Q: In a certain classic film, the protagonist uses two weapons. The name of one of these has 10 letters. If you take its first letter and last six letters, you can rearrange them all to name the other weapon this protagonist uses, in seven letters. What weapons are these?The protagonist uses a different pair of weapons towards the end of the movie.
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Superhero movies, another subject I know nothing about. I am informed by Google, though, that there is a particular character who uses these weapons. Rearrange the first four letters of this character’s name, and you get what the weapons might do large-scale.
ReplyDeleteReally? We must have different answers...
DeleteOr Google is wrong, or I am (and I am way too ignorant to gauge the accuracy of the weapon-character link Google brought up).
DeleteI understand where both of you are coming from. There's the picture, and then there's the big picture.
DeleteWell, Google AI informs me that harpoon is a 10 letter weapon. So there is that.
DeleteThis is the fastest and easiest puzzle I've ever solved and I'm hardly a fan of the movie. Be careful when you're entering the name of the ten letter weapon because spell check, or auto correct, or whatever you call it, will mangle your word.
ReplyDeleteYeah, got it after reading "In a certain classic film, the protagonist uses two weapons."
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DeleteHuh, but the first film I thought of that fit the description was made a few years later than the intended one. (The two weapons in the one I thought of don't fit, though.)
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Deletei wasn’t the fastest to solve this puzzle, but I solved it without any help.
ReplyDeleteThe protagonist's companion uses two words that could cynically define "classic" to critique the protagonist's use of the first weapon.
ReplyDeleteThis was easy. Just rearrange the words.
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ReplyDeleteSorry, Blaine.
DeleteIt's nowhere near the answer and is not intended as a clue but the very first thing that popped into my head was:
ReplyDelete"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four...no... amongst our weapons.... amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again."
One of his best movies.
DeleteI'd forgotten that it was in ANFSCD...
DeleteFirst movie I thought of.
ReplyDeleteGot the answer. Will think about a comment while on the road
ReplyDeleteI did get a hilariously wrong answer from Google’s AI, but it has to wait until Thursday
DeleteTake letters 1,3,4,5 from the second weapon. Rearrange to get a word associated with the first weapon
DeleteI can't even rearrange them to form a word, but I can sort of make this work starting with the first weapon. On an unrelated note, I think one of these weapons is more of an antagonist thing.
DeleteHohum. I have the answer. A puzzle about weapons seems off to me, particularly this week. Well, sadly, any week now.
ReplyDeleteWW: I agree. Not good timing.
DeleteI'm sure he lines these up weeks in advance.
DeleteAnd I am equally sure he does not.
DeleteI had a really good time solving this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteMusical clue: Chopsticks.
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ReplyDeleteI try to allow some leeway on off-topic discussions, but would prefer if people could mostly stick to puzzle related discussions. AdSense occasionally lowers my ad revenue when a page has controversial topics that advertisers would rather shy away from. It doesn't help that there's a lot of discussion on wea*ons this week too.
DeleteHe was celebrating some opinions being extinguished, so he should understand.
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ReplyDeleteTwo biblical names come to mind.
ReplyDeleteA prehistoric animal comes to mind
ReplyDeleteContinuing a theme of last week, one of the weapons anagrams to a sort of snake.
ReplyDeleteLetters 3, 4, 5, and 7 from the second weapon rearrange into a relevant word.
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle took me six minutes to solve, but only because I am one of the six Americans who have never seen this movie. I hear it's great though.
ReplyDeleteWho are the other four?
DeleteThe protagonist's given name and the director's surname are related to the first weapon.
ReplyDeleteSolved. But ....... how long ago does a film (or book, or album, etc) need to have been released before it's a 'Classic'?
ReplyDeleteThat is a great question, and I have the answer. Sometimes when I am in the library looking at DVD movies that are available for checkout, I will come across one or two that, on the back, will say: "Instant classic!" So now I understand that a film can become a classic before it is even in the can. Isn't that wonderful?
DeleteThat does help, Sky. Thanks. I don't feel as old now Will's clue about Classic Film, and 10 letter weapon ....and all I was coming up with was Water Glass (when Dorothy took out the Wicked Witch) That's the era I think of when thinking of 'classic'.
DeleteOh, Van, I gnu it wood. I understood when I first read the puzzle question the movie it would be, but not wanting it to be so, I thought of broadsword and longbow. What finally took me back to thinking more of today's movies was the passing thought that my Depends would never fit in those green tights were I to have been one of Robin Hood's Merry Men. And that got me to further thinking about what they were so merry about in those tighty greenies. (Please do not read more realism into this post than is true.)
DeleteThis made me think of Mark Chapman.
ReplyDeleteThe first weapon (phonetically) makes me think of a description of a certain athlete.
ReplyDeleteGot it—but if the days of near-constant anagrams ever go away, I won't miss 'em.
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ReplyDeleteOne part of the first weapon made me think of a character in Ice Age
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