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Ambiguous Disorder has been renamed to Diagnosed By The Audience and now belongs in YMMV. There's not much context for me to move it there.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Something is clearly wrong with Dixon.
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* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Assaults do not warrant front page headlines, not even in small town weekly newspapers. The large image of a battered and bruiced football player making the headlines of a Los Angeles daily newspaper is a stretch.
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* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Assaults do not warrant front page headlines, not even in small town weekly newspapers. The large image of a battered and bruiced bruised football player making the headlines of a Los Angeles daily newspaper is a stretch.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: An UnbuiltTrope but the main reason the original ending of the book was changed by the director and writer was to avert this:
-->'''Nicholas Ray:''' I just couldn't believe the ending that Bundy (screenwriter Andrew Solt) and I had written... Romances don't have to end that way. Marriages don't have to end that way, they don't have to end in violence.
-->'''Nicholas Ray:''' I just couldn't believe the ending that Bundy (screenwriter Andrew Solt) and I had written... Romances don't have to end that way. Marriages don't have to end that way, they don't have to end in violence.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Dix Steele is a tragic accurate version of this, someone who's too paranoid and embittered to be around for a great deal of time.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Dix Steele is a tragic tragically accurate version of this, someone who's too paranoid and embittered to be around for a great deal of time.
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'''Dix:''' [[TakeThat The book was]] ''[[TakeThat trash]]!''
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'''Dix:''' [[TakeThat The book was]] ''[[TakeThat trash]]!'' trash!]]''
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'''Dix:''' [[TakeThat The book was ''trash'']]!
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'''Dix:''' [[TakeThat The book was ''trash'']]! was]] ''[[TakeThat trash]]!''
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* DownerEnding: While the killer is caught, his victim is still dead, and nothing can bring her back. Dixon has also driven away everyone close to him, even Laurel.
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* DownerEnding: While [[spoiler:While the killer is caught, his victim is still dead, and nothing can bring her back. Dixon has also driven away everyone close to him, even Laurel.]]
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'''Dix:''' The book was ''trash''!
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'''Dix:''' [[TakeThat The book was ''trash''! ''trash'']]!
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* LooseLips: At the beach Sylvia brings up Laurel's second visit to the police station which was supposed to stay a secret. Dix gets furious and storms off.
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* LooseLips: At the beach Sylvia brings up Laurel's second visit to the police station which was supposed to stay a secret. Dix gets furious and storms off. Happens a second time when Dix's ex Fran lets slip that [[spoiler:Laurel sent Dix's script in to the studio without telling him.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Written all over Dixon's face after he [[spoiler:stops himself from murdering Laurel at the last minute.]]
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Most of Laurel and Dix's relationship consists of this. It's lighthearted at first, but grows steadily darker as their relationship becomes more troubled.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the movie Dixon Steele, though violent, is only accused of being a murderer while in the book he is a serial killer and rapist. Ray changed this because he wanted Dixon and his psychological issues to have broader appeal and tone down the InsaneEqualsViolent nature of the original.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the movie Dixon Steele, though violent, having an unpredictable and violent temper, is only accused of being a murderer while in the book he is a serial killer and rapist. Ray changed this because he wanted Dixon and his psychological issues to have broader appeal and tone down the InsaneEqualsViolent nature of the original.
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-->'''Dix:''' You heard what he called me.
-->'''Laurel''': That doesn't justify acting like a madman.
-->'''Dix''': Nobody can call me the things he did.
-->'''Laurel''': A blind, knuckle-headed squirrel. [[SarcasmMode That's real bad]].
-->'''Laurel''': That doesn't justify acting like a madman.
-->'''Dix''': Nobody can call me the things he did.
-->'''Laurel''': A blind, knuckle-headed squirrel. [[SarcasmMode That's real bad]].
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-->'''Dix:''' You heard what he called me.
-->'''Laurel''':me.\\
'''Laurel:''' That doesn't justify acting like amadman.
-->'''Dix''':madman.\\
'''Dix:''' Nobody can call me the things hedid.
-->'''Laurel''':did.\\
'''Laurel:''' A blind, knuckle-headed squirrel. [[SarcasmMode That's real bad]].
-->'''Laurel''':
'''Laurel:''' That doesn't justify acting like a
-->'''Dix''':
'''Dix:''' Nobody can call me the things he
-->'''Laurel''':
'''Laurel:''' A blind, knuckle-headed squirrel. [[SarcasmMode That's real bad]].
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* HairTriggerTemper: Steele.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Steele. Steele's violent temper is his FatalFlaw.
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--> '''Nicholas Ray''': ''"I just couldn't believe the ending that Bundy (screenwriter Andrew Solt) and I had written... Romances don't have to end that way. Marriages don't have to end that way, they don't have to end in violence."''
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-->'''Mildred''': Before I worked at Paul's, I used to think actors made up their own lines.
-->'''Dix''': When they get to be big stars they usually do.
-->'''Dix''': When they get to be big stars they usually do.
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-->'''Dix''':
'''Dix:''' When they get to be big stars they usually do.
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* HorribleHollywood: In a way, what with Steele being a screenwriter with severe anger issues.
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* TheAlcoholic: Charlie, a washed-up actor, who seems to be the only person Dixon has any human feeling for.
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* FaceFramedInShadow: Dix is filmed this way for the scene where he spins out his theory of how the murder went down, when he gets ''way'' too enthusiastic with his description of the strangulation.
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* ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: The drunken ClassicallyTrainedExtra who stumbles down the stairs in Steele's apartment quotes from Shakespeare's [[http://shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/29.html Sonnet 29]].
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* ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: ShoutOutToShakespeare: The drunken ClassicallyTrainedExtra who stumbles down the stairs in Steele's apartment quotes from Shakespeare's [[http://shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/29.html Sonnet 29]].
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* AcquittedTooLate: [[spoiler:A variation; no judicial consequences are at stake. The real murderer turns himself in anticlimactically, but Laurel and Dix's relationship has already fallen apart.]]
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* AcquittedTooLate: [[spoiler:A A variation; no judicial consequences are at stake. The real murderer turns himself in anticlimactically, but Laurel and Dix's relationship has already fallen apart.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: While the killer is caught, his victim is still dead, and nothing can bring her back. Dixon has also driven away everyone close to him, even Laurel.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: While the killer is caught, his victim is still dead, and nothing can bring her back. Dixon has also driven away everyone close to him, even Laurel.]]
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut/ToShakespeare. The drunken ClassicallyTrainedExtra who stumbles down the stairs in Steele's apartment quotes from Shakespeare's [[http://shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/29.html Sonnet 29]].
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut/ToShakespeare. ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: The drunken ClassicallyTrainedExtra who stumbles down the stairs in Steele's apartment quotes from Shakespeare's [[http://shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/29.html Sonnet 29]].
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* FilmNoir: Dark atmosphere, constant suspicions, murder, HumphreyBogart... check.
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* FilmNoir: Dark atmosphere, constant suspicions, murder, HumphreyBogart...Creator/HumphreyBogart... check.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: While the killer is caught, his victim is still dead, and nothing can bring her back, Dixon has also driven away everyone close to him, even Laurel.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: While the killer is caught, his victim is still dead, and nothing can bring her back, back. Dixon has also driven away everyone close to him, even Laurel.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The couple who are SoHappyTogether break up despite being very much in love.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The couple who are SoHappyTogether break up despite being very much in love.While the killer is caught, his victim is still dead, and nothing can bring her back, Dixon has also driven away everyone close to him, even Laurel.]]
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Dixon Steele's attitude to the novel he's hired to adapt is a self-reference to Ray and screenwriter Andrew Holt's own feelings about Dorothy Hughes' original book. Steele's attempt to use the novel and write a more personal and meaningful story echoes Ray and Holt's attempts to take a pulp thriller and make something more intimate and personal.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the movie Dixon Steele, though violent, is only accused of being a murderer while in the book he is a serial killer and rapist.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the movie Dixon Steele, though violent, is only accused of being a murderer while in the book he is a serial killer and rapist. Ray changed this because he wanted Dixon and his psychological issues to have broader appeal and tone down the InsaneEqualsViolent nature of the original.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Dixon Steele is an embittered and disappointed man with an amazing capacity for self-destruction. By the end of the film, he ruins his friendships and the only good relationship he will ever have, and ends up all alone.
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* LackOfEmpathy: Dix clearly lacks empathy as demonstrated in his cool attitude towards Mildred's death.
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* LackOfEmpathy: The cops assume that Dix clearly lacks empathy as demonstrated in his cool attitude towards Mildred's death.death. However, in a scene after the investigation, Dix pays money to send flowers to Mildred's funeral, anonymously.
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--> ''"I just couldn't believe the ending that Bundy (screenwriter Andrew Solt) and I had written... Romances don't have to end that way. Marriages don't have to end that way, they don't have to end in violence."''
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--> '''Nicholas Ray''': ''"I just couldn't believe the ending that Bundy (screenwriter Andrew Solt) and I had written... Romances don't have to end that way. Marriages don't have to end that way, they don't have to end in violence."''
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: How different Dixon's life could have been with the help of therapy.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: How different Dixon's life could have been with the help of therapy. Nicholas Ray suggested that at the end, Dix might officially go seek help, implying that he had been too proud to go to a shrink before.
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* LackOfEmpathy: Dix clearly lacks empathy as demonstrated in his cool attitude towards Mildred's death.
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* GaussianGirl: Close-ups on Laurel often showing her out-of-focus.
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* GaussianGirl: Close-ups on Laurel often showing show her out-of-focus.
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* WagTheDirector: In-universe. Brought up in conversation early on:
-->'''Mildred ''': Before I worked at Paul's, I used to think actors made up their own lines.
-->'''Mildred ''': Before I worked at Paul's, I used to think actors made up their own lines.
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* WagTheDirector: In-universe. Brought In-universe example, brought up in conversation early on:
-->'''Mildred ''': -->'''Mildred''': Before I worked at Paul's, I used to think actors made up their own lines.
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->''"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me."''
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->''"I was born when she kissed me. \\
I died when she leftme. me.\\
I lived a few weeks while she loved me."''
I died when she left
I lived a few weeks while she loved me."''
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better covered under Adaptational Heroism
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* NotHisSled: In the original novel, [[spoiler:Steele is a murderer, in the film he isn't]].
