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The Fall Guy (2024)

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The Fall Guy is a 2024 action comedy film based upon the 1981 television series of the same name. It is directed by David Leitch, written by Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3, Hobbs & Shaw), and stars Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke, Teresa Palmer, and Hannah Waddingham.Gosling plays Colt Seavers, a veteran stunt performer who is injured in a stunt gone wrong and ends up losing his girlfriend Jody Moreno in the fallout. Eighteen months later and resigned to a mediocre life, he receives a call from Gail, producer for Jody's big budget sci-fi epic filming in Australia. She reveals that Tom Ryder, egotistical main actor for the film that Colt previously doubled for, has gone missing and they are desperate to keep it hidden before it derails the movie. Hoping to redeem himself by helping Jody, he works as a stuntman on set while tracking down Tom's associates.The film released on May 3, 2024.As with the show, the film bears no connection to the similarly named video game Fall Guys.Previews: Trailer 1, Trailer 2
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Fall Guy: Obviously, there's Colt, who is being set up to take the blame for Ryder's disappearance. It turns out to be more complex than a simple case of framing him by being the most convenient suspect: everything, from suddenly being forced into joining Jody's crew, the 3D scanning and mocap work, and being asked to investigate Ryder's disappearance were part of an elaborate plan to deepfake him into being the main suspect for an apparent manslaughter that Ryder committed. In addition, Jody is set up to become blamed for an engineered Troubled Production that'll cover up Ryder's crime. Ryder's rep forces Colt into her movie, demands a recut of the Third Act that's heavily implied to be an awful ending, makes a big stink of Colt apparently killing a stuntman to poison the movie's rep, and tries to get her to 'take a vacation' so she, and by extension the studio, can screw up her first movie and pin everything that went wrong with the movie on her.
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Creator Breakdown
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Creator Breakdown: invoked When Jody sees Colt on set, she has him do numerous takes of being set on fire and thrown by wires into a boulder. In between takes, she takes time in front of the entire crew to explain the whole story to Colt, a Starcrossed Lovers angle where the Space Cowboy just stops talking to Aliana and disappears. It's quite evident this movie is her trying to deal with the fallout of their relationship.
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Arc Symbol
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Arc Symbol: The "Thumbs Up" gesture, universal in the stunt community to let people know you're okay after rolling a truck or slamming into a boulder. Colt later turns it around explaining no stuntman ever wants to admit they're hurt, and a "Thumbs Down" is the worst thing imaginable for them.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: The stunt team for Metalstorm all wear jackets indicating they work for 87 North, the production company for the actual film, in the climax.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Though the plot of the movie is outright shown to be Jody's attempt to work through her complicated feelings about Colt and how their relationship ended, one scene that hammers this in without the two even realizing it is when they are discussing the plot of the movie over the phone with a split-screen shot (that they moments earlier just discussed the benefits of doing such a shot). While they are talking, Jody absent-mindedly puts on a prosthetic alien arm, highlighting that the alien in her movie represents her while they discuss what the arc of the movie should be (and by extension where their relationship should go).
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Heroes Love Dogs
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Heroes Love Dogs: Colt is reunited with Jean Claude, a miniature pinscher who ostensibly belongs to Tom. Jean Claude becomes a sidekick and only responds to French commands, Colt makes frequent use of the Groin Attack one.
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Not-So-Harmless Villain
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: Big Bad Gail is a smarmy person with Complexity Addiction and a fondness for having subordinates do all the hard work, but she does get in a few punches in the climax, steals back the evidence against Ryder, and nearly shoots Colt.
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Soft Glass
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After going through a glass pane Colt is having a conversation with the lead actress and is trying to empty out all the glass shards in his jacket.
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The Brute
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The Brute: Dressler. Both Colt and Dan despite their best efforts can't put him down with regular fisticuffs. Ultimately Dan has to resort to a wire rig to throw and suspend Dressler in mid-air.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Lee Majors and Heather Thomas appear briefly in The Stinger as police officers who arrest Gail and Tom. At the end of the movie, during the Comicon trailer for Metalstorm, it is revealed that Jason Momoa has replaced Ryder as the film's lead.
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Remake Cameo
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Remake Cameo: Original series stars Lee Majors and Heather Thomas appear as police officers in the stinger, arriving to arrest Gail and Tom.
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The Prima Donna
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The Prima Donna: Tom Ryder. Even his longtime producer, Gail, acknowledges that he's an asshole to work with. His diva antics go so far as trying to kill two of his stunt doubles — and succeeding once.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: When Cole first visits Tom's condo on the waterfront, right next to it is a large yacht. That is where Tom has been hiding all this time, which Cole finds out later jumping from a crane onto the yacht. A literal example: one of the props from Tom's movies that's in his condo is a pistol which Colt examines, taking out the magazine and seeing it's labeled as only holding blanks. When he needs a "weapon" later, Colt takes the prop gun and briefly "uses it" against a goon but is disarmed and shot with it, doing a stunt fall to fake being killed. When the goon's back is turned, he takes the opportunity to make an escape.
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Immediate Self-Contradiction
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: Tom explains Gails "simple solution" for him accidentally killing his stuntman, which is full of Complexity Addiction, something Colt points out.
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Adaptational Job Change
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Adaptational Job Change: In the TV series, Jody is a fellow stunt performer alongside Colt. In the film, she starts as a camera operator and becomes a film director.
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Extremely Short Timespan
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Extremely Short Timespan: The bulk of the film takes place over about four days. Gail had Colt in Australia overnight and we are shown only three days of filming.
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Career-Ending Injury
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Career-Ending Injury: Early on in the film, Colt suffers one from a fall stunt gone wrong, leading him to cut himself off from Jody and the film industry. It is later revealed that Tom sabotaged the stunt himself, due to him feeling that Colt was showing his face too much during the stunt and stealing the spotlight from him.
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Lampshade Hanging
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When we're reintroduced to Jody, she's fending off various production personnel in a way that's pretty pointed at all the usual headaches of running a set — among them are smartass scriptwriters who think meta-references to the fact the third act of the movie is rushed will make it better and angry set supervisors who don't realise their constant chewing out of the guys in charge of special effects makes them less likely to respect their authority.
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Girlboss Feminist
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Girlboss Feminist: Gail, a Hollywood executive, is known for Breaking the Glass Ceiling and producing Hollywood blockbusters. However, she is actually a typical Hollywood vulture who manipulates talentless hacks to make more money and manipulates movies for stupid audiences. She orchestrates a conspiracy to cover up a talentless hack's killing of a stuntman to boost studio profits. She uses gaslighting to manipulate Colt into becoming the Fall Guy, Jody into believing Colt is the killer, and the public through special effects and evidence-tampering. During her escape attempt, she shrieks "toxic masculinity", even though it has nothing to do with toxic masculinity and has everything to do with her being an accessory to manslaughter
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Conversational Troping
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Conversational Troping: The movie is not shy about discussing various tropes. Colt gets a call from Jody where she discusses Split Screen as a cliche and when she says she thinks she'll do it the scene becomes a split screen of her and Colt. One even suggests they patch over a weak third act by having the characters in the movie comment on weak third acts.
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Damsel out of Distress
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Damsel out of Distress: Ryder's kidnapped P.A. Alma manages to beat up one of her kidnappers and knock him out of the truck, although the truck would have then crashed without Colt's intervention and he also distracts some other thugs who would have been able to help the one Alma was fighting.
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A Lizard Named "Liz"
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A Lizard Named "Liz": The main female character in Metalstorm is a female alien named Aliana.
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Artistic License – Film Production
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Artistic License – Film Production: The movie exaggerates and speeds up the process of how a film is made. Colt shows up and is immediately recruited for a car flip being done that day, when such drivers are usually involved in the planning stages for accountability purposes. Pyrotechnics are also being set off as pranks, which would be a quick way to get fired. The film shows three different filming locations, one on a beach, one on the steps of the Sydney Opera House and one at what looks like a modified quarry/sand dunes and is said to be the final filming day, when all three locations look to be epic set pieces and would spend weeks at each one. All that said, the film generally winks at these inconsistencies and includes several things going wrong that feel like it is taken from real-life incidents.
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Strange Minds Think Alike
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Strange Minds Think Alike: During the "splitscreen" phone call, you can see that Colt and Jody are going through the exact same physical motions while talking to each other, highlighting their compatibility despite their current relationship struggles.
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Got Me Doing It
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Got Me Doing It: Jody ends up using Colt's finger gun gesture herself which she previously detested. Embarrassed, she tells Colt "You Didn't See That".
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Shipper on Deck
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Shipper on Deck: Several of Colt's friends seem to be supportive of him and Jody getting back together, with Dan noticing that Jody is still into him, while Alma also notes that they seem to be rekindling their relationship and hopes that they do, though it is beneficial to her as she might get a producer credit for Metalstorm out of it.
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Digital Head Swap
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Digital Head Swap: Given it's a film about a Stunt Double on a big-budget movie, this comes up several times in the plot. Most notably, Jody takes advantage of Tom Ryder's absence and Colt's presence to film bigger, more impressive action scenes and then replace Colt's face with Ryder's in post, because Colt is much better at filming action scenes. After The Reveal, we see that Gail has used a Digital Head Swap to frame Colt for an Accidental Murder.
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Big Badass Battle Sequence
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Big Badass Battle Sequence: Metalstorm has several, and a fair chunk of the plot is devoted to filming them.
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Engineered Public Confession
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Engineered Public Confession: While not exactly a live broadcast, Colt and Jody are able to trick Tom into confessing his crimes by forcing him into doing a dangerous stunt while forgetting his microphone is still on.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Colt pulls one off in the space of seconds as Tom's goons are dousing him with gasoline to set him on fire and kill him. He starts yelling for help, loudly, and one of them pours it directly into his mouth to shut him up. Just as the thug is starting up a lighter to do the deed, Colt sprays out the mouthful of gasoline and sets him on fire instead, making a distraction that allows him to escape.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: While Jody goes on a long-winded tangent about Metalstorm's plot, which is a very thinly-veiled version of her own relationship with Colt and her attempt to process it, a crew member takes the microphone from Colt and mentions that he went through something similar when he fell in love with his wife's sister. Colt immediately takes the microphone back.
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Scary Teeth
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Scary Teeth: Ryder's drug dealer has a fancy grill that he shows as he tries to intimidate Colt. Emphasis on 'tries to', as he's a dumbass who relies on his goons and squeals on the disappearance behind Ryder as soon as Colt gets his hands on him.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Colt and Dan abandon their plan to unlock a cellphone by having Venti engage in Hollywood Hacking when she tells them that it would take three or four days and that lots of people write their passwords down anyway, which turns out to be the better option that actually works.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: Tom insists he does all his own stunts directly in front of his stuntman.
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Disney Acid Sequence
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Disney Acid Sequence: While at a nightclub looking for Tom, Colt is drugged and fights off several goons while high, with the lighting effect becoming very trippy and sparks flying away from every impact. Even after it dies down, he still hallucinates a full-sized unicorn.
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: Treated as a Previously on… segment, there is a midcredits sequence of the previous actors of the original series posing as cops arriving to arrest Gail and Tom, with Tom fleeing into an area filled with pyrotechnics as getting blown to bits, prompting Alma to make a call requesting Jason Momoa’s agent.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At one point, Jody calls Colt to get his input on the movie. At the start of the call, she tells him that she's considering doing a split screen effect and asks him what he thinks of that. Naturally, the call transitions to a splitscreen effect. After the car-rolling stunt, Gail says it's eight and a half rolls, a new world record — a record set by the real movie.
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Self-Disposing Villain
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Self-Disposing Villain: Ryder attempts to escape police custody by running onto the open set and trying to call for help. The use of his cell phone detonates the pyrotechnics on set, causing Ryder to blow himself up.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The film begins with Colt performing a stunt fall, which goes wrong and ends up breaking his back, halting his career as a stuntman and ending his relationship with Jody. The final action scene ends with Colt legitimately leaping out of the helicopter that Gail and Tom are trying to flee in, with the incriminating recording of Tom's Engineered Public Confession in hand, landing safely in a crash pad that the stunt performers had hastily placed beneath the aircraft.
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Action Survivor
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Action Survivor: Jody Moreno is this despite not being a trained fighter like Colt can really hold her own. Successfully attacking and taking down Colt when she mistook him for an attacker even stabbing him in the leg with a pen. (Though to be fair he was in a big non-flexible alien costume and he didn't want to actually harm her.) She also is able to hold herself against an armed Gail and a professional armed mook knocking him out with a camera stand. Alma is a personal assistant with no combat experience, but she's able to successfully fight off one of Tom's goons with Jean Claude's help.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Iggy shares a friendly, if slightly condescending, conversation with Colt after having just tried to fight him off with a prop sword. She's later revealed to have been involved with Tom and Gail's plan and helped to cover up Henry's death.
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Villain Respect
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Villain Respect: When Gail orders Ryder to shoot Colt, Ryder hesitates because he says that Colt is one of the best stuntmen he’s ever had.
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Meaningful Background Event
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Meaningful Background Event: While Colt and Alma are talking on a sidewalk, a garbage disposal truck can be seen pulling up behind them and the two "garbage men" get slowly closer and closer to them as they converse. Then they suddenly whip out their tasers and strike both Colt and Alma, revealing themselves to be goons.
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The Other Marty
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The Other Marty: In-Universe. After Tom's crimes are exposed, the movie is reshot with Jason Momoa in the role.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: Ryder's Post-it covered apartment. Among them are 'Shark Attack' and 'Penis Enlargement'.
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My Greatest Failure
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My Greatest Failure: Colt blames himself for the stunt-gone-wrong that ended his career and his relationship with Jody, and it turns out the reason he never contacted Jody was that he considered the accident proof that he was a failure who didn't deserve Jody. We learn later in the film that Colt's "accident" was engineered by Tom.
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Calling Your Attacks
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Calling Your Attacks: When Dan gets into his first fight, he yells actor names with every blow he lands, such as Daniel Day-Lewis and Dwayne Johnson.
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Gaslighting
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Gaslighting: Gail makes extensive use of this to manipulate and bamboozle both Colt and Jody combined with sheer Motor Mouth bluster and Blatant Lies. Eventually it loses its effectiveness when Colt and Jody realize what is going on and Gail lets slip her contempt for Jody by condescendingly noting how 'mouldable' she has been.
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Vehicular Kidnapping
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Vehicular Kidnapping: Midway through the film, Colt and Alma are tased by bad guys who drag Alma into a garbage truck, which Colt then pursues in one of the film's setpieces.
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Celebrity Paradox
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Celebrity Paradox: Most of the Metalstorm stunt crew wear jackets with a logo of 87North Productions, David Leitch's production company that also produced this film. One of Tom's many Post-It notes around his apartment says "Download Bullet Train", another film directed by Leitch and also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
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Actually Pretty Funny
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Actually Pretty Funny: When Colt starts doing reckless stunts with an obnoxious customer's car while working as a valet, the customer's date looks amused by the show.
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Pink Elephants
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Pink Elephants: Colt gets a spiced drink from Tom's drug dealer. He asks how long it should last and is told it's on its' way out when he sees the unicorn. About 20 minutes of the movie has a unicorn following him around.
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The Big Damn Kiss
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The Big Damn Kiss: Colt and Jody share an epic one after all the action is finally over and they get back together, complete with explosions going off in the background.
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Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
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Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: While it is all but stated that they are his usual protection detail, with Tom the kind of person who'd hire amoral killers for the job, one has to wonder where does a Hollywood movie star and/or movie producer get a hold of couple of dozen mercenaries willing to kill, kidnap and frame people at the drop of a hat to begin with?
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You Didn't See That
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You Didn't See That: Jody gives Colt a finger gun gesture at one point and is remarkably embarrassed, insisting Colt saw nothing.
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Space Western
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Space Western: Metalstorm, the Film Within a Film, is mostly desert and focuses on a protagonist literally named "the Space Cowboy" who speaks in an exaggerated Southern twang and does fancy revolver tricks.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: Fitting for a stuntman, Colt goes through all sorts of punishment during the movie and never slows down. Hell, he fully recovered from a broken back in the span of 18 months.
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Camera Abuse
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Camera Abuse: While filming a scene on a beach where the car was going to roll, Colt struggled to keep the right distance from a lead car and ended up hitting the camera mounted on a jib. The scene was still in motion and they had seven other cameras so they said to keep going.
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Counting Bullets
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Counting Bullets: In the final showdown, Colt gives Gail a smirk after she takes the gun from the reluctant Tom, and tells her she's out of bullets. Then he jumps out of the helicopter anyway.
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly Long Gag: Colt's attempts to get into Ryder's hotel room. It takes him quite a while due to the key card for the room not working. He tries it several times, goes down to the front desk to get it fixed, tries the new card only for it not to work again, so he decides to simply break in and finds someone dead in the bathtub. After going through a glass pane Colt is having a conversation with the lead actress and is trying to empty out all the glass shards in his jacket.
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Double-Meaning Title
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Double-Meaning Title: Colt works as a "fall guy" — i.e. a stuntman, taking falls (and hits, and fire). We eventually learn he's being set up to take the fall for an Accidental Murder.
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Dented Iron
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Dented Iron: Colt suffered a really hard hit in the opening scene, requiring surgery and some rehabilitation. This doesn't appear to directly impact his current physical abilities, but has shaken his confidence. This is related to an underlying theme of the film in that stuntmen refuse to admit they are hurt.
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Muse Abuse
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Muse Abuse: The relationship between "Space Cowboy" and Aliana in Metalstorm is transparently based in the bad way in which Colt and Jody's relationship fell apart after his accident, with a Sci-Fi paint job applied, and she makes no attempt to hide it when describing the plot to him, in front of the entire film crew.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Ryder's girlfriend Iggy Starr was a part of the plot to frame Colt for manslaughter, and yet the final scene in the movie reveals that apparently she was not replaced as the female lead in Metalstorm, implying she got away scot-free.
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Troubled Production
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In addition, Jody is set up to become blamed for an engineered Troubled Production that'll cover up Ryder's crime. Ryder's rep forces Colt into her movie, demands a recut of the Third Act that's heavily implied to be an awful ending, makes a big stink of Colt apparently killing a stuntman to poison the movie's rep, and tries to get her to 'take a vacation' so she, and by extension the studio, can screw up her first movie and pin everything that went wrong with the movie on her.
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No Stunt Double
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No Stunt Double: invoked Tom Ryder is every arrogant Hollywood actor wrapped into one package, insisting he does his own stunts despite the fact Colt was his dedicated double for years. It's said by other characters that Tom isn't even all that good in general action scenes, and he is very skittish the instant someone suggests anything but a close-up. It is revealed he sabotaged Colt's wire stunt that broke his back, his ego made him think Colt was trying to upstage him and that same ego led to the death of his current stunt double. Notably, though, the film Hilarious Outtakes appropriately shows all of Ryan Gosling's stunt doubles. Played straight with Iggy Starr, Ryder's girlfriend and co-star of Metalstorm, who can easily fight off Colt with just a prop katana, and is later seen doing the fight choreography herself with Colt during the big set piece in front of the Sydney Opera House.
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Working with the Ex
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Working with the Ex: Colt and Jody dated while working together on multiple films when she was still just a camerawoman. After breaking his back in a stunt gone wrong, Colt chooses to cut all ties with everyone including Jody. She doesn't take it well, to say the least; her first movie as director is essentially her working through the breakup with the main character and his love interest representing Colt and Jody respectively. She is initially furious when Colt is brought on to be Ryder's stuntman again.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Colt began his career as a stuntman at the Miami Vice Action Spectacular at Universal Studios, and still wears the crew jacket every day. Said show apparently included him diving off an exploding speedboat several times a day, so he was able to put these skills to use to fake his death when pursued by Ryder's goons in Sydney harbor. He'd also gotten so good at the stunt that he can do it with his hands tied behind his back, which is exactly what he needs to do it for real. Colt knows that Tom's dog is trained to attack by biting people in the groin, but only if the commands are given in French.
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Take That!
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Take That!: Tom Ryder is a mockery of numerous egotistical Hollywood stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson's performance clearly imitates the persona of Matthew McConaughey, and he further plays it up as the Space Cowboy with McConaughey's exaggerated twang. "Tom Ryder"'s name is just one degree removed from Tom Cruise (who exists in-universe too, presumably as Plausible Deniability). He shares Cruise's reliance on being seen as doing his own stunts, speaks the same way as Cruise does when not acting, and his behavior has much in common with rumors (and verified recordings) of Cruise being passive aggressive and sometimes outright hostile towards crew members. Colt's little chats to himself also show Ryder is a macho, homophobic bully, which also matches rumors from co-stars about on-set behavior. The crappy sci-fi movie he's in mimics the overblown Scientology vehicle of Battlefield Earth, starring fellow action starlet-cum-serious actor and Scientologist John Travolta. His angry public antics and constant breakdowns references Mel Gibson's own (complete with "Action Part One", one of Ryder's ego vehicles, also being a reference to Lethal Weapon and its many sequels). Him really being behind the 'accident' that severely injured Colt out of pettiness digs at various sets that cut corners on stunts and risk everyone's lives, but it's especially pointed after the then-recent high-profile killing of a cinematographer due to the armorer's cavalier attitude towards gun safety, as well as the killing of a stuntwoman on the set of Deadpool 2, which is likely a bit of ultra-dark self-deprecation for Leitch (who directed Deadpool 2). His constant chewing out of set personnel also references Christian Bale's infamous rant on the set of Terminator Salvation. Finally, him being quickly replaced with Jason Momoa refers to all of Kevin Spacey's scenes in All the Money in the World being hastily reshot with Christopher Plummer after it turned out that Spacey was a sexual predator and pedophile. Gail is a abominable amalgamation of every Hollywood 'producer' who sabotages movies: she's a Girlboss Feminist who misuses "toxic masculinity" at anything a man does, even when it's trying to stop her from murder, maintains Tom's 'down to Earth actor' facade at all costs down to covering up an Accidental Murder with glee, and tries to take over the film several times, both to make sure the movie is dumbed down for the Lowest Common Denominator and also to cover up the death. Furthermore, her attempt to take over the movie is a common IRL Horrible Hollywood tactic: studio executives and "producers" will Wag the Director and force plot changes for the worst in a bid for "wide appeal" or even for Self-Fanservice at the cost of an actual film, then pin the resulting mess on the director, who'll be blackballed by every studio for a failure that wasn't their fault. invoked When we're reintroduced to Jody, she's fending off various production personnel in a way that's pretty pointed at all the usual headaches of running a set — among them are smartass scriptwriters who think meta-references to the fact the third act of the movie is rushed will make it better and angry set supervisors who don't realise their constant chewing out of the guys in charge of special effects makes them less likely to respect their authority.
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The Ace
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The Ace: Colt is a certified badass. He is a very successful stuntman, can hold his own in a real fight even while drugged, and can think on his feet and create creative solutions even in the most stressful situations such as shouting for help when Ryder's goons start drenching him in gasoline just so he can get a mouthful of it which he then spits into one of the goon's lighter to get an opportunity to escape. The only failure he ever had understandably put him out of the game for a good while, and it turns out the stunt's failure wasn't even his fault, or a freak accident, it was sabotage.
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Ignored Expert
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Ignored Expert: When he arrives on the shoot, Colt quickly notes that the sand isn't quite right for the stunt driving he's expected to do, and they should wait until after the tide comes in and out again. He's overruled, and the car ride is unnecessarily bumpy when he does the student, leading to the destruction of a camera.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Tom's reaction to accidentally killing his stunt double is to cry about how "This is not what [he] needs right now."
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Must Have Caffeine
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Must Have Caffeine: Colt dealing with a bad case of jetlag desperately wants a cup of coffee but keeps being denied one either due to his requests being ignored or interrupted in some way when trying to get one himself.
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Romance on the Set: Two instances In-Universe: Colt and Jody were hot and heavy during productions they were both working on. Tom Ryder is dating Iggy Starr, the female lead of Metalstorm, although it is never established if their relationship developed during filming or predated it.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Tom lets out an epic one when Colt leaps out of the helicoptor with the recording of Tom confessing to his crimes in hand.
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The score for Metalstorm contains a One-Woman Wail very similar to that from the score for Dune. The film itself is a mashup of Dune and Mad Max: Fury Road, which was also stunt heavy.
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Cringe Comedy
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Cringe Comedy: There's a sequence where Jody, absolutely furious with Colt for appearing on set after ghosting her for 18 months and leaving her heartbroken, forces him to do an incredibly painful stunt while she "gives him a script read" about the love lives of the main leads falling apart and failing to give the Show Within a Show a Downer Ending, which is totally not based on her and Colt's relationship. This is in front of nearly all the production crew, and even the stunt performers in the alien suits are visibly cringing. On top of this, an extra tries to break up the awkwardness by jumping in with how this was exactly like the time he fell in love with his wife's sister, to which Colt reacts by snatching back the mic.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The movie uses a lot of behind-the-scenes footage of stunt people from real movies, including director David Leitch's previous films Atomic Blonde and Nobody. A Running Gag has Dan quoting other movies for inspirational moments or just one-liners including Rocky Balboa and The Fast and the Furious. The score for Metalstorm contains a One-Woman Wail very similar to that from the score for Dune. The film itself is a mashup of Dune and Mad Max: Fury Road, which was also stunt heavy. The ending is a big one to Tropic Thunder: showing off the Show Within a Show to an excited crowd and all the protagonists happily in the audience, and with the star being the winner of the "MTV Film Award for Best Kiss", which Tropic Thunder's Tobey Maguire also had a credit for in Satan's Alley.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Gail is a abominable amalgamation of every Hollywood 'producer' who sabotages movies: she's a Girlboss Feminist who misuses "toxic masculinity" at anything a man does, even when it's trying to stop her from murder, maintains Tom's 'down to Earth actor' facade at all costs down to covering up an Accidental Murder with glee, and tries to take over the film several times, both to make sure the movie is dumbed down for the Lowest Common Denominator and also to cover up the death. Furthermore, her attempt to take over the movie is a common IRL Horrible Hollywood tactic: studio executives and "producers" will Wag the Director and force plot changes for the worst in a bid for "wide appeal" or even for Self-Fanservice at the cost of an actual film, then pin the resulting mess on the director, who'll be blackballed by every studio for a failure that wasn't their fault. invoked
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"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name
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"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: This exchange between Colt and Jody in a car:
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Hypocrite: Tom Ryder reveals he intentionally caused Colt's career-halting accident because he felt Colt had become too obsessed with himself and needed to be taken down a peg, even though Ryder is the one who is constantly shown to be a self-absorbed narcissist.
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Friendship Moment
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Friendship Moment: Dan decides to forgo his turn during karaoke night to help Colt track down Tom, getting himself involved in numerous dangerous fights in order to help his friend. He later assembles the rest of the stunt crew to fight off Tom's security detail while Colt and Jody are preoccupied with getting a confession out of him.
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Company Cross References: The film opens with a montage of stunt sequences from various movies, one of them being the train escape scene from Fast Five, another Universal release. Colt is a veteran of a Miami Vice stunt show at Universal Studios. Colt and Dan both mention doing “Jason Bourne shit�, Bourne being another Universal Studios protagonist. A Shrek cosplayer appears at the Metalstorm SDCC panel.
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Recruit the Muggles: In the climax, most of the film crew help trick Ryder into confessing and a small army of stunt workers provide Dan backup during his fight with the mooks and mop the floor with them.
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Adaptation Name Change: Jody's last name is changed from "Banks" in the TV series to "Moreno" in the film.
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Hilarious Outtakes
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invoked Tom Ryder is every arrogant Hollywood actor wrapped into one package, insisting he does his own stunts despite the fact Colt was his dedicated double for years. It's said by other characters that Tom isn't even all that good in general action scenes, and he is very skittish the instant someone suggests anything but a close-up. It is revealed he sabotaged Colt's wire stunt that broke his back, his ego made him think Colt was trying to upstage him and that same ego led to the death of his current stunt double. Notably, though, the film Hilarious Outtakes appropriately shows all of Ryan Gosling's stunt doubles.
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The Oner
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The Oner: The film's prologue is all shot in a single take, right up until Colt's career-ending injury. Later in the film, the concept on the Oner is referenced by Jody when she's pitching ideas for Metalstorm.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: Tom’s dog aids Colt in a few fight scenes by biting the enemies in their groins.
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Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?
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Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?: During Jody 'explaining' the romantic subplot of her film totally not being based on her and Colt falling out, she claims she had so many 'mind-blowing flings' to prove she moved on. It's implied none of it is true because all of her subsequent interactions with Colt make it clear she never got over him.
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Complexity Addiction
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Complexity Addiction: After accidentally killing his current stunt double, Tom and Gail come up with an overly complicated plan to bring Colt to Australia and frame him for the death... but using his yacht and the large number of ruthless mercenaries he currently employs as security to simply dispose of the body and then track down and dispose of all the video apparently never crosses his mind.
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Running Gag
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A Running Gag has Dan quoting other movies for inspirational moments or just one-liners including Rocky Balboa and The Fast and the Furious.
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Film Within a Film: Metalstorm, the film that Jody and Colt are making, is essentially a remake of Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn and can best be described as a cross between Mad Max: Fury Road and Dune (2021) (with non-humanoid aliens). We see snippets of the final film through the production.
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: While Colt and Dan are searching the hundreds of Post-its covering Ryder's home looking for the password for his phone, they come across one of them that has "Ma-moa or Mo-moa?" written on it. Come the final scene of the movie, and an In-Universe trailer reveals that Jason Momoa has replaced Ryder as the star of the now completed Metalstorm. When Colt is trying to get answers from Alma, she demands a producer's credit in the movie as her price. The aforementioned trailer has a very gratuitous producer's credit in her name during the middle of the trailer.
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Evil Is Petty
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Evil Is Petty: Tom nearly killed Colt and ended his career by sabotaging his fall stunt at the start of the movie, simply because he thought Colt pointed his face toward the camera too much and thus needed a 'lesson' even when Colt was redoing the stunt to correct this. He then inadvertently kills Henry after the latter made a mocking remark about Tom never doing his own stunts.
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Cut Apart: After a particularly good film shoot showing that Colt and Jody are starting to get their spark back, Jody invites Colt to go to karaoke with her, which he accepts. Before he is able to go, he gets caught up in a giant action set piece involving a French dog and truck. Thinking that he has ditched her when he doesn't show up, Jody begins to sing a song that intercuts with Colt trying to survive. You even see the truck drive by through the window of the bar. Finally, Colt stops the bad guys and rushes back to the bar just as Jody finishes her number. Except by the time he arrives, most of the film crew, including Jody, had already left with only Dan and a few others still there.
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Adaptational Nationality
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Adaptational Nationality: Jody, an American in the TV series, is British in the film.
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Pet the Dog: Downplayed with Horrible Hollywood movie star Ryder's four actual pet dogs (he also has a cockatoo, but he's planning to sell it); he does give his assistant instructions to take care of them during his disappearance, but also only keeps at least one of them, Jean-Claude, around to do violent party tricks.
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