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''Bad Lieutenant'' is the title used by two very different films connected by their common character: a police lieutenant who investigates murders while doing ridiculous amounts of drugs and committing several criminal acts, using his position as a weapon to get away with everything.

''Bad Lieutenant'' made in 1992 by Abel Ferrara, concerned a [[NoNameGiven nameless New York police lieutenant]] (played by HarveyKeitel) as he went about his daily business of solving homicides while simultaneously indulging in his drug habits and prostitution and worrying about how to pay off his baseball gambling debts. During the investigation of a nun's rape, the Lieutenant begins to reflect on his lifestyle, wondering if he can change it.

''[The] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'', made in 2009 by Creator/WernerHerzog, followed Terrence [=McDonagh=] (played by NicolasCage) as he investigated the deaths of five Senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring. While tracking down drug kingpin "Big Fate", [=McDonagh=] engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex (sometimes at the same time), getting high off of everything from marijuana to prescription painkillers and betting heavily on football games.

While both films showcase the same basic character, the two films are wildly different. The main point of divergence is the setting, with the original being set in NewYork and the second set in post-Katrina NewOrleans. The Lieutenant and [=McDonagh=] are also somewhat dissimilar, with the Lieutenant having actual feelings of regret and remorse about his actions, while [=McDonagh=] just indulges in his habits more and more, using his position to get him whatever he wants.

Herzog actually very much rejects the label of "remake" being applied to his film. He cited the parallel of calling one JamesBond movie a remake of another.

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''Bad Lieutenant'' '''''Bad Lieutenant''''' is the title used by of two very different crime drama films connected by their common character: a police lieutenant who investigates murders while doing ridiculous amounts of drugs and committing several criminal acts, using his position as a weapon to get away with everything.

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* ''Film/BadLieutenant'': The
1992 film directed by Abel Ferrara, concerned a [[NoNameGiven nameless New York police lieutenant]] (played by HarveyKeitel) as he went about his daily business of solving homicides while simultaneously indulging in his drug habits Ferrara and prostitution and worrying about how to pay off his baseball gambling debts. During the investigation of a nun's rape, the Lieutenant begins to reflect on his lifestyle, wondering if he can change it.

''[The] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'', made in
starring HarveyKeitel.
* ''Film/TheBadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans'': The
2009 film directed by Creator/WernerHerzog, followed Terrence [=McDonagh=] (played by NicolasCage) as he investigated the deaths of five Senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring. While tracking down drug kingpin "Big Fate", [=McDonagh=] engages in his vices of gambling, drugs Creator/WernerHerzog and sex (sometimes at the same time), getting high off of everything from marijuana to prescription painkillers and betting heavily on football games.

While both films showcase the same basic character, the two films are wildly different. The main point of divergence is the setting, with the original being set in NewYork and the second set in post-Katrina NewOrleans. The Lieutenant and [=McDonagh=] are also somewhat dissimilar, with the Lieutenant having actual feelings of regret and remorse about his actions, while [=McDonagh=] just indulges in his habits more and more, using his position to get him whatever he wants.

Herzog actually very much rejects the label of "remake" being applied to his film. He cited the parallel of calling one JamesBond movie a remake of another.
starring NicolasCage.




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!''Bad Lieutenant'' provides examples of:
* TheAtoner: The Lieutenant is gradually revealed as this.
* AuthorAppeal: the Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Zoe Lund (née Tamerlis), who was the cowriter of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was [[AuthorExistenceFailure already deceased]]. [[CaptainObvious From heroin.]]
* CreatorCameo: Zoe Lund. She had previously worked with director Ferrara, having [[YouMightRememberMeFrom played the titular role in]] ''Ms.45''.
* DirtyCop: And ''how''.
* HookersAndBlow: There's several scenes of the Lieutenant getting strung out with a couple of prostitutes. It's a lot more sleazy and grimy than the trope is usually presented, however. In the scene with Zoe Lund, that's real Heroin being injected into her.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The nun's rapists. Even considering the fact that the nun forgives them, the Lieutenant smoking drugs with them and then putting them on a bus for parts unknown doesn't seem like ''that'' much of a punishment.]]
** [[spoiler: And the Lieutenant gave them the cigar box with three grand in it]].
* LeaveTheCameraRolling: The final scene keeps going after the main event occurs.
* MaleFrontalNudity
* ManlyTears
* NoNameGiven: The Lieutenant.
* RapeAsDrama: The nun.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: The Lieutenant.]]
* TrueArtIsAngsty: Have no illusions. This is a crushingly bleak and unhappy affair from beginning to end. And it is absolutely brilliant for it.
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!''[The] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' provides examples of:
->'''[=McDonagh=]:''' Shoot him again!
->'''Gangster:''' What for?
->'''[=McDonagh=]:''' His soul is still dancing!

* ActorAllusion: The second time Cage has played a character with the last name [[RaisingArizona McDonagh]].
* BabiesEverAfter: At the film's end, [[spoiler:we see that Frankie is pregnant]].
* BadCopIncompetentCop: The NOPD. Most of the other detectives aren't anywhere near as bad as [=McDonagh=] (except, perhaps, Stevie), but they do cover for him and some of them are even complicit in his crimes.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler:How [=McDonagh=] gets rid of the gangsters an angry real estate mogul has set on him.]]
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: The chief roadblock to cracking the case.
* BlackComedy: In case you didn't realize: it's a comedy. Probably.
* ChewingTheScenery: NicolasCage plus massive amounts of drugs equals this.
* CoitusUninterruptus: See the trope page for a the {{squick}}y details.
* CreatorCameo: The screenwriter, William Finkelstein, appears as one of the gangsters sent to kill [=McDonagh=] by Frankie's disgruntled client.
* CrimeAfterCrime: Terrence [=McDonagh=], this is your life.
* DaChief: Captain Brasser.
* DevilInPlainSight: [=McDonagh=].
* DirtyCop: Oh, ''so'' dirty.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening five minutes of the movie, in which [=McDonagh=] taunts a helpless prisoner stuck in rising water before rescuing him (thus throwing out his back), establish two things about him - he's an asshole, and more importantly he will do literally ''anything'' that comes to mind.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [=McDonagh=] finally draws the line at [[spoiler:flat-out murdering Big Fate]].
* FixingTheGame: [=McDonagh=] catches a star college quarterback buying pot and blackmails him into shaving points on his next game. [[spoiler:The quarterback can't bring himself to do it and fakes an injury to get out of the game, but his team still fails to beat the spread anyway.]]
* FloatingHeadSyndrome: See exhibit A on the right side.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler:How [=McDonagh=] gets Big Fate.]]
* FunctionalAddict: [=McDonagh=], although he's always in danger of stepping over the fine line between "functional" and "non-functional."
* GainaxEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler: [=McDonagh=] and the guy he saved in the film's beginning hanging out in an aquarium, with [=McDonagh=] high as a kite and wondering if fish have dreams.]]
* TheGamblingAddict: [=McDonagh=].
* GoodCopBadCop: [=McDonagh=] and Stevie play this while interviewing potential witnesses. (Except they're not playing: Stevie really was going to start beating that guy up.)
* HandCannon[=/=]RevolversAreJustBetter: [=McDonagh=] carries the legendary .44 Magnum.
* HardboiledDetective: [=McDonagh=].
* TheHedonist: [=McDonagh=].
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: [=McDonagh=]'s friend Frankie.
* HookersAndBlow: And pot...and crack...and smack...
* InNameOnly: Herzog outright stated that ''Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' was neither a sequel nor a remake. Didn't stop Ferrara from screaming that everyone involved in this film should die.
* KarmaHoudini: [=McDonagh=] spends the entire movie taking advantages of every single person and changing allegiances as soon as he can see a benefit, but in the span of 15 minutes he [[spoiler: arrests the bad guy, gets the despots after him killed, pays off all his gambling debts, gets promoted to Captain, gets his girlfriend, father and step-mother clean from their personal addiction, has a baby on the way and ''hasn't changed one bit''.]] If that's not evading karma, I don't know what is.
* KavorkaMan: Cage plays [=McDonagh=] like RichardNixon mixed with LaurenceOlivier's version of RichardIII, yet he still has EvaMendes and FairuzaBalk falling all over themselves to get him into bed.
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Stevie.]]
* MushroomSamba: "What are these fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table?"
* MyGirlIsASlut: See HookerWithAHeartOfGold.
* TheOner: When arresting a suspect who's holed up in his house, [=McDonaugh=] orders his unit to keep their guns trained on the front door. Then the camera follows him as he circles around through the neighbor's adjacent house, enters through the back door, puts his gun right against the back of the suspect's head, and marches him out right through the front door.
* PoliceBrutality: [=McDonagh=] loves to stick his HandCannon in people's faces and there's a scene where he [[spoiler:deprives an elderly woman of oxygen]] in order to get her nurse to talk.
* QuickNip: [=McDonagh=] does this all the time. At one point, he lights up a joint while interviewing a suspect...with half his squad standing just behind the door.
* RabidCop: Stevie. [=McDonagh=] starts turning into one over the course of the film.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: [=McDonagh=]'s operating principle. Things get hairy when he starts abusing people whose relatives can say ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections
* TheTheTitleConfusion
* TitleDrop: A partial example, or an entire one if you go by the film's original title.
-->'''Chavez:''' Are you still working with the police department?
-->'''[=McDonaugh=]:''' Port of call still New Orleans.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: All of [=McDonagh=]'s problems stem from his impulsive nature: his back problem, his drug addiction, his gambling debts, losing his key witness, being placed on modified assignment, having gangsters out trying to kill him, etc. None of these things would have happened to him if he had any sort of control over his own behavior.
* {{Unishment}}: [=McDonagh=]'s punishment for using excessive force against [[spoiler:an elderly woman on oxygen]]? He's temporarily reassigned to the evidence room, which just allows him to steal whatever drugs he likes without having to go looking for addicts to rob.
* XanatosSpeedChess: [=McDonagh=] starts playing this toward the end of the movie. Especially impressive, since he was high on at least three different controlled substances at the time.
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''[The] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'', made in 2009 by WernerHerzog, followed Terrence [=McDonagh=] (played by NicolasCage) as he investigated the deaths of five Senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring. While tracking down drug kingpin "Big Fate", [=McDonagh=] engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex (sometimes at the same time), getting high off of everything from marijuana to prescription painkillers and betting heavily on football games.

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''[The] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'', made in 2009 by WernerHerzog, Creator/WernerHerzog, followed Terrence [=McDonagh=] (played by NicolasCage) as he investigated the deaths of five Senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring. While tracking down drug kingpin "Big Fate", [=McDonagh=] engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex (sometimes at the same time), getting high off of everything from marijuana to prescription painkillers and betting heavily on football games.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening five minutes of the movie, in which [=McDonagh=] taunts a helpless prisoner stuck in rising water before rescuing him (thus throwing out his back), establish two things about him - he's an asshole, and more importantly he will do literally ''anything'' that comes to mind.
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* TheAtoner: The Lieutenant is gradually revealed as this.


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* LeaveTheCameraRolling: The final scene keeps going after the main event occurs.


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* ManlyTears
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Have no illusions. This is a crushingly bleak and unhappy affair from beginning to end. And it is absolutely brilliant for it.
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* HookersAndBlow: There's several scenes of the Lieutenant getting strung out with a couple of prostitutes. It's a lot more sleazy and grimy than the trope is usually presented, however.

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* HookersAndBlow: There's several scenes of the Lieutenant getting strung out with a couple of prostitutes. It's a lot more sleazy and grimy than the trope is usually presented, however. In the scene with Zoe Lund, that's real Heroin being injected into her.
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* BlackComedy: In case you didn't realize: it's a comedy.

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* BlackComedy: In case you didn't realize: it's a comedy. Probably.
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-->'''[=McDonaugh=]:'' Port of call still New Orleans.

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* TitleDrop: A partial example, or an entire one if you go by the film's original title.
-->'''Chavez:''' Are you still working with the police department?
-->'''[=McDonaugh=]:'' Port of call still New Orleans.



* XanatosSpeedChess: [=McDonagh=] starts playing this toward the end of the movie. Especially impressive, since he was high on at least three different controlled substances at the time.

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* TheOner: When arresting a suspect who's holed up in his house, [=McDonaugh=] orders his unit to keep their guns trained on the front door. Then the camera follows him as he circles around through the neighbor's adjacent house, enters through the back door, puts his gun right against the back of the suspect's head, and marches him out right through the front door.
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* InNameOnly: Herzog outright stated that ''Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' was neither a sequel nor a remake. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Didn't stop Ferrara from screaming]] [[SmallNameBigEgo that everyone involved in this film should die.]]

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* InNameOnly: Herzog outright stated that ''Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'' was neither a sequel nor a remake. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Didn't stop Ferrara from screaming]] [[SmallNameBigEgo screaming that everyone involved in this film should die.]]
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* FloatingHeadSyndrome: See exhibit A on the right side.
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* HeReallyCanAct: After seeing him here, you will be genuinely baffled as to why Keitel has never won an Academy Award.
** Not that anyone ever really doubted his talent before, but this was his first time in a lead role, and proved that he could handle a film on his own.



* HeReallyCanAct: Both Xzibit and Jennifer Coolidge in their first dramatic roles.
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* CreatorCameo: The screenwriter, William Finkelstein, appears as one of the gangsters sent to kill [=McDonagh=] by Frankie's disgruntled client.

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* ActorAllusion: The second time Cage has been played a character with the last name [[RaisingArizona McDonagh]].

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* ActorAllusion: The second time Cage has been played a character with the last name [[RaisingArizona McDonagh]].



* CoitusUninterruptus: see the trope page for a the {{squick}}y details.

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* IntoxicationEnsues: "What are these fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table?"
* KarmaHoudini: [=McDonagh=] spends the entire movie taking advantages of every single person and changing allegiances as soon as he can see a benefit, but in the span of 15 minutes he [[spoiler: arrests the bad guy, gets the despots after him killed, pays off all his gambling debts, gets promoted to Captain, gets his girlfriend, father and step-mother clean from their personal addiction, has a baby on the way and ''hasn't changed one bit''.]] If that's not evading Karma, I don,t know what is.

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* IntoxicationEnsues: "What are these fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table?"
* KarmaHoudini: [=McDonagh=] spends the entire movie taking advantages of every single person and changing allegiances as soon as he can see a benefit, but in the span of 15 minutes he [[spoiler: arrests the bad guy, gets the despots after him killed, pays off all his gambling debts, gets promoted to Captain, gets his girlfriend, father and step-mother clean from their personal addiction, has a baby on the way and ''hasn't changed one bit''.]] If that's not evading Karma, karma, I don,t don't know what is.



* LightIsNotGood: Just because he's a cop doesn't mean he's a ''nice'' cop.

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* LightIsNotGood: Just because he's a cop doesn't mean he's a ''nice'' cop.MushroomSamba: "What are these fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table?"



* XanatosSpeedChess: [=McDonagh=] starts playing this toward the end of the movie. Especially impressive, since he was high on at least three different controlled substances at the time.

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* FixingTheGame: [=McDonagh=] catches star college quarterback buying pot and blackmails him into shaving points on his next game. [[spoiler:The quarterback can't bring himself to do it and fakes an injury to get out of the game, but his team still fails to beat the spread anyway.]]

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* FixingTheGame: [=McDonagh=] catches a star college quarterback buying pot and blackmails him into shaving points on his next game. [[spoiler:The quarterback can't bring himself to do it and fakes an injury to get out of the game, but his team still fails to beat the spread anyway.]]
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* DevilInPlainSight: [=McDonagh=].


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* TheGamblingAddict: [=McDonagh=].
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->'''Gangster:''' What for?
->'''[=McDonagh=]:''' His soul is still dancing!

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* BabiesEverAfter: At the film's end, we see that Frankie is pregnant.

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* BabiesEverAfter: At the film's end, we [[spoiler:we see that Frankie is pregnant.pregnant]].
* BadCopIncompetentCop: The NOPD. Most of the other detectives aren't anywhere near as bad as [=McDonagh=] (except, perhaps, Stevie), but they do cover for him and some of them are even complicit in his crimes.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler:How [=McDonagh=] gets rid of the gangsters an angry real estate mogul has set on him.]]
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: The chief roadblock to cracking the case.



* CrimeAfterCrime: Terrence [=McDonagh=], this is your life.
* DaChief: Captain Brasser.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: [=McDonagh=] finally draws the line at [[spoiler:flat-out murdering Big Fate]].
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler:How [=McDonagh=] gets Big Fate.]]
* FunctionalAddict: [=McDonagh=], although he's always in danger of stepping over the fine line between "functional" and "non-functional."



* GoodCopBadCop: [=McDonagh=] and Stevie play this while interviewing potential witnesses. (Except they're not playing: Stevie really was going to start beating that guy up.)
* HandCannon[=/=]RevolversAreJustBetter: [=McDonagh=] carries the legendary .44 Magnum.
* HardboiledDetective: [=McDonagh=].



* TheHedonist: [=McDonagh=].



* HookersAndBlow: And pot...and crack...and smack...



* KavorkaMan: Cage plays [=McDonagh=] like RichardNixon mixed with LaurenceOlivier's version of RichardIII, yet he still has EvaMendes and FairuzaBalk falling all over themselves to get him into bed.
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Stevie.]]



* RevolversAreJustBetter: [=McDonagh=] carries the legendary .44 Magnum.
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: All of [=McDonagh=]'s problems start because he impulsively jumps in shallow water to save a drowning prisoner.
* XanatosRoulette: [=McDonagh=] uses this to catch Big Fate.

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* RevolversAreJustBetter: PoliceBrutality: [=McDonagh=] carries loves to stick his HandCannon in people's faces and there's a scene where he [[spoiler:deprives an elderly woman of oxygen]] in order to get her nurse to talk.
* QuickNip: [=McDonagh=] does this all
the legendary .44 Magnum.
time. At one point, he lights up a joint while interviewing a suspect...with half his squad standing just behind the door.
* RabidCop: Stevie. [=McDonagh=] starts turning into one over the course of the film.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: [=McDonagh=]'s operating principle. Things get hairy when he starts abusing people whose relatives can say ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: All of [=McDonagh=]'s problems start because stem from his impulsive nature: his back problem, his drug addiction, his gambling debts, losing his key witness, being placed on modified assignment, having gangsters out trying to kill him, etc. None of these things would have happened to him if he impulsively jumps in shallow water had any sort of control over his own behavior.
* {{Unishment}}: [=McDonagh=]'s punishment for using excessive force against [[spoiler:an elderly woman on oxygen]]? He's temporarily reassigned
to save a drowning prisoner.
the evidence room, which just allows him to steal whatever drugs he likes without having to go looking for addicts to rob.
* XanatosRoulette: XanatosSpeedChess: [=McDonagh=] uses starts playing this to catch Big Fate.toward the end of the movie. Especially impressive, since he was high on at least three different controlled substances at the time.

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