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 his eye while screaming (15[1])at the protagonist in demand of his name. (15[1])This character, who twice appears on screen after reversed footage of an exploding house, informs the protagonist about a “far Eastern” tradition in 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. This character, who says “I’m there right now” before asking the protagonist to call his house phone, has no eyebrows and wears kabuki-like white makeup. For 10 points, Robert Blake plays what bizarre character who haunts the protagonist of David Lynch’s Lost Highway? ■END■ (0[2])

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