Quick Recap & Today’s Final Jeopardy – June 15, 2016

Today’s contestants:

Sarah von Riedemann, a medical writer from Toronto, ON

Beth Masterson, a correctional librarian from Lincolnton, NC

Hunter Appler, an attorney from Mount Airy, NC (5-day total: $129,202)

Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Hunter $10,000
Sarah $8,300
Beth $2,000

Final Jeopardy! category: CLASSIC MOVIE SCENES

Final Jeopardy! clue: The director said it took 70 camera setups & 7 days to shoot the classic murder scene in this film that celebrated its 55th anniversary in 2015

Congratulations, Hunter, joining the ranks of the superchamps!

Remember to vote in our Poll of the Week!

According to AMC’s Filmsite:

[In the next scene, the classic, brutal shower murder scene, an unexplainable, unpremeditated, and irrational murder, the major star of the film – Marion – is shockingly stabbed to death after the first 47 minutes of the film’s start. It is the most famous murder scene ever filmed and one of the most jarring. It took a full week to complete, using fast-cut editing of 78 pieces of film, 70 camera setups, and a naked stand-in model (Marli Renfro) in a 45-second impressionistic montage sequence, and inter-cutting slow-motion and regular speed footage. The audience’s imagination fills in the illusion of complete nudity and fourteen violent stabbings. Actually, she never really appears nude (although the audience is teased) and there is only implied violence – at no time does the knife ever penetrate deeply into her body. In only one split instant, the knife tip touches her waist just below her belly button. Chocolate syrup was used as ‘movie blood’, and a casaba melon was chosen for the sound of the flesh-slashing knife.

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