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**The open misogyny displayed by many of the men in the movie.
**PlayedForLaughs when Gladys tells the Original 9 that they need to smoke more at their press conferences because their tour is sponsored by Virginia Slims. ([[ProductPlacement For this reason]], Gladys is also actively delighted when she finds out that Rosie Casals is a smoker.)
*DoubleMeaning: In one scene Rosie Casals wears a t-shirt that says "You've Come a Long Way, Baby." The was the slogan of the Virginia Slims Circuits corporate sponsor; it is probably also intended to highlight the strides that [[TheHero Billie]], [[HeroOfAnotherStory Rosie]], and the rest of the Original 9 made for women's sports.
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**PlayedForLaughs when Gladys tells the Original 9 that they need to smoke more at their press conferences because their tour is sponsored by Virginia Slims. ([[ProductPlacement For this reason]], Gladys is also actively delighted when she finds out that Rosie Casals is a smoker.)
*DoubleMeaning: In one scene Rosie Casals wears a t-shirt that says "You've Come a Long Way, Baby." The was the slogan of the Virginia Slims Circuits corporate sponsor; it is probably also intended to highlight the strides that [[TheHero Billie]], [[HeroOfAnotherStory Rosie]], and the rest of the Original 9 made for women's sports.
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* ProductPlacement: In universe with Virginia Slims which was, obviously, the corporate sponsor of the Virginia Slims Tour. At one point Rosie Casals wears a shirt featuring the Virginia Slims corporate slogan: [[DoubleMeaning "You've Come a Long Way, Baby."]] There is also a humorous moment when Gladys Heldman tells the Original 9 that [[DeliberateValueDissonance they need to start smoking more at their press conferences]] [[StealthCigaretteCommercial in order to highlight their corporate sponsor]].
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*AttentionWhore: Bobby Riggs cannot get enough of the spotlight, which is one of the main reasons that he proposed the Battle of the Sexes in the first place.
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** There is a scene at the beginning of the movie that strongly implies that Bobby is slipping out to see his mistress: he claims that he has to go back to the office, and his wife questions what he could possibly have to do at the office so late at night. He ''was'' lying, but as it turns out he was sneaking out in order to to gamble. (Possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the sense that gambling was, for all intents and purposes, "the other woman" in his relationship with Priscilla, and caused many of the same problems that a mistress might.)
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* LargeHam: ][ExaggeratedTrope Bobby Riggs.]] In his own works, he puts the "show" back in "chauvinism."
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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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**There is a scene at the beginning of the movie that strongly implies that Bobby is slipping out to see his mistress: he claims that he has to go back to the office, and his wife questions what he could possibly have to do at the office so late at night. He ''was'' lying, but as it turns out he was sneaking out in order to to gamble. (Possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the sense that gambling was, for all intents and purposes, "the other woman" in his relationship with Priscilla, and caused many of the same problems that a mistress might.)
**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.
**There is a scene at the beginning of the movie that strongly implies that Bobby is slipping out to see his mistress: he claims that he has to go back to the office, and his wife questions what he could possibly have to do at the office so late at night. He ''was'' lying, but as it turns out he was sneaking out in order to to gamble. (Possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the sense that gambling was, for all intents and purposes, "the other woman" in his relationship with Priscilla, and caused many of the same problems that a mistress might.)
**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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**In a conversation with Jack Kramer, Billie points out that while Bobby Riggs plays up his chauvinism for [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]] and [[AttentionWhore attention]], Jack, who genuinely does not consider himself to be a sexist, is actually a lot worse.
**Zigzagged with Bobby Riggs. He is a self-described "chauvinist pig" who openly mocks women's sports and female athletes, but he is also shown to have a genuinely loving relationship with his wife and is a much more affectionate and involved father to his young son than many men of his generation. He also [[GracefulLoser congratulates Billie Jean on her win and admits that he underestimated her]] after their match.
**In a conversation with Jack Kramer, Billie points out that while Bobby Riggs plays up his chauvinism for [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]] and [[AttentionWhore attention]], Jack, who genuinely does not consider himself to be a sexist, is actually a lot worse.
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** Rosie Casals was also an extremely skilled tennis player and champion of equal pay for women in sports. Additionally, she was one of very few Latina women playing professional tennis in the U.S. in TheSeventies. [[AwesomeMoments She also made brightly-colored tennis dresses her signature after she was nearly excluded from Wimbledon for not wearing white.]] (The requirement that players had to wear all white at Wimbledon continued, and continued to be protested by female players, into the 21st century.)
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** Rosie Casals was also an extremely skilled tennis player and champion of equal pay for women in sports. Additionally, she was one of very few Latina women playing professional tennis in the U.S. in TheSeventies. [[AwesomeMoments She also made brightly-colored tennis dresses her signature after she was nearly excluded from Wimbledon for not wearing white.]] white. (The requirement that players had to wear all white at Wimbledon continued, and continued to be protested by female players, into the 21st century.)
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** Rosie Casals was also an extremely skilled tennis player and champion of equal pay for women in sports. Additionally, she was one of very few Latina women playing professional tennis in the U.S. in TheSeventies. [[MomentOfAwesome She also made brightly-colored tennis dresses her signature after she was nearly excluded from Wimbledon for not wearing white.]] (The requirement that players had to wear all white at Wimbledon continued, and continued to be protested by female players, into the 21st century.)
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**Rosie Casals was also an extremely skilled tennis player and champion of equal pay for women in sports. Additionally, she was one of very few Latina women playing professional tennis in the U.S. in TheSeventies. [[MomentOfAwesome She also made brightly-colored tennis dresses her signature after she was nearly excluded from Wimbledon for not wearing white.]] (The requirement that players had to wear all white at Wimbledon continued, and continued to be protested by female players, into the 21st century.)
**Gladys Heldman was the manager for the Original 9 and did a lot of the behind-the-scenes work to make the Virginia Slims Circuit happen. She was also a professional tennis player in TheForties and TheFifties, when female athletes got even less respect than they did in TheSeventies.
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**Rosie Casals was also an extremely skilled tennis player and champion of equal pay for women in sports. Additionally, she was one of very few Latina women playing professional tennis in the U.S. in TheSeventies. [[MomentOfAwesome She also made brightly-colored tennis dresses her signature after she was nearly excluded from Wimbledon for not wearing white.]] (The requirement that players had to wear all white at Wimbledon continued, and continued to be protested by female players, into the 21st century.)
**Gladys Heldman was the manager for the Original 9 and did a lot of the behind-the-scenes work to make the Virginia Slims Circuit happen. She was also a professional tennis player in TheForties and TheFifties, when female athletes got even less respect than they did in TheSeventies.
**Ted Tinling was a [[CampGay flamboyantly gay fashion designer]] who also happened to be a WWII veteran and former spy.
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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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* ButNotTooGay: Nicely averted with Billie and Marilyn's steamy lovemaking. See Girl-on-Girl Is Hot below.
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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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* 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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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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* 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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* 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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* 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.
