History Film / FourRooms

* BrickJoke: During "The Wrong Man", Siegfried is briefly distracted by a phone call. As Ted and Angelica talk, Siegfried can be heard into the background yelling something about needles at the caller. Later, during "The Misbehavers", which takes place at the same time as "The Wrong Man", the kids call a random hotel room to ask about the needle they found. They, of course, reach Siegfried.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: The shooting of "The Man From Hollywood" jumps between characters within the take, drawing attention towards one or two and pushing the rest to the side, so there's always one or two characters puttering around just out of focus. Due to this, it's easy to miss things like Chester and Norman discussing their bet while Leo argues with his wife, Ted informing Chester that they can trash the place as far as he cares, Leo assuring Norman that they have a doctor in the emergency room "just in case", and more tellingly Angelina interrupting Leo's phone call to [[spoiler:ask for a light, hinting that Norman's "lucky zippo" isn't so (forgive the pun) surefire]].

* NoodleImplements: The guests in "The Man from Hollywood" order a block of wood, a doughnut, a ball of twine, three nails, a club sandwich, a bucket of ice, and an extremely sharp hatchet. "As sharp as the devil himself." Unlike most examples of this trope, however, everything but the nails and twine gets explained: the doughnut is a snack for Chester, the club sandwich is Angelina's, and the ice, hatchet and block of wood are for the bet that the segment is REALLY about.

* AdvertisedExtra: Marisa Tomei features quite prominently on the movie poster, and looks her usual classy self. In reality, she appears briefly in one scene as a disheveled drug addict.

* HumiliationConga: After "The Misbehavers", Ted calls up his co-worker Betty to bring her up to speed (first having a conversation with her equally [[CloudCuckooLander "loopy"]] roommate).

* ImpossibleMissionCollapse: The whole segment "The Man From Hollywood" is this: ten or so minutes of Tarantino-style SeinfeldianConversation as the Hollywood execs (and girl) explain the backstory of the situation at hand and convince Ted to help them with the bet (''especially'' because they are all rip-roaring drunk and don't want to chop off more than was betted upon accidentally), followed by the bet lasting exactly one second as the lighter fails to work on its first flick and Ted immediately (and too quickly for someone to tell him to stop) performs his role as the "hatchet man".
* InsistentTerminology: It's not champagne; it's ''Cristal.'' And Cristal is not "good"--it's ''fucking good.'' Also, what is very clearly a meat cleaver is referred to as a "hatchet".

* NewYearHasCome

* InsistentTerminology: It's not champagne; it's ''Cristal.'' And Cristal is not "good"--it's ''fucking good.''

* CryingWolf: The reason Ted doesn't believe the kids when they call him to report an actual emergency.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: An old retiring bellhop advises Ted to "stay clear of night clerks, kids, hookers and married arguments". Naturally, over the night Ted is going to encounter all of 'em.

* BerserkButton: Don't call Ted "Theodore".

* VomitIndiscretionShot: When investigating a smell coming from Room 309, the little girl removes the mattress to discover the "putrid rotting corpse of a dead whore." Ted then does his best [[Film/TheExorcist Regan Macneil]] impression.

* LargeHam: Tim Roth, throughout the film ([[JustifiedTrope justified]], as it allows to keep the consistently light comedic tone even during the sequences that would otherwise come off as spooky). Siegfried. Creator/BruceWillis. Paul Calderon. The second and the fourth episodes are WorldOfHam, really.

* LargeHam: Quentin Tarantino. Tim Roth. Bruce Willis. Siegfried.

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* AdamWesting: Antonio Banderas plays a parody of his usual Mexican BadAss role.

''Honeymoon Suite - The Missing Ingredient''

''Room 404 - The Wrong Man''

Written and directed by Alexandre Rockwell

''Room 309 - The Misbehavers''

''Penthouse - The Man from Hollywood''

After a brief phone call to his boss to be let off for the night, Ted ends up making one last stop. Chester Rush is a famous director (played by Creator/QuentinTarantino) holding a private party with some of his buddies from the business. After seeing an old episode of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' where a man [[{{Yubitsume}} bets his little finger]] he can start a lighter ten times in a row, they decide to replicate it. They want to pay Ted $1,000 to be the hatchet man.

Written and directed by Creator/QuentinTarantino.

''Four Rooms'' is a 1995 BlackComedy RoundRobin {{Anthology}} film consisting of four segments. Ted is a young ([[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} and rather loopy]]) bellhop working at a once famous Los Angeles hotel that has fallen from grace and become a haven for criminals and creeps. On New Years Eve, he ends up with an interesting set of clientèle as the only employee on staff. HilarityEnsues.

'''''Four Rooms''''' is a 1995 BlackComedy RoundRobin {{Anthology}} film consisting of four segments. Ted is a young ([[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} and rather loopy]]) bellhop working at a once famous Los Angeles hotel that has fallen from grace and become a haven for criminals and creeps. On New Years Eve, he ends up with an interesting set of clientèle as the only employee on staff. HilarityEnsues.

'''Honeymoon Suite - The Missing Ingredient'''

'''Room 404 - The Wrong Man'''

'''Room 309 - The Misbehavers'''

'''Penthouse - The Man From Hollywood'''

* TheCameo: BruceWillis refused payment money (and credit) for his role in "The Man From Hollywood" as a thank you to Tarantino for casting him in ''Film/PulpFiction''. He wasn't credited because he violated SAG rules by doing the gig for free.

* TheCameo: BruceWillis refused money (and credit) for his role in "The Man From Hollywood" as a thank you to Tarantino for casting him in ''Film/PulpFiction''. The reason he wasn't credited is because he violated SAG rules by doing the gig for free.

* {{Sex As Rite-Of-Passage}}: One of the rare female examples in "The Missing Ingredient".

'''Ted:''' ''[remaining calm]'' Well most recently, there's Room 309. There's this scary Mexican gangster dude poking his finger in my chest. There's his hooligan kids snapping their fingers at me. [[ItMakesSenseInContext There's the putrid rotting corpse of a dead whore inside the mattress.]] There's a big fat needle, from God knows where, stuck in my leg, infecting me with God knows what. There's rooms blazing afire. And then there's me. Walking out the door. Right fucking now. Buenos noches!

* TheCameo: BruceWillis refused money (and credit) for his role in "The Man From Hollywood" as a thank you to Tarantino for casting him in ''Film/PulpFiction''.
** Actually, the reason he wasn't credited is because he violated SAG rules by doing the gig for free.

* {{Oner}}: A several minute long shot opens "The Man From Hollywood", immediately followed by an even longer one. And the start of the end credits.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ted plans to pull this after "The Misbehavers". And he immediately does on "The Man From Hollywood", a lot richer, a bit happier, and happoing chopped off the finger of a Hollywood big-shot.

* LargeHam: Quentin Tarantino.

* KubrickStare: Antonio Banderas.