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* SleekHighRiseApartment: After spending the film in the quaint village of Ferness, Mac returns home and finds his yuppie apartment to be [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand strangely unfamiliar]].
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Mac was calling to town to reconnect. That was so obvious.
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* GainaxEnding: The film ends with the small town's only phone ringing forlornly, with no overt explanation as to what that's supposed to mean.
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* LocalSoundtrack: PopStarComposer of the film's score, Mark Knopfler was born in Scotland. (He also spent most of his childhood in Newcastle. "Going Home" from the film's soundtrack is pretty much tied with "The Blaydon Races" for the title of Geordie National Anthem.)
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* HotScientist: Marina, and while Mac only {{Male Gaze}}s her once, Danny becomes enamored with her, at one point kissing her (webbed) feet.
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* WhosYourDaddy: Mac asks a gang of punks whose baby is with them (the mother being the one female punk in town). They just look at each other.
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* WhosYourDaddy: Mac asks a gang of punks locals whose baby is with them (the mother being the one female punk in town).is never determined). They just look at each other.
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[[caption-width-right:300: Film poster depicting Mac, left, and Happer, right.]]
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[[caption-width-right:300: US Film poster depicting Mac, left, and Happer, right.]]
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* AndStarring: "And Burt Lancaster." In spite of the poster's picture he's not the main character, but he is the biggest name and his role is one of the most important to the plot.
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* AndStarring: "And Burt Lancaster." In spite of the US poster's picture he's not the main character, but he is the biggest name and his role is one of the most important to the plot.plot.
** The poster used in the rest of the world is much more low key, just showing the phonebox and Mac with his trousers rolled up
** The poster used in the rest of the world is much more low key, just showing the phonebox and Mac with his trousers rolled up
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster text has a whopper. [[spoiler: In the end, everyone listed wins. The only character who doesn't get what he wants, [=McIntyre=], isn't mentioned]]. Also, Burt Lancaster's role is secondary (though crucial to the plot), whereas he is featured most prominently on the poster.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The US poster text has a whopper. [[spoiler: In the end, everyone listed wins. The only character who doesn't get what he wants, [=McIntyre=], isn't mentioned]]. Also, Burt Lancaster's role is secondary (though crucial to the plot), whereas he is featured most prominently on the US poster.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Happer. He has no wife or children, shows no interest in romance at all, is DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife, and only seems to find it when he meets another man around his age. The film never really delves into that question, however.
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Society Marches On has been renamed; cleaning out misuse and moving examples
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* SocietyMarchesOn: Americans in UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's America were probably shocked and amused at Soviet citizen Victor's capitalistic views ("I'm a cash man, Gordon..."). From a modern perspective, we now know Soviet citizens were constantly looking for the extra buck.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Mac is a suit-and-tie guy who prefers impersonal communication and isolation ("I'm a Telex man"). As the film goes on, Mac loses the business suit, starts growing a five o'clock shadow, loses his pager, and by the climax is unshaven and wears a sweater, looking like a beachcomber like Ben. Happer doesn't recognize him, thinking Danny is Mac -- and one of his final instructions to Mac is to get a shave. Back in his apartment, he's wearing his suit-and-tie again, but no longer feels like a businessman, and actually feels lonely.
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* ContrivedCoincidences: The film is full of them, but done deliberately, to give it a FairyTale feel.
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* ContrivedCoincidences: ContrivedCoincidence: The film is full of them, but done deliberately, to give it a FairyTale feel.
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* ContrivedCoincidences: The film is full of them, but done deliberately, to give it a FairyTale feel.
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* CreatorCameo: Composer Alan Clark is one of the Ace Tones.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Happer's company gets the town into a tizzy about selling the land and getting rich, while Happer himself saves the town on a whim while still paying them for land use rights.
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* CurseCutShort: A visual variation: one of Moritz's stunts is to post up HAPPER IS A MOTHERFU in large letters outside Happer's window. Happer closes the curtains before he can finish.
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* MirrorCharacter: Mac, a high-flying oil executive from Houston, and Gordon, a mayor/hotelier/cab driver from Ferness, Scotland. They're both businessmen and at the core want the same thing out of life, the main difference between the two being that Gordon has actually achieved it.
-->'''Mac:''' I'd make a terrific Gordon, Gordon.
-->'''Mac:''' I'd make a terrific Gordon, Gordon.
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* NotSoDifferent:
** Mac, a high-flying oil executive from Houston, and Gordon, a mayor/hotelier/cab driver from Ferness, Scotland. They're both businessmen and at the core want the same thing out of life, the main difference between the two being that Gordon has actually achieved it.
--->'''Mac:''' I'd make a terrific Gordon, Gordon.
** Happer, multibillionaire Texas oil company owner and Ben Knox, beachcomber - they become best friends.
** Mac, a high-flying oil executive from Houston, and Gordon, a mayor/hotelier/cab driver from Ferness, Scotland. They're both businessmen and at the core want the same thing out of life, the main difference between the two being that Gordon has actually achieved it.
--->'''Mac:''' I'd make a terrific Gordon, Gordon.
** Happer, multibillionaire Texas oil company owner and Ben Knox, beachcomber - they become best friends.
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* TheCon: Knox Industries uses a real estate scam to buy out the town. Subverted in that both Knox and the townspeople are more than happy to do the deal. As Victor states, "You can't eat scenery", while Mac muses the townspeople "can ''smell'' the money." Most of the movie is Gordon and Mac haggling over just how ''much'' the townspeople are to be paid.
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* RealEstateScam: Knox Industries and their plan to buy out the town. Subverted in that both Knox and the townspeople are more than happy to do the deal. As Victor states, "You can't eat scenery", while Mac muses the townspeople "can ''smell'' the money." Most of the movie is Gordon and Mac haggling over just how ''much'' the townspeople are to be paid.
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* CentralTheme: Finding out where you belong. The people who are happy are the ones who are comfortable with their role in life, like Gordon and Ben. The unhappy ones, like Mac and Happer, are DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife.
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* TheLeader: Gordon seems to be the town mayor, even though he doesn't list it as one of his jobs. Having a legal degree seems to make him the ''de facto'' leader of the town, however.
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* {{Omniglot}}: Danny, who professes a "facility with languages" and provides Mac with a long list, though Gàidhlig isn't one of them. Mac thinks they're [[GratuitousForeignLanguage all gratuitous]] and cuts him short at one point when Danny starts to say "no" in every one that comes to mind.
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* {{Omniglot}}: Danny, who professes a "facility with languages" and provides Mac with a long list, though Gàidhlig isn't one of them. Mac thinks they're [[GratuitousForeignLanguage all gratuitous]] and cuts him short at one point when Danny starts to say "no" in every one that comes to mind. When Victor arrives, Mac casually asks Danny if he speaks Russian; he replies, "Yeah, that's one of mine."
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* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: The fishermen brag about the high quality lobsters they catch, noting they'll be in the finest restaurants around the world. When asked if they eat lobster too, they chuckle no -- it's too expensive.
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A rather charming film directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Creator/PeterCapaldi (in his film debut) and Creator/BurtLancaster. This thoughtful comedy follows an American oil company executive, "Mac" [=MacIntyre=] (Riegert), who is sent to negotiate with the local inhabitants of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] town of Ferness because their home lies on prime coastline for new petroleum and chemical processing facilities.
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A rather charming 1983 film directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Creator/PeterCapaldi (in his film debut) and Creator/BurtLancaster. This thoughtful comedy comedy-drama follows an American oil company executive, "Mac" [=MacIntyre=] (Riegert), who is sent to negotiate with the local inhabitants of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] town of Ferness because their home lies on prime coastline for new petroleum and chemical processing facilities.
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* WhosYourDaddy: Mac asks a gang of punks whose baby is with them (the mother being the one female punk in town). They just look at each other.
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* DesperatelySeekingForAPurposeInLife: Happer is desperately lonely and unsatisfied despite his wealth, which Moritz points out. Family and romance evidently isn't the answer for him, since he seeks neither. He focuses on astronomy because he feels it's his immortality.
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* DesperatelySeekingForAPurposeInLife: DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife: Happer is desperately lonely and unsatisfied despite his wealth, which Moritz points out. Family and romance evidently isn't the answer for him, since he seeks neither. He focuses on astronomy because he feels it's his immortality.
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* DesperatelySeekingAMissionInLife: Happer is desperately lonely and unsatisfied despite his wealth, which Moritz points out. Family and romance evidently isn't the answer for him, since he seeks neither. He focuses on astronomy because he feels it's his immortality.
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* DesperatelySeekingAMissionInLife: DesperatelySeekingForAPurposeInLife: Happer is desperately lonely and unsatisfied despite his wealth, which Moritz points out. Family and romance evidently isn't the answer for him, since he seeks neither. He focuses on astronomy because he feels it's his immortality.
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* DesperatelySeekingAMissionInLife: Happer is desperately lonely and unsatisfied despite his wealth, which Moritz points out. Family and romance evidently isn't the answer for him, since he seeks neither. He focuses on astronomy because he feels it's his immortality.
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%% * BunnyEarsLawyer: Felix Happer.
* CaptainObvious: "You speak languages?"
* CaptainObvious: "You speak languages?"
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* CaptainObvious: "You speak languages?"
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* EccentricMillionaire: Felix Happer again, CEO of Knox Industries. He's fascinated by astronomy and especially comets as they relate to people's fortunes, and is going through a personal therapy program that involves him being constantly insulted by his therapist.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** Mac adopts a rabbit after Danny hits it with a car. He keeps it in his hotel room -- until the manager finds it and makes it into a delicious supper, leaving Mac aghast, in an in-universe invocation of this trope.
** The Ferness locals are astonished Mac only has ''one'' job.
** In spite of the Cold War, the Ferness locals are friends with a Russian who frequently visits. When someone announces, "The Russians are coming!" it's met with enthusiasm. By comparison, Mac initially reacts to the man's presence with cool distrust.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Mac falls in love with Stella, the wife of Gordon. Although he drunkenly requests that Gordon gives her over to him, he understands that they have no chance and doesn't even bid her farewell when he leaves, presumably because it would be too painful. He pins up a picture of her on his wall]].
* EccentricMillionaire: FelixHapper again, Happer, CEO of Knox Industries. He's fascinated by astronomy and especially comets as they relate to people's fortunes, and is going through a personal therapy program that involves him being constantly insulted by his therapist.
** Mac adopts a rabbit after Danny hits it with a car. He keeps it in his hotel room -- until the manager finds it and makes it into a delicious supper, leaving Mac aghast, in an in-universe invocation of this trope.
** The Ferness locals are astonished Mac only has ''one'' job.
** In spite of the Cold War, the Ferness locals are friends with a Russian who frequently visits. When someone announces, "The Russians are coming!" it's met with enthusiasm. By comparison, Mac initially reacts to the man's presence with cool distrust.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Mac falls in love with Stella, the wife of Gordon. Although he drunkenly requests that Gordon gives her over to him, he understands that they have no chance and doesn't even bid her farewell when he leaves, presumably because it would be too painful. He pins up a picture of her on his wall]].
* EccentricMillionaire: Felix
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* FauxReigner:
** Mac, unintentionally. He gets the assigment because the management think he's Scottish. Actually, his parents were Hungarian immigrants who took the name [=MacIntyre=] because they thought it sounded more American.
** The Reverend Murdo [=McPherson=] turns out to be an African who "came here as a student and never got away."
* ForeignQueasine: It's an utterly usual dish, but not from Mac's perspective. [[spoiler: "You don't eat things with names!"]]
** Mac, unintentionally. He gets the assigment because the management think he's Scottish. Actually, his parents were Hungarian immigrants who took the name [=MacIntyre=] because they thought it sounded more American.
** The Reverend Murdo [=McPherson=] turns out to be an African who "came here as a student and never got away."
* ForeignQueasine: It's an utterly usual dish, but not from Mac's perspective. [[spoiler: "You don't eat things with names!"]]
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* GainaxEnding: Marina may be a mermaid, Ben may be [[spoiler: descended from the original owners of the oil company that wants to build over his beach]], and the last shots of the film are a transition from the busy energy of Houston to a shot of the small town's only phone ringing forlornly.
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* GainaxEnding: Marina may be a mermaid, Ben may be [[spoiler: descended from the original owners of the oil company that wants to build over his beach]], and the last shots of the The film are a transition from the busy energy of Houston to a shot of ends with the small town's only phone ringing forlornly.forlornly, with no overt explanation as to what that's supposed to mean.
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* GoingNative: Mac arrives in Ferness in a business suit and tie. As the film progresses, Mac goes more and more casual; when Happer arrives, he's wearing a sweater and is unshaved.
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* GoingNative: Mac arrives in Ferness as an ultra-modern businessman in a business suit and tie. As the film progresses, Mac goes more and more casual; when casual and acclimates to the slow, rustic culture of the town. When Happer arrives, he's wearing a sweater and is unshaved.unshaved. He returns to his home looking very uncomfortable in the city, wearing his original attire.
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* MagicRealism: Furness is a classic quirky setting: Full of EccentricTownsfolk, and a place not far off from a military bombing range yet full of natural beauty from the land to the sea to the sky. Moreover, it seems to attract other unusual people: Marina may well be a case of OurMermaidsAreDifferent, and EccentricMillionaire Happer finds a soulmate in Ben the beachcomber, which makes some poetic sense given that [[spoiler: Ben ''Knox'' may be a direct descendant of the founders of Knox Industries]]. It ''could'' be a ContrivedCoincidence, but... (Some critics called the film a "not-quite-a-fairy-tale set in a quaint seaside Scottish village named Ferness.")
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** Marina and Stella. Marina is obvious (the sea), but since Danny suggests to Happer a "Sea and Sky Institute", Stella (star) is more meaningful.
** The surname "Knox" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox is a particularly famous one in Scotland]], though Ben shares nothing in common with that figure.
* MeaningfulName:
** Marina and Stella. Marina is obvious (the sea), but since Danny suggests to Happer a "Sea and Sky Institute", Stella (star) is more meaningful.
** The surname "Knox" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox is a particularly famous one in Scotland]], though Ben shares nothing in common with that figure.
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* MagicRealism: Furness Ferness is a classic quirky setting: Full of EccentricTownsfolk, and a place not far off from a military bombing range yet full of natural beauty from the land to the sea to the sky. Moreover, it seems to attract other unusual people: Marina may well be a case of OurMermaidsAreDifferent, and EccentricMillionaire Happer finds a soulmate in Ben the beachcomber, which makes some poetic sense given that [[spoiler: Ben ''Knox'' may be a direct descendant of the founders of Knox Industries]]. It ''could'' be a ContrivedCoincidence, but... (Some critics called the film a "not-quite-a-fairy-tale set in a quaint seaside Scottish village named Ferness.")
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**MeaningfulName: Marina and Stella. Marina is obvious (the sea), but since Danny suggests to Happer a "Sea and Sky Institute", Stella (star) is more meaningful.
** * {{Motif}}: Phones. In the office, everyone is on the phone. Mac keeps talking about he's a "telex man," and calls people in the very next room, whom he can see through the window, rather than just talk to them in person. Mac's proclivity for phone conversations is challenged when he goes to Ferness, which has only a single pay phone. In the end, Mac has returned to Texas but clearly pines to be back in Ferness. The surname "Knox" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox last shot is a particularly famous one in Scotland]], though Ben shares nothing in common of the town's pay phone ringing with that figure.no one there to answer, presumably Mac trying to reconnect.
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* ValuesDissonance:
** Mac adopts a rabbit after Danny hits it with a car. He keeps it in his hotel room -- until the manager finds it and makes it into a delicious supper, leaving Mac aghast, in an in-universe invocation of this trope.
** The Ferness locals are astonished Mac only has ''one'' job.
** Mac adopts a rabbit after Danny hits it with a car. He keeps it in his hotel room -- until the manager finds it and makes it into a delicious supper, leaving Mac aghast, in an in-universe invocation of this trope.
** The Ferness locals are astonished Mac only has ''one'' job.
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* MagicRealism: Furness is a classic quirky setting: Full of EccentricTownsfolk, and a place not far off from a military bombing range yet full of natural beauty from the land to the sea to the sky. Moreover, it seems to attract other unusual people: Marina may well be a case of OurMermaidsAreDifferent, and EccentricMillionaire Happer finds a soulmate in Ben the beachcomber, which makes some poetic sense given that [[spoiler: Ben ''Knox'' may be a direct descendant of the founders of Knox Industries]]. It ''could'' be a ContrivedCoincidence, but...
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* MagicRealism: Furness is a classic quirky setting: Full of EccentricTownsfolk, and a place not far off from a military bombing range yet full of natural beauty from the land to the sea to the sky. Moreover, it seems to attract other unusual people: Marina may well be a case of OurMermaidsAreDifferent, and EccentricMillionaire Happer finds a soulmate in Ben the beachcomber, which makes some poetic sense given that [[spoiler: Ben ''Knox'' may be a direct descendant of the founders of Knox Industries]]. It ''could'' be a ContrivedCoincidence, but... (Some critics called the film a "not-quite-a-fairy-tale set in a quaint seaside Scottish village named Ferness.")
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* CoolCar: Mac carries a picture of his [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_930#Flatnose_(Slantnose_930S) Porsche 930]].
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* CoolCar: Mac carries a picture of his [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_930#Flatnose_(Slantnose_930S) Porsche 930]].930]], which he is driving during the opening credits.
