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The Greatest Showman

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The Greatest Showman	comment	The Greatest Showman is a musical drama film loosely based on the story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous travelling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.The film was directed by visual effects supervisor and first time director Michael Gracey, and stars Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Keala Settle, Gayle Rankin and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. It was written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon, with music by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen).The ambitious Phineas Taylor Barnum (Jackman) marries his childhood sweetheart Charity (Williams). Together, they have two daughters and live a humble life. After Barnum is laid off from his job, he eventually founds Barnum's Circus, a grandiose exhibition of various "freaks" and outcasts. The show is a hit, but Barnum struggles to balance the family that built the circus with him and his desire to further his own reputation.The film was released on December 20th, 2017.
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The Greatest Showman / int_10e7d43c	type	Fanfare
The Greatest Showman / int_10e7d43c	comment	Fanfare: All the triumphal group songs, i.e. "Come Alive", "This Is Me", and especially "The Greatest Show" feature and are the more awesome for it.
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The Greatest Showman / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Greatest Showman / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Most of the cast are made-up for the movie. Barnum, his wife and children, Jenny Lind, Tom Thumb, the bearded lady (albeit with her name altered), Jumbo the Elephant, and Queen Victoria are the only Historical Domain Characters in the film.
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The Greatest Showman / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Greatest Showman / int_121b3725	comment	Combined with Age Lift, the movie appears to be concerned with showing Barnum creating his and Bailey's famed circus, but Barnum himself didn't get into the circus business proper until he was sixty years old. In addition, he was not an orphan after his father's death, and his wife Charity didn't live to see the circus formed.
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The Greatest Showman / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
The Greatest Showman / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: invokedBarnum believes in bad publicity driving sales, and it's the reason he shrugs off the protests. Again later on:
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The Greatest Showman / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Greatest Showman / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Of the father-in-law variety. While Charity's mother begins to warm to her granddaughters for the first time, Phineas picks the worst time to remind his father-in-law of his predictions of failure, driving a wedge between the three generations unnecessarily.
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The Greatest Showman / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Greatest Showman / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Considering the movie itself is supposed to be the sort of story Barnum would tell about himself, it is questionable that the whole movie are actually events Barnum altered himself to fit his favor.
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The Greatest Showman / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Greatest Showman / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Barnum is set up as the defender of the "Other" in the trailers, that together they will show the world they are just as worthy of respect as anyone, but they are left to keep the shows going with little to no thanks about halfway through the movie while Barnum and the more socially acceptable Lind go on a countrywide tour. Probably the best example is in the extended second trailer, Tom Thumb says "They'll laugh at us", and Barnum says "They'll laugh at us anyway." In the movie proper, he says "They'll laugh at you anyway." In the same trailer, Barnum's wife asks him when it'll be enough for him. Barnum says it isn't about him. In the trailer, that line makes it sound like he's talking about standing up for the freaks in his show. In the movie proper, he's talking about his daughters, and it's clear that he is in denial because it really is about him seeking fame and fortune. In the first trailer, a quick shot of Barnum alone at a pub after the shot of him being fired implies he will drown his sorrows before starting the job hunt again. In the movie proper, that pub shot is in the last twenty minutes of the movie during Barnum's Darkest Hour.
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The Greatest Showman / int_1b70ccc6	type	The Cynic
The Greatest Showman / int_1b70ccc6	comment	The Cynic: Whenever Tom Thumb speaks, he mostly says something cynical. For instance, when Barnum ditches them for the first time, he isn't the least bit surprised and says that he's just another person who doesn't care about them.
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The Greatest Showman / int_1c1d243c	type	Brother–Sister Team
The Greatest Showman / int_1c1d243c	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Team: The Wheelers are a brother-sister pair of trapeze artists.
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The Greatest Showman / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
The Greatest Showman / int_1c8e096e	comment	There's an argument to be made for Phineas and Charity in their Childhood Friend Romance. Phineas was, from what we see, the only person Charity talks with who's not telling her how to act, how to hold her teacup, how to comport herself, etc. And Charity is the one person in high society who doesn't treat him like something she stepped in.
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The Greatest Showman / int_1ce78b96	type	Juxtaposed Reflection Poster
The Greatest Showman / int_1ce78b96	comment	Juxtaposed Reflection Poster: One of the posters◊ has Barnum stand in an empty area with his arms outstretched. The bottom half reflects this pose in puddles on the ground, but shows him dressed as a ringmaster and surrounded by a lively circus performance, showing that he'll eventually found the well-known circus of his dreams.
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The Greatest Showman / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
The Greatest Showman / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: What Phillip's attempted rescue of Anne nearly became — he went into a burning building to rescue her, when she'd already escaped. He would have died had Barnum not rescued him.
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The Greatest Showman / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
The Greatest Showman / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: "The Other Side", as Barnum is convincing Carlyle to be a partner.
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The Greatest Showman / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
The Greatest Showman / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: During Barnum's Darkest Hour, Lettie (the Bearded Woman) tells him that before he hired them, they had no one, and since then, the "freaks" had become a fire-forged family.
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The Greatest Showman / int_21d47bb7	type	Nouveau Riche
The Greatest Showman / int_21d47bb7	comment	Nouveau Riche: The circus makes the Barnums wealthy, but New York's aristocracy continues to look down on them because of how they made their money.
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The Greatest Showman / int_2207b002	type	Ambiguously Brown
The Greatest Showman / int_2207b002	comment	Ambiguously Brown: Anne Wheeler — enough to be discriminated against in the 19th Century. Her brother W.D. is unambiguously African-American, however.note Her actress, Zendaya, is biracial, so it is likely that Anne shares the same background.
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The Greatest Showman / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Greatest Showman / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The pamphlet describing the company's ships. Barnum eventually uses it as collateral for his loan! The house that young Barnum and Charity play in, just a stone's throw from her original home, is the same one they end up owning later in life.
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The Greatest Showman / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Greatest Showman / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: What the troupe realizes when they hear Barnum use the same line on Jenny that he used to rope them in. At the very end of the movie, after Barnum steps back from the spotlight to devote more time to his family, he and Charity attend their daughter's ballet recital. He whispers to himself the lines from the opening song "The Greatest Show", only this time he's describing his family;
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The Greatest Showman / int_24067bb9	type	Related in the Adaptation
The Greatest Showman / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: Inverted. Barnum and Charles Stratton, who were distant relatives in real life, didn't know each other until the movie.
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The Greatest Showman / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Greatest Showman / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Quite literally. Barnum becomes true friends with Carlyle and his performers after his museum burns down.
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The Greatest Showman / int_259dc974	type	The Freakshow
The Greatest Showman / int_259dc974	comment	The Freakshow: The performers in Barnumâ€™s show include a bearded woman, a 22 year-old dwarf, a VERY tall man, a dancer with tattoos all over his body, the original Siamese twins, a three-legged man, a dog-faced boy, a 500+ pound man, a strongman, and two African-American acrobats, among others.
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The Greatest Showman / int_28af866c	type	Pen Pals
The Greatest Showman / int_28af866c	comment	Pen Pals: While Charity is at school and Phineas is away working on the railroads, they keep their Childhood Friend Romance alive by writing letters to each other.
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The Greatest Showman / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The Greatest Showman / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Anne Wheeler is this to Phillip Carlyle. When she asks him what his act is, and he says he doesn't have one, she says "everyone's got an act." Later scenes show them much closer, in particular one where Phillip was afflicted by smoke inhalation and in a hospital bed after he rushed into the burning museum to save her when he thought she was still inside. Jenny Lind is this to P.T. Barnum as well. She's rather cynical and frosty when he first meets her at Queen Victoria's function, but softens as she finds they are not so different. That relationship ends badly.
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The Greatest Showman / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
The Greatest Showman / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Zigzagged overall. The majority of the circus troupe invert this; they are considered hideous by society (with the Bearded Lady saying even their own mothers were ashamed of them), but they are some of the most decent people in the movie. Jenny Lind is a beautiful singer who donates much of her earnings to orphans and widows. Actually a subversion, as she ruins Barnum after he rejects her. Anne, W. D. Wheeler, Charity, and Phillip are characters played straight, being beautiful people with good souls. Barnum is a played-with example. He's played by the handsome Hugh Jackman, but runs the gamut of morality throughout the film.
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The Greatest Showman / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
The Greatest Showman / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: This gem.
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The Greatest Showman / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
The Greatest Showman / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Anne is the girly girl to Lettie's tomboy.
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The Greatest Showman / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
The Greatest Showman / int_2d4d16d9	comment	It comes a little bit into the movie, but we see a large part of Barnum's character in the scene with his daughters. He spins a great tale of lost technology created by a famous person to set up the shadow lamp he brought her to entertain her. It's all fake, but it makes for a great story and she and her sister are clearly riveted by it, even though they know he's lying, and he knows they know he's lying.
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The Greatest Showman / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Greatest Showman / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Bennett. Despite hating lowbrow entertainment, which he sees Barnum's circus as, he admires that it portrays people of all walks of life as equals, a celebration of humanity as he puts it.
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The Greatest Showman / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
The Greatest Showman / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Being a dwarf and having a baby face, Charles looks like he could pass for a child despite being in his early 20's (not helped that the character WAS a child in real life). The movie even implies that Barnum mistook Charles for a child when they first met by showing him holding his Mother's hand.
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The Greatest Showman / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
The Greatest Showman / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Anne is played by the 5'10" Zendaya and stands taller than the 5'8" Zac Efron.
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The Greatest Showman / int_30863a53	type	Small Start, Big Finish
The Greatest Showman / int_30863a53	comment	Small Start, Big Finish: "I Am" Song "This Is Me". At first Lettie is singing by herself to a piano melody. Then the rest of the "freaks" join in and it becomes an upbeat anthem with bombastic accompaniment. The other characters then carry the melody as Lettie does some power belts.
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The Greatest Showman / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Greatest Showman / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: When he worked in the trading company, Barnum tries to pitch the idea of using Otto Lilienthal's invention, the glider, for air transport, revolutionizing the trading industry - but his boss clearly doesn't give a care. Maybe if they waited a little longer for the Wright brothers to use Lilienthal's ideas and then invent powered flight... Rather drolly referenced in the closing moments of the film, when P.T. sagely muses that real estate in Manhattan is a terrible investment. Justified considering what the Five Points were like.
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The Greatest Showman / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Greatest Showman / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Lettie can be seen stopping WD with a tap and a "don't even think about it" glare when Phillip heads out on his make-or-break date with Anne.
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The Greatest Showman / int_320c6858	type	Everything Has Rhythm
The Greatest Showman / int_320c6858	comment	Everything Has Rhythm: Shot glasses, bottles, chairs, and even a broom all become part of the elaborately choreographed dance routine between Barnum, Philip and the silent bartender during "The Other Side".
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The Greatest Showman / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Greatest Showman / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: James Bailey. Given how wildly the timeline varies from Real Life, itâ€™s hard to say when Bailey should have appeared (the real Barnum was in his early 70s when partnering with Bailey), but as of the end of the film, the circus has Jumbo the Elephant, who was acquired by Bailey. However, Bailey was married to Ruth McCaddon, so a romance with Anne would have been controversial. Some of Barnum's more celebrated personalities are not present, such as Isaac W. Sprague ("The Human Skeleton"). Barnum had a mother and five siblings who survived the death of his father. In the movie he's an only child and an orphan. Pauline Taylor Seeley and Frances Irena Barnum, Barnum's other daughters, are nowhere to be seen.
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The Greatest Showman / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Greatest Showman / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Hugh Jackman stars in a period musical playing a man who went from rags to riches? Hmm. "A Million Dreams" even shows the young Phineas stealing a loaf of bread, which is what sent Valjean to prison. Jackman's no stranger to playing a showman chasing ever greater fame and fortune either. For the third time — after Florence Foster Jenkins and The Girl on the Train — Rebecca Ferguson plays the unlucky other woman. Shuler Hensley antagonised Hugh Jackman in Van Helsing too (ironically, his character would have been considered the freak).
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The Greatest Showman / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
The Greatest Showman / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: The tiny Charles has a very deep voice. The songs could be this for some, as the modern sounding songs, especially when autotune is used, can look out of place with the 1800's setting.
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The Greatest Showman / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Greatest Showman / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Phillip Carlyle. Initially introduced as a Rich Bastard who doubts Barnum due to him being lower class and knows that heâ€™ll be one if he accepts Barnumâ€™s offer. Though from further convincing from Barnum, he accepts the offer. The development kicks in when he meets Anne Wheeler, an African-American trapeze artist, and becomes smitten (though he hides this). When Barnum begins neglecting his talents in favor of touring with Jenny Lind, Phillip tries to spend more time with her and eventually throws away his upper-class status in favor of being part of Barnumâ€™s circus when his parents mock her. By the end of the film, heâ€™s embraced his part of the circus, becomes an Official Couple with Anne, and eventually becomes the ringmaster.
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The Greatest Showman / int_3d5c5deb	type	Flat Character
The Greatest Showman / int_3d5c5deb	comment	Flat Character: No one in the circus troupe, besides maybe Anne and her brother, really has any personality outside of "outcasts from society who learn to accept themselves".
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The Greatest Showman / int_3e58c24d	type	Trade Your Passion for Glory
The Greatest Showman / int_3e58c24d	comment	Trade Your Passion for Glory: This is more-or-less the plot of the second half of the film. After noticing that his daughter is being bullied by her peers in ballet class, he becomes obsessed with being taken seriously by high society, when before he was openly mocking them. He ends up driving away almost everyone close to him until the last second.
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The Greatest Showman / int_3e5f74c	type	Take That, Critics!
The Greatest Showman / int_3e5f74c	comment	Take That, Critics!: In-Universe. After Bennett disparages his museum, calling it a "circus of humbug", Barnum changes the name to P.T. Barnum's circus and wears a hat bearing "Prince of Humbug" during the show. Barnum's dialogue with Bennett preemptively does this for issues raised by critics.
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The Greatest Showman / int_3f3964dd	type	"Gaining Confidence" Song
The Greatest Showman / int_3f3964dd	comment	"Gaining Confidence" Song: "This is Me" starts out slowly as Lettie and the other performers walk through a party of people who think they're embarrassing at best, as she tries to claim she's not bothered by it. Then the others join in, and the song starts to pick up speed and power as the performers are all singing about being proud of who they are, with it sounding far more honest than in the early verses.
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The Greatest Showman / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Greatest Showman / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: After the museum burns down, Phillip and the performers test Barnum's commitment to them, knowing that Phillip can restart the circus with or without Barnum, having stored away a rainy day nest egg. Barnum realizing how special and loyal they are to them, and vowing to rebuild at any cost passes their test, and Phillip reveals the nest egg.
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The Greatest Showman / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Greatest Showman / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Charityâ€™s father shows nothing but utter contempt for Phineas, caring more about class than character.
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The Greatest Showman / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
The Greatest Showman / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: How does Jenny Lind deal with someone rejecting her? By ruining that person's reputation.
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The Greatest Showman / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Greatest Showman / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Barnum can talk anyone into doing anything he wants. It's not til after the third act he removes the "bastard" from the trope.
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The Greatest Showman / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Greatest Showman / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Phillip gives a brief one of these to his parents when they voice their disapproval of his courting Anne, publicly humiliating her in front of him at the opera.
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The Greatest Showman / int_43e36f2f	type	Acrofatic
The Greatest Showman / int_43e36f2f	comment	Acrofatic: The World's Fattest Man shows some serious Belly Fu in the brawl with protesters.
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The Greatest Showman / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Greatest Showman / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: It becomes clear as the film goes on that Barnum was telling the "freaks" what they wanted to hear about inclusion and only at best half-believing it himself, as he treats them more and more as assets than people. However, they remain loyal since regardless of Barnum's actual intentions, they did find a sense of self-worth — and that loyalty during the Darkest Hour makes Barnum really appreciate them and truly become the friend he claimed he was. Similar can be said of Phillip Carlyle, an apathetic playwright well on his way to alcoholism and an early grave who only joined Barnum for a better cut of the profits than he was enjoying at the time. After he meets Anne Wheeler, though (and a quick bit of musical soul-searching), he discovers that he enjoys his life more in the circus than he ever did in "high society."
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The Greatest Showman / int_45107a1e	type	InterClassRomance
The Greatest Showman / int_45107a1e	comment	Interclass Romance: Two cases with penniless Barnum and upper-class Charity in the Childhood Friend Romance variation, and later trapeze artist Anne and aristocrat Phillip Carlyle. In both cases the wealthier half of the couple has to walk away from their family to be with the person "below" them.
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The Greatest Showman / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Greatest Showman / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe. After Bennett disparages his museum, calling it a "circus of humbug", Barnum changes the name to P.T. Barnum's circus and wears a hat bearing "Prince of Humbug" during the show.
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The Greatest Showman / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Greatest Showman / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Barnum. He may be selfish, obsessed with fame and fortune, and a bit of a Manipulative Bastard, but his plight is very sympathetic and understandable. And ultimately, he is a good man at heart, and a loving husband to Charity and a loving father to his children.
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The Greatest Showman / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Greatest Showman / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: "The Greatest Show" is addressed to the film audience, essentially telling them to brace themselves for what's to come:
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The Greatest Showman / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
The Greatest Showman / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Jenny Lind refuses pay; she requires her share be given to her charities. This was true in Real Life.
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The Greatest Showman / int_4fa3a61f	type	The Barnum
The Greatest Showman / int_4fa3a61f	comment	The Barnum: Being the Trope Namer, Barnum is at his nature a huckster with a talent for exploiting others for his own gain. Nonetheless, he is never portrayed as trying to deliberately take advantage of the stupidity of humans and more of a showman driven by a desire to rise above his station.
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The Greatest Showman / int_4ff31e76	type	Playing a Tree
The Greatest Showman / int_4ff31e76	comment	Playing a Tree: In the closing scene, Barnum's youngest daughter Helen appears playing a tree during her elder sister Caroline's ballet recital. She even waves to her parents in the audience.
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The Greatest Showman / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Greatest Showman / int_50b05d30	comment	Jenny stages one in front of photographers with Phineas after he rejected her in her hotel room. Talk about Disproportionate Retribution.
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The Greatest Showman / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Greatest Showman / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Phillip's introduction. Bennett and Barnum share a flask after Barnum's circus is burned down. Barnum also drinks conspicuously alone after Charity has left him, citing his being Married to the Job, and the museum fire.
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The Greatest Showman / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Greatest Showman / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie opens and closes with the circus troupe performing different verses from the titular song "The Greatest Show." Our first shot of adult Barnum (after the opening Dream Sequence number) is him walking up to Charity's mansion and talking to Charity's father, who isn't happy to see him. At the end of the movie, we get a similar shot of Barnum approaching the house and meeting Charity's father who still isn't happy to see him, only this time Barnum and Charity's children come down the stairs instead of Charity who isn't there.
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The Greatest Showman / int_53243b25	type	Conjoined Twins
The Greatest Showman / int_53243b25	comment	Conjoined Twins: Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins.
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The Greatest Showman / int_5521ed05	type	No Animals Were Harmed
The Greatest Showman / int_5521ed05	comment	No Animals Were Harmed: All of the circus animals are completely CGI, which is a bit ironic considering the historical abuse of them in Real Life.
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The Greatest Showman / int_55b8d46d	type	Bastard Angst
The Greatest Showman / int_55b8d46d	comment	Bastard Angst: Jenny alludes to this in her conversation with Barnum — she was born out of wedlock and had to fight her way into high society. It's why she doesn't feel at ease with the upper class.
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The Greatest Showman / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Greatest Showman / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: The real James Gordon Bennett Jr. wasn't a critic, but the publisher of the New York Herald. Jenny Lind was a famous soprano. In the movie she sings more in the alto range. She was also not romantically interested in Barnum—she ended her American tour early because she came to dislike how he advertised, not because of bitterness over a rejection. There was contractual provision for this and they parted fairly amicably, unlike her surprise-kissing him in front of the press out of spite in the movie. And while she did have a Romance on the Set, it was actually with her pianist, whom she married. In the movie, events that actually took place over the course of decades instead take place in a short enough time frame that Barnum's preteen daughters don't visibly age. To cite an egregious example of this, the Jenny Lind tour and Barnum's museum burning down were separated by some thirteen years in real life, but the movie has them happening simultaneously. Barnum and Charity are seen dancing in front of the unmistakable skeleton of the Flatiron Building, despite construction on that building commencing ten years after Barnum died. The costumes are all over the place, from passably historical to things that look like something available at a modern-day mall. The real Tom Thumb was Barnum's distant cousin, and Barnum had been his legal guardian since he was 4. Phillip Carlyle was fictional but roughly takes the place of Barnum's real life partners.
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The Greatest Showman / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Greatest Showman / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Some of Barnum's major attractions are either left out or only hinted at, such as the infamous "mermaid". Barnum's circus animals get very little screentime (perhaps avoiding one of the controversies of the circus' history: its mistreatment of circus animals).
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The Greatest Showman / int_5b0323a5	type	Spontaneous Choreography
The Greatest Showman / int_5b0323a5	comment	Spontaneous Choreography: It's a musical, so of course this trope abounds.
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The Greatest Showman / int_5f49ac76	type	Single-Target Sexuality
The Greatest Showman / int_5f49ac76	comment	Single-Target Sexuality: Barnum only has eyes for his wife, Charity. He immediately falls in love with her as children, and pines for her throughout their separated adolescence before they come of age and marry. He can't even entertain the idea of being unfaithful to Charity when Jenny makes advances toward him.
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The Greatest Showman / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Greatest Showman / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Occurs throughout the movie. Barnum and Charity are shown as pre-teens and then skip to Happily Married grown-ups. Minor ones continuously crop up after this. Barnum even mentions how big his daughters got while he was away on business.
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The Greatest Showman / int_60b166be	type	Reformed Criminal
The Greatest Showman / int_60b166be	comment	Reformed Criminal: O'Malley, caught trying to steal from Barnum, ends up working for him as the closest thing to a Number Two before Carlyle.
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The Greatest Showman / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
The Greatest Showman / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: Anne gives one to Phillip after he wakes up from his injuries due to burns and smoke inhalation he suffered during his botched rescue attempt in the burning museum. Jenny stages one in front of photographers with Phineas after he rejected her in her hotel room. Talk about Disproportionate Retribution. Charity and Phineas share a lower-key one after the latter's Heel Realization.
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The Greatest Showman / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The Greatest Showman / int_615fdb1f	comment	Our first shot of adult Barnum (after the opening Dream Sequence number) is him walking up to Charity's mansion and talking to Charity's father, who isn't happy to see him. At the end of the movie, we get a similar shot of Barnum approaching the house and meeting Charity's father who still isn't happy to see him, only this time Barnum and Charity's children come down the stairs instead of Charity who isn't there.
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The Greatest Showman / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Greatest Showman / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Bennet, the Caustic Critic who maligned Barnum's circus, later admits his respect for Phineas after the museum burns down, and when the circus is relaunched, we see him in the audience enjoying the show.
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The Greatest Showman / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Greatest Showman / int_627264e0	comment	Carlyle has a nonverbal one during the number "Never Enough" after dropping Anne's hand when his parents see the action during Ms. Lind's first performance. After Anne gives him a good Death Glare while singing "This Is Me" with the rest of the troupe, he resolves to be better.
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The Greatest Showman / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Greatest Showman / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the number "The Other Side" both the bartender and Barnum can be seen giving Carlyle more alcohol in his shots, presumably to make him more amicable to dealing with Barnum.
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The Greatest Showman / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
The Greatest Showman / int_661d7909	comment	Anne and Phillip, with a dose of 19th-century racism. He's a moneyed aristocrat, she's a circus performer. Their sheer difference in social class is the reason Anne rejects him at first.
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The Greatest Showman / int_66805a18	type	Race for Your Love
The Greatest Showman / int_66805a18	comment	Race for Your Love: Though there isn't any time limit involved, the scene of Barnum running through town to catch a train to apologize to Charity at the end of the movie has this vibe, also being set against the penultimate number.
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The Greatest Showman / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Greatest Showman / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: W.D. has to be held back by three people when he thinks Anne is in the burning circus building.
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The Greatest Showman / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Greatest Showman / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Bennett hates Barnum's circus because he thinks Phineas is a Snake Oil Salesman and exploiting the "freaks". He's right. He actually cares about Phineas exploiting people's deformities for profit, and later admits that they were at least being accepted by audiences: a "celebration of humanity".
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The Greatest Showman / int_725a8243	type	Bar Slide
The Greatest Showman / int_725a8243	comment	Bar Slide: Bar sliding is incorporated into the choreography of "The Other Side"; the bartender slides drinks, chairs, and bottles periodically to Barnum as he tries to get Phillip to join the circus.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Greatest Showman / int_7286e96d	comment	Anne gives one to Phillip after he wakes up from his injuries due to burns and smoke inhalation he suffered during his botched rescue attempt in the burning museum.
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The Greatest Showman / int_72cc2b00	type	The Dividual
The Greatest Showman / int_72cc2b00	comment	The Dividual: To an extent the circus performers. While Lettie, Tom, Anne, and W.D. do get their own individual introductions, they, along with the rest of the circus troupe, are usually never seen apart from each other after their introduction scene and rarely do any of them get a chance to display any personality traits unique from each other. All of their personalities are basically just "shy, unconfident minorities/disabled people who learn to have self confidence" and they don't have much of a personality outside of that. The only possible exception is Anne, who does get a romantic subplot with Carlyle and therefore gets to be in multiple scenes away from the rest of the troupe, but even then her character is still hardly fleshed out beyond oppressed minority.
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The Greatest Showman / int_73fbe27d	type	It's the Journey That Counts
The Greatest Showman / int_73fbe27d	comment	It's the Journey That Counts: The "freaks" believe this. Even with the Museum burned down and them potentially being jobless, they're still no longer the Shrinking Violets they once were, and no longer ashamed of their disabilities. Even if Barnum wasn't totally sincere, he was sincere enough that they believed in him — and in turn, themselves.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Greatest Showman / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: On the one hand, the Wheelers are the only performers with a legit skill to their name, but relegated to be among the "freaks" just because they're black. Keen-eyed viewers will notice some Asians among the circus folk as well - the Siamese twins of course, and some Chinese acrobats.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Greatest Showman / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Charity Barnum died long before Barnum started trying to create his famed circus, but here, she is alive and well.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Greatest Showman / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Risk it all."
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The Greatest Showman / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
The Greatest Showman / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Barnum is this full-stop. He says he does it out of a desire to give the absolute best life for his kids, but he actually wants his father-in-law to see him as worthy of Charity.
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The Greatest Showman / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
The Greatest Showman / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: Barnum gives Carlyle the job of ringmaster, so he can spend more time with his family.
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The Greatest Showman / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
The Greatest Showman / int_78e8eba5	comment	"I Am" Song: The appropriately-titled "This Is Me", about underdogs being unashamed of themselves.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
The Greatest Showman / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Barnum is a Con Man but a goodhearted one.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title: Barnum's desire to be the best in his field is the driving force of the film.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Greatest Showman / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question:
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The Greatest Showman / int_7bef792a	type	BreakUpSong
The Greatest Showman / int_7bef792a	comment	Break Up Song: The first "Rewrite the Stars" montage is about Carlyle and Anne expressing their frustration on having to deal with society maligning their relationship because of their different race and social status and then begrudgingly parting ways.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
The Greatest Showman / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Zig-Zagged. The film leaves out many controversial aspects of the real P.T. Barnum's life, such as his support of minstrel shows and the fact that he began his career as a showman by exploiting a partially paralyzed, blind, elderly slave woman by trying to pass her off as George Washington's former nurse. (To be fair, the film doesn't cover his abolitionism or supporting universal suffrage either.) The movie also downplays nineteenth century racism, with Philip and Anne receiving far less backlash for their interracial relationship than they realistically should have. Conversely, the film actually exaggerates the general population's hostility toward "freaks." For example, some accounts say that people of the time viewed Annie Jones, the real-life bearded lady, merely as a curiosity rather than an appellation, and even said that it didn't compromise her femininity. Charles Stratton was world-famous and well-respected as General Tom Thumb, and his marriage to another little person was front page news.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Greatest Showman / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: It's implied that Carlyle is well on his way to becoming a drunkard if he's not toeing the line already. Also, given how many shots are imbibed during Barnum and Carlyle's negotiation song, it's amazing they're not slurring their words by the end. And then near the end after Barnum's heel realization, the circus family is pouring up foaming mugs of beer again to celebrate Barnum's realization of what's important. Incidentally, the real Barnum was a self-described alcoholic for a while. After giving up the drink, he joined the Women's Suffrage Movement and became a Dry Crusader and started inserting temperance propaganda into his show. In fact, this probably should have happened during the course of the film, but it's hard to say for sure due to the messed-up timeline.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7f08fec3	type	The Fashionista
The Greatest Showman / int_7f08fec3	comment	The Fashionista: Anne. In addition to the pink wig and purple leotard she performs in, her formal dresses and day-to-day clothes are very colorful and intricately-patterned.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
The Greatest Showman / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Jenny Lind. She's considered the greatest singer in the world, but she's very much isolated and alone despite the accolades and parties.
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The Greatest Showman / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Greatest Showman / int_7febc23b	comment	Charity's father slaps young Phineas in his Establishing Character Moment and barely accepts him even decades later.
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The Greatest Showman / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Greatest Showman / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: When Queen Victoria blurts that General Tom Thumb is even shorter than she'd imagined, he coarsely shoots back that she's not exactly tall either. She gapes for a moment, then laughs at the riposte.
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The Greatest Showman / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
The Greatest Showman / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Downplayed, but Barnum does a lot of fast-talking.
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The Greatest Showman / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
The Greatest Showman / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: "A Million Dreams". Young Phineas sings about his desire to make the world as magical as it is in his dreams. It also becomes Charity's "I Want" Song. When Phineas's daughters sing the reprise for "A Million Dreams", singing of their own desire to see the world as magical, Phineas is reminded of his dreams and thus inspired to create his museum. "Never Enough" is a subversion, more of a "I Want What I Can't Have" song which conveniently foreshadows her eventual fate.
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The Greatest Showman / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Greatest Showman / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Jackman's Barnum is idealistic and full of energy; Efron's character is more grounded and down to earth. Late in the film, when Barnum becomes reluctant to take a risk, Anne snarkily asks why is he acting responsible now?
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The Greatest Showman / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Greatest Showman / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: O'Malley disappears from the plot just before the big building fire.
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The Greatest Showman / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Greatest Showman / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: A dramatic version: Barnum thinks Charity is leaving him because she thinks he's having an affair with Jenny. She informs him she has no doubts as to his romantic faithfulness to her — she's leaving because he's more obsessed with his career than her. A more conventional example in the final number when Barnum's top hat is juggled from one performer to another as Phillip is seen waiting in the wings... only for the top hat to go back to Barnum. Because he has to pass it to Phillip himself.
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The Greatest Showman / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Greatest Showman / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Barnum's "freaks" are the most literal example of the trope.
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The Greatest Showman / int_8ee823b6	type	Knife-Throwing Act
The Greatest Showman / int_8ee823b6	comment	Knife-Throwing Act: A brief but spectacular knife-throwing act is seen during the opening "The Greatest Show" number.
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The Greatest Showman / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
The Greatest Showman / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: The film opens with the original 20th Century Fox bumper and old-style title cards, evoking the feel of classic musicals.
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The Greatest Showman / int_946a37a3	type	Ignored Aesop
The Greatest Showman / int_946a37a3	comment	Ignored Aesop: Barnum tells all his circus actors and his partner Phillip Carlyle that they shouldn't be afraid to be themselves and not conform to society's expectations of them, but he refuses to take his own advice for most of the movie.
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The Greatest Showman / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Greatest Showman / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Charity Barnum and Jenny Lind are this for P. T., though P. T. himself only has eyes for Charity. Jenny is more than a little put out by this unspoken revelation.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Greatest Showman / int_9591377d	comment	The Carlyles' treatment of Anne causes Phillip to have a Heel Realization of sorts and reject them.
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The Greatest Showman / int_95e7be81	type	Rich Boredom
The Greatest Showman / int_95e7be81	comment	Rich Boredom: Rich aristocratic playwright Carlyle clearly feels trapped in his station and joins the circus so he can express himself artistically.
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The Greatest Showman / int_997ce6ad	type	Boyfriend-Blocking Dad
The Greatest Showman / int_997ce6ad	comment	Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Charity's father slaps Phineas hard for speaking to her as a pre-teen. There's probably classism involved as well.
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The Greatest Showman / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
The Greatest Showman / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: Downplayed, since while Phineas misses his daughter's ballet recital, his daughters never feel abandoned. (His wife, however...)
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The Greatest Showman / int_9c5ed17	type	Singing Voice Dissonance
The Greatest Showman / int_9c5ed17	comment	Singing Voice Dissonance: When he's talking, Charles/Tom has a deep New York accent. However, in his one lyric in This is Me, he drops the accent and his voice is suddenly higher pitched.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9ca24902	type	Heroic Fire Rescue
The Greatest Showman / int_9ca24902	comment	Heroic Fire Rescue: Unaware that she is safe, Philip attempts to rescue Anne and ends up being rescued by Barnum.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Greatest Showman / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Young Phineas looks at his eventual ringmaster costume in a clothes shop, imagining himself wearing it. A subtle one, but when young Phineas drops a bunch of fabric rolls, they lay themselves out in a perfect arc, the same way they'll be placed at his circus. When young Phineas was hungry, a mysterious woman gave him an apple. This woman had a deformed face, which fueled Barnum's empathy and fascination for the "unique" people later in life. At the beginning of the movie, when an adult Barnum comes to take Charity away from her father's house to get married, her father says she will get tired of the life he offers and come back home to her old wealthy lifestyle. Near the end, she does go back to her father's house, but not because Barnum wasn't rich enough, but rather because he had become too focused on fame and fortune and neglected her and their daughters in the process. She was never unhappy about being poor, and when he comes seeking forgiveness, she readily takes him back. A somewhat subtle one is during the scene where Barnum is trying to hire Tom Thumb for his show. When Tom says that people will just laugh at him, Barnum says "They're laughing anyway, might as well get paid" before changing tactics when Tom shuts the door on him, saying that they'll come to respect him. It shows that Barnum is quick on his feet to tell people what they want to hear to get them on board, but it also shows that he is doing it mostly for the money and attention, not for the sake of the people he's hiring. The soundtrack itself is full of them, including Barnum's Fatal Flaw in "Never Enough" among other things. During "The Other Side", Barnum scoffs "why not just go ahead and ask for nickels on the dime?" when Carlyle demands 18% of the box office take. Carlyle does end up getting 50% when he saves the circus after the Museum burns down. Carlyle also says if he works with Barnum he'll be disgraced and disowned. His parents don't disown him for simply working with the circus, though they disapprove. They DO disown him for his relationship with Anne however. Phillip claims he has no act, while Anne replies everyone has an act. Phillip's act at the end of the film is ringmaster.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9d137658	type	The Chanteuse
The Greatest Showman / int_9d137658	comment	The Chanteuse: While her venues are different from the norm for this trope, Jenny Lind fits in all other aspects.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9d589fc3	type	Tension-Cutting Laughter
The Greatest Showman / int_9d589fc3	comment	Tension-Cutting Laughter: When Barnum and his circus meet Queen Victoria, the queen marvels that Tom Thumb appears even shorter in person. Tom Thumb answers, "Well, you're not exactly reaching the top shelf yourself, sweetheart." After a few seconds strained silence, Queen Victoria laughs delightedly, much to everyone else's relief.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
The Greatest Showman / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Most of the circus troupe members have no real role in the movie other than to be inspired by Barnum to be themselves.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
The Greatest Showman / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: A very quick one. After Phillip runs into the burning circus to try and save Anne, and Anne is revealed to be out safely already, Phineas shares a quick look with Charity and she can tell he's going to run inside to save him.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
The Greatest Showman / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: Jenny Lind's in-universe performance of "Never Enough" in the context of the film hits on multiple threads. For one, Barnum bonds with the song, because it explains his motivations perfectly as an "I Want" Song. For Phillip and Anne, it expresses Anne's frustration at Phillip's half-measure romance, holding her hand (after Jenny sings about holding hands) and not keeping in there (after Jenny sings it's never enough), and for Jenny herself, who despite her fame is really lonely.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Greatest Showman / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: Not only does Mr Hallet miss the point of Charity leaving with Barnum when he still had nothing, but sadly so does Barnum.
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The Greatest Showman / int_9f094cfb	type	Cathartic Exhalation
The Greatest Showman / int_9f094cfb	comment	Cathartic Exhalation: When Jenny starts singing, Phineas gives a "whew!" exhalation — he'd only heard of her singing ability, and had no idea if she'd live up to the hype he'd given her. (In fact, his beaming smile mid-song indicates she surpassed it.)
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The Greatest Showman / int_9fe18440	type	Whip Pan
The Greatest Showman / int_9fe18440	comment	Whip Pan: All over the place in "The Other Side".
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The Greatest Showman / int_a10d8339	type	The Show Must Go On
The Greatest Showman / int_a10d8339	comment	The Show Must Go On: Barnum says this word for word to Phillip at the end, when he hands him the reins of the circus.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a11972bf	type	Zebras Are Just Striped Horses
The Greatest Showman / int_a11972bf	comment	Zebras Are Just Striped Horses: Barnum and his family are shown riding in a coach driven by a pair of zebras when he takes them to their new mansion. If you look closely you realize that these literally are painted horses - Barnum fakes these just like so much else in the pursuit of showmanship.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
The Greatest Showman / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Several examples: Charity's father slaps young Phineas in his Establishing Character Moment and barely accepts him even decades later. The Carlyles' treatment of Anne causes Phillip to have a Heel Realization of sorts and reject them. Queen Victoria treats the "freaks" with the utmost respect, which visibly shocks several of them.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
The Greatest Showman / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: The Self-Empowerment Anthem "This Is Me" won a Golden Globe for Best Song and got nominated for Best Song at the Oscars 2018 . "Rewrite the Stars", a sweeping duet for the resident Star-Crossed Lovers. "Never Enough", a soaring "I Want" Song.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Greatest Showman / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Jenny Lind was a brunette in Real Life, not the Fiery Redhead as portrayed here.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Greatest Showman / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: We go from a goofy fight inside the circus to the circus burning down.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Greatest Showman / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: A minor example: Barnum committed fraud in passing off his ex-company's ships (at the bottom of the China Sea) as his own, very above-water fleet, using them as collateral for his loan to start the museum / circus. You'd think this deceit would come to light during his Darkest Hour, but no — it never comes up again.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a7ddc88e	type	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
The Greatest Showman / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Phineas is the son of a tailor but dresses in rags when accompanying his father to visit wealthy clients. In fact while Phineas does have shoes, they are falling apart and have huge holes.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Greatest Showman / int_a8559a9f	comment	While not ugly by any sense of the word, Barnum has nothing close to Jackman's chiseled features. Barnum was also partially bald, while Jackman's full coif is untouched.note While Barnum was in his 60's, Jackman was 49 in Real Life at time of filming, so it's not his fault he's older than he looks!
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The Greatest Showman / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Greatest Showman / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Played straight to the point of parody with Phillip and Anne: when they lock eyes — in slo-mo no less! — while she's swinging toward him on the trapeze, you can practically see the cartoon hearts over their heads. There's an argument to be made for Phineas and Charity in their Childhood Friend Romance. Phineas was, from what we see, the only person Charity talks with who's not telling her how to act, how to hold her teacup, how to comport herself, etc. And Charity is the one person in high society who doesn't treat him like something she stepped in.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a96d230	type	Superior Successor
The Greatest Showman / int_a96d230	comment	Superior Successor: Carlyle is much more of A Father to His Men than P.T. ever was. He got the performers in to see Queen Victoria, he stuck with them while P.T. was mooching off with high society and shunning them, he gave up his place with said society for the performers and then his own family when he fell in love with Anne, he got into a physical fight with rioters in order to defend their honor, rushed into a burning building and nearly died in a desperate attempt to save Anne, and kept the nest egg that saves the crew by the end. P.T. passing off his cane to him at the film's end is very much deserved. However, he learned Refuge in Audacity from Barnum, something essential for the circus.
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The Greatest Showman / int_a998aaf9	type	Medley
The Greatest Showman / int_a998aaf9	comment	Medley: An officially sponsored medley, performed by Todrick Hall.
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The Greatest Showman / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Greatest Showman / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Barnum lived during the 19th century, when women were still expected to be silent and you were shit out of luck if you weren't a WASP, so to advertise and feature people of different skin colors, nationalities, and backgrounds was anathema to the general public of the time, even though today it's commonplace and even expected. Played with, however — in real life the "freaks" were actually respected. For example, Charles Stratton was a beloved celebrity, as were Chang and Eng (the Siamese Twins) and Frank Lentini (the Three-Legged Man.) Annie Jones (whom Lettie Lutz is based on) was respected, and considered a feminine, dignified woman, despite her facial hair. In the film, most of the bile and discrimination are aimed at them being "freaks", which is more of a modern perspective. The use of 'wild' animals (like elephants, bears and lions) in circuses today is frowned upon due to modern circus goers having a better understanding of animal welfare, but it was standard practice (and maybe even expected) in earlier days. Reflecting this changing attitude, the film doesn't use actual animals and instead replaces them with CGI.
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The Greatest Showman / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Greatest Showman / int_aba8065b	comment	The soundtrack itself is full of them, including Barnum's Fatal Flaw in "Never Enough" among other things.
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The Greatest Showman / int_abdc0b3f	type	Held Gaze
The Greatest Showman / int_abdc0b3f	comment	Held Gaze: A long one happens between Anne and Philip Carlyle when they first meet and again with Barnum and Jenny Lind but Barnum realises what he's getting into and turns his gaze away.
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The Greatest Showman / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Greatest Showman / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Tom Thumb has his moments.
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The Greatest Showman / int_ae4b1ce1	type	Caustic Critic
The Greatest Showman / int_ae4b1ce1	comment	Caustic Critic: James Gordon Bennett Jr., son of the founder of the New York Herald, lambasts Barnum as a classless huckster on his paper and becomes his most public critic. Nonetheless, he eventually comes to respect him and acknowledges that while he's not fond of his circus shows, there are parts of it that he does admire.
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The Greatest Showman / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Greatest Showman / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Young Barnum daydreams about a show complete with acrobats, circus animals and freaks, which eventually comes true.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
The Greatest Showman / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: Barnum and his daughters nail posters to the beat of "Come Alive". During the bar scene, Barnum, Carlyle, and the bar staff move, serve, and drink in time with the beat of "The Other Side".
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The Greatest Showman / int_b0855ef3	type	No Historical Figures Were Harmed
The Greatest Showman / int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Lettie Lutz to Annie Jones, one of the most famous of Barnum's real-life bearded ladies.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b0ad6a1e	type	Wrestler in All of Us
The Greatest Showman / int_b0ad6a1e	comment	Wrestler in All of Us: "Dog Boy" performs a tilt-a-Whirl Headscissors on one of the protesters during their invasion of Barnum's circus.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b15ad926	type	Time-Shifted Actor
The Greatest Showman / int_b15ad926	comment	Time-Shifted Actor: Ellis Rubin as young Barnum and Skylar Dunn as young Charity.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b4918533	type	Self-Empowerment Anthem
The Greatest Showman / int_b4918533	comment	The Self-Empowerment Anthem "This Is Me" won a Golden Globe for Best Song and got nominated for Best Song at the Oscars 2018 .
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The Greatest Showman / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Greatest Showman / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Carlyle is clearly disturbed when Barnum says that the freaks should be put in the standing room area of Lind's performance instead of his box because they'd be too visible. It's a big red flag for him (and the audience) that Barnum is just using them for money and doesn't really buy the self empowerment advice he's been giving them. It would have been quite reasonable for Barnum to point out that there isn't room for everyone in the box and that it wouldn't be fair to play favorites, so the phrasing he actually chose to use is pretty damning.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Greatest Showman / int_b5049d76	comment	Barnum's partnership with the shy Swedish soprano Jenny Lind has at least some prominence, even though said partnership was much earlier in his life while he was making a name for himself as a proprietor of "oddities" and hoaxes. Lind was only Barnum's partner for a few years before deciding she could promote herself on her own dime and returning to her native Sweden, and long before the circus was established. Additionally, they didn't have an affair.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
The Greatest Showman / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: Carlyle sees his life this way. Barnum agrees, and tries to convince him to break free.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b5619979	type	Was It All a Lie?
The Greatest Showman / int_b5619979	comment	Was It All a Lie?: The "freaks" wonder this of Barnum, and later tell him that even if it was, it didn't matter, because they still found their own dignity working for him anyway.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b64d389f	type	Invisible Backup Band
The Greatest Showman / int_b64d389f	comment	Invisible Backup Band: Again, being a musical, this is part and parcel of the experience. Averted at the circus (where a five man band can be seen playing) and at Lind's concerts, which feature full orchestras.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
The Greatest Showman / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Jenny Lind was one of the greatest operatic sopranos of her generation. The film depicts her as an alto but Loren Allred's vocal performance is so good that it doesn't matter.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b7c574a3	type	Dry Crusader
The Greatest Showman / int_b7c574a3	comment	Incidentally, the real Barnum was a self-described alcoholic for a while. After giving up the drink, he joined the Women's Suffrage Movement and became a Dry Crusader and started inserting temperance propaganda into his show. In fact, this probably should have happened during the course of the film, but it's hard to say for sure due to the messed-up timeline.
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The Greatest Showman / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Greatest Showman / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Most of the circus performers are barely given any attention in favor of Barnum's story even though many were famous in their own right. Among those briefly seen include Chang and Eng, the famed Siamese Twins. It requires a Freeze-Frame Bonus to spot Frank Lentini (the three-legged man) and James O'Connell (the Tattooed Irishman) in the circus scenes. Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy and Edouard BeauprÃ© are only briefly introduced. Charles Stratton is only given a few brief scenes and is only shown as a warm-up act. In real life, he was a genuine star and critically acclaimed for his talents on stage as well as for his quick wit. In fact, Stratton's abilities were instrumental in helping the general public come to regard Barnum's circus as legitimate performance art rather than a mere sideshow.
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The Greatest Showman / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
The Greatest Showman / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Charity and Phineas are of the Childhood Friend Romance variety. Jenny Lind thinks because Phineas and herself are not so different that she can be a better lover than Charity. Phineas finds himself falling for her, resulting in a Near Kiss. He recovers his senses in time to avoid making an irreversible mistake.
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The Greatest Showman / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Greatest Showman / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Barnum's Fatal Flaw. Part of his Character Development is letting others have the spotlight.
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The Greatest Showman / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Greatest Showman / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Of the late 19th Century sort.
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The Greatest Showman / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Greatest Showman / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: On one hand, Phineas is a good guy who wants to take care of his family and is the first to take the various freaks seriously. On the other hand, it becomes clear that he is using them for fame and fortune and he gets caught up in it all, abandoning them for better things before it comes crashing down around him. He still remains sympathetic and heroic due to realizing what he had done and trying to make it up to everyone.
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The Greatest Showman / int_bf4628aa	type	Romance on the Set
The Greatest Showman / int_bf4628aa	comment	Jenny Lind was a famous soprano. In the movie she sings more in the alto range. She was also not romantically interested in Barnum—she ended her American tour early because she came to dislike how he advertised, not because of bitterness over a rejection. There was contractual provision for this and they parted fairly amicably, unlike her surprise-kissing him in front of the press out of spite in the movie. And while she did have a Romance on the Set, it was actually with her pianist, whom she married.
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The Greatest Showman / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
The Greatest Showman / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: The Barnums. Charity is the daughter of a wealthy man, while Phineas came from nothing. Charity's father openly loathes Phineas and insists that she'll tire of poverty and leave him. Charity proceeds to live and raise two children in a tenement without a word of complaint, and their marriage only hits trouble when Phineas becomes obsessed with gaining wealth and social status. Anne and Phillip, with a dose of 19th-century racism. He's a moneyed aristocrat, she's a circus performer. Their sheer difference in social class is the reason Anne rejects him at first.
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The Greatest Showman / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
The Greatest Showman / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: When she's introduced Lettie is stated to be ashamed of her beard... but apparently not enough to have bothered to try to shave it anytime recently, since she's sporting a beard most men couldn't achieve in a month.
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The Greatest Showman / int_c4842ab1	type	Appropriated Appellation
The Greatest Showman / int_c4842ab1	comment	Appropriated Appellation: After a caustic review disparaging his show as a â€œcircus of humbug...â€� Barnum changes the name of his venue from the P.T. Barnum museum to P.T. Barnumâ€™s Circus and writes â€œPrince of Humbugâ€� on his hat.
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The Greatest Showman / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Greatest Showman / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In an early scene, a young Barnum steals a loaf of bread. The last movie musical Hugh Jackman (adult Barnum) was in, Les MisÃ©rables (2012), had Jackman's character receive 19 years in prison for doing the same thing. For bonus points, Valjean (played by Jackman) breaks up a fight in Les MisÃ©rables, stating that "this is a factory, not a circus". If it's not intentional, it's certainly amusing. The first few notes of "This Is Me" bear at least a passing resemblance to the line "There's a place where we don't have to feel unknown," from the song "You Will Be Found" of Dear Evan Hansen.
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The Greatest Showman / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
The Greatest Showman / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: What P.T. Barnum's story is, growing from a jobless father to a famous showman. Jenny Lind suffered being born out of wedlock and had to fight her way into high society as well.
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The Greatest Showman / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Greatest Showman / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Phineas's obsession with fame and fortune. He grew up in utter poverty, his father died when he was still a child, and he was homeless for a stretch of time, forced to steal food to survive. As an adult, he says that he just wants to make sure his children never go through what he did, but it becomes clear that it is all just him trying to distance himself as far as possible from his destitute beginnings.
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The Greatest Showman / int_cd7f2d9a	type	Lip-Lock Sun-Block
The Greatest Showman / int_cd7f2d9a	comment	Lip-Lock Sun-Block: Phillip and Anne near the end. It's a bright circus light, not actually the sun, but the effect is still there.
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The Greatest Showman / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
The Greatest Showman / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Rewrite the Stars is essentially a musical debate over whether or not it's possible to do so.
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The Greatest Showman / int_cff53786	type	Cover Version
The Greatest Showman / int_cff53786	comment	Cover Version: Kesha did an official cover of "This Is Me."
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The Greatest Showman / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Greatest Showman / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Despite her Historical Villain Upgrade, Jenny Lind is a very sympathetic figure, and her motivations are understandable. Bennet, despite being a cold and mean critic does appreciate the diversity of the show and doesn't want it shut down.
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The Greatest Showman / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
The Greatest Showman / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Literally with Charles considering he dresses up like Napoleon. From what little (no pun intended) we see of his personality, though, he is a bit like this, considering his first line is "What are you looking at, flopdoodle?" in a rather threatening tone of his voice. He calms down as the movie goes on though.
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The Greatest Showman / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Greatest Showman / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: When the Museum is burned down, Barnum realizes that he doesn't need a building — just a tent.
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The Greatest Showman / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
The Greatest Showman / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": Lettie gives one to Barnum before her Patrick Stewart Speech about Family of Choice after Barnum has lost the museum to fire and Charity to his obsession with fame.
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The Greatest Showman / int_d2cd18c0	type	Forbidden Fruit
The Greatest Showman / int_d2cd18c0	comment	Forbidden Fruit: Jenny Lind shamelessly hits on a Happily Married Barnum throughout the film. She becomes a Woman Scorned when it's made clear he's never gonna reciprocate her feelings.
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The Greatest Showman / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Greatest Showman / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Barnum's "freaks" become upset when he starts forsaking them to please high society. Charity also asks Barnum when enough will be enough while he packs for a countrywide tour with Jenny Lind. Anne's none too pleased the first few times Phillip bows to societal pressure over openly acknowledging his feelings for her.
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The Greatest Showman / int_d3d94018	type	Girls with Moustaches
The Greatest Showman / int_d3d94018	comment	Girls with Moustaches: Keala Settle plays Lettie Lutz, the Bearded Woman, and despite the full beard, she still manages to be a Big Beautiful Woman (with a fantastic singing voice).
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The Greatest Showman / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Greatest Showman / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Barnum's main hat. He doesn't believe in bad publicity, just publicity.
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The Greatest Showman / int_d48a141b	type	Fake Irish
The Greatest Showman / int_d48a141b	comment	Fake Irish: Invoked. When introduced to an extremely tall Slavic man, Barnum christens him "The Irish Giant".
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The Greatest Showman / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Greatest Showman / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Annie Jones was white, while her Expy Lettie Lutz is Polynesian. The other bearded women employed over time by Barnum were also white.
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The Greatest Showman / int_d86210c	type	Have You Come to Gloat?
The Greatest Showman / int_d86210c	comment	Have You Come to Gloat?: Barnum says this in a sort-of veiled threat to Mr. Bennett after the museum has burnt down.
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The Greatest Showman / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Greatest Showman / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: The real-life Barnum's most famous bearded lady was named Annie Jones, not Lettie Lutz. The change is likely done to accommodate the similarly named but more prominently featured Anne Wheeler.
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The Greatest Showman / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: It's strongly implied that Jenny is as much a match for Barnum as Charity — but unfortunately for her, Barnum is already Happily Married and with children.
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The Greatest Showman / int_de80e030	comment	Social Climber: Despite his circus doing well, Barnum never quite gets over the discrimination he faced for being poor in his youth and bristles at how they are still seen by the wealthy. He approaches Philip and Jenny to improve his reputation and neglects his troupe once he thinks he's got the upper class's approval. He even acknowledges this in "From Now On".
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The Greatest Showman / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Jenny Lind was far from the Woman Scorned who kissed Barnum to stir up controversy and then quit altogether shown in here; She actually parted on amicable terms with Mr. Barnum after finding his intense advertising of her performances distasteful. She even continued to perform in America for a significant time after said break-up.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e38b0f45	comment	Snake Oil Salesman: Barnum being Barnum, he's accused of this. His retort that while a lot of what he shows off are fake, the smiles he gets from people aren't.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Carlyle and Anne's brother, W. D. Wheeler, take on a group of racist troublemakers together. Bonus points for Carlyle being in love with Anne.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e46f71c3	comment	Hollywood Costuming: This movie is set in the mid-19th century, and there are no hoop skirts in sight, while many of the men wear dress shirts with collars out of the Edwardian Era or even later. The filmmakers readily admit that they were going for a modern take on Victorian fashion, so the costumes are all over the place in terms of period.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Phillip Carlyle replaces many of Barnum's real life partners like James E. Cooper and James Anthony Bailey. He could also be considered as one for Irving Feld, Israel Feld, and Roy Mark Hofheinz, as he (like those three people) is handed the circus after Barnum is put out of business (albeit, in this version, Barnum retired, whereas in real life, they were given the circus after Barnum died). He is entirely fictional, though. Nancy Fish was Barnum's second wife, and was alive when Barnum first opened the museum. Here, since Charity is alive in this version, most of Nancy's role is given to Charity.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e49686	comment	The Hero: The clean-cut, aristocratic Phillip Carlyle is the proper hero of the story, truly looking out for and caring for the people of the circus he works with and walking away from his upper class wealth and status to be with Anne. Meanwhile, Jackman's Barnum is more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold obsessed with chasing fame and fortune, much like the real-life Barnum. In the end Barnum passes the role of ring leader to Carlyle.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Greatest Showman / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Except for a very basic outline of events and inclusion of some of Barnum's more popular acts, almost none of the story is strictly historically accurate. Combined with Age Lift, the movie appears to be concerned with showing Barnum creating his and Bailey's famed circus, but Barnum himself didn't get into the circus business proper until he was sixty years old. In addition, he was not an orphan after his father's death, and his wife Charity didn't live to see the circus formed. Barnum's partnership with the shy Swedish soprano Jenny Lind has at least some prominence, even though said partnership was much earlier in his life while he was making a name for himself as a proprietor of "oddities" and hoaxes. Lind was only Barnum's partner for a few years before deciding she could promote herself on her own dime and returning to her native Sweden, and long before the circus was established. Additionally, they didn't have an affair. James Bailey himself has been replaced by the fictional character Phillip Carlyle. Anne and her brother did not exist, and any performer backgrounds have been changed.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Greatest Showman / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Try telling Barnum what he can't do; he'll go out of his way to prove you wrong. This becomes his undoing in the third act until the members of the circus help bring about a Heel Realization.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Greatest Showman / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Anne and Phillip. As spelled out to the audience in their song, "Rewrite the Stars", as an interracial couple from different social classes, they are kept apart by social norms.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The men who start a brawl in the circus and end up burning it down. These men are quite clearly not meant to be liked. Jenny Lind by way of her Historical Villain Upgrade and causing Phineas to neglect his circus.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e6ab61d	type	Magic Realism
The Greatest Showman / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: The entire film evokes feelings of a Fairy Tale. For example, in the office, all of the clerks are using their counting machines completely in sync. Barnum and his girls hammer nails for show advertisements in complete sync with the drum beats of the song "Come Alive."
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The Greatest Showman / int_e7cb46d3	comment	Satellite Character: The circus performers are this to P.T., Phillip, and Annie, mostly serving to be in the background prepping for the circus, talking to either of the three about how oppressed they are by other people, or joining P.T. in upbeat musical numbers. The only times they really get to be the focus are during the This is Me scene and when they fight the protestors before the circus burns down.
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The Greatest Showman / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: CGI or not, the final number where Barnum's top hat is passed to every one of his performers and then back to Barnum looks impressive.
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The Greatest Showman / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Lettie when Phineas first meets her. Understandable, since she owns a full bushy beard. However, being a part of Barnum's circus gives her enough confidence that when Phineas keeps her from Jenny's post-concert soiree, she bursts into the soiree with the rest of the "freaks", singing "This Is Me." The same can be said for the rest of the circus performers, because they all know what they look like and how the public feels about them, but Lettie is far and away the poster girl for it in this film.
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The Greatest Showman / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: There are quite a few including the Caustic Critic Mr. Bennett, Charity's father, and the hate mob of extras perpetually picketing outside the circus. Also, Barnum himself is this until the last twenty minutes.
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The Greatest Showman / int_ef20d7bc	comment	A Minor Kidroduction: Phineas and Charity are introduced as pre-teens.
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The Greatest Showman / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Despite being the most heroic version of the Manipulative Bastard throughout much of the movie, this is what the circus troupe does for Barnum near the end of the film. Given the lack of more convenient modes of travel, Barnum's trip to his in-laws to beg for Charity's forgiveness can be justified here. His kids, naturally, also play this straight.
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The Greatest Showman / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: Throughout "Rewrite The Stars," Anne is vehement that even if she does love Phillip, society won't let them be together. After he suffers smoke inhalation by running back into the burning museum on the assumption she was still inside, she sings the refrain to his comatose body in a barely audible whisper, affirming her wish to stay with him. In-Universe, Jenny Lind's second performance of "Never Enough," as she cries during it after Phineas has rejected her advances.
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The Greatest Showman / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: When Bennett prints a review of Barnum's show, calling it a "Circus of Humbug", Barnum decides to rename his show the P. T. Barnum Circus, offers half-price tickets for anyone who shows a copy of the review and wears a gilt-paper crown over his top hat reading "Prince of Humbug".
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The Greatest Showman / int_fa686f29	comment	Weird Moon: The moon during "A Million Dreams" fills the entire horizon.
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The Greatest Showman / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: It's only shown twice, but W.D. is noticeably protective of Anne, being visibly angry when Carlyle shows initial interest in her, and later when Lettie has to calm him down when she tells Carlyle he's going to be late for his date with Anne at the opera. They become Bash Brothers, so he obviously approves of their romance in the end.
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