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* AmbiguousDisorder: Lucien. He's referred to as "slow", and seems to have a mild mental handicap.
** Amélie herself comes off to many as having some kind of disorder - either autism (explaining her general quirkiness, her obvious aversion to and often misunderstanding of other people, her sensory hypersensitivity and her subdued expression) or some form of Schizophrenia (explaining...just about everything else). Probably intentionally, however, the film shows just enough evidence to contradict both opinions, leaving the question of Amélie's mental state of health unclear.
** Amélie herself comes off to many as having some kind of disorder - either autism (explaining her general quirkiness, her obvious aversion to and often misunderstanding of other people, her sensory hypersensitivity and her subdued expression) or some form of Schizophrenia (explaining...just about everything else). Probably intentionally, however, the film shows just enough evidence to contradict both opinions, leaving the question of Amélie's mental state of health unclear.
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** Lucien. He's referred to as "slow", and seems to have a mild mental handicap.
**Amélie herself comes off to many as having some kind of disorder - either autism (explaining her general quirkiness, her obvious aversion to and often misunderstanding of other people, her sensory hypersensitivity and her subdued expression) or some form of Schizophrenia (explaining...just about everything else). Probably intentionally, however, the film shows just enough evidence to contradict both opinions, leaving the question of Amélie's shyness, which in turns brings about her passive-aggression and vivid imagination, is played as a personality quirk that can be overcome if she tries, though it could be explained as some sort of mild mental state of health unclear. disorder.
** Lucien. He's referred to as "slow", and seems to have a mild mental handicap.
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* AssholeVictim: The grocer. Ho boy, the grocer.
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* AssholeVictim: The grocer. Ho boy, Amelie takes revenge on the grocer.grocer on behalf of Lucien. He almost suffers a nervous breakdown, but he's such a HateSink that the audience enjoys it.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Amélie, most prominently, and most of the movie's characters are either slightly bonkers or completely nuts.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Amélie, most prominently, and most Amélie is very shy, so she mostly lives in a world of her own imagination. Much of the movie's characters supporting cast are either slightly bonkers or completely nuts.also a bit quirky.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Possibly Amélie. She shows a ''romantic'' interest in Nino, but it's told and shown via flashback that she tried out sex a few times and didn't find it particularly interesting or worthwhile.
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* RomanticAsexual: Possibly Amélie. She shows an interest in striking up a relationship with Nino, but it's told and shown via flashback that she tried out sex a few times and didn't find it particularly interesting or worthwhile.
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** Amélie herself comes off to many as having some kind of disorder - either autism (explaining her general quirkiness, her obvious aversion to and often misunderstanding of other people, her sensory hypersensitivity and her subdued expression) or some form of Schizophrenia (explaining... just about everything else). Probably intentionally, however, the film shows just enough evidence to contradict both opinions, leaving the question of Amélie's mental state of health unclear.
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** Amélie herself comes off to many as having some kind of disorder - either autism (explaining her general quirkiness, her obvious aversion to and often misunderstanding of other people, her sensory hypersensitivity and her subdued expression) or some form of Schizophrenia (explaining... just about everything else). Probably intentionally, however, the film shows just enough evidence to contradict both opinions, leaving the question of Amélie's mental state of health unclear.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Amélie sneaks into her grocer's apartment and subtly messes with his stuff, changing the size of his shoes, 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 shoes, the numbers on his speed dial, etc... etc., to punish him for mocking his ambiguously-handicapped and one-armed employee.
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* WeatherReportOpening: Inverted. The weather report is the final line of the film: "... Meanwhile, at the Sacré-Cœur, the nuns are practicing their backhand. The temperature is 24 degrees, humidity 70%, atmospheric pressure 990 millibars."
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* WeatherReportOpening: Inverted. The weather report is the final line of the film: "... Meanwhile, at the Sacré-Cœur, the nuns are practicing their backhand. The temperature is 24 degrees, humidity 70%, atmospheric pressure 990 millibars."
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* LiesToChildren: Amelie's neighbor makes the gullible young girl believe that by operating her camera she was responsible for a car crash. He gets his comeuppance soon enough.
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* LiesToChildren: Amelie's neighbor makes the gullible young girl believe that [[CorrelationCausationGag by operating her camera she was responsible for a car crash.crash]]. He gets his comeuppance soon enough.
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* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Amélie tells her dad that she's had "two heart attacks and had to have an abortion because I did crack while I was pregnant." and other than that, she's fine. [[DontExplainTheJoke These things didn't really happen; she's just checking if he's paying attention. Which he's not.]]
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* ForgedMessage: One of Amélie's 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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* StageWhisper: Parodied. A prompter from a cellar window provides Amelie with a punchy comeback to Collignon insulting Lucien.
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* DramaticDrop: The movie uses this to [[IncitingIncident get the plot started]], as Amelie reacts in shock to hearing news of Princess Diana's death and drops the lid of heir perfume flask.
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* DramaticDrop: The movie uses this to [[IncitingIncident get the plot started]], as Amelie reacts in shock to hearing news of Princess Diana's death and drops the lid of heir her perfume flask.
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* LiesToChildren: Amelie's neighbor makes the gullible young girl believe that by operating her camera she was responsible for a car crash.
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* LiesToChildren: Amelie's neighbor makes the gullible young girl believe that by operating her camera she was responsible for a car crash. He gets his comeuppance soon enough.
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** In spite of the film's overall sweet tone, it does have an undercurrent of shallowness. Many of the people that Amélie helps are still stuck with their old problems at the end of the film, and the most she can do is give them a brief moment of pleasure. Also, big jerk Collignon is not shown to have changed his ways with Lucien.[[invoked]]
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** In spite of the film's overall sweet tone, it does have an undercurrent of shallowness. Many of the people that Amélie helps are still stuck with their old problems at the end of the film, and the most she can do is give them a brief moment of pleasure. Also, big jerk The jerks she meets are only getting her revenge instead of a life lesson, e.g. Collignon is not shown to have changed his ways with Lucien.[[invoked]]
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* CareerEndingInjury: Madame Suzanne's backstory. She fell from a horse which ended her circus career.
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* CareerEndingInjury: Madame Suzanne's backstory. She fell from a horse which that ended her circus career.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: A pair of elderly women twins are seen buying food at the local fruit stand. They also [[FinishingEachOthersSentences Finish Each Other's Sentences]].
* BaitAndSwitch:
** The narrator announces that the following event will change Amelie's life forever. We see Amelie reacting to TV footage about Lady Di's death and it looks like this will be the driving force behind her change but then the scene goes on to show that it's her DramaticDrop that triggers the IncitingIncident.
** Nino gets one. While he is waiting for Amelie at the cafe, a beautiful girl walks in, smiling in his general direction. But then she is revealed to be somebody else's date.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Amelie and Nino are [[ShrinkingViolet quiet]] little [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} oddballs]] who are very kind but aren't all that good at making friends.
** The narrator announces that the following event will change Amelie's life forever. We see Amelie reacting to TV footage about Lady Di's death and it looks like this will be the driving force behind her change but then the scene goes on to show that it's her DramaticDrop that triggers the IncitingIncident.
** Nino gets one. While he is waiting for Amelie at the cafe, a beautiful girl walks in, smiling in his general direction. But then she is revealed to be somebody else's date.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Amelie and Nino are [[ShrinkingViolet quiet]] little [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} oddballs]] who are very kind but aren't all that good at making friends.
* BullyMagnet: Apparently, Nino was this at school.
* CacophonyCoverUp: Amelie tries to cover up Georgette's ImmodestOrgasm with the steamer of the coffee machine.
* CacophonyCoverUp: Amelie tries to cover up Georgette's ImmodestOrgasm with the steamer of the coffee machine.
* CareerEndingInjury: Madame Suzanne's backstory. She fell from a horse which ended her circus career.
* ComingAndGoing: In the opening scene, a man crosses the name of his recently deceased friend out of his little black book at the exact same moment as the title character's conception (only the sperm entering the egg is shown).
* CompartmentShot: We see Amelie reaching for that treasure box from inside the wall.
* CompartmentShot: We see Amelie reaching for that treasure box from inside the wall.
* DeathByLookingUp: Amelie's mother meets this fate, courtesy of a suicidal Canadian tourist jumping off a church roof and landing on her.
* DopeSlap: In of his KickTheDog moments, Collignon slaps Lucien on the back his head.
* DramaticDrop: The movie uses this to [[IncitingIncident get the plot started]], as Amelie reacts in shock to hearing news of Princess Diana's death and drops the lid of heir perfume flask.
* DramaticDrop: The movie uses this to [[IncitingIncident get the plot started]], as Amelie reacts in shock to hearing news of Princess Diana's death and drops the lid of heir perfume flask.
* DriverFacesPassenger: One of the things Amelie does not like are drivers in American films who don't watch the road. Cut to a scene from the American film ''Father's Little Dividend'' where the actor drives a desk and looks at his passenger 99% of the time. In the DVD director's commentary, Jean-Pierre Jeunet comments on how difficult it is to find a clip exhibiting this trope when you're specifically looking for one.
* EmpathicEnvironment: It starts raining when young Amelie's golf fish gets dumped into the creek.
* EmpathicEnvironment: It starts raining when young Amelie's golf fish gets dumped into the creek.
* FeedbackRule: The intercom at Nino's sex shop is giving off a feedback sound [[RunningGag whenever]] it's being operated.
* ForgedMessage: One of Amelie's neighbor is bitter that her husband left her for another woman, then died in a plane crash. So Amelie 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.
* TheFreelanceShameSquad: The laughing crowd in front of Collignon's shop after Amelie delivers her joke about him not having a heart.
* GenderBlenderName: Amelie meets a female Dominique Bretodeau who seems to take quite a liking in her.
* GuiltComplex: Young Amelie temporarily believes she caused all misery in the world after her neighbor planted that idea in her head.
* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Amelie has multiple ImagineSpot moments where she watches documentaries about Lady Diana and puts herself into them. While one such spot obviously leads to Amelie getting a DownerEnding, she nonetheless becomes a MarySue in those spots as the documentary narration makes her into a [[GoodSamaritan selfless martyr]] that the world can't go on without.
* AHeroIsBorn: The movie begins with the conception of the heroine.
* AHeroIsBorn: The movie begins with the conception of the heroine.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Collignon needs one after the shenanigans Amelie puts him through. Unfortunately, the liquor is spiked with a handful of salt resulting in him performing a SpitTake.
* InformedAttractiveness: In Nino's dream, the headshots in one of his pictures come alive and argue over whether Amelie is all that attractive. Some will only say that she's rather pretty, but another insists that she's beautiful. Interestingly, the character was written for Creator/EmilyWatson and was probably going to be somewhat HollywoodHomely before Creator/AudreyTautou was cast.
* IWantMyMommy: After Collignon gets sufficiently gaslighted, he decides to call his mother.
* InformedAttractiveness: In Nino's dream, the headshots in one of his pictures come alive and argue over whether Amelie is all that attractive. Some will only say that she's rather pretty, but another insists that she's beautiful. Interestingly, the character was written for Creator/EmilyWatson and was probably going to be somewhat HollywoodHomely before Creator/AudreyTautou was cast.
* IWantMyMommy: After Collignon gets sufficiently gaslighted, he decides to call his mother.
* KnuckleCracking: Gina, Amelie's co-worker, takes a liking to this activity.
* LadyDrunk: Madeleine Wallace.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: When Amelie and Nino finally get together, Lucien keeps filming their fondling from across the street, only for Dufayel to tell him off.
* LiesToChildren: Amelie's neighbor makes the gullible young girl believe that by operating her camera she was responsible for a car crash.
* LadyDrunk: Madeleine Wallace.
* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: When Amelie and Nino finally get together, Lucien keeps filming their fondling from across the street, only for Dufayel to tell him off.
* LiesToChildren: Amelie's neighbor makes the gullible young girl believe that by operating her camera she was responsible for a car crash.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Implied with Amelie who fell in love with Nino when she saw him by the photo machine at the metro station.
* LustfulMelt: Amelie dissolved into tears because of heartbreak after she CannotSpitItOut and Nino leaves the cafe.
* LustfulMelt: Amelie dissolved into tears because of heartbreak after she CannotSpitItOut and Nino leaves the cafe.
* AMinorKidroduction: A large portion of the first act is relating to Amelie's childhood, in which she begins showing her defining characteristics.
* MissingMom: Amelie loses her mother to an accident early in her life. Her death leaves Amelie behind with an absent-minded father.
* MissingTheGoodStuff: A young Amelie gets her revenge on an unpleasant neighbor by sneaking onto his roof with a portable radio during an important soccer match and pulling the plug on his TV antenna whenever a goal is about to be scored. It drives him crazy.
* MistakenForCheating: Joseph sees Gina dropping a note into Nino's pocket and assumes that she was giving Nino her number while it actually was a note from Amelie.
* ModestOrgasm: During the sequence when Amélie is imagining how many people are in the midst of orgasm ("fifteen!"), the last woman's O sound is somewhere between a gasp and a squeak.
* MissingMom: Amelie loses her mother to an accident early in her life. Her death leaves Amelie behind with an absent-minded father.
* MissingTheGoodStuff: A young Amelie gets her revenge on an unpleasant neighbor by sneaking onto his roof with a portable radio during an important soccer match and pulling the plug on his TV antenna whenever a goal is about to be scored. It drives him crazy.
* MistakenForCheating: Joseph sees Gina dropping a note into Nino's pocket and assumes that she was giving Nino her number while it actually was a note from Amelie.
* ModestOrgasm: During the sequence when Amélie is imagining how many people are in the midst of orgasm ("fifteen!"), the last woman's O sound is somewhere between a gasp and a squeak.
* MonochromeCasting: The film is set in Montmartre, an area of Paris with a large immigrant population, but the cast, with the exception of Jamel Debouze, is exclusively white.
* MonochromePast: The flashbacks to Nino's childhood are in black and white.
* MountaintopHealthcare: In one ImagineSpot, Amelie sees herself as a red-cross nurse in the Alpes pushing Dufayel around in a wheelchair.
* MsImagination: Amelie has created an imaginary world to make up for the lack of friends.
* NarrativeFiligree: TheMovie. ''Amélie'' frequently delves into irrelevant events, such as marking Amélie's conception occurring at the exact time that a fly is crushed, that wine glasses "dance" on a moving tablecloth unseen, and that an elderly gentleman erases his deceased friend from his notebook of phone numbers. Additionally, almost every named character ([[UpToEleven or animal]] in the case of Philomène's cat) is noted as liking or disliking something in order to give detail to the world. The minor subplot about the death of Princess Diana also qualifies.
* MonochromePast: The flashbacks to Nino's childhood are in black and white.
* MountaintopHealthcare: In one ImagineSpot, Amelie sees herself as a red-cross nurse in the Alpes pushing Dufayel around in a wheelchair.
* MsImagination: Amelie has created an imaginary world to make up for the lack of friends.
* NarrativeFiligree: TheMovie. ''Amélie'' frequently delves into irrelevant events, such as marking Amélie's conception occurring at the exact time that a fly is crushed, that wine glasses "dance" on a moving tablecloth unseen, and that an elderly gentleman erases his deceased friend from his notebook of phone numbers. Additionally, almost every named character ([[UpToEleven or animal]] in the case of Philomène's cat) is noted as liking or disliking something in order to give detail to the world. The minor subplot about the death of Princess Diana also qualifies.
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* NarrativeFiligree: TheMovie. ''Amélie'' frequently delves into irrelevant events, such as marking Amélie's conception occurring at the exact time that a fly is crushed, that wine glasses "dance" on a moving tablecloth unseen, and that an elderly gentleman erases his deceased friend from his notebook of phone numbers. Additionally, almost every named character ([[UpToEleven or animal]] in the case of Philomène's cat) is noted as liking or disliking something in order to give detail NiceToTheWaiter: Amelie gives to the world. The minor subplot about beggars and is nice to the death of Princess Diana also qualifies.handicapped.
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* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Amelie's father is distracted because his favorite gnome went missing and sent him pictures from various cities around the world. So he fails Amelie's test of attention:
-->'''Amélie:''' I had two heart attacks and had to have an abortion because I did crack while I was pregnant. Other than that, I'm fine.\\
'''Father''' (absent-minded): Good.
-->'''Amélie:''' I had two heart attacks and had to have an abortion because I did crack while I was pregnant. Other than that, I'm fine.\\
'''Father''' (absent-minded): Good.
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* PaintingTheMedium: The mother's TwitchyEye is pointed out with on-screen text.
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* PayPhone: Amelie, in a nearby cafe, calls a payphone next to a passer-by to make him walk into the phone booth and find a present she's left there for him. She plays a similar trick on Nino later.
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* PhotoBoothMontage: Played with. The film has a montage of Amelie looking through other people's discarded photos from such a booth, which her love interest has collected into an album.
* PhotoMontage: The CreativeClosingCredits feature Nino's carefully compiled photo album, now with pictures of all the film's characters added.
* PhotoMontage: The CreativeClosingCredits feature Nino's carefully compiled photo album, now with pictures of all the film's characters added.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The grocer Collignon, constantly picking on the mentally impaired Lucien and calling him names.
* RaceForYourLove: Aborted. In the final act when Amelie can't spot Nino outside her house, she rushes for the door to chase after him but he is already standing in front of her door.
* RaceForYourLove: Aborted. In the final act when Amelie can't spot Nino outside her house, she rushes for the door to chase after him but he is already standing in front of her door.
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* RuleOfFunny: It's very unlikely to find the toothpaste and foot cream tubes in someone's bathroom to look alike. But it makes for a great prank.
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* TheScream: Colignin lets out the first of a few when he realises he's brushing his teeth with [[ItTastesLikeFeet foot cream]].
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* ShrineToTheFallen: The father builds an elaborate shrine for the deceased mother.
* ShrinkingViolet: Amelie and Nino. They are both shy, quiet, and friendly but have a hard time making friends.
* SmashToBlack: After Amelie's mother is hit by the suicidal tourist, the scene cuts to black.
* ShrinkingViolet: Amelie and Nino. They are both shy, quiet, and friendly but have a hard time making friends.
* SmashToBlack: After Amelie's mother is hit by the suicidal tourist, the scene cuts to black.
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* TimeCapsule: Dominique Bretodeau's treasure box which he left behind by accident in the 1950s.
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* VehicleVanish: Amelie finally gathers her courage to face Nino at the train station, but then a luggage car blocks her way. After it passed, Nino has disappeared from the phone booth.
* WeatherReportOpening: Inverted. The weather report is the final line of the film: "... Meanwhile, at the Sacré-Cœur, the nuns are practicing their backhand. The temperature is 24 degrees, humidity 70%, atmospheric pressure 990 millibars."
* ZorroMark: In an ImagineSpot, Amelie sees herself as Zoro leaving a Z mark on Collignon's apartment door.
* WeatherReportOpening: Inverted. The weather report is the final line of the film: "... Meanwhile, at the Sacré-Cœur, the nuns are practicing their backhand. The temperature is 24 degrees, humidity 70%, atmospheric pressure 990 millibars."
* ZorroMark: In an ImagineSpot, Amelie sees herself as Zoro leaving a Z mark on Collignon's apartment door.
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* LoveLetterLunacy: Taken UpToEleven by Amélie, who just can't get past her worry of being rejected by Nino, so she mixes in anonymous phone calls and even a ransom of his photo album.
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** She does one after her coup to return the photo album to Nino succeeded.
** At the end, Nino and Amelie are shown riding down the street on a motorcycle, teasing one another playfully and generally being so deeply in love that they are completely oblivious to the world around them. Then, for a second, they both turn and make faces at the camera.
** At the end, Nino and Amelie are shown riding down the street on a motorcycle, teasing one another playfully and generally being so deeply in love that they are completely oblivious to the world around them. Then, for a second, they both turn and make faces at the camera.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: In the closing seconds, plus frequent asides.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Amélie's air stewardess friend Philomène, who is introduced just as one of the other regulars of Café des Deux Moulins. [[spoiler:She's the one who's been taking the pictures of the gnome in different parts of the world. She jokingly tells Amélie she got the name "Snow White" for it.]]
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** Amélie's air stewardess friend Philomène, who is introduced just as one of the other regulars of Café des Deux Moulins. [[spoiler:She's the one who's been taking the pictures of the gnome in different parts of the world. She jokingly tells Amélie she got the name "Snow White" for it.]]
** Amélie's air stewardess friend Philomène, who is introduced just as one of the other regulars of Café des Deux Moulins. [[spoiler:She's the one who's been taking the pictures of the gnome in different parts of the world. She jokingly tells Amélie she got the name "Snow White" for it.]]
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* CrazyJealousGuy: '''Joseph''', who possessively smothers any woman he is interested in. This causes him to stalk Gina, and [[spoiler:sabotage his potential relationship with Georgette]].
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* CrazyJealousGuy: '''Joseph''', Joseph, who possessively smothers any woman he is interested in. This causes him to stalk Gina, and [[spoiler:sabotage his potential relationship with Georgette]].
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* {{Hypochondria}}: Georgette is a straight example, given all the medicine she's witnessed taking, while Amélie herself ends up an accidental example because her excitement over paternal contact is mistaken for a heart condition.
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* {{Hypochondria}}: Georgette is a straight example, example in combination with SicklyNeuroticGeek, given all the medicine she's witnessed taking, while Amélie herself ends up an accidental example because her excitement over paternal contact is mistaken for a heart condition.
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* ImmodestOrgasm / ModestOrgasm: When Amélie wonders "how many couples are having orgasms right now?"
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** When Amélie wonders "how many couples are having orgasms right now?"
** When Amélie wonders "how many couples are having orgasms right now?"
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** In spite of the film's overall sweet tone, it does have an undercurrent of nastiness. Many people that Amélie meets are total jerks, and she plays cruel tricks on them. Also, ''[[FridgeHorror few characters get a happy ending.]]'' Many of the people that Amélie helps are still stuck with their old problems at the end of the film, and the most she can do is give them a brief moment of pleasure. Also, none of the jerks she punishes are shown to change their ways. [[invoked]]
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** In spite of the film's overall sweet tone, it does have an undercurrent of nastiness. Many people that Amélie meets are total jerks, and she plays cruel tricks on them. Also, ''[[FridgeHorror few characters get a happy ending.]]'' shallowness. Many of the people that Amélie helps are still stuck with their old problems at the end of the film, and the most she can do is give them a brief moment of pleasure. Also, none of the jerks she punishes are big jerk Collignon is not shown to change their ways. have changed his ways with Lucien.[[invoked]]
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* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: Lucien has one arm. Jamel Debbouze, who plays him, has a withered right hand (the result of being struck by a train in 1990) which he consistently keeps hidden in a pocket. It's conceivable that, while the character of Lucien being "slow" was always the main excuse given by the grocer for being such a giant {{Jerkass}} to him, the missing arm was more of a way to explain Jamel's recognizable posture in-universe that they decided to [[ThrowItIn throw in]].
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* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: Lucien has one arm. Jamel Debbouze, who plays him, has a withered right hand which he consistently keeps hidden in a pocket. It's conceivable that, while the character of Lucien being "slow" was always the main excuse given by the grocer for being such a giant {{Jerkass}} to him, the missing arm was more of a way to explain Jamel's recognizable posture in-universe that they decided to [[ThrowItIn throw in]].
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* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: Lucien has one arm. Jamel Debbouze, who plays him, has a withered right hand (the result of being struck by a train in 1990) which he consistently keeps hidden in a pocket. It's conceivable that, while the character of Lucien being "slow" was always the main excuse given by the grocer for being such a giant {{Jerkass}} to him, the missing arm was more of a way to explain Jamel's recognizable posture in-universe that they decided to [[ThrowItIn throw in]].
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* OneTrackMindedArtist: Dufayel is in the business of repainting Renoir's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party Luncheon of the Boating Party]] over and over.
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* BiggerThanJesus: In the musical's song "Goodbye, Amélie", an Music/EltonJohn parody sings that Amelie is "nicer than [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]], bigger than Jesus".
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* GoofyPrintUnderwear: The gnome wears Union Jack boxers in the musical.
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** In the musical, she imagines ''Music/EltonJohn'' singing at her funeral, similar to how he did for Princess Diana.
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* ITasteDelicious: In the musical, the guy who accidentally kills Amélie's mother gets up and tastes some of the blood from his head injury while singing.
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* SuddenlyVoiced: Amelie's goldfish sings goodbye to her in the musical and the garden gnome gets his own song.
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** In the musical, she imagines ''Music/EltonJohn'' singing at her funeral, similar to how he did for Princess Diana.
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* ITasteDelicious: In the musical, the guy who accidentally kills Amélie's mother gets up and tastes some of the blood from his head injury while singing.
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* ITasteDelicious: In the musical, the guy who accidentally kills Amélie's mother gets up and tastes some of the blood from his head injury while singing.
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* ITasteDelicious: In the musical, the guy who accidentally kills Amélie's mother gets up and tastes some of the blood from his head injury while singing.
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* BiggerThanJesus: In the musical's song "Goodbye, Amélie", an Music/EltonJohn parody sings that Amelie is "nicer than Oprah, bigger than Jesus".
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* BiggerThanJesus: In the musical's song "Goodbye, Amélie", an Music/EltonJohn parody sings that Amelie is "nicer than Oprah, [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]], bigger than Jesus".
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* BiggerThanJesus: In the musical's song "Goodbye, Amélie", an Music/EltonJohn parody sings that Amelie is "nicer than Oprah, bigger than Jesus".
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* GoofyPrintUnderwear: The gnome wears Union Jack boxers in the musical.
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* SuddenlyVoiced: Amelie's goldfish sings goodbye to her in the musical and the garden gnome gets his own song.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Possibly Amélie. She shows a ''romantic'' interest in Nino, but it's told and shown via flashback that she tried out sex a few times and didn't find it particularly interesting or worthwile.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Possibly Amélie. She shows a ''romantic'' interest in Nino, but it's told and shown via flashback that she tried out sex a few times and didn't find it particularly interesting or worthwile.worthwhile.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Amélie's air stewardess friend Philomène, who is introduced just as one of the other regulars of The Two Windmills. [[spoiler:She's the one who's been taking the pictures of the gnome in different parts of the world. She jokingly tells Amélie she got the name "Snow White" for it.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: Amélie's air stewardess friend Philomène, who is introduced just as one of the other regulars of The Two Windmills.Café des Deux Moulins. [[spoiler:She's the one who's been taking the pictures of the gnome in different parts of the world. She jokingly tells Amélie she got the name "Snow White" for it.]]
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** One of the most awesome things ever about Mr. Dufayel is that he's able to be completely spot-on about everything that's going on in Amélie's head and even mentions uncomfortable truths about her and her life. Throughout the movie, he almost becomes a guru of sorts for her.
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** One of the most awesome things ever about Mr. Monsieur Dufayel is that he's able to be completely spot-on about everything that's going on in Amélie's head and even mentions uncomfortable truths about her and her life. Throughout the movie, he almost becomes a guru of sorts for her.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Possibly Amélie. She shows a ''romantic'' interest in Nino, but it's told and shown via flashback that she tried out sex a few times and didn't find it particularly interesting or worthwile.
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* RedGreenConstrast: The film uses red and green predominantly in its color palette, with the color blue used to make objects stand out.
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* RedGreenConstrast: RedGreenContrast: The film uses red and green predominantly in its color palette, with the color blue used to make objects stand out.
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The Theatre version should be mentioned, right?
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In 2015, the film got a Broadway adaptation starring Phillipa Soo as the title character.
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''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain'' ("''The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain''" -- released as ''Amélie'' in English) is a 2001 French film directed by Creator/JeanPierreJeunet, starring Creator/AudreyTautou and Mathieu Kassovitz.
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''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain'' ("''The (''The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain''" Poulain'' -- released as ''Amélie'' in English) is a 2001 French film directed by Creator/JeanPierreJeunet, starring Creator/AudreyTautou and Mathieu Kassovitz.
