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The American

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The American	label	The American
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The American	comment	The American is a 2010 drama film by director Anton Corbijn (most known for directing Control and numerous U2 music videos). Adapted from Martin Booth's 1990 novel A Very Private Gentleman (in which the protagonist is actually English), it follows George Clooney as Jack, a lonesome assassin and gunsmith who, after some enemies track him down to his remote cabin in Sweden, moves to a remote village in Italy to lay low. What follows is a character study of a man who lives a very rigid, lonely life due to his career. He befriends the local priest, and starts a relationship with Clara, a prostitute in the area.Taut, featuring beautiful cinematography, and poor marketing, The American is notable for how it subverts the tropes common in the hitman movie, not so much by lampshading them, but simply by using them to the advantage of the film's contemplative tone.
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The American / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The American / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The commercials (not so much the trailers) advertise it as a Bourne-style action film. It's really not. It's more of a character study interspersed with bits of action.
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The American / int_2ccdff6c	type	Mortal Wound Reveal
The American / int_2ccdff6c	comment	Mortal Wound Reveal: The ending has Jack going aroun for few minutes, killing his would-be assassins, then heading to Clara. Only after he's done, it's revealed he's been shot himself and bleeds profusely.
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The American / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The American / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: While it's early seen that Jack is a skilled and ruthless professional, a large curveball is thrown when it's shown his back tattoo is not another military emblem or Biblical passage... but a butterfly. He's later shown reading a book on butterflies and asks Mathilde not to move when an endangered species lands on her shoulder.
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The American / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The American / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Jack is a professional killer that has a lot of heat on his back and trying to lay low. He distrusts people by defult, but his paranoia is what keeps him alive, including rigging Mathilde's rifle, assuming she's out to kill him. When she tries to take the shot, the gun explodes in her face.
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The American / int_3e667b26	type	IKEA Weaponry
The American / int_3e667b26	comment	Ikea Weaponry: The job Jack takes on while he's in hiding is to build such a weapon for a female assassin. Downplayed, as it's your average Ruger Mini-14, simply customised for easier stripping and to carry a suppressor.
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The American / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The American / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The film revels in this. It's a Corbijn special.
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The American / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The American / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When Clara calls Jack Mr. Butterfly, a name we have only seen given to him by Mathilde. The film leaves it ambiguous whether this actually meant anything.
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The American / int_5bc36262	type	Backwards-Firing Gun
The American / int_5bc36262	comment	Backwards-Firing Gun: Jack ends up rigging Mathilde's gun to do this once he figures out she's been contracted to kill him.
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The American / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
The American / int_6a0b03a6	comment	One Last Job: Subverted. At first it doesn't start like this, but the stress on Jack's life ultimately leads him to decide to quit once he's done with his current assignment.
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The American / int_6a3bedce	type	Modesty Bedsheet
The American / int_6a3bedce	comment	Jack's girlfriend is first seen naked in bed, with no Modesty Bedsheet covering her.
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The American / int_6fb59931	type	Being Personal Isn't Professional
The American / int_6fb59931	comment	Being Personal Isn't Professional: Jack is advised by his handler not to make friends, but is unable to stick to this rule.
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The American / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
The American / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Clara is this. Subverted when it looks like she's an assassin out to get Jack. Double subverted when she's got a gun simply because someone is killing prostitutes.
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The American / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
The American / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The film itself leaves Jack's fate as to whether or not he survives up in the air.
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The American / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
The American / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Averted. Jack stresses he can modify a rifle with a "suppressor," but it will mostly just mask where the shot is coming from. When it's tested, there's still a loud CRACK! from each shot, and the accuracy is significantly affected.
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The American / int_7e5b0184	type	Time-Delayed Death
The American / int_7e5b0184	comment	Time-Delayed Death: Assuming he actually dies, Jack spends quite a while still going as if nothing, despite apparently fatal wound.
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The American / int_89f2f8aa	type	Misidentified Weapons
The American / int_89f2f8aa	comment	Misidentified Weapons: Jack describes the rifle as "Ruger M14". M14 is a completely different gun and a professional like him shouldn't make such mistakes. He also gives completely random muzzle velocity that not only doesn't match the gun, but is in weird unit (miles/hour, while it's meters or feet per second).
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The American / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The American / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: It's Le SamouraÃ¯ IN ITALY!
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The American / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The American / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Mathilde is killed by the gun she ordered. You could also regard Jack being targeted by the gun he's built as the same.
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The American / int_95ff52c7	type	Guns Do Not Work That Way
The American / int_95ff52c7	comment	Guns Do Not Work That Way: When Mathilda is adjusting the scope once figuring out the gun is a bit to the left, she uses... elevation knob, not the one for windage. In other words, the gun not only would still fire to the left, but now also slightly too high.
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The American / int_98ba5dfe	type	Unproblematic Prostitution
The American / int_98ba5dfe	comment	Unproblematic Prostitution: There is a well-kept, easy-to-access brothel in the town Jack is staying in. Those were delegalised in Italy in late 50s. Nobody seems to mind.
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The American / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
The American / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: Clara does it during a picnic and tries to convince Jack to join her. Jack, still wondering if she's an assassin sent after him, declines.
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The American / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
The American / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: Mathilde tests the silencer by having Jack fire the weapon past her head.
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The American / int_a20d4674	type	Techno Babble
The American / int_a20d4674	comment	Technobabble: The description Jack gives of the gun and bullets assembled for Mathilde is complete gibberish in terms of actual firearms and how they operate.
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The American / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
The American / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: Jack kills his girlfriend in Sweden when she saw him killing a man sent after him.
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The American / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The American / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Jack looks pretty close to death near the end.
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The American / int_acedc6c4	type	Butterfly of Death and Rebirth
The American / int_acedc6c4	comment	Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: There is a lot of butterfly symbolism, starting from Jack tattoo and random butterflies showing up in more significant moment.
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The American / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The American / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Clara is this. She spends half of her screentime naked. Mathilde's second appearance is her in a very figure-hugging dress and thigh-high boots. Jack's girlfriend is first seen naked in bed, with no Modesty Bedsheet covering her.
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The American / int_b54fe3ce	type	Classically-Trained Extra
The American / int_b54fe3ce	comment	Classically-Trained Extra: The older Swedish audience may recoginze an old, but respectable and (of course) classically trained stage actor turning up at the start of the movie... only to be shot seconds later.
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The American / int_be85ff22	type	Contract on the Hitman
The American / int_be85ff22	comment	Contract on the Hitman: Jack's mistakes through the movie eventually lead to this.
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The American / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
The American / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Done realistically for once, when Jack disposes of one of the killers.
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The American / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The American / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A scene from Once Upon a Time in the West is playing in a bar, a reference to the Spaghetti Western influence on the film.
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The American / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
The American / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: While his final fate is left ambigious, it's most likely Jack will die from his wound, right after finishing his last job.
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The American / int_db8b1727	type	Window Love
The American / int_db8b1727	comment	Window Love: Apparently dying of a mortal wound, Jack drives to the river and, seeing Clara standing there, presses his bloody fingers to the windshield before collapsing.
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The American / int_fab98c53	type	American Title
The American / int_fab98c53	comment	American Title: The film's title refers to the nationality of the protagonist Jack.
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The American / int_fca3518f	type	Gun Stripping
The American / int_fca3518f	comment	Gun Stripping: When Jack delivers the gun for Mathilde, it's unassembled. She quickly puts it together without a word.
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