History Film / Micmacs

* {{Meganekko}}: Calculator.

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* CollectorOfTheStrange: One of the arms makers has a collection of the body parts of famous people, such as Creator/MarilynMonroe's molar and the heart of UsefulNotes/LouisXIV (I think), and he's trying to get UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini’s eye.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: One of the arms makers has a collection of the body parts of famous people, such as Marilyn Monroe's molar and the heart of Louis XIV (I think), and he's trying to get Mussolini’s eye.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath / HoistByHisOwnPetard: The two arms dealers' fate [[spoiler: not really, but the FateWorseThanDeath of being exposed on You Tube and losing the support of the government is just as bad.]]

* IncrediblyLamePun: "Focus our gays" / "focus our gaze."

* BadassResourceful: Practically the M.O. of [[GuileHero Bazil]] and [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits his compatriots]], making use of their [[ChekhovsSkill esoteric skillsets]], an [[ScavengedPunk ingenious series]] of [[RubeGoldbergDevice Rube Goldberg devices]] and a healthy dose of XanatosSpeedChess to take on De Fenouillet and Marconi.

* Woolseyim: In the original French the Elastic Woman asks Bazil "Do you want my photo? when she finds him staring at her in shock. In the English subtitles it is translated to "Have you seen a ghost?" which has roughly the same connotations.
* XanatosSpeedChess: "Plan B" [[spoiler: once Bazil is captured]] was probably just a variant of the original plan, but it's amazing how fast the scavengers were able to improvise it.

The film is about Bazil, a poor man whose father is killed by a landmine when he was a kid, and who gets a bullet in his brain during a shootout that happens outside the video store he's working in. The bullet isn't far enough in to kill him, but can't be removed without turning him into a vegetable, so he's released from the hospital with it still in his head, with the threat that it might kill him at any minute. Now homeless, he falls in with a band of scavengers who repair and re-sell junk to make a living. However, one day Bazil spots the logos of the two arms companies that made the mine that killed his father and the bullet that got stuck in his head. And then Bazil, helped out by his new friends, begins to plot revenge....

* EnemyCivilWar: Bazil's plan involves getting De Fenouillet and Marconi to fight each other, making them think that whatever he and the gang do is actually a scheme cooked up by one against the other. Eventually the two of them start retaliating against each other in earnest
* EngineeredPublicConfession: The whole point of the [[spoiler: "North African Holiday"]] is to get Marconi and De Fenouillet to do this

* GoodWithNumbers: Calculator's father was a surveyor and her mother was a seamstress. She can take your measurements with a glance, determine the exact length of a chimney by dropping a marble down it, and figure out the percentages of nutritional content in a soup by tasting it

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* OhCrap: the look on Marconi's face when he figures out the gang [[spoiler: tricked him and De Fenouillet into [[EngineeredPublicConfession Engineered Public Confessions]]]] is priceless

* RefugeInAudacity: When [[spoiler: he thinks]] he's been captured by vengeful North Africans, Marconi claims he's actually ''for'' terrorism

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Remington provides a variant of this trope, as he speaks entirely in idioms, making what he's trying to say take longer than if he just said it simply

* ShoutOut: One of the apartments Bazil eavesdrops on by mistake has the couple from {{Film/Delicatessen}} playing a Cello and Musical Saw duet.

* SoftWater: And it's a good thing for Buster, too

* VerbalTic: Remington speaks entirely in idiomatic phrases

* CollectorOfTheStrange: One of the arms makers has a collection of the body parts of famous people, such as Marilyn Monroe's molar and the heart of Louis XIV (I think), and he's trying to get Mousellini's eye.

''Micmacs à tire-larigot'' (or simply "Micmacs" in English) is a 2009 French film by famed director Creator/JeanPierreJeunet, director of ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren'', ''{{Amelie}}'', and ''Film/AVeryLongEngagement''.

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The film is about Bazil, a poor man whose father is killed by a landmine when he's a kid, and who gets a bullet in his brain during a shootout that happens outside the video store he's working in. The bullet isn't far enough in to kill him, but can't be removed without turning him into a vegetable, so he's released from the hospital with it still in his head, with the threat that it might kill him at any minute. Now homeless, he falls in with a band of scavengers who repair and re-sell junk to make a living. However, one day Bazil spots the logos of the two arms companies that made the mine that killed his father and the bullet that got stuck in his head. And then Bazil, helped out by his new friends, begins to plot revenge....

''Micmacs à tire-larigot'' (or simply "Micmacs" in English) is a 2009 French film by famed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren'', ''{{Amelie}}'', and ''Film/AVeryLongEngagement''.

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* VillanousBreakdown: Marconi is reduced to screaming incoherently when the stock price to his company crashes, he's threatened with a 15-year sentence, he loses custody of his son, and allegations of his relationship with the Prime Minister's wife start coming out.