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Salopian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 12/06/2006 : 12:25:17
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| A friend at work has got one of those visual quizzes, like sort of photographic rebuses. In the picture, various films are represented, but we cannot get one. It is a bunch of orange cubes with one green cube. (They are near a bar of chocolate and on a pedestrian crossing, but I think those are for other films.) Any ideas? |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 12/06/2006 : 15:22:57
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Well, it almost certainly isn't, but should be, "Odd Man Out" (1947) where James Mason plays an IRA man (colour green) in Northern Ireland being hunted down by the authorities (orange men?). 
I almost forgot to remark, have you noticed with this rebuses, you don't see any for ages then loads come along at the same time? 
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Salopian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/06/2006 : 15:35:58
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
it almost certainly isn't, but should be
Agreed on both counts. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 12/06/2006 : 15:39:35
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Originally posted by Salopian
A friend at work has got one of those visual quizzes, like sort of photographic rebuses. In the picture, various films are represented, but we cannot get one. It is a bunch of orange cubes with one green cube. (They are near a bar of chocolate and on a pedestrian crossing, but I think those are for other films.) Any ideas?
Questions:
1. Are they genre films, like that M&M one for horror/fantasy flicks that RedPen got us all so distracted by a while ago?
2. How many orange cubes? Are they arranged in any particular way?
3. What are the chocolate bar and ped-xing films you think the others represent?
4. Is this a publicly accessible site, and if so, do you feel like sharing the url with us?
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Salopian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/06/2006 : 15:56:51
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| They're all kind of films. There are about ten orange cubes in a couple of levels; the green one is in front. Walk the Line (there's a man walking along a line down the middle) and Chocolat. The latter is not really a fair clue, but I don't know what else it could be. It's a publicly accessible postcard; if you come to my office, I will show it to you. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 12/06/2006 : 16:26:49
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Originally posted by Salopian
They're all kind of films. There are about ten orange cubes in a couple of levels; the green one is in front. Walk the Line (there's a man walking along a line down the middle) and Chocolat. The latter is not really a fair clue, but I don't know what else it could be. It's a publicly accessible postcard; if you come to my office, I will show it to you.
Hmmm ... well there's actually a short called Green Oranges, but I doubt that's it!  Don't suppose it could be Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit? The only titles with Cubes don't refer to any colour. I'll keep thinking 
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GHcool 
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 12/06/2006 : 20:25:13
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Originally posted by Salopian
A friend at work has got one of those visual quizzes, like sort of photographic rebuses. In the picture, various films are represented, but we cannot get one. It is a bunch of orange cubes with one green cube. (They are near a bar of chocolate and on a pedestrian crossing, but I think those are for other films.) Any ideas?
I couldn't even begin to guess without seeing the picture. |
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tortoise 
"Still reviewing, but slowly."
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Posted - 12/06/2006 : 21:25:33
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Stumped. But just to stimulate some lateral thinking...
Have you tried thinking of synonyms for cubes (blocks, bricks, etc)?
Maybe neither the precise colour nor the shape are important; maybe it's simply the fact that only one is different?
Judging from the other films represented, is it likely to be a comparatively major release from the last 10 years or so? Or could it really be anything? |
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Salopian
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Posted - 12/07/2006 : 09:34:23
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Originally posted by tortoise
Judging from the other films represented, is it likely to be a comparatively major release from the last 10 years or so? Or could it really be anything?
Comparatively major, but doesn't have to be particularly recent - Jaws is there.
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Salopian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/08/2006 : 14:05:03
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| I think it must be 16 Blocks. I hadn't asked my colleague to count them before. One being green must be a red(!) herring. |
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Can you identify this film?
