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Hemingway & Gellhorn is a 2012 film from HBO following the tumultuous romance between Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman).Gellhorn and Hemingway meet by chance in a bar in Key West. Intrigued by the young woman, Hemingway invites her to his home where his friends have gathered to screen an unfinished movie about The Spanish Civil War. Gellhorn becomes impassioned with the movement and signs up to leave for the front the next day. Hemingway (who had been content to fish, fight and drink in comfort) is compelled to follow himself. Once there, they begin one of the most bizarre and eventful love stories ever lived.
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Patriotic Fervor
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Patriotic Fervor: Hemingway goes a bit off the deep end with this after he's accused of being a communist.
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Anachronism Stew
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Anachronism Stew: What in the name of Tanks, but No Tanks is a T-34/85 doing in Spansih Civil War era Madrid?
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Foregone Conclusion
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Foregone Conclusion: Hemingway commits suicide.
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Crazy Jealous Guy
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Crazy Jealous Guy: Hemingway plays Russian roulette because someone asks Gellhorn to dance (before they are ever together) and freaks out that Gellhorn wants to "fuck" Chinese communist leader Chou En-lai because she called him entrancing.
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Bookends
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Bookends: Hemingway fishing.
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Politically Incorrect Hero
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Politically Incorrect Hero: Hemingway is a massive sexist and homophobe. More or less the reason his marriage to Gelhorn dissolves; he expected her to submit to him and cater to his needs as his previous (and future) wives did, and she wouldn't have it.
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Country Matters
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Country Matters: Hemingway calls Gellhorn this once.
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Artistic License – History
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Artistic License – History Paco is loosely based on the real life José Robles Pazos, who was John Dos Passos' friend, and was executed as a traitor by the Republic, though the veracity of the charges are doubtful. The real life Pazos was a writer and professor who worked as a translator during the war. Though he held a rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, he never led troops in the field as Paco does. Early in the film, Gellhorn travels on a train with two young men going to join the International Brigades. The American, 'Brooklyn,' says "we're meeting our battalion in Madrid." Historically, foreign volunteers went first to the International Brigades depot in Albacete, some distance from Madrid, for training and equipment. In the film, Capa snaps his famous photograph of "the Falling Soldier" in front of Hemingway and Gellhorn. In reality, the picture, whose authenticity remains controversial to this day, was taken in September 1936. Hemingway and Gellhorn only arrived in Spain in 1937
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Intrepid Reporter
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Intrepid Reporter: Gellhorn. Hemingway even refers to her as "Intrepid" several times.
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Stuck in Their Shadow
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Stuck in Their Shadow: In-Universe. Gellhorn gets very hostile at the suggestion that her whole career was due to Hemingway.
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Rebel Leader
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Rebel Leader: Paco is handsome, young, and charismatic. The documentary is originally focused to make him into the face of the rebellion. Then the Russians make him an unperson and he is wiped from the film.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Hemingway.
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Belligerent Sexual Tension
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: In what was probably the most over the top example ever to grace history.
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Amusing Injuries
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Amusing Injuries: Gellhorn's contraction of "The China Rot" makes her the butt of Hemingway's jokes until it heals.
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Bullying a Dragon
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Bullying a Dragon: Gellhorn accuses the Empress of China of letting her people starve and using children as slave labor to her face.
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Satellite Love Interest
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Satellite Love Interest: Hemingway's other wives are portrayed this way, suggesting that Gellhorn was his one true love. She was the only woman to ever divorce him.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Hemingway's fate is hinted at with a fight in Spain that has him pointing a gun at his own head, and an aside from Pauline about shooting himself over hunting. Hemingway also comments that any writer who crumples his pages will be insane within a year.
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Take This Job and Shove It
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Take This Job and Shove It: Orson Welles to John Dos Passos.
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While Rome Burns
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While Rome Burns: Hemingway and Gellhorn make love for the first time as their hotel is being shelled. The plaster from the ceiling falls in on them and they only pause momentarily before continuing as if nothing had happened.
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Red Scare
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Red Scare: Because they predict that the communist movement will win out in China, Gellhorn and Hemingway are branded as possible communists. Hemingway doesn't take it well.
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My Country, Right or Wrong
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My Church Right or Wrong: It's implied that Pauline Hemingway supports the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War because their side has the approval of the Spanish bishops.
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Double Agent
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Double Agent: Ma
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Cool Old Lady
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Cool Old Lady: Gellhorn becomes one. She continues covering conflicts as she ages. At the end of the film, she's so ticked off that the interviewer suggested she owed her career to Hemingway, she reconsiders an offer to cover a war and heads out the door.
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: How Hemingway got his string of wives and lovers.
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Historical In-Joke
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Historical In-Joke: Hemingway fires Orson Welles from a narration gig.
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Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
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Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Hemingway and Gellhorn hook up when their hotel is being shelled.
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Last-Name Basis
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Last-Name Basis: Hemingway and Gellhorn refer to each other by their last names, even while married. They occasionally call each other by the nicknames "Hem" and "Marty."
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Animal Motifs
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Animal Motifs: The swordfish. Hemingway lets one escape after Gellhorn leaves him. She's "the one that got away."
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He Who Must Not Be Seen
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He Who Must Not Be Seen: Orson Welles is only briefly seen in silhouette or from the back.
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Clingy Jealous Girl
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Clingy Jealous Girl: Pauline, but seeing as how she lost Hemingway to Gellhorn (and she knows he left his previous wife, Hadley, for her), she had a reason to worry.
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Brick Joke: In Spain, Gellhorn sees a billboard for the film version of A Farewell to Arms. She comments that Helen Hayes was miscast. Hemingway takes exception to her criticism. In China, Chou En-lai mentions he saw the movie and makes the same assessment. Gellhorn gives Hemingway a smug look and remarks that she had the same opinion.
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Pet the Dog
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Pet the Dog: Hemingway comforting the dying soldier.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: According to the Director's Commentary, almost every line of dialogue comes from a recorded encounter, an autobiography, or a letter written by Hemingway or Gellhorn.
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