Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Fixing indentation
Changed line(s) 110 (click to see context) from:
-->'''Creator/TerryGilliam:''' You try to see the faces on the screens in front of you, but the real faces and voices are down there and you have these tiny voices in your ear. To me that's the world we live in, the way we communicate these days, through technical devices that pretend to be about communication but may not be.
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Removed double space
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
** During Dr. Railly's lecture on apocalyptic visions, her audience has a good chuckle when she talks of a doomsayer in the Middle Ages who foretold that the world would be destroyed by a virus in the same year the lecture is taking place in. It's implied this is another time traveller who got stranded in the wrong century. She even describes this potential mentall illness as a "Cassandra complex" and briefly relates the Cassandra legend.
to:
** During Dr. Railly's lecture on apocalyptic visions, her audience has a good chuckle when she talks of a doomsayer in the Middle Ages who foretold that the world would be destroyed by a virus in the same year the lecture is taking place in. It's implied this is another time traveller who got stranded in the wrong century. She even describes this potential mentall illness as a "Cassandra complex" and briefly relates the Cassandra legend.
Changed line(s) 137 (click to see context) from:
* ThisIsMyChair: Candidate for TropeNamer is the mentally insane Jeffrey Goines, who reacts like the loon he is when he sees another patient seated in his favorite chair.
to:
* ThisIsMyChair: Candidate for TropeNamer is the mentally y insane Jeffrey Goines, who reacts like the loon he is when he sees another patient seated in his favorite chair.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 34 (click to see context) from:
* BigNo: A bit understated for the trope, but extremely impactful: when Kathryn sees Cole's photo from WW1.
to:
* BigNo: A bit understated for the trope, but extremely impactful: when Kathryn sees Cole's photo from WW1.the First World War.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BigNo: A bit understated for the trope, but extremely impactful: when Kathryn sees Cole's photo from WW1.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
** During Dr. Railly's lecture, her audience has a good chuckle when she talks of a doomsayer in the Middle Ages who foretold that the world would be destroyed by a virus in the same year the lecture is taking place in. It's implied this is another time traveller who got stranded in the wrong century.
to:
** During Dr. Railly's lecture, lecture on apocalyptic visions, her audience has a good chuckle when she talks of a doomsayer in the Middle Ages who foretold that the world would be destroyed by a virus in the same year the lecture is taking place in. It's implied this is another time traveller who got stranded in the wrong century. She even describes this potential mentall illness as a "Cassandra complex" and briefly relates the Cassandra legend.
Changed line(s) 68 (click to see context) from:
* EscapedAnimalRampage: The final act shows the eponymous Animal Wrongs Group releasing the animals of the local zoo, causing all sorts of pandemonium [[spoiler: and their "we did it!" message spray-painted all over the city setting them up as the RedHerring for the cause of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
to:
* EscapedAnimalRampage: The final act shows the eponymous Animal Wrongs Group AnimalWrongsGroup releasing the animals of the local zoo, causing all sorts of pandemonium [[spoiler: and their "we did it!" message spray-painted all over the city setting them up as the RedHerring for the cause of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
Deleted line(s) 75 (click to see context) :
* GenericGraffiti: The Army of the 12 Monkeys tags the walls around their base with graffiti shaped like a ring of 12 monkeys.
Changed line(s) 92 (click to see context) from:
* LockedRoomMystery: The staff at the asylum is puzzled after Cole escapes into thin air from the isolation cell.
to:
* LockedRoomMystery: The staff at the asylum is puzzled after Cole escapes into thin air from the isolation cell. The answer, of course, is time travel.
Changed line(s) 94 (click to see context) from:
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Cole hooks up with Kathryn, whom he kidnapped when he was sent to 1996. Although they fall in love long after the kidnapping, during which Kathryn is nothing but terrified of him and tries everything to escape.
to:
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Cole hooks up with Kathryn, whom he kidnapped when he was sent to 1996. Although they fall in love long after the kidnapping, during which Kathryn is nothing but terrified of him and tries everything to escape. Verges on a DiscussedTrope when Kathryn's explanations of her experience are met with derisive skepticism from the police, who muse about Stockholm Syndrome without ever naming it. Kathryn even acknowledges it as a common psychological response to this kind of situation.
* SigilSpam: The Army of the 12 Monkeys tags the walls around their base with graffiti shaped like a ring of 12 monkeys.
Changed line(s) 133 (click to see context) from:
** The scientists responsible for the project tell Cole that he possesses a mental resilience that makes him a good candidate for time travel: an ability to remember facts and details. He is not unscathed though, as he can GoAmongMadPeople and fit in perfectly.
to:
** The scientists responsible for the project tell Cole that he possesses a mental resilience that makes him a good candidate for time travel: [[PhotographicMemory an ability to remember facts and details.details]]. He is not unscathed though, as he can GoAmongMadPeople and fit in perfectly. One might even attribute his [[DemotedMemories growing doubts about his own sanity]] to his repeated jaunts through time.
** Before his final journey to the past, Cole tries to excuse his declarations that the scientists aren't real by theorizing that the human mind isn't meant to exist in two different dimensions, that the experience is very stressful and it's difficult to tell what's real.
** Before his final journey to the past, Cole tries to excuse his declarations that the scientists aren't real by theorizing that the human mind isn't meant to exist in two different dimensions, that the experience is very stressful and it's difficult to tell what's real.
Added DiffLines:
** Later, Kathryn uses what she's learned from Cole to draw attention from the scientists, spray-painting the message "Is there a virus? Is this the source? 5,000,000,000 die?" on the wall of the 12 Monkeys' headquarters. Cole emerges from the forming crowd of spectators mere moments after she's finished her message.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* DutchAngle: The camera is tilted during Cole's time in the psychiatric hospital in 1990, to highlight his losing grip on reality.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
grammar corrections
Changed line(s) 45 (click to see context) from:
** Jose at first seems just like a guy to give Cole some [[MrExposition exposition]] on forced volunteering. Then, he shows up on the [=WW1=] battlefield to highlight the the multiple missions and dangers of time travel. [[spoiler:Finally, he shows up at the end as the messenger to force Cole onto the suicide mission.]]
to:
** Jose at first seems just like a guy to give Cole some [[MrExposition exposition]] on forced volunteering. Then, he shows up on the [=WW1=] battlefield to highlight the the multiple missions and dangers of time travel. [[spoiler:Finally, he shows up at the end as the messenger to force Cole onto the suicide mission.]]
Changed line(s) 49 (click to see context) from:
* ConvenientPhotograph: Dr. Kathryn Railly is giving a lecture on the psychology of doomsday predictions, and pulls up a photograph of a delirious man in a World War One field hospital who claimed to be a time traveler from the future, trying to prevent an apocalypse. Then Dr. Railly meets James Cole, who similarly claims to be from the future, on a mission to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. She initially dismisses this as a delusion, but the consistent details of Cole's story make her start to think he might be right. Eventually she reexamines the materials from her lecture--and recognizes Cole as a background figure in photograph of the World War One patient, convincing her that he really is a time traveller.
to:
* ConvenientPhotograph: Dr. Kathryn Railly is giving a lecture on the psychology of doomsday predictions, and pulls up a photograph of a delirious man in a World War One field hospital who claimed to be a time traveler from the future, trying to prevent an apocalypse. Then Dr. Railly meets James Cole, who similarly claims to be from the future, on a mission to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. She initially dismisses this as a delusion, but the consistent details of Cole's story make her start to think he might be right. Eventually she reexamines the materials from her lecture--and recognizes Cole as a background figure in a photograph of the World War One patient, convincing her that he really is a time traveller.
Changed line(s) 53 (click to see context) from:
* CuckooNest: After arriving to 1990 Baltimore, Cole quickly ends up in an asylum, whose doctors believe that his warnings of the virus are just delusions. Much later, after returning to the future from the year of 1996, he finds himself in a hospital bed and comes to believe that he is still at the asylum.
to:
* CuckooNest: After arriving to in 1990 Baltimore, Cole quickly ends up in an asylum, whose doctors believe that his warnings of the virus are just delusions. Much later, after returning to the future from the year of 1996, he finds himself in a hospital bed and comes to believe that he is still at the asylum.
Changed line(s) 69 (click to see context) from:
** In her lecture on doomsayers, Dr. Railly mentions that Jose disappeared from the [=WW1=] hospital, which hints that [[spoiler:he’ll show up again.]]
to:
** In her lecture on doomsayers, Dr. Railly mentions that Jose disappeared from the [=WW1=] hospital, which hints that [[spoiler:he’ll [[spoiler:he'll show up again.]]
Changed line(s) 105 (click to see context) from:
* NoTellMotel: Cole and Railly visit an hourly hotel to work out just what the hell is going on with their lives in privacy. The clerk assumes that she's a prostitute and that they're role playing some sort of doctor/patient fetish. Later, a pimp arrives and accuses her of turning tricks in his territory.
to:
* NoTellMotel: Cole and Railly visit an hourly hotel to work out just what the hell is going on with their lives in privacy. The clerk assumes that she's a prostitute and that they're role playing role-playing some sort of doctor/patient fetish. Later, a pimp arrives and accuses her of turning tricks in his territory.
Changed line(s) 144 (click to see context) from:
* WigDressAccent: Used at the end, when the protagonists use store bought disguises (a glued on mustache for the man and a blonde wig for the woman) to [[spoiler:get through airport security and escape to Florida.]]
to:
* WigDressAccent: Used at the end, when the protagonists use store bought store-bought disguises (a glued on glued-on mustache for the man and a blonde wig for the woman) to [[spoiler:get through airport security and escape to Florida.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
adding new tropes and fixing alphabetic order of entries
Changed line(s) 4,5 (click to see context) from:
-->-- Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990, Baltimore County Hospital
to:
-->-- Excerpts from an interview with a clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990, Baltimore County Hospital
* AfterTheEnd: Cole's 'present'. He's sent back to pre-end times not to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong but just to collect information they need in their present.
Deleted line(s) 20 (click to see context) :
* AfterTheEnd: Cole's 'present'. He's sent back to pre-end times not to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong but just to collect information they need in their present.
* BaitAndSwitch: In the woods, after Kathryn removed the bullet from Cole's leg, he starts feeling her up and it looks like he is about to rape her. Then we cut to the next scene where he is alone at night and a news report talks about a woman found strangled in a park. However, we then see Cole return to his car where he frees Kathryn [[PunkInTheTrunk from the trunk]].
Deleted line(s) 41 (click to see context) :
* ChewingTheScenery: Creator/BradPitt goes somewhat over-the-top in his scenes in the madhouse, but it works.
* ChewingTheScenery: Creator/BradPitt goes somewhat over-the-top in his scenes in the madhouse, but it works.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: When Cole exits the police station in 1990, he is blinded by the daylight that he hasn't seen for ages.
* DreamIntro: The movie starts with the pivotal scene at the airport which turns out to be a dream Cole was having in his prison cell.
Deleted line(s) 61 (click to see context) :
* DreamIntro: The movie starts with the pivotal scene at the airport which turns out to be a dream Cole was having in his prison cell.
* FutileHandReach: Kathryn's dramatic hand reach towards [[spoiler:Cole]] when he gets shot at the airport.
Deleted line(s) 71 (click to see context) :
* GirlOfMyDreams: Cole has repeating dreams of a woman who resembles his psychiatrist, but the recurring dream was caused by [[spoiler:a childhood memory of seeing something horrible happen to his time-traveling future self and his lover.]]
* GirlOfMyDreams: Cole has repeating dreams of a woman who resembles his psychiatrist, but the recurring dream was caused by [[spoiler:a childhood memory of seeing something horrible happen to his time-traveling future self and his lover.]]
* HeyWait: A rare villainous example. After [[spoiler:Dr. Peters]] passed the security check at the airport and is walking towards his gate, a security guard calls after him which shocks Peters. But it turns out the guard only pointed him to a piece of underwear he forgot at the checkpoint.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Cole pulls this trick on an assailant at the theatre. He crouches and feigns surrender screaming "Please don't kill me!" and when close enough he [[GroinAttack kicks the guy in the nuts]].
* LockedRoomMystery: The staff at the asylum is puzzled after Cole escapes into thin air from the isolation cell.
* OnePhoneCall: When Cole gets apprehended in 1990, he demands his phone call which the police don't grand him.
* PastExperienceNightmare: Cole is PlaguedByNightmares of a shootout at an airport he witnessed at a young age.
* PastExperienceNightmare: Cole is PlaguedByNightmares of a shootout at an airport he witnessed at a young age.
* TrunkShot: The shot from the car trunk on Cole when he releases Kathryn.
* UnreliableNarrator: Cole's memory of what happened at the airport is hazy because [[spoiler:he was a boy at the time]].
Deleted line(s) 130 (click to see context) :
* UnreliableNarrator: Cole's memory of what happened at the airport is hazy because [[spoiler:he was a boy at the time]].
* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: Kathryn's reaction when she learns about Cole's leg wound.
* YouAreTooLate: Even if Cole hadn't been shot down by airport security and had succeeded in taking down the rogue scientist, the virus had already been released to the Airport Security Guard.
Deleted line(s) 138 (click to see context) :
* YouAreTooLate: Even if Cole hadn't been shot down by airport security and had succeeded in taking down the rogue scientist, the virus had already been released to the Airport Security Guard.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
edits and corrections
Changed line(s) 18 (click to see context) from:
* AdaptationTitleChange: AS mentioned above, the movie is an American remake of the 1962 French short film ''Film/LaJetee''.
to:
* AdaptationTitleChange: AS mentioned above, the The movie is an American remake of the 1962 French short film ''Film/LaJetee''.
Deleted line(s) 33 (click to see context) :
* BilingualBonus: The French soldiers in the [=WW1=] scene are not subtitled.
Changed line(s) 60 (click to see context) from:
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Done in a very unique way. The protagonist has a recurring nightmare about a traumatic experience he had as a kid where he saw a man get shot by police after pulling a gun in an airport. It is only at the end that it becomes clear it is both a memory of his past and [[spoiler:a vision of his future; [[StableTimeLoop the man that got shot is his older self from the future]].]]
to:
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Done in a very unique way. The protagonist has a [[PastExperienceNightmare recurring nightmare about a traumatic experience experience]] he had as a kid where he saw a man get shot by police after pulling a gun in an airport. It is only at the end that it becomes clear it is both a memory of his past and [[spoiler:a vision of his future; [[StableTimeLoop the man that got shot is his older self from the future]].]]
Changed line(s) 82 (click to see context) from:
* InfectiousInsanity: "Telephone call? Telephone call? That's communication with the outside world. ''Doctor's discretion.'' Nuh-uh. Look, hey - all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all these poor sane people, infecting them. Wackos everywhere, plague of madness."
to:
* InfectiousInsanity: "Telephone Discussed by Jeffrey and defied by the authorities.
-->"Telephone call? Telephone call? That's communication with the outside world. ''Doctor's discretion.'' Nuh-uh. Look, hey - all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all these poor sane people, infecting them. Wackos everywhere, plague of madness."
-->"Telephone call? Telephone call? That's communication with the outside world. ''Doctor's discretion.'' Nuh-uh. Look, hey - all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all these poor sane people, infecting them. Wackos everywhere, plague of madness."
Changed line(s) 88 (click to see context) from:
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: There are characters communicating with scientists in the future [[WriteBackToTheFuture with a business's answering machine]] in the "present", which a team of scientists spends months and years recovering from the decayed magnetic tape. Since the movie is based on a StableTimeloop, they should have all the messages from Cole in one batch, however, the narrative treats each message sent from the past as a new event in the future.
to:
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: There are characters communicating with scientists in the future [[WriteBackToTheFuture with a business's answering machine]] in the "present", which a team of scientists spends months and years recovering from the decayed magnetic tape. Since the movie is based on a StableTimeloop, StableTimeLoop, they should have all the messages from Cole in one batch, however, the narrative treats each message sent from the past as a new event in the future.
* RealityHasNoSubtitles: The French soldiers in the [=WW1=] scene are not subtitled.
Changed line(s) 118 (click to see context) from:
* ShoutOut: Cole and Railly attend an Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie marathon just before they go to the airport and catch a viewing of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. It gives Railly the idea to [[spoiler:dye her hair blonde.]]
to:
* ShoutOut: Cole and Railly attend an Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie marathon just before they go to the airport and catch a viewing of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''. It gives Railly the idea to [[spoiler:dye [[spoiler:[[DyeOrDie dye her hair blonde.blonde]].]]
Changed line(s) 120 (click to see context) from:
* SoundtrackDissonance: One of the most glorious examples.
to:
Changed line(s) 127 (click to see context) from:
* TrustPassword: Cole can't figure out if he's actually from the future or if he's just crazy. He figures it out when [[spoiler:he tells Kathryn to make a phone call for him to a phone he knows will be monitored in the future. Kathryn leaves the message Cole had been told about in the future, which confirms he's from the future]].
to:
* TrustPassword: A first pointer to Kathryn that Cole can't figure out if he's actually is indeed telling the truth about being a time traveler from the future or if he's just crazy. He figures it out when [[spoiler:he is him correctly predicting the TimmyInAWell story on the news to be a prank. Later he tells Kathryn to make a phone call for him to a phone he knows will be monitored in the future. Kathryn leaves the a message that Cole had been told about in the future, which confirms he's can recite [[FinishDialogueInUnison together with her]] from the future]].his PhotographicMemory.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
moving characterization tropes to characters sheet
Deleted line(s) 32 (click to see context) :
* BeautyInversion: Brad Pitt manages to look convincingly homely and unkempt for the majority of the film.
Deleted line(s) 34 (click to see context) :
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Peters]] is the one who releases the plague on humanity.
Deleted line(s) 50 (click to see context) :
* CloudCuckoolander: Jeffrey. It is implied that it is at least somewhat ObfuscatingInsanity.
Deleted line(s) 84 (click to see context) :
%%* HospitalHottie: Dr. Kathryn Railly.
Deleted line(s) 89 (click to see context) :
* LargeHam: Brad Pitt's acting is gloriously over-the-top.
Deleted line(s) 94 (click to see context) :
* MessianicArchetype: James Cole's initials are no coincidence. [[spoiler:He gives his life trying (and failing) to stop TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, but his work provides a complete sample of the virus so the scientists of the future can create a vaccine. The CassandraTruth and TrueCompanions elements of this trope are also played completely straight.]]
Deleted line(s) 97 (click to see context) :
* MisanthropeSupreme: The villains, who engineer a lethal virus.
Deleted line(s) 116 (click to see context) :
* PhotographicMemory: Or something like it. Cole is selected for the expeditions because, although mentally disturbed, he possesses an extremely accurate memory for details and information, and at one point is able to recite a distorted message word-for-word after hearing it once, days earlier.
Deleted line(s) 118 (click to see context) :
* PlagueMaster: The antagonist released a deadly plague in multiple cities across the world which ended up causing the human survivors to live underground.
Deleted line(s) 124 (click to see context) :
* ReluctantPsycho: Cole's generally relatively calm, if confused, but he has some violent outbursts that suggest that he might be a prisoner for good reason.
Deleted line(s) 129 (click to see context) :
* SignificantMonogram: James Cole.
Deleted line(s) 133 (click to see context) :
* TattooedCrook: Cole has two barcodes tattooed on his neck that reveal that he was convicted for violent crimes.
Deleted line(s) 143 (click to see context) :
* WastelandElder: After the virus kills most of humanity, the survivors live in underground shelters controlled by a council of a half-dozen middle-aged scientists who are using TimeTravel to FindTheCure.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
the quote is misleading as it omits the part where Cole is offered a reduced sentence in which light the "missed opportunity" takes on a different meaning
* BoxedCrook: James Cole, a habitual criminal in the future, is '[[GotVolunteered volunteered]]' by the scientists to go back to the past to investigate the virus that now forces what's left of humanity to live underground. In return he gets offered a reduced sentence.
Deleted line(s) 106,107 (click to see context) :
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: James Cole, a habitual criminal in the future, is '[[GotVolunteered volunteered]]' by the scientists to go back to the past to investigate the virus that now forces what's left of humanity to live underground.
-->'''Scientist:''' For a man in your position, an opportunity not to volunteer would be a mistake...
-->'''Scientist:''' For a man in your position, an opportunity not to volunteer would be a mistake...
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
ditto
Changed line(s) 144 (click to see context) from:
* WastelandElder: After TheVirus kills most of humanity, the survivors live in underground shelters controlled by a council of a half-dozen middle-aged scientists who are using TimeTravel to FindTheCure.
to:
* WastelandElder: After TheVirus the virus kills most of humanity, the survivors live in underground shelters controlled by a council of a half-dozen middle-aged scientists who are using TimeTravel to FindTheCure.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
misuse. the trope is about entities turning others into creatures like itself.
Deleted line(s) 144 (click to see context) :
* TheVirus: Cole's mission is to get an original sample of the virus that wiped out nearly all of humanity so that the people of the future can cure it and return to the surface.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
the trope doesn' apply. we are not experiencing the narrative through Cole's eyes and hence know he is not insane. his failing sanity is covered under Demoted Memories
Changed line(s) 54 (click to see context) from:
* CryingWolf: Part of what convinces Kathryn that Cole's telling the truth is he remembers hearing as a child about a boy who pretended to be lost in a well, only to turn out to have been hiding in a barn. The event plays out as he remembers, indicating he's [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness probably]] telling the truth.
to:
* CryingWolf: Part of what convinces Kathryn that Cole's telling the truth is he remembers hearing as a child about a boy who pretended to be lost in a well, only to turn out to have been hiding in a barn. The event plays out as he remembers, indicating he's [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness probably]] probably telling the truth.
Deleted line(s) 139 (click to see context) :
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The longer Cole stays in one timeline, the more he begins to doubt his memories of the other one.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
disambig page. see entry under A Match Made In Stockholm
Deleted line(s) 134 (click to see context) :
* StockholmSyndrome: Someone suggests to Kathryn Railly that she is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome after she puts James Cole's multiple killings in context by saying that the victims were thugs who had tried to kill them both.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
aversions of this trope are not noteworthy
Deleted line(s) 132 (click to see context) :
* SoleSurvivingScientist: Averted as there's a committee of them that 'volunteers' Cole for the time travel program. Though not all of them may be scientists, as Jones later identifies herself as working in the [[DramaticIrony insurance business]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
this trope is not in play. covered by Ray Of Hope Ending
Deleted line(s) 129 (click to see context) :
* ShaggyDogStory: Subverted. [[spoiler:James does not stop the virus and dies in front of his child self; however, the ending hints that his actions might have made all the difference for the future development of the cure.]]
