Round 5: Tossup 4

This character’s glance at some hanging ornaments near the camera during a fight scene was the result of the camera crew accidentally bumping into the ornaments. This character, who describes another character as “unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality,” was conceived during rewrites by the film’s producers David Giler and Walter Hill. Queer theoretic analyses of this character are informed by his attempted (*) murder of a woman with a rolled-up pornographic magazine. For a 2024 film, this character’s actor was controversially “revived” by AI from a scan he made for The Lord of the Rings. This character smirks after remarking “I can’t (-5[1])lie to you about your chances, but … you have my sympathies” as a milky white fluid coats his disembodied head. For 10 points, Ian Holm plays what Nostromo science officer revealed to be an android in Alien? ■END■ (0[2])

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