Line #10 Theatre/FoolForLove


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2	''Fool for Love'' is a 1983 play by Music/SamShepard.
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4	May is holed-up in a desert motel, trying to hide from Eddie, an alcoholic, hotheaded cowboy with whom she's had a long relationship. Eddie finds her, though, and they go through their usual fighting. After accusing him of having a relationship with a woman she calls The Countess, May announces she's going out on a date with a man named Martin. When Martin arrives to pick her up, this leads to a series of confessions revealing that the relationship between May and Eddie is much different than it seemed to be at first, and the mysterious Old Man who's been popping in and out of the story is a central figure in their lives.
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6	The play was adapted into a film in 1985, directed by Creator/RobertAltman, with a screenplay by Shepard, who also starred as Eddie, along with Creator/KimBasinger (May), Creator/HarryDeanStanton (The Old Man) and Creator/RandyQuaid (Martin).
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8	!!This play provides examples of:
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10	* TheAlcoholic: Eddie and The Old Man.
11	* AudienceSurrogate: Martin exists as a character mainly for Eddie and May to have an outsider to whom they can deliver the lengthy {{Exposition}} about their backstories.
12	* DeadAllAlong: The Old Man, maybe. He has scenes where he interacts with Eddie and May, but they often seem like they don't hear him. Of course, rather than a straight-up ghost, he might be alive but just there in spirit.
13	* DistinctionWithoutADifference: When May says that she is waiting for a "man", Eddie answers that he is not worried because she called him a "man" and not a "guy" or something.
14	* TheFilmOfThePlay: Starring the playwright, no less.
15	* FoolForLove: Naturally, though much more PlayedForDrama with the main characters.
16	* GroinAttack: May delivers one to Eddie, just after they kiss each other.
17	* HellHotel: Set in a creepy motel in the middle of nowhere.
18	* InTheBlood: It's obvious that Eddie's becoming just like his father.
19	* MindScrew: What seems like a straightforward dueling-lovers-drama turns into a perplexing story where the border between reality and fantasy becomes blurred.
20	* NaiveNewcomer: Martin had no clue what he was getting into with May.
21	* NoNameGiven: The Old Man's name isn't revealed.
22	* TheReveal: Eddie and May are cousins, [[spoiler:except that ends up not being true. They're actually [[BrotherSisterIncest half-siblings]] both fathered by The Old Man, and kept their relationship going even after the SurpriseIncest reveal]].
23	* SecretOtherFamily: The Old Man was [[spoiler:having simultaneous relationships with the mothers of Eddie and May. Eddie found out and that's how he met May. After they fell in love, they learned they were siblings]].
24	* SlapSlapKiss: Eddie and May are an intense version of this.
25	* SpoilerCover: [[http://www.videocollector.co.uk/fool-for-love/27466 The cover for the first UK VHS release]] flat-out gives away TheReveal in its tagline!
26	* UnreliableNarrator: The film version emphasizes that Eddie, May and The Old Man aren't being completely truthful in their confessions, often [[DramaQueen punching up the story with melodramatic details]].

Context Theatre / FoolForLove