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* {{Deconstruction}}: The kindly lady volunteer from the church is a big fan of David's work, and she decides to take him out of the asylum and take care of him because she's moved by his mental state. [[{{Understatement}} She has absolutely no idea what she's signed up for.]]
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* RealityEnsues: The kindly lady volunteer from the church is a big fan of David's work, and she decides to take him out of the asylum and take care of him because she's moved by his mental state. [[{{Understatement}} She has absolutely no idea what she's signed up for.]]
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* DisposableFiance: We never even get Gillian's fiance's name, and it takes Gillian all of a scene to decide she'd rather marry David.
* FourthDateMarriage: It's not clear how much time Gillian and David spend together before he proposes to her, but regardless, they are dating ''none of that time'', because she is already engaged.
* FourthDateMarriage: It's not clear how much time Gillian and David spend together before he proposes to her, but regardless, they are dating ''none of that time'', because she is already engaged.
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* RealityEnsues: The kindly lady volunteer from the church is a big fan of David's work, and she decides to take him out of the asylum and take care of him because she's moved by his mental state. [[{{Understatement}} She has absolutely no idea what she's signed up for.]]
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Based somewhat on Helfgott's real life, it follows him through his formative years as he rehearses the piano and gets accepted to the Royal College of Music in London and his subsequent mental breakdown and years in institutions. It stars Creator/GeoffreyRush (as Helfgott), Lynn Redgrave (as [[spoiler:eventual wife]] Gillian), Armin Mueller-Stahl (as his father, Peter Helfgott) and Creator/NoahTaylor (as the teenage David).
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Based somewhat on Helfgott's real life, it follows him through his formative years as he rehearses the piano and gets accepted to the Royal College of Music in London and his subsequent mental breakdown and years in institutions. It stars Creator/GeoffreyRush (as Helfgott), Lynn Redgrave (as [[spoiler:eventual wife]] Gillian), Armin Mueller-Stahl (as his father, Peter Helfgott) and Creator/NoahTaylor (as the teenage David).
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* ChildProdigy / TeenGenius: David is such a good pianist as a child and teen that he gets offers from virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern to come and study in America.
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* MotorMouth / TheUnintelligible: David, from his teenage years but worse after he suffers his mental breakdown -- not exactly unintelligible but does speak very fast and disjointly.
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* MotorMouth / TheUnintelligible: MotorMouth: David, from his teenage years but worse after he suffers his mental breakdown -- not exactly unintelligible but does speak very fast and disjointly.
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* Music/SergeiRachmaninoff: The piece that causes David to go mad is the monumentally difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30.
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* MoodWhiplash: Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #3's finale as a piece of music is incredibly uplifting and triumphant, so hearing it and having it be the cause of David's mental collapse is seriously jarring.
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** Peter's own father. He tells a story throughout the film about how he saved up to buy a violin when he was younger and his father smashed it, explaining why Peter is so protective and forceful to his own children.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: The friendship between David and Katharine Susannah Prichard. She is sixty odd years his senior but he befriends her and they bond over music in his teenage years.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: The friendship between David and Katharine Susannah Prichard. She is sixty odd years his senior but he befriends her and they bond over music in his teenage years.years and she helps raise money to send him to London to study.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: The friendship between David and Katharine Susannah Prichard. She is sixty odd years his senior but he befriends her and they bond over music in his teenage years.
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'''''Shine''''' is a [[TheNineties 1996]] Australian film [[{{Biopic}} based on the life]] of [[ClassicalMusic classical]] pianist David Helfgott, directed by Scott Hicks. Based somewhat on Helfgott's real life, it follows him through his formative years as he rehearses the piano and gets accepted to the Royal College of Music in London and his subsequent mental breakdown and years in institutions. It stars Creator/GeoffreyRush (as Helfgott), Lynn Redgrave (as [[spoiler:eventual wife]] Gillian), Armin Mueller-Stahl (as his father, Peter Helfgott) and Creator/NoahTaylor (as the teenage David).
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Based somewhat on Helfgott's real life, it follows him through his formative years as he rehearses the piano and gets accepted to the Royal College of Music in London and his subsequent mental breakdown and years in institutions. It stars Creator/GeoffreyRush (as Helfgott), Lynn Redgrave (as [[spoiler:eventual wife]] Gillian), Armin Mueller-Stahl (as his father, Peter Helfgott) and Creator/NoahTaylor (as the teenage David).
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''Shine'' is a [[TheNineties 1996]] Australian film [[{{Biopic}} based on the life]] of [[ClassicalMusic classical]] pianist David Helfgott, directed by Scott Hicks. Based somewhat on Helfgott's real life, it follows him through his formative years as he rehearses the piano and gets accepted to the Royal College of Music in London and his subsequent mental breakdown and years in institutions. It stars Creator/GeoffreyRush (as Helfgott), Lynn Redgrave (as [[spoiler:eventual wife]] Gillian), Armin Mueller-Stahl (as his father, Peter Helfgott) and Creator/NoahTaylor (as the teenage David).
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It grossed over $35 million and won Rush his first [[AcademyAward Oscar]] for Best Actor in 1997. One noted critic of the movie was Margaret Helfgott, David's sister, who said that she felt that "an evil had been done"; the film portrayed their father Peter as a strict disciplinarian and controlling bully and Margaret maintains he was almost the opposite in real life.
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It grossed over $35 million and won Rush his first [[AcademyAward [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]] for Best Actor in 1997. One noted critic of the movie was Margaret Helfgott, David's sister, who said that she felt that "an evil had been done"; the film portrayed their father Peter as a strict disciplinarian and controlling bully and Margaret maintains he was almost the opposite in real life.
