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La Bête Humaine

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La Bête Humaine	comment	La Bête Humaine (The Human Beast) is a 1938 film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Simone Simon.Lantier (Gabin) is a railroad engineer who drives a train between Paris and Le Havre. He's a taciturn fellow who is well-liked by his fellow railroad men. He is very fond of his train engine, which he gives a woman's name, "Lison." He is not as close with any real women, for a very good reason. Lantier has a teeny-tiny little problem: moments of physical intimacy with women can cause him to slip into a fugue state—a "haze"—in which he is subject to murderous fits. This is established in an early scene where Lantier is canoodling with a young woman, only to slip into one of his hazes and start strangling her; her life is saved only by the whistle of an oncoming train which snaps Lantier out of it. Unlike your average Norman Bates-style psycho, Lantier is aware of this itty-bitty problem and thus spends most of his time with his train.Meanwhile, Le Havre station master Roubeau and his wife Severine (Simone Simon) have less psychotic but still very real problems. Roubeau, balding and pot-bellied, is prone to moments of violent jealousy over his young, gorgeous wife. When Roubeau finds out that Severine was once the mistress of rich railroad baron Grandmorin, he snaps. He forces Severine to lure Grandmorin onto a train, where Roubeau stabs him to death.The horror of watching Grandmorin murdered extinguishes any feelings Severine might have had for her husband. Now she wants out of the marriage and, knowing what kind of a jealous psycho her husband is, she looks for a lover who will kill her husband and free her. She makes what, unbeknownst to her, is the worst choice possible: Lantier.Adaptation of a novel of the same name by Emile Zola. Remade in Hollywood in 1954 as Human Desire, directed by Fritz Lang.
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La Bête Humaine / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
La Bête Humaine / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Jean Renoir often took small parts in his own movies, here appearing as Cabuche, the dimwitted track man who's arrested for Grandmorin's murder.
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La Bête Humaine / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
La Bête Humaine / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Roubeau's violent jealousy leads to all the tragedies that follow.
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La Bête Humaine / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
La Bête Humaine / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Grandmorin. He forced Severine to become his mistress when she was quite young and raped Louisette, Cabuche's friend, who died of it. It's implied he abused more girls, but his status made him a Villain with Good Publicity and the judge won't listen to Cabuche's accusations.
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La Bête Humaine / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
La Bête Humaine / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Poor Severine, after Lantier snaps and stabs her to death.
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La Bête Humaine / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
La Bête Humaine / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: The rich guy in the opening scene, who tries to push Roubeau around about a berth on the train, is marked off as a rich guy by the high class glass he's wearing.
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La Bête Humaine / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
La Bête Humaine / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Severine is stabbed to death by her unstable boyfriend. Soon after coming back to his senses, Lantier kills himself. Roubeau gets away with murder.
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La Bête Humaine / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
La Bête Humaine / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Back in possession of his senses, and aware of what he's done, Lantier kills himself by flinging himself off the train.
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La Bête Humaine / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
La Bête Humaine / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The first thing Cabuche does, when the police tell him that Grandmorin was murdered, is to say "He sure had it coming!"
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La Bête Humaine / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
La Bête Humaine / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: in the original novel, Lantier dies in a train accident, destroying his train engine Lison. Here he jumps from the Lison to his death but Pecqueux saves the engine.
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La Bête Humaine / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
La Bête Humaine / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Roubeau gets away with killing Grandmorin, as well as beating his wife. Then again, he has nothing left to live for, as his guilt destroyed his moral character.
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La Bête Humaine / int_a876f7d5	type	MurderingTheHypotenuse
La Bête Humaine / int_a876f7d5	comment	Murdering the Hypotenuse: Lantier and Severine tried to murder Roubeau but Lantier couldn't bring himself to do it.
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La Bête Humaine / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
La Bête Humaine / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: Considered an early precursor of film noir, with adultery, a violently jealous husband, a faithless wife, and an Anti-Hero who has an affair with the faithless wife.
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La Bête Humaine / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
La Bête Humaine / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Pecqueux, Lantier's fireman on the train. He likes to talk about stuff like how he has love children scattered everywhere, and would be happy to impregnate either his wife or his mistress.
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La Bête Humaine / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
La Bête Humaine / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Roubeau is a dumpy middle-aged guy with a combover, married to the luscious young Severine. He doesn't deal with this very well.
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La Bête Humaine / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
La Bête Humaine / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Roubeau fines a passenger who behaved obnoxiously to a woman passenger. The man threatens to report him and Roubeau finds out the man has connections to his company's directors. So he asks his wife, despite her reluctance, to go talk back to her godfather the baron who also has connections with the directors - and she lets slip something that makes him understand what the baron had been doing with her, making him plot the baron's murder.
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La Bête Humaine / int_f51e530a	type	Romantic Rain
La Bête Humaine / int_f51e530a	comment	Romantic Rain: Pouring rain as Lantier and Severine meet in a railroad shack for a tryst.
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La Bête Humaine / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
La Bête Humaine / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Severine was sexually abused by her godfather Grandmorin (her mother was in service at Grandmorin's place).
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