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Deathtrap
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Deathtrap is a 1982 film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, and Dyan Cannon. It was adapted from a 1978 play by Ira Levin, the author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives.Sidney Bruhl (Caine) is a well-known and formerly very successful Broadway playwright whose career is on the skids after a series of flops. The film starts with Bruhl demoralized after his latest play bombs, with the reassurances of his supportive wife Myra (Cannon) failing to help his mood. Bruhl is further irritated by receiving a script from Clifford Anderson (Reeve), his former student in a writing seminar. The play, called Deathtrap, is excellent, much to Bruhl's disgust. Anderson's script is accompanied by a letter in which Anderson asks to visit in order to get Bruhl's editing advice. Bruhl, desperate to turn his career around, hits on an evil scheme—kill Anderson, and pass the script off as his own.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })But all is not as it seems. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: When play-acting the fake murder for Myra, Sidney restrains Cliff in what is supposedly a set of trick handcuffs once owned by Houdini, which allow the wearer to snap out of them easily. Cliff can't figure out the trick. Towards the end of the film, Cliff locks up Sidney in a different set, which turn out to be the real Houdini handcuffs: Sidney knows how to work them and releases himself. Also used in the traditional sense — a crossbow on the Wall of Weapons is fired in the final act. | |
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Book-Ends: Theatrical productions at the start of the movie (Sidney's bomb of a play) and at the end (Helga's hit play Deathtrap). | |
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Coincidental Broadcast | |
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Coincidental Broadcast: A friendly bartender reassures a depressed Sidney that maybe the reaction to the play will be better than he thinks. The bartender then turns on the TV, and flips to three different channels, turning to each exactly in time to see three different critics pan Sidney's play. | |
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Wall of Weapons | |
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Also used in the traditional sense — a crossbow on the Wall of Weapons is fired in the final act. | |
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Carpet-Rolled Corpse | |
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Carpet-Rolled Corpse: Sidney wraps up Cliff in the carpet Cliff fell down on. He has to yell at Myra to help him carry Cliff out. | |
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Bury Your Gays / int_1f0e1967 | |
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Carpet-Rolled Corpse / int_1f0e1967 | |
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Depraved Homosexual / int_1f0e1967 | |
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Fright Deathtrap / int_1f0e1967 | |
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Instant Book Deal / int_1f0e1967 | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall / int_1f0e1967 | |
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Metafictional Title / int_1eff8d87 | |
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Psychological Thriller / int_1f0e1967 | |
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Screaming Woman / int_1f0e1967 | |
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The Film of the Play / int_1f0e1967 |
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