for \"Sense and Sensibility\" at the 68th Academy Awards® in 1996.", "precise_score": 8.883289337158203, "rough_score": 8.798665046691895, "source": "search", "title": "Emma Thompson winning an Oscar® for \"Sense and ... - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Synopsis: Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her screenplay - an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name. This 19th Century story begins with the death of Mr. Dashwood, and the passing of his estate to John (James Fleet) his son by his first marriage, as required by law. This leaves his second wife and three daughters - Elinor, Marianne, and young Margaret - in difficult circumstances. Elinor (Emma Thompson), the oldest, is attracted to Edward Ferris (Hugh Grant), the younger brother of John's wife Fanny. Marianne (Kate Winslet) is courted by wealthy Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman) but prefers the wildly handsome John Willoughby (Greg Wise). The two, lacking a dowry, may well end up as spinsters in this complex romantic tale.", "precise_score": 3.8894848823547363, "rough_score": 6.930775165557861, "source": "search", "title": "Sense and Sensibility - Embroidery Arts" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "When I first saw Ang Lee’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility , I had just finished reading the book and to be quite honest, I didn’t care for it all that much. Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her adapted screenplay and, when I first saw it, I was really unhappy with the changes she’d made to the story and some of the characters. But after repeat viewings, I fell deeply in love with the film, despite said changes. I think it’s really one of those times where you have to suit the story for a new medium and modern audiences (kind of like the 2006 version of The Painted Veil ). Sense and Sensibility was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning one: Best Dramatic Score, Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay Emma Thompson (won), Best Supporting Actress Kate Winslet, Best Actress Emma Thompson and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were Apollo 13 , Babe , Il Postino and winner Braveheart . Both Ron Howard (Apollo 13) and Ang Lee were not nominated for Best Director, despite their films being nominated for Best Picture. Those two spots were given to Tim Robbins (Dead Man Walking) and Mike Figgis ( Leaving Las Vegas ). Lee, however, was nominated for Best Director by several critic associations, as well as at the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes and the DGA. He was also named Best Director by the National Board of Review.", "precise_score": 7.912621021270752, "rough_score": 7.7588629722595215, "source": "search", "title": "Oscar Vault Monday – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. Ang ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "I love Emma Thompson dearly, but she is definitely too old to be playing Elinor. That said, she is wonderful in this role and it is clear that she knows the character inside and out. Along with her Best Adapted Screenplay win, she also received a Best Actress nomination. She’d been nominated for three Oscars prior to her work in this film: Best Actress for Howard’s End (1993, won), Best Actress for The Remains of the Day (1993) and Best Supporting Actress for In The Name of the Father (also 1993).", "precise_score": 1.2748124599456787, "rough_score": 4.472830295562744, "source": "search", "title": "Oscar Vault Monday – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. Ang ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "I have to end this post with Emma Thompson accepting her award for Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes wherein she pretends she is Jane Austen. It is the most fabulous of things.", "precise_score": 2.265956163406372, "rough_score": 4.131089210510254, "source": "search", "title": "Oscar Vault Monday – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. Ang ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "She told GQ magazine : “My mum who worked with her [Thompson] on Sense and Sensibility got me a copy of the screenplay Emma had written.", "precise_score": 3.5273635387420654, "rough_score": 6.635102272033691, "source": "search", "title": "Keira Knightley: Sense and Sensibility screenplay helped ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Producer Lindsay Doran, a longtime admirer of Austen's novel, hired Thompson to write the screenplay. The actress spent five years drafting numerous revisions, continually working on the script between other films as well as into production of the film itself. Studios were nervous that Thompson – a first-time screenwriter – was the credited writer, but Columbia Pictures agreed to distribute the film. Though initially intending to have another actress portray Elinor, Thompson was persuaded to take the role.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.711236476898193, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Thompson's screenplay exaggerated the Dashwood family's wealth to make their later scenes of poverty more apparent to modern audiences. It also altered the traits of the male leads to make them more appealing to contemporary viewers. Elinor and Marianne's different characteristics were emphasised through imagery and invented scenes. Ang Lee was selected as director, both due to his work in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet and because Doran believed he would help the film appeal to a wider audience. Lee was given a budget of $16 million.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.8780717849731445, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "A commercial success, the movie garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews upon release and received many accolades, including three awards and eleven nominations at the 1995 British Academy Film Awards. It earned seven Academy Awards nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Actress. Thompson received the Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the only person to have won Academy Awards for both acting and screenwriting. Sense and Sensibility contributed to a resurgence in popularity for Austen's works, and has led to many more productions in similar genres. It persists in being recognised as one of the best Austen adaptations of all time.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.555859088897705, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson) tells his son from his first marriage, John (James Fleet), to take care of his second wife (Gemma Jones) and three daughters, Elinor (Emma Thompson), Marianne (Kate Winslet) and Margaret (Emilie François), since they will inherit nothing. John's greedy and snobbish wife Fanny (Harriet Walter) convinces him to give his half sisters practically nothing financially; John and Fanny immediately install themselves in the large house, forcing the Dashwood ladies to look for a new home. Fanny invites her brother Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) to stay with them. Elinor and Edward soon form a close friendship, but Fanny haughtily tells Mrs. Dashwood that Edward would be disinherited if he married someone of no importance with no money. Mrs. Dashwood understands her meaning completely.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.890459060668945, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Prior to being hired at Mirage, the producer had spent years looking for a suitable screenwriter – someone who was \"equally strong in the areas of satire and romance\" and could think in Austen's language \"almost as naturally as he or she could think in the language of the twentieth century.\" Doran read screenplays by English and American writers until she came across a series of comedic skits, often in period settings, that actress Emma Thompson had written. Doran believed the humour and style of writing was \"exactly what [she'd] been searching for.\" Thompson and Doran were already working together on Mirage's 1991 film Dead Again. A week after its completion, the producer selected Thompson to adapt Sense and Sensibility, although she knew that Thompson had never written a screenplay. Also a fan of Austen, Thompson first suggested they adapt Persuasion or Emma before agreeing to Doran's proposal. The actress found that Sense and Sensibility contained more action than she had remembered, and decided it would translate well to drama.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.0609750747680664, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Thompson spent five years writing and revising the screenplay, both during and between shooting other films. Believing the novel's language to be \"far more arcane than in [Austen's] later books,\" Thompson sought to simplify the dialogue while retaining the \"elegance and wit of the original.\" She observed that in a screenwriting process, a first draft often had \"a lot of good stuff in it\" but needed to be edited, and second drafts would \"almost certainly be rubbish ... because you get into a panic.\" Thompson credits Doran for \"help[ing] me, nourish[ing] me and mentor[ing] me through that process ... I learned about screenwriting at her feet.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.948339462280273, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Thompson's first draft was more than three hundred handwritten pages, which required her to reduce it to a more manageable length. She found the romances to be the most difficult to \"juggle\", and her draft received some criticism for the way it presented Willoughby and Edward. Doran later recalled the work was criticized for not getting underway until Willoughby's arrival, with Edward sidelined as backstory. Thompson and Doran quickly realised that \"if we didn't meet Edward and do the work and take that twenty minutes to set up those people ... then it wasn't going to work.\" At the same time, Thompson wished to avoid depicting \"a couple of women waiting around for men\"; gradually her screenplay focused as much on the Dashwood sisters' relationship with each other as it did with their romantic interests.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.692272186279297, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "With the draft screenplay, Doran pitched the idea to various studios in order to finance the film, but found that many were wary of the beginner Thompson as the screenwriter. She was considered a risk, as her experience was as an actress who had never written a film script. Columbia Pictures executive Amy Pascal supported Thompson's work, and agreed to sign as the producer and distributor.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.9565815925598145, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "As Thompson mentioned on the BBC program QI in 2009, at one point in the writing process a laptop failure almost lost the entire work. In panic Thompson called fellow actor and close friend Stephen Fry, the host of QI and a self-professed \"geek\". After seven hours, Fry was able to recover the documents from the device. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.242945671081543, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Taiwanese director Ang Lee was hired as a result of his work in the 1993 family comedy film The Wedding Banquet, which he co-wrote, produced, and directed. He was not familiar with the author Austen. Doran felt that Lee's films, which depicted complex family relationships amidst a social comedy context, were a good fit with Austen's storylines. She recalled, \"The idea of a foreign director was intellectually appealing even though it was very scary to have someone who didn't have English as his first language.\" The producer sent Lee a copy of Thompson's script, to which he replied that he was \"cautiously interested\". Fifteen directors were interviewed, but according to Doran, Lee was one of the few who recognised Austen's humour; he told them he wanted the film to \"break people's hearts so badly that they'll still be recovering from it two months later.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.33297348022461, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "\"I thought they were crazy: I was brought up in Taiwan, what do I know about 19th-century England? About halfway through the script it started to make sense why they chose me. In my films I've been trying to mix social satire and family drama. I realised that all along I had been trying to do Jane Austen without knowing it. Jane Austen was my destiny. I just had to overcome the cultural barrier.\"Because Thompson and Doran had worked on the screenplay for so long, Lee described himself at the time as a \"director for hire\", as he was unsure of his role and position. He spent six months in England \"learn[ing] how to make this movie, how to do a period film, culturally ... and how to adapt to the major league film industry.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.762368202209473, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "In January 1995, Thompson presented a draft to Lee, Doran, co-producer Laurie Borg, and others working on the production, and spent the next two months editing the screenplay based upon their feedback. Thompson would continue making revisions throughout production of the film, including altering scenes to meet budgetary concerns, adding dialogue changes, and changing certain aspects to better fit the actors. Brandon's confession scene, for instance, initially included flashbacks and stylised imagery before Thompson decided it was \"emotionally more interesting to let Brandon tell the story himself and find it difficult.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.784744262695312, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Thompson initially hoped that Doran would cast sisters Natasha and Joely Richardson as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Lee and Columbia wanted Thompson herself, now a \"big-deal movie star\" after her critically successful role in the 1992 film Howards End, to play Elinor. The actress replied that at the age of thirty-five, she was too old for the nineteen-year-old character. Lee suggested Elinor's age be changed to twenty-seven, which would also have made the difficult reality of spinsterhood easier for modern audiences to understand. Thompson agreed, later stating that she was \"desperate to get into a corset and act it and stop thinking about it as a script.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.158964157104492, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "The formal casting process began in February 1995, though some of the actors met with Thompson the previous year to help her conceptualise the script. Lee eventually cast all but one of them: Hugh Grant (as Edward Ferrars), Robert Hardy (as Sir John Middleton), Harriet Walter (as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood), Imelda Staunton (as Charlotte Jennings Palmer), and Hugh Laurie (as Mr. Palmer). Amanda Root had also worked with Thompson on the screenplay, but had already committed to star in the 1995 film Persuasion. Commenting on the casting of Laurie, whom she had known for years, Thompson has said, \"There is no one [else] on the planet who could capture Mr. Palmer's disenchantment and redemption so perfectly, and make it funny.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.730703353881836, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Thompson wrote the part of Edward Ferrars with Grant in mind, and he agreed to receive a lower salary in line with the film's budget. Grant called her screenplay \"genius\", explaining \"I've always been a philistine about Jane Austen herself, and I think Emma's script is miles better than the book and much more amusing.\" Grant's casting was criticised by the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), whose representatives said that he was too handsome for the part. Actress Kate Winslet initially intended to audition for the role of Marianne but Lee disliked her work in the 1994 drama film Heavenly Creatures; she auditioned for the lesser part of Lucy Steele. Winslet pretended she had heard that the audition was still for Marianne, and won the part based on a single reading. Thompson later said that Winslet, only nineteen years old, approached the part \"energised and open, realistic, intelligent, and tremendous fun.\" The role helped Winslet become recognised as a significant actress.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.5542117357254028, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Also appearing in the film was Alan Rickman, who portrayed Colonel Brandon. Thompson was pleased that Rickman could express the \"extraordinary sweetness [of] his nature,\" as he had played \"Machiavellian types so effectively\" in other films. Greg Wise was cast as Marianne's other romantic interest, John Willoughby, his most noted role thus far. Twelve-year-old Emilie François, appearing as Margaret Dashwood, was one of the last people cast in the production; she had no professional acting experience. Thompson praised the young actress in her production diaries, \"Emilie has a natural quick intelligence that informs every movement – she creates spontaneity in all of us just by being there.\" Other cast members included Gemma Jones as Mrs. Dashwood, James Fleet as John Dashwood, Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs. Jennings, Imogen Stubbs as Lucy Steele, Richard Lumsden as Robert Ferrars, Tom Wilkinson as Mr. Dashwood, and Lone Vidahl as Miss Grey. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.847658157348633, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "For Brandon's costumes, Beavan and Bright consulted with Thompson and Lee and decided to have him project an image of \"experienced and dependable masculinity.\" Brandon is first seen in black, but later he wears sporting gear in the form of corduroy jackets and shirtsleeves. His rescue of Marianne has him transforming into the \"romantic Byronic hero\", sporting an unbuttoned shirt and loose cravat. In conjunction with his tragic backstory, Brandon's \"flattering\" costumes help his appeal to the audience. Beavan and Bright's work on the film earned them a nomination for Best Costume Design at the 68th Academy Awards. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.43649959564209, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "The film was budgeted at $16 million, the largest Ang Lee had yet received as well as the largest awarded to an Austen film that decade. In the wake of the success of Columbia's 1994 film Little Women, the American studio authorised Lee's \"relatively high budget\" out of an expectation that it would be another cross-over hit and appeal to multiple audiences, thus yielding high box office returns. Nevertheless, Doran considered it a \"low budget film\" and many of the ideas Thompson and Lee came up with – such as an early dramatic scene depicting Mr. Dashwood's bloody fall from a horse – were deemed unfilmable from a cost perspective.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.513162612915039, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "According to Thompson, Lee \"arrived on set with the whole movie in his head\". Rather than focus on period details, he wanted his film to concentrate on telling a good story. He showed the cast a selection of films adapted from classic novels, including Barry Lyndon and The Age of Innocence, which he believed to be \"great movies; everybody worships the art work, [but] it's not what we want to do.\" Lee criticised the latter film for lacking energy, in contrast to the \"passionate tale\" of Sense and Sensibility. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.998420238494873, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "The cast and crew experienced \"slight culture shock\" with Lee on a number of occasions. He expected the assistant directors to be the \"tough ones\" and keep production on schedule, while they expected the same of him; this led to a slower schedule in the early stages of production. Additionally, according to Thompson the director became \"deeply hurt and confused\" when she and Grant made suggestions for certain scenes, which was something that was not done in his native country. Lee thought his authority was being undermined and lost sleep, though this was gradually resolved as he became used to their methods. The cast \"grew to trust his instincts so completely,\" making fewer and fewer suggestions. Co-producer James Schamus stated that Lee also adapted by becoming more verbal and willing to express his opinion.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.982659339904785, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Lee became known for his \"frightening\" tendency to not \"mince words\". The director often had his cast do numerous takes for a scene in order to get the perfect shot, and was not afraid to call something \"boring\" if he disliked it. Thompson later recalled the director would \"always come up to you and say something unexpectedly crushing\", such as asking her not to \"look so old.\" She also commented, however, that \"he doesn't indulge us but is always kind when we fail.\" Due to Thompson's extensive acting experience, the director encouraged her to practice t'ai chi to \"help her relax [and] make her do things simpler.\" Other actors soon joined them in meditating – according to Doran, it \"was pretty interesting. There were all these pillows on the floor and these pale-looking actors were saying, 'What have we got ourselves into?' [Lee] was more focused on body language than any director I've ever seen or heard of.\" He suggested Winslet read books of poetry and report back to him in order to best understand her character. He also had Thompson and Winslet live together to develop their characters' sisterly bond. Many of the cast took lessons in etiquette and riding side-saddle.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.265275955200195, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Lee found that in contrast to Chinese cinema, he had to dissuade many of the actors from using a \"very stagy, very English tradition. Instead of just being observed like a human being and getting sympathy, they feel they have to do things, they have to carry the movie.\" Grant in particular often had to be restrained from giving an \"over-the-top\" performance; Lee later recalled that the actor is \"a show stealer. You can't stop that. I let him do, I have to say, less 'star' stuff, the Hugh Grant thing ... and not [let] the movie serve him, which is probably what he's used to now.\" For the scene in which Elinor learns Edward is unmarried, Thompson found inspiration from her reaction to her father's death. Grant had been unaware that Thompson would cry through most of his speech, and the actress attempted to reassure him, \"'There's no other way, and I promise you it'll work, and it will be funny as well as being touching.' And he said, 'Oh, all right,' and he was very good about it\". Lee had one demand for the scene, that Thompson avoid the temptation to turn her head towards the camera.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.358559608459473, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Production of Sense and Sensibility was scheduled for fifty-eight days, though this was eventually extended to sixty-five. Filming commenced in mid-April 1995 at a number of locations in Devon, beginning with Saltram House (standing in for Norland Park), where Winslet and Jones shot the first scene of the production: when their characters read about Barton Cottage. As Saltram was a National Trust property, Schamus had to sign a contract before production began, and staff with the organisation remained on set to carefully monitor the filming. Production later returned to shoot several more scenes, finishing there on 29 April. The second location of filming, Flete House, stood in for part of Mrs. Jennings' London estate, where Edward first sees Elinor with Lucy. Representing Barton Cottage was a Flete Estate stone cottage, which Thompson called \"one of the most beautiful spots we've ever seen.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.303698539733887, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Composer Patrick Doyle, who had previously worked with his friend Emma Thompson in the films Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and Dead Again, was hired to produce the music for Sense and Sensibility. Asked by the director to select existing music or compose new \"gentle\" melodies, Doyle wrote a score that reflected the film's events. He explained, \"You had this middle-class English motif, and with the music you would have occasional outbursts of emotion.\" Doyle explains that the score \"becomes a little more grown-up\" as the story progresses to one of \"maturity and an emotional catharsis.\" The score contains romantic elements and has been described by National Public Radio as a \"restricted compass ... of emotion\" with \"instruments [that] blend together in a gentle sort of way\". They also noted that as a reflection of the story, the score is a \"little wistful ... and sentimental.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.988961696624756, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Thompson and Doran discussed how much of the love stories to depict, as the male characters spend much of the novel away from the Dashwood sisters. The screenwriter had to carefully balance the amount of screentime she gave to the male leads, noting in her film production diary that such a decision would \"very much lie in the editing.\" Thompson wrote \"hundreds of different versions\" of romantic storylines. She considered having Edward re-appear midway through the film before deciding that it would not work as \"there was nothing for him to do.\" Thompson also opted to exclude the duel scene between Brandon and Willoughby, which is described in the novel, because it \"only seemed to subtract from the mystery.\" She and Doran agonised about when and how to reveal Brandon's backstory, as they wanted to prevent viewers from becoming bored. Thompson described the process of reminding audiences of Edward and Brandon as \"keeping plates spinning\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.378060340881348, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "A scene was shot of Brandon finding his ward in a poverty-stricken area in London, but this was excluded from the film. Thompson's script included a scene of Elinor and Edward kissing, as the studio \"couldn't stand the idea of these two people who we've been watching all the way through not kissing.\" It was one of the first scenes cut during editing: the original version was over three hours, Lee was less interested in the story's romance, and Thompson found a kissing scene to be inappropriate. The scene was included in marketing materials and the film trailer. Thompson and Doran also cut out a scene depicting Willoughby as remorseful when Marianne is sick. Doran said that despite it \"being one of the great scenes in book history,\" they could not get it to fit into the film.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.778680801391602, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "\"It was the first film that I had done with Ang that was all in English, and it's Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, and Hugh Grant — these great, great actors. When you get footage like that, you realise that your job is really not technical. It was my job to look at something that Emma Thompson had done and say, 'Eh, that's not good, I'll use this other one instead.' And not only was I allowed to pass judgment on these tremendous actors, I was required to.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.298001289367676, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Scholar Louise Flavin has noted that Thompson's screenplay contains significant alterations to the characters of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood: in the novel, the former embodies \"sense\", i.e. \"sensible\" in our terms, and the latter, \"sensibility\", i.e. \"sensitivity\" in our terms. Audience members are meant to view self-restrained Elinor as the person in need of reform, rather than her impassioned sister. To heighten the contrast between them, Marianne and Willoughby's relationship includes an \"erotic\" invented scene in which the latter requests a lock of her hair – a direct contrast to Elinor's \"reserved relationship\" with Edward. Lee also distinguishes them through imagery – Marianne is often seen with musical instruments, near open windows, and outside, while Elinor is pictured in door frames. Another character altered for modern viewers is Margaret Dashwood, who conveys \"the frustrations that a girl of our times might feel at the limitations facing her as a woman in the early nineteenth century.\" Thompson uses Margaret for exposition in order to detail contemporary attitudes and customs. For instance, Elinor explains to a curious Margaret – and by extension, the audience – why their half-brother inherits the Dashwood estate. Margaret's altered storyline, giving her an interest in fencing and geography, also allows audience members to see the \"feminine\" side of Edward and Brandon, as they become father or brother figures to her. The film omits the characters of Lady Middleton and her children, as well as that of Ann Steele, Lucy's sister.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.510331630706787, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "When adapting the characters for film, Thompson found that in the novel, \"Edward and Brandon are quite shadowy and absent for long periods,\" and that \"making the male characters effective was one of the biggest problems. Willoughby is really the only male who springs out in three dimensions.\" Several major male characters in Sense and Sensibility were consequently altered significantly from the novel in an effort to appeal to contemporary audiences. Grant's Edward and Rickman's Brandon are \"ideal\" modern males who display an obvious love of children as well as \"pleasing manners\", especially when contrasted with Palmer. Thompson's script both expanded and omitted scenes from Edward's storyline, including the deletion of an early scene in which Elinor assumes that a lock of hair found in Edward's possession is hers, when it belongs to Lucy. He was made more fully realised and honourable than in the novel to increase his appeal to viewers. To gradually show viewers why Brandon is worthy of Marianne's love, Thompson's screenplay has his storyline mirroring Willoughby's; they are similar in appearance, share a love of music and poetry, and rescue Marianne in the rain while on horseback.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.9454755783081055, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Thompson viewed the novel as a story of \"love and money,\" noting that some people needed one more than the other. During the writing process, executive producer Sydney Pollack stressed that the film be understandable to modern audiences, and that it be made clear why the Dashwood sisters could not just obtain a job. \"I'm from Indiana; if I get it, everyone gets it,\" he said. Thompson believed that Austen was just as comprehensible in a different century, \"You don't think people are still concerned with marriage, money, romance, finding a partner?\" She was keen to emphasise the realism of the Dashwoods' predicament in her screenplay, and inserted scenes to make the differences in wealth more apparent to modern audiences. Thompson made the Dashwood family richer than in the book and added elements to help contrast their early wealth with their later financial predicament; for instance, because it might have been confusing to viewers that one could be poor and still have servants, Elinor is made to address a large group of servants at Norland Park early in the film for viewers to remember when they see their few staff at Barton Cottage. Lee also sought to emphasise social class and the limitations it placed on the protagonists. Lee conveys this in part when Willoughby publicly rejects Marianne; he returns to a more lavishly furnished room, a symbol of the wealth she has lost. \"Family dramas,\" he stated, \"are all about conflict, about family obligations versus free will.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.935752868652344, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "The film's theme of class has attracted much scholarly attention. Carole Dole noted that class constitutes an important element in Austen's stories and is \"impossible\" to avoid when adapting her novels. According to Dole, Lee's film contains an \"ambiguous treatment of class values\" that stresses social differences but \"underplays the consequences of the class distinctions so important in the novel\"; for instance, Edward's story ends upon his proposal to Elinor, with no attention paid to how they will live on his small annual income from the vicarage. Louise Flavin believed that Lee used the houses to represent their occupants' class and character: the Dashwood sisters' decline in eligibility are represented through the contrast between the spacious rooms of Norland Park and those of the isolated, cramped Barton Cottage. James Thompson criticised what he described as the anaesthetised \"mélange of disconnected picture postcard-gift-calendar-perfect scenes,\" in which little connection is made between \"individual subjects and the land that supports them.\" Andrew Higson argued that while Sense and Sensibility includes commentary on sex and gender, it fails to pursue issues of class. Thompson's script, he wrote, displays a \"sense of impoverishment [but is] confined to the still privileged lifestyle of the disinherited Dashwoods. The broader class system is pretty much taken for granted.\" The ending visual image of flying gold coins, depicted during Marianne's wedding, has also drawn attention; Marsha McCreadie noted that it serves as a \"visual wrap-up and emblem of the merger between money and marriage.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.963189125061035, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Gender has been seen as another major theme of the film, often intersecting with class. Penny Gay observed that Elinor's early dialogue with Edward about \"feel[ing] idle and useless... [with] no hope whatsoever of any occupation\" reflected Thompson's background as a \"middle class, Cambridge-educated feminist.\" Conversely, Dole wrote that Thompson's version of Elinor \"has a surprising anti-feminist element to it,\" as she appears more dependent on men than the original character; the film presents her as repressed, resulting in her emotional breakdown with Edward. Linda Troost opined that Lee's production prominently features \"radical feminist and economic issues\" while \"paradoxically endorsing the conservative concept of marriage as a woman's goal in life.\" Despite this \"mixed political agenda,\" Troost believed that the film's faithfulness to the traditional heritage film genre is evident through its use of locations, costumes, and attention to details, all of which also emphasize class and status. Gay and Julianne Pidduck stated that gender differences are expressed by showing the female characters indoors, while their male counterparts are depicted outside confidently moving throughout the countryside. Nora Stovel observed that Thompson \"emphasises Austen’s feminist satire on Regency gender economics,\" drawing attention not only to the financial plight of the Dashwoods but also to eighteenth-century women in general.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.07245922088623, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "On the basis of Austen's reputation as a serious author, the producers were able to rely on high-brow publications to help market their film. Near the time of its US release, large spreads in The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Film Comment, and other media outlets featured columns on Lee's production. In late December, Time magazine declared it and Persuasion to be the best films of 1995. Andrew Higson referred to all this media exposure as a \"marketing coup\" because it meant the film \"was reaching one of its target audiences.\" Meanwhile, most promotional images featured the film as a \"sort of chick flick in period garb.\" New Market Press published Thompson's screenplay and film diary; in its first printing, the hard cover edition sold 28,500 copies in the US. British publisher Bloomsbury released a paperback edition of the novel containing film pictures, same title design, and the cast's names on the cover, whilst Signet Publishing in the US printed 250,000 copies instead of the typical 10,000 a year; actress Julie Christie read the novel in an audiobook released by Penguin Audiobooks. Sense and Sensibility increased dramatically in terms of its book sales, ultimately hitting tenth place on the The New York Times Best Seller list for paperbacks in February 1996.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.664751052856445, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle lauded the film for containing a sense of urgency \"that keeps the pedestrian problems of an unremarkable 18th century family immediate and personal.\" LaSalle concluded that the adaptation has a \"right balance of irony and warmth. The result is a film of great understanding and emotional clarity, filmed with an elegance that never calls attention to itself.\" Film critic John Simon praised most of the film, particularly focusing on Thompson's performance, though he criticised Grant for being \"much too adorably bumbling ... he urgently needs to chasten his onscreen persona, and stop hunching his shoulders like a dromedary.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.719522476196289, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "In The Mail on Sunday, William Leith found Sense and Sensibility to be \"an extremely sharp, subtle, clever, lovely looking film\" that was superior to the serial Pride and Prejudice. Leith especially saved praise for the cast, writing that Grant plays his role \"masterfully\" and Harriet Walter \"conveys sour bitchiness like you never thought she could.\" Jarr Carr of The Boston Globe thought that Lee \"nail[ed] Austen's acute social observation and tangy satire,\" and viewed Thompson and Winslet's age discrepancy as a positive element that helped feed the dichotomy of sense and sensibility. The Radio Times David Parkinson was equally appreciative of Lee's direction, writing that he \"avoid[s] the chocolate-box visuals that cheapen so many British costume dramas\" and \"brings a refreshing period realism to the tale of two sisters that allows Emma Thompson's respectful Oscar-winning script to flourish.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.561168909072876, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "When Sense and Sensibility was released in cinemas in the US, Town & Country published a six-page article entitled \"Jane Austen's England\", which focused on the landscape and sites shown in the film. A press book released by the studio, as well as Thompson's published screenplay and diaries, listed all the filming locations and helped to boost tourism. Saltram House for instance was carefully promoted during the film's release, and saw a 57 percent increase in attendance. In 1996, JASNA's membership increased by fifty percent. The popularity of both Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice led to the BBC and ITV releasing their Austen adaptations from the 1970s and 1980s onto DVD.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.21911826729774475, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "As the mid-1990s included adaptations of four Austen novels, there were few of her works to adapt. Andrew Higson argued that this resulted in a \"variety of successors\" in the genres of romantic comedy and costume drama, as well as with films featuring strong female characters. Cited examples included Mrs Dalloway (1997), Mrs. Brown (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Bridget Jones's Diary (2001). In 2008, Andrew Davies, the screenwriter of Pride and Prejudice, adapted Sense and Sensibility for television. As a reaction to what he said was Lee's overly \"sentimental\" film, this production featured events found in the novel but excluded from Thompson's screenplay, such as Willoughby's seduction of Eliza and his duel with Brandon. It also featured actors closer to the ages in the source material. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.306966543197632, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Sense and Sensibility has maintained its popularity into the twenty-first century. In 2004, Louise Flavin referred to the 1995 film as \"the most popular of the Austen film adaptations,\" and in 2008, The Independent ranked it as the third-best Austen adaptation of all time, opining that Lee \"offered an acute outsider's insight into Austen in this compelling 1995 interpretation of the book [and] Emma Thompson delivered a charming turn as the older, wiser, Dashwood sister, Elinor.\" Journalist Zoe Williams credits Thompson as the person most responsible for Austen's popularity, explaining in 2007 that Sense and Sensibility \"is the definitive Austen film and that's largely down to her.\" In 2011, The Guardian film critic Paul Laity named it his favourite film of all time, partly because of its \"exceptional screenplay, crisply and skilfully done.\". Devoney Looser reflected on the film in The Atlantic on the 20th anniversary of its release, arguing that the film served as \"a turning point\" for \"pro-feminist masculinity\" in Austen adaptations.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.7792498469352722, "source": "wiki", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Including the complete shooting script, named Best Screenplay of the Year by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Broadcast Film Critics, the New York Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics, and the Boston Critics, among others. With 91 color and black-and white photographs, full cast and crew credits, and the complete text of Emma Thompson's acceptance speech at the Golden Globes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.042452573776245, "source": "search", "title": "The Sense and sensibility screenplay & diaries : bringing ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Little things like this allow Thompson the writer to inject latter-day feminism into Austen’s already quite feminist novel.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.157718658447266, "source": "search", "title": "Oscar Vault Monday – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. Ang ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "I like the relationship between Edward and Elinor as portrayed by Thompson and Hugh Grant, as I think the two have really wonderful chemistry together. They are two awkward, quiet people and they find solace in each other’s company. Grant’s stuttering, gawky persona melds perfectly with the character as written and his posh accent is perfect for this kind of British “heritage” film. As the film’s plot goes, Edward’s sister Fanny wants more for her brother in terms of marriage than the, relatively poor Elinor and sends him away before their “attachment” grows into a full on “understanding.”  This leads to Elinor’s mother to take some distant relatives up on their offer to allow them to rent a cottage on their property at a reasonable rate.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.704327583312988, "source": "search", "title": "Oscar Vault Monday – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. Ang ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Thompson definitely took liberties with the youngest Dashwood Margaret, giving her an interest in Geography, as well as expanding her relationships with her sisters’ suitors (like the fencing scene between her and Edward earlier in the film). This was actress Emilie François first film and according to IMDb, only one of three in which she appears. She graduated from Cambridge in 2003 and converted to Islam. She’s delightful in this film and it’s a shame we haven’t seen more of her.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.907074928283691, "source": "search", "title": "Oscar Vault Monday – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. Ang ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "As always, things don’t end well between Willoughby and Marianne, mostly due to him being a cad (we all know what that means) and his need to make a quick – and rich – match before being disinherited. Wise apparently dated Winslet on the set for a while before she set him up with Thompson after her divorce from Kenneth Branagh was finalized. Wise and Thompson have been married since 2003.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.416574478149414, "source": "search", "title": "Oscar Vault Monday – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. Ang ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "I just have to mention Hugh Laurie for a second. Laurie had done theatre with Thompson since the two of them were in Cambridge together. He is Mrs. Jennings’s son-in-law and he and his wife (played by Imelda Staunton), bring the girls from London to their estate (which just happens to be near Willoughby’s estate. Hmmmm…)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.165234565734863, "source": "search", "title": "Oscar Vault Monday – Sense and Sensibility, 1995 (dir. 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In the past few years, both have pursued remarkable careers — Thompson reprising her role as Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter series, among other roles; Gyllenhaal earning an Oscar nomination for Crazy Heart — while nurturing their equally involving personal lives. Both are married to actors and pride themselves on being very hands-on parents.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.4024617671966553, "source": "search", "title": "Maggie Gyllenhaal and Emma Thompson Interview" }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "Keira Knightley, the actress, has disclosed that she overcame dyslexia as a child by reading a screenplay by Emma Thompson.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6613860130310059, "source": "search", "title": "Keira Knightley: Sense and Sensibility screenplay helped ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "The 26-year-old said the only way she was able to get over her learning disability was by reading the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, and imagining what Thompson would do in her shoes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.384559154510498, "source": "search", "title": "Keira Knightley: Sense and Sensibility screenplay helped ..." }, { "answer": "Thompson", "passage": "“And I was – am – dyslexic and the way she got me over it was to say: ‘If Emma Thompson couldn’t read, she’d make ------- sure she'd get over it, so you have to start reading, because that’s what Emma Thompson would do’.”", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.601016998291016, "source": "search", "title": "Keira Knightley: Sense and Sensibility screenplay helped ..." } ]

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The talented Mr Minghella's eclectic oeuvre stretched from a short film of the three character Play (2000), as part of Channel 4's Samuel Beckett cycle, to the $83m Hollywood epic Cold Mountain (2003); from the intimate fantasy, Truly Madly Deeply (1990), made for the BBC, to the vast panorama of the Oscar-winning The English Patient (1996), financed by Miramax. Minghella, whose ample figure and cheery countenance exuded a love of life, seemed to be Harold Pinter, Orson Welles, David Lean and Richard Attenborough all rolled into one.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.7551984786987305, "source": "search", "title": "Obituary: Anthony Minghella | Film | The Guardian" }, { "answer": "The English Patient", "passage": "A passionate supporter of Portsmouth football club, he was also a mixture of English restraint and Italian exuberance. 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She latches onto the burned and charred body of a man known only as the English patient, and ends up caring for him in a shell ravaged Italian villa in Tuscany where she feeds him plums and reads to him. When a man named Caravaggio with scars of his own arrives, the mystery of who the English patient really is begins to unfold via flashbacks. In the present, Hana begins to let her heart heal when she falls in love with a Sikh who disarms bombs left by the Germans.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.257186412811279, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The English Patient (Miramax Collector's ..." }, { "answer": "The English Patient", "passage": "It is the memories of the English patient, however, which are at the heart of this film. Ralph Fiennes gives a subtle performance as the introspective Almasy, part of an international expedition mapping an unending desert with both the romance, and the danger of the sea. Kristin Scott Thomas is wonderful as Katherine Clifton, the stunningly beautiful and enigmatic wife of a fellow mapper. An instant but unspoken attraction between she and Almasy finally becomes too unbearable to ignore and the affair that holds the key to the mystery surrounding the English patient begins.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.7487030029296875, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The English Patient (Miramax Collector's ..." }, { "answer": "The English Patient", "passage": "Cinematographer John Seale has given this film a grace and beauty seldom seen on film. A haunting score full of mystery and romance from Gabriel Yard accompany scenes never to be forgotten, and will not be described here in case you have not yet seen them. 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Two major studios and several fights over the casting of key roles later, the result were an astonishing nine Oscars (Best Picture, Director - Anthony Minghella -, Supporting Actress - Juliette Binoche -, Cinematography, Editing, Art Direction, Costume Design, Original Score and Sound), as well as scores of other awards.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.815262794494629, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The English Patient (Miramax Collector's ..." }, { "answer": "The English Patient", "passage": "\"The English Patient\" is an epic tale of love and loss; of ownership, belonging and the bars erected thereto. It unites the stories of five people: Hungarian count Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), mistaken as English by a British Army medical unit in Italy after professing to have forgotten his identity; Hana (Juliette Binoche), Almasy's Canadian nurse; Katherine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), his erstwhile lover; Kip (Naveen Andrews), a Sikh sapper and Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), an ex-spy and thief. All outsiders, they are struggling to come to terms with their lives: Almasy, on his deathbed, reflects back to his life as a North African explorer and his affair with Katherine; Hana believes herself cursed because everybody she cares for dies (in the movie her fiance and her best friend; in the novel her fiance, her father and her unborn baby), Katherine is taken to an all-male company of explorers in Cairo by her husband Geoffrey (Colin Firth), Kip, like Hana, is far away from home (the only Indian in an otherwise British and Italian environment) and Caravaggio lost his livelihood after his thumbs were cut off in captivity by the Germans, on a sadistic officer (Juergen Prochnow)'s orders.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.11611795425415, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: The English Patient (Miramax Collector's ..." } ]

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[ { "answer": "Maurice Joseph Micklewhite", "passage": "Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen Frances Marie (Burchell), a charlady, and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish-market porter. He left school at 15 and took a series of working-class jobs before joining the British army and serving in Korea during the Korean War, where he saw combat. Upon his return to England he gravitated toward the theater and got a job as an assistant stage manager. He adopted the name of Caine on the advice of his agent, taking it from a marquee that advertised The Caine Mutiny (1954). In the years that followed he worked in more than 100 television dramas, with repertory companies throughout England and eventually in the stage hit, \"The Long and the Short and the Tall.\" Zulu (1964), the 1964 epic retelling of a historic 19th-century battle in South Africa between British soldiers and Zulu warriors, brought Caine to international attention. Instead of being typecast as a low-ranking Cockney soldier, he played a snobbish, aristocratic officer. Although \"Zulu\" was a major success, it was the role of Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File (1965) and the title role in Alfie (1966) that made Caine a star of the first magnitude. He epitomized the new breed of actor in mid-'60s England, the working-class bloke with glasses and a down-home accent. However, after initially starring in some excellent films, particularly in the 1960s, including Gambit (1966), Funeral in Berlin (1966), Play Dirty (1969), Battle of Britain (1969), Too Late the Hero (1970), The Last Valley (1971) and especially Get Carter (1971), he seemed to take on roles in below-average films, simply for the money he could by then command. There were some gems amongst the dross, however. He gave a magnificent performance opposite Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and turned in a solid one as a German colonel in The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Educating Rita (1983) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (for which he won his first Oscar) were highlights of the 1980s, while more recently Little Voice (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999) (his second Oscar) and Last Orders (2001) have been widely acclaimed.", "precise_score": -5.52519416809082, "rough_score": -7.0562005043029785, "source": "search", "title": "Michael Caine - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Michael caine", "passage": "Michael Caine is an English actor and author. Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon.", "precise_score": -2.6531429290771484, "rough_score": -5.627437114715576, "source": "search", "title": "Michael Caine - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Michael caine", "passage": "His first American accent was in the film Hurry Sundown (1967). He was taught the Southern drawl by Vivien Leigh , who told him to say \"four door Ford\" all day long for weeks. 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Back then, everyone thought all actors were gay, and most of them were right. But it must have been the right move - did you know that the only good word you can make from 'Michael Caine' is 'cinema'? I discovered that in a crossword 10 years ago.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.16692066192627, "source": "search", "title": "Michael Caine - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Michael caine", "passage": "I'm the United Kingdom of Michael Caine.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.926149368286133, "source": "search", "title": "Michael Caine - Biography - IMDb" } ]

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But, as the saying goes, there are no small parts – and Judi Dench proved that even only a couple of minutes on the screen can be turned into cinema gold.", "precise_score": 9.009950637817383, "rough_score": 8.094155311584473, "source": "search", "title": "Fritz and the Oscars: Number 46: Judi Dench as Queen ..." }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "Dame Judi Dench is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love.", "precise_score": 9.878592491149902, "rough_score": 9.763805389404297, "source": "search", "title": "Judi Dench Biography - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "Dame Judi Dench was born on December 9th, 1934 in York, Yorkshire, England. She made her stage debut in 1957 as Ophelia in Hamlet. She also performed in musical roles, starring in the London premiere of Cabaret in 1968. She won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. Currently she is portraying James Bond's boss M in the Bond film series.", "precise_score": 9.092573165893555, "rough_score": 7.998514652252197, "source": "search", "title": "Judi Dench Biography - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "Dench's other film of 1997 was Roger Spottiswoode's Tomorrow Never Dies, her second film in the James Bond series. The spy film follows Bond, played by Brosnan, as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering world events and starting World War III. Shot in France, Thailand, Germany, the United Kingdom, Vietnam and the South China Sea, it performed well at the box office and earned a Golden Globe nomination despite mixed reviews. The same year, Dench reteamed with director John Madden to film Shakespeare in Love (1998), a romantic comedy-drama that depicts a love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare, played by Joseph Fiennes, while he was writing the play Romeo and Juliet. On her performance as Queen Elizabeth I, The New York Times commented that \"Dench's shrewd, daunting Elizabeth is one of the film's utmost treats.\" The following year, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. On her Oscar win, Dench joked on-stage, \"I feel for eight minutes on the screen I should only get a little bit of him.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.1284101009368896, "source": "wiki", "title": "Judi Dench" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "Also in 2009, Dench reprised the role of Matilda Jenkyns in Return to Cranford, the two-part second season of a Simon Curtis television series. Critically acclaimed, Dench was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Satellite Award. In 2010, she renewed her collaboration with Peter Hall at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which opened in February 2010; she played Titania as Queen Elizabeth I in her later years – almost 50 years after she first played the role for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In July 2010, Dench performed \"Send in the Clowns\" at a special celebratory promenade concert from the Royal Albert Hall as part of the proms season, in honour of composer Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.083876132965088, "source": "wiki", "title": "Judi Dench" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "The Queen is a 2006 British fictional drama film depicting the British Royal Family's response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales on 31 August 1997. The film was directed by Stephen Frears, written by Peter Morgan, and starred Helen Mirren in the title role of HM Queen Elizabeth II. 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She also played a policewoman, under cover as the Queen, in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.026414394378662, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Queen (film)" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "ITV's role in the production of the film allowed them an option for its television premiere and it was broadcast on 2 September 2007 (coinciding that weekend with a memorial service to Diana) to an average audience of 7.9 million, winning its timeslot. The DVD was released in the UK on 12 March 2007. Special features include a making-of featurette and an audio commentary by Stephen Frears, writer Peter Morgan and Robert Lacey, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD in the USA on 24 April 2007 and, , US DVD sales had exceeded $29 million. 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Shakespeare accompanies her, disguised as her female cousin. There, he persuades Wessex to wager £50 that a play can capture the true nature of love, the exact amount Shakespeare requires to buy a share in the Chamberlain's Men. Queen Elizabeth I declares that she will judge the matter, when the occasion arises.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.413758754730225, "source": "wiki", "title": "Shakespeare in Love" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "* Judi Dench as Elizabeth I of England", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.06248955428600311, "source": "wiki", "title": "Shakespeare in Love" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "The film is \"not constrained by worries about literary or historical accuracy\" and includes anachronisms such as a reference to Virginia tobacco plantations, at a time before the Colony of Virginia existed, also a leading character is a member of the House of Wessex, which died out in 1066. Elizabeth I never entered a public theatre, as she does in the film. Between Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth night, Shakespeare wrote 10 other plays over a period of 6 years. The biggest historical liberty concerns the central theme of Shakespeare struggling to create the story of Romeo and Juliet as he simply adapted an existing story for theatre. The Italian verse tale The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet, had been translated into English by Arthur Brooke in 1562, 32 years before Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.804733276367188, "source": "wiki", "title": "Shakespeare in Love" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "The Sunday Telegraph claimed that the film prompted the revival of the title of Earl of Wessex. Prince Edward was originally to have been titled Duke of Cambridge following his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999, the year after the film's release. However, after watching Shakespeare in Love, he reportedly became attracted to the title of the character played by Colin Firth, and asked Queen Elizabeth II to be given the title of Earl of Wessex instead. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.618764400482178, "source": "wiki", "title": "Shakespeare in Love" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "Her 1999 Oscar was awarded for an six-minute performance in only four scenes as \"Queen Elizabeth I\" in Shakespeare in Love (1998). It is the second shortest performance ever to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, the only shorter one being Beatrice Straight 's five-minute performance in Network (1976).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.779327869415283, "source": "search", "title": "Judi Dench - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "She and her The Shipping News (2001) and Notes on a Scandal (2006) co-star Cate Blanchett both received Oscar-nominations for playing Queen Elizabeth I in 1999. Dench won for her supporting role in Shakespeare in Love (1998) while Blanchett was nominated for Elizabeth (1998).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.064264297485352, "source": "search", "title": "Judi Dench - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "Has twice been nominated for an Oscar in the same year that another actress was nominated for playing the same role. She received Best Supporting Actress for playing Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998), while Cate Blanchett was nominated for Elizabeth (1998). She was later nominated for Best Actress in Iris (2001), for which Kate Winslet was also nominated for the title role.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.5615425705909729, "source": "search", "title": "Judi Dench - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "She has two roles in common with Helen Mirren : (1) Dench played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), in which Mirren also appeared, while Mirren played her in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981) and (2) Dench played Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998) while Mirren played her in Elizabeth I (2005).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.756243884563446, "source": "search", "title": "Judi Dench - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "The set – including dismantled oak timbers – was given as a gift to Dame Judi, who won an Oscar and a Bafta for best supporting actress as Queen Elizabeth I in the 1998 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.6996346116065979, "source": "search", "title": "Shakespeare in Love film set to be turned into theatre ..." }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "The set's dismantled oak timbers have been mothballed in a warehouse for more than a decade after being given as a gift to one of the stars, Dame Judi Dench , who won an Oscar and a Bafta for best supporting actress as Queen Elizabeth I.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.961535096168518, "source": "search", "title": "Film inspires Dame Judi Dench's plan for Yorkshire Rose to ..." }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "Number 46: Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in \"Shakespeare in Love\" (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 7.571035385131836, "source": "search", "title": "Fritz and the Oscars: Number 46: Judi Dench as Queen ..." }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "Judi Dench is one of those British actresses that can command the screen with the greatest ease, make everything look both natural and impressive and can do more with one look than others with tons of dialogue. Especially in the small role of Elizabeth I, all these qualities are a big advantage for her. Not a single second is there a doubt that Elizabeth I is indeed one of the most powerful monarchs in the world. And also not a single second is there a doubt that this woman is much, much, much more than visible in the few moments on the screen.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.2813494205474854, "source": "search", "title": "Fritz and the Oscars: Number 46: Judi Dench as Queen ..." }, { "answer": "Elizabeth I", "passage": "While her first scene is rather meaningless it still establishes the character of Elizabeth I and helps Judi Dench to build the foundation on which her later scenes are based. Her second scene only strengthens the impressions the audience has gotten earlier – that this woman possess strength and power like nobody else. With only a few looks, she is able to command a room full of people and make Viola look like the biggest fool. Judi Dench wonderful line delivery helps her to achieve maximum results in this scene. And who can forget her delivery of the line ‘She’s been plugged since I saw her last and not by you. Takes a woman to know it’?", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.423923015594482, "source": "search", "title": "Fritz and the Oscars: Number 46: Judi Dench as Queen ..." } ]

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In addition, Kevin Costner, who co-produced the film and starred as an Army officer who joins the Lakota Sioux tribe, had never directed a film and was coming off a movie that had flopped at the box office.", "precise_score": 6.361064910888672, "rough_score": 5.624516010284424, "source": "search", "title": "Kevin Costner and 'Dances With Wolves' Win Top Oscar ..." }, { "answer": "Kevin Costner", "passage": "Kevin Costner proved his critics wrong, and Oscar prognosticators right, Monday night when \"Dances With Wolves,\" his epic ode to a West long gone, won seven Academy Awards, including best picture, director and adapted screenplay.", "precise_score": 9.002605438232422, "rough_score": 8.090371131896973, "source": "search", "title": "'Dances With Wolves,' Irons, Bates Win Oscars : Academy ..." }, { "answer": "Kevin Costner", "passage": "Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film directed by, produced by, and starring Kevin Costner. 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The novel version of Dances with Wolves was rejected by numerous publishers but finally published in paperback in 1988. As a novel, the rights were purchased by Costner, with an eye on directing it. Actual production lasted for four months, from July 18 to November 23, 1989. Most of the movie was filmed on location in South Dakota, mainly on private ranches near Pierre and Rapid City, with a few scenes filmed in Wyoming. Specific locations included the Badlands National Park, the Black Hills, the Sage Creek Wilderness Area, and the Belle Fourche River area. The bison hunt scenes were filmed at the Triple U Buffalo Ranch outside Fort Pierre, South Dakota, as were the Fort Sedgewick scenes, the set being constructed on the property. 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I think it's going to be very hard to top this one.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.305697441101074, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dances with Wolves" }, { "answer": "Kevin Costner", "passage": "*Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement – Kevin Costner at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.334550857543945, "source": "wiki", "title": "Dances with Wolves" }, { "answer": "Kevin Costner", "passage": "The Holy Road, a well-received sequel novel by Michael Blake, the author of both the original Dances with Wolves novel and the movie screenplay, was published in 2001. It picks up eleven years after Dances with Wolves. John Dunbar is still married to Stands with a Fist and they have three children. Stands with a Fist and one of the children are kidnapped by a party of white rangers and Dances with Wolves must mount a rescue mission. 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Whether it was Gary Cooper standing tall in High Noon , Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas taking out the Clantons in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, John Wayne fighting the Apaches in Rio Grande, or Clint Eastwood looking more bad than good or ugly in Sergio Leone's trilogy, the Old West was a sure way to break into the black at the box office. But that was during the '50s and '60s. Since then, another cinematic generation has taken over and the western has gone the way of the musical. In 1990, while it wasn't yet as extinct as the Sabertooth Tiger, it was definitely on the endangered species list - until Kevin Costner came along and singlehandedly breathed new life into the genre. Suddenly, in the span of three years, two westerns had captured the Best Picture Oscar (Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven ). 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In the '90s, it is only one of two films lasting longer than three hours to have grossed more than $100 million domestically (the other being Titanic), showing that the public loved it as much as the critics.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.9158740043640137, "source": "search", "title": "Dances with Wolves | Reelviews Movie Reviews" } ]

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Tandy's win set a record at the time - she became the oldest performer (and nominee, at 80 years and 252 days old) to ever win a Best Actress Oscar. She was just three months away from her 81st birthday when she accepted the Oscar (at 80 years and 292 days old).", "precise_score": 8.735711097717285, "rough_score": 9.328947067260742, "source": "search", "title": "1989 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Jessica Tandy was believed to be unbeatable for her performance as an elderly Southern widow who develops a warm relationship with her chauffeur in ``Driving Miss Daisy,`` and indeed she was. At the age of 80, Tandy became the oldest best actress winner, besting the 74-year-old Katharine Hepburn in", "precise_score": 7.803224563598633, "rough_score": 8.462566375732422, "source": "search", "title": "`Miss Daisy,` Jessica Tandy Win Top Oscars ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman deliver unforgettable performances as an elderly Southern Jewish widow and her black chauffeur in DRIVING MISS DAISY, the sentimental Oscar-winning exploration of civil rights based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Alfred Uhry play.", "precise_score": 5.232206344604492, "rough_score": 6.481071949005127, "source": "search", "title": "The Temple featured in Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "While “Daisy” star Jessica Tandy won Best Comedy/Musical Actress at the Globes, Michelle Pfeiffer (“The Fabulous Baker Boys”) had swept the precursors. At the Oscars, Tandy defeated Pfeiffer as well as Isabelle Adjani (“Camille Claudel”), Pauline Collins (“Shirley Valentine”) and  Jessica Lange (“Music Box”) to become, at age 80, the oldest lead actress winner to date. ", "precise_score": 4.709611892700195, "rough_score": 7.787564754486084, "source": "search", "title": "This year’s Oscars = 1989: Best Picture director snub ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film adapted from the Alfred Uhry play of the same name. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford, with Morgan Freeman reprising his role as Hoke Colburn (whom he also portrayed in the play) and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy. The story defines Daisy and her point of view through a network of relationships and emotions by focusing on her home life, synagogue, friends, family, fears, and concerns over a 25-year period.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.5376414656639099, "source": "wiki", "title": "Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "In 1948, Mrs. Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy, (Jessica Tandy), a 65-year-old wealthy, white, Jewish, widowed, retired school teacher, lives alone in Atlanta, Georgia, except for a black housemaid named Idella (Esther Rolle). When Miss Daisy wrecks her car, her son, Boolie (Dan Aykroyd), hires Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), a black chauffeur. Miss Daisy at first refuses to let anyone else drive her, but gradually gives in.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.00403672456741333, "source": "wiki", "title": "Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "* Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.161567687988281, "source": "wiki", "title": "Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Driving Miss Daisy was well received by critics, with particular emphasis on Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy's performances. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 82% based on reviews from 55 critics, with an average score of 7.2/10. The site's consensus states: \"Warm and smartly paced, and boasting impeccable performances from Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy.\" On Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream critics, the film has a score of 81 based on 16 reviews, indicating \"universal acclaim\". CinemaScore similarly reported that audiences gave the film a rare \"A+\" grade. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.1865705251693726, "source": "wiki", "title": "Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune declared Driving Miss Daisy one of the best films of 1989. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it \"a film of great love and patience\" and wrote, \"It is an immensely subtle film, in which hardly any of the most important information is carried in the dialogue and in which body language, tone of voice or the look in an eye can be the most important thing in a scene. After so many movies in which shallow and violent people deny their humanity and ours, what a lesson to see a film that looks into the heart.\" Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film a positive review, calling Tandy's performance \"glorious\" and opining, \"This is Tandy's finest two hours onscreen in a film career that goes back to 1932.\" The performances of Tandy and Freeman were also praised by Vincent Canby of The New York Times, who observed, \"The two actors manage to be highly theatrical without breaking out of the realistic frame of the film.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.661412239074707, "source": "wiki", "title": "Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "* Jessica Tandy, at age 81, became the oldest winner in the history of the Best Actress category.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.5581512451171875, "source": "wiki", "title": "Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Driving Miss Daisy also won three Golden Globe Awards (Best Picture, Best Actor Morgan Freeman, and Best Actress Jessica Tandy) in the Comedy/Musical categories. At the 1989 Writers Guild of America Awards, the film won in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. Rounding out its United States awards, the film won both Best Picture and Best Actor from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. In the United Kingdom, Driving Miss Daisy was nominated for four British Academy Film Awards, with Jessica Tandy winning in the Best Actress category. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman won the Silver Bear for the Best Joint Performance at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.333188533782959, "source": "wiki", "title": "Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Bruce Beresford, the director of ''Miss Daisy,'' was not even nominated. But the film gave Jessica Tandy, the 80-year-old stage actress, the chance to win her first Oscar in six decades as a performer. There was also an Oscar for Alfred Uhry for his screenplay for ''Miss Daisy,'' which he adapted from his Pulitzer Prise-winning Off-Broadway play.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.2547926902771, "source": "search", "title": "'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Mis Tandy, the 80-year-old stage actress, had never been nominated for an Oscar before.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.925284385681152, "source": "search", "title": "'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "''I never expected in a million years I'd ever be in this position,'' Miss Tandy said. She was the oldest person ever to win an Oscar. The film, adapted from Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, portrayed the slowly evolving relationship between the widow and her black chauffeur, played by Morgan Freeman.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.3996827602386475, "source": "search", "title": "'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "In accepting, Miss Tandy thanked the Zanucks, the producers of the film, which had repeatedly been rejected by major studios. In an especially pointed mention, she gave special thanks to her director, Bruce Beresford, who was not nominated for best director even though ''Miss Daisy'' received nine nominations, including one for best picture.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.513861179351807, "source": "search", "title": "'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "The award to the young black actor came as something of a surprise in a category that included strong performances by Danny Aiello as the white owner of a pizza parlor in a black neighborhood of Brooklyn in ''Do the Right Thing'' and Dan Aykroyd as Miss Tandy's son in ''Driving Miss Daisy.''", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.919887065887451, "source": "search", "title": "'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Jessica Tandy Wins Best Actress: 1990 Oscars - YouTube", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.7999370098114014, "source": "search", "title": "Jessica Tandy Wins Best Actress: 1990 Oscars - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Jessica Tandy Wins Best Actress: 1990 Oscars", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.8376057147979736, "source": "search", "title": "Jessica Tandy Wins Best Actress: 1990 Oscars - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Gregory Peck presents Jessica Tandy the Oscar for Best Actress for Driving Miss Daisy at the 62nd Academy Awards.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.425803184509277, "source": "search", "title": "Jessica Tandy Wins Best Actress: 1990 Oscars - YouTube" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "JESSICA TANDY in \"Driving Miss Daisy\", Isabelle Adjani in \"Camille Claudel\", Pauline Collins in \"Shirley Valentine\", Jessica Lange in \"Music Box\", Michelle Pfeiffer in \"The Fabulous Baker Boys\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.6245341300964355, "source": "search", "title": "1989 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "The heart-tugging, sentimental, low-budget film was an adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play about an aging, feisty Southern white widowed grandmother (Tandy) and her complex twenty-five relationship with her simple black chauffeur (Freeman). The plot was based upon Uhry's memories of his grandmother and a family chauffeur.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.408126831054688, "source": "search", "title": "1989 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "`Miss Daisy,` Jessica Tandy Win Top Oscars - tribunedigital-chicagotribune", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.595737934112549, "source": "search", "title": "`Miss Daisy,` Jessica Tandy Win Top Oscars ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "`Miss Daisy,` Jessica Tandy Win Top Oscars", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.3721442222595215, "source": "search", "title": "`Miss Daisy,` Jessica Tandy Win Top Oscars ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "As social change sweeps the 1960s South, so is transformed the 25-year relationship between the wealthy, strong-willed Miss Daisy (Tandy) and Hoke (Freeman), her soft-spoken but equally indomitable driver, from suspicion and mistrust to respect and deep-rooted affection. With a melodious synthesized score by Hans Zimmer, the film also boasts a strong supporting ensemble with Dan Aykroyd as Miss Daisy’s son, Patti LuPone as his nouveau riche wife, and Esther Rolle as the housekeeper.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.758309841156006, "source": "search", "title": "The Temple featured in Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Academy Award wins for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress (Tandy, at age 81, the oldest Best Actress winner). Filmed in and around Atlanta (with the driving scenes shot in Griffin), location cameos include Druid Hills, Lullwater Road, Agnes Scott College and The Temple.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.17622971534729, "source": "search", "title": "The Temple featured in Driving Miss Daisy" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "“Daisy” won four of its leading nine Oscar nominations: Best Picture (Richard Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck), Best Actress (Tandy), Best Adapted Screenplay (Uhry), and Best Makeup (Lynn Barber, Kevin Haney, and Manlio Rocchetti). The five losses were for Best Actor (Freeman), Best Supporting Actor (Dan Aykroyd), Best Art Direction (Bruno Rubeo and Crispian Sallis), Best Costume Design (Elizabeth McBride), and Best Editing (Mark Warner).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.1692744493484497, "source": "search", "title": "This year’s Oscars = 1989: Best Picture director snub ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "1989 – Tandy became oldest Best Actress nominee (and winner) at age 80.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.668268918991089, "source": "search", "title": "This year’s Oscars = 1989: Best Picture director snub ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Jessica Tandy - Awards - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.73024845123291, "source": "search", "title": "Jessica Tandy - Awards - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Jessica Tandy", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.519305229187012, "source": "search", "title": "Jessica Tandy - Awards - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "Jessica Tandy", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.519305229187012, "source": "search", "title": "The Oscars: The 10 oldest to win competitive acting ..." }, { "answer": "Tandy", "passage": "The British-born actress was 80 years and 252 days old when she won the lead actress Oscar for 1989's \"Driving Miss Daisy.\" Not long after that, Tandy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Tandy continued to work as she battled the disease, earning a supporting actress nomination for 1991's \"Fried Green Tomatoes.\" She died in 1994", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.357640266418457, "source": "search", "title": "The Oscars: The 10 oldest to win competitive acting ..." } ]

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Cate Blanchett's Best Supporting Actress Oscar win for The Aviator (2004) in her role as Katharine Hepburn marked the first time a performer won an Oscar for playing an Oscar-winning actress.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.8248982429504395, "source": "search", "title": "Academy Awards Best Actress - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Katharine Hepburn", "passage": "Also, elderly nominees seem to fare better, such as 72 year-old Ruth Gordon winning the Best Supporting Actress award for Rosemary's Baby (1968), or Best Actress winners Katharine Hepburn (after her first win at age 27), Geraldine Page (finally winning with her eighth nomination), Jessica Tandy and Ellen Burstyn for On Golden Pond (1981), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and Requiem for a Dream (2000). 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Not content with just recycling the same story, Part II illuminates and elaborates on the first part, adding a classically tragic dimension by using flashbacks to show the origins of the Corleone family, and then moving forward in time to show that same family ripping itself apart.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.036298751831055, "source": "search", "title": "The Oscars: the 87 films to win Best Picture - The Telegraph" }, { "answer": "The Godfather", "passage": "Evocative and distressing in equal measure, The Deer Hunter is often hailed by the critics as an American epic in the same class as The Godfather films. In an iconic, exuberant opening section, a tight-knit group of Russian-American friends celebrate together, looking forward to enlisting in the Vietnam war. The ensuing action shows, in another string of iconic scenes involving gambling halls and Russian roulette, what war does to them. With a memorable soundtrack including Frankie Valli and a theme played by classical guitar legend John Williams, and a stellar cast featuring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Cazale, The Deer Hunter picked up four Oscars.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.026923179626465, "source": "search", "title": "The Oscars: the 87 films to win Best Picture - The Telegraph" }, { "answer": "The Godfather", "passage": "'The Godfather' (1972) – With his career in decline for nearly a decade, Marlon Brando scored a comeback as Don Vito Corleone, the aging patriarch of a crime family, in Francis Ford Coppola's \"The Godfather.\" Brando won his second Oscar for best actor (which he refused), and the movie made a superstar of Al Pacino as the son who takes over the \"family business.\" The movie ranked No. 2 on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 U.S. films.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.8143696784973145, "source": "search", "title": "Rewind: The Oscar-winning best pictures - CNN.com" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Pianist", "passage": "Cant believe its been 20 years since Shine. Geoffrey Rush came out nowhere from down under to take the Oscar....by force! The force of his incredible performance as David Helfgott, child prodigy, mental patient and a damaged young man saved by his talent and love for music. Also memorable is Noah Taylor as young David, Armin Muehller Stall as the sonofabitch dad and the late Lynn Redgrave as David's wife. The moments of brilliance are many. The attempt to tackle Rachmaninoff, David walking out of the street into a piano-bar, wet cigarrette hanging from his lip then starts playing like the brilliant pianist that he is and that final concert. The standing ovation and getting his due late in life is a tearjerker. 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This musical genius composed magnificent music that has been appreciated by generations because of its buildup of tension and complexity, such as \"Ride of the Valkyries\" and \"Tristan und Isolde.\" However, Wagner was a pretty cold-hearted guy. He was openly anti-semitic and one of his biggest supporters was Adolf Hitler . So yeah, Wagner would get an A for his art and influence in music, but an F for being on the right side of history. Although Wagner's lookalike, Geoffrey Rush , isn't a musician, he played concert pianist David Helfgott in the film Shine, for which he won an Oscar. The real-life Helfgott is known for playing a variety of classical music, including music from the Romantic era. And guess who was a famous composer of the Romantic Era? That's right, our favorite musical (albeit misguided) genius, Wagner. 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Gibson received two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Picture, for his second directorial effort. In winning the Academy Award for Best Director, Gibson became only the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to do so. Braveheart influenced the Scottish nationalist movement and helped to revive the film genre of the historical epic; the Battle of Stirling Bridge sequence is considered by critics to be one of the all-time-best-directed battle scenes. ", "precise_score": 7.457753658294678, "rough_score": 7.515166759490967, "source": "wiki", "title": "Mel Gibson" }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "The 1995 movie, BraveHeart, is a cinematic master-piece. A multiple Oscar winner, an awe-inspiring cinematic portrayal of Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace and his greatest accomplishments. It’s also an extremely historically inaccurate film, but that doesn’t devalue it as a cinematic achievement. Star and director Mel Gibson himself notes that the film is a “historical fantasy” and shouldn’t be taken as the accurate portrayal of Wallace’s life.", "precise_score": 4.799503803253174, "rough_score": 2.9275949001312256, "source": "search", "title": "BraveHeart – The 10 historical inaccuracies you need to ..." }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "'Braveheart' (1995) – Mel Gibson directed and starred in the story of Scottish warrior William Wallace, who led the Scottish army against English invaders led by King Edward I. The film won five Oscars, including best picture and best director, and has led to countless sports teams yelling \"Freedom!\" as they go up against opponents.", "precise_score": 8.074456214904785, "rough_score": 7.857227325439453, "source": "search", "title": "Rewind: The Oscar-winning best pictures - CNN.com" }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "1995 Braveheart - outstanding ... FREEDOM!!! A fictionalized account of William Wallace. Like Costner and Eastwood before him, popular actor Mel Gibson got his turn to take home his only Oscars (Director and Producer) on his only nominations so far. But unlike the other two, Gibson was snubbed, didn't even receive a Best Actor nomination, in this year that Hollywood was obviously on drugs (Nicolas Cage won the Best Actor award for Leaving Las Vegas).", "precise_score": 2.341886281967163, "rough_score": 5.097681522369385, "source": "search", "title": "Fool.com: Great Movies [Post of the Day] June 19, 2003" }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "Gibson's first major roles were in the Mad Max series, with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome commanding his first million-dollar salary. His first American film was the 1984 drama The River; he then appeared in 1987's Lethal Weapon, which placed him squarely on the Hollywood A-list. Notable films for Gibson include Braveheart—for which he won two Academy Awards, including Best Picture—Ransom, Conspiracy Theory, The Patriot, What Women Want, and Signs. Gibson directed his first film, The Man Without a Face, in 1993, and went on to win the Oscar for Best Director with Braveheart. He went on to direct The Passion of the Christ in 2004 and Apocalypto in 2006. Gibson married Robin Moore in 1980; the couple had seven children before divorcing in 2009, and Gibson has a daughter with his girlfriend, Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva, the same year.", "precise_score": 4.760200500488281, "rough_score": 4.019052028656006, "source": "search", "title": "Godfreytimes Blog: 40 Richest Actors with Max Bank" }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "Gibson gained very favorable notices from film critics when he first entered the cinematic scene, as well as comparisons to several classic movie stars. In 1982, Vincent Canby wrote that \"Mr. Gibson recalls the young Steve McQueen... I can't define \"star quality,\" but whatever it is, Mr. Gibson has it.\" Gibson has also been likened to \"a combination Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart.\" Gibson's roles in the Mad Max series of films, Peter Weir's Gallipoli, and the Lethal Weapon series of films earned him the label of \"action hero\". Later, Gibson expanded into a variety of acting projects including human dramas such as Hamlet, and comedic roles such as those in Maverick and What Women Want. He expanded beyond acting into directing and producing, with: The Man Without a Face, in 1993; Braveheart, in 1995; The Passion of the Christ, in 2004; and Apocalypto, in 2006. Jess Cagle of Time compared Gibson with Cary Grant, Sean Connery, and Robert Redford. Connery once suggested Gibson should play the next James Bond to Connery's M. Gibson turned down the role, reportedly because he feared being typecast. 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Gibson made his directorial debut in 1993 with The Man Without a Face, followed two years later by Braveheart, which earned Gibson the Academy Award for Best Director. Gibson had long planned to direct a remake of Fahrenheit 451, but in 1999 the project was indefinitely postponed because of scheduling conflicts. Gibson was scheduled to direct Robert Downey, Jr. in a Los Angeles stage production of Hamlet in January 2001, but Downey's drug relapse ended the project. In 2002, while promoting We Were Soldiers and Signs to the press, Gibson mentioned that he was planning to pare back on acting and return to directing. In September 2002, Gibson announced that he would direct a film called The Passion in Aramaic and Latin with no subtitles because he hoped to \"transcend language barriers with filmic storytelling.\" In 2004, he released the controversial film The Passion of the Christ, with subtitles, which he co-wrote, co-produced, and directed. The film went on to become the highest grossing rated R film of all time with $370,782,930 in U.S. box office sales. Gibson directed a few episodes of Complete Savages for the ABC network. In 2006, he directed the action-adventure film Apocalypto, his second film to feature sparse dialogue in a non-English language.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.7236762046813965, "source": "wiki", "title": "Mel Gibson" }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "Gibson's acting career began in 1976, with a role on the Australian television series The Sullivans. In his career, Gibson has appeared in 43 films, including the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon film series. In addition to acting, Gibson has also directed four films, including Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ; produced 11 films; and written two films. Films either starring or directed by Mel Gibson have earned over US$2.5 billion, in the United States alone. 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Gibson later defended his comments and rejected calls to apologize even as he faced fresh accusations of homophobia in the wake of his film Braveheart. However, Gibson joined GLAAD in hosting 10 lesbian and gay filmmakers for an on-location seminar on the set of the movie Conspiracy Theory in January 1997. 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It certainly sounds like the sort of debauch stuff that the high and mighty of the 13th century might have done but the ugly fact may be that it’s actually mere fiction.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.339916229248047, "source": "search", "title": "BraveHeart – The 10 historical inaccuracies you need to ..." }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "The blue face-paint is so iconic, though, you couldn’t imagine BraveHeart without it. These days of course the tradition is to paint the flag of Scotland (a white X across with blue sides) for sporting events.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.079750061035156, "source": "search", "title": "BraveHeart – The 10 historical inaccuracies you need to ..." }, { "answer": "Brave heart", "passage": "The most notable fact of all is that the name “Brave Heart” actually refers to Robert the Bruce and not William Wallace. After his death, Robert’s heart was literally carried into battle, giving birth to the nickname.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.232586860656738, "source": "search", "title": "BraveHeart – The 10 historical inaccuracies you need to ..." }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "Audience Reviews for Braveheart", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.139921188354492, "source": "search", "title": "Braveheart (1995) - Rotten Tomatoes" }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "Braveheart is the (exceedingly tall) story of William Wallace, a man who united the common people of Scotland to rise up against their English oppressors in the 13th century. Of course the historical \"facts\" vary between the dubious and the ludicrous, particularly those involving the princess of Wales but I for one am not complaining about having to look at Sophie Marceau. It's easy to pick holes in it's accuracy, but if it were true to real events it probably would be a hell of a lot duller. This film is about rooting for the underdog; cheering on the good guys and booing the bad guys with some fantastically bloody action along the way. Gibson's accent is more Crocodile than Dundee, but he plays the part with just the right mix of charm and humour and has a great supporting cast to back him up, Patrick McGoohan being the best of the bunch as the deliciously malevolent Edward Longshanks (Boo! Hiss!) Often ridiculous, but a hugely entertaining old school swashbuckler. And where else can you see a story where a dirty hankie changes history...?!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.133806228637695, "source": "search", "title": "Braveheart (1995) - Rotten Tomatoes" }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "Braveheart (1995) - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.21312427520752, "source": "search", "title": "Braveheart (1995) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "Search for \" Braveheart \" on Amazon.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.352004051208496, "source": "search", "title": "Braveheart (1995) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Braveheart", "passage": "On my list of the greatest movies of all time, BraveHeart ranks as number 3. It is by far one of the most epic stories ever told. Mel Gibson deserved all the credit he recieved and more. His portrayal of William Wallace, one of Scotlands most mightiest warriors, was spot on. The only part that lacked was the romantic affair of Princess Isabella and Wallace. It historically never happened. This movie also has other historical errors but WHO CARES!", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.1337127685546875, "source": "search", "title": "Braveheart (1995) - IMDb" } ]

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The Pink Ladies are now led by Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer), who feels she has \"outgrown\" her relationship with her ex-boyfriend Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed), the arrogant and rather immature new leader of the T-Birds.", "precise_score": -0.4885450005531311, "rough_score": -0.9130076169967651, "source": "wiki", "title": "Grease 2" }, { "answer": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "passage": "* Michelle Pfeiffer as Stephanie Zinone, the leader of the Pink Ladies. With only a few television roles and small film appearances, the 23-year-old Pfeiffer was an unknown actress when she attended the casting call audition for the role of Stephanie. Other better-known actresses up for the part included Lisa Hartman, Kristy McNichol, Andrea McArdle, and singer Pat Benatar. Pfeiffer was a wild card choice, but according to Birch, she won the part because she \"has a quirky quality you don't expect.\" Despite the disappointing reception of the film, Pfeiffer's meteoric rise to the Hollywood A-list began the following year when she played Elvira Hancock in Scarface.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.085453033447266, "source": "wiki", "title": "Grease 2" }, { "answer": "Michelle Pheiffer", "passage": "I love how the producers made only the most surface-level attempt to even appear 50s. The clothes, hairstyles, songs, and ways of speaking all scream 80s. I haven't the slightest idea why they decided to dress Michelle Pheiffer in things that essentially look like sweatshirts for the first half of the movie. And she's got on those huge dark glasses all the time… making her look like early Debbie Harry. You just really have to wonder. As for the sets… I don't think I've ever seen such low production values in a movie released by a major studio. The sets also are brazenly 80s… When Michelle is being tutored, they are OBVIOUSLY in an Elias Brothers Big Boy! Couldn't they at least have found a 50s-themed diner? There is also a scene showing guys motorcycling through a subdivision that looks like 1985 Westland, Michigan, and another time--my favorite--when Michelle and someone are sitting out in what is obviously some municipal park, with a huge superhighway with massive 18-wheelers barreling by in the background. I really have to take my hat off.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.34642505645752, "source": "search", "title": "Grease 2 (1982) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Michelle Pheiffer", "passage": "Everyone in this movie looks embarrassed, but none more so that Michelle Pheiffer. Obviously WRONG in every way for the part, and obviously PAINFULLY aware that she's going to look like an idiot on movie screens across America, poor Michelle seems afraid to really put herself behind any expression, movement, or song, as though by staying as still as possible she can diminish the damage. The poor girl, you can really feel her pain, especially as she sings 'Cool Rider,' and tries to dance up that ladder and down. The thing about musicals is that the characters have to appear to be transported with joy or anguish to the point that they break out in song, and poor Michelle is just so embarrassed that it really clunks. Of course, ALL the musical sequences clunk massively. If you're not buying a musical sequence it just looks like a bunch of people idiotically moving around on a set… and that's what we got here. 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Her father had German and British Isles ancestry, and her mother was of half Swiss-German and half Swedish descent.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.10863971710205, "source": "search", "title": "Michelle Pfeiffer - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "passage": "There was a study done of the faces of beautiful women, quantifying the ratio of the width of the mouth to the width of the nose, attempting to find the perfect proportions for the perfect face of feminine beauty (the ratio turns out to be something like 1.7). The movie star with the most perfect proportions for feminine facial beauty, based on this measure, turns out to be Michelle Pfeiffer .", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.438584327697754, "source": "search", "title": "Michelle Pfeiffer - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "passage": "In March 2004 Pfeiifer was attached to star in a remake of Billy Wilder 's Witness for the Prosecution (1957). She was attached to star as Marlene Deitrich's character Christine Helm Vole. Her husband David E. Kelley was penning and adapting the screenplay. Agatha Christie 's grandson Mathew Prichard advised, \"The role of Christine was written for someone like Michelle Pfeiffer. She'd be perfect in it. She's gorgeous, sultry and superbly talented. Would my grandmother approve? Definitely. It'll be one of the biggest films ever based on an Agatha Christie work.\" Unfortunately the project was put on hold.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.790069580078125, "source": "search", "title": "Michelle Pfeiffer - Biography - IMDb" } ]

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It also features Geraldine Chaplin in the role of her own paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin.", "precise_score": 10.192276954650879, "rough_score": 9.501421928405762, "source": "wiki", "title": "Chaplin (film)" }, { "answer": "Robert Downey, Jr", "passage": "Everyone knows the late great Richard Attenborough is a wonderful actor. And of course, everyone knows Attenborough is also a talented director, having directed gems like Magic and Gandhi. In 1992, Attenborough directed and produced a biopic on comedy legend and United Artists co-fonunder Charlie Chaplin, with Magic writer William Goldman co-penning the script and Robert Downey, Jr. as Chaplin. Despite mixed critical reviews, I’ve always been a fan of this one. For starters, Downey’s performance. Just like Tony Stark in the MCU, Downey gets completely into Chaplin’s character and ends up embodying him. He’s not playing Chaplin, he is…", "precise_score": 8.545631408691406, "rough_score": 8.80527400970459, "source": "search", "title": "‎Chaplin (1992) directed by Richard Attenborough • Reviews ..." }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Robert Downey Jr. was already a Hollywood veteran by the time he played Charlie Chaplin in 1992, but at the same time it could still be considered a breakthrough role for the quirky thespian. And for that, the Iron Man star will always be thankful to Sir Richard Attenborough, the actor and filmmaker who directed Downey's Oscar-nominated in the biopic Chaplin about the silent-film legend. Attenborough, who won two Oscars for directing and producing Gandhi, died yesterday at 90. In a statement, Downey Jr. said \"I'm so grateful I was able to visit Lord Attenborough recently, to deeply thank him for his contributions to cinema, his lasting impact on all who knew him, and his legacy of philanthropy, wit and kindness.\"", "precise_score": 9.705124855041504, "rough_score": 9.349505424499512, "source": "search", "title": "Robert Downey Jr. Pays Tribute To Chaplin Director Richard ..." }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "* Robert Downey Jr., as Charlie Chaplin", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.9027507305145264, "source": "wiki", "title": "Chaplin (film)" }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Although Richard Attenborough wanted Robert Downey Jr. for the part of Chaplin, studio executives wanted Robin Williams or Billy Crystal for the role. Jim Carrey was also considered for the role. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.416623592376709, "source": "wiki", "title": "Chaplin (film)" }, { "answer": "Robert Downey, Jr", "passage": "The film was lauded for its high production values, but many critics dismissed it as an overly glossy biopic. One critic wrote that the screenplay \"endeavors to cover too much ground. The life of Charlie Chaplin was so vast and varied that a film is far too restrictive a format to give it justice.\" Chaplin currently holds a 57% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 47 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, \"Chaplin boasts a terrific performance from Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role, but it isn't enough to overcome a formulaic biopic that pales in comparison to its subject's classic films.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.9425487518310547, "source": "wiki", "title": "Chaplin (film)" }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "In real life, Charles Chaplin 's eyes were reportedly very strikingly blue by those who knew him, but in the movie Robert Downey Jr. 's are a darker; medium brown/green. (They look dark brown at first glance, but the brighter lighting of his face in \"Restoration\" reveals a much lighter honey/syrup colour with hints of green.) See more »", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.608969211578369, "source": "search", "title": "Chaplin (1992) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Wow, this is one of the finest acting jobs I have seen as Robert Downey Jr. portrays the famous Charlie Chaplin. His performance includes some of Chaplin's famous slapstick moves and Downey is tremendous at executing them.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -0.16447414457798004, "source": "search", "title": "Chaplin (1992) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "This is a biopic about the great Sir Charles Chaplin and his life from start to finish, from when he was born in London, to when he came to America to work in the moving pictures, and his life in Switzerland where he grew old. Robert Downey Jr. did a great job at playing Charlie Chaplin, and bears a striking resemblance to Chaplin when he is dressed as 'The Tramp'. RDJ was even nominated for an Oscar! ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.404127359390259, "source": "search", "title": "‎Chaplin (1992) directed by Richard Attenborough • Reviews ..." }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "This epic about the early years of Charlie Chaplin's life from co-producer/director Richard Attenborough is, for the most part, extremely entertaining and intelligent, with Oscar-nominated Robert Downey Jr superb in a role that was reportedly coveted by Dustin Hoffman, Billy Crystal and Robin Williams. The opening sequences are genuinely affecting, with Geraldine Chaplin playing Chaplin's mother (her own grandmother), a music-hall singer who spent many years in asylums. But the overall depiction of early Hollywood is too rose-tinted and the true tragic tale of a misunderstood comic genius is reduced to a series of star-studded vignettes. The story is also not helped by the device of having the older Chaplin dictate his tale to a diffident (and utterly fictitious) publisher, played by Anthony Hopkins. It's clearly the result of too many cooks, with William Boyd, Bryan Forbes and William Goldman among the writers who dipped into Chaplin's autobiography and David Robinson's seminal biography for inspiration. And, however good Downey Jr is, you can't help feeling that Johnny Depp might have brought more pathos to the part, especially after seeing him re-create the famous bread-roll dance from The Gold Rush in Benny and Joon. Still, this remains a noble attempt to tell the story of the great man.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.726102352142334, "source": "search", "title": "Chaplin | Film from RadioTimes" }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Biopic chronicling the life and career of the film comedian - including his many love affairs and the scandals he faced. Directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Robert Downey Jr, Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, John Thaw, Kevin Kline and Chaplin's real-life daughter Geraldine, who plays her own grandmother.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 5.882481575012207, "source": "search", "title": "Chaplin | Film from RadioTimes" }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Charlie Chaplin Robert Downey Jr", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.4076321125030518, "source": "search", "title": "Chaplin | Film from RadioTimes" }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Robert Downey Jr. Pays Tribute To Chaplin Director Richard Attenborough: \"I Wouldn't Be Who I Am\" If - YouTube", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 3.6964762210845947, "source": "search", "title": "Robert Downey Jr. Pays Tribute To Chaplin Director Richard ..." }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Robert Downey Jr. Pays Tribute To Chaplin Director Richard Attenborough: \"I Wouldn't Be Who I Am\" If", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 4.064878463745117, "source": "search", "title": "Robert Downey Jr. Pays Tribute To Chaplin Director Richard ..." }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and Chaplin's real-life daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who portrays his mentally ill mother. With the use of flashback, an elderly Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor (Hopkins), who urges him to be more vulnerable and emotionally honest with his memoirs while journeying through his poverty-stricken childhood, closest friendships, many marriages, merciless pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover (Kevin Dunn), and ingenious invention of \"The Little Tramp.\" Highlighted works such as The Gold Rush (1925) and The Great Dictator (1940) illustrate significant turning points in Chaplin's prolific filmography. Director Richard Attenborough's film also explores the circumstances surrounding Chaplin's exile from America and his eventual return to receive an honorary Academy Award.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.953120231628418, "source": "search", "title": "Chaplin (1992) - Richard Attenborough | Synopsis ..." }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Review/Film - Robert Downey Jr. in Charlie Chaplin Life Story - NYTimes.com", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.7609481811523438, "source": "search", "title": "Review/Film - Robert Downey Jr. in Charlie Chaplin Life ..." }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "Review/Film; Robert Downey Jr. in Charlie Chaplin Life Story", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -1.3559588193893433, "source": "search", "title": "Review/Film - Robert Downey Jr. in Charlie Chaplin Life ..." }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "The first is Robert Downey Jr. He is good and persuasive as the adult Charlie when the material allows, and close to brilliant when he does some of Charlie's early vaudeville and film sketches. His slapstick routines are graceful, witty and, most important, really funny. The other surprise is Geraldine Chaplin, Chaplin's eldest child by his last wife, Oona O'Neill. She's splendid playing her own grandmother, Hannah Chaplin, whose slide into madness provides the movie with its only emotional weight.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.103245735168457, "source": "search", "title": "Review/Film - Robert Downey Jr. in Charlie Chaplin Life ..." }, { "answer": "Robert Downey Jr", "passage": "\"Chaplin,\" which has been rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned), has some female nudity. Chaplin Directed by Richard Attenborough; screenplay by William Boyd, Bryan Forbes and William Goldman, from the story by Diana Hawkins, based on \"My Autobiography,\" by Charles Chaplin and \"Chaplin: His Life and Art,\" by David Robinson; director of photography, Sven Nykvist; edited by Anne V. 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Regrettably, the film swallows it whole.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.16099682450294495, "source": "search", "title": "Chaplin: a little tramp through Charlie's love affairs ..." } ]

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It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Robbins won the Tony for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international productions. A 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. 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Her parents, Maria Stepanovna (Zudilova) and Nikolai Stepanovich Zakharenko, were Russian-born émigrés, of Ukrainian and Russian descent, who spoke barely comprehensible English; they changed the family name to Gurdin after becoming US citizens. When she was just four years old, Natalie appeared in her first film, Happy Land (1943). A production company had come to Santa Rosa, California, where the Gurdins were living and Natalie won a bit part of a crying little girl who had just dropped her ice cream cone. With stars in her eyes for her daughter, Mrs. Gurdin packed the family and moved south to Los Angeles in the hopes that more films would come her daughter's way. Unfortunately they did not, at least not at first, and the family continued to scrape by much as they had done in Santa Rosa. In 1946 Natalie tested for a role in Tomorrow Is Forever (1946). She was only seven at the time, and flunked the screen test. Natalie's mother convinced the studio heads to give her another test, and this time she was convincing enough that they gave Natalie the role. 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In 2014, it had grossed over $6 billion and became the top-earning title in box-office history for both stage productions and films, surpassing the record previously held by Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera. In addition to The Lion King, John also composed music for a Disney musical production of Aida in 1999 with lyricist Tim Rice, for which they received the Tony Award for Best Original Score at the 54th Tony Awards, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards. The musical was given its world premiere in the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and went on to Chicago and eventually Broadway. John released a live compilation album called Elton John One Night Only – The Greatest Hits from the show he did at Madison Square Garden in New York City that same year. A concept album from the musical titled Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida was also released and featured the duets, \"Written in the Stars\" with LeAnn Rimes, and \"I Know the Truth\" with Janet Jackson. ", "precise_score": 0.1527034193277359, "rough_score": 4.0428266525268555, "source": "wiki", "title": "Elton John" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "* 2001: Best Musical Show Album (won) for Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida (award shared with Guy Babylon, Paul Bogaev & Chris (producers), Tim Rice (lyricist) and the original Broadway cast with Heather Headley, Adam Pascal, and Sherie Rene Scott)", "precise_score": -0.16731148958206177, "rough_score": 0.2081332951784134, "source": "wiki", "title": "Elton John" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Lloyd Webber's first collaboration with lyricist Tim Rice was The Likes of Us, a musical based on the true story of Thomas John Barnardo. Although composed in 1965, it was not publicly performed until 2005, when a production was staged at Lloyd Webber's Sydmonton Festival. In 2008, amateur rights were released by the National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA) in association with the Really Useful Group. The first amateur performance was by a children's theatre group in Cornwall called \"Kidz R Us\". Stylistically, The Likes of Us is fashioned after the Broadway musical of the 1940s and 1950s; it opens with a traditional overture comprising a medley of tunes from the show, and the score reflects some of Lloyd Webber's early influences, particularly Richard Rodgers, Frederick Loewe, and Lionel Bart. 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He and lyricist and composer Tim Rice wrote a number of new songs for the production to supplement the songs from the film.", "precise_score": -3.22861385345459, "rough_score": -2.193485975265503, "source": "wiki", "title": "Andrew Lloyd Webber" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "\"A Whole New World\" is a song from Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. The song is a ballad between the primary characters Aladdin and Jasmine about the new world they are going to discover together while riding on Aladdin's magic carpet. The original version was sung by Brad Kane and Lea Salonga during the film. They also performed the song in their characters at the 65th Academy Awards, where it won Academy Award for Best Original Song as well as the first and only Disney song to win a Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards. 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In addition to collaborating with Lloyd Webber on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1971), and Evita (1976), he has been a successful non-fiction writer, publisher, cricket player, pop song writer, radio show host, and collaborator with other music heavyweights such as Alan Menken, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, and Elton John, The Lion King.", "precise_score": 1.4844615459442139, "rough_score": 4.4672322273254395, "source": "search", "title": "ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR ..." }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice’s other musical theater credits include Blondel with Stephen Oliver, Chess with Benny Andersson and Bjorn Uvaeus (from the pop group Abba). In 1986 he co-wrote the smaller scale Cricket, again with Lloyd Webber. In 1991 he produced Tycoon from his translation of the hit French musical, Starmania. In 1993, Rice replaced the late Howard Ashman as Alan Menken’s lyricist on Disney’s Aladdin. Their song, “A Whole New World,” won them a Golden Globe and Academy Award. He also was awarded, with Elton John, the Golden Globe, Academy Award, and Ivor Novello Award for his work on Disney’s Lion King and the song, Circle of Life.", "precise_score": 5.282941818237305, "rough_score": 8.084942817687988, "source": "search", "title": "ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR ..." }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice is a lyricist who, over the past 50 years, has created some of the most well known shows in his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber and more latterly in his work with Alan Menken and Elton John respectively for Disney.", "precise_score": 4.154235363006592, "rough_score": 5.565685749053955, "source": "search", "title": "The Accompanist - Tim Rice Lyricist Biography" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Despite their great success of the 1970s Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber has not collaborated a great deal since. In 1983 Rice created Blondel with composer Stephen Oliver. This was a comedic jaunt through the life and times of King Richard and the Crusades (one of those ideas from his earlier years). In 1981 Tim had also met with Abba songwriters Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus to discuss ideas for a new musical. In 1984 the collaboration resulted in Chess, first released as a concept album in 1984, which told a fictional tale based on the Cold War hysteria surrounding the Chess world in the 1970s. In the UK in 1985 I Know Him So Well reached number 1 for Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige. Also in the same year One Night in Bangkok topped the charts in 11 countries. Both songs were taken from the musical. 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Their first collaboration (lyrics by Tim, music by Andrew) was an unsuccessful show based on the life of Dr. Barnardo, the Victorian philanthropist, The Likes Of Us. Their next three works together were much more successful – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.", "precise_score": 0.848075270652771, "rough_score": -1.059343934059143, "source": "search", "title": "Jesus Christ Superstar – About The Show" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "In 2000, he and Tim Rice teamed again to create songs for DreamWorks' animated film The Road to El Dorado. he released his 27th album, Songs from the West Coast, in October 2001. At this point, John disliked appearing in his own music videos; \"This Train Don't Stop There Anymore\" featured Justin Timberlake portraying a young Elton John, and \"I Want Love\" featured Robert Downey, Jr. lip-syncing the song. At the 2001 Grammy Awards, Elton performed \"Stan\" with Eminem. One month after the 11 September attacks, Elton John appeared at the Concert for New York City, performing \"I Want Love\" as well as \"Your Song\" in a duet with Billy Joel. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.514404773712158, "source": "wiki", "title": "Elton John" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Music awards include the Academy Award for Best Original Song for \"Can You Feel The Love Tonight\" from The Lion King (award shared with Tim Rice); the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1994 for \"Can You Feel The Love Tonight\" from The Lion King (award shared with Tim Rice); and the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 2000 for Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida (award shared with Tim Rice). He has also received five Brit Awards, including the award for Best British Male in 1991, and awards for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 1986 and 1995. In 2013, John received the first Brits Icon award in recognition of his \"lasting impact\" on UK culture, which was presented to him by his close friend Rod Stewart. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.8830108642578125, "source": "wiki", "title": "Elton John" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "* Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida (1999)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.365617752075195, "source": "wiki", "title": "Elton John" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "The planned follow-up to Jesus Christ Superstar was a musical comedy based on the Jeeves and Wooster novels by P. G. Wodehouse. Tim Rice was uncertain about this venture, partly because of his concern that he might not be able to do justice to the novels that he and Lloyd Webber so admired. After doing some initial work on the lyrics, he pulled out of the project and Lloyd Webber subsequently wrote the musical with Alan Ayckbourn, who provided the book and lyrics. Jeeves failed to make any impact at the box office and closed after a short run of only three weeks. Many years later, Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn revisited this project, producing a thoroughly reworked and more successful version entitled By Jeeves (1996). Only two of the songs from the original production remained (\"Half a Moment\" and \"Banjo Boy\").", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.57880973815918, "source": "wiki", "title": "Andrew Lloyd Webber" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Cricket (1986), also called Cricket (Hearts and Wickets), reunited Lloyd Webber with Tim Rice to create this short musical for Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday, first performed at Windsor Castle. 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The animators based their designs on the work of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, and computers were used for both finishing the artwork and creating some animated elements. The musical score was written by Alan Menken and features six songs with lyrics written by both Ashman and Tim Rice, who took over after Ashman's death.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.439635276794434, "source": "wiki", "title": "Aladdin (1992 Disney film)" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Composer Alan Menken and songwriters Howard Ashman and Tim Rice were praised for creating a soundtrack that is \"consistently good, rivaling the best of Disney's other animated musicals from the '90s.\" Menken and Ashman began work on the film together, with Rice taking over as lyricist after Ashman died of AIDS-related complications in early 1991. Although fourteen songs were written for Aladdin, only six are featured in the movie, three by each lyricist. The DVD Special Edition released in 2004 includes four songs in early animations tests, and a music video of one, \"Proud of Your Boy\", performed by Clay Aiken, which also appears on the album DisneyMania 3. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.03953218460083, "source": "wiki", "title": "Aladdin (1992 Disney film)" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "He released his autobiography Oh What a Circus: The Autobiography of Tim Rice in 1998, which covered his childhood and early adult life until the opening of the original London production of Evita in 1978. 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He briefly studied law, then ended up working for EMI Records while Lloyd Webber was studying serious music.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.653071403503418, "source": "search", "title": "ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR ..." }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "After their meeting in 1965, they began working on their first musical, The Likes of Us, which was never performed. After this time Rice wanted to compose pop songs, but Lloyd Webber, true to his vision, wanted to work on another musical. It was during this impasse that they were contacted by Alan Doggett, the head of music at Colt Court, a small preparatory school in West London. He commissioned them to write an end-of-term religious concert. During the next two months a twenty-minute “pop-cantata” version of Joseph and his colored coat was born. (Today Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a two hour stage spectacular.) The play made its debut on March 1, 1968, and its immediate popularity demanded repeat performances in May and November of the same year. With each performance, “Joseph” got bigger and better. An early review notes that Tim Rice sang the part of Pharaoh in several of the early performances. The success of “Joseph” led to a record deal with Decca for an album that was cut in January of 1969.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.331109046936035, "source": "search", "title": "ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR ..." }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "The biographies of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice are as yet unfinished. With the universality and diversity of the upbeat “Hakuna Matata” to the poignant “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” to the passionate “Music of the Night,” their music is almost omnipresent. Hopefully, there are still many songs to be written.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.637460708618164, "source": "search", "title": "ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR ..." }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "The Accompanist - Tim Rice Lyricist Biography", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.32852840423584, "source": "search", "title": "The Accompanist - Tim Rice Lyricist Biography" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice (Lyricist)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.37232494354248, "source": "search", "title": "The Accompanist - Tim Rice Lyricist Biography" }, { "answer": "Timothy Miles Bindon Rice", "passage": "Timothy Miles Bindon Rice was born on 10th November 1944 in Shardeloes, an English country house in Buckinghamshire, near Amersham. The site was requisitioned as a maternity hospital during World War II, and with his parents, Hugh Gordon Rice, being in the a major in the British Army, and Joan Odette, in the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) this was not an unusual circumstance during this period. Tim studied at three different independent schools before working as an articled clerk for a law firm in London rather than studying at University.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.764847755432129, "source": "search", "title": "The Accompanist - Tim Rice Lyricist Biography" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Selected list of Musicals and Movies for which Tim Rice has written lyrics;", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.57253646850586, "source": "search", "title": "The Accompanist - Tim Rice Lyricist Biography" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Beauty & The Beast (1991) [Movie] Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Howard Ashman Won the Oscar (1992) for Best Original Score and Best Original Song ('Beauty & The Beast') (Additional lyrics for Musical by Tim Rice, 1994)", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.733787536621094, "source": "search", "title": "The Accompanist - Tim Rice Lyricist Biography" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice - Biography - IMDb", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.362542152404785, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "A prolific lyricist and librettist, Tim Rice was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, in the fall of 1944. Rice pursued his university education at Lancing College and, briefly, at l'Universite de Paris - Sorbonne. He was considering a legal career around the time that he met Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1965. Three years later, the two young men composed a 20-minute pop oratorio that would eventually become \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\". The piece was premiered on 1st March 1968 at the Colet Court School in the City of London. During the following months, Rice and Webber lengthened the oratorio to 30 minutes, and a record album of \"Joseph\" (with Rice singing the role of \"Pharaoh\") was made at the end of 1968.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.874346733093262, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "The 1991 to 2000 period also saw a flurry of activity for Tim Rice's earlier works. Major revival productions of \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\" and \"Jesus Christ Superstar\" were staged in many parts of the world. Additionally, there was the film, Evita (1996), as well as the video-films Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1991), and Great Performances: Jesus Christ Superstar (2000).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.030936241149902, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Originally wrote the lyrics for the song \"Memory\" for the Andrew Lloyd Webber - Trevor Nunn stage musical Cats. However, the show's director Trevor Nunn and Lloyd Webber had problems with his lyrics, which eventually led to Lloyd Webber commissioning Nunn to write his own lyrics for the tune. This drove a final nail into the already-splintered relationship between Tim Rice and Lloyd Webber, whose feud dates back to the days of their work on the original Evita concept album.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.3829505443573, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.377543449401855, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - For People Who Love Entertainment DATABASE" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.377543449401855, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - For People Who Love Entertainment DATABASE" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.377543449401855, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - For People Who Love Entertainment DATABASE" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "He released his autobiography Oh What a Circus: The Autobiography of Tim Rice in 1998, which covered his childhood and early adult life until the opening of the original London production of Evita in 1978. He is currently working on a sequel, covering his life and career since then.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.588397979736328, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - For People Who Love Entertainment DATABASE" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Rice was made a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994[4] (entitling him to the address “Sir Tim Rice” or “Sir Tim”), was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and was named a Disney Legend in 2002.[4]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.212574005126953, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - For People Who Love Entertainment DATABASE" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice supports Sunderland A.F.C. football club.[13] He was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Sunderland at a ceremony at the Stadium of Light in November 2006.[14] He was also a supporter of the Conservative Party, but in 2007 stated that the Conservatives were no longer interested in him and that his relationship with the Party had “irrevocably changed.”[15]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.458799362182617, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - For People Who Love Entertainment DATABASE" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Nonetheless, Andrew Lloyd Webber joined his sometime colleague Sir Tim Rice, both supporters of Baroness Thatcher, at her funeral.[16]", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.868659973144531, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - For People Who Love Entertainment DATABASE" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Appears as host of the BBC Radio 2 weekly series Tim Rice’s American Pie which explores the music and musicians of each state in the USA.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.122459411621094, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice - For People Who Love Entertainment DATABASE" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Andrew Lloyd Webber shot to fame in 1971 with the opening of his rock opera 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. His next successful collaboration with Tim Rice was the musical biopic 'Evita', based on the true story of Eva Peron of Argentina. Andrew Lloyd Webber has been constantly updating the genre of musical theatre. In 1981 he delivered 'Cats', based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and other poems by T.S. Eliot . It was produced at New London Theatre, where stage was designed as a giant junkyard with large-scale bottles and cans scattered around a huge tire representing a playground for cats dressed in exotic costumes who would come and go through the aisles. The record-breaking production of 'Cats' was on stage for 21 seasons, from 1981 - 2002, and became one of the most popular musicals of all time. It played the total of 8,949 performances in London and 7,485 in New York.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.787140130996704, "source": "search", "title": "Andrew Lloyd Webber - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Has won Broadway's Tony Award three times: in 1980, as Best Score (Musical), his music with lyrics by Tim Rice , for \"Evita;\" in 1983, as Best Score, his music with lyrics by T.S. Eliot , for \"Cats;\" and in 1995, as Best Original Musical Score, his music with lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton , for \"Sunset Boulevard.\" He was Tony-nominated eight other times: in 1972, as Best Score, him as Composer and Rice as Lyricist, for \"Jesus Christ Superstar;\" in 1982, as Best Score, his music with Rice's lyrics, for \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat;\" in 1986, as Best Score, with collaborators Black and Richard Maltby Jr. , for \"Song & Dance;\" in 1987, as Best Score, his music with lyrics by Richard Stilgoe for \"Starlight Express;\" in 1988, as Best Book (Musical) with collaborator Stilgoe and Best Score (Musical), with collaborators Stilgoe and Charles Hart for \"The Phantom of the Opera;\" and in 1990, as Best Score (Musical), his music with lyrics by Black and Hart, and Best Book (Musicl) for \"Aspects of Love.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.341581344604492, "source": "search", "title": "Andrew Lloyd Webber - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked, but for one reason of another haven't. I suppose if I had one regret it's that I would have loved to have had a long-term partner like Rodgers had with either Hart or Hammerstein. I was really hoping that the Tim Rice relationship would have gone on, but I'm obsessed with theatre and for Tim it's something that he does enjoy doing, is very good at, but it isn't his whole life as it is with me.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.234164237976074, "source": "search", "title": "Andrew Lloyd Webber - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "BMI Icon Award for Tim Rice", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.30324649810791, "source": "search", "title": "BMI Icon Award for Tim Rice - Female First" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "BMI Icon Award for Tim Rice", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.30324649810791, "source": "search", "title": "BMI Icon Award for Tim Rice - Female First" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Sir Tim Rice is to receive the BMI Icon award.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.681622505187988, "source": "search", "title": "BMI Icon Award for Tim Rice - Female First" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Sir Tim Rice", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.3905611038208, "source": "search", "title": "BMI Icon Award for Tim Rice - Female First" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "BMI President and CEO, Michael O'Neill said: \"Sir Tim Rice's extraordinary creativity has given the world some of the most beloved songs of the past 50 years, sheer musical poetry that has thrilled audiences in films, musical theatre and on chart-topping recordings.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.202163696289062, "source": "search", "title": "BMI Icon Award for Tim Rice - Female First" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "About Tim Rice", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.355141639709473, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice Net Worth - TheRichest" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice is a British lyricist and author who has an estimated net worth of $250 million.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.579345703125, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice Net Worth - TheRichest" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Prior to his successful music career, Tim Rice has worked for EMI Records as a management trainee in 1966.  When EMI producer Norrie Paramor left to set up his own organisation in 1968, he joined him as an assistant producer.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.557278633117676, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice Net Worth - TheRichest" }, { "answer": "Timothy Miles Bindon Rice", "passage": "Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice was born on November 10, 1944 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England.  He attended Lancing College, as he took up History and French and Sorbonne University in Paris.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.28876781463623, "source": "search", "title": "Tim Rice Net Worth - TheRichest" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "Tim Rice", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.377543449401855, "source": "search", "title": "Jesus Christ Superstar – About The Show" }, { "answer": "Tim Rice", "passage": "A bold and fresh adaptation of the classic Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera, this version released in 2000 re-orchestrates and reinterprets the 1970s version, itself a creative retelling of a celebrated, timeless tale. Shot at Pinewood Studios,this filmed stage version starring Glenn Carter and Rik Mayall captures one of the best scores Andrew Lloyd Webber has ever written and is packed with hit songs including “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”, “Gethesmane” and “Superstar”.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.454713344573975, "source": "search", "title": "Jesus Christ Superstar – About The Show" } ]

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It was also used in a season 1 episode of Arrested Development entitled \"Altar Egos\". It was also used in the 2003 film \"The In-Laws\" starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, which was a remake of the 1979 Peter Falk / Alan Arkin film.", "precise_score": 3.5409414768218994, "rough_score": 1.5219570398330688, "source": "wiki", "title": "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" }, { "answer": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "passage": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the \"Sundance Kid\" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia in search of a more successful criminal career, where they meet their end.", "precise_score": -0.4793911278247833, "rough_score": -1.6475410461425781, "source": "wiki", "title": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" }, { "answer": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "passage": "Two of the Wild West’s most notorious outlaws were effectively whitewashed in this lighthearted romp, a box-office champion and multiple Oscar winner that marked the first teaming of superstars Paul Newman and Robert Redford . Newman stars as Butch, the quick-witted leader of Old Wyoming’s Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, while Redford portrays the Sundance Kid, a fast-draw artist who serves as Cassidy’s right-hand man but also rivals him for the affections of comely Katharine Ross . Finally driven from Wyoming by indefatigable pursuers, the pair flee to Bolivia in an attempt to begin their crime careers anew. The most successful western ever made at the time of its 1969 theatrical release, this breezy star vehicle either avoided or mocked cowboy-movie clichés; it served up equal portions of romance, comedy, and adventure to savvy Vietnam-era audiences weary of hackneyed horse operas. (Additionally, the film introduced the decidedly nonwestern, Oscar-winning song, \"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.\") William Goldman ’s clever screenplay teems with snappy dialogue, and the direction by George Roy Hill (who later reunited with the star duo to make The Sting) maintains a lively pace. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid wasn’t the first revisionist western, but it was in the forefront of what became a systematic, irreverent, and highly entertaining deconstruction of cinema’s most venerable genre. The DVD Special Edition features a 45-minute documentary on the film's making, plus commentary by director Hill and cinematographer Conrad Hall, interviews with other members of the cast and production team, and the original theatrical trailer.", "precise_score": 2.837109327316284, "rough_score": 5.891107559204102, "source": "search", "title": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by George Roy Hill ..." }, { "answer": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "passage": "Released the same year as The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid covered similar territory about the end of Western myths, but it expressed its revisionism with tongue firmly in cheek rather than with the brutal violence of Sam Peckinpah's offering. Butch and Sundance never lose their gift for one-liners, even when they have to jump off that gorge; George Roy Hill and screenwriter William Goldman send up the image of outlaws heading south of the border with bank robberies conducted in broken Spanish from crib notes. Still, violence impinges on Butch's and Sundance's world, intimating the fate that modernity held for charming bandits who cannot master a horse-replacing bicycle. The jocularly clear-eyed approach to the pair's exploits, combined with the chemistry between Paul Newman and relative newcomer Robert Redford, vastly appealed to audiences; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid became the most popular film of 1969 and won several Oscars, including one for Goldman's script. Like Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, glamorous outlaws Butch and Sundance were in tune with the late-'60s counterculture, but the movie's humor -- and its Oscar-winning Burt Bacharach/ Hal David song \"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head\" -- softened the revisionist blows amid impending tragedy.", "precise_score": 2.8869643211364746, "rough_score": 0.6702549457550049, "source": "search", "title": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by George Roy Hill ..." }, { "answer": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "passage": "TCM  has the Robert Redford, Paul Newman 1969 classic, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 5:00 PT/8:00 ET.  Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, a/k/a Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the “Sundance Kid” (Robert Redford) as they migrate to Bolivia while on the run from the law in search of a more successful criminal career.  William Goldman won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and the film won three other Oscars including for Best Song, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.", "precise_score": 7.684811592102051, "rough_score": 7.475306987762451, "source": "search", "title": "Here Is TV | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" }, { "answer": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "passage": "The Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers maintain \"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head\" in their repertoire of live songs, playing it as part of an acoustic set during concerts. The band recorded a version of the song complete with trumpet solo by their drummer Sean Moore. It was the first piece of music the band recorded after the disappearance of guitarist and lyricist Richey Edwards, and saw release on the 1995 charity album Help. That version also appears on their 2003 B-sides and rarities compilation album Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers). The Manics further reference the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with the B-side \"Sepia\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.458991765975952, "source": "wiki", "title": "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" }, { "answer": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "passage": "Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for best new star. He starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. In 1972, he had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -5.157727241516113, "source": "wiki", "title": "Robert Redford" }, { "answer": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "passage": "After this initial success, Redford became concerned about his blond male stereotype image and turned down roles in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate. Redford found the niche he was looking for in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. 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He founded the Sundance Institute, Sundance Cinemas, Sundance Catalog, and the Sundance Channel, all in and around Park City, Utah, 30 miles (48 km) north of the Sundance ski area. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in the United States and has received recognition from the industry as a place to open films. In 2008, Sundance exhibited 125 feature-length films from 34 countries, with more than 50,000 attendees. The name Sundance comes from his Sundance Kid character. 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The commentary track features director George Roy Hill, lyricist Hal David, associate producer Robert Crawford, and Conrad Hall. While scene-specific, the style of the comments suggest that the participants were recorded separately. The 45-minute documentary included was made at the time of the filming. Though 30 years old, it is extensive and details every aspect of the production from the movie's start to its climax, including historical information about the characters. Finally, to compensate for the lack of a current documentary, 1994 interviews with Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, writer William Goldman, and composer Burt Bacharach are included from a separate menu. Trailers and an alternate end-credit roll are also included. 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He first came upon the story of Cassidy and Longbaugh in the late 1950s, was fascinated by the men, and felt it was a story that needed to be brought to the big screen. Richard Zanuck of 20th Century Fox saw gold when he read the script and purchased the rights for an astounding $400,000! He tasked John Foreman to produce and George Roy Hill to direct. A stellar cast was brought in, which included; Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy), Robert Redford (The Sundance Kid), Katherine Ross (Etta Place), Jeff Corey (Sheriff Bledsoe, and Strother Martin (Percy Garris).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.0737457275390625, "source": "search", "title": "BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID - MOVIE MUSIC UK" }, { "answer": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "passage": "This true-life story of the American West was set in Wyoming in the late 1890s. Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Longabaugh are better known by their infamous aliases, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. These two men forged a partnership that brought them fame as the most notorious outlaws of their day. Their respective strengths complimented the other’s weaknesses; Butch had the brains, and Sundance the shooting brawn. For years they held up trains and robbed banks. Over time their outlaw status brought them fame, admiration, and a gang called “The Hole in the Wall Gang”, which was named after their hideout in the Wyoming mountains. Over time the civil authorities mobilized more resources and a posse was deputized and dedicated to bringing them to justice. As the loose tightens, they split from their gang and end up narrowly escaping by jumping off a cliff into a river. They make it back to town and are assisted by their friend, schoolteacher Etta Place who is Sundance’s girlfriend. Butch convinces them to stake out a new existence in Bolivia. In Bolivia they try to go straight but their old ways return, leading to their death in a hail of bullets during a bank robbery. The film was a massive commercial success, and received critical acclaim being nominated for seven Academy Award nominations including; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Film Score and Best Song. It won four awards for Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Score and Best Song.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.144558906555176, "source": "search", "title": "BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID - MOVIE MUSIC UK" }, { "answer": "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "passage": "Buy the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid soundtrack from the Movie Music UK Store", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.027705192565918, "source": "search", "title": "BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID - MOVIE MUSIC UK" } ]

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The demonstrators waved placards covered with slogans that read \"No Oscars for racism\" and \"The Deer Hunter a bloody lie\" and thrust pamphlets berating Deer Hunter into long lines of limousine windows. Washburn, nominated for Best Original Screenplay, claims his limousine was pelted with stones. 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Michael Cimino's \"The Deer Hunter\" examined the effects on steelworkers, from left, John Cazale, Chuck Aspegren, Robert De Niro, John Savage and Christopher Walken. Cimino and Walken also won Oscars for best director and best supporting actor, respectively.", "precise_score": 3.67825984954834, "rough_score": 6.415811061859131, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2016 predictions: Who's going to win? - CNN.com" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "'The Deer Hunter' (1978) – Hollywood began to explore the Vietnam War in the late '70s. Michael Cimino's \"The Deer Hunter\" examined the effects on steelworkers, from left, John Cazale, Chuck Aspegren, Robert De Niro, John Savage and Christopher Walken. 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Producer Michael Deeley, who bought the script, hired writer/director Michael Cimino who, with Deric Washburn, rewrote the script, taking the Russian roulette element and placing it in the Vietnam War. The film went over-budget and over-schedule, and ended up costing $15 million. The scenes of Russian roulette were highly controversial on release.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.503312110900879, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Before the trio ships out, Steven and his girlfriend Angela (Rutanya Alda), who is pregnant by another man but loved by Steven nonetheless, marry in an Orthodox wedding. In the meantime, Mike contains his feelings for Nick's girlfriend Linda (Meryl Streep). At the wedding reception held at the local VFW bar, the guys get drunk, dance, sing, and have a good time, but then notice a soldier in a U.S. Army Special Forces uniform. Mike buys him a drink and tries starting a conversation to find out what Vietnam is like, but is ignored. After Mike explains that he, Steven, and Nick are going to Vietnam, the Green Beret raises his glass and says \"fuck it\". The soldier again toasts them with \"fuck it\". After being restrained by the others from starting a fight, Mike goes back to the bar and, in a mocking jest to the soldier, raises his glass and toasts him with \"fuck it\". The soldier then glances over at Mike and grins.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.715539932250977, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "The film then jumps abruptly to war-torn Vietnam, where U.S. helicopters attack a Communist-occupied village with napalm. A North Vietnamese soldier throws a stick grenade into a hiding place full of civilians. An unconscious Mike (now a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army Special Forces) wakes up to see the NVA soldier shoot a woman carrying a baby. In revenge, Mike kills him with a flame thrower. Meanwhile, a unit of UH-1 \"Huey\" helicopters drops off several U.S. infantrymen, Nick and Steven among them. Mike, Steven, and Nick unexpectedly find each other just before they are captured and held together in a riverside prisoner of war camp with other U.S. Army and ARVN prisoners.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.61046314239502, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Mike earlier argued with Nick about whether or not Steven could be saved, but after killing their captors, he rescues Steven. The three float downriver on a tree branch. An American helicopter accidentally finds them, but only Nick is able to climb aboard. The weakened Steven falls back into the water, and Mike plunges in the water to rescue him. Mike helps Steven to reach the river bank, but his legs are broken, so Mike carries him through the jungle to friendly lines. 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The trick would be to find a way to turn a very clever piece of writing into a practical, realizable film.\"Deeley, p. 163 When the movie was being planned during the mid-1970s, Vietnam was still a taboo subject with all major Hollywood studios.Deeley, p. 2 According to producer Michael Deeley, the standard response was \"no American would want to see a picture about Vietnam\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.659647941589355, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "According to Washburn, he and Cimino spent three days together in L.A. at the Sunset Marquis, hammering out the plot. The script eventually went through several drafts, evolving into a story with three distinct acts. Washburn did not interview any veterans to write The Deer Hunter nor do any research. \"I had a month, that was it,\" he explains. \"The clock was ticking. Write the fucking script! But all I had to do was watch TV. Those combat cameramen in Vietnam were out there in the field with the guys. I mean, they had stuff that you wouldn't dream of seeing about Iraq.\" When Washburn was finished, he says, Cimino and Joann Carelli, an associate producer on The Deer Hunter who went on to produce two more of Cimino's later films, took him to dinner at a cheap restaurant off the Sunset Strip. He recalls, \"We finished, and Joann looks at me across the table, and she says, 'Well, Deric, it's fuck-off time.' I was fired. It was a classic case: you get a dummy, get him to write the goddamn thing, tell him to go fuck himself, put your name on the thing, and he'll go away. I was so tired, I didn't care. I'd been working 20 hours a day for a month. I got on the plane the next day, and I went back to Manhattan and my carpenter job.\"Biskind, Peter (March 2008). [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/03/warmovies200803 \"The Vietnam Oscars\"]. Vanity Fair. 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Nick returns home to Linda, while Mike remains in Vietnam, sends money home to help Steven, and meets his tragic fate at the Russian roulette table. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.793107509613037, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "The Deer Hunter began principal photography on June 20, 1977. This was the first feature film depicting the Vietnam War to be filmed on location in Thailand. All scenes were shot on location (no sound stages). \"There was discussion about shooting the film on a back lot, but the material demanded more realism,\" says Spikings. The cast and crew viewed large amounts of news footage from the war to ensure authenticity. The film was shot over a period of six months. The Clairton scenes comprise footage shot in eight different towns in four states: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Ohio. The initial budget of the film was $8.5 million.Deeley, p. 171", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -4.576685905456543, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Vietnam and the Russian roulette scenes", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.455068588256836, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "One of the most talked-about sequences in the film, the Vietcong's use of Russian roulette with POWs, was criticized as being contrived and unrealistic since there were no documented cases of Russian roulette in the Vietnam War.Dirks, Tim. [http://www.filmsite.org/deer.html \"The Deer Hunter (1978)\"]. Greatest Films. Retrieved 2010-05-26.Auster, Albert; Quart, Leonard (2002). \"The seventies\". American film and society since 1945. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 120–1. ISBN 978-0-275-96742-0. Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the war, wrote in the Los Angeles Times, \"In its 20 years of war, there was not a single recorded case of Russian roulette ... The central metaphor of the movie is simply a bloody lie.\" Director Cimino was also criticized for one-sidedly portraying all the North Vietnamese as sadistic racists and killers. Cimino countered that his film was not political, polemical, literally accurate, or posturing for any particular point of view. He further defended his position by saying that he had news clippings from Singapore that confirm Russian roulette was used during the war (without specifying which article).", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.350656509399414, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "During the 29th Berlin International Film Festival in 1979, the Soviet delegation expressed its indignation with the film which, in their opinion, insulted the Vietnamese people in numerous scenes. Other socialist states also voiced their solidarity with the \"heroic people of Vietnam\". They protested against the screening of the film and insisted that it violated the statutes of the festival, since it in no way contributed to the \"improvement of mutual understanding between the peoples of the world\". The ensuing domino effect led to the walk-outs of the Cubans, East Germans, Bulgarians, Poles and Czechoslovakians, and two members of the jury resigned in sympathy. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.561529159545898, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Film critic and biographer David Thomson also agrees that the film works despite the controversy: \"There were complaints that the North Vietnamese had not employed Russian roulette. It was said that the scenes in Saigon were fanciful or imagined. It was also suggested that De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage were too old to have enlisted for Vietnam (Savage, the youngest of the three, was 28). Three decades later, 'imagination' seems to have stilled those worries ... and The Deer Hunter is one of the great American films.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.731037139892578, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "In his Vanity Fair article \"The Vietnam Oscars\", Peter Biskind wrote that the political agenda of The Deer Hunter was something of a mystery: \"It may have been more a by-product of Hollywood myopia, the demands of the war-film genre, garden-variety American parochialism, and simple ignorance than it was the pre-meditated right-wing road map it seemed to many.\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 0.8969423770904541, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "According to Christopher Walken, the historical context wasn't paramount: \"In the making of it, I don't remember anyone ever mentioning Vietnam!\" De Niro added to this sentiment: \"Whether [the film's vision of the war] actually happened or not, it's something you could imagine very easily happening. Maybe it did. I don't know. All's fair in love and war.\" Producer Spikings, while proud of the film, regrets the way the Vietnamese were portrayed. \"I don't think any of us meant it to be exploitive,\" Spikings said. \"But I think we were ... ignorant. I can't think of a better word for it. I didn't realize how badly we'd behaved to the Vietnamese people ...\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.018675804138184, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Producer Deeley, on the other hand, was quick to defend Cimino's comments on the nature and motives of the film: \"The Deer Hunter wasn't really 'about' Vietnam. It was something very different. It wasn't about drugs or the collapse of the morale of the soldiers. It was about how individuals respond to pressure: different men reacting quite differently. The film was about three steel workers in extraordinary circumstances. Apocalypse Now is surreal. The Deer Hunter is a parable ... Men who fight and lose an unworthy war face some obvious and unpalatable choices. They can blame their leaders.. or they can blame themselves. Self-blame has been a great burden for many war veterans. So how does a soldier come to terms with his defeat and yet still retain his self-respect? One way is to present the conquering enemy as so inhuman, and the battle between the good guys (us) and the bad guys (them) so uneven, as to render defeat irrelevant. Inhumanity was the theme of The Deer Hunter's portrayal of the North Vietnamese prison guards forcing American POWs to play Russian roulette. The audience's sympathy with prisoners who (quite understandably) cracked thus completes the chain. Accordingly, some veterans who suffered in that war found the Russian roulette a valid allegory.\"Deeley, p. 198", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.383303642272949, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "In 1986, critic Robin Wood examined a putative homosexual subtext of the film. In the film's central \"male love affair\" Mike supposedly represents the powers of control and repression, whereas Nick stands for release and liberation. An elaborate system of oppositions is built around these two poles: the inferno imagery of the Clairton steel mill corresponds to the hell of Saigon, John's bar is a counterpart to the gambling den, the deer hunting complements the Russian roulette, and the \"orgasmic\" spurting of beer in Clairton anticipates the spurting of blood in Vietnam. ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.503965377807617, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "The film's initial reviews were largely positive. It was hailed by many critics as the best American epic since Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.Ebert, Roger & Siskel, Gene (hosts); Flaum, Thea & Solley, Ray (producers); Denny, Patterson (director). (1979). Sneak Previews: Oscar Preview for 1978. [Television Production]. Chicago, IL: WTTW.Deeley, p. 197 The film was praised for its depiction of realistic working-class settings and environment; Cimino's direction; the performances of De Niro, Walken, Streep, Savage, Dzundza and Cazale; the symphonic shifts of tone and pacing in moving from America to Vietnam; the tension during the Russian roulette scenes; and the themes of American disillusionment.Thomson, David (October 26, 2010). The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Fifth Edition, Completely Updated and Expanded (Hardcover ed.). Knopf. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-307-27174-7.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.65362548828125, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "However, The Deer Hunter was not without critical backlash, especially from left-wing critics. Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote a positive review with some reservations: \"[It is] a small minded film with greatness in it ... with an enraptured view of common life ... [but] enraging, because, despite its ambitiousness and scale, it has no more moral intelligence than the Eastwood action pictures.\" Andrew Sarris wrote that the film was \"massively vague, tediously elliptical, and mysteriously hysterical ... It is perhaps significant that the actors remain more interesting than the characters they play.\" Jonathan Rosenbaum disparaged The Deer Hunter as an \"Oscar-laden weepie about macho buddies\" and \"a disgusting account of what the evil Vietnamese did to poor, innocent Americans\". John Simon of New York wrote: \"For all its pretensions to something newer and better, this film is only an extension of the old Hollywood war-movie lie. The enemy is still bestial and stupid, and no match for our purity and heroism; only we no longer wipe up the floor with him—rather, we litter it with his guts.\" ", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -3.314290761947632, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "The Deer Hunter was one of the first, and most controversial, major theatrical films to be critical of the American involvement in Vietnam following 1975 when the war officially ended. While the film opened the same year as Hal Ashby's Coming Home, Sidney Furie's The Boys in Company C, and Ted Post's Go Tell the Spartans, it was the first film about Vietnam to reach a wide audience and critical acclaim, culminating in the winning of the Oscar for Best Picture. Other films released in the late 1970s and 1980s that illustrated the 'hellish', futile conditions of bloody Vietnam War combat included:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 1.9175652265548706, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Jan Scruggs, a Vietnam veteran who became a counselor with the U.S. Department of Labor, thought of the idea of building a National Memorial for Vietnam Veterans after seeing a screening of the film in March 1979, and he established and operated the memorial fund which paid for it. Director Cimino was invited to the memorial's opening.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.908568382263184, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "* John Woo's film Bullet in the Head (1990, Die xue jie tou) contains a similar scene as the Russian roulette scene (though its main characters were forced to kill fellow prisoners instead) in a Vietnamese POW camp. The main character in the movie also makes and fulfills a promise to bring his friend home from Vietnam.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.95531177520752, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "* The film is referenced three times in The Simpsons: once in \"Simpson Tide\" (March 29, 1998) when Skinner and Krusty are forced to play Russian roulette while being ordered to by a mob boss, just before Moe interrupts to announce he is closing the bar to join the Naval Reserve (the Vietnamese phrase \"Mau, didi mau!\" (\"Go, go quickly!\") is also referenced to by both Bart and the mob boss to force someone to do an activity they won't willingly do), again in \"Kamp Krusty\" (September 24, 1992), when Krusty is captured and brought before Bart, and a third time in \"Skinner's Sense of Snow\" (December 17, 2000), when Bart overpowers Principal Skinner and forces Skinner to climb a rope while towel snapping him.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.703794479370117, "source": "wiki", "title": "The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Michael Cimino, the American award-winning filmmaker best known for his Vietnam War classic “The Deer Hunter,” has died at the age of 77.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.2110912799835205, "source": "search", "title": "LiveLeak.com - ‘Deer Hunter’ director Michael Cimino dies ..." }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "The success of those films allowed Cimino to step behind the camera for this debut feature Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges. The film became a hit at the box office and provided Cimino an opportunity to have his pick for his next project. He chose the ambitious Vietnam War drama The Deer Hunter.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -6.2418084144592285, "source": "search", "title": "Michael Cimino, 'The Deer Hunter' Director, Dead at 77 ..." }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "The film, the story of the impact the Vietnam War has on a group of Pittsburgh steelworkers, went on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Cimino, on its way toward becoming an American classic. The film was later preserved in the Library of Congress.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -2.4227066040039062, "source": "search", "title": "Michael Cimino, 'The Deer Hunter' Director, Dead at 77 ..." }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Michael Cimino, the American award-winning filmmaker best known for his Vietnam War classic “The Deer Hunter,” has died at the age of 77.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.2110912799835205, "source": "search", "title": "'Deer Hunter' director Michael Cimino dies at 77" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Michael Cimino, the American award-winning filmmaker best known for his Vietnam War classic “The Deer Hunter,” has died at the age of 77.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.2110912799835205, "source": "search", "title": "‘Deer Hunter’ director Michael Cimino dies at 77 [Video]" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "5.0 out of 5 starsNew Blu ray re-release of Vietnam War classic", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.242971420288086, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "This new Blu ray combo pack Blu-ray/DVD combo pack presents the film in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio with a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track. The video transfer is excellent. The colors are deep and vibrant, the detail is sharp, and the dark scenes are especially well presented. The DTS-HD Master Audio is incredibly immersive. The surrounds are often in play, especially in the Vietnam sequences. The dialog is clear and well presented. The LFE channel is used in critical scenes.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.396183967590332, "source": "search", "title": "Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The Deer Hunter" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "'Platoon' (1986) – \"Platoon\" made headlines in 1986 for its blunt and unsparing look at the U.S. experience in Vietnam. It follows a small group of men, including leaders Willem Dafoe, pictured, and Tom Berenger, who play on the loyalties of raw recruit Charlie Sheen. The film made director and writer Oliver Stone, himself a Vietnam veteran, a household name. \"Platoon\" won four Oscars, including best picture and best director.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.819586753845215, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2016 predictions: Who's going to win? - CNN.com" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "'Forrest Gump' (1994) – Tom Hanks plays a Southern bumpkin who always seems to be in proximity to great events, whether they be the Vietnam War, U.S.-Chinese ping-pong diplomacy or the writing of \"Imagine.\" Though some critics hooted, the film was a popular success and also won Oscars for Hanks, director Robert Zemeckis and adapted screenplay -- six in all.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.326532363891602, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars 2016 predictions: Who's going to win? - CNN.com" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "'Platoon' (1986) – \"Platoon\" made headlines in 1986 for its blunt and unsparing look at the U.S. experience in Vietnam. It follows a small group of men, including leaders Willem Dafoe, pictured, and Tom Berenger, who play on the loyalties of raw recruit Charlie Sheen. The film made director and writer Oliver Stone, himself a Vietnam veteran, a household name. \"Platoon\" won four Oscars, including best picture and best director.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.819586753845215, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars: What to watch for - CNN.com" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "'Forrest Gump' (1994) – Tom Hanks plays a Southern bumpkin who always seems to be in proximity to great events, whether they be the Vietnam War, U.S.-Chinese ping-pong diplomacy or the writing of \"Imagine.\" Though some critics hooted, the film was a popular success and also won Oscars for Hanks, director Robert Zemeckis and adapted screenplay -- six in all.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.326532363891602, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars: What to watch for - CNN.com" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "Jon Voight (1979) – Jon Voight had been nominated for a best actor Oscar once before for 1969's \"Midnight Cowboy,\" but it was the Vietnam War drama \"Coming Home\" that finally earned him the honors.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.245058059692383, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars: What to watch for - CNN.com" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "'Platoon' (1986) – \"Platoon\" made headlines in 1986 for its blunt and unsparing look at the U.S. experience in Vietnam. It follows a small group of men, including leaders Willem Dafoe, pictured, and Tom Berenger, who play on the loyalties of raw recruit Charlie Sheen. The film made director and writer Oliver Stone, himself a Vietnam veteran, a household name. \"Platoon\" won four Oscars, including best picture and best director.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.819586753845215, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars: What to watch for - CNN.com" }, { "answer": "Vietnam", "passage": "'Forrest Gump' (1994) – Tom Hanks plays a Southern bumpkin who always seems to be in proximity to great events, whether they be the Vietnam War, U.S.-Chinese ping-pong diplomacy or the writing of \"Imagine.\" Though some critics hooted, the film was a popular success and also won Oscars for Hanks, director Robert Zemeckis and adapted screenplay -- six in all.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.326532363891602, "source": "search", "title": "Oscars: What to watch for - CNN.com" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Margarita – there are many claims for the name of this tequila/lime/orange liqueur cocktail. Dallas socialite Margarita Samas said she invented it in 1948 for one of her Acapulco parties. Enrique Bastate Gutierrez claimed he invented it in Tijuana in the 1940’s for Rita Hayworth . Hayworth’s real name was Margarita Cansino, and another story connects the drink to her during an earlier time when she was dancing in Tijuana nightclubs under that name. Carlos Herrera said he created and named the cocktail in his Tijuana restaurant in 1938-1939 for Marjorie King. Ms. King was reportedly allergic to all alcohol except tequila, and had asked for something besides a straight shot. Around this same general time period, Nevada bartender Red Hinton said he’d named the cocktail after his girlfriend Margarita Mendez. Other stories exist.", "precise_score": 6.233421325683594, "rough_score": 7.484779357910156, "source": "search", "title": "Food named after famous people: MN - Did you know?" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "While plenty of foods were named after real people, so too were drinks. Veuve-Clicquot, a popular brand of Champagne, was named for Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, the widow ('veuve' in French) of François Clicquot. The Ramos gin fizz, a gin-based cocktail, was named after its inventor, New Orleans bartender Henry C. Ramos. While the origins of the margarita’s name has been disputed, it’s most likely named after actress Rita Hayworth, who got her start dancing in Tijuana nightclubs under her real name, Margarita Cansino. Coincidentally, the Shirley Temple, a combination of Sprite and grenadine, was also named after Hayworth.", "precise_score": 6.02131462097168, "rough_score": 6.314563274383545, "source": "search", "title": "Foods you didn't know were named after people | Fox News" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "While plenty of foods were named after real people, so too were drinks. Veuve-Clicquot, a popular brand of Champagne, was named for Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, the widow ('veuve' in French) of François Clicquot. The Ramos gin fizz, a gin-based cocktail, was named after its inventor, New Orleans bartender Henry C. Ramos. While the origins of the margarita’s name has been disputed, it’s most likely named after actress Rita Hayworth, who got her start dancing in Tijuana nightclubs under her real name, Margarita Cansino. Coincidentally, the Shirley Temple, a combination of Sprite and grenadine, was also named after Hayworth.", "precise_score": 6.02131462097168, "rough_score": 6.314563274383545, "source": "search", "title": "20 Foods You Didn't Know Were Named After People" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "(Invented: 1940’s)Former World Cocktail Champion (?)Invented the Margarita for Rita HayworthHayworth’s Real name: Margarita Carmen Cansino,born: 17", "precise_score": 5.130917072296143, "rough_score": 4.9360809326171875, "source": "search", "title": "Margarita Cocktail Quest Research - es.scribd.com" }, { "answer": "Margarita Cansino", "passage": "May 1987.no specific cocktail recipe found.Margarita Cansino had, at one point, worked at the Agua Caliente Racetrack (early1930’s). Did Gutierez work at Agua Caliente Racetrack? I am still waiting for ananswer, from Agua Caliente.", "precise_score": -1.6895837783813477, "rough_score": -1.9429237842559814, "source": "search", "title": "Margarita Cocktail Quest Research - es.scribd.com" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Rita Hayworth Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino's daughter Margarita studied dancing beginning in her girlhood. At age 12, the mature-looking Rita joined Eduardo's stage act, in which she was spotted three years later by Fox studio head Winfield R. Sheehan, leading to her first studio contract and film debut at age 16 in Dante's Inferno...", "precise_score": 0.4628203213214874, "rough_score": -0.5248846411705017, "source": "search", "title": "1000+ ideas about Rita Hayworth on Pinterest | Lauren ..." }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Another early 1940s legend has bartender Enrique Bastate Gutierrez creating the drink for actress Rita Hayworth (real name Margarita Cansino). Hayworth spent part of her early career in the 1930s as a dancer in Tijuana’s Foreign Club. One more 1942 legend spots Francisco Morales accidentally creating the Margarita on July 4th at Tommy&#8217s Place in Ciudad Juárez when he cannot remember how to make another drink that a patron ordered. A 1948 flyer for the Balinese Room in Galveston, TX proclaimed that head bartender Santos Cruz created the drink for singer Peggy (Margaret) Lee.", "precise_score": 5.841783046722412, "rough_score": 4.986685752868652, "source": "search", "title": "Margarita on the Rocks Recipe, Margarita Recipes - TheFNDC" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Margarita Cansino, AKA \"Rita Hayworth\"", "precise_score": 2.9011595249176025, "rough_score": -3.9764974117279053, "source": "search", "title": "National Margarita Day - gustidude.blogspot.com" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Gutierrez, a bartender in Tijuana, Mexico, boasted that he created the Margarita as an homage to actress Rita Hayworth, whose real name was Margarita Cansino. Other versions of the story claim the Margarita cocktail was indeed named after the actress, but in the 1930s, before she acquired her screen name. As a teenager, Margarita Cansino worked as a dancer at the Foreign Club, in Tijuana, where she supposedly inspired a bartender, while turning a lot of other mens heads. 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It had been selected because this hospital was known for the privacy it afforded celebrities. Two days later, she gave birth to her first child by Cesarean section, a healthy 7-pound (3.175 kilogram) girl who was named Rebecca Welles. The child's father was her second, and later ex-husband, Orson Welles, and the child's godfather was Frank Sinatra who was a good friend of the couple.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.913961410522461, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "In December 1949, pregnant 31-year-old Rita Hayworth was living in Switzerland with her third husband, Aly Salomone Khan, When she was due to give birth, they planned to have a police escort to the Montchoisi Clinic in Lausanne but Rita went into labor at 3:00 AM on Wednesday, December 28th and Aly panicked and drove her to the clinic. Rita was in labor for seven hours and gave birth to a 5.5-pound (2.49-kilogram) girl who was named Yasmin Aga Khan.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.563371658325195, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "In February 1987, Rita Hayworth fell into a semi coma and she died three months later in her Central Park West apartment in Manhattan, New York City.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.830845832824707, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "On May 15, 1987, President Ronald Reagan issued the following statement on the death of Rita Hayworth: \"Rita Hayworth was one of our country's most beloved stars. Glamorous and talented, she gave us many wonderful moments on stage and screen and delighted audiences from the time she was a young girl. In her later years, Rita became known for her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Her courage and candor, and that of her family, were a great public service in bringing worldwide attention to a disease which we all hope will soon be cured. Nancy and I are saddened by Rita's death. She was a friend who we will miss. We extend our deep sympathy to her family.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.021882057189941, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Funeral service for Rita Hayworth was on May 19, 1987, at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, California. Pallbearers Glenn Ford, Ricardo Montalban, Cesar Romero, Tony Franciosa, Don Ameche, Hermes Pan and agent Budd Burton Moss, walked before the white lily- and tulip-draped wooden casket to the altar. Fred Astaire, who starred with Miss Hayworth in two musicals, was absent and unable to take his place as a pallbearer due to ill health; he died 34 days after Rita's burial. More than 500 mourners, including film greats, fans, relatives and friends, crowded into the Church to hear Rita Hayworth eulogized as a \"sweet, kind, gentle lady\" who was actually shy away from the cameras. This recollection of Miss Hayworth, was given by Jane Withers, a child actress in the 1930s and a friend of Miss Hayworth. Internment was at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Miss Hayworth's daughters, Rebecca Welles and Princess Yasmin, walked behind the coffin.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.898457527160645, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Charlton Heston wrote about Rita Hayworth's brief marriage to James Hill. Heston and his wife Lydia joined the couple for dinner in a restaurant in Spain with the director George Marshall and Rex Harrison, Hayworth's co-star in \"The Happy Thieves.\" Heston wrote in his memoir that the occasion \"turned into the single most embarrassing evening of my life\", describing how Hill heaped \"obscene abuse\" on Hayworth until she was \"reduced to a helpless flood of tears, her face buried in her hands\". Heston writes how they all sat stunned, witnesses to a \"marital massacre\" and though he was \"strongly tempted to slug him\" (Hill), he instead simply took his wife Lydia home when she stood up, almost in tears. Heston wrote, \"I'm ashamed of walking away from Miss Hayworth's humiliation. I never saw her again.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.84541130065918, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Rita Hayworth checked into Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut, in April 1977 to treat her excessive drinking and improve her mental health. Her friend, Mac Krim, stated that she successfully continued to avoid alcohol after she came home, but based on her behavior caused by the Alzheimer's disease, people still often assumed she was drunk.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.099543571472168, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Rita Hayworth's cook, Dorothy Holmes, stated that \"Rita Hayworth's best friend was Dinah Shore, the singer. I loved Dinah, because she had a lovely disposition. Dinah Shore would send a limousine over to Rita's house and she would be chauffeured to Dinah's personal racquet club or golf club, wherever Dinah would share a few friendly drinks.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.329337120056152, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Monsignor Peter Healey, who delivered the funeral Mass for Rita Hayworth in 1987, noted that he had received calls from many people across the country who remembered Miss Hayworth's sweetness and graciousness. ''Rita, in her suffering, continued to bring beauty and love to the world,'' he said. He read a passage from ''The Prophet'' by Khalil Gibran in which Miss Hayworth had underlined the words ''I am in the heart of God.''.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.733642578125, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "In October 1996, Kim Novak was interviewed by a reporter from The Washington Post newspaper. Co-starring with Rita Hayworth in the 1957 film \"Pal Joey\", Ms. Novak said she loved co-star Rita Hayworth, but not co-star Frank Sinatra, although he and Novak reputedly had an affair years earlier. She said, \"I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.\" Commenting on Frank Sinatra, Ms. Novak said, \"I felt he was not very fair to Rita Hayworth particularly. He wouldn't show up for dance rehearsals and let her have to go through it all, then he came in the last day and all our work had to be cut because he didn't want to do this or he didn't want to do that. That was so unfair and so unkind, so uncalled for.\" However, Sinatra insisted that Rita Hayworth get top billing. When someone asked why, Sinatra told newsmen, \"To me, Hayworth is Columbia (Pictures). They may have made her a star, but she gave them class.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.266770362854004, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Jane Withers said the 1935 film \"'Paddy O'Day' is one of my favorite movies ... [When making 'Paddy O'Day'] I visited the 'Charlie Chan in Egypt' set next door to me. And on the set was a [16-year-old] beautiful girl who was dancing ballroom with her partner in a film. I was only eight but I felt so strongly about this girl - she was just dynamite. I asked to meet her, her name was Rita Cansino. She was painfully shy. She said 'I just love to dance and I'm just thrilled to be in the movies.' I said,'Have you ever acted?' and she said, 'Oh no, I've never acted, I'm a dancer.' I said, 'You don't need to learn acting, it just has to be in your heart.'\" Just before filming started Jane held Rita's hand and prayed with her and that small kind gesture resulted in a lifelong friendship. Withers gave the eulogy at Hayworth's funeral in 1987 and she recalled during the eulogy that Rita Hayworth suffered from stage fright early in her career. Ms. Withers also said \"she always had so much enthusiasm in her dancing that when I found out how shy she was, I was startled.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.238767623901367, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "The choreographer Jack Cole said this of Rita Hayworth: \"Rita was a lonely person, you always felt that about her. She'd sit around with the girls during rehearsals, but mostly by herself, not stand-offish, just lonely. But always a lady.\" He also said, that \"She's a Spanish teenager really who's hardly ever grown up. Unless she got somebody around to say 'Don't do this! Don't do that/Eat! Don't eat/If you're bored go to bed, get plastered,' she's like a teenage girl who does whatever amuses her. I like Rita Hayworth, she's a very nice lady. One of the few nice ones in movies to work with.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.568198204040527, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "James Hill, in his 1983 book \"Rita Hayworth: A Memoir,\" indicated that their marriage--her fifth and final, his only--fell apart because he forced Hayworth to continue making movies when she wanted both of them to retire from the Hollywood hubbub, enabling her to paint and him to write.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.663801193237305, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "In 1977, Rita Hayworth accepted The National Screen Heritage Award at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Prior to the ceremony, Gene Kelly went to Rita's suite but nobody saw him come down.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.84920597076416, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "By 1940, there were 3,800 stories and 12,000 pictures of Rita Hayworth in circulation.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.066058158874512, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "During the 1944 Presidential campaign, Rita Hayworth was one of the nearly 50 Hollywood celebrities that endorsed President Franklin D. Roosevelt.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.08370590209961, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth starred in the 1964 film \"Circus World.\" Ms. Cardinale said: \"During the shooting of \"Circus World\", I was in my trailer taking a break when Rita showed up in tears. She looked me in the eye and sobbed: 'Once upon a time, I was beautiful too.' She moved me so much that I started to cry too. She was magnificent! She had this nostalgic side to her that made her all the more charming.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.413060188293457, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "When \"Gilda\" premiered at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946, everyone was buzzing about Rita Hayworth's striptease to \"Put The Blame On Mame\" wearing a strapless, black satin sheath dress with a long side slit and extra long gloves. Costume designer Jean Louis created the custom gown (which required a corset and custom harness) and helped cement the concept of a femme fatale.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.576254844665527, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "In 1987, the Deauville (France) Festival of American Cinema paid tribute to Rita Hayworth, who had passed away a few months earlier, and was represented in Deauville by her daughter, the Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.456207275390625, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Rita Hayworth married Aly Khan on May 17, 1949 in a civil ceremony and May 28, 1949. The Khan family was heavily involved in horse racing, owning and racing horses. Hayworth had no interest in the sport but she became a member of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club located in Del Mar, California. She bought a filly named Double Rose which won several races in France and finished second in the 1949 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Longchamp Racecourse. Paris, France.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.456663131713867, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "In 1977, Rita Hayworth went to England and later to Italy where she accepted The Rudolph Valentino Award in Bari. Margo Hammond wrote in \"Variety\" magazine, \"After a dramatic entrance up the center aisle of the opera house amid flashing spotlights, strains of Richard Strauss's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' and thunderous applause, a dazed Rita accepted the award telling the audience: 'This is the happiest moment of my life.' \".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.446455001831055, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "During World War II, Rita made a single USO tour and managed to visit six military camps giving thousands of autographs before coming back from Texas, where she was reported to have nervous breakdown that was full fledged due to over enthusiasm. She also appeared on a number of radio shows with Bob Hope and Armed Forces Radio Service programs like \"Command Performance\" (at least five shows), \"GI Journal\" and \"Mail Call.\" Rita also worked at the Hollywood Canteen which operated at 1451 Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood between October 3, 1942, and November 22, 1945, as a club offering food, dancing and entertainment for servicemen, usually on their way overseas. Even though the majority of visitors were U.S servicemen, the canteen was open to servicemen of allied countries as well as women in all branches of service. A serviceman's ticket for admission was his uniform, and everything at the canteen was free of charge. Rita was one of the most beautiful and regular volunteers who donated their services at the Hollywood Canteen by serving food and dancing with the servicemen. She also became active in collecting scrap metal, as well as promoting war bonds for the war effort. For Rita Hayworth, just like the other starlets in performing for the U.S. soldiers in different capacities, the task were at times overwhelming making them to be fatigued and break down.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.662778854370117, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "In May 1951, Rita Hayworth moved to Glenview, Nevada on Lake Tahoe to establish legal residence so she could divorce Aly Khan. (Nevada law stated that you must have legal residence for a six month period.) While in Nevada, Rita took up golf and became a avid golfer for life and when she had time, she played at country clubs in California. She said, \"I've played courses all over the world, including Japan. I ran into Bob Hope on the Irish and Scottish links, and in Spain, Skip Hathaway and I played a little bit.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.013124465942383, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "For her appearance in the 1941 film \"The Strawberry Blonde,\" Rita Hayworth was paid $6,500 ($106,499.63 in 2016 dollars), at a weekly rate of $927.85 ($15,202.41 in 2016 dollars) for seven guaranteed weeks of work.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.97690200805664, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth starred in the 1942 film \"You Were Never Lovelier\" and rehearsed the dance sequences in a nearby funeral parlor because there wasn't adequate room at Columbia Studios. In his biography, Astaire wrote, \"Keeping the laughs going during the intervals was a part of the day's work and I always tried to think up some gag to play on Rita. In one instance I called out, 'Well-here we go-I'm beginning to like this place-it doesn't get me down any more, I'm used to it-ready, Rita?' Up jumped Rita at once and came to me to start our first step together. As I took hold of her two arms she let out one scream and backed away. I had just dipped both my hands and arms in a bucket of ice which we kept for soda bottles. That broke up rehearsals for a half hour or so.\".", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.733804702758789, "source": "search", "title": "Rita Hayworth - Biography - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Rita Hayworth", "passage": "In World War II, YANK magazine was published weekly by the U.S. Army for all branches of the U.S. military. The writers were enlisted men and they wrote stories about World War II and sketched cartoons poking fun at service life like G.I Joe and Sad Sack. As a \"morale booster,\" one of the most popular parts of the magazine were photos of a pin-up girl usually clad in a bathing suit or some form of seductive attire. 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Few recognized corporations survive today, having destroyed each other in the Franchise Wars. The few police in San Angeles have little training in handling truly violent offenders.", "precise_score": 9.596590995788574, "rough_score": 9.211682319641113, "source": "search", "title": "The Demolished Man vs. Demolition Man - Overthinking It" }, { "answer": "2032", "passage": "Demolition Man takes place in 2032 in the super city of “San Angeles”, a combination of Los Angeles and San Diego into one massive city. If this sounds familiar, it’s because 1982’s Blade Runner, 1994’s Double Dragon, 2007’s Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive, and even Sylvester Stallone’s own 1995 movie Judge Dredd took place in San Angeles. It’s a surprisingly common name for a common concept that reoccurs in different forms of science fiction.", "precise_score": 9.195634841918945, "rough_score": 9.301811218261719, "source": "search", "title": "What The Film!? – Demolition Man - Under The Gun Review" }, { "answer": "2032", "passage": "The film tells the story of two men: an evil crime lord and a risk-taking police officer. Cryogenically frozen in 1996, they are restored to life in the year 2032 to find mainstream society changed and all crime seemingly eliminated.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.28937816619873, "source": "wiki", "title": "Demolition Man (film)" }, { "answer": "2032", "passage": "During their incarceration, the \"Great Earthquake\" leads the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara to merge into a single metropolis under the name San Angeles. The city becomes a utopia run under the pseudo-pacifist guidance and control of the evangelistic Dr. Raymond Cocteau, where human behavior is tightly controlled. In 2032, Phoenix is woken for a parole hearing, but he finds he somehow knows the access codes to the security systems, and is able to escape the prison and begins wreaking havoc on the city. The police, having not dealt with violent crime for many years, are unable to handle Phoenix and opt to wake Spartan and enlist his help. Spartan is assigned to Lieutenant Lenina Huxley to help with acclimation to the future, which he finds depressing. Others on the police force find his behavior brutish and uncivilized, though Huxley, who is fascinated by the lifestyles of the late 20th century, helps Spartan to overcome this, and the two grow close, despite the limitations on displays of public affection.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.316825866699219, "source": "wiki", "title": "Demolition Man (film)" }, { "answer": "2032", "passage": "Unfortunately, Spartan is falsely accused of manslaughter for the deaths of the hostages and both Phoenix and Spartan are sent to a ‘cryo prison’. When Simon Phoenix escapes into a crime free utopian LA in 2032, the police are not prepared to deal with his level of violence. 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Revived into a society free from crime, Phoenix resumes his murderous rampage, and no one can stop him. John Spartan, the police officer who captured Phoenix in 1996, has also been cryogenically frozen, this time for a crime he did not commit. In 2032, the former cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara have merged into peaceful, utopian San Angeles. Unable to stop him with their non-violent solutions, the police release Spartan to help recapture Phoenix. Now after 36 years, Spartan has to adapt himself to the future society he has no knowledge about. Written by Rob Hartill", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.49379825592041, "source": "search", "title": "Demolition Man (1993) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "2032", "passage": "Envisioning the world in 2032, the Stallone/Snipes vehicle’s best remembered prediction is that, in the aftermath of the franchise wars, Taco Bell is the only restaurant left standing. Fortunately (or unfortunately), that hasn’t come to pass yet. But on Tuesday, the California-based fast-food company did release a rendering of its fancy new flagship Cantina store in Las Vegas (pictured above). Its futuristic, glass-and-metal design does bear some resemblance to the Taco Bell of Demolition Man where, to Stallone’s bemusement, he and his sidekick/love interest Sandra Bullock set off for a classy dinner . See for yourself:", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -8.4071044921875, "source": "search", "title": "Is Taco Bell Embracing Demolition Man's Vision of Its ..." }, { "answer": "2032", "passage": "A few other quick notes of possible prescience in Demolition Man: The movie takes place in San Angeles, a rump-state union of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara formed after a massive earthquake hits the area. In 2032, San Angeles is a health-obsessed society—no smoking or drinking or physical contact allowed—that also suffers from a surfeit of political correctness, heightened police surveillance, and no tolerance for guns or even micro-aggressions, which are fineable by law.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 6.872823238372803, "source": "search", "title": "Is Taco Bell Embracing Demolition Man's Vision of Its ..." }, { "answer": "2032", "passage": "Raymond Cocteau would undoubtedly have a role in society in 1996 if he's as old as he is in 2032 (at the time of filming, Nigel Hawthorne was 64. If Cocteau was the same age as his actor in 2032, he'd be roughly 28 years old in 1996). So Cocteau, or maybe even his family, had a hand in John Spartan being put out of the way in 1996, ensuring that LA would get so crapsack that the people would look to his extreme utopia as the only solution.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.043147087097168, "source": "search", "title": "Demolition Man / WMG - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "2032", "passage": "In fact, it's altogether possible that Cocteau or one of his followers could've acted as an unknown mastermind for Simon Phoenix himself in 1996, long before outright being his benefactor in 2032.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.24339771270752, "source": "search", "title": "Demolition Man / WMG - TV Tropes" }, { "answer": "2032", "passage": "We then cut to 2032 where Phoenix is unfrozen and promptly goes on a murderous rampage in a strange future where no one is allowed to swear, eat fatty foods, or have any sort of fun. The police force in this not-sure-if-utopian-or-dystopian society are unprepared to deal with a criminal with these sorts of actions and are forced to call in the only person who can help them: SuperNanny. Unfortunately Jo Frost was busy so they decided to unfreeze John Spartan to hunt down Phoenix.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.479443550109863, "source": "search", "title": "What The Film!? – Demolition Man - Under The Gun Review" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Roy Scheider", "passage": "After directing and choreographing the revue Dancin’ (1978, winning his seventh Tony® for Choreography) on Broadway, Fosse turned again to film, this time with his nakedly autobiographical All That Jazz (1979). The action centers on his 1975 heart attack, and nearly every character in the movie represents a real person in his life: the role of wife Verdon, from whom Fosse was now separated, was taken by Leland Palmer; Roy Scheider played Fosse himself, John Lithgow represented his rival Michael Bennett, and several in the cast essentially played themselves, including Fosse’s daughter Nicole and dancer Ann Reinking, with whom he was living at the time. (He remained legally married to Verdon until the end of his life; in fact died in her presence.) All That Jazz took four Academy Awards®, earned Fosse his third Oscar® nomination for Best Director, and won the Palme d’Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.", "precise_score": 7.523686408996582, "rough_score": 8.447154998779297, "source": "search", "title": "Bob Fosse | The Official Masterworks Broadway Site" }, { "answer": "Roy Scheider", "passage": "Bob Fosse's autobiographical look at his life, with Roy Scheider fabulously standing-in for Fosse as Joe Gideon, pill-popping, womanizing director-choreographer on the verge of collapse in New York City. Fosse paints himself as suspicious, paranoid, driven, indifferent, exhausted and horny. It's more than most of us want to know about the guy, who seems intent on showing us what a creep he is...but a talented creep! It's a film that doesn't particularly look good (it's a gray, chilly movie), but it has amazing musical flourishes and the self-styled bombast is actually rather amusing once you get the idea. Jessica Lange is beautiful in an early role as the Angel of Death (imagine Fosse explaining that role to her!), and Scheider's performance is really something to see (only occasionally does the camera catch him not knowing what to do). Fosse tries hard not to be pretentious, he keeps things playful and perky, and his ironic ending is wincingly funny. The film is alive and ticking--but that's not Fosse's heart, it's a time bomb. *** from ****", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": 2.2239012718200684, "source": "search", "title": "All That Jazz (1979) - IMDb" }, { "answer": "Roy Scheider", "passage": "DUSTIN HOFFMAN in \"Kramer vs. Kramer\", Jack Lemmon in \"The China Syndrome\", Al Pacino in \"...And Justice For All\", Roy Scheider in \"All That Jazz\", Peter Sellers in \"Being There\"", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.77467155456543, "source": "search", "title": "1979 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" }, { "answer": "Roy Scheider", "passage": "Roy Scheider as self-destructive, pill-popping, chain-smoking Broadway director/choreographer Joe Gideon who dances between the extremes of love and death in All That Jazz", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -10.292401313781738, "source": "search", "title": "1979 Academy Awards® Winners and History - Filmsite.org" } ]

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[ { "answer": "Hungary", "passage": "Next stop, Hungary, then they'd be burning down the homestretch at London's Shepperton Studios. Just before she was to arrive in Budapest, Madonna called Parker from New York with startling news. \"I'm pregnant,\" she announced. Parker frantically began rearranging the schedule to move up scenes where Madonna danced, or where there was a danger that her pregnancy would show. He eliminated a shot where the ill Evita is carried down some church steps by her brother, fearing the actor might slip.", "precise_score": -0.17308750748634338, "rough_score": -6.080398082733154, "source": "search", "title": "Madonna Tangos With Evita - Newsweek" }, { "answer": "Hungary", "passage": "Certainly Parker is a good director for this material. He has made more musicals than his contemporaries, not only “ Bugsy Malone ,” “Fame” and “ The Commitments ,” but especially “Pink Floyd the Wall,” one of the great modern musicals, where he uses similar images of marching automatons. Working with exteriors in Argentina and Hungary and richly detailed interior sets, he stages Evita's life as a soap opera version of “ Triumph of the Will ,” with goose-stepping troops beating out the cadence of her rise to glory.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -9.64185619354248, "source": "search", "title": "Evita Movie Review & Film Summary (1997) | Roger Ebert" }, { "answer": "Hungary", "passage": "After six weeks Parker's army moved on to Hungary with several tons of equipment, costumes and props in tow, and were shooting within four days of arriving in Budapest. The director tried not to panic when he received a phone call from Madonna in New York to say that she was pregnant. Calculating wildly, the two of them tried to keep it a secret from the crew upon her return to the shooting, but the cloak-and-dagger conversations he began to have in trying to reschedule without giving the game away, led to David Wimbury, the line producer, and Dennis Maguire, the first assistant, realizing that Parker had finally gone over the edge. Madonna eventually had to make her announcement.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -11.1790771484375, "source": "search", "title": "Madonna and the Making of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita" }, { "answer": "Hungary", "passage": "In Hungary, the biggest project was to prepare and film Eva Peron's state funeral. Parker and the crew had researched miles of documentary footage and wanted an exact replica of her cortege. The costume department, to be prepared for filming on the first shooting day, began fitting and dressing extras at 3:30 a.m. The call sheet read as follows: 4,000 crowd to include; 50 mounted police, plus horses; 200 soldiers; 50 army officers; 50 foot police; 60 sailors; 60 nurses; 300 working-class women; 100 upper-class women; 51 descamisados; 20 naval officers; 12 naval police; 300 working-class men; 15 palace guards; 8 pallbearers; 60 navy cadets; 60 army cadets; 300 middle-class women; 300 middle-class men; 100 Aristo men; 100 boys; 100 girls; 200Vnale background; 200 female background; 1,400 miscellaneous background; gun carriage; coffin; 4 army motorcycles; 2 police motorcycles; 6 Bren carriers; 2 half-track military vehicles; 2 fox tanks; 4 army trucks; CGT float, ete. etc. Miraculously, this giant procession was ready to film at 10:30 a.m., and the scene was shot for the next two days.", "precise_score": -100, "rough_score": -7.521759986877441, "source": "search", "title": "Madonna and the Making of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita" } ]