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* AuthorAppeal: The Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Creator/ZoeLund (née Tamerlis), who was the co-writer of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was already deceased. From heroin.

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* AuthorAppeal: The Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Creator/ZoeLund (née Tamerlis), who was the co-writer of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate.advocate, and also shoots real heroin in those scenes. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was already deceased. From heroin.cocaine rather than heroin (she kicked the habit, only to [[AddictionDisplacement pick up a new one]]).



* CreatorCameo: Creator/ZoeLund. She had previously worked with director Ferrara, having [[YouMightRememberMeFrom played the titular role in]] ''Film/{{Ms 45}}''.

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* CreatorCameo: Creator/ZoeLund. She had previously worked with director Ferrara, having [[YouMightRememberMeFrom played the titular role in]] in ''Film/{{Ms 45}}''.45}}'', and co-wrote the film's screenplay.
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Trivia.


* AuthorAppeal: The Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Creator/ZoeLund (née Tamerlis), who was the co-writer of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was [[DiedDuringProduction already deceased]]. From heroin.

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* AuthorAppeal: The Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Creator/ZoeLund (née Tamerlis), who was the co-writer of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was [[DiedDuringProduction already deceased]].deceased. From heroin.

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* AntiVillain: The Lieutenant is a truly loathsome piece of work but it's gradually shown he's fully aware of how vile he is and hates himself for it and his hedonism is his way of coping.



* BeingEvilSucks: The Lieutenant lives a truly miserable and unenviable existence, engaging in all manner of depravity which he takes little to no joy in and which only serves as a way of taking away the real pain of his bone deep self-loathing.

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* BeingEvilSucks: The Lieutenant lives a truly miserable and unenviable existence, engaging in all manner of depravity which he takes little to no joy in and which only serves as a way of taking away the real pain of his bone deep self-loathing.self-loathing and feelings of existential abandonment.



* HookersAndBlow: There's several scenes of the Lieutenant getting strung out with a couple of prostitutes. It's a lot more sleazy and grimy than the trope is usually presented, however. In the scene with Zoe Lund, that's real Heroin being injected into her.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Liutenant is about as unheroic a character as you will ever see in a film and even he is disgusted by the rapists, resisting the urge to kill them both out of sheer disgust.
* HairTriggerTemper: The Lieutenant possesses a ''very'' short fuse.
* HookersAndBlow: There's several scenes of the Lieutenant getting strung out with a couple of prostitutes. It's a lot more sleazy and grimy than the trope is usually presented, however.however, and it's clear the Lieutenant gets little, if any, pleasure from such actions.. In the scene with Zoe Lund, that's real Heroin being injected into her.



* MaleFrontalNudity: Happens with the Lieutenant during one of his drug taking scenes.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: Happens with the Lieutenant during one of his drug taking scenes. It's [[FanDisservice an unpleasant sight, to say the least]].
* ManlyTears:ManlyTears: The Lieutenant, most notably in the church scene.




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* TragicVillain: The Lieutenant is an awful person, no question, but he's clearly lived a very tough life and his addictions are less about hedonism and more his only way of living with himself and to escape his self-hatred and despair. By the end, he reveals he feels completely abandoned by God and is truly desperate for some kind of salvation.
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* AuthorAppeal: The Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Zoe Lund (née Tamerlis), who was the co-writer of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was [[DiedDuringProduction already deceased]]. From heroin.

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* AuthorAppeal: The Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Zoe Lund Creator/ZoeLund (née Tamerlis), who was the co-writer of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was [[DiedDuringProduction already deceased]]. From heroin.



* CreatorCameo: Zoe Lund. She had previously worked with director Ferrara, having [[YouMightRememberMeFrom played the titular role in]] ''Film/{{Ms 45}}''.

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* CreatorCameo: Zoe Lund.Creator/ZoeLund. She had previously worked with director Ferrara, having [[YouMightRememberMeFrom played the titular role in]] ''Film/{{Ms 45}}''.
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* AuthorAppeal: The Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Zoe Lund (née Tamerlis), who was the co-writer of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was [[AuthorExistenceFailure already deceased]]. From heroin.

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* AuthorAppeal: The Lieutenant sometimes visits the apartment of a thin girl who shoots heroin. She was played by Zoe Lund (née Tamerlis), who was the co-writer of the screenplay, and was a heroin advocate. She is also given writing credit on "Port of Call New Orleans", although by that time she was [[AuthorExistenceFailure [[DiedDuringProduction already deceased]]. From heroin.

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* BeingEvilSucks: The Lieutenant lives a truly miserable and unenviable existence, engaging in all manner of depravity which he takes little to no joy in and which only serves as a way of taking away the real pain of his bone deep self-loathing.



* {{Jerkass}}: The Lieutenant is a depraved, ill-tempered and generally amoral bastard who abuses his power in all sorts of horrific ways.



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MaleFrontalNudity: Happens with the Lieutenant during one of his drug taking scenes.
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