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* AwardBaitSong: A lower-key but still award-baity Oscar nominee from 1979 was this film's theme "It's Easy to Say". It's a mellow, piano-based SillyLoveSong with touching lyrics -- but it's also important to the story, even though the film is not a musical, as it's the song used by George (a composer) to [[spoiler:reconcile with his estranged girlfriend at the end of the film]].
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* AwardBaitSong: A lower-key but still award-baity Oscar nominee from 1979 was this film's theme nominee: "It's Easy to Say". It's a mellow, piano-based SillyLoveSong with touching lyrics -- but it's also important to the story, even though the film is not a musical, as it's the song used by George (a composer) to [[spoiler:reconcile with his estranged girlfriend at the end of the film]].
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* GenreDeconstruction: George learns his fantasy girl is exactly that. Jenny isn't a bad person [[spoiler: but George is sorely disappointed to realize that he threw away a relationship with a decent and loving woman for someone who only sees him as "a casual lay", as she puts it.]]
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* GenreDeconstruction: George learns his fantasy girl is exactly that. Jenny isn't a bad person person, [[spoiler: but George is sorely disappointed to realize that he threw away a relationship with a decent and loving woman for someone who only sees him as "a casual lay", as she puts it.]]it]].
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: This film helped popularize/codify the "protagonist pursues younger lover" version of this trope, albeit with GenreDeconstruction involved (see above). At one point, George and Sam's mutual friend Hugh discusses George's recent behavior with her and notes that, in effect, George is going through a phase.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: This film helped popularize/codify the "protagonist pursues younger lover" version of this trope, albeit with GenreDeconstruction involved (see above). At one point, George and Sam's mutual friend Hugh discusses George's recent behavior with her and notes that, in effect, George is going through a phase.
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:George gets to hook up with Jenny, but he's not too thrilled about it anymore once he learns Jenny and David are in an open marriage.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: As it turns out, [[spoiler:George gets to hook up with Jenny, but he's not too thrilled about it anymore once he learns Jenny and David are in an open marriage.]]marriage]].
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* LustObject: Jenny becomes the sexual obsession of George.
* ModestyTowel: Jenny wears only a tiny towel when answering the door to George.
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* StalkerWithACrush: George, as soon as he meets Jenny. This is a bit of [[invoked]] ValuesDissonance, as this wasn't taken nearly as seriously at the time.
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* SexinessScore: TropeCodifier. The main plot has George, a middle-aged man going through a HollywoodMidlifeCrisis, attempting to seduce Jenny Hanley, an [[HeadTurningBeauty incredibly beautiful woman]] whom he rates as a 10 OnAScaleFromOneToTen. The movie's success greatly popularized the trope giving a "rating" to characters in media.
* SexySurfacingShot: One of the girls George spies on is SkinnyDipping in the pool, and there's a gratuitous shot of her climbing out of the water.
* StalkerWithACrush: George, as soon as he meetsJenny.Jenny, to the point he's willing to follow her and her newlywed husband to Mexico — their honeymoon destination — to try and hook up with her. This is a bit of [[invoked]] ValuesDissonance, as this wasn't taken nearly as seriously at the time.
* SexySurfacingShot: One of the girls George spies on is SkinnyDipping in the pool, and there's a gratuitous shot of her climbing out of the water.
* StalkerWithACrush: George, as soon as he meets
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* GenreDeconstruction: George learns his fantasy girl is exactly that. Jenny isn't a bad person [[spoiler: but George is sorely disappointed to realize that he threw away a relationship with a decent and loving woman for someone who only sees him as "a casual lay", as she puts it.]]
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* RealityEnsues: George learns his fantasy girl is exactly that. Jenny isn't a bad person [[spoiler: but George is sorely disappointed to realize that he threw away a relationship with a decent and loving woman for someone who only sees him as "a casual lay", as she puts it.]]
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* AntiHero:
** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
** Jenny could also count, as at the end she has no problem in sleeping with George even though she's married. [[spoiler:Subverted when after the act it's revealed that Jenny and her husband have an open relationship, much to George's dismay.]]
** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
** Jenny could also count, as at the end she has no problem in sleeping with George even though she's married. [[spoiler:Subverted when after the act it's revealed that Jenny and her husband have an open relationship, much to George's dismay.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart:
** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
** Jenny could also count, as at the end she has no problem in sleeping with George even though she's married. [[spoiler:Subverted when after the act it's revealed that Jenny and her husband have an open relationship, much to George's dismay.]]
** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
** Jenny could also count, as at the end she has no problem in sleeping with George even though she's married. [[spoiler:Subverted when after the act it's revealed that Jenny and her husband have an open relationship, much to George's dismay.]]
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* AntiHero:
** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
** Jenny could also count, as at the end she has no problem in sleeping with George even though she's married. [[spoiler:Subverted when after the act it's revealed that Jenny and her husband have an open relationship, much to George's dismay.]]
** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
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** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
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** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
** Jenny could also count, as at the end she has no problem in sleeping with George even though she's married. [[spoiler:Subverted when after the act it's revealed that Jenny and her husband have an open relationship, much to George's dismay.]]
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This film is BestKnownForTheFanservice, as Bo's sexy one-piece swimsuit and cornrow-festooned hair made her a locker-room-poster sensation in the late seventies, dethroning the previous reigning pin-up queen Creator/FarrahFawcett.
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This film is BestKnownForTheFanservice, as Bo's sexy one-piece swimsuit and cornrow-festooned hair made her a locker-room-poster sensation in the late seventies, dethroning the previous reigning pin-up queen Creator/FarrahFawcett.
Creator/FarrahFawcett. But her career wasn't the only one boosted by it -- for most audiences outside of the U.K., this was their introduction to Creator/DudleyMoore, who subsequently toplined a clutch of [[RomanticComedy romantic comedies]] in the early 1980s.
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* GaveUpTooSoon: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:George's neighbor spies with a telescope on George and Samantha talking. He angrily says he's tired of always giving George a show and getting nothing in return and goes to bed. Almost as soon as he does, George and Samantha reconcile and start having sex.]]
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* RealityEnsues: George learns his fantasy girl is exactly that. Jenny isn't a bad person [[spoiler: but George is sorely disappointed to realize that he threw away a relationship with a decent and loving woman for someone who only sees him as "a casual lay", as she puts it.]]
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* DirtyOldMan: George, no doubt. He's in his fourties, but has no problem going after Jenny, who going by her actress's actual age at the time, is in her early twenties.
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* DirtyOldMan: George, no doubt. He's in his fourties, forties, but has no problem going after Jenny, who going by her actress's actual age at the time, is in her early twenties.
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->''"A temptingly tasteful comedy for adults who can count."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
''10'' is a 1979 romantic comedy written, directed and co-produced by Creator/BlakeEdwards for Creator/OrionPictures.
The film follows musical composer George Webber (Creator/DudleyMoore) as he goes through a midlife crisis. Much to the chagrin of his actress girlfriend Samantha Taylor (Creator/JulieAndrews), George starts ogling younger women and conspicuously spies on his next-door neighbor who frequently hosts [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy orgiastic parties]].
Suddenly he spots an exotically beautiful young woman by the name of Jenny (Creator/BoDerek), who's on her way to her wedding. George then makes it a goal of his to have an affair with her, even though she's newly married, and even if he has to follow her and her husband to Mexico on their honeymoon.
This film is BestKnownForTheFanservice, as Bo's sexy one-piece swimsuit and cornrow-festooned hair made her a locker-room-poster sensation in the late seventies, dethroning the previous reigning pin-up queen Creator/FarrahFawcett.
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!!This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* AntiHero:
** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
** Jenny could also count, as at the end she has no problem in sleeping with George even though she's married. [[spoiler:Subverted when after the act it's revealed that Jenny and her husband have an open relationship, much to George's dismay.]]
* BoleroEffect: Music/MauriceRavel's signature piece is, according to Jenny, the perfect music to make love to. In this case, the effect may well be the... um... climax.
* DirtyOldMan: George, no doubt. He's in his fourties, but has no problem going after Jenny, who going by her actress's actual age at the time, is in her early twenties.
* DistractedByTheSexy: George is so distracted when a car bearing Jenny drives by that he drives right into another car. A police car.
* LuckyCharmsTitle: Officially, the quotation marks around "10" are part of the film title.
* MsFanservice: Take a wild guess.
* OneWordTitle: Also a TitleByNumber.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Takes place on a regular basis next door to George's house.
* ThePeepingTom: George ''and'' his next door neighbor with their telescopes. They know they're spying on each other to boot.
* {{Polyamory}}: [[spoiler:Jenny and David have an open relationship, as George eventually learns to his dismay.]]
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Jenny's cornrows had been a popular hairstyle for black people throughout most of the seventies.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:George gets to hook up with Jenny, but he's not too thrilled about it anymore once he learns Jenny and David are in an open marriage.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: George, as soon as he meets Jenny. This is a bit of [[invoked]] ValuesDissonance, as this wasn't taken nearly as seriously at the time.
* TitleByNumber: Also a OneWordTitle.
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->''"A temptingly tasteful comedy for adults who can count."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
''10'' is a 1979 romantic comedy written, directed and co-produced by Creator/BlakeEdwards for Creator/OrionPictures.
The film follows musical composer George Webber (Creator/DudleyMoore) as he goes through a midlife crisis. Much to the chagrin of his actress girlfriend Samantha Taylor (Creator/JulieAndrews), George starts ogling younger women and conspicuously spies on his next-door neighbor who frequently hosts [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy orgiastic parties]].
Suddenly he spots an exotically beautiful young woman by the name of Jenny (Creator/BoDerek), who's on her way to her wedding. George then makes it a goal of his to have an affair with her, even though she's newly married, and even if he has to follow her and her husband to Mexico on their honeymoon.
This film is BestKnownForTheFanservice, as Bo's sexy one-piece swimsuit and cornrow-festooned hair made her a locker-room-poster sensation in the late seventies, dethroning the previous reigning pin-up queen Creator/FarrahFawcett.
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!!This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* AntiHero:
** George, big time, who falls in love with Jenny behind his girlfriend's back.
** Jenny could also count, as at the end she has no problem in sleeping with George even though she's married. [[spoiler:Subverted when after the act it's revealed that Jenny and her husband have an open relationship, much to George's dismay.]]
* BoleroEffect: Music/MauriceRavel's signature piece is, according to Jenny, the perfect music to make love to. In this case, the effect may well be the... um... climax.
* DirtyOldMan: George, no doubt. He's in his fourties, but has no problem going after Jenny, who going by her actress's actual age at the time, is in her early twenties.
* DistractedByTheSexy: George is so distracted when a car bearing Jenny drives by that he drives right into another car. A police car.
* LuckyCharmsTitle: Officially, the quotation marks around "10" are part of the film title.
* MsFanservice: Take a wild guess.
* OneWordTitle: Also a TitleByNumber.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Takes place on a regular basis next door to George's house.
* ThePeepingTom: George ''and'' his next door neighbor with their telescopes. They know they're spying on each other to boot.
* {{Polyamory}}: [[spoiler:Jenny and David have an open relationship, as George eventually learns to his dismay.]]
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Jenny's cornrows had been a popular hairstyle for black people throughout most of the seventies.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:George gets to hook up with Jenny, but he's not too thrilled about it anymore once he learns Jenny and David are in an open marriage.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: George, as soon as he meets Jenny. This is a bit of [[invoked]] ValuesDissonance, as this wasn't taken nearly as seriously at the time.
* TitleByNumber: Also a OneWordTitle.
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