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[[caption-width-right:259: If it bleeds, it leads.]]
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* {{Novelization}}: By J.H. Marks. An audiobook version, read by Reg Green, was released as well.
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* NaiveNewcomer: Max's camerawoman Laurie is a recent hire and clearly unused to all the chicanery and amorality rampant in the media.
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* NaiveNewcomer: Max's camerawoman Laurie is a recent hire and clearly unused to all the chicanery and amorality rampant in the media.media.
* RecycledInSpace: The movie is ''Film/AceInTheHole'' updated to TV news and without most of the BlackComedy of the original.
* RecycledInSpace: The movie is ''Film/AceInTheHole'' updated to TV news and without most of the BlackComedy of the original.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Pretty much every reporter in the film are all totally amoral and perfectly willing to exploit innocent people while avoiding treading on the toes of the rich and powerful. The only exceptions are Max's camerawoman and NaiveNewcomer Jenny and - to a degree - Max himself, who genuinely aspires to be an IntrepidReporter regardless of his many failings and amorality.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Pretty much every reporter in the film are all totally amoral and perfectly willing to exploit innocent people while avoiding treading on the toes of the rich and powerful. The only exceptions are Max's camerawoman and NaiveNewcomer Jenny Laurie and - to a degree - Max himself, who genuinely aspires to be an IntrepidReporter regardless of his many failings and amorality.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Kevin Hollander is a resentful, callous prima donna who thinks nothing of destroying lives to get what he wants.
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* {{Jerkass}}: {{Jerkass}}:
** Max initially, though he gradually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** Kevin Hollander is a resentful, callous prima donna who thinks nothing of destroying lives to get what hewants.wants.
* NaiveNewcomer: Max's camerawoman Laurie is a recent hire and clearly unused to all the chicanery and amorality rampant in the media.
** Max initially, though he gradually becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** Kevin Hollander is a resentful, callous prima donna who thinks nothing of destroying lives to get what he
* NaiveNewcomer: Max's camerawoman Laurie is a recent hire and clearly unused to all the chicanery and amorality rampant in the media.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sam commits suicide rather than be arrested, and Max is left guilt-ridden knowing that he and his colleagues' exploitation of the hostage situation directly caused it.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sam commits suicide rather than be arrested, and Max is left guilt-ridden knowing that he and his colleagues' exploitation of the hostage situation directly caused it.]]]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Max gradually starts to care about Sam and starts doing his damnedest to try to help him, [[spoiler:though it ultimately isn't enough to make a difference.]]
* ImmoralJournalist: Pretty much every reporter in the film are all totally amoral and perfectly willing to exploit innocent people while avoiding treading on the toes of the rich and powerful. The only exceptions are Max's camerawoman and NaiveNewcomer Jenny and - to a degree - Max himself, who genuinely aspires to be an IntrepidReporter regardless of his many failings and amorality.
* IntrepidReporter: Max ''wants'' to be this very badly, and it's hinted he was in the past before Hollander ruined his career and set him on the path to becoming the amoral sell-out he is today.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kevin Hollander is a resentful, callous prima donna who thinks nothing of destroying lives to get what he wants.
* HeelFaceTurn: Max gradually starts to care about Sam and starts doing his damnedest to try to help him, [[spoiler:though it ultimately isn't enough to make a difference.]]
* ImmoralJournalist: Pretty much every reporter in the film are all totally amoral and perfectly willing to exploit innocent people while avoiding treading on the toes of the rich and powerful. The only exceptions are Max's camerawoman and NaiveNewcomer Jenny and - to a degree - Max himself, who genuinely aspires to be an IntrepidReporter regardless of his many failings and amorality.
* IntrepidReporter: Max ''wants'' to be this very badly, and it's hinted he was in the past before Hollander ruined his career and set him on the path to becoming the amoral sell-out he is today.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kevin Hollander is a resentful, callous prima donna who thinks nothing of destroying lives to get what he wants.
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''Mad City'' is a 1997 thriller directed by Creator/CostaGavras and starring Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/MiaKirshner, Creator/AlanAlda, Creator/TedLevine, and Creator/RobertProsky.
Down-and-out but ambitious reporter Max Brackett (Hoffman) is at a museum covering a story on recent layoffs and financial difficulties when Sam Baily (Travolta), a museum guard recently fired during the aforementioned layoffs, storms the building wielding a shotgun and a duffel bag full of dynamite. Baily semi-accidentally takes his former boss Mrs. Banks (Creator/BlytheDanner) and a group of children on a field trip hostage, and accidentally shoots and wounds a fellow guard (Creator/BillNunn). Brackett hides in the bathroom and, sensing a story, immediately begins reporting in the incident. When Baily discovers him, Brackett fast-talks him into allowing him to serve as an intermediary between him and the police and aiding him in keeping the hostage situation going on for as long as possible, for the sake of the unbelievable ratings the hostage situation is bringing Max's channel.
!!List of tropes applying to this film:
* AntiVillain: Sam Baily. He isn't particularly evil, just a desperate and not-too-bright man looking to provide for his family, and he treats the hostages very well. He only takes the museum hostage by total accident; he brought the shotgun to intimidate Banks and was locked in with the hostages when she initiated the lockdown sequence.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Sam ultimately chooses to kill himself by detonating the dynamite rather than be arrested by the police.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sam commits suicide rather than be arrested, and Max is left guilt-ridden knowing that he and his colleagues' exploitation of the hostage situation directly caused it.]]
''Mad City'' is a 1997 thriller directed by Creator/CostaGavras and starring Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/MiaKirshner, Creator/AlanAlda, Creator/TedLevine, and Creator/RobertProsky.
Down-and-out but ambitious reporter Max Brackett (Hoffman) is at a museum covering a story on recent layoffs and financial difficulties when Sam Baily (Travolta), a museum guard recently fired during the aforementioned layoffs, storms the building wielding a shotgun and a duffel bag full of dynamite. Baily semi-accidentally takes his former boss Mrs. Banks (Creator/BlytheDanner) and a group of children on a field trip hostage, and accidentally shoots and wounds a fellow guard (Creator/BillNunn). Brackett hides in the bathroom and, sensing a story, immediately begins reporting in the incident. When Baily discovers him, Brackett fast-talks him into allowing him to serve as an intermediary between him and the police and aiding him in keeping the hostage situation going on for as long as possible, for the sake of the unbelievable ratings the hostage situation is bringing Max's channel.
!!List of tropes applying to this film:
* AntiVillain: Sam Baily. He isn't particularly evil, just a desperate and not-too-bright man looking to provide for his family, and he treats the hostages very well. He only takes the museum hostage by total accident; he brought the shotgun to intimidate Banks and was locked in with the hostages when she initiated the lockdown sequence.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Sam ultimately chooses to kill himself by detonating the dynamite rather than be arrested by the police.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sam commits suicide rather than be arrested, and Max is left guilt-ridden knowing that he and his colleagues' exploitation of the hostage situation directly caused it.]]
