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Frank

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Frank	comment	A 2014 British-Irish comedy-drama, inspired by the writer's experiences with the persona of comedic avant-garde musician, Frank Sidebottom, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.The protagonist is Jon, a young, aspiring, social networking-savvy musician who finds himself enlisted into an avant-garde band named "Soronprfbs", led by an eccentric, enigmatic figure by the name of Frank—an ambitious artist who seeks to reinvent music, and rather strikingly, constantly hides his face inside a large papier-maché head.Not to be confused with the 1973 experimental animated short, Frank Film.
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Frank / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Frank / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Frank, when Clara gets arrested for stabbing Jon in the leg, even after Jon reassures him of how much of a potential audience they could have out there, and even during Jon's unplugged performance.
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Frank / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Frank / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Jon turns into the very person he accused Clara of being, and was distinctly manipulative the whole time.
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Frank / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Frank / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: One of the band members is a woman who says absolutely nothing until a "The Reason You Suck" Speech about two thirds of the way into the movie.
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Frank / int_1dfe0253	type	Theremin
Frank / int_1dfe0253	comment	Theremin: Clara plays one of these in Soronprfbs. It's best not to touch it, unless you happen to be Frank.
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Frank / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Frank / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Frank's spare head, which is later used to mislead the audience into believing that Frank may have killed himself when it was actually Don wearing it
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Frank / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
Frank / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: An escalating argument between Jon and Clara climaxes with Jon loudly shouting, "CUUUUUUUUNT!".
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Frank / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Frank / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Jon comes off initially as a somewhat pretentious but otherwise well meaning guy who genuinely wants to spread Frank's music with the rest of the world. As the film continues, it becomes more and more obvious that he was merely using Frank's quirks as a means of living out his own dreams of fame.
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Frank / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Frank / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Jon steadily becomes the very manipulative harpy limiting Frank's potential he perceives Clara to be.
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Frank / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
Frank / int_34f1b472	comment	Mad Artist: Ultimately subverted when Jon meets Frank's parents. He mentions how Frank's mental illness must have inspired his musical genius, and they respond by gently telling him that's hogwash, that Frank was always musical, and if anything his insanity has held him back
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Frank / int_38718ea8	type	Beautiful All Along
Frank / int_38718ea8	comment	Beautiful All Along: With his mask removed, Frank is revealed to be rather handsome as you'd expect due to being played by Michael Fassbender, though the heavy scars on his forehead and his own inexpressiveness somewhat sully it.
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Frank / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Frank / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The terrible ukulele player at SXSW OECCSCCLHJHN do an outlandishly dreary and minimalist rendition of "I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper," showing that they're sad and lost without Frank.
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Frank / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Frank / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Jon asks a lot of questions that the audience has about how Frank could live without ever taking his mask off. Don explains a few things, but after repeated questions tells Jon that he's just going to have to go with it, as will the audience.
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Frank / int_5036c7d4	type	Time-Passage Beard
Frank / int_5036c7d4	comment	Time-Passage Beard: Jon grows a long beard while the band tries to record an album, showing how long it's taking and how much money they're using up. It also increasingly doubles as something of a Beard of Sorrow, given that Jon becomes increasingly disillusioned about his fantasy of becoming a successful musician.
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Frank / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Frank / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Saying that Jon was ever friends with the members of Soronprfbs (aside from Don and Frank) is a stretch, but he is definitely still estranged from Clara, Nana, and Baraque toward the end of the film.
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Frank / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Frank / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Jon's walk around his town (nearly getting hit by a child on a bicycle and passing a man washing his car who waves at him) is repeated in the end when Jon goes to Bluff, KS.
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Frank / int_5f70322e	type	Public Domain Soundtrack
Frank / int_5f70322e	comment	Public Domain Soundtrack: "I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper."
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Frank / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Frank / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Invoked before it's viciously deconstructed and then averted. At first, Frank seems like a perfect example of this trope and it's what attracts Jon and others to him, seemingly believing that his bizarre behavior means he must also be exceptionally talented. However, as the film goes on, it gradually becomes clear that Frank isn't just quirky or a harmless eccentric but seriously mentally ill and in dire need of help. The finale even makes a point of saying that he was always a musical prodigy and his mental health struggles have, if anything, badly impeded his musical skills and potential rather than amplified them.
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Frank / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Frank / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: It's incredibly easy to get on Clara's bad side. She even stabs Jon in the leg at one point.
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Frank / int_65d658f	type	Putting the Band Back Together
Frank / int_65d658f	comment	Putting the Band Back Together: Jon eventually convinces Frank to reunite with the band in the end, without the mask.
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Frank / int_677c65ea	type	Scream Discretion Shot
Frank / int_677c65ea	comment	Scream Discretion Shot: Jon cuts himself shaving when he is inspired to try moving his face instead of the razor. It cuts to a brief pause outside the house before his high-pitched scream is heard.
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Frank / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Frank / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Although it doesn't excuse most of their treatment of him, Clara and the rest of the band turn out to be completely right about Jon, as he was merely using them in his pursuit of fame and fortune.
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Frank / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Frank / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Subverted when Jon notices Frank's mask in a nearby box, and nearly walks in on Frank in the shower, but Frank is wearing another mask. Don speculates in a conversation with Jon that Frank might be deformed underneath the mask, making reference to The Elephant Man. It turns out that Frank is a handsome man, but his head is now covered in scars from wearing masks his whole life. The French guitarist spoke English all along.
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Frank / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
Frank / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: The defining trait of the Soronprfbs. Their name is just a random series of letters, they use Word Salad Lyrics and their music is not catchy or "likable." At one point, Frank announces that they could make an entire album out of the sound of a door closing.
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Frank / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Frank / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The previous keyboard player of Soronprfbs was trying to drown himself by the time Jon first came across the band. Don, the manager, who started out as the band's keyboard player, commits suicide later in the film and is given a Viking funeral.
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Frank / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Frank / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Jon is our window into the weird world of Frank and Co. It even applies in universe, through his social media accounts.
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Frank / int_76cde6e	type	Better the Devil You Know
Frank / int_76cde6e	comment	Better the Devil You Know: Clara may act like a Jerkass toward them (as she does to almost everyone else, especially Jon), but Nana and Baraque would rather leave the band than play a gig without her. Especially since Jon's actions, not to mention the fact that she stabbed Jon in the leg, led to her arrest shortly before the SXSW gig.
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Frank / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Frank / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Frank wears a fake head at all times. No one in the band has ever seen his face.
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Frank / int_80f4e386	type	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
Frank / int_80f4e386	comment	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: It takes a disastrous performance at SXSW and Frank's nervous breakdown at that show for Jon to realize that as an aspiring songwriter, his trite compositions just aren't very good, even if they are miles more accessible than the music of Soronpfrbs.
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Frank / int_84d29a11	type	Drag Queen
Frank / int_84d29a11	comment	Drag Queen: Frank ends up adopting this aesthetic for the unplugged performance in Austin, not only by way of wearing a dress, but also by painting eyelashes and larger lips on his mask.
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Frank / int_85bbb76c	type	Suckiness Is Painful
Frank / int_85bbb76c	comment	Suckiness Is Painful: Frank collapses during the Austin performance of a song that Jon wrote himself.
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Frank / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
Frank / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: One member of the band only speaks French in response to English. If it's actually important for Jon to understand, he can speak English.
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Frank / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Frank / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Clara is not at all afraid to drop F-bombs.
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Frank / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Frank / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: While he cannot be considered villainous, Jon ultimately comes to the realization that he isn't as good a musician as he thought he was, and that he was merely using the band to live out his musical dreams. This culminates when he decides to reunite the now-unmasked Frank with his former bandmates, but walks away from the bar, presumably closing the musician chapter in his life for good.
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Frank / int_95a70bb1	type	Wild Hair
Frank / int_95a70bb1	comment	Wild Hair: Jon grows a noticeable beard, after all the time endlessly spent perfecting every detail of Frank's vision for his music.
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Frank / int_9ae0cca6	type	Character Blog
Frank / int_9ae0cca6	comment	Character Blog: Jon narrates the movie by way of various social media outlets. The usernames seen on screen are indeed visible online, out-of-universe.
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Frank / int_aa0ed8a9	type	Look Both Ways
Frank / int_aa0ed8a9	comment	Look Both Ways: Jon gets hit by a car after noticing that Frank got hit by a car earlier, breaking the mask.
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Frank / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Frank / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Jon, being a regular Joe with an office job who just so happens to be passionate about his hobby as an amateur musician. He joins a band of musical lifers and Cloudcuckoolanders with questionable social skills, but ultimately decides that that life is not for him as he helps Frank reunite with his bandmates, but chooses to walk away afterward. Though it's not like the rest of Soronprfbs would have wanted him back anyway.
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Frank / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Frank / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: Soronprfbs, in spades. With Jon as the almost literal Red-Headed Stepchild, an office worker/amateur musician (and not a very good one) interloping in their hipster world.
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Frank / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Frank / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Touching Clara's Theremin, or asking Frank to take his mask off.
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Frank / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
Frank / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	That Makes Me Feel Angry: Frank is constantly saying his facial expressions out loud, until Clara tells him that it's annoying.
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Frank / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Frank / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: We're repeatedly told that Frank is a musical genius. Justified to a degree in-universe, as the vast majority of Frank's following seem to do so out of sheer curiosity for Frank himself, rather than appreciation for his music, with only the band themselves truly believing him to be a genius.
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Frank / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Frank / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Frank is a shy and reclusive artist, but he's actually pretty tough. During his intensive training of the band, he teaches them self defense and puts Jon in a chokehold. He's also good at fighting off people who try to take his mask off.
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Frank / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Frank / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: While the rest of the band are unsociable to say the least, Frank seems to genuinely appreciate Jon's presence in the group, and is very supportive of his ideas in his own very strange way. We never see Frank get angry, and his breakdowns are clearly out of fear rather than hatred.
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Frank / int_c530519c	type	Fan Nickname
Frank / int_c530519c	comment	Fan Nickname: In-universe, Jon ends up becoming known as "the chinchilla guy", thanks to his postings of the Soronprfbs rehearsals online.
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Frank / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Frank / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Clara gets arrested for stabbing Jon in the leg, Jon remarks, "We hope our own crazy diamond still shines on." The remaining bandmembers are performing a down-tempo version of "I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper" when Frank walks in on them in the final scene. That song was most famously used in A Clockwork Orange after Alex returns home from his rehabilitation: another broken man returning to a once-familiar environment.
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Frank / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Frank / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Jon finds out when he meets Frank's parents that there isn't actually a traumatic incident that caused Frank to wear the mask.
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Frank / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Frank / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The film starts off as a lighthearted, whimsical comedy about an avant-garde rock band with an enigmatic leader, but takes a turn for the dramatic around the time of Frank's Heroic BSoD.
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Frank / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Frank / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Jon and Clara, after Clara discovers Jon's YouTube postings, climaxing with Jon delivering an Atomic C-Bomb.
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Frank / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Frank / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: The title character, in spite of what Don, the band's manager, says. For one thing, he never takes the mask off, not even to eat solids or when he's in the shower. He claims that regular human faces are too weird in and of themselves. Played for drama later on as the depths of his illness and its damaging effects on his life and talent have had become clear.
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Frank / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
Frank / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: Frank's band, Soronprfbs. Jon doesn't even try pronouncing the whole thing, and doesn't get an answer when he asks Clara. Even the behind-the-scenes feature starts with a montage of the various film personnel trying to pronounce the band name, eventually settling for, "SAW-ron-PURR-furbs". Jon exploits this when finding the former members. He simply looks in the paper and sees where the OECCSCCLHJHN band plays on week days.
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Frank / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Frank / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: Jon has a lot of questions about how Frank lives without ever taking his head off. Don explains a few things, then just tells him not to worry about it.
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Frank / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Frank / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: While Clara initially comes off as a controlling, manipulative force dragging Frank's potential downward, it becomes clear later on that she genuinely cares for him and is a vital part of his own creative inspiration and it was merely Jon's perception of her status as this that made her come off as an antagonist. In many ways, it is Jon's own contributions to the band, along with the instability of his bandmates, that causes all of the problems in the movie.
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Frank / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Frank / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The film is a fictionalization of Jon Ronson's experiences with Frank Sidebottom and also draws from Captain Beefheart and other outsider music acts. This trope is actually invoked at the real Frank's request.
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Frank / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Frank / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Clara, due to her hatred of Jon and over-protectiveness of Frank. Jon himself reveals himself to be distinctly manipulative and once they get to SXSW it becomes clear that he is using Frank and the band to live out his desire to be famous.
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Frank / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
Frank / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Jon finds Frank's home and encounters a man he assumes is Frank, but is actually the tree surgeon. The tree surgeon does look very similar to Michael Fassbender, so this is most likely one for the audience as well.
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Frank / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Frank / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: When Don hears Jon's lame composition, he tries to commiserate with Jon over their shared mediocrity, but Jon still thinks that he's a talented musician, so he's wounded by Don's remarks.
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Frank / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: Frank is from Kansas, while the "real" Frank Sidebottom was British.
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