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The French Dispatch

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The French Dispatch	comment	The French Dispatch, full title The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, is a romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Wes Anderson. The film stars Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright and Adrien Brody, among many, many others.An Anthology Film, the plot consists of six segments, including a travelogue and three feature stories from the final issue of the titular paper, in this format: The paper is introduced by the obituary of Arthur Howitzer, Jr. (Bill Murray), editor-in-chief of the French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun - in which it is revealed that as a young man, Howitzer left Liberty for France as a holiday - and simply chose not to return, instead making money writing dispatches from France for his father's newspaper, eventually turning the Sunday supplement of the paper into The French Dispatch, a full-blown magazine with several American ex-pat contributors. After revealing Howitzer's eventual return to Kansas after his death, and his last will and testament ordering the closure of the French Dispatch, we pull back to the last day of Howitzer's life, with him working to bring to print what would become the Dispatch's last issue - the contents of which comprise the remaining bulk of the film. Immediately following is the short travelogue: "The Cycling Reporter," wherein travel writer Herbsaint Sazerac (Owen Wilson) gives a brief tour of 20th-century Ennui-sur-Blasé, the fictional French city where the Dispatch is located. "The Concrete Masterpiece": Narrated by J.K.L. Berensen (Swinton), this story chronicles the life and artistic career of Moses Rosenthaler (Benicio del Toro), a dangerous criminal turned abstract art sensation after art dealer Julien Cadazio (Brody) takes a liking to his work. "Revisions to a Manifesto": Narrated by Lucinda Krementz (McDormand), who struggles to maintain journalistic integrity as she covers the "Chessboard Revolution" led by Zeffirelli (Chalamet). With the youth of Ennui in revolt, tensions within factions of the revolution begin boiling over as well. "The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner": Narrated by Roebuck Wright (Wrightinvoked), this piece starts as a dining feature before a dinner with the Commissaire (Amalric) is interrupted by a kidnapping heist. The film concludes with the gathering of the employees of the French Dispatch, having discovered Howitzer dead at his desk, on what would have been his 80th birthday. After a few moments of contemplation, the assembled writers begin to work together on Howitzer's obituary - the same one heard in the Introduction.The French Dispatch is based in part on The New Yorker, with several characters serving as direct Shout-Outs to iconic employees and amalgamations to famous journalists in general. Initially delayed by the COVID-19 Pandemic, it had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021, and was theatrically released on October 22, 2021.
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The French Dispatch / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The French Dispatch / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Mainly for the journalists. Arthur Howitzer Jr. is based off New Yorker founder Harold Ross, Herbsaint Sazerac is based off New Yorker travel writer Joseph Mitchell, J.K.L. Berensen is based on Rosamond Bernier, Lucinda Krementz is based on Mavis Gallant, and Roebuck Wright is a composite of James Baldwin and A.J. Liebling. Julien Cadazio is based on British art dealer Joseph Duveen. Part of Rosenthaler's "genius Spaniard making works while still in prison" is taken from David Alfaro Siqueiros. Rosenthaler himself bears a striking resemblance to sculptor Constantin Brancusi.
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The French Dispatch / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
The French Dispatch / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: Lt. Nescaffier is the world's best Police Food chef in France. Police Food is a very specific style of cuisine that has requirements ranging from "items you'd find lying around a police station" to "can the ingredient be opened without alerting the suspect you're tailing."
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The French Dispatch / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The French Dispatch / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Why Rosenthaler brutally murdered two barkeeps. We see his two victims apparently harassing a random man, seemingly For the Evulz, but we're not given context or dialogue shortly before said two victims get murdered.
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The French Dispatch / int_20917b55	type	Milking the Giant Cow
The French Dispatch / int_20917b55	comment	Milking the Giant Cow: Cadazio does this when it's been three years since Rosenthaler's last painting, and Rosenthaler's response is to ask for another year.
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The French Dispatch / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The French Dispatch / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: At the end of the film, the staff of the Dispatch mourn Howitzer, who is laying freshly dead on his desk, mouth gaping open, before his body is covered.
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The French Dispatch / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The French Dispatch / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: The relationship between Zeffirelli and Lucinda Krementz.
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The French Dispatch / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The French Dispatch / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Arthur Howitzer Jr. has a pretty strict "no crying" rule in his workplace. This variation of the phrase is used for laughs when he tells a worker about his termination. It's later used in a more heartwarming light in the third main story, "The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner," where he tells a tearful Roebuck Wright not to cry, in order to encourage him to persevere after he gets arrested. It comes around a third and final time in the epilogue: when one staffer cries after Howitzer's death, she's reminded to consider the sign by another coworker; the implication being that they know that even in death, Howitzer wouldn't want people crying in his office, even in the act of mourning him.
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The French Dispatch / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The French Dispatch / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Plenty of the French text in the film isn't translated, so a French speaker is more privy to some of the jokes. For example: The Police Headquarters is said to be located on a narrow peninsula known as the "Rognure d'Ongle," which translates as "nail clippings."
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The French Dispatch / int_2cac316e	type	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade
The French Dispatch / int_2cac316e	comment	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: During the presentation of Moses' final piece at the prison, Julien is informed that the prisoners would each like to share in the payment. Every prisoner. He tries to lock the door, which gets trampled (the wall next to it does as well).
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The French Dispatch / int_2e03fb64	type	Embarrassing Slide
The French Dispatch / int_2e03fb64	comment	Embarrassing Slide: During Berensen's presentation on Rosenthaler, somehow a slide of a nude photo of her got mixed in.
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The French Dispatch / int_31c4280	type	Conscription
The French Dispatch / int_31c4280	comment	Conscription: Military service is required in France in this movie (which was the case in the '70s), but Mitch-Mitch (a friends of Zeffirelli) defects after witnessing unspeakable horrors in the "Mustard Region."
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The French Dispatch / int_378039e	type	TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers
The French Dispatch / int_378039e	comment	The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: Zigzagged. When the Commissaire and his police force discuss plans to free Gigi and attack the gangsters, the steps discussed and taken become more and more exaggerated, as it turns from planning to secure points to hiring climbers and an André the Giant-esque wrestling police officer called The Jeroboam.
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The French Dispatch / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The French Dispatch / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Adrien Brody is after a painting. Again. And he instigates yet another fight because of it. Didn't he learn from last time? Benicio del Toro is yet again in trouble with the authorities, and calling someone a "cocksucker." This time, however, he isn't The Unintelligible.
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The French Dispatch / int_3b789458	type	Recurring Extra
The French Dispatch / int_3b789458	comment	Recurring Extra: One of the people working for the Dispatch is described as a man who never finished an article but managed to collect a paycheck from the paper for 30 years. He has almost no dialogue and is somewhere in most of the scenes in the paper's office.
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The French Dispatch / int_3dd3a9eb	type	Tone Shift
The French Dispatch / int_3dd3a9eb	comment	Tone Shift: Happens in universe. Roebuck Wright was supposed to be dining with the Commissioner of the police to sample "Police food" for a food critic section in the magazine. After appetizers are served a sudden kidnapping derails the meal and he's writing about a criminal investigation instead. Howitzer is a little annoyed about this as he expected the food article, but as Wright explains he did experience police cooking in the course of the adventure and having been shot at, involved in a car chase and had hand grenades thrown at him he'd rather write about that. There's a third tone shift as Howitzer notes Roebuck removed something from the entry and made it weaker: a melancholic exploration of being a foreigner in not just another city, but from others in general, with the implication Howitzer left Kansas for the same reason Nescaffier and Roebuck did: constantly looking for something missing in their lives.
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The French Dispatch / int_3ea260c	type	Gotta Pass the Class
The French Dispatch / int_3ea260c	comment	Gotta Pass the Class: After failing to attain his bachelor's degree, Mitch-Mitch is sent to serve three months in the military.
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The French Dispatch / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
The French Dispatch / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Discussed in the third segment - organized crime was brazen enough to warrant a militarized police force, eventually escalating into war when a full list of members for the entire underworld fall into the hands of the Police. As subsequent events (his son's kidnapping) will see the Police Commissioner highly motivated it's likely those three gangs at least are out of business by the "present day" scenes.
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The French Dispatch / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The French Dispatch / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: How Rosenthaler's first murders are depicted. He sees the two barkeeps apparently harassing a man, growls... and pan to butchers preparing some meat, with a voiceover describing Rosenthaler's actions matching the butchers (such as a bonesaw being used to decapitate one of the victims).
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The French Dispatch / int_4c70bdae	type	Terrorists Without a Cause
The French Dispatch / int_4c70bdae	comment	Terrorists Without a Cause: The student revolutionaries in Act 2 have one, but in the interest of "journalistic neutrality," it's glossed over, and even spoken over (this is Truth in Television for some The New Yorker articles, which act as if the reader is already familiar with current events and eschews recaps of political intricacies for character studies). The closest we get is that A) it's left-wing, B) student-led, and C) included "male student access to the female dorms" as part of its demands.
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The French Dispatch / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The French Dispatch / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: "Revisions to a Manifesto" ends with Zeffirelli dying, and his parents tearfully identifying his body.
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The French Dispatch / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The French Dispatch / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: During the third segment, it's nonchalantly mentioned that when the kidnappers' demands to have food were fulfilled, they force Lt. Nescaffier to eat some of the food to prove it wasn't poisoned. It was, and it was highly lethal.
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The French Dispatch / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The French Dispatch / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film starts by reading off Howitzer's obituary, beginning with "It began as a holiday." The final scene is of the writers of the Dispatch writing Howitzer's obituary, beginning with "It began as a holiday."
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The French Dispatch / int_5c9737b5	type	Public Exposure
The French Dispatch / int_5c9737b5	comment	Public Exposure: "The Concrete Masterpiece" is kickstarted when Moses Rosenthaler makes an abstract painting of his guard, Simone, naked.
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The French Dispatch / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The French Dispatch / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Loneliness. It's not hammered home until the last Act but much of the film is driven by it. The introduction shows us around the city and its people, but the author never truly interacts with anyone. The mad painter in the first act and his lover/muse are pushed together by it. Many of the students in the second act felt some kind of alienation, be it from the people they rose against or each other. And, finally, the Third Act, where our protagonist got thrown in jail for the crime of trying to ease his loneliness with the wrong sex. It's revealed that one of the reasons he focused on food as his writing is because, in a world that isn't exactly welcoming to people who love differently (or even love normally), there's always a restaurant that's more than happy to give you some food as company - and as an extension, one reason why he went to France was because he'd be lonely anywhere, continually seeking out something he (and by extension, Lt. Nescaffier, and by further extension, Howitzer) is missing.
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The French Dispatch / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The French Dispatch / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Sazerac's segment about the town of Ennui shows they have a problem with a gang of young choir boys drunk on communion wine randomly assaulting people in the streets including Sazerac himself at the very end.
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The French Dispatch / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The French Dispatch / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Lt. Nescaffier knowingly ate the poisoned food to convince the kidnappers to eat it, and when he later recovers, he says he did it simply because he didn't want to disappoint anybody.
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The French Dispatch / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
The French Dispatch / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Cadazio is showing Rosenthaler's art to a buyer, he excitedly relays to him what the buyer told him about how much she loves it, but pauses when he realized she related them to "frescoes." He then looks again at the paintings and realizes they're painted on the load-bearing concrete wall.
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The French Dispatch / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
The French Dispatch / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: "Revisions to a Manifesto" is in part about the "Chessboard Revolution," where students settled disputes with each other, and eventually the authorities themselves, in games of chess.
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The French Dispatch / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
The French Dispatch / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Ennui-sur-Blasé literally means "Boredom-upon-Jaded" in French.
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The French Dispatch / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
The French Dispatch / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Despite his numerous attempts at a proposal, Simone refuses to marry (or even date) Moses. Her rejection is what drives him to paint.
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The French Dispatch / int_7e680062	type	Aspect Ratio Switch
The French Dispatch / int_7e680062	comment	Aspect Ratio Switch: As with The Grand Budapest Hotel, different aspect ratios are used in the film to Retraux effects. Most of the film is in 1.33:1, while some of the scenes in black and white use the 2.39:1 ratio.
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The French Dispatch / int_86210fed	type	Angry Animalistic Growl
The French Dispatch / int_86210fed	comment	Angry Animalistic Growl: When Rosenthaler gets especially angry, he lets out a low growl before attacking.
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The French Dispatch / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
The French Dispatch / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: Zeffirelli uses the sparking battery terminal on the radio tower to light a cigar whilst repairing it. This turns out to be a very, very bad idea.
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The French Dispatch / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
The French Dispatch / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: In many places, but most noticeably in scenes between Zeffirelli and Juliette: all of Zeffirelli's dialogue is in English and all of Juliette's dialogue is in French.
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The French Dispatch / int_8ba6dee3	type	Self-Poisoning Gambit
The French Dispatch / int_8ba6dee3	comment	Self-Poisoning Gambit: When the kidnappers of the police commissioner's son are rightfully suspicious that the food they were given was poisoned, Lt. Nescaffier eats a bite of each dish in front of them. He is luckily rescued before he fully succumbs and recovers. Roebuck theorizes that the only reason he wasn't killed near-immediately was because the Lieutenant was a chef and had eaten a lot of things not pleasant to normal stomachs. It's also clearly shown that Nescaffier only eats a small amount of each dish (including the poisoned radishes) while the crooks consume full sized portions, the smaller dose, Roebuck's theory about his stomach and prompt medical attention then saved his life (the criminal's being left to expire if not already dead).
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The French Dispatch / int_8eb654e4	type	Firing Day
The French Dispatch / int_8eb654e4	comment	Firing Day: It's implied Howitzer regularly fires non-writer staff whenever his generous writers turn in a special edition that costs far more to print and send - he nonchalantly tells a delivery boy he's fired, and is already ready to tell him not to cry even before the waterworks start coming.
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The French Dispatch / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: "The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner" turns from live-action to animation during a few scenes, notably the climatic car chase.
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The French Dispatch / int_94be6b61	type	Coordinated Clothes
The French Dispatch / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: Zeffirelli has two followers that are always with him and end up dressing and styling their hair the same as him.
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The French Dispatch / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
The French Dispatch / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: The French cigarette brand "Gaullistes," standing-in for the Real Life Gauloises. Amusingly, the French word "gaulliste" means political follower of Charles de Gaulle or modern political partisan of his doctrines.
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The French Dispatch / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
The French Dispatch / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: The car chase scene near the end of Wright's story is done entirely in 2D color animation, in the style of the local cartoonist.
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The French Dispatch / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
The French Dispatch / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: Cadazio is able to gain information on and access to Rosenthaler by offering a guard a handful of sweets. Later on, he sets up an art exhibition at the asylum by bribing the guards; though the trope is subverted due to them actually being offered a decent amount of money each, for some reason it's doled out in 20-franc (roughly equivalent to 5$ at the time the movie is set) notes.
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The French Dispatch / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Wright unintentionally walks into the "Chicken Coop," it pans down to show the seat has "Roebuck Wright was here". He later reveals in the TV interview Framing Device that he was essentially put in there for being caught with another man. When Zeffirelli climbs an antenna, a sign displays the label "éclair blanc" (supposedly a brand name). It may remind you of a song named "Le Petit Cheval"note the little horse by Georges Brassens. In this song, the titular horse dies struck by white lightning.
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The French Dispatch / int_9d5a2cdf	type	Intimidating Revenue Service
The French Dispatch / int_9d5a2cdf	comment	Intimidating Revenue Service: While in prison, Julien Cadazio has "évadé fiscal" ("tax evader" in French) written on the back of his coat.
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The French Dispatch / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
The French Dispatch / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: The scene in the beginning where a butler climbs several ladders and staircases in order to reach the offices.
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The French Dispatch / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The French Dispatch / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The scene where the waiter climbs a series of staircases to bring refreshments to the writers is a throwback to a similar gag used in Mon Oncle.
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The French Dispatch / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
The French Dispatch / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: A literal example, each day a waiter from a nearby café enters the Magazine offices with a tray of drinks ordered by the workers. They're all shown to be friendly with him and the editor even solicits his opinions on some of the articles.
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The French Dispatch / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The French Dispatch / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "The Concrete Masterpiece" is a play on the double-meaning of "concrete," as Rosenthaler's exhibition shows his true masterpieces, but they also happen to be a fresco literally painted on the room's concrete wall.
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The French Dispatch / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The French Dispatch / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Simone appears several times posing nude for Moses, and is extremely attractive.
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The French Dispatch / int_b15ad926	comment	Time-Shifted Actor: Tony Revolori plays a younger Moses in a flashback montage of his early life and the crime that landed him in prison. The transition back to present day has Revolori get out of his seat and Del Toro to sit in his place.
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The French Dispatch / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The French Dispatch / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Occasionally pops up in the dialogue.
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The French Dispatch / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The French Dispatch / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Juliette decries Zeffirelli's idolization of French pop star Tip-Top as worshiping a frivolous symbol of capitalism... while she herself is obsessed with makeup and beauty, which is no less a symbol of capitalism.
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The French Dispatch / int_b8198b96	type	Dead Man's Switch
The French Dispatch / int_b8198b96	comment	Dead Man's Switch: A legal variant. It was listed in Howitzer's will that, after his death, publication of the Dispatch ends (after a final issue), everyone is given advance pay, and all the printing equipment be dismantled. Unlike some examples there is no indication the employees were not already aware this was the plan and none show any objection to it.
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The French Dispatch / int_bb0b2739	type	Nested Story
The French Dispatch / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: The movie itself is showing three stories from the past of the Dispatch for its final edition, who are each narrated by its writer, and two of them are shown by being retold to a live audience.
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The French Dispatch / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The French Dispatch / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: It's indicated that the Police arresting the bookkeeper for the city's mobs with his records was a matter of luck. Needless to say, stopping this one arrest from destroying their entire enterprise drives the mobs' response.
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The French Dispatch / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The French Dispatch / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Part of Rosenthaler's backstory mentions his decline in mental health, and shows him painting a self-portrait. While looking at a second version of himself.
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The French Dispatch / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
The French Dispatch / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: At the end of "The Concrete Masterpiece," Cadazio and company attempt to shield themselves from an impending prison riot by locking the door. The rioters respond by bursting through the wall.
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The French Dispatch / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The French Dispatch / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The titular French Dispatch (or at least, the French arm of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun) is a dead ringer for The New Yorker. It covers a wide range of topics both mundane (student protests, art biographies) to curiously specific (French police cuisine and the shootouts involving it, fistfights at art shows, chess as a form of protest), has a very specific, novelistic approach to its subjects (down to the pretentious punctuation and layout of The New Yorker), cartoons and covers that vary between relevant to the topic at hand or stupid puns and, of course, covers things far beyond their American city. In fact, the city map◊ shows that several streets are named after the many writers which the film draws inspiration from. The scene showing a younger Rosenthaler painting a picture of himself looks very similar to this painting by Norman Rockwell. One of the many covers shown during the credits depicts a pianist, slumped over at his piano with a bullet hole in the window behind him. The wrecked car seen at the beginning of "Revisions to a Manifesto" bears a striking resemblance to the wrecked cars found in the destroyed French village of Oradour-Sur-Glane.
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The French Dispatch / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The French Dispatch / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: Large segments of the film are shot in monochrome to convey to the audience that what they're seeing is actually The French Dispatch's black-and-white text rendered in visual form. These sequences sometimes go from Monochrome to Color to represent photos and illustrations included with those articles as visual aids.
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The French Dispatch / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
The French Dispatch / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: When Rosenthaler is given a parole hearing, he tries to claim that he decapitated the two men he killed by accident. He then changes his story to say that the first one was an accident, and the second one was in self-defense.
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The French Dispatch / int_d8fad039	comment	Weird Currency: Rosenthaler has been incarcerated so long that he requests payment for his art in prison currency, chiefly cigarettes. Cadazio browbeats him into accepting large amounts of actual money.
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The French Dispatch / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
The French Dispatch / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed in Story: Howitzer, the writers of the main segments, and their subjects are this to varying degrees.
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The French Dispatch / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
The French Dispatch / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: The various methods which the police use in order to find out where Gigi is being held involve beating, being held in ice water, being dragged down the length of a bar, through glasses and bottles, being hanged upside down, hypnosis, and being thrown from a plane.
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The French Dispatch / int_eab212a8	type	Period Piece
The French Dispatch / int_eab212a8	comment	Period Piece: The film is set entirely in 20th-century France; one segment is set around the time of the May 68 student protests in 1968-69, while another is based on the life of Lord Duveen, a renowned art dealer during the 20th century.
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The French Dispatch / int_f174d8e8	type	Trying Not to Cry
The French Dispatch / int_f174d8e8	comment	Trying Not to Cry: Howitzer forbids crying in the office, to the point of putting a sign above the door. When one staffer cries after Howitzer's death, she's reminded to consider the sign.
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The French Dispatch / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The French Dispatch / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Cadazio shows his uncles a perfect drawing of a bird, done by Rosenthaler, drawn on a napkin using a matchstick. One uncle asks if he can have it and Cadazio says "of course not." In a later montage of the success of Rosenthaler's art, that same drawing sells at an auction for thousands. The start of the third segment briefly makes mention of a man selling "Gemini Tooth Powder." The segment ends with an advertisement by the man.
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