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The Lost City

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The Lost City	comment	The Lost City is a romantic adventure comedy from directors Aaron and Adam Nee (Band of Robbers). It stars Sandra Bullock (who also produces), Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Brad Pitt.Bullock stars as Loretta Sage, the bereaved middle-aged writer of a series of popular adventure novels who finds herself kidnapped by eccentric billionaire Abigail Fairfax (Radcliffe) who believes that one of the lost cities she has written about is real and is determined to find it. Meanwhile, Alan (Tatum), the cover model for her books, seizes the opportunity to become a real hero and sets off to rescue her, with some help from ex-Navy SEAL Jack Trainer (Pitt). Loretta's overworked publicist and friend Beth Hatten (Randolph) is on their trail as well.The film released in theaters on March 25, 2022.
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The Lost City / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Lost City / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Alan's appearance when he's modeling for Loretta's books resembles that of Fabio, with the long blond hair and unfastened shirt fronts. Abigail even calls him Fabio at one point.
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The Lost City / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
The Lost City / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: Loretta and Alan get two: from colleagues to friends and from friends to a romantic relationship.
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The Lost City / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Lost City / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Alan, who is well-versed in adventure romance series he's modelling for. And despite Loretta insistence that This Is Reality, at least some of those things end up working pretty well.
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The Lost City / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
The Lost City / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Abigail Fairfax's motivation for finding the Crown of Fire is very transparently to show up his younger brother Leslie, who was given control of the family's media empire over Abigail.
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The Lost City / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
The Lost City / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: While attempting to rescue Loretta, Alan hires ex-Navy SEAL Jack Trainer, who is much better equipped to do the job than him.
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The Lost City / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Lost City / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Alan serves this role In-Universe as a fashion model for Loretta's book covers. Also applies when we get to see Channing Tatum's bare bottom.
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The Lost City / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Lost City / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Fairfax's brother is frequently mentioned but never seen.
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The Lost City / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
The Lost City / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: Abigail would rather work with Loretta's husband, a well-known archaeologist and researcher, but has to settle on her due to the man being dead for five years. Downplayed, as Loretta used to work as an archaeologist herself and has related set of skills and education to handle the translation - she's just not as good as her husband would be.
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The Lost City / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
The Lost City / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: The movie points out that the volcano only is endangering the southern side of the island, but it's established that within a day's walking distance from the danger area there's a village where things are evidently so laid back they're having a festival. Air traffic is also still coming into the airport of an island with an active volcano. In reality, the entire island would be under watch even on the slight chance the volcano erupts in an unexpected way.
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The Lost City / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Lost City / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Loretta's Imagine Spot at the beginning of the movie, which has her picturing herself and Alan enacting scenes from her book as she writes them, lampoons the usual Death Trap in an abandoned temple tropes of these kinds of movies. Specifically, they question how so many deadly snakes are just living in the temple waiting for them despite having nothing to feed on, and also how they seem to be deliberately avoiding the villain and his Mooks for no reason. Loretta eventually decides this is ridiculous and rewrites the scene. When Fairfax is arrested, he's asked why he was trying to run since they're on a boat and he couldn't possibly have gone anywhere.
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The Lost City / int_2d395ee9	type	Autobots, Rock Out!
The Lost City / int_2d395ee9	comment	Autobots, Rock Out!: Alan going to Loretta's rescue in a scooter is scored by "The Final Countdown".
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The Lost City / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Lost City / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: While he sure can be and act dumb, Alan isn't a Brainless Beauty. He has the foresight to bring more practical shoes for Loretta to wear and knows what kind of cheese she likes. He has various useful hobbies and skills and when situation calls for it, can improvise solutions. He gets over his embarrassment at being a cover model when he realizes how much happiness playing his character brings to people.
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The Lost City / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
The Lost City / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: When Alan rides after the villain's truck to rescue Loretta, the score bursts into an orchestral version of Europe's "The Final Countdown" - Alan's entrance music on the book tour.
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The Lost City / int_318d4432	type	Tropical Island Adventure
The Lost City / int_318d4432	comment	Tropical Island Adventure: Whenever the island is supposed to be, it checks all the boxes, right down to a ticking clock in form of an active volcano ready to erupt any minute.
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The Lost City / int_33f095a8	type	Jaded Washout
The Lost City / int_33f095a8	comment	Jaded Washout: Loretta considers herself to be the case, for her academic career went nowhere, then she was reduced into writing trashy romance novels and then she got burned out by doing that. And somewhere along the way, her husband died, something she's unable to move on from. As various characters point out, she's much better than she thinks, but actively chooses to sulk in a corner.
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The Lost City / int_37798f84	type	Who Is Driving?
The Lost City / int_37798f84	comment	Who Is Driving?: When Beth and Oscar are flying in Oscar's cargo plane, they end up engaged in an emotional conversation. Eventually, Beth has to ask who is flying the plane. Oscar tells her that it's on autopilot, and Beth has to insist that he goes back to fly the plane.
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The Lost City / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Lost City / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Daniel Radcliffe played an eccentric billionaire who press-gangs the protagonist into aiding in his schemes. Similarly, Brad Pittâ€™s character is introduced eating snacks on the go like a certain Las Vegas robber
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The Lost City / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Lost City / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Abigail constantly keeps telling Loretta how friendly and cozy their work together is, even after already kidnapping and mistreating her.
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The Lost City / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The Lost City / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Both played straight and subverted. Loretta is kidnapped at the start of the movie and rescued by Trainer and Alan. Later Fairfax points his gun at Alan and says that Loretta has to crawl through a tunnel or Alan gets shot. As Loretta clambers up into the tunnel a stunned Alan says "Wait a second, I'm the damsel in distress?"
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The Lost City / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
The Lost City / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Alan mangles about a dozen words over the course of the film.
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The Lost City / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Lost City / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Abigail Fairfaxâ€™s reaction after Loretta turns down his offer. He never raises his voice, but closeup shot of his face shows his barely concealed rage.
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The Lost City / int_47e12c53	type	Is This a Joke?
The Lost City / int_47e12c53	comment	Is This a Joke?: Loretta initially believes that she's part of a hidden camera prank show set up by her publicist for her book tour when Abigail has two of his men kidnap her and ask for her help to find the Crown of Fire.
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The Lost City / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Lost City / int_48081842	comment	Jack is suddenly shot in the head while heâ€™s in middle of untying Loretta. Subverted later on in the mid credit stinger as Jack revealed to be alive and well.
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The Lost City / int_49bde8a	type	Traintop Battle
The Lost City / int_49bde8a	comment	Traintop Battle: Alan fights one of Fairfax's mooks on the roof of a speeding armored truck.
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The Lost City / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
The Lost City / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Brad Pitt as Jack Trainer was featured in the trailers as Loretta's primary rescuer. He succeeds in getting her out of immediate danger but is then shot in the head and not seen again until the mid-credits stinger, having somehow survived.
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The Lost City / int_4b2c373	type	Impractically Fancy Outfit
The Lost City / int_4b2c373	comment	Impractically Fancy Outfit: Loretta's sequined jumpsuit and high heels. It's awkward and uncomfortable from the very beginning, and trying to flee through the jungle makes things even worse.
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The Lost City / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Lost City / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Subverted. Abigail tries to give one after recapturing Loretta, but Alan suddenly shows up and interrupts.
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The Lost City / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
The Lost City / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Loretta is in her mid-50s, while Alan is no older than 40 (Channing Tatum's age during filming) and could very well still be in his 30s.
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The Lost City / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
The Lost City / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Played with in case of Alan. He's young and brash, but also completely unprepared and Loretta openly has to remind him few times that he's not Dash, the fictional character he's modeling for. Whenever put into some high-octane action, Alan is mostly just getting by - best exemplified when he tags along with Jack Trainer and is barely above bystander in the whole operation.
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The Lost City / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Lost City / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Julian, Fairfax's most competent and relied-upon henchman, essentially serves as this for him.
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The Lost City / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Lost City / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Played for laughs. By the time Beth manages to finally get two beat cops to inform them about Loretta's kidnapping, Alan and Jack Trainer have already broke her out of Fairfax clutches. The cop duo is quite openly dismissive to the whole issue and once Beth tries to threaten them, they just blow her off, telling her it's outside their jurisdiction anyway if it happens outside the city, not to mention country.
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The Lost City / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Lost City / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Julian slips in a cave and tumbles into the misty depths.
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The Lost City / int_6023a9bc	type	Bloody Hilarious
The Lost City / int_6023a9bc	comment	Bloody Hilarious: Alan's distress over being splattered with Jack's blood is very Played for Laughs.
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The Lost City / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Lost City / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: When Fairfax orders Rafi to bury Loretta and Alan in a stone tomb after realizing that there was no treasure, Rafi secretly slips his crowbar into the tomb so Alan can pry the stone open to allow them to escape.
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The Lost City / int_6a94f84f	type	Romance Cover Scene
The Lost City / int_6a94f84f	comment	Romance Cover Scene: Alan's job is to model for those and also being the official model during fan meetings. We get few glimpses of the covers he's on and they all follow the stereotypical design.
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The Lost City / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
The Lost City / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: Partially averted. Loretta and Alan are startled by the explosions as they flee Fairfax's camp. Jack, who set them off, isn't. Loretta isn't walking, as she is tied to a chair and being pushed in a wheelbarrow. See it here.
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The Lost City / int_7141f5cd	type	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him
The Lost City / int_7141f5cd	comment	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him: Loretta and Alan react in horror when a trap they set for one of the mooks chasing them on a motorcycle causes him to crash into another mook and run them both off a cliff to their certain death. They try to rationalize that they weren't actually responsible for those deaths, claiming that it was their faults for "being mean on a motorcycle".
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The Lost City / int_7206c964	type	Pushy Gun-Toting Villain
The Lost City / int_7206c964	comment	Pushy Gun-Toting Villain: Fairfax slowly becomes this the closer they get to the treasure, though only after most of his henchmen get taken out of the picture and he's forced to actually do a lot of the work himself. He later becomes a full-blown PGTV when they discover that the Crown of Fire was actually a headpiece made of seashells, and the treasure was the love between the king and queen of the island. Fairfax then forces Loretta and Alan into the tomb at gunpoint.
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The Lost City / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Lost City / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Allison, the young assistant to handle Loretta's social media, is highly cynical and has the empathy of a cinder block. While Loretta ends up being kidnapped and first Alan and then Beth go for a rescue, Allison is busy posting superfluous and obviously ghost-written posts, full of invoked #Engineered Hashtags.
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The Lost City / int_84df9a79	type	Second-Face Smoke
The Lost City / int_84df9a79	comment	Second-Face Smoke: After Loretta is captured the second time, Fairfax's last motorcycle mook blows cigar smoke in her face. (He holds her responsible for the death of the other two motorcycle mooks.)
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The Lost City / int_87602ba7	type	Conveniently Precise Translation
The Lost City / int_87602ba7	comment	Conveniently Precise Translation: Subverted and discussed. When Loretta figures out the script she's given by Fairfax, she roughly describes the meaning of the glyphs, informing him that without a broader context and few more signs she can't do much more and that it's most likely a metaphor anyway. He has none of it and orders her to "translate it again", with threat of violence. Much later, Loretta uses another piece of the script and consult a local about the folklore to finally figure out the location of the treasure.
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The Lost City / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Lost City / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Abigail trundles through the jungle in an armored truck fitted out with a luxurious interior complete with minibar.
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The Lost City / int_8a6423b6	type	Cosplay
The Lost City / int_8a6423b6	comment	Cosplay: Alan is the official body model (and cover model) for the fictional character Dash McMahon. This includes performing in a wig.
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The Lost City / int_8c78872	type	Writer's Block
The Lost City / int_8c78872	comment	Writer's Block: Loretta is struggling with one in the opening and eventually just decides to publish the book with a Gainax Ending, along with discussing invoked simply cutting the series short. The ending actually leaves it ambiguous if she went through with this, started a new series, got a new ending or maybe any combination of those.
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The Lost City / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Lost City / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Abigail tries to be cordial and friendly, but it's merely a surface-level faÃ§ade of a massive jerk with lots of daddy issues he unloads on random people.
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The Lost City / int_96eb0136	type	Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water!
The Lost City / int_96eb0136	comment	Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water!: Alan runs afoul of this after fleeing Fairfax's Mooks in a river, with leeches covering his lower back that Loretta has to peel off of him. Later, Rafi and a couple other goons follow their trail through the water and while doing so pick leeches off themselves much more casually.
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The Lost City / int_975ba595	type	Sleep Cute
The Lost City / int_975ba595	comment	Sleep Cute: Alan and Loretta share a hammock, starting out back-to-back. By morning, Loretta has turned around, resting her cheek on Alan's chest, with Alan's arm around her shoulders.
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The Lost City / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
The Lost City / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: It's all but said aloud that this is how Abigail Fairfax is seen in-universe: a rich scion of a media mogul that keeps squandering daddy's money on one after another extravagant, yet failed archaeological expedition, in a vain attempt to make a name for himself. All he achieved so far was just cementing his public perception as a failure. And given the ending, likely tarnishing his reputation beyond recovery.
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The Lost City / int_a108f2d2	type	Death by Mocking
The Lost City / int_a108f2d2	comment	Death by Mocking: Alan stumbles on a narrow ledge, leading Julian to mock him. Julian then immediately slips off the ledge and falls to his death.
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The Lost City / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Abigail Fairfax, who insists that his name is gender neutral. He has brothers named "Leslie" and "Beverly".
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The Lost City / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Leeches attach to Alan. To the point he needs to take off his pants, making Loretta very uncomfortable.
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The Lost City / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Lost City / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Abigail dismissively notes that Rafi thinks digging all over his home island to steal a queen's crown is disrespectful to his culture and ancestors. When the group actually finds her tomb, Rafi's forced to help open the coffin at gunpoint and immediately says, "Sorry, Abuela." Being forced to shut Alan and Loretta in the tomb where they'll most likely die as well is his last straw, so he furtively dops his crowbar into the tomb for them to use and steals Abigail's boat when the island's volcano starts erupting yelling, "You wanted to own the island, but the island will own you!"
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The Lost City / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Lost City / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Crown of Fire.
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The Lost City / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
The Lost City / int_a7382a73	comment	Loretta's Imagine Spot at the beginning of the movie, which has her picturing herself and Alan enacting scenes from her book as she writes them, lampoons the usual Death Trap in an abandoned temple tropes of these kinds of movies. Specifically, they question how so many deadly snakes are just living in the temple waiting for them despite having nothing to feed on, and also how they seem to be deliberately avoiding the villain and his Mooks for no reason. Loretta eventually decides this is ridiculous and rewrites the scene.
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The Lost City / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
The Lost City / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: There's a reason Brad Pitt isn't billed with the other two stars.
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The Lost City / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
The Lost City / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: While it's hard to tell which one is it, the film ends up with Loretta either rewriting the ending of her latest book or publishing a completely new one.
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The Lost City / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Lost City / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Alan met Trainer on a relaxation retreat where he learned various breathing exercises, which he uses at least twice to help Loretta calm herself when she's frightened.
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The Lost City / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Loretta has a publicly known love of cheese. Abigail doesn't know which type she specifically likes so he presents her with tables piled with every luxury cheese available. As it turns out, what she loves is supermarket string cheese and appreciates the one Alan brings her.
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The Lost City / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Lost City / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Rafi might be a hired muscle, but he shows great care about both his home island and is uneasy about all the abuse Fairfax put Loretta and Alan through. Ultimately he just bails on his boss, leaving him stranded, while also leaving behind a crowbar for Alan and Loretta, allowing them to escape, too.
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The Lost City / int_bafbff8f	type	Tom the Dark Lord
The Lost City / int_bafbff8f	comment	Tom the Dark Lord: The sociopathic villain's name is Abigail, and The Dragon, a bald, mustached brute, is named Julian. In both cases, this gets lampshaded.
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The Lost City / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
The Lost City / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Alan likes Loretta but he is also amazed to see Jack Trainer.
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The Lost City / int_bd922dda	type	Gentleman Adventurer
The Lost City / int_bd922dda	comment	Gentleman Adventurer: Abigail Fairfax is the son of a media mogul and is obsessed with lost civilizations' treasures and monuments (albeit for entirely selfish reasons). He also made an attempt to raise the Titanic in the past. His efforts have never been successful, and it's implied people see him as a joke.
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The Lost City / int_c019a4c7	type	Empty Bedroom Grieving
The Lost City / int_c019a4c7	comment	Empty Bedroom Grieving: A variant, with Loretta keeping her late husband's office closed, the way he left it when he died.
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The Lost City / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Lost City / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Jack Trainer is suddenly shot in the head by Julian. The Stinger shows he somehow survived.
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The Lost City / int_c36cba70	comment	Jack Trainer has proven his absolute badass skills by defeating multiple mooks with Alan trailing behind unhelpfully and then safely rescuing Loretta. They'll surely escape now, right? Cue Boom, Headshot!.
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The Lost City / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: At the first stop of Loretta's book tour, she's bored by all the middle-aged housewives that just want to ogle Alan, so she picks a young woman in thick glasses who looks like she might actually have an intelligent question... but it turns out she's just as thirsty as the others. Jack Trainer has proven his absolute badass skills by defeating multiple mooks with Alan trailing behind unhelpfully and then safely rescuing Loretta. They'll surely escape now, right? Cue Boom, Headshot!. Alan and Loretta escape Fairfax's men and make their way to a town, where they contact the police only for the police to contact Fairfax, who shows up and takes Loretta hostage a second time.
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The Lost City / int_c3c77510	comment	There Is Only One Bed: Well, only one hammock, but otherwise played straight.
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The Lost City / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Loretta has only a superficial understanding of Alan's character, believing him to be a self-centered egotistical Brainless Beauty, nothing more than a body model, and fears that he will overshadow her, despite being the writer of the series he "stars" in. However, even during the Q&A it is apparent that he actually really respects Loretta; when a fan asks for his opinion on a scene in the book, he says they should really be interested in her opinion, and when the fans insist that she rip his shirt off, he tells her that she doesn't have to do it if she doesn't want to.
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The Lost City / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Lost City / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Seeing Alan's butt wouldn't normally fall under this, but when it's covered with leeches...
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The Lost City / int_d0883f7e	type	Broken Heel
The Lost City / int_d0883f7e	comment	Broken Heel: By the time Loretta comes down the cliff where their car has fallen, one shoe has lost its stiletto, so she breaks the other off.
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The Lost City / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
The Lost City / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: The film has been described as a throwback to '80s adventure movies, with Romancing the Stone being the most often cited due to its near-identical premise.
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The Lost City / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Lost City / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: When Loretta dismisses her novels as schlock, Alan calls her out for being so dismissive of something that's brought pleasure to many people.
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The Lost City / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Lost City / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The volcano erupts pretty much the moment they find the crown.
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The Lost City / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Lost City / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Trainer puts the charm on Loretta as he rescues her. Unfortunately, it doesn't last as he gets shot mid-sentence.
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The Lost City / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Lost City / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Double subverted. Alan seems to be superseded by the super competent Trainer... until Trainer gets shot, leaving Loretta and Alan to their romantic hijinks. The Stinger shows that Trainer survived, though...
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The Lost City / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
The Lost City / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: Eventually the flashy, sequined jumpsuit Loretta is wearing becomes a bait to lure bunch of mooks into a trap.
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The Lost City / int_e502e268	type	Family Theme Naming
The Lost City / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: All three of the Fairfax brothers have first names that are more commonly given to women. But while Leslie and Beverly used to be mostly masculine before picking up popularity as female names, Abigail has always been a exclusively a female given name, regardless of Abigail Fairfax's protestations to the contrary.
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The Lost City / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
The Lost City / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: The Stinger reveals Jack Trainer somehow survived his apparent death by headshot, despite having averted Pretty Little Headshots when it happened. His only explanation is "We only use 10% of our brain. I just moved onto another 10%."
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The Lost City / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
The Lost City / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: Isla Hundida is said to be located in the middle of the North Atlantic, despite being shown to have a tropical climate and be covered with jungles, and that the island is only accessible by puddle jumper from Guyana, all of which would place it nearer to the equator.
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The Lost City / int_ea38ddd5	type	Sissy Villain
The Lost City / int_ea38ddd5	comment	Sissy Villain: Abigail Fairfax, right from his name. Surrounded by luxuries, fashionable, well-groomed and having an army of mooks to do work for him. And due to that, also a complete wuss when he has to act on his own.
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The Lost City / int_edf841f6	comment	Worthless Treasure Twist: All this work to find the lost "crown of fire" buried with an ancient queen, expected to be a headdress covered in crimson gems. When they find the tomb, what they find is a headdress of seashells that the queen's husband made while courting her, which were originally bright red, hence the "crown of fire." Not only are there no jewels, but even the shells have rotted away and/or lost their red color, so there's not much left of the headdress by the time they find it. The "treasure" was purely sentimental and nothing of value.
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The Lost City / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Jack is suddenly shot in the head while heâ€™s in middle of untying Loretta. Subverted later on in the mid credit stinger as Jack revealed to be alive and well. Julian, Fairfax's main henchman, ends up suddenly slipping and falling to his death, with no input needed by the protagonists.
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The Lost City / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
The Lost City / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Alan appears to be this at first, but once they get to the jungle he shows he's not as useless as he appears.
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The Lost City / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Abigail Fairfax, obviously.
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The Lost City / int_f3b51eba	comment	High Heel Hurt: Loretta is being kidnapped while wearing a pair of stilettos. Alan brings a pair of "jungle boots" with him, foreseeing that her legs and feet will be in pain and when Loretta points out those still have high heels, he mentions that it's actually the best he could scramble from Allison's closet before leaving.
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The Lost City / int_f66dfb4b	type	His Name Really Is "Barkeep"
The Lost City / int_f66dfb4b	comment	His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Jack Trainer, who was Alan's meditation trainer.
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The Lost City / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Fairfax cannot imagine that the ancient queen would value a love gift of a crown of shells over a crown of rubies or gold.
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The Lost City / int_f97df10b	type	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed)
The Lost City / int_f97df10b	comment	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): Jack Trainer, rescue expert who pulls off a spectacular extraction from Fairfax's compound, ends up getting suddenly shot in the head by Fairfax's goons before he can escape with Loretta and Alan, leaving them on their own. The Stinger reveals he ultimately somehow survived this.
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The Lost City / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: People commenting on Loretta's tacky outfit from the book tour that she's stuck with for half the movie. Jack Trainer being backed by theme songs from prestige dramas.
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The Lost City / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
The Lost City / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Daniel Radcliffe definitely knows how to chew through the scenery.
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The Lost City / int_ff5a74c8	comment	Talking Is a Free Action: When Jack, Alan, and Loretta pause next to Jack's rented car after escaping Fairfax's camp, Jack gently tells Loretta that she's safe now (something Alan said he wanted to do). This pause gets Jack shot in the head.
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