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Dead Ringers

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Dead Ringers	comment	Dead Ringers is a 1988 horror drama film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jeremy Irons.It's a story about twin gynecologists, Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who run a brisk business treating infertile women. That, and they have a tendency of taking advantage of them, too. Being the more suave of the two, Elliot woos them, and when he's finished he pulls the old switcheroo and pawns the unsuspecting women off onto Beverly.One such woman is the actress Claire Niveau (GeneviÃ¨ve Bujold), who Beverly legitimately falls for, to the point of obsession. Unfortunately, Beverly is a jangled bundle of neuroses, and when Claire goes out of town to work on a film and Bev calls her hotel room only for a man to answer, Beverly jumps to the conclusion that she is cheating on him.Cue descent into delusional hell, wherein Beverly begins performing unnecessary operations with custom gynecological tools on women who he believes have "mutant genitalia." When the effects of his declining mental health spill over into the brother's practice, the board of health suspends Beverly's license. Elliot, who had always been sensitive to his sibling's fragility, leaves his practice and his current sex partner to join Beverly, who has holed himself up in their apartment.The twins then embark on a medical procedure to separate themselves for health reasons. Has it been mentioned that they aren't conjoined twins?The film is set to be remade into a television series for Prime Video on April 21, 2023, with Rachel Weisz taking over the role(s) of Elliot and Beverly.Not related to the British television and radio series Dead Ringers. Also not to be confused with Dead Ringer, an entirely different identical twin story starring Bette Davis.
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Dead Ringers / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
Dead Ringers / int_118a41d5	comment	Daydream Surprise: Beverly is sleeping with Claire. Elliot is there next to the bed, and Claire suggests to separate Beverly from Elliot. Then she starts biting a sort of umbilical cord-like growth that links the twins together. Cut to Beverly waking up; this was just a nightmare.
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Dead Ringers / int_24c6f22e	type	Trash of the Titans
Dead Ringers / int_24c6f22e	comment	Trash of the Titans: The twins' private hospital is full of trash in the end, because they have become insane.
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Dead Ringers / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Dead Ringers / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Beverly falls from his bed after a Nightmare Sequence where Claire separates him from his brother Elliot by chewing through the connective tissue.
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Dead Ringers / int_2d3f662b	type	Chained Heat
Dead Ringers / int_2d3f662b	comment	Chained Heat: Appropriately enough, Claire's character in a movie she's rehearsing for is in this situation.
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Dead Ringers / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Dead Ringers / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Beverly thinks that Claire is cheating on him because a male coworker answers a phone call to her hotel room. She was just having a professional meeting in her room.
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Dead Ringers / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
Dead Ringers / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: Elliot seduces women, then hands them over to Beverly once he's tired of them, without the women knowing they're sleeping with two different men.
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Dead Ringers / int_31bd1ba1	type	Twin Threesome Fantasy
Dead Ringers / int_31bd1ba1	comment	Twin Threesome Fantasy: Elliot orders up an evening of "entertainment" with a pair of high-class twin hookers called Coral and Mimsy. Taking it even further, he requests that one of them call him by his own name, and the other call him by his brother's name... In a later scene, Elliot's girlfriend tries to initiate a threesome with him and Beverly. Elliot seems totally into it, but Beverly is way too uncomfortable.
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Dead Ringers / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
Dead Ringers / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: At the end, Beverly kills his brother with surgical tools at the latter's request in a drug-fueled stupor. He doesn't outlive his brother for long, as he simply can't bear to live without him and instead chooses to die with Elliot.
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Dead Ringers / int_39de664a	type	Mad Doctor
Dead Ringers / int_39de664a	comment	Mad Doctor: Beverly, after his mental decline.
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Dead Ringers / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
Dead Ringers / int_3e157a10	comment	Twincest: The interactions and dependency of the brothers seem to have this sort of subtext, sharing details about their sex lives as if comparing homework. Truth in Television in that many twins are emotionally and physically intimate in ways disturbing to the untwinned, but the brothers take it well beyond that, especially on Elliot's end, like when he tries to initiate a threesome with Beverly and gets protective and takes over when his brother needs CPR.
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Dead Ringers / int_4aafa707	type	Ping Pong Naïveté
Dead Ringers / int_4aafa707	comment	Ping Pong NaÃ¯vetÃ©: The twins as children know an awful lot about sex, reproduction, evolution, and anatomy, and yet know nothing of social boundaries and even have some of their notions about sexual evolution wrong. They think if humans were an underwater creature we wouldn't have sex and instead lay eggs for males to fertilize like fish do, but humans are mammals, and underwater mammals like dolphins and whales do have sex.
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Dead Ringers / int_4dd46feb	type	Polar Opposite Twins
Dead Ringers / int_4dd46feb	comment	Polar Opposite Twins: Elliot is smooth and a ladykiller while Beverly is a Shrinking Violet. They are so identical that the only way Beverly can have sex is for Elliot to seduce the woman then substitute Bev for himself at the very last moment in the bedroom.
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Dead Ringers / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Dead Ringers / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Elliot and Beverly as kids, as they discuss evolution, sex, anatomy, and reproduction.
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Dead Ringers / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Dead Ringers / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: A Cronenberg staple. The Nightmare Sequence. The medical instruments. A disturbingly subtle one for what's not shown is Beverly's diagnosis of Claire; the reason she can't get pregnant is because she has one uterus with three separate uterine compartments, each with its own cervix. When Beverly calls Claire at her hotel room while she's away working on a film and gets her (male) receptionist, he believes she's cheating on him — and tells him about her condition. Claire's actually a good sport about it. She's already accepted Beverly's neuroses and is less disturbed by the confidentiality breach than she is by her receptionist's reaction — he was a Flamboyant Gay before Beverly accused him of "fucking a mutant," which grossed him out beyond belief.
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Dead Ringers / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Dead Ringers / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: There's one in the middle of the film and it is pretty...disturbing. Beverly is sleeping with Claire. Elliot appears next to the bed and Claire suggests to separate Beverly from Elliot. Then she pulls the covers back to reveal Bev and Ellie are connected by a fleshy growth between their stomachs, and Claire starts ripping it off with her teeth.
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Dead Ringers / int_5ff126b7	type	Troubled Fetal Position
Dead Ringers / int_5ff126b7	comment	Troubled Fetal Position: Beverly does the "rocking back and forth" variation at one point.
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Dead Ringers / int_613fa807	type	Identical Twin ID Tag
Dead Ringers / int_613fa807	comment	Identical Twin ID Tags: As the story progresses, Beverly and Elliot's personalities diverge due to one of the twins' advancing mental instability. This is reflected in their appearance, with Elliot maintaining a healthy, well-tanned look while Beverly develops bags under his eyes, a sickly pallor, and a nervous twitch. Even in earlier parts of the story, Beverly is sometimes recognizable by his stooped posture, something Elliot never exhibits.
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Dead Ringers / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Dead Ringers / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Because of his addiction to meds, his insecurity, and his difficulty to live independently from his brother, Beverly becomes increasingly insane. He begins seeing genital mutations in his patients that do not actually have any. The madness spreads to Elliot via twin osmosis. This leads to them using a sort of strangely designed scalpel to perform a "separation procedure", AKA a murder-suicide.
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Dead Ringers / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Dead Ringers / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Beverly kills himself in the end.
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Dead Ringers / int_71cc4b5a	type	Descent into Addiction
Dead Ringers / int_71cc4b5a	comment	Descent into Addiction: After meeting Claire, Beverly becomes addicted to meds. His brother finally follows suit.
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Dead Ringers / int_89e78faf	type	Wardrobe Flaw of Characterization
Dead Ringers / int_89e78faf	comment	Wardrobe Flaw of Characterization: In the scene where a drunken Beverly embarrasses Elliot at an awards ceremony, look at the ties. Elliot is wearing a perfectly-tied bow tie; Beverly, as though to highlight his ineffectualness, is wearing a clip-on.
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Dead Ringers / int_8b9f8764	type	I Was Told There Would Be Cake
Dead Ringers / int_8b9f8764	comment	I Was Told There Would Be Cake: Perhaps surprisingly, the eating of a delicious cake is an integral part to The Climax.
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Dead Ringers / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Dead Ringers / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Bev and Ellie as kids are already extremely knowledgeable about sex, reproduction, evolution, and anatomy.
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Dead Ringers / int_8f00b02a	type	Always Identical Twins
Dead Ringers / int_8f00b02a	comment	Always Identical Twins: Beverly and Elliot are identical twins, played by the same actor, Jeremy Irons.
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Dead Ringers / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Dead Ringers / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: Both brothers take turns at this. Elliott is shown as contemptuous and dismissive towards his patients, and Beverly later becomes furious with a patient who dares to suggest his examination is hurting her.
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Dead Ringers / int_9b60b728	type	Addled Addict
Dead Ringers / int_9b60b728	comment	Addled Addict: Beverly's drug use leads to erratic behavior, delusions, and visibly deteriorating physical health.
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Dead Ringers / int_9c0dc5cd	type	Quick Nip
Dead Ringers / int_9c0dc5cd	comment	Quick Nip: All three of the central characters pop pills at various points in the narrative. Of particular note is a scene of Elliot, as he waits for an elevator, coolly and systematically dipping into an almost comically long series of prescription bottles he keeps in his pockets.
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Dead Ringers / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Dead Ringers / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The gynecological instrument that Beverly designs when he is still an undergraduate student foreshadows the instruments that he designs in the end.
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Dead Ringers / int_9ff5aa20	type	Nailed to the Wagon
Dead Ringers / int_9ff5aa20	comment	Nailed to the Wagon: When Beverly's Addled Addict tendencies start to threaten Elliot's career, Elliot locks him away to detox in private.
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Dead Ringers / int_a09f3a65	type	Sibling Triangle
Dead Ringers / int_a09f3a65	comment	Sibling Triangle: Claire has a relationship with both Beverly and Elliot. She is not aware of it, since her lovers are identical twins and Elliot pretends to be Beverly when he meets her.
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Dead Ringers / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Dead Ringers / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Claire points out that Beverly is considered a feminine name. Beverly calls his brother by a feminine-sounding nickname: "Ellie." While Claire is more common as a woman's name, it can be a male name as well (Clare).
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Dead Ringers / int_ac0cd9fc	type	Little Professor Dialog
Dead Ringers / int_ac0cd9fc	comment	Little Professor Dialog: The twins as kids speak far more scientifically than most children that age.
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Dead Ringers / int_ad43ba7f	type	Non-Nude Bathing
Dead Ringers / int_ad43ba7f	comment	Non-Nude Bathing: Toward the end of the movie, Beverly comes across Elliot in the midst of his own breakdown, sitting in the shower, fully clothed.
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Dead Ringers / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Dead Ringers / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: The original name of the film was Twins, but it had to be changed thanks to the Schwarzenegger/DeVito film coming out first.
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Dead Ringers / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Dead Ringers / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don't call attention to the fact that Beverly is usually a woman's name.
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Dead Ringers / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Dead Ringers / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Claire says that she does everything she can to get pregnant, like being extremely promiscuous.
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Dead Ringers / int_c76ab3f5	type	Cow Tools
Dead Ringers / int_c76ab3f5	comment	Cow Tools: Beverly's custom-made gynecological instruments are shown on display, and they are quite nasty looking, but (thankfully) their utility is never made explicit.
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Dead Ringers / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Dead Ringers / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To the film Cronenberg made immediately before this, The Fly (1986). Both are adapted from written works. Each is a Psychological Thriller Tragedy with only a few significant characters in which a man's jealous love for a woman inadvertently sends him into Sanity Slippage. Both involve extensive special effects and a lead actor seriously committed to their performance on physical and mental levels. But where The Fly is a science fiction film involving a transformation into both a Half-Human Hybrid and Mad Scientist with extreme amounts of onscreen Body Horror, this is a more realistic story of someone who becomes a Mad Doctor and Body Horror is more suggested than shown (with only one exception in a nightmare sequence). Where The Fly involves two entities (the scientist and a housefly) merging into one with the special effects turning Jeff Goldblum into that creature, this involves two entities trying to separate themselves — the twin doctors — with special effects allowing Jeremy Irons to play both. The visuals, acting, and tone are icy and chic here, whereas The Fly is warmer and dowdier. Whereas The Fly involves a man going through an external, physical transformation into a monster, Dead Ringers involves a man going through an internal, psychological transformation into a monster, and each ends up with an apartment full of trash and half-eaten food as an environmental sign of their Sanity Slippage. The trailer actually positioned it as this trope in its narration (and used Recycled Trailer Music from its precursor): "From David Cronenberg, who in The Fly made the fantastic real...now, David Cronenberg makes reality the ultimate fantasy."
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Dead Ringers / int_e0140e6c	type	From the Mouths of Babes
Dead Ringers / int_e0140e6c	comment	From the Mouths of Babes: Ellie and Bev as kids, who know far more about adult topics than anyone would expect from children, and it's played for laughs when they ask another young girl quite baldly if she'd be interested in having sex with them.
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Dead Ringers / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Dead Ringers / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Cronenberg based the film on the deaths of Stewart and Cyril Marcus. However, the Marcus twins were "just" a pair of gynecologists who shared a practice, an apartment, a drug addiction, and were both found in said apartment some time after they died of withdrawal, resulting in them looking like rotten beef jerky - and no one really knows what the hell actually happened. Cronenberg, being Cronenberg, decided that all of this wasn't creepy enough...
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Dead Ringers / int_ef20d7bc	type	A Minor Kidroduction
Dead Ringers / int_ef20d7bc	comment	A Minor Kidroduction: In the prologue, the Mantle brothers are young boys who already discuss about sex and gynecology.
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Dead Ringers / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
Dead Ringers / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Zig zagged. In the beginning, Elliot is presented as a smooth and charming but totally sociopathic jerkass, while Beverly seems to be a rather Nice Guy in contrast with his brother (even if using a Bed Trick is clearly not something nice). In the end, Beverly becomes a Mad Doctor and Elliot is the more sensible and less dangerous of the two.
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Dead Ringers / int_f44ad3e1	type	Twin Switch
Dead Ringers / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: The Mantle twins do it regularly with the women they date. As far as Claire is concerned, she first meets Beverly during a consultation, then she has a date with Elliot and has sex with him. Her next date is with Beverly who has sex with her too...and Claire thinks that she is always with the same person. She does not even know that Beverly has a twin brother.
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Dead Ringers / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
Dead Ringers / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: The Mantle twins treat infertile women who want to conceive. Claire is one of them.
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Dead Ringers / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Dead Ringers / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: A particularly wrenching example. When the twins reach the nadir of their breakdown, they perform a "surgery" where Beverly effectively eviscerates Elliot. After he realizes what he's done, Beverly makes one final, abortive attempt to connect with his new paramour. He instead decides to join Elliot in death, cradling his brother's body as he dies.
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Dead Ringers / int_f6e35fd7	type	Acting Your Intellectual Age
Dead Ringers / int_f6e35fd7	comment	Acting Your Intellectual Age: The twins as children, who act almost nothing like children at all and much more like little scientists.
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Dead Ringers	hasFeature	Organic Technology / int_77166878
Dead Ringers	hasFeature	Polar Opposite Twins / int_77166878
Dead Ringers	hasFeature	Quick Nip / int_77166878
Dead Ringers	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_77166878
Dead Ringers	hasFeature	Troubled Fetal Position / int_77166878
Dead Ringers	hasFeature	Twin Threesome Fantasy / int_77166878
Dead Ringers	hasFeature	Twincest / int_77166878
Dead Ringers (Radio)	seeAlso	Dead Ringers

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