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Strange Days
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Strange Days is a 1995 Cyberpunk Science Fiction movie written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett and Juliette Lewis.Lenny Nero (Fiennes) is a grungy ex-cop eking out a lonely, miserable existence in the urban nightmare that is 1999 Los Angeles by dealing in dreams. He sells illegal "SQUID" recordings that allow the user to directly experience moments from people's lives as if they were actually there, living every sight, sound, thought and feeling that the person doing the recording experiences. This allows the user to experience anything - sex, drugs, and even death. Although charming and suave on the surface, Lenny is deeply unhappy and pathetic, addicted to his own product, and desperately reliving the happy moments from his long-dead relationship with his ex-girlfriend Faith (Lewis), a rising punk musician whom he saved from the gutter only for her to discard him when she began to make it big. The only two of his few remaining friends who don't regard him as a washed-up loser are Mace (Bassett), a bodyguard and chauffeur, and Max (Tom Sizemore), a paranoid and cynical PI with ambiguous morality.Lenny's life, such as it is, begins to completely fall apart a few days before the millennium celebrations, when he anonymously receives a snuff recording that depicts the agonizing rape-murder of a prostitute he is acquainted with, whom he encountered hours before her death. Because she attempted to warn him of something concerning Faith, Lenny begins to suspect that Faith is the next target... | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Lenny and Mace, though for much of the film, it's obvious Mace is carrying a torch for him. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Jeriko One is basically a hammier Chuck D. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Mace, just for a moment, when despite all their efforts, it appears that the riot to end all riots has started... | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Lenny comes off as a cross between a drug-dealer and a pimp at the start of the movie. You'd never think that he was an ex-cop (ex-vice, for that matter). | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: The whole "recording of the LAPD breaking the law" plotline owes more than a little to the Rodney King incident, only in this case, taken up to eleven. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: Crooked cops Steckler and Engelman vs. sleazy music producer Philo Gant. They both want Iris's SQUID recording for their own different reasons. And, of course, Max is playing the whole situation to his own advantage. | |
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Transferable Memory | |
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Transferable Memory: The SQUID allows memories to be recorded for others to experience them. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: James Cameron's "scriptment" (he started out to write a treatment, but it evolved into a script as he went along) was later published separately, and fills in a lot of background detail. | |
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Accent Slip-Up | |
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Accent Slip-Up: When Philo slips from a generic Transatlantic accent into a more Cockney one while raging at Lenny. (Michael Wincott, the actor playing Philo, is actually Canadian.) | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: Mace uses mace on a guard dog. | |
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Chronic Evidence Retention Syndrome | |
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Chronic Evidence Retention Syndrome: Max's frame of Lenny would probably have still worked, even after his death - if he hadn't recorded his own confession. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Iris's is exceptionally cruel. She gets chased, tied to a doorknob, stripped and blindfolded, and then her attacker outfits her with a squid, then rapes and strangles her so that she gets doubly humiliated by being made to feel everything he's feeling. | |
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Byronic Hero | |
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Byronic Hero: Lenny may well be the epitome of this trope. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Wade, a former pro-footballer who has been reduced to bodyguarding Philo. He's genuinely flattered when Lenny pretends to recognize him, but still beats the stuffing out of him. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The 1992 Los Angeles riots set a trend toward increased crime, anger, and police brutality, to the point that by 1999 America is practically a warzone. | |
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Knight in Sour Armor | |
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Knight in Sour Armor: Lenny, as he still has a sense of right and wrong — he just doesn't care about ultimately irrelevant "crimes" like dealing in SQUID. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: A very subtle one. Lenny and Tick's conversation after the opening wire-trip sequence casually mentions that the Squid recorder survived the fall and its recording is undamaged. It's left to the viewer to realise that the same will be true of Max's recording after his fall. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: To Brainstorm. | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: Max, after it's revealed he's a psychotic rapist who wears a wig fitted with a SQUID recorder. | |
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Electric Instant Gratification | |
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Electric Instant Gratification: Deconstructed. | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: Lenny. | |
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Fantastic Drug | |
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Fantastic Drug: SQUID recordings are treated as such — dealing them is illegal, and addicts can become solipsistic. It's legal in other parts of the world. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Officer Steckler is clearly not a very well-adjusted individual. Neither is Max, it turns out. Lampshaded when Lenny, during his profile of the killer, points out that by his actions in raping and murdering a woman and forcing her to experience what he's experiencing as he does so, the killer is clearly insane but staged the crime to look like a random thrill-seeking sex crime because he thinks that he isn't. | |
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Gender Bender | |
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Gender Bender: Wearing a SQUID allows users to enjoy sex as the opposite sex. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Lenny is introduced as an Anti-Hero, a slimeball, deadbeat pusher in an obnoxious suit, but it's eventually revealed that he's a former police officer with a rather sad past. | |
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Concert Kiss | |
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Concert Kiss: Lenny and Mace, at the stroke of midnight, January 1st 2000. | |
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Japan Takes Over the World | |
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Japan Takes Over the World: A mild example, but when Nero pulls out the SQUID, the Japanese businessmen show off their vastly improved Japanese manufactured version of it. | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: Exploited by Lenny, who is seen reviewing a lesbian memory created by two gorgeous girls. He gives tips to the girl in view about how to make the scene more erotic. | |
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Zeerust | |
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Zeerust: Leaving aside the fact that SQUID hasn't made an appearance yet, some of the film's fashions look pretty absurd, and there's also a moment with a voice-transcribing answer machine that raises an eyebrow these days. Also, the kind of outspoken gangster rap that the film portrays as part of a major social movement had gone out of style by 2000. Nor was Los Angeles quite the borderline-anarchic urban warzone the movie depicts it as either. Averted with Faith's grunge-style rock, as it was still popular on the underground scene she cavorts in for long after 2000, though by 1995 after Kurt Cobain's death, people were tired of the nihilism, and grunge stopped being a mainstream force as music really experimented with different styles throughout the late '90s. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Max, when revealing the existence of the LAPD death squad: "It's not a question of being paranoid, it's whether you're paranoid enough." Subverted: Max turns out to have made the whole thing up on the spot to cover up his own part in the Gambit Pileup that seems to be crashing all around them. | |
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Killer Cop | |
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Killer Cop: Steckler and Engelman executed Jeriko One for giving them lip. | |
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Hell-Bent for Leather | |
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Hell-Bent for Leather: Lenny spends much of the film in a pair of leather trousers to go with his rough-looking jacket. | |
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Concert Climax | |
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Concert Climax: Everything comes to a head during Los Angeles' 1999 New Year's celebration. | |
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Sad Clown | |
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Sad Clown: Lenny is always ready with a quip and an ingratiating smirk, but he's a deeply depressed sad sack behind closed doors. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: The riot started when Mace gets beaten on by a SWAT team dissipates almost immediately as the Police Commissioner arrives with an anti-riot brigade. His possible support was, however, set up in a prior scene. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Lenny is a heroic-ish one. | |
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Leg Focus | |
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Leg Focus: The camera lingers on Mace's legs while she's in her Little Black Dress. | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess: Max's story about the LAPD death squad turns out to be one of these. | |
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The Snark Knight | |
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The Snark Knight: Lenny. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Lenny is a criminal who used to be a cop and still has a sense of right and wrong. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Lenny doesn't fight fair. Pull a knife on Mace, she'll pull a gun. Pull a gun on Mace, she'll trick you into thinking the safety's on, then disarm you and pummel you with it. | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: The film runs on the Will They or Won't They? between Lenny and Mace. They resolve it just before the credits roll. | |
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Sampling | |
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Sampling: Mace's quote, "Right here, right now!" would later be sampled in Fatboy Slim's song also called "Right Here, Right Now." | |
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Coolest Club Ever | |
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Coolest Club Ever: Retinal Fetish. A Cyberpunk movie, indeed. | |
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Gratuitous Japanese | |
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Gratuitous Japanese: Subverted when Lenny greets a Japanese businessman with "Konbanwa" (good evening) instead of the generic - and incorrect - "Konnichiwa" (good day). | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
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Let's Get Dangerous!: Lenny spends most of the movie as an ineffectual, much-disdained Butt-Monkey punching bag. Then, towards the end, he seems to remember he used to be a cop and decides to remind everyone else of this. Firstly, when approaching one of the mooks who'd previously used him as a punching bag, he delivers his usual smarmy "Can't we talk about this like two reasonable human beings?" Catchphrase — and doesn't even give the guy a chance to respond before punching him out, handcuffing him, and taking his pistol. Secondly, when fighting Max, he not only holds his own against a complete psychopath but manages to win out by pulling a knife that had been stabbed into his own back out and cutting his tie — which was the only thing keeping Max from plummeting to his death. Also, we see him worrying before about his tie when he was going to a probable trap. It turns out to save his life. Additionally, in a deleted scene, he is shown as able to manipulate his way into gaining exclusive passes to the giant Final Boss party in under 5 minutes, smiling the whole time. | |
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I Am Not Left-Handed | |
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I Am Not Left-Handed: Lenny pretends to be a coward and a bad fighter, but a clue he's not is when he tells the larger bouncer not to hit him in the face — he can take a body blow but doesn't want any physical evidence of being hit. Later, when he needs it, he takes the bouncer out quickly and efficiently. | |
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Strange Days / int_59657f84 | type |
Trapped in a Sinking Car | |
Strange Days / int_59657f84 | comment |
Trapped in a Sinking Car: Mace and Lenny get trapped in her limousine when it's dumped off a pier. | |
Strange Days / int_59657f84 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_59657f84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_59657f84 | |
Strange Days / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
Strange Days / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: Lenny assures Mace that getting into an exclusive New Year's party is "what he does." In the next scene, they're already at the party. The scene where we find out how they got inside was left on the cutting room floor and later included on the DVD. | |
Strange Days / int_5a3b8032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_5a3b8032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_5a3b8032 | |
Strange Days / int_5a4aa505 | type |
Government Conspiracy | |
Strange Days / int_5a4aa505 | comment |
Government Conspiracy: Subverted. Max claims that there's a government conspiracy being enforced by "death squads," but he just made the whole thing up to throw Lenny off the scent. It's a much smaller and more private crime. | |
Strange Days / int_5a4aa505 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Strange Days / int_5a4aa505 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_5a4aa505 | |
Strange Days / int_5a6ccc79 | type |
Profane Last Words | |
Strange Days / int_5a6ccc79 | comment |
Profane Last Words: This is lampshaded when the villain points out to Lenny that in fatal airplane crashes, the pilot's last words 90% of the time are some variant of "Oh Shit!" just as he's about to shoot Lenny. | |
Strange Days / int_5a6ccc79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_5a6ccc79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_5a6ccc79 | |
Strange Days / int_5af55436 | type |
Forced to Watch | |
Strange Days / int_5af55436 | comment |
Forced to Watch: Iris's killer uses a SQUID recorder with a signal splitter to force her to see and experience her own rape and murder from his perspective. It later looks like the same fate befell Faith until it turns out that it was (initially) consensual. | |
Strange Days / int_5af55436 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_5af55436 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_5af55436 | |
Strange Days / int_5bdcc85a | type |
Disney Villain Death | |
Strange Days / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: Max. | |
Strange Days / int_5bdcc85a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_5bdcc85a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_5bdcc85a | |
Strange Days / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
Strange Days / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: Letting go of the past. Nero can't, even though everyone, including Faith and especially Mace, tells him it's destroying him. | |
Strange Days / int_5ce7dbb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_5ce7dbb9 | |
Strange Days / int_60547993 | type |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
Strange Days / int_60547993 | comment |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Played with — Mace evidently does not give a toss about Faith and is quick to remind Lenny that it's all over between the two of them. Nevertheless, she ultimately ends up helping him in his efforts to protect / win her. | |
Strange Days / int_60547993 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_60547993 | |
Strange Days / int_60fa92ac | type |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
Strange Days / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: A woman called "Mace" is unlikely to be mistaken for a cuddly teddy bear, even before actually seeing her. | |
Strange Days / int_60fa92ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_60fa92ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_60fa92ac | |
Strange Days / int_65bc92fc | type |
Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
Strange Days / int_65bc92fc | comment |
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Mace (choleric), Lenny (melancholic), Iris (phlegmatic), and Faith (sanguine). | |
Strange Days / int_65bc92fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_65bc92fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_65bc92fc | |
Strange Days / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Strange Days / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Nero, Mace, Faith, Iris, Jeriko One. | |
Strange Days / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_6bda9a30 | |
Strange Days / int_7064ec04 | type |
Cassette Futurism | |
Strange Days / int_7064ec04 | comment |
Cassette Futurism: The film takes place in a dystopian society that was only a few years away from the time of filming. The future aesthetic is mostly conveyed with loud, shiny clothing and punk stylings amongst the hip and degenerate crowd. Information is distributed by hand on discs, without any mention of the internet. | |
Strange Days / int_7064ec04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_7064ec04 | |
Strange Days / int_70b840b6 | type |
Giving Them the Strip | |
Strange Days / int_70b840b6 | comment |
Giving Them the Strip: Lenny cuts his necktie to avoid being pulled off the balcony along with Max. | |
Strange Days / int_70b840b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_70b840b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_70b840b6 | |
Strange Days / int_714667be | type |
Murderer P.O.V. | |
Strange Days / int_714667be | comment |
Murderer P.O.V.: Iris's rape and murder. Subverted and made creepier in that the murderer has the victim share the POV of herself getting raped and murdered, and the whole other layer of the murderer sending Lenny the tape so he can share the victim's POV of the murderer's POV of this. Total Nightmare Fuel and almost unwatchable. | |
Strange Days / int_714667be | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Strange Days / int_714667be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_714667be | |
Strange Days / int_72cdfc33 | type |
Big Bad Ensemble | |
Strange Days / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
Big Bad Ensemble: Steckler and Engelman, Philo Gant, and Max. | |
Strange Days / int_72cdfc33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_72cdfc33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_72cdfc33 | |
Strange Days / int_741e8e7 | type |
The Cast Showoff | |
Strange Days / int_741e8e7 | comment |
The Cast Show Off: Juliette Lewis does the vocals for each of her songs in the film (all of which are originally by PJ Harvey). | |
Strange Days / int_741e8e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_741e8e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_741e8e7 | |
Strange Days / int_744e3311 | type |
Police Brutality | |
Strange Days / int_744e3311 | comment |
Police Brutality: Complaints around this have heightened racial tensions in the US during the film, and in particular the plot revolves around an outspoken rapper being killed by two cops, which is inadvertently recorded, with them trying to track down the recording. | |
Strange Days / int_744e3311 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_744e3311 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_744e3311 | |
Strange Days / int_74d10a21 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
Strange Days / int_74d10a21 | comment |
Jerk Ass Has A Point: Lenny hates Commissioner Strickland but accepts he's not corrupt. When Mace is able to give Strickland the evidence surrounding Jericho One's murder he orders the arrest of the officers involved, to the bewilderment of the other cops who nevertheless carry out his commands. | |
Strange Days / int_74d10a21 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_74d10a21 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_74d10a21 | |
Strange Days / int_780e2082 | type |
Slimeball | |
Strange Days / int_780e2082 | comment |
Slimeball: Lenny is introduced this way, as an obnoxiously dressed pusher who's always trying to get another hustle going. Over the course of the film, it becomes obvious that there's much more to him than he lets on. | |
Strange Days / int_780e2082 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_780e2082 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_780e2082 | |
Strange Days / int_79275aa2 | type |
Not on the List | |
Strange Days / int_79275aa2 | comment |
Not on the List: When Lenny Nero tries to get into Retinal Fetish. | |
Strange Days / int_79275aa2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_79275aa2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_79275aa2 | |
Strange Days / int_79a60aec | type |
For Want of a Nail | |
Strange Days / int_79a60aec | comment |
For Want of a Nail: At the start of the film Iris frantically tries to phone Lenny after witnessing the two cops kill Jeriko One. If Lenny had got in just a couple of minutes earlier and been able to answer Iris on the phone, who knows what might have happened? | |
Strange Days / int_79a60aec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_79a60aec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_79a60aec | |
Strange Days / int_79c8657c | type |
Finger Framing | |
Strange Days / int_79c8657c | comment |
Finger Framing: When he first appears in the film, Max is Finger Framing the approaching Lenny. This turns out to be something of a Chekhov's Gun. | |
Strange Days / int_79c8657c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_79c8657c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_79c8657c | |
Strange Days / int_7a2a34ef | type |
Not With the Safety On, You Won't | |
Strange Days / int_7a2a34ef | comment |
Not With the Safety On, You Won't: Mace pulls this on Philo's lead goon, Joey Corto. It distracts him long enough to get punched. | |
Strange Days / int_7a2a34ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_7a2a34ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_7a2a34ef | |
Strange Days / int_7e38ea1 | type |
Dead Artists Are Better | |
Strange Days / int_7e38ea1 | comment |
Dead Artists Are Better: discussed | |
Strange Days / int_7e38ea1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_7e38ea1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_7e38ea1 | |
Strange Days / int_7eb73553 | type |
Bullying a Dragon | |
Strange Days / int_7eb73553 | comment |
Bullying a Dragon: Jeriko One really should have kept his mouth shut after the cops pulled him over. Granted, Steckler probably still would have shot him anyway, but he might have "just" been beaten. | |
Strange Days / int_7eb73553 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_7eb73553 | |
Strange Days / int_7fe66c69 | type |
Hand of Death | |
Strange Days / int_7fe66c69 | comment |
Hand of Death: Seen during the murderer's POV tapes. His identity is spoiled by his sleeves rather early for astute watchers. | |
Strange Days / int_7fe66c69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_7fe66c69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_7fe66c69 | |
Strange Days / int_80eb641c | type |
Straw Nihilist | |
Strange Days / int_80eb641c | comment |
Straw Nihilist: Max is constantly coming out with rather pessimistic, Nietzche-esque, pre-pesky whipper-snapper statements. It's a pretty big clue pointing towards his true nature. | |
Strange Days / int_80eb641c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_80eb641c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_80eb641c | |
Strange Days / int_8271663b | type |
Suspicious Ski Mask | |
Strange Days / int_8271663b | comment |
Suspicious Ski Mask: Iris' attacker in the Snuff Film wears one as he breaks into an apartment. He even glances into a mirror as he adjusts it over himself to make it fully clear to the audience what he's wearing. | |
Strange Days / int_8271663b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_8271663b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_8271663b | |
Strange Days / int_830f2f0e | type |
Police State | |
Strange Days / int_830f2f0e | comment |
Police State: America, particularly Los Angeles, has come to resmble this this by 1999 in the film's timeline, as pointed out by Jeriko One, whilst still a democracy the widespread rioting coming up to the millenium has created an ongoing state of emergency. | |
Strange Days / int_830f2f0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_830f2f0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_830f2f0e | |
Strange Days / int_839be725 | type |
Lady in a Power Suit | |
Strange Days / int_839be725 | comment |
Lady in a Power Suit: Mace wears a severe black one in her job as a bodyguard/limo driver. | |
Strange Days / int_839be725 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_839be725 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_839be725 | |
Strange Days / int_85b5dc7 | type |
Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight | |
Strange Days / int_85b5dc7 | comment |
Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: While trying to get into a party, Mace beats up on Gant's thugs before finally pulling a gun on the knife-wielding female thug. She shrugs and says, "Enjoy the party | |
Strange Days / int_85b5dc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_85b5dc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_85b5dc7 | |
Strange Days / int_88cee6e2 | type |
Abhorrent Admirer | |
Strange Days / int_88cee6e2 | comment |
Abhorrent Admirer: Mace surmises that the Serial Killer sends Lenny the recordings because the killer sees Lenny as an exemplar of SQUID. She's wrong — Max just wants to mock his employer. | |
Strange Days / int_88cee6e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_88cee6e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_88cee6e2 | |
Strange Days / int_8a4988bb | type |
Mind Rape | |
Strange Days / int_8a4988bb | comment |
Mind Rape: Done to Iris by Max as she is raped (in the standard way) and murdered. He forces her not only to see everything he sees but to feel everything he's feeling, such as the joy he's getting out of raping her and her own fear amplified through his heightened sexual arousal. It's so upsetting that simply playing the recording back causes Lenny to be violently sick all over the pavement. | |
Strange Days / int_8a4988bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_8a4988bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_8a4988bb | |
Strange Days / int_8bb79fdf | type |
Designated Girl Fight | |
Strange Days / int_8bb79fdf | comment |
Designated Girl Fight: Averted. Lenny takes her out instead. | |
Strange Days / int_8bb79fdf | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_8bb79fdf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_8bb79fdf | |
Strange Days / int_8cb4ea46 | type |
By-the-Book Cop | |
Strange Days / int_8cb4ea46 | comment |
By-the-Book Cop: Strickland. See Reasonable Authority Figure below. | |
Strange Days / int_8cb4ea46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_8cb4ea46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_8cb4ea46 | |
Strange Days / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
Strange Days / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Philo is a Smug Snake and seems to have Faith in some sort of blackmail, even if it's just emotional. No, Philo is just an asshole and is completely innocent of any wrongdoing, including Faith, who really does love him. | |
Strange Days / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
Strange Days / int_90b66e22 | type |
Femme Fatale | |
Strange Days / int_90b66e22 | comment |
Femme Fatale: Faith. | |
Strange Days / int_90b66e22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_90b66e22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_90b66e22 | |
Strange Days / int_94e4b975 | type |
Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
Strange Days / int_94e4b975 | comment |
Vomit Indiscretion Shot: After viewing the recording of Iris being raped and murdered, Lenny goes tumbling out of the back of Mace's car and vomits messily all over the pavement. | |
Strange Days / int_94e4b975 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_94e4b975 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_94e4b975 | |
Strange Days / int_94e4c8ab | type |
Betty and Veronica | |
Strange Days / int_94e4c8ab | comment |
Betty and Veronica: Played with: Mace, the ass-kicking Action Girl, is the Betty; Faith, the flaky, emotionally unstable backstabber, is the Veronica. Mace wins, partly because Faith slept with Lenny's best friend and conspired with him to frame him for murder and partly because she's, well, awesome. | |
Strange Days / int_94e4c8ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_94e4c8ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_94e4c8ab | |
Strange Days / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
Strange Days / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: After being exposed as Jeriko One's murderer, being arrested, and seeing his partner blow his own brains out rather than face a prison sentence while they were handcuffed together, Officer Steckler is not happy with Mace. | |
Strange Days / int_957e5fc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_957e5fc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_957e5fc2 | |
Strange Days / int_96e01893 | type |
Bodyguard Babes | |
Strange Days / int_96e01893 | comment |
Bodyguard Babes: Mace's cover is being a limo driver, but in reality she's expected to be her charge's bodyguard. One of Gant's hired thugs is an impressively muscular blonde woman who takes her own turn beating the hell out of Lenny. | |
Strange Days / int_96e01893 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_96e01893 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_96e01893 | |
Strange Days / int_9843be73 | type |
As You Know | |
Strange Days / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: A radio talk show caller explains how the country has really gone down the toilet in the last few years. | |
Strange Days / int_9843be73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_9843be73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_9843be73 | |
Strange Days / int_99298c71 | type |
Better to Die than Be Killed | |
Strange Days / int_99298c71 | comment |
Better to Die than Be Killed: Engleman commits suicide after Commissioner Strickland orders his arrest. | |
Strange Days / int_99298c71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_99298c71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_99298c71 | |
Strange Days / int_9b610976 | type |
I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! | |
Strange Days / int_9b610976 | comment |
I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: "Jacking in" is analogous to drug use, and unlike most examples of this trope, it is illegal. | |
Strange Days / int_9b610976 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_9b610976 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_9b610976 | |
Strange Days / int_9bca83eb | type |
Death by Irony | |
Strange Days / int_9bca83eb | comment |
Death by Irony: Max dies when Nero cuts off the tie Max had been mocking earlier, using the same knife Max tried to kill Lenny with moments before to do so. | |
Strange Days / int_9bca83eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_9bca83eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_9bca83eb | |
Strange Days / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Strange Days / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
There are three wigs with SQUID recorders hidden underneath them; one worn by Iris — which is how she recorded Jeriko One's execution — one worn by the actor Lenny pays to appear in one of the videos, and the third by Max, which is how he's able to record the murders he commits. The first two are foreshadowing for the last one. | |
Strange Days / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Strange Days / int_9fbe06a5 | type |
Badass in a Nice Suit | |
Strange Days / int_9fbe06a5 | comment |
Badass in a Nice Suit: Mace in her chauffeur/bodyguard outfit. | |
Strange Days / int_9fbe06a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_9fbe06a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_9fbe06a5 | |
Strange Days / int_a01a8ac7 | type |
Grunge | |
Strange Days / int_a01a8ac7 | comment |
Grunge: The music played by Faith, who is sort of a pastiche of Courtney Love. | |
Strange Days / int_a01a8ac7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_a01a8ac7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_a01a8ac7 | |
Strange Days / int_a1e4de7 | type |
Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight | |
Strange Days / int_a1e4de7 | comment |
Pull a knife on Mace, she'll pull a gun. Pull a gun on Mace, she'll trick you into thinking the safety's on, then disarm you and pummel you with it. | |
Strange Days / int_a1e4de7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_a1e4de7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_a1e4de7 | |
Strange Days / int_a55454ee | type |
Malcolm Xerox | |
Strange Days / int_a55454ee | comment |
Malcolm Xerox: Jeriko One is a combination of Malcolm X and Tupac Shakur. | |
Strange Days / int_a55454ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Strange Days / int_a55454ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Days | hasFeature |
Strange Days / int_a55454ee | |
Strange Days / int_a6cda066 | type |
Rule of Three | |
Strange Days / int_a6cda066 | comment |
Rule of Three: There are three wigs with SQUID recorders hidden underneath them; one worn by Iris — which is how she recorded Jeriko One's execution — one worn by the actor Lenny pays to appear in one of the videos, and the third by Max, which is how he's able to record the murders he commits. The first two are foreshadowing for the last one. Also, the running gag of Lenny trying to bribe people with his Rolex. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
Strange Days / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: A SQUID deck fitted with a special amplifier can virtually lobotomize people. Since the victims are left technically alive, such incidents aren't treated as homicides, even if foul play is suspected. | |
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Strange Days / int_a9de87d2 | type |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
Strange Days / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Lenny tends to pretend to be cowardly to make his opponent underestimate him. Just ask a bouncer. Lenny used to be a street cop, after all. There's some subtle foreshadowing, as he lets the bouncer hit him anywhere but the face — because he can take a body blow easily. | |
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Final Boss | |
Strange Days / int_ad4a45be | comment |
Additionally, in a deleted scene, he is shown as able to manipulate his way into gaining exclusive passes to the giant Final Boss party in under 5 minutes, smiling the whole time. | |
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Strange Days / int_ad7a381d | type |
P.O.V. Cam | |
Strange Days / int_ad7a381d | comment |
P.O.V. Cam: All of the SQUID scenes. As noted in the film commentary, Strange Days pioneered new, up-close P.O.V. Cam techniques for using headcams. | |
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Strange Days / int_afd71b8a | type |
Inside a Computer System | |
Strange Days / int_afd71b8a | comment |
Inside a Computer System: An interesting twist on this trope, the SQUID puts the user in someone else's memories. | |
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Strange Days / int_b0f4db8b | type |
TanksForTheMemories | |
Strange Days / int_b0f4db8b | comment |
Tanks for the Memories | |
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Strange Days / int_b1346878 | type |
Fate Worse than Death | |
Strange Days / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Tick, Lenny's recording expert, gets his frontal brain lobes cooked off. Technically alive, but now totally cut off from the outside world. A similar fate happens to Philo Gant, but Max shoots him in the head later, killing him for real. | |
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Strange Days / int_b20df16c | type |
Friends All Along | |
Strange Days / int_b20df16c | comment |
Friends All Along: Max's introduction plays out this way. It doesn't last, though. | |
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Strange Days / int_b26cc887 | type |
Just Between You and Me | |
Strange Days / int_b26cc887 | comment |
Just Between You and Me: "Okay, I feel like I gotta share this with someone, because it's just too perfect..." | |
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Strange Days / int_b4a6ae4c | type |
Everyone Has Standards | |
Strange Days / int_b4a6ae4c | comment |
Everyone Has Standards: Lenny refuses to deal in snuff films. | |
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Strange Days / int_b6aad019 | type |
Snuff Film | |
Strange Days / int_b6aad019 | comment |
Later in the film, Lenny finds Philo Gant comatose from an amplified SQUID recording. He is then confronted by Max who is now wearing a pair of the same kind of gloves the intruder that raped and murdered Iris was wearing. Confirming that he and the intruder in the Snuff Film are the same person. | |
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Strange Days / int_b7e0c5ff | type |
Love Triangle | |
Strange Days / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Love Triangle: Lenny, Mace, and Faith. Also, Lenny, Faith, and Max. | |
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Strange Days / int_b9fc31d3 | type |
Victoria's Secret Compartment | |
Strange Days / int_b9fc31d3 | comment |
Victoria's Secret Compartment: When Mace wears her Little Black Dress, she keeps a gun strapped on her thigh. | |
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Strange Days / int_bb40e7e0 | type |
Failed Future Forecast | |
Strange Days / int_bb40e7e0 | comment |
Failed Future Forecast: When it was written it was set 20 Minutes into the Future so it didn't start as an alternate history, but the turn of the millennium came and went by without the societal upheavals depicted in the film. A news broadcast mentions that predictions for the new millennium include Turkey recognizing the Armenian genocide, and the United States being on its second female president by 2025. Neither came close to coming true. | |
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Strange Days / int_bc7e1c5b | type |
These Gloves Are Made for Killin' | |
Strange Days / int_bc7e1c5b | comment |
These Gloves Are Made for Killin': Lenny unwittingly watches a Snuff Film in the form of a recorded memory of an intruder putting on latex gloves. After the intruder starts to lock pick a door, he assumes he's just watching a typical breaking and entering crime until the intruder breaks into Iris' hotel room and brutally rapes and murders her. Later in the film, Lenny finds Philo Gant comatose from an amplified SQUID recording. He is then confronted by Max who is now wearing a pair of the same kind of gloves the intruder that raped and murdered Iris was wearing. Confirming that he and the intruder in the Snuff Film are the same person. | |
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Strange Days / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
Strange Days / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Max hates Nero's ties. His tie returns the favor. | |
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Strange Days / int_c36cba70 | type |
Mooks | |
Strange Days / int_c36cba70 | comment |
Firstly, when approaching one of the mooks who'd previously used him as a punching bag, he delivers his usual smarmy "Can't we talk about this like two reasonable human beings?" Catchphrase — and doesn't even give the guy a chance to respond before punching him out, handcuffing him, and taking his pistol. | |
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Strange Days / int_c3b51bb3 | type |
You Are Better Than You Think You Are | |
Strange Days / int_c3b51bb3 | comment |
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Mace thinks this of Nero (especially since he comforted her son after his father had committed a murder back when Nero was a police officer.) Strickland thinks this, too, acting like Nero's disappointed father, which Nero really doesn't appreciate. | |
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Strange Days / int_c660bc15 | type |
Fan Disservice | |
Strange Days / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: A rape and murder scene featuring nudity is still a rape and murder scene. Lenny's reaction pretty much conveys the feelings of the audiencenote We hope. | |
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Strange Days / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Strange Days / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Nero quips, "Fan mail from some flounder?" | |
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Strange Days / int_c9c317cd | type |
Last-Minute Hookup | |
Strange Days / int_c9c317cd | comment |
Last-Minute Hookup: Lenny and Mace, punctuated by a Big Damn Kiss at the stroke of midnight for 2000. | |
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Strange Days / int_ca3a6dbd | type |
Informed Ability | |
Strange Days / int_ca3a6dbd | comment |
Informed Ability: Jeriko One is supposed to be the best rapper around, but the one song we hear from him doesn't support the notion very well. A different version of the song is on the movie's soundtrack and is much better than what's heard in the film. | |
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Strange Days / int_ca3a6dbd | |
Strange Days / int_caf89e54 | type |
Taking You with Me | |
Strange Days / int_caf89e54 | comment |
Taking You with Me: Max attempts this on Lenny near the end of their final fight. | |
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Strange Days / int_ce68d46b | type |
Next Sunday A.D. | |
Strange Days / int_ce68d46b | comment |
Next Sunday A.D.: The film was released in 1995 and takes place in 1999. | |
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Strange Days / int_cf17b0a4 | type |
Mental Shutdown | |
Strange Days / int_cf17b0a4 | comment |
Mental Shutdown: When Lenny tries to contact Tick, his SQUID supplier, he finds that Tick has been rendered vegetative by an amplified SQUID device (he describes it as Tick's frontal lobe had been turned into two runny eggs). When Mace asks Max how long it lasts, he quietly says "Forever." Later, when Lenny goes to confront Philo Gant he finds the same thing was done to him. | |
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Strange Days / int_d08595d3 | type |
Broken Bird | |
Strange Days / int_d08595d3 | comment |
Broken Bird: Faith, when Nero first met her. She was a literal crack whore. | |
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Strange Days / int_d08595d3 | |
Strange Days / int_d087a0b6 | type |
Sex by Proxy | |
Strange Days / int_d087a0b6 | comment |
Sex by Proxy: The SQUID allows you to share the recorded experience of another person, leading to the obvious conclusion that it can be used to record sex. Lenny deals in a lot of smut as well as some other related merchandise, such as a teenage girl taking a shower. | |
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Strange Days / int_d37c028d | type |
WorldHalfEmpty | |
Strange Days / int_d37c028d | comment |
World Half Empty: Summed up by the radio talk show at the beginning of the film, describing how everything had gone to hell in the last few years. | |
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Strange Days / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
Strange Days / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Lenny manages to kill Max using the switchblade Max sticks in his back. | |
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Strange Days / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
Strange Days / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Mace does this every ten minutes to Nero. Chiefly because she's in love with him. | |
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Strange Days / int_d4ba9971 | type |
Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit | |
Strange Days / int_d4ba9971 | comment |
Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Attempted by Max. | |
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Strange Days / int_d5b3df2d | type |
Dark Action Girl | |
Strange Days / int_d5b3df2d | comment |
Dark Action Girl: One of Gant's three thugs is a muscular woman. | |
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Strange Days / int_d5b3df2d | |
Strange Days / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
Strange Days / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Mace, who is a bodyguard/limo driver. It pretty much takes an entire police SWAT team to kick her ass. Also an Action Mom. | |
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Strange Days / int_dae5c997 | |
Strange Days / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
Strange Days / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: Max goes on about underground police death squads and Government Conspiracy, but really, it's all just a simple murder by two crooked, racist cops and their desperate attempt to cover their own tracks. | |
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Strange Days / int_dca70c44 | type |
Reasonable Authority Figure | |
Strange Days / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: Strickland. According to Lenny, even though he is borderline Lawful Stupid, he will do what's right. He does, despite Mace's doubts. | |
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Strange Days / int_dcbe8a6e | type |
Chekhov's Gunman | |
Strange Days / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: Zigzagged. The TV weatherman who's one of Lenny's clients is mentioned by Lenny and Mace early on but nothing more than that. In a deleted scene, it's revealed that it's the weatherman's stolen invites that Lenny uses to get him and Mace into the big party. | |
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Strange Days / int_dd01736e | type |
One-Eyed Shot | |
Strange Days / int_dd01736e | comment |
One-Eyed Shot: The movie begins with a closeup of Fiennes's eye blinking. | |
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Strange Days / int_de9047ac | type |
Gambit Pileup | |
Strange Days / int_de9047ac | comment |
Gambit Pileup: At one point, it looks like everyone except Lenny, Mace, and Max are running some kind of complicated scheme, which are all crashing together to cause chaos. Turns out that most of them aren't, but Max is running his own Evil Plan. | |
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Strange Days / int_df332911 | type |
Hellish L.A. | |
Strange Days / int_df332911 | comment |
Hellish L.A.: Los Angeles on New Year's Eve 1999 is a city where racial tensions are boiling over after the popular rapper Jeriko One is assassinated for his activism. The protagonists are trying to both bring the Dirty Cops responsible to justice and prevent the evidence from getting out and starting a riot. | |
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Strange Days / int_e16cd24e | type |
Know When to Fold 'Em | |
Strange Days / int_e16cd24e | comment |
Know When to Fold 'Em: When Mace tries to slip into Gant's party, his three goons stop her. She pummels two of them, and the third simply says, "Enjoy the party!" | |
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Strange Days / int_e3915747 | type |
The Rule of First Adopters | |
Strange Days / int_e3915747 | comment |
The Rule of First Adopters: Guess what civilians do with the SQUID technology once it gets out? | |
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Strange Days / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
Strange Days / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Jeriko One, despite not resembling him, is meant to be one to Tupac Shakur. | |
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Strange Days / int_e57c714d | type |
Insane Equals Violent | |
Strange Days / int_e57c714d | comment |
Insane Equals Violent: Despite the killer's horrific crimes, one character suggests that he may have a brain tumor interfering with his SQUID signal, bringing into question whether he's actually in control of his actions at all, as tumors can put pressure on brain structures and disrupt their ability to function. A tumor in the occipital lobe, however, is likely to only disrupt visual processing, as the character described. | |
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Strange Days / int_e7e558 | type |
The Oner | |
Strange Days / int_e7e558 | comment |
The Oner: All of the SQUID recordings are portrayed as one long unbroken shot from a POV cam. | |
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Strange Days / int_e83f211c | type |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
Strange Days / int_e83f211c | comment |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lenny spends most of the film wearing loud, obnoxious suits. For the climax, he changes to a relatively conservative black pinstripe suit with grey tie to fit in. | |
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Strange Days / int_eb251937 | type |
Dirty Cop | |
Strange Days / int_eb251937 | comment |
Dirty Cop: Steckler and Engelman. Also, what Max really is. | |
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Strange Days / int_ecbf37ff | type |
Disposable Sex Worker | |
Strange Days / int_ecbf37ff | comment |
Disposable Sex Worker: Lampshaded after the murder of Iris. | |
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Strange Days / int_ecbf37ff | |
Strange Days / int_f4b744f5 | type |
Unkempt Beauty | |
Strange Days / int_f4b744f5 | comment |
Unkempt Beauty: Lenny is a sleazy dealer who spends much of the film with a few days of stubble, greasy hair that looks like it hasn't been washed in days, and looking like what little sleep he's had was in his clothes, which it was on at least one occasion. It still doesn't change that he's played by the dashingly handsome and suave Ralph Fiennes. | |
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Strange Days / int_f4d8c86f | type |
Colorblind Confusion | |
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Color Blind Confusion: Evidence is discovered that the killer must be colorblind. It never gets to be a useful clue because the colorblind guy kept it a secret, but serves as a Brick Joke in the final confrontation, where the killer tells the protagonist his color blindness is the only way one can stand the latter's taste in clothing. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: The film does manage to end on a relatively high note, with Lenny getting the right girl, the bad guys getting killed, and a worse riot averted. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Lenny trying to buy his way out of trouble with his (fake) Rolex. It never works. | |
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Cyberpunk | |
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Cyberpunk: The film is a cyberpunk story notable for being set in the very near future, with only minor advances in overall technology. | |
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Little Black Dress | |
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Little Black Dress: After spending the entire movie in suits and high-collared shirts and looking badass, we see Mace in a tiny, strappy black minidress. The effect is remarkable. It's even hotter that she comes strapped, too. | |
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Lodged Blade Removal | |
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Lodged Blade Removal: During a brutal fight at the end with the killer ( Max), Lenny gets stabbed in the back before throwing the villain over a balcony; the killer grabs Lenny's tie to attempt a Taking You with Me, but Lenny yanks the knife out of himself and slices the tie with it, sending Max plummeting to certain death. | |
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Titled After the Song | |
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Titled After the Song: The song coming from Tick's van when Lenny, Mace, and Max visit him on New Year's Eve is a cover of The Doors song "Strange Days", from Strange Days. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Lenny isn't a bad guy, but he is presented as a pretty scummy, sleazy loser for a good part of the movie until we finally learn why Mace is so devoted to him against all odds. He was the cop who comforted and took care of her son after his father murdered a man while he was in the house, apparently even going so far as to shelter him in another room so he wouldn't see his father being dragged off in handcuffs. Considering that Lenny is a white cop, Mace and her family are black and working-class, and racial tensions and police mistrust are that high in LA, this is not insignificant. Lenny's gift for his amputee techie friend (a SQUID recording of running along a beach) also counts, though it also goes toward showing how people can develop an unhealthy fixation on SQUIDing what they can never have. | |
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