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* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Priscilla, Marilyn, Larry.....Billie Jean and Bobby are married to them and the three do have wheat-colored hair.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Larry genuinely loves and supports Billie Jean, recognizing tennis will be her true love and figuring out that she really does need Marilyn.
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* LysistrataGambit: Discussed and joked around with the tennis players, one of them suggests this and another asks "Wouldn't that punish us as well?" and another saying "I won't miss it" with another commenting her husband is inadequate in the bedroom.
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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) of the same name. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris who previously collaborated with Carell in ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'' (2006).
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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) of the same
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* TheSeventies: Set in 1972-1973. The men have sideburns, women have long or shaggy hair, the tuxedoes have ruffles, people dress in primary colors. The movie actually captures the period very well.
* SeventiesHair: All over the place. Bobby's bowl cut type haircut with the sideburns, Billie's shag, Marilyn's wavy Breck Girl hair, the sculpted haircuts of some of the young men; the film even shows how some people still had traces of the stylings of TheSixties with their hair.
* SeventiesHair: All over the place. Bobby's bowl cut type haircut with the sideburns, Billie's shag, Marilyn's wavy Breck Girl hair, the sculpted haircuts of some of the young men; the film even shows how some people still had traces of the stylings of TheSixties with their hair.
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* SeventiesHair: All over the place. Bobby's bowl cut type haircut with the sideburns, Billie's shag, Marilyn's wavy Breck Girl hair, the sculpted haircuts of some of the young men; the film even shows how some people still had traces of the stylings of TheSixties with their hair.
* SeventiesHair: All over the place. Bobby's bowl cut type haircut with the sideburns, Billie's shag, Marilyn's wavy Breck Girl hair, the sculpted haircuts of some of the young men; the film even shows how some people still had traces of the stylings of TheSixties with their hair.
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name. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris who previously collaborated with Carell in ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'' (2006).
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* AmicableExes: Larry and Billie did end up getting divorced but the epilogue reveals that they are still friendly and he made Billie and her current partner Ilana Godmothers to his children.
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* AmicableExes: Larry and Billie did end up getting divorced divorced, but the epilogue reveals that they are still friendly and he even made Billie and her current partner Ilana partner, Ilana, Godmothers to his children.
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* LipstickLesbian: Both Billie Jean and Marilyn.
* MarsVsVenusGenderContrast: The basic idea surrounding BJK and Bobby.
* MarsVsVenusGenderContrast: The basic idea surrounding BJK and Bobby.
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* NerdGlasses: Bobby wears them, as befitting his age and what he wore in RealLife.
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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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** Billie Jean is this, especially as she learns to accept her sexuality, she is "Madame Superstar" of tennis.
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* AdaptationalCurves: Larry in RealLife was [[http://www.espn.com/photo/2013/0702/mag_vintagebody02.jpg chunkier]] than how Steve Carell [[https://i0.wp.com/media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/battleofthesexes-stevecarell-naked-tennisracket-700x314.jpg portrayed him]] in the movie.
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* AdaptationalCurves: Larry Bobby in RealLife was [[http://www.espn.com/photo/2013/0702/mag_vintagebody02.jpg chunkier]] than how Steve Carell [[https://i0.wp.com/media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/battleofthesexes-stevecarell-naked-tennisracket-700x314.jpg portrayed him]] in the movie.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Justified with Rosie Casals being the only Latina in the group, the tennis world of 1973 was predominantly white.
** Gladys lampshades it when told she isn't allowed in the Smoker's Room
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** Gladys lampshades it when told she isn't allowed in the Smoker's Room
--->"Is it because I'm a woman or because I'm a Jew?"
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* 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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* TheSecretKeeper: Ted Tinling and his designing/life partner are this for Billie, figuring things out rather quickly and warning Billie to be careful.
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* TheSecretKeeper: SecretKeeper: Ted Tinling and his designing/life partner are this for Billie, figuring things out rather quickly and warning Billie to be careful.
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* BadassGay: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Tinling Ted Tinling]] is not only a dress designer in the world of tennis, in RealLife he was a tennis player and a spy in UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo.
* NobodyOverFiftyIsGay: Averted as this film depicts real life figures. Ted Tinling and his partner are definitely middle aged to the point of being as old as Bobby and a committed couple. Billie and Marilyn are still alive as of 2017 and are senior citizens.
* TheSecretKeeper: Ted Tinling and his designing/life partner are this for Billie, figuring things out rather quickly and warning Billie to be careful.
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* TrueBlueFemininity: Billie favors this color, often with white. In the Battle of the Sexes, she wore a white dress with a blue trim with some white embroidery with blue suede shoes. Her femininity, or lack thereof, is not to be emphasized.
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* TrueBlueFemininity: Billie favors this color, often with white. In the Battle of the Sexes, she wore a white dress with a blue trim with some white embroidery with blue suede shoes. Her femininity, or lack thereof, is not to be emphasized.emphasized.
* 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.
* 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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* TheBeard: Larry King (no not the journalist).
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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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* SeventiesHair: All over the place. Bobby's bowl cut type haircut with the sideburns, Billie's shag, Marilyn's wavy Breck Girl hair, the sculpted haircuts of some of the young men; the film even shows how some people still had traces of the stylings of TheSixties with their hair.
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* AsHimself: Real footage featuring Howard Cosell from the original match is spliced with Natalie Morales as Rosemary Casals.
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* TheGlassesGottaGo: One of the announcers evoked this in RealLife and in-universe about Billie when she is being carried out into the arena, saying she'd be a Hollywood Beauty if she grew her hair and dumped her glasses.
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* TheGlassesGottaGo: One of the announcers Howard Cosell evoked this in RealLife and in-universe about Billie when she is being carried out into the arena, saying she'd be a Hollywood Beauty if she grew her hair and dumped her glasses. glasses.
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** In the film she uses this for a psychological advantage against Billie. Long after her playing days she would the campaign in Australia against same sex marriage.
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* SportsHeroBackstory: Riggs' success at the 1939 Wimbledon championship. He mentions winning all three draws (men's singles, men's doubles, and mixed doubles) but not as an amateur and that his playing during the amateur era is why he learned to hustle.
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** Billie Jean in RealLife was ever as slender as Emma Stone.
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* {{Pettanko}}: Billie Jean and not played up for the usual ACupAngst trope, this becomes prominent in a scene where Larry discovers Marilyn's bra in Billie's room and upon further inspection, it is too frilly and a bit large for his wife to wear.
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* AdaptationalCurves: Larry in RealLife was [[http://www.espn.com/photo/2013/0702/mag_vintagebody02.jpg chunkier]] than how Steve Carell [[https://i0.wp.com/media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/battleofthesexes-stevecarell-naked-tennisracket-700x314.jpg portrayed him]] in the movie.
* AmicableExes: Larry and Billie did end up getting divorced but the epilogue reveals that they are still friendly and he made Billie and her current partner Ilana Godmothers to his children.
* BettyAndVeronica: Two.
** Billie (Archie), Larry (Betty), Marilyn (Veronica).
** Bobby (Archie), Priscilla (Betty), Gambling (Veronica).
* AmicableExes: Larry and Billie did end up getting divorced but the epilogue reveals that they are still friendly and he made Billie and her current partner Ilana Godmothers to his children.
* BettyAndVeronica: Two.
** Billie (Archie), Larry (Betty), Marilyn (Veronica).
** Bobby (Archie), Priscilla (Betty), Gambling (Veronica).
* {{Fanservice}}: Bobby's cheerleaders and the men that lift Billie at the Astrodome are to somewhat evoke this.
* 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.
* 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.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Bobby looks funny now, but his office has a portrait of himself in his tennis glory days of TheForties when he was young and handsome.
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* TranquilFury: Billie gets this when she calls out a man for proclaiming that men are better than women, she asks him if he thinks his Father is better than his Mother.
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* TrueBlueFemininity: Billie favors this color, often with white. In the Battle of the Sexes, she wore a white dress with a blue trim with some white embroidery with blue suede shoes. Her femininity, or lack thereof, is not to be emphasized.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Billie favors this color, often with white. In the Battle of the Sexes, she wore a white dress with a blue trim with some white embroidery with blue suede shoes. Her femininity, or lack thereof, is not to be emphasized.
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* {{Gaygnst}}: Part of Billie's story involves her coming to terms with her sexuality and dealing with the threat of a possible fall out in both her career and personal life.
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: Margaret Court and her husband when they talk about Billie and Marilyn. Margaret decides Billie's shame could work for Margaret in their upcoming match.
* MinidressOfPower: All the women tennis players wear this or short skirts with shorts underneath.
* ModestyBedsheet: Billie after she and Marilyn have first made love.
* ModestyShorts: All the women tennis players wear them under their skirts.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Billie's husband and Bobby's older son are both named "Larry".
* PassionateSportsGirl: Billie Jean and her fellow women tennis players. They just want to be paid their worth as players and be taken just as seriously as the men.
* RedOniBlueOni: Impulsive and loud Bobby (Red) and Cautious and modulated Billie (Blue), they are even color coded with her dress (with blue suede shoes) and his Sugar Daddy jacket.
* ModestyBedsheet: Billie after she and Marilyn have first made love.
* ModestyShorts: All the women tennis players wear them under their skirts.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Billie's husband and Bobby's older son are both named "Larry".
* PassionateSportsGirl: Billie Jean and her fellow women tennis players. They just want to be paid their worth as players and be taken just as seriously as the men.
* RedOniBlueOni: Impulsive and loud Bobby (Red) and Cautious and modulated Billie (Blue), they are even color coded with her dress (with blue suede shoes) and his Sugar Daddy jacket.
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* SpecsOfAwesome: Gladys Heldman on the board room, Billie and Bobby on the court and the press.
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* TranquilFury: Billie gets this when she calls out a man for proclaiming that men are better than women, she asks him if he thinks his Father is better than his Mother.
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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: The other tennis players are discussing whether Billie would beat Bobby, with a good amount of doubters, in the locker room. Out comes Billie out of the toilet stall, having heard everything, and marching out without any acknowledgement of the other players. [[WhatHaveIDone They look regretful]].
* BiTheWay: Billie is married to Larry King (no not the news caster) and falls in love with Marilyn, Marilyn herself says she has a sort of boyfriend and isn't averse to dancing with a gentleman caller.
* BiTheWay: Billie is married to Larry King (no not the news caster) and falls in love with Marilyn, Marilyn herself says she has a sort of boyfriend and isn't averse to dancing with a gentleman caller.
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* {{Gaygnst}}: Part of Billie's story involves her coming to terms with her sexuality and dealing with the threat of a possible fall out in both her career and personal life.
* GlassesGirl: Billie Jean wears gold-trimmed glasses whereas Gladys Heldman wears more flamboyant glasses.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: One of the announcers evoked this in RealLife and in-universe about Billie when she is being carried out into the arena, saying she'd be a Hollywood Beauty if she grew her hair and dumped her glasses.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: One of Billie's responses to Bobby's promotion of "male chauvinist pig vs. hairy, legged feminist"?
---> Oh by the way? I shave my legs.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Bobby may be bombastic and insensitive and impulsive, and says a lot of sexist stuff. But he really loves his wife Priscilla, cares for and plays with his young son, and genuinely wants to get in his older son's good graces. Also after the game, he congratulates Billie by admitting he underestimated her.
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: There is a lot of doubt that Billie could beat Bobby given that he is a man, there is a lot of mentioning about how physically attractive she is and some of Bobby's friends say disparagingly of women tennis players is that they look good in their short skirts.
* TheSeventies: Set in 1972-1973. The men have sideburns, women have long or shaggy hair, the tuxedoes have ruffles, people dress in primarycolors.colors.
* SpecsOfAwesome: Gladys Heldman on the board room, Billie and Bobby on the court and the press.
* GlassesGirl: Billie Jean wears gold-trimmed glasses whereas Gladys Heldman wears more flamboyant glasses.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: One of the announcers evoked this in RealLife and in-universe about Billie when she is being carried out into the arena, saying she'd be a Hollywood Beauty if she grew her hair and dumped her glasses.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: One of Billie's responses to Bobby's promotion of "male chauvinist pig vs. hairy, legged feminist"?
---> Oh by the way? I shave my legs.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Bobby may be bombastic and insensitive and impulsive, and says a lot of sexist stuff. But he really loves his wife Priscilla, cares for and plays with his young son, and genuinely wants to get in his older son's good graces. Also after the game, he congratulates Billie by admitting he underestimated her.
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: There is a lot of doubt that Billie could beat Bobby given that he is a man, there is a lot of mentioning about how physically attractive she is and some of Bobby's friends say disparagingly of women tennis players is that they look good in their short skirts.
* TheSeventies: Set in 1972-1973. The men have sideburns, women have long or shaggy hair, the tuxedoes have ruffles, people dress in primary
* SpecsOfAwesome: Gladys Heldman on the board room, Billie and Bobby on the court and the press.
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* FailedASpotCheck: When she gets a call informing her that her husband Larry is coming to her hotel room, Billie trashes a few things, hides tell tale signs of her sleeping with Marilyn only to miss Marilyn's pink lace floral bra, which Larry soon sees and can gather doesn't belong to Billie. He however doesn't say anything about it.
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!!''Battle of the Sexes'' contains examples of the following tropes:
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