Round 3: Tossup 12

Description acceptable. A brief shot appears to depict this character placing a knife in the protagonist’s hand while he wrestles with a man who had jumped out of a car’s trunk. This character holds a camcorder to (15[1])his eye while screaming at the protagonist in demand of his name. This (15[1])character, who twice appears on screen after (-5[1])reversed footage of an exploding house, informs the (-5[1])protagonist about (-5[1])a “far Eastern” tradition in (-5[1])which capital punishment is administered as a surprise to prisoners sentenced to death. This character, who twice in the film says “we’ve met before, haven’t we?”, was the final role of a former (*) child actor whose real-life trial for murdering his wife turned out to parallel the film’s narrative. (10[1])This character, who says “I’m there (10[1])right now” before asking the protagonist to call his house phone, has no eyebrows and wears kabuki-like (-5[1])white makeup. For 10 points, Robert Blake plays what bizarre character who haunts the protagonist of David Lynch’s Lost Highway? ■END■

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