History Film / ThePlaceBeyondThePines

* DisproportionateRetribution: AJ beating the hell out of Jason after latter picks on him at the party.

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** To Film/{{Drive}}: Both characters were stuntmen who used vehicles as part of their employment, both were taken in and given a job in a low paying mechanic job where they found them selves doing a crooked sideline to make extra cash, they were also pretty soft spoken but had an air of understated charisma, they both ended up in a precarious predicament due to their criminal activity as well as getting angry with their boss/friend.
** and in some ways Film/{{Narc}}.

In '''''The Place Beyond the Pines''''' -- a 2013 crime drama directed by Creator/DerekCianfrance, -- RyanGosling plays Luke Glanton, a Motorcycle Stunt Driver in Upstate New York who, due to his own financial situation and that of a previously unknown son, decides to rob a bank to provide for his newfound family. Creator/BradleyCooper plays Avery Cross, a police officer on his trail and EvaMendes is the mother of his child.

* TrailerAlwaysLie: The trailer implied that it was a touching story of a troubled young man (Gosling) just trying to do what's right: support his son financially. So, in order for this to happen, he must go around robbing banks. Then, it showed Cooper being the police officer. It implied that he was the cop who was trying to investigate the bank robberies, and catch Gosling's character. Then it showed Ray Liotta, who seemed to be Cooper's boss in the trailer.
It also implied that Gosling and Mendes come together as a happy family and she accepted his bank robbing ways and they were to live happily ever after until Gosling was arrested. Not even remotely close to the actual plot.

* DawsonCasting: Emory Cohen (22) and Dane DeHaan (25) played 16 year old highschoolers.

* SpiritualSequel: To Film/{{Drive}} and in some ways Film/{{Narc}}.

!!Tropes used in Film/ThePlaceBeyondThePines:

* BilingualBonus: The film's setting, Schenectady, NY, takes its name from the Mohawk word that means "the place beyond the pines."

* ChaoticGood: [[spoiler: Jason, by the final scene.]]
* ChaoticNeutral: Luke, though he tries to be ChaoticGood.

* LawfulGood: Avery.

* NeutralEvil: De Luca.

* TrueNeutral: Robin.

* ClassicalAntiHero: Avery is this.

* SympatheticCriminal: Luke
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Luke, after he is rejected by Romina and his final bank robbery goes awry.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: To a first time viewer unaware of the film's episodic structure, Luke's death is remarkably early and abrupt.]]

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Luke and Jason. Less so with Avery and A.J.

* DirtyCop: Everyone on the force but Avery, who isn't exactly perfect either.

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Avery
* SpiritualSequel: To {{Drive}} and in some ways {{Narc}}

In '''''The Place Beyond the Pines''''' -- a 2013 crime drama directed by Creator/DerekCianfrance, -- RyanGosling plays Luke Glanton, a Motorcycle Stunt Driver in Upstate New York who, due to his own financial situation and that of a previously unknown son, decides to rob a bank to provide for his newfound family. Creator/BradleyCooper plays Avery Cross, a police officer on his trail and EvaMendes is the mother of his child

In '''''The Place Beyond the Pines''''' -- a 2013 crime drama directed by Creator/DerekCianfrance, -- RyanGosling plays Luke Glanton, a Motorcycle Stunt Driver in Upstate New York who due to his own financial situation and that of a previously unknown son, decides to rob a bank to provide for his newfound family. Creator/BradleyCooper plays Avery Cross, a police officer on his trail and EvaMendes is the mother of his child

In '''''The Place Beyond the Pines''''' -- a 2013 crime drama directed by Creator/DerekCianfrance, -- RyanGosling plays Luke Glanton, a Motorcycle Stunt Driver in Upstate New York who due to his own financial situation and that of a previously unknown son, decides to rob a bank to provide for his newfound family. Creator/BradleyCooper plays a police officer on his trail and EvaMendes is the mother of his child

* SpiritualSequel: To {{Drive}}

In '''''The Place Beyond the Pines''''' -- a 2013 crime drama directed by DerekCianfrance, -- RyanGosling plays Luke Glanton, a Motorcycle Stunt Driver in Upstate New York who due to his own financial situation and that of a previously unknown son, decides to rob a bank to provide for his newfound family. BradleyCooper plays a police officer on his trail and EvaMendes is the mother of his child

!!Tropes used in ThePlaceBeyondThePines: