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* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the book, Luther Whitney suffered from a case of TooDumbToLive by trying to meet the conspirators in person. The movie makes him a lot more knowledgeable and clever, being able to expertly manipulate the conspirators into revealing themselves.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: While he is still guilt-ridden in the book, Burton is much more willing to kill to protect his livelihood.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the book, Luther Whitney suffered from a case of TooDumbToLive by trying to meet the conspirators in person. The movie makes him a lot more knowledgeable and clever, being able to expertly manipulate the conspirators into revealing themselves. That said, Luther's burglary methods are arguably more crafty and elaborate in the book.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the book, Luther Whitney suffered from a case of TooDumbToLive by trying to meet the conspirators in person. The movie makes him a lot more knowledgeable and clever, being able to expertly manipulate the conspirators into revealing themselves. That said, Luther's burglary methods are arguably more crafty and elaborate in the book.
* CompositeCharacter: In the novel, Detective Frank is initially fooled by the conspiracy, and Luther's lawyer (Kate's love interest) has some of his role.
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* MayDecemberRomance: After the death of his first wife, billionaire Walter Sullivan got remarried to a much younger woman. Because of his age he was unable to perform sexually, resulting in a bit of an open marriage while he watched. However, despite his fortune and the likelihood of her being a GoldDigger, he indicates that he genuinely did love her.
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* MayDecemberRomance: After the death of his first wife, billionaire Walter Sullivan got remarried to a much younger woman. Because of his age he was unable to perform sexually, resulting in a bit of an open marriage while he watched. However, despite his fortune and the likelihood of her being a GoldDigger, he indicates that he genuinely did love her. Sullivan says he was drawn to Christy because, after the pain of losing his first wife, it was comforting to feel sure that his new wife would outlive him.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Luther]] and [[spoiler: Sullivan]] aren't killed by the conspirators like in the book.
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* WealthyPhilanthropist: Water Sullivan has given over a billion dollars to charity, and when he bought and closed down the coal mine his father died from working in, he gave every miner $50,000 (in 1940's money) to retire on.
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Luther escapes, but not unnoticed. He finds himself both suspected for the murder, and with a price on his head. He has to prove he had nothing to do with it. His only allies are his estranged daughter, prosecuting attorney Kate Whitney (Creator/LauraLinney), and police detective Seth Frank (Creator/EdHarris), who knows something fishy is going on. Naturally the President wants them all dead.
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Luther escapes, but not unnoticed. He finds himself both suspected for the murder, and with a price on his head. He has to prove he had nothing to do with it. His only allies are his estranged daughter, prosecuting attorney Kate Whitney (Creator/LauraLinney), and police detective Seth Frank (Creator/EdHarris), who knows something fishy is going on. Naturally Naturally, the President wants them all dead.
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Luther Whitney (Eastwood) is a professional burglar looking for his next hit. He decides to target the mansion of elderly billionaire Walter Sullivan (E. G. Marshall), since Sullivan and his much younger wife Christy (Creator/MeloraHardin) are supposed to be vacationing. Instead the mansion is visited by Christy and her current lover, President Alan Richmond (Creator/GeneHackman). Both are drunk and ready to mate, with Luther a reluctant peeping tom.
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Luther Whitney (Eastwood) is a professional burglar looking for his next hit. He decides to target the mansion of elderly billionaire Walter Sullivan (E. G. Marshall), (Creator/EGMarshall), since Sullivan and his much younger wife Christy (Creator/MeloraHardin) are supposed to be vacationing. Instead the mansion is visited by Christy and her current lover, President Alan Richmond (Creator/GeneHackman). Both are drunk and ready to mate, with Luther a reluctant peeping tom.
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* VillainsWantMercy: A corrupt Secret Service agent attempts to kill Luther's daughter Kate because SheKnowsTooMuch. When Luther foils this attempt by injecting him with a poisoned needle first:
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-->'''Agent:''' Mercy!\\
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* VillainsWantMercy: A corrupt Secret Service agent Collin attempts to kill Luther's daughter Kate because SheKnowsTooMuch. When Luther foils this attempt by injecting him with a poisoned needle first:
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* BoomHeadshot: How Christy dies when the agents intervene in her attempted slaying of Richmond, who had become violent with her.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Luther convinces Kate that he's telling her the truth about Richmond by swearing on her mother, as he knows that she will believe that he would never invoke her mother's name to sell a lie.
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* MayDecemberRomance: After the death of his first wife, billionaire Walter Sullivan got remarried to a much younger woman. Because of his age he was unable to perform, resulting in a bit of an open marriage while he watched. However, despite his fortune and the likelihood of her being a GoldDigger, he indicates that he genuinely did love her.
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* MayDecemberRomance: After the death of his first wife, billionaire Walter Sullivan got remarried to a much younger woman. Because of his age he was unable to perform, perform sexually, resulting in a bit of an open marriage while he watched. However, despite his fortune and the likelihood of her being a GoldDigger, he indicates that he genuinely did love her.
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* PresidentEvil: President Alan Richmond, while an upstanding man to the outside world, is in his private life a philanderer and serial abuser. When one of his escapades results in the accidental murder of a young woman, Richmond further resorts to cover it up and murder any witnesses to his crime.
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* PresidentEvil: President Alan Richmond, while an upstanding man to the outside world, is in his private life a philanderer and serial abuser. When one of his escapades results in the accidental murder of a young woman, Richmond further resorts to cover it up and murder dispose of any witnesses to his crime.
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* TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Richmond's affair with a married woman and his subsequent murder of her would have been bad enough by itself, but she was also the wife of Walter Sullivan, a life-long mentor of his who played a key role in getting him into the Presidency. When Luther eventually reveals the truth about Richmond's crime to Sullivan, he is horrified by the level of treachery he didn't think Richmond capable of [[spoiler:and personally visits him in the White House that same night to exact revenge.]]
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* TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Richmond's affair with a married woman and his subsequent murder of her would have been bad enough by itself, but she was also the wife of Walter Sullivan, a life-long mentor of his who played a key role in getting him into the Presidency. When Luther eventually reveals the truth about Richmond's crime to Sullivan, he is horrified by the level of treachery betrayal he didn't think Richmond capable of [[spoiler:and personally visits him in the White House that same night to exact revenge.]]
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* TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Richmond's affair with a married woman and his subsequent murder of her would have been bad enough by itself, but she was also the wife of Walter Sullivan, a life-long mentor of his who played a key role in getting him into the Presidency. When Luther eventually reveals the truth about Richmond's crime to Sullivan, he is horrified by the level of treachery he didn't think Richmond capable of [[spoiler:and personally visits him in the White House that same night to exact revenge.]]
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* {{Cuckold}}: Because of [[MayDecemberRomance his advanced age and his much younger wife's "needs"]], Walter Sullivan took to sitting in a chair and watched her from behind a two-way mirror in his bedroom when she was with other men. The whole thing was Christy's idea, and as he admits to Detective Seth Frank (who hates even having to ask him about the topic while investigating Christy's death as he he deeply respects the man), he didn't enjoy it anyway.
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* {{Cuckold}}: Because of [[MayDecemberRomance his advanced age and his much younger wife's "needs"]], Walter Sullivan took to sitting in a chair and watched her from behind a two-way mirror in his bedroom when she was with other men. The whole thing was Christy's idea, and as he admits to Detective Seth Frank (who hates even having to ask him about the topic while investigating Christy's death as he he deeply respects the man), he didn't enjoy it anyway.
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* {{Cuckold}}: Because of [[MayDecemberRomance his advanced age and his much younger wife's "needs"]], Walter Sullivan took to sitting in a chair and watched her from behind a two-way mirror in his bedroom when she was with other men. The whole thing was Christy's idea, and as he admits to Detective Seth Frank, he didn't enjoy it anyway.
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* {{Cuckold}}: Because of [[MayDecemberRomance his advanced age and his much younger wife's "needs"]], Walter Sullivan took to sitting in a chair and watched her from behind a two-way mirror in his bedroom when she was with other men. The whole thing was Christy's idea, and as he admits to Detective Seth Frank, Frank (who hates even having to ask him about the topic while investigating Christy's death as he he deeply respects the man), he didn't enjoy it anyway.
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* {{Cuckold}}: Because of [[MayDecemberRomance his advanced age and his much younger wife's "needs"]], Walter Sullivan took to sitting in a chair and watched her from behind a two-way mirror in his bedroom when she was with other men. The whole thing was Christy's idea, and as he admits to Detective Seth Frank, he didn't enjoy it anyway.
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* MayDecemberRomance: After the death of his first wife, billionaire Walter Sullivan got remarried to a much younger woman. Because of his age he was unable to perform, resulting in a bit of an open marriage while he watched. However, despite his fortune and the likelihood of her being a GoldDigger, he indicates that he genuinely did love her.
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* PresidentEvil: President Alan Richmond, while an upstanding man to the outside world, is in his private life a philanderer and serial abuser, who resorts to murdering any witnesses to his crimes.
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* PresidentEvil: President Alan Richmond, while an upstanding man to the outside world, is in his private life a philanderer and serial abuser, who abuser. When one of his escapades results in the accidental murder of a young woman, Richmond further resorts to murdering cover it up and murder any witnesses to his crimes.crime.
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* PresidentEvil: Alan Richmond.
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* PresidentEvil: President Alan Richmond.Richmond, while an upstanding man to the outside world, is in his private life a philanderer and serial abuser, who resorts to murdering any witnesses to his crimes.
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* VillainsWantMercy: A corrupt Secret Service agent attempt to kill Luther's daughter Kate because SheKnowsTooMuch. When Luther foils this attempt by injecting him with a poisoned needle first:
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'''Luther:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner I just ran out]]. [injects fatal dose]
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'''Luther:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner I just ran out]]. [injects fatal dose]
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:President Richmond]]'s death is made ambiguous by having the screen cut away just as [[spoiler:Walter Sullivan]] walks in to meet with him. [[spoiler:Sullivan has nothing other than revenge for his wife's murder on his mind, and Richmond's death is later reported on as an apparent suicide, the two options either being that A] Sullivan killed him with the letter opener (unlikely given that he's a fragile 80-year old man and Richmond is a stronger middle-aged man, albeit one recovering from an earlier knife wound), then passed it off as a suicide, or B] Sullivan managed to spurn Richmond into killing himself after their meeting with a very devastating TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
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* ScaryBlackMan: Agent Collin (played with chilling serenity by Dennis Haysbert) will serve his President, even if that means committing cold-blooded premeditated murder. His partner at least [[EvenEvilHasStandards admits his disgust]] with what they've been forced to do openly, but Collin seems to have no such compunctions.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Agent Collin (played with chilling serenity by Dennis Haysbert) will serve his President, even if that means committing cold-blooded premeditated murder. His partner Agent Burton at least [[EvenEvilHasStandards admits his disgust]] with what they've been forced to do openly, but Collin seems to have no such compunctions.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Agent Collin (played with chilling serenity by Dennis Haysbert) will serve his President, even if that means committing cold-blooded premeditated murder. His partner at least [[EvenEvilHasStandards admits his disgust]] with what they've been forced to do openly, but Collin seems to have no such compunctions.
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* FloatingHeadSyndrome: Clint's giant disconcerted face adorns the poster.
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* GroinAttack: During Richmond's attempted rape of Christy, she painfully squeezes his dick in an attempt to hold him off.
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* GroinAttack: During Richmond's attempted rape of Christy, she painfully squeezes his dick in an attempt to hold fight him off.
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* GroinAttack: During Richmond's attempted rape of Christy, she painfully squeezes his dick in an attempt to hold him off.
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* WhamShot: Alan Richmond being the President of the United States is revealed like this. Initially, the audience isn't aware who he is when Luther witnesses his affair with and murder of Christy Sullivan; the presence of his security staff hints that he's a high-placed person, but he's not formally introduced until a White House press conference when the camera pans up to reveal that the President is the same man who is responsibe for the death of a young woman that night.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: two snipers, each unaware of the other, try to shoot Luther when he arrives at an outdoor café to meet his daughter. They both miss, and Luther escapes through the police cordon wearing the uniform of a police officer he had hidden beneath his coat.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: two Two snipers, each unaware of the other, try to shoot Luther when he arrives at an outdoor café to meet his daughter. They both miss, and Luther escapes through the police cordon wearing the uniform of a police officer he had hidden beneath his coat.
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Richmond suddenly turns violent, inspiring Christy to grab a letter opener and turn it on him. Two agents of the Secret Service respond to their President's call for help. Agents Bill Burton (Creator/ScottGlenn) and Tim Collin (Dennis Haysbert) shoot the woman down. Then the trio and Chief of Staff Gloria Russell (Creator/JudyDavis) arrange the scene to appear that an intruder killed her.
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Richmond suddenly turns violent, inspiring Christy to grab a letter opener and turn it on him. Two agents of the Secret Service respond to their President's call for help. Agents Bill Burton (Creator/ScottGlenn) and Tim Collin (Dennis Haysbert) (Creator/DennisHaysbert) shoot the woman down. Then the trio and Chief of Staff Gloria Russell (Creator/JudyDavis) arrange the scene to appear that an intruder killed her.
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''Absolute Power'' is a 1997 film directed by Creator/ClintEastwood. It is adapted from a 1996 political thriller novel by David Baldacci, with significant changes including omitting the novel's protagonist Jack Graham.
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''Absolute Power'' is a 1997 film directed by Creator/ClintEastwood. It is adapted from [[Literature/AbsolutePower a 1996 political thriller novel novel]] by David Baldacci, Creator/DavidBaldacci, with significant changes including omitting the novel's protagonist Jack Graham.
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''Absolute Power'' is the name of an 1996 political thriller novel by David Baldacci and its 1997 film adaptation. The latter was directed by Creator/ClintEastwood. The changes to the original story were excessive, including omitting protagonist Jack Graham.
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''Absolute Power'' is the name of an a 1997 film directed by Creator/ClintEastwood. It is adapted from a 1996 political thriller novel by David Baldacci and its 1997 film adaptation. The latter was directed by Creator/ClintEastwood. The Baldacci, with significant changes to the original story were excessive, including omitting the novel's protagonist Jack Graham.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: As described in depth in a chapter of WilliamGoldman's book ''Which Lie Did I Tell?''.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: As described in depth in a chapter of WilliamGoldman's Creator/WilliamGoldman's book ''Which Lie Did I Tell?''.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A President involved in a scandal involving a sexual encounter? [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton That sure sounds familiar.]]
