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Bad Lieutenant

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Bad Lieutenant is a neo-noir film made in 1992 by Abel Ferrara, concerning a nameless New York police lieutenant (played by Harvey Keitel) as he goes about his daily business of solving homicides while simultaneously indulging in his drug habits and prostitution and worrying about how to pay off his baseball gambling debts, all the while using his position as a weapon to get away with everything. During the investigation of a nun's rape, the Lieutenant begins to reflect on his lifestyle, wondering if he can change it.The film inspired The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a movie that features a similar main character, yet is still quite different.
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 Author Appeal: The Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Zoë Lund (née Tamerlis), who was the co-writer of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate, and also shoots real heroin in those scenes. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was already deceased. From cocaine rather than heroin (she kicked the habit, only to pick up a new one).
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 Anti-Villain: The Lieutenant is a truly loathsome piece of work but it's gradually shown he's fully aware of how vile he is and hates himself for it and his hedonism is his way of coping.
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 Being Evil Sucks: The Lieutenant lives a truly miserable and unenviable existence, engaging in all manner of depravity which he takes little to no joy in and which only serves as a way of taking away the real pain of his bone deep self-loathing and feelings of existential abandonment.
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