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State and Main
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A rare comedy from David Mamet, released in 2000 and featuring an ensemble cast including William H. Macy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin, Julia Stiles, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rebecca Pidgeon, Clark Gregg, David Paymer, Patti LuPone, and Charles Durning.It's basically a meta movie about the Horrible Hollywood filmmakers who descend on a hapless Vermont town and wreak various types of havoc. | |
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Dropped link to HollywoodNuns: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Dropped link to TheCon: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Drunk Driver | |
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Drunk Driver: Bob Barrenger | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: Walt's assistant is confused by Claire's sudden refusal to do a nude scene, as she's done so many before that "The whole country can draw her tits from memory." Then he realizes Claire is behind him, and worse, Walt had just talked her into doing the scene before she heard that. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The producers send for an extra $800,000 to pay Claire to do the nude scene. After they re-work the script so she doesn't get naked after all, it turns out that no one remembered to cancel the money transfer, and it arrives, in cash, just as they're bemoaning what to do about the case against Bob. Said money then gets "left" in front of Doug right before the charges are dropped. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Marty pays off everybody to drop the charges against Bob Barrenger. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Several. A number of buildings were destroyed or damaged in "a spate of suspicious fires" in 1960. Hints that a disturbed teenager and arson were involved, but no details. Also, the fires were somehow the inspiration for the formation of the Waterford Huskies. At the high school, the writer notices that the Waterford Huskies have won the championship every year except for 1975 — and there is a blank space for that year. A janitor walks up close to Joe to explain like it's some dark secret but is interrupted by Walt's arrival before he gets a word out. The tie-in website Bazoomer.com teases an answer, promising the whole story if you follow a link. The link leads to a blank white page. The film crew has apparently been kicked out of New Hampshire (the entire state). No one is willing to talk (at least onscreen) about what happened there, though it's a good guess that it had something to do with Bob's taste in women. | |
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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon | |
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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: | |
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Woman Scorned | |
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Woman Scorned: Carla | |
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| State and Main / int_4af55b78 | type |
Credits Gag | |
| State and Main / int_4af55b78 | comment |
Also, Walt and Marty offering people an associate producer credit on the movie (see Credits Gag above): | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
| State and Main / int_52d1f46e | comment |
Not What It Looks Like: At first Joe goes to some length to keep Ann from finding out that a nude Claire is in his room (against his will), thinking that the trope will play out. Then when she suddenly walks back in and catches Claire, Joe immediately explains what's going on, and Ann believes him. | |
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The Ending Changes Everything | |
| State and Main / int_7d3f1d63 | comment |
The Ending Changes Everything: Joe White perjures himself in court and instantly regrets it. It turns out that the whole court scene was just a play designed by Ann to give him a chance to rethink his choice before the real court case begins. | |
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Almost Kiss | |
| State and Main / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: This happens to Joe and Ann a few times (they get interrupted by a trooper, by townspeople), at least until the very end. | |
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Mamet Speak | |
| State and Main / int_822b648f | comment |
Mamet Speak: A lot of it, and yet surprisingly light on his signature Cluster F Bombs. | |
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Toplessness from the Back | |
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Toplessness from the Back: Discussed. The screenwriter finally figures out how to preserve his critically important nudity scene with an actress who refuses to get naked. Also, when Walt asks a female assistant to take off a t-shirt he doesn't like, she does so and reveals that she isn't wearing a bra. It gets played straight later on when Claire tries (unsuccessfully) to seduce Joe. | |
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| State and Main / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
| State and Main / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Bob Barrenger, again | |
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| State and Main / int_a82ff02f | type |
Meet Cute | |
| State and Main / int_a82ff02f | comment |
Meet Cute: Bookseller Ann meets Joe, the film's writer, when he comes to her shop to buy a typewriter and she recognizes a play that he wrote. Shortly afterward, she unceremoniously dumps her local politician fiancé. | |
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Amoral Attorney | |
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Amoral Attorney: Marty | |
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| State and Main / int_c2b4b3e2 | type |
Suit with Vested Interests | |
| State and Main / int_c2b4b3e2 | comment |
Suit with Vested Interests: Doug, all over the place. He spends a lot of the movie obsessing over his political aspirations and becomes a lot more eager to launch his statutory rape investigation against Bob Barrenger when it becomes clear that he can put the screws on Joe White (who his fiancée dumped him for). Any chance that he really is partially motivated by a sense of justice gets tossed out the window when he takes Marty's bribe. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The town's mayor is named George Bailey. | |
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| State and Main / int_d55108a1 | type |
Horrible Hollywood | |
| State and Main / int_d55108a1 | comment |
Horrible Hollywood: The plot description. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: The closing credits Award-Bait Song, performed by Patti LuPone, includes the line, "The life was a sweet, old-fashioned dream and the memory lingers yet. / And I think of our hour by the old mill stream and I find that I'm still wet..." | |
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Greek Chorus | |
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Greek Chorus: The two farmers who wander the streets giving meta commentary. | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
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Artistic License – Geography: Joe and Ann have an exchange where they discuss why the Dalmatian is the universal mascot for fire departments. Ann claims it's because the "first organized fire department was on the border of Dalmatia and Sardinia in the year 642." Except that Dalmatia is a sub-region of Croatia, and Sardinia is an island. The two are separated by the Adriatic Sea, the Tyrrhenian Sea and the entirety of Italy. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: The film within the film is an 1870s Oscar Bait historical drama, yet the website Bazoomer.com goes to great lengths to try to get product placement. In the end, they do. | |
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Running Gag | |
| State and Main / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Ann ending every conversation with one of the townspeople with "Go, you Huskies!" The townsfolk mentioning the pothole on Main Street to Doug, and the numerous times cars are seen driving over it. Also, Walt and Marty offering people an associate producer credit on the movie (see Credits Gag above): | |
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Everytown, America | |
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Everytown, America: Waterford, Vermont, for all intents and purposes. | |
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Ephebophile | |
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Ephebophile: Bob Barrenger. | |
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