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The Last Circus

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The Last Circus	comment	Original Spanish title: Balada triste de trompeta (Sad Trumpet Ballad)A 2010 Black Comedy directed by Ã�lex de la Iglesia. In 1937, a clown is forcibly recruited by the militia to serve in the Spanish Civil War where he manages to massacre an entire platoon with a machete. Years later in 1973 against the backdrop of Franco-era Spain, his son Javier follows in his father's footsteps, working as a Sad Clown. There he falls in love with the beautiful acrobat Natalia and in the process runs amok of her abusive lover, Sergio, the Funny Clown. A twisted Love Triangle ensues between the two clowns that escalates into insanity.
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The Last Circus / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Last Circus / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The main R-rated trailer shows Sergio shooting Ramiro's brains out.
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The Last Circus / int_15800db3	type	All Are Equal in Death
The Last Circus / int_15800db3	comment	All Are Equal in Death: At Valle de los CaÃdos, Javier explains to Natalia that the caves are filled with the bodies of fallen fascists and communists, commenting that they all ended up in the same place because death "unites a lot".
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The Last Circus / int_1e6eb73	type	Birthday Party Goes Wrong
The Last Circus / int_1e6eb73	comment	Birthday Party Goes Wrong: Sergio and Natalia entertain some kids at a birthday party. Everything falls apart when a kid pulls Sergio's fake beard revealing his horribly mutilated face.
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The Last Circus / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Last Circus / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: In-universe, when Javier goes at the theater and has a vision of Raphael addressing to him from the big screen.
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The Last Circus / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
The Last Circus / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: Sergio threatens to push the Ghost Rider off a bridge above Railroad Tracks of Doom in order to make him spill the beans.
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The Last Circus / int_1f4854bd	type	Portrayed by Different Species
The Last Circus / int_1f4854bd	comment	Portrayed by Different Species: In-universe, when Ramiro gives Javier a tour and points out that the circus' zebra is actually a donkey with a painted coat.
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The Last Circus / int_1ff3b1d6	type	Harmful Healing
The Last Circus / int_1ff3b1d6	comment	Harmful Healing: The emergency surgery performed by a vet to save Sergio after his face was brutally bashed by Javier, the rescue is successful... Sergio's facial reconstruction is most definitely not.
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The Last Circus / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Last Circus / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The depiction of the early '70s Franco-led Spain is that of a sour, desaturated, detached society in which violent men like Sergio and colonel Salcedo have their way and thugs fight in the streets at night. The opening War Is Hell scene set in the Spanish Civil War and Javier's father being forced to do slave labor for the construction of Franco's monument afterwards are depicted as pretty dystopian.
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The Last Circus / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Last Circus / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Even compared to Ã�lex de la Iglesia's past Black Comedy movies like The Day of the Beast or La Comunidad, The Last Circus is probably his bleakest affair, with its ideas of humor being a clown in drag committing Machete Mayhem on a battlefield, a man telling a Gallows Humor joke about a dead baby to his friends during dinner and the protagonist making an improvised clown costume out of a bishop's suit just to give some examples.
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The Last Circus / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
The Last Circus / int_225d4412	comment	Played Straight with The Ghost Rider, who gets mocked and poorly treated by the others, but whose misery is comedic rather than serious.
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The Last Circus / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
The Last Circus / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: The Ghost Rider's flying motorcycle stunt. Initially just his Running Gag, but then it ends in tragedy when he tries to be a hero with it.
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The Last Circus / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Last Circus / int_24321e44	comment	To an extent the Republican colonel Enrique Lister, who punches Miguel after being told off and forcefully conscripts Javier's father and the circusmen to fight a Francoist army only to get killed and lose the battle miserably.
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The Last Circus / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The Last Circus / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Sergio is prone to subject people to these if they get on his nerves. After doing it with Javier, however, he gets one from him ending up disfigured and weakened.
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The Last Circus / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
The Last Circus / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Salcedo wears glasses with a darkened lens to conceal the ugly scar of his missing eye.
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The Last Circus / int_262099be	type	Widescreen Shot
The Last Circus / int_262099be	comment	Widescreen Shot: About two thirds into the film we're treated to a wide shot of Javier and Sergio facing off at the opposite far ends of the screen, with an indecisive Natalia in the middle and the slums of Madrid in the background.
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The Last Circus / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
The Last Circus / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: Javier and Sergio are also this as clowns.
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The Last Circus / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Last Circus / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: No one accomplishes anything in the tragic Downer Ending, with both clowns arrested, and Natalia and the Ghost Rider's final stunts end in their own demises.
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The Last Circus / int_27725a69	type	Nice Character, Mean Actor
The Last Circus / int_27725a69	comment	Nice Character, Mean Actor: Sergio, lovable clown adored by kids on stage, an abusive lover towards Natalia and a Bad Boss towards Javier off-stage.
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The Last Circus / int_27d19c47	type	Landmarking the Hidden Base
The Last Circus / int_27d19c47	comment	Landmarking the Hidden Base: After the circus closes, they're somehow allowed to keep their animals near the crypts of Valle de los CaÃdos, and Javier will take it over making it his secret hideout for a Captive Date with Natalia.
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The Last Circus / int_28ea0e57	type	Cock Fight
The Last Circus / int_28ea0e57	comment	Cock Fight: Javier and Sergio end up viciously wanting each other dead over Natalia.
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The Last Circus / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
The Last Circus / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Javier does this after waking up from his nightmare at the hospital.
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The Last Circus / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Last Circus / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Dictator Francisco Franco tells Salcedo that he disapproves the way he forces Javier to act like a dog for him, calling it "Non-Christian" behavior.
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The Last Circus / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Last Circus / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Played with Ramiro. He's the first who notices Javier's crush on Natalia and warns him, but later says yes in Javier's place when Natalia asks him out on a date. Towards the end Ramiro is assisting Javier for his Captive Date with Natalia, although he's probably being held hostage too.
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The Last Circus / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
The Last Circus / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: Javier gains two antagonists in his life in the form of colonel Salcedo and Sergio, for causing their disfigurements. However, Salcedo and Sergio aren't innocent and to a large extent did this to themselves with the former killing Javier's dad and the latter being an abusive Bad Boss who hospitalizes Javier after beating him to near death.
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The Last Circus / int_373283c9	type	This Cannot Be!
The Last Circus / int_373283c9	comment	This Cannot Be!: Sergio collapses yelling "Â¡NO PUEDE SER!" during his first Villainous Breakdown at a pub when his face (which isn't shown to us yet) got people staring at him in quiet horror.
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The Last Circus / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
The Last Circus / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Javier would rather have Natalia hate him than feel sorry for him.
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The Last Circus / int_3a4522df	type	PietÃ Plagiarism
The Last Circus / int_3a4522df	comment	PietÃ Plagiarism: When AndrÃ©s carries the Ghost Rider's body to an ambulance in the end.
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The Last Circus / int_3a6cebbd	type	Circus Brat
The Last Circus / int_3a6cebbd	comment	Circus Brat: Javier, as well as his father, his grandad and possibly more.
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The Last Circus / int_3b570d13	type	Eyes Are Unbreakable
The Last Circus / int_3b570d13	comment	Eyes Are Unbreakable: Washing his face with bubbling caustic soda miraculously doesn't blind Javier on the spot.
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The Last Circus / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Last Circus / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Sergio, who loses his job after getting brutally disfigured by Javier, but had it 100% coming due to being a physically abusive Bad Boss who pushed him over the edge.
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The Last Circus / int_3d649526	type	Elemental Motifs
The Last Circus / int_3d649526	comment	One of the circus artists is a stunt performer with a motorbike, who wears an outfit with a fire motif and is referred to as the "Motorista Fantasma".
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The Last Circus / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Last Circus / int_3f89452c	comment	Sad Clown: Javier's job at the circus, being the Pierrot-inspired Sad Clown who's partners with Sergio's Funny Clown. Personality-wise Javier masks his sad, traumatized true self by being quiet and subdued instead of trying to be a jokey Stepford Smiler of sorts.
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The Last Circus / int_45db8ec6	type	Cry Laughing
The Last Circus / int_45db8ec6	comment	Cry Laughing: Sergio does this after Natalia's death, while Javier bawls desperately, thus they nail their roles as the Funny Clown and Sad Clown respectively.
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The Last Circus / int_46cfd12f	type	Nothing but Skulls
The Last Circus / int_46cfd12f	comment	Nothing but Skulls: Javier's hideout at Valle de los CaÃdos has masses of skulls everywhere, given that Franco ordered 30,000 causalities of the Civil War to be put in a mass-grave there.
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The Last Circus / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Last Circus / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Javier roughly pushes a child away at a diner to get to the jukebox and later points his gun at another.
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The Last Circus / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Last Circus / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Javier's role as the Sad Clown falls under this, but it could easily apply to his entire life. Played Straight with The Ghost Rider, who gets mocked and poorly treated by the others, but whose misery is comedic rather than serious.
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The Last Circus / int_48cbd223	type	Machete Mayhem
The Last Circus / int_48cbd223	comment	Machete Mayhem: Javier's father during the opening battle. He's ordered to switch up his shotgun with a machete, but proves to be really good at it when he mows down several Francoist soldiers.
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The Last Circus / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Last Circus / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Both Salcedo and Anselmo: we see some blood splattering the wall when Javier bashes the latter to death with a clothes iron, while we close-up on Javier's face as he shoots Salcedo.
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The Last Circus / int_4b2500a1	type	This Means Warpaint
The Last Circus / int_4b2500a1	comment	This Means Warpaint: Sergio decides to put clown makeup on before instigating the final confrontation.
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The Last Circus / int_4d737c6e	type	Dramatic Spine Injury
The Last Circus / int_4d737c6e	comment	Dramatic Spine Injury: At the climax, Natalia uses her aerialist skills to leap from a tower with a length of silk wrapped around her waist, screaming dramatically as she finally escapes her abusive husband Sergio... until the silk jerks her fall short, snapping her spine fully in half and killing her instantly. Both Sergio and her would-be lover Javier are devastated.
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The Last Circus / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
The Last Circus / int_4db42cf3	comment	Some nice Male Frontal Nudity courtesy of Javier while he lives in the wild.
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The Last Circus / int_4dd6313f	type	It's Always Spring
The Last Circus / int_4dd6313f	comment	It's Always Spring: Slightly downplayed since it does snow in one scene, but given that and the use of Luis Carrero Blanco's killing which happened on the 20th of December, it's odd that most characters and many extras walk around without jackets or winter clothes.
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The Last Circus / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Last Circus / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Javier destroys Sergio's face by bashing him with a trumpet, and uses a clothes iron to kill Anselmo.
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The Last Circus / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Last Circus / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie opens and ends on two men dressed as clowns.
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The Last Circus / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
The Last Circus / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Javier has a vision of Natalia as the Virgin Mary, telling him to become her Angel of Death. Which means vengeful Monster Clown.
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The Last Circus / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
The Last Circus / int_53d45fa8	comment	Back-Alley Doctor: The vet who patches Sergio's face back together to avert his Death by Disfigurement.
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The Last Circus / int_53fd0a77	type	Out of the Frying Pan
The Last Circus / int_53fd0a77	comment	Out of the Frying Pan: Javier being saved from a wild boar by colonel Salcedo's servant, who happened to be hunting nearby. Salcedo recognizes Javier as the boy who partially blinded him (due to Javier carrying a portrait necklace of his father) and proceeds to kidnap him and force him to act like a retriever dog.
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The Last Circus / int_5650223c	type	Plot Device
The Last Circus / int_5650223c	comment	The terrorist attack that killed Luis Carrero Blanco is used as Plot Device that allows Javier to get Natalia.
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The Last Circus / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
The Last Circus / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: By the end of the film, both of the main characters are pretty deranged. Also applies to the overarching theme of the film as it relates to the Spanish Civil War.
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The Last Circus / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Last Circus / int_58970413	comment	On top of the Coincidental Broadcast about Javier being sighted near the site of the terrorist attack on Blanco, in the very same pub Sergio notices the Ghost Rider having a drink. When he exits, Sergio stalks and roughly interrogates him to obtain more information on Javier's whereabouts.
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The Last Circus / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Last Circus / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Sergio is prone to brutally beat Natalia over petty things, such as agreeing with Javier that his Gallows Humor joke wasn't that funny.
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The Last Circus / int_5a62e8d0	type	SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror
The Last Circus / int_5a62e8d0	comment	Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: More inching towards horror, as the film is mainly focused on the twisted tragedy of Javier's life and the uncomfortable laughs coming from sheer oddity of the twisted Black Comedy setpieces, instead of attempting scenes with uplifting humor.
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The Last Circus / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
The Last Circus / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Javier has a tormented one in which Sergio (in clown getup, no less) constantly spoils anything nice in the creepiest ways; first by popping out from under a bed where Natalia was laying, then by replacing the idyllic sight of Natalia in the sky with himself slitting the throat of Javier's father.
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The Last Circus / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Last Circus / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Two, actually. The movie's intro opens in 1937, then it cuts ahead presumably to the late '40s and Javier is teenaged, then it jumps forward to 1973, when the rest of the film is set.
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The Last Circus / int_6141b228	type	Full-Boar Action
The Last Circus / int_6141b228	comment	Full-Boar Action: Javier gets chased out of his hideout in the wild by a vicious boar until it's shot down by a hunter... who is revealed to be Salcedo's servant.
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The Last Circus / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Last Circus / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Sergio provides plenty. When looking at Javier after almost hurting an infant, or when he watches Natalia at the night club, head covered in darkness for extra creepiness.
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The Last Circus / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Last Circus / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Sergio is taunted by a group of small children after being disfigured.
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The Last Circus / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
The Last Circus / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": Of Natalia's spine.
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The Last Circus / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Last Circus / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: At best, Sergio shows off an impatient attitude, as he snaps at Javier during the job interview because he doesn't give an immediate response to a question he asked. At worst, all it takes for Sergio to consider his dinner ruined (and, shorty after, beat up Natalia) is someone not laughing at his joke.
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The Last Circus / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Last Circus / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Sergio tells Javier that he really loves Natalia, admitting that sometimes he drinks too much and loses control, but insists that he's not a bad person and he's ready to do anything for her, claiming that it's "love for real". His heartbreak and crying when Natalia abandons him after the disastrous birthday party gig does prove that his feelings for her are genuine, even if he's still an abusive monster.
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The Last Circus / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Last Circus / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Javier is prone to these, and Sergio ends up shedding some tears too during his breakdowns.
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The Last Circus / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Last Circus / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Both Javier and Sergio and up with hideously scarred faces that complete their Monster Clown transformation.
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The Last Circus / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
The Last Circus / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: As clowns, Sergio is the "Funny" one and Javier is the "Sad" one. When they become Monster Clowns, Javier constantly giggles and smiles in a deranged way, while Sergio doesn't, displaying instead an unsettling Tranquil Fury and designs his clown makeup after Emmett Kelly's "Weary Willie", which is a Sad Clown figure. After Natalia dies, Javier and Sergio seem to reprise their original roles, with Javier bawling his eyes out and Sergio laughing bitterly through the tears.
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The Last Circus / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Last Circus / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Javier's. His father laments that he never got to meet her.
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The Last Circus / int_67a70f33	type	Creepy Circus Music
The Last Circus / int_67a70f33	comment	Creepy Circus Music: Despite what the film is about, this trope is surprisingly averted, as every circus setpiece has a basic orchestral score, and neither Monster Clown is followed by some predictable scary calliope Leitmotif. Justified, as Javier is more of a Tragic Monster and Sergio doesn't need spooky music when being a controlling, murderous Crazy Jealous Guy is perfectly terrifying as it is.
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The Last Circus / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Last Circus / int_685a6461	comment	Circus of Fear: Averted. The circus workers in the opening scene and the troupe Javier joins are depicted as honest people trying to get by. It's either the Civil War or someone like Sergio that corrupt the circus with their mere presence and turn Javier (and his dad before him) into Monster Clowns.
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The Last Circus / int_6fd83482	type	Ocular Gushers
The Last Circus / int_6fd83482	comment	Ocular Gushers: In the opening scene, Javier's father wears a device to create that effect as part of the clown act. Later, after being captured, he uses it to spitefully squirt water in Salcedo's face.
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The Last Circus / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
The Last Circus / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Javier goes on another date with Natalia, gets hospitalized by Sergio when he finds out, is pushed to the limit by Natalia constantly going back with Sergio resulting in him disfiguring Sergio and running away from the police, being forced to live in a forest butt-naked feeding on dead animals until he gets attacked by a boar, which leads to him getting kidnapped and humiliated by the colonel who killed his father. Can you blame him for snapping into a murderous Monster Clown after all this?
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The Last Circus / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Last Circus / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: A guy is bothered by Javier Disrupting the Theater by standing in front of the screen. Against his date's suggestion, the guy angrily reaches out to Javier to ask him to sit down and touches his shoulder. Javier responds by bending the guy's fingers backwards, causing panic to break out in the theater.
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The Last Circus / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
The Last Circus / int_75538142	comment	Sergio seems to genuinely like kids, even if he disregards their safety.
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The Last Circus / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
The Last Circus / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Ramiro praises Javier's first performance (which we aren't shown, making it an Offscreen Moment of Awesome), going as far as to say that his passiveness to the gags Sergio subjected him to (which included Piano Drop, Pie in the Face and Rump Roast) reminded him of Buster Keaton's.
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The Last Circus / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
The Last Circus / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: A Republican army with forcefully recruited circus artists vs a Nationalist army.
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The Last Circus / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Last Circus / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: A constant throughout the film. For one example, Javier gets a job at a circus and is a pretty good at being a Sad Clown until he gets involved into an unhinged Love Triangle which then leads to the circus getting closed after Javier disfigures the main star Sergio, but the troupe still finds a new job at a night club... which goes south when a vindictive Sergio shows up, while Javier is on the run and endures his own progressively awful experiences until he reaches out to Natalia.
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The Last Circus / int_7b666ad	type	Filching Food for Fun
The Last Circus / int_7b666ad	comment	Filching Food for Fun: While happily running through an Amusement Park with Natalia, Javier steals some poor kid's cotton candy, right before a furious Sergio catches up to give both a Disproportionate Retribution.
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The Last Circus / int_7c2247b4	type	Fearless Infant
The Last Circus / int_7c2247b4	comment	Fearless Infant: Invoked with a young kid who steps out of a diner's bathroom right after Javier has scared everyone out by shooting up maniacally. He then notices the child and points a weapon at him, but the child barely reacts. Javier is numbed by the fact that he failed to scare him, that he stands motionless allowing the kid's father to rush back into the diner and carry him away.
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The Last Circus / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
The Last Circus / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Despite ornamenting himself with guns and ammo, Monster Clown Javier uses them to shoot things up and points loaded guns at people to scare them.
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The Last Circus / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
The Last Circus / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Javier, after he snaps. But given his traumatic childhood, the loss of his father and the abuse he recieves from Sergio and Salcedo, it's not hard to see why he goes off his rocker.
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The Last Circus / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Last Circus / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Sergio gets worse whenever he drinks. Natalia tells Javier that he drinks every night.
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The Last Circus / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Last Circus / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Had Javier not caused the labor camp escape, he would've had his father living longer and possibly being released, and without a pissed off Francoist colonel seeking revenge for his missing eye.
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The Last Circus / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Last Circus / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Sergio is introduced kicking two poor dwarfs out of his trailer and ranting that he doesn't want dwarfs in his circus because they make him sick. When the director tells him that it's not his circus and he can't talk to him like that, Sergio shuts him up by taunting "Fire me, then".
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The Last Circus / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
The Last Circus / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: The abusive Sergio can qualify. Even on stage it's implied that his whole Funny Clown thing is basically just subjecting the meek, Comically Serious Sad Clown to a lot of gratuitous slapstick.
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The Last Circus / int_84df9a79	type	Second-Face Smoke
The Last Circus / int_84df9a79	comment	Second-Face Smoke: Sergio does this to the circus director during his introductory moment.
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The Last Circus / int_8527b5da	type	Advice Backfire
The Last Circus / int_8527b5da	comment	Advice Backfire: Javier's father laments he can only ever hope to be a sad clown, since he's had his childhood robbed thanks to the civil war. However, he advises Javier that he can gain solace from his pain and be a funny clown if he can get revenge. The backfire comes when Javier decides to get said revenge by sabotaging a prison work camp where his father was forced to build the Valle de los CaÃdos monument with dynamite. Javier's father re-appears later as a hallucination, ordering him to get Natalia and kill Sergio, saying once again that revenge is the only way to happiness. And once again, following this advice backfires HORRIBLY as it further escalates the tensions until it all crumbles in the massive Downer Ending.
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The Last Circus / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Last Circus / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: After getting disfigured by Javier, Sergio's career as a clown is completely shattered, and everyone is repulsed by his appearance. Even when he briefly reunites with Natalia everything falls apart again as soon as children get a good look at his face. Natalia gets fed up with him and dumps Sergio leaving him in tears.
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The Last Circus / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Last Circus / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Javier and Sergio when they both fall off the deep end. Though Sergio was this to begin with before going full-blown Monster Clown.
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The Last Circus / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Last Circus / int_8b606a51	comment	Javier to colonel Salcedo, and he keeps shooting until he's out of bullets.
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The Last Circus / int_8b97cb5d	type	Symbolic Mutilation
The Last Circus / int_8b97cb5d	comment	Symbolic Mutilation: Salcedo missing an eye reflects his Revenge Myopia towards Javier, while Javier purposefully scars his own face in a way to resemble a Sad Clown while Sergio's sutures give him a permanent twisted smile that match his Funny Clown persona.
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The Last Circus / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
The Last Circus / int_8cbd311b	comment	Good Angel, Bad Angel: Invoked with the fourth wall-breaking imaginary Raphael and Javier's father in the theater scene. Raphael tells Javier that Natalia is a shameless person that he shouldn't care about and suggests to turn himself in, while Javier's father insists on taking her and killing Sergio.
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The Last Circus / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
The Last Circus / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: The Movie. Natalia willingly endures the Domestic Abuse she recieves from Sergio believing she can't do without him and loves the thrill of toying with Javier's heart, who instead is genuinely in love with her and is infuriated at her abusive relationship with Sergio, which drives him insane.
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The Last Circus / int_8e5c0199	type	Egomaniac Hunter
The Last Circus / int_8e5c0199	comment	Egomaniac Hunter: Elder Salcedo is definitely this in his spare time, judging from the lavish collection of guns and taxidermy in his manor, and the way he plans to take down a human (Javier) next.
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The Last Circus / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Last Circus / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: To an extent the Republican colonel Enrique Lister, who punches Miguel after being told off and forcefully conscripts Javier's father and the circusmen to fight a Francoist army only to get killed and lose the battle miserably. Sergio, who loses his job after getting brutally disfigured by Javier, but had it 100% coming due to being a physically abusive Bad Boss who pushed him over the edge. Colonel Salcedo and his servant Anselmo, who are killed by an Ax-Crazy Javier for the kidnapping and humiliation they subjected him to. Generalissimo Franco, who gets his hand bitten by Javier despite trying to console him as he gets abused by Salcedo. The moment of kindness doesn't change the fact he's still a dictator whose regime caused the deaths of millions and is indirectly responsible for many of Javier's troubles.
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The Last Circus / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Last Circus / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Natalia. There is a slight hint of self-indulgence in the way she sets Javier and Sergio against each other. It does NOT end well for her, though.
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The Last Circus / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Last Circus / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: An elder colonel Salcedo kidnaps Javier and humiliates him for what he did to his eye, then plans to kill him for biting Francisco Franco's hand. Too bad it backfires when Javier breaks out on a killing spree after becoming a Monster Clown and finishes what he started with Salcedo's eye.
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The Last Circus / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Last Circus / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The entire film is a metaphor for Franco-era Spain as well as the Spanish Civil War.
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The Last Circus / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
The Last Circus / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: The hospital doctor informs Natalia and the rest that Javier has sustained internal bleeding and several broken ribs, yet he runs and moves around looking completely unaffected by such injuries which in Real Life are notorious for being endangering and extremely painful.
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The Last Circus / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
The Last Circus / int_932da128	comment	Both protagonists to a degree, although in Javier's case it's more physical, since he's more broken than bad inside. Sergio is full-blown Monster Clown, though.
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The Last Circus / int_94e17e7e	type	Fluffy Tamer
The Last Circus / int_94e17e7e	comment	Fluffy Tamer: Invoked during the prologue with a circus lion coming out of the shadows and laying down next to a young Javier after he's left all alone in the ring.
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The Last Circus / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
The Last Circus / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Colonel Salcedo. He tries to put up a fight and has a "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner to boot.
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The Last Circus / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Last Circus / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Sergio scolding and threatening Javier for almost getting an infant hurt by throwing them over the elephant, despite the fact Javier was against doing it but Sergio insisted.
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The Last Circus / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
The Last Circus / int_97d97c28	comment	Javier's father re-appears later as a hallucination, ordering him to get Natalia and kill Sergio, saying once again that revenge is the only way to happiness. And once again, following this advice backfires HORRIBLY as it further escalates the tensions until it all crumbles in the massive Downer Ending.
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The Last Circus / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Last Circus / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Natalia makes this point when the circus director criticizes her relationship with Sergio, and she asks him if he ever felt trapped into a love that he knows will be his downfall but he just can't do without it, to which he responds "Yes, every day: this circus will end up killing me".
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The Last Circus / int_9a2aee13	type	Heroic Bystander
The Last Circus / int_9a2aee13	comment	Heroic Bystander: When Javier stalks Natalia through Madrid a man attempts to help her, only to get a shotgun pointed at his face, but all three get knocked down by the explosion that kills Luis Carrero Blanco.
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The Last Circus / int_9b53f32	type	Exposed to the Elements
The Last Circus / int_9b53f32	comment	Exposed to the Elements: Javier survives naked in a forest even after it snows, with no ill effects.
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The Last Circus / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Last Circus / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Javier's father laments he can only ever hope to be a sad clown, since he's had his childhood robbed thanks to the civil war. However, he advises Javier that he can gain solace from his pain and be a funny clown if he can get revenge. The backfire comes when Javier decides to get said revenge by sabotaging a prison work camp where his father was forced to build the Valle de los CaÃdos monument with dynamite.
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The Last Circus / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Last Circus / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: A very nasty wake-up call for Natalia, when she sees the insane physical and emotional damage she caused by inciting Javier and Sergio to go at each other.
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The Last Circus / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Last Circus / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: The evil colonel Salcedo is pushed off his horse by Javier when he kills the boy's father, painfully losing his right eye after falling onto a pickaxe.
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The Last Circus / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
The Last Circus / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: Javier shoots a politician at Salcedo's home off his feet, hurling him across the room until he slams against a bookshelf.
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The Last Circus / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Last Circus / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Javier and Sergio at the end are sent to weep for Natalia's death and the emotional and physical turmoil they gone through as they are arrested.
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The Last Circus / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Last Circus / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Ramiro shows Javier that he's capable of freeing himself from handcuffs using a hairpin. Two thirds into the movie, he uses this talent to free Javier when he and the crew help him evade the police.
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The Last Circus / int_ad451179	type	Cruel Elephant
The Last Circus / int_ad451179	comment	Cruel Elephant: The circus' elephant Princesa is implied to be this, as she hits Javier to the ground and Ramiro explains that she gets aggressive when she sees him with another woman, mistaking Javier for one. Later Ramiro reveals him that the jealous elephant went as far as killing his wife.
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The Last Circus / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Last Circus / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Ramiro has moments of it, like when Javier explains that he's the Sad Clown and as such he doesn't make people laugh. Ramiro understands and gives him compliments for doing a stupendous job at it if that's the case.
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The Last Circus / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Last Circus / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Natalia. There's plenty close-up shots of her bosom and especially her back during the nightclub performance.
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The Last Circus / int_b475abfb	type	Gut Feeling
The Last Circus / int_b475abfb	comment	Gut Feeling: While Sergio is getting patched up by the vet, his wife rants at the circus troupe telling them that they're all going to Hell, especially Natalia, guessing that she's responsible for all this.
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The Last Circus / int_b6b5ebf4	type	TheStraightMan
The Last Circus / int_b6b5ebf4	comment	The Straight Man: Javier to Sergio's funny clown antics.
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The Last Circus / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
The Last Circus / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: Due to other countries changing the movie's title, the original Title Drop with Raphael's song "Balada Triste de Trompeta" in the diner and the theater scene is lost.
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The Last Circus / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
The Last Circus / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Javier's father after getting stomped to death by Salcedo's horse.
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The Last Circus / int_ba7c307f	type	Captive Date
The Last Circus / int_ba7c307f	comment	Captive Date: Javier takes Natalia on one after he snaps.
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The Last Circus / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Last Circus / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Sergio's first true display of instability comes from the dinner scene in which he gets really upset when Javier doesn't laugh or react the way he wanted at a Gallows Humor joke he told, and beats Natalia in front of everyone when she sides with Javier. Sergio then makes an angry rant to Javier and the other circus workers telling them that he's THE clown of the circus, the real breadwinner since people come to see him and thus he decides what's funny or not. He's not completely wrong since the circus closes after he gets disfigured, but his behavior still makes him an ass.
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The Last Circus / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
The Last Circus / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: Happens when Sergio interrogates the Ghost Rider as to the whereabouts of Javier.
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The Last Circus / int_bcff3e56	type	The Last Title
The Last Circus / int_bcff3e56	comment	The Last Title: The English title.
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The Last Circus / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Last Circus / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Both Nationalist (the Rabid Cop who yells at Sergio towards the ending) and Republican characters (the unhinged Resistance colonel Enrique Lister forcefully recruiting men into his army in the opening scene) are portrayed as this.
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The Last Circus / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Last Circus / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Javier to colonel Salcedo, and he keeps shooting until he's out of bullets. Sergio to Ramiro when he reaches Javier and Natalia's hideout, commencing the movie's climax.
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The Last Circus / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Last Circus / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Some nice Male Frontal Nudity courtesy of Javier while he lives in the wild. In-universe, the male audience members at Natalia's night club performance become quite displeased at the Ghost Rider coming on stage as a barely dressed cherub.
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The Last Circus / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Last Circus / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The movie is similar in plot and theme to Pagliacci. However, the roles of protagonist and antagonist are reversed: it is the lover who is the protagonist and the cuckolded spouse who is the antagonist. Photos of the Universal Monsters, Ming the Merciless, One Million Years B.C. and other images of pop culture are shown in the opening title sequence. One of the circus artists is a stunt performer with a motorbike, who wears an outfit with a fire motif and is referred to as the "Motorista Fantasma". Natalia brings up the tale of Bluebeard comparing herself dating Javier despite the risk of enraging Sergio to the protagonist wanting to open Bluebeard's forbidden door against his orders. At one point during Javier's dream sequence he tries to reach Natalia as she floats in a sunny, paradisiacal sky, which is very reminiscent of Sam Lowry's recurring dreams about Jill in Brazil. Javier living in the forest without any clothing and eating a deer that died after falling in his hideout could be a nod to An American Werewolf in London, in which the protagonist has a dream where he sees himself running in a forest naked and preying on a deer. The nightclub Natalia and the troupe go to work at is named Kojak, complete with a large Telly Savalas decoration on its stage. The movie Javier sees at the theater with Raphael as the clown singing "Balada Triste de Trompeta" is 1970 Sin un adiÃ³s. Javier and Natalia climbing on a large statue at the base of the giant cross while fleeing from Sergio and the police harkens back to the climax at Mount Rushmore from North By Northwest. Two men who "created" one and other and want each other dead facing off at the top of a religious building with the woman they both desire is visually and thematically similar to the climax of Batman (1989), but with a tragic outcome. The aforementioned caustic soda that bleaches Javier's skin instead of burning him could be a deliberate nod to the chemicals The Joker usually falls into in order to gain his Monster Clown appearance. Word of God is that the ending, in which Natalia falls from a great height and snaps her back was a reference to a certain classic Spider-Man comic.
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The Last Circus / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
The Last Circus / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: What Sergio and Natalia's relationship revolves around. Natalia claims she's afraid of Sergio... but every time she gets beaten by him, she gets really, really horny.
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The Last Circus / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
The Last Circus / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry: The caustic soda Javier dips his hands and face into would've just given him severe bloody burns, instead of bleaching his skin.
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The Last Circus / int_ca4569bd	type	"Test Your Strength" Game
The Last Circus / int_ca4569bd	comment	"Test Your Strength" Game: Despite being blinded by Unstoppable Rage, Sergio gets creative with Javier's beatdown at the amusement park by placing him on the puck of a high striker game and beating him with the mallet several times until the cops stop him.
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The Last Circus / int_ca4e037	type	Dude Looks Like a Lady
The Last Circus / int_ca4e037	comment	Dude Looks Like a Lady: A recurring Informed Attribute with Javier whenever he's dressed as a clown. The circus' elephant strikes him down mistaking him for a woman, when he gets his improvised Monster Clown costume after he snaps Anselmo asks if he dressed himself as a priest or a lady, later one of the children at the diner questions their dad why Javier is dressed as a lady before being corrected that he's a clown.
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The Last Circus / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Last Circus / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Javier's father and the circus director.
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The Last Circus / int_cbef1592	type	Scary Stitches
The Last Circus / int_cbef1592	comment	Scary Stitches: Post-Meatgrinder Surgery Sergio has his face covered with these, some providing his Glasgow Grin.
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The Last Circus / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Last Circus / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God is that the ending, in which Natalia falls from a great height and snaps her back was a reference to a certain classic Spider-Man comic.
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The Last Circus / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Last Circus / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Natalia tells Javier that he DOESN'T want to know what happened to the previous Sad Clown before him.
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The Last Circus / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
The Last Circus / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: During the opening battle, Javier's father briefly sees some poor guy who lost his sight, both legs and an arm.
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The Last Circus / int_d1673f5c	type	Bad Humor Truck
The Last Circus / int_d1673f5c	comment	Bad Humor Truck: Javier drives around in an ice cream truck after becoming a Monster Clown.
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The Last Circus / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Last Circus / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Javier's reaction upon Natalia telling him that she's going back with Sergio, despite the fact that he just hospitalized him and beat her again. This sets up Javier's Rage Breaking Point when he escapes from the hospital and returns to the circus only to find Natalia having anal sex with Sergio. Cue to disfigurement.
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The Last Circus / int_d3d94018	type	Girls with Moustaches
The Last Circus / int_d3d94018	comment	Girls with Moustaches: A bearded lady is mistaken for a man and accidentally recruited into the small Republican army along with Javier's father. The army leader scolds the soldier who did it and has her escorted away.
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The Last Circus / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
The Last Circus / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Towards the climax at Valle de los CaÃdos, an officer snaps at Sergio upon seeing him putting clown makeup on, giving him a heated "The Reason You Suck" Speech against circus artists. In his rage the officer doesn't notice Sergio snatching his gun for himself.
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The Last Circus / int_d8df3d27	type	Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter"
The Last Circus / int_d8df3d27	comment	Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": Javier, when he laughs madly right after killing Salcedo.
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The Last Circus / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
The Last Circus / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Apparently no one in the diner bat an eye when a Walking Armory Monster Clown walked in and sat down, but perhaps they assumed Javier was just a street artist or some kind of protester with a pretentious getup before revealing he's a maniac with real, loaded guns.
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The Last Circus / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
The Last Circus / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Taken to the extreme. Natalia claims constantly that she's with Sergio because she's afraid of what he'd do if she left him... but she seems to show genuine sexual excitement from the abuse.
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The Last Circus / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Last Circus / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Javier, out of anyone else he could've stumbled upon in the forest, re-encounters an elder colonel Salcedo on a hunting trip, who decides to kidnap him after finding out it's the boy that took away his eye. On top of the Coincidental Broadcast about Javier being sighted near the site of the terrorist attack on Blanco, in the very same pub Sergio notices the Ghost Rider having a drink. When he exits, Sergio stalks and roughly interrogates him to obtain more information on Javier's whereabouts.
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The Last Circus / int_dda775ce	type	Lawful Pushover
The Last Circus / int_dda775ce	comment	Lawful Pushover: The circus director (and the whole circus troupe) is this with Sergio. They have no choice but to let him do as he pleases and bail him out of prison because he's the main star of the circus and they can't do without him. Which is proven correct after Javier disfigures him.
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The Last Circus / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Last Circus / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Both Javier and Sergio go through it, badly. Sergio in particular, as the disfigurement of his face destroys his ability to make children laugh, which was the only thing he was good at and his one redeeming quality. This makes him bounce from the Despair Event Horizon... through the Moral Event Horizon.
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The Last Circus / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
The Last Circus / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: Natalia nervously smokes at the hospital, visibly shaken by the beatdown she and Javier received from Sergio at the park.
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The Last Circus / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Last Circus / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Natalia serves as this for both clowns. Ironic, considering she's singlehandedly ended up manipulating both into becoming murderous on her behalf. Sergio also shows genuine affection for kids, pretty much his only redeeming quality.
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The Last Circus / int_e6df8814	type	Screaming Warrior
The Last Circus / int_e6df8814	comment	Screaming Warrior: During the opening battle scene, Javier's dad lets out a furious shriek at the Francoist army before going Jason Voorhees on their asses.
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The Last Circus / int_ead7e42e	type	Walking Armory
The Last Circus / int_ead7e42e	comment	Walking Armory: In addition of Monster Clown, Javier also becomes this by raiding Salcedo's weaponry.
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The Last Circus / int_eadeb4d6	type	Climbing Climax
The Last Circus / int_eadeb4d6	comment	Climbing Climax / Monumental Battle: In the ending Javier, Natalia and Sergio have their final confrontation up on the giant cross of the Valle de los CaÃdos monument.
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The Last Circus / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
The Last Circus / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Colonel Salcedo and his servant Anselmo, who are killed by an Ax-Crazy Javier for the kidnapping and humiliation they subjected him to.
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The Last Circus / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Sergio is this to Javier and Natalia twice. The first when he attacks them at the amusement park, the last one after they exchange a Big Damn Kiss and he snarks in while holding Ramiro at gunpoint.
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The Last Circus / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Last Circus / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Natalia. Finally admitting her love for Javier is what leads to her demise.
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The Last Circus / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: A variation. Javier's despair and frustration he feels for Natalia staying with Sergio in spite of all the Domestic Abuse turns him into an Ax-Crazy Tragic Monster Clown, but he's not fully evil.
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The Last Circus / int_f88f2449	type	Downer Beginning
The Last Circus / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: Javier's clown dad and his circus colleagues are forced into a brutal Spanish Civil War battle which they lose, the survivors get Shot at Dawn, Javier's dad is imprisoned and forced to do labor camp work for Franco, and dies when Javier attempts to break him out.
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The Last Circus / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Last Circus / int_fb3576b2	comment	Franco disapproves Salcedo's mistreatment of Javier and attempts a sympathetic moment wit him, but ends up getting literally bitten.
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The Last Circus / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
The Last Circus / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Javier towards colonel Salcedo, who made his horse stomp Javier's father to death during the botched escape.
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The Last Circus / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Last Circus / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Javier. He's very meek and quiet despite his traumatic upbringing, at least until the disastrous Love Triangle gives him the final push he needed to give in to the gestating madness.
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The Last Circus / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
The Last Circus / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: At the diner scene, Sergio tells a rather bleak joke about a nurse showing a man his newborn, then suddenly bashing it against a wall and telling him that everything's fine because it was born dead.
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The Last Circus / int_fcdf597b	type	Titled After the Song
The Last Circus / int_fcdf597b	comment	Titled After the Song: The original title "Balada Triste de Trompeta", Raphael's take on Nini Rosso's "Ballata Della Tromba".
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The Last Circus / int_fd5f23a7	type	Skyward Scream
The Last Circus / int_fd5f23a7	comment	Skyward Scream: Francisco Franco's, when Javier bites his hand.
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The Last Circus / int_fd9763d3	type	Non-Ironic Clown
The Last Circus / int_fd9763d3	comment	Non-Ironic Clown: Miguel, the colleague of Javier's father, stands up to the Republican commando leader who broke into the circus to recruit men into his army, calling him out for interrupting the show and doing this in front of children.
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The Last Circus / int_fdfd52d9	type	Gross-Up Close-Up
The Last Circus / int_fdfd52d9	comment	Gross-Up Close-Up: During Javier's self-mutilation.
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