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Last Tango in Paris

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Last Tango in Paris	comment	Ultimo Tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris) is a 1972 Italian drama film (though with French and English dialogue) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider.Paul (Brando), a 45-year old American who lives and owns a hotel abroad in Paris, is mourning the suicide of his wife when he meets Parisian woman Jeanne (Schneider) whilst apartment hunting. Jeanne herself is engaged to a film director, Thomas (Jean-Pierre LÃ©aud), though Paul does not know this initially. The two feel lonely and marginalized, so they begin a torrid affair, of which the rules, as set by Paul, are that they do not tell each other any personal details about themselves; not even their names. As time goes by, Paul becomes possessive and starts to act abusively towards Jeanne; in one infamous scene he anally rapes her using butter as lubricant. Things go downhill from there.When released, the film's groundbreaking subject matter caused a media frenzy and Moral Guardian outrage, despite some glowing critical reception and Academy Award nominations for Brando and Bertolucci. It is regarded nowadays as one of the best European films and best arthouse films ever made. It could be considered the progenitor of the Euroshlock genre. It is an obvious influence on the films of Catherine Breillat (who herself has a small appearance in the film), specifically Romance (1999) and Anatomy of Hell, both of which would help to revive the Euroshlock genre in the 2000s.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Last Tango in Paris / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Paul explicitly anally rapes Jeanne as their relationship deteriorates. In other cases, he may have too, as the consensualness of many sexual encounters is left dubious.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Last Tango in Paris / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Jeanne suffers one at the very end of the film, after she has shot and killed Paul.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Last Tango in Paris / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Near the end Paul and Jeanne go into a dance hall where a tango competition is underway. The MC picks which dancers will advance to the next round, and then says "Good luck in the last tango!"
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Last Tango in Paris / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Last Tango in Paris / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Quite literally. Jeanne collects an old gun that was among her father's possessions. At the end she kills Paul with it.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_26f68115	type	Art Imitates Art
Last Tango in Paris / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: The film's opening credits include two paintings by Francis Bacon: Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach and Study for a Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne. The hues used in the film were inspired by the paintings of Bacon. During pre-production, Bertolucci frequently visited an exhibit of Bacon's paintings at the Grand Palais in Paris; he said that the light and colour in Bacon's paintings reminded him of Paris in the winter, when "the lights of the stores are on, and there is a very beautiful contrast between the leaden gray of the wintry sky and the warmth of the show windows...the light in the paintings was the major source of inspiration for the style we were looking for". Bacon's painting style often depicted human skin like raw meat and the painter's inspiration included meat hanging in a butcher shops window and human skin diseases. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro had previously worked with Bertolucci on The Conformist and often used an azure hue in the film. Storaro later told a reporter that "after The Conformist I had a moment of crisis; I was asking myself: what can come after azure?...I did not have the slightest idea that an orange film could be born. We needed another kind of emotion...It was the case of Last Tango. Bertolucci and Storaro took inspiration from Bacon's paintings by using "rich oranges, light and cool grays, icy whites, and occasional reds combine[d] with Bertolucci's own tasteful choices of soft browns, blond browns, and delicate whites with bluish and pink shadings". Bertolucci took Marlon Brando to the Bacon exhibit and told Brando that he "wanted him to compare himself with Bacon's human figures because I felt that, like them, Marlon's face and body were characterized by a strange and infernal plasticity. I wanted Paul to be like the figures that obsessively return in Bacon: faces eaten by something coming from the inside".
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Last Tango in Paris / int_41379078	type	Instant Seduction
Last Tango in Paris / int_41379078	comment	Instant Seduction: Or possibly rape...it's a little vague. Within a few minutes of their first meeting, Paul grabs Jeanne and proceeds to have sex with her against a wall. It's ambiguous just how consensual it is on her part.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Last Tango in Paris / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The film ends with Jeanne killing Paul after she revealed her name to him, leading her into a B.S.O.D..
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Last Tango in Paris / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Last Tango in Paris / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Paul inherited some underlying baggage from his dead wife.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Last Tango in Paris / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Both Jeanne's movie director boyfriend and Paul, each in their way; the movie director is less openly a bastard but cares more about his art and artistic vision than he does about Jeanne, and Paul becomes directly abusive — especially after their relationship gets beyond anonymous sex.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Last Tango in Paris / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Paul in the very first shot, when he's screaming out loud in public, in what we later learn is the immediate aftermath of the death of his wife. Later when he breaks down sobbing at the bed where his wife has been laid out, prior to the funeral.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Last Tango in Paris / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Neither the two main characters or anyone in the film for that matter, could be called "well-balanced". This works its way into the tragedy of the movie, as each character's issues ensure they'll either spend life together in a harmful cycle or break out of it and find other dysfunctional people.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_99e4958e	type	Wall Bang Her
Last Tango in Paris / int_99e4958e	comment	Wall Bang Her: The first sex scene between Paul and Jeanne, done within minutes of them first meeting one another. It's left ambiguous whether this is Instant Seduction or straight-up rape.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Last Tango in Paris / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Jeanne is young and pretty. She gets naked in many sex scenes. Brando, however, doesn't — he did in the original cut, but Bernardo removed the scene. Sorry, ladies.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_b03634f8	type	Right Through His Pants
Last Tango in Paris / int_b03634f8	comment	Right Through His Pants: Twice Paul seduces/rapes Jeanne without taking his pants off, including in the infamous "butter" scene.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Last Tango in Paris / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Jeanne is in a relationship with the film director, but she's also in a relationship with Paul. Neither of them knows about the other's involvement at all, though much of the drama comes more from Paul's (and to an extent Jeanne's) emotional issues.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_bb0a2242	type	No-Tell Motel
Last Tango in Paris / int_bb0a2242	comment	No-Tell Motel: The little hotel that Paul's wife ran in Paris, which he refers to as a "flophouse." Towards the end a male prostitute and his client show up and attempt to rent a room for 30 minutes.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_d952cef0	type	Killing in Self-Defense
Last Tango in Paris / int_d952cef0	comment	Killing in Self-Defense: At the end, Jeanne shoots Paul dead defending herself from him.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Last Tango in Paris / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Invoked and deconstructed — Paul starts out seeming Troubled, but Cute but gets increasingly nasty and abusive towards Jeanne, both physically and verbally... yet even after some of his nastier moments she confesses to having fallen in love with him. Jeanne is, however, portrayed as rather messed up, and it gets increasingly obvious just how toxic their relationship is.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Last Tango in Paris / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Inverted at the end when Paul becomes the Spear Counterpart and effectively a Stalker with a Crush.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
Last Tango in Paris / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Jeanne to start, then Paul when he decides to pursue an actual emotional relationship with her at the end, eventually literally embodying this trope.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_ef2fcbe1	type	Le Film Artistique
Last Tango in Paris / int_ef2fcbe1	comment	Le Film Artistique: Whatever film Thomas the nincompoop is trying to make, which seems to be mostly just filming Jeanne as she's out and about.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
Last Tango in Paris / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Thomas, Jeanne's movie director boyfriend/fiance who's so thoroughly absorbed in his work that he treats her as much as scenery as a Love Interest.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
Last Tango in Paris / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: Paul is ridden with guilt after his wife's suicide.
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Last Tango in Paris / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Last Tango in Paris / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Paul's emotional baggage over his wife's suicide and arguably Jeanne's childhood.
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