Title: Bad Teacher
Year: 2011
Director: Jake Kasdan
Actors: Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake, Phyllis Smith, John Michael Higgins, Dave Allen
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Why in Database: One of the teachers, the main rival of the main character, has a turtle. He can be seen in one scene.
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Title: The Three Caballeros
Year: 1944
Director: Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young
Actors: Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway, Clarence Nash, Joaquin Garay, José Oliveira
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Why in Database: We see the turtle only in one very short scene, when he deliver to a penguin (who escaped from his frosty homeland) a tray of drinks.
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Title: Fantasia 2000
Year: 1999
Director: Eric Goldberg (fragment z Donaldem i arką), James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, GHendel Butoy, GFrancis Glebas, Don Hahn, Pixote Hunt
Actors: Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Why in Database: At one point, one of the people running the film program talks about rejected projects that did not make to final movie, citing, among others, the figure of Salvador Dali. At this point you can see a drawing/artwork in which you can see motifs that can be interpreted as turtle shells. In addition, in the segment about Donald and “Ark”, among the pairs of animals bringed to the ark, you can see (in several shots) turtles.
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Title: Cold Comes the Night
Year: 2013
Director: Tze Chun
Actors: Alice Eve, Ursula Parker, Logan Marshall-Green, Sarah Sokolovic, Ashlie Atkinson, Robin Lord Taylor, Bryan Cranston
Genre: Criminal, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Why in Database: The daughter of the main character has a turtle, his terrarium (which at the end is an important hiding place for something) can be seen in a few scenes, more or less in the background. We also have a close-up scene of the turtle itself.
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Title: Bambi II
Year: 2006
Director: Brian Pimental
English dubbing: Patrick Stewart, Alexander Gould, Keith Ferguson, Brendon Baerg, Nicky Jones, Andrea Bowen, Anthony Ghannam
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Why in Database: One of the characters (female skunk) says at one point that the turtles are scary and tries to pretend to be one. At the end, a real turtle also appears, biting the nose of the deer who stepped on it (and the skunk says, that she said turtles are scary).
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Title: The Night of the Hunter
Year: 1955
Director: Charles Laughton
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves
Genre: Criminal, Drama, noir, Thriller
Country: USA
Why in Database: The turtle appears in one scene, on the bank of the river which two children (around whom the plot of the film is set) cruise down. The boy tells his sister that turtles are made into soup, but he wouldn’t know how to “open” them.
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Title: Hellgate
Year: 1989
Director: William A. Levey
Actors: Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott, Carel Trichardt, Petrea Curran, Evan J. Klisser, Joanne Warde, Frank Notaro
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Republic of South Africa
Why in Database: The turtle is present in one scene, as a “stuffed” specimen on a plank, which. Thanks to an artifact important for the film, he comes to life (in a rather demonic version) and attacks the person who revived it. Quickly after that, he explodes.
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Title: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Year: 1993
Director: Henry Selick
Angielski dubbing: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Paul Reubens, Ken Page
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Why in Database: The turtle appears here only in one scene, and it is quite strange, although in the atmosphere of the whole animation – he is considered as Christmas present. However, he is “too stale” – he is dead, and the tire marks on the shell suggest how he died. .
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Title: The Spy Next Door
Year: 2010
Director: Brian Levant
Actors: Jackie Chan, Amber Valletta, Madeline Carroll, Will Shadley, Alina Foley, Magnús Scheving, Billy Ray Cyrus
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Why in Database: The smaller of the girls, of the three children who are the main characters in the film, has a turtle – we see him on the screen several times, including one time when he is in a turtle-shaped sandbox. Jackie Chan, who plays the spy from the title, also uses a turtle to fight his opponent. Besides, we can see the turtle in one of the scenes-after-film where unsuccessful shots are presented. There is also the quote “If a man marries you, he marries all four of you” what show that the protagonist understands, that three children are inseparable from her mother, to which she replies “Don’t forget the pig, the cat and the turtle.” In the aforementioned unsuccessful shots, at the end there is an unsuccessful version of one scene, where one of kids says turkey instead of turtle.
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Title: Assassination Games
Year: 2011
Director: Ernie Barbarash
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Ivan Kaye, Valentin Teodosiu, Alin Panc, Kevin Chapman
Genre: Action, Criminal, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Why in Database: The main character has a turtle that appears in several scenes throughout the film. It is also a part of the plot to some extent, because when the main character strokes him on the shell, he hides, but when the girl met by the protagonist does it, the turtle stays outside the shell and the protagonist wants to find out why. The last scene in which the turtle is seen takes place when the protagonist returns to the dilapidated apartment and finds the turtle lying on the floor, on its back – he immediately helps him and turns him over.
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