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* BadBadActing: Bigfoot is an aspiring actor who takes an role he can get. He's apparently terrible. One of his few roles is stiffly delivering a sales pitch as the least convincing hippy ever.
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* BadBadActing: Bigfoot is an aspiring actor who takes an any role he can get. He's apparently terrible. One of his few roles is stiffly delivering a sales pitch as the least convincing hippy ever.
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* DeconstructiveParody: Of the Noir. Doc smokes weed instead of drinking whiskey, Shasta Fay is far from a femme fatale, etc.
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* IKnowYouKnowIKnow
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: The first film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel.
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* LecherousLicking / VisualInnuendo: The dialog-free scene in which Bigfoot fellates a popsicle while Doc watches in horrified astonishment.
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* UnrevealAngle: Hope Harlington hands Doc a photo of her baby, which causes him to scream in shock, but we don't see it.
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* UnrevealAngle: Hope Harlington hands Doc a photo of her baby, which causes him to scream in shock, but we don't see it.it.
* VisualInnuendo: Bigfoot sure does enjoy sucking on those frozen bananas...
* VisualInnuendo: Bigfoot sure does enjoy sucking on those frozen bananas...
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* LastSupperSteal: A stoner pizza party is framed to look like The Last Supper, with Coy Harlingen, an innocent party victimized by events, in the center.
* LecherousLicking / VisualInnuendo: The dialog-free scene in which Bigfoot fellates a popsicle while Doc watches in horrified astonishment.
* LecherousLicking / VisualInnuendo: The dialog-free scene in which Bigfoot fellates a popsicle while Doc watches in horrified astonishment.
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* TheOner: The showy [[EpicTrackingShot Epic Tracking Shots]] that have been in every other film of P.T. Anderson's career are absent from this one, but he does have two long takes. The RomanticRain scene with Doc and Shasta (see below) is a long dolly shot. And later in the film, the scene where Shasta seduces Doc runs about six minutes without a cut.
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* StonerFlick: A unique mix of Stoner Flick and Film Noir, with a perpetually high detective and his druggie acquaintances getting caught up in a bunch of criminal conspiracies.
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Doc Sportello (Phoenix) lives in the fictional Southern California town of Gordita Beach in 1970, working as a private investigator while also getting high a lot. One day his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston), shows up and asks him to take on a case regarding her lover, real-estate developer Mickey Wolfmann. Shasta believes Mickey's wife and Mickey's wife's lover are consipiring to take his money and have him committed. Meanwhile, a gangster named Tariq Khalil hires Doc to find Glen Charlock, another ex-convict who owes him money--and happens to be one of Mickey Wolfmann's bodyguards. Doc gets hired on still a third case when Hope Harlingen hires him to find her husband, Coy. Coy's been reported dead, but Hope doesn't believe it.
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Doc Sportello (Phoenix) lives in the fictional Southern California town of Gordita Beach in 1970, working as a private investigator while also getting high a lot. One day his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston), shows up and asks him to take on a case regarding her lover, real-estate developer Mickey Wolfmann. Shasta believes Mickey's wife and Mickey's wife's lover are consipiring to take his money and have him committed. Meanwhile, a gangster named Tariq Khalil hires Doc to find Glen Charlock, another ex-convict who owes him money--and happens to be one of Mickey Wolfmann's bodyguards. Doc gets hired on still a third case when Hope Harlingen hires asks him to find her husband, Coy. Coy's been reported dead, but Hope doesn't believe it.
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''Inherent Vice'' is the film adaptation of [[Literature/InherentVice the book of the same name name]] by Creator/ThomasPynchon. It was directed and written by Creator/PaulThomasAnderson and stars Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, Creator/JoshBrolin, and an AllStarCast. How all-star? Creator/ReeseWitherspoon is in this movie, and she has three scenes.
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* AsideGlance: Doc looks right at the camera right before the film ends. See CallBack below.
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* UnrevealAngle: Hope Harlington hands Doc a photo, which causes him to scream in shock, but we don't see what it is. Or rather, we know what it is--it's a picture of her baby, which she was breastfeeding while on heroin--but we don't see the photo.
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* UnrevealAngle: Hope Harlington hands Doc a photo, photo of her baby, which causes him to scream in shock, but we don't see what it is. Or rather, we know what it is--it's a picture of her baby, which she was breastfeeding while on heroin--but we don't see the photo.it.
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''Inherent Vice'' is the film adaptation of the book of the same name by Creator/ThomasPynchon. It was directed and written by Creator/PaulThomasAnderson and stars Creator/JoaquinPhoenix.
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Doc Sportello (Phoenix) lives in the fictional Southern California town of Gordita Beach in 1970, working as a private investigator while also getting high a lot. One day his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston), shows up and asks him to take on a case regarding her lover, real-estate developer Mickey Wolfmann. Shasta believes Mickey's wife and Mickey's wife's lover are consipiring to take his money and have him committed. Meanwhile, a gangster named Tariq Khalil hires Doc to find Glen Charlock, another ex-convict who owes him money--and happens to be one of Mickey Wolfmann's bodyguards. Doc gets hired on still a third case when Hope Harlingen hires him to find her husband, Coy. Coy's been reported dead, but Hope doesn't believe it.
[[KudzuPlot It gets even more confusing from there.]]
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Doc Sportello (Phoenix) lives in the fictional Southern California town of Gordita Beach in 1970, working as a private investigator while also getting high a lot. One day his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston), shows up and asks him to take on a case regarding her lover, real-estate developer Mickey Wolfmann. Shasta believes Mickey's wife and Mickey's wife's lover are consipiring to take his money and have him committed. Meanwhile, a gangster named Tariq Khalil hires Doc to find Glen Charlock, another ex-convict who owes him money--and happens to be one of Mickey Wolfmann's bodyguards. Doc gets hired on still a third case when Hope Harlingen hires him to find her husband, Coy. Coy's been reported dead, but Hope doesn't believe it.
[[KudzuPlot It gets even more confusing from there.]]
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are approximately 8,479 speaking parts in the film.
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* AsideGlance: Doc looks right at the camera right before the film ends. See CallBack below.
* CallBack: After Doc and Shasta have sex, he asks if this means they're back together, and she says "Of course not". The last scene of the movie has Doc and Shasta driving somewhere in a car. She asks if this means they're back together, and he says "Of course not". Cue AsideGlance and smile.
* ConspiracyKitchenSink: The ''Golden Fang''. The Viggies. The Boards. Mickey Wolfmann. Wherever you look, a new conspiracy pops up.
* ConspiracyKitchenSink: The ''Golden Fang''. The Viggies. The Boards. Mickey Wolfmann. Wherever you look, a new conspiracy pops up.
* CreatorCameo: Several news reports stated, and Josh Brolin also reported, that author Thomas Pynchon has a cameo somewhere in the movie. Nothing has ever been confirmed, not surprisingly given the famously reclusive Pynchon, who has gone decades without being photographed.
* DirtyCop: Bigfoot tries to frame Doc by setting him up with a huge amount of heroin stolen from the ''Golden Fang''.
* DirtyCop: Bigfoot tries to frame Doc by setting him up with a huge amount of heroin stolen from the ''Golden Fang''.
* TheFaceless: Bigfoot's wife's face is never seen during the one scene where she is berating him.
* FacialMarkings / TattooedCrook: Puck the Nazi biker thug has a swastika tattoo on his face.
* FacialMarkings / TattooedCrook: Puck the Nazi biker thug has a swastika tattoo on his face.
* {{Narrator}}: Joanna Newsom's character Sortilège provides narration, although it isn't all that helpful in explaining the plot.
* OminousFog: Doc's first meeting with Coy occurs in a ridiculously fog-bound alley. Lampshaded by the narrator.
* PapaWolf: Without actually admitting it, Crocker Fenway basically admits that he had Rudy Blatnoyd killed for the sexual and other liberties that Blatnoyd took with his daughter.
* OminousFog: Doc's first meeting with Coy occurs in a ridiculously fog-bound alley. Lampshaded by the narrator.
* PapaWolf: Without actually admitting it, Crocker Fenway basically admits that he had Rudy Blatnoyd killed for the sexual and other liberties that Blatnoyd took with his daughter.
* RomanticRain: Shasta sends Doc a postcard reminding him of one time they went out looking to score drugs. This is followed by a flashback with Doc remembering him and Shasta going there in the rain and embracing. Turns out the vacant lot they kissed in front of is where Dr. Blatnoyd and Golden Fang are located.
* TitleDrop: Shasta said she had to get off the ''Golden Fang'' because of her "inherent vice", i.e., an inherent flaw or danger.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: The ''Golden Fang'' is being used by a Chinese heroin-smuggling ring.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: The ''Golden Fang'' is being used by a Chinese heroin-smuggling ring.
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->''" If it's a quiet night out at the beach and your ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire- developer boyfriend, and his wife, and her boyfriend, and a plot to kidnap the billionaire and throw him in a loony bin... Maybe you should just look the other way."''
-->-- Sortilège
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* KudzuPlot: You're supposed to feel utterly overwhelmed by the amount of story, conspiracies and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.
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* FilmNoir: A neo-noir, almost a parody of the genre, set in sunny Southern California and mostly featuring a gang of drugged and sexed-up weirdos.
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* BlatantLies: A man insists that Puck's facial swastika is ''not'' a swastika, but an ancient symbol for good luck. Of course, swastikas ''are'' ancient symbols for good luck, so he's self-contradictory, but Puck is obviously a skinhead thug anyway.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Virtually every character has a bizarre name, as a Pynchon staple. Examples include "Doc" Sportello, "Bigfoot" Bjornsen, Mickey Wolfmann and Riggs Warbling, though many could just as easily qualify as UnfortunateNames.
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* UnfortunateNames: Lots, unless you consider them to be an AwesomeMcCoolname. Examples include Rudy Blatnoyd, Puck Beaverton and Buddy Tubeside.
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* DirtyOldMan: Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd has sex with his very young patients and also screws his young secretary.
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* RunningGag: People calling Doc a "little hippy."
* RunningGag: People calling Doc a "little hippy."
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* TapOnTheHead: Played humorously. After Doc gets coshed, he spins around and awkwardly flails some approximation of a martial arts stance before passing out.
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* BadBadActing: Bigfoot is an aspiring actor who takes an role he can get. He apparently terrible. One of his few roles is stiffly delivering a sales pitch as the least convincing hippy ever.
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* TheStoner: Doc and most of his friends smoke weed. He even gets into an argument with Shasta over it.\
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* UnrevealAngle: Hope Harlington hands Doc a photo, which causes him to scream in shock, but we don't see what it is.
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* CowboyCop: "Bigfoot" is a deconstruction of this trope. He's a famous, hardass cop, but he's also clearly got some serious personal issues. He's constantly looking for bit roles in Hollywood and is a henpecked husband at home.
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* CowboyCop: "Bigfoot" Bigfoot is a deconstruction of this trope. He's a famous, hardass cop, but he's also clearly got some serious personal issues. He's constantly looking for bit roles in Hollywood and is a henpecked husband at home.
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* HenpackedHusband: Bigfoot's wife chews him out, then chews him out some more for being so meek when she chews him out.
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* HenpackedHusband: HenpeckedHusband: Badass Bigfoot's wife chews him out, then chews him out some more for being so meek when she chews him out.
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* BadBadActing: "Bigfoot" Bigfoot is an aspiring actor who takes an role he can get. He apparently terrible. One of his few roles is stiffly delivering a sales pitch as the least convincing hippy ever.ever.
* CowboyCop: "Bigfoot" is a deconstruction of this trope. He's a famous, hardass cop, but he's also clearly got some serious personal issues. He's constantly looking for bit roles in Hollywood and is a henpecked husband at home.
* CowboyCop: "Bigfoot" is a deconstruction of this trope. He's a famous, hardass cop, but he's also clearly got some serious personal issues. He's constantly looking for bit roles in Hollywood and is a henpecked husband at home.
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* FemmeFatale: Shasta is teased as this, but she's ultimately not a bad person.
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* ShoutOut: Many characters greet the main character with, "What's up, Doc?"
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* TheStoner: Doc and most of his friends smoke weed. He even gets into an argument with Shasta over it.
* TheStoner: Doc and most of his friends smoke weed. He even gets into an argument with Shasta over it.
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'''''Inherent Vice''''' is the film adaptation of the book of the same name by Creator/ThomasPynchon. It was directed by Creator/PaulTAnderson and stars Creator/JoaquinPhoenix.
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* PrivateDetective
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* PrivateDetective
