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S.O.B.	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })S.O.B. is a 1981 American comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards, starring Julie Andrews, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, Larry Hagman, Robert Vaughn, Marisa Berenson, Robert Webber, Shelley Winters, Robert Preston, Loretta Swit, and William Holden in his final screen role. It is perhaps best remembered as "the film where Julie Andrews appears topless".The story is a satire of the film industry and Hollywood society. The main character, Felix Farmer (Mulligan), is a phenomenally successful producer who has just made the first flop of his career, to the dismay of the studio and the loss of his own sanity. Felix attempts suicide several times:First, he attempts to die of carbon monoxide poisoning in his car, only to have it slip into gear and drive through the side of his garage, down a sand dune and ending up in the Pacific Ocean.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Next, he turns on the gas in the kitchen oven, but is prevented from carrying out his intent by two house guests with other things on their mind.Thirdly, he attempts to hang himself from a rafter in an upstairs bedroom, only to fall through the floor, landing on a poisonous Hollywood gossip columnist standing in the living room below.Thereafter he spends most of the time heavily sedated while his friends and hangers-on occupy his beach house. The occupation leads to a party which degenerates into an orgy.Finally, he tries to shoot himself with a police officer's gun but is prevented from doing so by the ministrations of a sweet young thing in a pair of panties, and experiences a revelation of what was missing from his movie - Free Love!Newly energized, Felix resolves to save both the film and his reputation. With great difficulty he persuades the studio and his wife Sally Miles (Andrews), an Oscar-winning movie star with a goody-goody image, to allow him to revise the film into a soft-core pornographic musical in which she must appear topless. He liquidates most of his wealth to buy the existing footage and to bankroll further production. If he fails, both he and Sally will be impoverished, at least by Hollywood standards.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })At first the studio is keen to unload the film onto Felix and move on, but as it becomes apparent that it will be a success, they plot to regain control. Using California's community property laws, they get the distribution and final-cut rights by persuading Sally to sign them over. Felix then tries to get the movie negatives from the studio's color lab vault, armed with a water pistol, and is shot by police who think it is a real pistol.Felix's untimely and violent death creates yet another crisis, particularly for his cronies Culley, Coogan and Dr. Finegarten, who plan to give him a burial at sea. They kidnap his corpse, substituting the body of a well-known but underrated character actor who died in the first scene of the movie, having a heart attack while jogging on the beach in front of Felix's home. Felix gets a Viking funeral, being sent out to sea in a burning dinghy, while the actor finally gets the Hollywood burial many thought he deserved.The epilogue later reveals that the revamped film was a huge success, and Sally won another Academy Award for her performance. "And everyone lived happily ever after..."
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S.O.B. / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: Felix's plan is to reboot Night Wind as this, and invoke it with Sally herself. ("We sold them schmaltz! They prefer sadomasochism!") The party sequence plays like a raunchier version of the earlier Blake Edwards film The Party.
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S.O.B. / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: David Blackman is clearly supposed to represent Robert Evans, who was Blake Edwards' chief adversary at Paramount when Darling Lili flopped.
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S.O.B. / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
S.O.B. / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In-Universe Felix's last words after being shot by the police is that his death will probably give the film some necessary publicity on the news.
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S.O.B. / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The tone is set in the opening scenes, when a neighbor jogging on the beach collapses and dies just yards away from the Farmer mansion. He lies there for a couple of days before anyone notices.
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S.O.B. / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
S.O.B. / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Tim Culley asks Felix Farmer "Have I ever lied to you?" and Felix replies "No". Tim goes on to say "Well I have, repeatedly. But the fact that I just admitted I have lied to you in the past means you can believe me now".
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S.O.B. / int_28b08686	comment	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: What happens at the beach house, eventually.
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S.O.B. / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: At the end of the film, Sally Miles wins an Oscar for her performance in Night Wind.
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S.O.B. / int_485d09ab	comment	Creator In-Joke: The funeral home in the movie is called "O'Ryan's". Orion Pictures were meant to finance this and another Blake Edwards film, but budget disputes led to both being dropped - and SOB ended up at Lorimar (with Paramount distributing theatrically)
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S.O.B. / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
S.O.B. / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Julie Andrews is basically playing an Expy of herself. Everything said in the movie about Sally Miles being a former star of family-friendly musicals who was changing her image also applied to Andrews at the time.
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S.O.B. / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Coogan, Finegarten, and Culley sit around drinking heavily after Felix's death.
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S.O.B. / int_5d25f366	comment	You Can Leave Your Hat On: In Night Wind, the Film Within a Film, Sally's character does a bizarre striptease to the tune of "Polly Wolly Doodle".
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S.O.B. / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Felix holds a film lab director hostage using a water pistol and forces him to have all the negatives of the film he wants brought out of storage. Confronted by the police, he points the pistol at them, and he is shot and killed.
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S.O.B. / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
S.O.B. / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: Coogan, while helping to move Felix's corpse, soils himself in the process. And this is in addition to pissing himself.
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S.O.B. / int_7e38ea1	comment	Dead Artists Are Better: Felix goes from being a Hollywood pariah to having practically the whole town show up for his funeral.
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S.O.B. / int_a5eb6c29	comment	Vanity Project: What Night Wind becomes for Felix after he purchases the material of the failed studio project with his own money. The conflict then becomes that Executive Meddling still tries to hamper his vision, even buying the movie back so they can lock him out of the editing process.
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S.O.B. / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
S.O.B. / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: The central characters decide Felix deserves better than a Hollywood funeral full of phonies, so they steal his body from the funeral home and give him a Viking Funeral (put on a burning boat and sent out to sea).
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S.O.B. / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: Clips of all the players at the end.
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S.O.B. / int_aa8f52c7	comment	Porn with Plot: The Show Within a Show is a softcore version. We don't get to see much of the actual sex (since S.O.B. is rated R), but we do (briefly) get to see Julie Andrews' boobiesnote as her character refers to them after being given a sedative to calm her jitters. In-universe, she's doing the show in an attempt to break from her wholesome-girl typecasting; apparently she's basically playing herself.
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S.O.B. / int_d71073b5	comment	Subverted Kids' Show: The children's musical Night Wind and the usual Julie Andrews family-friendly image getting the Hotter and Sexier adult treatment (and Self-Deprecation on Andrews' part).
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S.O.B. / int_d8979db6	comment	Dr. Feelgood: Dr. Finegarten doles out prescription drugs like candy. He supplies Sally with the sedatives to relax her enough to do her topless scene.
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S.O.B. / int_dae0cfd5	comment	Something Else Also Rises: Felix firing the gun into the air when he climaxes at his blowjob. And the giant jack-in-the-box on the film set, with its pink head, which pops up out of its box as Felix is telling the studio execs about his plan to make Night Wind Hotter and Sexier.
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S.O.B. / int_dc26326	comment	Two Decades Behind: Despite being filmed (and theoretically set) in the early 80's, the movie's depictions of sex, drugs, and the counter-culture feel more like The '60s.note Edwards wrote the screenplay in the early 1970s, which made it dated by the time it finally went before the cameras
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S.O.B. / int_e91cc721	comment	In the Style of...: Edwards very obviously was inspired by Paddy Chayefsky's scripts for Network and The Hospital, even getting Network star William Holden to appear here.
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S.O.B. / int_eaf8c23a	comment	Conversation Cut: The conversation about Felix falling through the ceiling and landing on gossip columnist Polly Reed cycles through the whole cast this way, with each character getting a line or two over several conversations.
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