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* NotSoDifferent: Doctor Murnau is an admirer of Kafka, seeing him as a symbol of 20th century progress that they both embody. Kafka rejects this, regarding Murnau's torturous experiments to understand the human mind as making him nothing more than a butcher.
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''Kafka'' is a 1991 film by Creator/StevenSoderbergh, starring Creator/JeremyIrons as Creator/FranzKafka, alongside Creator/IanHolm, Creator/AlecGuinness, Joel Grey and Creator/JeroenKrabbe.
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*ConspiracyTheorist: Kafka's opinion of the anarchists, at first.
-->'''Kafka''': ''You sit around, twisting the facts to suit your inbred theories. In my experience, the truth is not...that convenient."
-->'''Kafka''': ''You sit around, twisting the facts to suit your inbred theories. In my experience, the truth is not...that convenient."
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''Kafka'' is a 1991 film by Creator/StevenSoderbergh, starring Creator/JeremyIrons as Creator/FranzKafka, alongside Creator/IanHolm, Creator/AlecGuiness, Creator/AlecGuinness, Creator/JoelGrey and Creator/JeroenKrabbe.
*EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Castle. Nobody ''goes'' to the Castle unless summoned, and no one leaves.
*GigglingVillain: The Laughing Man is an especially nightmarish example, being a disfigured man who does nothing ''but'' giggle as he butchers men with his bare hands in the night.
*GigglingVillain: The Laughing Man is an especially nightmarish example, being a disfigured man who does nothing ''but'' giggle as he butchers men with his bare hands in the night.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Kafka's buffoonish assistants Oskar and Ludwig
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*ObstructiveBureaucrat: Naturally. The most obvious examples are Burgel (who really does turn out to be just a bureaucrat, with no connection to the conspiracy) and the more ominous Chief Clerk.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Kafka's buffoonish assistants Oskar andLudwigLudwig. [[spoiler:They're actually Murnau's assistants, but the bumbling seems to be genuine.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Kafka's buffoonish assistants Oskar and
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In 1919, Kafka (Irons) is a mild-mannered bureaucrat living in Prague. One day, his friend Eduard Raban dies in an apparent suicide. But was it really suicide? Don't be silly, of course it was murder. Trying to find out the truth and navigate the chaotic world he inhabits, Kafka gets involved with a resistance group that believes Raban was executed by the state and warns Kafka that he may be next!
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In 1919, Kafka (Irons) is a mild-mannered bureaucrat living in Prague. One day, his friend Eduard Raban dies in an apparent suicide. But was it really suicide? Don't be silly, of course it was murder. Trying to find out the truth and navigate the chaotic world he inhabits, Kafka gets involved with a resistance group that believes Raban was executed by the state and warns Kafka that he may be next!next.
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* BombThrowingAnarchists: The resistance is regarded as such by Doctor Murnau. Indeed, Kafka himself initially regards them as such, before he learns that the conspiracy is real. Admittedly, the fact that the resistance specializes in suitcase bombs doesn't do much to debunk the stereotype.
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In 1919, Kafka (Irons) is a mild-mannered bureaucrat living in Prague. One day, his friend Eduard Raban dies in an apparent suicide. But was it really suicide? Don't be silly, of course it was murder. Wanting Trying to find out the truth and navigate the chaotic world he inhabits, Kafka gets involved with a resistance group that's trying to expose that believes Raban was executed by the state.
state and warns Kafka that he may be next!
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In 1919, Kafka (Irons) is a mild-mannered bureaucrat living in Prague. One day, his friend Eduard Raban dies in an apparent suicide. But was it really suicide? Don't be silly, of course it was murder. Trying Wanting to find out the truth and navigate the chaotic world he inhabits, Kafka gets involved with a resistance group that's trying to expose the state.
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In 1919, Kafka (Irons) is a mild-mannered bureaucrat living in an early 20th-century European city.Prague. One day, his friend Eduard Raban dies in an apparent suicide. But was it really suicide? Don't be silly, of course it was murder. Trying to find out the truth and navigate the chaotic world he inhabits, Kafka gets involved with a resistance group that's trying to expose the state.
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Kafka (Irons) is a mild-mannered bureaucrat living in an early 20th-century European city trying city. One day, his friend Eduard Raban dies in an apparent suicide. But was it really suicide? Don't be silly, of course it was murder. Trying to find out the truth and navigate the chaotic world he inhabits. Along the way, he inhabits, Kafka gets involved with a resistance group that's trying to expose the state.
* LaResistance: The resistance group that Kafka gets involved with.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Kafka's buffoonish assistants Oskar and Ludwig
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* DieselPunk: Doctor Murnau's inventions have this aesthetic.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Doctor Murnau's gory death occurs off-screen, with us just seeing the blood trickle down.
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* MadScientist: Doctor Murnau, of course.
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-->'''Kafka:''' I've... tried to write nightmares, and you've... built one.\\
'''Murnau:''' You have your tools, I have mine.
'''Murnau:''' You have your tools, I have mine.
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* BiographyAClef: The movie shows the eponymous author as an UnluckyEverydude navigating an absurd system with many characters and tropes drawn from his short stories and novels presented as biographical experiences.
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* BiographyAClef: The movie shows the eponymous author as an UnluckyEverydude {{Everyman}} navigating an absurd system with many characters and tropes drawn from his short stories and novels presented as biographical experiences.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The [[TortureTechnician torture technician]] is gruesomely killed by his own device.
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* EvilGloating: Naturally, Doctor Murnau spends a lot of time chatting about his EvilPlan.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:The [[TortureTechnician torture technician]] Doctor Murnau is gruesomely killed by his own device.device.
* IndividualityIsIllegal: Doctor Murnau's goal is to eliminate individuality.
-->''"A crowd is easier to control than an individual. A crowd has a common purpose. The purpose of the individual is always in question."''
* MostWritersAreWriters: Justified in this case, although Kafka being a writer has little bearing on the storyline. Well, other than the fact that it's based on Kafka's works, of course.
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* IndividualityIsIllegal: Doctor Murnau's goal is to eliminate individuality.
-->''"A crowd is easier to control than an individual. A crowd has a common purpose. The purpose of the individual is always in question."''
* MostWritersAreWriters: Justified in this case, although Kafka being a writer has little bearing on the storyline. Well, other than the fact that it's based on Kafka's works, of course.
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* TortureTechnician: Ian Holm plays a frail functionary in a dystopian bureaucracy. He's ultimately [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoisted by his own petard]] when one of his subjects breaks loose of his restraints]].
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* NotSoDifferent: Doctor Murnau is an admirer of Kafka, seeing him as a symbol of 20th century progress that they both embody. Kafka rejects this, regarding Murnau's torturous experiments to understand the human mind as making him nothing more than a butcher.
* TortureTechnician: Ian Holm plays Doctor Murnau, a frail functionary in a dystopian bureaucracy. He's ultimately [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoisted by his own petard]] when one of his subjects breaks loose of his restraints]].
* TortureTechnician: Ian Holm plays Doctor Murnau, a frail functionary in a dystopian bureaucracy. He's ultimately [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoisted by his own petard]] when one of his subjects breaks loose of his restraints]].
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''Kafka'' is a 1991 film by Creator/StevenSoderbergh, starring Creator/JeremyIrons as Creator/FranzKafka.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BiographyAClef: The movie shows the eponymous author as an UnluckyEverydude navigating an absurd system with many characters and tropes drawn from his short stories and novels presented as biographical experiences.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: All the scenes in the old city are shot in black and white. When Kafka enters the castle through a secret passage in the climax, the scenes shift to color and back to black and white again when he leaves.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The [[TortureTechnician torture technician]] is gruesomely killed by his own device.
* TortureTechnician: Ian Holm plays a frail functionary in a dystopian bureaucracy. He's ultimately [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoisted by his own petard]] when one of his subjects breaks loose of his restraints]].
* VastBureaucracy: The movie invokes this, based on the various bureaucracies in Kafka's own writing.
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''Kafka'' is a 1991 film by Creator/StevenSoderbergh, starring Creator/JeremyIrons as Creator/FranzKafka.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BiographyAClef: The movie shows the eponymous author as an UnluckyEverydude navigating an absurd system with many characters and tropes drawn from his short stories and novels presented as biographical experiences.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: All the scenes in the old city are shot in black and white. When Kafka enters the castle through a secret passage in the climax, the scenes shift to color and back to black and white again when he leaves.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The [[TortureTechnician torture technician]] is gruesomely killed by his own device.
* TortureTechnician: Ian Holm plays a frail functionary in a dystopian bureaucracy. He's ultimately [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoisted by his own petard]] when one of his subjects breaks loose of his restraints]].
* VastBureaucracy: The movie invokes this, based on the various bureaucracies in Kafka's own writing.
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