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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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A 1988 comedy about con artists, directed by Frank Oz and starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin.Lawrence Jamieson (Caine) is a sophisticated, cultured con artist who preys on rich women visiting the French Riviera, extracting large sums from them voluntarily by masquerading as an exiled prince who needs help to regain his throne. One day, he meets a less ambitious — and far less polished — con artist, Freddy Benson (Martin), who is conning women out of money for lunch and train tickets by masquerading as an impoverished charity worker. Worried that Freddy may interfere with his work after he sees a newspaper article describing the con-work of "The Jackal", and after attempting to train him in culture and conning, Lawrence makes a bet with him: The first of them to con a selected mark out of $50,000 can stay in the area, while the other must leave. The two decide the mark is to be the apparently wealthy socialite Janet Colgate (Glenne Headly). Various complications and hilarities ensue.A remake of the 1964 film Bedtime Story, which starred Marlon Brando and David Niven. Became a Broadway musical (starring John Lithgow, among others) in 2005. In 2019, the concept was adapted with a Gender Flip into The Hustle starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. | |
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Graceful Loser | |
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Graceful Loser: Lawrence intends to be this when it looks like Freddy has won their wager. He later is this when it turns out that Janet has played them both. Freddy, not so much. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: Both Lawrence and Freddy are Affably Evil at best, not like they are in the trailer (where they act downright cruel). | |
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Gentleman Thief | |
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Gentleman Thief: Lawrence may rob these rich women blind (sort of), but he spends it on rare art, ancient wine, and French legacy gardens. | |
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Between My Legs | |
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Between My Legs: When Janet is talking Freddy out of his "suicide attempt" as he's crawling on the beach. | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The Musical is extremely faithful to the movie, and one of the only changes that it makes are to give Andre and Ms Eubanks more character development. The movie is very faithful to Bedtime Story, except for adding a new ending. The screenwriters of Bedtime Story even received credit as co-writers of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels because so much of their material was re-used. | |
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Walking Spoiler | |
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Walking Spoiler: Janet Colgate, in case you didn't guess it, has a humdinger of a secret under wraps, which is the cause of all these spoiler marks. Namely, she is the mystery con-artist known as "The Jackal", and was only playing along with the schemes both Freddy and Lawrence were pulling on her, and walks away with thousands of dollars of their money while sacrificing none of hers. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: In the first teaser trailer, which contains specially filmed footage not found in the movie. Freddy and Lawrence are slowly strolling down a riverside boulevard. The viewer is likely to notice Freddy pushing the old lady into the water. The viewer is less likely to notice Lawrence pushing a tube of cotton candy into a kid's face. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Judge Renoux, apparently. It's never said or shown why, but one can guess. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: Janet, which is why she's chosen as the mark. Very much Subverted. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Well, all of the cast are bad guys, but this is a case where the antagonist wins, having Out-Gambitted both the protagonists. (Still, Lawrence is a Graceful Loser). | |
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Welcome to Hell | |
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Welcome to Hell: Even funnier when the line is delivered by Emperor Palpatine... | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Ostensibly, at least. Lawrence Jamieson claims to only target wealthy and corrupt women (and only bilks them out of amounts they could easily afford), and we never see him do anything to the contrary. He is also appalled by Freddy's suggestion that they change the bet to whoever can bed Janet first (though he is willing to bet that Freddy fails in his own bid to do so). | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Involving upper-class etiquette, with an instrumental version of "Puttin' On The Ritz" playing in the background. | |
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Out-Gambitted | |
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Out-Gambitted: Janet plays Lawrence and Freddy against each other, walks away with their money and leaves a semi-gloating letter behind revealing she's the mysterious Jackal. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Lawrence and Freddy use these extensively in their duel of bastardry, to see who can get $50,000 out of Janet first. | |
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Double Meaning | |
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Double Meaning: When Janet gives the briefcase of money back to Lawrence, she tells him "I can't take this. It doesn't belong to me. And I'll always have something from you that means much more". Little does he know that she's speaking the literal truth: the briefcase actually contains Freddie's clothes (which don't belong to her), and she has his money. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Just how did Freddy break the butler's VCR? | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess: Both con men are constantly revising their plans, both from the snags that they keep running into and the other's attempt to sabotage their plans. Janet out-chesses them both. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Janet has a mink that she claims Freddy stole from her, along with most of her possessions, at the end. That was just part of her story to get Lawrence to give her some money. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: At the end, Lawrence acknowledges Janet as this. | |
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Kansas City Shuffle | |
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Kansas City Shuffle: While Freddy and Lawrence are trying to con Janet, she plays along, taking them both for suckers at the climax. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Hello boys. It was fun. I'll miss you. Love, Janet, the Jackal." | |
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The Barnum | |
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The Barnum: Lawrence is this, or at least thinks he is. His introductory song in The Musical is titled "Givin' 'Em What They Want." | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Freddy's modus operandi. First, he pretends that he needs money for his ailing grandmother. He then plays the role of a paralyzed officer. | |
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Eviler than Thou | |
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Eviler than Thou: Both Lawrence and Freddy think the other is inept as a con-man and attempt to prove they're the better hustler. Once Janet arrives on the scene, she proceeds to show them both how it's done. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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Pragmatic Villainy: Lawrence considers getting rid of Freddy at the start of the film because "A petty poacher shooting at rabbits might scare the big game away." In other words, he doesn't consider Freddy competition, he's just protecting his turf. | |
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Villainous Friendship | |
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Villainous Friendship: Lawrence and Freddy alternate between having this and being bitter rivals. When Janet comes back at the end of the film, complete with a bunch of new rich morons for the three of them to con together, they wind up having a three-way form of this. | |
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Nonindicative Name: Lawrence and Freddy are both crooks, but neither is really a "dirty rotten scoundrel" at all. | |
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Punctuated Pounding | |
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Punctuated Pounding: Lawrence whipping Freddie while acting like it's part of his therapy: "Or My Name Isn't... Doctor! Emil! Schuffhausen! *Beat* The Third!" | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Freddy pretends to be suicidal to earn Janet's sympathy. | |
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Pair the Spares | |
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Pair the Spares: Andre and Ms. Eubanks in The Musical. | |
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Adaptation Title Change | |
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Adaptation Title Change: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was adapted from Bedtime Story. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: Of a sort. Janet returns to Lawrence and Freddy with a gaggle of rich morons in tow, and tells them she had so much fun conning them that she's decided to let them in on her newest scam. She then takes both their arms and leads them smiling over to the crowd as the credits roll. | |
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Herr Doktor | |
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Herr Doktor: Lawrence assumes the persona of an Austrian psychiatrist in his attempt to outwit Freddy and trick Janet. | |
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Too Awesome to Use | |
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Too Awesome to Use: Lawrence's wine collection which he will never drink because "they're too valuable" and never sell because "they mean too much" to him. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Lawrence stealthily berates Freddy for his lack of sophistication: | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Freddie and Lawrence. | |
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Noble Male, Roguish Male | |
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Noble Male, Roguish Male: Lawrence and Freddy. When Janet enters the picture, it turns into a form of The Gentleman or the Scoundrel. | |
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Con Man | |
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Con Man: Lawrence Jamieson, Freddy Benson, and "Janet Colgate" herself! | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: Freddy's face as Lawrence prepares to run at him and smack his legs from across the room. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Neither Lawrence nor Freddy face punishment for their con tricks. Nor, it turns out, does Janet. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Janet Colgate comes off as a rather dim rich girl. That's before she turns out to be a conwoman who's one step ahead of our two "heroes". | |
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Meaningless Villain Victory | |
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Meaningless Villain Victory: Lawrence technically wins the bet with Freddy, but lets him stay because, in effect, they both lost. | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
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Casanova Wannabe: The initial impression that Lawrence and Andre have of Freddy. | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
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Obfuscating Disability: Freddy poses as a psychosomatically crippled U.S. Navy veteran who needs $50,000 for treatment by the celebrated (fictional) Liechtenstein psychiatrist Dr. Emil Schuffhausen. | |
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EvilVsEvil | |
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Evil vs. Evil: A smaller-scale example than most. It starts as a turf-war of sorts between Lawrence and Freddy when Freddy starts plying his trade on Lawrence's traditional stomping grounds, then escalates into a full-blown contest of skill where they both try to see who can con $50,000 out of a wealthy young woman, Janet Colgate, when she shows up. She then turns it into a full-blown Mêlée à Trois by misdirecting both of them and getting away with the same sum of money out of which they were trying to con her. | |
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Undercover When Alone | |
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Undercover When Alone: Janet goes to mail a letter to Dr. Emil Schuffhausen. Since she knows she is being conned, there would be no reason for her to actually mail a letter to someone who does not exist. But by doing so, she encounters Lawrence who is posing as Schuffhausen. | |
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Think of the Children! | |
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Think of the Children!: The first mark of the movie uses this line to get Lawrence to accept her gift. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Subverted. After demonstrating the skills that Lawrence taught him in the Training Montage, Freddy never uses them again. Justified in that, after that point, they are in competition with each other over whose technique works better. | |
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Royally Screwed Up | |
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Royally Screwed Up: When some heiresses get too close to Lawrence's princely con, he gets Freddie to play a mentally disturbed brother, Ruprecht, to scare them off. | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Freddy's reaction when Lawrence shows him the fine wines and huge garden he spends his money on. The look on Freddy's face whenever Lawrence gains the upper hand. Especially when he shows up as "Dr. Emil Schuffhausen". | |
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Surpassed the Teacher | |
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Surpassed the Teacher: Lawrence says this of Freddy upon learning that he won the bet. Except he didn't. | |
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MassiveMultiplayerScam | |
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Massive Multiplayer Scam: Two men trying to scam a girl by way of pretending they are competing with each other to see who gets all the money and then it turns out that the girl is an even better scammer, using them both as pawns to get money herself. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Freddy tries to do this at the very end of the film, but Lawrence and Janet physically drag him back to work on the new con she's cooked up. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: A brief mention is made on the train radio of a skilled young con-artist called "The Jackal". Lawrence initially suspects that Freddy is the guy, but he isn't. As it turns out, Janet is The Jackal, and out-smarts both men while getting away scot-free. | |
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Throwing Off the Disability | |
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Throwing Off the Disability: Freddy pretends that Janet has cured his fake disability with The Power of Love. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
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Freudian Trio: Freddie is the id, Janet is the ego and Lawrence is the superego. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: Andre is pretty corrupt; he invades the privacy of visiting tourists, keeps a prostitute on retainer (Claudette, who keeps Freddy on the train), arrests foreigners without cause, and gets a healthy cut from Lawrence's work. He also suggests responding to Freddy's blackmail attempt by having him murdered, promising that he'll arrange for the investigation to be very slipshod. | |
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Bastard Understudy | |
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Bastard Understudy: Freddy becomes Lawrence's student at sophisticated con tricks partway through the film. | |
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