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A Scanner Darkly (film) - Quiz
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  • 1. What percentage of reviews compiled by Rotten Tomatoes are positive for A Scanner Darkly?
A) 68%
B) 73%
C) 50%
D) 85%
  • 2. How many reviews were compiled by Rotten Tomatoes in total for the film?
A) 189
B) 150
C) 33
D) 200
  • 3. What is the weighted score of the film on Metacritic out of 100?
A) 68
B) 73
C) 85
D) 90
  • 4. Based on how many critics is the Metacritic score calculated?
A) 100
B) 189
C) 33
D) 50
  • 5. Whose novel is A Scanner Darkly a faithful adaptation of?
A) J. Hoberman
B) Philip K. Dick
C) Tom Long
D) Manohla Dargis
  • 6. Who wrote in The New York Times that the film has a kind of hypnotic visual appeal?
A) Carina Chocano
B) J. Hoberman
C) Andrew Sarris
D) Manohla Dargis
  • 7. Which publication did Carina Chocano write her review for?
A) Los Angeles Times
B) The Village Voice
C) The New York Times
D) The Washington Post
  • 8. According to Carina Chocano, the real world has come to resemble the dark world of what?
A) Novels
B) Fairy tales
C) Video games
D) Comic books
  • 9. Who wrote the review for The Village Voice?
A) Desson Thompson
B) Kim Newman
C) J. Hoberman
D) Andrew Sarris
  • 10. Which previous film by Linklater is mentioned in relation to the computer-rotoscoped animation used in A Scanner Darkly?
A) Dazed and Confused
B) Slacker
C) Waking Life
D) School of Rock
  • 11. Whose performance did J. Hoberman praise as the performance to beat in mid-2006?
A) Tom Long
B) Michael Booth
C) Robert Downey Jr.
D) Philip K. Dick
  • 12. Who wrote the review for The New York Observer?
A) Owen Gleiberman
B) Desson Thompson
C) Andrew Sarris
D) Kim Newman
  • 13. As what did Andrew Sarris describe Mr. Linklater in his review?
A) Visual visionary
B) Austin auteur par excellence
C) Hollywood newcomer
D) Master of animation
  • 14. How many stars out of five did Kim Newman from Empire magazine give the film?
A) Four
B) Five
C) Two
D) Three
  • 15. Who wrote the review for The Washington Post?
A) Amy Biancolli
B) Jack Mathews
C) Peter Bradshaw
D) Desson Thompson
  • 16. What process did Desson Thompson say underscores the grave new world with pop-arty creepiness?
A) Stop motion
B) Live-action filming
C) CGI animation
D) Rotoscoping
  • 17. Which publication did Amy Biancolli write for?
A) Houston Chronicle
B) Denver Post
C) Detroit News
D) Dallas Morning News
  • 18. What rating did Entertainment Weekly give the film?
A) B+
B) A
C) C−
D) D
  • 19. Who gave the film a C− rating for Entertainment Weekly and found its storyline goes nowhere?
A) Chris Vognar
B) Roger Moore
C) Owen Gleiberman
D) Tom Long
  • 20. Who wrote the film review for The Guardian?
A) Chris Vognar
B) Peter Bradshaw
C) Michael Booth
D) Jack Mathews
  • 21. Who called the film a murky, dialogue-heavy tale of intrigue in The New York Daily News?
A) Tom Long
B) Owen Gleiberman
C) Jack Mathews
D) Roger Moore
  • 22. Which publication did Roger Moore write his review for?
A) Orlando Sentinel
B) Denver Post
C) The Guardian
D) Detroit News
  • 23. Who from the Detroit News stated that his audience's collective brain is going to be hurting mightily for the first hour of this film?
A) Michael Booth
B) Chris Vognar
C) Jack Mathews
D) Tom Long
  • 24. Which publication did Michael Booth write his review for?
A) Orlando Sentinel
B) Dallas Morning News
C) Detroit News
D) Denver Post
  • 25. According to Michael Booth, what gets in the way of thrilling plot twists?
A) The short runtime
B) The poor acting
C) The artiness
D) The dialogue
  • 26. Who stated that A Scanner Darkly talks too much and doesn't say enough?
A) Roger Moore
B) Chris Vognar
C) Michael Booths
D) Tom Long
  • 27. Which publication did Chris Vognar write for?
A) Empire magazine
B) Houston Chronicle
C) Dallas Morning News
D) The New York Observer
  • 28. Which actor did Linklater initially think of for the dual roles of Arctor and Fred?
A) Woody Harrelson
B) Robert Downey Jr.
C) Keanu Reeves
D) Rory Cochrane
  • 29. Why did Linklater initially hesitate to cast Keanu Reeves?
A) Reeves refused to work with the director.
B) He thought Reeves would be reluctant to make another sci-fi film after The Matrix.
C) Reeves was busy filming another project.
D) Reeves was too expensive for the budget.
  • 30. What attracted Robert Downey Jr. to the film?
A) Hearing that Reeves was going to star and Linklater to direct
B) His love for the original book
C) The high salary offered
D) The promise of an award-winning role
  • 31. What did Robert Downey Jr. think of the script?
A) He thought it was too short.
B) He thought it was boring and predictable.
C) He thought it was the strangest one he had ever read.
D) He thought it closely matched the novel.
  • 32. For which character did Linklater write the role specifically with Rory Cochrane in mind?
A) Fred
B) Freck
C) Barris
D) Arctor
  • 33. What was Rory Cochrane's concern about appearing in the film?
A) He did not want to recreate his role in Dazed and Confused.
B) He felt the pay was too low.
C) He had scheduling conflicts.
D) He disliked the shooting location.
  • 34. Which two actors agreed to appear in the film based on the script?
A) Winona Ryder and Rory Cochrane
B) Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr.
C) Rory Cochrane and Alex Jones
D) Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder
  • 35. Under what financial terms did Reeves and Ryder agree to work?
A) Minimum wage with no extra incentives
B) Screen Actors Guild scale rate plus back-end profits
C) A flat multi-million dollar fee
D) A percentage of the box office only
  • 36. Who made a small cameo in A Scanner Darkly, just as he did in Waking Life?
A) Shane Kelly
B) Irshad Ashraf
C) Alex Jones
D) Bruce Curtis
  • 37. How long did the cast spend rehearsing in Austin, Texas before principal photography?
A) Two weeks
B) Six weeks
C) Three days
D) One month
  • 38. What was the result of the pre-production rehearsals in Austin?
A) A fusion of Linklater's writing, the novel, and actors' input
B) A script written entirely by the actors
C) The removal of several main characters
D) A completely rewritten script that ignored the book
  • 39. How did Rory Cochrane prepare for his role?
A) He relied heavily on the original book.
B) He spent months studying real-life drug addicts.
C) He memorized his dialogue using run-on sentences.
D) He came up with his character five minutes before getting on the elevator to work.
  • 40. How did Robert Downey Jr. memorize his dialogue?
A) By improvising every single line on set
B) By reading the book repeatedly
C) By listening to audio recordings on loop
D) By writing it out in run-on sentences, studying them, and converting them to acronyms
  • 41. How did Keanu Reeves prepare for his role?
A) He relied on the book, marking down each scene to the corresponding page.
B) He wrote his own dialogue in run-on sentences.
C) He refused to read the script beforehand.
D) He improvised his scenes based on rehearsals.
  • 42. When did principal photography begin?
A) May 17, 2004
B) April 15, 2004
C) December 2004
D) June 1, 2004
  • 43. How long did principal photography last?
A) Ten days
B) Six weeks
C) Two weeks
D) Three months
  • 44. Why did Arctor's house require few modifications by production designer Bruce Curtis?
A) The director wanted it to look pristine and modern.
B) The previous tenants had completely renovated it.
C) It was already a fully decorated film set.
D) The previous tenants left it looking like a run-down home.
  • 45. How many houses did the filmmakers look at before settling on Arctor's house?
A) 100
B) 25
C) 60
D) 10
  • 46. Where did Linklater shoot a lot of the exteriors?
A) Seattle, Washington
B) Austin, Texas
C) Dallas, Texas
D) Anaheim, California
  • 47. When were the exterior shots from Anaheim composited into the footage?
A) In post-production
B) During pre-production rehearsals
C) Live on set
D) Before principal photography began
  • 48. Why were makeup, lighting, and visible equipment like boom mics less of a concern during live-action filming?
A) Because the cameras were automated
B) Because the live action footage was to be animated over later
C) Because the film was shot in black and white
D) Because natural lighting was used exclusively
  • 49. What did cinematographer Shane Kelly keep in mind when composing shots and using a color palette?
A) The original book's cover art
B) The animators
C) The studio executives
D) The film's theatrical lighting crew
  • 50. What occasionally happened to the actors because the movie was shot digitally and then animated?
A) They refused to wear costumes.
B) They forgot they would later be animated as they worked through a scene.
C) They thought they were shooting a documentary.
D) They forgot their lines completely.
  • 51. What specific action did Robert Downey Jr. perform while forgetting the scene would be animated?
A) He changed his costume midway through the take.
B) He improvised a ten-minute monologue.
C) He worked through several takes to produce a smoke ring for Barris' first closeup.
D) He performed a dangerous stunt without a double.
  • 52. Where was extensive on-set footage of A Scanner Darkly featured?
A) On a promotional website for the studio
B) In a UK documentary about Richard Linklater
C) In an American news broadcast
D) In a Hollywood behind-the-scenes featurette
  • 53. Who directed the UK documentary about Richard Linklater that featured on-set footage?
A) Bruce Curtis
B) Alex Jones
C) Irshad Ashraf
D) Shane Kelly
  • 54. When was the documentary featuring the on-set footage broadcast?
A) December 2004
B) May 2004
C) January 2004
D) July 2005
  • 55. Which Philip K. Dick novel did Richard Linklater originally toy with adapting?
A) Paycheck
B) Minority Report
C) A Scanner Darkly
D) Ubik
  • 56. With whom was Richard Linklater talking when he began thinking about A Scanner Darkly?
A) Isa Hackett
B) Laura Leslie
C) Russ Galen
D) Tommy Pallotta
  • 57. What budget did Linklater want to keep A Scanner Darkly under?
A) $20 million
B) $5 million
C) $50 million
D) $10 million
  • 58. Who is the literary agent for the Philip K. Dick estate mentioned in the text?
A) Isa Hackett
B) Laura Leslie
C) Tommy Pallotta
D) Russ Galen
  • 59. In what year was the film A Scanner Darkly released?
A) 2007
B) 1977
C) 2004
D) 2006
  • 60. What animation technique was used for the film?
A) Stop-motion animation
B) Traditional hand-drawn animation
C) CGI motion capture
D) Interpolated rotoscope
  • 61. Who is listed as one of the executive producers of the film?
A) Steven Soderbergh
B) Philip K. Dick
C) Keanu Reeves
D) Richard Linklater
  • 62. Which company gave the film its wider release on July 28, 2006?
A) Warner Independent Pictures
B) Warner Bros. Pictures
C) Paramount Pictures
D) Universal Pictures
  • 63. What is the name of the powerful drug that causes bizarre hallucinations in the film?
A) Substance X
B) Substance D
C) Substance Z
D) Substance A
  • 64. Approximately what percentage of the population is addicted to the drug in the story?
A) 20 percent
B) 10 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 5 percent
  • 65. What is the undercover name used by Bob Arctor at the police station?
A) Luckman
B) Barris
C) Fred
D) Hank
  • 66. What device does Arctor wear at the police station to maintain privacy?
A) A stealth cloak
B) A digital helmet
C) A scramble suit
D) A hologram mask
  • 67. Who is Arctor's senior officer at the police force?
A) Hank
B) Luckman
C) Barris
D) Mike
  • 68. From whom does Arctor buy Substance D in hopes of reaching her supplier?
A) Donna
B) Mike
C) Hank
D) Audrey
  • 69. Who secretly informs on Arctor to 'Hank' while angling to be hired as a cop?
A) Mike
B) Donna
C) Barris
D) Luckman
  • 70. Where does 'Hank' have Donna take Arctor for rehabilitation?
A) New-Path
B) Anaheim
C) The police station
D) A labor camp
  • 71. What is Donna's real name according to her police work with Mike?
A) Helen
B) Fred
C) Sarah
D) Audrey
  • 72. How does the film describe its overall box office performance?
A) The highest-grossing animated film of the year
B) A massive blockbuster hit
C) Moderate financial success
D) Performed poorly at the box office
  • 73. What format was the film transferred to after principal photography was finished?
A) QuickTime
B) AVI
C) MP4
D) Windows Media
  • 74. How long did the animation process take?
A) 24 months
B) 12 months
C) 6 months
D) 18 months
  • 75. What is the name of the animation process used after the film was transferred?
A) second order magnified contrast separation
B) magnified contrast layering
C) digital vector manipulation
D) interpolated cel tracing
  • 76. What camera was used to film A Scanner Darkly digitally?
A) Panasonic HVX200
B) Canon XL1
C) Sony DSR-PD150
D) Panasonic AG-DVX100
  • 77. What proprietary graphics editing program was used to animate the film?
A) Toon Boom
B) Flash
C) Rotoshop
D) After Effects
  • 78. Who created the Rotoshop program?
A) Richard Linklater
B) Ashraf
C) Ralph Bakshi
D) Bob Sabiston
  • 79. In whose documentary did Linklater discuss the ideas and inspiration behind his use of rotoscoping?
A) Bob's
B) Sabiston's
C) Ashraf's
D) Bakshi's
  • 80. What personal experience did Linklater link rotoscoping to in the documentary?
A) nightmares
B) lucid dreaming
C) childhood memories
D) hallucinations
  • 81. Whose rotoscope style is traditional rotoscoping similar to in some respects?
A) Walt Disney
B) Ralph Bakshi
C) Richard Linklater
D) Bob Sabiston
  • 82. What does Rotoshop animation make use of?
A) bitmap layers
B) raster pixels
C) vector keyframes
D) polygonal meshes
  • 83. How did Linklater describe the animation phase for himself?
A) An enlightening experience
B) A breeze
C) A short task
D) A trying process
  • 84. When was the film originally supposed to be released?
A) July 2006
B) September 2005
C) March 2006
D) October 2004
  • 85. Where were most of the animators hired from?
A) Internationally
B) Hollywood studios
C) Locally
D) Disney animation
  • 86. Who asked for a status report in late November?
A) Mark Gill
B) Ernesto Pallotta
C) Bob Sabiston
D) Richard Linklater
  • 87. How long did some animators work per day under pressure to produce a trailer?
A) 12-hour days
B) 18-hour days
C) 10-hour days
D) 24-hour days
  • 88. When did Pallotta change the locks and seize workstations?
A) September 2005
B) December 2005
C) January 2005
D) October 2004
  • 89. What credit did Sabiston's four team leaders ultimately receive?
A) Executive producers
B) Additional animation
C) Lead directors
D) Main animators
  • 90. What production ethic did Pallotta institute?
A) A loose indie production ethic
B) A rapid-fire digital ethic
C) An experimental avant-garde ethic
D) A traditional Disney-esque production ethic
  • 91. What was the final release date chosen for the film?
A) December 31
B) March 31
C) July 7
D) September 1
  • 92. Which Pixar film was A Scanner Darkly put up against upon release?
A) Toy Story
B) The Incredibles
C) Cars
D) Finding Nemo
  • 93. Who composed the score for A Scanner Darkly?
A) Graham Reynolds
B) DJ Spooky
C) Jack Dangers
D) Radiohead
  • 94. When did Linklater approach Reynolds about creating the score?
A) 2005
B) 2006
C) 2003
D) 2001
  • 95. Where did Linklater first see Reynolds perform before approaching him?
A) A classical concert
B) A Broadway show
C) A film festival
D) A club performance
  • 96. Who was featured in the short 'Live from Shiva's Dance Floor'?
A) DJ Spooky
B) Jack Dangers
C) Thom Yorke
D) Timothy "Speed" Levitch
  • 97. How long was the short 'Live from Shiva's Dance Floor'?
A) 45-minute
B) 10-minute
C) 20-minute
D) 60-minute
  • 98. Was the score synthesized?
A) Partially
B) No
C) Only for percussion
D) Yes
  • 99. Which Radiohead song appears uncredited in the film?
A) The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
B) Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
C) Fog
D) Black Swan
  • 100. Which Thom Yorke solo song is included in the film?
A) Black Swan
B) Fog
C) Skttrbrain
D) The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
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