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* MindScrew: It's that kind of movie and considering the creator's [[WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville other]] [[WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist works]] it's pretty understandable.
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* MindScrew: It's that kind of movie and considering the creator's [[WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville other]] [[WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist [[WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist2010 works]] it's pretty understandable.
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* BaldWoman: The maid [[spoiler: who dresses up as the old lady's cat]] is almost completely bald.
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* CatapultNightmare: The gendarme has one in which he tries to eat some of the food that the old lady throws on the ground, only for [[spoiler: a group of man-sized pigeons wearing suits to approach him, hold him down, and peck him repeatedly on the chest]].
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* Foreshadowing: At the Christmas dinner, the gendarme sees a picture of the old lady when she was younger, laying on a couch with several very fat cats.
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''The Old Lady and the Pigeons'' (a.k.a: ''La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons'') is a 1997 animated ShortFilm written and directed by Creator/SylvainChomet. It tells the surreal story of a starving gendarme who dresses up as a pigeon and tricks an old lady into feeding him.
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''The Old Lady and the Pigeons'' (a.k.a: ''La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons'') is a 1997 animated ShortFilm written and directed by Creator/SylvainChomet. It tells the surreal story of a starving gendarme [[PaperThinDisguise who dresses up as a pigeon pigeon]] and tricks an old lady into feeding him.
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* [[spoiler: BecomingTheMask: At the end, the gendarme seems to have become a pigeon mentally.]]
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''The Old Lady and the Pigeons'' (a.k.a: '''''La ''La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons''''') Pigeons'') is a 1997 animated ShortFilm written and directed by Creator/SylvainChomet. It tells the surreal story of a starving gendarme who dresses up as a pigeon and tricks an old lady into feeding him.
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'''''The Old Lady and the Pigeons''''' (a.k.a: '''''La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons''''') is a 1997 animated ShortFilm written and directed by Sylvain Chomet.Creator/SylvainChomet. It tells the surreal story of a starving gendarme who dresses up as a pigeon and tricks an old lady into feeding him.
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* DreamSequence: The gendarme has one where he dreams he gets eat by monstrous, human-sized pigeons wearing suits.
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* DreamSequence: The gendarme has one where he dreams he gets eat eaten by monstrous, human-sized pigeons wearing suits.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The gendarme is not a very nice man and ends up much worse off than when the short starts.]]
* FoodPorn: The food the old lady cooks looks pretty delicious.
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* JerkAss: The gendarme is very rude to the old lady even after she cooks for him.
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* JerkAss: The gendarme is very rude to the old lady even after she welcomes him into her home and cooks complicated dishes for him.
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'''''The Old Lady and the Pigeons''''' (a.k.a: '''''La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons''''') is a 1997 animated short film ShortFilm written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. It tells the surreal story of a starving gendarme who dresses up as a pigeon and tricks an old lady into feeding him.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Or she will [[spoiler: come after you with shears and try to feed you to her cat!]]
* NoNameGiven: None of the characters are named except some of the American tourists.
* NoNameGiven: None of the characters are named except some of the American tourists.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The old lady doesn't have any issue with what she sees as either a) a giant pigeon or b) a man dressed up as a giant pigeon showing up where she lives. She just invites him in and offers him some slippers like any other guest. [[spoiler: Of course, she [[MagnificentBastard may have known all along.]]]]
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The old lady doesn't have any issue with what she sees as either a) a giant pigeon or b) a man dressed up as a giant pigeon showing up where she lives. She just invites him in and offers him some slippers like any other guest. [[spoiler: Of course, she [[MagnificentBastard may have known all along.]]]]]]]]
* WhenEldersAttack: The old woman [[spoiler: attacks the gendarme at the end with a pair of garden shears.]]
* WhenEldersAttack: The old woman [[spoiler: attacks the gendarme at the end with a pair of garden shears.]]
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* OhCrap: The gendarme gets one when [[spoiler: he sees the old woman sharpening her shears and realizes just what she intends to do with them...]]
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* TheVoiceless: The only characters that speak in the short are the American tourists. Everyone else is either silent or only "talks" in vague sighs and mumbles.
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* [[spoiler: BecomingTheMask: At the end, the gendarme seems to have become a pigeon mentally.]]
* BookEnds: Begins and ends with a gaggle of American tourists talking outside the Eiffel Tower.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The maid that the gendarme passes every day shows up at the end as the old lady's "cat".]]
* BookEnds: Begins and ends with a gaggle of American tourists talking outside the Eiffel Tower.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The maid that the gendarme passes every day shows up at the end as the old lady's "cat".]]
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* EyesAlwaysShut: The ImAHumanitarian: One way to interperet [[spoiler: the old lady never opens woman pursuing the gendarme even after he shows her peepers.his human foot: she knew all along and was just humoring him to fatten him up easier.]]
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* SilenceIsGolden: There's no dialogue spoken throughout most of the short. The gendarme is completely silent and the old woman only "speaks" in vague mumbles. Though this is averted by the American tourists who [[BookEnds Book End]] it.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The old lady doesn't have any issue with what she sees as either a) a giant pigeon or b) a man dressed up as a giant pigeon showing up where she lives. She just invites him in and offers him some slippers like any other guest. [[spoiler: Of course, she [[MagnificentBastard may have known all along.]]]]
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* MinatureSeniorCitizens: The old lady is so short her head is barely higher than the seat of a bench.
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'''''The Old Lady and the Pigeons''''' (a.k.a: '''''La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons''''') is a 1997 animated short film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. It tells the surreal story of a starving gendarme who dresses up as a pigeon and tricks an old lady into feeding him.
The film was produced through the French company Les Armateurs and was Chomet's debut film. It won several awards including the Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
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!!''The Old Lady and the Pigeons'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AlcoholHic: The gendarme hiccups after guzzling down several bottles of wine at Christmas.
* BaldWoman: The maid [[spoiler: who dresses up as the old lady's cat]] is almost completely bald.
* DreamSequence: The gendarme has one where he dreams he gets eat by monstrous, human-sized pigeons wearing suits.
* EyesAlwaysShut: The old lady never opens her peepers.
* JerkAss: The gendarme is very rude to the old lady even after she cooks for him.
* MinatureSeniorCitizens: The old lady is so short her head is barely higher than the seat of a bench.
* MindScrew: It's that kind of movie and considering the creator's [[WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville other]] [[WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist works]] it's pretty understandable.
* NationalStereotypes: The film begins showcasing some photos taken by a family of obese, obnoxious American tourists.
* PinkElephants: While drunk, the gendarme hallucinates that the old woman has turned into a turkey.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The old lady doesn't have any issue with what she sees as either a) a giant pigeon or b) a man dressed up as a giant pigeon showing up where she lives. She just invites him in and offers him some slippers like any other guest.
The film was produced through the French company Les Armateurs and was Chomet's debut film. It won several awards including the Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
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!!''The Old Lady and the Pigeons'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AlcoholHic: The gendarme hiccups after guzzling down several bottles of wine at Christmas.
* BaldWoman: The maid [[spoiler: who dresses up as the old lady's cat]] is almost completely bald.
* DreamSequence: The gendarme has one where he dreams he gets eat by monstrous, human-sized pigeons wearing suits.
* EyesAlwaysShut: The old lady never opens her peepers.
* JerkAss: The gendarme is very rude to the old lady even after she cooks for him.
* MinatureSeniorCitizens: The old lady is so short her head is barely higher than the seat of a bench.
* MindScrew: It's that kind of movie and considering the creator's [[WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville other]] [[WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist works]] it's pretty understandable.
* NationalStereotypes: The film begins showcasing some photos taken by a family of obese, obnoxious American tourists.
* PinkElephants: While drunk, the gendarme hallucinates that the old woman has turned into a turkey.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The old lady doesn't have any issue with what she sees as either a) a giant pigeon or b) a man dressed up as a giant pigeon showing up where she lives. She just invites him in and offers him some slippers like any other guest.
