Q 01/05
A) Memories are powerful things
B) If you must blink, do it now
C) Your story will never end
D) All stories have an end
Answer · why
If you must blink, do it now. Kubo whispers the warning over a black screen before the first image, then shouts it again in the village square as he b...
Q 02/05
A) Age of Extinction
B) The Last Knight
C) Bumblebee
D) Dark of the Moon
Answer · why
Bumblebee. For his first live-action film, Kubo's director set the story in 1987 and stripped the robots back to the look of the original 1980s toys a...
Q 03/05
A) Motion capture
B) Rotoscoping
C) Cel animation
D) Stop-motion
Answer · why
Stop-motion. Animators posed real puppets one frame at a time and swapped in 3D-printed faces for each expression, while computers filled in the backg...
Q 04/05
A) Koto
B) Biwa
C) Shamisen
D) Shakuhachi
Answer · why
Shamisen. The three-stringed Japanese lute is played with a large pick called a bachi, and Kubo snaps two of its strings in the blast that defeats one...
Q 05/05
A) The giant skeleton
B) The Moon King
C) Hanzo
D) The Garden of Eyes
Answer · why
The Moon King. He is Kubo's own grandfather, and he wants the other eye too, so the boy will be blind to humanity and take a place beside him, immorta...
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