# Episode 058 - British Authors, British Films & British Actors

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 1 Mar 2024, 40 min.

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Do you know which British author first wrote about the fictional island of Númenor? Do you know why Richard Allen, the Indian hockey goalkeeper, let in the only goal during the 1936 Olympics? Do you know why Pierce Brosnan didn't wear a formal black tie in the black tie event in Thomas Crown Affair? Tune in to find out! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to Are you quizzing me? I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:04] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, pop culture, and so much more.
[0:14] Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode #58 of Are You
[0:20] Quizzing Me? Aditya and I back for another
[0:22] round of quizzing and let's get to the episode as quickly as
[0:26] possible without wasting any undue time.
[0:28] So let's start off with the audience question for this week.
[0:32] Luke, Leia, Hans, C3PO, Obi Wan, Anakin Skywalker, and many other
[0:38] characters across the Star Wars movies.
[0:41] Animated C, DS TV shows have all said variations of the seven
[0:47] word sentence at least once. Which seven word sentence are we
[0:52] talking about? Or at least which line have all
[0:55] these characters mentioned it? And at least once in every
[0:58] series, movie, animation, it's been said in at least one
[1:02] episode of every show. It's been said in every movie
[1:05] and it's been said seen in any animated show.
[1:07] So what line are we talking about?
[1:11] And this particular line, let me just clarify, is not may the
[1:16] force be with you. This line is one that expresses
[1:20] nervous doubt. So that's the line I'm looking
[1:24] for. Obviously everybody's mind would
[1:26] have gone to may the Force be with you, but it's not the one
[1:29] that we're looking for. I will now reveal the answer to
[1:31] this question at the end of today's episode.
[1:34] Aditya, what's your question from last week that you now need
[1:37] to answer? OK, so I asked last week that if
[1:41] you were to enter America, what would be a good welcome message
[1:45] to show at the airport or port of entry?
[1:50] And I realized the best one would be welcome, everybody,
[1:55] unless you are Christopher Columbus, in which case you're
[1:58] looking for New Delhi and North New York.
[2:03] A little late, I feel. Yeah, but I feel like they could
[2:06] celebrate Columbus even though he was problematic, but they
[2:09] forget to acknowledge that he was also quite the idiot because
[2:12] he thought he ended up in India for some reason.
[2:16] And I get it. It was the 15th century.
[2:18] But still. Come on, man.
[2:21] Fair enough. Fair enough.
[2:22] So let's move on to today's round of quizzing.
[2:25] I'll start us off with a question that I've crafted quite
[2:28] carefully. First question for today's
[2:30] episode to you. Aditya X was a British writer,
[2:35] literary scholar, and theologian.
[2:38] He held academic positions in English literature at both
[2:42] Magdalene College, Oxford and Macklin College, Cambridge.
[2:47] In a trilogy of books written by X and published between 1938 and
[2:51] 45, he mentioned some of his characters tracing their descent
[2:55] from the Island of Numinor in the True West.
[2:58] The Island of Numinor made its first on screen appearance in a
[3:02] four and $65 million TV show which first aired in 2022.
[3:08] X jumbled all different kinds of mythology into his most famous
[3:11] series of novels, the first of which took 10 years to write,
[3:14] including Irish and British fairy tales, Germanic folklore,
[3:18] Roman noz and Greek mythologies, and Arthurian romances.
[3:23] An unfinished and unpublished manuscript found after his
[3:26] death, was published along with other short fiction in 1977.
[3:31] Identify the author X. Where is this author from?
[3:40] England. He's a British writer, literary
[3:42] scholar and theologian, held academic positions in English
[3:46] literature at both Magdalene College, Oxford, Magdalene
[3:48] College, Cambridge. No, I don't have much of A clue
[3:54] right now. Can you give me something else?
[3:57] I can guarantee you that fans of this particular author are
[4:00] screaming at their screens of their audio devices right now.
[4:04] So anyway, see, the clue that I would have to give is the first
[4:08] one. I would ask you to focus on this
[4:10] particular part of the question that the island of Newmanor made
[4:13] its first on screen appearance in a $465 million TV show which
[4:21] aired in 2022. It was highly controversial for
[4:24] being so expensive. This would have to be then a
[4:28] Tolkien thing, Lord of the Rings.
[4:31] So you're saying JRR Tolkien? I would imagine if it is, that
[4:35] I'm assuming it's the Rings of Power show.
[4:38] It is the Rings of Power show. OK, so is it Tolkien?
[4:42] No, Oh. Yeah, I crafted this question
[4:48] quite carefully. I had no idea that people were
[4:51] writing fan fiction about a lot of the.
[4:53] I mean, I'm sure there is fan fiction with a lot of the names,
[4:56] but nothing that was officially published or officially
[4:59] canonized. This is not fan fiction.
[5:02] Yeah, not fan fiction, but it is part of the LOTR Canon, I'm
[5:04] assuming. No.
[5:06] Oh, it's not part of the Canon. It may not help, but I will give
[5:15] you the name of the unpublished and unfinished manuscript which
[5:19] was published is called The Dark Tower and other stories I see
[5:25] I've confused. Dark Tower is.
[5:27] Yes. Isn't Dark Tower Stephen King?
[5:33] He does also have a Dark Tower series of novels, 7 or 8 I
[5:36] believe. But yeah, this question.
[5:39] I'm very proud of the fact that I came across this piece of
[5:42] trivia and I was able to craft this question.
[5:44] It's basically crafted to ensure that Tolkien enthusiasts fall
[5:49] into the trap. I'll mention why they'll fall
[5:52] into the trap at the end when I reveal the answer, but the
[5:55] answer is not Tolkien, but it is Tolkien adjacent.
[5:59] Let me put it that way. So when you said that the fans
[6:02] of this author would be screaming, did you mean Tolkien
[6:04] fans would be mistakenly screaming?
[6:06] Exactly. Yeah.
[6:08] OK, cool. So then there are no fans coming
[6:11] from blood then? They would probably be in the
[6:14] same boat as you. There are a few subtle clues
[6:17] here. Tolkien fans can be intense, so
[6:20] I'm kind of glad. But yeah, what are the clues
[6:22] that I missed then? Can you maybe emphasize a little
[6:25] bit? Yeah, So the things that I would
[6:28] ask you to focus on is, again, this is a British writer who
[6:31] held positions in English literature.
[6:33] His most famous series of novels included Irish and British fairy
[6:37] tales, Germanic folklore, Roman Norse and Greek mythologies, and
[6:41] Arthurian romances. It, like Tolkien's work, has
[6:45] also been seen on screen. You think I would have heard of
[6:50] this author? Famous enough?
[6:51] Yes, and died before 1977. Yes.
[6:58] No. Yeah, I have nothing right now.
[7:02] One more clue. As I mentioned, he was Tolkien
[7:05] adjacent. He and Tolkien were very
[7:07] famously good friends, and the movie series, at least the very
[7:12] first one. The most famous of the movies
[7:15] that were made from his writings included a very large CGI lion.
[7:22] Very large CGI talking lion. Doctor Narnia.
[7:27] OK, so if it's Nanya, then who's the author?
[7:30] Lewis CS Lewis. Very good.
[7:32] Yes, it is CS Lewis. So here's why this question
[7:36] would be confusing to many people.
[7:39] CS Lewis and Jayara Tolkien were great friends.
[7:42] They were part of an informal literary club called the
[7:46] Inklings for almost 20 years. OK.
[7:51] So Tolkien, before he ever released the Lord of the Rings
[7:54] series, was developing the mythology and the history of
[7:57] Midler, and so he had mentioned Newmanor in these literary club
[8:03] meetings. OK, so when CS Lewis So CS Lewis
[8:07] wrote a lot of kind of fantasy fiction.
[8:09] And one particular series of novels which we published
[8:12] between 1938 and 1945 was the Space Trilogy.
[8:16] And in one of those, he specifically mentions the Island
[8:19] of Numanor and the true West. But he also says that to
[8:22] understand or to learn more about the history of the Island
[8:25] of Numanor and the true West, wait for my friend JRR Tolkien's
[8:28] book. So.
[8:30] He credits Tolkien in that when CS Lewis wrote this, he had only
[8:34] heard Numanor verbally. He had never read it.
[8:37] He had never read the word, so there was a misspelling that was
[8:40] included in the book. Now coming back to the question
[8:44] I mentioned the trilogy of books published by this person who was
[8:48] an English literature professor at Oxford.
[8:50] Obviously the first thing that people will think of is Tolkien,
[8:53] but if they listened carefully 1938 to 1945 is when I mentioned
[8:57] it. The Lord of the Rings was
[8:58] released in the 50s that were the other clue.
[9:01] Second thing is Tolkien also jumbled all kinds of mythology
[9:04] into The Lord of the Rings. Like there were he drew from a
[9:08] lot of mythology, yes. And he made his own mythology.
[9:10] And finally, the unfinished unpublished manuscript.
[9:15] So a lot of the stories from Tolkien's notes were put
[9:20] together by his son and published again in 1977, the
[9:25] same year that the Dark Tower book came out.
[9:29] And that was the Silmer alien on which The Lord of the Rings
[9:33] Rings of Power is based. So if you're a Tolkien fan, you
[9:38] hear British writer, author, scholar, theologian, English
[9:42] professor released a trilogy of books mentioned Newman or New
[9:46] Manor showed up in ATV series The Rings of Power, lot of
[9:49] mythology and from multiple different sources being pushed
[9:52] into the books and an unfinished book which was published in
[9:55] 1977. Obviously you think the
[9:58] Salmarillion and you would say JRR Token.
[10:01] Luckily for you, you are not a big JRR fan, otherwise you would
[10:03] have been completely confused with the question.
[10:08] I imagine I would have been very annoyed, yeah.
[10:10] And very confused. Yeah, but Zen mode?
[10:14] Because I guess my ignorance helped me today.
[10:18] But that is a fun question and that gives me a perfect segue
[10:22] into my question. Have you heard of the city of
[10:26] Motihari? Not particularly.
[10:31] Doesn't ring a bell. So the city of Motihari is in
[10:34] Bihar. The reason I said your question
[10:37] is a perfect segue is because it is also the birth place of a
[10:41] famous author, Let's call him X. So X was born in Motihari.
[10:48] A couple of years later another very famous person Y visited
[10:53] Motihari and one of the things that Y is very famously known
[10:58] for first started in Motihari. There is another connection
[11:05] between X&Y apart from this city in Bihar, and that is X wrote an
[11:13] essay critiquing Y's autobiography many decades
[11:18] later. The third connection between X&Y
[11:24] is that somebody who worked very closely with Y left that
[11:30] position and went and worked in a place where he worked
[11:33] alongside of X. This person, let's call him Z,
[11:39] was actually a famous actor himself, and his son acted in a
[11:45] film which was about Y wasn't a biographical film, but kind
[11:52] about the things that Y has done in his lifetime.
[11:55] That came out in 2006. So three connections between
[11:59] X&Y. The first one was the place
[12:02] where X was born and Y's life work was kind of born.
[12:08] Another connection, Wise Autobiography, was critiqued in
[12:12] an essay by X many decades later.
[12:15] And the last one is there was somebody who worked alongside of
[12:20] X and under Y, and that person's son acted in a film that came
[12:26] out in 2006 which covered wise works who are X&Y?
[12:33] I'm. Going to put out a guess here.
[12:36] If this is right, I'm going to be really, really happy that I
[12:39] worked this out. Ecstatic, but I'm not sure.
[12:43] OK, so I'm not going to gloat in advance.
[12:47] I'm thinking X is George Orwell, Y is Mahatma Gandhi and Z would
[12:53] be Sunil Dutt. Oh, that is just absolutely
[12:57] brilliant because you got X&Y completely right.
[13:00] OK, Z is very, very out of left field and probably not the most
[13:05] famous of these people, obviously, so I'm not surprised
[13:08] you didn't get that. But that that is I wow.
[13:13] I really was hoping to throw you off with Born Bihar.
[13:17] No, the born in Bihar part. I didn't know about Moti.
[13:19] I don't, I didn't remember the name Motiyari.
[13:21] But I know that George Orwell and even Vivian Leh, the actress
[13:24] Vivian Leh, she was born in Darjeeling.
[13:27] So. I know there are famous
[13:28] international stars who were born in India.
[13:31] I didn't know whether it was Moti Hari.
[13:33] But the moment you kind of went about the question, I had an
[13:35] idea this might be George Orwell.
[13:37] And then who would visit Bihar during that time period and
[13:40] start something and whose autobiography would be
[13:42] critiqued? So then I was like, OK, that
[13:43] must be Mahatma Gandhi. I was thinking it was Lagero
[13:46] Munne bamunna bhai, because you said it's related to his work.
[13:50] So I thought it might be something like that.
[13:52] And that's why I went, you know, Sanjay Dutt and Sunil Dutt.
[13:56] You are right about the film also.
[13:57] So I'll give you half the marks of Sunil Dutt because you were
[14:01] thinking Lagera Munna bhai and it is Lagera Munna bhai that I
[14:04] was referring to the actor somebody called Parikshit
[14:06] Sahani. Parikshit Sahani played a minor
[14:10] role in that movie and he has been in multiple Hirani films
[14:14] and his father was Balraj Sani. Balrat Sani has made some very
[14:18] interesting films in his time, was an actor in a lot of iconic
[14:22] films including Garam Hawa and Choti Behen, Waqt Dharti Kelal
[14:27] Dobi ga Zameen. So yeah, quite the famous actor
[14:31] back in the day and his son acted in this film.
[14:35] Parikshit Sani perhaps not so very well known amongst the
[14:40] population today. I'm not.
[14:41] Able to place a face to the name Parishit.
[14:43] Sani Interestingly, I was seeing his filmography.
[14:46] He has done quite a few films. He has done 3 Irani films and
[14:49] three of the Irani films. In PK he has played Mr. Sani
[14:54] which is his own name, who is a devout Hindu person who also
[14:58] follows this particular leader. Because PK was about religious
[15:03] dogma and and leaders who mislead you.
[15:06] So Sani is one of those people. He's the father of the main
[15:09] character of Anushka Sharma's character in that.
[15:12] So he's the one who's stopping Anushka Sharma from living her
[15:15] life. Then if you go to Lagero Munna
[15:18] bhai, he played Mr. D'souza, this Christian guy whose son
[15:22] wants to start driving taxis to prepay his father.
[15:27] Ah, OK. Yes.
[15:28] I I failed to remember his face now.
[15:30] Yes, you're right. Nice.
[15:32] Yeah. In Three Idiots, he played Mr.
[15:34] Qureshi Farhan, Qureshi's dad. So somehow he's just covering
[15:39] multiple religions in He ran his film A Man.
[15:43] For. All seasons, yeah, a man for all
[15:46] seasons and all religions, apparently.
[15:48] So just in case you didn't get the connection between Gandhi
[15:52] and Motihari. Motihari is the city which is
[15:57] the headquarters of the East Champaran district.
[16:00] And Champaran, as it was then known, was where he started his
[16:04] satyagrah when he went and fought for Champaran farmers.
[16:08] If you remember a history textbook, that was one of the
[16:11] first few places in India where Gandhi tried out this whole
[16:14] satyagrah thing and found it to be successful.
[16:18] And then he adopted it widely. This is the connection between
[16:22] Motihari, where Orwell was born. A few years later, Gandhi
[16:25] visited and he did this many decades later.
[16:28] When Gandhi wrote my experiments with Truth, George Orwell wrote
[16:32] an essay critiquing it. It's called Reflections on
[16:35] Gandhi. The connection between them with
[16:38] the person was Balrat Sani. As I mentioned, Balrat Sani had
[16:41] worked with Gandhi in his ashram and then with Gandhi's blessing,
[16:45] he quit and moved to London to work with the BB CS Hindi radio
[16:49] service. And George Orwell used to work
[16:52] at BBC at the time. So they were colleagues there
[16:54] briefly. So that was the connection
[16:57] between George Orwell and Mahatma Gandhi.
[17:00] Very nice. I really like that question.
[17:03] Let's keep with the same time period.
[17:06] Have you heard of Richard Allen? Sounds familiar, but also sounds
[17:11] generic so not sure. Richard Allen was an Indian
[17:15] field hockey player. OK, he competed in the Summer
[17:18] Olympics in 192832 and 36. He was the goalkeeper of the
[17:24] Indian team and conceded a total of only three goals.
[17:29] At his three Olympic appearances across 3 Olympics, he considered
[17:33] only a total of three goals, with the team winning gold all
[17:37] three times. That's a record that still
[17:39] remains to this day. His first ever gold concession
[17:42] at the Olympics happened during the Los Angeles games against
[17:46] the USA in 1932 while doing something quite silly during the
[17:51] match. In the end, it didn't really
[17:53] matter because India eventually won the match 24, one
[17:57] establishing a world record in the process.
[17:58] Yeah, call it demolishing the USA.
[18:02] What was he doing during the match that allowed the USA team
[18:05] to score against his usually impenetrable goal defense?
[18:10] Was he celebrating a previous save or something?
[18:14] No, it is something quite silly. I don't think it's a forgivable
[18:19] thing. Like if in the time of social
[18:20] media, if he did something like this, he would be trolled
[18:22] horribly mercilessly and he would be hounded because it's
[18:27] quite a silly reason for you to consider goal.
[18:31] Saying since the world of social media, I'm imagining, but again,
[18:36] the time period doesn't work. Posing for pictures, but that
[18:39] doesn't work. OK, So what would be the 1930s
[18:42] equivalent of posing for pictures?
[18:45] Posing for a painting. No, I mean like, OK, see,
[18:49] nowadays you meet a fan, the fan asks you for a selfie, right?
[18:53] Right. What would they have done if it
[18:56] was the 1930s? How do you take a picture
[19:01] without taking a what? OK.
[19:02] No, no. No.
[19:03] Oh, do you mean not take a picture.
[19:04] See. How do you got it, got it, got
[19:06] it, got it, I got it, I got it, I got it.
[19:10] Is it asking for an autograph? Was he signing autographs?
[19:12] Yes, he was off the field signing autographs.
[19:18] I don't know what's worse, that the only goal that he conceded
[19:22] in that entire Olympics came because he was off the field.
[19:26] Or is it that the US team could only score when he was not?
[19:31] There, that is true that maybe he was just doing it as a favor
[19:34] to the Americans, like come on guys, 24/1.
[19:38] I don't think anybody's doing any favors over there.
[19:43] Yes, saving them some embarrassment.
[19:45] Don't go home without scoring at least one goal.
[19:47] But wow, cool. And when you mentioned Richard
[19:49] Allen, Indian field hockey goalkeeper was the last thing I
[19:53] would have thought of so. Now, many people forget that the
[19:57] Indian team didn't have just Indian players.
[19:59] You know, it was British India. True, true, true.
[20:03] The first Indian Indian in courts, Olympic medal was also
[20:10] by a white guy. Yes, Norman Pritchard, if I'm
[20:12] not mistaken. Yeah, back in, I believe, one of
[20:16] the first few Olympics. 1900 or 1896?
[20:19] I don't remember which one, but yeah.
[20:20] One of that was in 1904, but yeah, it's one of these very
[20:23] first. The very first few season.
[20:26] Yeah, in track and field, I think track.
[20:27] And field. Yeah, it was.
[20:28] It was athletic. See, I remember he later went on
[20:30] to become an actor, if I'm not mistaken, Norman Pritchard.
[20:33] So yeah, you're right, you're right.
[20:35] The first Indian, Indian again in courts, Olympic medal was by
[20:40] not an Indian guy. So yeah, cool little trivia
[20:43] there. By the way, I think we have
[20:45] covered this piece of trivia as well as the George Orwell trivia
[20:48] about how George Orwell got his name.
[20:51] I think we've done this in a previous episode.
[20:54] But, and I remember you cracked it then and you look confused
[20:57] right now, which means that you might have forgotten this
[21:01] particular piece of trivia and I could have used it again.
[21:03] But it's anyway, it's OK. I'll give this one as a freebie,
[21:06] Just said Richard Allen gave it in his game and I think it is
[21:10] the River Orwell. The river, OK.
[21:12] That went past his house growing up, George Orwell's house, and
[21:16] he adopted the name because that's his pen name and not his
[21:18] actual name, A. Lot of these questions I crack
[21:21] from context like your question, the context and the time period
[21:24] and things like that. Well, you are pretty good at
[21:27] that. So, OK, now that you have
[21:30] brought up the Olympics, I'm going to talk about the Olympics
[21:34] as well. Oh.
[21:35] I'm going to regret bringing up the Olympics, aren't I?
[21:37] I don't regret it because you're having great segues in this show
[21:40] so far. So Liechtenstein was competing
[21:45] in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time in the 1936
[21:50] Summer Olympics. Now 1936 is one of those
[21:53] Olympics which is very famous amongst trivia hounds for so
[21:56] many reasons. It was the first one to be
[21:58] televised. Obviously Hitler was there
[22:00] promoting the Aryan supremacy and Jesse Owens almost in a
[22:05] scripted little moment he proved him absolutely wrong as he was
[22:09] the highest medal winner, I believe breaking a few world
[22:12] records or something along the way.
[22:14] Fundal Olympics for trivia hounds and another little piece
[22:18] of trivia associated with Liechtenstein.
[22:21] A very small European country was participating for the first
[22:25] time in the 1936 Olympics and they arrived there with six male
[22:30] competitors who took part in five events in three sports.
[22:35] And they didn't end up winning anything, but it was first time
[22:40] participation by this very small country.
[22:42] What is it that they realized, however?
[22:46] Add these games that led to a change back home the very next
[22:51] year. In 1937, Liechtenstein realized
[22:55] something during these games that led to a change back home
[23:00] and Liechtenstein itself, and that change was adopted in 1937.
[23:05] OK, let me clarify. I don't know about this piece of
[23:07] trivia, but is it something to do with their flag?
[23:12] Like they came to the Olympics and people confused them for
[23:15] some other country? Or was it very similar to the
[23:18] Nazi flag or something? And they decided key OK, let's
[23:21] not keep this flag and let's change it.
[23:24] I'm officially resigning from this broadcast because it feels
[23:29] like we need asks his questions, then basically asks my
[23:34] questions. Also like, I don't know why I
[23:36] bother participating. It's OK, we need to just do this
[23:38] on your own, man. I'm done.
[23:41] Which part of it? Is it?
[23:42] Another country? Or is it the Nazi?
[23:43] Flag It is another country. Do you know which country I?
[23:47] Can't remember Liechtenstein's flag.
[23:49] So then I don't know which country it would be.
[23:51] I have no clue that OK. It is one of the flags which has
[23:54] only two colors on it. OK.
[23:56] So Poland, Ukraine. The other country is Central
[24:01] America. It's a country in Central
[24:04] America. Central America.
[24:06] Oh, my flag knowledge isn't that strong.
[24:09] Part of one of the island nations.
[24:12] OK, you just made it worse. I have.
[24:16] No clue. OK, I'll tell you a little bit
[24:18] about that country and its flag, and maybe that will help you
[24:20] because it has a lovely piece of trivia associated with it as
[24:22] well. OK, the lore goes that they had
[24:26] a newly appointed revolutionary leader who created the flag by
[24:31] taking a French tricolor, ripping out the white center
[24:35] which he discarded, and then asking his goddaughter to sew
[24:39] the remaining bands together. Now if you know the French flag,
[24:43] you would know what colors remain blue and red.
[24:45] You thought that the blue represented the black African
[24:51] citizens of this country and the red represented the people of
[24:56] color. I'm assuming the other people of
[24:59] other various ethnicities and places of origin who also
[25:03] happened to live in this country.
[25:04] So lovely piece of trivia. And initially these two colors,
[25:08] as the French flag is, were vertical.
[25:11] The two bands were vertical. Eventually they were made
[25:14] horizontal. Revolutionary island, Central
[25:18] America. I don't remember either of these
[25:22] flags, Cuba or Haiti, because it's a revolution.
[25:25] Oh lovely, you got it right. It is Haiti.
[25:29] It is a Haitian flag. It's a bicolor, so it's a blue
[25:32] and a red, blue on top and red below.
[25:35] Technically they always had a coat of arms on it, but their
[25:42] civil flag was just these two colors.
[25:45] And Liechtenstein's flag before 1937 was also just these two
[25:50] colors. So Haiti was flying its civil
[25:54] flag during the Olympics because they used the official flag only
[25:58] for official purposes. So this was a civil flag being
[26:01] used at the Olympics. And Liechtenstein and Haiti
[26:04] realized they saw each other. They're like, oh, wait a minute,
[26:08] this is a bit confusing. So Haiti adopted their coat of
[26:13] arms version of the flag more commonly after that, and
[26:16] Liechtenstein went back and they also added a golden crown.
[26:20] OK, on the top left corner of the flag.
[26:22] So that is how these two flags are differentiated now.
[26:25] Nice. I'll have to go back and see the
[26:27] flags now to kind of sear it into my head.
[26:30] But nice question, Very nice question.
[26:32] I did have a last piece of trivia about this question, and
[26:35] that was the fact that Haiti did take part in the opening
[26:38] ceremony, but its soul athlete did not compete at the Olympics.
[26:44] If Haiti's soul athlete had not competed and they had decided
[26:47] not to take part in the opening ceremony, between China and
[26:51] Haiti would have had the same flag for at least four more
[26:53] years. Great question.
[26:55] So I am now going to ask you a question again.
[26:59] Going back to movies, the F word is said 28 times in this movie,
[27:05] 13 of which appear in the 1st 1 1/2 minutes throughout
[27:10] production. the US distributor for the film sent frequent faxes
[27:14] objecting to the explicit language and sexual content,
[27:17] fearing that the final product would not be suitable for
[27:20] American distribution or television airings.
[27:22] They particularly objected to the opening scene of the movie,
[27:26] which I mentioned earlier after an initial screening of the
[27:29] movie in Salt Lake City led the conservative Mormon members of
[27:32] the City Council to walk out. The movie was written by Richard
[27:36] Curtis and it was the first British movie to win a Caesar,
[27:40] which is the French equivalent of the Oscar.
[27:42] It was nominated for 8 Baftas, winning four.
[27:45] The film was made in six weeks, cost under £3,000,000 and became
[27:50] an unexpected success and the highest grossing British film in
[27:53] history at the time. Also received 2 Academy Award
[27:56] nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
[27:59] Which film am I talking about? Which year was this?
[28:03] I think it was 1994 if I'm not mistaken.
[28:07] Interesting, because the moment you said this, my first instinct
[28:12] was to say Reservoir Dogs. No, I said.
[28:15] It's a British movie. Yeah, British movie is what
[28:17] threw me off that a lot of F word usage.
[28:23] I mean, like compared to a Tarantino movie, it's nothing
[28:26] but the movie. As I mentioned, when it starts,
[28:30] it's kind of a shock that, you know, the first few words are
[28:34] all the F word, but it's very memorable.
[28:37] It's one of my favorite movies from that era.
[28:40] You said he wrote this film or redirect this film?
[28:43] Richard Curtis wrote for, wrote the movie, wrote the movie.
[28:46] So for the sake of our audience who may not be familiar with
[28:49] Richard Curtis, he's famous for writing a lot of great comedies,
[28:53] including Black Adder has written.
[28:54] Love, Actually, yes, he's. Written Love Actually Mamma Mia
[28:58] to the Bridget Doan's both movies, Notting Hill, and he's
[29:01] also written a lot for Mr. Bean. What is he doing writing a movie
[29:05] with a lot of efforts in it? And it was controversial because
[29:10] the American distributor was worried it may not even run in
[29:12] America because of the explicit language and sexual content.
[29:17] Again, I was inclined to say something along the lines of Guy
[29:19] Ritchie. But again, Guy Ritchie's films
[29:21] are later and also. Like he has a lot more than 28
[29:25] efforts in one movie. His will go in the hundreds I
[29:29] feel. Probably, probably I remember
[29:32] this piece of trivia. It is like at the back of my
[29:34] head. Give me?
[29:35] Give me some other hint. OK, this movie launched the
[29:38] career of two people. One person because he was the
[29:42] lead actor in the movie and the second was his girlfriend at the
[29:47] time during the premiere of the movie.
[29:51] So it launched 2 careers. Did you say 1994?
[29:55] Yeah. Are we talking Hugh Grant by any
[29:58] chance? OK, so then which movie are we
[30:00] talking about? This would be 4 weddings at a
[30:03] funeral. Yes, and his girlfriend at the
[30:06] time, who became famous at the premiere.
[30:09] Oh, who was he dating at the time?
[30:11] No idea who he was dating at the time?
[30:13] No. It was Elizabeth Hurley and her
[30:16] famous Versace black dress. Liz Hurley, Red.
[30:19] How being photographed with Hugh Grant made her an international
[30:22] sensation and her career also took off from there.
[30:25] Interesting. OK, well.
[30:27] And one of the things I like about the movie 4 Weddings and A
[30:30] Funeral is that they show everything quite different to
[30:35] what you would expect. Like when you're talking about
[30:38] romantic comedies, the hero is not supposed to mumble starter,
[30:42] be afraid to meet people's eyes, you know, and wear shaggy
[30:45] clothes, shaggy hair and have glasses and things like that.
[30:47] So Hugh Grant was playing completely against type for Roma
[30:51] ROM com heroes at the time, and it became this huge, huge, huge
[30:55] hit. Richard Curtis went out to work
[30:57] with Hugh Grant again in Notting Hill.
[30:59] Again, fantastic movie, both the Bridget Jones Diaries and Love
[31:03] Actually, where he played the Prime Minister of all people.
[31:08] Great piece of trivia and perfect segue one more time
[31:11] because I have a question about another film this time and it is
[31:18] from the 90s, so 1999. The Thomas Crown Affair.
[31:22] OK, Have you watched it? Yes.
[31:25] Pierce Brosnan. Rene Rosso.
[31:26] Very hot. Lovely poses them.
[31:28] Very attractive, yes. There's a ballroom scene in it,
[31:31] and Brosnan sports a midnight blue woold in a suit and wears
[31:36] it with an open shirt collar and an United white bow tie.
[31:41] OK. Can you tell me why?
[31:44] Again, I am going to guess this because he was also playing
[31:48] James Bond at the time. Was he contractually obligated
[31:51] not to appear in a tuxedo outside of the series?
[31:54] Did you write my questions this time, Vineet?
[31:57] Like what? What happened?
[31:58] What happened this week? What have you had for breakfast?
[32:01] No, no, I'm just I some weeks it's good.
[32:03] You know, you're on A roll. And some weeks, as our listeners
[32:06] can attest to, I just bomb horribly.
[32:09] But this week I'm I'm on a ball. I'm on a ball.
[32:11] This has been a very good week for you.
[32:13] Yes, I have nothing to add. He's absolutely right.
[32:16] Vineet is completely on the mark here because PS Brosnan, who was
[32:19] playing James Bond, I had a contract with his James Bond
[32:24] films. It stated that he wasn't allowed
[32:25] to wear a tuxedo in any other film.
[32:28] Apparently this is a famous clause that is added to every
[32:32] contract for every James Bond actor and while they're playing
[32:36] James Bond, obviously. So while he was shooting for
[32:39] Thomas Crown Affair, which is going to come out in 1999, he
[32:43] realized that he cannot wear a tuxedo.
[32:44] The makers then tried to kind of figure that out because there is
[32:49] a famous ballroom scene and it is supposed to be black tie and
[32:52] he's not wearing a true black tie.
[32:54] Literally. He's wearing a white bow tie,
[32:56] which is united improperly, wears it with an open shirt
[33:00] collar. All of those things would be
[33:02] unacceptable at a formal black tie event.
[33:05] He kind of broke the fashion norms to fulfil his legal
[33:10] obligations. But I can guarantee you, it
[33:13] being Pierce Brosnan, that when he appeared like that, with a
[33:16] button open and an united bow tie around his neck, ovaries
[33:20] around the world exploded. It's Pierce Brosnan.
[33:23] I don't think it was restricted to just women.
[33:25] I'm pretty sure it was people of all genders getting excited at
[33:29] the that man was very, very attractive.
[33:33] Suave, quite the opposite of Hugh Grant.
[33:36] Also attractive, but in a very opposite way.
[33:38] He was very foppish, very foppish, kind of charming.
[33:42] Pierce Brosnan was like, sophisticated, you know?
[33:45] Man's man. He was a man's man and a lady's
[33:48] man, yeah. Yeah.
[33:51] OK. So that's I think all the time
[33:53] that we have for the episode today.
[33:56] Aditya, what is your question for this week?
[33:59] So you asked a question about why Richard Allen missed the one
[34:04] goal that he conceded in the Olympics against America in the
[34:08] iconic match and that was because he was off signing
[34:11] autographs. What would be an unacceptable
[34:15] thing today for let's say a goalkeeper in any of these
[34:19] sports to be doing that would potentially concede a goal?
[34:24] What would a goalkeeper potentially do that would be
[34:27] just absolutely mock worthy and and noteworthy?
[34:35] OK, so for our audience and for any new listeners, this is the
[34:38] non serious part of the podcast, which means that Aditya is not
[34:43] going to give us a serious answer for this next week.
[34:45] Expect silliness and shenanigans galore.
[34:48] I take my comedy very seriously, Vineet.
[34:51] That's like an oxymoronic sentence.
[34:53] You take your comedy. I know the joke, Vineet Kumar.
[34:59] OK, so let me go back to the audience question I asked at the
[35:02] beginning of the episode. Hopefully some of you got it.
[35:04] Some of you may not have. What sentence expressing nervous
[35:08] doubt has been mentioned by Luke, Leah, Han, C3PO, Obi Wan,
[35:13] Anakin, some of the clones, many other characters across the Star
[35:17] Wars universe, and as you said, at least once in every Star Wars
[35:21] movie. So what line are we talking
[35:23] about? And it's not?
[35:24] May the Force be with you? So what line are we talking
[35:26] about that expresses nervous doubt?
[35:29] Obviously when you ask this question, my first instinct was
[35:31] may the force be with you and I realized that's not even 7
[35:34] words. Yeah.
[35:36] Red herring right there. Nervous doubt.
[35:42] Is it something as generic as I've got a terrible feeling
[35:47] about this or I've got a bad feeling about this?
[35:49] Something like that. Yes, you've had the nail on the
[35:52] head. I've got a bad feeling about
[35:54] this. Go to YouTube and search for
[35:57] this. I've got a bad feeling about
[35:58] this and Star Wars. You will find Supercuts made by
[36:01] multiple fans which go for 2-3 minutes showing every time a
[36:04] character has mentioned this. I think the only time somebody's
[36:07] mentioned the correct opposite of it was the Han Solo Solo film
[36:11] called Solo in which he says I've got a good feeling about
[36:15] this. So he went against type and
[36:17] probably why the movie bombed now.
[36:19] Not the reason why the movie bombed.
[36:21] It bombed because it's terrible. But but yeah, so the answer to
[36:27] the question is I've got a bad feeling about this.
[36:30] It's said by every character, and it's mentioned at least once
[36:33] in every Star Wars movie. Cool.
[36:36] By the way, before we wrap up, what's your pop culture
[36:38] recommendation? So I think I mentioned last
[36:41] week, I've been on an Oscar film spree, and I managed to catch a
[36:46] few more of those. I'd mentioned Monster, which I
[36:50] liked and this week I'd mentioned Past Lives again, a
[36:55] great film. I also watched Anatomy of a
[36:57] Fall, also great film, The Holdovers, I believe I mentioned
[37:01] that as well. Do check that out if you haven't
[37:04] Maestro. I have not watched it yet but
[37:07] I'm going to watch it today so I'm just going to give it as a
[37:10] in advance recommendation. And the last one, another film
[37:14] that I'm going to mention. It's a part of the International
[37:17] Film I believe and that is Society of the Snow that is
[37:20] available on Netflix. So check it out.
[37:22] Based off of a true story and a very famous piece of history
[37:27] that again, trivia enthusiasts might have heard of before.
[37:30] So Society of the Snow, a Spanish film and all of these
[37:35] other films that I mentioned. Definitely worth checking out.
[37:39] Definitely. We'll check out your
[37:40] recommendations for the Oscars. I haven't actually got around to
[37:42] watching all the Oscar nominees because most of the time I end
[37:45] up watching something silly and fun most of the time.
[37:49] And there is a very silly and fun movie I want to recommend.
[37:51] It's a movie I've seen multiple times and I find I just love it.
[37:55] It's a Korean movie. It's called Extreme Job.
[37:59] The movie is called Extreme Job. Great film.
[38:02] So I see that you have watched it.
[38:03] So it's about a group of narcotics, very silly group of
[38:07] narcotics detectives who go undercover at a shut down
[38:11] chicken restaurant and to preserve the cover, they start a
[38:14] restaurant and it unpredictably becomes successful.
[38:19] So it's a food movie, a comedy and a crime movie all rolled
[38:22] into one, and a lot of slapstick comedy as well.
[38:24] One of the best film scenes of food in cinema.
[38:27] I love that. I love watching like Supercuts
[38:30] of food in cinema and shows like Hannibal are there.
[38:33] Or The Movie Chef. All of these films which have
[38:36] food primarily. You would not expect a comedy
[38:39] film to have a great scene like Absolute Food Bond, But the
[38:43] scene where he's showing how the fried chicken is made, and I
[38:46] love that scene, It is so beautiful.
[38:48] I remember ordering fried chicken that day.
[38:51] And it's shot so well, you can actually feel the juiciness of
[38:56] the chicken when they're biting into.
[38:57] It just for that scene, it's worth watching.
[38:59] What a great film. Yeah, and it's comedic gold.
[39:04] Absolutely. So if you're looking for
[39:05] something fun, something silly where you just want to have a
[39:10] smile on your face but the entire time you're watching, go
[39:12] for Extreme Job. It's a South Korean flick.
[39:15] Absolute recommendation. And that's all the time we have
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