None of us had heard of this film until last night. After just a few minutes though, we were positive it was the perfect selection for this week's Hollywood guessing game. So listen in and see if you can guess our surprise film from nothing more than its Chinese soundtrack. And if you can, get your guesses in to echo@popupchinese.com for a chance to win a free month-long premium subscription to Popup Chinese, where we make learning mandarin fun and easy.
trevelyan
said on April 10, 2009
special clip going out to Imron. :) Good luck everyone.
barrister
said on April 10, 2009
the only thing I know for certain is that I haven't seen this one.
trevelyan
said on April 11, 2009
twelve hours in and it's an open game! we've had a couple of guesses come in, but NONE of them have nailed it. the mystery mounts!
vladimir.dutton
said on April 11, 2009
I listened to this twice, but still no idea.
xiaoxin
said on April 11, 2009
＠vladimir,
我也是，一点儿头绪也没有。
imron
said on April 11, 2009
You really shouldn't go to so much effort just for me, and so I hereby once again announce my retirement from Film Friday - after I provide the answer for this week :-)
I won't give away too much of a clue, but if I say the title is SB, you'll know what I mean. Let me know if you want me to be more specific :-)
Anyway, sorry for the late response, but I'm in Beidaihe this weekend and didn't get to a computer until now.
stratman1
said on April 12, 2009
I like imron's clue the best, because it works on multiple levels :)
paglino9
said on April 12, 2009
I swear there is the faintest, most subliminal arf-arf dog barking imitation at the very end of the podcast.
It was the last puzzle piece.
imron
said on April 12, 2009
@stratman1, yes it does :-)
barrister
said on April 13, 2009
I still have no idea what movie this is. What happened to the good old days when someone would just leave the name of the film in a comment and I'd fire it off to Echo in an email?
Some of us live by charity here.... :)
Gail天堂的声音
said on April 13, 2009
偶也冇听说这个电影。
stratman1
said on April 13, 2009
Gail, 我刚在优酷上看到了http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjM2NzI5NTY=.html，你有米有看过？？好玩 =p
stratman1
said on April 13, 2009
This movie is one of nine (!) sequels/spin-offs. That's how good the original was. The Godfather got two sequels, Star Wars ended up with five, and following my solid logic, this movie is better than those two movies combined!
Brendan
said on April 13, 2009
Wow. Consider me deeply, deeply disturbed. SB, indeed!
@stratman1 - By that metric, this would be even better than Police Academy and the Ernest movies.
trevelyan
said on April 13, 2009
Wow. I didn't make the connection between this and it's prequels either, although I'd heard of one or two. I'm still amazed/impressed/stunned some of you guys got it.
Echo
said on April 13, 2009
Hey Guys,
Honestly, I really didn't expect so many people would guess the film. I think it is mostly because of imron.
--Echo
echo@popupchinese.com
imron
said on April 13, 2009
哈哈都怪我是不是？Well it's just as well that I'm retiring then :-) Honestly speaking though I'm sure it's less to do with me, and more to do with a Google search using a couple of choice keywords.
trevelyan
said on April 14, 2009
We've got a pretty large number of incorrect guesses actually. I'd be curious how many listeners actually come to the site instead of picking us up through iTunes/RSS.A fair game anyway. Statistically, I'd say we're bound to end up with something that Imron doesn't know ONE of these days. But I also thought we'd have him for sure with this one. So I will be keeping my eyes open for Chinese dubs of French New Wave cinema, and if anyone has good Chinese dubs of revolutionary Soviet films please send them in.
yeh
said on April 14, 2009
搞不明白!有点乱!
imron
said on April 14, 2009
Hence my decision to quit while I'm ahead :-)
Frank
said on April 14, 2009
With Imron's language skills and Google-Fu, I think the only chance you had of him missing one was taking an all-signing, no-talking scene from "Children of a Lesser God." :)
trevelyan
said on April 14, 2009
Oh... I'm pretty sure we can stump him, Frank. The problem is managing that while ALSO putting out a clip that anyone else has a half-decent chance of guessing.
Film Friday
said on April 17, 2009
Our first but probably not last film about talking dogs. So congrats to everyone who got it right, including the always impressive Imron. Echo will be picking our winner and contacting them later this afternoon....We'll be publishing the next Film Friday a bit later today, along with the next edition of Dream of the Red Chamber.Answer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1164647/
