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The Counselor
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The Counselor is a 2013 crime thriller directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt. It is notable for being the first original screenplay written by novelist Cormac McCarthy (of No Country for Old Men and The Road fame) to be produced.The film follows an attorney (Fassbender) who gets in way over his head when he tries to make money to pay for his upcoming marriage to the beautiful Laura (Cruz) by striking a deal with Mexican drug lords, including their emissary, Reiner (Bardem) and his girlfriend Malkina (Diaz).The film was released on October 25. Trailer can be seen here. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: While the death toll isn't too high, by the end of the film, most of the major characters who appeared in more than two scenes are dead. | |
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The Anti-Nihilist | |
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The Anti-Nihilist: The Dealer: | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Remember the Bolito that Reiner talked about earlier? We get to see it in action and used on Westray. The results? It ain't pretty and it turns Westray's neck into a pez-dispenser. | |
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Fingore | |
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Fingore: Westray tries to stop the motor-driven garotte by putting his hands between his neck and the constricting wire. The garotte proves too sharp and cuts off his fingers and head anyway. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The motor-driven garotte (referred to as a "Bolito") Reiner describes to the Counselor. The audience gets to see it in action at the end of the film, used on Westray. The snuff films mentioned by Westray to the Counselor. When the Counselor receives a DVD with ¡Hola! written on it after Laura is kidnapped, he realizes, without playing it, that it is a snuff film of Laura's death. | |
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Verbal Tic: "Jesus, Counselor!" | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Nobody in this film except innocent Laura can honestly be called a good guy, but in the end, all of the more sympathetic characters (including Laura) are either dead or ruined, and Malkina has gotten everything she wanted without facing any comeuppance. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Malkina's cheetahs are named Raoul and Silva, the name of Javier Bardem's character in Skyfall. | |
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Hello, Attorney! | |
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Hello, Attorney!: The titular counselor, played by Michael Fassbender. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Jaime. He is a substantial part of the small plot, has many of his own scenes, and gets shot to death while the camera is in wide shot. Very, very unceremonious of this film. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Boy howdy. Reiner and Westray are killed. Multiple people, civilian and criminal, are killed in the delivery of the drug shipment to Chicago. Laura is killed in a gruesome, Nothing Is Scarier manner off-screen. Her death is likely recorded as a snuff film. The tape is sent to the Counselor who has a Despair Event Horizon moment. He'll likely be killed soon after. Her body is thrown in a garbage dump. Malkina, who set the whole plot in motion with the theft of the drug shipment, gets off scot-free with Westray's money. | |
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Previews Pulse | |
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Previews Pulse: The Russian trailer has it. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Reiner, despite being a big time dealer, is a nice, non-violent, charismatic man who lives a lavish, legit life during the day. Westray as well, who tries to help out the Counselor when they first meet and never loses his temper. | |
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Spear Carrier | |
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Spear Carrier: The Diamond Dealer, the uncredited character played by Leguizamo, the Buyer, the Blonde, el Jefe. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice When the Counselor offers to take Laura's place and be tortured to death by the Cartel. It's already too late. | |
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Auto Erotica | |
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Auto Erotica: Literally. Malkina doesn't have sex with Reiner inside of or on his Ferrari; she masturbates using the Ferrari's windshield. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The cartel member Jefe gives the Counselor a philosophically lecture about how grief is useless and that there's nothing he can do to save Laura due to his stupid actions. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: Most notably the scene involving the piano wire stretched across a road and the aforementioned Chekhov's Gun. Also heavily implied to be what happened to Laura. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: What, did you think Javier Bardem was going to underplay Reiner? | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Malkina. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Malkina. | |
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Kill the Cutie | |
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Kill the Cutie: Laura, the only character in the entire movie who's completely innocent. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Westray makes a few references to snuff films during his conversations. Near the end of the film, The Counselor receives a DVD that is most likely a snuff film of Laura. Reiner hints from his incident with Malkina when she literally and very graphically masturbates with the windshield of his sports car that she is capable of things far more disturbing and intimidating than she usually betrays. By the end she has caused his death, Westray's and Laura's and leaves the Counselor as a fingered man to the Cartel. This is hinted even earlier as Malkina mentions to Reiner that he reminds her of a dead man she met before, implying that she had done to someone what she was about to do to Reiner. | |
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Evil Is Not a Toy | |
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Evil Is Not a Toy: The Central Theme of the film; once the deal is done, the Counselor thinks he can walk away from the Cartel. He can't. He was already singled out by Malkina to take the blame for the loss of the septic truck. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Malkina. | |
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Dead Star Walking | |
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Dead Star Walking: Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: Reiner, considering how nice he was, and because he was one of the few people who got screwed over by Malkina and died an ignominious death. Westray. He had several chances to live a carefree, simple life. And when he finally realizes that it's time to cut and run, he gets a bolito wrapped around his neck. | |
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Madonna-Whore Complex | |
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Madonna-Whore Complex: Laura is the Madonna, and Malkina is the Whore. | |
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Tragic Villain | |
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Tragic Villain: Malkina had a really miserable childhood. Her parents were killed in a helicopter when she was 3, and she experienced disillusionment with the world very early on in life. | |
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Snuff Film | |
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Snuff Film: Westray suggests to the Counselor that the people who they are both working for are capable of this. They are. | |
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Market-Based Title | |
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Market-Based Title: A minor example. In the U.S., the film is titled "The Counselor", but the international trailer uses the more Brit-friendly spelling "The Counsellor". | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: Reiner gets killed this way by some Cartel goons in a failed attempt to kidnap him. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: In-Universe. Reiner describes Malkina having sex with his car as "too gynecological to be sexy." | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: The main character is known simply as "The Counselor". The same thing goes for characters like the Blonde, the Diamond Dealer and el Jefe. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Malkina arrays the theft of the septic truck and arranges the situation so that Reinier, Westray and The Counselor are blamed for its loss by proxy; though she loses the truck to the cartel, she tracks down Westray and steals his running-away loot. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: When the Counselor receives a DVD—and knows, without playing it, that it is a video of Laura's death. | |
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Doomed Protagonist | |
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Doomed Protagonist: The Counselor was pretty much screwed by Malkina being aware of his and Reiner's deal with the Cartel from the get go. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Malkina and cheetahs. She owns a pair of them, has a monologue about them, is introduced watching them hunt, and mentions several times how ferociously hungry she is. If all of that was too subtle, she also has cheetah spots tattooed over her body. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: See Cruel and Unusual Death. | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp: Malkina. | |
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