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* AdvertisedExtra: Robin Williams is in the promotional advertisement but only has a couple minutes of screentime.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Robin Williams is in the promotional advertisement but only has a couple minutes of screentime. He is more of a cameo than a central character.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Robin Williams is in the promotional advertisement but very little screentime.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Robin Williams is in the promotional advertisement but very little only has a couple minutes of screentime.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer implied that the movie is about Harry going to hell after being shot. That's not what the film is about at all! The hell scene is only one of the stories that is in Harry's mind and it doesn't even appear until ''the last 15 minutes of the movie''.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer implied that the movie is about Harry going to hell after being shot. That's not what the film is about at all! The hell scene is only one of the many stories that is in Harry's mind and it doesn't even appear until ''the last 15 minutes of the movie''.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Robin Williams is in the promotional advertisement but very little screentime.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer implied that the movie is about Harry going to hell after being shot. That's not what the film is about at all! The hell scene is only one of the stories that is in Harry's mind and it doesn't even appear until ''the last 15 minutes of the movie''.
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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Lucy is an utter train-wreck of neuroses that is first seen suicidal [[spoiler: though she quickly shifts to homicidal.]] Whereas Harry writes "Leslie" as much more untroubled though also more openly vindictive in TheWarOfGloriousSisterlyRivalry.
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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Lucy is an utter train-wreck of neuroses that is first seen suicidal [[spoiler: though she quickly shifts to homicidal.]] Whereas Harry writes "Leslie" as much more untroubled though also more openly vindictive in TheWarOfGloriousSisterlyRivalry.TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry.
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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Lucy is an utter train-wreck of neuroses that is first seen suicidal [[spoiler: though she quickly shifts to homicidal.]] Whereas Harry writes "Leslie" as much more untroubled though also more openly vindictive in TheWarOfGloriousSisterlyRivalry.
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** In the ShowWithinAShow we see how Harry met his thinly veiled analogue for Faye. In the book, Ken is about to have a romantic tryst with Leslie, with her hotel room full of roses and champagne, but just he gets stuck in an elevator driving him to a MeetCute. In reality, Lucy's hotel room was much less lavish or romantic, and Faye began a conversation with Harry.
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** In the ShowWithinAShow we see how Harry met his thinly veiled analogue for Faye. In the book, Ken is about to have a romantic tryst with Leslie, with her hotel room full of roses and champagne, but champagne. But just as he is about to meet Leslie, Ken gets stuck in an elevator driving him to a MeetCute. In reality, Lucy's hotel room was much less lavish or romantic, and Faye began a conversation with Harry.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's in the title.]] The film can be considered a deconstruction of ''all'' of the "Woody Allen" leads from ''Film/AnnieHall'' to the present, and how much of a pathetic person that character can seem to others.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: {{Deconstruction}}:
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's in the title.]] The film can be considered a deconstruction of ''all'' of the "Woody Allen" leads from ''Film/AnnieHall'' to the present, and how much of a pathetic person that character can seem toothers.others.
** In the ShowWithinAShow we see how Harry met his thinly veiled analogue for Faye. In the book, Ken is about to have a romantic tryst with Leslie, with her hotel room full of roses and champagne, but just he gets stuck in an elevator driving him to a MeetCute. In reality, Lucy's hotel room was much less lavish or romantic, and Faye began a conversation with Harry.
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's in the title.]] The film can be considered a deconstruction of ''all'' of the "Woody Allen" leads from ''Film/AnnieHall'' to the present, and how much of a pathetic person that character can seem to
** In the ShowWithinAShow we see how Harry met his thinly veiled analogue for Faye. In the book, Ken is about to have a romantic tryst with Leslie, with her hotel room full of roses and champagne, but just he gets stuck in an elevator driving him to a MeetCute. In reality, Lucy's hotel room was much less lavish or romantic, and Faye began a conversation with Harry.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: [[invoked]] With almost no exception, Harry's characters are thinly-veiled versions of people he knows; considering in real life he's a bit of a MagnificentBastard, every time he's got a new novel out, at least one of his personal relationships goes ''very'' sour.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: [[invoked]] With almost no exception, Harry's characters are thinly-veiled versions of people he knows; considering in real life he's a bit of a MagnificentBastard, bastard, every time he's got a new novel out, at least one of his personal relationships goes ''very'' sour.
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* BusinessAsUnusual: Harry's initial interaction with Cookie is all business. She's a little surprised because most johns want to talk a little.
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* CompositeCharacter: Helen is a composite of Harry's ex-wife Joan's neurosis and his sister Doris (and her devout Judaism), and both negative traits played UpToEleven.
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* CompositeCharacter: Helen is a composite of Harry's ex-wife Joan's neurosis and his sister Doris (and her devout Judaism), and both negative traits played UpToEleven.up.
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* GoodIsBoring: Ken points out that Harry hates stability, running away from stable women and getting into doomed relationships with unstable women.
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* DrivenToSuicide: "My brains on your fucking carpet!" [[spoiler: {{Averted}} in that she thinks she shouldn't kill herself, but Harry.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: "My brains on your fucking carpet!" [[spoiler: Ultimately {{Averted}} in that after Harry talks her down from killing herself, she thinks agrees that she shouldn't kill herself, but Harry.and instead targets Harry for death instead.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Joan is a thinly veiled Creator/MiaFarrow.
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* BusinessAsUnusual: Harry's initial interaction with Cookie is all business. She's a little surprised because most johns want to talk a little.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Cookie, who offers him a free blowjob because Harry is depressed. She also goes with Harry to his college to give him moral support.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: HookerWithAHeartOfGold:
** Cookie, who offers him a free blowjob because Harry is depressed. She also goes with Harry to his college to give him moral support.
** The HighClassCallGirl Harvey hires also seems like a good person, which may reflect Harry's opinions of prostitutes.
** Cookie, who offers him a free blowjob because Harry is depressed. She also goes with Harry to his college to give him moral support.
** The HighClassCallGirl Harvey hires also seems like a good person, which may reflect Harry's opinions of prostitutes.
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* OnlySaneWoman: Cookie never loses her cool and never focuses on meaningless abstracts. She talks Harry out of being out of focus simply by grounding him in reality.
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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Mostly bad. Harry wants to fuck every woman he even sees.
-->'''Harry:''' I think of fucking every woman I meet. I meet a woman in the bank or on the bus, I think, "What's she look like naked? Can I fuck her?"
-->'''Harry:''' I think of fucking every woman I meet. I meet a woman in the bank or on the bus, I think, "What's she look like naked? Can I fuck her?"
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'''Harvey:''' I'm not Mendel Birnb --\\
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'''Harvey:''' No, no, see, I'm not Mendel Birnb --\\
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* {{Hellevator}}: Going to Hell starts with a long, boring ride down one.
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* {{Hellevator}}: Going to Hell starts with a long, boring ride down one. The automated voice allows Allen to make some {{Take That}}s.
-->'''Elevator announcer:''' Floor five: muggers, aggressive panhandlers and book critics... Floor six: right wing extremists, killers, lawyers who appear on TV... Floor seven: the media. ''({{beat}})'' Sorry, that floor is all filled up... Floor eight: escaped war criminals, TV evangelists and the NRA.
-->'''Elevator announcer:''' Floor five: muggers, aggressive panhandlers and book critics... Floor six: right wing extremists, killers, lawyers who appear on TV... Floor seven: the media. ''({{beat}})'' Sorry, that floor is all filled up... Floor eight: escaped war criminals, TV evangelists and the NRA.
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* StrawNihilist: Harry.
-->'''Doris:''' You have no values. Your life, it's nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm and orgasm.\\
'''Harry:''' In France, I could run on that slogan and win!
-->'''Doris:''' You have no values. Your life, it's nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm and orgasm.\\
'''Harry:''' In France, I could run on that slogan and win!
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* CaptainObvious:
-->'''Harry:''' Lucy?\\
'''Lucy:''' ''(seething)'' You schmuck! You bastard! I'd like to cut your head off.\\
'''Harry:''' You're upset, right?
-->'''Harry:''' Lucy?\\
'''Lucy:''' ''(seething)'' You schmuck! You bastard! I'd like to cut your head off.\\
'''Harry:''' You're upset, right?
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The opening credits has the same scene repeating itself, with disjointed {{Jump Cut}}s. [[spoiler:It's a hint this film is a ShowWithinAShow, as Harry is composing a book in his own mind.]]
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--> '''Harry''': Leslie, please...
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--> '''Harry''': [[WrongNameOutburst Leslie, please... please...]]
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* ThereIsAGod: Creator/WoodyAllen's character, an atheist, uses this in reference to Bobby Thomson's game-winning home run in the 1951 National League playoffs. "When he hit that home run it was the only hint I had that there may be a God."
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* ThereIsAGod: Creator/WoodyAllen's character, Harry, an atheist, uses this in reference to Bobby Thomson's game-winning home run in the 1951 National League playoffs. "When he hit that home run it was the only hint I had that there may be a God.""
* TragicIntangibility: One of Harry's short stories deals with Mel (Creator/RobinWilliams) becoming blurry and out-of-focus. [[spoiler:The same thing starts to happen to Harry til Cookie talks him out of it.]]
* TragicIntangibility: One of Harry's short stories deals with Mel (Creator/RobinWilliams) becoming blurry and out-of-focus. [[spoiler:The same thing starts to happen to Harry til Cookie talks him out of it.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Joan loathes Harry and wants her son to have nothing to do with Harry. Given that Harry inappropriately speaks about sex to a child and later kidnaps his son, can you blame her?
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Judy thinks that the "other woman" her sister complains Harry was having an affair with was her -- until she mentions the other woman's name.
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* MythologyGag: Longtime Woody Allen fans will recognize the LiteralMetaphor of Harry showing up someplace with a dead body, a hooker and a gun.
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* MythologyGag: Longtime Woody Allen fans will recognize the LiteralMetaphor of Harry showing up someplace with a dead body, a hooker and a gun.gun, when has been Allen's previous metaphor for being in an impossibly difficult situation to explain or rationalize.
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* MythologyGag: Longtime Woody Allen fans will recognize the LiteralMetaphor of Harry showing up someplace with a dead body, a hooker and a gun.
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