pjc wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:03 am
Georgeall wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:42 am
The solution was obvious... RIO GRANDE is a river and runs through the center of the puzzle ("runs through it"). Brad PITT is the star of "A River Runs Through It," and his name is found starting at 22 and running diagonally down to the right. All the other movies were just distractors.
Never even noticed that RIOGRANDE was a river running through the puzzle. Would have made the answer a solid CLICK!
That was the *only* thing I saw for the longest time. It was too much of a coincidence for it not too be the answer. It wasn't by itself a solid click though. And it had nothing to do with states.
I tried to find other rivers crossing other entries (Is HERON a river? It is! But... c'mon that's too obscure) , or states hidden in clues. If found "1932 Best picture baSEDONAn edna ferbera novel" and thought "Aha, SEDONA is a river, isn't it! And it's in ARIZONA. Now to find the rivers in the other clues". Was hard so I looked at the wikipedia page on Sedona to confirm it was a river. It wasn't. Sedona was on a creek and not really any rivers near it at all. Pretty scenery though, and commented that many movies where filmed there (because of the picturesque red rocks) but seemed to point out that although it was Arizona most of the movies took place elsewhere. So for a brief moment I wondered if a river rain through it was filmed there and maybe all the films were filmed there (it was a
brief thought) but they weren't among the films stated as having been filmed there. So then I thought about the states where the movies were filmed. But that was hard as the were filmed in multiple states or entirely on sets. Then I thought about the states where the movies took place and it came through.
1) this all may have happened faster if I had ever heard of "The Departed" and 2) It was really hard for me to associate King King (which mostly took place on Skull Island) with New York. The clue about the famous stop motion scene (someone here complained it had *many* scenes, not just one, but the clue was a *famous* scene) so one figures if it's about the Empire State Building it has to take place in New York.
So I just plain couldn't get my meta based on "Up the Down Staircase" to work.
My challenge it to constructors is to make a meta where the meta, theme or metanism is "Up the Down Staircase".