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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Noah Cross]]. Exploiter and [[spoiler:incestuous rapist]] underneath Noah Cross is a grandfatherly exterior. The DownerEnding 1930's CorruptCorporateExecutive who doesn't help matters.even know his own net worth, outside of the fact that it's a great deal over ten million, only caring about accumulating as much money and power as possible. In the midst of a drought in Los Angeles, Cross dumps away thousands of gallons of water in order to build up support for his new reservoir project. Drying up the northwest San Fernando Valley by depriving it of water, Cross also poisons the wells and blows up the water tanks of the valley's landowners to coerce them into selling their land dirt cheap. Once the valley is his, Cross plans to use his new proposed reservoir to irrigate the land and increase its worth by millions. However, his business partner, and son-in-law, Hollis Mulwray, hinders his plan. Previously Cross had convinced Mulwray to build a dam in an area known to be geologically unstable. The result was that the dam burst and 500 people died. Even though Cross knows that the new reservoir would suffer from the exact same geologic instability as the previous one, he still demands Mulwray build it. After Mulwray discovers Cross's crimes and conspiracy, Cross kills him by drowning him in a tide pool. However, the most disgusting crime Cross committed was what he did to his daughter Evelyn. When she was just 15 years old, [[ParentalIncest Cross raped her]], traumatizing her for life and fathering another daughter with her. Cross's secondary goal in the movie is to take possession of his "grandchild" with the intention of subjecting her to the same abuse he subjected Evelyn to. Despite all of this, Cross says he doesn't blame himself for his actions because he believes, under the right circumstances, men are capable of anything, ignorant of the fact that this is only true for [[TheSociopath men like him]].
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* AwardSnub: The film won an [[AcademyAwards Oscar]] for Best Screenplay, but probably would have won a few more, perhaps even Best Picture, if not for the misfortune of being released in the same year as Film/TheGodfather Part II. A lesser example than most, because the winner is also a great film.
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** Simultaneously subverted the ending leaves the viewer feeling gutted and raw but not weepy, is a {{heroicbsod}} for the viewer
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* HilariousInHindsight: After this film was released, Joan Crawford declared that Faye Dunaway would be perfect to play her in a biography. [[MommieDearest Okay, stop laughing, it's true.]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: After this film was released, Joan Crawford declared that Faye Dunaway would be perfect to play her in a biography. [[MommieDearest [[Literature/MommieDearest Okay, stop laughing, it's true.]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: After this film was released, Joan Crawford declared that Faye Dunaway would be perfect to play her in a biography. [[MommieDearest Okay, stop laughing, it's true.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler:The sexual abuse Noah Cross commits within the movie]] could be seen in a whole new light after attention was brought to a real-life court case implicating Polanski himself in something similar. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19918_6-terrible-decisions-that-gave-us-great-movie-moments_p2.html This]] article on {{Cracked}} explicitly notes the parallels between how [[spoiler:Cross]] gets off [[KarmaHoudini scott-free]] for his crimes and how Polanski himself escaped jail time by fleeing the US.
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* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler:The sexual abuse Noah Cross commits within the movie]] could be seen in a whole new light after attention was brought to a real-life court case implicating Polanski himself in something similar. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19918_6-terrible-decisions-that-gave-us-great-movie-moments_p2.html This]] article on {{Cracked}} Website/{{Cracked}} explicitly notes the parallels between how [[spoiler:Cross]] gets off [[KarmaHoudini scott-free]] for his crimes and how Polanski himself escaped jail time by fleeing the US.
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* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler:The sexual abuse Noah Cross commits within the movie]] could be seen in a whole new light after attention was brought to a real-life court case implicating Polanski himself in something similar. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19918_6-terrible-decisions-that-gave-us-great-movie-moments_p2.html This]] article on {{Cracked}} explicitly notes the parallels between how [[spoiler:Cross]] gets off [[KarmaHoudini scott-free]] for his crimes and how Polanski himself escaped jail time by fleeing the US.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Noah Cross]]. Exploiter and [[spoiler:incestuous rapist]] underneath a grandfatherly exterior. The [[DownerEnding ending]] doesn't help matters.
* MoralEventHorizon: If there was any kind of sympathy for [[spoiler: Noah Cross]], it is long gone when it's revealed that [[spoiler:he fathered a daughter [[ParentalIncest upon his own daughter,]] Mrs. Mulwray, by rape]].
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* MoralEventHorizon: If there was any kind of sympathy for [[spoiler: Noah Cross]], it is long gone when it's revealed that [[spoiler:he fathered a daughter [[ParentalIncest upon his own daughter,]] Mrs. Mulwray, by rape]].
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** An interesting use of this trope. [[spoiler: Noah Cross]] has all of two (three at a push), very brief, scenes in this very long film. He's often remembered as one of the most despicable villains in cinematic history.
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** And [[CreatorCameo Polanski himself]], as the Man with the Knife. "You're a very nosy fella, kittycat. You know what happens to nosy fellas? No? Wanna guess?"
** And [[CreatorCameo Polanski himself]], as the Man with the Knife. "You're a very nosy fella, kittycat. You know what happens to nosy fellas? No? Wanna guess?"
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* MoralEventHorizon: If there was any kind of sympathy for [[spoiler: NoahCross, Cross]], it is long gone when it's revealed that [[spoiler:he fathered a daughter [[ParentalIncest upon his own daughter,]] Mrs. Mulwray, by rape]].
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