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Four Rooms

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Four Rooms	label	Four Rooms
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Four Rooms	comment	Four Rooms is a 1995 Black Comedy Round Robin Anthology film consisting of four segments, linked by a framing story: Ted (Tim Roth) is a young and rather loopy bellhop working at a once famous Los Angeles hotel that has fallen from grace and become a haven for criminals and creeps. On New Year's Eve, he ends up with an interesting set of clientèle as the only employee on staff.
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Four Rooms / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
Four Rooms / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Antonio Banderas plays a parody of his usual Mexican Badass role.
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Four Rooms / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Four Rooms / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Bruce Willis refused payment for his role in "The Man From Hollywood" as a thank you to Tarantino for casting him in Pulp Fiction. He wasn't credited because he violated SAG rules by doing the gig for free.
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Four Rooms / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Four Rooms / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Ted clearly considers himself to be this...and considering the characters surrounding him, he might not be too wrong on that. In "The Man From Hollywood", Chester and company want him to act as an impartial intermediary in their "little wager" specifically because he's the only one in the room who's still sober.
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Four Rooms / int_2b5c636d	type	How Unscientific!
Four Rooms / int_2b5c636d	comment	How Unscientific!: Evoked by "The Missing Ingredient", which includes what is definitely magic in an otherwise realistic (or at least non-magical) film.
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Four Rooms / int_33f6c897	type	Stoners Are Funny
Four Rooms / int_33f6c897	comment	Stoners Are Funny: Margaret answers when Ted tries to get Betty on the phone, leading to a brief but hilarious conversation between one person who is stressed out of his mind and another who is baked out of hers. Small Role, Big Impact: ...And it's that few minutes of bothering Ted about unimportant details of his story that delays him long enough for the call to come down from the penthouse, setting the events of "The Man From Hollywood" into motion, leaving Ted with a thousand bucks in his pocket and one hell of a story to tell.
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Four Rooms / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Four Rooms / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Especially in "The Man From Hollywood". But hey, it is directed by Tarantino.
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Four Rooms / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Four Rooms / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Ted, twice, in "The Man From Hollywood":
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Four Rooms / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Four Rooms / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: Ted's screaming reaction to a painful needle jab in the knee is made so much funnier by the Beat it took him to realize what'd just happened.
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Four Rooms / int_40e993f4	type	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization
Four Rooms / int_40e993f4	comment	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: When recounting the events of the night to Margaret, Ted is initially upset by the encounter, before relenting that it was "admittedly the best part of the evening"; though it's not saying much considering that by this point he's at his wit's end having been repeatedly harassed, threatened (at gunpoint no less), terrified, and more mundanely put upon by having to run an entire hotel by himself on New Year's Eve.
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Four Rooms / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Four Rooms / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Ted when describing the events of the night to Betty. See the Humiliation Conga example.
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Four Rooms / int_447b77a5	type	"Fawlty Towers" Plot
Four Rooms / int_447b77a5	comment	"Fawlty Towers" Plot: "The Wrong Man" and "The Misbehavers".
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Four Rooms / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
Four Rooms / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Marisa Tomei features quite prominently on the movie poster, and looks her usual classy self. In reality, she appears briefly in one scene as a disheveled stoner.
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Four Rooms / int_4eddbc06	type	Animated Credits Opening
Four Rooms / int_4eddbc06	comment	Animated Credits Opening
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Four Rooms / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Four Rooms / int_500696c6	comment	The whole segment "The Man From Hollywood" is this: ten or so minutes of Tarantino-style Seinfeldian Conversation as the Hollywood execs (and girl) explain the backstory of the situation at hand and convince Ted to help them with the bet (especially because they are all rip-roaring drunk and don't want to accidentally chop off more than what was wagered), followed by the bet lasting exactly one second as the lighter fails to work on its first flick and Ted immediately (and too quickly for someone to tell him to stop) performs his role as the "hatchet man".
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Four Rooms / int_51561f43	type	Hurricane of Euphemisms
Four Rooms / int_51561f43	comment	Hurricane of Euphemisms: "The Wrong Man" has a whole lot of penis nicknames.
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Four Rooms / int_5ab9efbf	type	Impossible Mission Collapse
Four Rooms / int_5ab9efbf	comment	Impossible Mission Collapse: What should've been a straightforward babysitting gig in "The Misbehavers" goes about as wrong as it possibly could, up to the discovery of a dead body. The whole segment "The Man From Hollywood" is this: ten or so minutes of Tarantino-style Seinfeldian Conversation as the Hollywood execs (and girl) explain the backstory of the situation at hand and convince Ted to help them with the bet (especially because they are all rip-roaring drunk and don't want to accidentally chop off more than what was wagered), followed by the bet lasting exactly one second as the lighter fails to work on its first flick and Ted immediately (and too quickly for someone to tell him to stop) performs his role as the "hatchet man".
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Four Rooms / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Four Rooms / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: The first long scene of "The Man From Hollywood" jumps between characters within the shot, drawing attention towards one or two and pushing the rest to the side, so there's always one or two characters puttering around just out of focus. Due to this, it's easy to miss things like Ted informing Chester that they can trash the place as far as he cares so long as they don't mess up the furniture (the unspoken implication being don't stuff any corpses in the mattress), Chester and Norman discussing their bet while Leo argues with his wife, Leo assuring Norman that they have a doctor in the emergency room "just in case", and more tellingly Angela interrupting Leo's phone call to ask for a light, hinting that Norman's "lucky zippo" isn't so (forgive the pun) surefire.
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Four Rooms / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Four Rooms / int_63b02752	comment	In "The Misbehavers", he starts out as mildly smug and cocky and totally confident that he is in control only to be worn down by the children's wild behavior and develops a Hair-Trigger Temper as the segment goes on.
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Four Rooms / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Four Rooms / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: At the end of "The Misbehavers", the father asks if his children misbehaved as all hell breaks loose in the room.
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Four Rooms / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Four Rooms / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: With a dash of either Dare to Be Badass or Break Them by Talking, depending upon your perspective; At the climax of "The Man From Hollywood", Chester lays an even $1000 on the bar and asks Ted if he wants to remember, for the rest of his life, if he refused a thousand dollars for one second's worth of work, or if he made a thousand dollars for one second's worth of work.
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Four Rooms / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Four Rooms / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: ...And it's that few minutes of bothering Ted about unimportant details of his story that delays him long enough for the call to come down from the penthouse, setting the events of "The Man From Hollywood" into motion, leaving Ted with a thousand bucks in his pocket and one hell of a story to tell.
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Four Rooms / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Four Rooms / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Tim Roth, throughout the film (justified, as it allows to keep the consistently light comedic tone even during the sequences that would otherwise come off as spooky). Siegfried. Norman. Bruce Willis. The second and the fourth episodes are World of Ham, really.
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Four Rooms / int_831164fe	type	Signature Style
Four Rooms / int_831164fe	comment	Signature Style: Each short is meant to communicate their writer/director's talents. Odds are very good one is not watching the film for the first two directors, though.
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Four Rooms / int_85cc4dbc	type	Sex as Rite-of-Passage
Four Rooms / int_85cc4dbc	comment	Sex as Rite-of-Passage: One of the rare female examples in "The Missing Ingredient".
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Four Rooms / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Four Rooms / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Heavily Lampshaded. After "The Misbehavers", Ted calls up his boss Betty to bring her up to speed (first having a conversation with Margaret).
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Four Rooms / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Four Rooms / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: The movie takes place the night of New Years and into the (very) early morning.
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Four Rooms / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Four Rooms / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: "The Wrong Man" occurs during the Time Skip in "The Misbehavers".
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Four Rooms / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Four Rooms / int_930e1bd4	comment	Absurdly High-Stakes Game: Norman bets his pinky against Chester's car. He loses.
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Four Rooms / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Four Rooms / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: When investigating a smell coming from Room 309, the little girl removes the mattress to discover the "putrid rotting corpse of a dead whore" (stop calling her that!!). Ted then does his best Regan Macneil impression.
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Four Rooms / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Four Rooms / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the opening scene an old retiring bellhop advises Ted to "stay clear of night cliques, kids, hookers and married arguments". Naturally, over the night Ted is going to encounter all of 'em. He also, as a last point, advises Ted to keep his pecker in his pants. You can guess what happens during the first segment after the opening credits. There's also one within a single segment, "The Misbehavers": the smell in the room...
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Four Rooms / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Four Rooms / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: The two kids in "The Misbehavers".
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Four Rooms / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Four Rooms / int_a806691d	comment	In "The Missing Ingredient", he acts like a rather easily enamored Casanova Wannabe who doesn't seem to notice or care that the witches are trying to cast a spell on him.
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Four Rooms / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Four Rooms / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In "The Man From Hollywood", when Chester informs Ted that "We want you to take part!" Ted (after three insane incidents already) sports this look...which is punctuated by someone blowing a party tooter.
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Four Rooms / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Four Rooms / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: The guests in "The Man from Hollywood" order a block of wood, a doughnut, a ball of twine, three nails, a club sandwich, a bucket of ice, and an extremely sharp hatchet. "As sharp as the devil himself." Unlike most examples of this trope, however, everything but the nails and twine gets explained: the doughnut is a snack for Chester, the club sandwich is for Angela, and the ice, hatchet and block of wood are for the bet that the segment is really about. The nails and the twine would probably have been used to immobilize Norman's hand so he couldn't pull it out of the way if he lost or chickened out, as was done in both the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode that inspired the bet and the story on which the episode was based.
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Four Rooms / int_b5b4b485	type	The Bet
Four Rooms / int_b5b4b485	comment	The Bet: The Roald Dahl short story "Man from the South" is the basis for "The Man From Hollywood", Quentin Tarantino's segment. The characters in this segment explicitly discuss the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Hitchcock episode adaptation. In this version, the lighter fails on the first try and the referee—a bellhop who has been paid $1,000 for his trouble—chops off the finger and swiftly departs.
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Four Rooms / int_b6473148	type	DoNotTryThisAtHome
Four Rooms / int_b6473148	comment	Do Not Try This at Home: "The Man From Hollywood". The bet that makes up the story wasn't just a spur-of-the-moment thing; Chester, Norman and company were drunk on New Year's and happened to catch the specific episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents where a similar bet made up that plotline. Chester has a Cool Car that Norman wants. Norman has a lighter and both pinkies. One quick call down to room service, and...
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Four Rooms / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Four Rooms / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don't call Ted "Theodore" (unless you've got a loaded gun at his head). And don't call that whore a whore!
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Four Rooms / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
Four Rooms / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: The party on the fifth floor appears to be like one of these.
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Four Rooms / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Four Rooms / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: During "The Missing Ingredient", Eva very clearly puts Ted under a spell in order to get him to have sex with her, before which he was staunchly refusing to do so while on the clock, and when Ted mentions that "Betty's gonna kill [him]", Eva has the nerve to act offended until being told that Betty is Ted's boss. "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: When recounting the events of the night to Margaret, Ted is initially upset by the encounter, before relenting that it was "admittedly the best part of the evening"; though it's not saying much considering that by this point he's at his wit's end having been repeatedly harassed, threatened (at gunpoint no less), terrified, and more mundanely put upon by having to run an entire hotel by himself on New Year's Eve.
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Four Rooms / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Four Rooms / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: In fairness they're all drunk, but Chester supplies this "justification" for their bet;
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Four Rooms / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Four Rooms / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The aforementioned episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (specifically, it's "Man From The South"), which in turn was an adaptation of a Roald Dahl story.
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Four Rooms / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Four Rooms / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Ted as a rule reacts to things in the goofiest manner possible, which is necessary both to keep a comedic tone during what would otherwise be horrifying circumstances (being taken advantage of by a witch, being threatened at gunpoint, finding a dead prostitute hidden in a mattress), and to inform the audience that the shit has really hit the fan when he drops the goofiness and becomes the sanest person in the room (reacting to Chester and Norman's bet by running for the door).
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Four Rooms / int_cd1b0fcc	type	Prima Donna Director
Four Rooms / int_cd1b0fcc	comment	Prima Donna Director: Chester Rush, as played by Quentin.
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Four Rooms / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Four Rooms / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Ted's reaction once Bruce Willis explains The Plan to him. "...You guys are DRUNK!" "Of COURSE we're drunk, Teddy—that's why we're here!"
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Four Rooms / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Four Rooms / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Ted plans to pull this after "The Misbehavers". And he immediately does on "The Man From Hollywood", a lot richer, a bit happier, and having chopped off the finger of a Hollywood big-shot.
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Four Rooms / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
Four Rooms / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Antonio Banderas. Endlessly!
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Four Rooms / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Four Rooms / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: In "The Man From Hollywood" Chester Rush insists that Ted refer to him as "Chester" instead of "Sir". Additionally, Chester's not drinking champagne; it's Cristal. And Cristal is not "good"—it's fucking good. Finally, what is very clearly a meat cleaver is referred to repeatedly as a "hatchet".
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Four Rooms / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Four Rooms / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: The actor in "The Man from Hollywood" bets that he can successfully start a lighter ten times in a row or else have his little finger cut off. There's a lot of build-up in suspense but then he fails on the first try.
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Four Rooms / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Four Rooms / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Quite literally. It definitely was a "hell of a night" for Ted, but he managed to earn over 1550 dollars in the course of it.
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Four Rooms / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Four Rooms / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Margaret's response to Ted freaking out over having a gun pointed in his face is to ask him what kind of gun it was.
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Four Rooms / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: Ted's characterization changes quite a bit between segments. This is Justified though as the circumstances of each segment are all drastically different. The one consistent thing though is that he is a Cloudcuckoolander who tries his best to do his job only to keep getting sidetracked by the wacky antics going on at the hotel. In "The Missing Ingredient", he acts like a rather easily enamored Casanova Wannabe who doesn't seem to notice or care that the witches are trying to cast a spell on him. In "The Wrong Man", he's so scared out of his mind by Siegfried's homicidal behavior that he spends most of this segment as a total and complete trainwreck. In "The Misbehavers", he starts out as mildly smug and cocky and totally confident that he is in control only to be worn down by the children's wild behavior and develops a Hair-Trigger Temper as the segment goes on. In "The Man From Hollywood", he's so utterly desensitized to all of the insane things going on at the hotel that he throws all of his inhibitions out the window and embraces the madness. He doesn't even question or try to make sense of Chester's bet and instead just goes along with all of it as if he's finally lost his sanity.
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