Line #3 Film/PerriersBounty


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3	''Perrier's Bounty'' is a 2010 Irish crime thriller comedy in the tradition of ''I Went Down'' directed by Ian Fitzgibbon and starring Creator/CillianMurphy, Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent and Creator/JodieWhittaker.
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5	Michael [=McCrea=] (Murphy) is a low level Dublin ne'er-do-well and sometime crook who is unable to repay a loan to local crime boss Perrier (Gleeson). After Perrier unleashes his thugs Michael is forced to flee aided only by his neighbour Brenda (Whittaker) and estranged father Jim (Broadbent) - [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} who is convinced that the Grim Reaper himself has forewarned his death.]]
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8	!!This movie provides examples of:
9	* AffablyEvil: Perrier.
10	* AintTooProudToBeg: The Mutt [[spoiler: even though Perrier told him: "No begging now", it doesn't save him]]
11	* AntagonistTitle: Perrier's Bounty.
12	* BerserkButton: Perrier has several: dogs with "high-falutin' fucking names", homophobia and people who AintTooProudToBeg.
13	* BlackAndGreyMorality: Michael is violent and a thief but all around has a good heart while Perrier while affable is still a ruthless crime boss.
14	* BlackComedy: People are really casual about the whole running for your life and torturing to death someone who fault on his debt.
15	* BullyingADragon: The two traffic wardens who clamp Ivan and Orlando's car. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown It doesn't end well for them]].
16	* CloudCuckoolander: Jim. [[spoiler:Although it later turns out his encounter with the Grim Reaper may have actually happened.]]
17	* ClusterFBomb: Pretty much the entire film counts.
18	* ColdBloodedTorture: Perrier plans to have his lackeys kill Michael very slowly and painfully. [[spoiler:Thankfully he manages to escape before this can happen.]]
19	* CrapsackWorld: Played for laughs.
20	* CycleOfRevenge: A reoccuring theme in the movie. Michael had a falling out with his parents when the [[spoiler: guy he beat up for hurting a woman came back and assault his mother in revenge.]]
21	* DidntThinkThisThrough: After losing Ivan and Orlando, Michael heads back to his flat, only for the pair to show up there and even point out his stupidity in going back to the first place anyone searching for him would look. Justified in that Michael was trying to get a gun he was keeping in his apartment.
22	* EvenEvilHasStandards: For a gangster evil enough to [[spoiler:kill dogs]] for no reason, Perrier is surprisingly against Discrimination against Gays.
23	* FakeIrish: Jim Broadbent. Jodie Whittaker might be a semi-example - she uses her own accent so presumably Brenda is meant to be English but no dialogue actually refers to her nationality suggesting the character might have been originally ''written'' as Irish and changed when Whittaker [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent couldn't manage an Irish accent.]]
24	* {{Gayngster}}: Ivan and Orlando.
25	* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: When Perrier is ripped apart by dogs, only quick flashes and shadows are seen.]]
26	* GroinAttack: The Mutt takes a foot to the nether regions thanks to Jim, Michael's intended fate is an extremely dark version of this.
27	* TheGrimReaper: Jim believes he's been visited by the Reaper, who foretold him of his death. [[spoiler:The Reaper turns out to be the narrator.]]
28	* HardGay: Ivan and Orlando.
29	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Perrier dies savaged by dogs after shooting a pair of them dead for annoying him with their barking earlier in the movie.]]
30	* KickTheDog: Perrier [[spoiler:shoots two dogs that are annoying him to remind the audience that he is ''not'' a nice man. It's arguably actually needed as up until then he wasn't much less sympathetic than our heroes.]]
31	* LastKiss: Michael and Brenda share this before he heads off to rescue his father from Perrier. [[spoiler:Thankfully it didn't take.]]
32	* {{Narrator}}: An unidentified one. [[spoiler:Until the end when we we find it's Death himself.]]
33	* NoNameGiven: Liam Cunningham's character is only ever called 'The Mutt', even by himself. This is a nod to real life Irish crooks like 'The Monk' (Gerry Hutch) or 'The General' (Martin Cahill) who were known for their nicknames. [[BigBadWannabe There is a reason the Mutt's name is so unflattering.]]
34	* NotNamedInOpeningCredits: [[spoiler: Gabriel Bryne is TheGrimReaper]].
35	* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:When Jim is killed, Michael goes ''berserk''.]]
36	** [[spoiler:In retaliation for Perrier killing the dogs Achilles and Apollo in cold blood, the dogs' owners and their gang set the ''other'' gang members' dogs on him.]]
37	* RunningGag: The clampers. Sets up a nice BrickJoke after they've finally been PutOnABus. Michael later escapes to the car he's been driving, only to find it clamped (the second car he's had this happen to during the course of the film).
38	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Mutt.
39	* VillainBall: Perrier [[spoiler: kills a pair of dogs for no apparent reason but to assert his evil bona fides]] and later, at a key moment, [[spoiler: betrays The Mutt (no relation), giving Michael enough of a distraction to escape and turn the tables. Then, just as he's almost recovered from that setback, that first act of pointless evil comes back to bite him.]]
40	* TechnicalPacifist: Michael can't bring himself to kill Perrier in cold blood. Doesn't stop him from kneecapping one of his mooks though.
41	* ThirdPersonPerson: The Mutt.
42	* WhamLine: By the narrator at the end of the movie.
43	-->'''Narrator:''' [[spoiler:Because that's me way, man. Because that's me way.]]
44	* WoundedGazelleGambit: The woman on the farm tries to order Michael, Brenda and Jim out of her barn when they take shelter there. When they refuse, she calls the police... and claims Michael and co. ''tried to rape her''.
45	* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Were Ivan and Perrier's other goons killed along with him?]]

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