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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer features shots from the film's third act, which gives away the twist that Milo was not killed at the end of the first act.
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*HedgeMaze: Milo bumbles around an ornate one trying to find his host when he first arrives to his meeting with Andrew, whose voice he can hear recording his latest detective novel.
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** In the original play, Andrew tosses out a couple of casual racist remarks.
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* HollywoodBlanks: A particularly egregious example. [[spoiler: Pressed right against the head, the gun '''will''' kill you, blanks or not.]]
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* HollywoodBlanks: A particularly egregious example. [[spoiler: Pressed right against the head, the gun '''will''' kill you, blanks or not. Of course, it's possible that Andrew was using specially made blanks where ''nothing'' comes out of the gun, used for simulating shooting oneself in the head. But it would still probably cause serious hearing damage.]]
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Andrew Wyke, a successful mystery author, realizes his wife is having an affair with the middle-class[[note]](his actual occupation varies from version to version)[[/note]] Milo Tindle. Finding in Milo an opportunity to divorce his wife, but wishing to avoid having to pay alimony, Andrew proposes for the younger man to rob the couple's stately country house; Milo can get rich off his loot, while the insurance company will handsomely reimburse Andrew. Milo complies; but just as he pulls it off, things get really complicated.
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Andrew Wyke, a successful mystery author, realizes his wife is having an affair with the middle-class[[note]](his actual occupation varies from version to version)[[/note]] Milo Tindle. Finding in Milo an opportunity to divorce his wife, but wishing to avoid having to pay alimony, Andrew proposes for the younger man to rob burgle the couple's stately country house; Milo can get rich off his loot, while the insurance company will handsomely reimburse Andrew. Milo complies; complies, but just as he pulls it off, things get really complicated.
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A 1970 mystery/thriller play by Anthony Shaffer, which has twice been adapted for the screen.
Andrew Wyke, a mystery writer, realizes his wife is having an affair with the middle-class[[note]](his actual occupation varies from version to version)[[/note]] Milo Tindle. He finds in Milo the opportunity to divorce his wife, but he needs to avoid having to pay alimony. So, he challenges the younger man to rob his house; Milo can get rich off his loot, while the insurance company will handsomely reimburse Andrew. Milo complies; but just as he pulls it off, things get really complicated.
Andrew Wyke, a mystery writer, realizes his wife is having an affair with the middle-class[[note]](his actual occupation varies from version to version)[[/note]] Milo Tindle. He finds in Milo the opportunity to divorce his wife, but he needs to avoid having to pay alimony. So, he challenges the younger man to rob his house; Milo can get rich off his loot, while the insurance company will handsomely reimburse Andrew. Milo complies; but just as he pulls it off, things get really complicated.
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A Tony Award-winning 1970 mystery/thriller play by Anthony Shaffer, which has twice been [[TheFilmOfThePlay adapted for the screen.
screen]].
Andrew Wyke, a successful mysterywriter, author, realizes his wife is having an affair with the middle-class[[note]](his actual occupation varies from version to version)[[/note]] Milo Tindle. He finds Finding in Milo the an opportunity to divorce his wife, but he needs wishing to avoid having to pay alimony. So, he challenges alimony, Andrew proposes for the younger man to rob his the couple's stately country house; Milo can get rich off his loot, while the insurance company will handsomely reimburse Andrew. Milo complies; but just as he pulls it off, things get really complicated.
Andrew Wyke, a successful mystery
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* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler: Andrew is at first clearly the more reprehensible man. However, when Milo retaliates he does so in a manner that will completely ruin Andrew's life rather than just humiliate him. You could say that Andrew is still the worse person since he responds to Milo's game by murdering him, but the fact that Milo was trying to bait him into this all along serves as an argument that he's even worse.
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* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler: Andrew is at first clearly the more reprehensible man. However, when Milo retaliates he does so in a manner that will completely ruin Andrew's life rather than just humiliate him. You could say that Andrew is still the worse person since he responds to Milo's game by murdering him, but the fact that Milo was trying to bait him into this all along serves as an argument that he's even worse.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Milo has been shot dead and Andrew breaks down realizing he's going to prison.]]
* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler: Andrew is at first clearly the more reprehensible man. However, when Milo retaliates he does so in a manner that will completely ruin Andrew's life rather than just humiliate him. You could say that Andrew is still the worse person since he responds to Milo's game by murdering him, but the fact that Milo was trying to bait him into this all along serves as an argument that he's even worse.
* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler: Andrew is at first clearly the more reprehensible man. However, when Milo retaliates he does so in a manner that will completely ruin Andrew's life rather than just humiliate him. You could say that Andrew is still the worse person since he responds to Milo's game by murdering him, but the fact that Milo was trying to bait him into this all along serves as an argument that he's even worse.
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* FaceHeelTurn:[[spoiler: Milo is at first the better man of the two, but after Andrew's trick, his diabolical revenge makes him just as bad, if not worse.]]
* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: Andrew is an awful person at the start, but not really evil. Once he's had enough of Milo's plans though he's all too glad to murder him, meaning he's certainly crossed over to that line by the end.]]
* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: Andrew is an awful person at the start, but not really evil. Once he's had enough of Milo's plans though he's all too glad to murder him, meaning he's certainly crossed over to that line by the end.]]
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Andrew basks in his upper class status while taking pleasure in using and humiliating everyone in his life. The latter side of his personality takes increasingly sinister turns as the story progresses.
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* SmugSnake: Andrew is convinced that his superior upper class "breeding" and his background as a writer of crime fiction make him invincible against the middle class commoner Milo and law enforcement. It doesn't take long for the tables to be turned against him.
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dewicking Famous Last Words per trs
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* FamousLastWords: The same circumstances as in the play, but the words themselves are different: [[spoiler:in fact, this is where Milo says the page quote]].
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Famous Last Words was moved to JustForFun.Famous Last Words; main trope is being dewicked and redirected to Last Words
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* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:After being shot for real, Milo lasts long enough to get out a victorious, "Game, set, match". This is a CallBack to the end of Act One, where Andrew announced "Game and set."]]
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* LightmareFuel: The story jumps from funny to horrifying within a second. Some scenes you might alternate between smiling and being afraid for the characters' lives several times within one moment. You could even find yourself grinning while thinking "I think something horrible is going to happen any minute".
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* HollywoodBlanks: A particularly {{egregious}} example. [[spoiler: Pressed right against the head, the gun '''will''' kill you, blanks or not.]]
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* HollywoodBlanks: A particularly {{egregious}} egregious example. [[spoiler: Pressed right against the head, the gun '''will''' kill you, blanks or not.]]
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* HollywoodBlanks: A particularly {{egregious}} example. [[spoiler: Pressed right against the head, the gun '''will''' kill you, blanks or not.]]
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* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:After being shot for real, Milo lasts long enough to get out a victorious, "Game, set, match".]]
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* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:After being shot for real, Milo lasts long enough to get out a victorious, "Game, set, match".]] This is a CallBack to the end of Act One, where Andrew announced "Game and set."]]
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**FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:After being shot for real, Milo lasts long enough to get out a victorious, "Game, set, match".]]
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** In the film it is a sarcastic [[spoiler: "Remember to tell them... it was just a bloody game."]]
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** [[spoiler:After being shot for real, Milo lasts long enough to get out a victorious, "Game, set, match".]]
** [[spoiler:After being shot for real, Milo lasts long enough to get out a victorious, "Game, set, match".]]
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* CastingGag: More of a casting pun, one of the [[spoiler: fake]] names in the credits is Eve Channing, a reference to director Mankiewicz's Film/AllAboutEve.
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* CastingGag: More of a casting pun, one of the [[spoiler: fake]] names in the credits is Eve Channing, a reference to director Mankiewicz's Film/AllAboutEve.''Film/AllAboutEve''.
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* VillainousBreakdown: In the closing scene, Milo's final act before [[spoiler:succumbing to his gunshot wound]] is to jam the button that operates Andrew's creepy toys, who suddenly spring to life and start laughing, but now ''at'' Andrew and not ''with'' him. Coupled with the police lights illuminating his wall, the detectives hammering on his front door [[spoiler:having heard a gunshot inside, and Milo's dead body right in the middle of the floor]], it is made ''very'' clear that Andrew has no way out, and he breaks down sobbing.
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