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* CondemnedByHistory: InUniverse. A major theme of the film is how pulp “Men’s Action” stories of the 60’s and 70’s haven’t stood the test of time. Terry’s career has been destroyed by the genre’s disappearance.
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* DeaderThanDisco: InUniverse. A major theme of the film is how pulp “Men’s Action” stories of the 60’s and 70’s haven’t stood the test of time. Terry’s career has been destroyed by the genre’s disappearance.
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* BerserkButton: Terry is not incredibly stable at the best of times, but damaging or destroying one of his books is a guaranteed way to set him off.
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* BerserkButton: Terry is not incredibly stable at the best of times, but damaging or destroying one of his books is a guaranteed way to set him off. In particular, he's very touchy about people not ruining the spines,
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* NoEnding: The film ends ambiguously, it not being clear exactly where Terry's heading in his life. [[spoiler: Specifically, it ends with Terry inheriting Ron's old flat, discovering a pistol, and staring ominously out the flat's window.]]
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* NoEnding: The film ends ambiguously, it not being clear exactly where Terry's heading in his life. [[spoiler: Specifically, it ends with Terry inheriting Ron's old flat, discovering a pistol, and staring ominously out the flat's window.]]window, the very heavy implication being that he's going to start being a VigilanteMan.]]
* OldFashionedCopper: Ron, the dying old man who Terry reads his novels to, was apparently one of "the good cops" according to Terry. Given Terry's overall tendencies towards violent solutions to social problems, it can be reasonably inferred that Ron was one of these in his younger days.
* OldFashionedCopper: Ron, the dying old man who Terry reads his novels to, was apparently one of "the good cops" according to Terry. Given Terry's overall tendencies towards violent solutions to social problems, it can be reasonably inferred that Ron was one of these in his younger days.
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* OldFashionedCopper: Ron, the dying old man who Terry reads his novels to, was apparently one of "the good cops" according to Terry. Given Terry's overall tendencies towards violent solutions to social problems, it can be reasonably inferred that Ron was one of these in his younger days.
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* TwoFistedTales: Terry's books are all gritty pulp thrillers about a hard-nosed vigilante of the "Men's Action" genre that was quite popular back in the 1970s and 1980s.
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* TwoFistedTales: Terry's books are all gritty pulp thrillers about a hard-nosed vigilante of the "Men's Action" genre that was quite popular back in between the 1970s 1960s and the early 1980s.
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* TheAllegedCar: Terry’s car, George, is a horrible junker, but he insists on trying to get it restored, over the protests of his mechanic. [[spoiler:It’s in such rough shape because it was smashed up and used as an impromptu torture device by the gang that killed Terry’s brother.]]
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** Also, insulting his car. [[spoiler:Which makes sense, given it belonged to his deceased brother.]]
* CerebusSyndrome: Initially, Terry comes off like a lovable loser, and some humor is taken from his situation. By the end, nobody’s laughing.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:The gangsters that murdered Terry’s brother tortured him by hooking a car battery ''[[GroinAttack into his crotch]]''.]]
* CerebusSyndrome: Initially, Terry comes off like a lovable loser, and some humor is taken from his situation. By the end, nobody’s laughing.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:The gangsters that murdered Terry’s brother tortured him by hooking a car battery ''[[GroinAttack into his crotch]]''.]]
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* DeaderThanDisco: InUniverse. A major theme of the film is how pulp “Men’s Action” stories of the 60’s and 70’s haven’t stood the test of time. Terry’s career has been destroyed by the genre’s disappearance.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the AuthorAvatar concept and of [[TwoFistedTales gritty “Men’s Action” pulp stories]] like ''Film/DeathWish''.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the AuthorAvatar concept and of [[TwoFistedTales gritty “Men’s Action” pulp stories]] like ''Film/DeathWish''.
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* HandCannon: “The Reprisaliser’s” signature weapon for killing bad guys is a big snub-nosed revolver. [[spoiler:Terry finds one in Ron’s flat at the end, with the implication that he’s about to start using it in the same way...]]
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* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: PlayedForDrama; “The Reprisaliser” is very obviously just Terry’s AuthorAvatar, designed to fulfill all of his revenge fantasies. [[spoiler:And the ending implies [[SanitySlippage the line between himself and his Mary Sue is growing thin]]...]]
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* ICallItVera: Terry calls his car “George” and is roundly mocked for it. [[spoiler:He calls it that because it belonged to his brother, George.]]
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* PokeThePoodle: After a librarian pisses him off, Terry threatens to come back at night and... [[spoiler:rearrange the books in her library to sort them by genre]].
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* SanitySlippage: Terry’s mental state steadily degrades over the course of the film, [[spoiler:with the implication that he’s going to become a violent VigilanteMan, just like his AuthorAvatar.]]
* StartOfDarkness: The ending heavily hints that the whole film has been the origin story of [[spoiler:a violent, [[Film/DeathWish Paul Kersey]]-style vigilante.]]
* StartOfDarkness: The ending heavily hints that the whole film has been the origin story of [[spoiler:a violent, [[Film/DeathWish Paul Kersey]]-style vigilante.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Than ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace''. The earlier series was a comedy, and while Marenghi was also a failing and less-than-stellar author, he was altogether a more buffoonish figure. Terry Finch, conversely, is a simultaneously more pathetic and more disturbing character.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Than ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace''. The earlier series was a comedy, and while Marenghi was also a failing and less-than-stellar author, author of low-brow pulp fiction, he was altogether a more buffoonish figure. Terry Finch, conversely, is a simultaneously more pathetic and more disturbing character.
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Terry apparently had some level of success back in the 1970s, and apparently was able to get 658 stories published. Nowadays, the demand for his books has plummeted.
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Terry apparently had some level of success back in the 1970s, and apparently was able to get 658 stories published. Nowadays, the demand for his books has plummeted.
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* CreatorBreakdown: In more ways than one, but the more obvious one is that Terry clearly based the Reprisaliser on his own anti-social and violent urges and intense desire to punish "villains" [[spoiler: particularly following the murder of his twin brother]].
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* CreatorBreakdown: In more ways than one, In-universe, this is happening on several levels, but most obviously in the more obvious one is way that Terry clearly based the Reprisaliser on his own anti-social and violent urges and intense desire to punish "villains" [[spoiler: particularly following the murder of his twin brother]].
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* {{Homage}}: The film is shot and features title cards and music that pay tribute low-budget violent British crime / revenge thrillers on film and TV in the 1970s.
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* {{Homage}}: The film is shot and features title cards and music in a way that pay pays tribute to low-budget violent British crime / revenge thrillers on film and TV in the 1970s.1970s. This includes the title-cards that are used and the soundtrack music.
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* NoEnding: The film ends ambiguously, it not being clear exactly where Terry's heading in his life.
* OldFashionedCopper: Ron, the dying old man who Terry reads his novels to, was apparently one of "the good cops" according to Terry. Given Terry's overall tendencies towards violent solutions to social problems, it can be reasonably inferred that Ron was one of these in his younger days.
* OldFashionedCopper: Ron, the dying old man who Terry reads his novels to, was apparently one of "the good cops" according to Terry. Given Terry's overall tendencies towards violent solutions to social problems, it can be reasonably inferred that Ron was one of these in his younger days.
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* NoEnding: The film ends ambiguously, it not being clear exactly where Terry's heading in his life. \n [[spoiler: Specifically, it ends with Terry inheriting Ron's old flat, discovering a pistol, and staring ominously out the flat's window.]]
* OldFashionedCopper: Ron, the dying old man who Terry reads his novels to, was apparently one of "the good cops" according to Terry. Given Terry's overall tendencies towards violent solutions to social problems, it can be reasonably inferred that Ron was one of these in his younger days.
* OldFashionedCopper: Ron, the dying old man who Terry reads his novels to, was apparently one of "the good cops" according to Terry. Given Terry's overall tendencies towards violent solutions to social problems, it can be reasonably inferred that Ron was one of these in his younger days.
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* BerserkButton: Terry is not incredibly stable at the best of times, but damaging one of his books is a guaranteed way to set him off.
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''A Gun for George'' is a 2011 short film starring, written and directed by Creator/MatthewHolness of ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'' fame. It explores several of the same themes as the earlier work, but in a DarkerAndEdgier way.
At one time, Terry Finch was a successful author of violent crime novels about "the Reprisaliser", a brutal vigilante bringing tough justice to the violent streets of Kent. But times and tastes changed, and Terry is down on his luck, reduced to living in a caravan near a power station and going door-to-door to local publishers, libraries and booksellers trying to sell old copies of his books. As a result of a hazily-defined incident in his past, Finch is not the most even-tempered of men to begin with, but when an old fan of his works leaves him a curiously bequeathment, it appears that the lines between fantasy and reality are about to blur even further for Terry...
Available from the [[http://www.film4.com/film4-productions/shorts/a-gun-for-george Film4 website]].
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* AuthorAvatar: "The Reprisaliser" is clearly one of these for Terry as a wish fulfilment figure. The character as depicted on the covers of the books is based on Terry himself, apparently because the publisher couldn't afford a model to base the character on. However, it gradually becomes clear that the Reprisaliser is based on Terry in darker ways as well.
* BerserkButton: Terry is not incredibly stable at the best of times, but damaging one of his books is a guaranteed way to set him off.
* CreatorBreakdown: In more ways than one, but the more obvious one is that Terry clearly based the Reprisaliser on his own anti-social and violent urges and intense desire to punish "villains" [[spoiler: particularly following the murder of his twin brother]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: Than ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace''. The earlier series was a comedy, and while Marenghi was also a failing and less-than-stellar author, he was altogether a more buffoonish figure. Terry Finch, conversely, is a simultaneously more pathetic and more disturbing character.
* {{Defictionalisation}}: Finch and his novels have a [[http://www.thereprisalizer.com/The_Reprisalizer/About.html fan website]] with excerpts, commentary and more background material.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We first encounter Terry in his caravan gluing thumb-tacks onto the keys of his typewriter as narration reads from one of his novels. Right off the bat, we learn that this man's an author, that he writes rather violent crime fiction, that he's down on his luck, and that he has some very disturbing and violent thought-processes.
* GroinAttack: The publisher Finch tries to sell his books to notes that all of Finch's novels have an alarming tendency to feature attacks on people's testicles. This is initially played for laughs, but takes on a darker interpretation when we learn that [[spoiler: the gangsters who murdered Terry's brother George tortured him by using a car battery to electrocute his genitals.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to launch Terry into a violent outburst.
* {{Homage}}: The film is shot and features title cards and music that pay tribute low-budget violent British crime / revenge thrillers on film and TV in the 1970s.
* ImagineSpot: Terry frequently fantasises about getting even with people who piss him off throughout the story in lurid revenge fantasies framed like a grind-house movie version of one of his crime novels, complete with grainy film-stock effects.
* NoEnding: The film ends ambiguously, it not being clear exactly where Terry's heading in his life.
* OldFashionedCopper: Ron, the dying old man who Terry reads his novels to, was apparently one of "the good cops" according to Terry. Given Terry's overall tendencies towards violent solutions to social problems, it can be reasonably inferred that Ron was one of these in his younger days.
* StylisticSuck: From the excerpts of Terry's novels we hear in narration and can see on the film's website, he apparently was not one of the literary greats even at the height of his career.
* TwoFistedTales: Terry's books are all gritty pulp thrillers about a hard-nosed vigilante of the "Men's Action" genre that was quite popular back in the 1970s and 1980s.
* VigilanteMan: The Reprisaliser. [[spoiler: The ending implies that Terry's about to take up where his fictional counterpart left off.]]
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Terry apparently had some level of success back in the 1970s, and apparently was able to get 658 stories published. Nowadays, the demand for his books has plummeted.
At one time, Terry Finch was a successful author of violent crime novels about "the Reprisaliser", a brutal vigilante bringing tough justice to the violent streets of Kent. But times and tastes changed, and Terry is down on his luck, reduced to living in a caravan near a power station and going door-to-door to local publishers, libraries and booksellers trying to sell old copies of his books. As a result of a hazily-defined incident in his past, Finch is not the most even-tempered of men to begin with, but when an old fan of his works leaves him a curiously bequeathment, it appears that the lines between fantasy and reality are about to blur even further for Terry...
Available from the [[http://www.film4.com/film4-productions/shorts/a-gun-for-george Film4 website]].
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!!Provides examples of:
* AuthorAvatar: "The Reprisaliser" is clearly one of these for Terry as a wish fulfilment figure. The character as depicted on the covers of the books is based on Terry himself, apparently because the publisher couldn't afford a model to base the character on. However, it gradually becomes clear that the Reprisaliser is based on Terry in darker ways as well.
* BerserkButton: Terry is not incredibly stable at the best of times, but damaging one of his books is a guaranteed way to set him off.
* CreatorBreakdown: In more ways than one, but the more obvious one is that Terry clearly based the Reprisaliser on his own anti-social and violent urges and intense desire to punish "villains" [[spoiler: particularly following the murder of his twin brother]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: Than ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace''. The earlier series was a comedy, and while Marenghi was also a failing and less-than-stellar author, he was altogether a more buffoonish figure. Terry Finch, conversely, is a simultaneously more pathetic and more disturbing character.
* {{Defictionalisation}}: Finch and his novels have a [[http://www.thereprisalizer.com/The_Reprisalizer/About.html fan website]] with excerpts, commentary and more background material.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We first encounter Terry in his caravan gluing thumb-tacks onto the keys of his typewriter as narration reads from one of his novels. Right off the bat, we learn that this man's an author, that he writes rather violent crime fiction, that he's down on his luck, and that he has some very disturbing and violent thought-processes.
* GroinAttack: The publisher Finch tries to sell his books to notes that all of Finch's novels have an alarming tendency to feature attacks on people's testicles. This is initially played for laughs, but takes on a darker interpretation when we learn that [[spoiler: the gangsters who murdered Terry's brother George tortured him by using a car battery to electrocute his genitals.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to launch Terry into a violent outburst.
* {{Homage}}: The film is shot and features title cards and music that pay tribute low-budget violent British crime / revenge thrillers on film and TV in the 1970s.
* ImagineSpot: Terry frequently fantasises about getting even with people who piss him off throughout the story in lurid revenge fantasies framed like a grind-house movie version of one of his crime novels, complete with grainy film-stock effects.
* NoEnding: The film ends ambiguously, it not being clear exactly where Terry's heading in his life.
* OldFashionedCopper: Ron, the dying old man who Terry reads his novels to, was apparently one of "the good cops" according to Terry. Given Terry's overall tendencies towards violent solutions to social problems, it can be reasonably inferred that Ron was one of these in his younger days.
* StylisticSuck: From the excerpts of Terry's novels we hear in narration and can see on the film's website, he apparently was not one of the literary greats even at the height of his career.
* TwoFistedTales: Terry's books are all gritty pulp thrillers about a hard-nosed vigilante of the "Men's Action" genre that was quite popular back in the 1970s and 1980s.
* VigilanteMan: The Reprisaliser. [[spoiler: The ending implies that Terry's about to take up where his fictional counterpart left off.]]
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Terry apparently had some level of success back in the 1970s, and apparently was able to get 658 stories published. Nowadays, the demand for his books has plummeted.
