Packet 8: Tossup 6

A montage in this film condenses the passage of time by cutting between 360-degree pans depicting farming and shots of its protagonist twirling on a swing. A 2020 video by YouTuber Abby Cox disputes the reasoning by which this film’s director asked Jacqueline Durran to design its dresses with low waistlines. A close-up on a flickering candle begins this film’s dream sequence, in which the protagonist stands alone on a cliff’s edge. An actress was uncredited for doctoring this film’s screenplay by Deborah Moggach despite writing a speech beginning “I’m (*) 27 years old; I’ve no money and no prospects.” (10[2])Near this film’s end, (-5[1])Dario Marianelli’s (10[2])score crescendos over (-5[1])a 45-second-long shot (10[1])of a man walking through a foggy field at dawn. Fans (10[1])of this film (10[1])use the term (10[1])“hand flex” (10[1])to refer to a gesture by its male lead, who says “you have bewitched me, (10[1])body and soul” to declare (10[1])his love for one of five (10[1])sisters. For (10[1])10 points, what Joe Wright film stars Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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