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The Third Man
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1949 British Film Noir set in post-war Vienna, directed by Carol Reed from a story by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, and Orson Welles.Down-on-his-luck American writer Holly Martins (Cotten) arrives in postwar Vienna to meet with an old friend, Harry Lime (Welles), who has offered him a job. Unfortunately, the day Martins arrives, he finds out that Lime is dead.Martins becomes entangled in a web of stories that make his pulp Westerns seem quaint in comparison. Investigating the death of his friend in order to clear his name from the selling of stolen and diluted penicillin he meets Lime's former love interest, a seemingly crooked cop, and a porter who has seen far too much. Martin's quest to clear the name of his friend drags him into dangerous territory and challenges his preconceived notions of good and evil.The story takes many of the tropes commonly associated with Film Noir and plays with them. The film is also famous for its hypnotic music score by zitherist Anton Karas (whose title theme became a huge hit).Led to the Radio Drama series The Lives of Harry Lime. Welles based his film Mr. Arkadin on one of the plots from that radio show.Be warned that, due to the nature of this film, there are some unmarked spoilers below. | |
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Multinational Team | |
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Multinational Team: The International Police patrolling Vienna centre was this by necessity. Each of the British, American, Soviet, and French occupying forces had to be represented, so no MP could roam around without being accompanied by the other three (in the movie, it becomes especially comical when several of those 'squads' are tasked with a simple and straightforward search of Anna's apartment; more than a dozen policemen end up crowding her small abode). And that's not even counting in the native Austrian police. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Harry Lime. He cares only for his own benefit and seems like he considers people nothing but pawns to manipulate. | |
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The Chase | |
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The Chase: The film climaxes with a chase into the sewers of Vienna as Harry goes on the run from the police. | |
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KnightInSourArmour | |
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Knight in Sour Armour: Major Calloway is a dedicated policeman, but is also a very cynical and pessimistic pragmatist who rejects Holly's idealistic heroism. | |
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Insert Cameo | |
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Mistaken for Special Guest | |
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Mistaken for Special Guest: Martins is believed to be a more famous author by the character Crabbin. This is more developed in the novel, in which the rather macho Martins writes under a pseudonym who shares a surname with a famous novelist known for a "feminine" writing style (according to Word of God, the famous novelist was a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of the very gay E. M. Forster). | |
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Take Our Word for It | |
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Take Our Word for It: Used for excellent dramatic effect. Holly is finally convinced that his friend Harry Lime is completely evil and needs to be killed when he sees some of the children who took Lime's phony black market penicillin. We don't see the children, but from Holly's reaction, it isn't pretty, and probably far beyond what could be depicted onscreen at the time anyway. | |
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Big Shadow, Little Creature | |
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Big Shadow, Little Creature: Police on a night stakeout see a threatening shadow cast two stories high. It turns out to be a balloon peddler. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: What's really depressing is that it was shot on location in a bombed-out, post WWII-era Vienna. | |
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Cult Soundtrack | |
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Cult Soundtrack: Probably the Ur-Example. It boasts a memorable score courtesy of Anton Karas' famous zither music, which sold millions and was even reused as the BGM of the radio series. | |
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Walking Spoiler | |
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Walking Spoiler: Harry Lime, seeing as throughout most of the movie, he's thought to be dead. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor / Spinoff: Welles later adapted three scripts he wrote for The Adventures of Harry Lime into the movie Mr. Arkadin. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Sprechen Sie Deutsch? | |
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Emerging from the Shadows | |
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Emerging from the Shadows: Lime. Given the masterful use of shadows as one of his leitmotifs in the film, it may also serve as an accidental actor allusion. Later on we get Calloway, Paine, and another soldier emerging from the shadows as they wait for Lime. | |
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Embarrassing Slide | |
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Embarrassing Slide: Captain Calloway is about to show the protagonist a slide about incriminating evidence that Harry Lime willingly caused the deaths of countless penicillin recipients by watering it down. Instead... he accidentally shows an educational slide of an elephant intended for the Anglo-Austrian re-education programme. | |
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Implied Death Threat | |
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Implied Death Threat: Harry Lime casually opens the door of the ferris wheel while discussing the fiscal worth of human life. Watching him carefully, Holly Martins gets a good grip on the doorframe. | |
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Black Market | |
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Black Market: The story deals with the black market in post-World War II Vienna. | |
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Stop, or I Will Shoot! | |
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Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy: Harry Lime to Holly Martins. | |
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Wolverine Publicity | |
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Wolverine Publicity: Orson Welles. Justified considering the place and the year. Or arguably Earn Your Happy Ending because of the place and year. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Alida Valli (playing Anna) obviously believed that it it would be appropriate to use several English accents in her role as an east-European escapee of Communism; one time it's Russian, another time it's perfect British English, then it's German English, then one time it's American English, then Dutch English. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Very much on the cynical side. | |
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BreakingSpeech | |
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Breaking Speech: Lime gives a tremendously powerful one on the Ferris Wheel. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Wounded and thus unable to make it outside the sewers, Harry nods at Holly to finish him off. One thunderous gunshot later, and Lime is done for. | |
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City of Spies | |
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City of Spies: Post-war Vienna is a hotbed of intrigue (and zither music). | |
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The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People | |
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The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Harry Lime's cynical "cuckoo-clock" speech invokes this trope as a kind of defense and excuse for his actions. Not only saying that what he does is okay, but that it would possibly benefit civilization. Though given how his actions only benefit Lime himself, it's clear that the "cuckoo-clock" speech was only an attempt to manipulate Holly. | |
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Blithe Spirit | |
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Blithe Spirit: Subverted with Holly Martins. He's a brash American who comes to Vienna and thinks he's going to prove everyone wrong about his dead friend Harry Lime, only to end up in over his head and screwing everything up. | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist: Holly Martins. At first. | |
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Beleaguered Childhood Friend | |
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Beleaguered Childhood Friend: The whole plot is essentially built around this relationship between Holly and Lime — except that Lime is believed to be already dead. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Lime constantly uses people (notably Anna and Martins) and will throw them away without a thought when they're no longer useful to him. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: And how! | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: More accurately, "doesn't care if they die horribly in a hospital ward", but that's splitting hairs. | |
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SceneryPorn | |
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Scenery Porn/Scenery Gorn: The production put a genuine and bombed-out Vienna to good use. About the only scenes other than interior shots not filmed actually on location were some set in the Vienna sewers; even much of that sequence was actually filmed in those sewers (the Wienkanal storm-runoff system, to be precise), with the sewer cops being genuine off-duty Vienna sewer patrol officers. (Some shots were recreations due to Orson Welles being two weeks late for shooting — thereby missing the bulk of the chase sequence filming — and his unwillingness to go down into the sewers himself.) Even today, Vienna is not above exploiting the fame of the film to attract tourists. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: We don't get to see the corpses of the porter or Harbin, or any of Harry Lime's victims in the children's hospital. Somehow, the shot of the stuffed animals and tiny bookshelf crammed in next to one of dozens of identical hospital beds — the only glimmer of the dying child's individuality, of their true being, especially when one's possessions are put away permanently — is worse. Harry Lime's death occurs entirely offscreen. Both of them. | |
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Most Writers Are Writers | |
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Most Writers Are Writers: Martins is an American pulp Western writer. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: The iconic shot of Harry grinning from the darkness. The final shot of Anna walking by Holly, completely ignoring him. | |
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Vehicle Vanish | |
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Vehicle Vanish: Before Holly can get Harry, a car speeds past him and Harry escapes into the night. | |
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Bullet Holes and Revelations | |
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Bullet Holes and Revelations: Holly and Harry have a stand-off on the stairs up to a manhole tunnel at each other, then it cuts to Captain Calloway hearing the gun go off and Holly comes walking down the sewer tunnel. | |
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Book Dumb | |
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Book Dumb: Not knowing who or what James Joyce was, and not being informed of what literary components he uses in his cheap novelettes, Martins is literally book dumb. It's implied that Holly is just not a good public speaker, and the Joyce questions comes about right around when Popescu shows up, distracting Holly from answering it. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book-Ends: The movie starts and ends with a funeral. Both funerals are for the same character, Harry Lime. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Harry Lime. It helps that he's played by Orson Welles, but he's significantly less sympathetic than Charles Foster Kane. | |
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Virtue Is Weakness | |
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Virtue Is Weakness: Implicit throughout Lime's speeches to Martins, especially on the Ferris wheel. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: The famous cuckoo-clock speech is this: For starters, the Borgia did not rule Italy for thirty years. They only ever ruled Rome and The Papal States, and, even then, Pope Alexander VI only had a term for 9 years; with his death, the Borgia were finished as a political entity in European politics. The Renaissance had begun and been ongoing for a hundred years at that point, and it was centered in Florence under the Medici which was a republic (albeit corrupt and oligarchical); that's where Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and others all came fromnote The speech might have been better served if Lime substituted the Medici for the Borgia and made 30 years 160 years. The Renaissance only spread to Rome after the Borgia were toppled, and, while Leonardo did fraternize with Cesare Borgia, his best works note The Last Supper, the Mona Lisa were commissions that preceded and succeeded that association. Switzerland wasn't quite a cultural wasteland drudged by peace. It was the birth place and residence of mathematics geniuses like Leonard Euler and the Bernouli family as well as thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Constant, Germaine de Staël, and Carl Jung. Moreover, for hundreds of years, the Swiss were not only at war with one another, but their main export was The Swiss Guard, some of the finest mercenaries Europe had ever seen, who still serve as the Pope's personal bodyguards to this day. And, of course, the cuckoo-clock was invented in the Black Forest. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
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Adaptation Distillation: The final film discards the happier ending initially written by screenwriter Graham Greene and appearing in Greene's novella of the story. Greene later said he preferred the film's ending. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: At one point in the Vienna sewer chase, a painted "O5" can be seen briefly on a wall. This was the sign of an anti-Nazi resistance group in Austria during World War II. Most likely, that was not put there by the filmmakers. The front of Lime's apartment building has a graffito of the circle + three slashes symbol used by the Iron Front, a 1930s paramilitary arm of the German Social Democratic Party aligned against monarchists, Stalinists, and the Nazis. | |
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It Is Pronounced | |
The Third Man / int_63f136ec | comment |
It Is Pronounced TroPAY: Dr. Winkelnote German pronunciation, making it a “V”, not a “W”, not Winkle. | |
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The Third Man / int_658f7193 | type |
Lack of Empathy | |
The Third Man / int_658f7193 | comment |
Lack of Empathy: Harry doesn't show any remorse for the victims of his fake penicillin. | |
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The Third Man / int_65acf9db | type |
He Knows Too Much | |
The Third Man / int_65acf9db | comment |
He Knows Too Much: Averted. After Harry makes an Implied Death Threat during his motive speech in the ferris wheel, Holly tells him that the authorities already know that he's Not Quite Dead, so killing Holly wouldn't change anything. | |
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The Third Man / int_7286e96d | type |
Idiot Ball | |
The Third Man / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: Holly Martins never met an idiot ball he didn't like. Unfortunately, he's usually not the one who pays for it. | |
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The Third Man / int_7315fd38 | type |
Covers Always Lie | |
The Third Man / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie | |
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The Third Man / int_7aba8180 | type |
Job Title | |
The Third Man / int_7aba8180 | comment |
Job Title | |
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The Third Man / int_7e59945b | type |
Ferris Wheel Date Moment | |
The Third Man / int_7e59945b | comment |
Ferris Wheel Date Moment: The film invokes this trope for emotional dissonance. Instead of romantic seclusion, the setting allows an open discussion of crime and murder. | |
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The Third Man / int_7ef70048 | type |
Big Bad Friend | |
The Third Man / int_7ef70048 | comment |
Big Bad Friend: Holly is investigating the murder of his friend Harry. It turns out that Harry is alive and engaged in horrible crimes. He's the villain of the story. | |
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The Third Man / int_805deb6e | type |
Small Role, Big Impact | |
The Third Man / int_805deb6e | comment |
Small Role, Big Impact: Lime is on screen for very little time, but there would be no story without him. | |
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The Third Man / int_84fde8d1 | type |
Big Entrance | |
The Third Man / int_84fde8d1 | comment |
Big Entrance: Harry gets one of the best entrances in film history. | |
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The Third Man / int_84fde8d1 | |
The Third Man / int_8543ec22 | type |
Reality Subtext | |
The Third Man / int_8543ec22 | comment |
Reality Subtext: Post-war Vienna is almost a character itself. Carol Reed stated that the fact it was still being tussled over by the US, Brits and USSR gave it an air of tenseness it normally wouldn't. invoked | |
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The Third Man / int_87e661e8 | type |
Absurdly Spacious Sewer | |
The Third Man / int_87e661e8 | comment |
Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Justified. Vienna's real spacious sewers were used in the film. | |
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The Third Man / int_87e661e8 | |
The Third Man / int_890d4ef2 | type |
Humiliation Conga | |
The Third Man / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: Happens to the hero. Did we mention this is a Film Noir? | |
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The Third Man / int_890d4ef2 | |
The Third Man / int_8ae880f7 | type |
Deconstruction | |
The Third Man / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: Half the point of the movie is to question, dissect, and generally shred American notions of heroism. | |
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The Third Man / int_8ae880f7 | |
The Third Man / int_8b442f50 | type |
Did Not Get the Girl | |
The Third Man / int_8b442f50 | comment |
A double inversion, actually. Producer David O. Selznick, who was known for happy Hollywood-style endings, insisted upon the bleak Did Not Get the Girl finale, even though screenwriter Greene, whose writing style was known for being incredibly depressing, originally intended to have the movie end with Anna embracing Holly after the funeral. | |
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The Third Man / int_8b442f50 | |
The Third Man / int_8b568cb7 | type |
Posthumous Character | |
The Third Man / int_8b568cb7 | comment |
Posthumous Character: Harry Lime is the central figure of the entire story, even though the movie's second scene is his funeral. Of course, he's not really dead... | |
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The Third Man / int_8b568cb7 | |
The Third Man / int_8b9c512e | type |
Down the Drain | |
The Third Man / int_8b9c512e | comment |
Down the Drain: The climactic chase takes place in the Absurdly Spacious Sewer system of Vienna. | |
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The Third Man / int_8b9c512e | |
The Third Man / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
The Third Man / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Harry Lime. | |
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The Third Man / int_993cf18f | type |
Not So Different | |
The Third Man / int_993cf18f | comment |
Not So Different: "If I offered you $20,000 for every one of those dots that stopped moving, would you really tell me to keep my money, or would you start calculating how many dots you could afford to spare?" | |
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The Third Man / int_993cf18f | |
The Third Man / int_9c47b23b | type |
Dirty Communists | |
The Third Man / int_9c47b23b | comment |
Dirty Communists: A light example, but Anna faces deportation from the Russians for being from Czechoslovakia. Lime also mentions he does some work for the Soviets, in return for them turning a blind eye to his activities. | |
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The Third Man / int_9da6354b | type |
Reality Has No Subtitles | |
The Third Man / int_9da6354b | comment |
Reality Has No Subtitles: It is famously used in order to emphasize how totally out of his area the American main character is when he visits Vienna. | |
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The Third Man / int_9da6354b | |
The Third Man / int_9f6fb586 | type |
Leitmotif | |
The Third Man / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: The Harry Lime theme underscores the menace and charisma of Harry's presence in the film. | |
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The Third Man / int_9f6fb586 | |
The Third Man / int_a77e19fc | type |
YouKnowTooMuch | |
The Third Man / int_a77e19fc | comment |
You Know Too Much: After Harry Lime makes an Implied Death Threat during his motive speech in the ferris wheel, Holly Martins tells him that the authorities already know that he's Not Quite Dead, so killing Holly wouldn't change anything. | |
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The Third Man / int_a77e19fc | |
The Third Man / int_abad35b4 | type |
Soundtrack Dissonance | |
The Third Man / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: Anton Karas's bouncing melodies, happy harmonies, and general bright zither playing over the one of the bleakest, most cynical films ever made. | |
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The Third Man / int_abad35b4 | |
The Third Man / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
The Third Man / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: The porter when he gets caught trying to help Martins with his investigation. It's the last time we see him alive. | |
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The Third Man / int_ad1db87c | |
The Third Man / int_ad9fbc1e | type |
Pyrrhic Victory | |
The Third Man / int_ad9fbc1e | comment |
Pyrrhic Victory: Lime dies, Sgt. Paine dies, Martins Did Not Get the Girl, and said girl will most probably be deported back to Czechoslovakia to face Soviet law. Furthermore, the children who suffer from Lime's diluted penicillin will not get saved by Lime getting neutralized either. But hey, at least future patients will be safe from Lime's diluted medicines, and this counts as well! | |
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The Third Man / int_ad9fbc1e | |
The Third Man / int_af616e40 | type |
Accidental Misnaming | |
The Third Man / int_af616e40 | comment |
Accidental Misnaming: Martins keeps addressing Calloway as "Callahan". At several points Anna accidentally addresses Holly as "Harry." | |
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The Third Man / int_af616e40 | |
The Third Man / int_b034d333 | type |
Film Noir | |
The Third Man / int_b034d333 | comment |
Film Noir | |
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The Third Man / int_b1e8a3b3 | type |
Coming of Age Story | |
The Third Man / int_b1e8a3b3 | comment |
Delayed Coming Of Age Story: Holly Martins is something of a Manchild: the books he makes a living writing are Escapist westerns with Black and White Morality. His naive search for justice in the death of his best friend Harry Lime forces him to come to terms with a less-than-ideal world. | |
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The Third Man / int_b1e8a3b3 | |
The Third Man / int_b2af79fb | type |
Leave the Camera Running | |
The Third Man / int_b2af79fb | comment |
Leave the Camera Running: The last minute of the film shows Anna walking down a street towards Holly, but she just walks right past without a glance. | |
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The Third Man / int_b2af79fb | |
The Third Man / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
The Third Man / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Holly Martins, which is part of the point of the movie even though he survives. This is outright Lampshaded by Calloway, who says "[Holly] must have been born to get killed." | |
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The Third Man / int_b58b4e3c | |
The Third Man / int_b5fd8306 | type |
Fatal Attraction | |
The Third Man / int_b5fd8306 | comment |
Fatal Attraction: A rare male example: Holly arrives in Europe to discover that the man he's come to see is dead, and the police were investigating him. He spends the movie convinced that Harry must have been innocent, and was the victim of some underhanded police conspiracy. He learns later that not only is the man still alive, but he's an amoral Manipulative Bastard, responsible for everything the police believed him to be. | |
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The Third Man / int_b5fd8306 | |
The Third Man / int_bba30aeb | type |
Late to the Tragedy | |
The Third Man / int_bba30aeb | comment |
Late to the Tragedy | |
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The Third Man / int_bba30aeb | |
The Third Man / int_bcba27a1 | type |
Putting on the Reich | |
The Third Man / int_bcba27a1 | comment |
Putting on the Reich: Many modern viewers may have noticed that the Vienna policemen's uniforms are original Third Reich police and army uniforms with merely the swastikas removed. It's Truth in Television; the film was made in 1949, and the police and armies had not yet been issued any updated uniforms so early after the war (not even for the filming). These uniforms would remain until well into the 50s. | |
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The Third Man / int_bcba27a1 | |
The Third Man / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
The Third Man / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Both Holly Martins and Major Calloway. Martins is a Classical Anti-Hero; he wants to solve the mystery of his best friend's death and bring justice to the world. However, he's overly idealistic and is a Manchild and a Idiot Hero, though he does grow wiser at the end of the film. Major Calloway, on the other hand, is a Pragmatic Hero; he wants to capture criminals and bring an end to crime. However, he's willing to blackmail innocents, use people as pawns, and kill in cold blood if it's necessary. He's also The Cynic and a Knight in Sour Armour, rejecting all of Holly's notions of heroism. | |
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The Third Man / int_beb9a361 | |
The Third Man / int_bf67c13e | type |
Opening Monologue | |
The Third Man / int_bf67c13e | comment |
Opening Monologue: Done in the original UK release by director Carol Reed, and in the US version by Joseph Cotten. | |
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The Third Man / int_bf67c13e | |
The Third Man / int_c420a553 | type |
We Can Rule Together | |
The Third Man / int_c420a553 | comment |
We Can Rule Together: Lime's basic line to Martins. | |
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The Third Man / int_c420a553 | |
The Third Man / int_c54d550d | type |
Novelization | |
The Third Man / int_c54d550d | comment |
Novelization: An unusual case, as Greene wrote the story as a novel first without any intent to publish it, believing that going straight to the screenplay format would make him lose the soul of his idea. It ended up being published a year after the film's release. | |
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The Third Man / int_c54d550d | |
The Third Man / int_cc7e9502 | type |
Humans Are Insects | |
The Third Man / int_cc7e9502 | comment |
Humans Are Insects: Harry Lime reveals his thoughts on humanity to Holly from atop the Vienna Ferris wheel while looking down upon the park visitors: "Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those... dots... stopped living forever?" Seems Harry's got a touch of Nazi genocide fever. Class A Chaotic Evil — a calculating and intelligent villain with a wistful smile that marks the musings of a psychopath. | |
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The Third Man / int_cc7e9502 | |
The Third Man / int_cde51255 | type |
Antagonist Title | |
The Third Man / int_cde51255 | comment |
Antagonist Title: The title refers to Harry Lime. | |
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The Third Man / int_cde51255 | |
The Third Man / int_cdfe12c3 | type |
Nothing Is Scarier | |
The Third Man / int_cdfe12c3 | comment |
We don't get to see the corpses of the porter or Harbin, or any of Harry Lime's victims in the children's hospital. Somehow, the shot of the stuffed animals and tiny bookshelf crammed in next to one of dozens of identical hospital beds — the only glimmer of the dying child's individuality, of their true being, especially when one's possessions are put away permanently — is worse. | |
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The Third Man / int_cdfe12c3 | |
The Third Man / int_ce2969d8 | type |
Spiritual Antithesis | |
The Third Man / int_ce2969d8 | comment |
Spiritual Antithesis: The cynical, post-war antidote to the optimism and hope of Casablanca. It contains many of the same story elements and inverts them. Watch them back to back. It's amazing. And depressing. | |
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The Third Man / int_ce2969d8 | |
The Third Man / int_d058677e | type |
Amusement Park | |
The Third Man / int_d058677e | comment |
Amusement Park: Lime gives the "cuckoo clock" speech inside the Ferris wheel at the city's Wurstelprater park. | |
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The Third Man / int_d058677e | |
The Third Man / int_d0dd22a7 | type |
The Adjectival Man | |
The Third Man / int_d0dd22a7 | comment |
The Adjectival Man: The title of the film. | |
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The Third Man / int_d0dd22a7 | |
The Third Man / int_d371868b | type |
Precious Puppy | |
The Third Man / int_d371868b | comment |
Precious Puppy: The adorable puppy that just appears in one scene with Baron Kurtz. | |
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The Third Man / int_d371868b | |
The Third Man / int_d51263b9 | type |
Fake Shemp | |
The Third Man / int_d51263b9 | comment |
Fake Shemp: Orson Welles dithered on showing up to Vienna for filming, arriving two weeks after shooting started. To shoot around this, others dressed in Welles' costume (appropriately padded to approximate Welles' emerging girth) for long shots. | |
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The Third Man / int_d51263b9 | |
The Third Man / int_d7c3ba61 | type |
Race Lift | |
The Third Man / int_d7c3ba61 | comment |
Race Lift: Holly and Harry were both English in the original novella. In the film, they're American. | |
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The Third Man / int_d7c3ba61 | |
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Dutch Angle | |
The Third Man / int_d8d22bb0 | comment |
Dutch Angle: Possibly the best use ever in film. Although the crew allegedly presented director Carol Reed with a spirit level at the end of production, so that he could get his shots level next time. | |
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The Third Man / int_d8d22bb0 | |
The Third Man / int_db2f3581 | type |
All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
The Third Man / int_db2f3581 | comment |
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Anna gets the same lecture on how evil Harry is as Martins, but that doesn't make her any less worshipful of him. Her justification: "A person doesn't change just because you learn more about them." Apparently, Anna doesn't do Fridge Logic. Harry was always a sociopath. Though the reason she loves him, forging her papers and thus letting her stay in Vienna longer, stands regardless of what else Harry did. | |
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The Third Man / int_db2f3581 | |
The Third Man / int_dcaaab60 | type |
Old Friend | |
The Third Man / int_dcaaab60 | comment |
Old Friend: A darker example. Holly goes to post-WWII Vienna to meet up with Harry, who ends up having become a child-killing criminal, and whose actions turn Holly from a jovial and semi-innocent guy into a severely depressed one. | |
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The Third Man / int_dd51740f | type |
P.O.V. Sequel | |
The Third Man / int_dd51740f | comment |
P.O.V. Sequel: The screenwriter (author Graham Greene) wrote a book that was published to coincide with the film release with the British officer's POV. | |
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The Third Man / int_dea5fe1 | type |
Kubrick Stare | |
The Third Man / int_dea5fe1 | comment |
Kubrick Stare: Used by Baron Kurtz (albeit in a non-threatening context), making this trope Older Than They Think. | |
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The Third Man / int_e085feeb | type |
Broken Record | |
The Third Man / int_e085feeb | comment |
Broken Record: Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Also the 5-year old boy, always with the same sing-song intonation: "Mörder! Mörder! Mörder!" | |
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The Third Man / int_e277967 | type |
What Is Evil? | |
The Third Man / int_e277967 | comment |
What Is Evil?: The famous cuckoo clock speech. | |
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The Third Man / int_e55d8627 | type |
Present Absence | |
The Third Man / int_e55d8627 | comment |
Present Absence: Harry Lime is one of the most famous examples in all of cinema. His actions influence the story, yet he's barely in the film. | |
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The Third Man / int_e8ca5cb3 | type |
Freudian Slip | |
The Third Man / int_e8ca5cb3 | comment |
At several points Anna accidentally addresses Holly as "Harry." | |
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The Third Man / int_ea38ddd5 | type |
Sissy Villain | |
The Third Man / int_ea38ddd5 | comment |
Sissy Villain: Lime's associate Kurtz certainly has his share of signifiers. | |
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The Third Man / int_ed6c3220 | type |
Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics | |
The Third Man / int_ed6c3220 | comment |
Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics | |
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The Third Man / int_f09ac6a6 | type |
Chekhov M.I.A. | |
The Third Man / int_f09ac6a6 | comment |
Chekhov M.I.A.: Harry Lime. And as is typical of the trope, he becomes important later on. | |
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The Third Man / int_f3626b09 | type |
Mercy Kill | |
The Third Man / int_f3626b09 | comment |
Mercy Kill: Lime wordlessly asks Martins to shoot him once it's clear there's no escape. | |
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The Third Man / int_f3d5d15f | type |
Creepy Child | |
The Third Man / int_f3d5d15f | comment |
Creepy Child: Probably not the intent, but the fact that the little boy is smiling while he's yelling about how he thinks Holly killed the porter is a little off-putting. | |
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The Third Man / int_f3f1a9e2 | type |
Not My Driver | |
The Third Man / int_f3f1a9e2 | comment |
Not My Driver: Subverted. Holly thinks his cabby is abducting him and is working for the conspiracy because he Drives Like Crazy and doesn't answer any of his questions, but the guy's really just driving him to the lecture he was scheduled to do (and is extremely late for) and doesn't speak English. | |
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The Third Man / int_f64a9cf7 | type |
EarnYourHappyEnding | |
The Third Man / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Or arguably Earn Your Happy Ending because of the place and year. | |
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The Third Man / int_f933e594 | type |
How the Mighty Have Fallen | |
The Third Man / int_f933e594 | comment |
How the Mighty Have Fallen: Baron Kurtz now works as a black marketeer in post-war Vienna. | |
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The Third Man / int_f933e594 | |
The Third Man / int_f97b5d33 | type |
Shoo Out the Clowns | |
The Third Man / int_f97b5d33 | comment |
Shoo Out the Clowns: Sgt Paine, who has primarily been used for comic relief, is killed just before Holly has to kill his best friend. | |
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The Third Man / int_f9876f7e | type |
Faking the Dead | |
The Third Man / int_f9876f7e | comment |
Faking the Dead: Take a wild guess. | |
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The Third Man / int_ff7f34c5 | type |
Pet the Dog | |
The Third Man / int_ff7f34c5 | comment |
Pet the Dog: 'Baron' Kurtz pets a dog while trying to confuse Holly Martins. | |
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