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The Red Turtle

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15 referencing feature instances

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The Red Turtle	comment	The Red Turtle (French: La Tortue Rouge, Japanese: レッドタートルある島の物語note Red Turtle: Aru Shima no Monogatari (The Tale of an Island)) is a 2016 Franco-Japanese animated fantasy film co-written and directed by Dutch-British animator Michael Dudok de Wit. The project was produced in collaboration between Prima Linea Productions, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, CN4 Productions, Arte France Cinéma, Belvision Corporation, and Studio Ghibli, the latter of whom had fallen on hard times in the wake of Hayao Miyazaki's retirementnote which turned out to be a 10-Minute Retirement, as he came back to Ghibli not long after this film and the box office failures of The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and When Marnie Was There and got involved with the film as a means of getting back on their feet. The film also features additional animation from A. Film, Dreamwall, and Kecskemétfilm Kft.Devoid of dialogue, the film tells the story of a man who becomes shipwrecked on a deserted island and meets a giant red turtle, whose life intertwines with his own in an unexpected way during his fight for survival.The Red Turtle was the final Ghibli film produced by Isao Takahata before his passing on April 5, 2018.
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The Red Turtle / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
The Red Turtle / int_118a41d5	comment	Daydream Surprise: The father and later his son have visions which first seem like real experiences until weird things start to happen, soon after which the characters wake up.
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The Red Turtle / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
The Red Turtle / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: Nudity was carefully avoided. The woman's bare breast are first covered under the turtle shell, then under water and later by her Godiva Hair.
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The Red Turtle / int_17fe1048	type	Naked on Arrival
The Red Turtle / int_17fe1048	comment	Naked on Arrival: The woman when she appears in the turtle shell.
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The Red Turtle / int_3e458831	type	Water Wake-up
The Red Turtle / int_3e458831	comment	Water Wake-up: The man tries to revive the red turtle with a splash of water, but it's too late. At first.
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The Red Turtle / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Red Turtle / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The father lives and dies on that island, but at least he dies in his sleep, and in the company of the mother no less. This also counts for the mother as well, who mourns for her husband until she changes back into a sea turtle. Content with the life she lead with him, the red sea turtle returns to the ocean.
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The Red Turtle / int_417c78f5	type	Robinsonade
The Red Turtle / int_417c78f5	comment	Robinsonade: The first act of the movie focuses on the man and his survival on and escape attempts from the island he got stranded on.
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The Red Turtle / int_449584c	type	Giant Wall of Watery Doom
The Red Turtle / int_449584c	comment	Giant Wall of Watery Doom: Averted for the actual tsunami wave which seems to be only twice as high as the characters. Played straight later in the boy's vision where he looks down from the top of the huge static wave to see his parents as tiny dots on the ground.
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The Red Turtle / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
The Red Turtle / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Studio Ghibli logo is displayed against a red background, as opposed to the usual cyan.
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The Red Turtle / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Red Turtle / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Several, noticeable by the aging of the son.
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The Red Turtle / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Red Turtle / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Zig-zagged with Despair Event Horizon. As his days being stranded on the island prolong, the man undergoes a grief-driven version of this; experiencing hallucinations as well as laying on the ground to languish as he allows insects and flies to swarm him.
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The Red Turtle / int_630910ba	type	Finger-Twitching Revival
The Red Turtle / int_630910ba	comment	Finger-Twitching Revival: The first sign of the woman being alive in the turtle shell is her hand moving.
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The Red Turtle / int_6c6fe9c	type	Big Sleep
The Red Turtle / int_6c6fe9c	comment	Big Sleep: At the end the father closes his eyes and then passes away peacefully.
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The Red Turtle / int_6cc2137b	type	The Scream
The Red Turtle / int_6cc2137b	comment	The Scream: Having been fooled by a vision of orchestra players on the beach, the man sinks to the ground and the camera angle cuts away to high above him where his scream can be heard.
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The Red Turtle / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Red Turtle / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: At first, the red sea turtle seems beyond saving, no matter how hard the man tries to revive it. But one night, after she assumes the form of a woman, the former sea turtle wakes up.
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The Red Turtle / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
The Red Turtle / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The film opens with the man wrestling for life or death in the middle of a storm. We never learn how he got there in the first place.
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The Red Turtle / int_81a1960f	type	Silence Is Golden
The Red Turtle / int_81a1960f	comment	Silence is Golden: The movie is free of dialogue, which helps in setting its contemplative tone.
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The Red Turtle / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Red Turtle / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: This is the film’s main premise when the titular Red Turtle transforms into a human woman.
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The Red Turtle / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Red Turtle / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: The characters are named The Father, The Mother and The Son.
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The Red Turtle / int_927289f5	type	Cathartic Scream
The Red Turtle / int_927289f5	comment	Cathartic Scream: The man lets a big one out after the red turtle destroyed his raft once again.
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The Red Turtle / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Red Turtle / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: After one of his attempts to leave the island are thwarted by the turtle, The Man visibly upchucks on the beach from swallowing seawater. We see contents spill from his mouth and land in a pile.
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The Red Turtle / int_96251156	type	Deer in the Headlights
The Red Turtle / int_96251156	comment	Deer in the Headlights: The father is stunned watching the tsunami wave rushing on and has to be carried along by the mother.
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The Red Turtle / int_981d0040	type	Message in a Bottle
The Red Turtle / int_981d0040	comment	Message in a Bottle: Averted. The boy finds an empty bottle which seems to motivate him to go out into the world but this trope doesn't come into play.
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The Red Turtle / int_9e67ec50	type	Flashback Cut
The Red Turtle / int_9e67ec50	comment	Flashback Cut: After the woman fed the man some oyster flesh, he has a quick flashback to the moment when he attacked the red turtle with a tree trunk. His facial expression tells us that he feels remorse note implying the woman is really the red sea turtle incarnated as a human being.
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The Red Turtle / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Red Turtle / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The Man is devastated upon realizing he murdered the titular turtle. Even after she resurrects as a human woman, he reflects on the act with shame.
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The Red Turtle / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
The Red Turtle / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: The Man and his wife - the now-human turtle - demonstrate nothing but affection, support, and care for their only son.
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The Red Turtle / int_ace24b2c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
The Red Turtle / int_ace24b2c	comment	Halfway Plot Switch: Zig-Zagged with Genre Shift. The first half of the movie is the Man struggling to survive on and escape the island with each of his attempts being ruined by the Red Turtle. The second half is a fantasy-romance family drama where the Man and now-human Turtle become a couple and birth a son; chronicling their lives on the island.
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The Red Turtle / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
The Red Turtle / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: The film ends with the red turtle leaving the beach and swimming off into the distance.
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The Red Turtle / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
The Red Turtle / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: The crabs provide a comedic element in an otherwise serious film.
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The Red Turtle / int_c067b082	type	Black Bead Eyes
The Red Turtle / int_c067b082	comment	Black Bead Eyes: The characters have black buttons for eyes.
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The Red Turtle / int_c0d3d3fd	type	Border Patrol
The Red Turtle / int_c0d3d3fd	comment	Border Patrol: For unknown reasons the red turtle does not let the man escape from the island, destroying his rafts again and again.
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The Red Turtle / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
The Red Turtle / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: "She Is Dead" from the soundtrack which plays first plays during the red-turtle-floating vision, then when the man and the woman get romantically involved for the first time and also at the end when the turtle leaves the beach.
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The Red Turtle / int_d46f812	type	Tastes Like Friendship
The Red Turtle / int_d46f812	comment	Tastes Like Friendship: The first action the woman undertakes when joining the man is showing him how to eat oysters.
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The Red Turtle / int_db27d520	type	Amazing Technicolor Wildlife
The Red Turtle / int_db27d520	comment	Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The titular red turtle.
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The Red Turtle / int_e0d0fb13	type	Please Put Some Clothes On
The Red Turtle / int_e0d0fb13	comment	Please Put Some Clothes On: The man leaves his shirt at the shore so the woman would have something to dress after appearing Naked on Arrival.
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The Red Turtle / int_e6ab61d	type	Magic Realism
The Red Turtle / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: The only fantasy element from this movie is the titular red turtle turning into a woman in the middle of the movie. This event is never questioned nor explained.
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The Red Turtle / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
The Red Turtle / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: The Son to his parents; when he reaches adulthood. He wishes them farewell as he joins the other sea turtles in an indefinite journey through the ocean.
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The Red Turtle / int_f4869601	type	Foreboding Fleeing Flock
The Red Turtle / int_f4869601	comment	Foreboding Fleeing Flock: The characters notice that something is wrong when the birds in the sky start to flock and fly off. Soon after the tsunami wave hits the shore.
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