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''Domino'' is a 2005 action film directed by Creator/TonyScott, starring Creator/KeiraKnightley, Creator/MickeyRourke, and Creator/EdgarRamirez.
The movie dramatizes the life of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Harvey Domino Harvey]], the daughter of Hollywood film star Creator/LaurenceHarvey, who decided to become a bounty hunter after rejecting a StepfordSmiler life as a fashion model in Beverly Hills society. Arrested after a shoot-out in the UsefulNotes/LasVegas Stratosphere tower that left Domino the only survivor and apparently connected to an 10 million dollar armed robbery on an armored transport three days before, Domino chronicles her lifestory before a criminal psychologist.
Except for a dedication, the film does not mention that the actual Domino Harvey died of a drug overdose just a few months before the movie was released.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AsHimself: Creator/BrianAustinGreen and Creator/IanZiering appear as "those two guys from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''" in the Vegas sequence.
* BountyHunter: Domino Harvey. A case of TruthInTelevision, sort of.
* BoyishShortHair: As befitting a no-nonsense ActionGirl.
* CellPhonesAreUseless: At one point Domino is on the phone getting instructions, and thanks to poor reception she hears [[spoiler:"remove the sleeve from his upper right arm"]] as [[spoiler:"remove the right arm"]], with predictable results.
* DramaticGunCock: A dramatic conversation between Ed and Choco results in Choco cocking his revolver not once, but TWICE, despite the tension level never dropping to a point where the gun is ever, well, un-cocked. Some revolvers have an intermediate hammer position between fully down and fully cocked (hence "going off half-cocked"); it could be that Choco's revolver is one of those, or it could just be dramatic license.
* InterrogationFlashback: There are some featured in the movie including one featuring Domino as a little girl.
* JitterCam: The camerawork is incredibly jittery and disorienting. This became Creator/TonyScott's signature style towards the end of his career.
* MononymousBiopicTitle: Named after its protagonist, Domino Harvey.
* MonumentalDamage: A ballsy Vegas example has [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters a character sympathetic to Afghani rebels]] blow half the top off the Stratosphere Tower, which is a real 1,000+ foot observation needle. Then, TheHero falls down the elevator shaft in a cabin just like the ones used at the actual tower (though real ones don't have a speedometer on the floor counter). The whole scene was done with startling accuracy and the Stratosphere signed off on its name/identity being used all over the darn thing.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Domino is briefly shown being body shamed in a sorority initiation until she turns around to the sorority's resident AlphaBitch and asks "Have you ever had a nose job?" before punching her in the face.
* SassyBlackWoman: At one point there's a whole crew of bank-robbing sassy black women.
* SayMyNameTrailer: Imagine the phrase "My name is Domino Harvey" repeated about seventy times and you'll have a pretty good idea of what the trailer is like.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: A variation:
-->'''Domino Harvey:''' There are {{t|akeAThirdOption}}hree kinds of people in the world: the poor, the rich, [[TakeAThirdOption and everyone in between]].[[note]]Also a pretty useless observation. What she's literally saying is "[[CaptainObvious everybody fits]] ''[[CaptainObvious somewhere]]'' [[CaptainObvious in terms of wealth or lack thereof]]".[[/note]]
* UnderwearSwimsuit: During a pool party, everyone wears swimsuits except for Choco, who goes in his briefs
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Domino Harvey was a real person, but that's about it.
* VivaLasVegas: The movie ultimately concludes the main character's HowWeGotHere story through the desert with a gunfight in the Stratosphere, that ends up with a helicopter attacking the tower (eventually crashing into the resort below) and one of the protagonist's friends sacrificing himself to blow up the entire observation pod, causing Domino to rapidly fall down the shaft in an ElevatorFailure. The real tower was used instead of a generic knockoff, though the MonumentalDamage was of course CGI and an accurate recreation of the restaurant level. Didn't stop them from calling it BasedOnATrueStory, though.
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Domino defuses a MexicanStandoff by offering the gangsters' boss a lapdance.
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''Domino'' is a 2005 action film directed by Creator/TonyScott, starring Creator/KeiraKnightley, Creator/MickeyRourke, and Creator/EdgarRamirez.
The movie dramatizes the life of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Harvey Domino Harvey]], the daughter of Hollywood film star Creator/LaurenceHarvey, who decided to become a bounty hunter after rejecting a StepfordSmiler life as a fashion model in Beverly Hills society. Arrested after a shoot-out in the UsefulNotes/LasVegas Stratosphere tower that left Domino the only survivor and apparently connected to an 10 million dollar armed robbery on an armored transport three days before, Domino chronicles her lifestory before a criminal psychologist.
Except for a dedication, the film does not mention that the actual Domino Harvey died of a drug overdose just a few months before the movie was released.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AsHimself: Creator/BrianAustinGreen and Creator/IanZiering appear as "those two guys from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''" in the Vegas sequence.
* BountyHunter: Domino Harvey. A case of TruthInTelevision, sort of.
* BoyishShortHair: As befitting a no-nonsense ActionGirl.
* CellPhonesAreUseless: At one point Domino is on the phone getting instructions, and thanks to poor reception she hears [[spoiler:"remove the sleeve from his upper right arm"]] as [[spoiler:"remove the right arm"]], with predictable results.
* DramaticGunCock: A dramatic conversation between Ed and Choco results in Choco cocking his revolver not once, but TWICE, despite the tension level never dropping to a point where the gun is ever, well, un-cocked. Some revolvers have an intermediate hammer position between fully down and fully cocked (hence "going off half-cocked"); it could be that Choco's revolver is one of those, or it could just be dramatic license.
* InterrogationFlashback: There are some featured in the movie including one featuring Domino as a little girl.
* JitterCam: The camerawork is incredibly jittery and disorienting. This became Creator/TonyScott's signature style towards the end of his career.
* MononymousBiopicTitle: Named after its protagonist, Domino Harvey.
* MonumentalDamage: A ballsy Vegas example has [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters a character sympathetic to Afghani rebels]] blow half the top off the Stratosphere Tower, which is a real 1,000+ foot observation needle. Then, TheHero falls down the elevator shaft in a cabin just like the ones used at the actual tower (though real ones don't have a speedometer on the floor counter). The whole scene was done with startling accuracy and the Stratosphere signed off on its name/identity being used all over the darn thing.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Domino is briefly shown being body shamed in a sorority initiation until she turns around to the sorority's resident AlphaBitch and asks "Have you ever had a nose job?" before punching her in the face.
* SassyBlackWoman: At one point there's a whole crew of bank-robbing sassy black women.
* SayMyNameTrailer: Imagine the phrase "My name is Domino Harvey" repeated about seventy times and you'll have a pretty good idea of what the trailer is like.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: A variation:
-->'''Domino Harvey:''' There are {{t|akeAThirdOption}}hree kinds of people in the world: the poor, the rich, [[TakeAThirdOption and everyone in between]].[[note]]Also a pretty useless observation. What she's literally saying is "[[CaptainObvious everybody fits]] ''[[CaptainObvious somewhere]]'' [[CaptainObvious in terms of wealth or lack thereof]]".[[/note]]
* UnderwearSwimsuit: During a pool party, everyone wears swimsuits except for Choco, who goes in his briefs
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Domino Harvey was a real person, but that's about it.
* VivaLasVegas: The movie ultimately concludes the main character's HowWeGotHere story through the desert with a gunfight in the Stratosphere, that ends up with a helicopter attacking the tower (eventually crashing into the resort below) and one of the protagonist's friends sacrificing himself to blow up the entire observation pod, causing Domino to rapidly fall down the shaft in an ElevatorFailure. The real tower was used instead of a generic knockoff, though the MonumentalDamage was of course CGI and an accurate recreation of the restaurant level. Didn't stop them from calling it BasedOnATrueStory, though.
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Domino defuses a MexicanStandoff by offering the gangsters' boss a lapdance.
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