Round 2: Tossup 17
This was the native language of Granville Redmond, an artist known for painting California poppy fields who played bit parts in Chaplin movies like City Lights. A character who teaches this language refers to “those moments of stillness” as the “kingdom of God.” On Oscars night 1976, Louise Fletcher briefly spoke in this language to conclude her acceptance speech for playing Nurse Ratched. A boy who speaks this language appears in both the first and last scenes of Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past. In her debut role, Lily (*) Tomlin learned dialogue in this language for Nashville. After winning an Oscar for her debut role with dialogue mostly in this language, an actress was allegedly abused and raped by her co-star William Hurt. Lauren Ridloff and Paul Raci’s (“RAY-see’s”) fluency in this language led to their casting in a 2019 Darius Marder film about a drummer played by Riz Ahmed. For 10 points, Sound of Metal features what language spoken by Marlee Matlin in CODA? ■END■
ANSWER: American Sign Language [or ASL; prompt on sign language or signing; prompt on English by asking “what other language were they also speaking?”; reject other sign languages like “British Sign Language” or “BSL” or “BANZSL”] (Marlee Matlin won an Oscar for Children of a Lesser God.)
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