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* AmbiguousDisorder: In the movie, [[spoiler: August's violence]] is interpreted as him being a heavy MoodSwinger and he can't seem to control his HairTriggerTemper; someone even wonders to Jacob why [[spoiler: August bothers training animals if he can't stop himself from beating them.]] While the other workers call him [[InsaneEqualsViolent a "paranoid schizophrenic,"]] the setting's time period mostly likely means that ''something'' is wrong with him, but people just don't know what it is.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: DiagnosedByTheAudience: In the movie, [[spoiler: August's violence]] is interpreted as him being a heavy MoodSwinger and he can't seem to control his HairTriggerTemper; someone even wonders to Jacob why [[spoiler: August bothers training animals if he can't stop himself from beating them.]] While the other workers call him [[InsaneEqualsViolent a "paranoid schizophrenic,"]] the setting's time period mostly likely means that ''something'' is wrong with him, but people just don't know what it is.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: In the movie, [[spoiler: August's violence]] is interpreted as him being a heavy MoodSwinger and he can't seem to control his HairTriggerTemper; someone even wonders to Jacob why [[spoiler: August bothers training animals if he can't stop himself from beating them.]] While the other workers call him [[InsaneEqualsViolent a "paranoid schizophrenic,"]] the setting's time period mostly likely means that ''something'' is wrong with him, but people just don't know what it is.
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** Creator/RobertPattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[{{Literature/Twilight}} popular film series]], also based on books.

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** Creator/RobertPattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[{{Literature/Twilight}} [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga popular film series]], also based on books.
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** At one point in the movie, Marlena said, "I don't sing." [[IronyAsSheIsCast Reese Witherspoon]], on the [[Film/WalkTheLine other hand]]...

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** At one point in the movie, Marlena said, "I don't sing." [[IronyAsSheIsCast Reese Witherspoon]], on the [[Film/WalkTheLine other other]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Sing}} hand]]...

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** In a deleted scene of the 2004 film ''Literature/VanityFair'', Creator/RobertPattinson played Reese Witherspoon's estranged son. In ''Water for Elephants'', they play lovers.



** At one point in the movie, Marlena said, "I don't sing." [[IronyAsSheIsCast Reese Witherspoon]], [[Film/WalkTheLine on the other hand]]...

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** At one point in the movie, Marlena said, "I don't sing." [[IronyAsSheIsCast Reese Witherspoon]], on the [[Film/WalkTheLine on the other hand]]...

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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:August throwing Walter and Camel off the train as it goes over a trestle bridge.]]

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[[spoiler:August throwing Walter and Camel off the train as it goes over a trestle bridge.]]



* RetroactiveRecognition: The dog in the film is played by Uggie, who would become famous the same year as the dog in ''TheArtist''.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: The dog in the film is played by Uggie, who would become famous the same year as the dog in ''TheArtist''.''Film/TheArtist''.
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** At one point in the movie, Marlena said, "I don't sing." [[IronyAsSheIsCast Reese Witherspoon]], [[Film/WalkTheLine on the other hand]]...
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** In a deleted scene of the 2004 film ''VanityFair'', Creator/RobertPattinson played Reese Witherspoon's estranged son. In ''Water for Elephants'', they play lovers.

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** In a deleted scene of the 2004 film ''VanityFair'', ''Literature/VanityFair'', Creator/RobertPattinson played Reese Witherspoon's estranged son. In ''Water for Elephants'', they play lovers.
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** RobertPattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[{{Literature/Twilight}} popular film series]], also based on books.
** In a deleted scene of the 2004 film ''VanityFair'', RobertPattinson played Reese Witherspoon's estranged son. In ''Water for Elephants'', they play lovers.

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** RobertPattinson Creator/RobertPattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[{{Literature/Twilight}} popular film series]], also based on books.
** In a deleted scene of the 2004 film ''VanityFair'', RobertPattinson Creator/RobertPattinson played Reese Witherspoon's estranged son. In ''Water for Elephants'', they play lovers.

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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:August throwing Walter and Camel off the train as it goes over a trestle bridge.]]

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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:August throwing Walter and Camel off the train as it goes over a trestle bridge.]]]]
** Or earlier, when he [[spoiler: beats the hell out of Rosie for running away, leaving her covered in gashes]].
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The dog in the film is played by Uggie, who would become famed the same year as the dog in ''TheArtist''.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: The dog in the film is played by Uggie, who would become famed famous the same year as the dog in ''TheArtist''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: RobertPattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[{{Literature/Twilight}} popular film series]], also based on books.

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RobertPattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[{{Literature/Twilight}} popular film series]], also based on books.



* TearJerker: Seeing Rosie's wounds after August beats her.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Inverted, in a way. With all the booze that seems to flow freely throughout the story, you completely forget that this was set during the Prohibition era ([[spoiler:right up until the police show up and raid the party at the speakeasy.]])
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Inverted, in a way. With all the booze that seems to flow freely throughout the story, you completely forget that this was set during the Prohibition era ([[spolier:right up until the police show up and raid the party at the speakeasy.]])

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Inverted, in a way. With all the booze that seems to flow freely throughout the story, you completely forget that this was set during the Prohibition era ([[spolier:right ([[spoiler:right up until the police show up and raid the party at the speakeasy.]])
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Inverted, in a way. With all the booze that seems to flow freely throughout the story, you completely forget that this was set during the Prohibition era ([[spolier:right up until the police show up and raid the party at the speakeasy.]])
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* TearJerker: Seeing Rosie's wounds after August beats her.
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** Robert Pattinson plays a creepy, abusive, jealous stalker in Twilight. Here he plays the (non-abusive) protagonist in a story that deconstructs abusive relationships.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Robert Pattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[{{Twilight}} popular film series]], also based on books.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Robert Pattinson RobertPattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[{{Twilight}} [[{{Literature/Twilight}} popular film series]], also based on books.books.
** In a deleted scene of the 2004 film ''VanityFair'', RobertPattinson played Reese Witherspoon's estranged son. In ''Water for Elephants'', they play lovers.
** In 1998, Reese Witherspoon was in a film that happened to be called ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119594/ Twilight]]''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Robert Pattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a [[{{Twilight}} popular film series]], also based on books.

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