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2 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Eat, or you won't be able to die!"'']] |
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4 | ''La Grande Bouffe'' (''La grande abbuffata'' in Italian, ''The Grande Bouffe'' or ''Blow-Out'' in English) is a weird 1973 French-Italian BlackComedy film directed by Creator/MarcoFerreri. |
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6 | Its characters are four bourgeois men varying from reasonably well-to-do to ''very'' well-to-do who have made a pact: they are going to eat themselves to death and die of gluttony. While they're at it, they bring in prostitutes and a buxom teacher, Andréa. |
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8 | The protagonists were played by three leading men of European arthouse cinema, Creator/MichelPiccoli, Creator/MarcelloMastroianni and Creator/PhilippeNoiret, and a giant of ''commedia all'italiana'', Ugo Tognazzi. |
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10 | !! Tropes: |
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12 | %% * BigBeautifulWoman: Andréa. |
13 | * DeathByGluttony: THE film. The characters aim to die this way and the movie is about their attempt to achieve this goal. |
14 | %% * DownerEnding: Zigzagged as all the characters are dead but that was their intention. |
15 | %% * EthicalSlut: Andréa, who has sex with all of the four friends. |
16 | * FoodPorn: Food is always on display and the characters discuss the food they eat. |
17 | %% * FourTemperamentEnsemble: |
18 | %% ** Choleric: Ugo. |
19 | %% ** Melancholic: Philippe. |
20 | %% ** Phlegmatic: Michel. |
21 | %% ** Sanguine: Marcello. |
22 | * GrossoutShow: The sounds of trapped gas are even exaggerated for the {{Squick}} effect. |
23 | * HappyEnding: Zigzagged as the characters achieve their goal but they are dead. |
24 | * MadonnaWhoreComplex: |
25 | ** The four characters invited three conventionally stunning hookers who each spend time with one of the men. Only one character, Philippe, has a romance with Andréa, a teacher, who remains with the group even when the hookers, disgusted by their insane gluttony, leave. |
26 | ** Subverted as Andréa cheats on Philippe with '''all''' three remaining main characters. |
27 | * OfficialCouple: Andréa and Philippe. Later zigzagged as Andréa cheats on Philippe but he '''still''' considers them a couple and wants to marry her. |
28 | * OutWithABang: Andréa masturbates Ugo while he's dying stuffing himself with pâté. |
29 | * ShoutOut: InUniverse, Ugo imitates Don Vito Corleone (Creator/MarlonBrando) from ''Film/TheGodfather'' at one point. |
30 | %% * SuicidePact: Of a very peculiar nature. |
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