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The Artist

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124 feature instances
43 referencing feature instances

The Artist	type	TVTItem
The Artist	label	The Artist
The Artist	page	TheArtist
The Artist	comment	The Artist is a 2011 French film emulating the style of cinema in the 1920s written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and produced by Thomas Langmann.The movie stars Jean Dujardin as George Valentin, a silent movie star in 1920s Hollywood whose career goes into decline with the Great Depression and the advent of talking pictures. He falls in love with a young ingenue named Peppy Miller, played by Bérénice Bejo, whose Hollywood career arc is the exact opposite of Valentin's. John Goodman appears as Al Zimmer, the studio producer who tries to convince George to get over himself and make a talking film.The Artist is unique not just for being shot in black-and-white, and in the old 4:3 Aspect Ratio, but being an almost completely silent film, possibly the first feature-length Silent Movie to receive wide distribution since Mel Brooks put out Silent Movie in 1976.Compare Blancanieves, a Spanish movie released in 2012 that was similar, being a silent, black-and-white film in Retraux style set in the 1920s.
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The Artist / int_10f35f3a	type	Creator Breakdown
The Artist / int_10f35f3a	comment	Creator Breakdown: In-universe, George suffers one of these after the jump to talkies and the failure of his silent films trashes his career.
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The Artist / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
The Artist / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: George tipping his drink over his reflection in a table.
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The Artist / int_15070c2b	type	Timmy in a Well
The Artist / int_15070c2b	comment	Timmy in a Well: Played straight, even if the policeman in question is skeptical at first.
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The Artist / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
The Artist / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: While George does not take his sinking career well, he never shows any anger towards Peppy's rise to stardom.
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The Artist / int_191babbc	type	Trampled Underfoot
The Artist / int_191babbc	comment	Trampled Underfoot: George's poster, in the aftermath of Tears of Love bombing in theaters.
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The Artist / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Artist / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Peppy's beauty spot, which triggers her rise and George's fall. The onset of talkies doesn't help matters at all.
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The Artist / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Artist / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo Malcolm McDowell as one of Peppy's fellow extras. (Despite this he gets a major billing, something the actor has poked fun at in interviews.) Elizabeth Tulloch as Norma, George's female co-star in his last silent film. Bill Fagerbakke as a police officer near the end.
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The Artist / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
The Artist / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: The film set during the twilight of silent cinema and the emergence of sound films.
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The Artist / int_1ed05659	type	No Hero to His Valet
The Artist / int_1ed05659	comment	No Hero to His Valet: Valentin actually is, apparently, a hero to his valet, but he is both a jerk to his costar and a neglectful husband.
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The Artist / int_1f0c1d33	type	Couldn't Find a Pen
The Artist / int_1f0c1d33	comment	Couldn't Find a Pen: Peppy's lipstick on George's mirror, and again when she gives him her phone number.
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The Artist / int_21af4dc3	type	Heroic Dog
The Artist / int_21af4dc3	comment	Heroic Dog: Mostly entertaining but definitely becomes heroic considering a played-straight Timmy in a Well moment. Later he tries desperately to dissuade George from his suicide attempt — it almost seems to be working at first, but ultimately it's Peppy who stops him.
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The Artist / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Artist / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: George's stuff getting sold at auction.
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The Artist / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
The Artist / int_25c7b33a	comment	Cruel to Be Kind: When Clifton won't take the hint and quit after George has been too broke to pay him for a year, George coldly tells him he's fired, throws him out the door and leaves him standing on the porch all day.
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The Artist / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
The Artist / int_29a39f6	comment	"And Uggie — The Dog" in the closing credits. Really. (Uggie also gets an additional Easter Egg mention in the credits to one of Peppy's films.) Uggie even attended the Oscars.
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The Artist / int_2de02182	type	Visual Title Drop
The Artist / int_2de02182	comment	Visual Title Drop: In a newspaper headline that quotes George as saying "I'm an artist."
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The Artist / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
The Artist / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: Complete with Torture Technician and Mad Scientist in the first Film Within a Film.
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The Artist / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
The Artist / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: 1920's-style. George's mustache is still groomed, but it's not impeccably waxed like in his big-screen days.
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The Artist / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Artist / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: What George believes about talkie films.
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The Artist / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
The Artist / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Constance, George's costar, is livid when he keeps forcing her off the stage at the first film showing. Peppy is a bit of this too, both when she first runs into George, and later when stardom briefly goes to her head.
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The Artist / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
The Artist / int_364b9be6	comment	Constance gives George "the finger" early on in the film, an act that would not have been allowed in American cinema of the day. (Except for that one time when it was!) As noted below, lip-readers may also detect the F-word as well; there is a longstanding Hollywood legend that many actors did swear on screen during the silent era, assuming no-one could read their lips.
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The Artist / int_36e6529b	type	Rule of Cute
The Artist / int_36e6529b	comment	Rule of Cute: George toting his dog everywhere, including into a movie theater.
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The Artist / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
The Artist / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: Just barely averted for George!
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The Artist / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Artist / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: George and Peppy are audibly panting after their dance routine at the end, hinting it's no longer a silent film and now a talkie.
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The Artist / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
The Artist / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Subverted. Tears of Love is set-up to be a terrible movie in the hands of a seeming Prima Donna Director like George... but it comes off as a surprisingly competent, powerful film. It doesn't stop the crowds from going to see the talkies instead.
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The Artist / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Artist / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Peppy Miller
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The Artist / int_4668be6f	type	Distinguishing Mark
The Artist / int_4668be6f	comment	Distinguishing Mark: Peppy's trademark mole, although it's artificial (it was also George's idea, as she needed something to make her stand out from other actresses). It's even the name of one of her films — the one that really hammers home George's downfall.
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The Artist / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Artist / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The studio executive, Al Zimmer. He's willing to give George another chance, but George finds talkies idiotic and passes it up. Later, he effectively gives George a third and fourth chance first when Peppy convinces him to give George a part in a movie, and then when Peppy and George convince Al to make a musical.
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The Artist / int_489f14dd	type	Glamorous Wartime Singer
The Artist / int_489f14dd	comment	The Black Bottom Dance that George and Peppy do behind a scene curtain. There are several hints throughout the film that George is a born song and dance man.
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The Artist / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Artist / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Repeatedly, starting with the first title card, which is the page quote.
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The Artist / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Artist / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: George setting his reels on fire.
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The Artist / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Artist / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: George gets crushed by his refusal to transition to talkies, in a somewhat uncommon gender-reversal of this.
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The Artist / int_4b8fae12	type	Creator Killer
The Artist / int_4b8fae12	comment	Creator Killer: In-universe. The Epic Fail of Tears of Love, as well as his reluctance to adapt to sound films, destroys George's movie career.
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The Artist / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Artist / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Don't worry! It's in-universe! The ending to the Film Within a Film Tears of Love ends with George's character sinking into quicksand, and telling the female co-star that he never loved her. Though for those who interpret The Artist as a metaphor for those who reject new technologies such as e-books and downloads, the ending in which George finally becomes a convert could be seen as a downer too. (See the Earn Your Happy Ending entry below.)
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The Artist / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Artist / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Cut!"
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The Artist / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
The Artist / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: George destroying his projector and film collection.
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The Artist / int_51923571	type	Spinning Paper
The Artist / int_51923571	comment	Spinning Paper: Done as Peppy rises to the top of stardom.
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The Artist / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Artist / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Poor George.
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The Artist / int_573b8452	type	Hollywood California
The Artist / int_573b8452	comment	Hollywood California: Shot on location in buildings authentic to the time period. Peppy's mansion is Mary Pickford's mansion, and George wakes up in Pickford's bed. Ironically, of the 2012 Best Picture Oscar nominees, The Artist was the only one completely filmed in Hollywood. Even though it's a French film.
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The Artist / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
The Artist / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: The movie names, all over the place.
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The Artist / int_5e591660	type	Porn Stache
The Artist / int_5e591660	comment	Pornstache: George's pencil mustache is eventually replaced by this.
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The Artist / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The Artist / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: With a unique effect to get the unreality across when the lead character starts experiencing synchronized sound around him in ever more exaggerated forms while he is still silent.
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The Artist / int_6566a884	type	My God, You Are Serious!
The Artist / int_6566a884	comment	My God, You Are Serious!: Clifton, you're fired.
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The Artist / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
The Artist / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: During the filming of A German Affair.
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The Artist / int_65ddbf8e	type	Aspect Ratio
The Artist / int_65ddbf8e	comment	Aspect Ratio: The Artist was shot in 4:3 aspect ratio. 4:3 was standard for all of Hollywood from the dawn of moviemaking, until widescreen caught on in the 1950s.
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The Artist / int_696ca673	type	Made of Incendium
The Artist / int_696ca673	comment	Made of Incendium: Inverted. When George burns the film reels, they take quite a while to get a good blaze going. However, since film of that era really was made of incendium (a.k.a. nitrate), it should have turned into a massive fire in seconds. Nitrate films (made prior to the introduction of Cellulose Triacetate (safety) film in 1948) had to be stored in thick-walled concrete bunkers because they were so flammable. This video shows some examples in its first 2 1/2 minutes, and an even more spectacular example starting at 4:25. Safety film is non-flammable. Get it hot enough and it will melt, but it won't burn, as this video shows.
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The Artist / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Artist / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Peppy Miller, after "pepper mill", a pepper grinder.
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The Artist / int_72c8b35c	type	When She Smiles
The Artist / int_72c8b35c	comment	When She Smiles: Invoked with Peppy's screen persona.
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The Artist / int_7630e4d	type	Mirror Monologue
The Artist / int_7630e4d	comment	Mirror Monologue: George has an argument with his shadow projected against a wall.
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The Artist / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
The Artist / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title
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The Artist / int_7b7f1657	type	Canine Companion
The Artist / int_7b7f1657	comment	Canine Companion: George even takes his dog to the movies. And it saves his life... twice. He even showed up in the real-life Oscars ceremony!
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The Artist / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
The Artist / int_7cda47b	comment	Dying Declaration of Love: Subverted by George's character at the end of Tears of Love.
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The Artist / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
The Artist / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Happens once between Peppy and George. What's amazing is that they don't kiss even once in the film, despite being the Official Couple. This is, of course, a throwback to No Hugging, No Kissing rules enforced by censors back in those days.
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The Artist / int_814356cb	type	White-Dwarf Starlet
The Artist / int_814356cb	comment	White Dwarf Star: George in the second half of the movie.
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The Artist / int_81a1960f	type	Silence Is Golden
The Artist / int_81a1960f	comment	Silence Is Golden: Used to very great effect — three scenes total use sound, and they're all jarring. A couple of scenes are completely silent, with no music.
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The Artist / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Artist / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: George in front of an audience. His costar, Constance Grey, is seen hamming it up to a painful extent when she's playing Juliet in a talkie. Peppy, most definitely, though endearingly so.
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The Artist / int_82a3a738	type	Decade-Themed Filter
The Artist / int_82a3a738	comment	Decade-Themed Filter: The film completely evoked the film styles of the late 1920s from the intertitles to the aspect ratio.
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The Artist / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Artist / int_8543ec22	comment	Reality Subtext: In-universe, the final scene of Tears of Love where George's character sinks in quicksand.
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The Artist / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
The Artist / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: George's Dream Sequence — he's visibly shocked when events around him come with sound effects.
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The Artist / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
The Artist / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name with an S: Peppy's first "big" role has her name misspelled as "Pepi".
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The Artist / int_8a409f7c	type	The Flapper
The Artist / int_8a409f7c	comment	The Flapper: Peppy is one — and plays one!
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The Artist / int_8a986cc7	type	The Great Depression
The Artist / int_8a986cc7	comment	Also, quite fitting to the time when news of the Stock Market Crash reached Los Angeles. So, Grey Rain of Great Depression?
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The Artist / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Artist / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Peppy is a benevolent one towards George.
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The Artist / int_90c3ce7	type	Pink Elephants
The Artist / int_90c3ce7	comment	Pink Elephants: While getting hammered in a bar George hallucinates a tiny vision of himself (and some of the African supporting players) from the Film Within a Film Tears of Love.
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The Artist / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
The Artist / int_913dc5d2	comment	Women Drivers: Brakes? Telephone poles are Peppy's brakes!
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The Artist / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Artist / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The crooked frame in the bar where George gets smashed. Also note that whenever there's a staircase in the movie, Peppy will no doubt be going up whilst George will only go down.
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The Artist / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
The Artist / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: The whole film, really; not just a silent film but a silent film made to actually look like a movie from the silent film era.
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The Artist / int_9abe931d	type	Quicksand Sucks
The Artist / int_9abe931d	comment	Quicksand Sucks: The ending to George's movie Tears of Love, complete with a Last Grasp at Life.
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The Artist / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Artist / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During the first Show Within a Show, George's character is being tortured, being commanded "SPEAK!" He refuses to speak, just like he later refuses to speak on any film. After being released from his contract with the studio, George meets Peppy in a stairwell. After their brief conversation, he walks down the stairs while she walks up. As the movie unfolds, George's career is on a downward trajectory, while Peppy is on her way up. During one point when George is seemingly at his lowest point, he passes by a poster for Peppy's new film Guardian Angel. Peppy ends up taking on this role for George, determined to help him set up a comeback.
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The Artist / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
The Artist / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Clifton. By choice, though.
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The Artist / int_a0a838fe	type	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
The Artist / int_a0a838fe	comment	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: BANG!
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The Artist / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Artist / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When George jolts back to his senses after burning his precious films and realizes he might have also destroyed his precious raw footage of dancing with Peppy.
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The Artist / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Artist / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: John Goodman's studio exec, who was obviously hoping to help George make the transition to sound films until he gets stubborn about it. Later, he wholeheartedly endorses the idea of giving George a comeback bid as a dancer, albeit only after Peppy blackmails him into it. George letting Clifton go, realizing that he'll just continue to work in lieu of pay (which George can't afford). Technically applies to Peppy, since she subsequently hires Clifton.
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The Artist / int_a4a91366	type	It's All Junk
The Artist / int_a4a91366	comment	It's All Junk: Although on second thought burning the items may have been a bad choice for other reasons.
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The Artist / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
The Artist / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: How Peppy accidentally strikes off her career.
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The Artist / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
The Artist / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: After George's film Tears of Love bombs. Also, quite fitting to the time when news of the Stock Market Crash reached Los Angeles. So, Grey Rain of Great Depression?
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The Artist / int_a89b070a	type	Career Resurrection
The Artist / int_a89b070a	comment	Career Resurrection: In-universe. George seems to get one at the end of the film, apparently as a dancer in the vein of Fred Astaire.
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The Artist / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Artist / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: The Black Bottom Dance that George and Peppy do behind a scene curtain. There are several hints throughout the film that George is a born song and dance man. The dog's ability to play dead whenever a gun is fired.
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The Artist / int_ad62678e	type	Living Shadow
The Artist / int_ad62678e	comment	Living Shadow: Possibly related to a Pink Elephants type moment.
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The Artist / int_afaf31e4	type	Box Office Bomb
The Artist / int_afaf31e4	comment	Box Office Bomb: Tears of Love, in-universe.
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The Artist / int_afe75982	type	Unsound Effect
The Artist / int_afe75982	comment	Unsound Effect: A Title Card reading "Bang!"
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The Artist / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
The Artist / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Peppy. It's even in the name.
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The Artist / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Artist / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In-universe, Tears of Love is a thinly veiled rebuke to Peppy's success.
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The Artist / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Artist / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: A visual one: George's leading lady gives him the finger. It also serves as a clue to the audience that this film won't quite behave like an old silent-movie. Though if you pay attention to her lips, you can see she's also a silent Cluster F-Bomb...
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The Artist / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Artist / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: At the end of George's Dream Sequence, a small feather is seen drifting lazily to the ground, with no other sounds playing... and it lands with the sound of a ten-ton weight. This is what wakes George up.
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The Artist / int_c06ec61e	type	Corpsing
The Artist / int_c06ec61e	comment	Corpsing: In-Universe, Peppy and George's first interaction, when she's still an extra and they can't keep straight faces in a dance scene.
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The Artist / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
The Artist / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Bang!
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The Artist / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Artist / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: We see a number of George's and Peppy's films. And, of course, the closing number.
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The Artist / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
The Artist / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: George's biggest fault. Clifton even warns him against it when Peppy wants to give him another chance.
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The Artist / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
The Artist / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: "And Uggie — The Dog" in the closing credits. Really. (Uggie also gets an additional Easter Egg mention in the credits to one of Peppy's films.) Uggie even attended the Oscars. Also used in-universe as the sign that Peppy has made it big and continues to climb up the ladder.
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The Artist / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Artist / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: At the beginning of the movie, Valentin's character is locked in a cell very securely. The movie cuts to the audience reaction as they gasp at his escape and then the movie cuts back to him out of the cell.
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The Artist / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Artist / int_c75df49a	comment	Valentin's very name is a Shout-Out to Rudolph Valentino, arguably the first and most famous silent movie star of the twenties.
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The Artist / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
The Artist / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: John Goodman's studio boss.
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The Artist / int_c867e57	type	TheRoaringTwenties
The Artist / int_c867e57	comment	The Roaring '20s: First part takes place at the end of it, and the arrival of The Great Depression kicks off Valentin's downfall.
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The Artist / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
The Artist / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License – Chemistry: The standard film stock of that time was nitrate, which is extremely flammable (see Inglourious Basterds). So when George sets his film on fire, it should have erupted into an unsurvivable mass of flames in seconds, though it does reach near-lethal proportions very quickly.
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The Artist / int_ca3e24dc	type	Monkey Morality Pose
The Artist / int_ca3e24dc	comment	Monkey Morality Pose: Appropriately enough, stubborn George has a "three monkeys" statue.
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The Artist / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Artist / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: George's dog is listed in the credits as "The Dog".
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The Artist / int_cbd0ac32	type	Environmental Symbolism
The Artist / int_cbd0ac32	comment	Environmental Symbolism: George walking beneath a marquee reading, "The Lonely Star". An unhinged picture frame in the bar George gets sloshed in. George catching Peppy in his dressing room, in front of a poster for the film The Thief of Her Heart. Peppy starring in a film called Guardian Angel. When the studio cancels George's contract and hires Peppy, the two meet on a stairwell. He is heading down the stairs while she's heading up, mirroring the trajectories of their careers. During a montage of the Valentins' unhappy marriage, a pair of spouse statues appear to separate from each other with each scene of George and Doris interspersed until the only the wife statue behind Doris is visible. The final dance scene is for a film called Sparkle of Love.
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The Artist / int_cc5c18b6	type	Iris Out
The Artist / int_cc5c18b6	comment	Iris Out: Another nod to silent cinema.
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The Artist / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
The Artist / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Valentin's dog.
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The Artist / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
The Artist / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To Singin' in the Rain. Both movies take place in '20s era Hollywood during the time when studios were making a shift to "talkies". While Singin was a light-hearted movie about a studio's attempt to adapt to these changes, The Artist is a darker movie, showing what happened to the actors who couldn't make the jump from Silent Films to films with sound.
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The Artist / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Artist / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: Better to invoke the style of movie the film is paying homage to.
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The Artist / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Artist / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: When Peppy finally figures out how to help George.
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The Artist / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
The Artist / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: The film is deliberately stylized to look like a late '20s melodrama and, later, a 1930s musical in the final scene.
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The Artist / int_d17eaa9f	type	Postmodernism
The Artist / int_d17eaa9f	comment	Postmodernism: This film establishes very clear boundaries for its medium, then breaks them. Specifically, the scene in this otherwise silent movie that begins with George audibly placing his glass on the dresser, and then the entire scene spiraling out of control as he learns everything makes sound BUT him. It is, of course, a nightmare, but still. The end also violates the boundaries of silent film, indicating George's acceptance of talkies. In addition, the way George is shown putting the gun in his mouth is another modern-day touch that would never be seen in a film of the era. Peppy's "dialogue" scene with Al in which she says "it's either him or me" and then sputters though a few "what I meant to says" is a dialogue trope more common to modern-day cinema in part because silent films could not rely on such wordplay. Constance gives George "the finger" early on in the film, an act that would not have been allowed in American cinema of the day. (Except for that one time when it was!) As noted below, lip-readers may also detect the F-word as well; there is a longstanding Hollywood legend that many actors did swear on screen during the silent era, assuming no-one could read their lips.
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The Artist / int_d22af219	type	Domino Mask
The Artist / int_d22af219	comment	Domino Mask: George's screen persona.
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The Artist / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Artist / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: George helps Peppy make it big, which hastens his own downfall.
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The Artist / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
The Artist / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: Used in the scene where a drunk, depressed George sets fire to the negatives of his old movies, possibly another homage to period techniques. It's also seen during George's, well, "noisy" nightmare.
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The Artist / int_dd22df26	type	Hands-On Approach
The Artist / int_dd22df26	comment	Hands-On Approach: George and Peppy dancing together in a scene. At first, the pair erupt into some harmless laughter. With each take, though...
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The Artist / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
The Artist / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Doris. She and George can't stand each other.
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The Artist / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
The Artist / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: The real problem is George's refusal to change with the times, and his downfall as a result. Al Zimmer is somewhat depicted as the antagonist, since his firing of George sets him on his downward spiral.
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The Artist / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
The Artist / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The premise is more than a little bit similar to the first two incarnations of A Star Is Born. Singin' in the Rain is virtually a spiritual predecessor regarding the transition to talkies, though focused as a character piece on the emotional trials of the time period. Charlie Chaplin's Limelight (though happier).
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The Artist / int_e4b82f6f	type	Fascinating Eyebrow
The Artist / int_e4b82f6f	comment	Fascinating Eyebrow: During the German Affair shoot, George keeps deploying this in take after take.
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The Artist / int_e54a07ac	type	Wipe
The Artist / int_e54a07ac	comment	Wipe: Another effect from the silent era.
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The Artist / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
The Artist / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Clifton refuses to leave George even after George can't afford to pay him, and ultimately lets George move in with him.
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The Artist / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
The Artist / int_f19e8a55	comment	His costar, Constance Grey, is seen hamming it up to a painful extent when she's playing Juliet in a talkie.
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The Artist / int_f1e6402d	type	Suddenly Speaking
The Artist / int_f1e6402d	comment	Suddenly Speaking: The ending. Also doubles up as Suddenly Ethnicity, because George's accent reveals he's French.
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The Artist / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Artist / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: It takes a lot of convincing from Peppy, who is determined to help him, but she shows George that he has a future in sound films as a star of dance musicals.
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The Artist / int_f7a458c3	type	Dartboard of Hate
The Artist / int_f7a458c3	comment	Dartboard of Hate: Doris enjoys doodling over George's photographs. Trouble in paradise?
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The Artist / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Artist / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: There's a reason Peppy needs a chauffeur.
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The Artist / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Artist / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The dog plays dead whenever someone makes a motion like shooting a gun.
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The Artist / int_fb732731	type	FilmWithinAFilm
The Artist / int_fb732731	comment	Don't worry! It's in-universe! The ending to the Film Within a Film Tears of Love ends with George's character sinking into quicksand, and telling the female co-star that he never loved her.
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