Round 8: Tossup 6

A montage in this film condenses the passage of time by cutting between 360-degree pans depicting farming and shots of its protagonist twirling on a swing. A 2020 video by YouTuber Abby Cox disputes the reasoning by which this film’s director asked Jacqueline Durran to design its dresses with low waistlines. A close-up on a flickering candle begins this film’s dream sequence, in which the protagonist stands alone on a cliff’s edge. An actress was uncredited for doctoring this film’s screenplay by Deborah Moggach despite writing a speech beginning “I’m (*) 27 years old; I’ve no money and no prospects.” Near this film’s end, (-5[1])Dario Marianelli’s (10[1])score crescendos over a 45-second-long shot (10[1])of a man walking through a foggy field at dawn. Fans of this film use the term “hand flex” to refer to a gesture by its male lead, who says “you have bewitched me, body and soul” to declare his love for one of five sisters. For 10 points, what Joe Wright film stars Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet? ■END■ (0[1])

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