Round 5: Tossup 11
An instance of this activity in the wake of Bernardo Bertolucci’s fallout with his mentor Pier Paolo Pasolini involved a boy from Reggio Calabria, who later grew up to cameo in Star Trek due to his friendship with Zoe Saldaña’s husband. Werner Herzog wrote the script for Aguirre in 3 days while on a road trip for this activity. Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon had Mogwai compose their debut film score for a film about this activity with the subtitle “A 21st-Century Portrait.” A postman searches for a man with the same (*) first name known for performing this activity in the film Looking for Eric. Text appears on the screen as Billy’s teacher forces his classmates to participate in this activity in a scene from Loach’s film Kes. For 10 points, Iranian women disguise themselves as men to circumvent a ban on watching what activity in Jafar Panahi’s film Offside? ■END■
ANSWER: association football [or soccer; or calcio; or fussball; prompt on sports by asking “what sport?”; reject “American football”] (The boy was Carlo Ancelotti, who when he was a teenager surreptitiously played in a football game between the crews of the films 1900 and Salò, or the 120 days of Sodom. The Parreno–Douglas film is Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait.)
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