History Film / BigEyes

** TruthInTelevision for the period as divorced women faced discrimination in hiring and housing. Many banks refused to open accounts for women at all without a husband's signature/permission.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Walter, ultimately. [[spoiler:He insists he's an artist and continues to do so until his death, even after Margaret uncovers signatures on his paintings that prove they were someone else's work]].

* CourtroomAntics: The final and probably best scene of the movie is full of this, as [[spoiler: Walter loses his lawyer team just before Margaret's lawsuit is reviewed and [[FoolForAClient chooses to represent himself]] instead of asking for the trial to be postponed and get someone else. Eventually he and Margaret end up shouting at one another, leading to an exasperated judge declaring that they'll have a paint-off to resolve the issue once and for all. Walter proceeds to fake an arm injury to try to get out of it.]]

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%% * BelievingTheirOwnLies: Walter, ultimately. [[spoiler:He kept claiming to be the artist until his death]].

%% * CourtroomAntics: The final and probably best scene of the movie is full of this.

%% * GreenEyedMonster: Walter starts in this direction in the club after seeing people are more interested in Margaret's work than his.
%% * KeepingSecretsSucks: It does when you have to paint alone for hours in a cramped room, lie to your child, and isolate yourself from friends and neighbors.

%% * MaliciousSlander: Before the court date, Walter lies to the press about how Margaret needs psychiatric help.

** When Walter and Banducci are fake arguing to attract attention Walter shouts "AND I'LL SUE YOU FOR SLANDER!" Guess who ironically gets used for slander? [[spoiler: Walter, by Margaret.]]

''Big Eyes'' is a 2014 film directed by Creator/TimBurton about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane Margaret Keane]] (Creator/AmyAdams), a housewife whose paintings of waifs with large eyes became famous in the 1950's, as her husband, Walter (Creator/ChristophWaltz) took the credit for them. In the 1960s, she takes him to court in order to prove once and for all who the true artist is.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Walter, ultimately. [[spoiler:He kept claiming to be the artist until his death]].

* CourtroomAntics: The final and probably best scene of the movie is full of this.

* GreenEyedMonster: Walter starts in this direction in the club after seeing people are more interested in Margaret's work than his.
* KeepingSecretsSucks: It does when you have to paint alone for hours in a cramped room, lie to your child, and isolate yourself from friends and neighbors.

* MaliciousSlander: Before the court date, Walter lies to the press about how Margaret needs psychiatric help.

%% * BelievingTheirOwnLies: Walter, ultimately. [[spoiler:He kept claiming to be the artist until his death]].

* TheCameo: See if you can spot the real life Margaret Keane in the movie. Hint, [[spoiler:She's an old lady sitting on a park bench.]]

%% * CourtroomAntics: The final and probably best scene of the movie is full of this.

%% * GreenEyedMonster: Walter starts in this direction in the club after seeing people are more interested in Margaret's work than his.
%% * KeepingSecretsSucks: It does when you have to paint alone for hours in a cramped room, lie to your child, and isolate yourself from friends and neighbors.

%% * MaliciousSlander: Before the court date, Walter lies to the press about how Margaret needs psychiatric help.

* TheCameo: See if you can spot the real life Margaret Keane in the movie. Hint, [[spoiler:She's and old lady sitting on a park bench.]]

"Why, I created these children." - Walter Keane

* CourtroomAntics: The final and probably best scene of the movie is full of this.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Margaret and Walter are painting side by side in a park, Jane notes that Walter's canvas is blank, and in fact he does not paint anything for the entire scene. [[spoiler: He isn't actually a painter.]]

* JekyllAndHyde: Margaret compares Walter to this. He is charming on the outside and manipulative on the inside

* Jekyll&Hyde: Margaret compares Walter to this. He is charming on the outside and manipulative on the inside

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Averted. When Walter begins commercializing her work, Margaret starts to see people in the grocery store with giant eyes like in her paintings. [[spoiler:This is never brought up again.]]

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Director Tim Burton has said that some of the outlandish elements of the real story (like Walter cross-examining himself) had to be played down or cut so that the film would be believable.

* SpottingTheThread: When Margaret finds a shipping box of paintings by S. Cenic in the closet, which helps her realize [[PullTheThread that Walter had been lying about painting in Paris]].

* AssociatedComposer: It is not at all surprising that the score for the film was composed by DannyElfman.

''Big Eyes'' is a 2014 film directed by Creator/TimBurton about Margaret Keane (Creator/AmyAdams), a housewife whose paintings of waifs with large eyes became famous in the 1950's, as her husband, Walter (Creator/ChristophWaltz) took the credit for them. In the 1960s, she takes him to court in order to prove once and for all who the true artist is.

* AssociatedComposer: It is not at all surprising that the score for the film was composed by DannyElfman.

* DomesticAbuser: Walter, of the mental and emotional kind mostly. But after being humiliated by a critic, he gets drunk at home and starts tossing lit matches at Margaret and her daughter, nearly lighting a can of turpentine in the painting room the girls had locked themselves in.

* ArmyOfLawyers: Walter brings lawyers from the Gannett Company to the trial to defend him. This turns out to be a subversion, since the lawyers were only there to point out that Gannett were immune from defamation prosecution since they were reporting on a person's claims in relation to a significant public event, and hence were protected by the First Amendment. They leave as soon as they're found not guilty, leaving Walter to defend himself for actually making the defamatory allegation.

* AFoolForAClient: After the Gannett lawyers leave him, Walter decides to represent himself and is only guided by what he's watched on TV.

* ArmyOfLawyers: Walter brings lawyers from the Gannett Company to the trial to defend him. This turns out to be a subversion, since the lawyers were only there to prove that Gannett hadn't committed libel in their newspapers when they wrote that Walter was the artist for all those years. They leave as soon as they're found not guilty, leaving Walter to defend himself in the case of ownership of the artwork.

* AFoolForAClient: After the Gannett lawyers leave him, Walter decides to represent himself and is only guided by what he's watched on TV.

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* WindowsOfTheSoul: Margaret explains that a combination of this and hearing loss she had in her childhood are the reasons why she paints the way she does.