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Dangerous Liaisons
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Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a seminal Epistolary Novel written by French author Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in 1782.The story follows wealthy aristocrats engaged in a malicious bet involving sexual conquests, revenge, manipulation, seduction, and love in the sophisticated, and decadent atmosphere of 18th century pre-Revolutionary French high society.It was adapted as an English language stage play by Christopher Hampton in 1985 with its French title. The most well known adaptation (which is also based on the 1985 play) is without much doubt the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Swoosie Kurtz and Keanu Reeves. Another film adaptation, Valmont, starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, and Meg Tilly, came out not long after.It was updated in 1999 to a modern high school as Cruel Intentions. In 2003, another modern-dress (actually late 1950s/early 1960s) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Catherine Deneuve, Leelee Sobieski, Nastassja Kinski and Rupert Everett. In the same year, a Korean movie adaptation, Untold Scandal, transferred the plot, remarkably faithfully, to 18th century Korea. In 2018, a South Korean modern-day adaptation called Tempted also aired, starring Joy (from one of the country's biggest musical acts, Red Velvet) and Woo Do-hwan.In 2022, a Prequel Series with the same title, Dangerous Liaisons started airing on -Starz, but was cancelled by the network after only one season. | |
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Byronic Hero | |
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Byronic Hero: Tourvel and Volanges certainly consider Valmont to be this. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: After succeeding in sleeping with Madame de Tourvel, Valmont says that his infatuation with her is temporarily "beyond his control." This is the same phrase Merteuil uses when telling her I Have This Friend story, which ultimately leads to his dumping Tourvel and his doom. | |
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Hollywood Tone-Deaf | |
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Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Cecile makes some particularly painful attempts to hit the right notes during her music lesson with Danceny. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Merteuil. At one point in the play when she's comforting Cecile and has her arms around her, the stage direction describes her as looking "bored and impatient". | |
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness | |
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Merteuil fakes this extremely well, pretty much out of necessity. (Keeping up a not just good but absolutely unassailable reputation is the only way to ensure that anyone spreading rumors about what she's really up to won't be believed.) Everyone believes Tourvel is an example of this. Valmont's mission throughout the story is to see that this is ultimately averted, and he succeeds. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Merteuil in the end. Valmont ensures from beyond the grave that her reputation is utterly wrecked, causing her to have to leave Paris in disgrace, and in the book she also contracts smallpox, destroying her beauty. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: Cecile. So very much. Valmont deconstructs the trope in his first mention of her, implying that her deliberately sheltered education will lead to something closer to the Catholic School Girls Rule; see the quote under Corrupt the Cutie above. | |
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Costume Porn | |
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Costume Porn/Gorgeous Period Dress: Unsurprisingly, the film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. | |
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Epistolary Novel | |
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Epistolary Novel: Though the film has the characters meeting and discussing things they write in the book, it still retains a lot of letter writing. Often with original substitutes for a desk. | |
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Woman Scorned | |
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Woman Scorned: Merteuil is clearly in love with Valmont, and turns against him when she realises that the love is unrequited. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Valmont but especially Merteuil, the Trope Codifier for Manipulative Bitch. A proto-feminist letter argues that there was no other way for a woman to get ahead and live the life she wanted in the 18th century. In Cruel Intentions, Kathryn argues that she cannot enjoy sex and be considered 'nice' and that this double standard drives her manipulations. However, this argument is much weaker in Cruel Intentions. | |
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"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization | |
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"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Used by Merteuil on Cecile with extreme cruelty when the despairing girl writes to her for help. Earlier, the marquise writes to Valmont claiming that women welcome sexual violence, as it gives them an excuse in a world where they can't freely succumb to desire. | |
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Taking the Veil | |
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Taking the Veil: Cecile starts the story freshly emerged from the convent where her parents placed her to shelter her from the world, and ends it broken by tragedy and retiring to become a nun. Incidentally, challenged to seduce the virtuous convent girl, Valmont is uninterested and withering about the whole idea of a convent upbringing as a way to ensure virtue, dismissing the challenge as “too easy” (in the film’s words); she will be all too easily flattered and will likely succumb out of naive curiosity. He only agrees as a means to another end. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Valmont and de Tourvel are dead, Cecile's so broken by all the manipulation she decides to become a nun, and Merteuil is (in the film and book) publicly disgraced and (also in the book) facially disfigured from smallpox. She's gotten so engaging, if not actually likeable, that it can be hard to witness her downfall. In the play, she gets off practically scot-free but is emotionally broken by the idea that Valmont loved someone other than her, and of course — as the threatening shadow of the guillotine on the wall at the very end reminds us — the French Revolution is on the way... | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: The argument between Valmont and Merteuil near the climax of the film. | |
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Convenient Miscarriage | |
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Convenient Miscarriage: Cecile, of a child conceived by Valmont. | |
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Snow Means Death | |
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Snow Means Death: Valmont dies against the snow in a bloody duel. | |
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Death Wail | |
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Death Wail: Merteuil, in the film, when she learns Valmont has been killed in a duel. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: Despite hating Danceny, Valmont's aunt is willing to work with him to make sure that the scandal is quietly buried. | |
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Not Himself | |
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Not Himself: Both Valmont and Merteuil are shocked by his genuine emotional connection to Tourvel. | |
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All Women Are Prudes | |
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All Women Are Prudes: Zig-zagged- it's implied that all the "virtuous" women are at best indifferent, but Tourvel is something of a grey area. | |
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Nature Adores a Virgin | |
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Nature Adores a Virgin: Played straight with Madame de Tourvel, inverted with Cecile. | |
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Manly Tears | |
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Manly Tears: Our first glimpse of Danceny in the film is after a beautiful performance at the opera sends these streaming down his face. He will later have more when he believes Cecile's mother may separate the two. | |
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Signature Line | |
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Signature Line: This line from the novel was almost included as an ending caption in the film. According to screenwriter Christopher Hampton, Glenn Close (Merteuil) successfully convinced him that she could act it out instead. | |
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Direct Line to the Author | |
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Direct Line to the Author: Laclos uses the framing device that he discovered the journals and is publishing them, and comments on how Moral Guardians likely object but he is publishing them for a moral purpose (namely that people like Valmont and Merteuil are bad and others should avoid being taken in by someone like them) | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: The name Cécile comes from the latin caecus, which means blind - specifically, blinded by inexperience, oversheltering and manipulation. | |
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Suicide by Cop | |
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Suicide by Cop: Of a sort. Valmont could easily have won his duel with Danceny, but instead throws himself on Dancey's sword. | |
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More Experienced Chases the Innocent | |
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More Experienced Chases the Innocent: The Casanova Valmont tries to seduce Church Lady Tourvel as part of The Bet. | |
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Duel to the Death | |
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Duel to the Death: Between Valmont and Danceny, which Valmont loses. | |
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Duel of Seduction | |
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Duel of Seduction: A sexually charged conversation between Valmont and Merteuil has the viewer waiting desperately for one of them to jump the other. | |
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High-Class Call Girl | |
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High-Class Call Girl: Emilie the courtesan. Valmont describes her as, essentially, a Hooker with a Heart of Gold. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Cecile's mother has one planned for her. | |
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Sleeping Their Way to the Top | |
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Sleeping Their Way to the Top: Valmont reminiscences about the time he had an affair with a well-connected noblewoman in exchange for her pulling strings to advance his career. He despised her (he mentions that he was tempted to tell her "Madam, I'll forget about the position I'm seeking if you'll let me leave the one I now occupy") and took immense pleasure in trashing her reputation the minute she was no longer useful to him. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: Catherine/de Merteuil is very much type C. She invested a great deal of hard work to become so. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Both Valmont and Merteuil are unmistakably villainous. | |
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Lipstick-and-Load Montage | |
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Lipstick-and-Load Montage: The opening credits to the film has a montage featuring both the main male and female characters. It looks like they are dressing for battle, and they were. | |
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Virginity Makes You Stupid | |
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Virginity Makes You Stupid: Cecile. Justified In-Universe as she spent most of her life in a convent. Valmont is withering about how badly that prepares a young girl for worldly seducers like himself. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: When Merteuil learns of Valmont's death. | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
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Ladykiller in Love: Valmont, though he is so jaded he doesn't notice he is in love until it's pointed out to him. | |
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White Shirt of Death | |
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White Shirt of Death: Valmont dies against the snow in a bloodied white shirt. | |
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No Pregger Sex | |
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No Pregger Sex: Averted. Neither Valmont nor Cecile knew she was pregnant until she miscarried right after having sex with Valmont. | |
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The Masochism Tango | |
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The Masochism Tango: Valmont and Merteuil take this to its logical extreme with Valmont's death as a direct result of Merteuil's manipulation of Danceny, shortly followed by Merteuil's humiliation by Valmont's manipulation of Danceny. | |
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Private Tutor | |
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Private Tutor: Danceny teaches music to Cecile. | |
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Setting Update | |
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Setting Update: Besides Cruel Intentions, one miniseries sets the story in 1960s France. A Chinese adaptation released in 2012 sets the story in 1930s Shanghai. The South Korean film Untold Scandal transplants the story from 18th Century France to 18th Century Korea, while the Korean drama Tempted sets it in modern-day Seoul. | |
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The Queen's Latin | |
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The Queen's Latin: Toyed with. All the aristocracy speak with American accents. But all the lower class speak with British accents. | |
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Death by Despair | |
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Death by Despair: Tourvel, already wretched from Valmont's rejection, goes into a downward spiral when she hears of his death. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
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My Beloved Smother: Madame de Volanges, to Cecile. | |
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The Bet | |
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The Bet: The linchpin of the plot. Valmont and Merteuil hatch a bet that he will be able to seduce Tourvel; if he wins (with written proof) Merteuil will spend the night with him. | |
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Corrupt the Cutie | |
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Corrupt the Cutie: Merteuil explicitly asks Valmont to do this to Cecile in an effort to humiliate the girl's arranged husband, who is one of Merteuil's ex-lovers. Valmont initially rejects the request because it would be too easy for him. | |
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Double Standard | |
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Double Standard: The novel makes much of the inherent unfairness in the way women's and men's reputations are affected by sexual rumors. | |
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Ambiguously Bi | |
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Ambiguously Bi: Cecile and Merteuil have shades of this, thanks to undertones put by the author in some Letters such as the 20th and 63rd. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: The main characters are: The Vicomte de Valmont. The Marquise de Merteuil. | |
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The Pornomancer | |
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The Pornomancer: Averted; the characters spend quite a lot of time planning and implementing a seduction. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: Valmont climbing into Cecile's bedchambers, sexually assaulting her and then blackmailing her into sex. | |
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My Eyes Are Up Here | |
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My Eyes Are Up Here: In one of the first scenes of the movie, when Valmont meets Cecile. Whenever he isn't talking, he's very openly staring at Cecile's chest. Needless to say, it makes her mother uncomfortable. | |
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Church Lady | |
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Church Lady: Madame de Tourvel soberly moves through every step of Sunday services and relies on Christian texts for comfort. Her "strict morals, religious fervor, and the happiness of her marriage" are why Valmont finds the idea of seducing her so intriguing. | |
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Idle Rich | |
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Idle Rich: Virtually all of the cast. Valmont is astonished at the seemingly paltry quantity of money he pays to save a poor family from ruin (to look good in Tourvel's eyes, naturally) and that such families are not uncommon. | |
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Pimped-Out Dress | |
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Pimped-Out Dress: In the film, the standard attire for a female character includes an Impossibly-Low Neckline and an impossibly large bustle. | |
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Sidekick | |
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Sidekick: Azolan, Valmont's valet. Those watching the film may retroactively recognize him as 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Valmont is very fond of those, finding pleasure and amusement in his own duplicity, like when he tells Tourvel she "would think less of him if she knew his motives." His best letter was written in bed, on another lover's bare back, and composed in its entirety of sentences alluding to that fact. | |
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Death Equals Redemption | |
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Death Equals Redemption: It's only as he's dying that Valmont does something good. | |
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