Packet 11: Tossup 22

A character in this film describes a black eye as resembling “a sunrise by Maxfield Parrish.” Stephen Chow’s character accidentally mimics this film’s poster when he first meets his mute love interest (15[1])in Kung Fu Hustle. This was the second film starring Erik Rhodes to be banned by a foreign dictator due to Rhodes’s exaggerated portrayal of one of his country’s natives, which includes the lines “for the women the kiss, for the men the sword” and “never again will I allow women to wear my dresses!” This film’s male lead uses his cane as an imaginary (*) gun (10[1])to “shoot” a troupe of background dancers in its title number, which was choreographed (10[1]-5[1])by Hermes Pan. In both The Purple Rose of Cairo and The Green Mile, (-5[1])characters are moved to tears by a sequence in which this film’s heroine wears an ostrich feather dress (10[1])while dancing at a ball on the Lido of Venice. For 10 points, Irving Berlin wrote “Cheek to Cheek” for what RKO musical (10[1])starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[4])

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