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Closer

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Closer is a 2004 American drama film based on the 1997 play of the same name by English playwright Patrick Marber, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen.Basically, it's a romantic drama set in contemporary London, about two opposing sets of couples—Dan Woolf (Law) and Alice Ayres (Portman), and Larry Gray (Owen) and Anna Cameron (Roberts)—and their various betrayals, infidelities and heartbreaks in a classic love square. It's much better than it sounds, although its most well-known scene is arguably the one where Alice is working at a strip club.Owen and Portman were nominated for Academy Awards and won Golden Globe Awards for their performances, with Owen also snagging a BAFTA Award.
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Scenery Censor
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Scenery Censor: When Larry asks Alice to show him her vulva, his head conveniently obscures it from the audience's view. (And not-so-subtly makes it appear as if he's performing oral sex on her).
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Scarpia Ultimatum
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Scarpia Ultimatum: Larry demands sex from Anna in exchange for signing their divorce papers.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: Everyone in this movie has varying levels of unhappiness with their love life (and for Dan and Alice, professionally, as well), and ends with an uneasy closure on that same note.
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Betty and Veronica Switch
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Betty and Veronica Switch: Both men have the choice between the wise, steady photographer Anna and the vivacious, flirtatious 'waif' Alice, but it's flipped around in that Anna is the one who can't remain faithful to either of her lovers, while Alice is committed to Dan.
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Between My Legs
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Between My Legs: In Alice's scene in the club, while she's putting on her outfit.
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Brutal Honesty
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Brutal Honesty: Everyone at one point or another, but Larry almost all the time.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Alice. She has enough common sense to leave Dan the minute he admits to his infidelity, rebuffing his lame excuses, to reject Larry (initially), knowing full well that they'd only be seeking pointless revenge against their cheating exes, to dump Dan for good when she realizes their reconciliation won't work, and to finally go home to escape the crazy, unhappy situation and make a fresh start.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: To Nichols' previous film Carnal Knowledge, which was also a frank depiction of sex and misogyny (although in this film, the women's roles are more substantial).
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Head-Turning Beauty
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Head-Turning Beauty: Alice Or Jane, rather, literally, in her final scene, as she elicits this reaction from every man she passes as she walks down the street.
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Shower of Angst
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Shower of Angst: Suggested by Larry when Anna admits to her affair with Dan—that she did it not only to get his scent off of her, but the guilt.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Anna alludes to an abusive relationship in her past, but no other details are given.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Heavy on the bitter. Dan and Alice break off their relationship and she's been lying about her name the entire time, Anna is still unhappily married to Larry, and Alice returns to New York alone but free of the relationship drama.
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Alice tries very hard to be one of these.
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Informed Attractiveness
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Informed Attractiveness: Alice's final scene, in which nearly every man she passes as walks down the street is awestruck at the sight of her.
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Stalking Is Love
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Stalking is Love: Dan tries this with Anna, for a whole year. It works.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: The original play's ending. Alice dies. Averted in the film adaptation, which has Alice survive and go back to America.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: Plenty, usually revealing a character's adultery.
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Wham Shot
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Wham Shot: The plaque with the name Alice Ayres. Cue Dan's stunned look as he realizes he has no idea who he was dating for four years.
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Bookends
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Bookends: The movie opens with Alice walking down a London street to "The Blower's Daughter," and ends with her walking through New York's Times Square at the end.
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Country Matters
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Country Matters: Larry plainly and forwardly asks Alice what her cunt tastes like. She replies "heaven." The word is also occasionally tossed around as an insult.
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Adaptation Distillation
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Adaptation Distillation: Patrick Marber adapted the screenplay from his own play, trimming off a lot of the narrative fat in the process. For instance, Alice was already a stripper in the play but her film counterpart only becomes one after Dan breaks up with her due to his affair with Anna. Pity about the ending, though...
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Time Skip
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Time Skip: Frequently, and only revealed by the characters' dialogue.
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Nonconformist Dyed Hair
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Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Compulsive liar Alice has naturally brown hair, but she wears a pink wig while stripping, and is shown at the end of the movie - after she leaves London and appears to start again - with bright red hair.
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Spared by the Adaptation
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Spared by the Adaptation: Alice survives the events of the film and goes back to America. In the original play, she was outright dead.
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Sympathetic Adulterer
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Sympathetic Adulterer: Played with. While no one's cheating is made out to be okay, they aren't vilified for it either.
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Minimalist Cast
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Minimalist Cast: There are only four main characters in the film: Alice, Anna, Dan, and Larry.
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Sarcastic Confession
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Sarcastic Confession: Larry demands that Alice tell him her real name, Alice only gives him the obviously fake name "Jane Jones." (But as we learn, that is in fact her real name.)
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Sexy Discretion Shot
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Sexy Discretion Shot: Despite her skimpy outfit in the strip club scene, Alice's moments of true nudity occur out of our line of sight.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Everyone, pretty much. It's that kind of script.
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: Alice Ayres/ Jane Jones, especially when she's working at a strip club.
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Pink Is Erotic
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Pink Is Erotic: Alice uses a pink wig and makeup for one of her stripper outfits.
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Love Triangle
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Love Triangle: Repeatedly.
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A Good Name for a Rock Band
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A Good Name for a Song: Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy both took inspiration from the film: The songs "Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" and "But It's Better If You Do" form a quote from the aforementioned stripping scene. The line "He tastes like you, only sweeter" in "Thnks fr th Mmrs" is, in the film, Anna's response to Larry's question of what Dan's ejaculate tastes like. The line "I love everything about you that hurts" in G.I.N.A.S.F.S is taken from the aforementioned pink wigged stripper scene.
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Bedroom Adultery Scene
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Bedroom Adultery Scene: When Dan and Anna confess to their affair, they each admit to their respective partners that they have had trysts in their home.
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Alliterative Name
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Alliterative Name: Alice Ayres/Jane Jones
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Larry suspects that Anna's behavior is because she doesn't feel that she deserves to be loved, but he emphatically tells her, "You do!"
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Slut-Shaming
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Slut-Shaming: Anna indicates that Larry treats her like a whore in bed. He sarcastically snarls, "I wonder why?", essentially telling her that she is one, then tops off their argument by calling her a "fucked up slag".
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: "My name is Jane", Alice's repeated response to Larry's query as to her real name. He thinks that she's insisting on sticking to her stripper persona.
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Seduction as One-Upmanship
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Seduction as One-Upmanship: During a confrontation, Larry explicitly tells Dan that he extorted sex from Anna specifically to "fuck with you", wanting Dan to experience the pain he felt. Now that Anna has returned to Larry, Larry suggests that Dan reconcile with Alice. Just as Dan agrees and goes to leave, Larry can't resist informing him that he slept with Alice as well.
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Hypocrite
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Hypocrite: Dan, in spades. First, he's stunned to learn that Anna slept with Larry again. Apparently, it's okay for Anna to cheat with him, but not on him. He can't get over it and it's implied that this contributed to Anna leaving him. Then, he's equally floored when Larry reveals that he and Alice slept together and can't get over that either, causing their reconciliation to fail. This after breaking Alice's heart by emotionally cheating on her for a year (during which he was essentially stalking Anna), physically cheating on her for another year, and only getting back together with her after Anna dumped him (meaning she's clearly nothing more than his second choice) but he can't accept that she slept with someone else (Anna's cuckolded husband, no less) during a time when they were not together. Larry, too. Not two seconds after admitting to having cheated on Anna with a prostitute, he's flipping out when she admits to her affair with Dan.
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Empathic Environment
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Empathic Environment: Dreary, gray London seems to coincide with most of the character's situations. In particular, the pouring rain when Dan shows up at Larry's office to tearfully beg him to let Anna come back to him. And bright, sunny New York mirroring Alice's fresh start.
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G.I.R.L.
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G.I.R.L.: The spark that sets Larry and Anna's relationship is Dan masquerading as Anna in a cybersex chat room.
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Hate Sink: Dan is likely to be one by the time the film's over. He stalked a woman for over a year. Then he had sex with her for over a year while both had other warm partners. Then he refused to really apologize. And then, incredibly, he's unable to forgive his affair partner for having sex with her ex once to get the divorce papers signed. And then he has the gall to go to her ex to ask him to "return her," as if his own behavior isn't what drove her away. And THEN, the thought that his own ex had satisfying sex with his affair partner's ex is enough to make him forever distrust her and even hit her. And on top of that, it's implied he's actually a terrible writer, as he's only gotten promoted because his boss died, and his boss died of alcohol poisoning, implying that his paper is hardly a quality institution. A bad writer, a beyond-terrible partner, a coward, a hypocrite, and a man incapable of admitting he's done wrong and really meaning it. Hard to like that one.
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: And how. Out of the four characters, Alice is the only one who neither cheats on nor with anyone (Larry is separated from Anna and Alice has left Dan by the time he and Alice sleep together).
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: The four main characters have all their moments of jerkassery, particularly Larry. Alice / Jane on the other hand has a couple of Jerk with a Heart of Gold moments.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: Anna mentions having been hit in a previous relationship and Dan slaps Alice after she spits on him, officially putting the nail in the coffin of their relationship.
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Love Makes You Crazy
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Love Makes You Crazy: And evil, and bloody stupid...
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