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* NiceToTheWaiter: Amélie gives to the beggars and is nice to the handicapped.

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* NiceToTheWaiter: Amélie gives to the beggars and is nice to the handicapped.disabled.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The grocer Collignon, constantly picking on the mentally impaired Lucien and calling him names.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The grocer Collignon, constantly picking on the mentally impaired disabled Lucien and calling him names.
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* LivingPhoto: Nino keeps a photo booth photograph by his bed side which suddenly starts talking to him, reminding him that there is a girl in love with him.
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* CassetteCraze: Gina's obsessive stalker Joseph is at the café where she works every day, using a dictating machine to take notes on her every movement. When he then moves on to Georgette, he demonstrates his stalking by playing back all the references to "camel hair" (belonging to a particular male) in quick succession.
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** This is sometimes quoted as more ''possible'' links in the brain than atoms in the universe, which is mathematically possible.
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''Amélie'' (original French title: ''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain''; in English, ''The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain'') is a 2001 French RomanticComedy film directed by Creator/JeanPierreJeunet, starring Creator/AudreyTautou and Mathieu Kassovitz. Creator/AndreDussollier is the narrator.

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''Amélie'' (original French title: ''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain''; in English, ''The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain'') is a 2001 French RomanticComedy film directed by Creator/JeanPierreJeunet, starring Creator/AudreyTautou and Mathieu Kassovitz.Creator/MathieuKassovitz. Creator/AndreDussollier is the narrator.
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* DramaticTVShutOff: Played with, with the young Amélie takes her revenge on a neighbour, by disconnecting his television aerial while he is watching football; she has a radio with her, so she knows when the best moments are.
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[[caption-width-right:300: ''[[{{Tagline}} She'll change your life]]''.]]

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[[caption-width-right:300: [[caption-width-right:299: ''[[{{Tagline}} She'll change your life]]''.]]
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* CareerEndingInjury: Madame Suzanne's backstory. She fell from a horse that ended her circus career.

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* CareerEndingInjury: Madame Suzanne's backstory. She fell from a horse that which ended her circus career.



* {{Gaslighting}}: Amélie sneaks into her grocer's apartment and subtly messes with his stuff, changing the size of his slippers, the numbers on his speed dial, etc., to punish him for mocking his ambiguously-handicapped and one-armed employee.

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* {{Gaslighting}}: Amélie sneaks into her grocer's apartment and subtly messes with his stuff, changing the size of his slippers, the numbers on his speed dial, etc., to punish him for mocking his ambiguously-handicapped ambiguously handicapped and one-armed employee.



* TalkingWithSigns: When Samantha is dancing in the peep-show booth to loud music, Nino tries to ask her if she can replace him on the till at four o' clock. First he tries bellowing above the music, then pointing to himself and holding up four fingers. Finally he resorts to writing a note and holding it up.

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* TalkingWithSigns: When Samantha is dancing in the peep-show booth to loud music, Nino tries to ask her if she can replace him on the till at four o' clock.o'clock. First he tries bellowing above the music, then pointing to himself and holding up four fingers. Finally he resorts to writing a note and holding it up.



* WorldWearyWaitress: The café owner Suzanne. After thirty years behind a bar, she has seen it all, is an expert on love at first sight, and can even give you the recipe: take two regulars, tell each of them the other fancies them, leave them to stew: it works every time. Amélie tries this out with Joseph and Georgette.

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* WorldWearyWaitress: The café owner Suzanne. After thirty years behind a bar, she has seen it all, is an expert on love at first sight, and can even give you the recipe: take two regulars, tell each of them the other fancies them, and leave them to stew: it works every time. Amélie tries this out with Joseph and Georgette.
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* ForgedMessage: One of Amélie's neighbor is bitter that her husband left her for another woman, then died in a plane crash. So Amélie creates a fake letter to convince the neighbor that the husband wanted to reconcile with her, had left his mistress, and was on his way home when the plane crashed.

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* ForgedMessage: One of Amélie's neighbor neighbors is bitter that her husband left her for another woman, then died in a plane crash. So Amélie creates a fake letter to convince the neighbor that the husband wanted to reconcile with her, had left his mistress, and was on his way home when the plane crashed.

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