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* NiceHat: {{Lampshaded}} by Frobisher.
--> '''Robert Frobisher''': ''Didn't think the view could be anymore perfect, until I saw that beat-up trilby. Honestly, Sixsmith, as ridiculous as that thing makes you look, I don't believe I've ever seen anything more beautiful.''
--> '''Robert Frobisher''': ''Didn't think the view could be anymore perfect, until I saw that beat-up trilby. Honestly, Sixsmith, as ridiculous as that thing makes you look, I don't believe I've ever seen anything more beautiful.''
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* YourCheatingHeart: She has an affair with Frobisher during his stay.
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* BiTheWay: More interested in men than women, he still won't turn down the company of one.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The film Vyvyan is considerably nastier than his book counterpart, largely thanks to Robert's AdaptationalHeroism. The film downplays or outright omits Vyvyan's more sympathetic attributes (like While in the book, Vyvyan can at least be nice from time to time ([[ManipulativeBastard though not without his appreciation for Robert's assistance) while highlighting motives]]}, the film's version of Vyvyan never bothers to hide his mistreatment of Robert.{{Jerkass}} tendencies.
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* BigBad: The villain of Robert's story. Granted, Robert himself is hardly a hero.
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* BigBad: The villain of Robert's story. Granted, Robert himself is hardly a saint, but he pales in comparison to Vyvyan.
* Blackmail: Threatens to expose Robert's homosexuality to the world if he doesn't publish the Atlas Cloud Sextet under Vyvyan's name.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The film Vyvyan is considerably nastier than his book counterpart, largely thanks to Robert's AdaptationalHeroism. The film downplays or outright omits Vyvyan's more sympathetic attributes (like his appreciation for Robert's assistance) while highlighting his mistreatment of Robert.
* BigBad: The villain of Robert's story. Granted, Robert himself ishardly a saint, but he pales in comparison to Vyvyan.
* Blackmail: Threatens to expose Robert's homosexuality to the world if he doesn't publish the Atlas Cloud Sextet under Vyvyan's name.hero.
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* KarmaHoudini: Averted. Despite his treatment of Robert never becoming public knowledge, [[spoiler: and the fact that he survives his bullet wound.]], Vyvyan remains a decrepit old man dying of syphilis. Furthermore, with Robert gone, he has no one to compose his music for him, making it very possible that his name will once again fade into obscurity while Robert's sextet is remembered with reverence by those that hear it.
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* KarmaHoudini: Averted. Despite his treatment of Robert never becoming public knowledge, [[spoiler: and the fact that he survives his bullet wound.]], Vyvyan remains a decrepit old man dying of illness. This is especially apparent in the novel, which describes how Vyvyan is being ravaged by his syphilis. Furthermore, with Robert gone, he has no one to compose his music for him, making it very possible that his name will once again fade into obscurity while Robert's sextet is remembered with reverence by those that hear it.
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* BigBad: The villain of Robert's story. Granted, Robert himself is hardly a saint, but he pales in comparison to Vyvyan.
* BrokenPedestal: For Robert, who initially reveres Vyvyan as a musical genius. This goes out the window when the latter turns out to be a cruel, manipulative man intent on taking credit for the former's work.
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** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When he first hears Frobisher's composition, he's deeply moved, and there is a touching scene of them rejoicing in its beauty and you think the two will actually make a good partnership. He then indicates his intention to take full credit for the peace and blackmail Frobisher if he tries to protest.
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!Letters From Zedelghem (1936)
[[folder:Frobisher]]
!!Robert Frobisher
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Frobisher_Robert_5951.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"At this point in my life all I know, Sixsmith, is that this world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BenWhishaw
An English musician who seeks work at the home of a famed composer.
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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: His suicide]].
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: Shares the comet-shaped birthmark, on his lower back.
* BiTheWay: More interested in men than women, he still won't turn down the company of one.
* ABloodyMess: [[spoiler: Despite his attempts to avert this, it happens anyway when Sixsmith cradles his dead body]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The film opens with him announcing his suicide, although the audience doesn't know whether or not he's serious about it.
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:In the film, it opens with him saying he'll kill himself. It's not apparent whether he actually will until he goes through with it, however.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Manipulative, grandiose, feels superior to everyone, classist, generally inconsiderate about people's feelings - but also somewhat sympathetic to the lower classes, loves his brother who was killed in the war, and was horrified and {{Mercy Kill}}ed a pheasant that was badly injured when the car he was in struck it. In the closing of his final letter he notes his efforts to not traumatize [[spoiler: the people who will have to find and deal with his body]].
* LadykillerInLove: (Although he is a man killer as well.) He genuinely loves Sixsmith and [[spoiler: Eve, although her rejection of him is not the reason why he killed himself.]]
* LoveableRogue: He's very selfish and manipulative, but is genuinely charming.
%%ManipulativeBastard
* MayDecemberRomance: One-sided with [[spoiler: Vyvyan.]] Played for laughs as well.
* StarvingArtist: Near-penniless after being disinherited. When the hotel manager demands a bribe, he has nothing to offer but a few coins and Sixsmith's waistcoat.
* TitleDrop: "I call it ''The Cloud Atlas Sextet''."
* TheUnfavourite: His parents preferred his brother who died in the war.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Its stylishness is continuously noted. It originally belonged to Sixsmith.
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[[folder:Sixsmith]]
!!Rufus Sixsmith
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sixsmith_Rufus_3770.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' James D'Arcy
Frobisher's lover, to whom he writes the letters that retell his story. He also appears much older in Luisa Rey's story, having become a respected nuclear physicist.
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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:Like Frobisher, although his was a murder.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Bill Smoke.]]
* CoolOldGuy: In Luisa's story.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold
* HeKnowsTooMuch: In "The First Luisa Rey Mystery", [[spoiler: he is murdered for fear of his report on the plant getting out]].
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: In "The First Luisa Rey Mystery". [[spoiler: Bill Smoke shoots him in his mouth and puts a gun in his hand to make it look like a suicide.]]
* TheMourningAfter: It's implied that he never loved again after Frobisher.
* NiceGuy: He cares very deeply for Frobisher and is very polite, kind, and trusting to Luisa.
* NiceHat: {{Lampshaded}} by Frobisher.
--> '''Robert Frobisher''': ''Didn't think the view could be anymore perfect, until I saw that beat-up trilby. Honestly, Sixsmith, as ridiculous as that thing makes you look, I don't believe I've ever seen anything more beautiful.''
* StraightGay: Has no stereotypically camp mannerisms.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: "I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. And I'll be waiting for you there." In the book, Frobisher meets him again as Luisa, but in the film, Ben Whishaw and James D'Arcy only play characters who either never meet or aren't in one story together, so Frobisher and Sixsmith never meet again.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vyvyan]]
!!Vyvyan Ayrs
[[quoteright:266:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2099-30259_7564.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:266:''"Composing is a crusade. Sometimes you slay the dragon. Sometime it slays you."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jim Broadbent
An elderly, famous composer.
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* EvilBrit: He's a {{jerkass}} who attempts to steal Frobisher's work.
* EvilOldFolks: He's also old and infirm.
* {{Jerkass}}: Insults and hurts the feelings of his guest Frobisher multiple times and then tries to take credit for his sextet.
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When he first hears Frobisher's composition, he's deeply moved, and there is a touching scene of them rejoicing in its beauty and you think the two will actually make a good partnership. He then indicates his intention to take full credit for the peace and blackmail Frobisher if he tries to protest.
* MaliciousSlander: To Frobisher, after the latter quits.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Despite knowing all along that Frobisher had a scandalous background, he let him work for him anyway in order for Frobisher to come up with something brilliant that he could steal]].
* UglyGuyHotWife: His Jewish wife Jocasta clearly has a few more year left on the clock.
* StealingTheCredit: Attempts this for Frobisher's Cloud Atlas sextet.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Pulls this one on Frobisher. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
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[[folder:Jocasta]]
!!Jocasta Ayrs
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jocasta_2894.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/HalleBerry
Ayrs' wife, who becomes Frobisher's lover during his stay.
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* {{Brownface}}: Played with. The African-American Halle Berry plays the Jewish Jocasta.
* InformedJudaism: Her being Jewish only pops up once, during which Frobisher asks if [[NaziNobleman Kesselring]] could have been in love with her (as he'd introduced Vyvyan and Jocasta).
* MayDecemberRomance: She's clearly much younger than Ayrs.
* MeaningfulName: In Greek mythology, Jocasta was the wife of Laius and mother to Oedipus (Frobisher), who has an affair with her.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Implied to be this for Kesselring, due to her being a Jew and him being a Nazi.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: In the film.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Certainly played as this, with Vyvyan appearing much older and her short appearances involve her being sensual and alluring.
* YourCheatingHeart: She has an affair with Frobisher during his stay.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kesselring]]
!!Tadeusz Kesselring
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tadeusz_Kesselring_2740.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"At our time of life, Ayrs, a man has no right to such daring ideas.."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/HugoWeaving
A German who visits Ayrs to listen to one of his melodies. Apparently has a history with Jocasta.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Understandable, given the time period. His Hitler moustache does leave little to the imagination, as well.
* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Even Nazis have Loved Ones]]: It's heavily implied that he has feelings for Jocasta.
* HighClassGlass: Wears a monocle.
* NaziNobleman: Is one.
* SharpDressedMan: Wears a nice suit to the dinner table.
* TokenGoodTeammate: A meta-example: he counts as one for all the iterations of the soul played by Hugo Weaving. Bit ironic, considering Tadeusz is a part of the Nazi regime.
* WickedCultured: He shows great appreciation for Ayrs's work.
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[[folder:Hotel Manager]]
!!The Hotel Manager
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hotel_Manager_7487.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomHanks
A sleazy, greedy hotel manager. Helps Sixsmith figure out that Frobisher is staying at his hotel by wearing the waistcoast he made Frobisher pay with.
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%%BaldOfEvil
* {{Blackmail}}: He tells the police there's no one on the third floor so Frobisher (who is on the run) can work on his piece -- but Frobisher has to pay up.
* {{Greed}}: Frobisher has to bribe him in order to be finished with his sextet.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's... not a very nice person.
* [[BeardOfEvil Mustache Of Evil]]: Has one.
%%SmugSnake
%%{{Slimeball}}
[[/folder]]
!Letters From Zedelghem (1936)
[[folder:Frobisher]]
!!Robert Frobisher
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Frobisher_Robert_5951.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"At this point in my life all I know, Sixsmith, is that this world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BenWhishaw
An English musician who seeks work at the home of a famed composer.
----
* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: His suicide]].
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: Shares the comet-shaped birthmark, on his lower back.
* BiTheWay: More interested in men than women, he still won't turn down the company of one.
* ABloodyMess: [[spoiler: Despite his attempts to avert this, it happens anyway when Sixsmith cradles his dead body]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The film opens with him announcing his suicide, although the audience doesn't know whether or not he's serious about it.
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:In the film, it opens with him saying he'll kill himself. It's not apparent whether he actually will until he goes through with it, however.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Manipulative, grandiose, feels superior to everyone, classist, generally inconsiderate about people's feelings - but also somewhat sympathetic to the lower classes, loves his brother who was killed in the war, and was horrified and {{Mercy Kill}}ed a pheasant that was badly injured when the car he was in struck it. In the closing of his final letter he notes his efforts to not traumatize [[spoiler: the people who will have to find and deal with his body]].
* LadykillerInLove: (Although he is a man killer as well.) He genuinely loves Sixsmith and [[spoiler: Eve, although her rejection of him is not the reason why he killed himself.]]
* LoveableRogue: He's very selfish and manipulative, but is genuinely charming.
%%ManipulativeBastard
* MayDecemberRomance: One-sided with [[spoiler: Vyvyan.]] Played for laughs as well.
* StarvingArtist: Near-penniless after being disinherited. When the hotel manager demands a bribe, he has nothing to offer but a few coins and Sixsmith's waistcoat.
* TitleDrop: "I call it ''The Cloud Atlas Sextet''."
* TheUnfavourite: His parents preferred his brother who died in the war.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Its stylishness is continuously noted. It originally belonged to Sixsmith.
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[[folder:Sixsmith]]
!!Rufus Sixsmith
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sixsmith_Rufus_3770.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' James D'Arcy
Frobisher's lover, to whom he writes the letters that retell his story. He also appears much older in Luisa Rey's story, having become a respected nuclear physicist.
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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:Like Frobisher, although his was a murder.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Bill Smoke.]]
* CoolOldGuy: In Luisa's story.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold
* HeKnowsTooMuch: In "The First Luisa Rey Mystery", [[spoiler: he is murdered for fear of his report on the plant getting out]].
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: In "The First Luisa Rey Mystery". [[spoiler: Bill Smoke shoots him in his mouth and puts a gun in his hand to make it look like a suicide.]]
* TheMourningAfter: It's implied that he never loved again after Frobisher.
* NiceGuy: He cares very deeply for Frobisher and is very polite, kind, and trusting to Luisa.
* NiceHat: {{Lampshaded}} by Frobisher.
--> '''Robert Frobisher''': ''Didn't think the view could be anymore perfect, until I saw that beat-up trilby. Honestly, Sixsmith, as ridiculous as that thing makes you look, I don't believe I've ever seen anything more beautiful.''
* StraightGay: Has no stereotypically camp mannerisms.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: "I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. And I'll be waiting for you there." In the book, Frobisher meets him again as Luisa, but in the film, Ben Whishaw and James D'Arcy only play characters who either never meet or aren't in one story together, so Frobisher and Sixsmith never meet again.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vyvyan]]
!!Vyvyan Ayrs
[[quoteright:266:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2099-30259_7564.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:266:''"Composing is a crusade. Sometimes you slay the dragon. Sometime it slays you."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jim Broadbent
An elderly, famous composer.
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* EvilBrit: He's a {{jerkass}} who attempts to steal Frobisher's work.
* EvilOldFolks: He's also old and infirm.
* {{Jerkass}}: Insults and hurts the feelings of his guest Frobisher multiple times and then tries to take credit for his sextet.
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When he first hears Frobisher's composition, he's deeply moved, and there is a touching scene of them rejoicing in its beauty and you think the two will actually make a good partnership. He then indicates his intention to take full credit for the peace and blackmail Frobisher if he tries to protest.
* MaliciousSlander: To Frobisher, after the latter quits.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Despite knowing all along that Frobisher had a scandalous background, he let him work for him anyway in order for Frobisher to come up with something brilliant that he could steal]].
* UglyGuyHotWife: His Jewish wife Jocasta clearly has a few more year left on the clock.
* StealingTheCredit: Attempts this for Frobisher's Cloud Atlas sextet.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Pulls this one on Frobisher. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jocasta]]
!!Jocasta Ayrs
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jocasta_2894.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/HalleBerry
Ayrs' wife, who becomes Frobisher's lover during his stay.
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* {{Brownface}}: Played with. The African-American Halle Berry plays the Jewish Jocasta.
* InformedJudaism: Her being Jewish only pops up once, during which Frobisher asks if [[NaziNobleman Kesselring]] could have been in love with her (as he'd introduced Vyvyan and Jocasta).
* MayDecemberRomance: She's clearly much younger than Ayrs.
* MeaningfulName: In Greek mythology, Jocasta was the wife of Laius and mother to Oedipus (Frobisher), who has an affair with her.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Implied to be this for Kesselring, due to her being a Jew and him being a Nazi.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: In the film.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Certainly played as this, with Vyvyan appearing much older and her short appearances involve her being sensual and alluring.
* YourCheatingHeart: She has an affair with Frobisher during his stay.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kesselring]]
!!Tadeusz Kesselring
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tadeusz_Kesselring_2740.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"At our time of life, Ayrs, a man has no right to such daring ideas.."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/HugoWeaving
A German who visits Ayrs to listen to one of his melodies. Apparently has a history with Jocasta.
----
* AllGermansAreNazis: Understandable, given the time period. His Hitler moustache does leave little to the imagination, as well.
* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Even Nazis have Loved Ones]]: It's heavily implied that he has feelings for Jocasta.
* HighClassGlass: Wears a monocle.
* NaziNobleman: Is one.
* SharpDressedMan: Wears a nice suit to the dinner table.
* TokenGoodTeammate: A meta-example: he counts as one for all the iterations of the soul played by Hugo Weaving. Bit ironic, considering Tadeusz is a part of the Nazi regime.
* WickedCultured: He shows great appreciation for Ayrs's work.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hotel Manager]]
!!The Hotel Manager
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hotel_Manager_7487.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TomHanks
A sleazy, greedy hotel manager. Helps Sixsmith figure out that Frobisher is staying at his hotel by wearing the waistcoast he made Frobisher pay with.
----
%%BaldOfEvil
* {{Blackmail}}: He tells the police there's no one on the third floor so Frobisher (who is on the run) can work on his piece -- but Frobisher has to pay up.
* {{Greed}}: Frobisher has to bribe him in order to be finished with his sextet.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's... not a very nice person.
* [[BeardOfEvil Mustache Of Evil]]: Has one.
%%SmugSnake
%%{{Slimeball}}
[[/folder]]
