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Following	comment	Following is a 1998 independent neo-noir film, directed by Christopher Nolan as his first feature-length film.The plot concerns a young, unemployed writer who takes to following random strangers through the streets of London, ostensibly seeking inspiration for stories. He sets rules to keep this low-level stalking from going too far, but quickly breaks these rules upon discovering that his latest subject is a burglar. The burglar, one Mr. Cobb, confronts the writer; recognizing him as an impressionable soul, Cobb suggests the writer accompany him on his next break-in.Cobb is rather philosophical about his profession: he doesn't burglarize for the money, but for the thrill of invading others' privacy and the intellectual interest of learning about the lives of complete strangers from their possessions. He justifies his thefts and petty vandalism by stating that this forces his victims to reevaluate their own lives. The writer tries to remain an aloof observer, but Cobb's voyeurism draws him in—into a relationship with a blonde model (one of Cobb's victims), a blackmail plot, and a very nasty triple-cross.Now has a character sheet in need of expansion.Not be confused with the television series The Following, or the 2016 horror film It Follows.
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Following	processingComment	Dropped link to Batman: Not a Feature - ITEM
Following	processingComment	Dropped link to Blackmail: Not a Feature - ITEM
Following	processingComment	Dropped link to Casablanca: Not a Feature - ITEM
Following	processingComment	Dropped link to Troll: Not a Feature - IGNORE
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Following / int_10cdfe4b	type	Fall Guy
Following / int_10cdfe4b	comment	Fall Guy: Ultimately, the plot boils down to a very elaborate scheme to set up a semi-innocent man to take the fall for a crime that has not yet been committed.
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Following / int_16cb5ffe	type	Not-So-Abandoned Building
Following / int_16cb5ffe	comment	Not-So-Abandoned Building: The burglar Cobb has a few hideouts in abandoned buildings where he stashes stolen goods before fencing them. He notes that London is full of spaces like these, waiting to be used.
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Following / int_1c4e3202	type	The Spook
Following / int_1c4e3202	comment	The Spook: Cobb. The police have no record of his existence, and he tricks his fall guy into dressing and looking just like him. The final shot of the film is Cobb stepping into a bustling street and completely disappearing.
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Following / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Following / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Cobb is well-dressed, witty, urbane, and philosophical about the fact that he's a career burglar.
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Following / int_1db320a1	type	Back Blocking
Following / int_1db320a1	comment	Back Blocking: The final shot is Cobb standing in a crowded street. Someone walks in front of the camera, and once they pass by, Cobb is gone without a trace.
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Following / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
Following / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: Cobb, who is cultured and refined and breaks into people's apartments just for kicks.
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Following / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Following / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The pearl earring that Cobb hid, the credit card that belonged to D. Lloyd, the hammer used during the theft of the Bald Guy and the murder of the Blonde, the pairs of the Blonde's underwear, and the passport photos of the Blonde are all used as evidence against Cobb, or rather, the Writer.
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Following / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Following / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Cobb is revealed to be working for the Bald Guy, and he murders the blonde with the same hammer the Writer used during the burglary of the Bald Guy, due to the Blonde blackmailing the Bald Guy with evidence to the murder that he committed in her flat. The Writer is held responsible for all of Cobb's crimes, and Cobb goes free, without a trace.
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Following / int_345a4c75	type	Interrogation Flashback
Following / int_345a4c75	comment	Interrogation Flashback: The bulk of the film is the writer explaining his story to a police detective. It's soon revealed that he went to the police of his own accord. He made some very unsavory friends and got in over his head, so now he's coming clean before the situation can get any worse.
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Following / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Following / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Cobb putting rubber gloves on and wiping his prints from the glass that the Blonde gave to him, are signs that something very bad is going to happen, and it immediately does.
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Following / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Following / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit : If one considers that a few minor details could've made the whole thing fall apart.
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Following / int_3b4185fb	type	Stalker without a Crush
Following / int_3b4185fb	comment	Stalker Without A Crush: The Writer just... follows people, for no particular reason.
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Following / int_465966a3	type	Drop the Hammer
Following / int_465966a3	comment	Drop the Hammer: Several characters are strong believers in the use of ordinary hardware hammers as weapons of self-defense, torture, or murder.
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Following / int_46754750	type	Inadvertent Entrance Cue
Following / int_46754750	comment	Inadvertent Entrance Cue: Cobb tells the young man about the pleasure of breaking into apartments and entering the lives of "people you'll never meet." This is instantly followed by the sound of the person who lives in that apartment opening the door.
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Following / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Following / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Protagonist is a struggling, unemployed young writer.
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Following / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Following / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality
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Following / int_5e032315	type	One-Book Author
Following / int_5e032315	comment	One-Book Author: Most of the cast were just friends of Nolan's who had day jobs. Cobb is actor Alex Haw's one and only film credit, though he gives a good performance. This is also Jeremy Theobald's only major screen role, though he worked with Nolan previously on the short film Doodlebug, and would return to cameo in a later film 22 years after this one. He has a regular job in the field of health.
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Following / int_64dd304c	type	Pre-emptive Declaration
Following / int_64dd304c	comment	Pre-emptive Declaration: Cobb admires the writer's suit and then says "Pity about the bloodstains on it." The Writer barely has time to blink at this before Cobb attacks him.
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Following / int_6849481d	type	House Squatting
Following / int_6849481d	comment	House Squatting: Features this as part of the big Twist Ending. The apartment that the burglar Cobb claims as his own, isn't—he's just squatting there while the real owner is on holiday. (When not at that apartment, he uses a condemned apartment complex, or stays at his girlfriend's place.) Not keeping any permanent residence of his own is just part of Cobb's long-term strategy to leave no trace of his existence.
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Following / int_6a0f3c49	type	Beardness Protection Program
Following / int_6a0f3c49	comment	Beardness Protection Program: At Cobb's suggestion, the writer shaves his beard and changes his whole appearance to avoid being recognized by a witness.
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Following / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Following / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: The writer, and the blonde.
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Following / int_75b3422b	type	An Insert
Following / int_75b3422b	comment	An Insert
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Following / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Following / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivered by the blonde to the writer, as she tells him that he's a loser who was easy to manipulate.
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Following / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Following / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: As far as the Blonde is concerned.
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Following / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Following / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Used to keep the audience in the dark about the blonde's and Cobb's real motivations, just like the writer was. The bulk of the film is a flashback related by the writer to a police detective. Within that flashback, three streams (originating at the beginning, the one-third point, and the two-thirds point of the story) run concurrently.
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Following / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Following / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: The characters' names are not revealed, except for Cobb, and that may or may not be a pseudonym; the writer alternately gives his name as Bill or Daniel, but he's just listed in the credits as "the young man".
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Following / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Following / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: The blonde.
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Following / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Following / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The fate of the man that owed the Bald Guy some money foreshadows the nearly same fate of the Blonde.
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Following / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Following / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Cobb kills the Blonde and frames the Writer for it. The last we see of Cobb is him standing in a crowd of people as he looks around as if checking if he's been followed, and then... he's gone.
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Following / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Following / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir
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Following / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Following / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: The Young Man / The Writer is an impressionable loser who quickly gets hooked into dubious hijinks.
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Following / int_c1863a22	type	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?
Following / int_c1863a22	comment	What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This?: Subverted.
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Following / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Following / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The writer has a Batman logo prominently displayed on his apartment door. (This was actor Jeremy Theobald's actual apartment, so it's unknown if he or Nolan put the logo there.) Among the posters featured in the Writer's flat are Casablanca, Sunset Boulevard, and Reservoir Dogs. One of the CDs that were removed from the blonde's box is the soundtrack for Trainspotting. Also in a few scenes, pictures of Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance can clearly be seen on the Writer's wall.
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Following / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Following / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: For at least two reasons, both related to the tiny budget: Black and white film was cheaper. Filming in black and white meant that Nolan didn't have to spend time and money matching the colour palette in different scenes.
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Following / int_e0443d9a	type	Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger
Following / int_e0443d9a	comment	Criminal Doppelgänger: Cobb's plan was to turn the Writer into one for himself, deliberately grooming him to be his fall guy for the police to arrest. He deliberately planted evidence to falsely implicate him and even surreptitiously convinced the Writer to start dressing and acting like him.
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Following / int_e8f91cb9	type	Panty Thief
Following / int_e8f91cb9	comment	Panty Thief: Cobb steals a couple of pairs of panties from the Blonde's room. He acts like he's just messing with her head, but it's actually part of the frame-up.
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Following / int_edfacbac	type	Covert Pervert
Following / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: During their theft of the blonde's apartment, Cobb and the writer steal some of her underwear.
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Following / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Following / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Stalking for story inspiration doesn't sound evil but it does get the plot in motion and lead to the other plans.
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Following / int_f6ef4ff9	type	Break-In Threat
Following / int_f6ef4ff9	comment	Break-In Threat: Sometimes Cobb doesn't take anything, but just goes through keepsakes and makes sure the people there know it, in order to disrupt their lives.
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