Science Fiction Trivia

[Cody]

... cryptic hints: three hundred and fifteen forge spurious strike.

Perhaps I should expand on those hints: three hundred and fifteen forge has a bearing on the smuggler's name, and spurious strike could sound like the title.

[Cody]

Clue the second: the young girl is not what she seemed - she is one of the last survivors of an alien race that had been around the solar system for millennia - they may even have inspired the Medusa myth. This was the author’s first professional work, and pre-dates the so-called Golden Age of science-fiction.

[Gimbal Locke]

"Shambleau" by C. L. Moore?

[Cody]

It is Shambleau - Northwest Smith is a great character, who also appeared in later tales.
Heinlein took the title of The Green Hills of Earth from this tale - C. L. Moore was ahead of her time, methinks.

Over to you, Mr G!

[Gimbal Locke]

In what movie is an eyelid the only thing which moves?

[Gimbal Locke]

Perhaps I should add that there is nothing cryptic about the above clue - it has to be taken literally.

After World War III, a PoW is sent through time to ensure the survival of the human race.

[Rxke]

Twelve monkeys? You're referring to the slo-mo effect towards the end? (No specifics (spoilers) in the unlikely case someone hasn't seen the movie yet)


(Edit: nope, can't be this one)

[Gimbal Locke]

Twelve monkeys? You're referring to the slo-mo effect towards the end?

You are very close to the correct answer.

[Rxke]

La jetée.

But I'm truly puzzled... That I find this through Googling 'twelve monkeys blinking'

Is Google that smart it makes this link?

SEMANTIC WEB ???

[Gimbal Locke]

Yes, it is La Jetée (1962), by Chris Marker.

Twelve Monkeys (which I have not seen myself yet) is a remake of La Jetée (The Jetty).

The "movie" is online in French with English subtitles: part 1, part 2. It is made with a Pentax still camera, except for the shot of the moving eyelid (at 5:18 in part 2).

In Time Magazine, La Jetée is Nr. 1 in the Top-10 of best time travel movies.

Chris Marker (Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve) died yesterday at age 91.

Over to Rxke!

[Rxke]

I will check that out for sure, sounds tantalizingly good.

(amazing what one can do sometimes with film, too bad almost everyone follows the hollywood techniques for storytelling...

Hmmm... Question question....

A white bird starts talking like some kind of holy oracle after swallowing something starting with an 'I'

The I.... of ....

[Rxke]

I thought it would be easy, heh. Maybe not in Anglo-Saxon culture.

hint: it's a 'bande dessinée'

[Rxke]

surface with one side

[Gimbal Locke]

The Incal of Light by Moebius & Alejandro Jodorowsky

[Rxke]

Indeed.

So... No one know this outside France and Belgium?