Before Sunrise Trivia

1. What about dying, concerns Celine the most?

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Answer: The seconds of consciousness when you know you're about to die

Jesse and Celine are talking in the dining car about why Celine took the train from Budapest instead of flying. She says she's afraid of flying because she can picture the explosion, falling through the clouds, and is afraid of those last seconds of consciousness where you know for sure you are going to die.

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Answer: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy

Hawke plays Jesse, an American travelling round Europe following a break-up; Delpy plays Parisian student Celine. Hawke and Leonard starred together in the 1989 movie "Dead Poets Society". Julie Delpy has starred in many French movies, most notably in the "Three Colours" trilogy.

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Answer: on a train

Celine is returning to Paris after visiting her grandmother; Jesse is travelling to Vienna in order to catch a plane home to the US. They strike up a conversation, and when Jesse gets off the train he manages to persuade Celine to join him for a day and night in Vienna before he catches his plane.

From Quiz Let's Talk "Before Sunrise"

Answer: He took pride in it and saw his life as his own doing

He said that he thought of life as a big party that he wasn't meant to be at, but was 'crashing'.

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Answer: Vienna

The film was partly financed by the city of Vienna, and understandably so, as it appears to great advantage: beautiful, intriguing and romantic.

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Answer: She's learning

The gypsy tells Jesse he is learning. He's not very impressed.

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Answer: Richard Linklater

Linklater was also responsible for directing "Dazed and Confused", "Slacker" and the 2004 Jack Black movie "School of Rock". Despite the relative lack of box office success enjoyed by "Before Sunset", Linklater and the main actors enjoyed it enough to make a sequel which was released in 2004, titled "Before Sunset". Linklater also co-wrote the screenplay with Kim Krizan: the script is extremely natural and refreshingly realistic.

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Answer: they are the graves of unknown people

The "Friedhof der Namenlosen" is situated on the outskirts of Vienna, and was used for burials between 1900 and 1940. The name translates as the "Cemetary of the Nameless". Celine explains that the tumbling, overgrown graves belong to people washed up on the shores of the River Danube. She is particularly affected by the grave of a thirteen year old girl called Elisabeth. Celine explains that when she first saw the grave they had both been children; now Celine is ten years older and Elisabeth is still a child. This poignant scene is a beautifully understated moment, typical of the film as a whole.

From Quiz Let's Talk "Before Sunrise"

Answer: general of an army

Celine says she feels like a general in an army, plotting her strategy, knowing what would hurt/seduce him, etc.

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Answer: milkshake

The poem, "Delusion Angel" was written for the movie by David Jewell. The central lines seem to describe Jesse and Celine's relationship perfectly: "You have no idea where I came from. We have no idea where we're going. Lodged in life like branches in a river flowing downstream caught in the current..."

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Answer: like an adolescent

In the cafe she pretends to call her friend in Paris and tell her all about Vienna.

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Answer: in a ferris wheel

There is a beautiful scene in a second-hand record store, where the two characters listen to Kath Bloom's "Come Here" in an old fashioned listening-booth. They keep making brief eye-contact and looking away: the mutual attraction is apparent to the audience but not to Jesse or Celine, and we can surely all identify with their excitement, butterflies and embarrassment during those moments. Their first kiss, however, does not come until some time later, when they ride in Vienna's famous Riesenrad, the giant Ferris wheel in the Prater. This is a popular part of Vienna where tourists flock to the parks, gardens and funfair rides.

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Answer: Because they're sick of being around themselves

Jesse raises the point that he has never been anywhere where he hasn't been. He's never felt a kiss that he wasn't a part of, never seen a play that he wasn't part of the audience. Then he suggests that maybe people hate themselves because they're always around.

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Answer: pretend to phone their friends back home

Jesse initiates this game: they each make a pretend phone call to their friends back home, and explain that they're in Vienna with a total stranger. They indirectly admit the depth of their attraction in a very touching and funny scene.

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Answer: In the spaces between people

This is probably my favourite idea in the movie.

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