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Being There	comment	This 1971 Jerzy Kosinski novella is now better known for its 1979 film adaptation, directed by Hal Ashby and starring Peter Sellers with Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, and Richard Dysart.Chance the Gardener (Sellers) is a mentally-challenged middle-aged man who has never set foot outside of the elegant Washington, D.C. townhouse he lives in with his wealthy employer, "the Old Man". Chance has only two pastimes in life: gardening and watching television. Not long after the story begins the Old Man is discovered dead. In the aftermath Chance is told by the lawyers who have shown up to close the house—and who have no record of a gardener being employed there, much less living there—that he must leave. Thus, he packs a suitcase of clothes (all hand-me-downs from the Old Man) and his remote control and heads out into the world.Soon enough, Chance is accidentally struck by a limousine and his leg is injured. Its passenger, Eve Rand (MacLaine), happens to be the wife of elderly, dying financial titan Ben Rand (Douglas); and, since their mansion is now partially set up as a hospital, she invites Chance to recover there. On the ride over, she mishears his name as "Chauncey Gardiner". Though honest by nature, Chance doesn't realize she's making a mistake, and things snowball from there. Both Eve and Ben take a shine to this ruined businessman (well, that's what they think he is; he has such nice clothes, and is so polite), and the latter introduces him to the President of the United States (Warden). When asked what he thinks of the current economic climate, Chance—confused and grasping at the word "growth"—replies with an intelligent-sounding line about severed roots. Both men are duly impressed, and soon Chauncey Gardiner has become one of the most powerful people in America, if not the world.Peter Sellers was particularly touched by Kosinski's satire; he heavily identified with Chance's fate to be only what others want/need him to be. He was determined to play the role in a film version, which took about seven years to get off the ground, as his star had fallen far by the early 1970s. Thus, the latter entries he did in The Pink Panther series were largely made to re-establish his bankability and reputation. Between this and director Hal Ashby's own rising star (Sellers was a fan of Harold and Maude and immediately pegged him to direct) by way of films like Shampoo and Coming Home, the film finally arrived in 1979. It is a close adaptation of the book, albeit with some significant expansion and, perhaps most famously, a Twist Ending. It is also Sellers' penultimate film.note His last, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, was released posthumously.To this day, a politician criticized for being all style/sound bites and no substance or even intelligence is likely to be compared to Chance. Compare and contrast Forrest Gump.
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Being There / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Being There / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Hal Ashby as the man by the filing cabinet in the newsroom of the Washington Post.
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Being There / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
Being There / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: The death of the Old Man sends Chance off on his odyssey.
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Being There / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Being There / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Even though he's dying of a rare blood disease, Ben remains mentally sharp, witty, and in good spirits (if just as oblivious about Chance as everyone else). He's also quite pleasant, sincere, and unpretentious in spite of his wealth and power.
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Being There / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
Being There / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending: Only in the film version. In the final shot Chance wanders out to a lake, and it's revealed he can literally Walk on Water. He's surprised too.
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Being There / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
Being There / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: The movie's set in Washington, D.C., but since the P.O.V. is confined to the townhouse until Chance leaves, and the townhouse is not in the nicest part of town, we don't see any landmarks until he's wandered far. Up to that point, we only get one hint as to the setting: a Washington Post ad on TV. For bonus points, even if Chance recognizes them he is completely indifferent to said landmarks; only the audience recognizes their significance.
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Being There / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Being There / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Death, socioeconomic disparities between races (movie only), intellectual disability, government spying, extramarital relationships... all treated seriously, and yet it's still funny.
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Being There / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Being There / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The business card the lawyers give Chance when they come to close the house, but only in the movie. Dr. Allenby sneaks into "Chauncey's" closet and finds it in a suit pocket, and uses it to trace who he actually is.
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Being There / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Being There / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Eve is quite a bit younger than her aged husband Ben, but really does love him.
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Being There / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Being There / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Allenby's use of Chance's phrase "I understand."
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Being There / int_2411d5fb	type	Parody Sue
Being There / int_2411d5fb	comment	Parody Sue: Most of the other characters are affected by Chance's being there; it's just that the traits they cherish in him are ones they believe he has based on their own assumptions. Also, in the book, he's described by a character as resembling a cross between Ted Kennedy and Cary Grant.
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Being There / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Being There / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Dr. Allenby is the only person who suspects that Chance is neither a man of profound wisdom, nor just Obfuscating Stupidity (which is what Thomas Franklin seems to think) and is able to learn the truth. He keeps it to himself, preferring to not upset people's perceptions.
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Being There / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Being There / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Justified; owing to his mental issues and isolated upbringing, Chance has little knowledge of love and sex (and doesn't really appear altogether that interested in it either) and thus doesn't quite understand Eve's behavior around/with him. Ultimately subverted in the movie, as he admits to Dr. Allenby that he loves her, suggesting that he simply needed a little experience with the emotion and she provided it.
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Being There / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Being There / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Chance's mother died in childbirth according to the novella, and the (largely absent) father figure of The Old Man dies early on. Some viewers (including Roger Ebert) have speculated Chance was actually the Old Man's son.
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Being There / int_2b45c6e	type	Adam and/or Eve
Being There / int_2b45c6e	comment	Adam and/or Eve: Eve, who accidentally hits Chance with her limo and invites him to stay at her mansion/hospital to recover.
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Being There / int_2bc0fc4d	type	Ice-Cream Koan
Being There / int_2bc0fc4d	comment	Ice-Cream Koan: Chance's "wise sayings". Unlike most examples of this trope, however, it is neither played for laughs nor because the author is trying and failing to sound deep and wise. In this case, the author is deliberately using phrases that can sound deep and introspective but really aren't. The point is that the people around him, who are big-time movers and shakers, and who should be very intelligent and capable of seeing through the ultimate shallowness of his statements, are the ones who think he's making insightful observations.
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Being There / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Being There / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: While it's mostly subverted with Chance, who is Mistaken for Profound, he does actually mildly develop and mature as the movie goes along, most evidently in his handling of Ben's illness and death compared to the Old Man, implying that Chance wasn't neccessarily mentally ill, and simply needed to be raised in a kinder environment rather than shut in from public eye his entire life.
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Being There / int_30cb4d04	type	Crystal-Ball Scheduling
Being There / int_30cb4d04	comment	Crystal-Ball Scheduling: With the exceptions of a clip of the President and Chance's talk show appearance, every clip seen on a TV in the film — and there are many, including ones seen in the background — is from a real show/commercial. And most of them were airing, new or as reruns, around the time of the film's making and release. They comment on or underscore the situation at hand or just Chance's personality; others become something Chance adapts to his own situation.
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Being There / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Being There / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Subtle and probably not intentional, but a few minutes after Chance watches Sesame Street, Sally Hayes, played by longtime Muppet performer Fran Brill, shows up in the film.
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Being There / int_39d7954e	type	The Caretaker
Being There / int_39d7954e	comment	The Caretaker: The Old Man and his maids were this to Chance until the Old Man's death. The Old Man was definitely overcontrolling; the book says he warned Chance he would be institutionalized if he ever left the house (worse, as Roger Ebert notes in his Great Movies essay, "Perhaps he is his son."). The movie version suggests the black maid Louise was closer to Chance than anyone else he ever knew. Ironically, she completely resents his success as "Chauncey" because she knows what he really is; she chalks it up to his being white.
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Being There / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
Being There / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Played straight and parodied. The novel establishes that Chance doesn't know who his father is; he was told his mother died in childbirth. Parodied in that the CIA, FBI, and so on are trying to track down "Chauncey Gardiner's" background, but can't come up with anything because there is no birth certificate, etc. for Gardiner to be tracked with. Having been isolated so completely from the world, Chance likely doesn't have any of these things anyway. At the end of the film the Washington power brokers who are acting as Ben's pallbearers decide that "Chauncey's" mysterious background will make him a viable presidential candidate, since he won't have any scandals to taint him.
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Being There / int_4280d1fd	type	Spock Speak
Being There / int_4280d1fd	comment	Spock Speak: Chance's manner of speaking, especially his quiet inflection, invokes this trope.
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Being There / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Being There / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: In the film, the Rand estate — represented by the Real Life Biltmore Estate.
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Being There / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
Being There / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: Despite having been the woman who raised Chance, Louise is disgusted that Chance, who she describes as "rice pudding between the ears", can achieve success despite his lack of accomplishment.
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Being There / int_485d09ab	type	Creator In-Joke
Being There / int_485d09ab	comment	Creator In-Joke: When Chance watches The Thomas Crown Affair on TV. That movie was co-edited by the movie's director, Hal Ashby.
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Being There / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
Being There / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: This is invoked when the senator's wife tells Eve that "He's very, very sexy!" Peter Sellers is probably not traditionally attractive!
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Being There / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
Being There / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: This happens with Chance — when you think of a combination of Cary Grant and early-'70s Ted Kennedy, a graying, overweight Peter Sellers is not who comes to mind. (Jerzy Kosinski originally wanted Ryan O'Neal to play Chance.) Still, his appearance is plausible for someone who could be mistaken for a powerful businessman-philosopher, and he is charming and polite enough that his peers being attracted to him is believable.
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Being There / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Being There / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Deconstructed with Chance, who only gains as much attention from the opposite sex (and one dude) is because they project attractive traits onto him. Chance, meanwhile, has no knowledge about sex and he doesn't appear to have any interest at all in it either.
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Being There / int_51974a43	type	Storefront Television Display
Being There / int_51974a43	comment	Storefront Television Display: Played with. "Chance" is an older man who was forced out of his home which he had never, ever left before. He viewed the world through television, since he had a LOT of them at home. When walking past a store with multiple TVs in the window, he is totally puzzled at seeing himself on one of them, thanks to a camera pointed to the sidewalk. He responds by using the remote control he had with him to change the channel; nothing happens, though it does cycle the channels on one of the other sets. This incident later gets a Call-Back when Chance tells the producer of The Gary Burns Show that he's been on television before.
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Being There / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Being There / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie version begins and ends with sequences that revolve around the death of a father figure in Chance's life. The big difference is that Chance feels grief in losing Ben, when he didn't mourn the death of The Old Man.
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Being There / int_539a54d	type	Ending Memorial Service
Being There / int_539a54d	comment	Ending Memorial Service: The final sequence takes place during one for Ben Rand.
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Being There / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Being There / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: At the end of the movie, Chance walks on water, seemingly because nobody told him he couldn't.
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Being There / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
Being There / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Chance gets propositioned by a man at a high society party.
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Being There / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Being There / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation/Adaptation Expansion/Pragmatic Adaptation: The film fleshes out many of the characters and there's a significant addition in Dr. Robert Allenby, but also combines the two maids into one and drops the Russians' attempts to figure out Chance's identity as it only duplicates the FBI/CIA search.
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Being There / int_5e111c91	type	Uncle Pennybags
Being There / int_5e111c91	comment	Uncle Pennybags: Ben is a wealthy man and quite magnanimous, helping Chance after his limo driver accidentally injures him.
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Being There / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Being There / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The movie's Twist Ending, whopper that it is, tends to be spoiled. Commercials for TV airings of the film, the trailer for the biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (in which it is recreated), and many reviews, including Roger Ebert's essay about the film in his "The Great Movies" series. And don't watch the retrospective featurette on the 2009 DVD release before you watch the movie either, or check the scene selection screen... (at this point, the ending borders on It Was His Sled).
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Being There / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Being There / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In spite of his mental issues, Chance is actually a decent gardener and can tell if a tree is sick. This is otherwise averted; Chance has the image of charm and sophistication, but he's actually clueless about pretty much everything that doesn't involve trees and gardening.
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Being There / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Being There / int_6bda9a30	comment	Chance was named such, according to the book, because "he was born by chance." The Meaningful Name becomes prophetic when his chance encounter with Eve and the series of subsequent misunderstandings bring him to power.
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Being There / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Being There / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: He's named "Chance" for a reason.
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Being There / int_6ef186d3	type	Speaks in Shout-Outs
Being There / int_6ef186d3	comment	Speaks in Shout-Outs: Variation-Chance behaves in shout outs. The handshake he gives the President, his Orbital Kiss with Eve, etc. are things he picked up from television, almost unconsciously.
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Being There / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Being There / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Eve loudly moans with pleasure while masturbating next to Chance in bed, having misunderstood his statement that "I like to watch."
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Being There / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Being There / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Most of Chance's interactions with others are these, due to people mistaking his simpleton musings about gardening for deep economic or political metaphors, such during his meeting with the President of the United States and his late night talk show appearance. In other instances they mistake his "I like to watch [TV]" catchphrase for a confession about sexual voyeurism. Meanwhile, Chance is too oblivious to what the others are talking about to even realize that he's being misunderstood.
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Being There / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Being There / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Dennis, the man who propositions Chance at the dinner party.
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Being There / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
Being There / int_7289b368	comment	Idiot Hero: Verging on Deconstruction, because Chance doesn't really do anything heroic but has various admirable qualities projected onto him by the others.
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Being There / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Being There / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "I like to watch." "Life is a state of mind."
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Being There / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Being There / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Chance's naÃ¯ve view of the world is partly tied to his fixation on television, and the moment that solidifies his accidental rise to power is his appearance on a talk show, implying that the bourgeoise's out-of-touch views of the world are just as tied to TV as Chance's naivety is.
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Being There / int_7e1eccce	type	Orbital Kiss
Being There / int_7e1eccce	comment	Orbital Kiss: Basis for a big sight gag. Chance is watching The Thomas Crown Affair on TV and this trope is about to ensue in that film. When Eve enters, needing him, he kisses her the same way that Steve McQueen is kissing Faye Dunaway. When that scene goes orbital, he tries his best to keep up...by spinning himself and Eve around.
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Being There / int_8145958b	type	Seemingly Profound Fool
Being There / int_8145958b	comment	Seemingly Profound Fool: The original name of this trope was "Chance The Gardener" for a reason.
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Being There / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Being There / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: In the film version only, Chance discovers he can walk on water.
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Being There / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Being There / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Chance's caretakers thought it was a good idea to isolate him from society, but never considered how he would be taken care of if and when they died.
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Being There / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
Being There / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: At the end, Ben's...but in an unusual way, in part because it is not meaningful to Chance.
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Being There / int_964163e9	comment	Mistaken for Profound: Chance's "economic statements", which is really just him talking about his gardening work or recalling something he has seen on TV, are misinterpreted as deep metaphors.
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Being There / int_982ef39	type	Positive Friend Influence
Being There / int_982ef39	comment	Positive Friend Influence: While it's clear Chance is not the amazing philosopher everyone believes he is, it is also evident that his time under the Rands' generosity and unpatronising kindness have actually let him make some steps in growth as a normal person, after being shut by the Old Man and his staff most of his life left him mentally stunted and homeless in their absense.
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Being There / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
Being There / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Averted. While this movie is often lumped in with Forrest Gump and Rain Man (as in Tropic Thunder), Chance's mental disability is not key to his success or inspiring others. He's just extremely lucky, and the others are extremely gullible. This aversion is much more prominent in the novel, whose overall tone is somewhat more contemptuous. Chance is intellectually disabled, and the fact that the bourgeoisie see him as anything more reveals how trapped they are in their own little world.
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Being There / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Johnny Mandel's score, adapting two piano pieces by Erik Satie, boils down to two of these for Chance. One signifies sadness and/or solitude, the other peace and contentment.
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Being There / int_a2340346	type	Friendly Address Privileges
Being There / int_a2340346	comment	Friendly Address Privileges: Chance addresses the President of the United States as "Bobby" minutes after meeting him, assuming that if the President's good friend Ben can call him that, so can he.
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Being There / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Being There / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The Old Man died in his sleep and when Chance goes up to see the body, it's still in his bed. Chance sits down on the foot of the bed, turns on the TV, and the melancholy background music is replaced with a cheery commercial jingle for mattresses; the ad comes complete with the image of a woman sleeping on a bed.
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Being There / int_a7016efe	type	Lonely Rich Kid
Being There / int_a7016efe	comment	Lonely Rich Kid: Chance fits the trope quite well, save for his physical age and his unawareness of his situation. Eve and Ben have aspects of this, as applied to adults, as well: Eve admits she doesn't have many friends (and they're mostly older than she is), and the Rand estate is apparently only populated by servants and medical professionals. Ultimately, they need Chance and he needs them to fill in the empty spaces in their lives.
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Being There / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Being There / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: In the novella, Eve's nicknamed "E.E." after her initials (her middle name is Elizabeth) and everyone refers to her as such. The movie sticks with Eve instead, probably because "E.E." would have sounded strange on screen when spoken.
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Being There / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Being There / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Thanks to Crystal-Ball Scheduling, this pops up a few times; for instance, you may never listen to Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones" quite the same way again without thinking of Chance and Eve first arriving at the Rand estate.
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Being There / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
Being There / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: The President suffers from this, a literal reflection of his corresponding political impotence.
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Being There / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Being There / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Chance coughs as he tells Eve his name. Eve mishears "Chance the Gardener" as "Chauncey Gardiner" which becomes his new name for the rest of the movie.
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Being There / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Being There / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Chance. Luckily, he adapts quickly.
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Being There / int_b4cbb37f	type	Good Morning, Crono
Being There / int_b4cbb37f	comment	Good Morning, Crono: The opening sequence of the movie follows Chance as he's awakened by the TV in his bedroom, and he proceeds to tend to his garden (there's a TV in the greenhouse), watch some more TV in his bedroom, and then go down to the dining room to wait for breakfast and watch more TV.
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Being There / int_b5c70c26	comment	Tin Man: Chance's caretakers view his mental illness as rendering him incapable of grasping human emotions, particularly in view of the Old Man's death which he is completely indifferent towards. It is implied however that their unaffectionate treatment of Chance played a larger part in that and left him emotionally stunted. After he bonds with the Rands, he remains oblivious, but gains sincere attachment to Eve and weeps over Ben's death.
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Being There / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Being There / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: A film was made based on the book; it's probably the better-known of the two.
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Being There / int_bf1c906	type	Trophy Wife
Being There / int_bf1c906	comment	Trophy Wife: Eve for Ben. Though their relationship is genuinely loving, the repurcussions of Eve marrying a much older and now-ailing man are in full view, especially as she becomes attracted to the relatively younger Chance.
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Being There / int_c209fc7	type	Chaste Hero
Being There / int_c209fc7	comment	Chaste Hero: Due to his mostly sheltered existence and somewhat childlike mind, Chance has no knowledge of sex, and he doesn't seem interested in it at all either. Hilarity ensues when Eve tries to seduce him, but Chance, unbeknownst to her, is much more interested in watching television. He's also oblivious to a gay man propositioning him.
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Being There / int_c3ae786a	type	Recut
Being There / int_c3ae786a	comment	Recut: The Hilarious Outtakes version of the closing credits was not in the original cut of the film, which ran the credits over television static and a minor key reprise of the "contentment" Leitmotif. No video release of the film includes the original version of the credits (not even The Criterion Collection's release), which was last seen in U.S. syndicated TV airings circa 2004.
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Being There / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: The fact that Chance, a mentally handicapped gardener, is mistakenly thought to be an intelligent and important man because of his quiet and polite demeanor creates many awkward situations for those around him, particularly when his non-sequitur comments about gardening or his limited understanding of the outside world clash with the actual situation at hand. In scene after scene, the viewer is lead to think that those around Chance (including power-brokers like billionaire investors and the President of the United States) will finally figure out that they've been deluding themselves about his real identity and nature, but they (mostly) never do.
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Being There / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: By the end of the plot, Chance has gone from being left on the streets, to a popular celebrity that is potentially set to become President.
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Being There / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Subverted with Chance, who comes across as this but only because he's constantly misunderstood. Double Subverted in the final shot, in which he casually walks on the surface of a lake despite it being deeper than his umbrella.
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Being There / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Being There / int_ca22ca46	comment	Madwoman in the Attic: Chance. No one but the Old Man and the maid(s) was aware of his existence before the Old Man died. The novella establishes that he was told he had to remain in the Small, Secluded World lest he be institutionalized, and that his mother was mentally challenged and died in childbirth. These details and the way Chance is able to wear the Old Man's hand-me-downs raise the possibility that he is actually the Old Man's illegitimate son and secret shame.
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Being There / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Being There / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Chance only knew his benefactor as "the Old Man" (in the film, the lawyers refer to him as a "Mr. Jennings"). We never learn Chance's last name; he introduces himself to others only as "Chance, the gardener". He may not even have one.
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Being There / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Being There / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Chance walking across the pond during Ben's funeral. Since the film doesn't have other surreal or supernatural elements, the simplest explanation is that yet again luck is on Chance's side as he happens to walk over shallow rocks. Alternatively, there's some supernatural process that allows Chance to defy not only logic and social convention but the laws of nature.
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Being There / int_ce9da072	type	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
Being There / int_ce9da072	comment	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Sellers used this trope in creating Chance's manner of speaking; it would have to be completely devoid of realistic diction/inflection because his language development would have been primarily based on how people on TV speak...
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Being There / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Being There / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Chance spent his entire life in one house and apparently not a single authority bothered to intervene.
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Being There / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Being There / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Chance has a couple. "I understand." An ironic one, because Chance usually says this in situations where he obviously hasn't the slightest idea of what's going on around him or what is being discussed. "I like to watch". Chance is referring to TV of course, but that's not how others interpret it.
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Being There / int_d64491d8	type	Meaningless Meaningful Words
Being There / int_d64491d8	comment	Meaningless Meaningful Words: This is the running joke of the film: people interpret Chance's literal statements about gardening and television as profound metaphors, resulting in him rapidly and inadvertently becoming one of the most powerful men in the world.
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Being There / int_d6c57287	type	Satire/Parody/Pastiche
Being There / int_d6c57287	comment	Satire/Parody/Pastiche: Definitely a satire... and it was parodied by MAD as "Being Not All There".
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Being There / int_d934b1c7	type	Small, Secluded World
Being There / int_d934b1c7	comment	Small, Secluded World: The Old Man's townhouse is this for Chance; television provides most of his knowledge of the world beyond it.
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Being There / int_df4b69d6	type	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
Being There / int_df4b69d6	comment	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Enough in the movie that a Rule of Three running gag results ("Does it have a television?").
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Being There / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Being There / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Chance faces little opposition in his rise from humble gardener to presidential advisor and the only people who could potentially get in his way, like the doctor and the lawyers, are simply doing their jobs.
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Being There / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Being There / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: As Louise the maid puts it to Chance in the film, "You're always gonna be a little boy, ain't ya?"
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Being There / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
Being There / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: Semi-averted. The end credits run over footage of Peter Sellers continuously breaking down laughing while filming a monologue that was ultimately cut from the film. Sellers thought this was a violation of the movie's tone and tried unsuccessfully to have them removed. As it is, the tone of the film (and especially the actor's death soon after its release) makes the outtakes seem more melancholy than anything else. It doesn't help that Sellers is lying face-up on a table wearing a dark tailored suit to deliver the speech, thereby resembling a corpse, as one film journal noted in a retrospective article not long after he died.
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Being There / int_e2f1ae4b	type	You Won't Feel a Thing!
Being There / int_e2f1ae4b	comment	You Won't Feel a Thing!:
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Being There / int_e3d2f2	type	The Fool
Being There / int_e3d2f2	comment	The Fool: Chance is as close to the classic version as it gets. He might be simple-minded, but he has plenty of good fortune to make up for it.
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Being There / int_e4c95972	type	Innocent Bigot
Being There / int_e4c95972	comment	Innocent Bigot: In the film, Louise is the only black person Chance has ever known until he leaves home. After that there are a couple of episodes that suggest he thinks all black people know each other or serve the same functions as one another—he asks a woman on the street to give him some food, and after his encounter with the black gang member who tells him to give a message to Rafael, he asks a black male nurse at the Rand house if he knows Rafael. It's implied he's absorbed stereotypes from his primary information source: television (which by the 1970s was filled with highly stereotypical images of blacks â€” on top of Chance's already distorted perceptions of the relationship between TV and reality).
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Being There / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
Being There / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: Poor Chance is essentially kicked out of his home, left to wander the streets (this is worse in the movie, because the house is in a rundown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.), and becomes a respected political figure through sheer misunderstanding. He doesn't realize — much less understand — this alternating cruelty and kindness, but just goes with it.
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Being There / int_e8a56ee7	type	Steven Ulysses Perhero
Being There / int_e8a56ee7	comment	Steven Ulysses Perhero: Reversed in Chance's case!
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Being There / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Famously so. "Life is a state of mind".
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Being There / int_edfacbac	type	Covert Pervert
Being There / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: Subverted. Chance's "I like to watch" is misinterpreted by everyone that he's a voyeur. In reality, he just likes to watch television.
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Being There / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Being There / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted: Ben's doctor and the President are both Roberts, though the latter apparently goes by Bobby. For some.
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Being There / int_fab3b838	type	Everything Is Racist
Being There / int_fab3b838	comment	Everything Is Racist: Louise assumes Chance's success is due to the fact that he's white.
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Being There / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Being There / int_fac4ff79	comment	Meta Casting: Peter Sellers took this trope into his own hands when he decided he was meant to play Chance. Sellers had often stated that he had no real personality beyond his characters; now he could play someone who has no real personality beyond other people's perceptions.
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Being There / int_faf4a043	type	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
Being There / int_faf4a043	comment	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery Good — Ben has no problem with Eve's attraction to Chance because he's dying and would be happy to know she would be taken care of, thus freeing her up to woo the unsuspecting gardener. Bad — (Movie only) The lawyers who come to close the house are a male-female duo (Thomas Franklin and Sally Hayes) who are carrying on an affair behind the back of the man's wife or girlfriend, the credits themselves aren't sure which (who is getting suspicious).
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Being There / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Being There / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: The message to Raphael that Chance is told to deliver. A brick joke twice over thanks to the Hilarious Outtakes.
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Being There / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Most of the TV clips used in the film are from shows that would've been actually airing in the dayparts when scenes take place, like news broadcasts, Sesame Street and Captain Kangaroo in the morning, game shows in the afternoon, and movies at night.
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