Cillian Murphy is a bad guy who threatens a woman,while on a night flight, by holding her father, to help his organisation assassinate a politician in the 05 thriller Red Eye.Who is this woman

LEVEL 2 — 🎬 FILM ENTHUSIAST

Welcome to another 2nd Level 🎬 Film Enthusiast quiz, where the questions go beyond the most familiar movie facts and take us into interesting stories, unusual productions, famous filmmakers, actors, and pieces of film history. The 12 films in this quiz move between thrillers, adventures, dramas, comedies, classic cinema, and historical stories. Some questions focus on the people behind the camera, while others explore how a film was made, where it premiered, or the real events that inspired it. If you enjoy discovering the stories behind the movies as much as watching them, this quiz is for you.

We begin this quiz with the 2005 psychological thriller Red Eye, directed by Wes Craven. During a night flight, Cillian Murphy plays a man who threatens a fellow passenger, the manager of a luxury resort, and holds her father hostage, played by Brian Cox. He forces her to make a phone call to her workplace and request that a particular guest be moved to a specific room, allowing Murphy's group to carry out an assassination. There is also an interesting coincidence surrounding the production of the film. While Craven was making Red Eye, another movie set on an airplane was being filmed for a different studio. That film was Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster. The two movies had very different stories and tones, but they still ended up racing to see which one would reach theaters first. Red Eye won the race, being released in August 2005, while Flightplan followed in September.

Next, we move to Uncharted, the 2022 American action-adventure film directed by Ruben Fleischer and based on the video game franchise of the same name, developed by Naughty Dog. It is a wild and fantastical adventure filled with hidden treasures, secret passages, spectacular escapes, dives from moving airplanes, and even ships flying through the air. The film takes the treasure-hunting spirit of the games and turns it into a fast-moving big-screen adventure.

From adventure, we move to the romantic drama Live Flesh (1997), written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and adapted from the novel Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell. Starring Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina, and Penélope Cruz, the film tells a beautiful, tender, but also harsh story set in Madrid during the 1970s. It explores relationships, desire, jealousy, violence, and the way one event can change several people's lives. The film is also notable because it marked the first collaboration between Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar, a partnership that would later become one of the most important actor-director collaborations in Spanish cinema.

Our next question takes us behind the camera to filmmaker James Foley. Foley began his career directing music videos exclusively for Madonna, including several of her major hits during the mid-1980s. He then moved into feature films, working with well-known screenwriters such as Chris Columbus and William Goldman, and with major actors including Daryl Hannah, Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, and Chow Yun-fat. At the same time, Foley directed episodes of popular television series such as Twin Peaks, Hannibal, House of Cards, and Billions. Later in his career, he directed the final two films in the Fifty Shades series, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. Despite the huge publicity and high expectations surrounding them, they represented a particularly disappointing ending to this part of his directing career. Foley came close to the top with Glengarry Glen Ross, but the film is perhaps remembered most strongly for David Mamet's powerful screenplay and its remarkable cast, which included Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, and Jonathan Pryce.

Zeroville tells the story of a young man with a tattoo of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his shaved head. He considers them the two most beautiful people in the world and arrives in Hollywood hoping to build a career in the film industry. He arrives at a particularly extraordinary moment: the same day that the hippie "Family," led by Charles Manson, commits five brutal murders in the canyons above Los Angeles. The film is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Steve Erickson, but bringing the movie to the screen turned into a long and difficult journey. The project was announced in 2011, and filming finally began in October 2014. It was originally being prepared for release in 2015, but the company behind the film went bankrupt. Zeroville was eventually given a limited theatrical release on September 20, 2019.

Here we are looking for the first film Alfred Hitchcock made in color. The film consists of 10 long takes, cleverly connected so that the story appears to unfold in real time. Each shot continued for up to ten minutes, which was the maximum amount of film that could fit into the camera magazine. The brilliant filmmaker, who liked to experiment with a new technique in almost every film he made, directed this movie in 1948, starring James Stewart, Farley Granger, and John Dall. Hitchcock's inspiration also came from a 1939 BBC television production directed by Dallas Bower, around ten years earlier. The film itself was inspired by the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. It was adapted by Hume Cronyn, with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. The original play was said to have been inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. The two young men committed the murder because they wanted to prove that they were intellectually superior. They believed that their intelligence gave them both the right and the ability to commit a "perfect crime" and escape without consequences. After an investigation, they were caught and imprisoned. On January 28, 1936, Loeb was attacked with a straight razor in a prison shower room by another inmate. Leopold, meanwhile, was eventually released after 33 years. After his release, he married a widowed florist, attempted to rebuild his life, and moved to Santurce, Puerto Rico. The Leopold and Loeb case influenced several films besides Hitchcock's film, including Compulsion (1959), Swoon (1992), and Murder by Numbers (2002).

The title of this film is based on the song "The Kids Are Alright" by The Who, written by Pete Townshend and later covered by many well-known bands and artists. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko, the film features a strong cast, with Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, and Josh Hutcherson in supporting roles. The film had an interesting festival journey. It was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, even though it was submitted after the deadline for competitive entries. It was also screened at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. In addition, the film opened that year's Los Angeles Film Festival and closed the Sydney Film Festival.

Next, we are looking for a film starring Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Anthony Hopkins, directed by Martin Campbell. Interestingly, the project originally began with Robert Rodriguez as its director before Campbell took over. The music was composed by James Horner, who also wrote the music for the title song, "I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You," with lyrics by Will Jennings. For the film, the song was recorded by American singer Marc Anthony and Australian singer Tina Arena.

The next question concerns the directorial debut of actor Paul Dano, the 2018 film Wildlife. The screenplay was based on the novel by Richard Ford and was written by Dano and Zoe Kazan. The film tells its story through a deeply personal family drama and marked Dano's first feature as a director. Wildlife had an impressive festival journey. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival.

Milton Katselas is probably better known as an acting teacher than as a film director. One of the movies he directed was 40 Carats (1973), in which he replaced William Wyler, who had left the project for health reasons. The film was based on the Broadway production of 40 Carats. The English-language stage adaptation was made in the United States by Jay Presson Allen, from the French play Quarante Carats (1967), written by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy. The original Broadway production opened at the Morosco Theatre in New York on December 26, 1968, after two previews. It went on to run for 780 performances, closing on November 7, 1970. 40 Carats was also the final film photographed by cinematographer Charles Lang.

Here we have a relatively little-known British film, The Theory of Flight, directed by Paul Greengrass in 1998. The star of the film is Kenneth Branagh, who plays an unsuccessful artist dreaming of flying and building primitive flying machines. But the question asks us to identify the actress who plays a seriously ill woman who is almost always in a bad mood. The film premiered at the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 1998.

We close the quiz with Suffragette, directed by Sarah Gavron. The film is set mainly in London in 1912–1913, at a time when the movement for women's right to vote in Britain had become increasingly militant. What makes the film especially interesting is the way it combines fictional characters with real historical events and people. Many of the events shown in the film are based on the real history of the suffragette movement. The cast also includes Anne-Marie Duff, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson, while the music was composed by Alexandre Desplat. The film offers a mixture of fictional personal stories and real historical events, making it a fitting way to end a quiz that has taken us through very different periods, genres, filmmakers, and pieces of cinema history.

From airplane thrillers and treasure hunts to Hitchcock, Hollywood, European cinema, and the fight for women's rights, these 12 films have given us plenty of different paths into film history. Now it is time to see how much you remember. Good luck!