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* RedLightDistrict: While searching for Cathy, George prowls about porn shops, strip clubs and brothels in the seediest part of the city.

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* RedLightDistrict: While searching for Cathy, George prowls about porn shops, strip clubs and brothels in the seediest part parts of the city.east London.
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*TotallyNotACriminalFront: Mortwell boasts to George that all of his businesses are aboveboard and legal. What he really means is that his bars and sex shops are the legal front for his actual operations.
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* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Mortwell boasts to George that all of his businesses are aboveboard and legal. What he really means is that his bars and sex shops are the legal front for his actual operations.
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*RedLightDistrict: While searching for Cathy, George prowls about porn shops, strip clubs and brothels in the seediest part of the city.
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* TitleDrop: Not in the screenplay, but in the soundtrack song, as well as Thomas's fridge magnet of da Vinci's painting.

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* TitleDrop: Not in spoken by any of the screenplay, characters, but in the soundtrack song, as well as Thomas's fridge magnet of da Vinci's painting.
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* TitleDrop: Not in the screenplay, but in the soundtrack song and in Thomas's fridge magnet of da Vinci's painting.

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* TitleDrop: Not in the screenplay, but in the soundtrack song and in song, as well as Thomas's fridge magnet of da Vinci's painting.
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* TitleDrop: Not in the screenplay, but in the soundtrack song and in Thomas's fridge magnet of da Vinci's painting.
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* LondonGangster: George is a low-level gangster. Denny Mortwell, his boss, is a much more powerful and vicious one.

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* LondonGangster: George is a low-level gangster.gangster, or rather a lackey to one. Denny Mortwell, his boss, is a much more powerful and vicious one.
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For the painting, see Art/TheMonaLisa.

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For the painting, painting by Creator/LeonardDaVinci, see Art/TheMonaLisa.''Art/TheMonaLisa''.

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* NiceGuy: Under his tough guy façade, George is a kind man whose temperament is completely out of place in the sleazy, amoral criminal underworld where he's found himself through a combination of bad luck and bad choices.

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* NiceGuy: NiceGuy:
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Under his tough guy façade, George is a kind man whose temperament is completely out of place in the sleazy, amoral criminal underworld where he's found himself through a combination of bad luck and bad choices.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Thomas has aspects of this, decorating his place with plastic spaghetti and other dubious "artwork" and obsessing over pulp crime novels.

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* CloudCuckooLander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Thomas has aspects of this, decorating his place with plastic spaghetti and other dubious "artwork" and obsessing over pulp crime novels.
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* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Mortwell boasts to George that all of his businesses are aboveboard and legal. What he really means is that his bars and sex shops are the legal front for his actual operations.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Mortwell seems friendly enough, but the moment you cross him he shows his true colors.

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* FauxAffablyEvil: Mortwell is gregarious and seems friendly enough, but the moment you cross him him, even over a seemingly trivial matter, he shows his true colors.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Thomas has aspects of this, decorating his place with plastic spaghetti and other dubious "artwork" and obsessing over pulp crime novels.

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: CloudCuckooLander: Thomas has aspects of this, decorating his place with plastic spaghetti and other dubious "artwork" and obsessing over pulp crime novels.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Mortwell seems friendly enough, but the moment you cross him he shows his true colors.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: In-universe, one of Cathy's Johns is playing a beautiful duet from Music/GiacomoPuccini's ''La Boheme'' while performing a depraved sexual act on Cathy. We also see paraphernalia from heroin use lying on the table.

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* SoundtrackDissonance: In-universe, as one of Cathy's Johns is playing performs a depraved sexual act on her (involving insertions of his gloved hand), he has a beautiful love duet from Music/GiacomoPuccini's ''La Boheme'' while performing a depraved sexual act ''Madama Butterfly'' playing on Cathy. his turntable. We also see paraphernalia from heroin use lying on the his table.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: In-universe, one of Cathy's Johns is playing a beautiful duet from Music/GiacomoPuccini's ''Tosca'' while performing a depraved sexual act on Cathy. We also see paraphernalia from heroin use lying on the table.

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* SoundtrackDissonance: In-universe, one of Cathy's Johns is playing a beautiful duet from Music/GiacomoPuccini's ''Tosca'' ''La Boheme'' while performing a depraved sexual act on Cathy. We also see paraphernalia from heroin use lying on the table.
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--->'''Thomas''': What's this, George?
---<'''George''': It's a rabbit.

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--->'''Thomas''': -->'''Thomas''': What's this, George?
---<'''George''': -->'''George''': It's a rabbit.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Two midgets on the boardwalk fight and kick each other mimicking George's fight with Anderson.


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* MathematiciansAnswer: Thomas asks George what the white rabbit is for in a figurative way and gets a very literal answer:
--->'''Thomas''': What's this, George?
---<'''George''': It's a rabbit.


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* NoodleIncident: We know that George spent seven years in prison and basically took the fall for Mortwell, but we never find out what he did. To serve a sentence of seven years, it must have been something relatively serious.


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* SoundtrackDissonance: In-universe, one of Cathy's Johns is playing a beautiful duet from Music/GiacomoPuccini's ''Tosca'' while performing a depraved sexual act on Cathy. We also see paraphernalia from heroin use lying on the table.


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While things seemed to work out OK for George after the shooting, we never find out what became of Simone - was she imprisoned for murder, or did she beat the rap by making a (reasonable) case for self-defense?
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''Mona Lisa'' is a British neo-noir crime-drama film released in 1986 directed by Creator/NeilJordan and starring Creator/BobHoskins, Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/RobbieColtrane. George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.

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''Mona Lisa'' is a British neo-noir crime-drama film released in 1986 directed by Creator/NeilJordan and starring Creator/BobHoskins, Creator/CathyTyson, Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/RobbieColtrane. George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
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* LondonGangster: George is a low-level gangster. Denny Mortwell, his boss, is a more vicious one.

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* LondonGangster: George is a low-level gangster. Denny Mortwell, his boss, is a much more powerful and vicious one.
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: George falls in love with Simone. She doesn't reciprocate his feelings, partly due to IncompatibleOrientation. In fact, in their final scene together, Simone makes her lack of feelings quite clear - by pointing a gun at George.
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* {{CloudCuckooLander}}: Thomas has aspects of this, decorating his place with plastic spaghetti and other dubious "artwork" and obsessing over pulp crime novels.

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* {{CloudCuckooLander}}: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Thomas has aspects of this, decorating his place with plastic spaghetti and other dubious "artwork" and obsessing over pulp crime novels.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Thomas has aspects of this, decorating his place with plastic spaghetti and other dubious "artwork" and obsessing over pulp crime novels.

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: {{CloudCuckooLander}}: Thomas has aspects of this, decorating his place with plastic spaghetti and other dubious "artwork" and obsessing over pulp crime novels.

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