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Shallow Hal

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Shallow Hal	type	TVTItem
Shallow Hal	label	Shallow Hal
Shallow Hal	page	ShallowHal
Shallow Hal	comment	A 2001 Romantic Comedy film written and directed by the Farrelly Brothers, starring Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow.Hal Larson (Black) is a single guy with an unsatisfying dating life, due to the fact that — having been unconsciously traumatized by his father's death at age nine — he is one of the shallowest men in the world. Until one day when, trapped in an elevator with self-help guru Tony Robbins, he is unknowingly hypnotized so that, every time he meets someone new from that point onward, he will see their "inner beauty" instead of their real appearance. He meets a woman named Rosemary Shanahan (Paltrow) who, to him, looks like a beautiful, skinny woman because of her great inner beauty. In reality, however, she's morbidly obese.Hilarity Ensues.
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Shallow Hal / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
Shallow Hal / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: A rare psychological variation involving nothing supernatural or Sci-Fi in nature, because of the effects of hypnosis on Hal. Because he is hypnotized, his mind presents Rosemary as a supermodel, when she is extremely obese.
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Shallow Hal / int_11340841	type	Fat Suit
Shallow Hal / int_11340841	comment	Fat Suit: Gwyneth Paltrow, though for most of the movie she appears skinny, and is played by a larger actress in below-the-face shots. Paltrow's characters mother also wears one at the end of the film.
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Shallow Hal / int_1589afa2	type	Freakiness Shame
Shallow Hal / int_1589afa2	comment	Freakiness Shame: Turns out Mauricio has a tail.
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Shallow Hal / int_187228e0	type	Bridal Carry
Shallow Hal / int_187228e0	comment	Bridal Carry: Hal tries to do this to Rosemary at the end of the movie ... and fails miserably. She is the one who ends up carrying him.
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Shallow Hal / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Shallow Hal / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Shallow Hal wants a gal", the incantation Mauricio uses to break the hypnosis.
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Shallow Hal / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Shallow Hal / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Downplayed. At the beginning of the movie, Jill, Hal's beautiful neighbor, rejects his interest in her, honestly admitting that she is not attracted to him and considers him shallow. A few days later, Jill catches Hal dancing with unattractive women and is surprised. And then she meets Hal's new girlfriend, Rosemary, and is clearly shocked. And then, after catching Rosemary leaving Hal's apartment after their first night of sex, she starts blatantly flirting with Hal, inviting him out even though she knows he's dating seriously. In the third act, she conveniently invites him on a date and then a night of love, as his relationship with Rosemary is in trouble. And though she's kind and polite, Jill makes a comment that can be interpreted as mean, by stating that she has seen the appearance of Hal's last girlfriends:
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Shallow Hal / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Shallow Hal / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Jill seems to be a nice person for most of the movie, and it's hard to disagree with her reasons for rejecting Hal's amorous advances, considering how unpleasant he is to women at the beginning of the movie. However, from the moment Jill learns that Hal is dating Rosemary, she immediately flirts with him, even though she knows their relationship is serious. And when Hal is having trouble with Rosemary (after the hypnosis comes to an end) Jill not only appears conveniently to invite Hal to a date, she also tries to seduce him and even makes a comment about Rosemary that can be interpreted as mean (by saying that Hal's dating the obese Rosemary proves he is pathologically unshallow).
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Shallow Hal / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Shallow Hal / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Rosemary is sweet, kind and always willing to help everyone around her.
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Shallow Hal / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Shallow Hal / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: The movie's premise inverts this. The better a person you are, the more attractive Hal perceives you as.
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Shallow Hal / int_2bc77899	type	I Am Not Pretty
Shallow Hal / int_2bc77899	comment	I Am Not Pretty: Hal doesn't understand why Rosemary is always deprecating her own looks, despite looking like Gwyneth Paltrow. He assumes she's doing this, then comes to believe that she has poor self-esteem because of her upbringing. In fact, he's been hypnotized into seeing her as thin, and she really weighs 300 lbs.
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Shallow Hal / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
Shallow Hal / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: The hostess at the restaurant turns out to be a transgender person.
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Shallow Hal / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Shallow Hal / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Played with. Hal does accept an invitation to dinner with former flame Jill (with her romantic intentions fully visible) while he and Rosemary are estranged, but still together. But when Jill turns up the gas and propositions Hal, he (after some consideration) refuses, finally realizing that he really wants to be with his "Rosie", regardless of her looks. But this realization comes to late, as Rosemary sees the two holding hands...
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Shallow Hal / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
Shallow Hal / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Basically, all the nicest and kindest people are identifiable on sight. Oh, and if you ever date one, they'll also be smoking hot.
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Shallow Hal / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
Shallow Hal / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Nurse Tanya, at least once Hal sees her gorgeous true physical appearance rather than her lack of inner beauty.
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Shallow Hal / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Shallow Hal / int_34dcfc96	comment	This is why Nurse Tanya Peeler, who is actually young and pretty, looks like an old crone to Hal. She's dating his friend, Walt, solely because of his money, and even confesses to Rosemary that the timing of their relationship could not have been better, just after she had broken up with her boyfriend and just after he had sold his company and had all the time in the world to go shopping with her etc etc, which is really a fancy way of saying she can now mooch off of him.
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Shallow Hal / int_34e3784f	type	Please, Don't Leave Me
Shallow Hal / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: Hal does this towards Rosemary at the end of the film. It doesn't work, though fortunately he had a backup plan, to simply go with her instead.
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Shallow Hal / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Shallow Hal / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: There's a mirror in the shot behind the transgender hostess. It still shows her true appearance even when she's being played by a cis woman because of Hal's spell.
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Shallow Hal / int_3f86799c	type	Gaussian Girl
Shallow Hal / int_3f86799c	comment	Gaussian Girl: Inverted and Subverted. After Hal's hypnosis is worn off, he puts Vaseline on his eyes to so that he won't be able to see Rosemary clearly. His vision is so blurry, he can't tell if Rosemary is attractive (to him) or not.
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Shallow Hal / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Shallow Hal / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: A film with an intended Aesop about how people should not be so shallow and judge people on the kind of person they are, not by how they look on the outside, but this loses some steam considering how many fat jokes it has at Rosemary's expense. Not to mention the amount of beautiful people who now appear ugly because of their horrible personality insinuates that it's okay to continue assuming that Beauty Is Bad.
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Shallow Hal / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Shallow Hal / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Rosemary, still hurt from Hal's recent behavior and actions, plans on going away on a Peace Corps mission even after Hal pleads for her not to go. So he decides to go with her instead. Rosemary forgives him and the two go back to dating, leaving together as a couple.
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Shallow Hal / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Shallow Hal / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Hal. Hal is sexist and superficial, but he's also a good person who cares about his friends. Mauricio could almost count too, given that he develops some depth as the film goes on.
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Shallow Hal / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Shallow Hal / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The hypnosis broken, Hal goes back to the hospital and sees Cadence... and she is horribly burned. He glances up and realizes that she was in the Pediatric Burn Unit the entire time.
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Shallow Hal / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Shallow Hal / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Hal and Mauricio have one. Mauricio is George Costanza after all.
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Shallow Hal / int_57de4e72	type	Beauty Inversion
Shallow Hal / int_57de4e72	comment	Beauty Inversion: A number of beautiful actresses wore makeup to appear ugly outside of Hal's "Inner Beauty Vision". The directors especially took flack for casting a skinny actress like Paltrow as a fat woman, but explained that it was easier for Paltrow to fat up (with makeup and a fatsuit) than it was for a heavy actress to slim down.
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Shallow Hal / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Shallow Hal / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Rosemary and Hal.
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Shallow Hal / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
Shallow Hal / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: Hal and Rosemary at the end.
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Shallow Hal / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Shallow Hal / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Jill may have been cold and rude in rejecting Hal's invitation at the beginning of the film, but she's right to accuse him of being shallow. As abrasive as she might have been in dealing with the situation, Tanya (as the nurse actually responsible for managing that section of the children's hospital ward) had every right to object to a random stranger (Hal) coming in and interacting with the patients. Hal (at only Rosemary's invitation) literally comes in off the street, picking up and hugging random children, and even engages in a "kissing game" with them: this all is especially egregious with the later reveal that they are all in a Children's Burn Treatment unit, where infection is especially dangerous). In hindsight, Tanya was extremely patient in this circumstance!
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Shallow Hal / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Shallow Hal / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Mauricio has a vestigial tail and he broke Hal's hypnosis out of jealousy of his happiness with Rosemary.
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Shallow Hal / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Shallow Hal / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "Cuckoo!"
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Shallow Hal / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Shallow Hal / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: Gwyneth Paltrow, Susan Ward, Brooke Burns and other beautiful actress in scenes wearing dresses, short skirts, lingerie or bikinis, before Hal's hypnosis is undone. For Chubby Chasers, the moment when fat Rosemary appears in a bikini is also his.
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Shallow Hal / int_7b5c69c8	type	Dirty Old Woman
Shallow Hal / int_7b5c69c8	comment	Dirty Old Woman: Helga, the housemaid, seems to like Hal's kiss (who mistook her for Rosemary).
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Shallow Hal / int_7b60cf	type	Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person
Shallow Hal / int_7b60cf	comment	Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: The hypnosis that allows Hal to see people's true inner selves includes the transgender hostess, whom Hal recognizes as a beautiful woman (even if she's used for an Unsettling Gender-Reveal).
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Shallow Hal / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Shallow Hal / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Mauricio after he de-hypnotizes Hal. Made worse by the fact that he lied to Tony Robbins about Hal getting fired in order to get the words needed to break the hypnosis.
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Shallow Hal / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Shallow Hal / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Hal is this for Rosemary at the beginning of the movie, before she realizes that his feelings for her are sincere. She doesn't know he does it because he thinks she's thin.
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Shallow Hal / int_8aa92e8d	type	Minor Flaw, Major Breakup
Shallow Hal / int_8aa92e8d	comment	Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: Mauricio gives a practically perfect girl the cold shoulder, passing up an opportunity to see a Beatles reunion while George Harrison was still alive, ostensibly because one of her second toes is slightly longer than normal. Turns out however that it's because he's ashamed of his own elongated tailbone.
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Shallow Hal / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Shallow Hal / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: When Hal describes Ralph as "Pretty Boy" to Rosemary while dining at a restaurant, he also alludes to the metaphorical halo around his head to reiterate how divinely handsome and good he is. But since Rosemary is unaware of Hal's hypnosis, she tells Hal that he's the first one to ever call Ralph that, and furthermore, she thinks the "halo" he's talking about is, in fact, the psoriasis around Ralph's head, and she even tells that to Hal directly.
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Shallow Hal / int_8f6b2792	type	Chubby Chaser
Shallow Hal / int_8f6b2792	comment	Chubby Chaser: Hal becomes one through hypnosis. Once the love goggles have been lifted, Hal realizes the object of his affection is beautiful. Also, twice his size. Various people doubt Hal's sincerity, but it doesn't seem to occur to anyone that he might be an entirely sincere Chubby Chaser ... mostly they think he's doing it to suck up to the boss of the company, who happens to be his new girlfriend's father.
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Shallow Hal / int_94d7b230	type	Cut a Slice, Take the Rest
Shallow Hal / int_94d7b230	comment	Cut a Slice, Take the Rest: Rosemary cuts off a "sliver" of a cake that's about as big as the whole cake, and walks off munching on it like a Pringles chip.
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Shallow Hal / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Shallow Hal / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Hal is Archie. Rosemary (Betty) is a fat, blonde, sweet and gentle woman, who dresses conservatively (before meeting Hal). Jill (Veronica) is an exotic, brunette, sensual woman, a little more rude and cold. Downplayed, though, because Jill is shown later in the movie to be a nice and pleasant person who simply objected to Hal's lechery and overt come-ons, and she makes a move on Hal after seeing what she believed was Character Development on his part in dating such a big girl (at this point, Hal is still hypnotized into seeing Rosemary as being thin). That said, the fact that Jill starts flirting with Hal while he's still dating Rosemary is a little... problematic. Anyway, Hal lets her down gently.
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Shallow Hal / int_9d90e013	type	Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing
Shallow Hal / int_9d90e013	comment	Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing: All Hal thought was that Tony Robbins did something to help him "score better with the ladies." He had no idea that it literally changed his vision.
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Shallow Hal / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
Shallow Hal / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: After the breaking of his hypnotism, it's seeing the burned face of Cadence that inspires Hal to stop judging women by their looks and recoil with Rosemary.
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Shallow Hal / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Shallow Hal / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Hal when he meets Rosemary.
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Shallow Hal / int_aa55cd25	type	Brawn Hilda
Shallow Hal / int_aa55cd25	comment	Brawn Hilda: Mauricio and Jill think that of Rosemary, having seen her true appearance. After Hal loses his Inner Beauty Vision, the rotund housemaid whom he initially mistakes for Rosemary is named Helga.
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Shallow Hal / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Shallow Hal / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Rosemary is played by Gwyneth Paltrow, and has several scenes wearing dresses, short skirts, lingerie or bikinis before Hal's hypnosis is undone.
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Shallow Hal / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Shallow Hal / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Hal wants the most beautiful women in the world to fall in love with him. He gets what he wanted... but what is beautiful for him is not beautiful for the people around him...
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Shallow Hal / int_b2adf5ad	type	Destructo-Nookie
Shallow Hal / int_b2adf5ad	comment	Destructo-Nookie: In a deleted scene, after the first time Hal and Rosemary have sex, Hal wakes up the next morning and finds that the part of the bed where Rosemary slept is completely destroyed.
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Shallow Hal / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Shallow Hal / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Looking the way they do, Hal and Mauricio really shouldn't have such high expectations from women. Hal's coworkers ask him how he can act so shallow when he's "not that good-looking" himself. They both have legitimate Freudian Excuses for their hypocrisy, though.
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Shallow Hal / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Shallow Hal / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Hal is initially interested in his neighbor Jill, but she rejects him for finding him shallow. So he falls in love with Rosemary, and that's where Jill falls in love with Hal. She tries to win him over when Hal and Rosemary's romance has problems.
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Shallow Hal / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
Shallow Hal / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True:
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Shallow Hal / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Shallow Hal / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Mauricio and Hal
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Shallow Hal / int_bb53d08	comment	The exception to this trope, however, occurs during the scene with the little girl in the Pediatric Burn Unit at the hospital when Hal goes back the second time, looking for Rosemary. This is the defining moment in which he realizes that he doesn't need hypnosis to see the inner beauty in people.
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Shallow Hal / int_bd2116fd	comment	Accidental Kiss: No longer hypnotized and having never seen Rosemary in her true form, Hal mistakes the Shanahans' housemaid Helga for Rosemary and kisses this woman rather sloppily. Hilariously enough, Helga doesn't seem to mind.
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Shallow Hal / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Hal believes he and Rosemary are this before the reveal. Mrs. Shanahan, though overweight, is still prettier than her husband.
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Shallow Hal / int_c2091e11	type	Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Shallow Hal / int_c2091e11	comment	Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: The main character can only see "inner beauty," so he sees people according to what they look like inside. He is attracted to Rosemary's inner beauty, and can't see her not-traditionally-attractive, overweight appearance. This holds true for several outwardly-ugly people in the film, including Ralph and the child burn victims in the hospital ward. It also holds true for the outwardly-hot woman his friend is dating, who appears as a not-traditionally-attractive old crone to Hal, because that's what she looks like inside. When the POV switches to another character, we see the "ugly" outward appearances through their eyes.
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Shallow Hal / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Shallow Hal / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The few moments when Rosemary's real appearance appears before Hal is released from hypnosis are portrayed by the film as this.
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Shallow Hal / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Pop some bolts on her neck and the villagers would be chasing her."
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Shallow Hal / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Hal is shallow because of his father's dying words about appearance. Mauricio is shallow because of his vestigial tail, which shames him into avoiding meaningful relationships.
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Shallow Hal / int_d1e3ca2b	type	True Love is Exceptional
Shallow Hal / int_d1e3ca2b	comment	True Love is Exceptional: The entire plot of the movie.
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Shallow Hal / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Jill initially rejects Hal's overtures, stating that she finds him shallow. However, after Hal starts dating unattractive girls and later starts dating the obese Rosemary, Jill is shocked and takes an interest in Hal, stating that she has concluded that he must be pathologically unshallow... However, this is still a mean and superficial comment about Rosemary.
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Shallow Hal / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Shallow Hal / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The movie is full of them, but the most prominent example is when Hal sees Rosemary for the first time (as slim-figured Gwyneth Paltrow, of course) walking into the clothing store, only to catch up with her and, after getting acquainted with her, later finding out she happens to be his boss's daughter.
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Shallow Hal / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: Initially Hal constructs his ideal image of a woman from bits and pieces of celebrities.
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Shallow Hal / int_e5e07b2d	type	You Cannot Grasp the True Form
Shallow Hal / int_e5e07b2d	comment	You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Invoked. An example where no Sci-Fi is involved, just hypnosis to get the aesop of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and "Personality is beautiful" involved. While Rosemary's true form is not horrifying to look at, it's certainly not pretty, but not enough to be the usual Brown Note that this trope would get as a reaction.
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Shallow Hal / int_f2be6700	comment	Stepford Snarker: Rosemary frequently makes jokes about her own obesity in a clear attempt to make it seem like she doesn't care about it. She's not very convincing.
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Shallow Hal / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: This is why Nurse Tanya Peeler, who is actually young and pretty, looks like an old crone to Hal. She's dating his friend, Walt, solely because of his money, and even confesses to Rosemary that the timing of their relationship could not have been better, just after she had broken up with her boyfriend and just after he had sold his company and had all the time in the world to go shopping with her etc etc, which is really a fancy way of saying she can now mooch off of him. Subverted with Hal himself as people bad-mouth him about obviously trying to suck up to his boss by dating his obese daughter and Hal can't understand why that would cross their minds.
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