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Movies and Riddles are often coupled in an effort to create suspense and intelligence. Every time a riddle is reveled in a movie it creates a countdown, if the riddle isn’t solved quickly enough the protagonist will fail and all of their efforts will have been for nothing. An example of this is in National Treasure when Ben Gates must find the treasure and throughout the entire story he is given several riddles that create a sense of urgency as his old partner Ian also tries to get the treasure. This urgency can be felt in the trailer.
Intelligence is the other aspect of these riddles. The character that solves the riddle and eventually triumphs is characterized as the genius of the story, a character trait that has always been very appealing in stories.
Here are some riddles from some of the greatest movies of our time (all of the answers to the riddles listed here and more riddles from the movie can be found at the link):
1. Riddles of National Treasure
The legend writ, the stain affected. The key in Silence undetected. Fifty-five in iron pen, Mr. Matlack can’t offend.
2. Riddles of the Da Vinci Code (the riddles below are all anagrams).
13-3-2-21-1-1-8-5
O, Draconian devil!
Oh, lame saint!
3. Riddles of Star Wars
I’m looking for a planet described
to me by an old friend. I trust
him. But the system doesn’t show
up on the archive maps.
4. Riddles of Harry Potter (part 1)
Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
And while you’re searching ponder this;
We’ve taken what you’ll sorely miss,
An hour long you’ll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
But past an hour, the prospect’s black,
Too late it’s gone, it won’t come back.
(egg song) from movie:
Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
An hour long you’ll have to look,
To recover what we took.
5. Riddles of Harry Potter (part 2)
The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches…Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies…and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not…and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives…the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…
6. Riddles of Batman
If you look at the numbers on my face, you won’t find thirteen any place.
7. Riddles of the Hobbit
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
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