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In Bruges

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In Bruges is a 2008 tragicomedy about two Irish hitmen hiding out in Belgium. Ray (Colin Farrell) is a rookie with a foul mouth, a fouler disposition, and a bizarre obsession with "midgets". Ken (Brendan Gleeson) is an experienced professional with intellectual interests and curiosity about the medieval city's history (though he's no slouch in the profanity department). They spend their days exploring the city, waiting for their even more foul-mouthed boss, English gangster Harry (Ralph Fiennes), to call them and tell them what to do next, all the while providing much witty commentary about beautiful-but-boring Bruges.And then everything goes to hell.First, it's revealed that Ray's last hit went horribly wrong, and he's consumed with guilt over it. Then, he just keeps running into a Hieronymus Bosch painting of purgatory, a dwarf actor playing in a film based on a Hieronymus Bosch painting of purgatory, a cool chick who sells drugs to a dwarf actor playing in a film based on a Hieronymus Bosch painting of purgatory, and, well, a coked-out vision of purgatory. Ray spends his days grumpy, wondering if he'll go to hell or heaven or purgatory. And the more things start to come together, the more they fall apart.The film is the first directorial effort of by British/Irish theatre director/playwright Martin McDonagh.
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Convenient Escape Boat
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Convenient Escape Boat / Off Bridge, onto Vehicle: Ray, attempting to outrun Harry, jumps onto a bypassing boat. Unfortunately, he drops his gun after landing, and gets shot anyway.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: All but one of the lead characters (probably) die; out of Ray, Ken, Harry, Chloë and Jimmy, the only people who don't die on screen are Chloë and Ray, and the latter has been fatally shot several times.
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Rasputinian Death
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Rasputinian Death: Ken gets shot in the arm, then a much deadlier shot in the chest, then jumps off the cathedral to alert Ray.
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I Don't Pay You to Think
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I Don't Pay You to Think: Harry has this response when Ken tells him about Ray feeling suicidal.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: Ray thinking that Harry's out of range with his pistol.
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London Gangster
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London Gangster: Harry. Ken and Ray are London-based but are obviously Irish. Ray explicitly mentions being from Dublin and since Brendan Gleeson uses his own accent Ken is presumably a Dubliner too. Word of God says Ray and Ken were originally supposed to be British, but once Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson signed on he rewrote the script to make them Irish, turning this into an aversion of Fake Brit.
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene: Ray's attempted suicide is an absolutely heartwrenching scene in an otherwise darkly comedic film.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Sort of. The sentence "In Bruges?" actually occurs once, with all other mentions being some variation of "In fucking Bruges?!"
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Eiffel Tower Effect
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Eiffel Tower Effect: The Belfry of Bruges is visible in several shots, primarily to remind you that they're still in fuckin' Bruges (and to later serve as a location).
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: The entire trailer is played as a very, very upbeat crime comedy. The marketers must have forgot that it's a Tear Jerker. For one, one scene was played in the trailers for (dark) comedy when it was actually the lead-up to the central drama of the piece: Ray pulls off his first hit against the priest, quipping all the way; the clip in the trailer cuts off before he discovers that a stray or overpenetrating bullet killed a small child awaiting confession.
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Deadly Road Trip
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Deadly Road Trip: Two hitmen are sent to relax in Bruges by their boss who wants the younger hitman to have a nice holiday before whacking him for accidentally killing a child during a hit.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: A brief shot of Fidel, a golden Labrador Retriever who was famous for sitting in a window overlooking the canal, watching everyone go by with a peaceful expression.
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Wicked Cultured
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Wicked Cultured: Veteran hitman Ken has a deep understanding and appreciation of medieval architecture and art, and spends most of his free time enjoying the historical sights of Bruges.
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The Voice
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The Voice: Subverted. At first, every scene of the movie takes place in Bruges, and Harry (who's in London) only interacts Ken and Ray via the telephone, so it seems like this trope applies to him. Then, about two thirds into the movie, Ken is speaking on the phone with Harry, and all of a sudden the film cuts to his London apartment, and we see that Harry is Ralph Fiennes, so it's easy to guess he'll play a larger role for the rest of the movie.
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Punch-Clock Villain
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Punch-Clock Villain: All three leads.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: From that black part of the light spectrum that only Martin Scorsese can see.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The tower custodian refusing to take Ken's just-short spare change. Ken tosses the coins from the tower to warn passers-by below that he's going to jump to his death. Earlier in the film, Ray claims the buildings will look better at night when they're all lit up. In the film's climax, the very same lights prevent Ken from seeing down to the street and shooting Harry. The dumdum rounds Harry accepts from Yuri. During the final chase, he reloads his clip with several of them, eventually leading to him shooting one through Ray and right into Jimmy's head, exploding it and making it impossible for Harry to tell he's a dwarf, not a child. Subverted with the pistol Ray steals from Eirik. It is fired twice with blanks (once to test, once to blind Eirik), but never fired after being loaded with live rounds; Ken stops Ray from committing suicide with it, Ray hesitates using it on Harry for fear of hitting Marie, and the gun is then dropped in the canal before Ray can fire back at Harry. Subverted as well with Ken's gun as well. He is given it to kill Ray, something he never goes through with. He keeps it with him for a possible showdown with Harry, but ultimately refuses to shoot Harry out of gratitude for all Harry had done for him. He finally puts in within his clothes to keep it secure when he jumps off the top of the bell tower to warn Ray that Harry was coming, so Ray would have it to protect himself, but it completely breaks from the force of impact with the ground. About the only thing that never becomes relevant again after being introduced, whether by actual use or subversion, is the acid and ecstasy Ray stole and gave to Ken near the end. After he does, it never comes up again.
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Ironic Echo
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Ironic Echo: Not only does Harry state that he would kill himself on the spot if he did what Ray did, but he ends up effectively doing the exact same thing to a dwarf whom he mistakes for a child. Ken and Harry, about Bruges being "a fairytale fucking town / like a (fucking) fairytale or something".
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Go Through Me
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Go Through Me: Marie, in the stand-off between Ray and Harry.
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Good Guns, Bad Guns
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Good Guns, Bad Guns: Discussed:
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Death of a Child
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Death of a Child: This is something Harry Waters cannot tolerate the hitmen he hires doing. So what happens when one of his new recruit does this by mistake? He attempts to have the said hitman killed.
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It's What I Do
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It's What I Do: When the arms dealer asks Ken if he is gonna kill his partner, Ken responds with this line.
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Revolvers Are Just Better
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Revolvers Are Just Better: Averted. Ray laments that his revolver is "a bloody girl's gun" when Ken shows him his own automatic.
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Limited Wardrobe
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Limited Wardrobe: Except for the flashback, Ray wears a single outfit throughout the whole movie. While he does remove his jacket and unbutton his shirt, he has no other change of clothes. Ken, on the other hand, has several wardrobe changes.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: Averted by Harry's choice of weapon when buying guns. He is offered an Uzi, but is disdainful of it, asking for "a normal gun for a normal person". Considering his accuracy with the pistol from distance in the shootout aiming for and hitting a moving target (Ray) in centre mass with just the iron sights, this may have been for the best.
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Liquid Courage
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Liquid Courage: Ray takes a pointed gulp of his bottle before racing off to flirt with a gorgeous girl;
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"Say My Name" Trailer
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"Say My Name" Trailer: "Bruges." "Bruges." "Bruges." "Bruges." "Where is that?" "It's in Belgium."
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Autobots, Rock Out!
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Autobots, Rock Out!: Most of the soundtrack is tinkly piano music, of the sort that is played while the camera focuses on the ripples made by a swan's passage through a canal. However, towards the end of the movie, in the first genuine action sequence, a snarling electric guitar shows up.
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Twisted Christmas
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Twisted Christmas: Marie mentions early on that Christmas is nigh. Fittingly, it's in the context of there being no room at the inn (which pisses Ray off because it means he must share one with Kenn).
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Strange Minds Think Alike
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Strange Minds Think Alike: The repeating motifs make for a lot of this between the main characters. For instance, in the scene where Harry gets his gun from Yuri, his lines about not intending to "shoot twenty black ten-year-olds in a fucking drive-by" and wanting "a normal gun for a normal person" are reminiscent of Ray taunting the skinhead about "beating up Pakistani twelve-year-olds" and, earlier, having "a normal beer, because I am normal." Both independently come to the conclusion that Eirik is a "poof". Ray and Ken, concerning the fat Americans about to view the Belfry of Bruges.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: Harry considering that killing kids is definitely not an option. Even killing himself when he believes he shot one. Also, neither Ray nor Harry would fight in the inn with the innocent (and pregnant) landlady there.
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Ray at some points. Not only does he try to woo Chloë by talking about how famous midgets and dwarves tend to kill themselves, but he calls her hometown a shithole in conversation:
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Cluster F-Bomb: Ray, sometimes Ken, and lampshadingly-so with Harry Waters.
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: The fat American patriarch is played by a Welshman, which shows particularly when he angrily exclaims "Right you!" - a very British saying - at Ken as he tries to beat him up.
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Ate His Gun
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Ate His Gun: Harry does this in the final scene.
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Face Death with Dignity
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Face Death with Dignity: Ken lays down his weapon because he had no desire to fight or kill Harry at that point. Harry, being a Noble Demon, can't shoot an unarmed man - so settles for shooting him in the leg. He also adjusts his tie right before jumping off the tower.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The blanks-in-the-face scene. What many people tend to ignore is that blanks can be downright lethal if the calibre is big enough, or if fired into a sensible part of the head. Eirik should be glad he's still alive. Murdering somebody, especially if it is your first time doing so, is not particularly easy, can get very messy, and rarely goes according to plan. And sometimes collateral damage can't be helped... Guns aren't invincible death-dealing instruments of destruction, they're machines and they can break very easily. After Ken jumps from the top of a building holding it onto hard cobblestone ground, it's been completely smashed to pieces.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending / Downer Ending: Depending on whether you think Ray dies of his wounds at the end. While Ken, Jimmy and Harry are all dead, the only real upside is that in his ending monologue, he has realized he doesn't want to die.
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Children Are Special
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Children Are Special: The impetus of the plot.
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Ambiguous Ending
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Ambiguous Ending: Ray was shot several times through his back, but an ambulance arrived on scene to rescue him. While his narration remains when he's carried into the ambulance, the movie ends right as the dying Ray gets loaded into the ambulance, leaving it open if he will live or die. As for the redemption storyline, it is left open as to whether or not Ray redeemed himself from the guilt, and if he will continue to stay in a metaphorical purgatory or go to heaven or hell.
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Funny Foreigner
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Funny Foreigner: The officer:
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WithAllDueRespect
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With All Due Respect: Ken gives Harry this, paired with a Sincerity Mode statement, before leaping into a Country Matters Cluster F-Bomb.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ray may be a rude, bigoted pottymouth, but he feels genuinely guilty for shooting the little boy. Ken tactfully suggests that he might not really be cut out to be a professional killer.
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 In Bruges / int_49d59be9
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Scenery Porn
 In Bruges / int_49d59be9
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Scenery Porn: The film has lots of shots showcasing the beauty of Bruges.
 In Bruges / int_49d59be9
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In Bruges / int_49d59be9
 In Bruges / int_4ab9c868
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Pretty Little Headshots
 In Bruges / int_4ab9c868
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Pretty Little Headshots: Played straight with regular bullets. Avoided when the "dum-dums" get used.
 In Bruges / int_4ab9c868
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In Bruges / int_4ab9c868
 In Bruges / int_4f362a27
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Implied Rape
 In Bruges / int_4f362a27
comment
Implied Rape: Though the priest is not explicitly a pedophile (he's killed for trying to stop a housing project), all the characters suspect that he could be one. Harry especially loathes priests, Wouldn't Hurt a Child, and describes his childhood holiday in Bruges as one of his last happy memories, which might suggest that he was molested as a child by a priest.
 In Bruges / int_4f362a27
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In Bruges / int_4f362a27
 In Bruges / int_4f52ac6a
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World Limited to the Plot
 In Bruges / int_4f52ac6a
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World Limited to the Plot: Bruges. We get a brief glimpse of Harry's domestic life, a flashback to Ray's fuckup at the church, and a train escape sequence that never goes anywhere — Ray is led right back to Bruges.
 In Bruges / int_4f52ac6a
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In Bruges / int_4f52ac6a
 In Bruges / int_4fdd0d29
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Place Worse Than Death
 In Bruges / int_4fdd0d29
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Place Worse Than Death: Bruges, for Ray. It's one of the main gags of the film, and it gets to be explored comically (everybody drops an F-strike about the place at least once), tragically (the whole idea of sending Ray here was to give him a nice final few days) and even gets existential about it (Ray actually wonders whether or not the city is his personal Purgatory).
 In Bruges / int_4fdd0d29
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In Bruges / int_4fdd0d29
 In Bruges / int_500696c6
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Seinfeldian Conversation
 In Bruges / int_500696c6
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Seinfeldian Conversation: Lots of 'em, mostly pertaining to fuckin' Bruges.
 In Bruges / int_500696c6
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In Bruges / int_500696c6
 In Bruges / int_508d91a2
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
 In Bruges / int_508d91a2
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: In the flashback, Ray tries one of these before shooting the priest through the confessional.
 In Bruges / int_508d91a2
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In Bruges / int_508d91a2
 In Bruges / int_52488c54
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Drowning My Sorrows
 In Bruges / int_52488c54
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Drowning My Sorrows: Ken downs a couple of pints after receiving the order to off his partner. When Ray joins, he lampshades the trope.
 In Bruges / int_52488c54
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In Bruges / int_52488c54
 In Bruges / int_537dd8fe
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Affably Evil
 In Bruges / int_537dd8fe
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Affably Evil: Harry Waters' whole plan is to give Ray the pleasant experience of visiting Bruges before he has Ken kill him. Undercut by the fact that Ray utterly despises fuckin' Bruges. At best, he also Wouldn't Hurt a Child, and kills himself after believing he has, in accordance with the principle he held Ray to. He even has trouble killing Ken without a fight, refuses to have a shootout around a bunch of civilians and tourists, and even works with Ray to shoo a pregnant woman who won't leave the room, finally agreeing to have their fight outside so as not to shoot up her house. Even when Harry buys special bullets that cause head explosions, he acts like someone breaking a diet:
 In Bruges / int_537dd8fe
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In Bruges / int_537dd8fe
 In Bruges / int_55180ce
type
Snow Means Death
 In Bruges / int_55180ce
comment
Snow Means Death: It starts snowing during the climax during which the body count goes up from 1 to 4.
 In Bruges / int_55180ce
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In Bruges / int_55180ce
 In Bruges / int_56240281
type
Country Matters
 In Bruges / int_56240281
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Country Matters: Unleashed no less than twelve times. "Harry, let's face it- and I'm not being funny, and I mean no disrespect- but you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, you've always been a cunt, and the only thing that's gonna change is that you're gonna become an even bigger cunt, maybe have some more cunt kids."
 In Bruges / int_56240281
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In Bruges / int_56240281
 In Bruges / int_59b9f4df
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You Are Fat
 In Bruges / int_59b9f4df
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You Are Fat: Ray tells this to a pair of obese American tourists in a very obnoxious and insulting way to dissuade them from going up a narrow bell tower and potentially getting stuck. A few moments later, Ken gives them the same warning, only earnestly, except they've already been fed up by Ray's insults.
 In Bruges / int_59b9f4df
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In Bruges / int_59b9f4df
 In Bruges / int_61356a74
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Almost Dead Guy
 In Bruges / int_61356a74
comment
Almost Dead Guy: Ken. He is barely alive enough to warn Ray about Harry. Then he dies.
 In Bruges / int_61356a74
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In Bruges / int_61356a74
 In Bruges / int_61b576af
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I Take Offense to That Last One
 In Bruges / int_61b576af
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I Take Offense to That Last One: Harry has no problem being told that he is, was and always will be a cunt, but if you call his kids cunts, he gets quite upset.
 In Bruges / int_61b576af
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In Bruges / int_61b576af
 In Bruges / int_63b02752
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Hair-Trigger Temper
 In Bruges / int_63b02752
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Harry.
 In Bruges / int_63b02752
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In Bruges / int_63b02752
 In Bruges / int_63d861f8
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
 In Bruges / int_63d861f8
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Harry is a ruthless mob boss and may well be a sociopath, but he has a wife and children that he cares about and expresses enough regard for Ken to apologize when he fatally wounds him.
 In Bruges / int_63d861f8
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In Bruges / int_63d861f8
 In Bruges / int_6439de78
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Heroic Sacrifice
 In Bruges / int_6439de78
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Heroic Sacrifice: Despite being shot in the leg and neck, Ken manages to climb back up to the bell tower and jump to the ground, alerting Ray to Harry's presence.
 In Bruges / int_6439de78
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In Bruges / int_6439de78
 In Bruges / int_64e975cf
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Manly Tears
 In Bruges / int_64e975cf
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Manly Tears: After a trying day, Ray finally collapses into Ken's arms in tears overwhelmed with guilt over killing the little boy.
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In Bruges / int_64e975cf
 In Bruges / int_67792344
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Grievous Bottley Harm
 In Bruges / int_67792344
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Grievous Bottley Harm: "In my book, though, someone comes at you with a bottle, I'm sorry, that is a deadly weapon, he's gotta take the consequences."
 In Bruges / int_67792344
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In Bruges / int_67792344
 In Bruges / int_6858aca8
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Punctuated Pounding
 In Bruges / int_6858aca8
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Punctuated Poking: "The. Tower. Is. Closed. This. Evening! Understand? Englishman?"
 In Bruges / int_6858aca8
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In Bruges / int_6858aca8
 In Bruges / int_6b05b601
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Jerkass Has a Point
 In Bruges / int_6b05b601
comment
Jerkass Has a Point: Harry may be a foulmouthed violent psychopath, but there's no arguing with his logic on this point. When the man in the restaurant is upset about getting smoke blown in his face, Ray could have just let it go, but he escalates it into a fight just because he thinks the man is an uppity American. That said, he first points out to the man that they're sitting in the smoking section of the restaurant. When the overweight American tourist ask Ray about the tower, he strongly advises against it and is even polite about it initially before losing his patience and calls him and his family 'elephants'. Even more so when it's revealed the tourist had an heart attack going up the tower thus causing to be closed.
 In Bruges / int_6b05b601
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In Bruges / int_6b05b601
 In Bruges / int_6d332aea
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Driven to Suicide
 In Bruges / int_6d332aea
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Driven to Suicide: Guilt-ridden Ray, in a case of Interrupted Suicide. Harry, once he mistakenly assumed he's killed a child.
 In Bruges / int_6d332aea
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In Bruges / int_6d332aea
 In Bruges / int_6ee10e0
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My Greatest Failure
 In Bruges / int_6ee10e0
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My Greatest Failure: Ray can't get over accidentally shooting a little boy. It deserves mentioning that this was also apparently on his first job.
 In Bruges / int_6ee10e0
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 In Bruges / int_6ee10e0
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In Bruges / int_6ee10e0
 In Bruges / int_7276d0de
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Mugging the Monster
 In Bruges / int_7276d0de
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Mugging the Monster: The crook who tries to rob Ray.
 In Bruges / int_7276d0de
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 In Bruges / int_7276d0de
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In Bruges / int_7276d0de
 In Bruges / int_7360a6b6
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Noble Demon
 In Bruges / int_7360a6b6
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Noble Demon: Harry has principles.
 In Bruges / int_7360a6b6
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 In Bruges / int_7360a6b6
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In Bruges / int_7360a6b6
 In Bruges / int_7a265daa
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Eagleland
 In Bruges / int_7a265daa
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Eagleland: Parodied with Jimmy the dwarf:
 In Bruges / int_7a265daa
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 In Bruges / int_7a265daa
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In Bruges / int_7a265daa
 In Bruges / int_7a2d9301
type
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
 In Bruges / int_7a2d9301
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: After Harry shoots Ken in the leg instead of killing him, he scathingly compares Ken to "Robert fucking Powell". Ken has no idea who he's talking about and he has to clarify: Robert Powell who played Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth.
 In Bruges / int_7a2d9301
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In Bruges / int_7a2d9301
 In Bruges / int_7b405f5b
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Percussive Therapy
 In Bruges / int_7b405f5b
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Percussive Therapy: When Ken tells Harry over the phone that he is not following his orders, the latter takes his anger out on the telephone.
 In Bruges / int_7b405f5b
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In Bruges / int_7b405f5b
 In Bruges / int_7d34f23a
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Reckless Gun Usage
 In Bruges / int_7d34f23a
comment
Reckless Gun Usage: Averted beautifully. Ken is very careful with his guns. Harry locks his guns away when he's at home so his kids can't get at them. Both Ken and Harry practice good trigger discipline throughout the film. Ray is a bit more careless, but as he's much younger, reckless and a bit suicidal, this is in character for him (and he never points a gun at anyone he doesn't want to kill, though his occasional poor aim when he does want to kill someone tends to get him in trouble.) At one point a man tries to rob Ray with a gun loaded with blanks — Ray wrestles the gun off him and fires into the man's face at point-blank range. The blanks leave him permanently blind in one eye.
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In Bruges / int_7d34f23a
 In Bruges / int_7d89315b
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
 In Bruges / int_7d89315b
comment
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Harry to Eirik (Jérémie Renier), after hearing about how Ray blinded him with his own blank-firing pistol:
 In Bruges / int_7d89315b
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In Bruges / int_7d89315b
 In Bruges / int_7eb73553
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Bullying a Dragon
 In Bruges / int_7eb73553
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Bullying a Dragon: The tower guard, who quite likes his job, refusing a bribe and literally poking Harry's forehead as he makes his point. Harry doesn't take it lightly.
 In Bruges / int_7eb73553
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In Bruges / int_7eb73553
 In Bruges / int_7f413791
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Wall of Weapons
 In Bruges / int_7f413791
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Wall of Weapons: Yuri the arms dealer has guns all over every wall of his establishment.
 In Bruges / int_7f413791
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In Bruges / int_7f413791
 In Bruges / int_808cbaeb
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
 In Bruges / int_808cbaeb
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The park scene:
 In Bruges / int_808cbaeb
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In Bruges / int_808cbaeb
 In Bruges / int_83a8d697
type
Oblivious Guilt Slinging
 In Bruges / int_83a8d697
comment
Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Having both revealed their professions to one another, Chloë jokingly tells Ray he looks like the sort of hit-man who'd kill children.
 In Bruges / int_83a8d697
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In Bruges / int_83a8d697
 In Bruges / int_83b44e80
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Straight Gay
 In Bruges / int_83b44e80
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Straight Gay: Ken, at least according to Ray. If so, Ken certainly shows none of the stereotypical mannerisms, quite the opposite.
 In Bruges / int_83b44e80
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 In Bruges / int_83b44e80
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In Bruges / int_83b44e80
 In Bruges / int_83f0971b
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Mexican Standoff
 In Bruges / int_83f0971b
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Mexican Standoff: Played for Laughs in the hotel scene.
 In Bruges / int_83f0971b
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In Bruges / int_83f0971b
 In Bruges / int_8551ca25
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Prank Date
 In Bruges / int_8551ca25
comment
Prank Date: It's left ambiguous if Chloe's date with Ray was intended to be one of these.
 In Bruges / int_8551ca25
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In Bruges / int_8551ca25
 In Bruges / int_85bcc5a8
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Lampshaded Double Entendre
 In Bruges / int_85bcc5a8
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Lampshaded Double Entendre: Played for Laughs when Ray talks about accidentally killing someone when his hit went wrong:
 In Bruges / int_85bcc5a8
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In Bruges / int_85bcc5a8
 In Bruges / int_85c7446b
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Collateral Damage
 In Bruges / int_85c7446b
comment
Collateral Damage: Ray performs a hit on a priest and manages to also accidentally kill an altar boy in the process. Harry's gun ends up over-penetrating when he shoots Ray, killing Jimmy in the process.
 In Bruges / int_85c7446b
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In Bruges / int_85c7446b
 In Bruges / int_877426
type
Accidental Child-Killer Backstory
 In Bruges / int_877426
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Accidental Child-Killer Backstory: The Collateral Damage variant. Rookie hitman Ray is sent to Bruges after royally screwing up his first assignment: shooting a Catholic priest in a confession booth, only for a stray bullet to kill a little boy waiting to give confession. While he appears snarky on the outside, the guilt is quickly making him manic and suicidal.
 In Bruges / int_877426
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In Bruges / int_877426
 In Bruges / int_88e5fcbc
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One-Hit Polykill
 In Bruges / int_88e5fcbc
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One-Hit Polykill: In his first job, one of Ray's bullets passed through the priest (his target) and kills a little boy; Harry later accidentally kills Jimmy with a bullet that passes through Ray.
 In Bruges / int_88e5fcbc
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In Bruges / int_88e5fcbc
 In Bruges / int_898ff050
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Villain Protagonist
 In Bruges / int_898ff050
comment
Villain Protagonist: Ray, Ken and Harry themselves. They are, after all, hitmen and a mob boss, respectively.
 In Bruges / int_898ff050
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In Bruges / int_898ff050
 In Bruges / int_8fd7af48
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Sir Swears-a-Lot
 In Bruges / int_8fd7af48
comment
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Harry. Ray even lampshades this when reading his letter.
 In Bruges / int_8fd7af48
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In Bruges / int_8fd7af48
 In Bruges / int_916c72b3
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Rule of Symbolism
 In Bruges / int_916c72b3
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Rule of Symbolism: The last scene where Ray stumbles on to the set and he sees all the costumes: the imagery is akin to the paintings of the last judgement; the animal heads, animal skulls, peasant looking people. Plus the dwarf dressed as a schoolboy represents his sin right before he is shot (his judgement). However, he attempts to save Harry by telling him that the dwarf is not a child despite the fact that Harry tried to kill him, thus redeeming himself, so he lives. Ray notes that waiting in Bruges may be hell for him, however it was more than likely Ken's idea of Heaven. The waiting in Bruges before his judgement may represent purgatory.
 In Bruges / int_916c72b3
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In Bruges / int_916c72b3
 In Bruges / int_92b20172
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Love Interests
 In Bruges / int_92b20172
comment
Love Interest: Chloe.
 In Bruges / int_92b20172
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In Bruges / int_92b20172
 In Bruges / int_94cce63e
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Fighting Irish
 In Bruges / int_94cce63e
comment
Fighting Irish: Ray and Ken to some extent, based on their accents.
 In Bruges / int_94cce63e
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In Bruges / int_94cce63e
 In Bruges / int_967edd3a
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
 In Bruges / int_967edd3a
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: A Perspective Flip of the ratio of quiet to action scenes.
 In Bruges / int_967edd3a
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In Bruges / int_967edd3a
 In Bruges / int_96a2363c
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Bathos
 In Bruges / int_96a2363c
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Bathos: Along with the black comedy elements, the story also explores themes of morality. Lines like "I'm gonna die now, I think."
 In Bruges / int_96a2363c
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In Bruges / int_96a2363c
 In Bruges / int_96d1b224
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Little People Are Surreal
 In Bruges / int_96d1b224
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Little People Are Surreal: Chloe tells Ray they used the dwarf actor for a dream sequence.
 In Bruges / int_96d1b224
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 In Bruges / int_97980a6e
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First Law of Tragicomedies
 In Bruges / int_97980a6e
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First Law of Tragicomedies: Not as adhered to as most: even in the tensest situations, there's comedic exchanges like Ray and Harry concocting a plan to continue their shootout outside.
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Odd Couple
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Odd Couple: Pensive, knowledge-seeking Ken vs. twitchy, hedonistic Ray.
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Death by Cameo
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Death by Cameo: Ciarán Hinds as the priest Ray kills in the prologue. Not the first time Hinds' murder by Irish gangsters set off a plot.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Ray mentions that attacking or killing someone capable of karate or wielding a bottle as a weapon is justified as it's self defense. A few scenes later, Ray punches a woman who swings a bottle at him, and even insists to Chloë it's self defense if they "have a bottle or know karate". Harry's honor code against killing children. There's also Harry remarking "I'd like to see Bruges again before I die." When Ken first gets to the top of the tower, he makes a finger gun at Ray way down at the bottom and mimes shooting him. He's much less enthused when he's told to do it for real. And even more so when he decides to try and shoot Harry from the tower after being shot in the neck and leg, but finds that the "fantasy land" fog has rolled in. When talking to Ken about Ray wanting to kill himself, Harry remarks "He's suicidal. You're suicidal. I'm suicidal. Everybody's fucking suicidal, but we don't go on about it do we?". By the end of the movie both Harry and Ken have killed themselves, and Ray—funnily enough—is the only one who didn't actually commit suicide. Ray constantly commenting on how many midgets end up shooting themselves in the head.
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Little Useless Gun
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Little Useless Gun: When comparing weapons, Ray notes that Ken has a suppressor on his, then laments that his snubnose revolver is "a bloody girl's gun".
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 In Bruges / int_a036d3df
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Sarcastic Confession
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Sarcastic Confession: Ray confessing to My Greatest Failure on a first date, and Chloe admitting to her profession in response, both laughing it off as a big joke.
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly Long Gag: Ken trying to make five Euro out of his coins to avoid having to break a note.
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Benevolent Boss
 In Bruges / int_a24670a4
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Benevolent Boss: Harry seems very protective of his men, in his own way. When Ken's wife was murdered in the Back Story, Harry found and killed the man responsible. The whole ordeal in Bruges was meant to be a peaceful vacation for Ray before Harry would have him offed for killing a kid, except that Ray just found the place so painfully boring.
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: A crook tries to rob Ray with a gun loaded with blanks. Ray disarms him and shoots him from point-blank range, permanently blinding him in one eye.
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Harry is very protective of children, possibly due to having several of his own. This becomes a major plot point. Ray seems to share this philosophy. Which is why the fact he accidentally blew one away in a botched hit right before coming to Bruges has almost completely shattered him as a person.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: One of the film's defining features. It sometimes even happens mid-scene (such as the scene about the "50-year-old lollipop man who knows karate"). Remember, Tropes Are Not Bad.
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 In Bruges / int_a87b7e81
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Scenery Dissonance
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Scenery Dissonance: Type 1. The beauty of the titular city is a plot point. Almost all the main characters die, some of them very gorily.
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 In Bruges / int_a9de87d2
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 In Bruges / int_a9de87d2
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Ray is a neurotic mess who badly bungles his hitman job, but he also casually wins every hand-to-hand fight he has, including disarming a man with a gun pointed at him and One Hit Punching out several others.
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Big Brother Mentor
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Big Brother Mentor: Ken.
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Dramatic Irony
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Dramatic Irony: Harry kills himself because he doesn't know the small person whose head he blew off was a dwarf and not a child.
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Alas, Poor Villain
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Alas, Poor Villain: Whatever you think of Harry, his death is pretty tragic, killing himself because he thinks (incorrectly) that he has just accidentally shot a child dead. The fact that Ray, the guy Harry was just trying to murder a few moments beforehand for doing the literal same thing, actually tries to stop him makes it even worse.
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Hookers and Blow
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Hookers and Blow
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Deadpan Snarker
 In Bruges / int_ae3d6438
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Deadpan Snarker: More like World of Snark, since various characters try to out-match one another.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase : "You an American?"
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 In Bruges / int_b32d9d96
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"Ugly American" Stereotype
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"Ugly American" Stereotype: The beautiful Belgian city is visited by many tourists, but Ray is hostile to Americans in particular. He offends a family of them when he calls them fat. When another tourist annoys him he strikes the man, blaming Americans for the Vietnam War and the death of John Lennon. He later regrets this mistake: the man is Canadian.
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Recurring Camera Shot
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Recurring Camera Shot: The repeated scene of a child/dwarf being head-shot via One-Hit Polykill. In both cases, the shooters see that they accidentally killed someone. In the flashback, the priest's last words after getting shot by Ray are "The boy" as he falls over. At the end after getting shot repeatedly, Ray says the same thing before falling over.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: In Harry's opinion, Erik, the man who tried to mug Ray with a gun full of blanks. See "The Reason You Suck" Speech for details.
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 In Bruges / int_b5b6f439
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Hollywood Blanks
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Hollywood Blanks: Averted. A petty crook tries to rob one of the main characters, who he doesn't realize is a much more dangerous gangster. The main character takes the crook's gun away from him and shoots him in the face. The gun turns out to be loaded with blanks, but the blast of flame and hot gas destroys one of the petty crook's eyes. The main character then upbraids him for being stupid enough to try to rob somebody without real bullets in the gun.
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 In Bruges / int_b707726f
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Hypocritical Humor
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Hypocritical Humor:
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
 In Bruges / int_b7bc7d28
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, They're Filming Midgets!
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 In Bruges / int_b8dbe475
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Blood from the Mouth
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Blood from the Mouth: Ray at the end.
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 In Bruges / int_bbfaa837
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Knight Templar
 In Bruges / int_bbfaa837
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Knight Templar: Harry. While it's somewhat understandable that he refuses to forgive the killing of children, he ends up killing himself on the spot when he believes he's violated his own principal rule.
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 In Bruges / int_bc00493f
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Precision F-Strike
 In Bruges / int_bc00493f
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Precision F-Strike: The hotel owner, Marie telling Ray and Harry to fuck off.
 In Bruges / int_bc00493f
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 In Bruges / int_bc74ef27
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Berserk Button
 In Bruges / int_bc74ef27
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Berserk Button: Harry's got quite the Hair-Trigger Temper, but insulting his kids is crossing the line. And to a lesser extent, Ken when it comes to racists - at least partially because his wife (who was black) was killed by a white man, presumably for racist reasons.
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 In Bruges / int_be85ff22
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Contract on the Hitman
 In Bruges / int_be85ff22
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Contract on the Hitman: Happens to Ray himself.
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 In Bruges / int_beb8cab5
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Dressing to Die
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Dressing to Die: Ken dressing himself up before a mirror for his last day.
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 In Bruges / int_bfc2ec8a
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That Makes Me Feel Angry
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That Makes Me Feel Angry: Ken looks out across Bruges and say to himself "I like it here." Actually kind of a sweet moment, with Ken visibly excited about how much he likes it that he feels the need to say it out loud.
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Interrupted Suicide
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Interrupted Suicide: Interrupted by someone trying to kill the guy who is trying to kill himself. Awkward. And then this is subverted when Ray tries to stop Harry from committing suicide. He's so wounded that he can't finish his sentence, and Harry dies thinking he killed a child.
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 In Bruges / int_c335b9ec
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Irony
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Irony: Situational - Ken, about to kill Ray, lowers his gun when he spots he has his revolver; then, when Ray is about to kill himself, Ken puts away his gun and stops Ray killing himself. When Harry hears about this, he's absolutely dumbfounded as it would have solved the entire mess he was having to clean up.
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No, You
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No, You: Harry's response to his wife's statement that the phone he's smashing is "an inanimate fucking object".
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 In Bruges / int_c3c18143
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Hope Spot
 In Bruges / int_c3c18143
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Hope Spot: Ray is on a train to almost anywhere and freedom, but is arrested and taken back to Bruges because of the asshole Canadian from the restaurant. During the final confrontation, Ray makes a spectacular landing on a boat, putting some distance between Harry and himself. Unfortunately, it is not enough because he loses his gun and then gets shot.
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 In Bruges / int_c601fc37
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Professional Killer
 In Bruges / int_c601fc37
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Professional Killer: Ken, Ray, Harry.
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 In Bruges / int_c75df49a
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Shout-Out
 In Bruges / int_c75df49a
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Shout-Out: A very obscure one. Ken and Ray check into their hotel using the names 'Cranham' and 'Blakely'. In 1985, The BBC broadcast a TV version of Harold Pinter's play The Dumb Waiter, a two-hander about two hitmen sitting around in a room awaiting instructions. The hitmen in the BBC version were played by actors Kenneth Cranham and Colin Blakely. Not to mention the entire Bosch's paintings subplot. The film that the dwarf is taking part in is directly stated to be a pretentious ripoff of Don't Look Now. And there's more to it: in both Don't Look Now and In Bruges mistaking a dwarf for a child leads to literally lethal consequences. Ken is watching Touch of Evil in his hotel when Harry calls, the rest of the scene is done in a single six-minute take.
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Description Cut
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Description Cut: Ken tells Harry that Ray could be in any of the million towns in mainland Europe by this time. Cut to Ray being released from his jail cell in Bruges.
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 In Bruges / int_c919e48d
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Stimulant Speedtalk
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Stimulant Speedtalk: After stealing from Chloe's drug cache, Ray shows up at a bar high on some of the purloined coke, talking at roughly a thousand miles an hour and warning Ken that he might be about to have a heart attack. Not long after this scene, a snorting session with dwarf actor Jimmy turns sour as a coked-up Jimmy starts rambling on about his belief in an upcoming race war. Ray is still high as a kite, so he naturally proceeds to nitpick the living bejesus out of the idea, much to Jimmy's annoyance.
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Word of God
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Word of God says Ray and Ken were originally supposed to be British, but once Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson signed on he rewrote the script to make them Irish, turning this into an aversion of Fake Brit.
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Fakeout Escape
 In Bruges / int_ccd7abf5
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Fakeout Escape: Discussed by Harry during the Mexican Standoff at the hotel.
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Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand
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Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: The standoff between Harry and Ken in the tower. Partially subverted when Harry shoots Ken in the leg; fully subverted when Harry shoots to kill to prevent Ken from stopping Harry's attempt to kill Ray.
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Dude, Not Funny!
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Dude, Not Funny!: The "Race War" rant from Jimmy draws this reaction from nearly everyone else in the room, especially Ken. Even Ray, who is still laughing, is mostly laughing at the stupidity of the idea. Jimmy himself later blames it on cocaine, a drug that can quite easily turn nice guys into arrogant arseholes.
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Anti-Villain
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Anti-Villain: Harry may be a murderous hitman with a bit of an anger issue, but that doesn't make him that much worse than Ken and Ray. Especially considering how strictly principled he is about his work, that he's apparently a committed family man, and the favours he did for Ken.
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Canada, Eh?
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Canada, Eh?: Averted - it is precisely because the Canadians don't fit the stereotypes of Canadians, nor speak with particularly pronounced accents, that Ray mistakes them for Americans.
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Inelegant Blubbering
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Inelegant Blubbering: In the park when Ray cries into Ken's chest. Definitely not Played for Laughs.
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Contrived Coincidence
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Contrived Coincidence: Ray probably would've gotten farther if only the train he traveled on didn't also happen to carry the very same Canadian couple he previously assaulted, who recognize him and get him escorted by the police back to Bruges.
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Pregnant Badass: Marie, the hotel owner. While not kicking huge amounts of ass in the traditional sense, she shows enormous courage, standing up to an armed man and refusing to let him upstairs. Even Harry is impressed, and decides to negotiate with Ray to take the fight outside.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: The Canadians that Ray knocked out.
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Your Head A-Splode
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Your Head A-Splode: The dum-dum bullets are said to do this. Hence Harry taking a whole box of them. This actually leads to his suicide as one of his bullets blows up the midget Jimmy's head, leading Harry to think he had killed a child.
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Backhanded Apology: Does this sound like an apology?
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Closed Circle
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Closed Circle: Aside from a flashback, a scene on a train, and a scene at Harry's house, the entire movie takes place in Bruges, much to Ray's displeasure. As he is possibly dying at the end, Ray wonders if Purgatory might be the rest of eternity spent in fuckin Bruges.
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Shadow Discretion Shot
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Shadow Discretion Shot: When Harry is beating the tower guard for poking him in the forehead repeatedly.
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The Oner
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The Oner: Ken's phone conversation with Harry is filmed in a single six-minute take. This is lampshaded at the start of the scene where Ken is watching the famous introduction from Touch of Evil.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Everyone have a fair share of moments for being this. Harry, Eirik and the Canadian guy in particular.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Despite being kind of a Jerkass, Jimmy seems genuinely concerned when Ray stumbles onto the film set Jimmy is working on bleeding from a bullet wound and goes to check on him. This leads to him getting his head blown off by an overpenetrating bullet of Harry's.
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The Lost Lenore
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The Lost Lenore: It's revealed that Ken works for Harry because Harry found and killed the man who murdered Ken's wife. Not only is it brought up for drama, but it happened in the '70s and Ken is still visibly wearing his wedding ring.
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Redemption Equals Death
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Redemption Equals Death: Maybe. This depends on whether Ray survives, which is left deliberately ambiguous.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: When Ray punches the Canadian woman, though he's put on the defensive about it later and insists that it was self defense. She did try to swing a bottle into his face.
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When they're in the tower, Harry is honestly baffled when Ken refuses to pick up his gun and instead starts talking about how much he respects and cares for him.
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Harry won't push past the pregnant hotel owner to get up the stairs at Ray. This might be due to his Wouldn't Hurt a Child rule, though.
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: Ken and Harry aren't allowed in the tower because "an American had a heart attack".
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Adaptational Nationality
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Adaptational Nationality: In the original script, Ray and Ken are English, but when Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson came on board, the characters were changed to Irish as to suit their natural sensibilities.
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Give Me a Sword / int_2b60ae0f
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Go Through Me / int_2b60ae0f
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