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* TheBeard: Larry King (no, not [[Creator/LarryKing the journalist]]).
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* DecoyProtagonist: actually Decoy Antagonist. Based on the premise and foregone conclusion it was easy to assume that Bobby Riggs would be the antagonist. However he is shown to just be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Jack Kramer as the head of the Federation who actively tries to hold back pay for the women is the real villain of the story and his anguish when Billie wins is quite satisfying. Margaret Court also serves as one to a secondary degree due to her viewing lesbians as degenerates. [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/01/20/margaret-courts-lgbtq-same-sex-marriage-views-leave-australian-open-honoring-her-grand-slam-not-her/ This is a view]] she continues to have today so it could also be interpreted as a TakeThat by contemporary audiences.
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* DecoyProtagonist: actually Actually Decoy Antagonist.''Antagonist''. Based on the premise and foregone conclusion it was easy to assume that Bobby Riggs would be the antagonist. However he is shown to just be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Jack Kramer as the head of the Federation who actively tries to hold back pay for the women is the real villain of the story and his anguish when Billie wins is quite satisfying. Margaret Court also serves as one to a secondary degree due to her viewing lesbians as degenerates. [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/01/20/margaret-courts-lgbtq-same-sex-marriage-views-leave-australian-open-honoring-her-grand-slam-not-her/ This is a view]] she continues to have today so it could also be interpreted as a TakeThat by contemporary audiences.
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* ButNotTooGay: Nicely averted with Billie and Marilyn's steamy lovemaking. See Girl-on-Girl Is Hot below.
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The scenes of Billie Jean and Marilyn are not played for titillation but rather filmed as very romantic.
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* PowerWalk: Billie Jean between sets of the final tennis match of the film, Howard Cosell dismisses her as "walking like a Man".
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* LogoJoke: The Fox Searchlight logo is redone in the style of the 1970s 20th Century Fox logo (the Searchlight label did not exist in the 70s).
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* LogoJoke: The Fox Searchlight logo is redone in the style of the 1970s 20th Century Fox logo (the Searchlight label did not exist in the 70s). TSG Entertainment also made a completely new logo that's more era-appropriate for the '70s (the studio didn't even exist before 2012).
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* GlassesGirl: Billie Jean wears gold-trimmed glasses whereas Gladys Heldman wears more flamboyant glasses.
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* SkunkStripe: Gladys Heldman has white or silver highlights in her hair resembling this.
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---> '''Larry Riggs''': Nice car, [[ExiledToTheCouch are going to live in it]]?
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The 2017 biographical sports film [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the famous 1973 tennis match of the same name]] between Billie Jean King (Creator/EmmaStone) and Bobby Riggs (Creator/SteveCarell).
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''Battle of the Sexes''' is a 2017 biographical sports film [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the famous 1973 tennis match of the same name]] between Billie Jean King (Creator/EmmaStone) and Bobby Riggs (Creator/SteveCarell).
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''Battle of the Sexes''' is a 2017 biographical sports film [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the famous 1973 tennis match of the same name]] between Billie Jean King (Creator/EmmaStone) and Bobby Riggs (Creator/SteveCarell).
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Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who'd previously collaborated with Carell on ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'' (2006), and written by Simon Beaufoy. The supporting cast includes Andrea Riseborough, Creator/SarahSilverman, Creator/BillPullman, Creator/AlanCumming, and Creator/ElisabethShue.
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Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who'd previously collaborated with Carell on ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'' (2006), and written by Simon Beaufoy. The supporting cast includes Andrea Riseborough, Creator/AndreaRiseborough, Creator/SarahSilverman, Creator/BillPullman, Creator/AlanCumming, and Creator/ElisabethShue.
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* PresentDayPast: Mostly averted but one minor example is when Gladys calls someone NASCAR for driving too fast. In 1973 NASCAR was a regional sport popular only in the south. It’s very doubtful tennis players from California had ever heard of it.
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* TrainingMontage: Billie goes through one showing her getting prepped for the Match. This is contrasted with showing Bobby lounging around and partying.
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* AmicableExes: Larry and Billie did end up getting divorced, but the epilogue reveals that they are still friendly and he even made Billie and her current partner, Ilana, Godmothers to his children.
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* BrainyBrunette: Brown haired Billie Jean is very intelligent and thoughtful, though less intellectual than the usual trope; Glady's is a darker haired and fierce version of this trope.
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* TheCameo: Lornie Kuhle, who was on Rigg's team (and is played by Eric Christen Olsen), appears as one of the commentators in the film.
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* CherryTapping: Only alluded to a little in the film, but Bobby defeats Margaret Court by playing "soft," hitting lobs and drop shots to keep her off balance rather than the more powerful shots you might expect a male player to use to overwhelm a female opponent.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Anyone who is up on their history would know that Billie did beat Bobby, Billie and Larry's marriage eventually ended after Marilyn outed Billie and herself by suing for palimony.
* FriendlyRivalry: Billie Jean and Bobby were friends until he died from prostate cancer and she remains in touch with his coach and son, who both are on the team against her.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Anyone who is up on their history would know that Billie did beat Bobby, and Billie and Larry's marriage eventually ended after Marilyn outed Billie and herself by suing for palimony.
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* WorthyOpponent: Billie and Bobby. Billie Jean wrote that they both came from Southern California and he was a local hero when she was growing up and she looked up to him. After she beat him in the match, Bobby tells her, "I've underestimated you" with no trace of bitterness. They remained friends until he died.
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* WorthyOpponent: Billie and Bobby. Billie Jean wrote that they both came from Southern California and he was a local hero when she was growing up and she looked up to him. After she beat him in the match, Bobby tells her, "I've underestimated you" with no trace of bitterness. They remained friends until he died. In fact, the real-life King recalled that she and Riggs had their last phone conversation on the night before his death, and she ended it with "I love you."
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* BaitAndSwitch: After being thrown out of his house by his wife Priscilla, Bobby is seen [[FreudianCouch sitting down with his therapist]] who tells him his problem may be that he is pursuing the wrong woman, comparing Bobby as the "Alpha Male" to the "Alpha Female". One thinks this is about his relationship with Priscilla, but it's quickly revealed they're actually discussing his pitch to have an exhibition match with Billie Jean King.
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* BadassGay: Billie Jean is this, especially as she learns to accept her sexuality, she is "Madame Superstar" of tennis.
