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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iggyFPls4w The trailer]] spoils that [[spoiler:Larry never gets to meet the old rabbi]].
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iggyFPls4w The trailer]] spoils that [[spoiler:Larry never gets to meet the old rabbi]].
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* TzadikimNistarim: {{Discussed}}. Sy Abelman is a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity villain with such good publicity]] that the rabbi doing the eulogy at his funeral genuinely believes he might have been one of the Lamed Vavnik.
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* TitleDrop: Multiple times, first by Sy Ableman in Larry's dream and then by Larry himself when attempting to meet with Rabbi Marshak.
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* TitleDrop: Multiple times, first by Sy Ableman in Larry's dream and then by Larry himself when attempting to meet with Rabbi Marshak.
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%%* RuleOfThree: [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019452/board/nest/168165555?p=1#168170037 Examined here.]]
%%* RuleOfThree: [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019452/board/nest/168165555?p=1#168170037 Examined here.]]
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%%* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Sy Abelman, or so it's implied]].'
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** Dick Dutton, the collections agent for the Columbia Record Club, repeatedly harassing Larry.
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%% ** To Literature/TheBible.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The perceived anti-semitism of the Gopniks' neighbours is just a fact of life Larry has to deal with. To his credit, when complaining about them to his neighbour Mrs. Samsky, who is herself Jewish, Larry seems a bit uncomfortable when she makes her own prejudices clear.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The perceived anti-semitism of the Gopniks' neighbours is just a fact of life Larry has to deal with. To his credit, when complaining about them to his neighbour Mrs. Samsky, who is herself Jewish, Larry seems a bit uncomfortable when she makes her own prejudices clear.
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* HollywoodHeartAttack: An AvertedTrope. A minor character's heart attack consists of him making a pained face and collapsing.
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* EverybodyHatesMathematics: The Chinese exchange student argues that he understands the physics thought experiments, like Schrodinger's cat, so that should be enough to pass the class even if he can't grasp the math behind them. Larry insists that the physics ''is'' the math.
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** Likewise, Rabbi Nachtner's story about the goy's teeth. It's not impossible that a random non-Jewish man would have a set of Hebrew characters etched into his teeth, just ''highly'' improbable. That the numerical value of the characters turns out to be [[spoiler: the phone number of a supermarket]] only raises more questions.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.'']]
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->''Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.''
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'''Larry Gopnik:''' It sounds like you don't know anything! Why even tell me the story?
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* MeaningfulName: "Gopnik", Larry's surname, is a Slavic slang expression for a LowerClassLout, which doesn't necessarily describe Larry's personality but does allude to his role in the film as a financially-challenged loser.
** On the flipside, there's Sy "Ableman", TheAce who seems to be a better man than Larry in nearly every way.
** On the flipside, there's Sy "Ableman", TheAce who seems to be a better man than Larry in nearly every way.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Sy Ableman puts on the veneer of a kind, fatherly figure who swears up and down that he only wants the best for Larry...all while he's in the process of stealing Larry's wife and ''forcing him out of his own home''.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Sy Ableman puts on the veneer of a kind, fatherly figure who swears up and down that he only wants the best for Larry...all while he's in the process of stealing Larry's wife and ''forcing him out of his own home''. [[spoiler: To say nothing of the fact that he has apparently been trying to sabotage Larry's career as well]].
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* SizableSemeticNose: Larry protests the fact that his daughter Sarah is saving up to get a nose job, which is implied to be an attempt at covering up her Jewish heritage.
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* SizableSemeticNose: SizableSemiticNose: Larry protests the fact that his daughter Sarah is saving up to get a nose job, which is implied to be an attempt at covering up her Jewish heritage.
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* SizableSemeticNose: Larry protests the fact that his daughter Sarah is saving up to get a nose job, which is implied to be an attempt at covering up her Jewish heritage.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/BartonFink'', another Coen brothers movie about an [[TheEveryman ordinary]] [[ThisLoserIsYou shmoe]] who [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin suffers a parade of]] [[ButtMonkey events ranging from unfortunate to terrifying]] [[TheChewToy for no discernible reason]].
