Packet 4: Tossup 13

Thomas Flight’s 2023 YouTube video “Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?” cites this film as a quintessential modernist film, (-5[1])contra contemporary meta-modernism. The Sean Connery sci-fi movie Outland is often described (15[1])as this film “in (-5[1])space.” As an allegory for the Troubles, this film’s theme plays over a scene involving Buddy’s Pa at the climax of Kenneth Branagh’s (“BRAN-uh’s”) Belfast. Columbus Day protests (-5[1])motivate an argument about this film’s star interrupted by Christopher (10[1])(*) Moltisanti’s (10[1])question “he was gay?” (10[1])This film’s star clutches a ballot in an election poster advertising (10[1])Solidarity. Hollywood dramas (10[1])began having theme (-5[1])songs after Dimitri Tiomkin’s hit song for this (10[1])Fred Zinnemann (10[1])film, “Do Not Forsake me, Oh My (10[2])Darling.” (10[2])For 10 points, at the end (10[1])of (10[1])Die Hard, Hans Gruber mistakes John Wayne as the lead of what Gary Cooper western? ■END■ (10[3])

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