Match the 2021 Best Picture Nominee with a Quote Quiz

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1. "The Irish were born for leavin', otherwise the rest of the world'd have no pubs."

Answer: Belfast

Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, "Belfast" is Mr. Branagh's memoir, on film, of growing up in Belfast, Ireland in 1969, during the strife known as "The Troubles". The line is spoken by Auntie Violet, played by Josie Walker, during one of the many debates the family has regarding whether to leave their home in Belfast or stay.

The bombings and violence keeps increasing so they are torn. Buddy is the little boy filling in for Branagh, and Auntie Violet is related to Buddy's mother, bravely showing up at family gatherings despite the intimidation by guards cordoning off areas of their neighborhood.

2. "You know why God made farts smell? So deaf people could enjoy them too."

Answer: CODA

Troy Kotsur won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, playing the family patriarch, Frank Rossi, a benevolent father, sympathetic to his daughter's plight and enjoys joking with her even to the point of jokes pointed at his own and others' deafness. He signs this joke to his daughter Ruby.

The Rossis are a family in which all the members are deaf except for the daughter, Ruby who is hearing and does all the translating for the family along with juggling working on the family fishing boat, having a social life, and pursuing her dream to be a singer.

3. "Well, I... You know... I just despise the, you know, getting-to-know-you part of relationships, so..."

Answer: Don't Look Up

When two astronomers (Kate Dibiasky, played by Jennifer Lawrence and Dr. Randall Mindy played by Leonardo DiCaprio) discover that a comet is heading toward Earth and will destroy all life, they take their finding to the U.S. President, but the Administration rebuffs them. So the two scientists decide to go on a talk show hosted by Brie Evantee and Jack Bremmer (Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry) to leak the news.

But that also proves ineffective. Mindy does however become a regular on the talk show and has an affair with Brie.

They talk about how they don't really know much about each other and Brie explains her displeasure with getting personal.

4. "Chekhov is terrifying. When you say his lines, it drags out the real you."

Answer: Drive My Car

The Japanese drama "Drive My Car" explores guilt, betrayal, trauma, tragedy and sorrow through the experiences of a man directing a multilingual theatre production of Anton Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya". The director, K�shi Kafuku, played by Hidetoshi Nishijima, comes home one day to find his wife making love to a young TV star, Kōji Takatsuki. Sometime after that K�shi returns home to find his wife has died of a brain hemorrhage. Two years later K�shi has stepped back from the Chekhov play because its themes have hit him too close to home, as he explains to Kōji over drinks.

5. "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. We must flow with it."

Answer: Dune

Interestingly, this line is spoken by Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam in the 1965 Frank Herbert novel "Dune", but in the 2021 film version "Dune", the line is spoken by Jamis (Babs Olusanmokun), in a vision that the film's hero Paul Atreides (Timoth�e Chalamet) has while riding through the desert in a carriage. Jamis is a Fremen native warrior of the Sietch Tabr community on the planet Arrakis, and he appears to Paul mystically during Paul's carriage ride. Paul's journey in "Dune" is the story of gifted young man born trying to understand and fulfill his destiny which involves him facing danger on a planet in order to secure the future of his people, as he battles over control of the "spice" an incredibly powerful resource.

6. "The most powerful, the most dangerous creature on this Earth is a woman who knows how to think."

Answer: King Richard

Richard William, the father of the real life tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams, speaks this line in the movie "King Richard". The film depicts how the two women's tennis stars evolved into who they became over the course of years of training from their father. Part of coaching his daughters has entailed relating stories to them about his past and his own parents, and the wisdom he picked up along the way. Along with sports instruction, it's this kind of emotional grounding that the film makes a case for being just as important, if not more so. And this quote was one of the many empowering pieces of advice the Williams sisters' father imparted to them, telling them it's something his own mother told him.

7. "I'd lay it down and show you how it works. It moves in a similar way to the ocean... wet inside. And it takes some getting used to, but once you're in there, oh, Ted, I don't think you're gonna be asking any questions."

Answer: Licorice Pizza

"Licorice Pizza" follows the young Alana Kane (Alana Haim of the band Haim), and Gary Valentine (Cooper Hollman, Phillip Seymour Hoffman's son) as the two fictional characters grow up in 1973 in the San Fernando Valley. Before the two friends realize they are in love, some of their adventures involve Gary buying a pinball arcade and Alana getting a job selling waterbeds.

She is on the phone with a customer named Ted when she describes the assets of the waterbed.

8. "Find out what they're afraid of and sell it back to them."

Answer: Nightmare Alley

"Nightmare Alley" is based on the same titled 1947 film which in turn is based on a 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham, about the sleazy world of carnival hucksters and grifters. Bradley Cooper, as Stan, has taken up the scam of performing cold readings and other tactics, convincing the vulnerable that he can contact their deceased loved ones. Cate Blanchett plays Lilith, a psychologist who has descended upon the carnival act, seeking to expose Stan's act.

In addition to accusing Stan with that quote, they tell him, "You don't fool people, Stan.

They fool themselves."

9. "When my father passed, I wanted nothing more than my mother's happiness. For what kind of man would I be if I did not help my mother? If I did not save her?"

Answer: Power of the Dog

These are the opening lines of the movie "The Power of the Dog". They are spoken over the opening credits by Peter Gordon, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee); he is the son of Rose Gordon (Kirsten Dunst). Then the movie begins in 1925, after those lines, in the state of Montana, on a ranch owned by two brothers, George and Phil.

After Phil has treated Rose and her son cruelly, George comforts them. Rose and George will later get married, but Phil's mistreatment continues. And later still, when Phil and Peter bond a little bit, Peter tells him about finding his father who had hanged himself. That is how his "father passed" as mentioned in the beginning.

10. "You should know better! You were in love, or so you said! You should know better... I have a love, and it's all that I have, right or wrong - what else can I do?"

Answer: West Side Story

In Steven Spielberg's remake of the classic "West Side Story" we have this scene, updating the argument dialogue in song, between Maria Vasquez (Rachel Zegler) and her sister Maria (Supporting Actress winner Ariana DeBose). Anita is enraged that Maria has found love with Tony of the Jets, the rival gang to the Puerto Ricans Sharks.

She is especially aghast since Tony is "A boy like that, who'd kill your brother?!" But Marias holds strong, bolstered by her feelings for Tony "I have a love and it's all I have..."

Source: Author Billkozy

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Questions		Choices
1. "The Irish were born for leavin', otherwise the rest of the world'd have no pubs."		Drive My Car
2. "You know why God made farts smell? So deaf people could enjoy them too."		Power of the Dog
3. "Well, I... You know... I just despise the, you know, getting-to-know-you part of relationships, so..."		Licorice Pizza
4. "Chekhov is terrifying. When you say his lines, it drags out the real you."		King Richard
5. "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. We must flow with it."		Don't Look Up
6. "The most powerful, the most dangerous creature on this Earth is a woman who knows how to think."		CODA
7. "I'd lay it down and show you how it works. It moves in a similar way to the ocean... wet inside. And it takes some getting used to, but once you're in there, oh, Ted, I don't think you're gonna be asking any questions."		Belfast
8. "Find out what they're afraid of and sell it back to them."		Nightmare Alley
9. "When my father passed, I wanted nothing more than my mother's happiness. For what kind of man would I be if I did not help my mother? If I did not save her?"		West Side Story
10. "You should know better! You were in love, or so you said! You should know better... I have a love, and it's all that I have, right or wrong - what else can I do?"		Dune

On the left will be a quote from one of the 10 movies that was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture of 2021. On the right will be the list of those 10 movies, so match the quote with the movie it's from.