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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite being a ContractHitman, Cheech flatly stated he never killed anyone who didn't deserve it.
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* LadyDrunk: Helen Sinclair. When she orders to two strong drinks, David asks how she knew what his favorite drink.drink was. She reacts by saying, "You want one, too?" and orders a third.
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* SassyBlackWoman: Venus.
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* CentralTheme: Great artists have their own moral code, and the greater the artist, the more amoral they get.
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* GargleBlaster: Helen at one point drinks what she calls "paint thinner" from a flask. From David's reaction, it's unclear whether it really ''is'' paint thinner or not.[[note]]Paint thinner contains some alcohol content, but can be ''poisonous''.[[/note]]
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* BadBadActing: Olive, and it's not an InformedFlaw. We get to see how bad she is - '''HA!'''[[note]][[{{Irony}} Ironically]], the role earned Jennifer Tilly an Oscar, and she might have won but her castmate (Weist) won instead.[[/note]]
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* BadBadActing: Olive, and it's not an InformedFlaw. We get to see how bad she is - '''HA!'''[[note]][[{{Irony}} Ironically]], the role earned Jennifer Tilly an Oscar, Oscar nomination, and she might have won but her castmate (Weist) won instead.[[/note]]
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* BadBadActing: Olive, and it's not an InformedFlaw. We get to see how bad she is - '''HA!'''[[note]][[{{Irony}} Ironically]], the role earned Jennifer Tilly and Oscar, and she might have won but her castmate (Weist) won instead.[[/note]]
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* BadBadActing: Olive, and it's not an InformedFlaw. We get to see how bad she is - '''HA!'''[[note]][[{{Irony}} Ironically]], the role earned Jennifer Tilly and an Oscar, and she might have won but her castmate (Weist) won instead.[[/note]]
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* BadBadActing: Olive, and it's not an InformedFlaw. We get to see how bad she is - '''HA!''' [[{{Irony}} '''HA!'''[[note]][[{{Irony}} Ironically]], the role earned Jennifer Tilly and Oscar, and she might have won but her castmate (Weist) won instead.[[/note]]
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* BadBadActing: Olive, and it's not an InformedFlaw. We get to see how bad she is - '''HA!''''''HA!''' [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], the role earned Jennifer Tilly and Oscar, and she might have won but her castmate (Weist) won instead.
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-->'''Sid:''' You're a star because you're great and you are a great star, but let me tell you something, Helen. In the last couple of years you're better known as an adulteress and a drunk. [[WithAllDueRespect And I say this in all due respect.]]\\
'''Helen:''' Look, I haven't had a drink since New Year's Eve.\\
'''Sid:''' You're talking Chinese New Year's.\\
'''Helen:''' ''Naturally.'' Still, that's two days, Sid! You know how long that is for me?
-->'''Sid:''' You're a star because you're great and you are a great star, but let me tell you something, Helen. In the last couple of years you're better known as an adulteress and a drunk. [[WithAllDueRespect And I say this in all due respect.]]\\
'''Helen:''' Look, I haven't had a drink since New Year's Eve.\\
'''Sid:''' You're talking Chinese New Year's.\\
'''Helen:''' ''Naturally.'' Still, that's two days, Sid! You know how long that is for me?
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*TheRoaringTwenties: Complete with flappers, bathtub gin, Prohibition gangsters fighting over territory with Tommy guns, and proto-beatniks in Greenwich Village.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: Invoked by Cheech on Olive's voice. [[spoiler: "Thank God I don't have to listen to her talk anymore."]]
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The rest of the cast is David's dream cast. He manages to persuade one-time legendary actress [[GrandeDame Helen Sinclair]] (Dianne Wiest in her second UsefulNotes/AcademyAward under Woody Allen) to play the lead role, but her overbearing personality and constant demand for script changes proves problematic. David also hires Warner Purcell (Jim Broadbent), an excellent performer with [[BigEater a serious eating addiction]].
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The rest of the cast is David's dream cast. He manages to persuade one-time legendary actress [[GrandeDame Helen Sinclair]] (Dianne Wiest (Creator/DianneWiest in her second UsefulNotes/AcademyAward under Woody Allen) to play the lead role, but her overbearing personality and constant demand for script changes proves problematic. David also hires Warner Purcell (Jim Broadbent), an excellent performer with [[BigEater a serious eating addiction]].
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Helen, though [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]].
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* ShoutOut: A rather subtle one, but the ShowWithinAShow is named "God of our Fathers", rather appropriate [[Film/TheGodfather for a movie revolving around gangsters who get into show biz]].
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* TakeThat: Nick Valenti, a mob boss so culturally barren he has no idea who or what ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is, is named after the head of AMPAS at the time, Jack Valenti.
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[[TheRoaringTwenties In the 1920s]], idealist playwright David Shayne (Creator/JohnCusack) moves to New York City to produce a play. He and his girlfriend Ellen (Mary-Louise Parker) fit in well enough in the show business world and David finds a mentor in Sheldon Flender (Rob Reiner), a bohemian artist who says that artists can get away with things normal people can't [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible because artists live in their own moral universe]].
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[[TheRoaringTwenties In the 1920s]], idealist playwright David Shayne (Creator/JohnCusack) moves to New York City to produce a play. He and his girlfriend Ellen (Mary-Louise Parker) fit in well enough in the show business world and David finds a mentor in Sheldon Flender (Rob Reiner), (Creator/RobReiner), a bohemian artist who says that artists can get away with things normal people can't [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible because artists live in their own moral universe]].
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* SapientPet: Eden seems to think her chihuahua is this.
-->'''Eden''': And to think I didn't believe you at first!
--> ''(said when Warner gets caught stealing her dog treats)''
-->'''Eden''': And to think I didn't believe you at first!
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* PrettyInMink: Olive, Eden and especially Helen Sinclair have some very nice looking furs.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: Invoked by Cheech on Olive's voice. [[spoiler: "Thank God I don't have to listen to her talk anymore."]]
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* BrickJoke: The musical cue of "Up A Lazy River" insures you know exactly what is going to happen to [[spoiler: Olive]]. It's still funny when it happens.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Flender asks early in the film if you could choose a great play over someone's life. [[spoiler: Cheech murders someone over making sure a play is great.]]
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-->'''Warner:''' Before we start...
-->'''Olive:''' Yeah?
-->''(Warner pulls a turkey leg out of his pocket and eats it)''
-->'''Olive:''' What? Oh. Just a... a little poultry. ''(giggles)''
-->'''Olive:''' Yeah?
-->''(Warner pulls a turkey leg out of his pocket and eats it)''
-->'''Olive:''' What? Oh. Just a... a little poultry. ''(giggles)''
