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Accident

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30 feature instances
22 referencing feature instances

Accident	type	TVTItem
Accident	label	Accident
Accident	page	Accident
Accident	comment	Accident (originally titled Assassins) is a 2009 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Soi Cheang, produced by Johnnie To and starring Louis Koo, and Richie Jen.A self-styled “accident choreographer,” the Brain is a professional hitman who kills his victims by trapping them in well crafted “accidents” that look like unfortunate mishaps but are in fact perfectly staged acts of crime. Perennially plagued with guilt, he is also suspicious and morbid by nature. The recent avalanche of memories of his lost wife does not make things any easier.After one mission accidentally goes wrong, causing the life of one of his men, the Brain is convinced that this accident has been choreographed: someone is out there plotting to terminate him and his team. He becomes increasingly paranoid, walking on the thin line between reality and delusion.When he is accosted by a mysterious insurance agent Fong who happened to be on the scene of the “accident” as well, the Brain becomes convinced that this man is the mastermind behind a conspiracy to take him out. To regain his sanity and to save his life, he must strive to kill Fong before he makes his next move.
Accident	fetched	2023-08-11T06:44:28Z
Accident	parsed	2023-08-11T06:44:29Z
Accident	processingComment	Dropped link to KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Accident	processingUnknown	KnownOnlyByTheirNickname
Accident	isPartOf	DBTropes
Accident / int_1b4ead2d	type	Soft Glass
Accident / int_1b4ead2d	comment	Soft Glass: Averted; the first 'accident' involves setting up the mark to inadvertently break a window so he'll be showered by enough falling glass to cause a fatal injury.
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Accident / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Accident / int_1e584efa	comment	The pawnbroker's son hires the team to kill his crippled father, perhaps for the insurance money, but is horrified to witness his death by electrocution, and is eventually Driven to Suicide.
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Accident / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Accident / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: This movie is about a group of assassins who specialize on creating very cunning circumstances that lead to a target's death. The murders are assumed to be accidents because the circumstances are so unlikely it doesn't seem feasible that anyone could have orchestrated them.
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Accident / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Accident / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: When the Woman goes to pick up the payoff from the pawnbroker's son, Brain assumes that she arranged Fatty's death and kills her with another freak 'accident'.
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Accident	hasFeature	Accident / int_474e3977
Accident / int_495904cc	type	Forgetful Jones
Accident / int_495904cc	comment	Forgetful Jones; Unknown to the rest of his team, Uncle has a medical condition that is causing him to lose his memory. This ultimately has tragic consequences.
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Accident / int_4b7364d	type	Dead Man Honking
Accident / int_4b7364d	comment	Dead Man Honking: The opening credits end with the car crash that kills the Brain's wife. She is shown smashing through the windscreen, followed by a prolonged blaring off the horn.
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Accident	hasFeature	Accident / int_4b7364d
Accident / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Accident / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Fong murders Brain in revenge, but will never know why his wife was killed. He'll likely be caught and sent to jail, and he can't even argue diminished responsibility as no-one would believe his wife's death was anything but an accident.
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Accident	hasFeature	Accident / int_4e3d253b
Accident / int_5f410c2c	type	Blood Is Squicker in Water
Accident / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: When the Triad boss is killed by falling glass, his blood pools on the sidewalk and spills into the water in the gutter.
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Accident / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Accident / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Following Fatty's death (which he is convinced was aimed at him), the Brain begins a rapid descent into paranoia: seeing conspiracy at every turn.
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Accident / int_67dfa28	type	Planning with Props
Accident / int_67dfa28	comment	Planning with Props: When planning how to murder the pawnbroker and make it look like an accident, the gang constructs a detailed model of the block where his shop is located, using props including dice, cigarette packets, masking tape, etc.
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Accident / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Accident / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: The Brain rents the flat below Fong's and draws the layout of Fong's apartment on the ceiling to help make sense of what he's hearing through the microphones he's planted. As the Brain's sanity slips, he starts detailing the connections of his conspiracy theory—interspersed with pages from his notebook—on the walls.
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Accident	hasFeature	Accident / int_6941e30b
Accident / int_76c0e85d	type	High-Voltage Death
Accident / int_76c0e85d	comment	High-Voltage Death: The pawnbroker is electrocuted when the crew drape a wet kite string over a tram cable and on to his wheelchair during a rainstorm.
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Accident / int_8816272b	type	Blinded by the Light
Accident / int_8816272b	comment	Blinded by the Light: Brain plans to kill Fong using sunlight reflected off a CCTV camera and a car windscreen into the face of a driver so he won't see Fong on the road in front of him. A Convenient Eclipse stops this from happening, only to trigger again after the eclipse ends, killing Fong's wife instead.
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Accident / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Accident / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: The Brain's wife is dead at the start of the film. In fact, the first scene shows the accident that caused her death.
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Accident / int_94c1e2f7	type	Grave-Marking Scene
Accident / int_94c1e2f7	comment	Grave-Marking Scene: The Brain visits the road near the airport where his wife died in a car crash.
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Accident / int_94c1e2f7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Accident / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Accident / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: The Brain treasures the shattered wristwatch his wife was wearing when she died in a car crash. When his safe is robbed, he thinks the thieves deliberately left the watch behind as a taunt at him. They actually just did not consider it worth taking.
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Accident / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Accident / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The pawnbroker's son hires the team to kill his crippled father, perhaps for the insurance money, but is horrified to witness his death by electrocution, and is eventually Driven to Suicide. Brain when he realises there was no murder plot and that his plan to kill Fong is still in operation with Fong's wife standing in the target area.
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Accident / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Accident / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: In the Batman Cold Open The Woman has a burst tire and pretends to be too stupid to pull over and let other vehicles pass. The man behind her loses patience and drives around her...putting him in position for the fatal accident.
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Accident / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
Accident / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": Ho Kwok-fai is known as 'The Brain', and whenever anyone refers to him by his nickname, it always includes the definite article.
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Accident / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Accident / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Fatty's death really was an accident, caused when Uncle dropped the balls he was carrying while posing as a street vender and they rolled out in front of the bus, causing the driver to lose control. For all his paranoia, Brain is killed when Fong just runs up and stabs him, an uncomplicated murder entirely different from the ones he's planned and executed.
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Accident / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Accident / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killers: The Brain, Uncle, Fatty and The Woman.
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Accident / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Accident / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The female member of the gang is never addressed by name (or nickname). In the credits, she is referred to as 'the Woman'.
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Accident / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Accident / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title
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Accident / int_dd7cfe55	type	Apophenia Plot
Accident / int_dd7cfe55	comment	Apophenia Plot: The Brain is an an "accident choreographer" who specializes in killing people by arranging freak "accidents". During one his assignments, something goes wrong and an actual freak accident results in one of his men being run over by a bus. The circumstances of this accident are so similar to the ones he arranges that the Brain becomes convinced that this was a deliberate attack aimed at him. His obsession drives him into paranoia, but as the viewer learns there never was a conspiracy, this really was just a freak accident.
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Accident	hasFeature	Accident / int_dd7cfe55
Accident / int_ebee7b3a	type	Parking Garage
Accident / int_ebee7b3a	comment	Parking Garage: The client pays off the hitmen by leaving a packet of money in the backseat of an unlocked car in a multilevel garage, with the bay number sent to him by text.
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Accident / int_eefce6c6	type	Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts
Accident / int_eefce6c6	comment	Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: The Professional Killers specialise in engineering deaths like this so they look like improbable accidents; although the team are always on site to ensure that each step goes off without a hitch. The murder the Brain engineers solo at the end of the film is even more like this, as he is acting on his own and several of the steps are things that could not have occurred by accident.
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Accident / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
Accident / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Brain rejects the idea of using a car accident to kill the pawnbroker (perhaps because of his wife's death) in favor of an elaborate plan involving electrocution via tram tracks that depends on it raining on the night in question.
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Accident / int_f791e275	type	Roadside Wave
Accident / int_f791e275	comment	Roadside Wave: Uncle drives a truck with water containers that spill on the road, and when the Triad boss drives past he causes this trope, making innocent bystanders back off from the intended target area.
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Accident / int_f7e877a3	type	Camera Spoofing
Accident / int_f7e877a3	comment	Camera Spoofing: CCTV cameras are dealt with by a member of the team holding a bunch of balloons, and releasing one to float up and block the camera.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Accident	hasFeature	Accident, Not Murder / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Action Genre / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Apophenia Plot / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Blinded by the Light / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Blood Is Squicker in Water / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Convenient Eclipse / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Dead Drop / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Dead Man Honking / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Delivery Guy Infiltration / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Electrified Bathtub / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Forgetful Jones / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Grave-Marking Scene / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	High-Voltage Death / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Make It Look Like an Accident / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Necro Non Sequitur / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Parking Garage / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Posthumous Character / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Professional Killer / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Room Full of Crazy / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Soft Glass / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Spell My Name with a "The" / int_de3c1389
Accident	hasFeature	Thriller / int_de3c1389

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