Packet 11: Tossup 6

This film’s lead actor improvised the dialogue in a one-take scene in which he cries while saying “I’m sorry it didn’t work out” to a man in a wheelchair. This film’s protagonist yells “why don’t we all line up like a goddamned bunch of ants!” in a drunken stupor during a traffic jam. This film’s writer Carole Eastman based its protagonist on both its director and lead actor, who co-wrote the film Head starring the Monkees. In this film (15[2])shot by László (15[1])Kovács (“LASS-loh koh-VATCH”), a scene (15[2])that slowly pans across the protagonist’s childhood photos at his family home on (15[1])(*) Puget Sound (10[1])is set to a diegetic performance of Chopin’s (10[1])Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4. A woman who annoys this film’s protagonist by singing Tammy Wynette songs is played by Karen Black. This Bob (10[1])Rafelson film (10[2])is best-known for a scene in which the disgruntled protagonist tells a waitress to “hold the chicken” “between [her] knees.” For 10 points, name this 1970 (10[1])film about Bobby Dupea (“doo-PEE”), a piano prodigy played by Jack Nicholson. ■END■

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