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Cruel Intentions

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Cruel Intentions	comment	Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American drama film written and directed by Roger Kumble, and starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The movie is a comedic and dramatic appropriation of the 18th-century French epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Laclos, but unlike other modern film versions of the novel (Dangerous Liaisons) is not set in the France of that time.The story follows a handful of wealthy teenagers living in modern New York City. Kathryn Mertueil (Gellar) wants her step-brother Sebastian (Phillipe) to seduce freshman student Cecile (Blair) in revenge for her boyfriend dumping her for Cecile. Kathryn offers him a bet: if he fails to seduce Cecile, Kathryn gets his vintage Jaguar, but if he succeeds, Kathryn will sleep with him, as Sebastian has been attracted to Kathryn since their parents wed and is furious she's the one woman he can't have. Sebastian initially refuses since he has his eye on the headmaster's daughter Annette (Witherspoon) who believes in remaining chaste until marriage, but when he learns Cecile's mother has already warned Annette about his womanizing ways, he agrees to Kathryn's offer. Thus the two begin spinning their webs of seduction, blackmail, manipulation, and betrayal, to get what they want - at least until Sebastian begins having second thoughts.The film started as an independent film with a much smaller budget, and was later picked up by Columbia Pictures. The film was released on March 5, 1999. It was later followed by two direct-to-video films: a prequel, Cruel Intentions 2, and a sequel, Cruel Intentions 3. A pilot for a sequel television series set 15 years later was in the works for NBC, with Gellar returning to the role of Kathryn, but the network ultimately passed on the series.In 2018, the film was adapted into a Jukebox Musical of 90s hits, which premiered Off-Broadway. The cast album is available for streaming on Spotify and YouTube.
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Cruel Intentions / int_13fc7795	type	Reprise Medley
Cruel Intentions / int_13fc7795	comment	Reprise Medley: The Act One closer, "Only Happy When It Rains," concludes with all the main characters singing reprises of nearly every song in the act.
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Cruel Intentions / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Cruel Intentions / int_14beeefd	comment	Also Darker and Edgier as far as teen flicks go. When Cruel Intentions came out in theaters, the film's ostensible target audience couldn't even get in to see it without a parent or guardian.
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Cruel Intentions / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Cruel Intentions / int_14ed6ab7	comment	The way Sebastian strokes the handle of his tennis racket when he taunts Cecile isn't so stealthy.
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Cruel Intentions / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Cruel Intentions / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Courtesy of Annette quoting a letter about Sebastian's manipulation: "Even more treacherous than he is attractive...he has never uttered a single word without some dishonorable intention."
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Cruel Intentions / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Cruel Intentions / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Cruel Intentions contains quite a few of these: Just like the sterling cross in which Kathryn hides her drugs, she looks like a saint on the outside, but on the inside, she's filled with pure sin. Sebastian sports a hunting jacket when he first meets his "prey", Annette. Kathryn wears a snakeskin-print dress as she "slithers" seductively onto Sebastian's lap and hatches an evil plan. Cecile wears a red hoodie when she sneaks out to go see Sebastian. Sebastian has a bowl of maraschino cherries on his nightstand after he pops Cecile's cherry. In the DVD commentary, the director points out that the way Sebastian suggestively points the neck of the champagne bottle toward his face when he says he and Kathryn should celebrate was intentional. The way Sebastian strokes the handle of his tennis racket when he taunts Cecile isn't so stealthy.
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Cruel Intentions / int_21d47bb7	type	Nouveau Riche
Cruel Intentions / int_21d47bb7	comment	Nouveau Riche: The Caldwells in contrast to the Old Money Valmonts.
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Cruel Intentions / int_22e6c07e	type	Pervert Dad
Cruel Intentions / int_22e6c07e	comment	Pervert Dad: Although Sebastian's dad is certainly a sleazeball, in this case, it's actually Kathryn's mom who tries to get a little too close to her new stepson in the prequel.
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Cruel Intentions / int_22f5d1b9	type	Some of My Best Friends Are X
Cruel Intentions / int_22f5d1b9	comment	Some of My Best Friends Are X: Cecile's mom denies disapproving of Ronald dating Cecile because he's black, citing the fact that she's donated money to Colin Powell's foundation. Ronald is duly impressed.
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Cruel Intentions / int_25fd37c3	type	Cleavage Window
Cruel Intentions / int_25fd37c3	comment	Kathryn lounging around in a pantsuit and lingerie that show off her Cleavage Window.
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Cruel Intentions / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Cruel Intentions / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kathryn and Sebastian are obvious. It's revealed Danielle is just as bad as Kathryn.
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Cruel Intentions / int_2a4e8051	type	Sexual Karma
Cruel Intentions / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Sebastian and Annette's sex scene is depicted as tender and heartwarming in stark contrast to the other instances of sexual intercourse.
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Cruel Intentions / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Cruel Intentions / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Sebastian's surname, Valmont, consists of the French words val (literally meaning "vale", the old-fashioned word for "valley") and mont ("mountain"). Sebastian starts out the movie "high" (cool and arrogant) but by the climax has been brought low and made pathetic.
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Cruel Intentions / int_2b42db02	type	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness
Cruel Intentions / int_2b42db02	comment	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: In Cruel Intentions 2, the Manchester Tribunal convenes in the school's candle-lit attic with a a slide projector to discuss its plans to corrupt Sebastian and Cherie Claymon.
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Cruel Intentions / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Cruel Intentions / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Sebastian and Kathryn, being afforded the best education money can buy, mix phrases such as "au contraire" with adolescent potty-mouth language.
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Cruel Intentions / int_2d4dd397	type	Gold Digger
Cruel Intentions / int_2d4dd397	comment	Golddigger: Sebastian sarcastically refers to Kathryn's mother as this, believing that she only married his father for his money.
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Cruel Intentions / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
Cruel Intentions / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: Okay, technically Sebastian and Kathryn are French-Americans. But they're still jerks.
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Cruel Intentions / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Cruel Intentions / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Gretchen and Sarah, who seduce Sebastian and maintain an incestuous relationship with each other. Kathryn may be this; see Ambiguously Bi above.
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Cruel Intentions / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
Cruel Intentions / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Sebastian hands Kathryn a magazine that has Jennifer Love Hewitt on the cover. Both Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar had starred alongside her in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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Cruel Intentions / int_31bd1ba1	type	Twin Threesome Fantasy
Cruel Intentions / int_31bd1ba1	comment	Twin Threesome Fantasy: Gretchen and Sarah (played by Alicia & Annie Sorell) tease Sebastian with this in the shower, invoking Twincest as well (even though the two identical girls claim in dialogue to only be cousins).
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Cruel Intentions / int_31da2f14	type	ChineseLabourer
Cruel Intentions / int_31da2f14	comment	Chinese Labourer: In the prequel, Kathryn has another one who's a Cambodian refugee, but she's mistaken for Chinese and Japanese by her mistress.
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Cruel Intentions / int_326a740c	type	Scatterbrained Senior
Cruel Intentions / int_326a740c	comment	Scatterbrained Senior: Since Adults Are Useless anyway, it should come as no surprise that the residents at the nursing home that Sebastian and Annette visit are adorably senile.
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Cruel Intentions / int_33a5b3fb	type	Shamed by a Mob
Cruel Intentions / int_33a5b3fb	comment	Shamed by a Mob: Near the end, as Kathryn gives a eulogy at Sebastianâ€™s funeral, suddenly one by one of her fellow students start leaving the room abruptly. As she furiously questions their misbehavior, she decides to follow them and discovers that the students are reading the copies of Sebastianâ€™s journal (handed out by Cecille) that expose the details of her schemes and manipulations all along. Cue, Kathryn receives a death glare from each of said students, humiliating her. To put the cherry on top, the headmaster single-handedly exposes the cocaine hidden inside her rosary as well.
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Cruel Intentions / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Cruel Intentions / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Why did Sebastian humiliate his therapist and his therapist's daughter in the opening? Because "[the therapist] was charging him too much".
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Cruel Intentions / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Especially in the prequel, and even more especially in the unaired episodes of the canceled television series that became the prequel. Almost every student at Manchester Prep turns out to be every bit as cruel as Kathryn and Sebastian.
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Cruel Intentions / int_3aca1515	type	I Like My X Like I Like My Y
Cruel Intentions / int_3aca1515	comment	I Like My X Like I Like My Y: When Mrs. Caldwell's racism slips out, she tells the shocked waiter she was referring to how she prefers her coffee "—Black! Brown sugar! No sugar!".
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Cruel Intentions / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Cruel Intentions / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Cecile's mother about Sebastian: "I can't believe they didn't expel him after what he did to the school nurse."
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Cruel Intentions / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
Cruel Intentions / int_3e157a10	comment	Twincest: Gretchen and Sarah. A scene shows the identical twins make out in the shower to entice Sebastian. Rather ridiculously, in the scene the girls claim to only be cousins.
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Cruel Intentions / int_45a387bc	type	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine
Cruel Intentions / int_45a387bc	comment	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Annette and Kathryn, respectively.
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Cruel Intentions / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Cruel Intentions / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Cherie in the second.
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Cruel Intentions / int_4a0821b4	type	Archnemesis Dad
Cruel Intentions / int_4a0821b4	comment	Archnemesis Dad: Edward Valmont and his son Sebastian have a strained relationship even though they're exactly the same.
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Cruel Intentions / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Cruel Intentions / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The antagonists Kathryn, Sebastian and Danielle are all revealed to be cruel and manipulative by the end of the prequel, while the naive, spoiled yet good-natured Cherie has been seduced and recorded by Sebastian. It's heavily implied they are going to ruin Cherieâ€™s reputation and get her expelled.
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Cruel Intentions / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Cruel Intentions / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The officer just seems dismayed that Sebastian rudely brushes him off after he repeatedly tries to point out that his car is in a no-parking zone.
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Cruel Intentions / int_5d7cfc66	type	The Jeeves
Cruel Intentions / int_5d7cfc66	comment	The Jeeves: Naturally, the Valmont house has a proper English butler to manage a full staff of diverse Ethnic Menial Labor stereotypes.
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Cruel Intentions / int_5eff8cf	type	High School AU
Cruel Intentions / int_5eff8cf	comment	High School AU: Of Dangerous Liaisons.
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Cruel Intentions / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Cruel Intentions / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Sebastian, who's every bit as slimy as his stepsister at the beginning, just couldn't continue being such a jerk after Annette genuinely won his heart. According to information on the television series, Kathryn by all appearances seems to have made one too following the film, even running a rehab movement for troubled youths like she used to be.
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Cruel Intentions / int_61814b8f	type	Jukebox Musical
Cruel Intentions / int_61814b8f	comment	Jukebox Musical: The stage adaptation has classic 90s songs, from "Genie in a Bottle" to "No Scrubs" to "Only Happy When It Rains."
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Cruel Intentions / int_61f452ca	type	Sinister Shades
Cruel Intentions / int_61f452ca	comment	Sinister Shades: After Ronald is fired by Mrs Caldwell, he is met outside the elevator by Sebastian and Kathryn, who are both wearing sunglasses and smirking, with the intentions of using Ronald's affiliation with Cecile to further their bet. Also, Sebastian is seen wearing the same shades in his first introductory scene, driving to his therapy session with Dr Greenbaum, where it is revealed he had been seducing Greenbaum's daughter to humiliate her. At the end, Annette's final scene (after outing Kathryn) is her driving out of New York City in Sebastian's car, his journal beside her, and smirking somewhat deviously...while wearing Sebastian's sunglasses.
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Cruel Intentions / int_64b46855	type	Chinese Laborer
Cruel Intentions / int_64b46855	comment	Chinese Laborer: Technically, Kathryn's handmaiden is Vietnamese.
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Cruel Intentions / int_6537cc1a	type	All Girls Like Ponies
Cruel Intentions / int_6537cc1a	comment	All Girls Like Ponies: The second movie uses a racy version of this trope where proper horse-riding technique is used as a metaphor for sex.
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Cruel Intentions / int_6849cc47	type	Where da White Women At?
Cruel Intentions / int_6849cc47	comment	Where da White Women At?: Ronald Clifford is instantly smitten with Cecile as well as, as it turns out, Kathryn despite that neither really seems like his type personality-wise. Suffice it to say, Cecile's mother does not approve of her daughter liking her men like she likes her coffee. In a deleted scene, Kathryn uses the scandalous nature of her relationship with Ronald to her advantage by manipulating him into believing that Sebastian is a violent racist.
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Cruel Intentions / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Sebastian's surname, Valmont, consists of the French words val (literally meaning "vale", the old-fashioned word for "valley") and mont ("mountain"). Sebastian starts out the movie "high" (cool and arrogant) but by the climax has been brought low and made pathetic. Cecile: Kathryn and Sebastian succeed in making Cecile impure - which is ironic, because her name is the French form of "Cecilia" - the Catholic saint who is famously known as "The Incorruptible." More irony in that St. Cecilia is the patroness of music. Cecile, by her own admission, is a Dreadful Musician.
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Cruel Intentions / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Cruel Intentions / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Swoosie Kurtz appears in a modern day adaption of Les Liaison dangereuese after appearing in its seminal film adaptation a decade earlier.
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Cruel Intentions / int_707ee167	type	Secret Circle of Secrets
Cruel Intentions / int_707ee167	comment	Secret Circle of Secrets: Kathryn's many extracurricular activities include running the Manchester Tribunal, a secret society of cruel popular kids at her snobby prep school. Basically, it's a rip-off of the Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale. Orders of business include such dastardly plans as ruining classmates' reputations, getting faculty members fired and scoring tickets to the Hole concert.
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Cruel Intentions / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Cruel Intentions / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: You can tell Blaine is a Depraved Homosexual because his dye job matches his sweater vest — it doesn't get much campier than that. Also, he displays mannerisms that are stereotypically associated with gay men.
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Cruel Intentions / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Cruel Intentions / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Sebastian and Kathryn wear black and other dark colors, while Annette prefers white and pastels. Cecile initially wears white and other light colors, but shifts to wearing red as Kathryn and Sebastian begin to corrupt her. In the scene where Sebastian seduces Cecile, he's wearing dark green ("go") while she's wearing bright red ("stop").
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Cruel Intentions / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: If there's one decent thing about the Cruel Intentions 3 script, it's this witty line from Kathryn's cousin Cassidy, alluding to another character's earlier complaint that his promiscuous sex life has become boring: "You're off to prison, where the sex is never boring."
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Cruel Intentions / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Cruel Intentions / int_762b9223	comment	Sebastian getting Cecile drunk and then taking advantage of her state by coercing her into letting him perform oral sex on her. Albeit Played for Laughs.
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Cruel Intentions / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Cruel Intentions / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: A pair of girls (who claim to be cousins, but are played by real-life twin sisters share a kiss in the shower while the male lead watches.
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Cruel Intentions / int_78bf3e7e	type	Practice Kiss
Cruel Intentions / int_78bf3e7e	comment	Practice Kiss: Kathryn and Cecile share one after Cecile reveals she's scared of boys and has never been to first base with one, and Kathryn asks if she's ever practiced with a girl. Kathryn insists that this is how most girls learn.
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Cruel Intentions / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
Cruel Intentions / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Kathryn, Sebastian. Annette's best friend, Greg, qualifies as well.
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Cruel Intentions / int_7ce7d94d	type	Age-Inappropriate Dress
Cruel Intentions / int_7ce7d94d	comment	Age-Inappropriate Dress: Despite only being in high school, Sebastian and Kathryn wear power suits as loungewear. Although, for the Upper East Side in New York City, this is more or less Truth in Television. And let's not even get started on Kathryn's lingerie as daywear.
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Cruel Intentions / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Cruel Intentions / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: Cruel Intentions 2 has a shower scene with a pair of twins making out in front of Sebastian, which, incidentally, is the only thing people remember about the film.
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Cruel Intentions / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Cruel Intentions / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Sebastian pretty much accuses Annette of being this at one point ("Hot one minute, cold the next")
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Cruel Intentions / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Cruel Intentions / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: needing to overcome the challenge involved in casting a 26-year-old woman as an immature teenager, the film introduces Cecile dressed as small child would, in an animal-themed t-shirt and schoolgirl skirt (in contrast to the power suits worn by the more sophisticated villain protagonists). She fails to keep her legs closed while seated and fails to recognize Sebastian's reference to her wardrobe malfunction. Her mother has to close her legs for her, signalling her sexual vulnerability.
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Cruel Intentions / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
Cruel Intentions / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: In the second film, Sebastian's mother is said to be "in rehab for the long haul," hence the reason why he moves in with his father.
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Cruel Intentions / int_815d5a99	type	The Three Faces of Eve
Cruel Intentions / int_815d5a99	comment	The Three Faces of Eve: The three girls: Annette (wise and mature) as the wife, Kathryn (cold, manipulative Femme Fatale) as the seductress and Cecile (sheltered NaÃ¯ve Everygirl) as the child.
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Cruel Intentions / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Cruel Intentions / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Tiffany Merteuil shows her "love" for her family by being controlling and manipulative.
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Cruel Intentions / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Cruel Intentions / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Ronald. "THE BLACK MAN IS GONE! THE BLACK MAN IS GONE!" Cecile's mother, played by Christine Baranski.
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Cruel Intentions / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
Cruel Intentions / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: Technically, Manchester Prep is a day school, but it comes with the same tropes of spoiled students picking on Scholarship Students and engaging in Situational Sexuality — except for the one perfect and kind student, of course.
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Cruel Intentions / int_842426f3	type	Grande Dame
Cruel Intentions / int_842426f3	comment	Grande Dame: Tiffany Merteuil uses her status in the community to persuade Nouveau Riche social climbers to "throw money" at her self-serving charity, as Kathryn puts it.
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Cruel Intentions / int_84bc0fef	type	Love Is a Weakness
Cruel Intentions / int_84bc0fef	comment	Love Is a Weakness: The movie's tagline is "In the game of seduction, there is only one rule: Never fall in love." Kathryn and Sebastian (at first) both live by this philosophy, which she uses as the basis for her "Reason You Suck" Speech against him.
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Cruel Intentions / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
Cruel Intentions / int_8748f851	comment	Also, Danielle and Cherie (Annette and Cecileâ€™s prequel counterparts) are a Brainy Brunette and a Dumb Blonde in this version.
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Cruel Intentions / int_89fb838b	type	Cold Ham
Cruel Intentions / int_89fb838b	comment	Cold Ham: One of the pleasures of watching this film has to be watching and listening to Gellar take frequent bites out of the stony surroundings.
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Cruel Intentions / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Cruel Intentions / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: In Cruel Intentions 3, Patrick becomes the official villain of the movie when he crosses this line.
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Cruel Intentions / int_8b9c057e	type	Ethnic Menial Labor
Cruel Intentions / int_8b9c057e	comment	Ethnic Menial Labor: The film loves using this trope for comedic effect: The Caldwells have a Hispanic maid who says her one line, "Â¡Ay, caramba!" right on cue, while the Valmonts have two different Asian maids who give pedicures, an English butler, a creepy German chef, an Arab driver who wears a turban, and two Swedish masseuses. Of course, all their personalities are stereotypical and over-the-top.
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Cruel Intentions / int_8bbf64f	type	Unsuspectingly Soused
Cruel Intentions / int_8bbf64f	comment	Unsuspectingly Soused: Becomes something of a running gag across the series. Provides the page quote.
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Cruel Intentions / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Cruel Intentions / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Again, Cecile, who gets more bitchy and slutty as the film goes on, just as Kathryn had planned.
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Cruel Intentions / int_8e13262d	type	Virginity Makes You Stupid
Cruel Intentions / int_8e13262d	comment	Virginity Makes You Stupid: Subverted with Annette, played straight with Cecile. Not that Cecile is any smarter afterward.
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Cruel Intentions / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Cruel Intentions / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins/Twincest: The twins Gretchen and Sarah claim to be cousins, but they look very identical to one another and they were played by Real Life twins.
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Cruel Intentions / int_94d295c0	type	The Precious, Precious Car
Cruel Intentions / int_94d295c0	comment	The Precious, Precious Car: Sebastian's 1956 Jaguar XK 140 Roadster is his most prized possession. If he loses his bet with Kathryn, he has to hand it over to her. After Sebastian dies, Annette somehow ends up with the car. Although, production stills from the NBC spin-off TV series appear to show Kathryn eventually ends up with the car in San Francisco. Apparently, she hands it over to Sebastian and Annette's son, Bash Casey, once he comes out of the woodwork to claim his family name.
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Cruel Intentions / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Cruel Intentions / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: This is reversed in the prequel where Kathryn is an icy blonde and Danielle is a warm brunette, and then subverted in the plot twist at the end when Danielle reveals that she's really just like Kathryn.
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Cruel Intentions / int_99a7aa94	type	Seven Deadly Sins
Cruel Intentions / int_99a7aa94	comment	Seven Deadly Sins: Both Sebastian and Kathryn have this: Both are incredibly promiscuous people. (Lust). Both mostly sit around and do little work. (Sloth) Both come from a wealthy background. (Greed) Kathryn is a drug addict and a bulimic. (Gluttony) Kathryn envies her classmates. (Envy) Kathryn and Sebastian despise others around them. Kathyrn in particular takes pleasure in manipulating others to cause as much damage or chaos to themselves and/or their peers as possible. (Wrath)
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Cruel Intentions / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Cruel Intentions / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Blaine, who's openly gay, is eager to help Sebastian blackmail closeted Greg by getting him into bed so that Sebastian can walk in on the two men together and take photos of them in a compromising position. Though to be fair, the heterosexual characters are also depraved, so it doesn't stand out as much.
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Cruel Intentions / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Cruel Intentions / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: After attacking Sebastian and inadvertingly causing his demise, Ronald, now remorseful after realizing he was manipulated, kneels in the street with Annette to tend to the dying Sebastian.
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Cruel Intentions / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
Cruel Intentions / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: After being exposed as a sinister in the end, Kathryn sheds a single tear, realizing her reputation is now indeed destroyed.
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Cruel Intentions / int_a3d171c3	type	Casual Car Giveaway
Cruel Intentions / int_a3d171c3	comment	Casual Car Giveaway: Either this trope or Hero Stole My Bike is the only plausible explanation for that bizarre closing shot of Annette driving off into the desert behind the wheel of Sebastian's prized vintage Jag.
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Cruel Intentions / int_a7ddc88e	type	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
Cruel Intentions / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: The psychiatrist is about to go on a book tour to promote her Great Parenting manual, however when she finds out her daughter was manipulated and had nude photos of herself put on the internet, her response is neither kind nor particularly constructive.
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Cruel Intentions / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Cruel Intentions / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: In the second film, Kathryn and Sebastian's parents are essentially middle-aged versions of their respective children. Responsible authority figures apparently don't exist in this universe.
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Cruel Intentions / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Cruel Intentions / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Cecile's dialogue, particularly when she says goodbye to Ronald with "Peace out!" much to Kathyrn's disgust.
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Cruel Intentions / int_ab48ea8	type	Preacher's Kid
Cruel Intentions / int_ab48ea8	comment	Preacher's Kid: Before Headmaster Hargrove takes over the position, Danielle Sherman is the same thing, only she's not what she seems.
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Cruel Intentions / int_ad786c6b	type	Hookers and Blow
Cruel Intentions / int_ad786c6b	comment	Hookers and Blow: Sebastian and Kathryn make drugs and debauchery look so glamorous.
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Cruel Intentions / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Cruel Intentions / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Sebastian and Kathryn both have mastered the art form.
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Cruel Intentions / int_aefcb86f	type	There Are No Adults
Cruel Intentions / int_aefcb86f	comment	There Are No Adults: The few adults who do exist on rare occasions are clueless or indifferent to what the kids are up to. Either way, they are not individuals to whom the children can appeal.
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Cruel Intentions / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Cruel Intentions / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Of Dangerous Liaisons. It takes it from 18th century France to 1990s New York City, changing all the characters to teenagers.
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Cruel Intentions / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
Cruel Intentions / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Kathryn's mother tells Sebastian in no uncertain terms that if he doesn't keep an eye on his philandering father, the two of them will both be kicked "out on the street."
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Cruel Intentions / int_b0bd5f11	type	Catholic School Girls Rule
Cruel Intentions / int_b0bd5f11	comment	Catholic School Girls Rule: Though their uniforms are more drab and conservative than is popularly portrayed.
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Cruel Intentions / int_b44e86c4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
Cruel Intentions / int_b44e86c4	comment	"You Do NOT Want To Know," Cecile says about being taken advantage of.
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Cruel Intentions / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Cruel Intentions / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Kathryn is going to date and fall in love with Court Reynolds at some point after the Prequel and before the first movie. However, she made out with Danielle when it was revealed they were accomplices to Sebastian.
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Cruel Intentions / int_bd8aa92a	type	Negative Continuity
Cruel Intentions / int_bd8aa92a	comment	Negative Continuity: In the first film Sebastian called Kathrynâ€™s mother a "gold digging whore" which implies that Kathryn is the step-sibling who came from a poorer background. However, in the prequel Sebastian is the one from a poorer background. Many fans have noted this.
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Cruel Intentions / int_c023a146	type	Hollywood Homely
Cruel Intentions / int_c023a146	comment	Hollywood Homely: In Cruel Intentions 3, Patrick's Freudian Excuse for being a sexual predator is that he isn't fortunate enough to be an Adonis, especially in comparison to one male character who's played by a former Abercrombie & Fitch model. He even says he feels like he has to "play up the homely" with nerdy clothes and unstyled hair to trick girls into thinking he's a Nice Guy.
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Cruel Intentions / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Cruel Intentions / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Everything about the sexual relationship between Sebastian and Kathryn, once the audience realizes that they're actually step-siblings. Sebastian getting Cecile drunk and then taking advantage of her state by coercing her into letting him perform oral sex on her. Albeit Played for Laughs.
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Cruel Intentions / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Cruel Intentions / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: According to costume designer Denise Wingate, Selma Blair's red hoodie was supposed to invoke Little Red Riding Hood.
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Cruel Intentions / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Cruel Intentions / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: In the prequel, a sobbing Kathryn uses the emotional abuse she endures from her mother as her excuse for being so mean.
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Cruel Intentions / int_ca720408	type	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich
Cruel Intentions / int_ca720408	comment	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: When Kathryn is meeting with Cecile and her mother, the maid Mai-Lee sets a tray of tea or something in front of them, which no one touches. When Sebastian arrives, he sets the tray aside and it's completely forgotten by the time everyone has left the room.
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Cruel Intentions / int_d1d4cf48	comment	Cheating with the Milkman: Kathryn sarcastically remarks to Sebastian that her mother suspects that her stepfather is having an affair with the maid.
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Cruel Intentions / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Cruel Intentions / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: In the original story Madame de Rosemonde becomes a trusted friend and wise mentor to Madame de Tourvel. In this version, Sebastian's Aunt Helen is just an eccentric biddy who whips up "iced tea" and pawns her charity duties off on her nephew and his girlfriend so she can go to the theater instead.
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Cruel Intentions / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Danielle pretends to fall in love with Sebastian, but in reality she couldn't care less about him. She's also not shown seemingly having any crushes on boys at her school, but she does make out with Kathryn when they are revealed to be accomplices. It's implied she was involved with Kathryn in a threesome with Sebastian after they join forces, however itâ€™s not made clear if Danielle has any real affection for Sebastian.
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Cruel Intentions / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Cecile Caldwell is CÃ©cile de Volanges. Ronald Clifford is Chevalier Danceny. Bunny Caldwell is Madame de Volanges. Court Reynolds is Comte de Gercourt. Helen Rosemond is Madame de Rosemonde. Blaine Tuttle is Azolan. Greg McConnell is Julie. Mai-Lee is Victoire (sort of — she's just Kathryn's maid, not an accomplice in her schemes). Gretchen and Mora are both Emilie (in a deleted scene). Sebastian's journal represents the letters Vicomte de Valmont possessed.
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