Round 1: Tossup 10

After this film lingers on a shot of rain falling on lye-covered corpses in an open grave, it cuts to a shot of hands losing grasp of a cross. The sweet tooth of this film’s protagonist leads to a scene in which he overhears a man talking backwards. A sound bridge in this film involves a close-up on an old woman screaming “you selfish thing!” dissolving to a wide shot of chandeliers in front of a smoke-filled stage depicting clouds. Having declared himself a “patron saint,” this film’s protagonist repeats “I absolve you!” in a wheelchair, after which this film ends with the sound of a (*) high-pitched laugh. Two characters in this film don a tricorn hat and two-faced mask for an all-black costume that resembles the figure raising its arms on this film’s poster. Peter Shaffer’s screenplay for this film invents the idea that its protagonist transcribed the title character’s Requiem (10[1])Mass. For 10 points, name this Miloš Forman film described as a “fantasia on the theme of Salieri and Mozart.” ■END■

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