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, (15[1])Louise Fletcher briefly (15[1])spoke in this language (15[1])to conclude her acceptance speech for playing Nurse Ratched. (15[1])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 (15[1])role, Lily (*) Tomlin learned dialogue in this language for Nashville. After winning an Oscar for her debut role with dialogue (10[1])mostly in this (10[1])language, an actress was allegedly abused and raped by her co-star (10[2]-5[1])William Hurt. Lauren Ridloff and Paul Raci’s (“RAY-see’s”) fluency in this language led to their casting (10[1])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■

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