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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son."'']]
-> ''"Opera tonight. ''[[Theatre/{{Faust}} The Damnation of Faust]]''. Man sells his soul to the devil, it all ends in tears.\\
These arrangements usually do."''
-> ''"Opera tonight. ''[[Theatre/{{Faust}} The Damnation of Faust]]''. Man sells his soul to the devil, it all ends in tears.\\
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->''"You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.
-> ''"Opera tonight. ''[[Theatre/{{Faust}} The Damnation of Faust]]''. Man sells his soul to the devil, it all ends in tears.\\
These arrangements usually do.
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''Layer Cake'' is a clever, character-driven take on the classic gangster flick, rounded out by a brief romance, {{black comedy}}, genuinely unexpected twists, and an [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} overload of Britishisms]].
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''Layer Cake'' (2004) is a British crime film directed by Creator/MatthewVaughn, and [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on a novel]] by J.J. Connolly.
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film directed by Creator/MatthewVaughn, and [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on a novel]] by J.J. Connolly.
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* BadassMustache: Jimmy and Gene's thug Mickey, the man who kills [[spoiler:The Duke and Slasher]], has a well-groomed mustache.
* BrokenPedestal: The narrator, Gene, and Morty view Jimmy with deep respect and loyalty right up until [[spoiler:they hear the tape where Jimmy sells information about their friends to the police for money. He also offends Morty with a racist slur, mocks Gene as DumbMuscle, and expresses contempt for the narrator while trying to get him arrested.]]
--> [Gene's] listening to the geezer he was devoted to for twenty years [[spoiler:selling information Gene's told him in confidence to [The police]] and not only that, belittling him, talking about him like he's a fuckin dog.
* ChekhovsGun:
** The gun Gene gives the narrator is a literal example. The narrator uses it to [[spoiler:kill Jimmy]], assuming that it will be untraceable. It turns out that [[spoiler:Gene used the gun to kill a [[ChekhovsGunman briefly mentioned]] PosthumousCharacter. When the police reveal that the same gun was used in both murders, Gene realizes that the narrator killed Jimmy.]]
** In the book, a bunch of rejected sex toys for Mortimer's money-laundering porn shop become unexpectedly important when [[spoiler:the gang accidentally takes the boxes contains those sex toys to their drug deal with Eddie while leaving behind the boxes with the drugs. This allows them to recoup their losses when Eddie steals the boxes they brought to him at gunpoint.]] This is averted in the movie, where [[spoiler:the gang knows that Eddie will double-cross them from the start, bring the right boxes, and then have the Liverpool gang ambush Eddie's men as they take the drugs away.]]
--> [Gene's] listening to the geezer he was devoted to for twenty years [[spoiler:selling information Gene's told him in confidence to [The police]] and not only that, belittling him, talking about him like he's a fuckin dog.
* ChekhovsGun:
** The gun Gene gives the narrator is a literal example. The narrator uses it to [[spoiler:kill Jimmy]], assuming that it will be untraceable. It turns out that [[spoiler:Gene used the gun to kill a [[ChekhovsGunman briefly mentioned]] PosthumousCharacter. When the police reveal that the same gun was used in both murders, Gene realizes that the narrator killed Jimmy.]]
** In the book, a bunch of rejected sex toys for Mortimer's money-laundering porn shop become unexpectedly important when [[spoiler:the gang accidentally takes the boxes contains those sex toys to their drug deal with Eddie while leaving behind the boxes with the drugs. This allows them to recoup their losses when Eddie steals the boxes they brought to him at gunpoint.]] This is averted in the movie, where [[spoiler:the gang knows that Eddie will double-cross them from the start, bring the right boxes, and then have the Liverpool gang ambush Eddie's men as they take the drugs away.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: While surviving and leaving England in the book, the protagonist is implied to die in the movie]].
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* DeathByAdaptation: DeathByAdaptation:
** [[spoiler: While surviving and leaving England in the book, the protagonist is implied to die in themovie]].movie]].
** In the book, [[spoiler:Mr. Lucky the sniper isn't shot by the Serbians sniper. Instead, he accidentally shoots an InnocentBystander and his target escapes.]]
** The ambush that kills [[spoiler:Eddie's bodyguard Mr. Troop]] is original to the film.
** [[spoiler: While surviving and leaving England in the book, the protagonist is implied to die in the
** In the book, [[spoiler:Mr. Lucky the sniper isn't shot by the Serbians sniper. Instead, he accidentally shoots an InnocentBystander and his target escapes.]]
** The ambush that kills [[spoiler:Eddie's bodyguard Mr. Troop]] is original to the film.
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: In the book, the narrator describes his assistant Clarkie as coming from "one of those fuckin huge families that you just don't get anymore, not since the arrival of the pill anyway."
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Sidney is the Duke's nephew in the film but their just old friends in the book.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** [[spoiler:Terry]] dies in a random act of violence in the book's epilogue, but the film omits that, along with the rest of the epilogue.
** [[spoiler:Dragan]]'s book counterpart, [[spoiler:Klaus]], is killed offscreen by Gene's men, but he lives to [[spoiler:return to Serbia]] in the film.
** Freddie eventually dies from the effects of the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, in the book but seemingly survives in the film.
** [[spoiler:Terry]] dies in a random act of violence in the book's epilogue, but the film omits that, along with the rest of the epilogue.
** [[spoiler:Dragan]]'s book counterpart, [[spoiler:Klaus]], is killed offscreen by Gene's men, but he lives to [[spoiler:return to Serbia]] in the film.
** Freddie eventually dies from the effects of the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, in the book but seemingly survives in the film.
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* SuicideNotMurder: In the BackStory, Kilburn Jerry, a member of Mortimer's gang, committed suicide at a party (due to drug-induced delirium in the book and from the trauma of being raped by their leader, Crazy Larry, in the film). The rest of the gang panicked, feeling certain that the cops wouldn't believe the story of Jerry's suicide and would think that everyone at the party conspired to kill him. So they sent Morty to dispose of the body, and he was caught in the act. Ironically, the cops ''did'' accept the story behind Jerry's suicide, but Morty still went to prison for several years for unlawful disposal of a body.
* TantrumThrowing: In the book, Trevor spends a minute screaming obscenities and smashing furniture after hearing that the police seized three tons of marijuana that he'd bought.
* TantrumThrowing: In the book, Trevor spends a minute screaming obscenities and smashing furniture after hearing that the police seized three tons of marijuana that he'd bought.
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* WhamLine: The narrator listens to a tape that initially seems to feature [[spoiler:his boss Jimmy bribing a cop for information, then shows that Jimmy is ''selling'' information to the cop. The end of the tape even has him contemptuously attempt to sell out the narrator.]]
--> '''Detective Inspector Albie Carter:''' [T]here's only so much in those [[spoiler:informer funds]].
--> '''Detective Inspector Albie Carter:''' [T]here's only so much in those [[spoiler:informer funds]].
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The rest of the Liverpool gang say that they never really liked Mr. Lucky, their sniper, when [[spoiler:XXXX apologizes for how Lucky died while helping him.]]
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* NobleTopEnforcer: Jimmy is a {{Jerkass}} who [[spoiler:is ratting out his friends to the police and is willing to set up XXXX to get involved with people who may kill him.]] His right-hand man Gene is polite, has a sense of integrity, only becomes dangerous toward XXX when [[spoiler:he realizes XXXX killed Jimmy]], and ultimately forgives him after receiving an explanation.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: The co-leaders of the Liverpool gang are fairly chatty characters who are constantly in each other's company.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Marcel Iures plays a Serbian drug dealer (Slavo), yet, being a Romanian actor, he speaks Romanian with his crew.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Marcel Iures Iureș plays a Serbian drug dealer (Slavo), yet, being a Romanian actor, he speaks Romanian with his crew.
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* VolatileSecondTierPosition: As members of the upper echelons of Jimmy's organization, XXX, Gene and Morty all find themselves under pressure to keep their boss happy - including indulging some of his stranger requests. [[spoiler: It turns out XXX is due to be sold to the cops, assuming Jimmy's plan to use him as a scapegoat in the kidnapping of Charlotte Temple doesn't end up getting him killed first; as Mr Troop's audio recording reveals, Jimmy is similarly dismissive of Gene and Morty.]]
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* VolatileSecondTierPosition: As members of the upper echelons of Jimmy's organization, XXX, XXXX, Gene and Morty all find themselves under pressure to keep their boss happy - including indulging some of his stranger requests. [[spoiler: It turns out XXX XXXX is due to be sold to the cops, assuming Jimmy's plan to use him as a scapegoat in the kidnapping of Charlotte Temple doesn't end up getting him killed first; as Mr Troop's audio recording reveals, Jimmy is similarly dismissive of Gene and Morty.]]
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* PreAssKickingOneLiner: “Let’s make it ten. Ten’s... a nice... round number.”
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* BalkanBastard: The Serbian gangsters are the most dangerous criminals in the film, certainly more so than the stupid Cockney gangsters who made the mistake of robbing them.
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'''Eddie:''' They're too long in the tooth to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge rampage round the country looking for revenge.]] Look at them. Bunch of underendowed, aging fuck-pigs.\\
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** The members of Duke's remaining gang drop their weapons and make a run for the backdoor when the Police storms the warehouse.
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* FourOneNineScam: Jimmy Price lost his fortune in a far more elaborate version: a Foreign Minister from some unnamed African country came to the UK shopping for investors, boasting of the country's vast mineral reserves and promising huge returns. He didn't mention that the country's communist insurgents were poised to overthrow the current regime, so he just stashed all his gains in his SwissBankAccount and broke off all contact with his investors.
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* PillowSilencer: Gene reveals in a flashback that he assassinated Crazy Larry this way.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Both used and subverted: after XXXX and his crew finally deliver the ecstasy pills to [[MagnificentBastard Eddie Temple]], all of them are rather surprised when the payment of three million pounds is replaced with [[spoiler: membership to a very exclusive gentleman's club]] and enforced at gunpoint. Eddie explains himself very frankly to XXXX in his office, before turning the ReasonYouSuckSpeech into a very memorable [[WeCanRuleTogether Welcome To The Business]] lecture:
-->'''Eddie:''' You and [[SmugSnake Jimmy]] have caused [[SpoiledSweet my little angel Charlotte]] considerable anxiety: she's off to Arizona for a course of intense treatment. I'm keeping those pills for myself, by way of compensation. I think I'm entitled. Simple. End of. The amount of trouble you've caused the last few days.... Jimmy. [[AlasPoorVillain Poor little Jimmy.]] It would be in your interests if this thing finishes here, now, today. Understand?\\
-->'''Eddie:''' You and [[SmugSnake Jimmy]] have caused [[SpoiledSweet my little angel Charlotte]] considerable anxiety: she's off to Arizona for a course of intense treatment. I'm keeping those pills for myself, by way of compensation. I think I'm entitled. Simple. End of. The amount of trouble you've caused the last few days.... Jimmy. [[AlasPoorVillain Poor little Jimmy.]] It would be in your interests if this thing finishes here, now, today. Understand?\\
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Both used and subverted: after After XXXX and his crew finally deliver the ecstasy pills to [[MagnificentBastard Eddie Temple]], all of them are rather surprised when the payment of three million pounds is replaced with [[spoiler: membership to a very exclusive gentleman's club]] and enforced at gunpoint. Eddie explains himself very frankly to XXXX in his office, before turning the ReasonYouSuckSpeech into a very memorable [[WeCanRuleTogether Welcome To The Business]] lecture:
-->'''Eddie:''' You and [[SmugSnake Jimmy]] have caused[[SpoiledSweet my little angel Charlotte]] Charlotte considerable anxiety: she's off to Arizona for a course of intense treatment. I'm keeping those pills for myself, by way of compensation. I think I'm entitled. Simple. End of. The amount of trouble you've caused the last few days....days... Jimmy. [[AlasPoorVillain Poor little Jimmy.]] It would be in your interests if this thing finishes here, now, today. Understand?\\
-->'''Eddie:''' You and [[SmugSnake Jimmy]] have caused
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* VolatileSecondTierPosition: As members of the upper echelons of Jimmy's organization, XXX, Gene and Morty all find themselves under pressure to keep their boss happy - including indulging some of his stranger requests. [[spoiler: It turns out XXX is due to be sold to the cops, assuming Jimmy's plan to use him as a scapegoat in the kidnapping of Charlotte Temple doesn't end up getting him killed first; as Mr Troop's audio recording reveals, Jimmy is similarly dismissive of Gene and Morty.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Narrowly avoided. [[spoiler: After XXXX kills Jimmy, Gene nearly beats him to death until Monty stops him long enough for XXXX to explain Jimmy was an informant. After being presented taped evidence by a bloodied XXXX, Gene sheepishly relents.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Narrowly avoided. [[spoiler: After XXXX kills Jimmy, Gene nearly beats him to death until Monty Morty stops him long enough for XXXX to explain Jimmy was an informant. After being presented taped evidence by a bloodied XXXX, Gene sheepishly relents.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Narrowly avoided. [[spoiler: After XXXX kills Jimmy, Gene nearly beats him to death until Monty stops him long enough for XXXX to explain Jimmy was an informant. After being presented taped evidence by a bloodied XXXX, Gene sheepishly relents.]]
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* GangstaStyle: Done by the Duke's gang. Probably an instance where the people doing this were supposed to look stupid.
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* {{Filth}}: A bunch of wannabe gangsters from The Duke's gang are shown watching a porn film while guarding a batch of stolen ecstacy pills in a warehouse.
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* SmugSnake: Jimmy Price sees himself as a criminal mastermind, but he's actually [[spoiler:an informant for the police who's only managed to stay out of handcuffs by selling out his associates, and is also setting up XXXX to either kidnap Eddie Temple's daughter or get killed in the process. He's also prone to paranoia and temper tantrums when things stop going his way.]]
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* SmugSnake: Jimmy Price sees himself as a criminal mastermind, but he's actually [[spoiler:an informant for the police who's only managed to stay out of handcuffs by selling out his associates, and is also setting up XXXX to either kidnap Eddie Temple's daughter or get killed in the process. ]] He's also prone to paranoia and temper tantrums when things stop going his way.]]
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* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Eddie Temple uses this scare tactic against XXXX. His henchmen kidnap XXXX from his apartment and then hang him from the roof of a high-rise building to soften him up.
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* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Eddie Temple uses this scare tactic against XXXX. His henchmen kidnap XXXX from his apartment and then hang him from the roof of a high-rise building to soften him up. They don't want any information from XXXX in particular however, as Temple had already figured out everything.
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* GunStripping: Gene does this when showing X his collection of guns. X remarks that he bets Gene could do this blindfolded, and Gene replies that he has done so.
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* DepravedHomosexual: Crazy Larry, who only appears in a flashback set during TheSeventies, had a penchant for raping and murdering other men. [[spoiler:This directly led to his death, as Gene killed him on Jimmy's orders, both men being too disgusted with Crazy Larry's behavior.]]
-->'''Crazy Larry''': "Fucking females is for poofs."
-->'''Crazy Larry''': "Fucking females is for poofs."
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* SmugSnake: Jimmy Price sees himself as a criminal mastermind, but he's actually [[spoiler:an informant for the police who's only managed to stay out of handcuffs by selling out his associates, and is also setting up XXXX to either kidnap Eddie Temple's daughter or get killed in the process. He's also prone to paranoia and temper tantrums when things stop going his way.]]
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* WhamShot: At the end, it's revealed that the ecstacy pills stolen by the Duke and his gang was only a fraction of the output produced by the Serbian operation, as their warehouse houses a full-scale industrial production room behind another door.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Eddie Temple (Eddie Ryder in the novel).
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* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: XXXX is going to meet his girlfriend at a hotel rendezvous when he gets abducted by a DiabolicalMastermind gangster, and at the end of their "interview", he's casually dropped off at his home, which the other guy wouldn't know unless he'd been keeping close tabs on him.
** PlayedForLaughs when XXXX is being threatened by a Serbian gangster; he acts intimidated and agrees to meet him where he lives, "Do you know where that is?" When the Serbian says no, XXXX hangs up on him.
** PlayedForLaughs when XXXX is being threatened by a Serbian gangster; he acts intimidated and agrees to meet him where he lives, "Do you know where that is?" When the Serbian says no, XXXX hangs up on him.
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** XXXX is going to meet his girlfriend at a hotel rendezvous when he gets abducted by a DiabolicalMastermind gangster, and at the end of their "interview", he's casually dropped off at his home, which the other guy wouldn't know unless he'd been keeping close tabs on him.
** PlayedForLaughs when XXXX is being threatened by a Serbian gangster; he acts intimidated and agrees to meet him where he lives, then asks "Do you know where thatis?" is?". When the Serbian says no, XXXX hangs up on him.
** XXXX is going to meet his girlfriend at a hotel rendezvous when he gets abducted by a DiabolicalMastermind gangster, and at the end of their "interview", he's casually dropped off at his home, which the other guy wouldn't know unless he'd been keeping close tabs on him.
** PlayedForLaughs when XXXX is being threatened by a Serbian gangster; he acts intimidated and agrees to meet him where he lives, then asks "Do you know where that
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* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: The Scouse gangsters have a hitman on staff who unnervingly is always wearing headphones; [[CrowningMomentOfFunny turns out he's learning French for a class and is hilariously bad at it]].
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* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: The Scouse gangsters have a hitman on staff who unnervingly is always wearing headphones; [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments turns out he's learning French for a class and is hilariously bad at it]].
