Line #3 Film/WildTarget


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3	''Wild Target'' is a 2010 BlackComedy film, based on the 1993 French film ''Cible émouvante''.
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5	Victor Maynard (Creator/BillNighy) is an experienced and efficient assassin living a lonely life. It's the family's business: Victor follows a family line of professional assassins, and he completes his assignments quickly and without remorse. His mother, Louisa (Eileen Atkins), is an intimidating woman very aware of his job, who expresses concern that he might be homosexual, wondering why he hasn't produced a successor.
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7	Rose (Creator/EmilyBlunt) is a not-so-average girl with a talent for thievery. Her most recent theft involves the sale of a fake Creator/{{Rembrandt\|VanRijn}} {{painting\|s}} (painted by her friend in the Restoration Department of the National Gallery), managing to swindle the buyer out of £1,000,000. The buyer soon discovers the swap and hires Victor to dispose of her. Victor takes the hit and immediately tracks Rose down, missing several opportunities to kill her due to chance, but he grows interested in her and agrees to protect her, while being joined by Tony (Creator/RupertGrint), a local slacker.
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9	!!This work contains examples of:
10	* AccidentalAimingSkills: Tony shoots someone accurately the first time he picks up a gun, and doesn't know how. The second time, he shoots someone's ear off. He also grabs a thrown knife out of the air, but no one else sees it.
11	* AccidentalPervert: Victor overhears Rose having sex, but he sits there and ''continues listening'' throughout the night.
12	* AccidentalSuicide: [[spoiler:FauxAffablyEvil hitman Hector Dixon tries to shoot sympathetic older HitmanWithAHeart Victor and his LoveInterest Rose with Victor's old pistol. He learns that a gun whose owner has not bothered to clean it in years is prone to backfire at the split second the magazine goes through his eye.]]
13	* BackwardsFiringGun: Dixon gets this when he fires the old Mauser C96, which hasn't been cleaned.
14	* BadBoss: Ferguson mistreats his minions rather badly, including backhanding them.
15	* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Victor and Rose.
16	* BlackComedy: It's basically about an assassin falling in love and ensuring that he leaves a legacy.
17	* BloodyHilarious: Mike getting his ear shot off.
18	* ChekhovsGun: One of the literal examples.
19	* CostumePorn: Rose has some ''very'' nice clothes. Justified, because she does steal them.
20	* CutenessProximity: Victor, around his cat.
21	* DeadpanSnarker: Rose, Victor, Victor's mother...
22	* DefrostingIceQueen: Rose, eventually.
23	* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Victor's mother showing up in the end is arguably an example.]]
24	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Rose, although she does point out she's not used to her car.
25	* FamilyBusiness: Victor's father was an assassin, as was his father's father, etc.
26	* FunnyBruceLeeNoises: Done by Tony while practicing with a katana in one scene.
27	* GunStripping: Victor Maynard is trying to teach Tony the tricks of the trade. Surprisingly, Tony manages to put the gun together... but only to have it fly apart when he picks it up.
28	* InLoveWithTheMark: Victor is initially unable to kill Rose due to chance, but he grows interested in her and agrees to protect her. They end up falling in love.
29	* InTraining: Tony, under Victor's tutelage.
30	* LikeBrotherAndSister: Tony and Rose -- they even have a fight in the car like small children.
31	* ManicPixieDreamgirl: Rose, although she is a bratty version.
32	* MayDecemberRomance: Victor and Rose.
33	* MistakenForGay: Victor, by his mother and Rose, among other people. While he's not really a CampStraight, his personality fits the stereotype of an uptight, closeted/repressed gay man.
34	* PerpetualSmiler: Dixon, even when he's annoyed, which just makes him even more creepy.
35	* ProfessionalKiller: Victor, much to the point where he doesn't really seem to have a life outside of killing people.
36	* RunningGag: Tony being a terrible shot, Rose's kleptomania, Mike getting repeatedly shot by Tony, Rose and Victor's UST, Rose asking men she wants to sleep with how much they weigh...
37	* ThatPoorCat: When Rose is trying to quietly escape Maynard's home out a window, she throws her heavy luggage out the window, prompting this. Earlier, we'd seen the same cat painted neon pink after Victor cuts loose for his birthday. [[spoiler:The epilogue implies Rose and Victor's son buried the cat in the garden.]]
38	* ToyotaTripwire: Tony gets this in the face.
39	* UptightLovesWild: Victor and Rose's relationship to a t, although in a sense, Victor's long experience with contract killing makes him considerably more "wild" than Rose, who is just a kleptomaniac.

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