Q 01/05

In One Battle After Another, what was Bob Ferguson's speciality in his days as a young revolutionary?

A) Forgery

B) Explosives

C) Safecracking

D) Sharpshooting

Answer · why

B) Explosives

Explosives. His comrades called him Rocketman, but by the time his daughter is a teenager he is a paranoid stoner who cannot recall the passwords his ...

Q 02/05

Paul Thomas Anderson filmed Inherent Vice in 2014; which other Thomas Pynchon novel inspired One Battle After Another?

A) Gravity's Rainbow

B) The Crying of Lot 49

C) Vineland

D) Mason & Dixon

Answer · why

C) Vineland

Vineland. He had wanted to film it since the early 2000s but found it too hard to adapt, so he kept its father-and-daughter story and, as he put it, s...

Q 03/05

Who plays the washed-up revolutionary Bob Ferguson in One Battle After Another?

A) Leonardo DiCaprio

B) Sean Penn

C) Benicio del Toro

D) Joaquin Phoenix

Answer · why

A) Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio. He plays the burnt-out radical for laughs: the first trailer opens with him shuffling into a grocery store in a plaid bathrobe, the...

Q 04/05

What is the revolutionary group in One Battle After Another called?

A) The French 75

B) The Weather Underground

C) The Christmas Adventurers

D) 24fps

Answer · why

A) The French 75

The French 75. In the film they black out power grids with bombs, and the group was modelled partly on real American radicals of the Vietnam era such ...

Q 05/05

Who plays Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw in One Battle After Another?

A) Wood Harris

B) Benicio del Toro

C) Tony Goldwyn

D) Sean Penn

Answer · why

D) Sean Penn

Sean Penn. He plays the colonel with a growl and a rigid physicality that one critic called a riot to watch, and the part brought him a third Oscar, h...