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"Minority Report" is a prophetic movie, as it talks about a time when even our intent to do something can be used against us. Take the "Minority Report" quiz and find out if you can change the future.
"Minority Report" was supposed to be a sequel to what movie, where mutant psychics would not look out of place?
Videodrome
Blade Runner
Total Recall
"Minority Report" was supposed to be in the same Martian setting as "Total Recall," and would even have had Schwarzenegger back as the same character. However, the original film company went bankrupt and the script was changed after Spielberg picked it up.
World on a Wire
It’s all about the balls! What detail determines the action needed for the law enforcers to act on something?
the size
the color
The color of the balls describes the period the PreCrime team had to act in. Brown means that they have a few days and red means they have to act fast. The colors are based on blood: fresh is red, brown is coagulated.
the material
the number
So, we know that PreCrime has something to do with figuring out a crime before it happens. But why is it necessary?
Rising crime rates across the country
The intro of "Minority Report" states the problem outright. Crime rates are rising, to the point that looking at predictive, pre-crime arrests is a good idea, even if it’s a bit disturbing.
Lack of people in law enforcement
More violent crimes
More unreported crimes
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Another social problem is escalating, and is actually important to the story line of "Minority Report." Which is it?
Fraud
Infidelity
Drug abuse
Drug abuse with new sorts of drugs, like Neuroin, is widespread. That these drugs are powerful and untested becomes a plot point.
Sociopathy
So, we know why we need PreCrime, but how exactly does it work?
With artificial intelligence
With a massive investigative database
With psychics
The PreCrime group uses reliable psychics - three of them. Since they can see into the future, it is a matter of using them to see crime before it happens.
With invasive identification
Let's go back to the balls. While this info delivery system looks simple and retro, it is also a symbol for what present-day activity?
Lotteries
It is a fortune lottery. If your name comes up in the balls, you are either lucky that you were spared being hurt or killed, or you are unlucky since you are about to commit a crime.
Billiards
Ping-Pong
Golf
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The PreCrime offices in the Temple facility have which wonderful visual technology?
3D theater seats
fingerprint recognition
heads-up displays
The large, see-through curved screen they use in the film is based on heads-up displays. It’s unique since you can also see through the screen. Very high-tech!
credit card reader
This 2002 film featured which Hollywood icon, who seems to have a penchant for appearing in technology-based, action-packed movies?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Pierce Brosnan
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise also starred in sci-fi tech-infused action flicks like "War of the Worlds," "Oblivion" and "Edge of Tomorrow." In "Minority Report," he plays the role of John Anderton, a police chief who heads the PreCrime department.
Clive Owen
"Minority Report" shows what unique background detail, also seen in "Blade Runner"?
pollution
ghetto street levels
advertising billboards
Advertising billboards were scattered all over "Minority Report." They were used not only for ads, but also for identification, given the retina scanning tech that was all over the movie.
bad lighting
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Why Anderton is such a dedicated man when on the job?
His son was kidnapped.
The story of John Anderton in "Minority Report" starts when his son disappeared - presumably kidnapped. In the movie, he is divorced and strung out on drugs when not at work.
He has a family tradition to uphold.
He is obsessive-compulsive.
He loves one of the psychics.
During the first arrest, we see Anderton use a device that resembles what Apple device today?
iPhone
iPad
Apple Watch
The idea of a TV screen and communication on a watch has been around since it was featured on "Dick Tracy" in the 1930s. The wrist communicator and screen we see in Minority Report looks like a military version of an Apple Watch.
Macbook
Sometimes, the psychics in PreCrime have a sort of loop in their minds, seeing the same crime repeatedly. What term do they use to describe it?
Echoes
Sometimes, the psychics may end up having some sort of flashback, or they may be fixating on one event. This creates echoes of previously seen information. The technician would erase or suppress them.
Ripples
Waves
Replays
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Aside from the awesome screen in the PreCrime offices, what other office tool does Anderton use so expertly?
vocal commands
head microphone
tracking gloves
Tracking gloves, or the technology for computers to track hand movements, is becoming a reality in the late 2010s. In this sci-fi story, we see another agent, Danny Witwer, use this tech a lot.
modified desktop computer
What is an unsurprising result of people finding out that there were psychics who could predict the future?
They are worshipped as religious figures.
The three psychics are seen by many people as religious figures. Federal Agent Witwer himself believes this to be true. This forms part of his skepticism about PreCrime actions.
They are in constant danger.
There are more of them about to come online.
They are hated.
When Anderton goes on the run, all those advertising boards do what?
They all start showing his face.
They all shut down.
They scan his retina, identifying him.
With people's biological details linked to identities in a database, Anderton has a hard time evading authorities. Every eye scan of interactive billboards could tell the police where he is.
They all start malfunctioning.
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The cars in this film are somewhat different, with what crazy feature?
Cars can go underwater.
Cars can stick to walls.
In "Minority Report," we are shown how roads have become three-dimensional, with part of the freeway being a vertical wall. It is probable that some sort of magnetic traction keeps the car stuck to the wall.
Cars can walk with legs.
Cars can go on railroad tracks.
For Anderton to remain anonymous, he does what extreme thing?
He has extensive facial surgery.
He changes his complete ID papers.
He replaces his eyeballs with new ones.
Most advertising systems and social security networks use eye identification in this world. So the logical thing is to have an operation to switch eyes. Ouch!
He gets a haircut and a mustache.
What weapon, that looks like a shotgun, does Anderton use as if he's in a Wild West classic?
A Taser
A gun that fires beanbags
A pistol with rubber bullets
A sonic “shotgunâ€
The sonic shotgun that Anderton steals and later uses actually has a real-life counterpart, but not as small. The real-life version can disorient you or make you throw up.
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Dr. Hineman, the other founder of PreCrime, drops the bomb on Anderton with what piece of information?
The psychics are manipulating people.
The psychics do not get it right all the time.
Dr. Hineman is the person who tells Anderton that the psychics - the precogs - can be wrong. And that is the title drop right there: the "Minority Report."
PreCrime is a sham.
Anderton was wrong to doubt PreCrime.
The sick stick, which PreCrime agents try to use on Anderton, is so named for what reason?
It can make people feel a lot of pain.
It looks cool.
It is meant to be lethal.
It can make people vomit.
Sick sticks supposedly make the person feel so disoriented or uncomfortable that they vomit. Scarily enough, there are LED-based versions in the real world.
Dr. Hineman says one of the psychics is the most important. This clears up that PreCrime can actually be serviced by one psychic. But which one?
Arthur
Agatha
Agatha is actually the most important psychic, since she is the one who can see crimes most clearly. The twin brothers are just used to verify or give more details.
Dashiell
Ash
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At first, Anderton does not know why he would kill a man named Leo Crow, like the precogs predicted… and then what was the frame-up?
Leo Crow supposedly kidnapped Anderton’s son.
Leo Crow was paid by someone to be framed for the kidnapping - and death - of Anderton’s son. Leo's family would receive the payment and he would be permanently rid of his drug addiction.
Leo Crow was a serial killer.
Leo Crow had an affair with Anderton’s wife.
Leo Crow was an anti-PreCrime activist.
What facility is named the Temple, because, as Agent Witwer says, some people are aware of how the Precogs are seen?
Washington, D.C.
PreCrime HQ
PreCrime headquarters is apparently seen as some sort of pilgrimage point, because of how the precogs work as oracles. It seems that some of the PreCrime administration agrees.
Dr. Hineman’s residence
Lamar Burgess’s residence
What detail might be the practical reason why PreCrime agents are usually wearing protective jumpsuits?
They always go through windows.
They use a lot of body armor.
They use jetpacks.
Jetpacks are one of the signs of classic sci-fi. It's no surprise, then, that a movie like "Minority Report" would try to show a practical, somewhat reasonable version of this.
They all need to look the same.
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The murder of Anne Lively is at the center of the real story of "Minority Report." Why is she significant?
She is a whistle-blower for early PreCrime formation.
She is Burgess’ lover.
She is Agatha’s mother.
Anne Lively was a former Neuroin addict. When she cleaned herself up, she wanted to get her daughter, Agatha, back from PreCrime. Burgess, the head of PreCrime, killed her so she would not get custody.
She kidnapped Anderton’s son.
The two other precogs with Agatha are related, but in what way?
they are twins
There are three precogs that make PreCrime arrests a reality. The two male ones are twins.
they are cousins
they are a father-son tandem
they are a mother-son tandem
What do they do with PreCrime perpetrators?
they undergo brainwashing
mind wiping
they are put in suspended animation
People caught by the PreCrime system are placed in suspended animation for what are, effectively, full life sentences. No moving from that one!
they are put to sleep
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Witwer kicks the bucket for what reason?
He figures out that Anderton was framed.
Agent Witwer realizes that Anderton is being framed, because there is too much evidence. Unfortunately, he tells the wrong person about it.
He tries to go head-on with Anderton.
He becomes suicidal.
He tries to assassinate Burgess.
What does Agatha do that convinces Anderton that PreCrime visions are not unstoppable?
She shows that she can lie.
She tells him about how his son’s life would have been, using her abilities.
To prove that Minority Reports do happen, Agatha generates one. She does this by using her ability to see the life of Anderton’s son, Sean, had he not disappeared and died.
She shows that she is being controlled.
She shows that she has a different set of ethics.
Simply put, what does a Minority Report take note of?
When the precogs are being manipulated.
When the precogs do not get enough evidence.
When the three precogs do not fully agree with each other’s visions.
The Minority Reports take note of when the three precogs have vastly different interpretations of the same event. Given their power, this may mean that a crime is not yet set in stone to happen.
When the precogs' powers are not focusing correctly.
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Lamar Burgess decides to do what in the end, proving what the Minority Reports were talking about?
He runs away, so as not to commit the crime.
He arranges it so that he could kill Anderton with no precogs realizing it.
He shoots himself, rather than shooting Anderton.
By committing suicide, Lamar Burgess proves that the PreCrime system is not foolproof. He wanted to show this both in how the precogs work and how they could be fooled.
He gives up, but admits to the Minority Reports.
Agatha, Arthur and Dashiell were cleverly named, given how their abilities work. The precogs are named after what?
famous crime fiction writers
The three precogs were named by the scriptwriters after detective story writers Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett. Even without most of the sci-fi elements, the story would still work as a detective movie.
saints
according to level of ability
according to what kind of ability they have
Dr. Hineman offers what explanation for the existence of precogs?
Pollution factors in the cities
Genetic manipulation
Neuroin addiction in pregnant women
Dr. Hineman explains that somehow the new drug Neuroin, when taken by pregnant mothers, could turn some of their children into precogs. Agatha is living proof of that.
Traumatic experiences
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What drastic thing does Anderton do to halt the PreCrime technology from working?
he bombs the headquarters
he kidnaps Agatha
Anderton wants to take matters into his own hands, so to speak. Literally abducting the main precog, Agatha, sparks the events that will hopefully lead to proving his innocence.
he leads a military coup takeover
he empowers people to revolt against it
The film "Minority Report" is actually based on a short story written by which prime sci-fi writer.
Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick wrote a number of novels and short stories that were turned into sci-fi films. "The Minority Report" is one of those short stories, which was published back in 1956.
George Orwell
HG Wells
William Gibson
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