History Film / Avalon2001

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Ash's base reality only has sepia colors. So does the game environment Avalon, [[spoiler:until one reaches "Special Class A" aka "Class Real"]]. However, both the restaurant food and the food of Ash's basset hound are colored (though not the cantina food slop).

* CoolGuns:
** Ash uses Oshii's [[AuthorAppeal signature Mauser C96]] [[spoiler: on the ''ghost'' to access the portal to the next level.]]
** Ash likes to use an SVD Dragunov in-game to good effect.

* ActionGirl: Ash.

* BrokenBird: Ash.

* ProductPlacement: Of Polish beer. %%context would be nice here
* SecretLevel: "Special Class A".

Do not confuse this with [[Webcomic/{{Avalon}} the Josh Phillips webcomic of the same name]], the Creator/MegCabot young adult novel and manga series ''Literature/AvalonHigh'', or the 1990 Creator/BarryLevinson movie about Polish-Jewish immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s. Or Frankie Avalon, for that matter.

* ActionGirl: Ash

* BrokenBird: Ash

* ProductPlacement: Great polish beer, as seen in the image at the top of this page.

* ShoutOut

* ShowWithinAShow: The opera ''Avalon''

* LevelUp: And don't get angry when others are better.

''Avalon'' is a live-action film directed by Creator/MamoruOshii (of ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' and ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' fame) and released in 2001. It is a joint Japanese-Polish production: written and directed by Japanese but filmed in Poland with Polish actors speaking their native tongue.

* BilingualBonus: Not really. The movie is shot in polish and subbed in japanese, based off the japanese script. It was not mean to be dubbed.
** English subs have been derived from the japanese subs, shifting the meaning somewhat and introducing some mistakes. [[http://www.ninesisters.org/script.htm More here]].
** There actually is an english dub by Miramax, too.

Do not confuse this with [[Webcomic/{{Avalon}} the Josh Phillips webcomic of the same name]], the Creator/MegCabot young adult novel and manga series ''Literature/AvalonHigh'', or the Barry Levinson movie about Polish-Jewish immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s. Or Frankie Avalon, for that matter.

Do not confuse this with [[Webcomic/{{Avalon}} the Josh Phillips webcomic of the same name]], the Creator/MegCabot young adult novel and manga series ''Literature/AvalonHigh'', or the Barry Levinson movie about Polish-Jewish immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s.

* GrossUpClossUp: During the scene where Ash meets Stunner over breakfast, there's an extended close-up of Stunner [[JabbaTableManners shoveling his food into his mouth with his fingers]].

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Do not confuse this with [[Webcomic/{{Avalon}} the Josh Phillips webcomic of the same name]], the MegCabot young adult novel and manga series ''Literature/AvalonHigh'', or the Barry Levinson movie about Polish-Jewish immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s.

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'''''Avalon''''' is a live-action film directed by Creator/MamoruOshii (of ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' and ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' fame) and released in 2001. It is a joint Japanese-Polish production: written and directed by Japanese but filmed in Poland with Polish actors speaking their native tongue.

You can watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6M9cMdq8MA&feature=related the trailer]]. Or [[http://www.ninesisters.org/thoughts.htm read the synopsis and its interpretations]].

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* NoBodyLeftBehind: When player characters are killed in-game, their bodies de-rezz (NPCs seem to de-rezz differently than players).

* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: [[spoiler:Ash's arrival in the "Special Class A," though it's deliberately left unclear whether the colored world of Special-A or the monochrome world she lives in normally is the real one. She decides that she doesn't care.]] Wrong: [[spoiler: The colored world of Special-A is not 'real' as Murphy is shot and de-rezzes in Special-A like in any other level. This level has a ghost, too.]]

You can watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6M9cMdq8MA&feature=related the trailer]].

Do not confuse this with [[Webcomic/{{Avalon}} the Josh Phillips webcomic of the same name]], the MegCabot young adult novel and manga series ''Literature/AvalonHigh'', or the Creator/BarryLevinson movie about Polish-Jewish immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: It is feared that reaching the "Special Class A" means leaving one's physical body behind in the real world (How does your brain stay connected to the game without VR headset though as you are wheeled to the hospital of the braindead?)
* BilingualBonus: Well, kind of. If you understand the original Polish, the acting sounds painfully wooden.

* CyberPunk: But veering into SteamPunk territory as the terminals seem have dropped off a soviet five-year-plan conveyor belt. They are even using swipe-through cards.
* DeepImmersionGaming: So deep that [[spoiler: it is not at all clear where objective reality is or whether there even is one.]]
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The apparently real world is so drab, it only has sepia colors. So does Avalon, [[spoiler:until one reaches "Special Class A" aka "Class Real"]]. However, both the cantina food and the food of Ash's basset is colored.
* DogFoodDiet: Played with. Ash ''can'' afford to cook decent food, but she prefers to feed it to her dog while she sustains herself on cold anger and dog biscuits. Lampshaded by her gamer teammate: "Your dog eats better food than most people!"

* LevelUp: And don't get angry when others use your gaming style.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When player characters are killed in-game, their bodies de-rezz.
* PowersThatBe: The Nine Sisters, the mysterious designers of the game.

* SecretLevel: "Special Class A". If you find it, you will stay.

* ShowWithinAShow: The opera ''Avalon''.
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: Avalon's training program.
* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: [[spoiler:Ash's arrival in the "Special Class A," though it's deliberately left unclear whether the colored world of Special-A or the monochrome world she lives in normally is the real one. She decides that she doesn't care.]] Wrong: [[spoiler: The colored world of Special-A is definitely not the real one as Murphy is shot and de-rezzes in Special-A like in any other level. Also, this level has a ghost.]]
* WorldHalfEmpty: The real world is a run-down dystopia reminiscent of Eastern Europe after the collapse of Communism (it was shot in Poland). ''Avalon''[='=]s world is a permanent battlefield in which civilians run from advancing tanks and get casually bombed to pieces.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: It is feared that reaching the "Special Class A" means leaving one's physical body behind in the real world.

* CyberPunk
* DeepImmersionGaming
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The real world is so hopeless, it doesn't even have color. [[spoiler:Neither does Avalon, until one reaches "Special Class A".]]

* InvisibilityCloak
* LevelUp
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When player characters are killed in-game, their bodies disappear.

* SecretLevel: "Special Class A".

** Ash's dog is the same basset hound as Batou's in ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell 2: Innocence''. More to the point, Ash's dog is just like [[AuthorAppeal the basset hound that Mamoru Oshii owns in real life]].
** As for her hairstyle, it's the same as Motoko's.

* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: [[spoiler:Ash's arrival in the "Special Class A," though it's deliberately left unclear whether the colored world of Special-A or the monochrome world she lives in normally is the real one. She decides that she doesn't care.]]

Do not confuse this with [[Webcomic/{{Avalon}} the Josh Phillips webcomic of the same name]], the MegCabot young adult novel and manga series ''AvalonHigh'', or the Creator/BarryLevinson movie about Polish-Jewish immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s.

Do not confuse this with [[Webcomic/{{Avalon}} the Josh Phillips webcomic of the same name]], the MegCabot young adult novel and manga series ''AvalonHigh'', or the Barry Levinson movie about Polish-Jewish immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s.