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Internal Affairs
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Internal Affairs is a 1990 crime thriller film starring Richard Gere and Andy García.Dennis Peck is a crooked cop who uses his fellow officers to get the things he wants. IAD (Internal Affairs Division) detective Raymond Avila becomes obsessed with exposing Peck's corruption. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: The tipping point that leads to Peck's breakdown was officers questioning his family. | |
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Ironic Echo: When Peck starts making inappropriate comments about Kathy cheating on Raymond, the latter punches the former twice before throwing a handkerchief to him and saying "clean yourself up". A few scenes later, Peck makes an elaborate ruse to make Raymond think Kathy is having an affair; they confront one another in an elevator, Peck beats up Raymond, and throws white underwear in Raymond's face, saying the same words Raymond said earlier. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Dennis does a great job of hiding his sadistic and manipulating personality behind a very charismatic and jovial façade. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Also in the scene where Van is beating on Penny in front of their son Sean, Dennis shows up to break up, takes Van outside and gives him a taste of his own medicine and berates him for not only hitting Penny but for doing it in front of Sean. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: It's very obvious that Penny is very unhappy in her marriage with Van due to his coke addiction and physical abuse, but when she is questioned by Raymond and Amy about how things are going with Van? She says everything is going fine. Both Detectives know that’s not the case, especially with the black eye on her face. Also Van when he says he doesn’t have a drug problem when it’s clearly obvious that it looks like he’s been snorting blow. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: One of Peck's most defining traits is his smug superiority into his belief he can get away with anything. | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy: Peck deliberately involves this in Raymond by convincing Raymond that his wife is having an affair with him. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The movie begins and ends in a couple's apartment. | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
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Hero of Another Story: If Amy Wallace had been the central character, this becomes the story of an intelligent, no-nonsense woman watching two impulsive macho idiots (whose charms don't work on her by dint of her sexual orientation) trying to destroy each other, while she does what she can to defuse the situation and limit the collateral damage. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: A slimy Dirty Cop he may be, but Peck does genuinely love his family. | |
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Noble Bigot with a Badge | |
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Noble Bigot with a Badge: Raymond at one point refers to Amy as a "dyke" when his wife becomes jealous of their relationship. He's still a noble cop who develops a genuine bond with her. Subverted with Van Stretch. He scoffs at one of his collars claiming an unjust arrest by "nigger talk". He's also a Dirty Cop who smacks his wife around. | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Peck attempts to force Kathy to have sex with him. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Dennis at the end. He won’t be missed by many people other than his wife and kids. | |
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Amicable Exes | |
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Amicable Exes: Peck and his ex-wife have a good relationship. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: While Van Stretch isn’t the most sympathetic guy in the world, it’s still hard not to feel a little sorry for him because he wanted to come clean and redeem himself, only for Dennis to brutally have him murdered. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Between three ex-wives and current in a fourth marriage, a slew of hookers-informants on the side, other cops' wives, and even the wife of the man he’s employed to carry out hits for? RGA is really an understatement for Dennis. Wallace mentions that’s one of the reasons he doesn’t want to be promoted is because “he loves pussy too much” | |
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Suspicious Spending | |
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Suspicious Spending: Raymond and Amy look into the financials of both Van and Penny and it shows while it shows that the both of them make decent money, the fact that they were able to buy a $400,000 dollar house in Grenada Hills on their salaries alone (Van just being a Police Officer II making $38,000 a year and Penny a Bank Accountant making $25,000 a year) is eye raising. Likewise and even more egregiously so for Dennis who also makes the same salary as Van being a Police Officer II but yet is paying alimony for about EIGHT KIDS and of course the divorce settlements for his three previous ex-wives, driving a very expensive Porsche and also like Van, he bought a big beautiful house in Grenada Hills for way over $400,000 dollars. Even though $38,000 back in 1990 was equivalent to $86,000 dollars in today’s world and is pretty good money? There’s no way Dennis or Van could even BEGIN TO AFFORD all of that on their salaries alone. | |
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Revised Ending | |
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Revised Ending: The original ending of the movie was different. After the entire scene where Peck kills Arrocases, and wounds Wallace and Raymond taking her to the hospital, Raymond calls his wife Kathy to tell her to lock the door, fearing that Peck will come after her. Peck, however, manages to sneak into their house and starts terrorizing her. He makes her take his shoe off and start cleaning his wounded foot, while at the same time, he starts talking to her in a very perverse, sexual way. When Raymond finally gets home, Peck is holding Kathy and keeps her mouth covered, so that she can't warn him, and then he gets shot by Peck. As Peck smiles at him, and prepares to kill Kathy, heavily wounded Raymond manages to run at him, crashing both of them out the window and into the swimming pool. Peck tries to drown Raymond, but Raymond manages to get his gun and shoots Peck, killing him, but he almost ends up drowning. Kathy then jumps into the pool and manages to get him out, and after desperate attempts to revive him and screaming at him not to die, he wakes up, vomits, and as he does so, Peck's dead body bobs out right next to them. Kathy starts laughing after Raymond revives, and the two of them then hold each other, as the ambulance is heard coming. According to what director Mike Figgis said in his book Liebestraum, this ending was removed and changed because it didn't test well with the audience during a test screening of his original cut of the film. This is why Figgis wrote and filmed a new ending for the final theatrical version. However, several parts of the original ending are shown in theatrical and television trailers of the film, and, until this day, remain the only available parts of it. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Subverted with Van Stretch. He scoffs at one of his collars claiming an unjust arrest by "nigger talk". He's also a Dirty Cop who smacks his wife around. | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl: Kathy becomes jealous of Raymond's relationship with Amy, bitterly calling her Raymond's "girlfriend". | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Van calls Penny and mentions that he’s gonna talk to Raymond about Dennis and come clean about his corruption. Unfortunately, Dennis is listening to the whole conversation all while having sex with Penny, and the next night he sets up Van to be murdered. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Kathy forgives Raymond for his violent outburst towards her after slapping him a few times and having passionate sex. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Van smacks Penny around. One of the suspects he assaulted during an arrest was also a woman. After thinking Kathy and Peck are having an affair, Raymond smacks her during one of her parties. Peck kills Tova, shoots Amy, and threatens to kill Kathy. | |
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