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The Black Dahlia

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The Black Dahlia	label	The Black Dahlia
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The Black Dahlia	comment	The Black Dahlia is a 2006 neo-noir crime film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank and Fiona Shaw, based on the novel of the same name by James Ellroy. The film tells a fictional story based around the real life murder of actress Elizabeth "Betty" Short (played by Mia Kirshner) who came to be nicknamed The Black Dahlia. Hartnett and Eckhart play two boxers-turned-police detectives who are called on to investigate Short's murder and end up uncovering a (fictional) conspiracy around the whole thing.The film is largely remembered as one of the most confusing and incoherent stories of all time, partially due to several scenes being cut leaving behind Plot Holes; Ellroy himself loved the original edit and refuses to say a word about the final version.Not to be confused with the 1998 adventure game. Or with The Blue Dahlia film from 1946, for that matter.
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The Black Dahlia / int_107edaa4	type	Comforting the Widow
The Black Dahlia / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: Bucky and Kay after Lee's death.
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The Black Dahlia / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The Black Dahlia / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Lee and Kay were this, Lee having saved Kay from Bobby De Witt.
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The Black Dahlia / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
The Black Dahlia / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: Elizabeth and Lorna were seen chatting with one, which points Dwight in the direction of lesbian bars. A female bartender of the lesbian bar Dwight investigates gives him an alibi. Also, K.d lang as the bar singer.
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The Black Dahlia / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
The Black Dahlia / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Linscotts. Aside from their mental health problems, secrecy, corruption, infidelity, and incest, they're very much responsible for the manipulation, torture and death of Elizabeth Short and they even blackmail an officer in getting away with it.
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The Black Dahlia / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
The Black Dahlia / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Madeleine is this with her father Emmett. A little too close, as discovered later by Dwight.
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The Black Dahlia / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Black Dahlia / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Dwight and Lee are best friends as well as police partners.
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The Black Dahlia / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Black Dahlia / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The clown paintings in the Linscott manor. The "Man Without A Face" silent talkie film, featuring Gymplaine with a disfigured smile. The buildings outside Hollywoodland. The puncture would in the palm of the Dahlia's hand. The set used in the lesbian pornographic film featuring Elizabeth Short. The autopsy photos of the Dahlia with a glasgow smile.
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The Black Dahlia / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Black Dahlia / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: A sad point, in which Dwight makes a comment about his and Lee's boxing match with their respective titles of "Mr. Fire vs. Mr. Ice". The next time he uses this comment again, Lee is dead and about to be cremated while Dwight stands over his friend's dead body in grief quoting "Fire & Ice". "To my supercops.". When Kaye says this, it's a celebration between her, Dwight and Lee on their major case win. The next time she says this at dinner, she and Dwight are mourning Lee.
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The Black Dahlia / int_237f7eeb	type	Missing White Woman Syndrome
The Black Dahlia / int_237f7eeb	comment	Missing White Woman Syndrome: Duh, it is the 1940s.
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The Black Dahlia / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
The Black Dahlia / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse: First Lee, then Madeleine.
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The Black Dahlia / int_2d4dd397	type	Gold Digger
The Black Dahlia / int_2d4dd397	comment	Golddigger: Ramona drunkenly implies at the dinner table that Emmett married her for her father's money, much to his embarrassment.
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The Black Dahlia / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
The Black Dahlia / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: Several of the women attending the lesbian bar are quite feminine. Elizabeth Short, Lorna Mertz and Madeleine also count.
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The Black Dahlia / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Black Dahlia / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: The newspapers play this up when Lee and Dwight have a boxing match, billed as "Mr Fire vs Mr Ice".
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The Black Dahlia / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
The Black Dahlia / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: Subverted utterly completely. The police have to watch a stag film which featured Elizabeth. She is in tears as she performs the various sex acts and Lee throws something across the room in disgust at it.
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The Black Dahlia / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
The Black Dahlia / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: Emmett and Madeleine Linscott are discovered one night nearly kissing and having a private intimate conversation on the stairs before they are caught by Dwight who interrogates them about the murder of Elizabeth Short.
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The Black Dahlia / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
The Black Dahlia / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Many examples of this throughout the film. Such as Lee to Bobby Dewitt, for what he did to Kay, Ramona to Elizabeth Short, in an attempt to keep her lover Georgie, Madeleine to Lee, for beating and blackmailing her father Emmett, and eventually Dwight to Madeleine, over her villainous actions such as murdering his partner and her and her family's corrupt involvement with The Dahlia. Lampshaded by Madeleine before her own death.
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The Black Dahlia / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Black Dahlia / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Of the 1940s outfits variety.
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The Black Dahlia / int_3f13413a	type	Staggered Zoom
The Black Dahlia / int_3f13413a	comment	Staggered Zoom: As Madeleine kisses Dwight, he sees something outside and the camera dramatically cuts to reveal it is Kaye who is standing outside catching Dwight and Madeleine in their embrace; both cuts with a three-shot frame complete with a Stinger.
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The Black Dahlia / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Black Dahlia / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Lee is murdered, Dwight has now killed Madeleine and appears to still be haunted by Elizabeth's murder but he and Kay have a chance at a new life now.
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The Black Dahlia / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
The Black Dahlia / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: Discussed. The 15-year-old Lorna Mertz tells Bleichert and Blanchard that she thought she was pregnant and was in need of financial support hence why she made the pornographic film with Elizabeth Short.
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The Black Dahlia / int_45a387bc	type	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine
The Black Dahlia / int_45a387bc	comment	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Kay is the light, Madeleine is the dark. Also, Elizabeth was dark while Lorna was light.
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The Black Dahlia / int_4873cba8	type	I Was Young and Needed the Money
The Black Dahlia / int_4873cba8	comment	I Was Young and Needed the Money: Lorna admits to the police officers Blanchard and Bleichert that she accepted a deal of acting in a lesbian pornographic movie in exchange for an offer of $200, only because she thought she might be pregnant.
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The Black Dahlia / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Black Dahlia / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: In the film, Bucky finally shoots Madeline for her misdeeds at the end of the film. In the novel, he turns her into the police for Lee's murder, and the family is able to hire Jerry Geisler as her defense lawyer. Not only does she ruin Bucky's career with the LAPD and cost him his position by referencing all the times he was derelict in duty while at her house having sex with her, but she also gets sentenced for manslaughter rather than murder due to being deemed mentally unfit.
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The Black Dahlia / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Black Dahlia / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Poor Elizabeth Short. She went to Hollywood hoping to become a movie star. She actually got auditions but she was such a bad actress she never got a part and the only film she ever made was porn. Oh and then she gets brutally murdered.
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The Black Dahlia / int_509e8f83	type	Affair? Blame the Bastard
The Black Dahlia / int_509e8f83	comment	Affair? Blame the Bastard: Subverted. Ramona had an affair with Georgie and thus Madeleine was born. Instead of blaming his daughter however, Emmett saw himself as being a loving responsible father to her and instead took his anger out on Ramona's lover (and Madeleine's real father) Georgie by horribly disfiguring his face.
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The Black Dahlia / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Black Dahlia / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Bucky and Kay throughout the first and second half of the film. Until Lee dies, then it's quickly resolved between them.
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The Black Dahlia / int_510e5a9	type	Sassy Black Woman
The Black Dahlia / int_510e5a9	comment	Sassy Black Woman: A One-Scene Wonder character as a prostitute accompanying a suspect in the case.
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The Black Dahlia / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
The Black Dahlia / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: When Dwight interrogates one of the prime suspects ( and Kay's abusers), the man he catches makes a lewd comment using this word about his time first spent with Kay sexually which is enough to make Dwight want to pummel the man.
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The Black Dahlia / int_56723175	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
The Black Dahlia / int_56723175	comment	Adaptation Induced Plothole: Much attention is made to the movie The Man Who Laughs as an allusion to Georgie Tilden. Except Georgie Tilden is almost completely excised from the movie.
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The Black Dahlia / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
The Black Dahlia / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Dwight almost pummeled a suspect for insulting Kay.
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The Black Dahlia / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
The Black Dahlia / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: Dwight is at a lesbian bar during an erotic stage performance but ignores that as he is investigating his case.
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The Black Dahlia / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
The Black Dahlia / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Emmett Linscott with his daughter Madeleine Linscott. Later, it's revealed she isn't actually his daughter. Implied with Georgie Tilden who attempted to have sex with a woman who closely resembled his illegitimate daughter Madeleine.
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The Black Dahlia / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Black Dahlia / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Kay accuses Dwight of this, sleeping with Madeleine because she looks like Elizabeth Short. A partial example since Dwight was never involved with her.
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The Black Dahlia / int_65b696be	type	Fille Fatale
The Black Dahlia / int_65b696be	comment	Fille Fatale: Lorna Mertz. She's an emancipated minor who looks and acts older than her real age and wasn't afraid to act promiscuously towards men.
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The Black Dahlia / int_6943b153	type	Carved Mark
The Black Dahlia / int_6943b153	comment	Carved Mark: As Kaye prepares for her bath, Dwight notices that she has visible scaring on her back with the initials of her attacker "B.D" (Bobby Dewitt) carved into her skin. It's because of this that he wishes death on Bobby Dewitt.
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The Black Dahlia / int_6e4fa397	type	Alleged Lookalikes
The Black Dahlia / int_6e4fa397	comment	Alleged Lookalikes: A major plot point is that Madeleine Linscott and the murdered Elizabeth Short looked alike. Kay is even able to spot the resemblance from several feet away on the lawn. Actresses Hilary Swank and Mia Kirschner, however, look nothing alike.
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The Black Dahlia / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
The Black Dahlia / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: Elizabeth Short sustains this during the filming of a pornographic film. Lampshaded by the doctor doing her autopsy.
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The Black Dahlia / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Black Dahlia / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Bucky when he asks Kay who is Bobby DeWitt and her facial expression and demeanor changes. When Kay catches Bucky and Madeleine together. When Bucky confronts Madeleine's sister Martha asking her personal questions. This makes her crack:
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The Black Dahlia / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Black Dahlia / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: A non-slasher film example. Despite being a movie about Elizabeth Short's murder, that part of the plot doesn't kick off until 20 minutes into the film.
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The Black Dahlia / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Black Dahlia / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Madeleine's mother (again) in the scene where she confesses to killing Elizabeth and commits suicide immediately afterward. Being played by Fiona Shaw helps.
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The Black Dahlia / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Black Dahlia / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Dwight and Lee.
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The Black Dahlia / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Black Dahlia / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: C'mon, guess.
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The Black Dahlia / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Black Dahlia / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Madeleine Linscott is a beautiful, possibly insane, woman obsessed with both the Black Dahlia as well as detective Bleichert. She seems to get off by revealing her father's many-many crimes in bed. She also killed Detective Lee Blanchard.
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The Black Dahlia / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
The Black Dahlia / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: On the night Lee was killed, Madeleine had killed him and accidentally killed Georgie Tilden too. Whether or not she knew he was her biological father was up for debate.
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The Black Dahlia / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Black Dahlia / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Kay and Madeleine are the Betty and Veronica to Dwight respectively.
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The Black Dahlia / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
The Black Dahlia / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: During her confessional, Ramona reveals to Dwight that Madeleine was born out of her affair with Georgie, not from her marriage with Emmett. And it's because of this (along with Madeleine's resemblance to her true father) that Emmett snapped and ruined Georgie's face for it.
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The Black Dahlia / int_9a0870ae	type	Screw Yourself
The Black Dahlia / int_9a0870ae	comment	Screw Yourself: Madeleine admits to Bucky this being one of the reasons why she slept with Elizabeth Short once.
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The Black Dahlia / int_9aeabf25	type	The Family That Slays Together
The Black Dahlia / int_9aeabf25	comment	The Family That Slays Together: The seemingly wholesome Linscott family were revealed to have worked together in the murder of Elizabeth Short.
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The Black Dahlia / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Black Dahlia / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Ramona and her lover murdering The Dahlia sets off the plot.
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The Black Dahlia / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Black Dahlia / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Why did Ramona torture and kill The Dahlia? Because she couldn't stomach the thought of her lover Georgie sleeping with another woman who resembles their daughter.
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The Black Dahlia / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: Packed with elements of the classical style.
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The Black Dahlia / int_b097493c	comment	Madonna-Whore Complex: Wholesome and sweet Kay is contrasted with vampy and dangerous Madeleine. Guess which one lives and gets the hero.
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The Black Dahlia / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Bucky/Kay/Lee Kay/Bucky/Madeleine Emmett/Ramona/Georgie Bucky/Madeleine/Emmett Ramona/Georgie/Elizabeth Short
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The Black Dahlia / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Black Dahlia / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Georgie Tilden has had almost all of his scenes cut so there is great confusion when it's revealed he was a major part of why the Black Dahlia was murdered.
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The Black Dahlia / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Anything to do with The Dahlia triggers this for Lee Blanchard. He throws a fit and trashes the place when he sees Elizabeth Short being sodomized in her pornographic film. Then he gets violently mad, lashing out at his girlfriend Kay if she insists he stops to eat something and smashes a plate when she places one on the table, the same table covered in The Dahlia's autopsy photos.
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The Black Dahlia / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
The Black Dahlia / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Madeleine hangs out at lesbian bars and admits to sleeping with a woman, yet she clearly enjoys sex with Dwight. Lorna Mertz, who enjoyed making the pornographic video with Elizabeth more than the other did.
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The Black Dahlia / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: A disturbing example. Ramona Linscott revealed that her lover Georgie Tilden was so obsessed with Elizabeth Short that he desired to have sex with her, despite the fact that the object of his affection resembled his own daughter. This being the reason why Ramona was disturbed by it so greatly that she sought to prevent it from happening...
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The Black Dahlia / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
The Black Dahlia / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Bleichert investigates a lesbian bar where Elizabeth Short and her friend Lorna Mertz were frequent visitors. Madeleine visits there regularly as well.
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The Black Dahlia / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
The Black Dahlia / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: Blanchard went down to Mexico in the book and was killed by the corrupt cops down there for flashing too much cash as well as raising a ruckus. Here, he's killed by Madeline in retaliation for his blackmail.
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The Black Dahlia / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
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The Black Dahlia / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: A plot point is the resemblance between Madeleine and Elizabeth Short. Hilary Swank and Mia Kirschner look nothing alike.
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The Black Dahlia / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Black Dahlia / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The lesbian pornographic film starring a reluctant Elizabeth Short and a 15-year-old Lorna Mertz. The kisses between Short and Mertz are titillating but the rest is uncomfortable to watch as Mertz is underage, and Short cries and gets sodomized and painfully humiliated onscreen.
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The Black Dahlia / int_dcc35bb	type	Celebrity Cameo
The Black Dahlia / int_dcc35bb	comment	Celebrity Cameo: k.d. lang as a singer in the lesbian bar that Dwight investigates.
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The Black Dahlia / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
The Black Dahlia / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Madeleine's parent's marriage is far from a happy one as her mother Ramona drinks and pops pills and argues with Emmett at the dinner table. The couple also have affairs on the side of their terrible marriage, Ramona with Emmett's friend Georgie and Emmett with Madeleine.
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The Black Dahlia / int_e11027bb	type	Sex for Solace
The Black Dahlia / int_e11027bb	comment	Sex for Solace: The grief of losing Lee propels Dwight and Kaye to sleep together.
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The Black Dahlia / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Black Dahlia / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Elizabeth Short and her friend Lorna liked to hang out with lesbians in a time where such things were taboo. Elizabeth also slept with Madeleine.
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The Black Dahlia / int_e43130c1	comment	Interrupted Intimacy: Madeleine and her father are shown getting close to intimate on the stairs before they are interrupted by Dwight.
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The Black Dahlia / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Black Dahlia / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Elizabeth's real-life murder was never solved and is still a mystery to this day. The film offers a conclusion.
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The Black Dahlia / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
The Black Dahlia / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Ramona is revealed to be this after her confessions of killing Elizabeth Short to her family and Dwight. This was also one of the reasons why she killed The Dahlia in the first place, as she had been disturbed by the revelation of her lover Georgie Tilden being fixed up on a date with the Dahlia and becoming more unhinged from it. Her solution was to interrupt their date, bludgeon her with a bat and murder her, effectively winning over her lover Georgie.
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The Black Dahlia / int_ee22ccb3	comment	Lecherous Stepparent: Emmett is revealed to be this toward his own daughter Madaleine. Who is revealed to not be his biological daughter.
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The Black Dahlia / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
The Black Dahlia / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Elizabeth Short. For a movie named for her famous moniker and allegedly revolving around solving her murder, she's very much in the background (even taking into consideration that for most of the movie, she's dead), serving only as a way to link the main cast.
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The Black Dahlia / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
The Black Dahlia / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Dwight and Kay initially but they get closer after Lee's death.
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The Black Dahlia / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
The Black Dahlia / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: Madeleine saw Lee blackmailing her father Emmett over their involvement with The Dahlia and decided to get revenge.
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The Black Dahlia / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Dwight gets his front teeth knocked out at the start of the film but gets a nice set of false ones that don't alter his smile at all.
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