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Swimming with Sharks
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A 1994 Black Comedy film written and directed by George Huang, starring Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, and Michelle Forbes, with a brief appearance by Benicio del Toro. The film revolves around a guy named Guy, who gets a high-profile job as the personal assistant to corporate bigwig Jerkass Mean Boss Buddy Ackerman. The film details the events, mainly in flashback, that lead from his first day on the job to his endless Humiliation Conga at Buddy's hands to when Guy finally snaps, kidnapping Buddy and subjecting him to brutality and torture.This film is at once a gripping thriller, a satirical Deconstruction of people's view of the glamorous world of film production and show business, and a brutal love-triangle scenario mixed with Grey-and-Gray Morality. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Producers Were Harmed: It's theorized that Buddy's personality was based off real life Mean Boss movie producer Scott Rudin, while the films he produces are similar to that of Joel Silver. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Guy's breakdown that leads to Buddy's kidnapping. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Not on purpose, especially seeing as how this came out before Se7en, but there is a good example. A man, driven to madness due to a lost love, is pointing a gun at Kevin Spacey. Spacey is giving a "Not So Different" Remark Hannibal Lecture, while a third person is on the side begging the man not to shoot Spacey, because this is just what he wants. It does turn out much differently though. | |
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The Bully | |
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The Bully: Buddy. | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: After humiliating Guy so ruthlessly, what happens to Buddy really shouldn't have surprised the latter. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The very last moments. At first, Guy gives up a short speech about what you really want: well, it's the moral of the fiction, clearly stated and based on the whole movie, so that you understand it. And finally, when we see Buddy closing the doors, it's THE END. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Everything Buddy says will be used sometime later by Guy in some way. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Buddy seems to believe that suffering abuse gives him the right to be an abuser although that may be a cover for the real reason. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Buddy manages to fully indoctrinate Guy and make him submit to his abuse, to the point that Guy kills Dawn to protect his own career. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Buddy's entire treatment of Guy. Being a tough boss with high or exact standards is one thing but he often just crosses the line into outright abuse and for no reason beyond sheer sadism. | |
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Testosterone Poisoning | |
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Testosterone Poisoning: The films that Ackerman usually produces. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Buddy, again oh so very much. Not a scene passes where he isn't humiliating, berating, or just generally treating the people around him horribly. Working for The Joker would be more pleasant than being his assistant. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: If Buddy's speech about earning his position is designed to drive home an aesop about hard work, it is easy to misinterpret it as "endure cruelty, and inflicting it on others is not only justified, but your ''right''." | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Much of what Buddy says to Guy towards the beginning. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Buddy does this to himself when he starts crying after bringing up his wife. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: After kidnapping Buddy, Guy gleefully visits both physical punishment and humiliation upon him. | |
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A Tragedy of Impulsiveness | |
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A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Think out about how much you're bullying Guy before you get yourself kidnapped, Buddy! | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Guy becomes fully compliant with Buddy's values, killing Dawn to advance his career and staying under Buddy's abuse. | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy: Guy, when he kidnaps Buddy. | |
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BlackAndGreyMorality | |
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Black-and-Grey Morality: Both Buddy and Guy cross into the black zone in the end when Guy kills Dawn to win Buddy's favor and get ahead in his career. | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Ackerman, towards the beginning of the kidnapping. | |
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Distracted from Death | |
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The best one is the Christmas' gifts wrapping. | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: It takes almost nothing to set Buddy off and get him screaming and get him inflicting emotional or physical abuse on whoever is near by. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: An epic inversion. Dawn arrives during Buddy's kidnapping and tries to talk some sense into Guy, imploring him not to sacrifice everything they have worked for together. And just when it seems like love will conquer all, Guy turns the gun on her and fires. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: Again, everything Buddy says will come up again. The best one is the Christmas' gifts wrapping. | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality: The three core characters (Guy, Buddy, and Dawn) all have their faults and sympathetic sides. Guy is a aspiring film writer who wants to get ahead in the film industry without doing any real effort. Buddy is a sadist executive who puts Guy through hell, but has a sob story that explains how he become the man he is. Dawn is introduced as a jerk executive who softens up when she and Guy become intimate. Black-and-Grey Morality: Both Buddy and Guy cross into the black zone in the end when Guy kills Dawn to win Buddy's favor and get ahead in his career. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Did Ackerman say it? Then yes, it will be important later. No exceptions. This also leads to many, many examples of Ironic Echo. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Most of everything Ackerman says during the latter half of the kidnapping. Especially once Dawn arrives. | |
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Sleeping Their Way to the Top | |
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Sleeping Their Way to the Top: See "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Buddy Ackerman accuses Dawn of sleeping her way to every position she got, from top assistant to getting a producer deal of her own. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Buddy, oh so very much. Even after all the suffering that Guy puts him through, it's hard to summon even one molecule of sympathy for him. | |
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Drama Bomb | |
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Drama Bomb: Everything after we see Dawn's final phone call with Buddy. | |
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Sir Swears-a-Lot | |
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Sir Swearsalot: It's Kevin Spacey. You expect anything different? | |
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No-Respect Guy | |
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No-Respect Guy: Guy, at the beginning. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Buddy's entire torture counts as this or disproportionate retribution. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Buddy to Guy. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! : SHUT UP. LISTEN. AND LEARN. | |
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Mean Boss | |
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Mean Boss: Do I even have to say? | |
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Nice to the Waiter | |
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Nice to the Waiter: Averted. Buddy is absolutely horrible to everyone who works under him and is most definitely not a good person. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Buddy and Guy, after the latter murders Dawn, and both cover up the mess by pinning Dawn as Buddy's captor | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Buddy, as befits who plays him, seems to speak almost entirely in vicious, condescending remarks when he isn't schmoozing higher ups with false charm or screaming his head off. | |
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We Can Rule Together | |
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We Can Rule Together: Buddy's speech to Guy when trying to get him to convince Dawn to come to their studio and not to their competitor's. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Buddy, who was also a bullied assistant working for many tyrannical Mean Bosses for ten years. His wife's death, didn't seem to help his case. | |
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Casting Couch | |
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Casting Couch: Fully exploited by Buddy, who's seen doing it with one actress and later Dawn to get their respective projects off the ground. | |
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic | |
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: After a point, everything Buddy (who is tied to a chair after being kidnapped and brutally tortured) says seems planned out entirely. | |
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Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit | |
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Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Ultimately Guy chooses the studio job, so he kills Dawn and he and Buddy tell a story that she was the one abusing Buddy while Guy saved him. | |
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Professional Butt-Kisser | |
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Professional Butt-Kisser: A requirement for the job. | |
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| Swimming with Sharks / int_d5dfb30a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Swimming with Sharks | hasFeature |
Swimming with Sharks / int_d5dfb30a | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_d62dd556 | type |
The Chessmaster | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_d62dd556 | comment |
The Chessmaster: Buddy. It seems that most of everything that happened towards the later half of the kidnapping was planned by him. Dawn seemed to walk in at the perfect time. His questioning of Guy seemed planned-out. And even that final look to Guy says "Good, good, you passed the test." | |
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1.0 | |
| Swimming with Sharks | hasFeature |
Swimming with Sharks / int_d62dd556 | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_e1fa333c | type |
Hannibal Lecture | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_e1fa333c | comment |
Hannibal Lecture: Everything Buddy says during the last half of the kidnapping scenes. | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_e1fa333c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Swimming with Sharks | hasFeature |
Swimming with Sharks / int_e1fa333c | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_e52a0cac | type |
He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_e52a0cac | comment |
He Who Must Not Be Seen: Stacy, the rival producer. | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_e52a0cac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Swimming with Sharks / int_e52a0cac | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_e563bf09 | type |
Insistent Terminology | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: Buddy insists that one of his director choices, David Lean, isn't dead, simply "unavailable". | |
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Swimming with Sharks / int_e563bf09 | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Buddy, to put it lightly. It's amazing that no one snapped on him earlier. | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_eb8ec7c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Swimming with Sharks / int_eb8ec7c8 | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_f0c4ce7d | type |
The Lost Lenore | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_f0c4ce7d | comment |
The Lost Lenore : Buddy's wife, type A. | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_f0c4ce7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Swimming with Sharks | hasFeature |
Swimming with Sharks / int_f0c4ce7d | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_f74f567f | type |
Bastard Understudy | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_f74f567f | comment |
Bastard Understudy: Guy, who succumbs to He Who Fights Monsters and follows in Buddy's footsteps as an abusive bastard. | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_f74f567f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Swimming with Sharks / int_f74f567f | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_f792ffe4 | type |
Beleaguered Assistant | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_f792ffe4 | comment |
Beleaguered Assistant: But of course. | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_f792ffe4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Swimming with Sharks / int_f792ffe4 | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_fb3576b2 | type |
The Dog Bites Back | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_fb3576b2 | comment |
The Dog Bites Back: The Film. | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_fb3576b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Swimming with Sharks / int_fb3576b2 | |
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ItemName | |
| Swimming with Sharks / int_name | comment |
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Swimming with Sharks |
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