Packet 8: Tossup 8

This region’s culture inspired a 2023 Lois Patiño (“pah-TEEN-yo”) film featuring a 10-minute sequence meant to be watched with eyes closed. (-5[1])As a guest on Roger Ebert (15[1])& the Movies, a director’s pick for best film of the 90s was a movie about a highwayman from this (-5[1])region, The Horse Thief. In a 1999 (-5[1])film, (15[1])two boys [emphasize] from this region race to get a TV in time to watch the 1998 World (-5[1])Cup final. A scene in which a boy from this region imagines the corpses of men on horseback bidding farewell to him inspired Guns N’ Roses’ sixth album. Christopher tells the director of a film (15[1])set (15[1])in this region “I (*) liked it!” in the second (10[1])episode of The Sopranos. The extent to which this region’s (-5[1])people stick their tongues (10[1])out as a greeting is exaggerated in a film for which John Williams wrote a (-5[1])cello (10[1])concerto for Yo-Yo Ma. (10[1])Brad Pitt starred in that film (10[1])based on an Austrian Nazi’s memoir of “seven years in” this region. For 10 points, what region is the setting of Martin Scorsese’s Kundun, a biopic of Tenzin Gyatso? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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