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* PetTheDog: Shelly has his moments. He's caught between two worlds. He first pets the dog when he admits to Bernie that he gave Buddy the heroin necessary for him to die, because Buddy was part of the old world and would just keep scraping along, never taking the buyout and retiring.
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* KickTheDog: Shelly straddles the line between jerkass and monster, like a lot of mobsters. He crosses it by beating the shit out of Natlie. [[spoiler:He jumps back by defending Bernie against Nicky]].
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* KickTheDog: Shelly straddles the line between jerkass and monster, like a lot of mobsters. He crosses it first by threatening Natalie to give her to break up with Bernie via note, then by beating the shit out of Natlie.her
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* OhCrap: Ironically, Bernie wonders what the fuck is going on when he starts to ''win'' at blackjack.
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** The waitress who pours Bernie's coffee and always apologizes when they're out of cream is delighted when they finally have cream for him... but recognizes what's gone wrong when they're out of cream again.
** Ironically, Bernie wonders what the fuck is going on when he starts to ''win'' at
** The waitress who pours Bernie's coffee and always apologizes when they're out of cream is delighted when they finally have cream for him... but recognizes what's gone wrong when they're out of cream again.
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* GoneHorriblyWrong: Shelly told Natalie to seduce Bernie so Bernie would stay in Vegas. Instead she fell in love with Bernie and, by changing his luck, will get him out of Vegas for good. Not only that, the implication is that Natalie will finally see her dreams of being a writer take off, because she and Bernie are one another's good luck charms.
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* KickTheDog: Shelly straddles the line between jerkass and monster, like a lot of mobsters. He crosses it by beating the shit out of Natlie. [[spoiler:He jumps back by defending Bernie against Nicky]].
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* TheReveal: The third act opens with Shelly confronting Natalie about the fact that he paid her to seduce Bernie to keep the man in Vegas.
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** In a meta sense, the film marks the transition of Vegas as a seedy, high class, criminal, elite den of vice to the Disneyland seedy, high class, criminal, elite den of vice it is today. You can't really do mobster movies in Vegas set today.
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** Natalie's luck is as shitty as Bernie's. Together... they have a future.
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* ItsAllMyFualt: Bernie blames himself for his son being a loser. Bernie left because he knew what a loser he was and thought his son would be better off... instead his son turned out to be a loser like his dad who got his legs broken by an old school gangster.
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* ItsAllMyFualt: ItsAllMyFault: Bernie blames himself for his son being a loser. Bernie left because he knew what a loser he was and thought his son would be better off... instead his son turned out to be a loser like his dad who got his legs broken by an old school gangster.
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* GoreDiscretionShot: We don't see Shelly bashing Mikey's legs with a hammer.
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* ItsAllMyFualt: Bernie blames himself for his son being a loser. Bernie left because he knew what a loser he was and thought his son would be better off... instead his son turned out to be a loser like his dad who got his legs broken by an old school gangster.
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* PapaWolf: Even though Mikey's a {{jerkass}} who scammed Bernie, Bernie goes the distance for him after Mikey and Charlene try to cheat at the Shangri-La. Even after he learns that Mikey lied to him and Charlene isn't pregnant, he doubles down.
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* DisappearedDad: What else could you expect of perennial loser Bernie? He desperately wants a relationship with his son, but his son is a {{jerkass}} with a junkie mom and a loser dad who doesn't want anything from Bernie apart from any cash he can scam from his old man.
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* OnlySaneMan: Larry, despite being a young profit-driven douchebag, never makes a wrong argument. The Shangri-La ''should'' be turned into an entertainment venue, New Vegas Style. Shelly ''shouldn't'' drag a cheater up to his office and offer him AnArmOrALeg, but instead be handed over to the cops. Vegas is, and has always been, the worst of humanity, but he's arguing for the newer, more legal, more efficient HumansAreTheRealMonsters.
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* OnlySaneMan: Larry, despite being a young profit-driven douchebag, never makes a wrong argument. The Shangri-La ''should'' be turned into an entertainment venue, New Vegas Style. Shelly ''shouldn't'' drag a cheater up to his office and offer him AnArmOrALeg, [[AnArmAndALeg An Arm or a Leg]] but instead be handed over to the cops. Vegas is, and has always been, the worst of humanity, but he's arguing for the newer, more legal, more efficient HumansAreTheRealMonsters.
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* FixingTheGame: Mikey and Charlene show up at Shangri-La using loaded dice to cheat at craps. Even that can't beat Bernie's bad luck, and Shelly spots it.
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* OnlySaneMan: Larry, despite being a young profit-driven douchebag, never makes a wrong argument. The Shangri-La ''should'' be turned into an entertainment venue, New Vegas Style. Shelly ''shouldn't'' drag a cheater up to his office and offer him AnArmOrALeg, but instead be handed over to the cops. Vegas is, and has always been, the worst of humanity, but he's arguing for the newer, more legal, more efficient HumansAreTheRealMonsters.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: BornUnlicky Bernie knocks over a shaker of salt (an ill omen) during his argument with Natalie about leaving Vegas in the second act.
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** Bernie's only lucky when Natalie's nearby. Otherwise, he's still a cooler.
** BornUnlucky Bernie knocks over a shaker of salt (an ill omen) during his argument with Natalie about leaving Vegas in the second
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* AssholeVictim: A young jerkass gambler keeps taunting Nicky at the craps table. Nicky gives him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and Bernie has to call in security to save the guy's life.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The new Shangri-La is a tall, circular tower, with two smaller towers near each other at the base. [[spoiler:It's a penis]].
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* CoolCar: Though the movie doesn't go out of its way to only populate Vegas with vintage cars, most of the focus does go onto classic cars. We get a shot of one driving down the strip, and Bernie drives a beautiful baby blue with a white top.
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* ObviouslyEvil: In case the "pregnant woman faking going into labor and tripping over crap" con in the diner wasn't enough of a clue, Mikey and his girlfriend up the ante when they return. She's smoking and tipping the ashes into one of Bernie's plants, then goes into the bathroom to do coke. Meanwhile Mikey assumes Natalie's a hooker and tries to buy her services with a chip.
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* CommonHollywoodSexTraits: The movie goes out of its way to avert this. The first time Natalie and Bernie have sex, he's a one-pump chump (because it's been years). The second time, it goes a lot better for Natalie, but then we get a shot of them banging the headboard against the wall ''not'' having sex, just so Bernie can get some revenge on his neighbors, and, y'know what? Natalie's and Bernie's naked asses bouncing around? Not great.
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* {{Joisey}}: Apart from Bernie, the old-school characters tend to have joisey accents. Shelly is an old-school mob boss who looks out for her friends. Natalie's a girl whose family kicked her out after she got pregnant in high school and came to Vegas to try to make it as a show girl.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Natalie had a son named Joe. She gave him up for adoption when she was 17, he was 1. She got a tattoo of a pair of twos, a "little Joe".
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* AscendedMeme: InUniverse, Bernie tells Natalie that she's an easy mark and repeats the UrbanLegend about marking people with chalk, saying that he used to do that for Shelly. In reality, mark was an old synonym for target, so marks were just people you were aiming to scam.
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* ChildhoodFriends: Bernie and Shelly have been together for ''decades''. They used to run a small booth on Coney Island, now they run a con on a larger scale in Vegas.
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* FlatEarthAtheist: Larry doesn't believe in "coolers". He thinks Bernie must be a sharp or a mechanic.
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* {{Irony}}: Things start going bad for Bernie when his luck turns good and he starts to win at the tables.
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* OhCrap: Ironically, Bernie wonders what the fuck is going on when he starts to ''win'' at blackjack.
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* ParentalIssues: Bernie runs into his son Mikey at a diner (Mikey and his girlfriend are trying to pull a trip and fall then sue someone con, but Bernie's there, so, no). Mikey's mom is a strung out junkie and Mikey wants nothing to do with Bernie.
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* InLoveWithTheMark: Natalie seduces Bernie because Shelly hired her to do it... and ''immediately'' falls in love with him, because he's just a really nice guy who goes out of his way to help her.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time she and Bernie have sex, Natalie has to get up and get a shot of whiskey... her face is not that of a woman charmed by a DoggedNiceGuy.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time she and Bernie have sex, Natalie has to get up and get a shot of whiskey... her face is not that of a woman charmed by a DoggedNiceGuy. After they have sex, she has a ThousandYardStare.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time she and Bernie have sex, Natalie has to get up and get a shot of whiskey... her face is not that of a woman charmed by a DoggedNiceGuy.
* RecordNeedleScratch: Trying to be cool and classy, Bernie puts on a record, then bumps into the record player.
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Buddy is an aging singer with a serious heroin habit. Shelly's trying to keep him on the edge of FunctionalAddict...
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Buddy is an aging singer with a serious heroin habit. Shelly's trying to keep him on the edge of FunctionalAddict...FunctionalAddict...
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Natalie falls for Bernie and convinces him he can be a better man. She does such a good job, she literally changes his luck for the better.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Natalie falls for Bernie and convinces him he can be a better man. She does such a good job, she literally changes his luck for the better.
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* BullyHunter: Bernie takes advantage of his status as a professional loser to woo Natalie by getting a {{Jerkass}} who grabbed her tits [=86ed=] from the Shangri-La.
