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Geri's Game
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Geri's Game is a 1997 short animated film from Pixar, written and directed by Jan Pinkava.An old man, Geri, settles himself down at a table in a park and sets up a game of chess. He makes a move as white, takes off his coke-bottle glasses, moves laboriously to the opposite side of the table, and makes a move as black. Then he laboriously shuffles back to his original seat, puts his glasses back on, and makes a move as white. Repeat.The Geri playing the black pieces, "Black" Geri, is mean-spirited and aggressive. Eventually he manifests as a second, separate person, and a much better chess player, ruthlessly wiping out all of "White" Geri's pieces. But "White" Geri has a trick up his sleeve.The short was Pixar's sixth and first since 1989's Knick Knack, as well as their first after becoming a full-time animation studio. Most notably, it was their first to have a human as a main character, largely as a means of improving on their earlier efforts in both Tin Toy and the first Toy Story film.The character of Geri had a cameo two years later in Toy Story 2 (voiced by Jonathan Harris) as the cleaner who fixes up Woody. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Well, the ability to divide yourself into two is pretty cool. | |
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Holding Both Sides of the Conversation | |
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Holding Both Sides of the Conversation: Maybe? Or are there really two of him? | |
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Scatterbrained Senior | |
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Scatterbrained Senior: "Black" Geri falls hopelessly for the old switcheroo, thinking his pieces were white, not black, with no accounting for how he got into an unwinnable situation. | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: "White" Geri wins the game by faking a heart attack. When "Black" Geri looks under the table for him, "White" Geri pops back up and flips the board around. | |
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Four Eyes, Zero Soul | |
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Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Inverted. "Black" Geri has no glasses, while "White" Geri does. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: There is only one shot where another player can be seen. | |
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Literal Split Personality | |
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Literal Split Personality: The Freeze-Frame Bonus implies that at some point during the game, there actually were 2 Geris. | |
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Smart People Play Chess | |
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Smart People Play Chess: Although ironically the inferior chess player, "White" Geri is revealed to be smarter (or at least more cunning) than his doppelgänger. | |
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Silence Is Golden | |
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Silence Is Golden: Aside from laughter and grunting, no actual dialogue. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: "White" Geri, realizing he can't win, fakes a sudden Hollywood Heart Attack, distracting "Black" Geri, and pulls the old switcheroo. | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
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Minimalist Cast: The only character in the entire short is Geri, playing chess against himself. | |
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Double Consciousness | |
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Double Consciousness: Geri plays out this trope, acting snarky and aggressive on one side of the chessboard and anxiously intimidated on the other. | |
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False Teeth Tomfoolery | |
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False Teeth Tomfoolery: The penalty for losing? "Black" Geri has to give "White" Geri his dentures. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: "Black" Geri is concerned his opponent appears to be having a sudden heart attack, not knowing he's being played by "White" Geri. | |
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Mirror Match | |
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Mirror Match: Geri plays one of these out with himself. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Are there two of him? Does the guy have split personalities? At one point, when "White" Geri fakes a heart attack, "Black" Geri checks his own pulse, as if surprised he's still standing. The one blink-and-miss moment where "Black" Geri's hand appears in the same shot as "White" Geri is especially mind-boggling. | |
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Good Colors, Evil Colors | |
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Good Colors, Evil Colors: Invoked. "Black" Geri is crude and aggressive, while "White" Geri is meek and anxious. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: "Black" Geri rather meanly extends the game in order to take each and every one of "White" Geri's pieces, when he could have forced a checkmate long before. | |
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Crazy People Play Chess | |
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Crazy People Play Chess: Geri, depending on how crazy the audience views him to be. | |
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Creepy Crows | |
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Creepy Crows: Crows in the park begin squawking as soon as "White" Geri loses his first piece. A bad omen signifying it will be the first of many humiliating losses to come. | |
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Artistic License – Chess / int_26e3f824 | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer / int_26e3f824 | |
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Crazy People Play Chess / int_26e3f824 | |
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Double Consciousness / int_26e3f824 | |
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Films of 1995–1999 / int_26e3f824 | |
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Four Eyes, Zero Soul / int_26e3f824 | |
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Hollywood Heart Attack / int_26e3f824 | |
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_26e3f824 | |
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Talking to Themself / int_26e3f824 |
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