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Albert Lin
This puzzle is a series of movie screen shots. The first step is to identify as many of the movies as possible. One thing that should make this task easier is that several of the movies are from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series.
After identifying the movies, the question is then what to do with them. With enough of the scenes identified, watching the various movies should reveal that the screenshots all occur just before or soon after a character explodes or falls to their death or is otherwise scared witless. The key is to listen to the audio of the movies -- each screenshot is near a distinctive screaming noise. This scream is known as the Wilhelm Scream and is used as a subtle calling card by several Hollywood sound people. Identifying whether the screenshot is before or after the scream and taking the corresponding first or last letter of the movie name spells out a clue phrase:
(-: before, +:after)
## | +/- | letter | movie |
---|---|---|---|
01 | + | 4 | Lethal Weapon 4 |
02 | - | T | Toy Story |
03 | - | H | Hercules |
04 | - | T | Titanic |
05 | - | I | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
06 | - | T | Two Towers |
07 | + | L | Kill Bill |
08 | + | E | Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace |
09 | + | S | Planet Of The Apes |
10 | - | O | Osmosis Jones |
11 | - | U | Under the Tuscan Sun |
12 | + | N | Aladdin |
13 | - | D | Dante's Peak |
14 | + | D | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind |
15 | - | E | Empire Strikes Back |
16 | - | S | Salton Sea |
17 | - | I | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
18 | + | G | Just Visiting |
19 | + | N | Tears Of The Sun |
20 | + | E | Die Hard With A Vengeance |
21 | - | R | Raiders of the Lost Ark |
22 | - | C | Charge At Feather River |
23 | - | H | Hollywood Boulevard |
24 | - | R | Reservoir Dogs |
25 | + | I | Return of the Jedi |
26 | - | S | Star Wars |
The clue phrase is 4TH TITLE SOUND DESIGNER CHRIS.
The 4th title is Titanic.
The sound designer for Titanic was Chris Boyes.
The answer is BOYES.
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