Line #81 Film/VictorVictoria


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3	->'''King Marchand:''' I don't care if you are a man.\
4	[''kisses Victoria'']\
5	'''Victoria:''' I-- I'm not a man.\
6	'''King Marchand:''' I still don't care.
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8	This 1982 musical comedy film, directed by Creator/BlakeEdwards and starring his wife Creator/JulieAndrews as well as Robert Preston and Creator/JamesGarner, is the tale of a down-on-her-luck actress/singer who disguises herself as a man to take a job as a drag queen in 1930s Paris. HilarityEnsues.
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10	The film, which is actually a ForeignRemake of the 1933 German film ''Viktor und Viktoria'', received a ScreenToStageAdaptation in 1995 which ''also'' starred Andrews and was directed by Edwards; a performance of this version was shot on videotape for a Japanese television broadcast and subsequently issued on DVD.
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13	!!This film and its stage adaptation provide examples of:
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15	* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
16	** After the waiter delivers his "it is a moron who listens to a horse's ass" retort, Toddy and Victoria look at each other and start laughing.
17	** [[spoiler:Squash]] coming out to King makes Victoria chuckle. King remains gobsmacked.
18	* AccidentalPervert: While checking to see if the coast is clear, King can't resist peeping on "Victor"/Victoria as she is taking a bath.
19	* AllWomenAreLustful: Norma, who whines about wanting to make love with King when they were together, and when she mistakenly believes that "Victor" is about to sexually harass her (in reality, it was Victoria undressing to show her true gender), her first thought is to have "him" lock the door.
20	* AmbiguouslyBi: Toddy's ex Richard. After he and Richard break up he's seen with a female companion, who may or may not be TheBeard.
21	* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When three of the male dancers watch "Victor" perform, one says that he's a phony as Toddy eavesdrops, amused.
22	-->'''Dancer 1:''' If he's a Polish count, then I'm Greta Garbo.\
23	'''Dancer 2:''' Well, Greta, whatever he is... I think he's divine.\
24	[''Toddy walks away looking pleased.'']
25	* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: When Norma gets trapped in a room with "Victor" who begins undressing to her, Norma's reaction to this is "Wait... Lock the door!".
26	* AttractiveBentGender: While performing dressed as a woman, "Victor" is considered very attractive.
27	-->'''Toddy:''' ''(to Victoria in male dress wear)'' You look better in Richard's clothes than he does. Of course, he looks better out of them.
28	* AuthorAppeal: An inspector and slapstick right out of ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther''. See Butt Monkey below.
29	* AwkwardSilenceEntrance: When King, dressed in a tuxedo, walks into a working-class bar for the express purpose of picking a fight.
30	* BarBrawl:
31	** "Victor" accidentally starts a brawl by accidentally pulling off a woman's wig after intentionally tripping one of her companions. In the ensuing chaos, she even accidentally punches King.
32	** In the film version, Toddy gets fired early in the film after indirectly causing a bar fight in Chez Lui,
33	** King later starts a bar brawl intentionally in order to feel more masculine: he orders milk, and when one of the tough guys sarcastically asks him if he's ordering cow's milk or mother's milk, King replies, [[MySisterIsOffLimits "How about your sister's?"]].
34	* BattleThemeMusic: The band in Chez Lui starts belting out "La Marseillaise" when the fight breaks out.
35	* TheBeard: Maybe Richard's female companion. He's possibly just bisexual.
36	* BetaCouple: Prominently in the stage version, Toddy and [[spoiler: Squash]] are this to Victoria and King.
37	* BettyAndVeronica: "Victor"/Victoria (the Betty) to Norma Cassidy (the Veronica) over King Marchand (the Archie).
38	* BelligerentSexualTension: King Marchand and "Victor"/Victoria bicker with one another while falling in love.
39	* TheBigDamnKiss: King and "Victor"/Victoria share one after escaping a bar fight together.
40	* BigEater: Victoria is so hungry that she devours a large meal. The waiter is amazed by her appetite and checks under the table she is sitting at to see if she hadn't fed the meal to a pet dog. Justified since she hasn't eaten in 4 days.
41	* BisexualLoveTriangle: Zigzagged. One between Norma/King/"Victor". King is dating Norma but questions himself when he's becoming attracted to "Victor" whom he believed is actually a woman (and King insists he could never find a man attractive). Eventually, King dumps Norma and pursues "Victor" while no longer caring about gender.
42	* BigYes: Norma, who has been stewing over King's obvious infatuation with "Victor"/Victoria, screams "yes!" when Victoria takes off the wig. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent And keeps screaming "Yay!" over and over]] while the camera focuses on King's utter dismay.
43	* BiWildered: Norma (and everyone she tells) thinks King is "gay now" because of his crush on female impersonator drag queen "Victor", despite King's willingness to sleep with Norma and his attraction to women in general.
44	* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Toddy has Victoria's costumes tailored by a man who would very much not like his wife and six children to know his sexual proclivities, and will therefore keep mum about what attributes Victor may or may not have.
45	* BrainlessBeauty: Norma Cassidy is King Marchand's ditzy arm-candy.
46	* BrickJoke:
47	** During King' first night at the hotel Norma states she's worried that Squash, the bodyguard, will break in while they're making love. "Oh he'd only do that if he heard something unusual; like if I got excited!". Squash does just that when an orgasmic moan escapes from King's room as he's making love to Victoria.
48	** Toddy's love for theatre and crossdressing. It helps save Victoria and King from the mafia and authorities at the end when they arrive looking for "Victor" suspecting "him" of fraud and Toddy fills in for the role of "Victor".
49	* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Squash. As he explains it, if you didn't want to be gay bashed, you made yourself into a tough guy. (His actor, Alex Karras, was a RealLife example.)
50	* BullyingADragon: King gets into a tiff with a well-dressed man at the gym and suggests that he deliver his "apology" in the boxing ring. The man agrees, and walks away to get ready.
51	-->'''King:''' "He'll be deLIGHTed to oblige," who does he think he is?\
52	'''Squash:''' Guy Levois, the French middleweight boxing champion. [King turns around with an OhCrap look.] [[SarcasmMode But don't worry. He's gay.]]
53	* ButtMonkey: The private investigator hired by the club owner Monsieur Labisse to unmask Victoria. Every scene where he appears (all four of them) has him on the receiving end of a slapstick gag, starting with this gem:
54	--> '''Labisse:''' Be careful.\
55	'''Private eye:''' Monsieur, I am ''always'' careful.\
56	'''Labisse:''' [[PreemptiveDeclaration That chair is broken.]]\
57	'''Private eye:''' It is? ''(chair collapses)''
58	** Then you have Toddy's young gigolo, who manages to keep getting punched in the same broken nose by Victoria. Then again, [[AssholeVictim he deserves it]].
59	* CampGay: Toddy in the stage version is camp; in the film, he's just unapologetic. However, in the film Victor's dancers may as well be wearing feather boas. While disguised as "Victor", Victoria is advised by Toddy to act more campy when getting ready for their first performance.
60	--> '''Toddy:''' Make it broader, with tons of shoulder. Remember, you're a drag queen!
61	* CaptainErsatz: [=Leclou=] is Clouseau. They even have similar names.
62	* CarryingACake: When the waiter sees [[spoiler:Toddy as the Shady Dame]] in the final performance, he's so distracted that he falls over the railing with a giant birthday cake.
63	* CharacterExaggeration: In the film version, Norma Cassidy has a few moments that show she's not the sharpest tool in the shed. In the stage adaptation, this becomes her defining character trait. The result is PlayedForLaughs, to the point that in the filmed version of the stage musical, Norma gets the biggest laughs.
64	* ChekhovsSkill: Victoria's ability to hit a glass-shattering note. When the owner of Chez Lui watches her "Shady Dame" number later, it confirms his suspicions that "Victor" is the woman who auditioned for his club.
65	-->'''Waiter:''' ''(EurekaMoment)'' Cockroach!
66	* CigaretteOfAnxiety: King lights up a cigar after learning his crush Victoria is a gay male drag queen. Much to his confliction.
67	* ClingyJealousGirl: Norma is this when King becomes infatuated with "Victor"/Victoria.
68	* ClosetGay: Shortly after King and Victoria sleep together for the first time, Squash catches them ''in flagrante delicto'', still thinking Victoria is Victor. Before King can fully explain the confusion to him, Squash gives him a bear hug and comes out to him as gay. A couple scenes later, they're working out in the gym and King asks him about it.
69	-->'''Squash:''' When did I know I was gay? God, I can't remember when I wasn't.\
70	'''King:''' I've known you for years!\
71	'''Squash:''' Well, you know a lot of guys, boss. You'd be surprised.\
72	'''King:''' You were an All-American! I never saw a meaner, rougher, tougher, son-of-a-bitch football player in all my life.\
73	'''Squash:''' Listen, if you didn't want the guys to call you "queer", [[ManlyGay you became a rough, tough, son-of-a-bitching football player]].
74	* ClosetKey: "Victor" for King.
75	* CloseUpOnHead: When "Victor"/Victoria and King are dancing, the shot is close up on their faces. As the shot pans out, it's shown that the couple are dancing together in a gay bar surrounded by other various male couples. Much to King's discomfort.
76	* ComebackTomorrow: After Toddy says that the wine looks like horse urine--and on the waiter's protest, that it wasn't a real horse but two waiters in costume--the waiter calmly says "I shall think of a sharp retort while I fetch your roast chicken." However, Toddy's reply gives him an opportunity to make one right away:
77	-->'''Toddy:''' It's a wise man who knows when he is beaten.\
78	'''Waiter:''' And it is a moron who gives advice to a horse's ass.\
79	''(Toddy gives him a {{Touche}} glance.)''
80	* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:Squash]] eventually "hoists [their] true colors" in response to mistakenly thinking another character has done the same. Though things are a little awkward at first, all of their friends are supportive--the only people who end up hostile already had a reason to feel that way.
81	* CongestionSpeak: Victoria's voice is gruff and lower due to a head cold when she retaliates against Toddy's ex lover Richard.
82	* CrossdressingVoices: When in the disguise of polish count and drag queen Victor, Victoria's voice is lower. When as Victoria, her voice is higher.
83	* CuteButCacophonic: Norma is a very attractive woman but she has an annoying hitch-pitched shrilling nasally voice and one short fuse of a temper.
84	* CureYourGays: Norma attempts this on Toddy when she flirts with him. Being gay, he doesn't buy it.
85	-->'''Norma:''' You know what I think? I think the right woman could reform you.
86	-->'''Toddy:''' [[DeadPanSnarker You know, I think the woman could reform you, too]].
87	* DefeatMeansFriendship: The last scene of King in the barfight is him leading the tough guys in a drunken rendition of "Sweet Adelaide," and wearing one of their hats.
88	* DeadpanSnarker: Toddy has quite a few zingers in both the movie and stage production.
89	* DistractedByTheSexy:
90	** When "Victor"/Victoria performs "Le Jazz Hot", King is smitten. Much to Norma's chagrin.
91	** When Norma angrily opens her coat and flashes her underwear as a means of what King will be missing, a male passerby falls over onto the train tracks from looking at her.
92	* DidntSeeThatComing: When King, Squash, and Norma see Victoria's first performance, King is smitten by the beautiful female singer and Norma isn't pleased with this. Then at the end, Victoria removes the wig and appears to be "Victor." King is shocked and Norma just laughs and starts cheering loudly.
93	-->'''Squash:''' It's a guy.
94	* DistantDuet: In the stage version, Victoria and King sing "Almost a Love Song" in adjacent rooms.
95	* TheDitz: Norma Cassidy tends to fail while attempting to seem intelligent, particularly in the stage musical.
96	* DisproportionateRetribution: Norma attempts to kill King and even the bodyguard Squash for intervening just because King shoved a bar of soap into her mouth for insulting him.
97	* DownerBeginning: The film opens with Victoria, starving and weak, failing to win over a critic in her audition and being evicted for owing rent at the motel she resided at.
98	* DragQueen: "Victor", as well as several of the minor characters. [[spoiler:Toddy dresses in drag to play the role of "Victor" when the police come to investigate the claims of fraud about the performance.]]
99	* DumbBlonde: Norma Cassidy has bleached blond hair, while Victoria Grant is a redhead. One is TheDitz, and it isn't the main character.
100	* EarnYourHappyEnding:
101	** After suffering penniless and starving, Victoria finds fame and eventually love.
102	** When Labisse tries to expose him/her as a fraud, Toddy, thrilled to be back in drag, replaces Victoria in a blink, to thwart Labisse and leave the way clear for a happy ending for our two loving couples -- King and Victoria, and Toddy and Squash.
103	* EurekaMoment: When Victoria sends Richard packing while wearing his clothes (ItMakesSenseInContext), her voice still husky from having a cold, Toddy has his brilliant idea for how she can work as a singer again.
104	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: While Victoria performs as "Victor", three of the male performers agree that "he" is divine. Even King falls for "him", despite being conflicted about his attraction.
105	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Everything is resolved with Toddy taking over the role of "Victoria" and everyone is seen laughing, happy together.
106	* FakedFoodContaminant: DoubleSubverted. Victoria, who hasn't gotten a decent meal in a week, attempts this out of desperation after finding an ''enormous'' cockroach in her flophouse room. The waiter is wise to the con and starts implying that he's going to have her arrested unless she fesses up... until the cockroach turns up at another table nearby, inadvertently setting off a BarBrawl and letting her and Toddy abscond with full stomachs amid the confusion.
107	* FakeOrgasm: After King fails to perform in bed with Norma due to him thinking about "Victor", Norma suggests they can "fake it" if they have too. King is not amused.
108	* FanDisservice: Norma's squeaky voice and generally tactless behavior. [[{{Film/Clue}} Leslie Ann Warren can definitely play an attractive]] FemmeFatale, but here she's camping it up to make the character unsympathetic.
109	* {{Fanservice}}: A few brief glimpses of Victoria undressing for a bath in the hotel.
110	* {{Fainting}}: Victoria faints a lot due to malnourishment from not having eaten in four days.
111	* FauxYay: Victoria pretends to be Toddy's lover as Victor in order to provide a plausible reason for living together.
112	* FieryRedhead: The gangster King falls for the fire-y redhead "Victor"/Victoria.
113	* FlyInTheSoup: At the beginning of the film, Victoria plots to use a cockroach she found in her room to scam a restaurant--she's flat broke and hasn't eaten in days (her other idea having been to sleep with her landlord for some spaghetti and meatballs). Toddy drops in and decides to help, but the manager and waiter have both seen this trick before and argue until the roach escapes and crawls up a different woman's leg. In the ensuing mass panic, the restaurant is wrecked, and Victoria and Toddy make their escape.
114	* FoodPorn: Although the overweight elderly male customer's eating is grotesque, the close-up of the creamy French eclair looks delicious.
115	* FreezeFrameBonus: Toddy has a picture of Creator/MarleneDietrich in a tux on his nightstand.
116	* FriendshipSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CUKFDW-VIs You and Me]]" shows how close Victoria and Toddy have gotten in such a short time.
117	* {{Gayngst}}:
118	** King suffers this when he discovers his crush "Victor"/Victoria is a professional gay male drag queen. And again, when he begins a secret relationship with "Victor", as King knows all too well they cannot be intimate in public for homosexuality was in a sin. Because he was a gangster and it was 1930s Paris.
119	** King's bodyguard Squash confesses to suffering this all prior to his coming out and he did his best by excelling at sports to hide his homosexuality.
120	-->'''King:''' But, you were all-American! I never saw a rougher, tougher, meaner, son-of-a-bitch football player in all my life.\
121	'''Squash:''' Boss, if you didn't want the guys to call you queer, you became a rough, tough, son-of-a-bitch football player.
122	* {{Gaydar}}: Toddy correctly figures out [[spoiler:Squash]] is gay, seen laughing with him at some private joke (which one can guess what the subject matter is about.)
123	* {{Gayngster}}: [[spoiler:One of Sal's bodyguards in the stage version]]
124	* GayParee: In [[HaveAGayOldTime both senses]]. It even has a musical number so titled.
125	-->'''Toddy:''' ''(singing)'' When people speak of Gay Paree / They think that when they say Paree is gay / They mean that Gay Paree is "Gay!" / It is not in the way Paree was gay in yesterday Paree / It means today that Gay Paree ''is'' gay. \
126	''(The pianist plays the Fairy Waltz. Toddy slaps him with his handkerchief.)''\
127	'''Toddy:''' Not ''[[CampGay that]]'' [[CampGay gay]].
128	* GenderConcealingVoice: Victoria has to speak and sing in a lower register while in disguise as "Victor".
129	* GenreSavvy: This exchange between Victoria and Toddy after her and King's first meeting:
130	--> '''Victoria:''' King Marchand is an arrogant, opinionated, chauvinistic pain in the ass.\
131	'''Toddy:''' I think I could fall in love with him.\
132	'''Victoria:''' I think I could, too.
133	* GenreThrowback: To [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood Golden Age-era]] studio musicals.
134	* GenteelInterbellumSetting: The film is set in Paris 1934.
135	* GetOut: The owner of Chez Luis, holding a bloody bag of ice to his head after the movie's first BarBrawl, screams at Toddy to get out.
136	* GettingTheBoot: Watching a guy get thrown out the door is what makes King stop at a particular bar when he wants to feel manlier.
137	* GlassShatteringSound: The high note at the end of Victoria's stage show. Also ChekhovsSkill.
138	* GladToBeAliveSex: King and "Victor"/Victoria make love not long after escaping the bar fight scuffle together.
139	* GreenEyedMonster: Norma grows quite jealous when she sees King become infatuated with "Victor"/Victoria. Until Victoria removes her wig at the end of her performance, then she cheers.
140	* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: King, after discovering his crush Victoria is actually a professional drag queen named "Victor".
141	* HellIsThatNoise: Norma's voice is quite squeaky over time.
142	* HelloSailor: Toddy's aware of the stereotype in the stage version:
143	-->'''King:''' You must have been in the army.\
144	'''Toddy:''' I prefer the navy, myself.
145	** In the film, he responds "Oh, [[DoubleEntendre once or twice]]."
146	* HenPeckedHusband. Henpecked boyfriend in this case. When King is dating Norma, she verbally abuses him, insults him, makes fun of him for having a crush on "Victor" and not being able to get sexually aroused for her and threatens to harm him physically by throwing random objects at him and then try to kill him with a spear prop for simply putting soap in her mouth.
147	* HeyYouHaymaker: When Toddy's JerkAss ex, Richard, opens the wardrobe to take his clothes back, Victoria greets him with a fist to his already-bruised face--having donned his clothing in lieu of her ruined dress.
148	* IfItsYouItsOkay: Invoked by King after escaping a bar fight with "Victor". King finds himself romantically attracted to Victoria and is conflicted about it after discovering Victoria is actually a professional drag queen named "Victor". Eventually, he decides he doesn't care about the gender, he just wants "Victor".
149	--> '''King:''' I don't care if you are a man. ''(kisses Victoria)''\
150	'''Victoria:''' I'm ... not a man.\
151	'''King:''' I still don't care! ''(kissing ensues)''
152	* InadvertentEntranceCue: In the stage version.
153	--> '''Norma:''' Well, well, well, if it ain't big shot King Marchand, who these days maybe ought to change it to "Queen".\
154	'''Toddy:''' ''(opening the doors)'' Did somebody call?
155	* IncompatibleOrientation: Norma Cassidy flirts with the gay Toddy, with shades of FagHag - She's ''delighted'' by Toddy and "Victor"'s sexuality as long as it's not a threat to her relationship (She's even seen cheering Toddy at the finale).
156	* ImmodestOrgasm: King is quite loud when in bed together with "Victor"/Victoria. It's this that causes his bodyguard Squash to burst into the bedroom to inspect such noise.
157	* {{Irony}}: Squash suggested King bring Norma with them to Paris, to help him relax. The exact opposite happens and King orders to have her sent home.
158	* INeedAFreakingDrink: King prefers to spends the remainder of the night smoking a cigar and drinking scotch/rum instead of sleeping with Norma, in order to deal with his conflicting thoughts over his crush on "Victor".
159	* InterruptedIntimacy: King and "Victor"/Victoria are in the middle of making love when Squash bursts into the room upon hearing noises.
160	* InsaneTrollLogic: The mafia's homophobia. Toddy quips "kill him, but mustn't kiss him."
161	* IrrelevantActOpener: The second act of the stage adaptation opens with a song about Marie Antoinette. As it's a performance by "Victor", it's not entirely out of place, but it has nothing to do with the plot. It was eventually cut.
162	* IRejectYourReality: King insists that "Victor"/Victoria is a woman even after seeing "him" take his wig off. This is because he's conflicted over his feelings for "him".
163	* {{Jerkass}}: The bisexual Richard robs Toddy and acts hostile towards him after spending the night with him.
164	* JerkJock: King notes that Squash was one in their youth as he was the toughest, scariest kid on the block. [[spoiler:Squash notes that he embraced this trope to hide the fact he was gay.]]
165	* KarmaHoudini: Norma suffers no repercussions for her actions after lying to the Mafia about her ex King supposedly being in a homosexual relationship with the polish male drag queen "Victor".
166	* KansasCityShuffle: Toddy deliberately gives "Victor" an obviously fake backstory as a disinherited Polish aristocrat named "Count Victor Grazinski" under the assumption that once people see through this lie, they won't look for another.
167	-->'''"Victor":''' They'll know he's a phony!\
168	'''Toddy:''' Exactly.\
169	'''"Victor":''' What?\
170	'''Toddy:''' They'll know ''he's'' a phony.
171	* LargeHam: Norma.
172	* LastHetRomance:
173	** For Toddy, somebody named Nana Lanu.
174	--> '''Victoria:''' Nana Lanu? Who's she?\
175	'''Toddy:''' The last woman I slept with.\
176	'''Victoria:''' When was that?\
177	'''Toddy:''' The night before the morning I decided to become a homosexual.
178	** King dates Norma but leaves her for "Victor".
179	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Despite the fact that their relationship isn't romantic at all, Victoria (as Victor) and Toddy banter and bicker throughout the "You and Me" number they do at Chez Lui.
180	* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: King is shocked to discover that the object of his affection "Victor" resides in the hotel room right across from his.
181	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: King, distracted by thoughts of "Victor", suffers this when he tries sleeping with Norma.
182	-->'''Norma:''' Before you know it, [[{{Malaproper}} you are impudent]].
183	* LousyLoversAreLosers: Norma mocks King for being unable to perform in bed with her and this is embarrassing for King, as he is unable to prove his manhood (due to having thoughts of "Victor"). Norma's suggestion that they could "fake it" and her calling him "impudent" does very little to help.
184	* LoveDodecahedron: Toddy is initially involved with Richard, who starts seeing bit-character Simone. King and Norma are together, but once they get to Paris, Norma goes after Toddy and King falls for "Victor", with Victoria reciprocating King's feelings. Toddy, for his part, seems taken with Squash. The stage version goes even further by making Toddy explicitly attracted to King and implying that he and Andre had been...close. The LoveDodecahedron does get resolved, but not to everyone's liking.
185	* LoveAtFirstPunch: King is quite flattered after accidentally taking a punch from "Victor".
186	-->'''"Victor":''' I am so sorry!\
187	'''King:''' ''(flattered)'' So am I!
188	* LoveAtFirstSight: King Merchand falls for Victoria at first sight before discovering she is "Victor".
189	* LoveableSexManiac: "Loveable" is debatable, but Norma's reaction to "Victor" stripping for her (to prove she's a woman, when Norma still thinks she's a man) is "'''WAIT!!!''' ({{Beat}}) Lock the door!"
190	* LovesMyAlterEgo: King is attracted to Victor's female persona Victoria while he is dismayed that Victoria is actually a gay drag queen.
191	* ManlyGay: King's bodyguard Squash is a big, strong guy who was an All-American football player (he's played by former Detroit Lions defensive tackle Creator/AlexKarras). He's ClosetGay and comes out to King midway through the film.
192	* ManlyTears: Of the TearsOfJoy variety, with [[spoiler:Squash]] coming out to King, thinking the latter is gay.
193	* MatchCut: An audio one; when Toddy loudly blows his nose the scene cuts to the blare of a car horn.
194	* MistakenForGay: King, when Squash finds him in bed with "Victor". [[spoiler:It prompts Squash to come out of the closet himself.]]
195	* MonochromeCasting: There is one black person in the whole film. He's one of the men in the bar that King starts a fight in.
196	* MuggingTheMonster: In the film, while at the gym trying to reinforce his masculinity, King gets bumped into by another guy. King refuses to accept the apology and challenges him to a boxing match. The man turns out to be the French middleweight boxing champion.
197	-->'''Squash:''' [[DeadpanSnarker But don't worry. He's gay.]][[note]]Gay or not, King gets smacked around pretty good.[[/note]]
198	* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: King gives in to his feelings and kisses "Victor", not caring if he is a man. A guilty "Victor"/Victoria reveals she is not a man and King nonchalantly says he still doesn't care about gender.
199	* TheMusical: In the movie, the songs are only for the characters' stage performances, but it was adapted for Broadway in 1995 as an all-out musical.
200	* TheMusicalMusical: The story is a musical about a stage performer who advances her career through RecursiveCrossdressing.
201	* MusicalWorldHypotheses: The film is entirely diegetic, with Victoria, Toddy, and Norma giving performances. The stage adaptation introduces songs that are either All In Their Head or an Adaptation of the events. Toddy's opening number even starts in his head and moves on to an actual performance at Chez Lui.
202	* MyEyesAreUpHere: An inversion. The dress that Victoria wears at the end has a NavelDeepNeckline. Justified, in that she's trying to be as female as possible so she isn't mistaken for "Victor". So it's somewhat like a My Breasts Are Down Here.
203	* MysteriousPast: Hinted at with Toddy.
204	-->'''Toddy:''' Why is he sitting way over there?\
205	'''King:''' ''(terse)'' Strategic.\
206	'''Toddy:''' ''("ah")'' Broader field of vision, clearer field of fire.\
207	'''King:''' You must have been in the army.\
208	'''Toddy:''' Once or twice.
209	* NavelDeepNeckline: The dress Victoria wears at the climax [[spoiler:to make her femininity quite obvious from the "slimmer" Victor.]]
210	* NoBisexuals: When King becomes attracted to and conflicted over "Victor"/Victoria, Norma thinks that it means he is gay now despite King's attempt to sleep with her. With no mention of the B word.
211	* NotStayingForBreakfast: Richard leaves after spending a night in a hotel with Toddy.
212	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Victoria points out that King insisting he's not a gangster, just someone who does business with them, isn't that different than the act that she runs.
213	* OhCrap: Plenty.
214	** King's reaction when he sees "Victor"/Victoria take his wig off, revealing "he" is a drag queen.
215	** King, when he looks from his hotel window and sees that "Victor"/Victoria and Toddy are his apartment next door neighbors.
216	** King and Squash, when Norma loses her temper and attempts to kill them with a sharp harpoon trophy.
217	** King, when he's about to be punched by someone whose sister he made a manly joke about.
218	* OldPeopleAreNonsexual: Wonderfully averted. Both Toddy and [[spoiler: Squash]] are middle-aged but they develop a passionate relationship nonetheless.
219	* OverTheShoulderCarry: King does to Norma, promptly carrying her over his shoulder to the bedroom in an attempt to assert his manhood and heterosexuality and make love to her. Unfortunately...
220	* PinkIsErotic: Norma does a seductive dance in a pink wardrobe and flashes the male audience in the club her pink panties while performing "Chicago, Illinois".
221	* PlatonicLifePartners: Victoria and Toddy soon become inseparable friends, but she's never attracted to him and he, of course, is gay.
222	* PronounTrouble: King stumbling over his gender pronouns towards "Victor"/Victoria clues Norma in on his attraction towards "him".
223	* QueerEstablishingMoment: In-Universe, when Victoria disguises herself as "Victor". After a performance of "Le Jazz Hot" and "The Shady Dame", Victoria removes her headdress revealing her short haircut and establishing to the crowd watching that she is actually a gay male polish drag queen named "Victor". Applause and hilarity ensue.
224	* RecursiveCrossdressing: A woman dressing as a man who does performance art dressing as a woman.
225	* ReadyForLovemaking: Norma attempts to lure King to the hotel bedroom for lovemaking. Unfortunately, King is preoccupied with his thoughts of "Victor".
226	* RetargetedLust: King Marchand attempts to rid himself of his thoughts of "Victor" by making love with Norma. Unfortunately, he is "impudent" (according to [[TheDitz Norma]]) and unsuccessful.
227	* RescueRomance: King and "Victor"/Victoria's romance takes off after escaping from a bar fight.
228	* TheRevealPromptsRomance: King tells "Victor" that he doesn't care if he is a man and kisses him. A guilt-ridden Victoria reveals to King that she isn't actually biologically male. King grabs ahold of Victoria, tells her he still doesn't care about gender and they kiss again, kick-starting their relationship.
229	* RightForTheWrongReasons: King is convinced "Victor" is actually a woman. Not because of any flaw in her masquerade, but [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday because he refuses to believe he could be romantically attracted to a man.]]
230	* RunningGag: Michael keeps getting hit in the nose.
231	* ScreenToStageAdaptation: The 1982 film was adapted for Broadway in 1995.
232	* SecretRelationship: King and "Victor"/Victoria maintain a romantic relationship in secret to avoid homophobic hate crimes given the time setting.
233	* ServileSnarker:
234	** The waiter at the restaurant Victoria tries to con a meal out of, who makes his opinion on her huge meal and dining companion (after Toddy joins her) quite plain.
235	** Selma, Andre Cassel's secretary, engages in some snappy back-and-forth with the people who want to see her boss.
236	** Squash's job is to keep King from getting hurt, not to do anything for his ego.
237	--> '''King:''' [on phone to fake a call from another suite] Yes, this is...\
238	'''Squash:''' King Marchand.
239	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: King leaves after seeing "Victor" once again take his wig off after the performance of "The Shady Dame From Seville". As King is infatuated with his persona Victoria but is uncomfortable with the reality that he's actually a gay male drag queen.
240	* SexyCoatFlashing: Norma does this to Squash from the back of the train after he sends her off. He doesn't even look, but a porter DistractedByTheSexy falls over.
241	-->'''Norma:''' Oh, are you okay?
242	* SexualKarma: When King attempts to makes love with Norma, it is unsatisfying and unpleasant [[LousyLoversAreLosers which she then proceeds to mock him for it]]. When King and "Victor"/Victoria make love, [[SexGod it is romantic and satisfactory]].
243	* {{Slapstick}}: Both men and women suffer some sort of physical abuse during this musical, with hilarity to boot.
244	* SinisterSweetTooth: Norma is usually snacking on chocolate and other sweets whenever she's not verbally abusing her lover King, or being jealous and homophobic towards "Victor" and Toddy.
245	* SoapPunishment: King washes Norma's mouth out with soap after she warns he might become "impudent"[[note]]impotent[[/note]] from thoughts of Victor, driving her into such a rage that she attacks with a ''halberd'' which, decorative or not, still breaks through a door.
246	* SobriquetSexSwitch: Victoria Grant disguises herself as Count "Victor" Grazinski, a gay Polish female impersonator.
247	* SorryImGay: Toddy rebuff's Norma's advances by (accurately) claiming to be gay.
248	* StraightGay: Richard (though he may fall under bisexuality) and very much [[spoiler: Squash]], who [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] why.
249	-->'''King:''' I've known you for fifteen years...\
250	'''[[spoiler:Squash]]:''' You know a lot of guys, boss, you'd be surprised.\
251	'''King:''' But, you were All-American! I never saw a rougher, tougher, meaner, son-of-a-bitch football player in all my life!\
252	'''[[spoiler:Squash]]:''' Boss, if you didn't want the guys to call you ''queer'', you became a rough, tough, son-of-a-bitchin' football player.
253	* StupidSexyFlanders: An uncomfortable pause while discussing "Victor"'s performance reveals to Norma that King is attracted to "Victor".
254	--> '''Norma Cassidy:''' He thinks he's a phony.\
255	'''King Marchand:''' I think she's very talented.\
256	'''Norma Cassidy:''' He doesn't think you're a man.\
257	'''King Marchand:''' I'll tell her what I think.\
258	'''Norma Cassidy:''' "Her", see? ''(laughs)''
259	* StylisticSuck: The reprise of "The Shady Dame From Seville." Robert Preston only rehearsed it once so he could learn the lyrics. [[EnforcedMethodActing Everything going wrong was real]].
260	* SuppressedMammaries: Victoria does this InUniverse to pass as a man, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it hilariously.
261	--> '''Victoria:''' ''(sobbing)''\
262	'''Toddy:''' So far we've had two major obstacles to overcome.\
263	'''Victoria:''' My bosom.\
264	'''Toddy:''' First to convince everyone that you're a man.\
265	'''Victoria:''' It's been damn uncomfortable.\
266	'''Toddy:''' What has?\
267	'''Victoria:''' Strapping down my bosom.\
268	'''Toddy:''' Now all you have to do is go out there and you'll be a star for the next twenty years.\
269	'''Victoria:''' If I have to strap down my bosom for the next twenty years, they're going look like two empty wallets!
270	* SweetPollyOliver: Victoria spends most of the story as "Victor".
271	* SweetOnPollyOliver: [[RightForTheWrongReasons King is so attracted to "Victor" that he's convinced that "Victor" is really a woman.]]
272	* SweetTooth: Norma loves stuffing her face with chocolates.
273	* TantrumThrowing: Norma is prone to hurling objects at people when she's mad.
274	* TechnicallyASmile: Norma says "Paris" through ''very'' clenched teeth while maintaining a smile when performing "Chicago, Illinois".
275	* TheThirties: The film adaptation and musical take place in 1934 Paris during the winter.
276	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: King winds up held between two men in the tough-guy bar he starts a fight in and gives an exasperated "oh, shit" before he gets punched.
277	* TomboyishVoice: Victoria's voice is a tad lower due to suffering from a cold. And this gives Toddy an idea. Later, Victoria lowers her voice to keep up her appearances as Count Victor.
278	* ToplessFromTheBack: "Victor"/Victoria, when undressing for a bath.
279	* {{Touche}}:
280	-->'''Toddy:''' ''(on the food)'' The last time I saw a specimen like this, they had to shoot the horse!\
281	'''Waiter:''' ''(irritated)'' How lucky can you get? In one evening a Rockefeller ''(indicates Victoria)'' and a Creator/GrouchoMarx.\
282	'''Toddy:''' Oh, they didn't shoot a real horse... just a costume with two waiters in it.\
283	'''Waiter:''' I shall think of a sharp retort while I am getting your roast chicken.\
284	'''Toddy:''' It's a wise man who knows when to throw in the towel.\
285	'''Waiter:''' And it is a moron who gives advice to a horse's ass.\
286	''(Toddy nods "Touché!", then both Toddy and Victoria laugh when the waiter leaves.)''
287	* TraumaticHaircut: After Toddy develops a brilliant plan to disguise Victoria as "a gay polish female impersonator named Count Victor", Victoria first has to have her feminine hair chopped off shorter and styled into a gentleman's haircut.
288	* TwelfthNightAdventure: Victoria pretends to be a gay drag queen to become rich and famous.
289	* UnfocusedDuringIntimacy: King is unable to enjoy lovemaking with Norma due to being preoccupied with his thoughts of "Victor".
290	* UnableToCry: Victoria's sobs into Toddy's chest over her awful few weeks, now capped by her clothing being ruined:
291	-->'''Toddy:''' God, there'd been times I'd given my soul to cry like that.\
292	'''Victoria:''' I hate it!\
293	'''Toddy:''' ''(sighs)'' You wouldn't if you couldn't do it anymore.
294	* UnsatisfiableCustomer: Early in the film a broke Victoria attempts to cadge a free meal at a restaurant by planting a cockroach in her salad.
295	* UnsettlingGenderReveal:
296	** Double dropped. Andrews' character is a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, after all.
297	** Invoked when "Victor" performs as Victoria then takes her wig off in front of a cheering audience. Leaving Norma cheering and King conflicted.
298	** Norma is on the receiving end when Victoria reveals her true sex to her.
299	--->'''Norma:''' ''(to King)'' '''YOU TWO-TIMING SON OF A BITCH! HE'S A ''WOMAN''!!!'''
300	* VanityProject: Very much so, as Blake Edwards made the remake to show off his wife Julie Andrews' acting and singing skills, putting her front and center for the entire film. In this case, it worked.
301	* VerbalBackspace: Victoria bursts out "here?!" in her normal voice when Cassell suggests opening in a very ritzy nightclub, and then corrects to a deeper "here," making Toddy [[SpitTake spit back into his glass in laughter]].
302	* VisualPun: Victoria dressed up in Richard's clothes and hiding inside of a closet before coming out of it and punching him.
303	* WhenSheSmiles: King Marchand notices how "Victor"/Victoria lights up when she smiles. The latter says it's an odd thing for a man to say to another man. ([[spoiler: At this point in the film, King's seen visual proof Victoria is female.]])
304	* WomanScorned: Norma is not pleased to say the least when King dumps her so that he could pursue "Victor" and she plans to get revenge at them both.
305	* WoundedGazelleGambit: Norma loves whipping out teary PuppyDogEyes to get what she wants.
306	** The hotel manager accuses Victoria of doing this to avoid paying hotel rent; turns out it's not the case for she really was fainting from malnourishment.

Context Film / VictorVictoria