M Puzzle: Background Research

by Jeff Chan

As the flavortext suggests, these are "classical" scenes--scenes during which, if this weren't a library, the boss could hear classical music. Reordering the movies by their descriptions and taking the indicated letter of the composer's name (i.e. the composer of the music playing during that particular scene--hence "Rossini" for the Beethoven-filled Immortal Beloved) gives:

LetterComposerIndexMovie
TMozart(6)Amadeus
HBach(4)Tomb Raider
IVerdi(5)Pretty Woman
RBartok(3)The Shining
DMendelssohn(4)Four Weddings & Funeral
MMahler(1)Tampopo
OOffenbach(1)Moulin Rouge
VBeethoven(7)Die Hard
IPuccini(7)Room with a View
EBerlioz(2)Star Trek First Contact
SRossini(4)Immortal Beloved
IGorecki(7)Fearless
NHanson(6)Aliens
GWagner(3)Apocalypse Now
EBizet(4)Trainspotting
RStrauss(3)2001: A Space Odyssey
RBarber(3)Platoon
OOrff(1)Excalibur
YTchaikovsky(11)Billy Elliott

The message is THIRD MOVIE SINGER ROY. The third movie (by image or description) is Pretty Woman, and the Roy who sang "Pretty Woman" is ORBISON.

Training:

As suggested by "gamut from A to Z," this puzzle is trained by "Whoa--I Know My ABCs!" The training puzzle answer is REMOVE A LETTER, and there is only one way to remove a letter from "Orbison" to give a new word. The answer is ORISON.