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The Long Kiss Goodnight
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The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 1996 action thriller film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Shane Black.Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) knows nothing about her past. She had been found eight years ago on a beach, pregnant and injured, but remembers nothing of her former life. Since then she has given birth to her daughter, Caitlin (Yvonne Zima), and met a very nice man. For a while she hired a few private investigators, including Mitch Hennessey (Samuel L. Jackson), but they never came up with anything. She has been living a peaceful, idyllic life working as a schoolteacher and raising her daughter, and has pretty much decided to give her former, unknown life the "long kiss goodnight".One Christmas season, she plays the part of Mrs. Claus in her town's Christmas parade. An inmate in prison is shocked to see her on television, alive, and breaks out.Meanwhile, Samantha is in a freak auto accident, injuring her head. After she recovers she discovers as she cuts carrots one night that she has an unexpected skill with knives and assumes she must have been a chef in her past life. She could not be more wrong... | |
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Self-Plagiarism | |
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Self-Plagiarism: Brian Cox's line "Yes, it was very exciting. Tomorrow we go to the zoo" was in Shane Black's original script for The Last Boy Scout. Both scripts also have the hero sarcastically mention that someone is so funny they're going to wet themself. | |
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Never-Forgotten Skill | |
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Never-Forgotten Skill: Samantha Caine has had amnesia for eight years. But it becomes clear that this hasn't stopped her from executing a Neck Snap, a rabbit punch, and knife moves like a professional. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Timothy. He is never under any illusions about what a horrifying monster he is and enjoys every moment of it. | |
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Villain Team-Up | |
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Villain Team-Up: This film has three major antagonists. Luke/Daedalus, a black market arms dealer. Timothy, a Psycho for Hire who works as Daedalus' chief enforcer. Leland Perkins, a rogue CIA official. | |
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Heroes Love Dogs | |
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Heroes Love Dogs: During her attempt to rescue themselves being locked in a freezer with her, Charly asked Caitlin if they should get a dog, in which the latter agreed with that. They did get a dog in the end. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: Technically, both sides are action, but every aspect of the film takes a hard turn when Charly regains her memory. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Timothy. Insanely murderous terrorist and child abuser. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Leland Perkins. He views the Honeymoon plot as a necessary evil to get the CIA the funding that it desperately needs, and when he sees that Timothy has kidnapped Caitlin he comments "My god, we're monsters." and even gives her a doll as a Christmas present. | |
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Dye or Die | |
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Dye or Die: Charly dyed her auburn hair blonde. Samantha let it grow out. Didn't help her. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Samantha in her Charly status is an example of Good Is Not Nice with a huge emphasis on the "Not Nice." | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Samantha slips a matchbook into her daughter's sling, so that she can keep a candle lit while her mother's away. Once Sam has her memory back and is Charly Baltimore, she and her daughter are Locked In A Freezer, where the matches (along with some gasoline) allow her to blow up the freezer door and escape. Lighting a candle in the window, so Sam can find "her way home". A literal one. The location of Nathan's third gun. | |
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Accidental Aiming Skills | |
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Accidental Aiming Skills: At one point, out of sheer desperation, Mitch grabs a knife and simply lobs it toward the incoming mook, having nowhere to run or hide. The knife lodges directly in the guy's throat - and Mitch is even more surprised than the unfortunate sucker he just killed. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Earlier in the movie, Samantha told Caitlin "life is pain" when the latter injured herself skating on ice. In the end, Caitlin tells Samantha, as Charly, "life is pain" to help her stand up from her injuries. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Mitch and Sam start out strangers and a little leery of each other. By the climax, they are a strong team. They part ways at the end, but still look out for each other. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Samantha drives an inebriated older man home from her Christmas party. During the drive, he asks if Samantha and her fiancee ever... followed by a suggestive hand gesture. Samantha attempts to deflect his question by saying "Make a circle with our fingers and move another finger in and out? Every chance we get." Later on he causes a car crash by trying to touch his nose eyes closed, waving a hand in front of Sam, allegedly to prove he's not drunk though actually as a ploy to grab her boobs. | |
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Impersonating an Officer | |
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Impersonating an Officer: Part of Mitch's standard con in busting guests who think they're with a prostitute. | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: One-Eyed Jack and Leland Perkins. | |
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Martial Arts and Crafts | |
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Martial Arts and Crafts: The protagonist becomes really good in the kitchen shortly after a car crash. She thinks her memories are starting to return after eight years of amnesia, and that her great skill with knives mean she used to be a chef. She's right about the first part. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Samantha Caine doesn't at first know who her daughter Caitlin's father is given her amnesia. Later she remembers that it's sociopathic terrorist Timothy. She had been with him as a means of getting close, as he was her target for assassination. Unsurprisingly, learning of his paternity doesn't improve him one bit: he leaves her to die. | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: Applies to both Charly and Mitch. In Atlantic City, Charly tricks Perkins into revealing that he wants her dead by having Mitch place a phone call to his own office, knowing that it will be traced by Chapter. Later in the film Mitch figures out how to find Timothy by suggesting that they go to a telephone company office and coerce an employee into tracing Timothy's phone. | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better: Mitch likes revolvers; the two guns he keeps on himself are a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson Model 36 and a Colt King Cobra .357 magnum. | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: A teenaged boy is smoking a cigarette when he is surprised by Charly the Spy coming up behind him with a scoped carbine rifle. He pees his pants. Seeing the local mom in stretch pants and carrying a BFG calmly state "Tell anyone you saw me, I'll blow your fucking head off" would tend to have that effect on a person. | |
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Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat! | |
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Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Timothy is nothing but a psychotic and heartless monster with a taste for mass murder and torture. Pretty dark considering the film's comedic overtones. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Timothy, a Psycho for Hire who works as Daedalus' chief enforcer. | |
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False Flag Operation | |
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False Flag Operation: The bad guys' plan is to fake a terrorist attack on US soil so the CIA will get better funding. In the same scene, Perkins mentions the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (the movie came out pre-9/11) and implies that the CIA had a hand in it. | |
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Split-Personality Merge | |
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Eventually results in a Split-Personality Merge. | |
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Magical Negro | |
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Magical Negro: Hennessey is determined to avert this trope. "Yes, Miss Daisy, I be honkin'!" | |
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Government Agency of Fiction: Charly worked for Chapter, which Waldman describes as "a black bag operation working from the U.S. State Department". | |
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Split Personality | |
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Split Personality: Davis does an eerily good job of making the audience believe she's two people. Eventually results in a Split-Personality Merge. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Living Lie Detector: Timothy boasts of this ability. It comes back to bite him in the ass when Charly promises to kill him dead. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: We hear a television set say "...so, so much for the skydiving Santa Claus..." | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Timothy. | |
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*Click* Hello | |
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*Click* Hello: | |
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Trouser Space | |
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Trouser Space: Nathan is well-armed: | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: "Don't hit the cars!" Lampshaded with the look Mitch gives her right after she says that. | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident: This is how Timothy is going to cover up the deaths of Charly and Caitlin. | |
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Near-Miss Groin Attack | |
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Near-Miss Groin Attack: During the scene when Mitch is being interrogated by Timothy while tied to a chair, Timothy tries intimidating Mitch by flinging a knife that embeds itself on the chair's surface, a few inches from Mitch's groin. | |
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Water Torture | |
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Water Torture: Samantha is strapped to a water wheel and repeatedly submerged into the freezing cold water by the villain in an attempt to gain information from her. | |
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Pie in the Face | |
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Pie in the Face: Charly subdues One-Eyed Jack with this during their fight at her house. It's not the pie that does the job - it's the ceramic baking dish the pie was in, which breaks his nose. | |
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Amnesiac Liar | |
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Amnesiac Liar: Being a spy would do that to you. | |
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Important Haircut | |
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Important Haircut: When Samantha becomes fully aware of her Charly identity, she underlines the change in her mind by changing her appearance, which includes cutting her hair and dyeing it blonde. At the end of the film her hair is still blonde, but it's back to it's pre-Charly length, symbolizing that she has embraced both her kind and nurturing Samantha personality as well as her tough and independent Charly personality. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Samantha in her Charly status is an example of Good Is Not Nice with a huge emphasis on the "Not Nice." Mitch, too. He's a good person at his core, but in general — and putting aside illegal activity — he acts like an ass though he gets better. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Jerk | |
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Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: After Charly confess to Timothy that Caitlin is his own daughter he takes a look in Caitlin's eyes to check if it's true. He finds out that it is and he looks a bit moved by that. He still locked her in the freezer to die with her mother anyway. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: At the church Christmas pageant, 8-year-old Caitlin is walking down the aisle, saying hi to people, when Timothy steps behind her, knocks her out with an inhalant, and carries her out over his shoulder. He's absolutely willing to kill Caitlin, even after learning that she is his biological daughter. In another scene, after he kidnaps Caitlin, he threatens a woman nearby into silence by pulling a knife on her children that she'll have "2.4 children" (meaning he'll cut 'em to pieces) if she tries to warn someone. | |
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Informed Attractiveness | |
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Strangely enough, given the Informed Attractiveness example above, Waldman says that Samantha got "frumpier," probably referring to her more plain, matronly looks as Sam, even though she still looks damn fine. Charly says her ass got bigger, which could be true. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: A joke by Charly. | |
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Honey Trap | |
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Honey Trap: When Charly was still working as a CIA assassin, she would seduce the men she was assigned to kill. It's known from the film that she had sex with both Daedalus and Timothy. In fact, her affair with Timothy resulted in her becoming pregnant with Caitlin. | |
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I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You | |
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I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You: A variant: "If you want me to talk in front of him, you may be asked to kill him later." | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: When One-Eyed Jack invades Charly's home, he hits her in the face with a full milk jug. As he goes for a kitchen knife, Charly hits him with a pie in the face. | |
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Place Worse Than Death | |
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Place Worse Than Death: The film takes one dig at New Jersey being this. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Waldman, who carries three handguns on himself at all times. When trapped in the cellar, Charly fills her daughter's doll with petrol on the off chance this might be useful in their escape. It is. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Timothy, who becomes the Big Bad when the previous one is killed halfway through the film (though even then, he still works for the corrupt CIA boss Leland, essentially making Timothy a Dragon-in-Chief). | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
The same goes for main villain Timothy, who survives what would have been a Disney Villain Death in any average action film and just gets pissed off. He also technically survives being shot repeatedly and falling out of a helicopter and onto a truck, albeit for only about thirty seconds before the truck explodes. But even though it's clear his wounds would have killed him anyway, he didn't immediately die. | |
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Alcohol Hic | |
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Alcohol Hic: Near the beginning, Samantha lampshades this trope while on the way home from a Christmas party with her clearly drunk friend. | |
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Emergency Stash | |
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Emergency Stash: The locker opened by the key. | |
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Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell | |
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Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell: Take a look at the False Flag Operation. | |
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Evil Uncle | |
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Evil Uncle: Leland Perkins could be considered an evil Honorary Uncle to Charly. Perkins was friends with Charly's father, and when Charly's father was killed in Belfast (presumably by the Irish Republican Army, as he was a soldier serving in the Royal Irish Rangers) Perkins recruited Charly to work for Chapter. | |
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Amnesiac Resonance | |
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Amnesiac Resonance: Samantha discovers an ability with knives that she believes means she was a chef, but she's really a government assassin. | |
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Forgot the Call | |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_699fb007 | comment |
Forgot the Call: Imagine The Bourne Identity if Jason Bourne's amnesia was caused by Becoming the Mask rather than a nasty boating incident. | |
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Knight of Cerebus | |
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Knight of Cerebus: The movie shifts alternately between action and comedy. Once Timothy is on scene, however, the comedy part is totally absent and things get deadly serious from there. His Establishing Character Moment is torturing and then stabbing a man simply to amuse himself regardless of whether or not the man knows anything about his plan. He's ready to harm and/or kill anyone, including children, and he later plans to have Charly frozen to death along with her young daughter even after finding out that she's also his daughter. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: "Life is pain. You just get used to it!" | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Sam Caine -> Amnesiac | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: Mitch got busted and did prison time for stealing federal bonds. So now, whenever he gives his son a nice gift, his estranged ex assumes it's stolen goods. | |
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The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_6e37c196 | |
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Leno Device | |
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Leno Device: Mitch gets to go on Larry King Live! | |
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The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_6eaff95 | |
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Luke, You Are My Father | |
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Luke, You Are My Father: As Timothy is about to leave Charly and her young daughter Caitlin to freeze to death together in a meat locker, Charly reveals that Caitlin's also his. He leaves them both in the locker anyway. | |
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Everybody Smokes | |
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Everybody Smokes: You can count non-smoking characters on your fingers. And the cooler the characters are, the more they smoke. | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity | |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_7570a10c | comment |
Bond Villain Stupidity: The bad guys twice have our heroine helpless in their power, but fail to just shoot her. The first time is somewhat justified by their need to interrogate her, but they still leave just one guy to do the job despite knowing how dangerous she is. The second time? They monolog their entire plan to her, then leave her Locked in a Freezer. Luckily, she's filled her daughter's doll with gasoline, you know, just in case she needed to set fire to stuff. Averted in the case of Mitch's case, as they intended to just shoot him (or stab him, there was some debate), but were too slow, giving Charly time to blow stuff up and distract them. Actually happens three times. In a flashback we see that One-Eyed Jack had Charly at his mercy and was ordered by Timothy to kill her. Instead he decided to have some fun with her. But then she woke up... | |
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Arms Dealer | |
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Arms Dealer: Daedalus is one of these. | |
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Buxom Beauty Standard | |
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Buxom Beauty Standard: In one scene Mitch notices a large-breasted female jogger while he's driving. When Samantha expresses her amusement at Mitch's reaction, Mitch comments that Samantha has the jogger beat "from the neck up." | |
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Paranoia Fuel | |
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Through the peephole. | |
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The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_7e07f634 | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: In Timothy's first scene he is interrogating a captive. The captive knows that there's no way that he's getting out alive, so he asks Timothy to execute him with a gun rather than a knife. Timothy stabs the guy with a knife, apparently For the Evulz. | |
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Amnesiac Dissonance | |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_8404a0f3 | comment |
Amnesiac Dissonance: Who would expect a small-town schoolteacher to be one of the most dangerous women in the world? | |
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World of Snark | |
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World of Snark: As mentioned above, virtually every character in this movie is a Deadpan Snarker. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: We last left Sam's friend from the accident unconscious in a car that was catching on fire. While it's probably safe to assume he died, we never learn for sure and his plot is never brought back up. | |
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil | |
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil: At Daedalus' house, the helicopter makes no noise until the heroes see it. | |
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Private Detective | |
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Private Detective: Mitch's day job. | |
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IKEA Weaponry | |
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IKEA Weaponry: One of Samantha's first steps toward remembering her past is finding and reassembling the sniper rifle hidden in her old suitcase. Seeing her putting together a weapon she doesn't even properly recognize is one of the creepiest scenes in the film. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: After being knocked into an aqueduct filled with rushing water by Charly, the normally smug and cocky Timothy is clearly rattled and very angry. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: Leland comments "My god, we're monsters." on Timothy's kidnapping of Caitlin. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Timothy. Craig Bierko plays him with such charisma and humor that he's incredibly fun to watch, even as he does shockingly horrible things with pure enjoyment. | |
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Behind the Black | |
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Behind the Black: the scene with Charly and the unknown gunman in an alley. Nobody seems to notice Mitch until he puts a gun to the guy's head. While he may have been able to hide somewhere, there is no way he could have snuck up on the gunman without being noticed. | |
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You Are Grounded! | |
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You Are Grounded!: Charly said this to Caitlin when she disobeyed her order to leave the truck bomb and instead focused on helping her stand up. | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: There's a very brief one between Charly and Mitch when they arrive at the motel in Niagara Falls and Charly realizes that her chances of making it out alive are slim. | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
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Rewatch Bonus: At the start of the film, Samantha can be seen holding a candy cane the same way that Charly holds her cigarette. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Charly, definitely. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Both protagonists survive being thrown violently from cars, diving three stories into icy water, being tortured, being shot, and getting literally blown out of a house and through a sign. It's a bit more impressive with Mitch since Samantha/Charly is a trained assassin, while Mitch is a low-rent private investigator/con man. The same goes for main villain Timothy, who survives what would have been a Disney Villain Death in any average action film and just gets pissed off. He also technically survives being shot repeatedly and falling out of a helicopter and onto a truck, albeit for only about thirty seconds before the truck explodes. But even though it's clear his wounds would have killed him anyway, he didn't immediately die. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: Hennessy hums a standard blues riff to himself a couple of times throughout the film... which comes back with an electric guitar vengeance when he pops out from concealment within the car that the agents brought along to the bridge (to place the dead bodies of the people they were going to frame for the bomb) at the climax, showing that he's Made of Iron. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Through the peephole. Another nasty one occurs in the flash back. We find out exactly how "One-Eyed Jack" got his name. | |
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Action Mom | |
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Action Mom: Samantha/Charly turns into this. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The film itself goes through a big, BIG one when Samantha regains her memory. Beforehand, it comes across as a Film Noir about a woman's uncovering of a Dark and Troubled Past with the help of a Private Detective. Once she becomes Charly again, the film's mood transforms into that of a sleek spy thriller. Throughout, this film can run around a bit, with the comedy mixed in with the dark. | |
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Majorly Awesome | |
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Majorly Awesome: Charly is referred to as "Major Baltimore" a few times, suggesting that she has a military background (either that, or Chapter uses a military-like ranking system). | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: We never see the corrupt CIA boss Leland killed or captured. However, it is implied that he gets indicted at the end according to Hennessey on Larry King Live. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: If it weren't for this trope, Mitch and Charly wouldn't have survived very long. This trope is especially blatant during the shootout in the train station; the hitmen sent by Chapter walk in with automatic weapons and begin spraying indiscriminately, managing to kill several innocent bystanders but not even scratching Mitch or Charly. | |
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Not So Stoic | |
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Not So Stoic: Timothy. When Charly tells him that he's going to die screaming, he actually looks a little frightened by her threat. Later after Charly knocks him into an aqueduct, he completely loses his composure. | |
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Deliver Us from Evil | |
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Deliver Us from Evil: A slightly complicated example here. Charly, an assassin, loses her memory shortly before learning that she's pregnant, and lives over the next eight or so years of her life as a loving mother. When her memories of being an assassin eventually return and override the "mother" persona, her first instinct is to dump the kid as it's not really "hers" and pick up things where she left off. This instinct lasts right up until her daughter is kidnapped by the bad guys, whereupon she goes Mama Bear. Totally averted with her child's father, who is terrorist sociopath Timothy, who leaves them to die without a qualm even after learning about his daughter (she tried to invoke this through revealing it). | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If One-Eyed Jack had refrained from trying to kill Samantha, she wouldn't have tried to find out why that happened, which means she wouldn't have recalled her former identity as Charly Baltimore, and therefore, she wouldn't have foiled his boss' plans. Daedalus' torture of Samantha/Charly to make sure she hadn't told anyone about him is what finally unlocks her Charly personality and super-spy abilities (which in turn leads to her untying herself, grabbing Waldman's gun he keeps near his crotch, and killing Daedalus | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Everyone - this is a wonderful movie for snarky lines, as one would expect from Shane Black. Especially Sam/Charly, Mitch, and Nathan Waldman. Another example: And: As well as: | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Samantha/Charly both redheaded and blonde. | |
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Offscreen Karma | |
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Offscreen Karma: Leland Perkins is the only major antagonist who doesn't get killed by Charly. However, in the film's epilogue it's mentioned by Larry King that he was indicted on multiple counts of high treason. Considering that treason is a capital crime in the United States, it's very possible that Perkins would have been given the death penalty (or at the very least he'll be spending the rest of his life in federal prison). | |
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An Ass-Kicking Christmas | |
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An Asskicking Christmas: The events of the film take place during the Christmas holidays. In fact, Sam/Charly was believed to be dead until she was seen dressed as Mrs. Claus in a parade. | |
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Trauma-Induced Amnesia | |
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Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Forgot her life because she got shot, and fell off a cliff into the ocean, started getting her memories back after a car accident, and regained them completely after being tortured and almost drowned. | |
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Morality Chain | |
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Morality Chain: Charly realizes Hal and Caitlin are this for her, hence her hesitation to kill them in order to "erase" Samantha. The latter's kidnapping by Timothy motivates her to come to her rescue. Averted with Timothy's case with Caitlin that not only he kidnaps her but also leaves her to die in the freezer with her mother, even after Charly reveals that Caitlin is also his daughter. | |
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Endangering News Broadcast | |
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Endangering News Broadcast: The whole plot is kick-started when a local news team records and airs a video of Sam being the Mrs. Claus of a parade as part of a "funny interest" story and One-Eyed Jack sees it, making him break out of jail to get revenge for Charly Baltimore taking his eye. | |
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Chef of Iron | |
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Chef of Iron: We wanna meet the chefs that can do that. | |
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot | |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_bd79d896 | comment |
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Samantha's murder attempt ——> A false flag terrorist attack orchestrated by corrupt CIA operatives. | |
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Outrun the Fireball | |
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Outrun the Fireball: From a surprisingly powerful grenade. Then they outdrive the fireball at the end of the movie. | |
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Neck Snap | |
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Neck Snap: Samantha hits a stag and crashes her car. In the aftermath, she finds him bleeding to death and snaps his neck to put it out of his misery. Then she wonders how she did that. She also does this to One-Eyed Jack (via a rabbit punch) and a nameless mook outside of the motel by Niagara Falls. | |
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Gun Fu | |
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Gun Fu: One of the earliest western examples before John Woo migrated to America. Noteworthy examples include: Leaping out of an exploding building and shooting the frozen lake below to soften the impact of landing. Loosening a cable tied to a corpse hanging from the top of a bridge's bannister, making the corpse drop; holding onto the rope and allowing the corpse's weight to pull you UP RIGHT NEXT TO THE HELICOPTER 50 FEET ABOVE YOU and blowing your evil ex-lover to smithereens at point blank range, with the Uzi you just grabbed from the falling corpse as you passed it. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: The car crash that starts Charly's memory recovery happens because she's giving a drunk friend a ride, so he'd get home safely. Unfortunately, his drunken antics distract her, so she doesn't notice the deer on the road... | |
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Informed Attribute | |
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Informed Attribute: Every time Timothy uses his Living Lie Detector abilities in the movie, people are actually telling him the truth. Strangely enough, given the Informed Attractiveness example above, Waldman says that Samantha got "frumpier," probably referring to her more plain, matronly looks as Sam, even though she still looks damn fine. Charly says her ass got bigger, which could be true. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Samantha's fiancee, Hal. When Samantha sets off on her journey to discover who she really is (after showing off some rather alarming knife skills and a man with a shotgun bursts into their home trying to kill her) he tells her that no matter what she finds he won't be scared or run away. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Samantha is loosely based on Candy Jones. The title seems to be a shout out to the film The Long Goodbye, a Phillip Marlowe mystery/satire where the character is eternally twenty years behind everyone else. The film is even shown on TV in one scene. | |
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Brainwash Residue | |
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Brainwash Residue: Try as she might, but Charly finds out that no matter what she does, she can't "erase" Samantha through things such as cheating on Hal with Mitch, cutting herself off from the photo with the former and Caitlin, and attempting assassination on the two. | |
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Revealing Skill | |
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Revealing Skill: The protagonist is a sweet innocent soccer mom with a memory loss—she hit her head five years ago, and her entire life before that is forgotten. Shortly after the start of the movie, she's suddenly creepily good with knives. She says that she must have been a chef before the accident, but it's undeniable that she as well as her family have received the first clue that she was, something else... | |
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Criminal Amnesiac | |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_d25b27c3 | comment |
Criminal Amnesiac: Luke/Daedalus keeps the lie that he's Samantha's fiancee, when he's actually the mark. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Timothy is blown to kingdom come by his own truck bomb. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Mitch gives one of these to Charly when she tries to seduce him in Atlantic City. | |
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Locked in a Freezer | |
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Locked in a Freezer: Charly uses a meathook to scrape a hole in the ground under the door, fills the hole with gasoline, and blows the door off its hinges. She's nothing if not resourceful. | |
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Modest Royalty | |
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Modest Royalty: The first time we see the President of the United States, he's wearing pajamas and making himself a sandwich for a late-night snack in the White House kitchen (rather than having a butler or other servant make it for him). | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Their first night in a hotel, Mitch hears Sam scream from her room. He opens the door and she nearly hits him with a high-power sniper rifle, which she'd apparently found in her old things, assembled and loaded. Understandably, he sees this as a good time to just turn around and go home. Sam does talk him down, eventually. | |
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Mondegreen Gag | |
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Mondegreen Gag: Mitch is hearing England Dan and John Ford Coley's "I'd Really Like to See You Tonight" on the radio, and sings along, using the phrase, "I'm not talking 'bout the linen," when Samantha corrects him that the actual words in the song are "I'm not talking about moving in." | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: After eight years of being missing and amnesiac, Samantha is in a car crash which begins the process of recovering her memories. At almost the exact same time, a former assailant happens to see a shot of her on TV, and escapes prison to kill her (she survives only because her skills have just started coming back. At the same time, the low-rent PI she hired happens to stumble across leads connected to her former life. And all of this happens while an old enemy of hers is in the last stage of planning a massive terror attack. These four plot lines happen for completely unrelated reasons, but all of them happen almost simultaneously to drive the plot forward. | |
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Beyond Redemption | |
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Beyond Redemption: Charly attempted to reason with Timothy not to hurt her daughter, Caitlin by revealing to him that she is not only her daughter but also his daughter. Despite easily accepting the revelation, he still considers locking both women in a freezer. At that point, Charly realized trying to get through Timothy that they're family is out of the question, so she threatens him that he'll die screaming when she and Caitlin got out of the freezer. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Samantha, made even more dangerous because of her assassin training. | |
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The Handler | |
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The Handler: Waldman used to be this for Charly. | |
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To the Pain | |
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To the Pain: Timothy is willing to blind and cripple a little girl. That is his daughter. | |
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No Endor Holocaust | |
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No Endor Holocaust: When Sam returns to her house it is played straight in the kitchen - everything is neat and tidy in there despite only a day or so passing since the battle where the fridge door was blasted. (Wow, the insurance replaced the fridge fast!) Averted though when she runs down the steps - the hole in the wall was boarded up and papers are on the banister. | |
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The Load | |
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The Load: Mitch! Fittingly for a gender flipped Bourne/Bond movie, Samuel L. Jackson fulfills this role by being almost completely useless until the final sequence (where he acts as getaway driver). While he has his heroic moments (such as trying to bluff Timothy that he'd called the cops and trying to rescue the kid), they're pretty much doomed to failure and end up hindering as much as helping Charly. | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp: Slinky, knife-throwing terrorist Timothy is a rare male Vamp. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: Mitch's first scene is him impersonating a crooked vice cop, busting in on a man with a supposed prostitute (actually Mitch's secretary/researcher) only to solicit a bribe to not take him in. Mitch later reveals that he actually used to be a dirty cop who stole some bonds the police department had seized, until his partner turned him in. | |
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Deep Cover Agent | |
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Deep Cover Agent: What better cover than Amnesiac Dissonance? | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: When Charly notices that Mitch's bandage needs to be changed, she opens her bathrobe and flashes him right before ripping the bandage off. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: When One-Eyed Jack is given an unconscious Charly, instead of just killing her like he was ordered he begins fondling her, which results in her waking up and stabbing him in the eye with a syringe. It's also implied that Timothy had previously tried something similar. | |
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Distressed Dude | |
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Distressed Dude: Though Mitch and Sam/Charly are kidnapped and held hostage/tortured about the same amount of time, Mitch acknowledges that she's way better at getting out of those situations than he is. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Mitch hums a standard blues riff to himself when he's thinking. This culminates in him driving out of the back of a truck while the riff blares out on electric guitars. An earlier example, made even more awesome because he's Samuel L. Motherfuckin' Jackson: | |
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Talking to Themself | |
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Talking to Themself: Briefly in the mirror | |
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