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Quiz about Taking Lives
Quiz about Taking Lives

Taking Lives Trivia Quiz


This is a fun quiz about one of the best serial killer films out there - suspenseful and adrenaline pumping the whole time. If you want to know more, click Play Now!

A multiple-choice quiz by lisar85. Estimated time: 2 mins.
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Author
lisar85
Time
2 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
209,862
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
488
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which actress plays the main character in this film? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What is Illeana Scott's role? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What is the name of the serial killer? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Where does this film take place? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What is Illeana doing in her first appearance in the film? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Her fellow detectives in the film are fluent in what other language besides English? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. The first body that Illeana finds is where? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Who does Illeana have dinner with when she gets to the hotel? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The serial killer takes his own mother's life. Where does he do this? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. At the end of the film, what does the killer find out about Illeana? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which actress plays the main character in this film?

Answer: Angelina Jolie

Angelina plays the character Illeana Scott, the FBI profiler who gets called in from Washington D.C. to aid the French-Canadian police on a serial killing case. She was chosen for this role after starring in "The Bone Collector" with Denzel Washington.

There she played a rookie cop with a knack for investigation. She says that "Taking Lives" interested her a lot because bodies have always interested her (she wanted to be a mortician if she wasn't an actress) and she thought the plot was well written.
2. What is Illeana Scott's role?

Answer: FBI Profiler

Illeana Scott is a criminal profiler in this film. She is called in because the police have no leads on this killer. The M.O. is the same as the last body that turned up, so the authorities think it may be a serial killer. A profiler is someone, usually in the FBI, who helps local authorities develop a case that they have no leads on.

Their primary role is to create a profile of what the killer is like, based on the characteristics of a crime scene - what he did to his victims and how he did it. With that information they begin to understand what the killer's personality is like and the reasons behind the killing.
3. What is the name of the serial killer?

Answer: Martin Asher

Martin Asher is his REAL name, James Costa is just the name of his last victim. She meets Asher-Costa - in the interrogation room where he is claiming to be the witness to one of the killings. At first their relationship is strictly professional, but as time goes on they become more intimate.

This begins to happen as she becomes more and more conviced that he's not part of the murders. Ethan Hawke plays the serial killer that Illeana starts to fall in love with, before she knows who he really is. Ethan Hawke has also played roles in the films "Gattaca" and "Training Day."
4. Where does this film take place?

Answer: Montreal, Canada

This movie was actually filmed in Canada where the directors, Mark Canton and Bernie Goldmann, pursued French-Canadian actors Olivier Martinez, Tcheky Karyo and Jean-Hugues Anglade to support Angelina Jolie in the film.
5. What is Illeana doing in her first appearance in the film?

Answer: Lying in a grave

She is lying in the grave where one of the bodies was found. She would often try to get in the mind of the killer to understand why he was doing things the way he was. This is one of her ways of doing that.
6. Her fellow detectives in the film are fluent in what other language besides English?

Answer: French

They are speaking French during some parts of the film, because they think that Illeana cannot understand them. That is until she speaks it right back to them, leaving them feeling foolish and outsmarted.
7. The first body that Illeana finds is where?

Answer: In the ceiling

She sees a crack in the tile above the killer's bed and is investigating, when the dead person's head flops down on her. It has been hidden there along with some other trophies from previous victims - like a finger.
8. Who does Illeana have dinner with when she gets to the hotel?

Answer: Pictures of the dead victims

She puts the pictures of the deceased all over the table in front of her, and also tapes them onto the chairs to look at while she's dining. This is done because the director was trying to show the audience how Illeana gets into her job, and almost becomes both the killer and the victim in order to solve the case. She eats, sleeps and breathes the case until it's solved.
9. The serial killer takes his own mother's life. Where does he do this?

Answer: In an elevator

Martin kills his mother in the hospital elevator. He resents her for always favoring Reese when he was younger. He says that all he ever wanted to do was love her.
10. At the end of the film, what does the killer find out about Illeana?

Answer: She faked a pregnancy

After she finds out that the man she slept with is the killer, Illeana creates a fake life so he will come to her and she can kill him. She pretends to leave the FBI and retire somewhere rural. Then she fakes her pregnancy and lures him there, where she kills him.
Source: Author lisar85

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