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Several abnormally large examples of these objects provide the backdrop of scenes involving Death in Fritz Lang’s film Destiny. In Fanny and Alexander, the title characters watch scholarly Uncle Carl use one of these objects to demonstrate his skill in flatulence. Chow (15[1])Yun-fat’s character is surrounded by hundreds of these objects when he is introduced in John Woo’s The Killer. (15[2])A nine-minute sequence (-5[1])of the protagonist carrying one of these objects across a pool in (15[1])tribute to Domenico (15[3])ends Andrei Tarkovsky’s (15[2])(*) Nostalghia. A vast collection (10[1])of statues holding these objects appear to “point” towards a king targeted (10[1])by the sword of a nameless assassin in a shot from Zhang Yimou’s Hero. A scene that frames a countess’s face between these objects at a gambling table was captured by a set of high-speed Carl Zeiss lenses originally used for the Apollo moon landings. (-5[1])For 10 points, in several scenes of Barry Lyndon, what objects provided the only sources of light? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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