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* FakeNationality:
** The British Creator/CareyMulligan as Jean, and Guatemalan Oscar Isaac as the Welsh-Italian Llewyn.
** Though it's possible Llewyn is at least part-Latino; his Italian mother is only mentioned in response to Roland's racist needling and his non-stereotypically-Anglo appearance is remarked upon by other characters.

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* FakeNationality:
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FakeAmerican: The British Creator/CareyMulligan as Jean, and the American Jean.
* FakeNationality: The
Guatemalan Oscar Isaac as the Welsh-Italian Llewyn.
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Llewyn, though it's possible Llewyn is at least part-Latino; part Latino; his Italian mother is only mentioned in response to Roland's racist needling and his non-stereotypically-Anglo appearance is remarked upon by other characters.
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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Unlike most Coen Brothers films, this one had a hard time finding distribution after its completion due to films about the music industry being box office poison and the lack of a major lead. Finally, CBS (who ironically shelved the Coen Brothers-written ''Film/{{Gambit}}'' and have yet to release it in the US) picked it up for a December 2013 release.

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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Unlike most Coen Brothers films, this one had a hard time finding distribution after its completion due to films about the music industry being box office poison and the lack of a major lead. Finally, CBS Films (who ironically shelved the Coen Brothers-written ''Film/{{Gambit}}'' and have yet dumped it Direct to release it DVD in April of the US) following year.) picked it up for a December 2013 release.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/GarrettHedlund's part as a nearly silent driver is a reference to his role as Dean Moriarty/Neal Cassady in ''Film/OnTheRoad''.
* CreatorBacklash: Both the Coens and Oscar Isaac have said they didn't like the cat they used.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/GarrettHedlund's part as a nearly silent driver is a reference to his role as Dean Moriarty/Neal Cassady in ''Film/OnTheRoad''.
* CreatorBacklash: Both the Coens and Oscar Isaac have said they didn't like the cat they used.



* IronyAsSheIsCast: Unlike Llewyn Davis, Oscar Issac hates cats.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Although there was talk of nominating "Please, Mr. Kennedy" for a Best Original Song Oscar, the fact that it was [[http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/how-please-mr-kennedy-was-born-and-why-its-not-eligible-for-oscar-consideration an amalgam of several period songs, novelty and otherwise]], meant the Academy had to pass.

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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Unlike Llewyn Davis, Oscar Issac Creator/OscarIsaac hates cats.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Although there NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: In an interview included on the DVD, Ethan Coen said:
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was talk a nightmare. The trainer warned us and she was right. She said, uh, "Dogs like to please you. The cat only likes to please itself." A cat basically is impossible to train. We have a lot of nominating "Please, Mr. Kennedy" footage of cats doing things we don't want them to do, if anyone's interested; I don't know if there's a market for a Best Original Song Oscar, the fact that it was [[http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/how-please-mr-kennedy-was-born-and-why-its-not-eligible-for-oscar-consideration an amalgam of several period songs, novelty and otherwise]], meant the Academy had to pass.that.



* StarMakingRole: For Oscar Isaac, who was cast in ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Star Wars: The Force Awakens]]'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' shortly thereafter.

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* StarMakingRole: For Oscar Isaac, Creator/OscarIsaac, who was cast in ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Star Wars: The Force Awakens]]'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' shortly thereafter.thereafter.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/CaseyAffleck, Creator/MichaelFassbender and Creator/RyanReynolds auditioned for the role of Llewyn Davis.
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* CreatorBacklash: Both the Coens and Oscar Isaac have said they didn't like the cat they used.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Carey Mulligan, best-known for playing quiet [[BrokenBird Broken Birds]] or bright ingenues, plays a foul-mouthed, bitter JerkAss.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MichaelFassbender auditioned for Llewyn Davis.

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* ActorAllusion: Garrett Hedlund's part as a nearly silent driver is a reference to his role as Dean Moriarty/Neal Cassady in ''Film/OnTheRoad''.
* FakeNationality: The British Carey Mulligan as Jean, and Guatemalan Oscar Isaac as the Welsh-Italian Llewyn.

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* ActorAllusion: Garrett Hedlund's Creator/GarrettHedlund's part as a nearly silent driver is a reference to his role as Dean Moriarty/Neal Cassady in ''Film/OnTheRoad''.
* FakeNationality: FakeNationality:
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The British Carey Mulligan Creator/CareyMulligan as Jean, and Guatemalan Oscar Isaac as the Welsh-Italian Llewyn.

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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Unlike Llewyn Davis, Oscar Issac hates cats.



* ProductionPosse: Nearly averted. Aside from John Goodman, none of the major Coen players are featured in this film. To an even greater extent, this marks the first film where neither cinematographer Roger Deakins nor composer Carter Burwell were participants (though there have been [[Film/BurnAfterReading previous]] [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou films]] where one or the other was not involved).
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Unlike most Coen Brothers films, this one had a hard time finding distribution after its completion due to films about the music industry being box office poison and the lack of a major lead. Finally, CBS (who ironically shelved the Coen Brothers-written ''Gambit'' and have yet to release it in the US) picked it up for a December 2013 release.

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* ProductionPosse: Nearly averted. Aside from John Goodman, Creator/JohnGoodman, none of the major Coen players are featured in this film. To an even greater extent, this marks the first film where neither cinematographer Roger Deakins nor composer Carter Burwell were participants (though there have been [[Film/BurnAfterReading previous]] [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou films]] where one or the other was not involved).
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Unlike most Coen Brothers films, this one had a hard time finding distribution after its completion due to films about the music industry being box office poison and the lack of a major lead. Finally, CBS (who ironically shelved the Coen Brothers-written ''Gambit'' ''Film/{{Gambit}}'' and have yet to release it in the US) picked it up for a December 2013 release.


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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MichaelFassbender auditioned for Llewyn Davis.
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* ProductionPosse: Nearly averted. Aside from John Goodman, none of the major Coen players are featured in this film. To an even greater extent, this marks the first film since where neither cinematographer Roger Deakins nor composer Carter Burwell were participants (though there have been [[Film/BurnAfterReading previous]] [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou films]] where one or the other was not involved).

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* ProductionPosse: Nearly averted. Aside from John Goodman, none of the major Coen players are featured in this film. To an even greater extent, this marks the first film since where neither cinematographer Roger Deakins nor composer Carter Burwell were participants (though there have been [[Film/BurnAfterReading previous]] [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou films]] where one or the other was not involved).
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Looks like [[Film/TronLegacy Sam Flynn]] left Encom and now drives [[Film/TheBigLebowski Walter Sobchak]] around.
** [[Literature/GenerationKill Lieutenant Fick]] plans to leave the military to take up folk music.
** [[Film/TheForceAwakens Poe Dameron of the Resistance and Kylo Ren of the First Order]] put aside their differences aside to have a jam session.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Although there was talk of nominating "Please, Mr. Kennedy" for a Best Original Song Oscar, the fact that it was [[http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/how-please-mr-kennedy-was-born-and-why-its-not-eligible-for-oscar-consideration an amalgam of several period songs, novelty and otherwise]], meant the Academy had to pass.

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** [[GenerationKill Lieutenant Fick]] plans to leave the military to take up folk music.

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** [[GenerationKill [[Literature/GenerationKill Lieutenant Fick]] plans to leave the military to take up folk music.music.
** [[Film/TheForceAwakens Poe Dameron of the Resistance and Kylo Ren of the First Order]] put aside their differences aside to have a jam session.
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* ProductionPosse: Nearly averted. Aside from John Goodman, none of the major Coen players are featured in this film. To an even greater extent, this marks the first film since ''Film/MillersCrossing'' where neither cinematographer Roger Deakins nor composer Carter Burwell were participants (though there have been [[Film/BurnAfterReading previous]] [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou films]] where one or the other was not involved).

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* ProductionPosse: Nearly averted. Aside from John Goodman, none of the major Coen players are featured in this film. To an even greater extent, this marks the first film since ''Film/MillersCrossing'' where neither cinematographer Roger Deakins nor composer Carter Burwell were participants (though there have been [[Film/BurnAfterReading previous]] [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou films]] where one or the other was not involved).
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* ProductionPosse: Nearly averted. Aside from John Goodman, none of the major Coen players are featured in this film. To an even greater extent, this marks the first film since ''Film/MillersCrossing'' where neither cinematographer Roger Deakins nor composer Carter Burwell were participants (though there have been [[Film/BurnAfterReading previous]] [[Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou films]] where one or the other was not involved).
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** [[GenerationKill Lieutenant Fick]] plans to leave the military to take up folk music.
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** Though it's possible Llewyn is at least part-Latino; his Italian mother is only mentioned in response to Roland's racist needling and his non-stereotypically-Anglo appearance is remarked upon by other characters.
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* StarMakingRole: For Oscar Isaac, who was cast in ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens]]'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' shortly thereafter.

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* StarMakingRole: For Oscar Isaac, who was cast in ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Star Wars Episode VII: Wars: The Force Awakens]]'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' shortly thereafter.

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* ActorAllusion: Garrett Hedlund's part as a nearly silent driver is a reference to his role as Dean Moriarty/ Neal Cassady in ''Film/OnTheRoad''.

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* ActorAllusion: Garrett Hedlund's part as a nearly silent driver is a reference to his role as Dean Moriarty/ Neal Moriarty/Neal Cassady in ''Film/OnTheRoad''.



* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Unlike most Coen Brothers films, this one had a hard time finding distribution after its completion due to films about the music industry being box office poison and the lack of a major lead. Finally, CBS (who ironically shelved the Coen Brothers-written ''{{Gambit}}'' and have yet to release it in the US) picked it up for a December 2013 release.

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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Unlike most Coen Brothers films, this one had a hard time finding distribution after its completion due to films about the music industry being box office poison and the lack of a major lead. Finally, CBS (who ironically shelved the Coen Brothers-written ''{{Gambit}}'' ''Gambit'' and have yet to release it in the US) picked it up for a December 2013 release.release.
* StarMakingRole: For Oscar Isaac, who was cast in ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens]]'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' shortly thereafter.
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* FakeAmerican: The British Carey Mulligan as Jean.

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* FakeAmerican: FakeNationality: The British Carey Mulligan as Jean.Jean, and Guatemalan Oscar Isaac as the Welsh-Italian Llewyn.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Looks like [[Film/TronLegacy Sam Flynn]] left Encom and now drives [[Film/TheBigLebowski Walter Sobchak]] around.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Looks like [[Film/TronLegacy Sam Flynn]] left Encom and now drives [[Film/TheBigLebowski Walter Sobchak]] around.around.
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Unlike most Coen Brothers films, this one had a hard time finding distribution after its completion due to films about the music industry being box office poison and the lack of a major lead. Finally, CBS (who ironically shelved the Coen Brothers-written ''{{Gambit}}'' and have yet to release it in the US) picked it up for a December 2013 release.
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* ActorAllusion: Garrett Hedlund's part as a nearly silent driver is a reference to his role as Dean Moriarty/ Neal Cassady in ''Film/OnTheRoad''.
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The Tron Legacy does bring you to the page, but the link is red. Does anyone know how to fix that?


* FakeAmerican: The British Carey Mulligan as Jean.

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* FakeAmerican: The British Carey Mulligan as Jean.Jean.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Looks like [[Film/TronLegacy Sam Flynn]] left Encom and now drives [[Film/TheBigLebowski Walter Sobchak]] around.
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* FakeAmerican: The British Carey Mulligan as Jean.

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