Round 5: Tossup 15

The word “HAPPINESS” follows a shot of this object to end the training montage in The Parallax View. A scene that involves this object features close-ups on the (-5[1])seams of a man’s suit tearing apart and climaxes (-5[1])with this object in the background as that man, played by Norman Lloyd, screams “Kane!” while flailing his limbs. Near the end of a film shot by Lol Crawley, an early shot of this object is echoed by a close-up on a cross of light in a (*) building (10[1])where a millionaire disappears. The climax of Hitchcock’s Saboteur involves this structure. In the opening of a 2024 film, (10[1])the voice of the protagonist’s wife writing a letter to him in Hungarian is heard as the protagonist walks to see this structure in a shot framed upside-down. For 10 points, the posters for The Brutalist and Escape from New York depict what structure that reveals (10[1])Earth is the Planet of the Apes? ■END■

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