Round 2: Tossup 9
Description required. The Gangs of New York soundtrack piece “Dionysus” was originally composed for this sequence. Due to protests by South African Hindus, this sequence’s score no longer includes Sri Lankan musician Manickam Yogeswaran’s (“yo-GAYSH-wuh-run’s”) recitation of a verse from the Gita. The climax of this sequence is a crash zoom on a woman whose lines, like “I will redeem him,” were voiced uncredited by Cate Blanchett. In this sequence, a character who says “it doesn’t matter if you had forgotten it or if you had never knew it” is played by the director’s longtime (*) assistant, Leon Vitali. The vocals of Jocelyn Pook’s score for this sequence’s first half are a reversed recording of a Romanian liturgy. In this sequence filmed at a former Rothschild home, a blindfolded pianist played by Tár director Todd Field plays music in a room the protagonist enters by uttering the word “fidelio.” For 10 points, every actor except Tom Cruise wears a mask in what erotic sequence from the final film by Stanley Kubrick? ■END■
ANSWER: the orgy from Eyes Wide Shut [accept any descriptions of group sex in place of “orgy”; accept the masked ball from Eyes Wide Shut; prompt on the party or ball from Eyes Wide Shut by asking “what is unique about that party?”; prompt on the sex scene from Eyes Wide Shut by asking “what is unique about that sex scene?”] (Coincidentally, Kubrick met his third wife at a masked ball at which he was the only participant without a costume.)
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