How much do you know about movies?

How much do you know about movies?

by CECILIA ZENDEJAS MAGAÑA

​Lord of the Rings

In the early 2000s, Peter Jackson was in charge of one of the most ambitious projects of his career, directing the three parts of one of the most spectacular epic sagas of all time, corresponding to the three novels written by JRR Tolkien a mid 20th century.

• ​The first version of the film lasted four and a half hours

• ​​A year before filming began, 5,000 cubic meters of plants had to be planted in a greenhouse. These were later used to recreate the hobbit world, laden with vegetation.

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The terror of the zombies

​Since ancient times, zombies were part of the folk legends, which spoke of corpses that return to life, such as mummies or ghouls, who in an unusual act returned to settle pending accounts. In the ranks of monstrosity, zombies were considered the least important.

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​A zombie apocalypse is a particular scenario of apocalyptic fiction, which usually occurs within a sci-fi or horror setting. In a zombie apocalypse, there is a massive invasion of zombies, that is, of reanimated corpses also known as the undead.

Poll

If we told you about the quintessential zombie movie, you would say it is ...

• Re- animator

• Braindead

• 28 days later

• Night of the living dead

​Robots in the cinema

​Fiction was ahead of science in every way, since it is considered that the first industrial robot (used to do heavy work) was installed in 1961 and the first humanoid robot (that is, with two legs, two arms, trunk and head) was presented to the public in 2000. The scientific concept of the specialty of “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956, more than three decades of its use in fiction.

Multiple Choice

The T-800 model is one of the most famous robots in the history of science fiction. It appears in...

• I, Robot

• Short Circuit

• Terminator

• Robocop

Jurassic park

​Jurassic Park deals with the same concepts from the source material such as technology, cloning, genetic engineering, and the chaos resulting from conflicts such as man versus nature evident in the belief of human characters, especially Hammond, that ' they can create and control a natural environment by recreating dinosaurs that have the look and feel of real items, but wanting to control their natural instincts in the same way that a zoo protects animals. They soon discover that nature, even if it is artificial, finds its own way that cannot be controlled by man.

Multiple Choice

What kind of dinosaur do you see the Tyrannosaurus eat in the film?

• Deinonychus

• Compsognathus

• Edmontosaurus

• Gallimimus