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The Night Porter

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The Night Porter	comment	The Night Porter (Italian: Il portiere di notte) is a very controversial 1974 film by Italian director Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.The film is set in Vienna, thirteen years after World War II, a concentration camp survivor meets Aldorfer, a former Nazi SS officer, now the night porter at a Vienna hotel. There, they fall back into their very ambiguous sadomasochistic relationship. Obviously the film deals with Stockholm Syndrome and all about World War II.The Night Porter divided criticism: the movie was both celebrated for dealing with the theme of sexual transgression in such an unusual way and, simultaneously, was of course criticized for using the most controversial context, the Nazi Holocaust narrative. However, it is considered Cavani's best work.
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The Night Porter / int_1892d512	type	Tall, Dark, and Handsome
The Night Porter / int_1892d512	comment	Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Adolph, the resident gigolo embodies this trope.
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The Night Porter / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Night Porter / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Max has serious shades of one. Even though his “romance” with Lucia is portrayed in a somewhat sympathetic light, he is still unrepentant about his past as a Nazi war criminal.
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The Night Porter / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Night Porter / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Max retains a cold and sarcastic demeanour for most of the time, but he could occasionally let it drop. Also, Lucia rarely shows emotions to anyone but her former lover. And it's creepy anyway.
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The Night Porter / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
The Night Porter / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: It's never stated if Lucia was Jewish or not, she's only referred to as the daughter of a "socialist", and when she remembered being asked about her religion the flashback interrupts. Word Of God says this was intentional, and that Lucia was meant to reflect the experience of female partisans and dissidents during the war. (see: Women of the Resistance)
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The Night Porter / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Night Porter / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Well, what a Nazi would consider dignity, anyway. Eventually it becomes clear that there is no escape for Max and Lucia, so Max decides to take her and leave. Knowing full well that they will be chased down and killed by his Nazi buddies, Max puts on his old SS uniform, before they leave for their last fatal ride.
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The Night Porter / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
The Night Porter / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: Former Nazi officer Klaus wears one.
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The Night Porter / int_4217402f	type	Power Dynamics Kink
The Night Porter / int_4217402f	comment	Power Dynamics Kink: The extreme version of this, namely a sadomasochistic relationship between an SS officer and a concentration camp prisoner.
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The Night Porter / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Night Porter / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Lucia has a nightmarish one when she embraces again her former captor and lover.
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The Night Porter / int_4c6e3b05	type	Uncanny Valley Makeup
The Night Porter / int_4c6e3b05	comment	Uncanny Valley Makeup: The Countess and the opera dancer wear a founder much lighter than their own skin, which make them creepy-looking.
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The Night Porter / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Night Porter / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Max and Lucia couldn't escape from Max's former fellow Nazis and are shot dead by them.
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The Night Porter / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
The Night Porter / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Lucia is constantly holding a cigarette in her hand.
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The Night Porter / int_5d25f366	type	You Can Leave Your Hat On
The Night Porter / int_5d25f366	comment	You Can Leave Your Hat On: Lucia's scene where she sings wearing gloves, suspenders on her bare chest and a Nazi cap.
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The Night Porter / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Night Porter / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Mario, the Italian chef is murdered by Max because he knows that Lucia is still alive and a potential witness for Max's past exploits.
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The Night Porter / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Night Porter / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Lucia in Latin means "bright". Genius Bonus: Max tells that he prefers the nightlife because the light makes him feel uncomfortable and ashamed.
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The Night Porter / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
The Night Porter / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Lucia's pieces of SS uniform◊ with tall gloves and only suspenders on top.
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The Night Porter / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
The Night Porter / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Bert, the opera dancer who used to perform for the Nazis.
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The Night Porter / int_74c69a97	type	Nazi Protagonist
The Night Porter / int_74c69a97	comment	Nazi Protagonist: Max is an unrepentant one, no less. For a time, anyway.
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The Night Porter / int_812a2820	type	Pink Means Feminine
The Night Porter / int_812a2820	comment	Pink Means Feminine: Lucia wears a pink childish dress the first time she met Max and was a teenager.
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The Night Porter / int_9d137658	type	The Chanteuse
The Night Porter / int_9d137658	comment	The Chanteuse: Lucia's most famous scene has her singing for the SS officers Marlene Dietrich's Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte wearing only a SS visor cap, trousers with suspenders, and gloves. Yes, she was wearing ''only'' this.
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The Night Porter / int_9e1b9a0e	type	Camera Fiend
The Night Porter / int_9e1b9a0e	comment	Camera Fiend: Max even pretended to be a doctor for taking pictures of the inmates
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The Night Porter / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
The Night Porter / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: Max and his fellow Nazis kill anyone who can testify against them, and this is what drives the plot.
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The Night Porter / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
The Night Porter / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: The gloomy atmosphere of post-World War II Vienna matches perfectly the ambiguous lives of hiding former Nazis.
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The Night Porter / int_a9b55780	type	Bigot with a Crush
The Night Porter / int_a9b55780	comment	Bigot with a Crush: The film was controversial in its day because of its subject matter: a Nazi SS officer and a concentration camp inmate become lovers during the war, and when they run into each other again years later, rekindle their old BDSM relationship.
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The Night Porter / int_a9d70c96	type	Icy Blue Eyes
The Night Porter / int_a9d70c96	comment	Icy Blue Eyes: Lucia has a pair of these, which shows little emotions and are prone to Dull Surprise.
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The Night Porter / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
The Night Porter / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: Aside from the obvious morbid relationship of the protagonists, the plot revolves around the former Nazi officers trying to find and neutralise every possible witness of their past exploits.
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The Night Porter / int_b3d1b7e3	type	Genius Bonus
The Night Porter / int_b3d1b7e3	comment	Genius Bonus: Max tells that he prefers the nightlife because the light makes him feel uncomfortable and ashamed.
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The Night Porter / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
The Night Porter / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Nobody noticed the surprise gaze that Max and Lucia share when they meet again, and only for the viewer could notice her surprise.
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The Night Porter / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Night Porter / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Naked and starving inmates. Two inmates having sex. Even the protagonist's sex scenes are a disservice when not merely creepy.
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The Night Porter / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Night Porter / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Max "rewards" Lucia with the head of a male inmate who molested the other inmates is one to Salomé. Max even refers to it while telling the story to the Countess. There are few to The Damned (1969) by Luchino Visconti, such as the theme of sexual transgression in Nazi Germany, the atmosphere of decadence, and also the choice of the two main actors who were main characters in The Damned.
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The Night Porter / int_d0c13631	type	Mrs. Robinson
The Night Porter / int_d0c13631	comment	Mrs. Robinson: Countess Stein resorts to her trusted friend Max to find young and dashing men for her bed.
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The Night Porter / int_d67e900a	type	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
The Night Porter / int_d67e900a	comment	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: After his past glory during Nazi Germany, Max and his fellow Nazis have all mundane jobs and lives to cover their past.
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The Night Porter / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
The Night Porter / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems: Played with. Interestingly enough, after he resumes his relationship with Lucia, Max seems to start regretting being a Nazi—and tries to softly challenge his fellow former Nazis on what they did. This results in one of them proudly declaring that he's proud of his service to the Reich, and would do it again. Max salutes with the rest of them, but this scene begins the rift which leads to the rest of the plot.
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The Night Porter / int_ddb8ba26	type	Shot at Dawn
The Night Porter / int_ddb8ba26	comment	Shot at Dawn: Max and Lucia at the end, while they are walking down the bridge.
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The Night Porter / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
The Night Porter / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: Lucia smokes a lot, and even more when she tries to figuring out what to do with Max again in her life.
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The Night Porter / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Night Porter / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: This trope has never been so disturbing.
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The Night Porter / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
The Night Porter / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: Stumm the valet, combined with Servile Snarker.
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The Night Porter / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
The Night Porter / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: But of course, given that World War II ended only 13 years ago.
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