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''Dog Eat Dog'' is a 2016 darkly comedic crime thriller directed by Creator/PaulSchrader and based off the novel of the same name by Creator/EdwardBunker.
Ex-convicts Troy (Creator/NicolasCage), Mad Dog (Creator/WillemDafoe), and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) are hired by Cleveland mob bosses El Grecco (Schrader) and Chepe (Reynaldo Gallegas) to kidnap the infant son of Mike Brennan (Louis Perez), a wealthy man who owes money to Chepe. Unfortunately, the kidnapping attempt goes horribly wrong, and spirals increasingly further out of control.
!!List of tropes applying to this film:
* AffablyEvil:
** Troy is a polite and mostly well-mannered guy, at least in comparison to his friends, and generally tries to avoid unnecessary killing during their jobs. He's still a remorseless criminal who shoots a woman in cold blood for annoying him.
** Mad Dog. He's a genuinely friendly guy who's more pitiful than anything, but he's still an AxCrazy junkie who murdered his family in a fit of rage.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Mad Dog and Diesel die, and it's heavily implied that Troy is murdered by two cops as well.]]
* AssholeVictim:
** Subverted in the beginning. Mad Dog's ex-wife Sheila and his daughter Hannah are certainly annoying, but that doesn't justify him ''murdering'' them in cold blood.
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Brennan]], who's shown to be a massive asshole and is brutally killed by Mad Dog.
* TheAtoner: By the end, Mad Dog genuinely wants to change for the better. [[spoiler:Diesel puts a bullet in his head before it happens.]]
* AxCrazy: Mad Dog. He has no impulse control, he's extremely trigger-happy, and he's prone to extreme bursts of violence.
* BoomHeadshot:
** [[spoiler:Brennan]] is killed when Mad Dog shoots him in the face with a shotgun.
** [[spoiler:Mad Dog himself is killed when an irate Diesel snaps and shoots him in the head.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that Troy is ''lynched'' by a pair of corrupt police officers as punishment for the cops Diesel murdered.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The protagonists royally screw up the job and die, killing several innocent people along the way.]]
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:The last fifteen minutes of the film are ''weird''. After two cops prepare to lynch Troy, it cuts to a dream-like sequence where he takes a preacher and his wife hostage, only for them all to be gunned down by overzealous police officers, all the while Troy speaks in a Creator/HumphreyBogart impression. The film then ends with a shot of the road as the cop car drags Troy's body out of sight, as he narrates and cryptically notes that he's realized what he finally wanted.]] It's heavily implied to be his DyingDream.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that Troy is murdered by a pair of corrupt cops.]]
* VillainProtagonist: Troy, Mad Do, and Diesel are all remorseless criminals who think nothing of committing murder at the drop of a hat.
''Dog Eat Dog'' is a 2016 darkly comedic crime thriller directed by Creator/PaulSchrader and based off the novel of the same name by Creator/EdwardBunker.
Ex-convicts Troy (Creator/NicolasCage), Mad Dog (Creator/WillemDafoe), and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) are hired by Cleveland mob bosses El Grecco (Schrader) and Chepe (Reynaldo Gallegas) to kidnap the infant son of Mike Brennan (Louis Perez), a wealthy man who owes money to Chepe. Unfortunately, the kidnapping attempt goes horribly wrong, and spirals increasingly further out of control.
!!List of tropes applying to this film:
* AffablyEvil:
** Troy is a polite and mostly well-mannered guy, at least in comparison to his friends, and generally tries to avoid unnecessary killing during their jobs. He's still a remorseless criminal who shoots a woman in cold blood for annoying him.
** Mad Dog. He's a genuinely friendly guy who's more pitiful than anything, but he's still an AxCrazy junkie who murdered his family in a fit of rage.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Mad Dog and Diesel die, and it's heavily implied that Troy is murdered by two cops as well.]]
* AssholeVictim:
** Subverted in the beginning. Mad Dog's ex-wife Sheila and his daughter Hannah are certainly annoying, but that doesn't justify him ''murdering'' them in cold blood.
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Brennan]], who's shown to be a massive asshole and is brutally killed by Mad Dog.
* TheAtoner: By the end, Mad Dog genuinely wants to change for the better. [[spoiler:Diesel puts a bullet in his head before it happens.]]
* AxCrazy: Mad Dog. He has no impulse control, he's extremely trigger-happy, and he's prone to extreme bursts of violence.
* BoomHeadshot:
** [[spoiler:Brennan]] is killed when Mad Dog shoots him in the face with a shotgun.
** [[spoiler:Mad Dog himself is killed when an irate Diesel snaps and shoots him in the head.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that Troy is ''lynched'' by a pair of corrupt police officers as punishment for the cops Diesel murdered.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The protagonists royally screw up the job and die, killing several innocent people along the way.]]
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:The last fifteen minutes of the film are ''weird''. After two cops prepare to lynch Troy, it cuts to a dream-like sequence where he takes a preacher and his wife hostage, only for them all to be gunned down by overzealous police officers, all the while Troy speaks in a Creator/HumphreyBogart impression. The film then ends with a shot of the road as the cop car drags Troy's body out of sight, as he narrates and cryptically notes that he's realized what he finally wanted.]] It's heavily implied to be his DyingDream.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that Troy is murdered by a pair of corrupt cops.]]
* VillainProtagonist: Troy, Mad Do, and Diesel are all remorseless criminals who think nothing of committing murder at the drop of a hat.
