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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/wes-andersons-roald-dahl-quartet-abounds-in-audacious-artifice-and-stinging-political-critique Richard Brody of The New Yorker]] points out that the images of the illuminated train tracks and barbed wire during Peter's agony are reminiscent of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/wes-andersons-roald-dahl-quartet-abounds-in-audacious-artifice-and-stinging-political-critique Richard Brody of The New Yorker]] points out that the images of the illuminated train tracks and barbed wire during Peter's agony are reminiscent of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
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* ChainedToARailway: Peter's bullies tie him up and lay him on a railway and watch. He survives an oncoming train by burrowing a hole in the gravel with his head and feet.
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* ChainedToARailway: Peter's bullies tie him up and lay him on a railway (before tying him down to it) and watch. He survives an oncoming train by burrowing a hole in the gravel with his head and feet.
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* ChainedToARailway: Peter's bullies tie him to a railway and watch. He survived an oncoming train by burrowing a hole in the gravel with his head and feet.
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* ChainedToARailway: Peter's bullies tie him to up and lay him on a railway and watch. He survived survives an oncoming train by burrowing a hole in the gravel with his head and feet.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: "Boys will be boys", sure, but tying a young boy up and laying him on train tracks, killing a swan (and about 14 other birds) before tying its wings to his arms before forcing him to jump out of a willow tree? More than a little concerning.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: "Boys will be boys", sure, but tying a young younger boy up and laying him on train tracks, killing a swan (and about 14 other birds) before tying its wings to his arms before and forcing him to jump out of a willow tree? More than a little concerning.
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* StopMotion: The shot of Peter standing in the tree (shown above) is done in this medium.
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* WhiteVoidRoom: The "set" where the swan's wings are affixed to Ernie is a blank white "prop room".
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: "Boys will be boys", sure, but tying a young boy up and laying him on train tracks, killing a swan (and about 14 other birds) before tying its wings to his arms before forcing him to jump out of a willow tree? More than a little concerning.
* WhiteVoidRoom: The "set" where the swan's wings are affixed to Ernie is a blank white "proproom".room".
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* WhiteVoidRoom: The "set" where the swan's wings are affixed to Ernie is a blank white "prop
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The bully Ernie is gifted a rifle for his birthday; he and his best friend Raymond promptly shoot down over a dozen birds and hang them with a string. They then kill a swan and tie its wings to Ernie.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The bully Ernie is gifted a rifle for his birthday; he and his best friend Raymond promptly shoot down over a dozen birds and hang them with a string. They then kill a swan and tie its wings to Ernie.Peter, despite his pleas that the swan is a protected species.
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''The Swan'' is a 2023 ShortFilm (~17 min) directed by Creator/WesAnderson. It is adapted from the [[Literature/TheWonderfulStoryOfHenrySugar short story of the same name]] by Creator/RoaldDahl, and is the second of four adaptations by Anderson for Creator/{{Netflix}}. The film was released on September 28, 2023.
A narrator (Creator/RupertFriend) tells the audience the story of a smart boy named Peter Watson (Creator/AsaJennings), who is troubled by two bullies, Ernie and Raymond. Creator/RalphFiennes plays Dahl.
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!!Tropes:
* AndThatLittleBoyWasMe: Early in the film the grown narrator tells the audience that the little boy he's been talking about, Peter Watson, was him as a child.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The bully Ernie is gifted a rifle for his birthday; he and his best friend Raymond promptly shoot down over a dozen birds and hang them with a string. They then kill a swan and tie its wings to Ernie.
* BarbaricBully: Ernie and Raymond not only [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals gleefully kill birds]], they also take great pleasure in nearly killing Peter.
* ChainedToARailway: Peter's bullies tie him to a railway and watch. He survived an oncoming train by burrowing a hole in the gravel with his head and feet.
* WhiteVoidRoom: The "set" where the swan's wings are affixed to Ernie is a blank white "prop room".
''The Swan'' is a 2023 ShortFilm (~17 min) directed by Creator/WesAnderson. It is adapted from the [[Literature/TheWonderfulStoryOfHenrySugar short story of the same name]] by Creator/RoaldDahl, and is the second of four adaptations by Anderson for Creator/{{Netflix}}. The film was released on September 28, 2023.
A narrator (Creator/RupertFriend) tells the audience the story of a smart boy named Peter Watson (Creator/AsaJennings), who is troubled by two bullies, Ernie and Raymond. Creator/RalphFiennes plays Dahl.
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!!Tropes:
* AndThatLittleBoyWasMe: Early in the film the grown narrator tells the audience that the little boy he's been talking about, Peter Watson, was him as a child.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The bully Ernie is gifted a rifle for his birthday; he and his best friend Raymond promptly shoot down over a dozen birds and hang them with a string. They then kill a swan and tie its wings to Ernie.
* BarbaricBully: Ernie and Raymond not only [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals gleefully kill birds]], they also take great pleasure in nearly killing Peter.
* ChainedToARailway: Peter's bullies tie him to a railway and watch. He survived an oncoming train by burrowing a hole in the gravel with his head and feet.
* WhiteVoidRoom: The "set" where the swan's wings are affixed to Ernie is a blank white "prop room".
