Quiz Show (February 6, 2013)

[Akoutroubas]

Why is the movie for popular in Australia?

[Rick Grimes]

Originally Posted by mulscul

For anyone like me in the U.S. interested in this, it's $19.99 and fulfilled by Amazon, is this region free though?

https://www.amazon.com/Quiz-Show-Blu...n%3A2650305011

Quiz Show is definitely region free. I own a copy and I put the Region Coding information in myself. It played just fine in my US Blu-Ray player (my sister brought it over following a holiday in the US. I use a Step-Down transformer to convert the 240 volts to 110 volts ). One of the best investments I have ever made, as it is great to not have to worry about Region Coding (never come across a Region C locked disc yet).

Originally Posted by trobrianders

Was on the lookout for this at a reasonable price for some time and found the Australian copy for £8.60 three years ago. It's in my top ten all time faves mostly for the way it plays. A perfect screenplay by Paul Attanasio who I was already a fan of from Homicide: Life on the Street. I can't quite believe it was directed by Robert Redford who I've always considered a bit of a lightweight in terms of his wishy-washy political views. Has anyone ever sat through the absurdly simplistic polemics of Lions for Lambs?

Another reason to love it is the brilliant casting; from the smooth, pebble-foreheaded Fiennes and his nemesis mensch Morrow who should have popped up so much more after giving us Dr. Fleischman. Scofield and Scorsese lend their characters the neccessary gravitas and Turturro the neccessary irritable quality. All the supporting players were excellent. The closing credits sequence where the audience were forced to watch themselves applauding the fraud that that they had been complicit in to the strains of Mack The Knife was just perfect.

It is a great ending. Mack the Knife works nicely with the slow motion crowd, especially following the epilogue titles explaining where everyone is now (Quiz Show being based on a true story). Gives the audience some time to process that "What the f*ck!" feeling you get at the end of Quiz Show. Truth really is stranger then fiction.

Redford did a fantastic job directing this one. Great film. All the performances were top notch. Deserved it's Best Picture Oscar Nomination, but unfortunately, it was Forrest Gump's year (and Quiz Show was also going up against Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption).
Four Weddings and a Funeral was the fifth film nominated.

Probably one of the strongest years for movies in the Academy's history.
If it wasn't for Gump being the sentimental favourite (the aging academy voters would have loved Gump's homage to US history), and the fact that both Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption should easily have beaten out Forrest Gump to Best Picture, Quiz Show, IMO, ranks up there with the latter films (although, if the Best Pic award was ranked, I'd go Shawshank 1st, Pulp Fiction a close 2nd, Quiz Show 3rd, Gump 4th, Four Funerals 5th).

Originally Posted by Akoutroubas

Why is the movie for popular in Australia?

I saw Quiz Show twice in the cinema and both times, it had a pretty good crowd. I'd say it had a good box office return. Network TV ran it a few times as well back then (we didn't get cable TV until 1996'ish).

Also, back in 1994, Aussie's were still very much into game shows as legitimate forms entertainment. There was a show called "Sale of the Century" that played in prime-time for 21 years, five nights a week (1980-2001). That may have had something to do with it.

Lastly, it really is a great film. It is amazing to watch how good people can be put in questionable situations, and their morality gets corrupted. How corporations are happy to perpetuate a lie and a con on society, if it gets them profits and last of all, how quickly "tall poppies" get cut when they are no longer needed, how fast someone can become a scape goat and the way the media can turn on a person.

All in all, a well-crafted film, with great actors giving great performances.

[blurayagent]

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw= quiz+show+++bluray+&_sacat=0


A few copies going for decent dollars at moment on ebay, at least 3 over $200 mark,

Not going to sell my copy however, doubt disney will ever re-release it locally.