TUESDAY TRIVIA 1/28/14 QUESTION #1 ANSWER Spike Jonze is the writer and director of five-time Oscar nominee “HER” (Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Song, and Best Production Design) which will be opening its run at Railroad Square Cinema on this coming Friday, January 31st. The film tells the story of a lonely writer who develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased computer operating system thats designed to meet his every need. Jonze has directed 40 films, but most of those have either been shorts or documentaries. He is best-known for a handful of narrative feature-films that he has directed and/or written. Which of these following films did he NOT write or direct? A. “ADAPTATION” B. “BEING JOHN MALKOVICH” C. “JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA” D. “SYNECDOCHE” E. “WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE” CLUE #1: The writer and director of the film for which Jonze does not have a writing or directing credit wrote scripts for two of the films on the list that Jonze did direct. CLUE #2: Jonze shares a writing credit for one of the films with star Johnny Knoxville. ANSWER: Clue #2 reveals that Spike Jonze collaborated on the script with Johnny Knoxville, the star of the JACKASS franchise, making Jonze a writer of C. JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA. Spike Jonze directed and adapted (with Dave Eggars) Maurice Sendaks book into E. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Charlie Kaufman wrote the scripts for A. ADAPTATION and B. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH which Spike Jonze then directed. Charlie Kaufman, as Clue #1 alludes, wrote and directed D. SYNECDOCHE which is the correct answer. By the way while Spike Jonze does not have a writing or directing credit on SYNECDOCHE, he was one of its producers.
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