Round 9: Tossup 17

A bird-like metal creature observes a planet whose inhabitants have this quality in a 1975 Hungarian stop-motion short whose English title rhymes. In another film, a fedora-wearing Italian drug lord with this quality rues the death of his DJ nephew, before using a baseball bat to defenestrate two lazy employees from a high-rise office. A film about characters with this quality opens with a shootout in a warehouse after a two-minute montage of expressionless breakdancing gangsters. In that film about characters with this quality, a character named in homage to (*) Jet Li kicks a racist cop across a room after being told, “let me put it in a language you can understand.” (10[1])While working full-time as an animator for films like The Matrix Reloaded and (-5[1])X-Men, Jeff Lew single-handedly wrote, directed, and animated an action movie about characters (-5[1])with this quality. For 10 points, that film centers on a John Wick-like assassin with what quality named “Killer?” ■END■ (10[3]0[9])

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