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Vagrant
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:52 am    Post subject: 1 Reply with quote
In the opening credits to the movie Gattaca, each actor’s name is initially displayed with only the letters found in Gattaca visible.
For example,
ETHAN HAWKE initially appears as T A A
UMA THURMAN initially appears as A T A
JUDE LAW initially appears as A
although the spacing is a bit different to what is shown here.

I thought it might be a fun puzzle to apply this technique to some other movies.

I think these are easy enough without knowing the amount of missing letters so, where _ appears in the clues, it can represent any amount or combination of letters or spaces.

1.
_HO_Y_P_S
_H
_S

2.
_E_EE_ES
DE_S_PPE_
S_D_

3.
_O_N_T_OLT_
_U_L_L_C_ON
_UC_ILLI_

4.
R_LL_RO_
_OA_I_O_I_
_O_I_I_L_
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Icarus
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:14 am    Post subject: 2 Reply with quote
3 Pulp Fiction

_O_N_T_OLT_ John Travolta
_U_L_L_C_ON Samual L Jackson
_UC_ILLI_ Bruce Willis

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Icarus
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:27 am    Post subject: 3 Reply with quote
2. Speed
_E_EE_ES Keanu Reeves
DE_S_PPE_ Dennis Hopper
S_D_ Sandra Bullock
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Icarus
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:03 am    Post subject: 4 Reply with quote
4. Gladiator
R_LL_RO_ Russell Crowe
_OA_I_O_I_ Joaquin Phoenix
_O_I_I_L_ Connie Nielsen
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Icarus
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:22 am    Post subject: 5 Reply with quote
1. Psycho
_HO_Y_P_S Anthony Perkins
_H Janet Leigh
_S Vera Miles

This one was tough - I kept thinking Anthony Hopkins then when I realized that didn't fit, I was able to figure it out.

Great Puzzle
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Vagrant
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:01 am    Post subject: 6 Reply with quote
Let's see how much harder they are without the _

5.
AEINNE
ANE
AIEENINN

6.
HRNHEN
HHRREE
EHENB

7.
RANNRUT
ATESRT
ENSPAE

8.
ENEEPN
ENOND
OGEON
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Coyote

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 10:52 am    Post subject: 7 Reply with quote
6.

BEN HUR

Charlton Heston
Haya Harareet
Stephen Boyd
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Johny Fake
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:35 pm    Post subject: 8 Reply with quote
5. Annie
Albert Finney
Carol Burnett
Aileen Quinn
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HAMMOS
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 8:34 pm    Post subject: 9 Reply with quote
7.
Superman Returns
Brandon Routh
Kate Bosworth
Kevin Spacey
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HAMMOS
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 8:41 pm    Post subject: 10 Reply with quote
8.
On Golden Pond
Katherine Hepburn
Henry Fonda
Doug McKeon
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HAMMOS
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:08 pm    Post subject: 11 Reply with quote
Some more?

9.
TOCRE
AEO
AAETTT

10.
AEART
DUTHA
ATHERER

11.
NEN
ETE
ETSH

12.
EONOICPIO
OEPOONEITT
EENPE
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Jake2*
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:34 pm    Post subject: 12 Reply with quote
9. Collateral
Tom Cruise
Jamie Foxx
Jada Pinkett Smith
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Icarus
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:57 pm    Post subject: 13 Reply with quote
12. Inception
EONOICPIO Leonardo DiCaprio
OEPOONEITT Joseph Gordon-Levitt
EENPE Ellen Page
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Icarus
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:17 am    Post subject: 14 Reply with quote
10. Please check your spelling, or I am not right?

The Graduate
AEART Anne Bancroft
DUTHA Dustin Hoffman
ATHERER Katharine Ross
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Vagrant
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:11 am    Post subject: 15 Reply with quote
11. The Sting

NEN Paul Newman
ETE Robert Redford
ETSH Robert Shaw
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Vagrant
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:24 am    Post subject: 16 Reply with quote
Some more ...
(in order of how hard I think they are)

13.
RREE
DEE
S

14.
MES
YES
RE

15.
ENW
WOEN
ETERN

16.
EOTER
DEOER
EAERLEOR
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Jake2*
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:06 am    Post subject: 17 Reply with quote
14. Misery
jaMES caan
kathY batES
lauREn bacall
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HAMMOS
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:47 am    Post subject: 18 Reply with quote
Sorry for the missing N in 10, Icarus.

13.
REDS

WARREN BEATTY
DIANE KEATON
JACK NICHOLSON
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HAMMOS
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 12:52 pm    Post subject: 19 Reply with quote
15.

NETWORK
FAYE DUNAWAY
WILLIAM HOLDEN
PETER FINCH
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HAMMOS
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:00 pm    Post subject: 20 Reply with quote
How about famous movie quotes, rendered in the same manner? I've included punctuation.

Q1. "MEEMEY!"
Q2. "LOEESELLONAPALNEONN."
Q3. "AEITA!TTHEW!"
Q4. "OAN'ANDEE!"
Q5. "AANTTNTAMNT?"
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groza528
No Place Like Home
PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:54 pm    Post subject: 21 Reply with quote
Q4 You can't handle the truth! - A Few Good Men
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groza528
No Place Like Home
PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 1:14 am    Post subject: 22 Reply with quote
Q3 Made it Ma! Top of the world! - White Heat
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LordKinbote
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 1:48 am    Post subject: 23 Reply with quote
Q1 "Show me the money!" from Jerry Maguire
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