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In a Facebook post, this man declared “I enter unwashed into a world that disrespects me and despises my values”. In a screenplay written by this man, (15[2])a character with a back tattoo of the phrase “I trust my life to Providence” is approached by Cirk (“kirk”) at a lecture by Major John Gordo. In another of this writer’s screenplays, a character says that “courage is the solution to despair” while trying to comfort a radical environmentalist. Former Abu (15[1])(*) Ghraib officer William Tell becomes a gambler in this director’s film (10[1])The Card Counter, (10[1])and in another film by this man, a marquee reading “Will God Forgive Us?” is set up by an Ethan Hawke-played priest. For 10 points, the screenplay to Taxi Driver was written by what director of First Reformed? ■END■ (0[5])

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