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* PacManFever: The film went the opposite extreme of this trope. A kid plays an ersatz ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]] game. When we see clips, the game's graphics are too advanced for the PSP, especially since at the time Sony had the CPU speed slowed down to preserve battery life. This has since been lifted.
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* PacManFever: The film went the opposite extreme of this trope. A kid plays an ersatz ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable [[Platform/PlayStationPortable PSP]] game. When we see clips, the game's graphics are too advanced for the PSP, especially since at the time Sony had the CPU speed slowed down to preserve battery life. This has since been lifted.
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->''"My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The What is easy: recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the When. As for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can. Which leaves us only with the How; and therein, as the [[ShoutOutToShakespeare Bard would tell us]], lies [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} the rub]]."''
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->''"My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The What is easy: recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the When. As for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can. Which leaves us only with the How; and therein, as the [[ShoutOutToShakespeare Bard would tell us]], us, lies [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} the rub]].rub."''
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* ChekhovsGun: Or rather, [[spoiler:Chekhov's ''pen''.]] Also, [[JustForPun Chekov's Gum]] — [[spoiler: Russel offers Frazier a stick of gum during their face-to-face; when Arthur Case's secret safety deposit box is opened by the Police, he's left the pack inside as a way of saying "Look at this!"]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Or rather, [[spoiler:Chekhov's ''pen''.]] Also, [[JustForPun Chekov's Gum]] ''Gum'' — [[spoiler: Russel offers Frazier a stick of gum during their face-to-face; when Arthur Case's secret safety deposit box is opened by the Police, he's left the pack inside as a way of saying "Look at this!"]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Inverted VERY deliberately. To confuse the police, victims and any potential witnesses, the members of a bank heist crew call each other differing variants of "Steve": Stevie, Steve-Oh, etc. The amazing thing is how smoothly they work despite this.
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* InsideJob: [[spoiler: Averted, despite the title.]] The ending reveals that [[spoiler: none of the robbers were bank employees.]]
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* InsideJob: [[spoiler: Averted, [[spoiler:Averted, despite the title.]] The ending reveals that [[spoiler: none of the robbers were bank employees.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma:
** [[spoiler:Case gets the KarmaHoudiniWarranty expiration he spent decades trying to avoid, courtesy of Russell's heist crew, Frazier and the State Department's War Crime division.]]
** White's reputation as a fixer is probably going to get a humongous black mark [[spoiler:with Frazier revealing Case is a Nazi sympathizer and White knows it when she is having breakfast with the Mayor of New York.]]
** [[spoiler:Case gets the KarmaHoudiniWarranty expiration he spent decades trying to avoid, courtesy of Russell's heist crew, Frazier and the State Department's War Crime division.]]
** White's reputation as a fixer is probably going to get a humongous black mark [[spoiler:with Frazier revealing Case is a Nazi sympathizer and White knows it when she is having breakfast with the Mayor of New York.]]
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* FamilyValuesVillain: The bank robber. Despite brutally beating a hostage, ''executing'' another one, and robbing the bank, he is concerned about the violent content in a video game a young hostage is playing and resolves to discuss it with the boy's father. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the execution of the hostage was staged, and the only thing he actually stole was the contents of the safe deposit box of the bank's founder, which were ill-gotten gains from his days as a Nazi collaborator. The "villain" is a lot less villainous than he appears]].
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* FamilyValuesVillain: The bank robber.Dalton Russell. Despite brutally beating a hostage, ''executing'' another one, and robbing the bank, he is concerned about the violent content in a video game a young hostage is playing and resolves to discuss it with the boy's father. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the execution of the hostage was staged, and the only thing he actually stole was the contents of the safe deposit box of the bank's founder, which were ill-gotten gains from his days as a Nazi collaborator. The "villain" is a lot less villainous than he appears]].
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* ValuesDissonance: In universe. The lead bank robber has issues with the violent GTA-inspired game the young boy hostage plays on his portable. The boy points out the objective of the game is "Like what my man [[Music/FiftyCent Fifty]] says: get rich or die tryin'." The boy also notes he sees the bank robber doing ''exactly that'' and has no problem with it. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the bank robber really isn't robbing the bank!]]
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* ValuesDissonance: In universe. The lead bank robber has issues with the violent GTA-inspired game the young boy hostage plays on his portable. The boy points out the objective of the game is "Like what my man [[Music/FiftyCent Fifty]] says: get rich or die tryin'." The boy also notes he sees the bank robber Russell doing ''exactly that'' and has no problem with it. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the bank robber Russell really isn't robbing the bank!]]
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** The bank manager's ringtone being "Gold Digger"? The little boy's violent video game, where the goal is to "get rich or die tryin'"? Frazier's timidity about proposing to his girlfriend because he's too broke? A movie about bank robbers [[spoiler:only robbing from a man [[EvilPaysBetter who got rich through dealing with the Nazis during the Holocaust?]]]] Case's office is filled with pictures of people he's helped including George Bush, Ronald Reagan and UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher? Spike Lee certainly has an axe to grind against capitalism. One wonders what his take-home on the film was, overall...
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** The bank manager's ringtone being "Gold Digger"? The little boy's violent video game, where the goal is to "get rich or die tryin'"? Frazier's timidity about proposing to his girlfriend because he's too broke? A movie about bank robbers [[spoiler:only robbing from a man [[EvilPaysBetter who got rich through dealing with the Nazis during the Holocaust?]]]] Case's office is filled with pictures of people he's helped including George Bush, Ronald Reagan and UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher? Spike Lee certainly has an axe to grind against capitalism. One wonders what his take-home on the film was, overall...
