Question
Answer the following about the making of films directed by Dee Rees, for 10 points each.
[10m] This director’s imagery inspired Rachel Morrison’s Oscar-nominated cinematography for Rees’s film Mudbound. Isaac Hayes wrote an Oscar-winning funk theme for a 1971 blaxploitation film by this director.
ANSWER: Gordon Parks [or Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks] (The film is Shaft.)
[10e] Rees wrote the script for her debut film Pariah while interning for Spike Lee, her professor at this private university’s Tisch School of the Arts.
ANSWER: NYU [or New York University]
[10h] Bradford Young’s cinematography for Pariah was inspired by this director’s lectures on African art at Howard University. This Ethiopian director of the L.A. Rebellion movement explored oppression in films like Bush Mama and Sankofa.
ANSWER: Haile Gerima (“HIGH-lay geh-REE-mah”)
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Les Missourables | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | The Jeam Team | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| var merchants | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |