History Film / TheBrothersBloom

Directed by Creator/RianJohnson, ''The Brothers Bloom'' is a 2008 caper film about two brothers who've worked together as con men for their entire lives. At the top of their game, the younger brother Bloom (Creator/AdrienBrody) finds himself increasingly reluctant to do shady deeds. His older brother Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) persuades him to do one last con, accompanied by their regular accomplice Bang Bang (Creator/RinkoKikuchi), with eccentric heiress Penelope Stamp (Creator/RachelWeisz) as the mark. Naturally, Bloom falls head over heels [[InLoveWithTheMark in love with Penelope.]]

* BilingualBonus: Diamond Dog compares the big con to navigating the labyrinth. In the next scene, the large neon sign in Cyrillic script behind him reveals that the bar they were drinking in was called "The Labyrinth."

* CallBack: Early in the film after a heist, Bloom tries to go into solitude only to be found by Stephen, who states that he learned of Bloom's whereabouts from Bang Bang. Later, when Penelope locates Bloom after leaving him three months earlier, she states the same...[[LiteralTrope and that she and Bang Bang traded phone numbers]].

* KarmicDeath: Stephen lived for the day he would commit the perfect con and, true to his word (see {{Foreshadowing}}) dies on this very day.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Whether Bang Bang [[spoiler: died in that car bomb explosion or simply used it to fake her death]] is never truly made clear. The latter scenario is strongly implied by Bloom, though.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Whether Bang Bang [[spoiler: died in that car bomb explosion or simply used it to fake her death]] is never truly made clear.

* KarmicDeath: Stephen lived for the day he would commit the perfect con and, true to word (see {{Foreshadowing}}) dies on this very day.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Bang Bang decides to quit shortly after Penelope pays the ransom on Stephen's life. [[ spoiler: Unfortunately, she doesn't get very far.]]

Directed by Creator/RianJohnson, ''The Brothers Bloom'' is a caper film about two brothers who've worked together as con men for their entire lives. At the top of their game, the younger brother Bloom (Creator/AdrienBrody) finds himself increasingly reluctant to do shady deeds. His older brother Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) persuades him to do one last con, accompanied by their regular accomplice Bang Bang (Creator/RinkoKikuchi), with eccentric heiress Penelope Stamp (Creator/RachelWeisz) as the mark. Naturally, Bloom falls head over heels [[InLoveWithTheMark in love with Penelope.]]

Directed by Creator/RianJohnson, ''The Brothers Bloom'' is a caper film about two brothers who've worked together as con men for their entire lives. At the top of their game, the younger brother Bloom (Creator/AdrienBrody) finds himself increasingly reluctant to do shady deeds. His older brother Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) persuades him to do one last con, accompanied by their regular accomplice Bang Bang (Creator/RinkoKikuchi), with eccentric heiress Penelope Stamp (RachelWeisz) as the mark. Naturally, Bloom falls head over heels [[InLoveWithTheMark in love with Penelope.]]

* TheCastShowoff: RachelWeisz doing practically ''everything'', and Rinko Kikuchi gets a karaoke scene.

* TheMark: Penelope Stamp. Con men aren't supposed to fall InLoveWithTheMark, but this is RachelWeisz we're talking about.

* HatShop: Bloom's bowler compliments his kind, dependable personality, while Stephen's fedora represents his more headstrong tendencies.

* ActionGirl: Bang-Bang, the "muscle" of the group, is a slender Asian woman who shows a proficiency with firearms and explosives.

* DeadpanSnarker: Bang-Bang. See FacialDialogue below.

* FacialDialogue: Bang has only three lines of actual dialogue. The rest of her communication is through expression and body language.

* MadBomber: How do you think Bang-Bang got her name?

** Bang likes explosives.

** Two of Bang's three words of dialogue are "Fuck me!" when they accidentally blow up part of the castle.

* SilentBob: Bang-Bang is expressive enough to have largely evolved past the need to speak. Interestingly, the actress had previously played another mute character in ''Film/{{Babel}}''.
* SilentSnarker: Bang conveys a lot of attitude without dialogue.

* FacialDialogue: Remember how we mentioned that Bang-Bang was a DeadpanSnarker? Yeah... she manages to do this using nothing but body language, facial expressions, and only three words of spoken dialogue. And one of these words is a ''{{Drink Order}}''!

* MeaningfulName: Bloom develops from a dependent prop in his brother's cons to his own person. The brother blooms.

* PrecisionFStrike: The other two of Bang-Bang's three spoken words (other than the aforementioned DrinkOrder), is "Fuck me!" when they accidentally blow up part of the castle. Penelope's line, "I think you're constipated... in your ''fucking'' soul," could also count.
* RiddleForTheAges: We never find out what Penelope said to the police to get them to release her.

** SilentSnarker: No, seriously. Go read FacialDialogue below then come back here. Trust us.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Bloom and Stephen are talking about Penelope on the boat to Greece, Bloom mentions that she seems like a character Stephen created...

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Alluded to (and ultimately subverted) in the DVD commentary. Director Rian Johnson mentions that he's polling Twitter for questions that people want answered during the commentary, and comments that doing so will sound ridiculous in five years, comparing it to as if he'd talked about Friendster on the Brick commentary. 6 years later, and Twitter is still alive and well.

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* EasterEgg: Much like in the DVD for ''{{Brick}}'', the Brothers Bloom DVD has an easter egg in the form of one of Rian Johnson's early short films, in this case a silent comedy in the style of Buster Keaton. To find it, put the cursor on languages (but don't select it), press left three times, and right once.
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Con Men Have Standards]]: Up until the job with Penelope, the Brothers Bloom have never targeted women with their cons.

-->-- Part of the opening narration for ''The Brothers Bloom''

* TechnologMarchesOn: Alluded to (and ultimately subverted) in the DVD commentary. Director Rian Johnson mentions that he's polling Twitter for questions that people want answered during the commentary, and comments that doing so will sound ridiculous in five years, comparing it to as if he'd talked about Friendster on the Brick commentary. 6 years later, and Twitter is still alive and well.

* AMinorKidtroduction: Bloom and Stephen are introduced at ages 10 and 13, showing them bouncing from foster family to foster family.

Directed by Creator/RianJohnson, ''The Brothers Bloom'' is a caper film about two brothers who've worked together as con men for their entire lives. At the top of their game, the younger brother Bloom (Creator/AdrienBrody) finds himself increasingly reluctant to do shady deeds. His older brother Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) persuades him to do one last con, with eccentric heiress Penelope Stamp (RachelWeisz) as the mark. Naturally, Bloom falls head over heels [[InLoveWithTheMark in love with Penelope.]]

* StrangeGirl: Penelope embodies this trope.