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* PoliceAreUseless: The police go to a lot of time and effort to plant a bug in Costello's apartment. But only bother to hide it behind a curtain.
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* MeaningfulName: The main character's (not French at all) name, "Jef Costello", is a reference to both Robert Mitchum's character in the ''FilmNoir'' classic ''Out Of the Past'' and to famous American mobster Frank Costello ([[NamesTheSame NOT]], ''[[Film/TheDeparted that]]'' [[Creator/JackNicholson Frank Costello]])
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* MeaningfulName: The main character's (not French at all) name, "Jef Costello", is a reference to both Robert Mitchum's character in the ''FilmNoir'' classic ''Out Of the Past'' and to famous American mobster Frank Costello ([[NamesTheSame NOT]], ''[[Film/TheDeparted that]]'' [[Creator/JackNicholson Frank Costello]])Costello.
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** If all of this wasn't proof enough, Melville's intended ending for the movie was to show the already deceased Jef [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile joyfully smiling for the one and only time in this film]]. Stills of this scene can be easily found by googling.
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** If all of this wasn't proof enough, Melville's intended ending for the movie was to show the already deceased Jef [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile [[GoOutWithASmile joyfully smiling for the one and only time in this film]]. Stills of this scene can be easily found by googling.
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*** If all of this wasn't proof enough, Melville's intended ending for the movie was to show the already deceased Jef [[GoOutWithASmile joyfully smiling for the one and only time in this film]]. Stills of this scene can be easily found by googling.
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** If all of this wasn't proof enough, Melville's intended ending for the movie was to show
the deceased Jef [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile joyfully smiling for the one and only time in this film]]. Stills of this scene can be easily found by googling.
the deceased Jef [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile joyfully smiling for the one and only time in this film]]. Stills of this scene can be easily found by googling.
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** If all of this wasn't proof enough, Melville's intended ending for the movie was to show
the deceased Jef [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile joyfully smiling for the one and only time in this film]]. Stills of this scene can be easily found by googling.
the deceased Jef [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile joyfully smiling for the one and only time in this film]]. Stills of this scene can be easily found by googling.
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* FedoraOfAsskicking: Costello's. It's also how he's identified by some of the witnesses.
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* NiceHat: Costello's fedora hat. It's also how he's identified by some of the witnesses.
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''Le Samouraï'', known in the US as ''The Godson'' or ''Cop Out'' (no, not ''that'' CopOut), is a 1967 French crime thriller directed by Creator/JeanPierreMelville and starring Creator/AlainDelon. It follows a perfectionist hitman named Jef Costello as he sets up an alibi, performs a hit, and then tries to get away with it, all while staying true to his Bushido-like {{code of honor}}. He eventually finds himself on the run from both the police and [[ContractOnTheHitman his former employers]].
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''Le Samouraï'', known in the US as ''The Godson'' or ''Cop Out'' (no, not ''that'' CopOut), ''Film/CopOut''), is a 1967 French crime thriller directed by Creator/JeanPierreMelville and starring Creator/AlainDelon. It follows a perfectionist hitman named Jef Costello as he sets up an alibi, performs a hit, and then tries to get away with it, all while staying true to his Bushido-like {{code of honor}}. He eventually finds himself on the run from both the police and [[ContractOnTheHitman his former employers]].
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* WesternSamurai: Jef Costello is a French native hitman that follows the Bushido CodeOfHonour.
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* WesternSamurai: Jef Costello is a French native mob hitman that follows the Bushido CodeOfHonour.
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* AntiHero: Jef Costello is very much a [[NominalHero Type IV]]. He is a hitman who doesn't really do any heroic deeds throughout the story though he doesn't hurt any innocents and [[spoiler:does choose to protect his alibi rather than leave her to die]].
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''Le Samouraï'', known in the US as ''The Godson'' or ''Cop Out'' (no, not ''that'' CopOut), is a 1967 French Crime thriller directed by Creator/JeanPierreMelville and starring Creator/AlainDelon. It follows a perfectionist hitman named Jef Costello as he sets up an alibi, performs a hit, and then tries to get away with it, all while staying true to his Bushido-like {{code of honor}}. He eventually finds himself on the run from both the police and [[ContractOnTheHitman his former employers]].
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''Le Samouraï'', known in the US as ''The Godson'' or ''Cop Out'' (no, not ''that'' CopOut), is a 1967 French Crime crime thriller directed by Creator/JeanPierreMelville and starring Creator/AlainDelon. It follows a perfectionist hitman named Jef Costello as he sets up an alibi, performs a hit, and then tries to get away with it, all while staying true to his Bushido-like {{code of honor}}. He eventually finds himself on the run from both the police and [[ContractOnTheHitman his former employers]].
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''Le Samourai'' is famous for being one of the first films to deal with the existential hero, and for deconstructing many of the tropes of the crime thriller and assassin genres.
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''Le Samourai'' is famous for being one of the first films to deal with the existential hero, and for deconstructing [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing]] many of the tropes of the crime thriller and assassin genres.
* TheHeroDies: For a given value of "hero", Jef Costello takes a bullet for the nightclub singer, one of the bystanders that witnessed his killing spree.
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* TheRemake: A loose remake of the 1942 film noir ''Film/ThisGunForHire'' starring Creator/AlanLadd.
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* TheRemake: A loose remake of the 1942 American film noir ''Film/ThisGunForHire'' starring Creator/AlanLadd.
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* TheQuietOne: Jef Costello barely speaks throughout the film and it takes about 10 minutes for him to utter a single line of dialogue.
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* TheAlibi: Before performing a hit, Jef Costello sets up an alibi: he asks his mistress to pretend that he has spent the night with her. Just after the hit, he goes to his mistress's flat to bump into her boyfriend as he comes back home. Then he goes to an underground gambling parlour.
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* SuicideByCop: Seemingly Jef's plan in the end, as he goes back to the nightclub, goes right up to the piano player, points a gun at her, and is shot down by the cops--only for the detective in charge to take a look at Jef's gun and see that it isn't loaded. And we know he left it unloaded on purpose because the gun ''was'' loaded when he checked it before entering the nightclub.
