History Film / ShredderOrpheus

* MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: Axel is a grizzled, tough-talking war veteran and the most masculine of the prominent Grey Zoners, Razoreus is a FeminineBoy who wear bright colors and is the youngest and most emotionally sensitive of the trio, and Scratch is described in-movie as androgyne; she identifies as female and shreds with the boys, with her design and clothes being unisex.

* HeartbeatSoundtrack: When Eurydice is killed, a heartbeat sound plays over shots of her body and the guests reacting to the fall, ending as Hades' goons carry her away.

* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Subverted when Hades' goons try to kidnap Eurydice by grabbing her while she's in the middle of coughing up bad food. Eurydice fights off her attacker and slaps him in the face, forcing them to hold her at gunpoint instead.

* SettingUpdate: From Ancient Greece to a futuristic dystopia with 1980s flair.

* CoolBoard: Orpheus and the rebels all ride skateboards, and a fair bit of the film's runtime is dedicated to shredding as a means of self-expression, catharsis, and rebellion.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: In the second half of the movie, Linus is increasingly frustrated with Orpheus's depression and moodiness after losing Eurydice and tries to force the issue to no avail. The closest thing to a therapist the Grey Zone offers is a traveling oracle, and Orpheus agrees to see her in the hopes of finding a way back to Eurydice.

* EverybodyHatesHades: Hades and Persephone are portrayed as evil broadcast managers who brainwash and enslave the masses via their TV network.

* CrypticBackgroundReference: Back in 1986, a nebulous year in relation to the movie's timeline, Orpheus was a member of "Latent Death Wish," a black metal band.

* EnforcedMethodActing: In-universe. [[spoiler:To coax a better performance out of Eurydice, the EBN lures Orpheus back to the Underworld with the chance to save her, rigs the resulting game show to kill him, and has her reunited with him in death. Both Hades and Persephone are pleased with her work]].

* ProductPlacement: Boxes of Shredded Wheat are seen and stolen in a mid-movie scene. According to the filmmakers, the cereal was supplied instead of money, doubling as a pun on the title of the film.

* AdaptationExpansion: In adapting the myth, the film goes into detail over Orpheus and Eurydice's love for one another and the lives of the people around them, the resulting grief after Orpheus turns around, and even gives him another chance to save Eurydice.

* AdaptationExpansion: The film goes into detail over what happens after Orpheus turns around and even gives him another chance to save Eurydice.

* RuggedScar: Scratch has a red, raw scar on her neck from when she tried to skate the EBN parking garage, using her scarf to cover it up most of the time. She reveals it to Orpheus as proof of how dangerous the garage is.

** In the second half of the film, Linus frequently curses as he attempts to get Orpheus to move on from Eurydice and go to scheduled gigs, to no avail.

* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: As in the myth, Orpheus must rescue his wife, Eurydice, from Hades, here an evil Underworld broadcasting corporation.

* NeckLift: When Orpheus tries the EBN parking garage without the special skateboard, Cerberus grabs him by the throat and lifts him up before shoving him against a wall, and he's barely able to escape. It's implied Scratch's neck scar is from a similar incident.

In the Grey Zone, the 99 percent is barely hanging on, distracting themselves from the cost of survival with the soothing rays of Hades' Euthanasia Broadcast Network, or EBN. Looking to boost youth ratings to hasten the effects of his deadly radio signal that sucks the souls out of the living, Hades has his crew murder the dancer Eurydice and take her to the broadcasting underworld.

* InUniverseCamera: Early on in the film, an EGN cameraman films Eurydice's dancing and Orpheus's attempt to stop the filming, which is seen through the camera's lens. Hades, Persephone, and the EBN producer are later seen reviewing the footage as they debate whether to force Eurydice to join the network.

* BeneathTheMask: At Orpheus's wedding and when trying to negotiate gigs over the phone Linus is high-energy and camp, but in private conversations with Orpheus he's much more serious and reflective, sincerely expressing his frustrations and begging him to get help.