Scarecrow under attack part 3 - Guess the Movie (solution guaranteed)

Clue 1 - The film has a strong connection to something widely reported that happened between November 22nd and December 2nd this year.

Clue 2 - It has the name of a 1980s popstar in the title. (Technically one letter of the popstar's spelling is different)

Clue 3 - Fozzie Bear's description of this clue ( see http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=15440435 ) is actually more accurate than the original. He said 'theres a link to outer space in the title although the film is not sci fi'
Much better clue.

Clue 4 - The film title quite obviously changes a number for something intangible.

Clue 5 - The film's second most famous scene involves levitation and cheap jewellery

Clue 6 - It has a girl's name in the title.

Clue 7 - The film features dance sequences and weaponary that neither stabs or shoots.

Clue 8 - Specific scenes are extremely well known, although the full film was successful when it came out

Clue 9 - It has a great cast

Clue 10 - Its director and star are popular and prolific and its star is particularly known.

Clue 11 - It has a great soundtrack

Clue 12 - The scarecrow gets attacked by a smaller person in a violent scene. (Not to be confused with any film where a scarecrow gets attacked by a larger person on a small person's behalf).

Clue 13 - The film title starts with letter A, ends with E and has more than four words in it

Clue 14 - No number in the title (or any number in word form etc)

Clue 15 - Features one of the most famous flying sequences in the history of film but your parents probably haven't seen it

Clue 16 - Something in the film is SILVER when it should be very obviously more valuable

Clue 17 - The film was made before 1982 (Blackjackking's birthday guess)

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I'll post a screencap later today.

Am onto it. Give me 20 mins.

how many fishies will jump into the net this time

I believe him.

Ok. Give me a bit longer.

Yawn

Is it Bambi?

Thanks nice1 for not automatically assuming it's BS. :)
Thanks jimmy69 for absolutely nothing. :(

It's not bambi but it's the third best guess yet.
Redbag was closer though.

Pictures coming up after teatime. Pwomise.

ahhhh this will be the ground bait. here fishy fishy

http://www.imagechunk.com/images/scarecrow_under_attack_a_03.jpg

http://www.imagechunk.com/images/scarecrow_under_attack_a_04.jpg

http://www.imagechunk.com/images/scarecrow_under_attack_a_05.jpg


Okay that's the first three pictures.
I'll add three per day till somebody gets it, hopefully we'll be done and dusted by the weekend.
The pics are full screen pics but my capping method squashes them a bit.
But nothing is editted out and each day they will be easier to identify the film.

Clue 3 is still not quite right. the rest are fine
New Clue 3 - There are three references to sci fi or to fantasy in the film title.
Clue 1, 3 and the one about SILVER are slightly cryptic but the rest are straightforward.

That's not a scarecrow, that's a tramp!

I never said he was the scarecrow... (that pic should help with clue 7 though)

Will post three pics of the Scarecrow on 'Scarecrow Saturday' unless it's solved in next 2 days.

Anyone got it yet?

I think we need more clues!

No problem. three more stills from the film.

http://www.imagechunk.com/images/scarecrow_under_attack_a_02.jpg

http://www.imagechunk.com/images/scarecrow_under_attack_b_03.jpg

http://www.imagechunk.com/images/scarecrow_under_attack_b.jpg

Clue 18 : The original soundtrack was not as good as the soundtrack the film later acquired which was more experimental and considered very influential and ahead of its time.

Clue 19 : There are actually TWO girls' names in the title! One is the slightly misspelled name of an eighties popstar who was in two successful bands (big clue). The other girls name is spelled correctly.

Nov 22nd to Dec 02nd was a New Moon

Akeelah and the Bee

would that have been widely reported?

Probaley not and Akeelah and the Bee doesn't really fit in either.

actually a pretty ** e guess to be honest

The Priest 10 Dec 23:14
Nov 22nd to Dec 02nd was a New Moon


Getting very warm. So so close.
Just missing one specific event within that period.

I don't follow the News :(

Doesn't matter about the news.

Look at that period in a similar way to the Priest.
the New moon bit was trickier the widely reported part should be easy!

'Scarecrow Saturday'

What a to$$er, probably works for NTL.

Ha, Ha, Ha.

Lol. Just couldn't help yourself could you.
Bet you've been sitting on your hands trying not to leech your way onto this thread.

But well done for staying off it for four whole days, you needy little stalker-worm.

has this film been guessed yet?

ty

Journeyman 14 Dec 05:11
Lol. Just couldn't help yourself could you.
Bet you've been sitting on your hands trying not to leech your way onto this thread.

But well done for staying off it for four whole days, you needy little stalker-worm.


Yes i did come on this thread to show you up for the hi-jacking to$$er you are, i started this thread initially and you have kidnapped it with your little girl petty mind games because you were wrong, wrong & wrong to the max. What a fool you must have felt and feel.
I am in no way stalking you, i am excercising my right, as a fully funded forumite, to express my opinions when & wherever i please just as you did on my threads.
I pity you in a way that you have to reinforce your weak self esteem by trying to demean other forum users.

Actually you've served one useful purpose.
You've reminded me I was meant to post 3 scarecrow pictures at the weekend. so with no further ado...

This is a back view from an earlier scene.
http://www.imagechunk.com/images/scarecrow_under_attack_a_07.jpg

This is the scarecrow being stabbed
http://www.imagechunk.com/images/scarecrow_under_attack_a_08.jpg

and here is the actual death scene
http://www.imagechunk.com/images/scarecrow_under_attack_a_09.jpg

jimmy69 09 Dec 16:12

Yawn


hear hear.

JUGADOR MEJOR 13 Dec 23:59
'Scarecrow Saturday'

P.S. The comment i made above was justified, you promised every forumite a so called "scarecrow saturday" that came and went. You also allowed your thread to disappear from the main list. What kind of management is that?, bear in mind that some forumites may not know how to put these threads back to the top. Personally i don't really care what the answer to your over cooked film puzzle is, but i'm sure there are others who would like to know. I strongly believe that you are purposely making other forumites suffer as you persue your pathetic vendetta against me over a comment i made on a previous thread aimed at a man who urinated on a war memorial (which was very wrong by the way).
I suggest you retract your "answer guaranteed" statement and apologise to everyone you have wound up, replace it with:
"I, Journeyman, am a vindictive childish person who does not like Jugador Mejor therefore my schoolgirl pride will never allow me to reveal the answer to my long winded film puzzle", with your apology.
Then you have put the thread to bed for good, let it die.

get a life!

Is it a film with a foreign language title?

Yup.

i have to admit, i thought journeyman was on a wind up, but this thread shows he ain't, i am still convinced i have never heard of the film though

Is the pop star Siobhan from bananarama?

Ridiculously close nice1.

think of another female band, two girls, and they were part of another pop band before that.

Pepsi and shirley

Yes.

Specifically SHIRLIE.
Well done.

Clue 1 is now the key. I'll slightly expand it as you're so close.
Something happens in the last week of November that is widely known.
there is something associated with that thing that will give you thae last piece of the puzzle.

Halloween

Very close! Halloween is october though.
What is celebrated the month after halloween?

(Not necessarily in the UK)

Thanks Giving

Yup. and What is associated with Thanksgiving...

parade?

Turkey

BOOM! :)

pilgrims

americans

turkey

Okay Clue 16. You get a bit more to work with.

Clue 16 - Something in the film is SILVER when it should be very obviously more valuable

The something more valuable is RUBY.

i think you'll get it from there.
I am going out briefly. Hope you're home and dry by the time I'm back.

It's turkey.

Oh and clue 18.
The soundtrack in question is one of the biggest selling of all time.

;)

I know it!!!

I dont yet.
Is it a Wizard Of Oz parody with Pink Floyds Dark Side Of The Moon

you want me to post the title?

Not yet.
Give us another clue please.

Errr....Turkish

Ok. I am now very close

nice one

I have it as well. Thx for that extra clue.

Do we post the answer now?

found it.

never heard of it

me niether

I know it (and have since watched it) but I don't want to end Journeymans power trip.

The movie has enjoyed a second life on the internet. A copy of the film synched to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" has made the rounds of internet video sites.

Not Yet. Leave it for JourneyMan to do it i think.

you've watched it?? why??

Illmatic 14 Dec 15:10
you've watched it?? why??
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To see if it was really as crap as it sounded on here.

All this balls about 'great cast', 'great soundtrack' was way off the mark!

Maybe he meant the original

its on youtube in 9 parts if you feel the need

Well come on then guess it! It's part of the instructional title !

Well done Illmatic and Niceone.
You share the credit i think as Niceone1 made the crucial breakthrough.

In the best part of a month, nobody else thought to ask if it had a foreign language title.

[b]Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar

That kept me entertained for about 120 hours! I can get to sleep now.

Early on i thought it was foreign. And had a Pink Floyd soundtrack. But i just could not make the connection.

The films looks like it is that bad that it is good.

It is very trippy to watch, but the Pink Floyd version has a strange kind of beauty.
Well done again for persisting. Just as well as I was running out of screencaps...

1st place (equal) -Niceone / Illmatic
3rd place (benefit of the doubt) Shrew D aka Fozzie bear

This thread was the Forum Equivalent of those ITV late night Quiz Call shows from a few years ago.

i`ll be honest ive never felt so disappointed in my life!

JM you thought we would get that! its a turkish title and everything about it is turkish FFS :^0

Girls name in it! shirley but its spelled all wrong and isnt shirley :^0

im amazed you havent been lynched

Come on now, I'm sure you've had greater disappointments Blckjacking ;)

I did think that the forum would get it a little quicker but all that was needed was a bit of outside the box thinking.
Yes it's World Cinema but it's quite well known in cult film circles (along with the Turkish Star Wars).

You know yourself from your quiz that the forum is supposed to be quite good at films.

It just needed some fresh/lateral thinking to solve it. Once Nice1 worked out
the angle it was always going to be a matter of time before it was solved really.

Cult Films are almost invariably rubbish.

I was a bit annoyed as i thought of Pepsi & Shirley for the Pop Music Q but would never have helped me as never heard of this Film . 'Well Known in Turkey' is not the same as 'Well Known' imo.