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Fierce Creatures
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Fierce Creatures (1997) is a Spiritual Successor to A Fish Called Wanda, starring the four main players from the earlier film: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin. The movie was written by John Cleese and directed by Fred Schepisi and Robert Young.The story concerns a British zoo recently acquired by Australian businessman Rod McCain (Kline) and put under the management of Rollo Lee (Cleese). In order to boost profits, Lee decides to institute a "fierce creatures" policy that means that only potentially deadly animals will be featured in the zoo. He then has to justify his actions when his bosses, Rod's son Vince (also played by Kline) and sexy Willa (Curtis) arrive. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The novelisation reveals that Rollo is the brother of Archie from A Fish Called Wanda. "Roland Leach" changed his name in an attempt to get ahead in the Royal Hong Kong Police. | |
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Hilarity in Zoos | |
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Hilarity in Zoos: The movie takes place mainly at the zoo. | |
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All There in the Script | |
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When Vince confesses (read: brags) to Willa that he's embezzled the zoo's earnings, Willa tells Rollo, who says their first priority is to examine the zoo's financial records and see whether the crime is obvious to the people at Octopus. To their dismay, it is stupidly obvious, and the scene quickly cuts to Rod examining the same records and scoffing, "I don't believe it..." Per the novelization, Rod is not the least bit surprised that Vince has tried to rip him off, but what disappoints and disgusts him is that he couldn't even manage a halfway-decent cover-up. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: A literal gun — a little Beretta M-1934 pistol that is among the arsenal Rollo keeps in his office sees its use as this in the third act by Rod pulling it out to try to shoot Bugsy, then accidentally killing Rod via Boom, Headshot! and subsequently to fake his suicide. | |
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Pummeling the Corpse | |
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Pummeling the Corpse: Once it finally gets through to Vince's brain that his hated father is dead, he expresses his joy this way. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: The animatronic panda is later seen with an "Out of Order" sign hanging around its neck. | |
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People Zoo | |
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People Zoo: Rollo and his office are exhibited in a cage at the zoo as one of the novelties Vince tries to enact. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: To A Fish Called Wanda. In Poland the movie is even called A Lemur Called Rollo | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Vince. Willa describes him as "pronoid"; the opposite of paranoid. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he thinks he is admired, respected, and popular. Needless to say, not a single other character can stand him. | |
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Inadequate Inheritor | |
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Inadequate Inheritor: Rod is going to cut Vince out of the will. By not actually dying; he's going to freeze himself and live forever, with his property going into a trust in the interim. | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
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Accidental Pervert: Rollo Lee is constantly being being caught by Willa in embarrassing and seemingly lurid situations (such as being caught with half-dressed and nubile young lady zookeepers, and a sheep in his bedroom). They all have perfectly innocent but very convoluted and unlikely explanations. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Rod McCain. Not even his son is safe from potential George Jetson Job Security, he belittles and insults everybody, and in the several times he talks to Willa, he doesn't even try to tone down the sexual harassment. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: This exchange. When Rollo institutes the "fierce creatures" policy and apparently starts to enforce it by taking away any animals that don't follow it and (seemingly) shooting them himself, the rest of the staff starts to do whatever it takes to protect the animals. Cut to descriptions of being mauled by sheep, with artfully-applied ketchup "slash marks" included. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: Rod McCain claims "Sheep are exactly like people, you know. Give 'em a couple of meals a day, they just stand there quietly... 'til you eat 'em." | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rollo puts on the appearance of a tough, no-nonsense type with a sharp tongue, but it's mostly bluster and he's pretty nice underneath it all. | |
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Of Corpse He's Alive | |
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Of Corpse He's Alive: When Rod is shot in the head, a plan is quickly concocted to have Vince play his father and then pretend to commit suicide. This works well since both characters are played by Kevin Kline. | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: Two female zookeepers start jumping on Rollo and kissing him. Vince and the patrons think he's about to have a threesome, but they had actually just found out he didn't kill their animals and are kissing him with relief. Rollo is seen coming out of a closet pantsless, with an Intimate Open Shirt, all sweaty, sighing "never again, at my age", with two women in their underwear in the other room. Willa predictably does not assume they were hiding in the closet with a tarantula on the loose. | |
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No Animals Were Harmed | |
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No Animals Were Harmed: "No animals were harmed in the making of this film, only humans." | |
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Your Costume Needs Work | |
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Your Costume Needs Work: A meta-example. Kevin Kline plays both Rod and Vince McCain in the film, and Vince McCain also plays his own father, albeit with such unprofessional makeup techniques as turning his hair grey with flea powder and stuffing his cheeks with cotton balls and his jacket with toilet paper. Neville has this reaction to Vince as Rod. | |
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We Named the Monkey "Jack" | |
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We Named the Monkey "Jack": Pip names her lemur "Rollo" to discourage Rollo from shooting it. It doesn't appear to work. This leads to hilarity later when Rollo is taking "Rollo" for a "walk" (by wheeling his cage around: | |
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Intimate Open Shirt | |
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Rollo is seen coming out of a closet pantsless, with an Intimate Open Shirt, all sweaty, sighing "never again, at my age", with two women in their underwear in the other room. Willa predictably does not assume they were hiding in the closet with a tarantula on the loose. | |
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Punctuated Pounding | |
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Punctuated Pounding: Vince indulges in this while pummeling his father's corpse. | |
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Hilariously Abusive Childhood | |
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Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Vince. | |
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FanService | |
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Fanservice: One of Vince's new marketing schemes is to have the zookeepers dress in animal costumes like at Disneyland. One female keeper is dressed rather seductively as a leopard. | |
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Ascended to Carnivorism | |
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Ascended to Carnivorism: Lampshaded, as it's what the zookeepers want Rollo to think so he'll keep their animals. | |
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Network Decay | |
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Network Decay: What a nice cyberpunked rejoicing! | |
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Named by the Adaptation | |
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Named by the Adaptation: The assistant sea lion keeper is named Sky in the book but has no name in the film. | |
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Not With the Safety On, You Won't | |
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Not With the Safety On, You Won't: Played with, first successfully to disarm a gunman then, while explaining that the safety was on all the time it ventures into I Just Shot Marvin in the Face. | |
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Gasshole | |
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Gasshole: Rod McCain. He farts as he dies. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Three beauties: Rollo, finally admitting what he really thinks of his employer, Rod McCain: Willa, to Vince, who admits to having stolen the zoo's earnings: Rollo, after Bugsy accidentally shoots Vince's father dead.: | |
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'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain | |
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'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain: Played for Laughs. Rod takes a bullet right between the eyes, but stays alive and cogent just long enough to tell the shooter, ''"you're fired", before expiring. Followed by this exchange: | |
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Sleeping Their Way to the Top | |
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Discussed when Vince 'warns' Willa that people might fear she's sleeping her way to the top. Willa replies "as long as they don't think I'm sleeping my way to the middle". | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: Oh God, Bugsy. Even Vince threatening to shoot him if he doesn't shut up doesn't work. It makes his eventual stunned silence all the more effective. | |
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Dodgy Toupee | |
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Dodgy Toupee: Neville (Rod's assistant) has some issues with his. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Tyrant | |
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Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: Rollo only pretends to shoot the cute, fuzzy animals. He instead keeps them hidden in his room. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: When Vince finally realises his father's dead, he sags against a wall, seemingly broken up. When he turns round, however, it quickly becomes apparent that he's crying from delight over the fact his hated father is dead. | |
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Do Wrong, Right | |
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Do Wrong, Right: Discussed when Vince 'warns' Willa that people might fear she's sleeping her way to the top. Willa replies "as long as they don't think I'm sleeping my way to the middle". When Vince confesses (read: brags) to Willa that he's embezzled the zoo's earnings, Willa tells Rollo, who says their first priority is to examine the zoo's financial records and see whether the crime is obvious to the people at Octopus. To their dismay, it is stupidly obvious, and the scene quickly cuts to Rod examining the same records and scoffing, "I don't believe it..." Per the novelization, Rod is not the least bit surprised that Vince has tried to rip him off, but what disappoints and disgusts him is that he couldn't even manage a halfway-decent cover-up. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Rod McCain. It says a lot that when his own son finds out he's dead, he starts to cry out of sheer joy. | |
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Urban Legend Love Life | |
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Urban Legend Love Life: The movie demonstrates from the inside how this can happen unintentionally. It turns out the process is similar to that which makes an Accidental Pervert, but with more of a tendency towards Accidental Innuendo. | |
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Little Useless Gun | |
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Little Useless Gun: The Beretta M-1934 (chambered in .380, but Bugsy mistakenly identifies it as shooting .32 ACP) that is used to kill Rod McCain looks like a toy gun and Rod even belittles it and laughs when he sees it (but uses it because it's the only gun around). A single accidental Boom, Headshot! later, nobody's laughing. | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: How Bugsy accidentally kills Rod. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Vince's ability to mimic his father's Kiwi accent. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Jamie Lee Curtis. As Roger Ebert puts it, she dresses as businesswomen would dress if careerwear was designed by Maidenform. (Or maybe more like a stripper in character as a businesswoman.) Vince even says people might get the wrong idea if she dresses like that around the office. | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: Bugsy accidentally killing Rod. Not so much the fact he shot him, but the fact that by shooting him, he doomed his comrades to very swift life imprisonment. Not to mention, Rod had decided to keep the zoo open, mere seconds beforehand. Rollo points out how thoroughly they're all screwed in a tirade dripping with sarcasm (see below). | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: After overhearing Rollo on the phone and thinking he's in the midst of a four-way with three hot young zookeepers, Vince says it's disgusting how people abuse positions of power for personal gratification. As he's saying this, he's stripping down to his underwear in order to seduce Willa. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The novelization's prologue provides one for the characters of A Fish Called Wanda, including Archie, Wanda, Ken, and Otto. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Neville falls for Vince's disguise as Rod, but thinks the actual Rod's corpse is a fake. | |
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I Control My Minions Through... | |
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I Control My Minions Through... | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved: What Rollo is presumed to be doing when caught with a sheep in his room. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Beautiful plumage", "Flesh wound", and of course, calling Willa "Wanda". Bugsy can't stop talking until the moment where he kills someone, at which point he shuts up. In A Fish Called Wanda, Ken (played by the same actor) cannot talk because of his stutter, until he kills someone, at which point he suddenly talks normally and won't shut up. Furthermore, the character of Bugsy has the same accent and manner of rambling on, whether or not anybody is listening, of the character Mr. Pither, also from Monty Python's Flying Circus and also played by Michael Palin. | |
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Freudian Slippery Slope | |
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Freudian Slippery Slope: John Cleese has a brilliant monologue about lemurs wherein he is unable to go five words without mentioning Jamie Lee Curtis' breasts. He even describes it as a "Freudian slit... -slut!... -slot!" | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: While he's not doing anything illegal, Rod is a predatory businessman who debases every business he acquires in the name of pure profit. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: People tend to disregard Buggsy's Motor Mouth ramblings, but he does make some good points. He predicts that forcing Rollo into a corner by giving him a choice between killing the adorable animals that aren't fierce or changing the fierce creatures policy might backfire, and it does (although not in the way they think). By having one of his spiders scare Rollo, he points out that an animal doesn't actually have to be dangerous to be perceived as fierce by some people. Neville is instantly suspicious about Rod's supposed suicide and protests the flaws in the story, but the police buy it hook, line, and sinker. | |
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Uncanny Family Resemblance | |
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Uncanny Family Resemblance: Rod and Vince McCain, both played by Kevin Kline. | |
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Big "SHUT UP!" | |
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Big "SHUT UP!": When this fails to get Bugsy to shut up, Vince breaks out the gun. That doesn't work either. | |
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Bad People Abuse Animals | |
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Bad People Abuse Animals: Both Vince and Rod have no problem with Rollo shooting the animals. Subverted with Rollo, who seemingly kills the animals. Only to be spotted hiding them in his house. | |
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Artistic License | |
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Artistic License: Do not try to look a gorilla in the eyes like Wilma does! It won't bond with you, it'll beat you to death for what it sees as an insolent challenge. | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
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Friend to All Living Things: The zookeepers are all quite affectionate toward both their own animals and everyone else's and are determined to keep their animals from being killed or shipped away. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Rod McCain, eccentric antipodean billionaire with a huge global business empire whose main business strategy is to buy out struggling entertainment businesses, revamp them to appeal to the lowest common denominator, then sell them off (and is named after a certain animal, no less). Nope, doesn't sound like Rupert Murdoch at all... Particularly since the zoo was one of the acquisitions he "snatched from that bastard Murdoch" in the first place. | |
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Expy Coexistence | |
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Expy Coexistence: Rod McCain is a blatant parody of Rupert Murdoch, but in one scene Rod makes clear Murdoch also exists in the film's universe by snarking that he bought the park from him and calls him a bastard in the same sentence. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Willa thinks Rollo is used to threesomes and open relationships, so she asks if one woman would be enough to satisfy him. He tells her that he hasn't been with 'one' woman for a long time. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Rod McCain. Among other ways to belittle his son, he once said that his mother farted him out. | |
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Verbal Backspace | |
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Verbal Backspace: Rollo loses it and gives his zoo's employees a scathing critique of their new corporate owner... then notices one of that owner's representatives right behind him: | |
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Right in Front of Me | |
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Right in Front of Me: Rollo Lee mouthing off to the people he doesn't know are his bosses: | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Rollo keeps ending up in situations that make people think he's some promiscuous Sex God. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Vince can't understand why Willa (or anyone else for that matter) doesn't think his advertising schemes over the animals isn't "genius": | |
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Little Black Dress | |
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Little Black Dress: Willa has one naturally. She's even wearing it on the poster. | |
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