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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })One of the most infamous Mind Screws in film history, directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg in 1970. Also famous as the first acting role for Mick Jagger.London Gangster Chas (James Fox) is the lead enforcer for Don Harry Flowers. When he seriously pisses Flowers off by killing an old enemy of his who Flowers would have preferred to come to a profitable arrangement with, he is left desperate for a place to hide before he can get a fake passport and leave the country. He inveigles himself into the crumbling townhouse that burned-out rock star Turner (Jagger) shares with his two girlfriends: witchy German Ferber (Anita Pallenberg) and sunny French Lucy (Michèle Breton). He gradually finds himself drawn into their life of heavy drugs and weird sex. And then things get really peculiar...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A legendary Cult Classic since its release, Performance stands out as even among the more weird films made in the period, subject to rumours and speculations even during production. The nudity and sex scenes earned it the ire of Warner Bros who had produced the film, resulting in early bowdlerized versions. The film has since been regarded and treasured as a defining portrait of London in The '60s, for its Genre-Busting Kudzu Plot. The film's score by Jack Nitzche is highly praised and the song "Memo from Turner" by Ry Cooder and Mick Jagger is well regarded enough that Martin Scorsese recycled it for Goodfellas. Alan Moore devoted an entire section of his The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics to making an unofficial prequel to some of the events in the film, with the Serial Numbers Filed Off of character names.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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Adam Westing | |
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Adam Westing: Ferber the mysterious, bisexual drug addict girlfriend of a rock star, was played by Anita Pallenberg, a mysterious bisexual who was struggling with a heroin addiction and dating a rock star at the time. Mick Jagger as a rock star surrounded by a heavy mystique, though it's been suggested that Turner's moody, reclusive nature was based more on fellow Stone Brian Jones. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Harry Flowers is a hybrid of the two sets of brothers who notoriously ruled and fought over London's organised crime of the era, South London's Richardsons (the involvement with fraud and the Cold-Blooded Torture), and East London's Krays (the homoeroticism and intra-gang violence). | |
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Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll | |
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Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll: Turner, although he's mostly given up the "rock and roll" part in favor of Sex and Drugs. After meeting Chas, he slowly finds himself returning to music, culminating in "Memo from Turner". | |
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London Gangster | |
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London Gangster: Lots and lots of them. Some of the minor gangster characters were reputedly the real thing. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: For the first half-hour or so, it's a gritty, violent (if artily directed) gangster movie. Then Chas turns up at Turner's house and everything gets weird. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: Turner starts babbling about "Cheops and his bloody pyramid", and we cut to a close-up of...a female nipple pointing up. | |
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Reveal Shot | |
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Reveal Shot: Chas rings the friend who's been trying to get him a passport and asks him to come to Turner's house to deliver it. The shot of the friend widens and we see Flowers' gang are in the room with him. | |
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Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off! | |
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Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off: Joey savagely beats Chas with a belt before Chas gets free and kills him. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Chas, initially. | |
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Concept Video | |
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Concept Video: The fantasy sequence in which Turner, adopting Chas's London Gangster persona, sings the song "Memo From Turner" to Flowers' gang. This was actually released as a pop video separately to the film. Also counts as a Sanity Slippage Song. | |
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Traumatic Haircut | |
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Traumatic Haircut: Chas and some of the other gangsters forcibly shave the head of the chauffeur of a lawyer they want to intimidate (and pour acid over his car). | |
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Exact Eavesdropping | |
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Exact Eavesdropping: The conversation Chas overhears at Paddington station that alerts him to Turner's free room. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: The main setting | |
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Pretty Little Headshots | |
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Pretty Little Headshots: When Chas kills Turner. | |
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Three-Way Sex | |
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Three-Way Sex: Turner cavorting with his two hot girlfriends. | |
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One-Book Author | |
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One Film Actress: This is the only credited film appearance for both Michèle Breton (Lucy) and Laraine Wickens (Lorraine). | |
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Gayngster | |
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Gayngster: What initially is heavy homoerotic innuendo about Flowers and his gang is then made full text when we see that he and one of his inner circle share a bedroom. | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine: Lorraine Choleric: Chas Melancholic: Turner and Ferber Phlegmatic: Lucy | |
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Two-Person Pool Party | |
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Two-Person Pool Party: More than two people actually: there's lots of fun in Turner's big bathtub. | |
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White-Dwarf Starlet | |
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White-Dwarf Starlet: Turner | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: A well-known one. As Flowers' hoods turn up at the house, Chas shoots a passive and maybe willing Turner dead, then peacefully surrenders to them. As he is driven off in a white Rolls-Royce, presumably to his death, we see him look out of the window, and his face appears to be Turner's. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ferber is Blue, Lucy Red. | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man: Chas, until Turner persuades him to go from Mod to Hippie. Meanwhile, Turner abruptly shifts from Hippie to Mod in "Memo from Turner" where he dresses super-sharp and slick. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: Chas's Jaguar Mark II, and Flowers' Roller. | |
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Writer's Block | |
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Writer's Block: Implied to be at the root of Turner's problems. | |
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The Precious, Precious Car | |
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The Precious, Precious Car: Chas pours acid over a lawyer's Rolls-Royce. With the chauffeur handcuffed to it. | |
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Same Language Dub | |
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Same Language Dub: The lines delivered by the black musician whose overheard conversation alerts Chas to Turner's free room were overdubbed by Ian McShane | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Delta Blues acoustic guitar licks in a film about London in The '60s? When you've got Ry Cooder as part of your soundtrack ensemble, might as well go for it. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Turner's Title Drop is a quotation from Antonin Artaud. Turner reads aloud from the works of Jorge Luis Borges, and a portrait of him is seen being pierced by the bullet when Chas shoots Turner. Turner sings Robert Johnson's "Come on in My Kitchen" and "Me and the Devil Blues". | |
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Interplay of Sex and Violence | |
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Interplay of Sex and Violence: In the early part of the film, there are several bits where gangster violence gets intercut with sex scenes between Chas and his girlfriend, and between Turner and his girls. | |
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Mental Fusion | |
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Mental Fusion: Ends up happening between Chas and Turner. Maybe. | |
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Shame If Something Happened | |
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Shame If Something Happened: At the start of the film, Chas delivers a speech like this to the owner of a minicab firm while actually trashing the place. | |
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Intoxication Ensues | |
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Intoxication Ensues: After Chas eats the mushrooms without knowing that they're hallucinogens. Pherber is downright ecstatic when Chas suddenly asks "What's wrong with the lights?", since she knows that they're finally kicking in. | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: Lorraine, the weird little girl with a false moustache who drifts in and out of Turner's house. Is she his daughter? Related to one of the women? A street urchin who talked her way in like Chas? Something outright sinister? | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
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Mushroom Samba: A literal one, when Ferber feeds an unknowing Chas a salad made with hallucinogenic mushrooms. | |
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