Stop reading the credits. Start reading the design.
By Richie.Zh01
24 Questions
L1 Difficulty
1 × 24 Points
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About This Quiz
Forget billing. Follow layout. Bass-style emblems beat title text; hand-painted glow sells time travel; bleach-bypass haze screams invasion; mask-and-cloak confesses rivalry. Genre leaks long before credits.
Track hierarchy, negative space, and the one audacious prop an art director fought for. When two films share a vibe, squint at kerning, paper age, and era-specific retouch habits. Your eye knows more than it admits.
Treat this as a typography and palette safari disguised as movie trivia. Call the film, note the tell, and never unsee it again.
[A] The Hangover | Name-check the tired trio; then baby with sunglasses clinches it. Baby in shades made viral marketing before memes were routine.
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2. Juno
[B] Juno | Striped shirt and skirt hints it; orange graph paper proves it. Juno’s striped tee and orange graph paper create instant quirk grammar.
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3. Jaws
[C] Jaws | Compare shark rising and swimmer above; only one matches. Roger Kastel adapted the novel art: swimmer above, doom below.
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4. The 40 Year Old Virgin
[C] The 40 Year Old Virgin | The texture—beam of hopeful light—with striped polo is unique. Steve Carell’s angelic key light jokes before any punchline.
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5. Breakfast at Tiffany's
[B] Breakfast at Tiffany's | It’s the combo of black dress and pearls and cigarette holder. Black dress, pearls, and cigarette holder canonized Hepburn chic.
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6. Star Trek
[D] Star Trek | Poster grammar: warp streaks followed by Enterprise silhouette. Warp streaks and ship silhouette promise sleek reboot energy.
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7. Wedding Crashers
[C] Wedding Crashers | Two markers—suits mid-dance; red tall title. Two idiots mid‑dance in tuxedo chaos. Mission: mischief.
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8. American Pie
[A] American Pie | Graphic tells: pie gag; teen group. A literal pie gag. Broad teen energy advertised honestly.
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9. Wall Street
[B] Wall Street | The mood of city skyline, plus slicked-back hair. Slicked hair and skyline. Greed given a glossy face.
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10. District 9
[D] District 9 | Dial in no aliens sign. Cross‑check hovering ship. Handmade “No aliens” signage plus hovering prawn ship sell allegory.
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11. Groundhog Day
[C] Groundhog Day | Signals: alarm clock; later endless loop look. Clock motif visualizes the loop better than any synopsis.
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12. The Sting
[D] The Sting | You’re hunting vintage con-art duo and sepia poster art. Painterly duo at a table nods to 1930s poster art.
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13. Rain Man
[B] Rain Man | Spotlight two men walking road. Afterward tan trench. Two men, one road. Distance and care compressed into a walk.
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14. The Incredibles
[D] The Incredibles | Cue set: bold red family icons with retro mask shapes. Retro circles and bold red make a family crest for supers.
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15. Shutter Island
[A] Shutter Island | Evidence: lighthouse shard; corroborated by stormy sea. Knife of light from a lighthouse carves Scorsese’s paranoia.
[D] Moonstruck | Notice moonlit jump; keep opera red in frame. Cher mid‑leap in moonlight sells operatic Brooklyn romance.
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18. Airplane!
[C] Airplane! | Start on knotted plane. Pivot to blue sky. Knotted jet equals instant ridiculousness. Premise explained at a glance.
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19. JFK
[D] JFK | Stars-and-stripes collage anchors it; silhouette profile signs it. Collaged flag and silhouette cue obsession over evidence.
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20. Boys Don't Cry
[C] Boys Don't Cry | Desaturated close-up and Nebraska plains align with the one-sheet. Bleached prairie tones match the story’s stark Midwestern truth.
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21. Mary Poppins
[C] Mary Poppins | Follow umbrella flight; validate with Victorian skyline. Umbrella flight over London makes nanny magic literal.
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22. Dumb and Dumber
[A] Dumb and Dumber | Read tone via shaggy van; props via goofy duo. Sheepdog van and bad hair make anti‑cool its own brand.
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23. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
[D] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | The palette—golden silk—and the object—sword stances. Golden silk and poised swords telegraph balletic wuxia.
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24. Schindler's List
[A] Schindler's List | Red coat accent then black-and-white crowd, neat and decisive. Red coat on grayscale locates innocence amid atrocity.