Inspired by the word association game thread I thought this might be an interesting game and some might like to use their Turkish skills too.

How to play:

Look at the previous poster´s choice of title of a film, literary work or piece of Music (or a song) then think of your own title that has some connection with their choice and post it. Don´t forget to specify the genre.

Obviously Turkish titles can also be chosen, but accompanied by a T-E translation so that we can all appreciate the connection and also learn a little Turkish at the same time.

Hope it proves to be informative and fun

Here´s the starter and I´ll think of one or two to follow :

Film:   Close Encounters of the Third Kind

p.s. Feel free to be as tenuous or subtle as you wish

Book:  The George W. Bush Legacy by Colin Campbell, Bert A. Rockman, and Andrew Rudalevige

Song:  If You Go Away - Dusty Springfield 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rab-nl9cUk

 Song:  Please Stay - The Drifters (an oldy but a goody!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moYwDR5VzU8

  Song: Go Now - The Moody Blues

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Can´t get Utube at work....

 Song: He´s a Rebel - The Crystals

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 Song:The Angels Listened In - The Crests

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 Film: Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean)

 Film: Michael - (John Travolta/Andie McDowell)

 Song:  White Feathers  (Kajagoogoo)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKhneYLnlU

 Book: The Four Feathers - A.E.W. Mason   (1902)

(  adventure about British army officer Harry Feversham´s endeavor to overcome the false label of "coward")

 Film: Birdman of Alcatraz (Burt Lancaster) - True story of prisoner Robert Stroud

 Book (1969)/Film (1974):

The film starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.  I remember going to see the film when it was released.  Brilliant film!!

 True story based on author´s time in prison, or time spent trying to escape from it.

Song: Love is Like a Butterfly  -  Dolly Parton

 Film:  9 to 5 (starring - amongst others - Dolly Parton!)

(Is this game just for you and me PT??)

 It looks like it

 Book:   Five Run Away Together     by  Enid Blyton     (children´s story)

 Song:  Runaway - Del Shannon  (OMG I´m really showing my age now )

 Forever young my dear,thats what we are

But with more wisdom

Film : Far and away - Tom Cruise,and Nicole Kidman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAtkkgfOnV0

 Tenuous link = Ireland

One of my favourite plays:  Translations   by  Brian Friel

"Translations may be located both temporally and spatially to a fixed point in Irish history. The characters hail from Baile Beag, renamed *with the anglicised title of Ballybeg. The action of the play occurs over a number of days towards the end of August 1833. Before delving into the play it is clear, from these most general of points, that the mise-en-scene of Translations is a period of great significance in the colonial relationship between Ireland and England."

*Seemingly, the English did this to the place names/signs almost overnight.

Film: The Interpreter - Çevirmen

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373926/

Book (crime fiction) :   Martin Misunderstood   by  Karin Slaughter

Synopsis

Song:   Misunderstanding    by   Genesis

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bLVrB3FXbPA

Play: The Comedy of Errors    -   William Shakespeare

play : The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare

SONG- Stay by Shakespeare Sister

Film:  Housesitter   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104452/

 SONG - Wonder - Natalie Merchant

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 BOOK: The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

OY !  Eiddie!  You´re cheating!!!

You´re supposed to  follow on from the last post.  That´s the second time you´ve done that (I think).  Three strikes and you´re OUT!!!

 A thousand pardons...It´s Monday...Preparing for a trip to D.C. next week...uuuhhhhh,

let me think... I know there´s another excuse I can get somewhere...

Cris Angel help !!!

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        by   Josh Selig

 Book:  The Canterbury Tales  -  Geoffrey Chaucer

 Oy!  Now you´re doing it!

Film(of the Book!): Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring

(Tenuous link:  Orlando Bloom (Legolas) was born in Canterbury on January 13th 1977!)

 Song:  Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

Oh baby, this is great ! ( talking about showing my age )

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 Book: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever    by   Stephen Donaldson

(Brilliant series of books, I read them almost 30 years ago.  Thomas Covenant is transported to another land in order to save it from dark powers.  His wedding ring has great power there.)

 Song:  Promises   by  Ken Dodd   

 Song: This I Promise You - NSYNC

( is song on song legal ? ....cmon lady in red ...beat that...)

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Yes, there doesn´t have to be any special order.

 Film: There´s Something About Mary (Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller) Seeing as how it seems to be just the 3 of us I´m sure I don´t have to explain the link!

 Song: Second Chances - Michelle Branch

( ´Something About Mary´ is about 2nd chances...)

 ´and when you look it´s gone, it´s too late to turn around

and it´s another day facing yourself and the things you´ve done.

and when you say, "it doesn´t matter," ...well it does.....´

Well done lady in red.....

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 I´ve never seen that film about Mary

Film:          (Promotional poster taken from Wiki)

Autobiography: The Naked Civil Servant    by   Quentin Crisp

Series : Upstairs, Downstairs

Would this work ?

Or just films ?

 Film: The Naked Gun

 Song: "Promises Promises" Naked Eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJP2PH8WKaI

 Oh go on then . . . I don´t see a problem

Film:  Room at the Top  (based on the novel by John Braine)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_at_the_Top

 Book: Strategy: A View From The Top by Cornelis A De Kluyver and John Pearce

 Book:  Don´t Look Down        by  Jennifer Crusie and   Bob Mayer

Plot

film vertigo

 Song:  Dizzy - Tommy Roe - youtube link

 film: fish called wanda

 Film:   Dragnet

 Dragnet 

Sleepless in seattle - Tom Hanks

 Film:  Eyes Wide Shut          I´ve never seen it but the title came to me when I saw the above

I have!  Very weird film!!

Song:  Wide-eyed and legless - Amen Corner  (I wonder how far back we can go!! )

Song: Green Eyes--Coldplay 

Film: Angel Eyes

 Book: Angela´s Ashes (Frank McCourt) or Film of the same name

 I remember that!!!!

song: 

 Film:  The Flight of the Phoenix

 Book:  Frankenstein    by    Mary Shelley

Film:

Based on a true story.

Film : Monster inc.

Not a true story lol

 Are you sure?  The large blue hairy character looks familiar

Film:   Scary Movie

(No, it´s not about a third term of Republican office   )

  I thought this was a promotional poster for the Republican Party  

"We scare because we care"     

Book : It - Stephen King

( tough one guys )

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play book film

 Song:  I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters

( the letter ´ I ´ ) ( ....hey lesluv...excellent ....you´re quick ... )

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Song: Love me the way I love you-Jerry Vale

 Song: Love Makes the World Go ´Round - Deon Jackson

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 Film/Musical:  Carousel

I was captivated by this as a child .

 Film : Moulin Rouge

 Book/Film: The Hunt for Red October   by  Tom Clancy

song- 99 red ballons - nina

Song:  Lady In Red - Chris  De Burgh

( our very own lady in red should like this one....)

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 Song: Lady Eleanor   -  Lindisfarne

One of my favourites from the past  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ8VNEqBH00

Song : Lady D´Arbanville Cat Stevens

 Song:  Lady d´Arbanville - Cat Stevens ( now better known as Yusuf Islam)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h61ffFRFmxw

 OMG Canli - we are communicating too much!!!  Now we are thinking alike!  I was undecided between ´Eleanor Rigby´ and this one or I´d have got my post in first. 

 Green Fields and Golden Sands    -   Yusuf Islam

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CIND4ooovL4 

As LIR he is now Yusuf Islam and he hasn´t lost his touch.  I bought his album "An Other Cup" almost two years ago now and it´s beautiful.

 Film: Field of Dreams  

Communication always good  ,and better when i beat you to it   lol

PT,can we wide the range of the game to other films,songs,poems and not only English ones ?

But we provide the translation in English and it be the base of the next post ?

So many more people can join in

Example,

Series : احلام الفتى الطائر Dreams of the flying boy

Canli, she had specified right at the begining that we could also use Turkish titles but translated into English

Look!

 Cool,i missed that Turkish part,thx geniuda,but also then i meant also for other language,mine was Arabic.

 I was thinking yesterday that there haven´t been many Turkish titles and I was going to suggest it. Ha ha even I had forgotten I specified it at the beginning. 

I guess it won´t hurt to have other languages too because that way we learn something of films etc from other countries.

And let´s not forget plays and poems in the ´literature´ category.

 Book:    Peter Pan   by   J M Barrie

 Book: Flyboys - James Bradley

True story of WWII pilots.....the good guys.

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 Song: Out of Reach   -     Gabrielle

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I0lIUM7MWWg

 Song: Holes in the Floor of Heaven - Steve Wariner

So pretty......

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 Song:  Don´t Bring Me Down - The Animals

 Song: Down in the Boondocks - Billy Joe Royal

Whew !......just before my meeting at 4pm today !....

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 song billie jean - micheal jackson

 Book: Billy Budd - Herman Melville

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 ....has to be

Song: I´m into Something Good - Herman´s Hermits

(BTW PT - Don´t bring me down - Electric Light Orchestra  - were you thinking of ´Don´t let me be misunderstood´?)

 Song: Good Timin´ - Jimmy Jones

Well done lady in red ..... You´re right,  unless PT has an Ace up her sleeve.....PT is pretty

good on her music.....apparently LIR - so are you and lesluv.....

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 Well - I´m embarrassed now .  Just checked wiki and there it was!   My memory is going with age  - who am I again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don´t_Bring_Me_Down_(The_Animals_song)

Hey lady in red - all is forgiven. That Animals song musta been a ´ flip-side ´  to ´ House of

the Rising Sun ´  or something.....

That peacetrain DID have that Ace up the sleeve...

Well done.....Cheers to you both .....

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 Yes ELO had a song out of the same title, The Animals track is different lyrics and tune, but same title.

modified:  I just saw your next post

 Film:  Sliding Doors

  I love John Hannah (as an actor

 Film: Hannah and her Sisters - director Woody Allen

 Film/Book : Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

The sister thing remind me of it !

Film: Hideous Kinky, with Kate Winslet (i loved it )

I watched some movie based on a british book or story and on the same day I watched some other movie with Kate Winslet whose title I can´t remember now, so I´m giving this one.

 Song:  Lola      -   The Kinks

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IMsnqQHOwFg 

 Song:  Maggie May     -    Rod Stewart and The Faces

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xikQ0c5KdZE 

Film: David Copperfield - (i forget the director)

A brilliant fim  -  Dame Maggie Smith...she´s remarkable in ANYTHING.....  

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i stand corrected...

 Film: A Room With a View  (I don´t care about the director , but it stars Dame Maggie Smith)  

The book was written in 1908 by E M Forster

Film: Ghost, with Demi Moore and that guy from Dirty Dancing...

 Film:  The Others

Song:  Spooky - Classics IV / Dusty Springfield 

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  a book  dusty warriors by richard holmes

Film: Fight Club - Brad Pitt/Edward Norton

 first wives club

 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zc4w7zQpmqs

song - handsome devil the smiths

 Film: American Gigolo

 film pretty woman

 Song:  Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

 you tried really hard with that one hee hee

blind faith ben elton

this book is really good recommend it

Okay I´m resisting the easy one this time (Song: Well ..Alright - Blind Faith)! and going for really tenuous link:

Book and Film:  A Time to Kill - John Grisham

book to kill a mockingbird harper lee......classic

  Film: The Last Boy Scout - Bruce Willis/Damon Wayans

 song - "she´s so lovely" scouting for girls

 Song- Girls Aloud - "Can´t speak French"  (but they said they would give Turkish a go)

 Play: L´Ecole des Femmes   (The School for Wives)        by    Molière   (1622 -1673)

 cheesy song.... "Joe le taxi" vanessa paradis

 Film: Taxi Driver - Robert de Nero/Jodie Foster

´You talkin´ to me?

 Was it not "You talkin´ to me?" ?  Perhaps he said both phrases  

By the same director Martin Scorsese:

Film:  The Departed       -  Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson

My sister  recommended I should see this film and so I went, not knowing anything about it.  I didn´t know it was a ´blood and guts´ film and I´m not keen on this type of film.  Anyway, that apart, I was pleasantly surprised by DiCaprio´s performance.  I´ve never really been a fan of his, but I appreciated his performance in this film.

 Of course it was!  Silly me . Must have been thinking of another version of the film!!

(I´ve amended my post so I don´t look TOO stupid )

Film:  My Left Foot: The story of Christy Brown - Daniel Day Lewis

 Film:  Gone with the Wind  (1939)

Adapted from the book:

1936

film wind in the willows director terry jones

Song: Kansas--Dust in the Wind

(beautiful song btw   )

film - stardust

 Song:  Ziggy Stardust   -  David Bowie

(But my favourite of his is Life on Mars )

 spice girls - if you wanna be my lover......ah zig-a-zig aaaah 

 Book:  Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence

I think your short-term memory is suffering !  (A bit like me with the Taxi Driver quote and the Animals thing )

So -

Film: Memento - Guy Pearce

Sorry I couldn´t quote LIR´s post as when I pressed ´quote´ it took me to her last post (which seems to be highlighting ´modify´ and ´delete´ for some reason).

I was wondering what was wrong with  Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence.  Did I make an incorrect connection with the Spice Girls track ? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_and_Lovers

Film:  L A Confidential     (Guy Pearce is also in this)

 Nothing wrong with Sons and Lovers - just pointing out I´d already used it!

 Musical: Guys and Dolls

song: cliff richard (and the young ones) Living Doll

 Oh, right.  Sorry, I didn´t understand.

 Film: Bride of Chucky

I have to say I´ve never seen the Chucky films and would never want to , but it seemed to fit in this instance.

 Book: Brideshead Revisited   by    Evelyn Waugh

 film - my best friend´s wedding julia roberts and camerom diaz

 Film: Notting Hill         Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant

I was living in London about 30 years ago and remember going to the Notting Hill Carnival.  Quite an experience.

 it´s still quite an experience.......stab vests recommended!!!

song: she - elvis costello (i love this song!!)

 Song: She´s Not There - The Zombies - - -

I´m back from D.C. ..... Deal me in PT...

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 Film: Night of the Living Dead - George A. Romero

 Song: Land of the Living - Pam Tillis

Great song.....

Pretty bright...well done LIR .....

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 Song:  Living next door to Alice - Smokie

 Poem/Rhyme:/Song  Buckingham Palace    by A A Milne

They´re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
Alice is marrying one of the guard.
"A soldier´s life is terrible hard,"
                               Says Alice.

They´re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
We saw a guard in a sentry-box.
"One of the sergeants looks after their socks,"
                               Says Alice.

They´re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
We looked for the King, but he never came.
"Well, God take care of him, all the same,"
                               Says Alice.

They´re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
They´ve great big parties inside the grounds.
"I wouldn´t be King for a hundred pounds,"
                               Says Alice.

They´re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A face looked out, but it wasn´t the King´s.
"He´s much too busy a-signing things,"
                               Says Alice.

They´re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
"Do you think the King knows all about me?"
"Sure to, dear, but it´s time for tea,"
                               Says Alice.

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They´re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
"Do you think the King knows all about me?"
"Sure to, dear, but it´s time for tea,"
                               Says Alice.

Gotta love the last stanza.....

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 Song: Trouble - Lindsey Buckingham

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They´re changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
"Do you think the King knows all about me?"
"Sure to, dear, but it´s time for tea,"
                               Says Alice.

Gotta love the last stanza.....

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 Film: The Mackintosh Man - Paul Newman ()

 Song: Mack the Knife     -     Bobby Darin

 "Is this a dagger which I see before me?" 

from:

Play:  Macbeth    by   William Shakespeare

 hmm...we did Shakespeare Sister already I think so I´ll go with:

Film: Jagged Edge - Jeff Bridges/Glenn Close

 Film: The Edge of Love - John Maybury

´ and I rose in a rainy autumn and walked abroad in the shower of all my days....´

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 Film: The Edge of Heaven Auf der anderen Seite - Fatih Akýn

 song: oooooh heaven is a place on earth by belinda carlise

 Film: The Full Monty

 song hot stuff- donna summer

(heh heh now we know what lady in red´s version of heaven looks like)

 Hee hee I´m determined to get a Turkish title on here so . . . Summer = holiday = souvenir/memory, hence:

Song: Yadigar   by   Fikrit Kýzýlok

 well as he´s got a "rocky" style i´m going for

mmmmm the lovely jack black.........

Song:  A Summer Song - Chad and Jeremy

Don´t know if this qualifies, as I´m not fluent in Turkish, ( or English )

but.....I know Yadigar means ´souvenir´.

And this song is about summer, holidays, souvenirs.......and memories.

All good things must end someday.....Think about it.

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Song: Yaz Dostum - Barýþ Manco

 Song:  Güneþin Iþýðý Senden Nur Alýr  by  Kadri ÞARMAN

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WVjq4WmzEio

I cheated . . . I keyed in the Turkish words for ´sunshine´

 Song:  Pocket Full of Sunshine  -   Natasha Bedingfield

 Film: Field of Dreams - Kevin Costner

 Play:  A Midsummer Night´s Dream  by William Shakespeare

This reminds me of the annual Drama Cup at school when I was 14.  I played one of the country bumpkins/players in a play they enacted for the play´s main lovelorn characters.  In effect, I was a 14 year old girl playing a male character who dressed up as a woman in the enactment of Pyramus and Thisbe. 

Just before going on stage I added a few props of my own.  I blacked out my front teeth, stuffed two balloons up my dress and taped a needle to the end of my dagger.  My death scene went with a loud bang and my dying "lover" and I missed out a whole speech through uncontrollable laughter.  We came second and also had the pleasure of the sharp tongue of our English Teacher.  Oops . . .

 a personal favorite!. went to an adaptation of this play in London my (newish) friend was rather embarrassed as the costume department had only supplied butterflies for the ladies and very sparse folliage for the men ....... it was practically an orgy ha ha

film stardust (michelle pfieffer)

AMidsummer Night´s Dream:  I have seen a few versions and some of them outdoors.  My favourite was a ´promenade´ in a country park.  The audience follows the play through the park.  The fairy scenes were magical, taking place in the woods, which were lit up with fairy lights.

Song:  Space Oddity - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (a.k.a. Davide Bowie)

Great Music from my youth   http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY 

 Film: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence  -   David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Takeshi Kitano.    -  1983

"The film deals with the relationships among four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War — Jack Celliers (Bowie), a rebellious prisoner with a guilty secret from his youth in New Zealand; Captain Yonoi (Sakamoto), the young camp commandant; Lieutenant Colonel John Lawrence (Conti), a British officer who has lived in Japan and speaks Japanese fluently; and Sergeant Hara (Kitano), with whom Lawrence develops a peculiar friendship."   from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Christmas,_Mr._Lawrence

An excellent film.

Trailer:  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7JTroFovUXw   you may recognise the theme music.

 The trailer reminded me what a great film this is - I want to see it again now!

Film: The Alamo - starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett and Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie

Song: Remember the Alamo - Donovan

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 Song: The Ballad of Davy Crocket   -   Marty Robbins

 Film-  Miami Vice (crockett and tubbs)

Film: Lord Mountbatten the Last Viceroy - Tom Clegg

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