who is driving?
zeph’s pop culture quiz #39
A vehicle is dashing through the night at about 70 miles per hour, but who is driving?
Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a comment’ at the end of the post and fill in the form. If it’s the first time you post a comment, it will be held for moderation. But I am constantly checking, and once I’ve approved a comment, your next ones won’t be held, but published immediately by the system.]
UPDATE (28 August 2012):
As nobody seems fit to place an educated guess, here’s another screencap. As you see, the number seven, as in 70 miles per hour, creeps up once more in the movie we’re looking for. The person holding the pictured device is the same one who is driving the vehicle through the night.
UPDATE and solution (04 September 2012):
It astounds me a bit that nobody came up with the solution for this one, especially in the face of the information I gave in the comments: It’s John Connor (Nick Stahl) driving his motorcycle through the night early on in ‘↑Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines‘ (Mostow 2003). The screencap with the bomb-countdown stopped at seven seconds I deliberately chose because it’s an obvious citation of the showdown-scene in ‘↑Goldfinger‘ (Hamilton 1964), when the countdown of the nuclear bomb Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) placed within Fort Knox, is stopped at the same time—not by Bond (Sean Connery). As it seems, ↑in an episode of 24 the same citation appears.
hm … sevens … xD I can only think of James Bond ….
Come on, that would have been way too easy, wouldn’t it? All right, I confess that I deliberately led you on an erroneous path. The number seven has no significance whatsoever in the movie we are looking for. Although I think that the scene in the second screenshot indeed is a deliberate citation from a James-Bond movie. There will be points awarded for correctly guessing the cited Bond-movie and scene ;)
That of course is in >>Goldfinger<< when Bond stopped the A-bomb exploding in Fort Knox ….
This is correct—extra-points hereby awarded :) In fact the protagonist in the screencap also stops a bomb at 00:07, not an A-Bomb, though. But by detonatng his little bomb he wanted to prevent the detonation of, not one, but all nuclear weapons …
Sure … of course James Bonds fingers would be much more well-manicured than those ugly fingers above ;)
Cunningly observed—the state of the fingers depicted indeed has something to do with the kind of life the person in question led … definitely not along the lifestyle of a suave, cosmopolitic agent on Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
So … the guy above is a mechanic?
No, he isn’t. He for sure has some skills of a mechanic, and a lot of other strange skills, but he is no mechanic. In fact, by profession he is nothing at all. Nevertheless he will fulfill an extremely responsible position.
Here I am, for the first time, hello everbody ;o) So, as I guess it is a child’s hand?
No, sorry, in the movie we’re looking for the protagonist is not a child anymore. But we have seen him as a child before …
Rabitsch! Help! You know that film with the boy in NORAD! He is there to decipher a code….
I think I got it … Matthew Broderick???
No, I’m sorry, but it’s not Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in ‘WarGames’ (Badham 1983). Nevertheless, just like in ‘WarGames’ the nuclear apocalypse and a sentient artificial intelligence are at the core of the plot of the movie we’re looking for, too.