History Creator / ToddSolondz

* ADateWithRosiePalms

* CrapsackWorld: Well, indeed. You will say holy shit.
* ADateWithRosiePalms

* LeaveTheCameraRunning
* LighterAndSofter: Bizarrely enough, some critics noted that ''Dark Horse'', a film about an irritating ManChild in a [[NoSparks bizarre, unloving romance]] with a depressed woman, was the least hateful of all his films. The New York Times argued that it was asking if the main character, despite all his flaws, was deserving of love - unlike the other films, which heap scorn on the protagonists.

* VillainProtagonist: The standard main character of a Solondz film, if they're not a complete ButtMonkey or CosmicPlaything.

* SelfDeprecation: One of his films in Storytelling was a documentary writer who becomes increasingly misanthropic, bitter, and angry at the world, and paints his documentary subject, an everyday normal dude, in an incredibly harsh, hateful light. In the end, the everyday normal dude, who has his entire family killed by [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext a disgruntled gardener]], angrily tells off the writer. Sound familiar?

* SelfDeprecation: One of his films in Storytelling was a documentary writer who becomes increasingly misanthropic, bitter, and angry at the world, and paints his documentary subject, an everyday normal dude, in an incredibly harsh, hateful light. In the end, the everyday normal dude, who has his entire family killed by a disgruntled gardener, angrily tells off the writer. Sound familiar?

* EvilVersusEvil

* {{Gorn}}: Sometimes.

* {{Euroshlock}}: Despite being American productions, his films nonetheless have a lot in common with this trope.

* RefugeInAudacity: His jokes revolve around rape, child molestation, massacres, and bestiality. One of his most "sympathetic" protagonists fantasizes about killing children.

* VillainProtagonist: The standard main character of a Solondz film.

* MisanthropeSupreme / StrawNihilist: What critics of the films tend to stereotype him as.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: When not EvilVersusEvil outright.

* CrapsackWorld: Well, indeed.

* DysfunctionJunction: His characters, at the very least, aren't exactly happy, stable, or both.
* TheEeyore

* {{Euroshlock}}: Despite being American productions, his films nonetheless have a lot in common with this trope.

* NietzscheWannabe

* HumansAreBastards: Arguably ''the'' defining element of his films. If there are characters that aren't depraved, selfish, or apathetic, expect them either to make a FaceHeelTurn or be crushed by the story's end. Or raped. Or dead. Or raped after death.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: [[TemptingFate Take a guess.]]

[[caption-width-right:214:[[TheEeyore Looks happy, doesn't he?]].]]

[[caption-width-right:214:[[TheEeyore Happy, happy, joy, joy]].]]

* HumansAreBastards: Arguably ''the'' defining element of his films. If there are characters that aren't depraved, selfish, or apathetic, expect them either to make a FaceHeelTurn or be crushed by the story's end.

* HumansAreBastards: Arguably ''the'' defining element of his films. If there are characters that aren't depraved, selfish, or apathetic, expect them either to become that way or be crushed by the story's end.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Extremely cynical to the point of misanthropy and nihilism.

* HumansAreBastards: Arguably ''the'' defining element of his films. If there are characters that aren't depraved, selfish, or apathetic, expect them either to become that way or be crushed by the end of the film.

* RefugeInAudacity: His jokes revolve around rape, child molestation, massacres, and bestiality.
* SelfDeprecation: One of his films in Storytelling was a documentary writer who becomes increasingly misanthropic, bitter, and angry at the world, and paints his documentary subject, an everyday normal dude, in an incredibly harsh, hateful light. Sound familiar?

* YouCantFightFate: Noted to be incredibly fatalist.

* MisanthropeSupreme

* DysfunctionJunction: His characters, at the very least, aren't exactly happy or stable.

* RefugeInAudacity
* SelfDecrepation: One of his films in Storytelling was a documentary writer who becomes increasingly misanthropic, bitter, and angry at the world, and paints his documentary subject, an everyday normal dude, in an incredibly harsh, hateful light. Sound familiar?

* YouCantFightFate

* BlackComedy: Of the cruelest, harshest kind imaginable.

* BlackComedy: Of the cruelest, harshest kind imaginable.

* {{Squick}}: Let's just leave it at that.

* CrapsackWorld
* HumansAreBastards

Todd Solondz is a director of independent films who got his big break with the release of {{Film/WelcomeToTheDollhouse}}. He has since gone on to direct films such as ''Happiness'', ''Storytelling'', ''Palindromes'', and more recently, ''Dark Horse''.