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Cloud Atlas

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Cloud Atlas	label	Cloud Atlas
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Cloud Atlas	comment	A 2012 part-Science Fiction Anthology Film based on David Mitchell's 2004 novel, Cloud Atlas is a sweeping epic that connects wildly different genres and writing styles into a single narrative. It was written and directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. The Wachowskis directed the 1849, 2144 and 2321 sequences, and Tom Tykwer directed the 1936, 1973 and 2012 sequences.The film consists of six nested stories, each set in a different place and era, moving forwards in time from the 19th century all the way to the future After the End. Each story and style is a pastiche of the most recognizable examples of the genre, and lovingly combines old clichÃ©s with new twists. A comet-shaped birthmark appears in each story on the protagonist, and the characters reference names, places, and experiences from other stories. In chronological order, the protagonists of the six stories are: Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess, 1849): An American notary, returning by ship from the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, who keeps a journal of his journey through the Pacific Ocean, accompanied by a Moriori stowaway. Ewing has (according to Dr. Henry Goose) been infected with a parasitic worm, of which Dr. Goose is (again, according to Dr. Goose) trying to cure him. A partial copy of the edited and published journal is found and read by... Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw, 1936): A tremendously snarky English musician and aspiring composer, formerly Rich in Pounds, Poor in Sense and now penniless after a bad game. On the run, he charms his way into a job as an assistant to a retired composer, settling with his employer in Edinburgh, Scotland. He records his experiences in a series of letters, which he sends to his friend and lover Rufus Sixsmith. Much later in life, the letters are read by... Luisa Rey (Halle Berry, 1973): A reporter for a fluffy media magazine in San Francisco, when she crosses paths with the old Dr. Sixsmith. She starts investigating reports of ongoing corruption connected to the local nuclear power plant and winds up with Sixsmith's collection of letters. Her story is presented as a mystery novel manuscript, submitted to... Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent, 2012): An old, glum British vanity press publisher who gets in trouble with a client and ends up trapped by his brother in a retirement home in a rather undignified Kafka Komedy. His experience forms the basis of a film, which is later seen by... Sonmi~451 (Bae Doona, 2144): A fabricant, a genetically-engineered clone, employed at the Papa Song's diner chain. She lives in Neo Seoul in a dystopian near future. Fabricants have been created as slaves to a capitalist, totalitarian society — and Sonmi had the misfortune of developing intelligence far beyond the limits of her genetic engineering. Her story is told in a final interview, during which she's allowed to tell an uncensored account of her entire life. The recording of this interview, called an orison, is viewed by... Zachry (Tom Hanks, 2321): The elder of a tribe living in post-apocalyptic Hawaii, 106 years after the Fall, when most of humanity has died out. The tribesmen regard Sonmi as their god, and meet Meronym, a member of Earth's last advanced civilization. In his old age, Zachry narrates his experiences around a camp-fire.All six main actors, as well as a supporting cast list comprised of Hugo Weaving, James D'Arcy, Susan Sarandon, David Gyasi, Keith David, and Hugh Grant, appear in multiple roles across the timeline. Instead of being sequential, the film continually leaps back and forth between stories.
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Cloud Atlas / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
Cloud Atlas / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: In-universe. When Cavendish is planning the escape with his compatriots, he imagines that a film adaptation should have the hero be "Sir Laurence Olivier with a dash of Michael Caine."
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Cloud Atlas / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
Cloud Atlas / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: The comet-shaped Birthmark of Destiny that all the main characters have (although all in different places.)
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Cloud Atlas / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Cloud Atlas / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: In the book, Zachry is a young man who lives with his mother and siblings. In the film, he's a middle-aged man living with his widowed sister and niece. The change was necessary for Tom Hanks to play the part.
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Cloud Atlas / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Cloud Atlas / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: And thanks to the shared cast, some of them arguably die multiple times.
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Cloud Atlas / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Cloud Atlas / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Lemon Awards are a pretty obvious reference to The Orange Awards, a literary prize sponsored by the mobile phone company Orange.
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Cloud Atlas / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
Cloud Atlas / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In-universe. Dermott Hodgins throws a pompous literary critic who blasted his autobiographical novel over a balcony to his death, following which his book's sales shoot through the roof.
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Cloud Atlas / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Cloud Atlas / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: In the film, the way the mechanisms of the fabricant recycling plant drag bodies along ends up with a different Sonmi (designated 351 in the credits, just to make it seem even more like our Sonmi) speared through the ankles with her arms spread-eagle.
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Cloud Atlas / int_171e14be	type	London Gangster
Cloud Atlas / int_171e14be	comment	London Gangster: Dermot Hoggins is a hardened criminal from the streets of London, ironically played by the American Tom Hanks.
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Cloud Atlas / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Cloud Atlas / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Javier Gomez in the 1970s subplot. See Deadly Deferred Conversation and Writing Indentation Clue.
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Cloud Atlas / int_183b52	type	Kafka Komedy
Cloud Atlas / int_183b52	comment	Kafka Komedy: Cavendish's story.
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Cloud Atlas / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Cloud Atlas / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Zachry talks about wishing he had some kind of map to track souls as they move across the ages, like clouds across the sky. He calls it an "atlas o' clouds". The title of Frobisher's masterpiece is The Cloud Atlas Sextet. Its structure is described as extremely similar to that of the novel, with six individual parts slowly woven together into one greater whole. Frobisher himself isn't sure if it's clever or gimmicky.
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Cloud Atlas / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
Cloud Atlas / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: Not to the extremes of other works, but there are a lot of courageous characters in the story. Everybody pulls off risky schemes to either save their skin or save others.
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Cloud Atlas / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Cloud Atlas / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Fabricants are turned into food for new fabricants.
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Cloud Atlas / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
Cloud Atlas / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: The police force in the Neo Seoul subplot with their black dresses and Guy-Man-like helmets.
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Cloud Atlas / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Cloud Atlas / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Mephi, who in the book was a University professor who joined the Union not knowing it was part of Unanimity. In the film, he is a major antagonist and head of the Neo Seoul police.
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Cloud Atlas / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Cloud Atlas / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Cannibalism, both literal and figurative, is a running motif through most of the stories. A few examples: In the first story Ewing is afraid the Moriori will eat him, and Dr. Goose remarks, "The weak are meat, the strong do eat." Cavendish jokingly references Soylent Green. In Sonmi's story Fabricants are recycled into food and other Fabricants, and the last story has the Kona, a tribe of outright cannibals.
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Cloud Atlas / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Cloud Atlas / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Briefly one-sided from Frobisher toward Ayrs in the film. May also just be another manipulation tactic.
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Cloud Atlas / int_242f638e	type	Pastiche
Cloud Atlas / int_242f638e	comment	Pastiche: Every story. Most notable in Sonmi's chapters. The film even adds some wonderful Gun Kata straight out of Equilibrium to her story.
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Cloud Atlas / int_264e3bd0	type	Sticky Bomb
Cloud Atlas / int_264e3bd0	comment	Sticky Bomb: Hae-Joo uses sticky bombs to dispose of some Unanimity aircrafts.
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Cloud Atlas / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Cloud Atlas / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Robert Frobisher is one of the two main characters who died.
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Cloud Atlas / int_2bfabe7	type	Trespassing to Talk
Cloud Atlas / int_2bfabe7	comment	Trespassing to Talk: Luisa Rey returns home only to find someone waiting in the dark of her room. It's not an enemy though.
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Cloud Atlas / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Cloud Atlas / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Bill Smoke, Henry Goose, Dermot Hoggins, and the entire Kona tribe.
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Cloud Atlas / int_3016de81	type	Reincarnation Romance
Cloud Atlas / int_3016de81	comment	Reincarnation Romance: If one interprets the actors playing reincarnated versions of themselves throughout the story. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry appear together as Isaac and Luisa (Isaac falls in Love at First Sight with her), Hoggins and the Indian Woman (whom Hoggins is attracted to), and finally Zachry and Meronym, who become an Official Couple. Jim Sturgess and Bae Doona play Adam and Tilda Ewing, Megan's parents in the 1970s plot, and Hae-Joo and Sonmi.
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Cloud Atlas / int_30763ed8	type	Eternal English
Cloud Atlas / int_30763ed8	comment	Eternal English: Averted. Ewing's and Frobisher's writing perfectly evokes the English of their eras. In 2144, many spellings are truncated (see Fictionary).
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Cloud Atlas / int_32cb267a	type	Magical Negro
Cloud Atlas / int_32cb267a	comment	Magical Negro: Shown as the technologically advanced elites in the far future setting. Notably, the white characters live a primitive, tribal lifestyle. In many ways this comes off as a satirical inversion of the classic Victorian White Man's Burden setup.
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Cloud Atlas / int_32d0784e	type	Stop, or I Will Shoot!
Cloud Atlas / int_32d0784e	comment	Stop, or I Will Shoot!: "Excessive force authorised."
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Cloud Atlas / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Cloud Atlas / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Happens several times.
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Cloud Atlas / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Cloud Atlas / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Zachry's era, which they call "After the Fall".
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Cloud Atlas / int_340e75cb	type	Writing Indentation Clue
Cloud Atlas / int_340e75cb	comment	Writing Indentation Clue: Javier Gomez discovering the name "Megan" written on the envelope in the 1970s plot.
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Cloud Atlas / int_34726736	type	Everything Is 3D-Printed in the Future
Cloud Atlas / int_34726736	comment	Everything Is 3D-Printed in the Future: Sophisticated 3D-printers are seen rapidly assembling fast food in Papa Song's.
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Cloud Atlas / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Cloud Atlas / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The assassin in 1973 shoots the dog of a woman who is annoying him by not speaking English.
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Cloud Atlas / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Cloud Atlas / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: The Union in Neo Seoul. Cavendish mounts a minor one in the retirement home.
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Cloud Atlas / int_37085956	type	Gayngst-Induced Suicide
Cloud Atlas / int_37085956	comment	Gayngst-Induced Suicide: Robert Frobisher is the only named character to commit suicide, which he does after having his career and reputation ruined by being outed as homosexual.
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Cloud Atlas / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
Cloud Atlas / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: The last time we see Frobisher, he is employing this trope.
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Cloud Atlas / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
Cloud Atlas / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: Neo Seoul. How dystopic? In the novel, Sonmi refers to other dystopian authors as "optimists".
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Cloud Atlas / int_3bbf3fef	type	Recurring Riff
Cloud Atlas / int_3bbf3fef	comment	Recurring Riff: In the film, "The Atlas March" and the various melodies of "The Cloud Atlas Sextet".
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Cloud Atlas / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Cloud Atlas / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: In the film, Frobisher's suicide. Subverted with Ewing. When Frobisher mentions he's reading his diary entries, he calls him a "dying man," leading the viewer to believe he will die on the journey. He is dying but only because he's being poisoned by Goose. Autua saves him and he's nursed back to health properly.
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Cloud Atlas / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Cloud Atlas / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Played straight, subverted, invoked, played straight again, and discussed at length. Arguably, the degree of truth to this trope is the main theme of the novel.
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Cloud Atlas / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Cloud Atlas / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: The Union is actually a true rebellion in the film, in comparison to the book in which it is just a fake. Cavendish's more racist and misogynistic aspects of his personality aren't brought out in the film.
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Cloud Atlas / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Cloud Atlas / int_40bb59d0	comment	Adam Ewing slowly comes to realize that social Darwinism is wrong. Explicitly referenced in the film, when Reverend Horrox, to prove a point, asks the slave serving them at the time if he is happier here working on the plantation than being free amongst his people. The slave says yes.
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Cloud Atlas / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Cloud Atlas / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Each story ends ranges from tragic to uplifting, so in the end, the story as a whole is bittersweet. The very last chronological story involves civilization fleeing Earth and moving off-world toward an unknown but hopeful future, with Meronym and Zachry Happily Married.
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Cloud Atlas / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Cloud Atlas / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: The Kona destroy Zachry's camp and kill his family and people.
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Cloud Atlas / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Cloud Atlas / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The film that Sonmi~451 watches based on Cavendish's life is campy, over-acted (by an obviously made-up Tom Hanks) and bears only the loosest resemblance to the actual Cavendish we see in the film.
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Cloud Atlas / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Cloud Atlas / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: This trope appears at the end of the film to show that an aging Zachry is narrating his tale from one of the off-world colonies long after being rescued.
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Cloud Atlas / int_42d7e928	type	Meanwhile, in the Futureâ€¦
Cloud Atlas / int_42d7e928	comment	Meanwhile, in the Futureâ€¦: Used throughout the whole movie to maintain the pace for each of the plotlines.
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Cloud Atlas / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Cloud Atlas / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe: The movie adaptation of The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish as watched by Sonmi. Tom Hanks plays the look-alike of Cavendish, looking much differently, delivers his famous "criminal abuse" line much more eloquently, and writes his biopic with a early 2000s laptop, while the real Cavendish wrote his with an old-fashioned typewriter.
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Cloud Atlas / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Cloud Atlas / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: A Type 1 happens with Dr. Henry Goose. See Karmic Death.
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Cloud Atlas / int_4a875876	type	Yellowface
Cloud Atlas / int_4a875876	comment	Yellowface: All the non-Asian main cast members (including the black actors) except for Hanks and Whishaw appear in yellowface in "An Orison of Sonmi~451". Bae Doona and Zhou Xun also invert the trope by playing white and Latina women in two stories.
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Cloud Atlas / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Cloud Atlas / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "They feed us to ourselves."
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Cloud Atlas / int_4f7d9f02	type	Sci-Fi Bob Haircut
Cloud Atlas / int_4f7d9f02	comment	Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Sonmi~451 and the other fabricants sport these.
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Cloud Atlas / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Cloud Atlas / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Ewing's parasite. Subverted. He's actually being poisoned, though the results of that aren't pretty either.
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Cloud Atlas / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
Cloud Atlas / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: A recurring theme in the novel (though it is left ambiguous whether it is real). Also an explicit belief of the Valleysmen in "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", of the Buddhist priests in Sonmi's era and of the Moriori. Luisa doesn't believe in it at all.
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Cloud Atlas / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
Cloud Atlas / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Zachry tells a story about a man named Truman, whose black hair went white from the shock of seeing Old Georgie harvesting a soul.
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Cloud Atlas / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Cloud Atlas / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: "And don't call me a fucking wetback!"
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Cloud Atlas / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Cloud Atlas / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film starts and ends with a shot of the Milky Way in the night sky.
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Cloud Atlas / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
Cloud Atlas / int_53d45fa8	comment	Back-Alley Doctor: The shady character of Ovid, who removes Sonmi~451's collar to allow her to appear to be a pureblood.
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Cloud Atlas / int_55404918	type	Knuckle Tattoos
Cloud Atlas / int_55404918	comment	Knuckle Tattoos: Dermot Hoggins (Tom Hanks) in the 2012 story.
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Cloud Atlas / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Cloud Atlas / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Inverted with Isaac and Zachry (both played by Tom Hanks), who are significantly less attractive in the film than in the novel. In-Universe: The movie adaptation of The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish as watched by Sonmi. Tom Hanks plays the look-alike of Cavendish, looking much differently, delivers his famous "criminal abuse" line much more eloquently, and writes his biopic with a early 2000s laptop, while the real Cavendish wrote his with an old-fashioned typewriter.
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Cloud Atlas / int_5628a3	type	Vindicated by History
Cloud Atlas / int_5628a3	comment	Vindicated by History: In-universe. Sonmi's actions make her go from being the face of a rebellion to an outright god worshiped by Zachry and his tribe.
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Cloud Atlas / int_567e2f0	type	No True Scotsman
Cloud Atlas / int_567e2f0	comment	No True Scotsman: Inverted, invoked, and exploited by Mr. Meeks in the pub.
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Cloud Atlas / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Cloud Atlas / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Against fabricants in Sonmi's story, although the actual racism is completely gone.
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Cloud Atlas / int_57cfcbdd	type	Meta Twist
Cloud Atlas / int_57cfcbdd	comment	Meta Twist: Timothy mentions Soylent Green in connection with cloned Koreans before Sonmi's story even starts; the clones all drinking the same nutrients each day invokes the connection very strongly. But the plot thread seemingly gets dropped very early on in Sonmi's tale, to focus on political intrigue instead. Small hints are dropped — a reference to Malthus, for example. By the time Sonmi reaches the ship, it's of course a Foregone Conclusion that Xultation isn't real... but the sudden return of the Soylent Green theme is unexpected, if just because the story already includes such a large number of other famous sci-fi twists in its loving pastiche. And then it gets taken a step further when it turns out that not just the Soap is made of discarded clones, but also the regular food in Papa Song's diner.
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Cloud Atlas / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
Cloud Atlas / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: Luisa Rey's beetle is being pushed off a bridge to prevent her from exposing industry secrets. She manages to escape from the sinking vehicle in an Offscreen Moment of Awesome.
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Cloud Atlas / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Cloud Atlas / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: In the film, Frobisher nurtures an affection for Ayrs that is cruelly dashed against the rocks when he tries to make an advance.
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Cloud Atlas / int_5d269b12	type	Handy Remote Control
Cloud Atlas / int_5d269b12	comment	Handy Remote Control: The supervisor at Papa Song's uses a remote device he produces from his pocket to make Yoona's slave collar slit her throat.
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Cloud Atlas / int_5dc04c4e	type	Brownface
Cloud Atlas / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: Bae Doona plays a Mexican woman in one storyline. Jim Broadbent also shows up as a brown-skinned prescient.
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Cloud Atlas / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Cloud Atlas / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Luisa Rey.
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Cloud Atlas / int_6023a9bc	type	Bloody Hilarious
Cloud Atlas / int_6023a9bc	comment	Bloody Hilarious: The critic's death that kicks off Cavendish's story.
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Cloud Atlas / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Cloud Atlas / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The movie, while retaining the six-story structure and basic premise, has many differences from the novel, with several characters and plot threads, such as Ayrs's daughter or Sonmi's brief stay at a Buddhist monastery, being cut wholesale. The new medium does allow us to actually see Cavendish's stage directions and hear Frobisher's music.
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Cloud Atlas / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
Cloud Atlas / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Sonmi's era has been hit hard by this trope. Anything that began with 'ex' now only starts with 'x', and everyday items are referred to by the brand we would most readily associate with them, only without the capital letter. Hence nikes (running shoes), sonys (computers), disneys (movies) etc. Explicitly an example of Brand Name Takeover on a global scale, as her world is run by corporations. The humans of Zachry's era developed their own future slang as well, though it's more primitive.
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Cloud Atlas / int_60f567f1	type	Lonely Piano Piece
Cloud Atlas / int_60f567f1	comment	Lonely Piano Piece: "The Cloud Atlas Sextet" in the film is a twinkly Debussy-esque piece (in the novel, it was described as much more avant-garde). Although the full piece only shows up in the end credits, when it is played in the film proper, we mostly just hear the piano and violin sections.
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Cloud Atlas / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
Cloud Atlas / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: By the time of Zachry's era, technology has mostly devolved back to the iron age, but a small group has access to some stuff on our current level and even a few objects more advanced than anything we currently have.
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Cloud Atlas / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Cloud Atlas / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Involving the Bar Brawl above (also see Violent Glaswegian below).
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Cloud Atlas / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Cloud Atlas / int_64edb99c	comment	Always Save the Girl: Hae-Joo and Sonmi have this trope going on.
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Cloud Atlas / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
Cloud Atlas / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: Sonmi's time period. The hat in question? Capitalism.
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Cloud Atlas / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Cloud Atlas / int_69fb91e8	comment	Most of Hugo Weaving's performances are pretty restrained, but he completely gobbles the scenery as Old Georgie.
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Cloud Atlas / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Cloud Atlas / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: People struck hard on the head with heavy objects generally tend to die.
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Cloud Atlas / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Cloud Atlas / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Two of the Corrupt Corporate Executives of Seaboard in the Luisa Rey story have the last names "Hooks" and "Wiley". Sixsmith partially inspired Frobisher's creation (smithing) of the Cloud Atlas Sextet (a piece written for six players). Jocasta, the composer Vyvyan Ayrs's wife. In Greek Mythology, the wife of King Laios of Thebes and mother of Oedipus. In the film, Depraved Bisexual Robert Frobisher (son figure) makes love with Jocasta (mother figure), the wife of Vyvyan (father figure) A "meronym" means something that is part of a whole. "Ayrs" sounds like "airs": an air is, quite simply, a musical composition.
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Cloud Atlas / int_6d5fb1e0	type	Waistcoat of Style
Cloud Atlas / int_6d5fb1e0	comment	Waistcoat of Style: In the film, Robert Frobisher has to give his (borrowed from Sixsmith) up when he is desperate and broke. Old Georgie in the film also wears an incredibly battered one, fitting as it takes place in a scavenger world.
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Cloud Atlas / int_6f3b8432	type	Visions of Another Self
Cloud Atlas / int_6f3b8432	comment	Visions of Another Self: the same actors swap roles for each time period, but the same soul incarnates as multiple characters, as shown by a star-shaped birthmark.
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Cloud Atlas / int_6fc2ca79	type	Fictionary
Cloud Atlas / int_6fc2ca79	comment	Fictionary: In 2144, many spellings are truncated (particularly, "gh" seems to have been dropped entirely, resulting in "lite" and "thoro", etc.; additionally, "exactly" has become "xactly", etc.) and brand names have substituted several everyday terms ("disney" versus "film"). Both spelling and grammar have changed a good deal after the Fall, although Meronym speaks it in a more twentieth century form in her communication with her ship's captain.
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Cloud Atlas / int_708cabf8	type	Sleeping Dummy
Cloud Atlas / int_708cabf8	comment	Sleeping Dummy: Timothy Cavendish uses one to distract the warden.
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Cloud Atlas / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
Cloud Atlas / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: At the end of the 2012 story.
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Cloud Atlas / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
Cloud Atlas / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: Sonmi. To the point that she's worshiped as a god in the future.
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Cloud Atlas / int_73dd919c	type	Genteel Interbellum Setting
Cloud Atlas / int_73dd919c	comment	Genteel Interbellum Setting: Frobisher's era. His letters read like a particularly bitter P. G. Wodehouse novel.
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Cloud Atlas / int_73f79f91	type	Released to Elsewhere
Cloud Atlas / int_73f79f91	comment	Released to Elsewhere: The fabricants believe Xultation means liberation, and look forward to it — except they're only taken away to be killed and recycled.
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Cloud Atlas / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Cloud Atlas / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Joe Napier from Half-Lives, Timothy's brother Denny from The Ghastly Ordeal, and Zachry from Sloosha's Crossin'.
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Cloud Atlas / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Cloud Atlas / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: There are all kinds of repeated references across the six eras. Hydras, feeding ducks, a "crocodile" of people, eating soap, cannibalism, etc. "I will not be subjected to criminal abuse!" "The weak are meat the strong do eat." "Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present."
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Cloud Atlas / int_786d6cf6	type	You Wouldn't Shoot Me
Cloud Atlas / int_786d6cf6	comment	You Wouldn't Shoot Me: In the film, Vyvyan Ayrs tries this on Frobisher when the latter decides he's not going to let Ayrs take the credit for the Cloud Atlas Sextet. And then gets shot anyway, although the bullet only "kills his appetite" by passing clean through his stomach and not fatally injuring him.
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Cloud Atlas / int_79e43350	type	Bleak Abyss Retirement Home
Cloud Atlas / int_79e43350	comment	Bleak Abyss Retirement Home: Where Cavendish ends up. It is effectively a comfortable prison.
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Cloud Atlas / int_7a1d1191	type	Rocket Ride
Cloud Atlas / int_7a1d1191	comment	Rocket Ride: The speeders used by police force in Neo Seoul.
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Cloud Atlas / int_7c0056d4	type	Fanservice with a Smile
Cloud Atlas / int_7c0056d4	comment	Fanservice with a Smile: Deconstructed in the film. The fabricant servers at Papa Song's wear quite revealing shorts and heels and receive sexual harassment as a result from some customers (and because "pureblood" humans treat fabricants like dirt).
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Cloud Atlas / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Cloud Atlas / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Robert Frobisher is this to his parents, who much prefer his older brother who died in World War I. Frobisher isn't too fond of his Mater and Pater either.
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Cloud Atlas / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Cloud Atlas / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish, while creepy in places, is funnier and more light-hearted than the other segments.
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Cloud Atlas / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Cloud Atlas / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Several actors get to have a lot of fun. Tom Hanks really gets to let loose in several of his roles, especially with Dr. Henry Goose and Dermott. Jim Broadbent as Cavendish is very fun to watch and his narration is the most playful than any of the other ones. Most of Hugo Weaving's performances are pretty restrained, but he completely gobbles the scenery as Old Georgie.
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Cloud Atlas / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Cloud Atlas / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: The fabricant waitresses are genetically engineered to always smile.
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Cloud Atlas / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
Cloud Atlas / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: Another running theme throughout multiple stories. In the film, Hugo Weaving's character(s) echo the phrase "There's a natural order to things" in various contexts.
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Cloud Atlas / int_8605f0c0	type	Promoted to Love Interest
Cloud Atlas / int_8605f0c0	comment	Promoted to Love Interest: Frobisher has a short-lived infatuation for Ayrs in the film. Hae-Joo and Sonmi have sex in the novel too, but the novel's incidence is emotionally sterile Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex. The sexual encounter in the film is on much better terms; the film also has Sonmi declare her undying love for Hae-Joo in her orison. Meronym for Zachry.
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Cloud Atlas / int_867f9f5c	type	Alien Non-Interference Clause
Cloud Atlas / int_867f9f5c	comment	Alien Non-Interference Clause: Meronym in the final segment is from a more advanced Earth civilization, not an alien, but this still applies to her. Zachry manages to convince her to use her medical equipment to save Zachry's sister. To avoid potential problems, they inject her secretly, so she just appears to have a miraculous recovery; subverting the trope.
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Cloud Atlas / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Cloud Atlas / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Zachry and his people worship a goddess called Sonmi. It comes as a shock to him to learn that Sonmi in fact was a human being.
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Cloud Atlas / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Cloud Atlas / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Doona Bae's English as Sonmi is impeccable. However, when she plays the Latina immigrant in the 1970s story, her accent doesn't sound Spanish at all.
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Cloud Atlas / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Cloud Atlas / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Kona, who ride warhorses, carry primitive crossbows and scimitars and use scary-awesome warpaint. Later in the movie they begin to split between this and Red Shirt Army.
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Cloud Atlas / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Cloud Atlas / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: That's how the rebels see Sonmi~451.
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Cloud Atlas / int_898d0f32	type	Teeth Flying
Cloud Atlas / int_898d0f32	comment	Teeth Flying: At the previously-mentioned Bar Brawl.
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Cloud Atlas / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Cloud Atlas / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of a large number of tropes (see the entire page), maybe even storytelling itself, using Cross Throughs to demonstrate the presence of the same tropes in six rather different stories.
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Cloud Atlas / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Cloud Atlas / int_8d23f3a7	comment	The film has Sonmi believe that she will be reunited with Hae-Joo in another life, and immediately cuts to Ewing and his wife (the same actor and actress) being reunited at the end of Ewing's voyage. Additionally, both actors played the parents of Rufus Sixsmith's niece. So it's more like they were already together in two very different, much earlier lives, unless Timey-Wimey Ball applies to the reincarnation of souls.
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Cloud Atlas / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Cloud Atlas / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Technically, he's not literally voiceless, but until nearly the end of the Cavendish story, Mr. Meeks only utters the same phrase repeatedly: "I know, I know!" Meeks finally finds his voice when he shouts out to Scottish rugby hooligans in a pub and urges them to fight off the staff of Aurora House who have come to take his crew back to the home.
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Cloud Atlas / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Cloud Atlas / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Dr. Goose gets bludgeoned over the head with the money he was trying to steal.
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Cloud Atlas / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Cloud Atlas / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Occurs repeatedly, both for good actions (such as Ewing saving Autua's life, and then being saved by him) and bad (as when Smoke shoots a woman's dog and is later killed by her). Plays heavily into the theme that our actions create our own future.
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Cloud Atlas / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Cloud Atlas / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Joe Napier attempts to convince Bill Smoke he'll be treated to this after he gets paid. Smoke shrugs it off as a "risk of the job".
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Cloud Atlas / int_93c74ab3	type	Cult Classic
Cloud Atlas / int_93c74ab3	comment	Cult Classic: In-Universe, The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish is considered something like this by 2144. A scene from the movie also plays a role in Sonmi's revelation in the film version.
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Cloud Atlas / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Cloud Atlas / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Frobisher has the bad luck of being a manic-depressive in 1936.
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Cloud Atlas / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Cloud Atlas / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Most characters played by Hugo Weaving. He's a murderous hitman in 1973, an oppressive battleaxe nurse in 2012, a politician who signs Sonmi's death warrant in 2144 and in 2321, he's literally the devil. Characters played by him that are not big bads of their era are still villainous to a degree, being a slave trader in 1849 and a Nazi in 1936. The big bad for 1849 goes instead to the greedy Dr. Goose played by Tom Hanks, while in 1936 there is no clear antagonist - most of the drama comes from the relationship between Frobisher and Sixsmith. (Though Vyvyan Ayrs (the composer Frobisher works for) could be seen as an antagonist, given his effect on Frobisher's ultimate fate.)
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Cloud Atlas / int_980f7fac	type	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It
Cloud Atlas / int_980f7fac	comment	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It: All the stories use the current Western years save Zachry's, which is dated as "106 winters after the Great Fall."
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Cloud Atlas / int_985d3ad0	type	Cross-Cast Role
Cloud Atlas / int_985d3ad0	comment	Crosscast Role: Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Ben Whishaw each have a role in another gender.
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Cloud Atlas / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Cloud Atlas / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: All over. Just a few examples, more can be found here [1]. Ayrs talks about a dream he has in "Letters from Zedelghem" — of a restaurant where all the waitresses have the same face, in a reference to "An Orison of Sonmi~451". As Cavendish travels through the countryside, he mentions one area has been turned into a facility for "cloning humans for shady Koreans". A bit later, as Cavendish escapes Aurora House, he makes a crack about Soylent Green. The nurse also threatens to make him eat soap. These all apply to "An Orison of Sonmi~451". And in Half-Lives, Luisa Rey and Dr. Sachs discuss the notion of past lives, and Sachs tells her about feeling the two have met before. But it turns out to be a Flash Forward instead, when characters played by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry meet again in Sloosha's Crossin'. There's another moment in Ghastly Ordeal, when Hoggins flirts with an Indian woman. Again, they're played by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.
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Cloud Atlas / int_9e4c973a	type	Tribal Face Paint
Cloud Atlas / int_9e4c973a	comment	Tribal Facepaint: The film gives the Valleysmen facial tattoos and the Kona intimidating, skull-like warpaint. Real-world facial tattoos from Australasian tribes also appear in "Pacific Journal".
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Cloud Atlas / int_9f541b68	type	Brand Name Takeover
Cloud Atlas / int_9f541b68	comment	Sonmi's era has been hit hard by this trope. Anything that began with 'ex' now only starts with 'x', and everyday items are referred to by the brand we would most readily associate with them, only without the capital letter. Hence nikes (running shoes), sonys (computers), disneys (movies) etc. Explicitly an example of Brand Name Takeover on a global scale, as her world is run by corporations.
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Cloud Atlas / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Cloud Atlas / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The film gives one to Cavendish; the other stories utilize Recurring Riff to the fullest as opposed to using character-specific motifs.
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Cloud Atlas / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Cloud Atlas / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The name of the dystopia-dwelling Somni-451 is a partial nod to the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.
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Cloud Atlas / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Cloud Atlas / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Sonmi-model fabricants are implied to have white hair in the novel; in the film they have black hair with a few streaks of bright color.
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Cloud Atlas / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Cloud Atlas / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: The main theme of the novel and film. Slavery appears in some form or another in every story: Adam Ewing slowly comes to realize that social Darwinism is wrong. Explicitly referenced in the film, when Reverend Horrox, to prove a point, asks the slave serving them at the time if he is happier here working on the plantation than being free amongst his people. The slave says yes. Ayrs tries to blackmail Frobisher into remaining his assistant and supplying him with music to steal. Luisa and Joe stumble on a sweatshop. The retirement home that Cavendish is sent to is essentially a prison. Residents are expected to pretend to be happy with their "new life." Sonmi and her fabricant sisters are engineered to be happy in slavery.
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Cloud Atlas / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
Cloud Atlas / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: A good use of this trope in the film, showing all of the roles that each actor plays, with the font changing for each era the role was in.
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Cloud Atlas / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Cloud Atlas / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Tom Hanks and Halle Berry appear together as Isaac and Luisa (Isaac falls in Love at First Sight with her), Hoggins and the Indian Woman (whom Hoggins is attracted to), and finally Zachry and Meronym, who become an Official Couple.
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Cloud Atlas / int_a971e83c	type	Hidden Elf Village
Cloud Atlas / int_a971e83c	comment	Hidden Elf Village: Meronym's civilization is strongly implied to be this, due to the fact that they've retained technology from Sonmi's time.
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Cloud Atlas / int_a9c40434	type	Birthmark of Destiny
Cloud Atlas / int_a9c40434	comment	Birthmark of Destiny: Ewing, Frobisher, Rey, Cavendish, Sonmi, and Zachry all have the exact same birthmark, though the birthmark is placed in various dramatically appropriate locations for each character. This birthmark is one of the main manifestations of the reincarnation theme.
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Cloud Atlas / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Cloud Atlas / int_aa8dcc21	comment	Mega-Corp: The Corpocracy in 2144. Doubles as The Government and Police State.
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Cloud Atlas / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Cloud Atlas / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Ewing is very progressive for his time period, but still a product of his age. He's initially frightened that a Moriori stowaway will eat him. Frobisher is antisemitic and looks down on the working classes, views disturbingly typical in the Victorian-era Europe that he grew up in. Timothy Cavendish has the lingering racism and disgust for youth culture that you might expect a bitter old man to have in modern times. Future Korea is a dystopia filled with deliberate values dissonance. In future Hawaii, Zachry has a child at a very young age with a girl he barely knows. This doesn't seem to be considered abnormal, probably because life expectancies are so short.
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Cloud Atlas / int_aaf19fae	type	Doesn't Like Guns
Cloud Atlas / int_aaf19fae	comment	Doesn't Like Guns: Luisa says that guns make her sick. This might tie her story in with the pacifist Moriori tribe in the Adam Ewing storyline, and more prominently with Robert Frobisher's story.
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Cloud Atlas / int_ae050352	type	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
Cloud Atlas / int_ae050352	comment	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: At the end of the 1973 story, when Smoke has Luisa and Napier cornered at gunpoint, the latter having run out of ammo. Just before he pulls the trigger, the Mexican woman whose dog Smoke had shot hits him over the head with a large monkey wrench.
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Cloud Atlas / int_ae4b1ce1	type	Caustic Critic
Cloud Atlas / int_ae4b1ce1	comment	Caustic Critic: Felix Finch. It gets him killed in the end.
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Cloud Atlas / int_b22fdc19	type	Stacked Characters Poster
Cloud Atlas / int_b22fdc19	comment	Stacked Characters Poster: The poster has all main characters stacked upon another with the face of Tom Hank's character on top.
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Cloud Atlas / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Cloud Atlas / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Felix Finch. Mocking a known criminal who already has a beef with you to his face? Yeah, not a very bright thing to do. It's no wonder he ends up dead.
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Cloud Atlas / int_bb0b2739	type	Nested Story
Cloud Atlas / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: Carried over from the original book, but it's played much differently in the film. All of the consecutive stories each have a connective narrative through line that is communicated within the stories themselves (i.e., one character in one story discovering the previous story), but the book presents each story and its nested stories front-to-back, like taking a straight line through a 6-layered Matryoshka doll. The film opts to instead cover the stories in a montage format, regularly jumping between stories and each keeping up with the same narrative paces with one with one another.
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Cloud Atlas / int_bc3b029b	type	Impairment Shot
Cloud Atlas / int_bc3b029b	comment	Impairment Shot: From the POV of a man who is being poisoned.
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Cloud Atlas / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Cloud Atlas / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Subverted in the Sonmi narrative. After ten years, the Fabricants believe they're going on to "Xultation", but, just like Logan's Run, it's a front for the grislier fate of harvesting them for food.
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Cloud Atlas / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Cloud Atlas / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Each story initially appears to be set in the same universe as its predecessor. This is toyed with when Frobisher questions the veracity of Ewing's journal, then completely undermined when Cavendish receives Rey's story as the manuscript for a fictional novel. Yet connections between the characters seem to bridge this fiction-reality divide, such as the shared birthmark of Ewing, Frobisher, Rey, Sonmi, and Zachry. Similarly, the reader is led to believe that all of the protagonists are one reincarnated soul, marked by the distinctive birthmark, but this is disputed since the lifespans of Luisa Rey and Timothy Cavendish should overlap... unless they're two aspects of the same person, since they're the exact same age. Her being a fictional character in his universe might be a more significant barrier, unless she was real and "Half-Lives" is a story based on her adventures — which is entirely possible. The film implies this possibility more heavily than the book, because in the film the "Half-Lives" manuscript is written by Javier Gomez, the same kid who routinely drops in to visit Luisa and doesn't shut up about mystery tropes.
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Cloud Atlas / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
Cloud Atlas / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: In the film. When Meronym and Zachry happen upon Sonmi's orison, the computer playing it translates her Korean to English in real-time. This wasn't present in the novel; when Zachry watches the orison he can't understand what Sonmi is saying.
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Cloud Atlas / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Cloud Atlas / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Old Georgie.
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Cloud Atlas / int_c464ef34	type	Plot-Sensitive Latch
Cloud Atlas / int_c464ef34	comment	Plot-Sensitive Latch: While being locked up tight, Adam's chest full of gold springs open when used to knock out Dr. Henry Goose.
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Cloud Atlas / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Cloud Atlas / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Cavendish finds a manuscript of Luisa Rey's adventure and dismisses the Reincarnation angle as far too New Age-y, despite having a similar birthmark himself. He also describes the birthmark in decidedly less romantic imagery than the comet everyone else seems to see it as.
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Cloud Atlas / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Cloud Atlas / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Two examples in Zachry's story, the only one to feature any fantastical/supernatural elements: When Zachry meets the demonic Old Georgie, is it a supernatural encounter, or a common-or-garden hallucination? The film never explains or comments on it either way. The Abbess has a trance and makes three statements, all of which come to pass. Were they actual prophecy, or merely open-ended enough that Zachry would eventually be able to apply them to something, given enough time?
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Cloud Atlas / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Cloud Atlas / int_cbe687ab	comment	Two of the Corrupt Corporate Executives of Seaboard in the Luisa Rey story have the last names "Hooks" and "Wiley".
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Cloud Atlas / int_cd3703a2	type	Genre Mashup
Cloud Atlas / int_cd3703a2	comment	Genre Mashup/Genre Roulette: Each story is a completely different genre, including Period Drama, Historical Fiction, Cyberpunk, Film Noir, Adventure, Satire, Comedy, Dystopia, Science Fantasy, Space Opera, Romantic Comedy, Romance, Spy Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Tragedy, and about everything inbetween.
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Cloud Atlas / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Cloud Atlas / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Cavendish's story is the most comedic.
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Cloud Atlas / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
Cloud Atlas / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: "The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish" takes place in 2012; the novel was published in 2004. Ironically, the movie was released in 2012, so the story became a contemporary one, even though it wasn't so in the book.
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Cloud Atlas / int_ce9da072	type	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
Cloud Atlas / int_ce9da072	comment	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Shown both ways in the film with "Ghastly Ordeal" and its in-universe film version. The actual scene has Cavendish splutter and trip over his own words, because he's too enraged to speak straight and is resorting to making up legislation to justify his release from Aurora House. The film-within-the-film version has Tom Hanks as Cavendish flawlessly deliver these lines, even the one about the made-up-on-the-spot "Incarceration Act".
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Cloud Atlas / int_d13e0db3	type	Heartbeat Soundtrack
Cloud Atlas / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: Though it's somewhat difficult to hear over the score, the audience finally hears Hae-Joo's heart as Sonmi~451 does as it slows to a stop.
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Cloud Atlas / int_d17eaa9f	type	Postmodernism
Cloud Atlas / int_d17eaa9f	comment	Postmodernism: Yes.
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Cloud Atlas / int_d21a93f4	type	Hand Gagging
Cloud Atlas / int_d21a93f4	comment	Hand Gagging: When Joe ambushes Luisa Rey in her apartment, he uses his gloved hand to muffle her screaming.
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Cloud Atlas / int_d72b162f	type	Technicolor Eyes
Cloud Atlas / int_d72b162f	comment	Technicolor Eyes: The Abbess' eyes flash various colours while she is trying to learn the meaning of Zachry's dream in the film.
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Cloud Atlas / int_d8f3dc8	type	Eternal Recurrence
Cloud Atlas / int_d8f3dc8	comment	Eternal Recurrence: The idea of slavery is a recurring theme across times: Colonial slavery in America of 1859. Backstreet sweatshops in 1973. Engineered fabricants in 2144.
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Cloud Atlas / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Cloud Atlas / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Nea So Copros (which presumably refers to ''all'' of Korea) becomes Neo Seoul. While the book makes it clear that none of the names he goes by are real, Hae-Joo Im is named Hae-Joo Chang in the film, as his film version is a Composite Character of Im and Chang.
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Cloud Atlas / int_dd75c238	type	Deadly Deferred Conversation
Cloud Atlas / int_dd75c238	comment	Deadly Deferred Conversation: Mentioned by the Genre Savvy Javier Gomez: Immediately subverted with the dark figure waiting in her room, who turns out to be a friend.
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Cloud Atlas / int_df4d868c	type	Battleaxe Nurse
Cloud Atlas / int_df4d868c	comment	Battleaxe Nurse: Noakes, who runs the nursing home where Cavendish is confined.
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Cloud Atlas / int_dffd6a64	type	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
Cloud Atlas / int_dffd6a64	comment	Hae-Joo and Sonmi have sex in the novel too, but the novel's incidence is emotionally sterile Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex. The sexual encounter in the film is on much better terms; the film also has Sonmi declare her undying love for Hae-Joo in her orison.
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Cloud Atlas / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Cloud Atlas / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Possible aversion in "An Orison of Sonmi~451": the archivist comments on how Sonmi speaks good "Consumer", and she replies in what sounds like futuristic Korean ("subspeak"). Thus, we can infer that "Korean" exists but is viewed as the common people's parlance, whereas English (or Consumer, if English simply serves as a stand-in for the sake of storytelling) is what all the higher-class people and/or the government speak. This is akin to how Latin was used historically throughout much of Europe.
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Cloud Atlas / int_e2145533	type	Android Identifier
Cloud Atlas / int_e2145533	comment	Android Identifier: Fabricants wear colored streaks in their hair as a visual identifier of their status. Fabricant Sonmi~451 cuts off her streak in rebellion.
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Cloud Atlas / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Cloud Atlas / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The entire structure of the story bears a very strong similarity to Osamu Tezuka's manga Phoenix, including the time jumps, the themes of resurrection and of intertwined fates, the denouement set After the End and much more. The individual stories also qualify: "An Orison of Sonmi~451" has several key similarities to Brave New World, such as the foundation of a dystopia following a Great Offscreen War, mandatory consumer quotas, tailor-made clones, a populace kept happy with psychoactive drugs, and a rebellion informed by modern literature. Sonmi actually reads Brave New World halfway through her story. Adam Ewing's plot to Moby-Dick (with Melville and whales being mentioned frequently), and Cavendish's story to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (he saw the film once).
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Cloud Atlas / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Cloud Atlas / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Frobisher, when presented with the opportunity to slit Ayrs's throat, has a sort of reverse deja vu calling forward to Zachry slitting a Kona's throat. Another one occurs in Frobisher's story, when Ayrs laughs at the idea of having sex with Frobisher; when they have reincarnated as Timothy and Georgette, they end up having an affair.
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Cloud Atlas / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Cloud Atlas / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: The film pragmatically combines some characters, like Noakes and Deirdre, Hae-Joo Im and Chang, Lloyd and Grimaldi, etc.
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Cloud Atlas / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: Fabricants that serve out their time as workers are killed and recycled into Soap and food to feed fabricants and purebloods, respectively. Sonmi has the good fortune to watch this happen.
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Cloud Atlas / int_f7b32015	comment	Sufficiently Advanced Alien: Meronym and the other Prescients are this, to the Valley folk. Subverted in that the Prescients are in crisis with no place to live.
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