Round 4: Tossup 13

Thomas Flight’s 2023 YouTube video “Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?” cites this film as a quintessential modernist film, contra contemporary meta-modernism. The Sean Connery sci-fi movie Outland is often described as this film “in space.” As an allegory for the Troubles, this film’s theme plays over a scene involving Buddy’s Pa at the climax of Kenneth Branagh’s (“BRAN-uh’s”) Belfast. Columbus Day protests motivate an argument about this film’s star interrupted by Christopher (*) Moltisanti’s question “he was gay?” This film’s star clutches a ballot in an election poster advertising Solidarity. Hollywood dramas began having theme (-5[1])songs after Dimitri Tiomkin’s hit song for this Fred Zinnemann (10[1])film, “Do Not Forsake me, Oh My Darling.” For 10 points, at the end of Die Hard, Hans Gruber mistakes John Wayne as the lead of what Gary Cooper western? ■END■ (10[1])

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